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Oct. 12, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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When Are the Media Directly Contributory in Destroying Youth
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*Groan*
This is a fascinating subject.
There's no doubt about that.
This has been one of my favorites forever.
And I want to bring this to your attention.
I want to say a couple of things.
On my private channel, the LionelMedia.com channel, that is a private subscription service where I speak in a much different tone, I can assure you.
I address the absolute biggest con ever, and that is the celebration of Tulsi Gabbard.
Who has left the Democratic Party and now hovers in some kind of landing pattern, ready to perhaps move into the Republicans?
We don't know.
But she's the darling of the news for today.
Remember, Kanye West was a subject of incredible fascination, especially on Fox News.
Two nights of detailed, riveting conversation as to this latter-day Spinoza, this Schopenhauer, this Pate, this...
And then...
Gone!
Who?
Kanye, who?
Ye, who?
No.
That rings a bell.
Yeah, but you just...
And then you edit it.
Anyway, that's on my private channel.
Please, LionelMedia.com.
Enjoy that one.
But I want to talk about something which is the most critical.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I thank Providence, God, whoever, for so many things that are nothing but luck.
Luck.
Has nothing to do with my ability or anything.
Most of what happens in life is luck.
Had the Beatles been around one year before or after, it could have changed everything.
Marlon Brando, the most overrated actor of all All time.
Had he not come in the 50s or really during this particular time, it might have been a different thing.
It's luck.
It is luck.
There are people who are at the who are the best of the best of the best and they haven't been Heralded as such because of just luck or happenstance.
I'm going to say something right now.
There are people in the world today who do something better than anybody else does.
Period.
And Jerry Douglas is the best dobro player who has ever lived or will live.
And unless you follow Alison Krauss.
This guy should be.
But for some reason, we don't get into dobro.
Or country music.
Maybe there's bluegrass.
I don't know.
I mean, seldom seen Mike Aldridge.
They were great.
But he is to the dobro what Terence Tao is to math, what Edward Witten is to supersymmetry.
He is out there.
Dale Watson.
I think the best country music singer alive today.
Who?
So there is no meritocracy.
There are people who come along and they're famous and they're very good.
Do you think Johnny Depp?
Do you think George Clooney?
I'm not going to go through the list.
Who is the best?
We don't know.
It's luck.
And thank God that Mrs. L and I have no Little children growing up today in the world of social media.
I can't say that any more seriously than I'm saying.
And if you are a parent, listen to me, a parent, a grandparent, I am telling you, dear God, You have no idea what's out there.
You have no idea.
Now what I've done, it's a very interesting piece.
I have cited today the readout of the White House Task Force to address online harassment and abuse youth roundtable.
And yesterday was International Day of the Girl.
This is today on International Day of the Girl.
The White House Gender Policy Council, Domestic Policy Council, and the Department of Education convened a roundtable with youth survivors of online harassment and abuse alongside educators, youth, and adult advocates and health experts.
I give the citation.
And I say, good for the White House.
I don't care if it's titular, theoretical, whatever.
When somebody does something, I don't care who it is.
I don't care.
I don't care.
This needs to be addressed.
And it is a situation that is so complicated, more than anything you could ever imagine.
Believe me.
There's another story I'm doing at linomedia.com, which I can't even talk about here.
I can't even talk about it.
But it is so bleak that what happens in the world to little girls in particular?
Dear God!
I don't even want to say.
But let me explain something, why this is critical.
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And I want to hear what you have to say and hear what your insights are.
Let me also give you a link as to, if you want to hear a more dark version of what this is.
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I want to read something to you.
In fact, I want to read this to you, and I want you, if I could, Mrs. L has a newsletter that is coming out today, which is her, I think, it's the best.
Frankly, the best that she has done.
It comes out every Wednesday.
And it's a part of her Lin's Warriors exercise.
And I'm going to get this to you.
And this is really, really important.
And it deals with the notion of bullying.
Now, when we talk about bullying, let me tell you the way the issue normally goes.
And it goes something like this.
Kids today need to know how to defend themselves.
Right?
Kids today need to know how to defend themselves.
By the way, before I begin, before I continue, let me just put this on here.
This is her.
This newsletter today goes out at about 10 o 'clock, so sign up right now and you'll get it by 10 a.m. Eastern Time.
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But people have this idea that somehow they can deal with this.
That when they dealt with things as kids, They had to go out and their mom and dad said, you're going to go out there and you're going to show these people and you're going to roughhouse and you're going to...
Because when I was a kid, we dealt with, you know, bullies.
And it sounds good.
It sounds good.
And some of the issues are so critical.
And first, I want to cite from, this is a newsletter, and her research.
As follows, bullying is defined as, by the way, this is different than you think, an ongoing and deliberate misuse of power in relationships through repeated verbal, physical, and or social behavior that intends to cause physical, social, and or psychological harm.
Bullying can involve an individual or a group misusing their power or perceived power over one or more persons who feel unable to stop it from happening.
Cyberbullying takes place on digital devices like cell phones, computers, tablets.
Cyberbullying can occur through SMS from text, apps, online and social media forums, and gaming.
Gaming is huge where people can view, participate in, or share content.
Cyberbullying includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else.
It can include sharing personal or private information about someone else, including embarrassment or humiliation.
Some cyberbullying crosses the line into unlawful or criminal behavior.
Thank you.
Research shows that any form of bullying can have lasting effects, chronic depression, increased risk of suicidal thoughts and ideations, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, overall poor general health, substance abuse, self-harm, Trust issues, difficulties in having and maintaining friendships, and reputational damage.
Now, if you are one of these parents, or one of these people, and I hope to God you are not, but if you are one of these folks who says, you know, when I was a kid, we had this, and you know, that's just a part of being a kid.
That's just a part of being a kid.
You know, what are you going to do?
It's just, I cannot tell you the error you're making.
For whatever reason, for whatever reason, adults have always, throughout history, for reasons I cannot understand, They have loved in the past to say, well, when I was a kid, when I, when I, I was young, when I had this, we didn't have this.
It was fine.
It's a wonderful story.
Same thing with kids.
In my day, There was a time when we were worried about, people were talking about, you know, STDs or pregnancy or, and parents did it too.
They said, in my mind, when we were a kid, we did, okay, blah, blah, blah.
This is the thing I don't understand.
Why are we doing this?
Why do people love to do this?
They'll tell you, well, we need more prayer in schools.
I'm not asking you, with all due respect, what it is.
You would recommend that we do.
I'm not suggesting what we can do.
I'm not doing any of that.
Why are you continuing?
Why?
Why is it that people love to do this?
I don't know.
But if you have a child, if you have someone who is on digital devices and the like, please, I can't say this enough.
I've seen it.
I'm not even telling you the half of it.
Believe me when I tell you this.
What I'm telling you right now is so monumentally watered down, it's almost misleading because I don't think it really conveys to you the severity of this.
But I will try nonetheless.
You've got to recognize the fact that this is something so incredibly serious.
And kids today are fragile.
Kids today live in a world where they are concerned about things that we never had as kids.
I was talking to a 30, approximately a 30 year old, 30!
28, 20, who said when I was a kid, listen to this, Parents worried about antidepressants or kids being depressed or whether they played games too much.
Just playing games.
Just playing, I don't know, mine.
What were those games?
Minecraft.
Okay, just merely just playing the games.
Just devoting too much time to that.
That's exactly, that's exactly what we're talking about.
Merely that.
Just for no other reason.
And today we're seeing something which is completely different.
Now there are ways that parents, if you own a device, you bought it.
You pay for it.
And if you go to LensWarriors, she can show you devices you can use that are available right now that can basically make that phone be a phone and limit virtually everything.
There is this issue right now where Amazon is being sued, and I'm going to talk about this later, for selling different devices online that can be used as a form of Suicide chemicals and self-harm.
Now, what happens to be used is that it can be used for food preservation, and a lot of things can be used differently.
But the notion of teen suicide, for the first time, we're talking about, we have never even, it never came, I never heard of it.
When I was a kid, we had a...
We had a kid in our school, this was a grade school, who I'm not really sure what happened.
It might have been a miss.
I don't know.
But he either had an accident or he committed suicide.
And we went to his, we had the Mass of the Angels.
Have you ever had that?
Seen that?
It's particularly eerie.
Now this was 1968, 67, I mean, whatever, we're kids.
And nobody even thought anything about it.
They said, well, this is the weirdest, there must have been something wrong with this guy, or it was an accident, or whatever it was.
Today, how many times have you heard this?
But here is the issue.
Whom do you blame?
Do you want to blame people?
You think we should start off with blaming?
Do you think right off the bat, let's figure out who's responsible and go after them.
Because somebody's responsible for this.
So let me ask you the question.
Who's responsible for this?
Listen to my question very carefully.
Listen to my question.
Who is responsible for this happening right now?
While you think of the answer, let me answer it for you.
Everyone.
Everyone and anyone.
Since the beginning of time, I don't have to remind you.
People with their pharmaceuticals, they've been asking, why don't you...
Let me back up a little bit.
Do you think that child-proof caps were something they didn't have as a...
The 50s?
The 40s?
Do you think nobody said, hey, can we, you know, these kids are opening these things up.
Can we make these things harder?
I know sometimes development and design is slow.
But do you think that's possible?
Come on.
It costs too much or we'll get to it or whatever.
Do you think that it takes a genius when they had the Ford Pinto?
Somebody said, you know, I don't think we should put the gas tank behind the driver.
I'm just saying.
Remember Jim Neal, the great trial lawyer?
Anybody?
Do you know that, and we've all heard about this, airlines will figure out how many, we've got a problem with this, but how many people are going down?
Let's say there's 10 accidents.
Okay, we haven't, they try to incorporate into the budget projected casualties.
This has been going on since the beginning of time, so It's okay to jump on big tech.
I understand this, but do you think that corporations in general, the first thing to do is, how can we make this thing better for people?
If they're making money, I don't care if you're pharmaceutical, if you're a car or an airline, the first thing you do is, if it ain't broke, don't break it.
And if it ain't broke, don't.
I always say, if it ain't broke, don't break it.
Leave it alone.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you know what?
We're doing great right now.
Just the way it is.
Maybe put a warning here and there.
And then they'll talk to themselves.
You know, everything is potentially legal.
Listen, nobody's making you use these devices, right?
Nobody's making you do this.
You don't have to use this.
This is the greatest thing in the world.
Do you as an adult want your world, your social media world?
Platform destroyed because of some hypothetical 10-year-old?
Maybe it's the parent's fault.
We go through the arguments all we want.
And they're valid to an extent.
But what I'm telling you is that the parent, if we had a kid right now, this poor kid would be so afraid he wouldn't go outside.
And how people, how kids are buying sodium nitrite or nitrate, nitrite, online?
Why are you buying it?
Are you into pickling?
Are you making, are you a salumeria, a charcuterie?
What are you doing?
What's going on here?
Now let me stop right there.
It's easy to blame parents.
Oh my God, we love to blame parents.
We blame parents for everything.
Parents take too much blame and too much credit.
Well, that's my son.
Valedictorian.
Well, I taught him.
Stop it.
Stop it.
You didn't teach them anything.
You don't teach a kid.
You can hurt a kid.
Kids do things, believe it or not, more often than not because they want to.
I know that's hard for people to believe, but it's true.
So here's the issue.
Who is responsible for what?
Now let me go back and give you a little bit of an analogy.
Let's look at products liability.
Products liability is the best analogy.
Let's find out, or assume rather, that we have a product.
It's a car.
And we know that there is a device or something wrong.
There's a design defect that we've noticed.
That for every time, let's say, the brakes get heated up, or we hear a lot of things about electric cars and rain.
You know, electric cars during this Ian, during this Hurricane Ian was another story.
But, make a long story short.
What happens if we realize that there's something that is inherently wrong with that?
And we're put on notice.
And it's in the stream of commerce.
We have to do something either to recall it or to let people know because this is a design defect.
Okay?
A design defect.
Versus people using this thing in a weird way.
Does.
Listen to me carefully.
Does the automotive industry owe society any kind of warning because people get in their cars and drive drunk?
No.
But wait a minute.
You're creating missiles.
A car is a missile.
We were driving the other day.
We saw a car.
If this wasn't a fatality, I don't know what it was.
On upside down, I mean...
It just crashed.
Bad.
Is that their phone?
No.
So when I go on and I make this phone, and I have this phone, let's assume this is a phone, and I put it on.
I'm saying, here's my phone.
And the next thing you know, people are texting, hey, my mom, are you late?
Isn't that great?
Why, when we were a kid, we had a quarter.
Or a dime, and we'd call home, and what if I wasn't at home?
Hey, Mom, we got out early today.
Isn't this great?
Isn't this device terrific?
It sure is.
It's the greatest thing in the world.
Wish we had this when I was.
Hey, I forgot something.
Can you bring it, Mom?
Hey, Mom, Grandma's not looking.
Thanks a lot, Dave.
Isn't this great?
We love it.
I think GPS is the greatest thing in the world.
I think this thing, I'm telling you.
I know we always talk about this from our generation, but if you have ever seen unfolding a map, did you ever go to a triptych?
Hey, let's go to AAA and get a triptych.
And you have this thing with a spiral, and they took this highlighter, and he just highlighted this.
And your mother's driving, okay!
Hang on, we're going to change this.
We're going to fold this thing.
Now we have GPS in various accents, male or female, British or this.
Do you really want to go back in those days?
I don't.
So whose responsibility is this?
Whose responsibility?
I don't know if there's responsibility.
I don't know.
It's the human nature.
It's this thing called human nature.
It's this depraved thing that we have in us.
I don't understand it.
When somebody came up with the idea of, hey, I got an idea.
There's a thing called the knife.
I think I'm going to call it a knife.
What is it?
Well, it's a device.
It's a metallic blade that I've honed down and we can cut meat with it and skin and we can cut vines.
Isn't it great?
Hey, can I see that?
Yeah.
Here you go.
He was probably stabbed immediately with it.
And right after the telephone, whether it was Alexander Graham Bell or the Italian feller, I'm sure the second or third call after Mr. Watson, I Need You was, what are you wearing?
And when you look at the caves of France and you see there's a mastodon or something, Pompeii, they had erotic stuff.
Humans do this!
So who's responsible?
I'm asking you.
Who is responsible?
Kids today, self-harm.
Suicide rates.
Read this.
And thankfully, the White House, somebody, they're paying attention to this.
Who is responsible for this?
What do you do?
Why are there bullies?
Why does somebody get a kick out of grinding someone into the dust?
Why?
Why?
Is it?
What depravity is this?
This is psychopathy.
This is sadism.
For me to say, and we've always had this, we've had the bullying, but by virtue of new means of expanding upon and exploring and, for lack of a better word, finding new tropes and tropisms to Provide societal vectors for such.
Look at what we've done.
Do you have anyone in your family who has been there?
I know case after case where the kid says, I don't want to go to school.
I know a case of a kid who supposedly did something and they catfished him.
And they made a fool out of him.
And people are texting.
Sextortion.
You have no NPR, I'm listening to...
No, no, no, no.
BBC had a piece about this girl who killed herself.
Because she was...
It happens all the time.
And people will say invariably, well, not my child.
What is it that we have to do?
I'm not talking about the source of this.
The source is irrelevant to me.
I don't care about the source.
What do we do?
Imagine this analogy.
You are standing at an emergency room.
You are on duty.
You are the physician on duty.
And someone comes in, in the midst of a massive heart attack, a myocardial infarction.
You're looking at this.
Dear God, look at this.
He's in a heart attack.
Doctor, do something.
And you say, you know, judging by his weight, I would venture to say that lifestyle.
Most probably had a lot to do with this.
And I would also venture to say that eating, excuse me, why are you discussing the teleology, the etiology, the derivation, the source, the origins of this?
We've got to fix this.
We've got to fix it now.
What are we doing?
What are we talking about?
And that's what we do with this.
We love to blame.
Well, ever since we had, we had...
We gave up prayer in school.
And there are people who still say, well, we've got to toughen up the week.
So how do you...
I'm going to present you as my White House liaison to stop self-harm and teenage pregnancy.
That's not a story.
Teenage suicide.
So what are you going to do?
By the way, Dave, go up and give them your Your speech about how we've got to get tough.
We've got a bunch of parents out there who lost their kids to suicide.
Please, do me a favor.
Go on and tell them how kids have to learn how to toughen up.
Enough of these snowflakes, right?
All these kids who expect to get the trophy for winning, right?
Isn't that it?
Isn't that what you're going to do?
You're going to give that speech, aren't you?
Right?
This is what we do.
This is our usual...
Kind of our tough speech.
Well, when I was a kid, we did this.
I don't understand this.
You as a parent have to be so vigilant, more than you've ever been before, and people do not want to hear this.
I don't care why things are.
I can't change that.
But what I can change is maybe I can vaccinate and inoculate a child against this.
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Today I'm going to be on Mrs. L's show.
We're going to talk to this.
Talk about this.
Her show on WVOX at 3 p.m. Eastern Time.
And I most heartily recommend that you tune into that.
But what I see all the time invariably, and look at it right here, are the people who say, That somehow bullying, and I think it's the word, I think it's the word bullying.
Bullying is this word that doesn't sound scary enough.
It doesn't impart.
It doesn't inspire what's going on here.
Teen suicide is through the roof.
The fragility and COVID and being kept in.
There's a study.
I did one.
You don't know what COVID did around the world.
There's an NPR study, which I don't want to discuss it now.
You can't believe what happens to kids.
You have got to, we have got to make kids somehow tougher to go out there and understand what's happening.
Have you ever been the victim of any kind of cyber bullying?
Have you been the subject of something?
Have you ever?
Are you?
Your personality.
How are you about your looks?
How are you about your weight?
How are you about the way you feel?
Have you ever been the subject of a national or an international?
Have you ever been the subject where people have said terrible things to you?
It's really not for the weak and for reasons.
That I will never understand.
I sometimes, I don't, sometimes, I oftentimes recognize that it is a badge of courage when it comes to politically.
Because I must be saying something, and I don't want to keep saying this all the time, you only get flack when you're over the target, but it is so true.
Have you ever been bullied?
Do you know what that's like?
This is in the old days as a kid.
But when you feel, you don't understand.
It's not.
This kid I've got to deal with, mom and dad.
It's not this kid.
It's the school.
They're all talking about me.
They're looking at me.
I don't want to go to school anymore.
It's over.
I'm worthless.
Life's not worth living.
I don't want to live.
Now, you're going to say, oh, come on.
Please, tell them then your story about when you were a kid, about how you socked that kid.
This is what I don't understand.
I don't get this.
I don't understand it.
Right now, as you speak, and parents and kids, did you ever tell your parents everything?
No.
No.
Did you keep secrets from your parents?
Of course you did.
That's what being a kid is.
In fact, sometimes, in fact, there was a great SNL routine years ago of the parent, of the kid, rather, who is too close to their parents.
I think it was Sherry or Terry or somebody.
It was really good.
It was when SNL was actually interesting.
This is the most important thing in the world.
I am seeing now more kids, With anxiety.
Anxiety.
Do you hear what I'm saying?
Anxiety.
Did you have anxiety as a kid?
I don't mean anxiety where you say, I'm a little nervous.
Kids who are on medication.
I'm seeing things now I never thought I would hear.
And again, I'm not going to go back and say, well, when I was a kid, and people loved to...
They say, well, the reason for that is, the reason for that.
I know friends of mine always talk about, when we were kids, we were out there.
I say, are you going to tell me this story about how you rode bikes and you didn't come home until it was dark?
Am I going to hear this again?
Why are you telling me this?
Why are you telling me this?
Why?
Everybody loves to point out these things.
And I love this idea that one of my favorites, and it's very interesting, don't get me wrong, there'll be a documentary on, there's a loss of testosterone, and all over the world, and people in their own mind will say, oh, that must be the toughness part, or that must be the...
And they create these connections.
You've got to sit there, With your child.
And by the way, can I have a number?
How easy, or excuse me, how early is it for you to have this talk with your child?
What age should a child have devices?
What age should your child have a Chromebook or whatever?
Especially when your child is using it as part of school.
Does your child have a phone?
Do you know what's on it?
Do you know passwords?
Can you look at this phone?
Does your child understand?
Remember when you were a kid, sometimes people would keep diaries.
Mom!
You read my diary!
You read her diary?
You read her diary?
That was trespassorial.
My God, those were her innermost thoughts.
You read her diary?
Well, what about this?
What about this?
Is that?
Is you taking that phone?
Give me your phone.
I want to see all your contacts.
I want to read everything.
Is that the same thing?
Or do you care?
Does your child deserve any kind of privacy?
Does your child?
Why is your child taking a phone to the bathroom?
You do, because it's everything.
It's your reading, it's your movies.
Many people today cannot be alone for a moment without being amused.
They have to have this.
They have to have this.
And I am not going to tell you, I love being immune.
I love, I don't even see watching TV.
I want to hear certain things.
I listen to a lot of stuff.
My entertainment sometimes is very highbrow and sometimes it is very stupid.
But there's nothing wrong with it.
But the point that I'm saying is, you yourself have to realize, here's what you do, but what do you do with this child?
Have you had a talk with your child about suicide?
Do you think they tell you anything?
Do you think?
How many times must you hear the story of the parent who had no idea that their child was going through this?
None!
And in the old days, listen to what I'm saying.
In the old days, I used to say the most important person in your child's life is his or her friend.
Or friends.
That was it.
Today is what your child sees.
Now, I'm not suggesting social media platforms are without blame.
Be here to be held accountable.
TikTok and others.
When you have, if you're going to limit what I am saying, In terms of misinformation, disinformation, data information regarding politics or medical treatments or whatever, then you're going to have to say, alright, then we're going to do it elsewhere because that to me is a violation of Section 230 because you're acting as a publisher and I don't want to get into that right now.
But if you're having a game in which kids are being challenged to eat Tide Pods or to jump off buildings or whatever it is and you do nothing knowing this is going on, I believe you owe a moral obligation.
However, to be fair, if I represented these people and I am their house counsel, I'm going to say when you jump in for this, you're going to jump in for that.
And if you think, if you think that this, that this right now, that what we're seeing is wild behavior, well...
Five years from now, you won't even believe it.
So are you going to jump in every time?
Are you going to have to make a stand every time?
Are you going to have to redesign your platform?
Because they will find new ways to harm themselves.
I want to leave you with that.
I don't want you to ask questions, and I want you to promise me, if you have a child, right now, of age, does your child have a phone?
You think about it.
Do not sit back and...
And opine about testosterone levels, or my favorite, soy, or drugs, or TV, or the lack of exercise, or the lack of prayer, or the lack of whatever.
Parents have always been saying kids watch too much TV, it's their music, it's their hair, whatever it is.
This is different.
What are you going to do regarding your child?
What are you going to do?
What kind of communication do you have?
What?
Have you ever even thought about this?
You must inoculate them, vaccinate them, so that when they see this, you must tell that child, if anybody ever sends you a sexting message, I can almost guarantee you, it is not who they say it is, especially in gaming platforms.
Number two.
Tell your kids, if you were to ever be stupid enough to send somebody something, a text, an image, that is considered child sexual abuse material, see Sam, even though you are the child and you sent it, you can be facing possible federal criminal sanctions because you are transmitting this even though it's you.
Nobody ever thinks about that.
You've got to sit down and say, this is a different world.
And parents have done this for a long time.
There are kids who were hunting, hunting after school with 22 rifles because their parents instilled in them gun safety.
This was rifles.
They would go squirrel hunting.
Nobody ever was killed.
Nobody ever was hurt.
Rifles!
Kids are potentially able to understand more things than you could ever imagine.
But you've got to begin, and if you haven't begun, start now.
And tell them.
And they have got.
You cannot say, well, whatever.
And please, we don't, how do I say this?
We don't care about the way you did it when you were a kid.
Doesn't matter.
Nobody's interested.
I'm not.
Nobody wants to hear my stories of, those days are over.
This is a different world.
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Protect our children.
Use your head.
Use your brain.
I know you are capable of doing it, because you are superhuman, and I know that.
Have a great day.
See you tomorrow.
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Until then, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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