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Aug. 26, 2022 - Lionel Nation

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America Celebrates Lionel's Birthday

A gratuitous and self-serving celebration of the birth anniversary of your humble host and resident analyst.

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	Not a lot of production.
	Not a lot of music.
	No pithy intro songs.
	None of that stuff.
	We're just going to get right down to business.
	Specifically what we're talking about today.
	We're getting down to business today.
	First, let me tell you, without further ado, that I am so pleased, pleased to be celebrating my birthday.
	We had a relative in our family who said birthday, 8th grade.
	For reasons I shan't ever know, but apparently it is a means of pronunciation in certain regional areas of the United States, as well as Cockney, England.
	Sometimes they use the same things for reasons I shan't understand.
	Anyway, welcome, welcome, welcome everyone to this day, this celebration of life.
	This celebration of everything that we are doing.
	I'm so glad you were here.
	I've got a lot to talk about in addition to moi.
	I don't want this to be all about moi.
	That's French, by the way, for me, I believe.
	I detest people who...
	They used to have these things called birthday weeks.
	I never understood this.
	Birthday weeks.
	They have these entire...
	It's the strangest thing.
	They spend all of their...
	Like an entire month over a birthday.
	And I thought, okay, this is kind of it.
	I like to milk it a little bit.
	Not too, too much.
	A little bit's fine.
	But...
	I thank you for your being here.
	Thank you for your support.
	Thank you for listening.
	Thank you for taking time out of your day.
	It's very, very important.
	I don't want you to ever think I take that for granted.
	That I just think you're going to listen.
	Because there's a lot that there's available for you to listen to.
	And a lot which you can be paying attention to.
	And I thank you for that.
	And I'm sure there's a lot of places you can be.
	But I've got to tell you something.
	And this is the most important.
	I don't even know why we listen to half of the stuff we listen to.
	And I'm not talking about people on the internet.
	I'm talking about people just in general.
	Just in general.
	I don't know why people listen to most of the people in the first place that we even talk to.
	But I thank you for this.
	You know, birthdays have always been a very, very strange thing.
	I think they're great when you're a kid.
	I think they're wonderful.
	I love the idea of age.
	I'm 64 today.
	I love saying that.
	I love it.
	It means a lot.
	I love that.
	I've never understood this thing about, well, you know, I guess I'm waiting for some portion of my life when I'm not able to think.
	I'm saying, oh my God, I'm older.
	Or this is a...
	I think it's great.
	I wouldn't go back to anything I've ever wanted in the past or ever lived through.
	Whatever that means in English.
	Never.
	I didn't know anything then.
	I didn't know anything then.
	I didn't know...
	I didn't even appreciate things.
	I didn't know how to parse things.
	I didn't know gradations.
	I didn't understand.
	And it's not because of any kind of an age thing or wisdom.
	I think it's just...
	I don't know.
	It's just the more you do something, the more you get good at it.
	That's all.
	That's all it is.
	There's really nothing to this.
	I don't think it's anything about wisdom.
	I don't think any of this stuff.
	I don't think it's that old.
	I don't think it's a big deal.
	Look at Mick Jagger, for God's sakes.
	This guy is going strong, and I think it's great.
	One of the most fun I've ever had in my life...
	As a young man, it was on my 12th birthday.
	I think I'm going to share that with you right now.
	And it is something...
	I think it is something that is...
	Have you ever sent the wrong text to someone?
	And you think, how do we say this?
	How do we say this?
	Just a second.
	Have you ever sent the wrong, just the wrong text to somebody and you go, what is this?
	Oops, sorry about that.
	I love this.
	Sometimes you say, you know, I kind of like that idea.
	Or I like, I'm a big dictator.
	And I dictate.
	And sometimes when I dictate something, the phone will, or Siri or whatever the particular process is, will hear me differently.
	I think it's a perfect analog to ADD or ADHD or dyslexia because it hears something different than what I've said.
	It kind of sounds like it, but not really.
	And then I think to myself, you know what?
	I like this one even better.
	Sometimes I'll see an interesting pun.
	Sometimes it'll hear me say something and it won't recognize a homonym.
	It'll think 2, T-O, T-O-O, T-W-O, 2 from Vietnam, whatever.
	So I just send somebody something, it doesn't even matter, and what are you going to do?
	Okay.
	A couple of things.
	First of all, we are in our second year of demonetization.
	I thank you so much for your support.
	I thank you.
	For days like this, of being incredibly wonderful in honoring me with just your listening.
	Just your listening.
	Just your being here.
	The fact that you spend time out of your day, your busy day, is such an honor where you would listen to me and say, okay.
	You don't have to agree with everything.
	I'm not even sure what that means to agree, but I thank you.
	Your support has been wonderful.
	Your love, your...
	It's been terrific.
	It's a very wonderful thing, this thing that we do here.
	It's a very wonderful thing.
	This internet streaming, it's wonderful.
	And invariably, I will tell you that we don't spend enough time really understanding And parsing.
	I want you to spend more time thinking about this.
	I was explaining this to a friend of mine.
	He has a business, and I'm trying to explain to him that it might be a good idea for him to perhaps utilize various aspects of social media and streaming and the like to promote his business.
	And we turned on the TV.
	I said, let me show you something.
	I said, let's just turn on your TV.
	I said, now what do you see here?
	You've got a person talking to you.
	Do you have any interaction in this?
	No, nothing.
	All you do is watch.
	The only interaction you're doing is just merely watching it.
	You're not changing the channel.
	That's it.
	That's all you're doing.
	You're not changing the channel.
	That's all that's happening.
	So I want to explain to you, I've got a lot to talk about.
	I've got to talk to you about being a man.
	Johnny Agnelli, Mark Zuckerberg, depression.
	Maria Shriver's face.
	People who think eating meat is somehow indicative of something.
	I don't know why.
	I have a lot, a lot to talk about.
	And I'm going to share this on my birthday.
	But first I want to tell you that, again, this is the second year of our demonetization.
	You've asked how to support, how to thank, how to gift me with your support, especially today as America celebrates the birth of me.
	Macaulay Culkin, Ben Bradley, Mother Teresa.
	A lot of great, noble people born on today's date.
	You can go through.
	What does it mean?
	I have no idea.
	Me and Macaulay Culkin, what do I have in common with them?
	Nothing.
	Mother Teresa?
	Please, stop it.
	Stop it!
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	From Patreon, to PayPal, to Venmo, to Bitcoin, to Chex, to this, to Filipino Krugerrands, to Wampum, Soldi, Pecunia, Pecuniai.
	And I thank you for that.
	Absolutely.
	Absolutely.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for that.
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	I want to take you back to when I was 12 years old.
	12 years old.
	True story.
	This is one my sister shan't forget.
	And it's one of those events I always remember.
	I always think about this.
	When I see somebody doing something really stupid in your life.
	This happened to me.
	When I was 12 years old, I was preparing for my birthday party.
	It was 1970.
	And lo and behold, I was vacuuming.
	We had this kind of like a shag.
	It was a thick rug.
	We had one of these Hoover Upright vacuum painters with the nuclear beaters.
	It was incredible.
	Anyway, for some particular reason, I do not know why, my sister was looking underneath the couch for a phone book.
	Now, at the time, She was trying to grow her hair long.
	She wanted to be Cher.
	She didn't have long hair.
	Her hair just, it wasn't that kind of hair.
	It just did not lend itself to Cher hair.
	It wasn't long.
	It wasn't straight.
	It was, there was no way she was ever, and she fancied it.
	She wanted so much.
	She would have been ten at the time, and she would wear like a towel on her head.
	Or she would get a wig.
	She would go like this.
	She had her hair.
	She wanted that hair.
	That hair.
	That share hair.
	Which was probably a wig.
	In any event.
	So she, lo and behold, after years of trying, she got it right around shoulder length.
	Kind of, sort of, maybe.
	Maybe, I guess.
	Maybe here.
	So as she was looking underneath the couch for the phone book, I was going like this.
	I was going like this.
	Back and forth.
	Back and forth.
	And I looked at her hair.
	I looked at the vacuum cleaner.
	And I looked at her hair.
	And I looked at the vacuum cleaner.
	And I looked at the hair.
	And I said, huh.
	And for reasons to this day, I will never Understand.
	52 years ago, I did not understand this, I decided to run over her hair, to vacuum her hair.
	When her hair became entangled in this nuclear machine, it made a sound where the gears froze because of the hair that was entangled in this.
	It just...
	Made this high-pitched noise, and it stopped.
	And you kind of smell like the motor.
	This is when electric motors...
	We're not talking about an auric vacuum, but we're talking about this.
	Professional grade, you know.
	In fact, I forgot to tell you this.
	Our family had people in the carpet business.
	This was kind of like a professional, like a hotel.
	Sturdy, you know?
	So anyway, my sister made a face similar to Edvard Munch, you know, that whatever you call that howl or that face.
	Later on, we saw Michael Corleone in The Worst Godfather, Godfather 3. My sister was making this noise, this silent scream, this howl.
	And my mother turns around the corner and sees this.
	And to this day, I don't know if you've ever looked at death in the eye or seen death.
	Somebody who actually wants to kill you, even though you are their firstborn, they want to kill you.
	And I saw this.
	And I saw what death looked like.
	And I saw the hate, the enmity, the savage brutality.
	Minutes to go before the guests arrive, as I'm doing my last minute preparations for a day of celebration of my birth.
	You got it?
	Are you getting this?
	Are you getting what's happening?
	Okay, good.
	So we're doing this, and lo and behold, lo and behold, for reasons I shan't ever understand, I did it.
	So then we're trying to untangle my sister's hair from it, and it's up into the beaters as much as it possibly could go.
	And my mother says, well, I think we're going to have to cut it.
	My sister screamed, no!
	She's going to walk around for the rest of her life with this hoover upright.
	On her head, maybe on a platform with a wheel, you're not going to cut her hair under any circumstance.
	So we eventually pulled the hair out of the beaters, and lo and behold, there was this wave, kind of like a Clara Bow, Mary Pickford.
	Kind of from the flapper, from the 20s.
	This weird, kind of a weird roll.
	This undulating rivulet.
	It was just, it was the weirdest.
	Betty Boop.
	I'm trying to think of Veronica Lake.
	I'm trying to think of it anyway.
	So there we go.
	When the guest came, To celebrate my life, my mother opened the door and yelled at them, don't talk to him.
	Meaning me.
	And they're showing up, hi!
	And they get presents.
	And my mother looks at them with that transferred intent, that look of hate and death and destruction.
	Don't talk to him.
	When it came time, when the party went on, when it came time for my mother to sing happy birthday, imagine the most soulless The most desiccated, the most rhythmless, not even a song.
	It was almost like motorized.
	Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you.
	It was just like, let me just get these words out of my mouth.
	Anyway, my sister recovered eventually.
	She had a Bavarian accent and a bit of a limp, but a little mild brain damage.
	What are you going to do?
	Come on, it was a great story.
	After that, My other birthdays?
	I have no idea.
	When I was 30, it was the worst.
	I went on a fishing trip in the middle grounds, grouper fishing.
	It was on a garbage scowl.
	It was the worst thing.
	My 29th birthday?
	I mean, they've never been, with the exception of that, ever been really that noteworthy.
	They've always been, they come, they go, whatever it is.
	But I would rather be with you people than the finest people in the world.
	And I mean that sincerely.
	So, 64 years old today.
	64. Six-four.
	Somebody the other day said, he's not 64. Actually wrote me.
	Wrote Mrs. L. He's not 65. No, he's not.
	Huh?
	Fighting.
	Yeah, but it's weird.
	Now, I don't know about you, but I don't mind a little bit of Medicare.
	I'll take it.
	Whatever you can give me, I'll take it.
	I even love going to the stores and they say, you got a senior.
	Huh?
	I'm 64. I know, but people, this one guy writes her and says, he is not.
	People write, they argue about the damnedest thing.
	But I do like the acing.
	I like getting a, going to the store and getting a senior discount.
	I love that.
	I'll take it.
	Because if that means something to you, if you are so base, If you really are so base that that means something to you, there's no hope for you.
	There's no hope.
	Seriously.
	I mean, if you're one of those people who says, well, I can't.
	Would you prefer the alternative?
	What are you supposed to do?
	All right.
	Changing the storyline.
	I saw something today which I wanted to share with you.
	And I find this so fascinating.
	As you know, the only show to watch, the only show I even remotely watch on Fox News is Tucker Carlson because it's the best.
	Now, that's not saying a lot, but it's saying something.
	And in the morning, I'll watch a little Fox Nation app and I'll listen.
	And lo and behold, he has somebody on who is apparently a kickboxer or something.
	And he was apparently isolated, dethroned, he was exiled on a social media platform by virtue of the fact that he was extolling the virtues of being male.
	Apparently this is the idea.
	The fact that he was a male.
	And you can't say that because being a man, what is a man?
	What is a man?
	Now, I don't know where we're going with this, and what I'm about to tell you, you're not going to hear anybody on television, and certainly not there to talk about.
	But I'm going to...
	You know I'm starting an hour early, did you know that?
	I just realized.
	I'm starting an hour early.
	Did you know that?
	I just realized.
	I've got to do two hours.
	I'm wondering to myself, you know, this is kind of...
	What?
	No!
	I just realized.
	This might be the first idea, the first indicium of illucidity.
	I'm just realizing right now that I'm starting an hour early.
	And I have no idea why.
	Boy, the numbers are kind of weak here.
	I'm realizing, oh my God.
	So I apologize for that.
	But thank you.
	What are you going to do?
	But I'm going to give you the best.
	I'm going to give you a show today you're not going to believe a doubleheader.
	A doubleheader, even if it kills me, I'm going to give you a doubleheader today.
	Today we're going to do it.
	I cannot believe this.
	Isn't that something?
	Isn't that something?
	You know, this reminds me one time when I was a kid.
	I thought, I'm going to get up.
	Oh, I got up early and I said, I'm going to do my best to start the day early by God.
	I'm going to start the day early.
	I'm going to get up and I'm going to do my Get ready for school.
	And I'm going to get ready early.
	Look at that.
	It's still dark.
	I'm going to get up early.
	And I got up and I made my bed and all this stuff.
	I'm a big believer in making your bed.
	If your bed is a mess, I don't understand that.
	Anyway.
	So I get my...
	You're ready to go.
	Turn the TV on.
	It's Johnny Carson.
	There you go.
	So anyway, I thank you.
	Look at this.
	We got Pans here.
	Frime Rockefeller.
	Monica Daniels.
	Thank you so much.
	Look at this.
	Some wonderful people.
	You know, by the way, we're also now on Spotify.
	Did you know that?
	We're brand new on Spotify.
	Working through the Apple...
	This is...
	There are codes.
	Then I'm working through your IFTTPCCCR.
	I don't even know what that means.
	You run the RSS feed through this.
	We got Google Play.
	We got Spotify.
	No problem.
	That's coming up in the meantime.
	But that's terrific.
	Let me go back.
	Susanna Curatullo says, Enjoy with Mrs. L. Her beauty and wit cheer you and remind me how sweet you are.
	Oh, look at this.
	Little emojis.
	How perfect.
	Thank you so much.
	This shows no one should ask me to guess their age.
	I am always off by 10 years.
	I would have guessed 54. You know, this guess my age business.
	I don't get that.
	Let me ask you a question.
	And I want everybody here.
	To listen to me, what is the first, if you consider yourself old, what is the first indication that you are old or getting older?
	What is it?
	Have you noticed anything?
	Is there anything about you?
	See, I don't know what that is.
	I've never been one to be...
	Exceedingly physically active.
	So consequently, I'm not able to play golf anymore because I didn't play golf.
	I'm not able to run because I don't run.
	I'm not able to hike.
	So I don't know.
	I don't know.
	I'm not able to do something.
	Does that make any sense to you?
	I don't know what it is.
	So I'm going, well, okay.
	Have you noticed, I guess, when you get a little older, maybe, you know, when you go through puberty, you can say, I've noticed a few things that are changing here.
	This is interesting.
	Zits or this or that.
	I notice that sometimes hair is a fascinating thing.
	It'll just come out of places for no reason.
	Men, of course, ears.
	I have no idea why.
	Some men have them.
	Some men don't.
	I don't know what this is.
	But that's an interesting thing.
	I guess.
	You know, gray hair.
	I guess.
	Maybe.
	Certain things fall.
	Okay.
	Have you noticed this?
	What have you noticed?
	What are some of the things?
	Let's talk about your age.
	What have you noticed?
	Sometimes things will just, they just, all of a sudden you go, hey, what's this?
	Boom.
	It just drops.
	Hey!
	Just one day.
	When did this happen?
	You're going to kill yourself?
	You're going to kill yourself?
	It's called you're getting older.
	What are you supposed to do?
	I don't understand this.
	I look around and I'm seeing people who were ostensibly younger, older, whatever it is, and I don't find these people at all, even remotely.
	Interesting in the least.
	But let's see, gravity happens.
	James says, it is gravity.
	It's wonderful.
	It's gravity.
	It's great.
	But sometimes it's like things just happen.
	Let me talk to you about this.
	I was watching as I was saying, Tucker, before I realized I started early.
	And he was talking to some guy who was a kickboxer or something, and he was saying, what is a man?
	Now, I've got some news for you, and I want you to discuss this, if you don't mind.
	Would you please stop talking about what a man is?
	Nobody ever talks about what is a woman.
	You don't ever hear that.
	But for some reason, for reasons I do not understand, On YouTube and other places, all of a sudden there's these self-styled masculine experts.
	Be a man.
	Go out there and be a man.
	You want to raise your boys to be a man.
	And Tucker has somebody on who is apparently the imprimatur, the standard bearer for being a man.
	And he says, I'm a kickboxer, I'm a dirt biker, whatever it is, I've got a hot...
	Oh, that's great.
	That's real healthy.
	That's...
	Great!
	That's just terrific.
	Meat and salt, huh?
	Yep.
	Meat and salt.
	That's what I do and I'm a man.
	Alright.
	What about you?
	Well, then there's Ted Nugent.
	He's a man because he goes out there with a bow and arrow and he hunts things because he's a man.
	See?
	Do you want your son acting like Ted Nugent?
	I don't.
	I don't care if he plays the guitarist.
	He's a great guitarist.
	I play a great musician.
	It's not for the hunting.
	But nobody ever talks about being a gentleman.
	Have you noticed that?
	They never talk about that.
	They always talk about things about how to be a man.
	And boys, and I agree.
	There should be a man and a woman.
	And it's important, I think, for kids to be able to see what a father is, what a mother is.
	I don't see any problem with that at all, but I do not understand this idea of somebody coming along and saying, I'm going to be a man.
	We're going to teach these kids, and you've got to be a man, because we're going to go out there and we're going to do kettlebells, and we're going to run, and we're going to...
	Years ago, there was this thing called...
	Remember those...
	You can help me.
	What are those things called...
	Oh, God.
	It was kind of like Christian.
	It was a man.
	Remember when they went to the woods and they pounded on drums and they did some things?
	What is it?
	Huh?
	Well, S was Werner Erhard.
	That was good.
	Primal screen.
	But what do you call the ones where these men would go out into the woods with a drum?
	They would hit.
	Go back into the...
	Oh, come on, help me with this.
	Someone help me.
	And I could not understand this.
	I thought, this is the weirdest thing.
	You're going to go out with a bunch of men.
	Let me get this straight.
	In the woods.
	And you're trying to be a man by being with other men in the woods.
	Wearing a loincloth.
	Boot camp drummer camp.
	Yep, something like that.
	Now, I want you to understand something.
	And I want you to listen to me.
	And I don't want you to take this the wrong way, okay?
	But these folks do not understand a lot of things that are going on here.
	And let me see if I can explain.
	Number one.
	There are people who themselves have absolutely no idea what it is and what they are.
	They are looking...
	They are so confused, it's not even funny.
	And what they will do is they will go out of their way to say, well, let me see if I can act like this.
	It's like sometimes...
	I remember there was a guy who...
	My friend was from Ireland.
	Actually, a real Irish-Irish guy.
	Not an Irish-American, but an Irish, a real...
	Anyway.
	So, he missed having a team.
	He was in Ireland.
	He had his football club or whatever the hell it was.
	And he became a Mets fan.
	Because Sunnyside, Woodside, all the Irish, that's where they showed up.
	In Queens.
	So he became a Mets fan.
	And he got a Mets jacket.
	And he got a foam finger.
	And he got the hat.
	The jerseys at Piazza.
	Bought season tickets or whatever it was.
	And became a Mets fan.
	Wasn't really sure all of the nuances, but it was kind of like cricket.
	Well, he kind of knew.
	And that was it.
	He became a Mets fan.
	Ta-da!
	That's it.
	Okay.
	Sometimes people are having a hard time in their own idea of what their gender is.
	They don't know.
	There are also some people, frankly, more than you would imagine, I think, who seek a form of homoerotic, uh, uh, Sustenance.
	And they don't want to admit it.
	They would become very upset if you told them that.
	But what do they do?
	Well, they like the military.
	Firehouses.
	Police.
	Men's.
	You know what I mean?
	Go out.
	We're going to go to hunting trips.
	Okay.
	Good.
	I think it's great.
	We're going to go duck hunting with a bunch of guys.
	We're going to live outside and wait for the ducks in the blind.
	And we're going to cover ourselves and hide and outsmart a duck with a gun with a bunch of guys.
	And we're going to spend a weekend in a house with the guys.
	Okay.
	That's good.
	Great.
	Not for me, but that's okay.
	And if you told him, you know, I think, One of the reasons why, and there's nothing wrong with having friends, there's nothing wrong with this, but there are people who are fighting and going out of their way to say, no, this is a little bit more than just hunting.
	I mean, I like duck meat as much as the rest, a nice breast, a nice canard, but there's something about this.
	Really?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Now, I'm not suggesting there's anything wrong with this, but people have a hard time dealing with this.
	Have you ever seen people who go out of their way to say, I want to show you that I am Mr. Sportsman, Mr. Hunter, Mr. This.
	I'm into fly fishing and trapping pelts and I want to go out and I want to live off the land.
	Okay, fine.
	All right.
	It's a little extreme.
	It's a little extreme.
	I gotta tell you, but nonetheless, I'm just gonna tell you.
	A little bit, a little bit much.
	A little bit much.
	Why are you doing this?
	Why are you doing this?
	Well, I'm trying to prove something.
	What are you trying to prove?
	I'm trying to prove something to myself.
	Really?
	Yes.
	Go on.
	Well, I just...
	You know, I...
	I mean, I want to do all this stuff, but I want to make sure everybody knows that I'm doing it.
	I want to make sure everybody knows that I'm doing it because I want people to understand that I'm out there, that I am uber mensch, that I'm a man.
	Okay, wait a minute.
	What does that mean?
	I don't know what that means, but I'm into kickboxing.
	That's what I want to do, and I want to talk to a bunch of kickboxers.
	I like to talk about guys who are into kettle drums.
	I mean kettle bells.
	And kettle drums too.
	And timpanis.
	And I like to work out.
	We're going to work out and we're going to do our, we're going to eat our, we're going to do whatever it is.
	We're going to eat raw meat and salt.
	Salt licks.
	And we're going to go on into the woods and we're going to, by God, we're going to be men.
	There's something weird about that.
	What about being a gentleman?
	What?
	What about being a gentleman?
	I don't know what the hell that means.
	Apparently not.
	Do you teach your young man anything?
	No, he just watches me.
	Oh, I see.
	He'll learn how to be a man.
	Because look at the way I walk.
	Look at me.
	In the old days, remember when it was like your dad?
	Remember when we had...
	I'm really showing my age now.
	Maybe you can understand.
	Do you understand this?
	That when we were kids, there were moms.
	And if there was something that I thought was beautiful and feminine, and I don't even want to say sexy, but it was a woman, a mom, people who just were rational.
	They were mature.
	Remember people's mothers?
	They were like, not MILFs and all that, just mothers and men.
	Remember when you buy your father Menon Skin Bracer or Aqua Velva?
	I liked Aqua Velva, by the way, the original.
	Old Spice.
	Remember that?
	Remember that smell?
	Brill cream?
	That was it.
	There was a real kind of a...
	It was basic, and it wasn't silly.
	It wasn't super silliest.
	And that was here.
	That was America.
	But let me go on.
	Because right now, there's a lot of people on the Internet.
	I don't want to tell you, this is how to be a man.
	Okay, you want to talk about European men?
	Terrific.
	Can we talk about a man in Milan?
	We're talking about a Milano, Milanese.
	You want to talk about that?
	You want to talk about Sprezzatura?
	You want to talk about Johnny Agnelli?
	You want to talk about Porfirio Rubirosa?
	Playboys?
	Remember those guys?
	You don't even know what that is.
	If I went around to young people and I said, do you know what a Playboy was?
	The magazine?
	No!
	An international Playboy.
	Who is that today?
	Who?
	George Clooney?
	I'm not even going to answer that one.
	Okay?
	I'm not even going to address that.
	Who?
	Who?
	One of the guys that you will never see him again.
	Johnny Agnelli.
	Italian.
	From Fiat and Ferrari.
	This guy was...
	I don't know what people say.
	People love this guy.
	Men, women, dogs, I have no idea.
	He had this thing called Sprezzatura, which is, I love it.
	It's like an orchestrated, not dishevelment, but he was so different.
	He decided he was Mr. Fashion Maven.
	He loved Brooks Brothers.
	Button-down Oxford shirt.
	You know what he did?
	He never buttoned the button-down.
	And everybody did it.
	Well, if he's doing it, I'm doing it.
	He started that.
	Then what he did was, which I thought was the greatest thing in the world, that only he did.
	He would wear his watch over the band, over the barrel, over the cuff of the shirt.
	He wore his watch.
	On top of it.
	Who does that?
	He did it.
	And anybody who copied him, you know they're copying him.
	It's one thing for you to say, well, I don't, I didn't button my thing.
	You're imitating Johnny.
	No, I'm not.
	I just forgot.
	But this, you're imitating him.
	Then he wore, you know how men always say, you gotta get the tie, the bottom of the tie has to be the same.
	This bottom tie would stick out, kind of like Trump's tie is real long.
	To cover his girth, his abdominal girth.
	This was the same way.
	It's beautiful.
	Bottom tab stuck out of my...
	Fantastic.
	Loved it.
	Then he wore like work boots.
	These weird boots with his suit.
	Whatever he did, they loved it.
	Women loved him.
	Men loved him.
	He was a rake.
	A roué.
	Nobody today.
	Could even come near him.
	How about Porfirio Rubirosa?
	Look up that guy.
	Died in a plane crash, 56, married five times, married to the richest women in the world, Doris Duke, Zsa Zsa Gabor.
	This guy was...
	We don't have that today.
	What do we have now?
	We have a kickboxer or some emotional misfit who eats a salt lick and raw meat.
	And is depressed.
	Come on.
	Nobody was depressed.
	Look at the story today.
	Do you see the story today?
	This one is so sad.
	Look at the story from...
	Did you see this?
	Race of depression among college students jumped 135% from 2013 to 2021 with anxiety increasing 110%.
	You want to be a man?
	You want to be an adult?
	This is ridiculous.
	This is ridiculous.
	What happened to us?
	Would it be an adult?
	Would it be a man?
	Anybody interested in this?
	What is going on here?
	What is going on here?
	Let me go back in time and just work with me on this.
	Let's go back in time and let's look at a time where it was...
	Let's say it was World War II.
	During Dresden, during the bombing of London, when they were in the tube, when people were scared out of their minds, when Hitler, when Hitler was just going, just...
	Peter O'Toole talked about, he said, he was so afraid of Hitler growing up.
	We have no way of even comprehending that.
	And they were there.
	How about the Viet Cong?
	How about the Vietnamese?
	How about people that we bombed and carpet bombed with rolling thunder?
	Did they ever have depression?
	Did we ever hear about that?
	Did we ever hear about that?
	Did they have a little service animal, like a service ferret?
	Are they taking their CBD?
	Is that it?
	What is the matter with us?
	Let's talk about that.
	Yesterday, there was a story.
	Jamie Dimon from J.P. Morgan says, you all are going back to work.
	Oh, no, we're not.
	Oh, yes, we are.
	No, we're not.
	Goldman Sachs said it.
	You're not going to work at home anymore.
	You're not going to sit in your PJs and sit in there with your little ferret and have your little sippy cup.
	No, you're going to go back to work.
	You're going to put in a tie.
	You're going to go to work.
	No, I'm not.
	Yes, you are.
	Now, you want to blame anybody for this?
	You want to blame COVID?
	Please, stop it.
	Anybody remember polio?
	Anybody remember polio?
	When people were going crazy, worrying about polio?
	I remember one time somebody told me, you couldn't sit on a wet towel because you got polio.
	I don't know where this one came from.
	Don't sit on a wet towel.
	My parents would go crazy to put a wet towel on the bed.
	It's the death penalty.
	You do that and you just...
	They'll hunt you down and kill you.
	They're that...
	And take it from me.
	I've had my mother want to hunt me down and kill me.
	But anyway, were there stories about, oh, you know, during this polio, my little Irving can't go to school.
	Why?
	Because he's so worried about getting polio.
	I think that would be a good reason.
	Being in an iron lung?
	Somebody gets a sniffles, I don't want to go to school.
	Sorry, I'm remote learning.
	Sorry, I'm out of here.
	Uh-uh.
	Don't look at me.
	What's the matter with this?
	You want to talk about being a man?
	What does a man mean today?
	What about being an adult?
	What about being a rational human being?
	What is this all about?
	Compare now with any other part of time.
	I don't recognize these people.
	Let me go back to this man business because I find this so interesting.
	I find this so interesting.
	There's the man that you have in terms of your gender by virtue of not only gender because people think all they care about are genitals.
	That's it.
	Beginning, end.
	You're born with that?
	You're a man.
	You're a woman.
	That's it!
	Kind of like a phenotype, you know, a very, very basic way of looking at everything.
	Now let me ask you something.
	Do you want, yes or no, do you want your man, your son, to have Ted Nugent as a role model?
	Be honest.
	Remember what he said one time on stage about Hillary Clinton?
	You think that's funny?
	I don't.
	Let me ask you another one.
	Do you want your son to have Joe Rogan as a role model?
	Tucker Carlson.
	Go down the list.
	I don't know who else is there.
	Joe Biden.
	Ron DeSantis.
	Donald Trump.
	Do you want your son to have Donald Trump as a role model?
	Do you?
	I don't.
	I don't.
	Absolutely not.
	Who would you want your son to have as a role model?
	Who?
	What does your son know?
	Ask yourself.
	Is it about people who fought during the war?
	Not really.
	That's okay.
	That's something that's important.
	Soldiers are important.
	Who?
	This is the bottom line.
	And nobody wants to spend any amount of time.
	Do I want to see some Canadian kickboxer?
	Is that my idea of a good time?
	Or that guy Bilzerian?
	Remember him with his fake girls and all that?
	Who do you want?
	Who do you want?
	Your son as a role model.
	Who?
	Nobody ever talks about this.
	You know what I like?
	Are the people who go to work.
	The fathers who work, who aren't necessarily Robert Young, for those who remember, who aren't necessarily, who don't, I mean, yeah, they'll go to a soccer game, but they're home, they go to work, they don't fool around on their wife, on their mother.
	They're just decent, hard-working people.
	That's it.
	But that's not what we do today.
	That's not what we do today.
	We love the trappings.
	We love people who go on and say, look at me.
	I've got all these tattoos.
	Look at me.
	I'm a man.
	Look at this.
	Look at my workout.
	I'm taking human growth hormone.
	I'm cycling.
	I like that.
	Steroids.
	Got a bunch of girls and gals and this and that.
	Got a fast car.
	That's a man.
	Really?
	Really?
	Is that what it is?
	Is that what it's about?
	And the stuff that you show your kids and the littlest, the stupidest things that you think are so eh are the most important.
	But I guarantee you, I don't know about you, it ain't Ted Nugent.
	That's for sure.
	I mean, if you think, and hunting's fine, but I'm so tired of the phonies, and I'm so tired of people who all of a sudden think that they are the moral arbiters, the ones who go out in colleges and get some poor kid who asks a question and then destroys them, slams them, and then you take that, put them on their website, but you never see the student who tears them a new one.
	Never see that.
	What kind of a, what is that?
	That's it?
	I mean, seriously.
	I just don't fit in.
	Why is that interesting?
	Why is that even interesting?
	I don't even get it.
	I don't get any of this stuff.
	How can anybody think this is so important?
	This is great as a man.
	What about being a woman?
	What does that mean?
	We always say, gentlemen, what about a gentle lady?
	I don't care about genitals.
	I don't care about that.
	That's not even what I'm talking about.
	Let me ask you something.
	I'm going to say something right now you're not going to understand.
	And a lot of this stuff we don't know about people's personal lives and all that stuff.
	But the way people comport themselves.
	I would much rather consider Gore Vidal as a role model than Norman Mailer.
	Now you may not remember this.
	But Norman Mailer was a guy who went out of his way to show you how tough he was.
	Norman Mailer was, of course, the...
	I don't understand how great he was, but anyway.
	This was the days of Dick Cavett and he was always getting into arguments with Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley.
	William F. Buckley is another one.
	One of the greatest cons ever.
	This guy went out of his way.
	Gore Vidal.
	Gore Vidal was famous.
	He was gay when gay was not cool.
	Oscar Wilde.
	You want to talk about somebody who's tough?
	That's tough.
	That's tough.
	Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein and a lot of other people, that's tough.
	People who say, it's one thing to come out of the closet today, if there is such a thing anymore.
	Try it then.
	But Gorbadov, who was himself in the military and everything, brilliant.
	Also had this wonderful mid-Atlantic accent.
	And there was Norman Mailer.
	Norman Mailer, the boxer, the drinker, the womanizer.
	He doth protest a little too much.
	I'll take Gore Vidal any time, any day over a Norman Mailer or a Ted Nugent or whatever it is.
	I don't understand why people fall for that.
	Don't you know?
	Don't you see what's happening?
	When somebody goes out and says, look what I'm doing.
	Look how ostentatiously androgenated I am.
	Look at me.
	Look, I eat raw flesh.
	I have a salt lick at my home.
	You know what I mean?
	It's just, if you can't see this...
	Is this what you want your kid to be?
	I'm serious about this because there's all this talk on the internet.
	There's a fellow right now, Terence Tao.
	Do you know who he is?
	No, probably not.
	He's probably today's closest thing maybe to Isaac Newton.
	Greatest mathematician.
	He was a prodigy.
	He was a freak.
	Freak!
	Brilliant!
	Awkward, quiet, skinny.
	I think he's Australian and Asian Australian.
	This guy was, wow!
	Nobody's talking about him on social media.
	No!
	Oh, no, no, no.
	But if somebody goes, hey, man, let's go out and do some hallucinogenics.
	Yes!
	Hey, let's sit around and drink booze and smoke cigars and belch and...
	Oh, that's great!
	Wonderful!
	If you want to see the greatest assemblage of absolute idiocy, listen to comics talking.
	Listen to any show, anything.
	Comics.
	The dumbest people you've ever met in your life.
	Great on stage.
	Great where they're talking.
	Kite 5. Great!
	But absolutely a waste of flesh when it comes to actually putting together.
	When we live in a world right now where Bill Burke, who's very funny, this is Schopenhauer?
	Dave Chappelle slams PC.
	This is it?
	This is your idea of...
	I saw it today.
	Daily Mail.
	Megyn Kelly slams Fauci.
	You're kidding me!
	You're buying this?
	Daily Mail is the best tabloid there is.
	The best.
	You want to pay?
	They'll cover you.
	The royal family owns them, or vice versa.
	I don't know who.
	They are just, oh my god.
	It's the most incredible thing in the world.
	But they're actually much, much better than anything we've seen.
	But right now, I've got to tell you something.
	Could I trouble you for some more coffee?
	If you've just tuned in, if you're wondering, is he starting early?
	Yes!
	Through some, it might have been a mild stroke or something this morning.
	Yeah, it's a birthday birthday.
	It's a twofer.
	I started an hour early today, but I'm going to keep going.
	I'm not going to stop.
	I think very slowly.
	You know, it's so funny.
	Years ago, my father used to always wonder.
	He said, do you think that when you lose your mind, do you notice at once?
	Or is it slowly?
	He said, I don't know.
	So one time I took a bunch of Christmas cards and I wrote to him, happy birthday.
	And I would say things like, I hope your knee's getting better.
	And I would put names of people like Manuel and Sylvia Fernandez.
	You know how many Manuel Fernandeses there are in Tampa?
	Manuel Fernandez, Manuel Garcia, Jose Fernandez, Jose Gonzalez, Tony Gonzalez.
	It's like a million.
	So I'd give them these names.
	And he would say, who the hell is this?
	How did they know?
	I said, well, it must be, you know, maybe you're losing it.
	Well, I...
	And I told them.
	So anyway.
	But I've got to go back.
	We have to figure out a way.
	We've got to have a boot camp for kids.
	We've got to be able to do something.
	I'm dead serious about this.
	And I don't care if you're...
	Straight or gay or trans or whatever it is, if your sense of maleness, femaleness, if that means more to you, if that is genital oriented versus maturity, intelligence, being a gentleman, if that means, if that's what it is, and you portray, I've got an itch here, all of these things like hunting and fishing.
	If that's what it's about, my God!
	My God!
	That's where we are right now.
	And I want to say this again.
	Do you have any of your children who have anxiety?
	I can't do that.
	I got anxiety.
	Poor little Megan can't go to school.
	She has anxiety.
	Poor thing.
	She can't go to school because she has anxiety.
	Thank you.
	She has anxiety.
	She has...
	I'm sorry, we can't work.
	Sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	I can't go back to work at J.P. Morgan, this apprenticeship program.
	I don't want to be a banker.
	I don't want to go to Goldman Sachs anymore because I have to stay home in my jammies because I'm afraid.
	I'm afraid.
	This is the thing that I don't...
	This is where we are today.
	This is where we are today.
	Now listen to me very carefully.
	And I want you to...
	I want you to listen...
	Somewhere in...
	That's alright.
	This is all playing music.
	Thank you so much.
	I'm going to move on.
	I'm going to move on.
	I don't want to spend too much time with this.
	Now in case you've just tuned in, it's 9-0-1.
	And you're wondering, did I miss this?
	He said 9 o 'clock.
	What are all these people doing here?
	What the hell is going on?
	Is this daylight saving?
	Did I move my clock back?
	No.
	Dumbass over here started an hour early.
	I have been so...
	This week, I have been so discombobulated.
	Either the planets or...
	I don't know what it is.
	We're on Spotify right now, and I've been going through this Apple Podcast stuff that is, I swear to God, have you ever done that?
	You have one channel, it's an RSS feed, and then you normally, I've done it before, but this was, excuse me, did you put a thumbnail up?
	Yes, I did.
	It has to be a minimum of 1,300 by 1,300, no more in the 4th floor.
	Is this JPG?
	No, JPEG.
	No, no.
	JPG or PIG?
	No.
	Got to go back and do that.
	Is your RSS feed correct?
	Okay.
	Do you have too many subjects?
	What?
	I was going crazy yesterday.
	What is going on here?
	What are you doing to me?
	I'm losing my mind.
	How hard can this be?
	So welcome.
	This is the birthday channel.
	We'll start again right now for those who are just starting.
	Welcome aboard.
	Today is my 64th birthday.
	I say that because it is.
	I told you before, somebody before said, they wrote me, you're not, he's 65. This is L. Who the hell are you?
	The audacity of people.
	I get people all the time.
	I just ignore them, but I'm wondering, there's such anger.
	They wouldn't say this to your face, but in any event.
	This is the, I don't know what birthday celebration this is.
	I thank you for this.
	You've been more than kind.
	It's one of the best things available for those who really enjoy doing this.
	I watch people sometimes and how do I say this?
	There are very few people, well I shouldn't say this, but there are a lot of people who don't want to talk to you.
	They want to have a guest on their show.
	Do you know what I mean?
	Today we have a guest on.
	We're going to talk to our guest.
	Okay.
	Well, would you talk to me instead?
	No, I don't want to talk to you.
	I don't want to talk to you.
	I think talking to people is the hardest thing to do on this.
	It's very easy to have a guess.
	Today we're talking about Ukraine.
	Okay, fine.
	And that's it.
	So in any event, now, to repeat what I said the first hour, this is a twofer.
	For those who have asked and have asked repeatedly, how can we contribute?
	How can we say thank you?
	How can we keep this going?
	How can we say happy birthday?
	There is, on the description of this YouTube, a very simple list of all these various means by which you can contribute, donate, Through PayPal, Patreon, Venmo, Cash App.
	That's a great one.
	Got a link for that.
	Bitcoins, Filipino Cougarands, name it.
	It's all there.
	And it is most appreciated because as I've said before, we are, for reasons that I don't know, we have been demonetized.
	Which is okay.
	I guess, sort of.
	I also want to thank, we've got sponsors who help us and love us and respect us.
	And that is very, very, very heartening when somebody puts their money behind you and they want to support what you're doing or they think that your audience is good.
	And the people that I have been so...
	Impressed with, and I like them so much, are MyPatriotSupply.
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	Remember, did you ever go to like an Army-Navy store when you were a kid and say, look at this stuff, look at this, they got a tool, and there's a thing at the end with the salt you put to clear in the water, and there's a compass, and oh my God, it's...
	Look at this!
	Well, that's what I think when I look at the preparewithlionel.com.
	Look at this food.
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	You'll be so glad you have this because when it hits the fan and everything shuts down and you know what's going to happen, there it is.
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	Three months supply per person.
	Three months.
	2,000 calories a day.
	You open it up.
	What do you have in there?
	You've got 21 varieties with a 25-year shelf life.
	In resealable, heavy-duty, four-layer pouches with oxygen absorbers.
	Look at it.
	This is serious.
	You don't have to open up.
	Do we have any more stewed tomatoes?
	No, none of that.
	How about banana chips?
	They've got banana chips.
	And what about this food?
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	Sounds like a street.
	Where do you live?
	Maple Grove.
	And it goes on and on and on.
	And this is...
	Emergency.
	And when people ask, this is my favorite.
	This is my favorite.
	And I'm not trying to make people laugh.
	But if somebody says, excuse me, but do you have anything that's not, maybe does not have any...
	Look, there's more.
	There's vegan options.
	There's non-gluten or gluten-free.
	But this is emergency.
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	I was talking about what is a man.
	I was watching...
	I like Tucker Carlson a lot.
	I think he's the best show on Fox.
	It's not saying a lot, but...
	Seriously.
	You notice how people...
	Have you ever seen when they try out people?
	That's my favorite.
	They try out and go, how's he doing?
	They go, no.
	They go like this.
	It's the same four people.
	We live in a country of 300 million people and this is it?
	I'm just saying.
	But with internet streaming, we have more people than you can imagine.
	But Tucker by far, I think, is the smartest.
	He is the most clever.
	He is the Most enigmatic.
	He is somebody who was, by all accounts, a blue-blood, self-styled, very, in a good way, elitist, not, you know.
	But he's very, he's just like, he's like Trump, he's like FDR.
	He comes across, he speaks very, very smartly, wisely.
	And he had on somebody, he loves to talk about these folks who are doing manly things.
	And I'm saying, again, I think I've exhausted this subject, but being a man does not mean kickboxing, doesn't mean having a bunch of girlfriends, doesn't mean having a fast car, that's not it.
	Unless being a man is just genitals to you, if that's what it is.
	But being a gentleman is.
	And here's the best part.
	You ready for this?
	I don't know if there's any young men listening, but if there are, if you really want to do the best thing, if you are smart, you will be a gentleman.
	If you open the door for women, if you act, if you speak to your elders, yes ma 'am, no sir, yes, you have no idea.
	How you will rise in their eyes.
	You have no idea how you will benefit tremendously.
	And young men, if you are out and you want to figure out how to talk to women, if this is the thing that you're trying to figure out, they don't care about how many elk you've slain with your battle axe, or whatever you're supposedly doing, or how much raw meat you eat.
	With your salt lick or any of that stuff.
	Be respectful.
	Be interesting.
	Be knowledgeable.
	Be educated.
	Be cultured.
	When I mean cultured, I mean just be polite.
	Just be polite.
	It's so...
	You see, we love, in this country, we love phonies.
	Phony conservatives.
	Phony patriots.
	Phony this.
	Old and country music.
	Biggest bunch of phonies you have ever met in your life!
	Well, that's right.
	You know, I always thought to myself, I love my country.
	And I love my daddy and my mama.
	And the first thing I did was, when I got my million dollars, I bought my house.
	And that's good.
	That's good.
	But I think, okay, alright.
	That's good.
	A lot of people do that.
	I just love my country.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Yeah.
	Yes, ma'am.
	I just love my country.
	Yeah.
	We've seen this before.
	It's hokum.
	Sometimes you believe this, sometimes you don't.
	Here's the best part.
	The people who do this don't tell you this.
	They don't tell you constantly about how homespun they are.
	Now let me get to this bottom.
	I think I told you this.
	I think people will know this.
	People who grew up in Flower Town.
	I know Brother Dale is here.
	I grew up with the greatest education of all, professional wrestling.
	And Gordon Soley was one of my best friends.
	By the way, yesterday, you know who his birthday was?
	Regis Philbin.
	I loved Regis Philbin.
	I loved him.
	I'm going to tell you this story again.
	Towards the end, We'd go to eat at this place across from Lincoln Center.
	And to make a long story short, I just loved the guy.
	He was kind of towards the end.
	He didn't have his fastball, but just a great guy.
	And I'd walk him back to his apartment and we walked by and he was just kind of wondering, you know, he's always been, he tells me stories about the days of Joey Bishop and this and that.
	Don Rickles was his best buddy.
	Anyway, so as we're walking back, we went by the ABC studios.
	This is where he did his Regis and Kathy Lee and Regis and that other one.
	And they have a A freeze.
	Kind of a relief, I should say.
	Not a freeze.
	A relief.
	A kind of a wall tribute to Regis.
	It's this picture there.
	Right there on Columbus.
	Right there.
	And there was this couple.
	They were looking.
	You can tell they're out of town.
	You can always tell.
	And they were taking pictures.
	I said, would you like me to take, now Regis is behind me.
	I said, would you like me to take a picture of both of you?
	I always do this.
	And I always pretend I'm running off of their camera, just for a second.
	I said, would you like me to take a picture of you in front of this Regis film?
	Yes, thank you.
	I took the picture and said, did you like Regis?
	He says, we loved him.
	I said, you know what, I don't know about you, but it's not the same without him.
	He says, absolutely.
	I said, wasn't he like your friend?
	Yes.
	Didn't you feel like you knew him?
	Yes.
	Did you ever meet Regis?
	No.
	I said, would you like to meet him?
	He said, well, of course.
	I said, here he is.
	Now, he was standing behind me the whole time.
	They didn't look.
	They didn't notice.
	The look on their face, and the look on his face, was just, to the, I don't know whether it's from Ohio, who knows.
	It was like they met Mick Jagger, and he felt that love.
	I said, they love you.
	They love you.
	I was in there one day at this place and Alan Alda was in there.
	All these people come in and they're all, you know, and...
	Alan Alda.
	That's an interesting story.
	That's all I'm going to tell you.
	But Regis, anyway, he was yesterday.
	So bless his heart.
	So, as I was saying, growing up, professional wrestling, I learned the work.
	The work is the greatest thing in the world.
	The work is an angle.
	The work is entertainment.
	The work is a lie.
	It is an angle.
	It is a contrived story of pretend.
	We had a group in Flora named the Von Brauners.
	And it was the von Brauners.
	They were German.
	And by the way, anybody who remembers 60s wrestling knows that the Germans always wore bald heads.
	They wore the black tights.
	And they always did the claw.
	That was their thing.
	They were bald heads like Daddy Warbucks and the claw.
	Von Rasch gave it the claw.
	That's it.
	So they were the von Brauners, two Nazis.
	Managed by a gentleman Saul Weingroff, a Jew, who even wore a Nazi helmet.
	Only in America, only in the 60s NWA, Cowboy Luttrell, Eddie Graham Wrestling, could we have a Jew promote Nazis.
	It was beautiful.
	Do you remember during...
	I don't know if this was Vince at the time, but it was when the Iron Sheik...
	Against Sergeant Slaughter during the Iranian hostage thing?
	Oh!
	Do you remember that?
	I mean, how about when Colonel Kern, Steve Kern's father, Steve Gator Kern, Steve Kern's father was a POW in World War II, I think, and Vietnam?
	Anyway, it was a double POW.
	Double.
	Came back.
	He's on with Gordon.
	I think Steve Kern was making his debut.
	He and Mike Graham were big.
	Anyway.
	Steve Kern's doing his thing.
	He's out.
	And Bob Roop came out.
	And here's the angle.
	Bob Roop comes out and says, You know, Gordon, I was in the Air Force.
	And I'll tell you one thing.
	Colonel Kern's a coward.
	And Gordon looks at him like, What?
	He's a coward.
	Anybody who lets himself get caught twice, well, I'll tell you what.
	It's kind of like what Trump said about Member McCain.
	And they said, you've got to stop.
	They go, I'll tell you right now.
	That man is a coward.
	I don't even, I don't know.
	Anyway.
	After the match, Steve Kern comes out.
	He's going crazy.
	He's screaming.
	I'm going to kill him.
	That's my father.
	I'm wondering.
	Could they really be this low as to do this?
	I understand it's a work and everything, but the guy just got out of...
	Oh, yeah.
	Nothing was off.
	Nothing was off limits.
	Nothing.
	Wow.
	So anyway, I came out.
	Screaming and yelling.
	Gordon, of course, had a phone.
	It was like a princess phone next to...
	Uh-huh.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Thank you.
	Yes.
	He's talking to nobody.
	Yes.
	Very good.
	I just heard it right now.
	We've just received word from Sam Muchnick in the NWA headquarters in St. Louis that this coming Tuesday night at the Armory, there'll be a lights-out match between Bob Roop and Steve Kern.
	Bob Roop comes out.
	No!
	He always says no.
	He always says no.
	Well, you're going to put your...
	Anyway, so I was there the next Tuesday.
	I was there in the front row.
	The Armory.
	I was there.
	Bob Roop was in.
	He had the Universal, you know, Steve Curran runs down.
	They both shared the same dressing room, interestingly enough.
	Came down, tore this Universal, this strap, wrapped it around his neck, and choked him for the next 25 minutes.
	It was a lights-out match, not sanctioned, and nothing happened.
	The referee didn't interfere.
	He just, his eyes were really...
	Anyway, to make a long story short, this is what I...
	This is...
	This is what I was raised on.
	The work.
	The angle.
	The joke.
	The...
	Whatever.
	Now, Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan.
	A work.
	The work of works.
	Do you believe that for a moment?
	Do you believe that for a moment?
	Hey, Mark.
	Yeah, Joe.
	Listen.
	What do you think about Twitter basically kind of caving in regarding, you know, Hunter's laptop?
	Well, you know what, Joe?
	We did it a little bit differently.
	We were told by the FBI.
	Wait a minute, what?
	Yeah, yeah.
	The FBI came out and told us that we had to kind of watch.
	We had to say that there was Russian collusion.
	You're kidding me.
	Oh no, no, no!
	Are you buying any of this stuff?
	What do you think they told Rogan?
	What do you think they told him ahead of time?
	What do you think if Rogan were to say, guess what I got planned?
	I'm going to lay him out.
	I've got about 20 things I'm going to bring up that are going to be real embarrassing.
	Real embarrassing.
	About how he caved in along with big tech in Silicon Valley.
	Now, he didn't do anything and how they made a fool out of him in that Section 230.
	You know somebody said, don't even think about it.
	You think that Neil Young little business was okay?
	You think that Neil Young threat to pull out Spotify was...
	You will go the way of dust if we have our way.
	Don't you even think of it.
	And you know Spotify, whoever the Swede, whoever owns that place, whoever these people are, said don't even think about it.
	You can ask them this.
	You can ask them this.
	We're going to work this out.
	Do not repeat.
	If you want to exist, and you will be tomorrow, they will, just for the hell of it, destroy you.
	And you know what will happen?
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	Nothing will happen.
	You better walk that line.
	He's not stupid.
	Joe Rogan is not stupid at all.
	He knows.
	He knows.
	He's very lucky.
	Very appreciative.
	But do not think.
	I can't believe.
	Did you hear this?
	Come on.
	Come on.
	You see, here is the thing which I want to...
	Let me just stop for one second because I forgot about something.
	In my haste?
	On my birthday?
	You want to do something right?
	You want to do something?
	You go to MyPillow.
	How did I forget this guy?
	I feel so remiss.
	Mike Lindell.
	Mike Lindell, that smiling face with a mustache, you talk about turning his life around.
	You talk about what a man is.
	That's a guy who went up against everybody.
	Everybody.
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	Now I know you're not supposed to say, go and buy the pillows which are great.
	Buy the sheets, which are great, and the toppers, and the bedspreads, and all that, because the owner is so terrific.
	But it's true.
	I love that guy.
	You want to talk about a role model?
	That's the guy.
	I ship you not.
	I will not ship you.
	I mean it.
	This guy went up against everybody.
	Everybody.
	And the best part about it, bed, bath, and beyond.
	As soon as they pulled it, Why?
	Because he had the unmitigated audacity to believe in something and to say it?
	No, no.
	God bless him.
	So do yourself a favor.
	Do yourself a favor.
	Do everyone a favor.
	You go to mypillow.com mypillow.com promo code Lionel and just do the right thing.
	Now, here's what I wish somebody would say.
	Folks, Joe Rogan, Tucker, whoever your favorites are.
	It doesn't really matter.
	You don't understand something.
	Nothing is going to happen with any of this.
	Give you an example.
	Have you heard all of the stories, all of the stories about COVID or vaccines or this or that?
	Everybody, come out of the woodwork.
	And Tucker again, bless his heart.
	He's got this one on and this one and look at this.
	Let me explain something to you.
	And this is the most important.
	Nobody cares what you say.
	You can come up with any story you want.
	You can come up with...
	Anything about Moderna or Pfizer or Biden and this and the boosters and whether it works and Joe Biden and this and the mask and Fauci and this and Walensky.
	They don't care.
	Go ahead.
	When we were in school one time, the teacher left, this is a true story, the teacher left the room and told this idiot, Anybody who talks, put their name on the board.
	And this guy did not understand how things work.
	So he got up there and he said, all right, put the name down.
	They go, yeah, blow it up.
	I'm going to give you a check.
	Give me a check.
	Give me a check.
	Give me another check.
	And he's checking like this.
	And the nun comes back like five minutes later and there's 35 names with 40 checks.
	Okay.
	That's the way it is right now.
	Go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	Have Zuckerberg.
	Go ahead.
	Big New York Post article today.
	Kathy Hochul, the governor, says, why don't you 5.8 million Republicans get on a bus and go to Florida because you're not a New Yorker.
	New York Post.
	You know what's going to happen?
	Nothing.
	Put a check.
	Boom.
	Nothing.
	Megyn Kelly blasts Fauci.
	Put a check.
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	Go down the list.
	This is a tremendous look at what's happening in Portland and the crime.
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	Let me see if I can explain this to you again.
	Nobody is paying attention to this.
	Nobody.
	It doesn't make any sense.
	It doesn't matter.
	There's nobody.
	There's no cavalry coming.
	There's no white hats.
	Nothing.
	They're having so much fun.
	And it's not Biden.
	It's the shadow government.
	I mean, you can say whatever you want.
	You can do whatever you want.
	I'm going to forgive $10,000.
	You can't do that.
	Yeah, I can.
	What are you going to do about it?
	Nothing.
	Let's go right now to Fox News Business Component.
	Larry Kudlow.
	Larry Kudlow.
	You can't do that.
	Yes, you can.
	They did it.
	What are you going to do about it?
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	The Republican Party hasn't stopped one thing yet.
	Nothing.
	Remember Joe Manchin?
	He played you.
	Oh, man, he was great.
	Man, old mansion.
	Bill Gates took him.
	Joe, let's talk about the future.
	Why are you fighting us, Joe?
	Well, you'd be very smart waiting.
	Come on, Joe.
	Nothing.
	Nothing.
	What's going to happen?
	Nothing.
	How do I say this?
	It's not that I've given up.
	But unless there's somebody else in charge, we're wasting our time.
	You do know that, right?
	Unless there's somebody in charge, we're wasting our time.
	Because nothing's changed.
	It's the same people.
	Now, I know this is terrible to say, and you're not supposed to say it, but we talk about more stuff that is such garbage.
	Brian Stelter, Fredo Cuomo, okay.
	Some of this other stuff.
	What is a man?
	Zuckerberg?
	This is the part that just, I mean, we are just, we are spinning our wheels.
	When is it going to change?
	And you know and I know that America is a different place.
	Let me ask you a question.
	I'm going to say something right now that, and I mean this, and you're going to think, he's taking this too seriously.
	Have you seen the picture of Maria Shriver?
	Have you seen Maria Shriver?
	It's in today's Daily Mail.
	Have you seen that picture?
	Now she's doing this on purpose.
	She could go on and she could put something on.
	It is something that we've never seen before.
	And it is a...
	It is a surgical transmutation that is so...
	I don't want to...
	It sounds like I'm just being mean.
	It's not her.
	It's what was done and how this is okay for people to see it.
	Have you seen this picture?
	Have you seen this?
	What is happening to people?
	I don't recognize anybody.
	Oh, somebody said Fauci's finished.
	A good friend Liz.
	Liz?
	Fauci will be rewarded so handsomely.
	Fauci is loved by so many people.
	Fauci is...
	The fact that people don't like Fauci by other folks is considered...
	His stock goes up monumentally.
	Did you know that?
	It's hard to believe.
	But the people that you think, like, wow, this is...
	No, no, no.
	Fauci is absolutely...
	Not going anywhere unless they say he's going somewhere.
	Nobody's changed.
	You don't tell them what to do.
	The only person, now think about this, the only person in recent times is who was immediately yanked.
	Who was it?
	There's one person, So dangerous.
	So abominable.
	So horrid.
	So frightening.
	Such a complete and total failure.
	Anybody know who that was?
	Where they admitted it, they said, that's it.
	You got us on that one.
	Who was it?
	Who was it?
	Come on.
	Use your head.
	Think.
	It was the best.
	It was the biggest colossal gone.
	You won.
	You're right.
	That's it.
	No more.
	Who was it?
	Not Trump.
	Nope.
	Who was it?
	Use our head.
	Once you recognize it, you go, oh yes, you are so correct.
	Who was it?
	It was the biggest...
	I don't even understand why they bailed.
	Why?
	Not Kamala.
	By the way, Kamala is in...
	She's in Hawaii with her husband.
	General Flynn?
	Nope.
	Roseanne Barr?
	Nope.
	Roseanne Barr still, by the way, deserves her due.
	And I will never forget that Dr. Oz, for what, if for no other reason, that phony baloney, what he did to her, I will never forget this.
	Not General Flynn, nope.
	Use your head.
	It was a new, I'll give you a hint, it was a brand new office.
	It was a brand new office.
	And somebody said, let's see if we can go and do this.
	Let's try this.
	Something different.
	And they picked this particular spokesperson who turned out to be the biggest joke ever.
	Ever.
	And it was, you're not thinking, it was a Democrat.
	You're pointing to Republicans.
	And this was a person who came out of nowhere.
	Nobody ever really heard of this person.
	And it was the...
	Let me see.
	Oh my God.
	You can't believe...
	Let me see.
	Let me see here.
	Bear with me on this one here.
	I can't open this up.
	Doesn't matter.
	Who is it?
	Nina Jankowicz.
	Thank you.
	That was the best.
	Now she's with the Wilson Center.
	Did you know that?
	She's with something called the Wilson Center, and she is listed, this is so interesting, she is called Science and Technology Innovation Program, Kenan Institute.
	She is, let me see, Wilson Center, is this Wilson, by the way, is this, I don't know, this can't be Princeton, Wilson, but anyway, but there she is, and she's known as a An American researcher and writer, she's the author of How to Lose the Information War on Russian Use of Disinformation as Geopolitical Strategy, How to Be a Woman Online, a handbook for fighting against online harassment of women.
	She studies the intersection of democracy and technology in Central and Eastern Europe.
	One of the most colossal disasters in the history.
	So bad!
	That even they said, alright, that's enough.
	Pulled it immediately.
	Said, that's it.
	That's it.
	That's the only one.
	Nobody else matters.
	Nobody else matters.
	You have our friend, what is her name?
	The vice president?
	I don't care what you think.
	How about Corinne Jean-Pierre?
	Absolutely.
	Positively.
	So, just, I'm sure she's a fine, fine person, but just ill-equipped to handle it.
	Did not know how to answer any questions.
	You know, people have a learning curve.
	When people come out at first, remember, Jen Psaki was terrific.
	Jen Psaki was great.
	By the way, is Jen Psaki anywhere now to be found?
	Where's Jen Psaki's big MSNBC?
	Where is she?
	Where is she?
	Anybody know?
	I don't know.
	Anybody know what's happening with these various platforms?
	No.
	You do know things are changing drastically.
	Here's some good news.
	Let me go back.
	Changing the subject just a little bit.
	There's a fellow named David Zaslav.
	And he owns Discover, Warner, this guy, CNN.
	And he's crushing it.
	And they have a guy named Chris Licht.
	And Chris Licht is the putative alleged hatchet man who goes out and he, you know, fires this one and that one and whatever.
	He's basically following orders.
	Okay.
	And that's terrific.
	It's not his idea.
	It's Zaslav.
	And CNN is just a...
	It's a joke.
	It turned into a joke.
	And what happened was they realized that this particular model is failing drastically.
	It's too much money.
	This trajectory is over with.
	The idea of you going to CNN right now, only people within the bubble, only people in D.C., only people who pay attention to this stuff, only they care about this.
	Only they are paying attention to.
	To all this.
	Alright.
	So these are the...
	This is what's happening right now.
	And it's very interesting to note.
	Because as we speak, the people who are getting more notice are people like Rogan and others in streaming.
	And they recognize this is the end of this particular vector.
	Let me go back.
	People in my generation remember Cronkite.
	But I recognize and have noticed for years to Mrs. Zelt before that, streaming is a way to go, this is over.
	It is the end of theaters.
	It is the end of Broadway.
	Broadway will never tell you this.
	Broadway is living in the past and you have to recognize there are some things that change.
	And either you get with the program or you don't.
	When fast food came along, people said this is never going to replace fine dining.
	Yes, it did.
	When radio came along, they said this is never going to replace print.
	Yes, it did.
	When TV came along, print and radio said it's not going to replace us.
	Yes, it did.
	When cable came along, cable, they said nobody's going to pay money for cable.
	Yes, they did.
	When streaming came along, The cable people that get paid, they say, people aren't going to...
	Yes, they are.
	Paywalls, yes.
	There are people right now, there are so many people, there's a whole new world of influence.
	And there are people around the world enjoying a variety of new information sectors that have nothing to do with the old model.
	And there are people today who may not necessarily be the most educated or informed.
	But for whatever reason, they're popular.
	And you can argue all day long.
	You can say, well, they're...
	Because, believe me, the people I like, nobody's watching and vice versa.
	Because I'm just...
	But that's me.
	But I don't hold myself out as a representative audience member of this.
	But I'm telling you right now, this is changing drastically.
	And the people who are really smart understand this.
	And they got it.
	And they're so far ahead of this stuff.
	Where is Brad Parscale?
	Remember Brad Parscale?
	This was Trump's genius.
	Then his life fell apart.
	He had a problem with his wife or something.
	He was a genius.
	What is happening?
	What are they doing?
	What is Trump doing?
	Are they spooking him?
	Is he just going away?
	What's going on in the background?
	We don't know.
	We have no idea.
	We have no earthly idea of what's going to happen.
	Are you getting any news from Trump?
	No.
	Do you understand what Trump's doing?
	No.
	Is Trump talking to you?
	No.
	Does it look likely that Trump's going to run?
	Do you think he would win the nomination?
	Now the Republicans say that they won it, but do you see anybody?
	Because right now, Mitch McConnell, see nothing is...
	Nothing is...
	Put it this way.
	You know, you're trying to find the stud in the wall and I'm listening.
	I don't hear anything.
	I'm not seeing anything.
	And I'm going to tell you something which is really going to blow your mind.
	I don't know if there's going to be any change at all.
	I don't know if there's going to be any change at all.
	They might just do this.
	Here's what we're going to do.
	Gavin Newsom, you come in.
	Joe Biden, you're on your way out.
	We all know that.
	Joe Biden, he was a good soldier.
	You go.
	We'll take care of him.
	He wants to go and live his life.
	Gavin Newsom comes in.
	And then it's going to be a battle for whatever.
	And then maybe it's going to be either Ron DeSantis or Trump.
	And then you're going to see you haven't really seen the new political platform.
	Now, You haven't seen this.
	I can sit, if I am the shadow government, and I'm going to say, okay, I can, I'm going to, well, you have to ask this question.
	If you trust elections today, and that's not to say I'm not a Election denier, whatever it is.
	But if you trust elections for the following reasons.
	Number one.
	How do I trust an election when not everybody votes?
	How?
	Forget anything about ballots or whatever.
	Nobody votes.
	How do I trust them?
	How?
	How do I trust people?
	Who aren't even connected with what's going on.
	Let me ask you a question.
	And I mention this in my line of media, my private section.
	How are you being affected by any of this right now?
	Let me answer it for you.
	Okay?
	I'm going to be the average American.
	The average American.
	Okay?
	And the average American is going to tell you, look, I know you're talking a lot about how bad things are.
	About the crime, people in the streets, kids, you know, John Waters burlesque shows they have in public.
	But honestly, I don't see that.
	Yeah, it's been bad, but we're fine.
	Gas was a little high.
	Gas was high.
	Didn't like that.
	My kids are maybe in school or not in school.
	We haven't seen any of this stuff you're talking about.
	Haven't seen it.
	I mean, the crime has been bad, but you act like this is the first time you've seen this.
	There was a show years ago called Panic in Needle Park.
	Do you remember that?
	This is where Al Pacino got his start.
	Panic in Needle Park.
	I think it's in Hell's Kitchen, right around here.
	Do you think you're the first person to just have what?
	People in the street?
	Bums?
	Crime?
	What's the matter?
	Don't you remember New York?
	During Abe Beam?
	Don't you remember what?
	Where have you been?
	Do you want to go back?
	Let's go back to Hobo Villages?
	Remember after World War I, the...
	The bonus riots.
	Remember that?
	Where have you been?
	You think it's bad now.
	It is bad, but what?
	You've never seen people in the street?
	I don't understand.
	Skid Row, since the beginning of time.
	You know what the Depression was?
	So most people would say, things aren't that bad.
	I'm not that bad.
	I don't care about Ukraine and Russia.
	I don't know what...
	Okay, he forgave the debt.
	Alright, fine.
	I don't even know what that means.
	It doesn't really affect me.
	I guess it'll affect my inflation.
	I don't really care.
	Trump was good.
	Yeah, I liked him.
	Sure, maybe I didn't, maybe I didn't.
	It doesn't matter.
	Things always happen.
	Things just kind of roll along.
	That's what people think.
	So how is an election going to change anything?
	When the people making the elections think like that.
	The average American doesn't care anything.
	Somebody brings up the Dust Bowl.
	Absolutely.
	Grapes of Wrath.
	The Depression.
	1960s.
	Vietnam.
	We had SDS.
	We actually had Weather Underground.
	You had BLM.
	They're gone.
	Antifa.
	Gone.
	The average American says, I'm doing okay.
	I don't really see anything that different.
	COVID was bad, but, you know, we're okay.
	I don't think it was a big deal when we were there.
	I don't think anybody...
	That's the way America thinks.
	But we, oh no, we're different.
	We can't take it.
	This is the worst.
	That country is...
	I read an article by Paul Craig Roberts.
	It was fantastic.
	If only it was relevant.
	To him it is.
	Theoretically it is.
	To me it is.
	I can't believe what is happening.
	The strength of America.
	The Great Reset.
	Klaus Schwab.
	ESG.
	Sri Lanka.
	Let's go drive.
	Drive in the country.
	Anybody?
	Ask people.
	Knock on the door.
	How's everything going?
	Fine.
	Or in the city?
	Alright.
	Is crime bad?
	Not affected me.
	Have you been affected by crime?
	No.
	Do you know that Philadelphia and New Orleans are the carjacking capital of the world?
	Or the country, rather?
	You know, most people in Philly and most people in New Orleans say, I haven't been carjacked.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	Crime is through the roof.
	Remember when all the Asians were being attacked?
	Go to most Asians.
	Have you been attacked?
	No.
	So there were, what, three people?
	Four people?
	I don't know what it is.
	You see, we talk about this in our world.
	When we get together for our little coffee clutch, that's what we talk about.
	It's the end of the world.
	Ronald Reagan would have been different than Fox News talk.
	But the average American says, I'm doing alright.
	I don't even know.
	I don't know.
	He still doesn't know about Ukraine.
	Has no idea about Hillary Clinton.
	Couldn't care less.
	And it doesn't even matter to these people.
	Because things kind of rock and roll and they go along and what are you going to do?
	Most people didn't mind COVID at all.
	Most people say, my kids aren't depressed.
	My kids aren't suicidal.
	I'm...
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	See, because we talk about niche things, you know.
	Stories about, oh, did you hear this story?
	Did you hear about that?
	Did you hear about in this, in this, and this, this athlete couldn't compete because this, because in the PGA, now there's men.
	You think, you think people care about that?
	Do you think people care about that?
	No!
	Whatever.
	Yeah, okay, I guess.
	That's the problem.
	Because what most people will tell you is this.
	America is pretty doggone good.
	I like it.
	It always sucks.
	It's always something.
	What are you going to do?
	I heard something yesterday which floored me.
	I love Cease Man.
	Brian Lamb, he's a treasure.
	And it was a piece from the 90s.
	Rancho Cielo.
	This is Reagan's Ranch.
	And they talk about his biographers.
	And people called up On the phone.
	And Brian Lamb was very, he's a wonderful man.
	And he called up and he said, Sir Lamb, what do you think?
	Ronald Reagan was the worst at Star Wars and what he did to this economy.
	Ronald Reagan.
	Listen to the way they sounded then.
	Ronald Reagan.
	Ronald Reagan would be a joy right now.
	The country was great during Ronald Reagan.
	And listen to what people were going crazy over him.
	You should have heard this.
	What he did to this country.
	He's a stupid man, a stupid actor.
	He's stupid and befuddled.
	I don't think he was that befuddled.
	We were saying this then.
	You want to go back to the time of Abraham Lincoln?
	Oh my God.
	In Bloomfield, New Jersey, on Bloomfield Avenue, Grover Cleveland's Birthplace.
	It's right there.
	Right there.
	Only twice consecutive, not twice non-consecutive president in our history.
	Grover Cleveland.
	Who's your mama?
	Who's your pa?
	Had this scandal with the ward, his law partner, with the daughter.
	I mean, just, we're going to go crazy with Grover Cleveland.
	This debauched two times.
	What they said about Abraham Lincoln?
	Oh my God.
	And FDR?
	Nothing.
	But nothing.
	Ask...
	Oh God.
	Who said war is a racket?
	Remember they were going to have the overthrow of the country.
	Nobody talks about it.
	Smedley Butler.
	Twice Medal of Honor recipient.
	Remember that?
	They were going to...
	They were going to have a revolution.
	You think January 6th was good?
	How about this?
	The heads of Wall Street, they were putting together their own army to overthrow FDR.
	We forgot about that.
	It's unbelievable.
	You've got to step back from this.
	And you've got to watch and listen to what's going on.
	And I'm telling you, Nothing is changing because people aren't upset.
	They're doing fine.
	Whatever.
	Who cares?
	Gavin Newsom.
	I don't even know who Gavin Newsom is.
	Tommy Newsom?
	Who is that?
	Johnny Carson?
	Who is that?
	What are you talking about?
	So, do I have a problem?
	Yeah, I got a problem with the whole elections because nobody votes.
	Nobody cares.
	People are like, eh, whatever.
	But we fooled each other.
	Oh my God, we...
	I love articles.
	I love stories.
	I love...
	I'm not going to mention names.
	Some of the most arcane stuff ever.
	And one of them is...
	I was reading something about...
	Oh, oh, um...
	It might have been...
	You know the best news is still Wion.
	W-I-O-N.
	Palkisha Upadhyay who's just there.
	Oh my God!
	China.
	Let's you and me go and let's knock on doors and say, what do you think about China and Taiwan?
	Remember the other day Nancy Pelosi is in Taiwan.
	Do you know what they're going to do right now?
	She's basically, she's going to exacerbate, she's going to bring on a war!
	A war!
	Nothing.
	Don't you understand this is China?
	Nothing.
	Nothing happens.
	Nothing happens.
	Americans don't react.
	Not enough.
	The smallest proportion of the people think they Think.
	Think.
	CPAC.
	Fox News.
	Kid Rock.
	They create this world of Kid Rock.
	Yes.
	Kid Rock speaks for us.
	Really?
	Okay.
	Yes.
	And to understand that Tia, whatever her name is, Leah Thomas, nobody cares about that.
	Nobody.
	But if you wanted to get people's attention, I've said this, and I've said this, and nobody takes me up on it because they don't want there to be change.
	Every single person, everybody in Congress, anybody running, should say, I'm coming home to your town.
	We're going to be at this, I'm going to have my own little...
	My own little public library.
	And I'm going to tell you about what's happening with kids today.
	You want to come?
	I'll come.
	I'll come to you.
	That's the issue.
	Not crime.
	Whatever.
	They don't talk about that.
	They don't talk about that.
	They don't care about that.
	You don't even understand.
	The world...
	Doesn't care about the stuff that we're talking about.
	And the shadow government is saying, watch this.
	We got this covered.
	Whatever we do, they can't say anything.
	If they say something, they'll be a denier.
	Number two, who's saying what?
	Nobody wants anything.
	I live in a time, I live my dream.
	Honey, don't do that.
	The thing which is...
	I can't think now.
	That's okay.
	No, it's alright.
	For some reason I was middle of this great thought.
	There we go.
	The thing which is the most...
	I can't explain it.
	And I know that this is completely antithetical to a lot of folks.
	But I've got to say this.
	We in this business think that we're controlling the world, that what we say goes, that people listen to us, that people watch us, that they follow us, that they do all this.
	And I want to believe this.
	And I have been through this from 9-11 and...
	Vietnam and JFK.
	You name the issue.
	And I thought, this is going to be the issue.
	This is going to be the issue that is so critical that people will forever change.
	It will change the complexion of American politics.
	This is going to be the issue.
	And I'm always wrong.
	I'm always wrong.
	I think that there's a...
	I'm sorry to say this, but almost like a permanent sense of torpor or ennui.
	Dare I say this?
	Ennui?
	This nonchalance that Americans have?
	Anyway.
	My friends, I gave you two hours today.
	A twofer.
	A two-hour back-to-back.
	Admittedly, by my own error, but I was so glad to...
	Be here.
	Let me say something to you and I want you to listen to me.
	I want to thank you for your support.
	Thank you for your time.
	Thank you for your interest.
	Thank you for your love.
	Thank you for your input.
	Thank you for your presence.
	Thank you for your likes.
	Thank you for your...
	Thank you.
	We thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	This, what we are doing, what is happening right now, is such an experiment.
	That we have been a part of.
	And I've been with this, and you have, since YouTube and everything just started.
	And it's been incredible.
	And I hope that one day, the only thing I hope for is that all limitations, all breaks are lifted.
	And that the only filter is your off button.
	That's it.
	Where you go...
	That's it.
	That's all I want.
	That's the only thing.
	If you don't like something, you just turn it off and nobody else speaks for you.
	Nobody says, alright, we're going to act.
	You violated this.
	No, no, no, no.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	If you don't like it, turn it off.
	Remember, as we speak, Mein Kampf is still in the New York City Public Library on 5th Avenue and 46th Street.
	It's there.
	The blueprint of Hitler.
	That's there.
	It's no problem.
	Nobody cares about that.
	So thank you.
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	And I want to thank you.
	We'll see you again tomorrow, my friend.
	Same bad time, same...
	Well, actually, 9 o 'clock, the correct time.
	Today was fun.
	Two hours straight through.
	No commercials.
	No bathroom breaks.
	Loads of coffee.
	I can still do it.
	Alright, my friends.
	Have a great and glorious day.
	See you tomorrow.
	The monkey's dead.
	The show's over.
	Sue ya.
	Ta-ta.

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