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May 25, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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DAILY BRIEFING: The American Psyche Deconstructed

Think of it as a political and sociological self-analysis. With shocking results.

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All right.
All right, my friend.
Let me see if this is okay.
Yes, we are up to speed.
Before we begin, some wonderful, wonderful little local housekeeping here.
We looked out the window today, looked at the Hudson River, and there is a Navy, I don't know what it is, I don't know, a battleship from a hole in the ground.
But it was beautiful.
It was gorgeous, and today is the beginning, the commencement of Fleet Week.
And what that means is that every year for, well, forever, every year, the Navy and the Marines will come into our lovely fair city, and they will dock, it will dock the...
Sailors and the like.
Let me close this down here.
And it will be here for a week.
And you will see Marines and you will see sailors everywhere.
Everywhere.
They'll be walking around and you'll be just seeing them in their various levels of excitement.
And they look Twelve years old.
And I guess they always look like that.
And whenever I see these wonderful people, I think to myself, you know what?
I don't like the way that there are so many people and so many folks who would just, I don't know what the word is, who would just send you, theoretically send you someplace that had absolutely nothing to do with Keeping this country safe.
Sorry.
I know we shouldn't say that, but it's true.
There are folks who, for reasons I will never know, they will just say, hey, let's back up Russia!
What am I saying?
Send military to Ukraine!
Yeah, that's it!
It'll be fine.
It'll be terrific.
And if there's a war, well, you know, what are you going to do?
What happens?
I mean, come on.
Big deal.
It's just a war.
I wouldn't let a loved one get near the military today.
Near.
Unless you can assure me they're in the Air Force or they're on a ship.
Or even on a ship, I guess.
But, I mean, no.
Because you have people who, very frankly, scare the hell out of me.
But I don't want to get into that.
I've been receiving so many, seriously, great emails from people saying how much you have enjoyed us speaking and talking and being, what kind of being who we are and enjoying ourselves and not necessarily being, what am I trying to say, heavily crushed by the news and how can you not be?
How can you not be?
It's wonderful, and I certainly love this conviviation, this celebration of just being together, doing our thing, so to speak.
Well, I hope that's possible, and I hope that we continue doing this, and I hope that we're able to enjoy our time together.
But I want to talk to you about something which is very, very serious, and something which I think you should be aware of, especially if you have kids.
Please, please.
Please, do your best.
Keep them away from TV.
Keep them away from TV.
Chancey says, it's called having conversations.
Precisely.
Every day is a gift.
You know, sometimes we say these things and they sound kind of corny.
But I can tell you right now, I could take you...
To a place here called Memorial Sloan Kettering.
We can go to MD Anderson.
We can go to a lot of cancer places where family members and children, children, people are fighting for their lives.
You're absolutely right.
Never take it for granted.
Never take it for granted.
Never, ever, ever take it for granted.
But now that you have children, be very, very careful.
Turn off TV.
Do not let them see what's happening.
Do not.
Now I did this morning at LionelMedia.com part one of my heavy installments as what I would do if I were the president.
What would I do?
And I believe in the simplest I don't want to give the old Occam's razor thing.
Let me tell you a true story.
When I was in college, it was a suicide and crisis hotline.
And I had a woman one time.
We only had maybe one or two people who claimed to be suicidal, but I don't think they were.
I think they were depressed and needed help, and we were there for that.
But a woman called up one day, and I was about 19, maybe 19 at the time.
She was, I mean, going nuts.
And her kid, her child, this is before Pamper, this is how weird this was.
Her kid apparently would get a hold of, would open its diapers and kind of do a, kind of a, the dirty, kind of a maze prison kind of artwork.
Using a particular medium she did not particularly care for.
And in any event, she was just beside.
And this was to show you how long ago they actually had pins.
Pampers and stuff really, really weren't.
Anyway, it was the strangest thing.
I said, well, what happened?
He goes, he keeps getting on it.
So anyway, long story short, I said, Have you thought about pinning?
Listen to this.
Pinning diapers.
Have you ever thought about pinning them in the back?
So he can't.
Why do you have to have two pins?
Why not have one?
Why not just, you know.
She called back.
In Africa, she says, that was the most brilliant thing anybody ever said.
I thought, okay.
She says, no, you don't understand.
It changed everything.
And the kid was like, what am I?
What do I do here?
How do I...
So sometimes there are very, very simple, simple reasons.
And what you have to realize is that whenever you talk about people in politics, they don't necessarily want a solution to things.
Sometimes the problem facilitates different things to happen.
And I think you know what I'm talking about.
But the first thing is, is that whenever you...
Deal with this human behavior.
Last night, I told Mrs. L, I do not, I do not, I cannot watch anything on any cable news, in any platform whatsoever, dealing with this horror in Texas.
I can't.
It's Groundhog Day.
I hate to say it.
I know exactly what it's going to say.
I'm not trying to be dismissive.
I am not trying to be callous.
I don't want the story and I don't want to hear the usual stuff.
That's all.
I want to just hear the truth.
And I'm going to say this very quickly.
I am an absolute ardent supporter, believer in the First Amendment.
I don't want to do anything or see anything that in any way involves limiting the First Amendment right.
I don't want to see anything that involves limiting it.
But I wish if somebody could...
They will try something for the first time.
I want the next time there is some national terrible tragedy.
I'm sorry.
I wish we would just do this.
Everybody agrees.
Everybody.
Social media.
There's no way to do this.
Well, yeah, you can.
Social media.
Instagram.
Police.
Regular folks.
We agree.
Not to have pictures of the person who was suspected of the carnage.
We agree not to have this.
We agree and recognize that there are some people who...
It goes back to the top of the world mod, Jimmy Cagney.
There are people who...
Are on deck who were thinking about maybe one day feeling the warmth of the glow of the attention.
Maybe they themselves find themselves thinking, you know what, I think maybe I'm going to...
I find the story of serial killing so interesting.
Not the people themselves.
The people themselves are not interesting.
This dysfunction of humanity I find interesting.
There was a guy, Rader, remember?
Remember Dennis Rader?
BTK, remember him?
From Wichita?
This was an egomaniac.
This was an egomaniac.
This is a guy who said, well, you got me.
During the allocution portion of the sentence, he went...
I mean, this was something I couldn't believe what I was saying.
And the FBI, either the interrogators or whoever it was, after he pled or agreed to plead, he said, goodbye.
He said, wait, wait.
Don't you want to talk to me anymore?
He said, no.
Don't you want to know what I did?
No.
And the look on his face, I'm not famous anymore?
No.
And they got up and they left.
They said that it wasn't the fact of life in prison that got him.
It was the fact that he looked as though his world had changed.
You don't want me anymore.
I'm nothing.
It was my moment.
Imagine if you could find him.
Imagine, God forbid.
And you know, statistics being what they are, in the event of another, the next problem like this, can you imagine what would happen if all of a sudden you never saw?
We don't know the name.
We don't know the picture.
We don't know the Instagram or Facebook or nothing.
We don't know about his likes, dislikes, fights that he had, class...
Class descriptions, his yearbook picture, what he looked like, what he did.
Just like an NPC, just like when you are asked to upload a profile picture and you haven't done it yet and you have that kind of oval looking thing.
That's it.
Think about that.
Think about that.
Think about what happened if you didn't know anything.
You didn't know anything.
How fascinating would that be?
How fascinating would that be if you just didn't know?
And the only thing that we talked about, the only thing would be victims and people and how to make the world better.
We never knew.
You never knew.
And you know what would happen?
Nothing.
We wouldn't go crazy.
We would say, we need to know this.
We need to know.
No.
No.
No, we don't.
And the next time.
You become anonymous.
You guarantee yourself anonymity.
Now, I have always loved The idea of why.
Why do people do that?
What do you think?
How many people do you talk to say, what do you think about this?
What do you think about this?
What do you think about these people?
What is your take?
What do you think?
What's there to think?
I don't know.
What's your take?
Why do people do this?
Why?
Then we get into this.
Let me share something with you.
This is a newsletter that is going out today.
And Mrs. L is doing it.
And it's exquisite.
Let me read this to you.
Listen to this.
This just never ceases to blow me away.
According to the National Missing Children's...
By the way...
Today is National Missing Children's Day.
Did you know that?
National Missing Children's Day.
And it is estimated that 2300 children go missing every day in America.
As for the yearly estimate, the figure is 460,000.
Think about that.
Every single day.
And they just, poof, gone.
Your daughter, your child, your beloved, gone.
Sometimes found, sometimes not found, sometimes it's parental abduction, sometimes it's runaway, sometimes it might be.
Who knows?
Custody disputes, gone.
Every single day.
I cannot imagine.
And I don't think you can ever apportion different forms of pain.
I don't think you can do that.
Well, this, the death of a parent versus the death of a child.
I don't even know how to do that.
But just imagine this.
And there's this thing.
And there's no way to, again, to apportion, because horrors are horrors.
But imagine all of a sudden, there's just...
Charles gone.
And you talk about...
We mentioned this thing called closure.
Closure.
What's this closure?
As though we need some finality to something.
As though...
There's a certain degree of that.
But I think if you take the closure group versus the non-closure group, I don't think...
Things are that much better one versus the other.
It's pretty horrible, no matter what.
But the thing I'm trying to say is, how is it that we never talk about that?
It's just never even discussed.
Remember Eitan Pates?
What year was that, honey?
Eitan Pates?
79. 79. Eitan Pates.
Young man, beautiful young boy, in New York, going to school.
Saying goodbye.
His mother looks out the window, sees him turn the corner, never saw him again.
Never saw him again.
*sad noises*
It was the first time, it was a face.
The father was a professional photographer, so he had all of these incredible photos of him.
And people said, think about how innocent he was.
79!
And then what, 81, two years later, Adam Walsh.
Then milk cartons.
And now, missing children, it's as ubiquitous.
Have you seen this child?
And it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not that you're, what am I trying to say?
It's not that you don't care.
There's something that is natural in life.
It's called habituation.
And you habituate to things when a stimulus loses its novelty.
When you put something on a piece of jewelry, at first it's clumsy, it's heavy, it's clunky, you notice it, and then when the stimuli lose their novelty.
When you habituate and accustom yourself and become used to something, when it happens over and over and over again, then you don't notice it anymore.
And the reason for that is important.
Because if you are walking around all day feeling your socks and the sound of a car careening out of control, you might miss that.
We want novel.
It's normal.
It's the way people are.
It's the way we work.
And it fascinates me.
And going back to the original thing, why?
And the worst of the worst of the worst is when mainstream media does its routine.
I've seen it.
I can kind of understand they're in a really tough position because they have to make money.
It is not a philanthropic move.
This news thing, it is not in any event, it's not done to make the world a better place.
You have to make money.
And you have to do what it takes to make money.
Money.
And it's a news story.
And I don't think they want to belittle it.
I don't think they want to necessarily act disrespectfully.
That's not their nature.
But sometimes when you crank out this runaway train that you have to keep running away, And there's no filter.
And there's no editing.
And there's no end.
I know people don't want to think about this.
Ted Turner changed everything with CNN.
Ted Turner came along and said, all of a sudden, Ted Turner, all of a sudden, why do we have to turn TV off?
It was this weird thing, this incremental thing.
Remember Nightline?
During the Iranian hostage thing?
Is that Ted Koppel at night?
Is that it?
Is Ted Koppel?
He's on at night?
I don't understand this.
Wow!
And the next thing you know...
Remember in the old days, we had this thing where we had the notion of this, the test pattern, being on a couch, and you're falling asleep, and the test pattern, and the Indian, and then Ted Turner says, no, let's keep going.
Keep going.
Yeah, keep going.
Now, all of a sudden, story packages, that didn't make any sense.
Story packages like, Things in your bathroom that'll kill you.
Nobody wanted to hear them when you had half an hour.
You had a news editor.
No, we don't need that.
It's ridiculous.
Things in your bathroom.
Are you kidding me?
We've got the world going crazy.
Nice try.
Maybe someday.
Then all of a sudden they go, you.
Yeah, Jerry, you still got that thing about that thing in your bathroom?
Yeah.
Can you make it a six-part or why?
Because I've got to stretch this thing.
I've got to stretch.
And then...
We became not only consumers, we're participants.
We're participants in this.
And they're runaway train.
They've got to keep it going.
And they're doing everything.
You've got to keep feeding this boiler or this furnace or this oven.
They're breaking wood and they're throwing it in and breaking up furniture.
Just keep it going.
We can't stop.
Don't worry about editing.
Don't worry about anything.
Chama.
Thank you.
Wait a minute.
There we go.
There we go.
I just tapped this.
I just tapped it.
And it went off.
It was it.
It went off like that.
Okay.
So there we have these people right now.
And nobody knows what to say.
And nobody knows what to do.
And nobody knows what to think.
And nobody knows.
We just don't know what to say.
And you have people out there.
Doing their job, you don't have to make this solemn.
There's nothing you can say.
You don't have to say a parent's worst nightmare.
You don't have to say that.
We know this.
It's inconceivable.
It's inconceivable.
I just did an hour on this.
What I would do.
But I've got to tell you this much.
If I were the president, I know it's a very strange thing, the first thing I would do, like I handled, Like I suggested to that mother who was going crazy because the baby's diaper kept coming off.
I would go back to a time growing up in Florida.
And you may not know this, but in Florida, we had fruit rats.
And they sounded more tropical, didn't they?
Oh, those aren't rats.
They're fruit rats.
It's different.
Okay.
Yeah, they're fruit rats.
They're different.
They come from the fruit trees.
It's not because we're dirty.
It's because of the fruit wrap.
And when, when I was a kid, we used to always have these people.
One time we had this exterminator.
This guy was great.
And my mother never let me say, you know what?
Leave the man alone.
I would say, no, no.
I always followed him.
What are you doing now?
What are you doing now?
And sometimes they enjoyed it.
And I was thoroughly fascinated, as I am by most things.
So, One day, we're out there.
And he's walking around.
And he's looking.
And he goes, see that?
I said, what is it?
A rat?
He goes, no.
That's how they get in.
And all he cared about was how they got in.
He says, you see, I'm not going to get rid of rats.
Rats are here.
Rats are in the trees.
Rats are everywhere.
I want to keep them out.
I don't care.
I'm not going to...
I'm not going to get rid of rats.
I'm not going to change their reproductive...
No.
I've got to make sure they don't come in.
So if I am the President of the United States, what I'm going to do is I'm going to have a blue ribbon committee.
Why?
Because I'm the President.
And I'm going to say...
I want to keep these people out of school.
I can't control the psychiatric problem.
I can't control emotional problems and drug abuse and broken families.
I can't somehow get rid of guns tomorrow.
I can't do that.
I can't do that.
But what I can do is I can make sure that anybody who comes into school doesn't have a gun.
Easy.
It's done all the time.
They do it at courthouses.
They do it at airports.
And we're going to do them at schools.
And there's not a parent around who will say, oh, no, no, don't do that.
We don't want to inconvenience.
Oh, yes, you do.
Yes, you do.
You want to inconvenience the kids?
Yes.
Yes.
It's real tough.
You don't want to go to that school.
Oh, they got a metal detector.
They locked all the doors in the back.
Not affecting fire safety.
You can't get in.
It's the worst place in the world.
And, here's what I have.
You ready for this?
I ask, again, I have a blue ribbon committee.
And I want to get retired military, retired law enforcement, active duty, maybe, time in a part-time.
Security people.
Trained.
Not a bunch of volunteers.
That's okay, but that gets a little scary sometimes.
Bonded, licensed, whatever it is.
And in front of every school in the nation.
Every school.
City, county, state.
Private schools, you can do your own thing.
Public schools.
We have metal detectors.
We have a security around the perimeter.
Locked doors.
Nobody comes in.
We don't have open things.
No, no, no, no.
Sorry.
Those days are done.
Sorry.
We don't leave our doors unlocked anymore like we used to.
Well, when I was a kid, we used to leave the door unlocked.
Well, we don't do that anymore.
That's that simple.
And in front of every school, we see somebody standing there.
And he's this person, this security person, obviously armed, and means business.
Maybe one, maybe two.
Either volunteered, or we could take some of the $40 billion that we send to Ukraine, or the $50 billion here, or maybe it'll be privately funded.
Who knows?
But this is volunteer.
They're not going to be parents.
More people will say, we will do this.
And it's that barrier.
It's plugging up the rat hole.
It's keeping the rat out.
Because if somebody shows up and says, uh-oh.
I don't like to look at that.
Well, there's that guy out there.
Because these people aren't psychotic.
They're hearing voices and they're thinking, no, I'm invisible and I can bring my...
No, no, no.
They know exactly.
These people are cowards.
And they look there.
And they say to themselves, you know, not today.
I'm not feeling good about this.
Why?
Well, he's right there.
I've got to come in the front door.
They're going to look at me.
I've got one way into the school.
It's through that door.
There's a metal detector.
And this guy's standing there.
Maybe too.
Sorry.
Uh-uh.
My dreams, my thoughts, my demented ideations are quashed through, finished.
And then we get into another area.
Another area.
Which is really touchy stuff.
But I'm going to run it by you.
In every school, I walk in, I say, we go to PS whatever it is.
I say, Principal, how are you?
Let me ask you a question.
How many students do you have here?
Okay, fine.
In the event that there is another, God forbid, another event like this, I can almost guarantee you that it will be a male.
I can bet anything.
So, of your population, I want you to exclude non-male, and I don't want to get into the labels, whatever you want to call it.
And of that population, statistics will show that they will not be, though there are exceptions, but they will not be Student council presidents, captains of the football team, national merit scholars, national honor society, presidents of clubs, they're not going to be that.
So let's exclude that from the mail.
And we're going to get into this circle right here.
And of those people, we have told, we have learned, after doing a lot of study on this, kind of who's who.
So we're going to have some people that we're going to be Not invading a base of a privacy or anything.
We're going to just kind of keep an eye.
In fact, most teachers, if you said, if you had to predict, you'd say, oh, Tommy.
Tommy.
Tommy.
Now that's not always true.
That's not always true.
Because remember, there's something to this.
But I want to go back to what I said originally.
Do you want to be proactive or reactive?
Do you want to react to something?
Or do you want to say, let's think ahead of time.
Let's think ahead.
Because there are people who have information and clues, and we have to recognize the fact that it might be a good idea for somebody to maybe have a bunch of adults behind this.
You know what I mean?
To have somebody who says, I'm really going to attack this.
I'm really going to look at this thing.
I'm really going to look because, believe it or not, the good news is it is exceedingly rare compared to kids that are missing every day.
Nobody cares about that one.
And in the meantime, I want you to keep an eye out on your own kids.
And I want you to realize.
I want you to think about them.
I want you to look at them.
I want you to ask yourself, what are they doing?
What do they think when they see this?
Your TV, what do they hear?
What do they hear?
What are they seeing?
Again, remember, lionelmedia.com, I go far, much, much, in a more brutal look at this thing, because when it comes time to, because this is a form of warfare, and warfare is by its definition brutal.
But I want you to think about your children.
Their innocence.
How do they, what do they think when their world is immersed?
Do you have cable TV on at home?
Do you have it on in the background?
Is that news?
Do you think it's news?
Do you think it's good for your kid to know about this?
Do you think?
You see, the thing that I can't explain, and I'm sure you know this, is that kids see things magnified.
Magnified in terms of size.
It's out of proportion.
Sometimes things are happier than they appear, though not as often.
Things are more grave.
Things are more awful.
These are more...
I never had any tragedy happen to anybody I went to school with.
Never.
Grief counselor.
We were kids.
And the thing that is the most important...
Out of everything that we do is trying to maintain this thing called being a kid for as long as possible.
And I can't emphasize that enough.
To be a kid as long as you possibly can.
And that means to be kept from everything that you're not ready yet.
Reality will hit them before they know it.
They will understand this.
And it's a different time right now.
It's a different time.
Kids who have been so sidelined, so affected by remote learning and sheltering in place and being away from school and just that fright.
I know adults who absolutely lost their minds during COVID.
Imagine being a kid.
And imagine what's happening.
What is this new generation going to look like?
So, not only should you turn cable news off.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
Not only should you, but your kids.
And I mean all cable news.
All.
Because remember something.
The goal of all media, TV and social to an extent, is all over here, over here, look, look, look, look at here.
Ooh, look at this.
Hey, numbers are going up.
Ooh, look at this.
And it's that simple.
I told you about that movie, Childhood 2.0.
Kids, when their numbers drop, their social media metrics, It's like ostracism.
They didn't know what to do.
Oh my God!
And some kids will do whatever it takes for those numbers to go up.
Cable media is the same thing.
Anything.
Anything.
Because they're losing you.
Don't you understand this?
They're losing you.
They don't know what to do right now.
We are in a flux, in a state of flux.
It's impossible for these people to understand.
Let me tell you something.
Don't you agree, honey, that Top Gun is the last big budget picture, do you agree, of that?
I think you told me that.
What am I saying?
You told me that.
You told me that.
This is it.
Say goodbye.
Say goodbye.
Tom Cruise.
That's it.
It's over with.
It's done.
Ricky Gervais all of a sudden is breaking away from this woke thing.
Why?
Because he's bold?
No.
Because of the realization that that's got to change and quick.
The Dave Chappelle thing, the Ricky Gervais thing, it's changing.
They don't know what to do.
In Washington and around the world, the most important people in the world are NGOs and think tanks.
And there's two kinds of people that they want.
They want donors and they want voters.
They want donors and voters.
And then the Democratic and Republican and Libertarian, whatever it is, they're trying to get donors and voters.
And where do you think the world is going right now?
Remember what I told you a while back?
You may not have remembered this, but I'm going to tell you something.
The pendulum is going to swing back like a wrecking ball.
It's not going to be anything...
It's not going to be just a...
A course correction.
It's going to swing back like a wrecking ball.
It's going to just...
I mean, people want change now.
And people are saying, enough!
And the reset that is going on, everything is changing.
I don't know if you caught this.
Kissinger's Comment at Davos?
Wow!
They don't know what to do with that one.
What do we do?
What's going on with that?
Because the thing that everybody is trying to do, whether it's social media, or regular media, or TV, or politics, it's trying to read the crowd.
And whatever, they will try to adjust the crowd, see if they can make the crowd go this way, but no.
The crowd's pushing back.
And there is something right now that is happening where people are saying, all right, enough.
We don't know why.
Is it monkeypox?
Is it supply chain?
Is it the price of gas?
Is it baby formula absence?
What is this thing where people say, that's enough.
That's it.
Can't figure it out.
Is it a multiplicity of things?
Is it a combination of things?
Is it...
How would you say this?
How would you even put...
I don't even know what to call this.
But it's happening.
And it is happening in ways that I can't...
I can't begin to explain or put into words.
And I know it.
And I feel it.
And one of the things, which is the hardest thing for some people to do, and I am trying my best to do this, I'm trying to see if I can explain this, but one of the things that I am trying to do is I want you to I want you always to be able to notice what's going on, what's different.
What's going on?
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And I'm noticing things.
I'm seeing things that are completely different.
And what happens is, the moment I watch, I look, put it this way, I look at mainstream media like a guy in a restaurant says, okay, we're packed.
Good.
It's all you know.
It doesn't know who they are.
Or when you're doing a show or a stand-up, you look at the curtain, you look out in the audience.
That's all you want to do.
You just kind of get a brief little look.
That's all I do.
I don't really pay attention to what's going up and who's up and who's down and all that kind of jazz.
It's that simple.
There's something that's really transformational happening here.
And they don't know what to do.
You saw this Karine Jean-Pierre.
She's in there for two days.
All of a sudden you've got Kirby coming in.
From, what, state?
And he's in there.
They're not waiting anymore.
You had the disinformation czar, Nina Jankiewicz.
Gone.
Two days.
Three days.
Gone.
They're not even waiting.
Something is changing.
In the old days, they would say, you know what?
Let it run.
We're enjoying the blowback.
It's different now.
It's different.
Something, something happens.
And we don't know what it is.
If it's gas prices, if it's food, if it's, where was the place we went the other day?
Oh!
Somebody said, I mean, this is not heartbreaking, but this guy says, can't get hummus.
The moment that something happens, the moment that something happens, The moment that there is a drastic change in your lifestyle that is not motivated by fear, but by what you believe to be some kind of governmental lunacy, that's when things change.
Big time.
There is a change happening.
Like you cannot believe on so many levels.
I can't tell you enough.
Kissinger at Davos says, no, you've got this Russia-Ukraine thing wrong.
What?
Holy...
Wow!
Remember one thing.
Write these rules down.
Nothing is by accident.
Nobody surprises anybody.
Nobody comes along and says, hey, that was a shock.
No, it's not.
No, no, no.
There's no shock.
No, no, no, no, no.
No.
Things are happening right now.
Things are really, really changing.
And I'm telling you, remember what I'm saying.
NGOs, think tanks, donors, voters.
Watch what's happening.
Midterms are coming up.
2024 is coming up.
What's going on?
Who's in charge of this?
What's happening?
Now, that's the political.
Go back to the societal.
Ask yourself, do you feel safer now?
Do you feel safer now or less secure?
There was a study they did.
What was it, yesterday?
About people who felt, do you feel safe on the subways?
Was it 99?
I don't know.
Nobody feels safe.
How do you let that happen?
How do you let something like that happen?
If there's one thing that human beings know what to do and how to do, it's law and order.
Believe me.
The question is...
Yeah.
We have a mayor who apparently has not figured out where he's going yet.
That's a different story.
Watch what happens.
So let me let this sink in.
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In the waiting room, it's very nice.
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That's all I'm going to say.
Now, my friends, to you, to Eiffel Tower, look at the Smiths.
Look at all the great people.
We haven't done this in a while.
Let's do this.
For those who are back, would you please, let's do kind of a shout-out.
Just tell us where you are.
Just give us an idea of where you are so that people can see just this geographical This veritable diaspora.
This melange.
Who is that?
Oh!
Vinny Sammartino.
Show, show, show, show.
What are you talking about, honey?
Show, show, show what?
What does that mean?
I don't know what that means.
Anyway, Tasmania, Earth, Tampa.
Verona, New Jersey.
Villa Park, California.
Las Vegas.
Monroeville, New Jersey.
Another table.
Valparaiso, Indiana.
Bucks County, PA.
Wesley Chapel.
Dale Kimball, there he is!
The Pope of...
You know, I was wondering about you, DK.
I was wondering, where are you?
Where is everybody?
Cumbria, England.
Cornwall.
Ontario.
Canada.
Winnipeg.
Kokomo.
Denville, New Jersey.
We know Denville well.
Beautiful place.
Moore, Oklahoma.
You know, they have that great little Chinese restaurant there on Main Street?
What is it, Main Street?
Veggie Heaven's there, but it's right next to it.
What's it called?
The Chinese restaurant?
Yeah, but Veggie Heaven, but the Chinese restaurant's next to it.
I think it's Broadway.
What's it called?
Szechuan House?
Anyway.
That's a wonderful...
Huh?
Yes.
Yeah, that funky...
Homosassa.
I was in Homosassa Springs one time.
Ronnie Pope, rather, excuse me.
And I was attacked by a water mox.
It came right at me.
Homosassa Springs.
Never forget that.
Switzerland.
God bless Switzerland.
Calgary.
Asheville, North Carolina.
Oh, Asheville.
We've got to go to Asheville one day.
Beautiful.
Got to see that.
Was it Biltmore or wherever that place is called?
Hunan Taste.
That's it.
Excellent.
You know what I like about that?
It's an old-fashioned classic Chinese restaurant with the motif and the great noodles and all this stuff.
Columbus.
Look at this.
Cartersville, Georgia.
Philippines.
How about Bong Bong?
Huh?
Huh?
Bong Bong.
He's back.
Larry Fisher.
Larry, thank you for your service.
Look at all that.
Just Portland, Maine.
Sewell, New Jersey.
Homosassa.
Mickeltao, Washington.
I love this.
Northwest Pacific British Columbia.
What was that, honey?
I was going to say Lisa Chomp.
I'm wondering if I should ever mention me.
Sometimes I don't think it's a good idea.
I don't want to mention it because I'm still a third rail.
You probably don't know this.
There's a beautiful shop there.
Howie's Waters is like, should I do that?
Should I mention this?
I don't know.
Because to many people, I'm an acquired taste.
That's all I'm going to say.
San Antonio, Texas, Missouri, look at this.
House of Chan in New York City.
Well, let me tell you something.
These are wonderful places.
In any event, thank you.
Thank you.
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