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Aug. 4, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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American Primacy and Leadership Have Evaporated
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Good day, my friend.
Welcome to today's version of this thing of ours.
Have we a show for you.
Looking at the world a little bit differently, a little bit deliberately skewed, this is not the usual rehash and repetition of headlines.
I don't want to do this.
I'm not reading headlines.
I don't want to keep saying the usual stuff.
I want to talk about something which I think is a little bit different.
That's the whole purpose of this.
And as I always say, and we always say, and everybody says, if you like this, please, for the love of God, like this.
Subscribe.
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I promise you.
I can't say this is the best, because I don't know what the best is, but there's nobody who does it like this.
Nobody.
This I know for sure.
Nobody.
That's the purpose of this.
Now today, I'm going to give you a couple of ideas, a couple of things to think about, a couple of perspectives that I think allow you a different...
It's almost like a homily.
You know when you go to church or you go to Mass and the priest gives you the lecture, the sermon, you know, the...
Not the eulogium or eulogium, but the homily.
That's what today is.
Today we're going to talk about Brittany Griner and what the real story behind this is.
This is the American basketball star in Russia flouting apparently their laws.
What's going to happen next?
We're going to be perhaps exchanging her for Boot, a real drug runner and merchant of death, as he is called.
We'll talk about the notion of ignorance is bliss.
And it's not...
This is something that you as a sentient human being must be thinking about specifically.
I want to talk about the bigger issue regarding Alex Jones.
Not the trial per se.
I haven't followed the trial.
I don't...
I haven't.
But the bigger picture.
So they had a juxtaposition between Maxine Waters...
And Alex Jones.
Maxine Waters and Alex Jones and Nancy Pelosi.
The notion of incitement.
The notion of being able to say stupid and horrible and terrible things and being stopped because it hurts other people.
And I'll explain the situations legally, the legal ramifications of that and the like.
Also, TikTok.
Tourette's Syndrome, movement disorders, brought about by people, or brought about apparently by the internet or these particular devices, and the like.
And also, something that I wanted to say about radio.
Oh, I just thought, Batgirl.
Did you see how they just canned?
He just said, forget it.
Why that's important.
And then a little bit about radio and why radio is still important and how I listened to some young folks starting their radio career.
And it was so wonderful and I want to share this with you.
And I haven't said anything and nobody's asked me my advice.
There's a great Jimmy Cannon used to say, nobody asked me but.
But there's a lot to be said for what they can do regarding this incredible medium that we have.
Called talk.
That's what this is.
It's not talk radio.
It's not radio per se.
But that's the notion of what it is.
And by virtue of the fact that I am talking to you and I'm looking at you, it changes the direction and the momentum and the feel drastically.
I'm not sitting at a desk talking into a mic doing a podcast.
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For me, I love the idea, but they bore me to no way.
I mean, my boredom level is the secret to my success.
I get bored.
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Now, number one.
Brittany Griner.
Who remembers when Midnight Express came out?
Remember that?
Billy, whatever his name is, Brad, What's his name who died?
Remember that?
When he went to a different country, and he was trying to smuggle out hashish, and the guard, remember the guard, this big guard, this vile, big, fat guard?
Remember the girlfriend scene?
Remember the girlfriend scene when she came to see him?
Didn't that scare the hell out of you?
And if you were a professional basketball player and you were going to Russia, Russia, Russia with Big Bad Vlad and these horrible Russians that we're told about.
Russians.
And you're packing your stuff.
I got my...
I got my deodorant.
Oh!
And I got my hashish vape cartridges.
I was looking this up right now and it says...
This is very interesting.
Apparently she had vape cartridges or something to that effect.
Some...
Well, let me see what she has here.
She had...
Hang on.
Brittany...
Let's get this.
Brittany Greiner.
Exam of substance in vape cartridges.
This is from CNN.
They're saying that this somehow violated something.
Now, I just want to tell you something, and I think we all know this.
First, I think with all that is going on in the world today, vape cartridges should be nothing that would deny somebody of their liberty.
But that's here.
Why do people go to other countries and expect some type of leniency because of what?
Because you have a lot of tattoos, some LGBT woke kind of a thing.
Do people live in worlds?
Do people...
Yeah, they said in the hearing, Russian custom officials said Griner was found with two vape cartridges in her baggage at the airport a week before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Okay.
Now, do you get the impression sometimes some people might have thought to themselves, is there anything I can bring?
Can I bring this over?
Can I bring this?
Is marijuana, is hashish cartridges, is that against the law?
Should I know anything about this?
You know, normally when you go to...
Any country to say, don't buy...
I remember I had a friend years ago went to France and came back with all this great food.
Sausages, saucisson and all that.
Threw them right out.
Can't bring it in.
Really?
Yep.
Really?
Yep.
That's just...
And that's not even illegal.
But they knew this.
They knew.
Make sure you don't...
Don't bring any cheese back.
We don't want that cheese.
Don't bring that cheese back.
Alright.
And make sure...
And people always say, remember the old days?
How much...
Make sure you have...
You can't bring shampoo that's...
Remember that years ago?
It's got to be a certain size.
Remember that?
Make sure you have your...
Your bag can be looked at by...
Do you ever come back and your bag has been opened and there's a...
There's a Homeland Security kind of a...
Whatever.
One of those federalized skycaps went through it.
Who in their right mind goes to another country and says, I'm not even going to check this.
And then, and then, when their cod says, well, this is, it's like, do you think, well, don't you understand?
I'm woke.
I'm whatever.
I've got tattoos.
Hello.
I come from a country where the left, where we don't have rules.
We can tear down stores, break windows, go into...
I can take you to places right now where people are just shooting up drugs on the street.
You can urinate on the street.
Go to Portland.
They're squatting.
You can go into stores.
Go to a Sephora.
Go to a CVS.
Just take off...
Everything off of the shelf.
Put it in a bag.
They don't even stop you.
You can shoot a person in the face at McDonald's for having given you cold french fries.
I don't understand this.
I'm Brittany Griner.
Hello?
Hello?
We don't need your stinking rules.
You can't tell me what to do.
I'm Brittany Griner.
Hello!
*sniff*
What are you, nuts?
And now they're saying, okay, we're going to work in exchange with this guy Boot, the merchant of death?
Now wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Hold it.
Excuse me.
Time out.
You people hate woke people.
You hate guns.
You hate a little Bushmaster, some AR-15, which you think is an assault weapon?
And you're going to make a deal with Boot?
Are you nuts to get back who, Vape Girl?
This is Victor Boot?
Do you have any idea?
And you know what they're saying?
Of course.
Why?
She's LGBT.
She's got tattoos.
What are you talking about?
Non-binary.
No, no.
Excuse me.
I thought you hated killing.
Well, we hate...
Well, yeah.
Certain kind of guns, but not...
This is an arms dealer.
He's the worst.
Yeah, but, you know, she is woke and she's...
And when they bring her back, Booth's going to be saying, Okay, guess what?
Victor, you're going to go back to...
Really?
Yeah.
Who are they exchanging me for?
Somebody big?
Another gun runner?
War criminal?
Must be somebody big for me.
My God!
Who did Russia catch?
A WNBA, a basketball player who had two vape cartridges.
What?
That's what you're exchanging me for?
I'm glad to be back, but that's it?
Yeah.
They are so woke, crazy, these people.
But I'm a killer.
I know.
But I thought they hated guns.
I know.
But their whole thing is about guns and there's nothing in the Second Amendment.
You know how many AK-47s?
How many revolutions?
How many deaths I've made?
Me?
I should be there.
And you know, Mrs. Allen and I were talking about, they're going to be parading her through the White House.
Has Biden had a State of the Union or anything?
Do we have those anymore?
Because you know she's going to be up there with Jill Biden.
She's going to be the hero or the heroine, which she might as well have brought in.
This is the most incredible thing.
The hypocrites.
Now, of course, they don't care about hypocrisy, but they're going to make her out to be the biggest star, the biggest, oh my God.
And what do you want to come back in this country for?
But you hate America, don't you?
Isn't that what LeBron James said?
Didn't he say something about, you sure you want to come back here?
Not going to spend a lot of time on this subject, but the hypocrisy is without peer.
Next, I'm going to talk about something which is very, very serious.
And first, let me tell you, I do not know, I don't want to tell you this, I do not know the basis of the Alex Jones libels laws or offenses.
I did not read the complaint.
I know it was about his denial of Sandy Hook.
It's about the particular pain and threats that were directed to her family members.
And I do not understand what type of, and I don't like for people to second guess lawyers, but I don't know what kind of legal advice he's getting, the way you act, the way you comport yourself.
Let me give you an example.
The other day, there was a case here of a neurologist who was raping, alleged to have raped, he was convicted, sexually abusive.
How many women?
Like 20?
Who knows?
This guy was the worst.
And he went from one hospital to the next.
He got him addicted to drugs and then he would have his way with that.
Oh my God, it was horrible.
And then they kept excusing him.
Anyway, this guy, they were going to...
Alvin Bragg was even bragging, no pun intended.
We got him.
When I saw this fellow, I could not believe what I was...
He looked like...
He looked like the lawyer.
He had a suit on.
He's very quiet.
He had a little file folder.
sat down.
He...
I don't know what you...
I don't know what you want to call it.
I don't know what...
It was...
Any juror must have been looking at him like, you've got to be kidding me.
This guy looks like...
He couldn't have done that.
And that's what you do.
So when you go to a trial, wear a tie, wear a suit.
Look like you respect the court.
Look like you respect the people.
Look like the nicest guy, the most misunderstood.
Look as though you're on trial for your life, certainly your financial life.
Don't lie or capitulate, but don't make speeches.
Don't stand outside.
Don't insult the judge.
Don't say anything.
Go in.
Wear a suit.
Be quiet.
Learn how to look.
Don't shake your head during the testimony.
Don't do any of that because the jurors watch you because they want to hate you.
And do everything in your power to make them not hate you.
Do everything in your power to make them say, well, you know, maybe the guy, maybe he's a point.
And also argue.
The facts of the case and not other things.
That notwithstanding, here's the issue that you should consider over and above Alex Jones.
Number one, be very careful about anybody who tells you that you cannot dispute a fact.
Now, irrespective of what the particular fact The fact is that you are disputing.
Irrespective of that, every day, I and people on both sides of the aisle across the world are disputing something that somebody else is making.
An allegation of fact, an allegation of occurrence, an allegation of policy.
A misrepresentation of history.
An event.
Always.
That's all we do.
Period.
You follow me?
That is what we do.
And believe me, they did it to Trump.
Trump is this.
Trump didn't do that.
Trump didn't say this.
Trump spit.
Trump's family.
J6 didn't do this.
It didn't do this.
It was an insurrection.
It wasn't this.
Ashley Babbitt, we don't want to talk about her.
She shot.
No, she didn't.
There's nothing but back and forth.
This saying, this didn't happen.
This didn't happen.
I promise you.
I promise you.
Do you think anybody, do you think the Ashley Babbitt family received any phone calls, was bothered by anybody?
Do you think anybody anywhere said, there's no Ashley Babbitt?
There is no Ashley Babbitt, which is absurd.
There was no death.
She didn't, well, it was right there caught on camera.
This is a thing which you've got to be very, very, very, very careful about.
I do not understand this.
I do not understand how people are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And also, what is the most important also to recognize is that when you see somebody, Like Maxine Waters.
Say, I want you to go out.
If you're in some restaurant or gas station and you see some Trump supporter, you let them know what you think.
You let them know.
When people say, they're going over to Brett Kavanaugh's house and, well...
What are you going to do?
I don't know what to tell you.
I don't know what to tell you.
This is done all the time.
There are people that say, excuse me, there is a law that says you cannot, it is against the law, to go to picket, to go to the home, whatever, of a judge, of a Supreme Court judge in particular, and, well, what are you going to do?
Now, all I want is very simply this.
I want there to be an application of the facts of the case to everyone.
I want one set of rules.
If you can't say this, you can't say this.
If, if, if...
Don...
Donald Trump Jr. was arrested in Moscow for having hash vape cartridges.
The left would want him killed!
I don't understand this.
The double standard here.
I know I'm naive.
I know I'm naive.
I'm naive about this stuff.
But more importantly, somebody somewhere, if you say, for example, there were people who were saying, I don't think this Zawahiri, I don't think he's dead.
I think he died before.
Why?
Because the Sun and other newspapers said he died of asthma or died of respiratory infection.
He wasn't killed in this.
This is what some people say.
This is their right.
This is their opinion.
Their opinion.
You think the Zawahiri family is going to sue you and say, do you know the cause, the pain you've caused us?
Wait a minute.
What?
He's a public figure.
This was a public event.
Doesn't matter.
There are people who've questioned everything from Kennedy to name it.
Name it.
There are people who still used to say that Elvis wasn't dead.
Remember that?
Elvis is alive.
The Elvis Presley family is going to sue you and say, do you know what you're doing?
You're saying he's not.
I was there.
And please, for the life of me, this is what I do not understand.
How is it that anybody, anywhere, can possibly be questioning the existence of mass murder?
All you've got to do is say, let me show you the crime scene.
Come here.
Alex, or whoever it is, let me show you this.
Not for public consumption, but come here.
I want to show you.
You know, like those...
What are those...
Not...
Whatever those rumors are called.
Not scat rooms.
Those...
Whatever.
Here's a crime scene.
What are you talking about?
Look!
What are we...
I fixed this in a heartbeat.
Bring him over here.
What did he say?
He said, there's no what?
Come here.
Come here.
I'm going to show you this.
You ever see a crime scene?
Well, look at this.
You ever see kids killed?
Here, look.
What do you think about this?
I don't even know what we're talking about.
I don't even know where this...
But that's another issue.
That's for other people to decide.
What I am telling you is that we have this disinterest in opinion and expression.
We have fact checkers, thought police, people going back and saying, well, you look this up and I'm sorry, but whenever...
You say this, this is a conspiracy theory.
And by the way, is it possible for anybody, anywhere, to say Alex Jones, broadcaster, entertainer?
No, he's a conspiracy theorist.
That's all he does.
*Rain*
You know, I can't, you can't, man, you can't force that.
You can't make me...
I understand.
I understand what happens.
People will always use the word.
Remember when they said, Anthony Weiner, disgraced, ex-congress meant disgraced.
You have to put disgraced.
Remember the word strongman?
Panamanian strongman, Manuel Narayaga.
Ugandan strongman, Idi Amin Dada.
Remember that Dada?
Strongman.
What's a strongman?
I don't know, but everybody puts it, so we'll put it.
Disgraced.
Disgraced strongman.
This is where we are right now.
This is what's happening.
This is where we are.
And Americans are like this.
I don't like that guy.
I don't like that guy.
Now there's false and then there's incitement.
And that's a very interesting thing.
To say one thing that's false and misinformation and what I always say is hashtag so what?
I don't need you to have a Snopes person or a Politifact come along and verify something.
I'll do that.
Oh, no, no, no.
We have to always put...
Why don't you let the public decide?
No, no, no.
The public can't decide.
We'll decide for you.
No, you're saying that that is an unproven...
There was a story one time There was a story about solar, no, about, yeah, solar dimming.
And it was Bill Gates and Harvard University were reviewing geoengineering, solar radiation management, carbon dioxide removal, geoengineering.
That's the article.
That's the article.
This is what they call it.
Geoengineering.
Don't look up chemtrails.
Chemtrails is that, that's the, you know, the...
Conspiracy theory term.
Look up geoengineering.
That's what it's called.
And in the article called geoengineering, somebody put, well, contrails, there was this obligatory thing.
No, we're not talking about contrails.
We're talking about, he's saying this.
Geoengineering, deliberate spring, stratospheric spring.
No, he's saying that.
I'm not saying he.
Sorry, there's contrails.
No!
Bill Gates does not want contrails.
They didn't even know because in the algorithm there was no way to even correct for that which is happening.
And we're doing this under more and more cases.
And it's selective at best.
I'm going to say it again.
If Brittany Griner or anybody else they would say that's the law and you're going to actually you're going to bring boot?
Okay.
Enough with that.
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True story.
I tell you this and I'm not so sure whether you believe me, but it's a true story.
I have a friend.
And I was wondering one time, if I could have a TV show to have people sit and then say to themselves, you ask them a question, and when they say, I don't know that, I don't know anything about that, you have to determine, are they telling the truth?
Assume there was some kind of a lie detector.
I have a friend.
So help me God, we'll say on a regular basis, what was that?
Pick the subject.
Pick anything from the news.
Anything that you would think, well, they've got to know this.
Recent history, past history, which is redundant I guess.
Social stuff, popular culture.
I don't know what...
He's a great, great person.
Heart of gold.
And this person, I've got to be very careful, is so happy and so kind and so unencumbered by extraneous, I don't know, facts.
Problems that would normally clutter the mind.
Here's my question.
Do you think it's better sometimes to just not care?
Dead serious.
Do you think it's better sometimes not to care?
To just not...
I don't know.
Not care.
Not be concerned.
Not be bothered.
I heard.
Bothered by this stuff that just doesn't seem to make any difference.
Do you think it's yes or no?
Yes is one.
Somebody who says, I didn't know that.
I didn't know that.
I don't know about that.
Do you know what's happening in Portland?
No.
Are you aware of this?
No.
COVID?
You know about COVID, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know this Britney Greiner?
No.
You know about Taiwan?
Xi Jinping?
You're not familiar about the threats?
You know Nancy Pelosi?
Who?
Nancy Pelosi?
You think I'm kidding?
You think I'm kidding?
There's no way.
Nancy Pelosi?
I don't know.
But, if you want to watch something that's popular on TV, or greatest person, sweet, friendly, absolutely glorious in terms of not,
doesn't have a mean streak in their body, but I am wondering, Maybe they're right.
I'm serious about this.
I have to know news.
I have to know news.
If I went, I don't remember the last time we had a holiday, but there's no way I would be not looking at online to see what was going on.
I want to know.
It's my entertainment.
It's my sports page.
It's what's going on.
A friend of mine, Sent me a picture.
And by the way, time out.
Have you ever...
Remember?
Maybe you don't.
But when we were younger, in my generation, there was this kind of a...
It was a...
I guess you'd call it a routine where you would go next door and you would see the neighbor's trip.
They would have that carousel.
Remember the slideshow?
Here we are.
It's like a Jackie Vernon.
Here we are in the Parthenon.
Here we are and here's the Arc de Triomphe.
Here we are in, you know, Vladivostok.
And you think to yourself, these are the most boring pictures.
I don't care.
Yes, I've seen the Eiffel Tower.
Thank you.
Yes, yes, that's it.
That's it, alright.
Yep.
And you were there.
That's great.
Can we go now?
No.
We're not done yet.
And remember, they would bring this carousel of these slides.
It would look like a...
I got a slide here from Stevie Ray Vaughan on the west side.
Somebody sent me years ago.
But now we have Facebook.
Have you ever looked at Facebook pictures and think, Oh my God.
Oh my God.
This is just horrible.
Have you ever...
I just...
What are you doing?
Well, here we are.
Here we are, the chanson de vidon.
Great.
What is that?
I don't know.
We're having wine.
Really?
Wine?
How about that?
They have wine there?
I see.
Here we are, we're having a croissant.
Oh, wow.
Really?
Gee.
I'll bet you that croissant is so different.
Than anything I can get at a French pastry, at a bouchon, boucherie, pastisserie.
Dear God!
Have you ever just wondered, what are you doing?
So a friend of mine sent me something.
It was great.
I guess it was from, I think it was Croatia, and there was a sign that said something about chemtrails or something.
But he takes this picture, and I guess he's on vacation.
I said, you better fire that travel agent.
What is this?
What are you going there for?
Don't you want to go someplace where they say, listen, you're not going to believe this.
I'm going to take you to this place in Iceland.
Why?
There's no gravity there.
I'll go.
I'm going to take you to this place in Reykjavik.
Why?
Well, because God is there, or angels, or there's a real UFO crash.
Now, that's something I could go to.
But where do I want to go?
Well, here we are.
There's a mountain.
There's a mountain.
Wow.
There's a lake.
A lake.
That's just terrific.
Thank you.
I don't understand it.
And I don't understand why people are always trying to brag to me.
But, well, here we are.
What are you doing?
I don't know.
I'm hanging with my girls.
Who?
They're my girls.
They're your girls?
How old are you?
48 years old?
You're a mom?
Yeah, but me and the girls, we're at a Bon Jovi concert.
I don't know that.
Really?
You went to a concert?
Yeah.
You did?
And what, did you buy a ticket?
And you actually went in and there was a concert?
Thank you.
Thank you for putting through.
I wouldn't know.
Why?
Why do people have to show me or anybody that they went to a Concert.
Honey, do you know why people do this?
Why?
I don't.
I'm dead serious.
Anyway, I'm wasting my time.
It's not about Facebook.
It's about the fact that I cannot live unless I document what I'm saying.
This event did not occur.
Which brings me to the next case.
It's an addiction.
I swear to God.
Oh, I've got so many friends.
Here I am with my girls.
Here I am with my girls, hanging out.
You know, moms, what are you doing?
Or they put the...
This is my favorite of them all.
They put this together.
Friends of mine in the business, they think, let me tell you this, they think that being on TV is glamorous.
Here I am getting my makeup done because I'm a star.
Here I am in the makeup.
I'm in the set.
Here I am on the set.
Here's my script.
Did you see my script?
Here's my boy.
Your boy?
Is he like your girls?
No, my girls over there.
This is my boy.
We're doing our thing.
We're dancing and they've got...
Forget the kids.
Mrs. L said, why didn't they talk about the kids?
Because nobody...
Okay, here's one for you.
They're now having TikTok Tourette's since COVID.
Movement disorders.
Now seen more in women.
Used to be a boy.
It's Tourette's brought on by phones.
I'm going to say this again.
The devices are anything but...
The devices are anything but...
benign.
They're not benign.
They're worse than benign.
There are kids who are affected.
I know of a teacher, and her teachers are, they're in class, in a study, what am I trying to say?
Lectures and the like.
Kids don't handle that.
Here we go.
When you were a kid, and I'm saying this again, you've heard me before.
When you're a kid, you have a ball.
I know this sounds crazy.
The kid's going, oh, shape.
Hmm.
Round.
Round.
Not round.
Heart shape.
No, literally.
Round.
Weight.
Round.
Spherical.
Throw it.
Here, throw the ball.
Throw the ball.
What?
Throw it.
No, no.
Throw it at me.
Catch it.
Catch it.
Follow it.
Put your hands out.
Catch it.
Hey, I caught it.
You ever see these kids that throw the ball and they just go like that?
No, catch it.
And you're saying these things that you did it and you don't realize how important you did this.
Here, let's go and roll.
Do you ever roll the ball?
Here, let's roll the ball.
Let's go on the floor and roll the ball.
Roll?
Yeah, let's roll the ball.
That's pretty good.
See how it rolls?
See, this shape thing, this doesn't roll.
Because it's not round.
Let's throw it.
You got it?
Hey, you got it?
You know where it is?
Parietal lobe.
You know where placement is?
You're here.
The ball's here.
And it's coming.
Distance.
Distance.
Tracking.
Follow it.
See it?
Peek-a-boo.
Remember that stuff?
Peek-a-boo.
Peek-a-boo is object permanence.
Peek-a-boo is a lot of Piaget.
This is everything.
Okay.
Today, kids, because they never had a ball, they can't hold a pen.
I know a teacher who sent me a picture of how a kid was holding a pen.
It looked like every finger in her hand was broken.
Holding this thing like a dagger.
Never had a pen.
Never.
Never done.
Now, here's the best part.
Because devices throw things at you, They didn't put us in front of a TV set.
It was maybe too far away.
But now they give us this thing and it's they can't track.
They can't track.
They can't read.
They can't read like this.
Here's the word.
Read this word.
Reading is the most unnatural thing that we do, believe it or not.
Read this.
A lot of times you recognize.
You're not sounding it out.
You recognize it.
But you're following it.
Sometimes you get so good you get ahead of the word.
Sometimes you anticipate.
Sometimes you're in a speed.
Mrs. L is a speed reader.
You can't believe how fast she reads.
And it's this thing that is tracking.
But they can't do it.
So they sit there and they look at a word and go, what is this?
It's not moving.
No, no.
You move.
I move?
Yes, you have to take this blank page and follow it.
But it's not doing anything.
It's not moving.
There's no colors.
Yes, I recognize that.
I'm not exaggerating.
This is where we are right now.
And people think it's so great because parents, and I can't blame them, finally we go out to eat here, play this damn thing, just sit there.
How many times have you been somewhere, maybe somebody brings a kid with you, and you're glad because the kids are paying the ass.
Kids are weird.
You love them if they're yours, but other kids, what am I doing?
Here, play with the phone.
And he sits here.
And you see it everywhere.
And it's not...
I'm not just pointing things out.
I'm not just saying things like...
I like the first thing I said about travel photos.
Okay, fine.
They're adults.
These are kids.
And now we're having Tourette's.
This is...
James says, do they have spelling bees anymore?
Mrs. L and I are constantly asking, how do you say this?
Can you spell it like this?
Is it a neologist?
How do you say this?
The other day I was reviewing the various terms of awake, woke, awakened, waked, W-A-K-E-D is okay.
There's a show on TV, and I cannot watch it anymore.
I used to, I just can't.
It's called The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
It was the worst guilty pleasure, but it finally, I don't care anymore.
And there's a character named Teresa Giudice, born in New Jersey.
And they can't see.
So, I told him he had to went to the store, you know, go and go.
Went.
I mean, just, just, no tenses.
I'm constantly reviewing.
Does the period go inside the quotes if the quote is within the sentence?
Does the semicolon go outside the sentence?
When is a dash appropriate?
I'm a dinosaur.
I'm a dinosaur.
I want to know how things are spelled.
How do you do these things?
How does this...
And to read something.
And nobody, but nobody.
And I think I'm putting the education, the teachers, the teachers' unions.
People say, oh, don't know.
There's a lot of good teachers out there.
Okay.
I'm sure there are.
I'm sure there are good teachers.
But there's a lot of lazy sleuths out there who just want to do their time, get their pension, and retire.
And that's it.
And maybe I can't blame them because they figure, what am I going to be going crazy over?
Same thing with the medical profession.
These are the most worthless people.
They don't say anything.
When was the last time your doctor said, no, wait a minute, hold it.
I don't care what the CDC said.
What are you talking...
This is nuts!
I'm not going to tell my patients...
Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
No!
You've heard of monkeypox?
Yeah.
There's something even worse.
What's it called?
Wallycox.
Wallycox.
The actor, Mr. Peepers, Wallycox.
Wallycox?
Yes.
And there's a vaccine.
For Wallycox?
Yes.
Didn't you get the CDC circular?
Oh, yes.
Okay!
Wally Cox.
I just made that up.
Oh, okay.
What are these people?
I know, we have the best medical care.
Really?
I can't tell you.
Let me ask you a question.
How many times have you had a case where you went to the doctor, it was a loved one, and somebody said, well, that's okay, that's probably just, eh, don't worry.
And it was cancer.
You know how many people we lost?
I know one in particular whose cancer took off during COVID.
Remember that?
Let me ask you this.
Why do doctors, OBGYNs, will say, you don't need a mammogram all the time.
Why not?
Ah, you don't need that.
Once every...
What?
How is less vigilance helpful?
How does this work?
I'm not an expert.
How is less vigilant?
You don't need that.
You don't need that.
Nah.
And men, how about this?
PSAs?
Eh, don't worry about it.
Really?
Don't worry about it.
Look, I'm not a physician.
I'm not going to prepare to be a physician.
I want to tell you the next story.
Did you read about Batgirl?
This was so great.
Now, Batgirl was a movie, what was it, honey, 90 million?
Who was it?
Who was it?
Was it Warner?
Yes.
Discovery Warner.
They were underway.
It was Brendan Fraser, who I would hope be of a...
Come back, you know, because he's, you know, Michael Keaton.
Huh?
He's a mess, but I want to see the guy.
Anyway, he just canceled it.
He said, that's it.
Forget it.
But we're, nah, don't even bother.
We'll eat it.
They're taking a $90 million write-off, and they're saying, well, that's it.
I'm doing TV shows.
And the reason for this, and listen to me carefully.
Listen to me.
Listen like you've never listened before.
It's dead.
People.
Young people.
Movies.
Big budget.
China, who owns this, says, we don't want this.
Give us a name person.
Give us a blockbuster.
The hell with this.
Indie films?
Come on.
We're tired of that.
We're done with that.
Not only that, we have a group of people who are just not interested in this.
But I've got to tell you something, which is something that only means something to me, and I understand if you don't, you may not get this, which is fine.
I ran into a couple of young people the other day who were interested in radio, and my heart leapt.
My heart leapt.
I said, really?
Radio?
Spoken word?
Not podcasting.
You want to do radio?
Terrestrial radio, right?
Radio.
Radio.
And of course, he kind of asked for advice, which I don't give.
But I wanted to tell them this.
I said, if it is possible for you to do something, if it is at all possible, I ask you this favor.
Please, listen to no one.
Be yourself.
Don't worry if you are the only one who sounds like you do.
Even better.
Eschew, reject everything that looks like usual business.
The desk.
The set.
Especially podcasts with video.
Have you ever seen a set where they got these stupid...
It looks like they went to Pier 1 before they closed.
They go, oh look, here's a little globe.
Here's a wooden...
What is this?
It's my stuff.
Here are my three books.
You got your three books.
It's my set.
Here's my set.
Here's the table.
Here's the pot.
Here's my wood paneling.
What are you doing?
It's my set.
Why are you doing...
What are you, John Cameron Swayze?
What would you want to do?
I don't know.
I have no original idea.
I want to look like everybody else does.
I want to start off with this.
I want to have that.
Well, I said, whatever you do, whatever you do, do it your way.
I said, let me give you an example.
Let me give you an example.
I said, you know why one of the reasons why Joe Rogan, for example, And Alex, when Alex years ago, when Alex was Alex, I don't know what happened, but anyway, you know what he does?
First and foremost, he does what he wants to do, and he is who he is.
They might move, they might have a different set or whatever it is, but basically he just kind of does it his way.
And there is something which I am trying, and I can't explain this to people, you either understand it or you don't, It's called Authentic.
Al Sharpe used to say, keeping it real.
Oh.
uh uh Dave Chappelle did it on the old Chappelle show, a thing called Keeping It Real.
Al Sharpton's radio show was called Keeping It Real.
I don't even know what that means.
But anyway.
But Al Sharpton would keep it real.
He would keep it real.
Real what?
I don't know, but he kept it real.
So anyway.
As he was keeping it real, Al, there was this thing that connected where you thought, I'm buying this.
I'm interested.
I'm...
I don't know what it is.
It's like, you know, sometimes you're driving and why is everybody slowing down?
They're looking at something.
What is it?
I don't know.
That's what it is.
If there is a future...
And there always will be.
But if there is a future for spoken word, news, whatever, whatever, whatever it is, the first thing people have to do is to do it in a way where they act like they've never seen anybody ever do it again, and they actually want to speak and act and do something the way they want to.
I heard the other day...
A brand new radio show.
A couple of young people talking.
I thought it was the best radio.
One guy said, I like to dip an Oreo into coffee.
And he described what to anybody else would say, this is the most stupid thing.
No!
It was so authentically real.
Remember years ago when When public access started, oh my god, public access!
Remember that?
Remember Robin Bird?
That was way back.
But public access, it was the greatest!
Because people just said, I don't know, I'm just doing my...
It was beautiful.
It was real, authentic.
That's all I wanted to say.
That's all I wanted to say.
So that's it.
We talked about Brittany Griner, ignorance, First Amendment, that thing is done.
TikTok, Tourette's, radio, and Batgirl.
And there you have it.
And you're also going to see a complete and total end to everything that we think, everything that you have seen.
How long is Broadway going to last?
Well, we're going to push it, but it's insane, you know, Oh no.
Kinky Boots that were doing it out of town.
They're taking it on the road.
And they're incorporating kids.
Look, leave kids out of this.
Leave kids out of this.
If you want to do something with your kids, here's what you do.
I want you to go.
I got this dollar tree.
I want you to get your kid a ball.
And I want you to say, let's go outside and let's play.
Let's throw a Frisbee.
Did you ever do that?
is great yes Yes.
Buy old books.
Yes, yes, yes.
And you teach your kid how to open the book and turn the page and look and this is the word and do flashcards and bribe them and give them material, whatever it is.
You can fix this.
I'm telling you, you can fix this.
Enough.
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Oh, the likes are pathetic.
311 likes?
Terrible.
What are you going to do?
Alright, see you tomorrow.
Same bad time, same bad channel.
9 a.m. Eastern.
The monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya!
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