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May 23, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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DAILY BRIEFING:The Redirection Continues
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Okay, my friends.
Here we go.
Today's Monday morning daily briefing.
I want to tell you a couple of prefatory things which I found interesting.
Very interesting for me.
Prefatory as a prolegomenon.
I know that's the word you like.
As a preci, a proem, an introductory.
First, let me get something out of the way.
July 16th.
July.
I've been saying September.
I have no earthly idea why.
July.
July.
July 16th.
Cutting room.
Imagine this, but different.
Q&A, audience question, lecture slash tutorial slash fun fest, July 16th.
I don't know why I'm saying September.
For the longest time, you're not going to believe this.
Well, maybe you will.
I would get funeral and wedding confused.
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
Funeral and wedding.
It was embarrassing.
People think, oh, you're not...
I said, no, no, I don't.
I don't know why I'm making the connection.
What is it, some Freudian thing?
Were you making a statement?
No, I'm not making a statement.
I don't know why I did this.
I have no idea.
Because, you know, when you get to a...
I guess when you get...
Well, when you're supposedly advanced age, everyone...
Huh?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I know, I know.
But people, you have no idea.
The people that I know, oh my God.
I don't want to hang around people like, they're just, they're just so, I don't know what the word is.
They're just so dull.
They're so dull.
I can't wait for retirement.
Retirement?
What, retirement?
Okay, fine.
You mean death?
What are you talking about?
I understand.
But there's just like a whole thing of like, well, I better...
Let me tell you what I'm noticing.
A couple of things here.
I can't believe the questions that I'm asking myself that are fascinating me that I want to talk about.
I can't believe everything is just...
I'm overwhelmed.
I never felt like this before.
Never in my life.
Never as a young...
Man, never!
Never!
I want to know everything.
Everything fascinates me.
Why do we do this?
Why do we do that?
Why is this?
Let's talk about this.
It's like Mandelbrot's fractals.
Let's keep going, looking closer, closer, closer.
Everything fascinates me.
Everything that we do.
We went to a store yesterday.
I'm just sitting back like an alien saying, look how people...
Don't you love to look inside?
Be honest.
When you're at a checkout, don't you like to look inside like, look at this.
Look at this.
Toilet paper, peanut butter, and a mousetrap.
Hmm.
All of them are incongruously funny.
I don't know why that is.
But I'm fascinated.
The layouts.
The way they...
Just these stores were so...
I don't know why.
I could just spend...
Diners, parks, churches.
Political parties.
Not the rudiments, but the way we act.
And let me also tell you what I received yesterday for the first time in a long time.
Ready for this?
I got more emails from people saying they so enjoyed the topic.
Let me speak about something.
I think that we need To back off a little bit.
I think we need to refocus and recalibrate our well, our attention, the way we handle things.
The news, as you know, fascinates me.
My political ideology is really shared by no one, and I'm used to that.
But my fascination for other things is shared by everyone.
And it meant so much.
People were saying, I really enjoy just talking, enjoying the confabulating, the conviviation.
Vinny Sammartino, John Masek, Donnie Newell, Liz Solak, Dolph Crane.
Isn't that a great name?
Dolph Lundgren.
Remember Dolph Sweet?
Who was it?
Dolph Sweet was that actor, real tough guy.
We have this little cacophony of humanity that we meet in the morning.
And everything is serious.
But I want to talk about other things which I think we really seriously need a new direction.
We are getting so bogged down.
Who, who, who?
Answer yes.
By the number one.
Push one for yes.
Two for no.
That's always the rule.
Who right now feels a certain degree of anxiety?
It's a word that is used far too much in my humble opinion.
But you feel like sometimes you're just kind of saying enough.
Enough.
Enough.
I know.
You feel like there's no...
Nobody's looking for solutions or that there's more to life.
There's more to what's going on.
Yes, of course things are bad.
Yes, of course.
But that's not it.
I'm not going to spend the rest of my life worrying about this.
There are other aspects to it when you give something up.
There's a part of me that's family and maybe music and maybe reading and maybe gardening and maybe just...
I think people, for example, put so little effect in the world of gardening.
Gardening!
It doesn't sound like much, but it's...
I don't garden here, but it's one of those things which I think absolutely is critical.
And movies, and films, and laughing, and there's so much good.
You know how much great stuff there is on YouTube, on TV, if you know where to look?
I know, not a lot of it.
Whatever it is.
But there's somebody trying something, documentaries or whatever, just to find.
We need to have a summer camp for kids.
We need to have smart kids, which is tough, and to sit around for maybe one hour a day.
I'll do one hour.
I'm going to start off with something so easy, they can't possibly not.
You want to do it online?
I don't care.
We've got to get away from that.
We've got to get away from it.
We need human interaction.
And I would love to get kids in the summertime to sit there with their parents, whatever it is, in the room.
Maybe go someplace and start off with this one question.
What is truth?
Teach them philosophy.
The dissection of a concept.
The dissection of a concept.
Take something.
What is truth?
Everybody wants the truth.
That's not the truth.
That's fake.
That's not real.
That's ersatz.
That's synthetic.
That's camouflage.
That's not real.
That's not true.
What is true?
What does this mean?
Define it.
What is a truth?
What is a lie?
Teach kids philosophy.
Theosophy, perhaps.
Historicity.
Philology.
They can get this.
They can grasp it.
And to sit and to say, I never realized this was this complicated.
Exactly.
Everything comes down to everything in the world.
To psychology.
To the way you process things.
Perception.
Interpretation.
Synthesis.
Wouldn't that be great to have people?
Person to person to put in a room.
The smartest of the smart to call, to say, you, you, you, come here.
Come here.
Do this.
This will change your life.
Here's something you've never done in your life.
We're going to dissect something.
Something so simple.
I was talking the other day about something.
And I have said this repeatedly.
That one of the scariest movies to me, It's Fatal Attraction.
I think it was one of the most frightening, frightening movies I've ever seen.
Now stop for a second.
Why?
Okay?
Here's why.
The most scary stuff is something that can happen to you.
Something that can happen to someone.
Something that's not...
Godzilla never.
I never got into that.
Never got into that.
Never got into the Godzilla or Marvel.
I don't know if I'm supposed to be scared.
Action.
I don't know what that means.
They're not scary.
Am I supposed to?
I don't know.
And that's one of the reasons why it's so interesting.
Why serial killers, crime, real crime, is that these are just normal people.
The BTK.
Killer, which is redundant.
Mind, torture, killer, ATM, machine, the VIN number.
Anyway, the BT killer.
Why he was so interesting was that he was a noted member of society.
He was in a church.
Nobody knew anything.
That's the scariest thing.
That's the part.
What's the worst disease in the world?
Asymptomatic.
That's why diabetes is so scary.
You don't know you have it.
It doesn't do anything to you.
You can be...
Oh my God, your glucose could be off the charts.
You're okay.
You don't feel anything yet.
Later on you will.
That's the worst.
That's the worst.
But fatal attraction.
This started off as just, okay.
You know.
And this man realized...
What am I done?
I made a mistake.
This is terrible.
This woman's crazy.
Yeah, but you, you let her on.
I did not.
Oh, yes, you did.
Yeah, but this is ridiculous.
The rabbit?
What do I do?
And you knew, in his mind, he says, I've got to get rid of her.
But I can't get rid of her.
That's immoral.
That's illegal.
What do I do?
This frustration of, I can't believe this is happening.
I do believe everybody, everybody who ever plans on getting Married should have a class on the legal fundamentals of what marriage is.
And also, men in particular, you've got to watch that.
You've got to watch this.
Why is that so scary?
What is this?
Why am I afraid?
What?
Your heart rate.
I can watch Godzilla all day long.
I keep saying Godzilla.
I'm dating myself.
But whatever the hell.
What's scary?
I don't even know who's scary.
Oh, Freddy Krueger?
No, no, no, no, no.
That never got me.
It's because it's over-the-top scary.
What's scary is how things are ordinary.
That's scary.
So that would then be, to our class, we would say, what is what frightens you?
A dear friend of mine one time, and I'm going to say this, I want to remind you of something.
I don't want to call anybody up.
There was a man named Jacques Fresco.
Please spend some time listening to this futurist, the brilliance, explaining things to people.
Truth, fear, love, happiness, contentment.
This is the stuff that just absolutely...
After a class, my intended class, you will leave thinking, I never knew this was so complicated.
I took this for granted.
I had no idea.
I use these words all the time.
That's scary, or I hate, or awesome.
Awesome!
Oh, I would do a whole class on vocabulary.
I'm saying, you're using words wrong.
You're using.
If you were teaching a painting class, if somebody were to take red, red paint, bright red paint, and miss, and I don't know, maybe a fire truck, you would say, no, that's red, but you used the wrong color.
It's not that red.
Things are not awesome.
Things are not hysterical or hilarious.
This is not insane.
You're going into superlatives.
Why are you doing that?
Why is this overkill?
Precision of thought.
Explaining something.
Explain how to play an accordion without using your hands.
It's one of the oldest ones in the world.
People always...
It's fantastic.
I swear to God, I look around and we could be doing more of this.
We could do more of this.
We could actually take this live presentation that we do.
And reacquaint people with the notion of just conviviation.
To live together and just talk about stuff.
No agenda.
No plan.
No nothing.
No nothing.
There's a pun there somewhere.
I'm serious.
To hear somebody just say, I never thought about that.
I never thought about that.
You made me think about something I never thought about.
Wow.
And it can be done through social media.
Social media, we will never be...
I'm going to tell you right now.
Social media takes too much of a hit.
Too much of a hit.
Social media is blamed for everything.
And I think it's about time we say, wait a minute, back off.
It's not social media.
Nobody ever says, this fentanyl, this damn chemistry.
What?
Nobody does that.
But we love to talk about social media.
Always.
It's the worst.
It's terrible.
The other day we talked about wonderful things that happened when we were kids growing up.
We didn't have social media.
Does anybody really want to go?
Seriously.
Do you want to go back to no social media?
Do you?
Do you want to go back?
To what time?
Do you want to go back to when you were 8 years old?
10 years old?
And have that be...
First of all, going back and wanting to be 10 is ridiculous.
But do you want to go into a world where we have newspapers?
Think about this.
Just news.
Forget everything else.
No GPS.
No cell phones.
Handful of quarters.
No nothing.
GPS is the greatest thing in the world.
Greatest thing in the world.
Come on.
Do you want to go back?
Hell no!
Why do I have to go back to that?
Why can't I?
Why?
I don't understand something.
Why do I have to go back with no social media?
I don't want to do that.
What are you talking about?
That's not it.
That wasn't it.
It's not the social media part.
It's not it.
We're going to go back.
First of all, you have to, if you went back and realized it.
We can't do that.
This is the greatest thing in the world.
We're the only people that rather than changing our behavior, we want to destroy this particular thing.
I want to get rid of these damn cars.
These cars.
What?
Well, all the DUIs and the accidents.
We wouldn't have much.
On the old days when we used to walk to school and walk places.
What are you talking about?
I don't want to go back to no...
That's not it.
That's not it.
No.
There's always been this.
Whenever there's any introduction of anything new, I'm convinced somebody said, Hey, look.
I made this thing.
What is it?
I call it a knife.
See, I took this metal.
I put a handle on it so you won't cut yourself.
And I...
You know how we're trying to skin animals?
Oh, look at this.
I got two sides.
I sharpened it.
Here.
Let me show it to you.
What'd you do that for?
I'm sure somebody was stabbed by the...
There's always been that.
Every time you add something, they talk about TV like it was the end.
Oh, my God.
McLuhan, the medium is a message.
I still don't know what that means, but I tell people I do.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You don't want to do that.
There's got to be a way around this.
And by the way, stop telling people how they're manipulated.
I saw this yesterday.
We were watching something very interesting.
And the message was, people hate to hear how social media manipulates them.
How they're like a bunch of animals being led by...
And it's true.
It's true.
But I'm telling you, Somebody's got to make this thing cool.
It takes one person to make it cool.
And it takes...
Every now and then they try to do it with ping pong.
Here in New York there's all these...
There's like a ping pong bar.
We walk by one the other day.
It didn't really take off.
Somebody somewhere...
Then there were...
There's a place where you play board games.
It's like a bar you go to.
Well, that's too kitschy.
Somebody's got to come along and actually...
We saw something yesterday.
It was terrific about kids sitting around explaining the problems they have.
And they were just talking.
Who remembers a rap session?
I was watching something, I think it was called Winter Soldier.
It was terrible stories.
Vietnam, veterans coming back.
And there were a lot of folks who said, we're going to have a rap session.
I just want to sit down and rap.
Not H. Rap Brown, but rap.
How many of us lost the idea of a rap session?
I'll tell you one of the greatest things in the world, I think, is to have a salon.
To actually have people in a home, some number, I don't know when the number gets too big or too little, but to have somebody come and just say, this person is going to come and we're going to learn something new about something.
I'm telling you.
I can't have, I can't tell you.
There is a need for this.
YouTube could be doing this.
We could be doing this.
The Jaggers.
The rapper.
The Jaggers.
Who remembers the Hager twins?
That's demented.
By the way, I find myself, and you do as well, going back, we're always reminiscing about something.
We're always saying, you know what?
Remember so-and-so?
Remember such-and-such?
I did a brand new video which stopped.
Which dropped now.
The line of media.
That's the heavy stuff.
About Renaud Camus.
We're not going to go into that now.
So anyway.
And what I do is I have a story.
Whatever the particular thing is.
And then at the end, I love to play music for people.
And tell you, this is why I think the music is important.
This is why I think it's important.
And today, I love...
I'm going to get the guitar out one day and play some more for you, but I love bluegrass.
Bluegrass is American.
It is as American.
It doesn't get any more American.
And there's offshoots, and there's, you know...
And believe it or not, one of the most important elements, elements in our culture, in our country, in our tradition, Was Andy Griffith.
And we learned about The Darlings.
Remember Denver Pyle?
And The Darlings.
Actually, it's a family called the Dillards.
Herb Peterson played from Desert Rose Band.
He's a great bluegrasser.
And the woman who played something darling, she just died.
But Andy Griffith, that show, introduced Bluegrass.
As did the Beverly Hillbillies with Flatt and Scruggs.
As did Bonnie and Clyde with Orange Blossom Special and Foggy Bound Breakdown.
Those made it cool.
Then came Deliverance.
Deliverance was it.
That song was Dueling Banjos and the original song was called Angry Banjos or something.
I don't know what it is.
And of course, it's...
It became the version in our collective thinking of the Star Wars bar scene.
You would say, boy, that was a weird meaning.
How was it?
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Meaning inbred mountain assaulters or whatever it is.
Anyway.
And then came, oh brother, Where aren't thou?
Another one.
Huge.
Change.
Everything.
Thank you.
There we go.
There we go.
How's that?
It's back.
It's back.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This Yeti Blue.
Just touch it.
It's not the USB.
I have to always check.
We're back.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Take it easy.
There's nothing like having no mic.
I always say.
There you go.
By the way, thank you, Jimmy.
Jimmy, by the way, puts up 9 million icons of the microphone.
Subtle?
I think so.
Thank you, Jimbo.
Appreciate that.
Bernaysos shows flames.
I don't know what that means.
This is so interesting.
5x5, thank you so much.
There we go, 5x5.
That's terrific.
That dang faulty cable again.
It is not the faulty cable.
Read.
Go online.
It's a great USB.
It's this thing.
It's the way the USB connects.
They talk about soldering it.
I'm not going to solder it.
Just got to keep an eye on it.
You wiggle it.
It's fine.
Everything's fine.
Anyway.
That's okay.
That's okay.
We found something else yesterday which I want to I want to talk to you about something which I'm telling you is...
How do I say this?
It's going to be very, very difficult for me to try to explain this to you, but I'm going to do it.
There are some things which I find absolutely fantastic.
Okay?
Fantastic.
And I want to bring this up to you, just for no other reason than it just fascinates me.
If there is a store that you go to where you say, I have somebody from another planet, and I have to take you to this planet, to this place, from this planet, And I want to show you something that we do.
We have no sound again.
I can't be.
I'm getting any sound here.
Well, we're going fine.
I see fine sound perfectly.
Let me do a sound check.
Are we hearing this?
Are we hearing this again?
Yes or no?
Do I have a 5x5?
I'm checking all of my numbers.
My meters are looking great.
Things are looking terrific.
Looking at the OBS.
Looking great.
Looking great.
Yep, yep.
I got that one.
Looking at my phone.
Yep, there we go.
5x5.
Look at this.
Now, Aunt Massey says 5x5.
Sean says no sound.
Puff says 5x5.
It's working.
They're late.
Fine.
6x5.
Now we have people who are being...
I think I know who we're being.
This is called the old, the real trolls.
Let me remind you.
Years ago, there was a fellow, and we'll get to this in a moment, but I heard this story.
I don't know if it's true, but I'd like to think it was.
A fellow who was watching CBS News with Dan Rather.
And he called up, A woman, and he called up, somehow, I don't know how the story goes.
He called up the local affiliate, and he said, listen, my name is, this is Johnny Briggs, and I'm with such and such, and I'm getting a really, I'm getting a bad white balance.
Can you tell me, can I get the number of the woman who was behind Dan, apparently there was a set or something, and I'm repeating the story, I never saw it, but it's a great story.
Somehow the story goes, he gets, They contact the woman live on CBS News, live with Dan Rather, or whoever it was.
And they get her phone rings and she answers it.
This guy says, as they're live, this is Harlan Briggs, and I'm from whatever, KT, whatever, I'm an affiliate in Boise, and I'm getting a white balance.
Can you help me out?
Can you help me out?
Can you please?
Hold up a piece of paper so that I can check a white balance.
Please, it's important, it's critical because, and somehow the story goes, this woman says, okay, so she's holding up a piece of paper, he's moving to your left, and she's going like this, as Dan Rather is doing his news, in the back, you see this woman doing this kind of weird semaphore.
Now that's trolling.
That is trolling.
That's the way to do it.
That's an excellent one.
And not this.
In any event.
Look at this.
Lionel, remember, people can be on the stream at different times.
Hitting refresh brings you up to live time.
Alright.
Should I hit mine?
Let me see if I can hit mine.
I'm going to refresh myself.
What do you say?
I'm going to do it.
I just refreshed myself.
Is that better?
Is that better?
Great.
Let's see if that helps.
I like this.
That's terrific.
Bernays sauce.
Anybody remember Edward Bernays?
You know what he stood for?
Wasn't he Freud's cousin or nephew?
I'm going to get into the story originally about the stores, but Bernays was the one who came up with the original Virginia Slims.
They couldn't get women to buy cigarettes because they were worried about dangers of smoke and that sort of thing, carcinogens and the like.
So what happened was Bernays theoretically decided that he was going to make cigarette smoking a sign of feminine, not comeuppance, but freedom.
You've come a long way, baby.
Who said that the other day?
I heard somebody say, you've come a long way, baby.
And that was the Virginia Slim's name.
You've come a long way, baby, to get where you're going today.
You've got your own cigarette now, baby.
You've come a long, long way.
And these women were walking around with their headbands and their mini skirts and their smoke in there.
It was brilliant.
Here's your own means of getting cancer.
Your own means of COPD.
You've come a long way, baby.
Here you go.
Here it is.
And it's brilliant.
How they made it cool.
It's amazing to me.
I want to know who the fool was who came up with backpacks.
I hate them.
There was nothing to me more hideous than a man in a suit going, going to work with a backpack.
Not a good backpack.
Not a leather backpack.
Not a...
No, no, no, no, no.
But just a backpack.
And there's nothing worse than being in a subway with somebody with a backpack or something.
Alright, anyway.
Make a long story short.
Yesterday, Mrs. L. and I went to a place.
She didn't make me go there.
I was with her.
We were together.
And she said to me something which I...
It will make my heart sink.
She said those words, and I'm sorry, but it's true.
She said something which was so frightening.
I like little stores.
I'm a funny person.
Funny.
Dollar Tree.
I think Dollar Tree is the greatest store in the world.
I can walk around and say, who wants to buy?
They made this stuff.
They made this stuff.
Did you ever go to a Dollar Tree store?
Itch.
This is where I got my favorite thing.
Go before.
Remember?
Before St. Patrick's Day, every conceivable thing about St. Patrick's Day, every, all at a dollar, maybe a dollar fifty now, not so, not sure.
But it was like, look how much attention, how much they buy, I guess it's China cranking this stuff up.
I don't mind going there.
I don't mind going there.
I like it.
But the one thing that I can hear, that where my heart, she says, can we run by, run by, Party City.
Now, with all due respect to Party City, there's something about it.
I don't know what it bothers me.
First of all, does anybody look at having a party?
Not at all.
There's two divisions to Party City.
There's the balloon blowing, and then there's the people at the cash register.
The balloon blowing people have nothing to do with you, unless you're buying balloons.
That's it.
They don't know you.
You could be on fire.
You could be that Vietnamese monk, self-immolation.
You know, the thing.
I just walk down the aisles and I get thinking to myself, we can't get baby formula.
But there must be a hundred just in this retirement party favors.
The plastic goblet that says retiring.
Sashes.
The funny top hat.
So much thought.
I mean, this is just one section of one aisle.
I couldn't believe this.
This amount of attention.
Aisle after aisle.
What's it called?
Gender determination or gender reveals?
Which to me is politically incorrect.
I could not believe this.
Pink and blue.
Okay.
don't want to go there.
Gas is $7 in California?
There's no baby formula?
But the genius that sits there and says, I've got a brand new streamer for retirement parties, I don't understand this.
And the place is packed.
They said, this is the recession and there's no money.
There's people buying stuff.
They're going to parties.
Balloons.
Balloons.
Mylar and helium.
Then, then, then.
Oh, look at this.
Go to a pet co and check out all the doggy treats.
You're right about that.
It says a lot about this.
Then, I walked up and I saw this woman like this.
She had just this look of like a zombie.
And she had this bottle with a pump and she would put the balloon and she was putting something into it like a liquid or some kind of a soap.
It looked like a soap or something.
So what is that?
I said, what is that?
It's called, what is it?
Easy float or new float?
No.
Easy flow was float.
And it's, huh?
High?
High or high float.
Anyway, I said, what is this?
And it was like, I don't know, it's just...
How do you spell that?
F-L-O flow?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, what does it do?
It makes the balloons float 6 to 80% more.
I said, well, how about this liquid?
This woman has never even thought about this.
So I'm asking her a question.
How does this work?
Nobody ever asked her.
She doesn't even care.
I want to know, what liquid?
Why is this affecting the flotation?
Does it do something with helium?
I don't understand this.
That's what I'm looking at.
Turns out what it is, is it forms a seal and keeps the helium from seeping out.
That's what it is.
It's a seal.
But she never even thought about it.
For eight hours, she's doing this stuff and never even wondered, what am I doing?
What's the principle behind this?
What's the physics behind it?
What's the chemistry?
Nothing!
And I'm like this, and my phone is like, I got it!
This is...
It's right here.
This gadget.
I can find out anything.
Any...
Oh, yeah.
Oh, pink.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pink and blue.
There are some people who adhere to this notion of festive binarism.
Now, somebody said this.
She's huffing the liquid.
Petco.
I have never been in...
Well, no, excuse me.
I have.
Do you know what I hate?
What do you think, with all due respect to Petco, I'm sure they're a fine, fine company.
What gets me right off the bat is the smell.
That wet dog kind of a smell.
I don't...
It is something, though.
Whenever you see something like that, and I have no...
Real interest in this whole dog thing, but it is something.
But we don't have baby formula.
Balloon aficionados are conspiracy theorists.
I like this.
There's something...
There is something about...
It just fascinates me.
Fascinates me about how this...
Alright.
How is the world going today?
Don't ask.
Do you need me to tell you?
No.
Do you need me to tell you?
No.
Shall I point something out to you?
No.
I'm getting kind of tired of that.
I'm getting tired of it.
And there's other things I want to figure this out.
Huh?
Flubber.
Don't get her going with the flood.
It's over.
Over.
Sure.
I'm just reading your...
For those of you who are new, for reasons I have yet to figure out, Mrs. L goes crazy when you mention Flubber.
I don't know.
I don't know what it is.
Maybe it was something as a child, some event.
I have no idea.
I have no idea.
That's it.
That's all I've got to say.
I don't want to say that there's a thing called Monday, but I...
But there's something to be said for this thing.
I'm going to say something to you which may not make any sense, but I'm going to say it anyway.
Can't you...
Don't weekends look different to you?
I don't mean by looking outside.
I don't mean that.
I don't mean that.
I don't mean, oh look, there's people at the park.
Oh, there must be...
No, no, no.
There's a different feel.
I swear to you, Saturday versus Sunday.
Saturday to me is like the best.
Sunday is like tomorrow is Monday.
But I can feel it.
I swear to God I can feel it.
Another thing, another thing.
We drove by this huge theater yesterday.
Do we have theaters?
When was the last movie we went to?
When was the last movie you went to?
In a movie theater.
Where did we go?
I think we went to see a special showing or something.
No, pre-COVID.
Is anybody going to a movie theater anymore?
Are there any movies?
This is a very serious question.
Tom Cruise in...
What's he doing?
Top Gun?
Are you...
Yeah.
He's the last movie star there is.
I don't know.
I think those things are over with.
Going to the theater.
I think it's done.
I think it's...
Licorice Pizza was fantastic.
Oh, yeah, but we didn't see that in the theater.
Yes, no, not in the theater.
Oh, you saw that in the theater.
I do not...
I do not even remember...
No.
Do not remember.
Buying the high-priced...
Buying this horrible popcorn that's cooked in palm oil.
Oh my god.
It tastes great though.
There's no doubt about that.
I don't remember any of that.
I don't want to go back and be too nostalgic right now.
But I swear to you, if I could, right now, I would love O'Downton Abbey.
We have a friend of ours who's in O'Downton Abbey and I cannot...
Cannot.
I don't care.
I'm going to say something about this, and I'm going to admit something.
Maybe you're the same way.
Maybe it's the British accent.
Maybe it's the style.
With all due respect, I don't follow any of it.
It doesn't...
I can understand the most arcane, bayou, Cajun, foreign French, but in this very Quick, British, upper crust, posh, received.
It's just nothing...
I have no interest in this.
And it's wonderful.
Oh, that's wonderful.
Beautiful.
Look at the detail.
No interest in this whatsoever.
However, you know what I would love to do?
Ready for this?
A drive-in.
The next time where there's a drive-in, I want to go to one.
I don't really care what it is.
There's something about that.
Huh?
I miss the movie theater.
And I miss more than anything else.
I miss the artsy-fartsy indie houses.
I miss the landmark.
We love the quad.
I love...
Oh, Lincoln Plaza was...
Or Lincoln Square.
Lincoln...
Whatever that was.
It was wonderful.
IFC is great.
Those are the greatest of the greatest of the greatest.
I love that.
But...
But there we were.
And I don't know if anybody really understands it.
To try to explain to somebody this, and I know I'm being nostalgic again, but there's something about I don't want to go to the inconvenience and the stupidity of going and watching something outside.
And as a kid, if you had to go to the bathroom, to the John, in the dark, And you walked away from your car and all you saw was no lights, no nothing, no section three, no nothing.
You would just walk away, turn around and look and say, where in the hell is my car?
Where are my parents?
After you risk your life, every carnival reject and runaway is lurking around the john at a drive-in theater with the worst Food anybody's ever imagined.
And then you've got to figure out, how do I get back?
What am I looking for?
Nothing.
Just maybe.
Depending upon the scene, you'll see, oh, this is an outline of a car.
And you go up to each one.
Well, I was about here.
And you just, it was like, and as a kid, I'm lost.
And your parents let you go to the drive-in men's room by yourself.
Because this was before, you know, Ted Bundy and all that.
And you would walk back and think, where the hell am I going?
And all these kids, you could see every now and then, sometimes there'd be a bright scene, and you'd see these kids, these zombies, going up.
Is that a Camaro?
I have an Impala.
Where the hell am I?
None of this looks even, and you never left crumbs, or you can't leave crumbs.
That was wonderful.
I thought that was great.
Some kids are still gone.
They never came back.
And if you ask me, sometimes parents, Let them.
Let them.
You understand that?
Somebody let them say, why don't you go to the job?
And then they took off and...
Alright, those were the days indeed.
I know I'm waxing nostalgia, but sometimes I find that, believe it or not...
Well, you have to do comparison.
I was listening to one of my favorite chefs.
It's this fellow, Michel Roux.
Michel Roux Jr. from the Roux family, from Le Gavroche.
And he was talking about, he has his daughter, and he likes old-fashioned French cooking.
He's very thin, he's a runner, whatever.
But he likes cream and butter and snails and lard and all that stuff.
And lardon.
And other people were saying, Well, that's whatever.
And he said, well, maybe it's because it's what I grew up on.
And what you grew up on is not merely being nostalgic.
It formed kind of the foundation.
And a lot of it makes sense.
Not everything that we did when we were kids was terrific.
But this was.
But I'm just fascinated now.
Can you imagine?
Would you let your kid...
Would you say...
A drive-in theater was like a mini Woodstock.
You don't know where you're going.
It's in the dark.
Would you do that now?
I say, hell no!
And our parents loved us.
Our parents might have been prudish.
Our parents might not have been that open-minded when it came to certain societal and social things.
But when it came to our personal safety, yeah, go ahead.
I'll get you a BB gun.
I'll get you a CrossFit.
I'll go to the bathroom.
I'll go pee.
It's over there.
About a half a mile over there.
See that light, that glowing thing over the hill?
Yeah, let's go over there.
Our parents love this.
Who would kidnap us?
Kidnap us at a drive-in?
Why?
Well, because...
I mean, think about that.
Nobody was...
You never thought about it.
You never, ever, ever...
Here's what I never understand.
Did you ever know any kid in your life growing up?
Any kid who had a peanut allergy?
I didn't even know what the hell that was.
I didn't worry about that.
Or kids who had an identifiable, articulable mental condition that had a name to it?
I mean, you always had to give them, well, something's wrong with that kid.
Well, you know, your cousin Brady.
I don't know.
What's wrong with him?
That was it.
That was my family.
What's wrong with Angela?
Angela.
I'm going to leave you now.
I have a lot to do and so do you.
Please enjoy this day.
Please enjoy this day.
Please send, send, send me ideas.
Let's do class subjects.
Let's spend the day.
Let's start off with a smile.
Let's start off.
I've been doing this thing.
I hit my...
I just...
Yeah, on my Lionel Media channel, I get very, very deep.
I just did one about...
About Camus and...
A lot of stuff going on there.
But...
Is it okay to laugh?
Or just think about something?
Or look about something that we do?
And what I would really love to do, I would really love to do, is especially, we have so many foreign, well, foreign to us, relative to us, but to find out particular things and behaviors I would love You have no idea.
I would love to go to a...
The only travel I'm interested in doing is going to a foreign country, but I want to see the way you live.
I don't want to go on a tour bus.
Ah, okay, maybe you want.
But that's not what I want to do.
I say, what do you do?
What's the real inside skinny?
What's the real...
Like, the place I really want to go to are the...
To hang out with the Geordies in Newcastle.
I think this is my new favorite place.
I just want to see what they...
I don't want to see anything.
I just want to see these people.
How they hang out.
What they say.
What they eat.
What they do.
I don't want to go to some place...
No!
What do you really do?
People who come to New York, I'm saying, can I show you New York the way New York sees it?
No.
They always do the same thing.
I say, okay.
Because the really neat part about New York is stuff nobody sees.
They don't go there.
They always do this tourist stuff.
Double-decker box, they go to Times Square.
It's boring.
It's boring.
Go to Arthur Avenue.
Go to Flushing.
Look at these.
You'll think you're in China.
You'll think you're in Beijing.
And you see this, just the enormity of it.
And we're still...
Anyway, that's what I want to do.
Because it is the human...
It is the human stuff that we do.
I mean, I could talk to you all day about Party City.
I could talk to you about the way, just the way people, during the pandemic, during lockdowns, I was just watching behavior, just watching people.
Still do.
Just watch how people react.
Look what they do.
Pick up patterns.
Pick up trends.
Pick up traits.
See what you can figure out.
Why do they do this?
Predict.
Just go and watch.
It is the greatest source of my...
And no matter what it is, in your job, whether if you're a teacher or a parent, or in the politics, invariably, somewhere along the line, you've got to figure out mass human behavior.
Why do they do things?
Why do certain people do certain things, both individually and collectively?
That's all I'm going to say.
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Okay?
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Oh, I want to see, oh yeah.
Never done Q&A before.
Never done interactive.
Completely different.
You will not be able to see, you will not be able to believe what we go through, through my lens, through my eye, through the way that I see things in my own perspective via my particular Ken.
My mother said all the time, don't do that.
Your eyes are going to get stuck.
I used to pretend I was blind.
My friend said, don't do that blind.
I might see you.
True story.
Not that I'm mocking people with ocular dysfunction.
But there's nothing better than when you get your eyes checked.
How are you feeling?
Pretty good.
Headaches have been bothering me.
Alright, my friends.
Have a great, great, great, great, great, glorious day.
We will see you tomorrow.
Same bad time, same bad channel.
Don't ever change.
We love you.
And don't forget, you are so beautiful to me.
Can't you see?
You are so beautiful to me.
See you tomorrow.
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