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June 19, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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Why Father's Day Will Be Transmogrified

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Alright, my friends.
Alright.
This is it.
A very special, special day.
This is when all of us normally say we stop and we say Happy Father's Day.
And I predict...
I predict that one day Father's Day, Mother's Day will be removed.
It will not be, it will be illegal, for lack of a better word.
It will be illegal, because it will be construed, or conscrewed, as Archie Bunker would say, as the manifestation of an anachronistic Heteronormative.
Transphobic.
Andro...
Not andro...
Androphilic, I guess maybe.
It will be considered passé, racist.
I don't know how they always throw that one in.
I guess climate change somehow.
Somehow fathers of climate change.
But it will be...
It will be removed.
It will be removed from our parlance.
There was a story I tweeted before I help you look at my Twitter feed.
It's very good, just in terms of the stuff that I see that's up there.
There was a man who was 66 years old.
He was a blood donor.
For years, one of these multiple million gallon, you know, these people who...
You know, some people love this stuff.
My father loved to give blood.
Okay.
And, you know, which is good.
I'm all for it.
So he went.
He's 66 years old.
And they said, Sir, would you fill in the form that says, Are you now pregnant or have you been pregnant?
And he said, I'm not going to respond to that.
That's crazy.
Sir, You have to respond to that.
That doesn't apply to me.
And they said, get out.
Get out.
We don't need your blood.
You've got to answer this question.
It's stupid.
I don't care whether it's stupid.
You're going to answer that question.
Do I look like I could get pregnant?
Why not?
After all, what is a man?
What is a woman?
What does this mean?
What is going on?
What is a father?
What is a mother?
You got it?
You see where this is going?
See where this is going?
It will be illegal.
Somebody will say, you will have some academic, somebody from Brown University, some Yale sociologist, someone, not just anyone, mind you, who will say that this, the notion of fatherhood is part of a paternalistic And they'll come up with something.
Patricentric.
There'll be a wonderful combination of words, euphemisms, kind of a neologism thrown in here and there.
So we'll talk about that one.
Today, if we can, we're going to talk about the detransitioned or the...
Oh, that's coming up.
Fathers.
Why we're crazy on purpose.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
Bullies?
Why don't we define race?
Oh, this is a good one today.
This is a good show today.
This is one you love.
Because this, this is a chance for us to think.
Now, I want you also to do something.
I also want you today to try something different.
Those wonderful, wonderful, loving, beauteous folks who were part of the live chat.
I want you today, instead of making a statement, ask a question all day long.
Don't make a statement.
Don't make any declarative statement.
This is ridiculous.
Is it ridiculous?
What does it mean that we're trying to define Gender.
What does it mean that we...
Ask the question.
When you're out and about and you're trying to convert people to our way of thinking, please ask them questions.
Don't tell them.
What is normal?
What is gender?
Ask questions.
Important things will this question do?
Yes.
Why would I do that?
Excellent, Heather.
You're getting it.
You're getting it.
See, you're so good.
You're so smart.
You're so smart.
You're so monumentally smart.
So we're going to talk about that.
But I've got to talk about something.
Let me tell you something.
I think I told you this.
I have been wanting.
A little time out.
Since I was in talk radio, and actually, officially, in October of 1988, this was the first time I ever did an actual, this was a real, honest to God, terrestrial radio thing.
And I've been on TV and whatever it is.
We have had sponsors.
Sponsors are the greatest thing in the world.
We are a capitalist society.
That's what we do.
And I love businesses.
I love people.
We went to a place yesterday.
I'm not going to mention it.
God forbid.
But it was so nice.
It reminded me of a cross.
What would you call it?
It was a cross between like a head shop?
Not really.
But you remember the hippies?
Remember like somebody would have like a bandana.
Their name would be like Moonflower or, you know, not Moondog.
But anyway, it was this little business and it was booming.
And it was great.
And I'm thinking to myself, how do business...
Do you have something somebody wants?
Huh?
Therapeutic, quality, holistic.
Yeah.
Therapeutic, quality, holistic.
But you have to ask yourself, what is it that you're selling?
Why do I need it?
What is it?
What is it?
How do you sell things?
It's capitalism.
I'm fascinated by all the mattress stores.
How many times do you buy a mattress?
Most people have bought one their whole life.
I hate to say it.
How is that?
Every seven years.
Yeah, right.
Anyway, how do you do it?
So, I have been saying for the longest time, so help me God, the business that I think is the most profitable, that is the most rational, something that you need, something that works, I thought, is food preparedness.
And somebody along the way said prepper.
Let me explain something to you.
If somebody calls you anything, a prepper, a conspiracy theorist, whatever it is, embrace it.
Let me tell you another thing too.
Make sure you make people eat their words.
If they say, oh, are you a prepper?
You can say, oh, yes.
Well, you know, as a prepper, I have this crazy idea that maybe if there's a food shortage, I want to be able to feed my family.
See, I'm a prepper.
And, you know, we're kind of...
And you jam it down their throat.
You make these people wish.
They never, ever call you that.
Well, you know, I'm a conspiracy theorist.
And you see, when I read about sriracha, tampons, it's not food, but peanut butter, what else is it?
Chicken, produce, this.
You know me.
I'm a conspiracy theorist.
I also can read, because as a prepper, so help me God, remember I'm telling you this.
You want these people to say, please, I will never say that again.
Just stop saying that.
Because you make them eat their words.
Life is about consequence.
You've got to make people pay for what they do.
They selected you out of nowhere to rompece colione, so you're going to give it right back.
You're going to show them, I can do it better than you can.
I'm an expert at this.
I have a black belt in this.
I will drive you crazy.
So, to make a long story short, some are good, some are okay.
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Did you ever go to like a camping store for the first year?
I love to go places.
I've never been camping in my life!
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Don't want to camp.
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They've got mat, waterproof mat.
Look how they thought of this.
That's what happened with my Patriot Supply.
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How are you going to get a three-month supply of emergency food into a container to have it last for 25 years?
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How do you do this?
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They'll show you.
They've spent their night.
They stay up at night digging.
Now what can we do here?
You cannot believe the assortment of food.
Everything you can possibly imagine.
But I want to say something to you.
This is an emergency.
You know, another good tool, believe it or not, they have these radios that you crank up, you know, in case there's no batteries.
You don't want to take that to the beach.
I mean, you can't.
It's an emergency.
There are some things, you know, I'm just saying.
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But just go and explore.
Just look at this.
It's unbelievable.
It's brilliant.
And I don't care.
And people, I've never seen anything like that.
I mentioned preparewithlionel.com.
I sent it to everybody.
Here, look.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Look what you've got in your garage.
Look what you've got.
You've got a boat.
You've got a canoe.
You've never been canoeing.
What are you doing?
You've got stuff in there that you're storing for reasons.
I don't know.
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And it doesn't, it's not, you know, these nice little containers are all perfectly packed.
I don't understand this.
I just, because people, I think, maybe, and maybe it's a defense mechanism, maybe they think, I just don't want to think about this.
We better start thinking about it.
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Hey, look at this.
Diesel prices going up.
All of a sudden, there's airline flights.
There's no flights.
Well, if there's no flights, why are there no flights?
Well, we don't know.
What brings stuff?
Oh, I don't know.
Everything, supply.
Not everything is touristy.
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What about diesel prices?
What about stuff in trucks?
What about supply chain?
What if the food can't get there?
What if there's something we haven't even thought of yet?
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I don't have to tell you this.
So, I believe in this 100%.
I'm not saying this just because I'm saying it.
I believe it.
And you will be so...
We'll put it this way.
I hope you never need it.
I hope you say, you know what?
I've had that for 25 years and we never need it.
Good.
Good.
It's like insurance.
Do you really want to use insurance?
PrepareWithLionel.com Okay, let me talk about fathers.
Let me explain this to you.
It's a very simple thing.
And fathers, let me just tell you one bit of advice.
I hate when people give advice.
I hate when parents talk about their kids.
Oh, and I've got to tell you something too.
Please, please, stop putting pictures.
No, stop.
Let me rephrase it.
It's a free country.
You can do whatever you want.
But you will never see me put pictures of my beloved father on Facebook.
So I can say, I miss him every day.
Why are you telling people this?
I don't know, because nothing happens unless I quantify it.
Nothing happens unless I post it.
It never happened.
Why are you doing this?
To me, it's sullying the reputation.
See, I have a father.
I miss my father more than you miss yours.
Here's my father.
Here's a picture of us at the beach.
He's holding me.
Oh, come on!
You virtue-signaling little twit.
You're doing it about you.
It's not about your father.
It's about you.
You're trying to compete with the other person.
Well, I miss my father more than you.
No, you don't.
Oh, yes, I do.
But if that makes you happy, go ahead.
I don't care.
I think it's stupid.
Now, understand something.
First of all, when you think back about fathers and being a father, it's a very simple thing.
It's a very, very, very simple thing.
You may not be the life of the party.
You may not be going fishing.
You may not be doing whatever the heck you're supposed to do and here's how to throw a curveball, son, and all that.
I don't know, whatever that means.
I mean, that's nice.
Here is the first rule.
The first rule.
And the only rule.
Well, I'm going to make it easy for you.
One rule.
Every day.
At least one time a day.
For some people it's difficult, others it's very easy.
You tell your child and children, individually and maybe collectively, I love you and I'm proud of you.
I'm proud you're my son.
I'm proud you're great.
I love you.
That's day one.
Day two, same thing.
For the rest, Of their life.
It's like every day I have ground flaxseed for the rest of my life.
Every single day.
And every day.
You want to have heart healthy?
You tell your kids.
I don't care how old they are.
Because let me ask you something.
Maybe you don't want me to ask you.
But if I could.
How many of you, you don't have to answer, I'm asking you rhetorically, if you want to answer it, that's okay.
How many of you never remember your father saying, I love you?
And more importantly, I'm proud of you.
See, it's not enough to say, I love you.
It's like, oh, okay, you know, I love my dog, I love my country, I love, everybody loves, I love pizza, I love you.
No, no, no, no.
But you're great.
You are fantastic.
Fantastic.
That is excellent.
Did you draw that?
Putting it right up here.
Putting it right up there.
There you go.
Look at that.
I'm going to frame it.
Come on, let's go.
Let's go to Michael's and buy a frame.
Why?
Because you did that.
Look how good that is.
He did that.
You're a genius.
Now that may not work.
It may take you, because kids are more screwed up today than ever.
But I guarantee you one thing.
I know how to destroy a child.
Never tell them you love them.
Make them question themselves.
Make them never feel good about themselves.
And you're the first audience this kid ever has.
You're the first one.
And I don't give a damn.
If you're there, it sustains everything.
Everything.
I don't care if you're in the same house, if you're divorced, if your kids live away.
I don't care about that.
That's not good.
But the easiest thing to do is just to say, I love you.
That's brilliant.
I love that.
You're great.
You're great.
And when kids are going through this, something's weird.
Little kids, maybe they're a little overweight.
Maybe they got a funny nose or maybe whatever the hell it is.
Kids are just some, you know, just whatever.
That's number one.
You love them.
They're beautiful.
They're great.
And you don't listen to anybody.
You listen to me.
And then you get into this one.
If you really want to get into this deep stuff.
You say, what if somebody said to you, Your father doesn't love you.
What would you say?
What would you say?
Who would say that?
I don't know who said that.
It's a hypothetical.
What would you say?
I'd say they're crazy.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And while you're at it, you make your serious interest in it.
Let me explain something to you.
Listen to me.
You always tell me what's going on.
You'll never get I'm your friend.
Not really.
I'm your father.
But I protect you.
And I'm the only one looking out for you.
And if anybody touches you, anybody wants to touch you, anything you don't know, you let me know.
Alright?
I need you.
I'm counting on you, okay?
You're going to tell me this, right?
Because we've got to make sure we stick together.
Because nobody touches you.
Great!
That's special.
And if you have a cell phone, I don't want you to have a cell phone, but if you ever get a picture or somebody asks you something and you're thinking, that's odd, you let me know.
And if you say, is this okay?
You can say, yep, that's okay.
And I'll never be mad at you.
Never.
Never.
Because your friends are going to tell you some things that you're not going to believe in.
Here's one for you.
Somebody may say, Take your clothes off and take a picture.
I know it's crazy, but it happens.
You're never going to do that.
And if anybody even, if you even think about that, you come to me, right?
You never get in trouble.
Never!
Because we've got to also, and there's sometimes, we've got to look out for these kids too, and maybe you can help.
We'll be like the police.
And that's it.
It's simple.
And you go on, you do stuff.
You don't overwhelm them, you don't just, that's it.
That's it.
You can also play around with it.
Who loves you?
You do.
Who?
Who?
I'm sorry, I can't hear you.
Who?
You do.
I'm sorry.
Who?
Who does that?
That's it.
So that your kid will say, that's my dad.
That's it.
I don't care what you do after that.
I don't care if you...
But never, ever, have a child who can say, Did my father ever say he loves me?
Huh.
Well, I mean, I know he did, but...
No, no, I'm asking you, did you ever hear him say that?
Say it?
Why men do that?
Now listen to me.
I don't give a damn what your father did.
Well, I never got that.
Shut up.
Don't pass it on.
Look at this.
Brian says, Dad, hug your kids.
Tell them you love them.
Do some stuff for them.
Ask and listen.
And a bit of positive discipline.
Absolutely.
Look at this.
Love my dad more than anything.
He's been gone for six months and I miss him every day.
First Father's Day without him.
Hopefully he's in a better place.
That's Pete.
Here's to your dad, Petey.
Absolutely.
When you get older, and you will find this, I think so, you realize the wisdom.
Wouldn't you love to meet your father?
Like, I'm...
I'll be 64. I always kind of think about that.
Wouldn't you love to meet your father when he was your age?
Because, you know...
I mean, you kind of know them, you know.
Maybe you do, maybe you don't.
I don't know.
But I love to sit there and just ask them.
And let me also tell you something.
You can be a stepdad.
You can be an adopted dad.
You can be a, I don't give a, I don't care what it is.
I don't, it doesn't matter.
You can be a, and grandfathers.
Oh, come on.
Sometimes a grandfather's a father.
Remember that song by the Juz, Grandpa?
Tell me about the good old days.
Oh, it's beautiful.
Grandfathers could be the best.
You know, we were talking about that yesterday.
With mothers and fathers, you have mom, dad.
Mommy, daddy.
Sometimes mommy, daddy.
Mom, dad.
Father, maybe.
Mother.
That's about it.
Those kids who call their parents by the first name, That's just demented.
That should be illegal.
You know, Dave.
What?
That's your father.
I know.
His name is Dave.
You don't call your father Dave.
What's the matter with you?
Dad, Pa, Pop, Ma, Mommy, Mom, Mother.
Well, that's it.
But grandparents, then we get into these weird names.
Me, Ma, Moo, Moo.
Jagadoodoo, mommy, peepo, peepo, meemo, papi, always, always grandparents' names.
Like, what is this?
Not grandma, grandma.
I mean, sometimes.
You always have this name.
Mama, you know, Mama Claire, Mama Dave, and Papa John, whatever.
Which is fine.
And sometimes they can be great.
My grandfather was really something.
Really, I mean, just so...
I'm just so interesting.
Never spoke English a day in his life.
I mean, he did, but not really.
He did the same one time when he would go to the, there's a Tampa place called the Cuban Club.
He was Puerto Rican, but we, you know.
My grandfather was Puerto Rican.
I never met any Puerto Ricans.
My grandmother was Sicilian, and that's the only one I knew.
But he was at the Cuban club one day, and somebody said, you know, the best way to prevent termites, prevent termites, is injecting turpentine.
Was it turpentine?
Yeah, turpentine into the joints of, yeah, into the joints of, they had a wooden home, in Ybor City.
And so my grandfather got this big gauge, like these heavy hypodermic, like big, thick, like he would give an elephant, I don't know where he got this from, and he would inject, you know, Terpita.
And one day my father, he would smoke, and he had a cigarette, and he lighted something, and he dropped it.
And it was like, whoosh, across a board.
And he goes, what is this?
What are you doing?
And that was my girlfriend.
As a kid, at the Cuban club, somebody told him, if you paint the inside of your closets red, you won't get roaches.
As a kid, now my grandmother translated, he knew a little bit, sort of, and I said, Bugs can't see.
In the dark.
I'm just saying.
They had no lights inside there.
So she would turn to him and tell him because she spoke Italian and Spanish and English.
Anyway, it was back and forth.
He's looking at me like, you know, you got a point there.
This is after he painted this thing red.
I mean, it was just, you know, mowed his lawn in a suit.
He wasn't crazy or anything.
He just had this kind of a...
And I think what I got from him was, that's what I want to do.
I don't care what you think.
This is what I want to do.
I want to paint my, uh, thing, uh, right.
One time you heard this.
There was a berry?
No.
A plant?
Something.
That he said that was, I never found out what it was.
It was medicinally, we used to have these, remember when you were a kid you had them where you had the half gallon of milk, gallon of milk in the glass thing?
We had this place called Turner's and farm stores and we would drive through and you would get them.
And he had these empty glass, I guess it was a half gallon or a gallon, anyway, in the refrigerator with this Like, uh...
Not purple, not pink.
Hibiscus color.
He had it all over the place.
And he would drink it.
He never, he never, uh...
Never was overweight.
Never was...
Anyway, I thought he was the greatest guy.
Never said anything, but we knew he loved...
Until I figured out how to play chess with him.
And that's when we connected.
I would do something and he'd say, oh.
And it was like this.
And we never, we spoke through that.
Fantastic.
At the time I didn't get it.
Most people don't get it.
Because when, you know, wisdom.
You don't know what you've got until it's gone.
Joni Mitchell's on the set.
And it's not...
You know, I've hogged this.
I'm sorry.
I've been talking so much about this.
I didn't know my grandparents very well, even though they were in the periphery.
Happy Father's Day to all their dads, stepdads, foster dads, grandfathers.
Yep.
Oh!
It's my birthday today.
I stay in bed as a mark of respect to...
Okay, whatever.
Thank you so much.
My dad passed away eight years ago.
Not a day goes by that I don't think of him.
Liz?
Well, that's what you do.
They do not die.
The corporeal part of it dies.
You know this.
This is the space suit.
This is the, you know, the...
What is it?
We're skeletons covered in meat.
We fly through space.
I don't know.
Yes, Suzanne.
So disrespectful calling your parents by their first name.
One time my sister told me my father was chasing her playing around.
And my sister said, you damn fool.
And he went crazy.
Why did you hear that?
She says, you!
He said, oh.
Alrighty.
Didn't, didn't, didn't chide her.
Because you heard it from me.
Alright.
There you go.
It's funny, you remember things...
I can tell you other stories, I don't want to bore you, but our grandparents took us in and raised us.
This is Liam.
Grandpa Murray, an infantry officer in World War II, served in the Philippines, Italy, and after war in Japan, taught biology at Roosevelt High School in the Bronx.
Isn't that?
And they have this sense of...
Am I right, Liam?
They have this sense of honor and duty.
You know what I mean?
Not the military, but just like their generation.
I never understood this.
My grandparents, they were, well, they were cigar makers.
They were cigar makers.
And put my dad through school.
He was in law school.
They never worked.
They had a house.
They always had money.
They retired.
I don't know what they did.
In Tampa, they have a lot of, in Ybor City, they have a lot of cigar factories.
And the, it's interesting, they have, they used to, this is when the industry was it.
They had no radios, they obviously had no, whatever it was.
So there was a guy called El Lector, the Lector.
And he would sit on this big, think of, think of like a, Like a...
What am I trying to say?
Like a volleyball coach or a referee.
Like a big ladder.
And he would read to everyone.
The news, poetry, Don Quixote, whatever.
They had Spanish and Italian.
They all were there.
In Ybor City.
Y-B-O-R.
That's the...
It looks kind of like New Orleans, sort of.
So that's where they all...
Coral y Wolisca.
The cigar makers.
And they all had the same kind of house.
And they all, you know, were retired.
And they all...
They were all retired.
I don't know if they had a penny.
I have no idea.
They all had money.
You ever notice that?
Nobody ever went...
It was this...
I'll tell you a quick story.
My...
Oh, I can tell you a story about my...
My grandmother's brother, famous.
He had all these sisters, and he was the baby.
He was a bit of a, I don't want to say a gangster, but a tough guy.
Very tough.
And he died, interestingly enough, he died when they were moonshiners, basically.
Because Tampa was a point where they would go to Cuba all the time, and they would bring in rum and things.
I don't know the story.
The rum was covered in straw.
The bottles and sometimes the...
Who knows?
I've heard all these stories.
Maybe it was underground gas main.
Long story short, they had bunkers in their backyard where they would go down and have a ladder and they would store all this stuff.
It was a bootlegger.
So there was a word that a raid was coming.
So, my uncle...
I've got a picture.
You can't see it right here.
Partners got the word, so they said, there's a raid coming, either move it or do something.
So one went down the ladder, didn't come up.
Second one went down, didn't come up.
So my great uncle, great whatever.
He went down, and they found him with his two arms around these guys, trying to take him up the stairs, because of either gas, methane, I don't know what it was.
And they were all buddies.
Well, one family said, we can't have them buried together, so they kind of moved them out.
Anyway, my grandfather, the one with the painting, whatever, red, he bought a car.
And it was this place, if you know Tampa, Adamo Drive, way out there in the middle of nowhere.
And it was a lemon.
I mean, you know, they had lemon laws.
So we came back, and my...
So it's my grandfather's wife, my grandmother, her brother.
He finds out.
He says, I'll take care of it.
So he goes out.
He says, my name is so-and-so.
Typical.
Ask about me.
Ask about me.
Who I am.
Ask.
That's always a good tip when somebody says, ask who I am.
I'm going to be back at a certain time.
I want the money.
And maybe there was something else.
But either.
Here's the money.
I want it back.
So, time elapsed.
He came back.
Apparently due diligence.
The car owner, the lot owner did his job.
Found out who he was.
Thought it would be a good idea not to ruffle any feathers.
So he had the car there.
Excuse me, the money there.
Brings the car.
He says, good.
He says, you're not going to do this to anybody again.
My uncle goes back to his car and gets a thing of gas.
Pours it on the car, the lemon, and lights it on fire.
Nobody called the police.
And he said, you're not going to do this again.
And you hear these stories and they go, wow!
Same guy, one more story.
Same guy.
They were hijacked.
My other father, big hijackers, bootleggers.
Louie.
Louie and he were hijacked.
They were blindfolded.
They were on their knees in the back of a truck and Uncle Nick said, say something.
So I can hear your voice.
So I can find out who you are and slit your throats or something like that.
And Louis says, not now.
No, no, no.
Say something.
Say something.
Come on.
What's the matter, are you afraid?
Say something so I can find out who you are.
Anyway, so I think they stopped and let them off.
And I said, look, you know how many times I've heard that story?
Did your parents ever tell you the same story?
Oh, I love them.
And that, I believe, is why I became so enamored with storytellers.
My mother was the best.
The beginning, the middle, the end, tell the story.
This is what happened.
This is what they said.
Oh, it was wonderful.
Now, I want to talk about something too, which is very important.
Bullies.
I'm going to say something to you.
And this is something that I do not like.
And I'll tell you why I don't like it for different reasons.
And some are obvious, some aren't.
The thing I don't like about bullies, I don't mind people who are tough.
I don't mind people who are mean.
I don't mind people who give you a hard time.
I don't mind that.
People who look you in the eye, people who say, you know what, this is...
I don't like what you're doing, whatever.
Fine, fine.
I like that.
That's fine.
But a bully is somebody who does something either in groups, hides behind a wall, says something.
And I've always loved people, if I see, remember when goth, I don't know why I keep saying this, you don't see it, maybe a, remember somebody walking around with goth, hair out to here, kind of the, Beat punk.
You know, punk slash got jet black hair, spiked shoes like Frankenstein shoes or the girl with the black lipstick and the white face.
Looks like a mime in black.
Reads poetry, dark, very dark.
Not dark color, but dark in spirit.
I love that.
That takes guts.
I like that.
Anybody can look like whatever, but that takes good.
I like people who fight.
I like people who say, you know what?
People who say, I don't like this.
I don't like what's going on.
I don't like this.
And Mike Lindell, I like that.
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Well, Trump.
It's not fair.
And that's the thing about bullies.
They're not fair.
It's not fair.
Well, I am proud.
I'm telling you right now.
I think he's a good man.
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All right, let's talk about something.
Bullies.
Anybody bullied?
Anybody bullied when you were a kid?
Anybody bullied?
You know what that's like when you were a kid?
Huh?
Yeah, bullying, right.
It's a good point.
The bullying that kids are going through today is not what we went through.
Anybody went bullying?
Oh my God, I had a hell of a time.
Well, I mean, not really.
Sort of.
I remember as a kid...
I wore, I think in first grade, second grade, wore 36 Husky pants.
Went to Catholic school.
We had one uniform.
36 Husky.
And I used to say, is the 36?
I'm 8 years old.
Do you have to throw in Husky?
I mean, if you have a 36 waist with a 24 inch inseam, whatever the hell it is.
Do you need that?
Do you need that?
Then I got all my permanent teeth early, so they said, hey, let's give him braces.
So I had braces.
Okay, good.
Then we had that.
So braces, 36 Husky.
Then glasses.
Glasses.
Couldn't see well.
And glasses are kind of cooler now, but not then.
And you always had this institution look.
You always had this institution, this, this, this, like a killer.
Of course, you go to the haircut, your father would insist on a butch cut.
Hey, it looks cool.
Remember your father was there.
It looks cool.
Had your head put on, the butch wax.
I look like a psycho killer.
I'm fat.
Oh, and I stuttered.
That was another story.
I'll tell you about that one.
Let me tell you what my parents did.
You're going to love this story.
True story.
My parents said, you're not fat.
You're big.
I'm what?
Big.
They call me fat.
What do they know?
You're big.
But you're smarter than they are.
Well, that's true.
So help me God, I never I just, it never, because I think my self-esteem was so good because of them, it never permeated.
There was like this firewall.
Nothing got through.
I gotta tell you this story.
This was the best story.
Mrs. Becker.
She was a lay teacher in Well, we went to this, we had this school, and anyway, Sacred Heart, which is no more.
And we had nuns, but she was, in the old days, Catholic schools were all nuns, but this was a lay teacher.
She had this, very skinny.
So one day she tells me, and this other guy, I'm not going to say his name, Michael, this other Michael, she says, I want you both to stand up.
I want to see if I can put my belt around you.
Why?
He says, well, you're overweight.
And she had this weird, like, almost like a, I don't know, like a circus.
Huh?
Well, yeah.
So this poor guy, and it was so sad because his brother was killed in Vietnam.
I said, don't do it.
It wasn't that big of a deal to me.
It sounds, you know, like, I said, don't do it.
Don't do it.
Michael, don't do it.
And he did it.
And she said, it came out to me.
I said, nope.
So I went home and told my father.
And he said, I'm going to take you to Scoldmore.
So we went.
And almost...
I don't want to get choked up, but...
So he went and he said...
Oh, his words were, My son has inherited from me...
A good appetite.
Go ahead.
It's my fault.
Here.
Put your belt around me.
Go ahead.
And there was no...
We got there like real early.
We were waiting for her.
She was walking up and stuff.
You know, really...
We didn't announce anything.
Didn't call.
Always catch them off guard.
And I'm sitting here like this.
And I remember this.
Go ahead.
Come on.
Am I getting close?
Not threatening her, but come on.
Put it on me.
And then we got this.
If I ever.
I mean, one of these.
If I ever.
You can fill in the blank.
If you ever do that.
You know, just.
Well, much like Goodfellas, I don't know if I was ever called on again, recognized.
I could have.
I could have.
Who knows?
I could have been my Uncle Nick and poured the gas.
But you know what it taught me?
It taught me.
You're worth it.
And nobody does that to you.
That's what it's all.
It was a very simple thing.
And today, kids, these teachers, they have the opposite.
These teachers don't go to...
Oh, we always went.
Any kind of parent-teacher always did well in school, but we always...
It's a different world now.
It's a different world.
And there were kids.
And the kids who were abused and neglected.
And I'm going to talk about this bullying.
This bullying is not...
The word is not...
I don't think it says...
It's not the right word.
Because we have seen it.
Social media, in particular, have created wolf packs.
Where it's not enough...
That you get picked on.
But you must be destroyed.
And ground down.
We always heard about these hypothetical stories where people would say, you know, somebody would be on a ledge and people would yell, jump!
They would actually yell, jump!
Thank you, Jose.
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Please, please, for the love of God.
Oh, how many did they say?
Listen to this.
YouTube.
They always tell me, well, here's your analytics.
This absolutely kills me.
Come on.
Where are you?
Anyway, I think it was like 800 and something people that I don't know.
I I don't think I'm losing these people.
I don't know.
It's just...
Is it because of what I'm saying?
No!
Oh, not at all.
Well, yeah, but you demonetized me.
Well, I demonetized you.
Well, why'd you demonetize me for?
Well, I don't know.
Something you said.
What was it?
I don't know.
Something you...
It might have been controversial.
Isn't that good?
No, no.
The wrong kind of controversy, I guess.
I'm not really sure.
Are you getting a picture there?
Are you seeing something?
Okay.
Hang on a minute.
Yeah, let me see something here.
Let me see something.
Let me close.
Are you seeing me okay, everybody?
Are you seeing me?
For the love of God, are you seeing me?
There we go.
Everything okay?
I guess.
I'm not sure.
Alright.
Okay, good.
Kids are being told.
Some terrible things.
Kill yourself.
Hate yourself.
What was I warned this new kid about...
He killed himself, right?
Because they told me he wasn't vaxxed.
He's an anti-vaxxer.
A teacher stood him up.
Please.
Please.
The teacher...
Oh.
This is where you need aggressive trial lawyering to go in there and let them have it.
But you've got to make sure.
You must make sure.
I don't care if your kid is popular, short, fat, white, black, gay, straight.
I don't care who it is.
Somebody, somewhere, they pick out either weakness or something.
Or maybe it's just, I don't know.
You're going to have to.
To tell them.
If anybody bullies you, teachers, students, people, you've got to let me know.
Lisa says, teachers are the worst for bullying.
There are wonderful teachers, as you know.
We have members of the family who are teachers, and they try their best, and others who are absolutely despicable.
But here's what you need to do.
If your child's self-esteem...
Like, look at this.
Maybe I would say, look at this.
Come here.
Do you see this story?
Look at this kid.
This kid killed himself.
Why?
Because of bullies.
And the teacher did this.
That's crazy.
Start.
Anybody do that to you?
What do you think about this?
Remember, questions.
What do you think about this?
You know what bullies are?
You know these people are stupid, right?
Say it!
You have to anticipate.
Don't figure, well, and don't get me in this business about, well, you know, when I'm a kid, when I'm, you know, I'm, you know, I, I, the kid's got to know how to get tough.
Stop that.
I don't know how to break it to you, but kids should not be out there fighting.
No, no, no.
You don't want this.
Look at this.
A teacher, look at this.
This is, I do not bend to power, writes.
A teacher in my school locked a girl in the stockroom in the dark and she lost it.
Her dad came and slashed his face with a Stanley knife.
Well, that's not good.
That is not good.
But when you do things to kids, remember whatever happens to them.
Whatever happens to them.
You never can take the law.
This idea that, you know, this Wild West stuff, you'll end up worse.
Physical violence, I'm not saying this just because.
It's just, it's not that.
No.
Because then your kid, all of a sudden, guess what?
Then, This is the best part.
This is the part that I don't understand.
This is the part that I do not understand.
How is it that this happens?
And by the way, let me also explain to you.
We are seeing more mental illness at such levels in schools and every place else.
And the teachers themselves are not equipped to handle this.
They're not equipped to handle this.
We're also seeing an incivility.
And when people get behind, not this group, mind you, but when people get behind social media walls, they get to be very tough, and they lose themselves.
Let me explain to you again about mob rule and oclocracies.
Mob rules.
Do you understand this?
A mob rule.
Where an individual loses their individual sense of right and wrong, but becomes a part of this new group, and in this new group, it, the person rather, loses all sense of individuality and becomes part of this collective mass.
And they will do things they would not normally do by themselves.
Sometimes good.
I also mention the fact that it's oftentimes forgotten that there are people who Sometimes you hear these stories about a car would turn over and a woman was pinned underneath the car and they would come out of buildings and without even thinking move en masse to move the car.
So they might not have done it individually but as a group.
So sometimes what Le Bon and others have shown is sometimes there's this sense of this wonderful group Collective thought that works individually.
But for the most part, it's not a good thing.
It's not a good thing.
And we have learned through government, through media, to work collectively to make people feel absolutely Wrong.
If they don't wear the right...
If they don't respond accordingly to medical concerns, to vaccinations, to masks, to this, to rules.
If they say the wrong thing, say the right thing.
If they don't...
We learned what happens.
Anybody who in any way championed or even remotely liked Donald Trump, you can absolutely...
It was open season.
And we saw this.
We saw this.
So here's the thing.
Someone writes, life's never been fair.
That's true.
But if you're asking yourself, as a parent, or as a buddy, give yourself the best, your kid the best ammunition possible by number one, the best sense of self-esteem.
Make your kid feel special.
Now when you talk about, someone says, bullying, it'll toughen you up.
Well, I mean, not helping you out, but maybe responding to bullying.
That's a nice thought.
We have these wonderful, mythical...
Remember that was a Spider-Man?
Where Toby, or whatever his name is, whatever this actor, he's pushed around, and you wait for this.
You wait for the person to say, okay, I've had enough.
Remember, it was almost...
Remember the Incredible Hulk?
Remember that?
I don't like that.
You don't want to see me when I'm mad.
And then he would break out.
There was always a sense of justice.
I think it was Spider-Man where he was at a school and they were bullying him and all of a sudden he becomes Spider-Man.
Then there was a case of...
What was the movie with Viggo Mortensen and Bellucci and Ed Harris?
It was great!
It's wonderful where he plays this fellow who moves to a small town, but he's really an old gangster, and his son gets pushed around in school, and his son just wails on him.
And we kind of like that.
We love this idea of justice.
Somebody, you know, remember My Bodyguard?
Was it My Bodyguard?
Yeah, My Bodyguard, I guess.
That's wonderful.
That's great for Hollywood.
But your kid is much better off.
Your kid's going to have, obviously, a lot of problems.
Not any problems.
He's going to have challenges with people inside.
Bosses, co-workers.
Because your kid's going to say, you've got to be careful for what you say.
If they don't like you, you can't comment.
You can't joke.
You can't mention certain things about sexuality.
You can't say things about race.
You have to go to school, to your work.
Never.
Never associate.
Never mingle.
HR is the enemy.
They are there to set you up, to hurt you.
They've got enough of the problems.
But in the meantime, let me go back to a very, very, very simple idea.
The simple idea is this.
Just tell your children that you love them, and that's it.
And say it daily.
Especially.
Because the relationship between a daughter and father, we'll talk about that another time.
Very critical.
Very, very, very critical.
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So, fathers.
Happy Father's Day today.
Very, very simple.
If your father is deceased or passed.
I love that.
He passed.
He did.
He passed.
Whatever you want to call it.
The greatest thing you can do is just remember that memory that memory is so important.
That energy.
Also look up research Google Max Planck Institute and life after death.
You'll find that interesting because they say there is such.
And fathers very simply make sure today as soon as you're done with this if your kids aren't there Text them.
Call them.
I don't care what it is.
Whatever the means is.
Or even if your kids are adults, you call them.
Tell them you love them.
You're proud of them.
That's it.
That's it.
Simple.
And you know what?
You'll feel great.
Those words mean so much.
So have a great and a glorious day.
We love you.
You are great in your own right.
In your own right.
And in your own special way.
Thank you.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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