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May 28, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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DAILY BRIEFING: Embracing Truth Even When Unpopular
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All right, my friends.
Okay, my friends.
Here we go.
This is the beginning of today's Daily Briefing.
This Saturday Daily Briefing.
And I want to say a welcome to everyone.
I want to say, as most places do, And it must work because they say it.
Please like this.
Please subscribe.
This is a never-ending battle of metrics.
Metrics and numbers tell you everything.
I don't know exactly what makes the numbers so.
I have my suspicions.
But I do know that you have a definite input into this.
So you're liking this, and you're subscribing, and you passing this on is most effective.
Let me also say, on July the 16th, I can't wait.
I don't know if I can wait that long.
The cutting room.
We hit the stage.
And it's different.
It's going to be Participatory, Q&A, interactive, different.
You don't see that too often.
You don't do it.
Because for many people, it's a stage...
I shouldn't say that.
It's kind of a...
The act is the act is the act.
You work on the act.
My act will be written that day, in many respects.
Because as things change, that's the way we are.
The entertainment...
Is what we used to call the newspaper.
The storyline is reality.
July 16th.
Cutting room.
Okay?
Okay.
Now, a couple of things here, which is very important.
Let me see if I can grab a...
I have various musician friends of mine.
And sometimes I'll talk and say, what are you listening to lately?
What are you listening to?
And I like to hear that.
I just got turned on to a fellow who's been around forever.
His name is Jack Pearson.
Great Nashville session guitarist.
And what I do on LionelMedia.com, the subscription service, this is where I get to say what I can't say here.
Think of it as the good dark web.
The light web.
Where you can say whatever you want.
And nobody's...
Nobody's upset.
Not that this isn't important, but this is more.
This is for polite company.
But anyway, I put up some Jack Pearson, a great Junior Brown.
So lately, if I ask somebody, what are you thinking lately?
Not what are you listening to, what are you thinking?
Let me tell you what today was.
This is just...
This is what I'm thinking of going into this.
So imagine how I'm trying to filter through this.
First, I've been getting into more and more about schizophrenia.
The subject of it.
Ellen Sachs is a fascinating subject.
This is a very esteemed, brilliant law professor, law student, who is a diagnosed schizophrenic.
And she explains it.
Eric Kandel and the notion of that.
Schizophrenia versus mental illness versus crime.
What do they have to do with each other?
Next, climate, earth science, climatology, Bentham, Malthus, post-industrial.
Oh, it never, it never...
It never goes away.
With some great sources.
Normally, dare I say, not in this country, European and the like.
Where else would we, how else could I, I'm, I know Uvalde's a terrible situation.
People may not remember, years ago there was a wrestler, first time I heard the name Uvalde, Dusty Rhodes was a wrestler.
Very, very, very.
Probably the best professional wrestler, I think, ever, in terms of entertaining.
And he supposedly lost a match.
He had to leave town.
It was lose or leave town.
But he came out wearing a hood, a mask, and his body shape was identifiable.
Scars, gynecomastia, the whole bit.
And he came out, and Gordon Sully said, what is your name?
Gonzole!
And he had to lisp and he said, this is Dusty Rose.
No, I'm not.
I'm Uvaldi Slim.
And that was one of the first time I've ever heard the name Uvaldi.
And it was a great, great.
So Uvaldi.
Now, you can go through this and we can look at it in terms of who made a mistake, who was errant, who screwed up.
You can go through that, kind of just looking at the obvious.
Let's look at this.
The one official thought it was a barricade versus an active shooter.
He acted accordingly.
He made a mistake.
What are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
How much do you want to talk about that?
It's obvious.
Tragedy.
Here's what I want to talk about.
And what I just did in my latest installment.
People love causation.
They love it.
They love it more than you can imagine.
Two lines, two instances that I saw.
One was, there is an article going around, a line of thinking that says, from the year...
I think American Greatness had one of them.
It's very good by the way.
I think it was 2007 or whenever the iPhone came along or social media, there was this spike.
This is when it all took off.
That's when it happened.
So what are you saying?
iPhones caused that.
No, that was the correlation.
Not only did iPhones come out, but everything came out.
The natural acceleration rate of psychopathy.
No, I'm just looking at that.
That was it.
That is the cause.
No, it's not the cause.
That's ridiculous.
It doesn't make any sense.
There's too many factors.
You can't do this.
You couldn't do a lab.
You couldn't be a physician or a scientist.
You couldn't prescribe levels of medicine or some type of a treatment because you notice that when you turn the air conditioner up, They got better.
So what's the air conditioning?
No!
There were other factors.
Let me give you an example of something.
Let me give you an example of something.
There was a great study years ago that said, and you've heard it before, people who have one glass of wine a day, one glass of wine a day are in better shape, have a better lower body weight and BMI and blah, blah, blah.
One glass of wine a day.
People who reported having one glass of wine a day did better.
We're in demonstrably greater health than those who did not.
So what did they do?
They said, Aha!
It's because of the wine.
Drink a glass of wine and you'll be healthy.
Remember resveratrol?
Oprah pushed this.
Resveratrol is the substance found in grape skins.
Dark, you know, red grapes, dark.
And that is the substance that is believed to keep, to maintain the safety.
This is so grapes can live in the sun.
And that particular chemical, or that substance, that vitamin, that molecule, was believed to be beneficial to humans because it prevented grapes from, you know, whatever.
Now, but it sold because it was Oprah.
Remember that one?
So people said, because if you drink wine, and then somebody came along and said, no, that's not it.
You're reading this wrong.
You're missing the point.
A person who limits himself to one glass of wine a day is a person who exhibits self-control.
It's a person who was...
Probably exhibiting self-control in other aspects of their life.
Anybody who can drink one glass of wine a day and stop probably has a healthy lifestyle.
And it wasn't the wine.
That was a factor.
One of many.
And this is what people are trying to do.
They're trying desperately to find why.
And the answer is, you mean in that case, no, no, no, I mean all.
Why?
And you will normally, when you don't know what to do, you'll call it evil.
One of the things I was noting with Kandel and with others, scientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, people don't use the word evil.
What does evil mean?
Do people know they're evil?
Do you have to know you're evil?
Does somebody go in there and say, I want to do evil things?
Is a sadist evil?
Or, Does a sadist satisfy his own or her own sense of sexual pleasure, perhaps, through sadism?
It's not evil.
I don't know what evil is.
Evil is a word we created.
Then they'll say Satan or the devil or whatever it is.
Because they have to have a reason.
Here is the best one I received.
The best one.
People love symbology.
Human beings have loved symbology since day one.
The way we hold our hands, the signs, the hand signals we make.
The hand signals.
From crypts and bloods, to peace, to this, to church, to this, to this.
We just, we waving.
People shake hands.
And these theories that we just keep saying.
Well, the reason why we shook hands is because we wanted to make sure somebody didn't have a dagger.
No!
That had nothing to do.
They've been shaking hands since before there were sleeves.
But we love this lore that we just keep repeating and we just sing.
And we love numbers.
And oh my God.
Play that number.
What day is it?
Ooh, play that number.
That's a good number.
That's a good number?
Yeah, that's a good number.
Oh yeah, that's it.
And then there are those of us.
Not us, but people who always believe everything is sinister.
Everything.
Everything is not what it seems to be.
And there are clues that the bad people provide you.
There are clues.
And you have to know where to look.
And you go to these certain soothsayers.
You go to these certain people.
You go to these certain mystics who will say, I'll tell you what to do.
And they will take, well, what day was the day of this tragedy?
Ah!
What day of the year was it?
What day was that?
And they'll take the number of that day.
And then they'll say, ah!
And then they will take every conceivable, it could be what day of the year it was, what day of the week it was, What year was Texas admitted?
Whatever.
They will pick something.
And they will, by virtue of extrapolation backwards, this is part of a Venetian conspiracy.
It's a part of, and they will go through this backwards, backing into it.
Here is the thesis, or rather, really, the thesis.
And then I'm going to take the evidence unit.
All a part of a thesis.
Okay, fine.
And they themselves enjoy.
It is a religion all its own.
Put that over here.
Another group of people will say, no, no, this is satanic.
There are evil forces.
Combined together, working with the advent of social media to create...
Okay, fine.
Next one will be, no, that's not it.
This is about woke leftists or Trump or Biden or whatever it is.
They will point to something.
Meanwhile, they're missing the glory...
Not the glory.
Well, the glory of the problem, the complexity.
The chaos.
Remember?
Mother of Gaia.
Remember the Gaians?
That whole earth thing?
Anyway.
Chaos, cosmos, order.
That is what's interesting.
Not the story, but to me, the reaction to the story.
And how we are going through our way.
And how the mainstream media Could make this so fascinating.
But they don't.
They just want to tell you, here's what happened.
This man here, with the cowboy hat, said this.
He made a mistake.
He thought this was a barricade.
Yet, at the time of the barricade, people were calling 911.
They didn't show up an hour later.
And obviously it was just catastrophic failure from the beginning to the end.
That's it.
I just described it.
That's it.
That's where my story ends.
Not mainstream media news.
Nope.
They keep telling you over and over and over.
Why?
Because if this...
Is the length and breadth and ambit of the complexity of the story, they want to give you just the tip of that.
That's it.
That's all they're interested in.
They don't have enough time.
So they get their airbrushed people to stand up.
They're doing their stand-up.
And they're trying their best.
How can we exploit?
How can we make the gravity and the horror?
Can we get somebody to cry?
Is there any way crying metrics are good?
Can we do that one?
Forget about intruding upon these families.
Forget about that.
No, no, no, no.
Can we politicize this as much as possible?
Can we do this?
Can we possibly do this?
Jackals.
Hyenas.
Vultures.
Scavengers.
Picking apart the shreds, the shards of...
Incredible.
Just incredible.
That's the story.
The ineptitude, I understand.
It's simple.
It's terrible, but there's nothing to it.
It's the easiest story to understand.
I could be through the timeline.
Let's do a timeline.
We know the timeline.
No, no, no.
Let's do a graphic of the...
Can we do a truck?
The truck here.
We got that.
We have that.
We understand.
No, no, here.
Here, here, can we put a picture of this?
By the way, Daily Mail, in just information, they are exquisite.
They turn over information.
There was one yesterday that was so filled with typographical errors, it wasn't, I could not believe what I was seeing.
I mean, they had no proofreading whatsoever, but it was without peer.
Crank this out.
Constantly.
You name it.
Johnny Depp trial.
Kardashian wedding.
This, that, everything.
I mean, they are in...
I've never seen anything like it.
Daily Mail.
Whether it's accurate or not.
Pictures.
Ads.
Cranking it out.
And it's free.
I mean, I...
Obviously, ads are making a fortune.
It's really something.
I mean, really, really, really something.
But that's part of it.
Now, we have a society today that wants to sit back and act like you at a buffet versus you in a prison cell.
What does that mean?
Let me describe this.
Most of us, when we want to eat, we will Pick something out.
We'll have this.
I'll have this.
I'm going to drive over here.
I like that place.
I get to pick and choose.
We're going to go to the store.
I'm going to pick what I want.
I'm going to have to actively do it.
Or, maybe I'll have takeaway, as you might say.
Takeout.
Delivery.
But I get to pick it.
When I want.
What I want.
When you're in a prison cell, they feed you.
What they want, when they want it.
And either you eat it or you don't.
Do you ever notice how so many of these people are so fat on death row?
What are they feeding these people?
Interesting.
Interesting.
That's for another topic.
That's how most news consumers are.
They sit back and they just get it.
You know what I mean?
They just get it.
They don't lift a finger.
And if they're on, let's say, a social media platform or Facebook or this or that, whatever Facebook gives them, that's it.
That's all.
I'm not looking.
I'm not looking.
TikTok is going to blow everything out of the water.
There is such a war going on right now for your eyes and ears.
And what it is, is we are distilling it back.
It's now the fast food world.
When fast food came about and processed food, it just changed the scope of everything.
So anyway, so most people, as I was saying, they're in the prison cell.
Whatever is given to them, they're not going to look.
They're not going to look in the least.
It's not going to happen.
Now, I asked somebody the other day, and this is very interesting, I think.
And somebody was saying something to the effect of, What is this about?
Now, every now and then, somebody will talk about climate change.
Do you know, I just did a piece this morning at LionelMedia.com on the complexity of the world of climate change.
Let me give you an example about something.
This is something, and I provided this to you.
Let's give you an idea.
Something which I think was...
Where is it?
Perhaps...
Oh well.
It's about Gaia.
It's about Bentham, Jeremy Bentham, and Malthus, and Malthusian, and eugenics, and the capacity, the load, just the history, how much of what we're seeing now is nothing new.
Post-industrial, anti-industrial, it's so interesting.
And yet, sometimes somebody will come forward and say, it's all about carbon dioxide.
That's not...
That's not even close.
That's as far as we're going to get with this topic.
That's as far as we're going to get.
Let me talk about mental illness.
This is the most interesting.
People use the word psycho.
People will never understand mental illness.
That's why I was reading this.
Ellen Sachs is fantastic.
I was just listening to her audio book.
She's wonderful.
She and Eric Kandel, this is one of the most esteemed, brilliant lawyers, law professors, Yale Law, and she had a schizophrenic attack in her 20s, which is normally when it happens, and she explains the notion of psychosis.
And what does that mean?
And people use the word psycho.
You say, well, what does that mean?
I don't know what it is, but wouldn't you like to know what that means?
No, these people are crazy.
What do you mean crazy?
Are they crazy?
Yeah, they're crazy.
What does crazy mean?
They don't know what they're doing?
Well, they know what they're doing, so they're not crazy.
Well, no, anybody who does that is crazy.
Anybody who does that is crazy?
What does that mean?
What is crazy?
I don't know what crazy is.
Well, you said crazy.
You said psycho.
What is it?
Psychotic?
Do you mean psychotic?
What?
You don't think they're hearing voices?
What?
I don't know.
I mean, psychopathic?
I don't know.
Well, you said crazy.
Well, I know I said crazy, but why did you say it?
Well, it's mental illness.
It's mental illness.
The issue is mental illness.
Is it mental illness?
Do you think what that is?
Excuse me, with all due respect to mental illness.
I don't think it's mental illness at all.
Mental illness is this word we use whenever we don't understand a bad behavior.
We call it mental illness.
I don't understand that.
If you saw somebody say, this is somebody who runs out.
If there was a battle scene where somebody ran out, ran out to save someone and brought them back.
You would say, that guy's a hero.
I think he's a psychopath.
What?
Oh yeah, he can't appreciate consequence.
He went out in a hail of machine gun bullets.
What kind of a nut does that?
A nut is a hero.
A hero?
That's crazy.
What does he think?
He is bulletproof?
No, he was saving somebody else.
That's not what he was doing.
He was doing it because he wanted his own glory.
Because he can't appreciate consequence.
Because he can't read the situation.
What are you talking about?
That's a psychopath.
That's a good psychopath.
Psychopaths are bad chess players.
The opposite of psychopath is anxiety.
So everything bothers you.
This doesn't.
Wait a minute.
As a hero.
No.
You like heroes.
You like that word.
It's the behavior you like.
Then you attribute something.
What about somebody who says Sergeant?
Yes sir.
I want you to send a round.
Into that village right there.
Put this round right through there.
Here are the coordinates.
What is that?
That's a village.
A lot of people.
They're the enemy.
Do it.
Yes, sir.
Boom!
Boom!
It's a hero.
Here you go.
You got a medal.
Wait a minute.
You're not trying to compare the military.
No.
No.
But vis-a-vis me, those people are going to say, this guy's out of his mind.
Now, I think it's safe to say anybody who goes into a school and shoots people is just...
It's wrong.
But you want to go a step further.
Why?
How do we stop this?
Do you want to hear my answer?
Yes?
Would you like me to answer this?
Here's what nobody's going to be asking of me on TV or in a news media.
The first thing you do is you never mention the name of the person.
I want you to forget about him like you have Julian Assange or anybody else.
The normal people that you forget.
Just forget about the name.
It doesn't matter.
Male, female, age, Instagram, but no, nothing.
It never comes out.
I want you to be as scrupulous about that as you do other subjects that you don't want people to talk about.
Watch what happened.
Hey, did you hear the word?
Yeah.
They're not mentioning the name anymore.
So then when somebody says to you, hey, wait ten days from now, you're going to hear about me.
I don't know if we're going to hear about you.
Why?
Well, did you hear the word?
They don't, if you're planning anything bad, they're not doing this anymore.
They're not mentioning any people anymore.
We don't know your name.
So the next time somebody says, what?
Yeah, they don't, they're not.
Because there were reports of terrible things being planned right before this.
So if the media collectively said, not by the government, mind you, but if they just said, we're not going to talk about this anymore.
We're not going to mention names.
We're not going to glorify anybody.
Do you understand what's going on there?
We're not going to do that.
We're not going to mention it.
That's all.
Somebody writes here, Liz says, OCD is a mental illness.
Depression is a mental illness.
That's correct.
Causation is a different story.
Diabetes is a medical condition.
That's not a cause either.
Hypertension is a medical disorder.
That's not a cause either.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
What causes it?
Causes.
This is the thing.
I don't know.
Can you ask a doctor, did cigarette smoking cause this lung cancer?
Probably.
What do you mean probably?
A guy smoked 10 packs a day for 50 years.
I would think so.
Is it possible for somebody to smoke 10 packs a day and not get cancer?
Yes.
Well, so much for the smoking.
What about, could it be environmental too?
Yes.
Causation is one of these things that just...
It's a word...
I say the word belief.
Do you believe this?
Or do you hope it's true?
I believe.
You know, I believe.
People say, do you believe in UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena, UIP?
Well, I believe that people are telling the truth.
I don't know if I, but I think in a court of law, I could find beyond a reasonable doubt.
Yeah.
Think about what believe means.
There are people in court who find somebody guilty.
They're asking Johnny, or actually Amber Heard, to be found liable for defamation, based on the preponderance of the evidence, but still, nonetheless.
Do you have any doubts?
Well, I mean, did you prove it?
Do you believe she?
Well, I think so.
It's just her word against his.
So we use these words all the time in these concepts and we never really get down to what they mean, who did what, what causes what.
Can I make a serial killer?
By the way, it's not a serial killer here.
But can I make somebody who does this?
Do you know there are 325 million people, there's about 400 million guns, firearms in this country?
So the numbers are overwhelming.
And yet, yet, the numbers themselves, depending upon what it is, Very de minimis.
And if you look at, for example, the statistics of this country compared to others, as I've said before, other countries have their murders, gun-related deaths, have to do with crime and territory, things like that.
We have this unique thing where we just go in and we just shoot people sometimes for no particular reason.
No reason anybody can articulate.
And we say, well, it's crazy.
Well, obviously, it's the...
Well, it's the...
Let me ask you this.
Question number one.
Do video games cause and produce murderers?
Yes or no.
Do video games, violent video games, yes or no?
If it's number one, excuse me, if it's yes, push number one.
If it's no, push number two.
Do violent videos cause, cause this?
Do they produce?
Do they produce?
Do they make people?
What is it?
Call of Duty?
Whatever it is.
Do people, do they cause this?
If we eliminated violent video games, would we see a significant drop in this?
Do they cause this?
Okay?
Most people say no.
Absolutely not.
Can they exacerbate?
Yes.
Can they contribute?
Yes.
Can they not help?
Absolutely.
Do they cause?
No.
No.
What about other countries?
Have you ever seen the videos that Japan watches?
Japanese videos?
Oh dear God!
Dear God!
But...
Japan doesn't have the same amount of guns that we have.
It's a different culture.
It's a different sense of belonging.
You can't compare things, but their videos are, oh my god!
You can't cause.
When I was a kid, we had people who said, this rock music is making people crazy.
Remember this?
This rock, this music is turning these people nuts.
These videos are driving people crazy.
Ozzy Osbourne, Suicide Solution.
You know, Alice Cooper.
We kind of laugh at Alice Cooper, but Alice Cooper was some pretty dark stuff.
Pretty dark, you know, guillotines and the whole bit.
Does it make somebody?
They did a study a while back.
They took these young assassins.
Actual assassins in Africa.
They were paid during revolutions.
These were hitmen.
Absolute Hitmen!
They were basically enlisted and I don't know if anybody even talked about it, but how they assimilated into families that adopted him.
You want to adopt this kid?
Yeah.
He was an assassin.
Yes.
And it was fascinating to see how not everyone was affected.
Sometimes Sometimes they appreciated beauty better.
Not everybody is in war who has PTSD.
Not everybody who has PTSD even saw war.
The brain is extremely complicated.
The human mind is extremely complicated.
You can't make these things.
What is it?
This is fascinating.
And if you have a TV show, And if you say, okay, here's what we're going to do.
Let's have some psychiatrists on, people from medical schools over to comment on this.
But I don't want anybody who wants to do this for a living.
I don't want somebody to come along.
But if you had people and you said, well, I did half an hour.
Half an hour.
I don't have enough half an hour.
To explain this.
Go through this.
Go through.
That's what I'm telling you.
I've been studying and fascinated by serial killers.
And you know what I find interesting?
It's not what they did.
It's the fact that why did you do this?
Raider, BTK, Green River Killer, Bundy, Casey, whoever, whoever you want.
Ed Gein, sort of.
Heidnik, Gary Heidnik, horrible.
Albert Fish, what?
While they were abused as a child.
He was abused as a child.
Yeah, but he did that.
There are people in prison.
Life sentences who are off the psychopathic scale who've never been serial killers.
They find no need for this.
They've never wanted to manifest their evilness into the indiscriminate Never!
I don't understand it.
How does this work?
Why did you do it and not this one?
What caused you?
And here, here is the thing that people hate beyond everything.
Randomness.
Entropy.
Random disorder.
What do you mean, randomness?
You mean to tell me that the Earth, that the universe could have been formed randomly?
Maybe.
No, no, no, no.
Why not?
Why not?
There are these rules.
If you have a coin, Or anything with two sides and you flip it.
And assuming there's not one weighted difference or one preference for one side of the coin versus another.
Anyway, you're going to get 50% chance of this no matter what happens.
And if you roll five heads in a row, that still, still follows the law of randomness in mathematics.
Still does.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
No matter what happens.
No matter what you do.
There are these rules.
And randomness kills people.
Chaos.
Randomness.
You can start two identical machines.
You start them off at the same time and they swing back and forth.
And then all of a sudden...
Not because of a mechanical reason, but just by virtue of some happenstance, one will take off into some...
There's this weird...
I don't know.
People hate the fact that there's no order.
They can't stand that.
But if you say, I don't know.
I don't know what this is.
I don't know why that happened.
I don't know why you've got cancer, and you don't.
I don't know why you're okay, and you're not.
I have no idea.
I don't know.
What makes somebody do something?
And when a negative, when a pathology...
Increases.
When murders go up, when sexual violence goes up, when victimization goes up, what causes that?
Why is it a cause?
What do you mean there's no...
It's got to be a cause.
What if it just does?
We hate that.
You mean there's no name for it?
Nope.
It just happens.
How come there's murders here, but not here?
They've got guns.
We've got guns.
They've got crime.
We've got crime.
They've got poverty.
We've got poverty.
Substance abuse.
They've got more substance abuse.
More this, but they don't have this than here.
What is it?
And the worst answer is, maybe it's something about us.
Oh, no, no, no.
And we go out of our way to figure this out.
We go out of our way.
What do we do?
How do you figure this out?
That's the most fascinating thing.
Randomness, drummer, does not mean that rules don't exist.
Randomness is the rule.
Randomness is the rules.
You think of randomness as being like anarchy.
People think of anarchy as being wild, crazy.
No.
Not necessarily.
Just because there's no rule, if I remove the stop sign or stoplight, it doesn't mean there's going to be chaos.
It might not run as smoothly.
People think it's an either-or.
Have you ever heard people say, if you're an atheist, why aren't you out killing people?
If you don't believe there's somebody that ultimately will punish you by virtue of your negative beliefs, then how could you...
I need God not to kill people.
I don't have any independent morality short of a religious belief.
What are you saying?
Well, why aren't you killing people?
Well, because of what?
I mean, people, they say, when you remove the rules, when you say, okay, watch what happens.
What if you had all of your animals in a pen?
You took the pen down, the pen off, the gate, and tomorrow they're still there.
What does that mean?
Did you need the gate?
Were they habituated to it?
How do you explain it?
I don't need this restraint.
They're still there.
They keep coming.
Do you ever have these animals of yours?
A cat, cat goes outside, comes back.
Hangs around, comes back.
Whereas sometimes you have a dog, takes off.
Do you ever have a dog that wants to leave?
You ever had this?
Close the door.
Don't let Sparky Hill run away.
Why do you want to run away?
The cat says, what are you, crazy?
This is great.
What are you running from?
Explain that one.
Explain that one.
We love everything.
Oh, and we also love this.
We love anything or anyone who validates our way of thinking.
One thing I was listening to, Mark Lane.
Mark Lane from 1967.
It was a 1967.
There was a 1967 lecture at UCLA.
Mark Lane, the foremost JFK assassin.
It was incredible.
I was listening to what he was saying then.
It sounds exactly like we're seeing right now.
Let's take you.
Let's take you.
You wonderful people watching now.
Some of you love closure.
Some of you love the facts.
No, that's not what happened.
No, that no human beings are not.
No, no, this person was ill and did this because of X. We're not evil people.
We're good.
And if you say, no, this event, as reported by the police, by history, this is exactly the way it happened, and you and your conspiracy theories today, we don't want to hear that.
You see the world as being evil and underhanded, and we don't care for that.
So please stop this.
Tells me about you.
Then there are other people who believe everything.
They believe everything.
Nothing is remotely.
I've got a friend of mine.
Everything in the world.
Everything.
The Masons.
Now I thought, maybe I just don't understand it.
Well, you know, he was Masonic.
33 degree Mason.
Okay.
Well, yeah, that's true.
Another one?
Everything in the world?
Another person?
I do a newsletter.
Every response is the Federal Reserve.
Responsible for everything.
Weather, crops, pestilence, the Federal Reserve.
And I believe that in some cases, not all, but in some cases, a certain belief in certain things, it solves, it makes things make sense.
It's like the rabbit's foot.
It's this talisman.
It's this lucky thing that they possess.
This thing that they possess that makes everything make sense.
That's exactly what I believe is happening.
And I think in some respects we have to do what we want to do sometimes for various reasons.
Here we go.
This is what I was talking about.
How about I was reading about Schnell Huber and the Gaia theory of James Lovelock and the Venetian Ortez in the 18th century.
Everything that we think we're doing right now, everything that we're doing has nothing to do with it.
It's not a new idea.
It is a dare I say it is a relic of a form.
Anyway.
A couple of things here.
Now, on a lighter note, it's not a lighter note.
I think it's probably a better note.
One of the things which I love to do, very much so, is I love to...
I do my piece every week, as you know.
And I do a...
How do I say this?
I do a...
I guess in every...
Piece I do for the subscription folks.
I do something in which I put in a musical piece.
And the one I did today was one of my favorite songs.
It's 10cc, I'm Not In Love.
And they explained how they did it using I guess the musical equivalent of what Ernie Kovacs did.
Absolute genius.
And I'm listening to folks, musicians, Jack Pearson.
I've been getting back into, and Junior Brown, and then back, and Awesome Deary, and Carmen McRae, and it reminds me that if left to our own devices, humans are still genius when it comes to creativity, building, music.
Poetry, the arts.
We are still absolutely, positively genius when it comes to that.
Genius.
And I'm listening, and I don't want to ever sound like the old guy who's...
But I don't know if we see, if we're going to hear the level of innovation of music today.
And I don't know.
I know I sound like everybody who's ever been around.
But that's exactly what I think.
In any event, so in conclusion, my dear friends, remember this.
Remember this very carefully.
Causation is the last thing in the world you should ever, ever, ever feel at all, I don't know what the word is, at all comfortable with.
The notion of it.
It's something you should absolutely just hold off as long as possible.
Because you're probably wrong.
Number two, just because you can't explain something doesn't mean it's not happening.
In fact, it's the questions I find more interesting.
Number three, you have to say no to cable news.
It will give you, it's like a sugar high versus nutrition.
It doesn't give you.
Their job is to keep you addicted to this and to make things the facts mean kind of less than they're less important.
Next.
I will never understand why people insist upon going and speaking before the world when they are the least equipped to do so.
When they have not been prepared.
They have not been battle-tested.
And they basically go out and cause more of a problem by speaking the truth, which I guess they should be applauded for.
But I don't understand this.
I don't understand.
How does this...
You're supposed to not just tell people what happened, but to assuage the fears of people.
This is the part I love.
This is the part.
This is the thing that I absolutely love.
I just, I will never understand how, in the name of God, how do they do this?
And especially when the world is looking at your country, at your state, and they're saying, boy, they're not very good at this.
In any event, we'll get to that.
Here is the link to see moi at the cutting room in July.
As you know, there are going to be restrictions in terms of size, fire code rule and all this stuff.
Please act now.
We have no problems getting in, all that.
We had so many COVID delays and all this stuff, but now it's back to normal again.
And it's the chance, as I say, To write up and to discuss, rather, what is happening in the world that I still have a hard time believing actually happens in the world.
Now, in the meantime, maintain your own sense of sanity.
Please keep your children.
Explain things to them, but don't let them grovel in the performance theater of news.
But you should talk to them.
You should also inquire of your schools.
What do you have?
What are the procedures that are there?
A teacher propped a door open.
Do you understand this?
This is the most incredible thing in the world.
Sometimes people feel like, well, it couldn't happen here.
It's a small town.
And it's those things.
I don't understand it.
I don't understand how...
Well, in any event, you should ask of your schools.
You should ask.
And you should also advise, what is it that happens?
And if anything happens, if there's some good that happens from this, if that's even possible, it will be that teachers and administrators and parents recognize the fact that they've got to always anticipate this.
This can happen anywhere.
And it's very, very easy to make a school secure.
And you know who will love it?
The students and the teachers and the family.
The more secure you make it, the more you recognize, the more you recognize the vulnerability of the system, the fragility of the system, it will empower you.
That's all I'm saying.
Alright, my friends.
One more time, here it is.
This is the event, July 16th.
Also, please, upon Leaving this, I want you to go right over, since you're on YouTube, to Mrs. Al's channel at Lynn's Warriors.
It is some of the best, the interviews, the pieces, her candor, her directness, her absolute crystal clear, laser-like clarity when it comes to protecting our children.
Speaking of which, there you go.
And until then, tomorrow we will meet again.
Same bat time, same bat channel.
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