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May 30, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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DAILY BRIEFING: Memorial Day 2022

The efflorescence of truth and respect humbled through memory.

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All right, my friends.
This is it.
I just finished my first of my multiple Memorial Day installments for today for those smart enough and wise enough to subscribe to LionelMedia.com where I can really get down to business and say things for an adult crowd who are able to handle,
dare I say, more of the realities of what we're looking at right now because I've got news for you and this is something which It might be difficult for some people to grasp and to understand,
but I hate Memorial Day more than I think any holiday there is.
Let me just see if I can explain this to you.
Americans, and I know this and I can say this, Are so full of stuff.
Full of beans, as my mother would say.
When it comes to patriotism.
Now, conservatives and Republicans do it.
The left say nothing.
They are absolutely, completely out to lunch.
When it comes to, they don't care anything about this.
They're more interested in transgender first grade stuff, which is really important, because let's face it, there's nothing that we need more for our kids than to explain to them that gender is merely transitory.
But I digress.
We talk such a good game, and the first rule is we know nothing about history.
And we say the following.
Let us not forget our brave men and women who fell, who died, For our freedom, stop!
With the exception of World War II, and I'm sorry to say this, with the exception of World War II, I don't know what this freedom is about.
World War II, I can argue, I could say Europe, I could say Hitler, and if you think for one minute that Hitler was doomed to this, that he couldn't have won World War II, you're out of your mind.
You see, Tolstoy said history would be a wonderful thing if only it were true.
We just make stuff up.
We just make.
We have this Private Ryan idea of World War II.
That's it.
We came in in 1941, out in 1945.
D-Day, that was the end of it.
That was it.
The Russians were hanging on by a thread.
Please!
Please!
D-Day!
That's it.
That'll cinch it.
That's it.
That's it.
If you tell people, what are you saying?
Pacific Theater?
That's ours, baby.
No doubt about that.
But Russia?
Listen to this statistic.
Listen to this one.
I tell people this because, and I was looking at this this morning, because of course this involves history and people don't want history.
And they get very upset with this because people, history to them is mobile, motile, it changes.
Listen to this.
Let me give you a couple of good ones here.
Here we go.
Russia.
How much did the Russians and Soviets suffer during World War II?
Let's talk about that.
Let's talk about freedom and getting rid of Hitler.
27 million.
27 million Soviets lost their lives with as many as 11.4 military deaths, joined by up to 10 million civilian deaths.
due to military activity, and an additional 8 to 9 million deaths due to famine and disease.
There is a significant constituency of historians and military historians that said Russia could have won World War II without us.
At least in the European theater.
If you say that to somebody, They will lose their minds.
You can't say that.
That history is not history because it doesn't comport, it doesn't fit with our worldview.
doesn't fit with our view.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Leningrad?
Eh.
No, no.
It was D-Day.
D-Day was it.
Everything else didn't matter.
Four years we're into this thing.
Which world war are you talking about?
You're talking about China?
We don't know anything.
But here's what we do.
We spend five minutes of our day saying, oh, remember our...
Off to the beach.
Off to the barbecue.
We're off.
Got a day off.
Yay!
You see Kamala Harris?
Enjoy the weekend.
Kamala Harris.
Enjoy the long weekend.
That's it.
And the Wokies, forget it.
They have no idea.
Oh, they want war.
That's my favorite.
The Wokies and the Conservatoids, they want war with I guess over NATO expansion.
I guess they want to die in Helsinki for the Finns, I guess.
They're out of their minds!
Out of their minds!
It's incredible!
And then you have these conservatoids.
Oh my God!
They're the worst!
Look, wokey people, I understand it.
They'll tell you, look, I'm just not involved in this.
Okay.
But the best are the ones fighting to see who's going to be the next conservative star.
And each one, 12 years old, trying to outdo the other.
And there's one, if I'm not going to mention his name, I'm not going to mention his name.
He is my favorite.
I laugh.
I start my day.
I'm not going to mention his name.
So as he's talking about, I'm an American.
Here's my flag meme.
Here's my gif.
Remember our fallen.
Okay, he's going to say everything.
Remember the fallen.
They did not die in vain.
And this one.
Then there's the Christian one.
And it says, quote, Whomsoever What?
Blows the quote?
But he's going to throw in this syrupy I'm going to out-patriot you and I'm going to out-Christian you.
I've got all...
This is my bona fides.
It's for my audience.
My audience.
I'm a phony, synthetic, tissue-thin, artificial, fugazi, counterfeit, Christian patriot.
You're not going to see his butt anywhere near the line of fire.
Oh!
Oh!
Oh, my God!
And then you hear, and then you hear, I love this, then you hear retired generals who work for think tanks.
Now, these are generals who work for think tanks, like the Institute for the Study of War.
Here's my favorite.
Listen to this one.
Remember, did you ever see this?
Where is it?
Oh, Lord.
No, hang on a minute.
I got this one for you.
This one threw me off.
Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
There's one general I like.
I like him a lot.
Jack Keene.
He's good.
He joined in October of 2016.
Flyover!
Oh, Flyover.
Yeah, hear that?
Okay.
Mrs. L is yelling, Flyover!
Okay, listen to this.
AM General.
They make Humvees or whatever.
Proud to announce that Jack Keane has joined the company as its executive chairman.
Humvees.
Who we are.
Oh, they make Humvees, operational facilities, platforms of vehicles, artillery technology community.
War.
War!
War!
Military-industrial complex!
Yeah, baby!
Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
It's not illegal.
I mean, you need things like that, right?
I mean, you can't...
I mean, how are you supposed to fight a war?
So this is the person who's on the phone with Victoria Nuland saying, okay, listen, I'm going to go on right now.
We're going to push it.
No, no, we're pushing this.
We're going to push this.
We want a conventional war with Russia.
Oh, man!
Oh my God!
And nobody is saying, what are we talking about?
You wouldn't have somebody on with, well, maybe you would, I guess.
Maybe you do.
I mean, would you have somebody on Pfizer talking about, you know, vaccines or CDC?
I guess you would.
Most people would say, and I'm sure they're great products, but I think people would say, wait a minute, don't you think we should talk about the...
Don't you have an interest in this?
Yeah, of course.
Doesn't that make sense?
Nobody's saying anything.
But we're talking a great game because war is American.
And it's great.
And all you have to invest is somebody else's kid, somebody else's time, but make that money.
You see, here's what I would say.
This is why I would never be president.
They wouldn't let me near it.
Imagine all that.
What was that line?
What was that word that Biden said when he was appearing before?
West Point or some findality or something?
Anyway, here's what I would say.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for inviting me today.
Ladies and gentlemen, new officers of the United States Military Academy.
Officer Corps, I've got bad news for you.
If you were hoping for a battlefield promotion, we're not going to have too many battlefields under my administration.
No.
Now, the only way you're going to go, the only way that you're going to go to war is if somebody attacks us.
That would be a stupid thing.
Or, one of our allies...
To a point, not NATO, because NATO, we're going to talk about NATO later, but for the most part.
But here's what I'm going to do.
You see, if I'm president, and I'm going to say, okay, Mr. President, this country, I'm just going to go over there.
This country, this is Iran.
I just pushed Iran.
I could push anything.
North Korea, whatever.
Here's what I would do.
Now, folks, while you were doing your training, We have a new group of people here under my administration.
It's a version of, you know, in Israel they have Mossad, it's kind of like their CIA, so to speak.
But Amman is their military intelligence.
Our military intel will be it.
You see this country?
This country is just either attacked us or attacked whatever it is.
Watch this.
It just goes dark.
We just turn off everything.
Banks, internet.
Lights.
Refrigeration.
Sewers.
Traffic lights.
Clocks.
Water.
Toilets.
We just shut it down.
We're going to shut it down.
We're going to wait.
And then we wait.
And then we wait.
And we'll do some other stuff too.
But give me an idea.
We're not sending anybody over there.
I'm just telling you right now.
You're not going to fight for our freedom anymore in Iran.
No more Americans fighting for our freedom.
Because again, we're not for Vietnam.
I don't know who's fighting for our freedom.
I don't know where this came from.
I don't know why we say this.
God bless the men in particular who fought in Vietnam.
But Ho Chi Minh never threatened Cleveland.
I don't know where this came from.
God bless you.
But it had nothing to do with our freedom.
You know it.
I know it.
We all know it.
So stop saying it.
Iran, Iraq, Grenada, Panama, nothing.
None of that.
North Korea had nothing to do with our freedom, or Korea, the Korean War, Vietnam, nobody.
And World War II might be the only one, but even that's complicated because of...
We were trying to position Hitler again, whatever, we'll talk about that later.
Henry Kissinger!
And now Henry Kissinger's saying, get out!
Zelensky, get out of Ukraine!
What are you doing?
What's going on here?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
They're pushing for NATO expansion.
And they're going to send your kid so they can die for our freedom because Finland, because Putin, Putin is somehow, I guess, targeting my ability to speak.
I don't know what it is.
And we fall for this all the time.
It's Fleet Week.
And we see all over, especially on the west side, All these young...
You should see these young girls with little sailor suits.
They look 10 years old!
And the Marines.
They had Marines walking around.
Privates, corporals.
Just...
I don't know if it's called a corporal or whatever.
No gunnies.
Just enlisted.
Looking very natally attired.
Just walking around.
They look 10 years old.
And I'm not going to send them over to die for anybody's freedom.
Unless there's really freedom attached.
I am not going to use them as a cliche.
And I'm sorry, Jack Keane or whoever it is, I am not.
Tell your Humvee people, we ain't going to need any Humvees.
We're not going over there.
So you've got to find another line of work.
Something else.
Maybe just go on.
Because this is the biggest crock of I don't know what.
And we do it every year.
They fought for our freedom!
And these poor people, when they come back, instead of saying, open up the money, there's no...
Military contractors don't make money in prescriptions and prosthetics.
Military contractors don't make money when you're going for drones and, you know...
Our own kind of quasi-terrorism and unconventional stuff?
No!
Same thing with Afghanistan.
What was that about?
Well, that was a little different.
Why?
Afghanistan is the Saudi Arabia of lithium, among other things, among other reasons.
Oh, but this is, this is, oh, they're not going to let this go back.
This is, Russia is conventional war.
That's where we need this stuff.
I mean, they've had this stuff to say, when are we going to roll out the Humvees?
We don't need them.
There's no war.
We don't need this stuff.
Now we're going to, if they get their way.
Not under my administration.
No!
We're done with that.
And you see, when you tell these people, I want to honor these poor people that we sent over there against their will to die for something we still can't explain.
Explain Vietnam.
Can't explain it.
Well, we can explain in terms of what we thought it was.
It was a mistake.
We thought it was about communism.
We thought it was this.
Look at the statistics.
Statistics are incredible.
And don't forget what Tolstoy said.
History would be a wonderful thing if only it were true.
Korea.
Anybody want to talk about that?
Did you ever see that Korean?
Wasn't that the ugliest?
The ugliest memorial in Washington of them all.
Korea is, it was, I don't even know what it was.
I don't even know if it was over, second thought or.
The Vietnam Memorial is incredible.
Okay, from 1950 to 1953, approximately, and this number is relative, 34,000 Americans KIA.
At rates, and not only that, 2,000 to 5,000 that died later or afterwards.
Anyway, at rates, when extrapolated, were worse in Vietnam.
Think about this.
Vietnam was, what, 10 or 15 years, depending upon how you look at it, 55,000.
This was 35,000 in three years.
Do the math!
It was brutal!
The Chosen Reservoir?
Oh my God!
Remember, Chesty Puller and Matthew Ridgway and...
O.P. Smith and all these great generals to get us out of there.
They went in.
I don't know what they were thinking.
It was a disaster.
We never learn.
What was this about?
By the way, time out.
How much you want to bet?
Nancy Pelosi's husband gets her DUI case dismissed.
How much you want to bet?
Anybody?
Any takers?
Something will be...
There's really nothing to talk about with that.
Now, here's one for you.
You mentioned Russia.
This is the one...
This is the number that got me.
This is the one that got me, and I can't...
I still can't believe it.
80% of Soviet men born in 1923 died in World War II.
Let me say that again.
80%.
80%.
Of Soviet men born in 1923.
Estimated probably.
Died in World War II.
The numbers are...
Here's another number for you.
By the way, if you go to my Twitter page, very good.
Lionel Media.
Listen to this one.
Oh, Vietnam, by the way.
58,220.
For what?
58,000 killed!
Killed.
Wounded, maimed, psychologically damaged.
For what?
Don't know.
For your freedom?
For your freedom?
Did I die for our freedom?
If we didn't go to Vietnam, in Dubuque, would they be speaking Vietnamese or something?
We just say this stuff.
We just repeat this.
It drives me crazy.
Every year.
And you know who it is?
The conservatives.
With their flags.
God bless them.
We should say things like, who was it?
Who said only the, was it Plato?
Only the dead will see the end of war?
Just say, this was a mistake.
This is a mistake.
World War II notwithstanding.
World War II was a different story.
Pearl Harbor, we can go through the whole thing.
We make it sound like, isn't that great?
And the more we wave our flags, the more we accept this.
The more we wave our flags, the more we kind of say, well, that's just the price of freedom, right?
Isn't that great?
Support our troops.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Put that ribbon on the back of your SUV.
We say no.
Absolutely.
And we're talking about war again?
You're going to escalate this with Russia?
Are you kidding?
And you've got these people on TV giving you their assessment?
Who are on the boards?
Who are pushing this?
Who are basically going on the most popular fora available to get people pumped up and calling for war.
So that they can go back and their shareholders and say, I did my best.
Huh?
Do I have a bonus for that?
Oh yeah, we're going to take them.
Oh, we can do it because we're the U.S. I can't believe what I'm saying.
And then, and then, this is the part that kills me.
The Christians!
What do you think Jesus would say?
But let me quote, let me quote for my...
My platform of people so that I can come across as the new voice for the new...
You see, we're getting...
I don't fit into these places right now.
I've got to kind of hold my nose and join forces with a lot of people who I find intellectually inferior and morally despicable because what they're doing to kids in school...
The predation of children, both psychologically, psychically, emotionally, were on the same page, but I don't have anything to do with them.
Their whole thing is just whatever it is.
And that's why Trump was so good, because Trump was not this born-again Christian.
When he stood up with that Bible, one of the most stupid things I have ever seen in my life.
Remember that?
When he stood up, like, what is he, Dracula?
Where he held this thing up?
The most awkward?
He never felt right with this.
He's not some born-again.
Never has been.
And do you think he's a right-to-lifer?
Do you really think, Donald Trump, seriously, that he's some hardcore, that he wants to make abortion illegal?
Have you not been paying attention?
So, this is the only group that's even remotely helpful to me, because the left, the woke left, they're just gone.
I mean, they're...
Gone.
They don't know.
They're asleep at the switch.
They're not paying attention.
I don't know what's going on with that.
But the right since John Wayne has had this love affair with war.
Love affair.
It's a fetish.
They love it.
They just go nuts.
And they...
Oh, and they love when the planes fly over.
Oh, they get a kick.
Here comes a flyover.
Ooh, ah, ooh.
These are instruments of destruction.
Yeah, but still, that's different.
Look at that.
Ooh, it's a B-1.
Ooh.
You want to be in war?
No, not me.
What about you?
No.
What about your kid?
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I just like talking about it.
You ever been to war?
No!
You ever smell death, blood?
Seen somebody freak out in front of you?
Have to fly back in some chopper with your buddy next to you in some bag?
You want to do that?
You want to talk about that?
Maybe Jack Keane can help out with that.
Maybe ask him.
I don't understand this.
Oh, that's terrific.
We have to fight for freedom!
Well, go ahead.
You should know a few things or two.
No, not me.
No, no!
You go ahead.
Think how much you know.
Here, strap them up.
Send them over there.
Go ahead.
Go to Kiev.
Go to Lugansk or Donetsk or Korkov.
Go ahead.
Go to Crimea.
Be a part of an amphibious fleet as you take Storm the Beach.
Go ahead.
Come on.
Show us what you got.
You still have it, right?
Come on.
Don't look at me.
Oh, we'd love that.
And these people sitting there, they're beautiful, million-dollar salaries and their hair and their coif.
Got my American flag.
Got my flag pin here.
This is my flag pin.
Here's my Pentagon pin.
I'm not going there.
But no, they gave me a flag because I'm a little baby.
I'm a little baby.
I love toys.
I love badges.
I love things like that.
I have a badge.
Can I tell you that?
They gave me an honorary badge, like Elvis.
I have a badge.
I do.
And I live in my gated community, and I have all of my, and this goes for the left too, and I have all my security.
And I just talk.
I talk about stuff.
I don't have any connection with it.
And when it comes to Uvalde, well, that's another story too.
That thing's off the charts.
And how about your guy, that's mine, that's mine, Kurt, did you hear, not Kurt Gowdy, Trey Gowdy, did you hear him?
Did you see this one?
This was like, what am I reading?
What am I reading here?
I don't fit in.
Listen to this.
You're going to love this one.
Oh yeah, Breitbart.
Where is it?
Come on.
Here we go.
I keep saying Kurt Gowdy.
Trey Gowdy.
Listen to this.
Where is this?
When will we get...
All these ads.
When will we get angry and tired and be resolved enough to stop the killing of school children?
There's an idea!
I never thought of that.
On this week's broadcast of Sunday Night in America, host Trey Gowdy issued a plea for change in the wake of last week's mass shooting during his monologue about the sanctity of life.
Thanks, Trey.
I had no idea.
For years I was just dismissing it as not being important.
What, the sanctity of life?
I need you to clarify this.
He called on Americans to feel the pain of the families who lost loved ones in the Uvalde shooting so they could, quote, get angry and tired and be resolved enough to stop the killing.
Okay, I'm waiting.
Okay.
Quote, there is no freedom, there is no pursuit of happiness without life.
You know?
I think he's on to something there.
See, because without life, ha, there you go.
And yet, Here we are again and again and again burying children.
This country cured diseases no one thought curable, split an atom, and liberated and rebuilt a continent.
This country sacrificed so other people oceans away could have life and be free.
There is seemingly nothing that we cannot do except keep children alive while simply attending elementary school.
Okay, I'm with you.
Hearing the children were killed again saddens everyone.
Okay.
But we should force ourselves to feel more than that.
Okay.
You're getting warm.
What should we do, Trey?
There's more.
We should force ourselves to read the names of those children.
Okay.
Know their names.
Okay.
Know something about their lives.
Okay.
Good.
Feel the pain.
So finally, maybe this country will get angry and tired.
I think we are angry and I think we are tired.
And maybe this country would be resolved enough to stop the killing.
What's the best city or state to live in?
One that feels the pain of others.
One says life is the ultimate freedom.
What does this mean?
This is platitudinous pablum.
Pablum.
This is anodyne, saccharine, obviousness, on a Level, heretofore not thought possible.
What do we do?
I'm changing the subject, by the way.
True story.
There's a place at Union Square and there was a guy one night coming out with a bunch of pals years ago.
Came out of the subway and there's a guy standing there with a microphone.
He had it on his shoulder.
I'm sorry.
He had a speaker here with a microphone here.
And they were just talking.
I said, let me show you what a professional can do.
I said, do you mind if I say something?
It's kind of like speaker's corner.
He said, yeah, I said.
I said, I don't know about you.
I took it.
But I'm tired of this blank.
And I know you're tired of this blank.
And we're tired of this blankety blank because there's no blank in way.
That we as a society can expect to live as long as this occurs uninterrupted and unimpeded.
And I'm telling you right now, and I never said anything.
I never said anything.
People are getting, yeah!
Who's tired of this blank?
Who is it?
Raise your hand.
Say it.
I'm tired.
It's like, you know, Howard Beale.
That's what this is.
That's what this is.
How much are you paying this guy to do this?
I'll do it for half that.
Tell him to go away.
I'll do over half.
Save yourself time.
It's easy!
It's easy!
Now, here's the answer.
Here's the answer.
This is PS-152.
Try getting in there.
Go ahead.
Here.
Here's a...
Let's do a drill.
Here's a fake gun, or whatever it is.
Try getting in there.
Go ahead.
Door locked, door locked, door locked.
See that guy in the front?
Guy heavily armed?
Yeah.
The other guy there too?
Yeah.
See, that's a metal detector.
Try to get in there.
Can't get in there.
PS-152 is safe.
You're still crazy.
You're still demented.
You're still mentally ill or whatever it is.
You're still armed and you've got your AR this and that.
But that school is locked down.
Can't get in there.
It's like the rat analogy.
I'm telling you.
Here's a rat.
If a rat can't get into your house, who cares about the rats?
What do you care?
If the rats are saying, I can't get into any place.
Right?
That's what this is.
It's the simplest thing in the world.
What are we talking about?
No need to march.
No need to this.
Give me your money.
Give me all the money.
Tell you what.
Give me the money that Jack was going to be taking for his Humvees.
Give me a, I don't know.
25% of that.
And I will take care of this so fast.
There's no money in there.
You're not going to hear military contractors protecting our kids.
There's no money there.
No, no, no, no, no.
We've got to go over there.
We have to put that.
We've got to have a rocket.
Whatever it is.
That's the answer.
You want to talk about schools?
Go talk about guns.
Talk about guns.
Talk about guns.
Talk about videos.
Talk about the family.
Talk about prayer in school.
Talk about this.
Talk, talk, talk, talk.
Let me secure this.
I'll take care of this.
It's easy.
This will be a fortress.
You can't get in there.
And I've got a list of volunteers.
Oh my God.
Retired military, retired police, trained, security.
We'll bring in people from other countries.
Mercenaries.
Easy.
Ain't going to have that happen to school anymore.
I promise you.
No more.
So why don't you want that to happen?
Why aren't you interested?
Now listen to what I'm saying.
Why don't you want that to happen to go away?
Let Trey work on that one.
Don't people want this to be corrected?
You tell me.
What's more politically advantageous?
What's more politically opportunistic?
Safe schools or bedlam?
You tell me.
I don't know.
I'll let others decide that.
So that's what we do.
We just talk stuff.
And here's my thing.
Hey folks, vote for me.
We're not going to war.
Now if anybody out there listening to me thinks we're not going to do anything, we will shut you down.
We will shut you down.
If you have to.
If you really want us to go, we'll do that.
We'll really go to war.
I'm back to the war topic now, because I know sometimes you say, is he talking about the war now?
Because during the military-industrial complex days, they were really upset because caves and all these folks and various iterations of these people.
Is Isis K gone, by the way?
Remember Isis K?
Remember that one?
Remember that one?
Now, here's what you want to do.
If you're going to have a...
If it's Christmas, at least get it straight what Christmas is.
You can have celebrations of it.
Family tradition.
But it's the birth of Christ.
That's Christmas.
Ramadan.
Hanukkah.
Independence Day.
Get it straight.
Independence Day.
But Memorial Day is when we go crazy.
Memorial Day is when we start talking about how we are free to stop that.
You tell me anybody.
Now, let me tell you something.
Somebody said, well, it was the damnedest thing.
World War II, you know, they were at this Pearl Harbor and the Japanese attacked and they fought back and we went and we took care of them.
They attacked us.
Any questions?
You can argue all day long.
Was it provoked?
Whatever.
Either way.
Any question about that?
Nope.
We don't even get to the question of freedom.
You attacked us?
That's enough.
That's enough with that.
No, no, no.
But go to the village of Vietnam Memorial and ask, go up and down and say, who died for our freedom here?
That's not to besmirch their names.
It's ridiculous.
I mean, I'm ashamed.
What do they do this for?
Why?
Oh, no, no, it's for our freedom.
Stop saying that.
You're justifying it.
I know I got to say, because I feel bad.
This is why I say, if they died for our freedom...
I don't feel as bad.
I think that maybe there's a reason for it.
Maybe I don't have to be as guilty.
I hate that.
I can't stand that.
Tell me the truth.
Don't lie to me.
That's all.
That's all.
Now, but it is a holiday, and it's good for you to have fun, which is okay.
Why?
God, remember when Biden said, maybe you'll be able to go have a party outside?
Remember these poor people sitting around their backyards during COVID, during the cold?
Remember that?
Good for you.
What's everybody doing today?
Let's stop for a second.
Tell me, what's everybody doing today?
Okay?
Do you understand this?
What is...
Everyone doing?
Let's, on a lighter note, tell me.
Let's go down the list.
What's it?
What are we doing?
I'm going to wait a second because there's a bit of a delay.
People are going to be out there, their grills, taking processed wieners.
The worst possible food you can get.
Awful.
Sinew.
Joints and fat poured into an intestinal casing or something else and blasted with nitrates, carcinogenics, like you can't believe it, smoked, charred, adding to the carcinogen factor of it, burning it, smoke, nitrates, processed food.
Oh my God!
But you know what?
What are you going to do?
Look at this.
Yard work.
Exercise.
Working.
Barbecue with the grandkids.
Good for you, Andy.
Because grandkids are great.
You know why?
Because you can say, that's enough.
Drawing cartoons.
There's Bubba looking for a job.
SR, good luck to you.
Barbecue on the beach with family.
Cutting the grass.
You know what?
Can I just go smell you cut that grass?
I love the smell of that cutting the grass.
Don't you love that smell, honey?
I love the smell of a lawnmower.
I'm serious.
Recovery from yesterday.
Yard work.
Working and mowing.
A lot of that.
Working out and calling my son today.
Mmm.
Protein tubes.
Yes.
Chopped wood.
Carry water.
I like that.
Cause joint pain.
Planting vegetables in my garden.
That is the most beautiful thing in the world you can possibly do.
The most beautiful.
Avoiding family.
Getting ready for bed.
It's 11.48pm here in Australia.
Apache Pete, let me tell you something too.
Our dear friends, our Aussies, our Kiwis, and all of the crap you've had to go through lately, God bless you.
Okay?
Because everybody loves Australians.
Everybody.
Tommy Emanuel, Helen Reddy, come on.
Please, stop it.
I'm cooking meth.
Thank you.
Rewrite horrible draft legal decisions.
Ooh, look at this.
Look at this.
Sitting.
Calling my Uncle Ed.
Bless your heart.
One of my neighbors have a landscaping crew working outside their home now.
Ooh, I love that.
Going to work.
Pray for tips.
I like that.
Playing records.
Bradley Alba says, Korean barbecue in a forest preserve.
Korean barbecue, my friend.
What's that called?
Bugoki.
If ever you're in New York City, go to Little Korea, 32nd Street, right?
32nd, isn't it?
And they have these coal, they have these, oh, 24 hours a day, but these Korean barbecue where they bring you these hot, glowing coals underneath the table.
Oh, it's incredible.
Gardening.
Having a picnic with my next door neighbor.
Yes.
Please think about those who gave their ultimate sacrifice.
Yes.
And you know how you think about it?
No more.
Do you understand that the greatest honor we can pay these people is to tell them thank you.
No more.
No more.
I don't know if anybody wants to hear that you're telling me I died for nothing.
I don't know if you didn't die for nothing.
You died honorably.
You defended your country.
You didn't know any better.
Vietnam especially, people went because their grandfather, father, father, father, brother.
No more of this!
Let me ask you a question.
True question.
Do you, do you, If you have a son or a daughter young enough, and they said, should I join the military?
And assuming that there's no chance, I mean, if there was no chance, it would ever be in combat.
Ever.
That's one thing.
But would you?
A Marine?
And they're great and wonderful people.
But I would say hell no, because there are people like this guy who works for defense contractors and others who think nothing of you, who will send you to Helsinki or to Kiev or wherever because of NATO expansion?
Because of some weird, strange, neoconservative...
Expansionist Newland what?
Bistro steaks and sweet potato fries.
Leaf spinach and cucumber salad.
Love that one.
Recuperating from surgery.
Thinking of you taking Jose Torres.
You never want to ask him about surgery.
He's like, what happened?
But you always want to ask.
Big chocolate sundae.
Learning to brew beer today.
Did you see where they're talking about using urine?
Did you read this?
In some European countries.
Herschel Woody Williams.
Look him up.
We'll do that.
It's a damn shame.
Bistro steaks and sweet potatoes.
What is a bistro steak?
What is that?
You know what I'm looking forward to?
And I'll tell you what.
The best place in the world for this is Jersey is corn time.
Right, honey?
Corn.
I just get a whole thing of corn.
I cut the end of it off, throw it in for three minutes, and it just comes right out.
Silk-free.
Jersey corn.
Dear God!
Ho!
Hernia.
Hosea.
Hernia versus a hisnia.
A friend of mine had a hernia.
We were talking about that yesterday, as a matter of fact.
This is the day we get to personally mourn our loss of a loved one who died for serving our country.
It's a personal day.
Absolutely.
Again, no more.
No more.
It kills me.
It kills me.
You know what?
When we went to, first time I, I mean, I was, you know how people say, I was moved.
When I saw the Vietnam Memorial, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Never again.
No more.
Uh-uh.
No more.
That's it.
That's the best way in the world to show honor.
Mexican sweet corn.
You know what, Petey?
We had...
Remember those people around...
Remember those...
Right around that church, there were these folks from South America.
I don't know where they were from, but they had corn like I have never seen before.
Kernels, the size...
It was, not that GMO stuff, but it was just gorgeous.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Wondering if I should visit New York City.
Yeah, why not?
They're making it, you know what, they're not, I think they're, be careful.
I'm telling you, by the way, And I tell people this and they think I'm kidding.
The thing you should worry about the most is being hit by one of those e-bikes.
I'm dead serious.
Extra Miles says, my son wanted to join Marines.
I told him not to because for sure he would see action.
Luckily, he did not join.
And I'm a vet and a member of the American Legion.
I love the USA, not warmongers.
Let me ask you a question.
Can you imagine?
You know, Ronald Reagan.
Used to always talk about, what happens if aliens?
Listen to the way Ronald Reagan ever said alien.
He goes, aliens.
Can you imagine if somebody attacked our country?
I mean, really attacked.
And all of a sudden, we walked outside.
Black, white, Latino, gay, straight, LGBTQ.
Everybody said, alright, that's it.
As a great Cam Fong, as Chin Ho said, we're all in this together, brother.
Can you imagine what that would be like?
I've got absolutely no problem.
I am not against war.
I'm not a pacifist.
I'm not a Quaker.
I'm not one of those people.
But it better be for damn good reasons.
And not because Victoria Nuland and their other expansionists or Klaus Schwab or anybody who wants to sit around and say, let's do the new reset.
Let's see if we can do something.
Let's see if we can.
We're going to try to, because people have a There's a particular penchant towards Russia post-Cold War.
Let me tell you something.
You know how we can all get along together?
Eat.
Eat.
Share food.
Glyphosate in your food.
You're right about that.
Organic.
Oh my God, the food is just...
Oh my God.
The spraying, the conditioning.
I have a friend of mine who was a dear friend, Pakistani.
Muslim.
His mother made me rice.
I have never had that in my life.
Persian Iranian rice.
You ever had that?
There's a name of any Iranians here?
Any Persians?
You know that rice that has that burned bottom?
There's a crispy...
Oh my God!
Do you understand this?
It is just incredible.
And a septic mouthwash keeps aliens away.
Look at this.
Now let's do this.
We had enough fun today.
Let's...
Thank you for letting me vent my frustrations.
Let's always end with it, if we could, just today.
I'll be first to tell you, July 16th at the Cutting Room.
July 16th at the Cutting Room.
Yours truly.
I don't know what you call it.
Is it stand-up?
No.
It's observational absurdism.
It's Q&A.
It's interactive.
Nobody does this like this.
Nobody's out there doing it.
Nobody can do it.
It's not an act.
The act will be written that day, as it happens.
Whatever the news is, whatever's happening.
It's a reflection, both as a mirror and as a funhouse mirror.
A thermometer and a barometer.
Think about that one.
Where's everybody from?
Where's everyone from?
Let's just do this.
I love to see the names.
Tell us where you're from and be specific.
Give me, not an address, but give me the name of a city.
If it's, you know, Wiesbaden or Grindr Switch or something, give me a name.
Also, please hit the like button.
Hit the subscription button.
They are just keeping me under their thumb.
Everybody else is going crazy, but anyway.
Denman Island, Valparaiso.
Harrogate, Yorkshire.
Look at this.
Harrogate.
Oh, I love this.
Yorkshire, England.
Buxton, Maine.
Las Vegas.
East Sussex, UK.
Wausau.
I've been to Wausau.
When's your airport?
Tennessee.
Copenhagen, UK.
Winnipeg, Scotland.
Bernie, Tasmania.
I love that.
Please don't tell me the UK.
Just tell me where in the UK.
Portland, Maine versus Portland, Oregon.
Pueblo, West Colorado.
Albany, New York.
Boston.
Verona, New Jersey.
Between Verona Park and Montclair Golf Course.
We know where that is.
I know exactly where that is.
Port Salerno.
You know what's around there?
It's one of the best little...
Should I mention this name?
Should I mention our little diner?
No, I shouldn't do that.
It's right there in what?
Eagle Rock?
What's it called?
Chit Chat Diner is just...
Chit Chat is great.
Tick Tock.
Near the reservation.
Chit Chat is great.
With my boy Gus.
Tick Tock.
On Route 3, where the Stones went, purportedly.
Great diner stuff.
Anyway, know the area well.
Coventry, Kentucky.
Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
Hagerstown, Maryland.
Crown Point, Indiana.
Sewell, New Jersey.
Mousy, Kentucky.
Miami.
Sugartit, South Carolina.
Yes, sirree, Bob.
Kristen Sved says, you know, interesting thing.
Quakers didn't have witch hunts or need to believe a religion, but the Puritans were some of the first to fight slavery in the Northeast.
Did not know that.
Chit-chat indeed.
Bernie, Tasmania.
Bartow, Florida.
Oh, Bartow.
Yeah, Bartow.
Wasn't that a...
Wasn't that like a bombing?
Was that bombing?
There was a bombing range when I was a kid.
Anyway.
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Have a great and a glorious day very, very seriously in memory of those brave men and women who died in service of our country.
They are remembered.
They are honored.
And never again.
Except for the most unimaginable circumstances.
Military are not like firemen.
Firemen or police who fight in the lane of duty, they were responding to something which they knew, they understood, it makes sense, lives were saved, got it.
Do not Consider our military as being fungible.
Like, yeah, well, there, there.
I clap for them.
I put a ribbon on my car.
That's not enough.
Alright.
Have a great day.
See you tomorrow.
Have a great and glorious day.
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