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Sept. 12, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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Slouching Towards Ennui
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Good day, citizen.
Greetings, pilgrim.
Welcome.
Get ready.
Get ready to sit back and think.
There's something you don't do too often.
Think.
Think.
Use your head.
Just think.
Don't worry about repeating a fact.
Just think about something.
Just sit back.
Muse.
Think.
One of the funniest things I read this morning was from one of our initial early live stream participants.
By the way, this was later heard.
On Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
So people hearing this are not going to know what I'm talking about.
This is a feed, or this audio was taken from a live feed.
And somebody wrote, I am so sick of the coverage of the royal funeral or the queen's mourning.
And someone wrote immediately, then don't watch it.
Probably the wisest thing I've ever heard.
Remember the old joke, Doc, it hurts when I do this?
Then don't do it.
Doctor says, have you ever had it before?
Yeah.
Well, you've got it again.
There's a ringing in my ear.
Answer it.
I went to a psychiatrist and used to think I had an inferiority complex.
He says, no, you are inferior.
Doctor, nobody will talk to me.
Next?
Anyway, how is everybody doing?
How is everyone doing this morning?
Isn't that a stupid question?
How are you doing?
What does that mean?
How am I doing?
How am I doing?
What do we say?
Great, right?
We say this.
Terrific.
How have you been?
Great.
Hey, how are you?
There he is.
You ever see two guys beating?
Hey, there he is.
They let anybody in here.
Uh-oh.
Hi, the Virgin Mary.
Larry's here.
You know, whatever.
This is the...
Hey!
It's the equivalent of dogs sniffing each other.
Which brings me to today's topic.
Oh, God.
Behaviorism.
Oh, you're either going to love this or you're going to hate this.
You're going to love this.
Or you're going to say, what the hell is this guy talking to?
Why does he keep wanting me to think?
Just tell me something.
I don't want to think anything.
And that is precisely the subject matter of today's discussion.
The pain of thinking.
It's true.
There's a pain.
But we'll get to that.
But a couple of prefatory comments first.
A couple of introductions.
A kind of a precy, so to speak.
It's kind of a...
Think of it as a prolegomenon.
That's a good word.
And this, of course, is our daily briefing.
This is a thorough, but...
Unfortunately, heavily edited, heavily censored, a diluted and watered-down review of that, which I normally speak of on my private channel.
And why, you ask?
That's a good question.
Well, because we have been notified that our subject matter is problematic.
I don't know why.
And we've been demonetized.
Meaning that we cannot enjoy revenue like everybody else from ads, from super chats.
I mean, we're lucky to be meeting with you, but that's about it.
And we have been told that we have posted, now get this, content, this is a quote, that focuses on controversial issues and that is harmful to viewers.
And we are in essence demonetized, but not demoralized.
But the irony...
Is that drug use?
And scabrous and gratuitous filth?
Discussions about mafia hit squads?
There are more mafia shows.
You know, in this life, you know, I shot, I killed, I...
Is he admitting to killing people?
Yes.
I haven't killed anybody.
Yes, but what you're saying is dangerous.
Yeah, but...
He's glorifying this thing called the life.
And he's got to compete with other ones.
So he's saying, I kill more people than you.
Well, you're a rat.
Well, you're a rat.
And it kind of glorifies, one could argue, I think it's subject to free speech, but that's okay?
That's okay.
Really?
That's okay.
This is people that question basic decency.
Things that were certainly proven injurious to children and society as a whole.
But...
No, we're different.
With no proof, no allegations, no indictment, no charging instruments of any sort, no affidavits, no bill of particulars, nope, nothing.
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My friends, I want to talk to you about something.
I have a friend of mine.
He sent me a video the other day on parasitic birds.
Absolutely fascinating.
And the video was not this pretentious self-styled genius trying to impress you.
And did you know that the Bonobo, before mounting its mate, You're doing that to impress me.
You don't want me to know the information.
You're trying to show me how smart you are, right?
You know who that is.
We're not going to get into this.
This is just pure knowledge.
I have loved behavior since...
I can't remember.
Ethology or animal ethology, which is redundant.
I have absolutely loved the subject.
And there's a couple of things.
I'm going to get into this.
I want to talk to you about how you think.
And I want to ask you a very simple question.
And this is a question not for you to answer, but it's for you to think.
And thinking, I can't say enough, people don't think.
They just keep talking.
They just keep talking.
You will never see this.
Never.
People have to say something.
Why?
Because you're in this mindset.
You're so used to social media platforms that as soon as somebody says something, you have to respond immediately.
No matter what it is.
And I don't want to point your fingers, but you see this right here.
People just have to say this.
But I've been saying this for the longest time.
It's an epistemological question.
How do you know what you know?
How do you know what you know?
Well, the first thing you have to do is you have to look at behavior.
I have a friend of mine who has one of the greatest jobs ever.
I don't know if he does this anymore, but there was a time when he was a conga player in a...
In a wedding band.
And for 20...
I think he said it was 25 years.
I think it was 25 years.
I think he said that he went to a...
I think he...
I think he said, I think he went to a wedding every Sunday for 25 years.
So every weekend, Saturday, Sunday, he was in a wedding.
He was at a, very popular of course, but he was at some kind of a wedding reception.
And he got to see what people were doing at this One of the most fascinating endeavors that human beings are involved in.
It is cultural.
It is seen all over the world.
It is something that is just, oh my God, it just goes without saying.
It is so beautiful, so great, so glorious, so fascinating.
But what it is, it's people getting together and celebrating the rite of marriage.
And when you go to this, You have to notice a few things.
And I have been to a few weddings as of late and I want to share this with you.
And it's absolutely perfect because it describes you.
I don't want you to sit back.
I want you to sit back and think about this.
First, you are an animal.
What I mean by that is, you are an animal that is responsible.
That is a tribal critter.
And when you go, for example, to a, let's say a wedding, go to the mall, even here, watch what happens.
Get a corner, sit down, and watch.
We are at...
Supposedly, or supposedly, as some people say, the highest rung of the developmental ladder.
What do we do?
Well, the first thing is, look at the dress.
How do people dress?
Fascinating.
Number one, class means nothing.
I don't even know what that means.
The word doesn't even apply anymore.
For the most part, Men do not even have suits that fit.
Most people don't even have a suit.
And if they have a suit, they call it my suit.
You're going to wear your suit?
Did you get your suit back from the cleaners?
Do me a favor.
Do not dry clean your suit.
If you get a suit, don't dry clean it.
You go your whole life and not dry clean it.
You don't have to dry clean the suit.
Believe me.
Do not do it.
You'll kill it.
You will kill it.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
Press it, steam it, whatever you want to do, unless there's a stain, do not do it.
That's number one.
Number two, this fascinates me more, maybe perhaps more than you could ever imagine.
What fascinates me is that in my lifetime, over, I don't know when it happened, but we went from a kind of a weird transition.
There was a time when people thought tattoos were either part of a gangster, Japanese gangster group, something from the Samoan Islands, some rite of passage from the initiation of a motorcycle gang, or a teardrop, a one percenter.
It was considered low rent.
Low rent.
You did it...
Or maybe you were a truck driver, or maybe a marine.
It's the same thing as cigars.
Cigars used to be, you know, Archie Bunker smokes cigars.
And then that changed.
In overnight, overnight, without anybody saying, this is what we're going to do, this is what we're going to do, overnight, people decided, That they are going to absolutely cover themselves in designs that make no sense.
Just because they feel that this is what they have to do.
That's number one.
Number two.
When people meet, they sniff each other.
Like dogs do.
Dogs sniff each other's posterior for different...
Pheromonal markings.
We sniff each other and we look at each other and we meet.
Women in particular.
Women.
Someone discussing woodpeckers.
Somebody writes this, interestingly enough.
Here's a question, speaking of woodpeckers, why don't woodpeckers have brain damage from hitting their head?
Repeatedly against the tree.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Now look at human beings.
Just look.
The way they sniff.
Women.
Absolutely the most bloodthirsty dance of territory you will ever see.
Two men.
Hey, how are you?
You know men are stupid, women are crazy, that kind of thing.
Which is sort of true.
Maybe a bit of an exaggeration.
But the way men meet, far more avuncular.
Far more happy.
Far more...
By the way, if you don't think there's a difference between men and women, go to a wedding.
Go to the mall.
Go anywhere.
Just watch.
If you don't see this, this is not learned.
This is inherent.
Now why do you think that is?
Well, I love hypotheses.
I don't know.
We have a hypothesis versus a theory.
Theory is something that you can replicate and show.
Like the theory of relativity, it works over and over again.
The hypothesis is maybe kind of like a working idea.
The words are not interchangeable.
But, I have an idea.
I want to submit this to you for your particular perusal.
I think that one of the reasons why is that nature always focuses on proliferation of the species as one of its motivating underlying motivations for everything.
It's a perpetuation of the species.
Children, species, whatever it is.
That's number one.
Number two.
Nature wants you to live long enough to produce your offspring and then you die.
Get out of the way.
Nature does not want you hanging around forever.
Period.
Under any circumstance.
None.
None.
It doesn't.
It doesn't.
It doesn't want you.
It doesn't want you around.
The idea...
If Benjamin Franklin were still here, we'd have button shoes, we'd be...
I mean, no.
There has to be this assembly line.
Sherwin Newland, who, by the way, much to my chagrin and shock, was the father of Victoria Newland, wrote one of the most important books I've ever read called How We Die.
It changed my life.
It was transformational.
And he brings up this very, very important point.
Death is not an oops.
Death is a how do you have the death.
Don't think of death as an oops.
Sometimes it's earlier than usual.
Sometimes it's accidental.
Sometimes it's homicide, suicide.
But it's supposed to be.
It is supposed to be.
And there's this wonderful balance about death and when you try to intervene and you think intervention is humane.
If I always imagine conversations with God, people would get very upset about this, but if there could be a kind of a one-man show, I'd like to pretend I was for purpose to be God and God say, God?
Yes.
Why is there so much Alzheimer's?
Because I never intended for you to live this long.
What's the matter with you?
Don't you understand what I...
What are you doing?
You don't have Alzheimer's in children, do you?
No.
You know why?
They're not old.
But you want to keep extending this thing.
You want to keep extending this.
What are you doing?
But God, isn't it our goal as a human to extend life?
No.
I don't know where you got that from.
And I love God would say, come here, can I ask you a question?
Yeah.
What is with this?
I just heard about a 40-year-old woman having a child.
Yeah.
What's that all about?
What's that all about?
What do you mean, God?
40 years old?
No.
He says, I bet you see some problems in children, don't you?
Older parents, older sperm, older men, older women.
And you're wondering why autism rates are going through the roof?
I know what you're blaming.
Do you ever think about that one?
No?
I have.
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
Why are you doing this?
Why are you doing this?
I don't understand this.
And by the way, God will say, may I ask you a question?
Yes.
Well, God, let me ask you a question.
Go ahead.
When should women have babies?
Thirteen?
Whenever menarche?
Menses?
Whenever they're fertile?
Able to?
After their first period?
That's about it.
Wait a minute.
What?
Yeah.
That's where the body's able to do it.
The uterus is pristine.
Very durable.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold it, hold it.
Thirteen.
Well, it might be even younger now because of all the hormones you're giving kids because it's the onsets earlier.
See, God says, I'm looking at you, human, like a dog, like a bonobo, like anything else.
They don't wait.
What are you doing?
And this is where morality and nature kind of think, well...
And that could be the subject of an entire show.
Of an entire, an entire show.
And always put this in context.
Imagine you were interviewing or you're talking to somebody from another planet who comes here and he's asking, would you explain this to me?
Yes.
There was a girl one time.
Listen to this.
There was a girl.
You might have remembered this.
She was in New Jersey.
She was at a high school prom.
She was pregnant.
Nobody knew it.
She gave birth to the baby.
I think left it, sadly, in a garbage bin or something.
Cleaned up.
Went right outside.
And continued dancing.
Like nothing.
Gives birth.
Goes outside.
Does the hully-gully all night.
No problem.
Women today, Four days in labor.
Labor this.
I'm not mocking this.
And I know it might be the rarity, obviously, but no postnatal nothing.
No complications.
Nothing!
And God would say, see?
So what are you going to do about that?
What do you do when nature gets in the way of your morality?
How do you figure that one out?
How do you deal with that?
It's an interesting case.
It's a fascinating, fascinating, fascinating case.
Years ago there was a case that a woman was attending a conference or something and a doctor said, if genetic counseling and genetic manipulation and genetic engineering becomes better,
becomes more effective, becomes more usual, more available, There will be a day, he said, when we will not see any more trisomy 21 Down syndrome cases.
None.
And this woman in the back rose her hand and said, excuse me, my son has Down syndrome.
What are you getting at?
We love our son.
The doctor said, well, of course you do.
Yes, I understand.
But we don't want, excuse me, you don't what?
No, we don't want more Down Syndrome.
I'm sorry, we don't.
What?
You hear this?
She personalized it to the point.
Do you remember what happened when Asperger's Syndrome, by the way, somebody, it was a terrible NPR, it was a pun.
Somebody says, you know, I keep putting all these apps on my phone.
He has Asperger's.
On NPR, no less.
Anyway, they took the name Asperger's off and they put it as Spectrumosaur.
And the Asperger's community went crazy.
Wait, you're going to take our name away?
No, no, no.
Don't lump us in with...
No, no, we're different.
They said, no, but for purposes of either DSM-5 or 6 or whatever it was, we're going to...
We're going to...
Oh, no, you don't.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Isn't it?
Isn't it?
And imagine telling God, yeah.
And they were arguing.
Really?
Yes.
That's weird.
That's very strange.
But this is what I'm saying.
This is why you have to understand this to understand politics.
The other day at an event, I went to a party.
Somebody recognized me and said, oh, I watch you on YouTube.
That's great.
He said, can I ask you a question?
I said, yeah.
I said, do you think Trump's going to run?
I said, I don't know.
What do you think?
Are you asking me is he going to run or is he going to get nominated?
He never thought about that.
He might want to run.
A lot of people want to run.
Ted Cruz wanted to run.
Marco Rubio wanted to run.
Mitt Romney wanted to run.
Remember Alan Keyes?
Herman Cain?
The 999?
Remember that?
They all wanted to run.
They all wanted to run.
All of them.
Remember that?
But do you mean nomination?
So he didn't even know the process.
He didn't even understand the process of how...
And here he is walking around.
I thought, that's very interesting.
Very interesting.
Well, what do you think?
Oh, I think Trump's going to...
Well, why?
What do you think?
Why do you think that is?
Well, I said, you think he's handling the Mar-a-Lago thing carefully?
Tell me, what is his worldview?
What is his message?
What is his message now?
What do you mean?
Are you sure you have a message?
Because the message I'm hearing is he's talking about Mar-a-Lago and the election was denied or stolen or whatever it is.
Do you think that's an effective message?
Do you think that is an effective message?
That's my first question.
What I'm talking about is distilling the issues.
Distilling the issues.
Bringing the issues back.
You're asking the wrong questions.
That's not it.
You're asking something.
And then it occurred to me.
And listen to me with this one.
You're going to love this.
Maybe you're not.
But my friend who sent me the parasitic birds will certainly enjoy this.
There is a...
What's the word?
There is a...
Hang on a second.
Let me do this.
This is where somebody said, where can I sign up?
This is my private channel.
Somebody was asking the other day about understanding what the issues are.
And the thing with Trump was, what's the issues?
What is it?
That's what we're talking about.
Let me explain to you what's going on here.
As I sat in this room with this party, I said, look what this is.
Who has been to a reception recently or a birthday party or anything?
Who has been?
Who has been to what?
Sit back and watch this.
Listen to the music.
Listen to the music.
What is the music?
One time I said something.
It sounded almost tribal, national geographic, primitive.
Almost old Native American Islander.
Very heavy, heavy, heavy beat.
And I looked and I saw people jumping up and down and dancing.
Now I do not understand dancing.
I've never understood dancing.
Cicero said no sane man will dance.
I said if you ever see me dancing either I am drunk which won't be the case or Or, I'm having some serious neurological event that you should call the doctors immediately.
The last thing in the world, I say, you know what?
I'm having so much fun talking to you.
I want to go out in that hot, sweaty dance area and jump up and down with a bunch of people I don't know to this horrid, primitive beat of something.
I don't understand it, but I know it's popular.
But I'm looking at it and saying, wow, what is with humans and dancing?
What is this?
They can't help it.
So many people also think somehow it's attractive.
Look at me dance.
It's the silliest thing I have ever seen.
Dancing to me.
I do not.
Now, ballroom dancing with somebody, that's another story.
With somebody, not at somebody.
Oh yes.
Oh yes.
I understand that.
No arguments here.
Mrs. Allen and I dance with each other.
Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
That's another story.
You can talk.
You're holding.
Hello?
You know, you're out.
You're trying to make time with this woman.
Hold each other.
It gives you perfect license to breach.
The rules of etiquette is, go ahead.
Get close to each other.
No, I don't want to do that.
I want to...
Okay, fine.
Just go around and look.
As they sit there with these island tattoos and this Samoan...
Oh my God.
Dancing to this...
I'm thinking, look at us.
Look at us.
Look at how we are just...
We are just tribal.
Feral, wild animals.
Packs.
We move.
We communicate.
We sniff each other.
We size each other up.
It's fascinating.
Once you understand it, go to a mall.
Go to a mall.
I was with a friend of mine.
I said, watch this.
I said, okay, her.
Tell me her story.
What do you mean?
I said, divorce, married, ever.
I mean, obviously, it's old enough to be.
Don't look for rings.
Tell me, divorced?
Married?
First marriage?
Second marriage?
Major psychological problem?
What does she think of herself?
Would you mind being a long-distance trip in some kind of a carpool with her?
Just look and do nothing but mere observation.
Nothing more.
Men aren't even...
They're not as interesting because, again, men are stupid.
Women enjoy more of a...
I think a collective, they're fascinating in terms of their own levels of behavior.
Men are not.
There's nothing complicated about nothing.
There's nothing.
And if you don't think men and women are different, I don't know what to tell you.
I don't know what to tell you.
I do not.
I can't explain this to you.
Look at kids' play.
Kids' playing is a fascinating issue.
They're the most beautiful.
They don't know race.
They kind of know age.
Because they know when a kid is roughly in their own age.
But they kind of feel each other out.
And then they start playing.
And they start running.
And they love each other immediately.
And it's instant conviviality.
And then we teach them later on how to hate.
We teach them how to hate this thing.
It's fascinating.
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Now let me tell you what's happening, which is so interesting.
Nobody on any television program wants you to think.
Let me say this again.
And there's a reason for this.
There's a reason for this.
First of all, nobody in the medium knows what they're doing.
This morning, I had one of the funniest things I saw.
I don't know if anybody agreed with me, but I...
On Mondays, I'm on my, I appear with my good friend, my WFLA in Tampa.
This is where I started.
This is my whole thing.
I always have a, Jack Harris is just my buddy and I just love him.
And two things happened.
One, he was decided to take calls.
And when he called, somebody called him and said, I feel 9-11.
Okay, this is interesting.
Kind of a reminiscing, you know, 9-11.
I feel that 9-11 was the most magnificent.
And I wonder, is it possible to recycle the water in vaporizers?
And it was like, what the hell is that?
And the talk show host in me, the bells went off.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
That's the call of the day.
So I was talking to the board operator and he said, because they're not union, they're not engineers.
He says, yeah, we wanted to get our office.
I said, no, no.
I said, that was gold.
See, this is where you don't understand it.
I would have said, you're not going anywhere.
This is the moment.
This is the moment that we will never forget.
Because I'm going to ask her questions about CPAP machines or...
Vaporizers, water, hydration, the Borealis effect.
It's a bit.
The door is open.
You're being invited, but nobody saw it.
Now another thing they did, which they missed completely, they said, now let's go to the traffic.
Traffic is sponsored.
The reason why you have traffic is not because you care about traffic, but somebody will sponsor traffic.
ABC Electric.
We'll sponsor the segment.
Now let's go to traffic brought to you by...
So this one guy says, listen to this, and I'm paraphrasing, but it's pretty accurate.
He said there was an accident on 275 or something.
There's an accident.
That's it.
I don't even think he said, is there a backup?
Is anybody hurt?
No, there's an accident.
One accident out of the entire As you would say, it was the Tampa Bay area.
One accident.
This place.
That's it.
It went right into the spot.
And I thought, that's the funny part.
That's the opening.
That's it.
That is it.
One time, when I was on WABC, we had this event where we called a woman.
No, excuse me.
We were trying to call a...
A reporter or somebody in Lillehammer, or I think it was Lillehammer.
I think it was Lillehammer.
And we had the number.
Well, apparently we dialed the wrong number, and this woman says, Hello?
We're live on the air.
Now, there's no FCC rules in other countries.
You can't call people up on the air, surprise them, and we've done that.
And just put them on the air without consent.
I mean, they don't like that.
But outside of the country, oh, have at it.
Oh, have at it.
Go nuts.
So this woman said, hello?
And I said, ABC, is this correspondent?
Who are you?
And I'm thinking, this is great.
I said, well, first of all, lady, I don't like your tone of voice.
Now, I realized it was okay for me to say that.
Why?
And I said, don't play stupid with me, Inga.
You heard me, and you heard me right.
And it was...
And she wouldn't hang up.
People were rolling.
Why?
Because it was this opportunity.
As we were done, I said, by the way, you still have the wrong number we had.
Yeah, we'll call her again.
Next day.
Hello?
Well, well, well, Inga, let me tell you something.
Don't play stupid with me, honey.
Who are you?
Cut out the who are you business.
People were pulling over.
People were laughing.
People couldn't believe what they were hearing.
People, I mean, it was so mondo.
It was the greatest.
Wow!
It was great.
You either got it, Or you didn't.
And of course, invariably, there were, luckily for me, at the time, there was management who said, we got it.
We understand.
Go ahead.
Do it.
Other people on radio would say, move on.
Talk about the Mar-a-Lago, whatever it was.
Because they have no business in radio.
I'll tell you another story.
I've got to tell you this story.
And the reason for this is to show you there's nobody, Who gets it?
Anyway.
We were supposed to go to Yankee Stadium years ago when I was at WABC to cover a Yankees game and it was raining and of course it's not covered.
It was the worst torrential downpour I think I've ever seen in my life.
So we went back.
We went to the studio.
It was on the weekend.
So it was horrible.
So at the time, I said, do you, as an engineer, or whoever it was, this is the weekend crew, this is like your B staff, they're very good though.
I said, do you have a continuous loop?
We had cart machines.
Do you have a loop of rain?
Just rain.
He says, yeah, have it handy.
I prefer to fire my own spot, but I said, have it handy, you know, I'll signal you.
So I said, well, here we are live from Yankee Stadium.
I said, by the way, I say it's a pretty sparse turnout today.
But I said, you know what?
Maybe people are getting a late start.
Anyway, it's going to be a hell of a game.
A doubleheader today with Kansas City.
And the phones are going, boom, boom.
Now, there's only six lines.
There's only six lines.
People who say, oh, the phones are going crazy.
No, there's six lines.
But when they all come in at the same time, that means something.
So I said, Telefly, you're on WBCU.
Listen, they called this.
Who are they?
What do you mean they?
Do you got a name for me?
No.
I said, did you read this somewhere?
No.
Did anybody announce it?
Well, no.
I said, well, how do you know that?
And who are they?
I said, let me tell you something.
The management would never let me show up.
I'm pretending I'm at the stadium.
Nobody would ever think.
And I'm here, and I'm telling you something, this tarp is not holding up.
We're outside.
A lot of electrical equipment, this is dangerous.
Nobody would ever let me do this without checking this out.
So don't give me this they business.
You don't know they.
This is how rumors get started.
These are conspiracies.
They, they.
I think we know who the they are.
I don't even know what that means, but I said it.
Okay.
Next call.
No, I tell you what, I think that guy's 100% correct.
You too, huh?
To who?
Who?
They?
Is it they?
And it went on.
It was the greatest bit ever.
Then it made it sound like the engineer was under this tarp, but because of his exhalation, he was being hit repeatedly with carbon dioxide, his own, and he was being overcome by it.
He was hyperventilating under this tarp.
And the cart that we had, it's like an A-track.
It looks like it.
When it gets to the end of the loop, there's a part where it's spliced into the next to continue going.
So there's a moment of silence.
So you hear rain, rain, rain, rain, rain.
Stop.
Rain again.
And I would say, oh, it let up.
There it is again.
I'm not going to belabor the point.
What am I saying?
Radio gold.
Ernie Kovacs quality gold.
Nobody's heard it before.
You're wondering, is this what the radio is supposed to be?
Somebody having fun?
It was mondo.
It was earth-shattering.
Invariably, though, the people who are in charge of the program directors, they don't get it.
They were from music, whatever it is.
So what's happening is news repeats the same thing.
They give you the news.
They just give it to you.
But they don't explain anything.
There's no discussion.
Let me tell you another one.
A very dear friend of mine is a teacher, 4th and 5th grade.
Her students can't read.
Do you know why?
Because when they look at their phones all day long...
They're being bombarded with songs and dancing and clips and music and singing and dancing and...
And their eyes don't know how to track because they just...
Consequently, consequently, when you say, okay, long division, the subtrahend, not subtrahend, the numerator, what are you talking about?
Dance for me.
Sing.
I don't know.
I can't follow this.
But I'm trying to say circuitously, perhaps elliptically, discursively, dare I say.
And...
There's another great word.
Not discursive.
Anyway.
The news that's fascinating...
It's a slower approach to go through it.
Let's take Trump.
Does Trump really want to run again?
Is Trump or are we talking about Biden?
Doesn't matter.
Either one.
Does Trump really think he is going he is going to be Nominated?
Does he really think the country wants to go through that which they keep being told they're going to go through?
Do you think that's true?
Do you think that's even remotely possible?
Do you?
Has anybody ever asked you any questions?
Do you think, honest to God, he would put his family and himself...
Through this again?
And people tell me, I never really thought about that.
Well, what are you doing?
Well, I'm just watching these TV shows and they're just throwing things at me.
I'm just getting hit with news.
There's no analysis.
There's no nothing.
It's...
Nobody tells you how to even think about this.
I don't know if I've told you this.
I hope I didn't.
Dear God, I've said this so many times recently.
Don't ask me why.
A friend of mine and I were reminiscing.
You know, when you're in radio and stuff, there are all these things like pizza tasting and contests for chili and this.
Did you ever judge chili?
It's fairly complicated.
You think it'd be easy.
Nobody knows.
Nobody explains to you.
Well, how are you?
Coming upon your ideas.
What is the epistemology?
How do you know what you know?
What do you think?
Well, I like Trump.
I know you like Trump.
Think beyond.
I don't know because you're watching, you're listening to old style like radio.
There was a fellow A dear friend of mine who turned me on to a very wonderful thinker by the name of Jacques Fresco.
Anybody here familiar with Mr. Fresco?
An absolute sage.
And he didn't have that know-it-all kind of sound.
He provided a new way of looking and thinking.
He may not always agree with it, but it was interesting.
I was listening this morning almost crying, almost weeping to an old Gore Vidal lecture or speech.
Oh my God.
Do you know I do not listen to anyone on channels or nobody.
I never heard in my life a Rush Limbaugh show.
I heard it sometimes in the station because beyond the speakers or somebody I heard of a segment or maybe I heard something on YouTube or maybe somebody else referred to it.
Never sat and listened to it.
An hour of it?
Never.
Howard Stern?
Never.
Never.
My good friend Anthony Cumia?
Never heard of Opie and Anthony?
Wasn't even sure who was Opie and who was Anthony.
Didn't know.
Have no interest in that whatsoever.
Don't listen to this stuff.
Don't listen to it.
I don't listen to lectures.
Neil deGrasse Tyson?
Never.
Never.
Michio Kaku?
Not really.
Joe Rogan?
Never heard his show.
I've heard snippets elsewhere.
Sometimes there'll be a little, you know, a moment over there.
That's good.
Don't.
Cannot do it.
Cannot do it.
I cannot do it.
Now, a lecture I can listen to.
I can listen to an author.
I can do that.
Easy.
I do that all the time.
I sometimes can listen to things almost to pick it apart.
Like I love old Julia Child.
Julia Child's Kitchen.
With Jacques Pepin.
And the pepper.
You take the pepper.
That I can listen to.
But I cannot listen to somebody throwing things at me.
Because there's no thinking.
I'm not thinking about things.
He's just telling me things.
The worst for me is the...
Typical college routine where you go to a college, some poor soul asks you a question, and you just slam them, or destroy them, or own them, or whatever the thing.
Somebody says, I believe it, and something about climate change, and the genius adult destroys this person, and then the glasses come down, and the gangster dropped the mic, or whatever.
This is where we are today.
This is where we are.
And you don't even realize that.
Because nobody ever wants to talk to you about how do you know what you know?
Are you a Republican?
Yeah.
Why?
Why?
Somebody told me, these progressives, I said, these aren't progressives.
I said, where is progressive?
Why do you say it?
Well, I don't know.
He's just repeating everything he knows.
Why are they progressive?
What's the difference between a liberal, a leftist, a democrat, and a progressive?
I said, what's an alt-right versus right versus populist versus nationalist versus Republican versus conservative versus neoconservative or paleoconservative or neoliberalism?
What do these names mean?
What are these names?
Do these names mean anything to you?
What does this mean?
He's never thought about this ever.
So you don't know what you're calling them?
No, because nobody's ever discussed it.
When was the last time anybody ever explained to you what a neoconservative is?
You use the term a lot, normally in terms of war.
Everybody in war is a neocon.
What about a war profiteer?
They're not a neocon.
They're lapsed liberals.
Lapsed Trotskyites.
What are you talking about?
Because nobody ever asks you to think about what you know.
How do you know what you know?
How do you know what you know?
I don't understand this.
And what I keep telling everybody that I know, especially those who are the Fox purveyors, Fox News, what do you think is happening?
What is Trump saying?
What is he saying?
What is the message?
What is the dream?
What is the focus?
And I think the world of him.
But I want him to focus on this.
What are you hearing?
I don't know.
Because to them it's a fan club.
It's like, I love the Beatles.
Okay.
Why?
Uh-uh.
Why?
This is serious.
We have right now in...
Let me see.
Days until midterms.
Ready for this one?
Days until November the 8th.
Here we go.
We have, as of today, right now, 56 days.
Somebody here was talking about in New York, as an example.
Now you don't care about New York, but Lee Zeldin.
Oh, Lee Zeldin's going to beat that Cathy Oakley.
No, he's not.
What's the matter with you?
Well, you mean you want him to, right?
Well, yeah.
He's not going to beat anybody.
What are you talking about?
Well, I mean, you know, I like him.
Well, say that.
Don't say he's going to win.
Have you ever been on a campaign?
Have you ever worked a campaign?
Have you ever gone door to door?
You ever put yard signs up?
Have you ever worked at precinct?
Have you ever done canvassing?
Have you ever worked at a level?
Have you ever been a part of that?
Drive to the polls?
Do you ever do that?
You're missing a part of the franchise you can't imagine.
Are you at all involved in this?
Some of the most glorious days of my life were in a statewide Senate campaign.
We ran this show.
And I saw it at every level.
It was incredible.
It was so interesting.
So fascinating.
The process and why people voted and what they wanted.
You had some people, as I say, people on the left, people on the right, they're not going to change.
And then in the middle, there was this wonderful group of people who, you know what, maybe some would say, I don't vote.
It doesn't matter.
They try to assuage their own sense of guilt by virtue of not voting.
So they say, well, it doesn't really matter.
You just don't want to go.
You can't say that, but you just are lazy.
You're not voting because it has no effect.
You're not voting because you're lazy.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but that doesn't cut it.
You're being lazy.
George Carlin says, you know, when you vote for people, you merely encourage them.
That's the most stupid thing ever.
Somebody was saying, you know, this MAGA.
What is MAGA?
Well, it means...
No, I know what it means.
I know what it stands for.
It's an acronym versus an abbreviation.
But what does it mean?
What is the MAGA?
What does that mean?
They use Sweden to make Sweden great again, right?
So what is MAGA?
What does that mean?
Because the press, the invisible government, shadow government, cryptocracy, sock puppet media, they always talk about it as what it means to me.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
You know, know what?
What does that mean?
You use this term.
What does that mean?
Ask people anything.
What does climate change mean?
Climate change?
It's changing?
Isn't the attribution the most important part?
Mrs. Johnson, yes, I've got the results back from the lab.
Yes, your tumor has changed.
Is it better or worse?
I don't know.
I don't know.
So when climate change, did it get better?
Or did it get worse?
As you call it, climate worsening.
Not climate change.
What does this change mean?
Well, you just assume it's not good.
Well, I mean, things are warmer.
Oh, okay.
Isn't that good?
Yeah.
Somebody was saying the other day here in New York, if you've been in New York for 30 years, we haven't had these horrible, Snowstorm.
The whole place was shut down.
You can't go down.
Cars were covered in snow.
You lost your car and you're slipping and nobody closed in snow days.
You know what?
We don't have them anymore.
What?
Because guess what?
We're warming.
Isn't that good?
Isn't that good?
Less power, less energy, less damage.
It's warmer.
Warmer in the winter.
Isn't that good?
Isn't that good?
Do we need snow?
Do we need...
Well...
Good luck with that.
Good luck.
Because as you know, these are religions.
These are nothing to do with...
Go up to somebody.
I saw somebody on the West Side Highway trying to cross the street.
Double-masked.
Double-masked.
Ready to go and to run along the West Side Highway there?
Double-masked.
Young person.
Two.
I could see the black and then I could see the outside by herself.
This is the most fascinating thing I've ever seen in my life.
This is the person I would talk to.
I would have a show just about that person.
Now what I've discussed is observation, thinking, asking, wondering, parsing, really understanding what it is I think, what is it I believe, what are they saying.
Do I really know what's going on here?
You will never, ever, ever, ever hear that on anything, even remotely approximating a news show.
They don't want you to think it.
They don't want you to act.
They just throw this at you.
You're like the kid just watching the TikTok and they're told you what to do.
Mar-a-Lago, breaking news.
Sounders and all this noise.
Just like in the initial days of Las Vegas.
They would take steel, surgical steel pots, pans where the money drops and you would hear this noise and the bells.
I mean, it's classical conditioning like you cannot believe.
Breaking news.
Breaking news.
Developing story.
Continuing story.
Breaking news.
It just...
It's that...
And you're saying, I've been watching this for an hour and I still don't...
I'm not really sure I understand.
They're just throwing things at me.
They're dancing.
That's all.
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So my dear friend, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being a part of us.
Thank you for your apparent interest.
Thank you, not for what you do, but for what you appear to do.
And there's a great line from Fred Willard and Roxanne, I'd rather be with you people than the finest people in the world.
And I mean that sincerely.
Alright, my friends, until tomorrow, 9 a.m. Eastern Time, remember these words, the monkey's dead, the show's over.
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