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Dec. 7, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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How Are You to Decipher What's Critical?

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Alright.
It is time.
Today I'd like to begin with a couple of points.
Some initial points.
Something to kind of make you understand to see what's happening.
And the first question I want to ask you is, what is it that you actually know right now?
What gets your goat?
What motivates you today?
How are you to decipher what's critical?
What do you do?
When you hear something, when you see something, when you are aware of something, when something crosses your mind, I guess you are over the transom, as they say.
What is it that you do?
What do you do?
Invariably, you will go and you will look at news sources and news groups to see what is happening.
And you will collect that information and you'll say, okay, I know this, I understand it.
And you'll find somebody, basically, who says something that, number one, you agree with, which is a very bad thing to do.
Bad, bad thing to do.
Bad thing.
Because you will never learn from people that you agree with.
Now, that's easier said than done.
God, I know this.
I know this.
I know this.
I'm telling you.
It's one of those things where it's like, oh my God, I gotta listen to people.
Well, you don't have to listen to them, but I learned so much by virtue of...
People who don't really, I don't agree with.
So that's number one.
Number two.
Perspective.
What is it that we do to put things into perspective?
What am I supposed to do with this?
Okay, I've got this news.
And I guarantee you most people have never even asked this question.
They don't know.
I am privy to a being in the...
A company of a political organization, I won't go into too much detail, who know absolutely nothing about what's going on.
They know things in terms of the top 40 radio compared to musicology or the Berklee School of Music.
They know names, they can tell you what's number one, they can tell you what's trending, but they don't really understand what it is.
That's happening.
We're going to be talking about a couple of things here, and how, for reasons I do not understand, something happened here, which I missed, apparently, overnight.
And that is that more people are interested in how the media handle a story than how the government handles a story.
If we had the Vietnam War today, More people would be upset with how liberal media or whatever handled the war, or as you say, probably conservative media, than the war itself.
In the 60s and 70s, they marched in the streets to end the war.
If you do march, which you don't, but if you did, you would march about media coverage.
You know more of people who are able to abrade, to bother, to annoy.
That's really what you want.
In fact, though this is not able to be proved by just a hypothesis, If you were to go onto some particular show and you're trying to be a presenter, how are you in garnering clicks, likes, views, and that will never be the product of your brilliance, but by how much you perturb people and rub them the wrong way.
Does that make any sense?
I hope so.
We're going to be talking about that without the light.
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Okay.
Now, I want to try...
I don't want to be the...
I don't want to dispel your excitement because I know some of...
Listen, there are so many of us who enjoy the news cycle and venture into it on a variety of different levels.
But let me explain something to you, a couple of things.
And this applies to everything.
Number one.
What is brand new now, that I have not seen in my entire life, is the fact that the media are now the subject of the news.
You have, and I'm going to use these terms, by the way, just for shorthand.
You have the left and the right pointing at each other.
Well, this one said this, and I can't believe that this, These people, this station, this network, never mentioned this after what we said.
And the other one will say, yeah, but these ones always have on the wrong people, the wrong focus, they say the wrong things, whatever.
Now stop.
These are a couple of tenets of mine.
These are absolutes.
Number one.
I don't care what any news organization, network, Twitter person, Twitter handle, commentator, influencer, I don't care what anybody says.
Let me say this again.
I don't care.
It doesn't matter.
I don't care whether Rolling Stone magazine, excuse me, whether Rolling Stone Or Ben Fong Torres, or in the old days we had Circus, and remember Crawdaddy and all this?
I don't care what people say.
That's interesting, but that's not it.
That's kind of a guide to me.
If you look at Yelp or something, and you go to a restaurant, and you see this, and you see the reviews, you don't spend your time saying, now, where does this guy get off?
Giving it one star, when I know I'm...
Honey...
Let's go.
No, no, wait a minute.
Who is this guy?
Why are you...
You're missing the point.
That's just a guide.
The issue is the restaurant we're going to, not the commentary.
Do you see where I'm going with this?
That's number one.
Number two.
I will venture to say, in every single instance, in every single instance, Of something that is being revealed by either the government or by anybody.
It's old news.
It's a limited hang-up.
And people have used that term for so long.
And it is the...
It is fundamental for you to understand in your definitional quiver the notion of the limited hang-up.
Remember the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg.
People knew about that.
What did Ellsberg really...
What did he reveal?
What did he reveal that people did not know?
Nobody knows.
Nobody read the Pentagon Papers.
Nobody knew anything about the Pentagon Papers.
They have no idea what the Pentagon Papers were.
They have no idea.
What in the world?
What is the Pentagon Papers?
What is going on?
What is it?
I don't know.
Well, what's the big deal?
You tell me.
Was it a limited hangout?
Some say.
In order for you to draw your attention to think, aha!
The reveal has been made.
We can now back off, back down, and go away.
They have revealed this.
This has been revealed.
Great.
What did Snowden reveal?
Do you know?
WikiLeaks.
Very interesting stuff.
What was that?
Well, there was these very damaging photos of civilians being killed.
But what did Julian Assange really accomplish?
I don't know.
Let's talk about the story, Elon Musk.
And I'm asking you, what did Elon Musk actually tell you?
Actually tell you, you never knew.
Did you know about FBI involvement?
Of course you did.
Well, what was it?
Did the FBI go in and tell them, now you're going to do this?
Well, that wasn't suggested.
There was a suggestion or talk.
Maybe you could say, I know better than that.
And if the FBI went, well, by God, they wanted to do something for them or they'd just make a few suggestions.
Okay.
Okay, fair enough.
Fair enough.
What else?
What else?
What did they do?
What have we learned?
Well, it appears that Twitter officials, yes, silenced people because of their political ideology.
Okay.
Is there a First Amendment right to...
Is there any kind of First Amendment right to Twitter?
Because right now, we've got this thing called the Constitution.
This is my...
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
And by the...
By the by, today I believe, there is one of the most important, one of the most important Supreme Court cases ever.
Ever.
Let me read this one to you.
This is a beaut.
Where is this?
Okay, here we go.
Here we go.
Biggest case.
It is Barton Werfer.
Is that a great name?
Barton Werfer against Buckley.
Featuring three Justice Department veterans.
Former Solicitors General.
And the argument is going to be whether a bankruptcy debtor can be held liable for another individual's fraud.
Even if the debtor was unaware of the fraud.
Huge case!
Huge!
This is a feast.
This has been a bankruptcy lawyer, bankruptcy law, creditors' rights law fiasco.
Have you heard about that?
No.
Anybody talk about that?
No.
Is it dull?
I don't think so.
I don't know if it's dull.
But that's what they talk about.
Those are the cases that lawyers and judges, kind of wonky stuff, that's the majority of what they talk about.
Not Dobbs, not Second Amendment cases, no, no, no, no, no.
That's the kind of stuff.
Just want to give you a little bit of an insight in that.
That's all.
Just want to let you know where that's going.
Just want to let you know.
Okay.
So the first question is simply this.
Now, I try...
To get a little bit of sampling, I look at this, this, this, and I'm saying, okay, let me see what I can learn.
Let me see what I can learn as far as what's going on here.
And invariably, it appears that there is a suggestion that there is a First Amendment violation.
So going back to what I said, is there a First Amendment right to this?
I want to read this right off the bat.
This is from the First Amendment.
Not the Second, not the Third, but the First.
This was ratified in 1791, December 15th.
Ready for this?
Okay.
First Amendment.
First line.
Quote, Congress shall make no law.
Hold it.
Stop right there.
Wait a minute.
Stop the presses.
Hold it.
Congress.
Wait a minute.
I want to find out if it's against the first, if it's a violation of the First Amendment.
Freedom of speech, freedom of expression.
Twitter were to limit what I'm saying by virtue of its disagreement with my particular political ideology.
Let me go back again.
Congress shall make no law.
Hold it.
Where's Congress in this?
How does that work?
How does that work?
But listen to this interesting thing.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
That's the establishment clause, free exercise clause.
That's religion.
Put that aside.
Listen to this.
Congress shall make no law respecting or prohibiting pardon me.
Let me try this again.
Abridging the freedom of speech.
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or the press Or the right of the people to peaceably assemble.
Now, this is interesting because, you know, one could say that social media are now the public square.
So let's add that, three things.
But, where is the connection?
Where is the state action?
I'm going to go.
Please.
Please.
When you hear of the great James Woods, he's going to summon a sue you!
Okay, wait, wait, wait, very good.
What's your cause of action?
Well, I don't, you, by God.
I heard someone say, on a prominent, I'm not going to mention it, a prominent, I guess you would call it a conservative network, that if you violate the First Amendment, it's a crime.
And you can go to prison for violating somebody's First Amendment.
Wait, wait, wait.
First Amendment?
Wait a minute.
Crime?
No.
I mean, you can, but that's not it.
No, you're not.
No.
It doesn't work that way.
Whenever an organization is, when you've been denied something, when there have been a school prayer, or a moment of silence cases, or whatever it is, and somebody violates the First Amendment, nobody goes to prison.
It's not that.
See, they say these things.
I had somebody the other day try to argue with me that olive oil is an HDL.
They say, no, you're confusing an oil with a lipoprotein?
No!
How do you even start with that?
You don't even know.
People just say things.
Because there's no correction.
You just say things by virtue of momentum.
So no, there's no crime.
There's got to be state action.
But what are you going to do?
How are you going to prove it?
What are you going to do?
I'm saying this.
And that's what they never tell you.
And here's the thing too.
These folks keep telling you stuff that you already know.
They keep telling you.
They keep saying, well, you understand that this is a violent...
Yes.
And here's Jeff Zuckerberg.
Mark Zuckerberg, or Jeff as he's also known.
And he's on the Joe Rogan show.
And he's telling Joe Rogan that the FBI is saying, uh-huh.
Is that against the law?
Is that against the law?
Anybody break any laws?
You might think, he did what?
What?
Okay, is that against the law?
Is that against the law?
What's your cause of action?
What's the crime?
Tell me.
Don't just react to it.
Well, you can't do that.
Excuse me.
The government...
Wait a minute.
You're telling me law enforcement can't go to somebody and say something that they're printing?
Do you understand that?
Now, there was a wonderful piece.
It was a wonderful story.
It's Operation Mockingbird, and this was...
I think this was during the Cold War.
In the years of it, you've got to read about Alsup and Phil Graham, and it's just fascinating.
It was, supposedly...
1963, 1973.
This was one of the most incredible examples of a confluence, perhaps illegal, unconstitutional confluence, of intel and...
How do I say this?
Intel and media.
Now, the way it's written, the way it's stated is...
Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the CIA that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate domestic American news media organizations for propaganda purposes.
Let me ask you a question.
Is that against the law?
Now, I don't want to be a party pooper here, but I'm going to say, is that against the law?
Is that against the law?
Because you, and many of us, many of us in this neck of the woods, will repeat things.
You will say, oh, it's DARPA, HARP, Mockingbird, you know, Operation Ajax is Iran, and Operation Paperclip, you know, throw that one out there.
You just throw these.
Operation Mongoose, you know, Castro, and maybe this, this, this.
Throw these names out.
And that's like, ooh, okay.
And normally it's meant to show people, look how much I know.
Look, I know the shibboleth.
I know the lingo.
See what I mean?
I know the lingo.
I know how this thing works.
I know what to say.
I know how to say this stuff.
That's what I say.
Alright.
Alright.
But the real question is, is it illegal?
If you're Phil Graham from the Washington Post, And somebody, Corin Meyer, or somebody comes to you from CIA and says, listen, we've got to be very careful.
There's a real threat to this country on American activities regarding socialists.
Okay, sure.
Absolutely.
Well, we wouldn't mind if you would print this.
I'll do it.
Thank you.
Is that against the law?
Is that against the law?
It's not being coerced.
It's not being forced.
You better do this, Phil Graham, Washington Post, or else, by God, we're going to take your paper away.
That's one thing.
But if Phil Graham or somebody were to say, okay, if Bezos does it, if Bezos, who owns the Washington Post now, agrees with the current administration and says, okay, we're going to do that.
Is that against the law?
Is that against the law?
See, Smith-Munt.
Just throw these words out.
Throw words out.
See, I know that.
Would you care to dissect it?
No.
I just want you to know I know that.
Okay.
Is Smith-Mund against the law?
Is there a violation?
Is there anything admirable to this?
Is there anything admirable?
Let me ask you a question.
What if somebody were to come along and say, for example, To the Washington Post.
Let's say it's the DeSantis administration.
Assume.
And their CIA went to Bezos and said, listen, this organization that you're promoting, this is Antifa.
This is BLM.
This is whatever.
And we want you to know that these people, we don't like these people.
And we want you to...
You would say...
That's okay with me.
Excuse me.
That's the same thing.
Well, yeah, it is.
But I like it.
See, it's not so much that there's a suggestion.
It's the fact that I don't like this.
You see, they're doing it because they're anti-Trump.
Okay.
But if they were anti-Biden, well, you can't be like that.
The first question is, is it against the law?
Is it?
Is anything that you're seeing, and I'm listening to this, and I'm watching this, okay?
And I try my best.
I watch the first five minutes or whatever.
Tucker, I'm thinking, here we go again.
Now, it does get interesting, and this is where, if you can prove this, I'm with you 100%.
You prove this?
Oh, God.
And I'm there.
If you can show that a government, an administration, a federal government, federal law enforcement, or anybody...
Deputized social media folks as agents, as proxies to shut down speech.
I'm with you.
If you can show, you can go into court and say, here's what we have.
Memo number one.
State your name for the record.
Mark Zuckerberg.
What happened?
Mark Zuckerberg says, while I was there, the FBI came to me and said, you better...
Cancel, suspend, revoke all of the Trump postings or else.
Or else what?
Or else you're in trouble because we don't like Trump and Trump is a bad guy and we, the federal government, want you to act as our proxy.
We want you in this enormous platform to shut down the individual free speech of somebody that we don't care.
Okay, I'll do it.
Now we're talking.
That's state action.
Proxy, deputization, oh, forget it.
However, let's say Mark Zuckerberg says, you know what?
You don't even have to ask.
I'm with you 100%.
I'm not doing this because you're saying it.
I happen to agree with you.
So even if you didn't come in here, I would do this anyway.
Now is it a problem?
I don't know.
How are you going to prove this?
I don't know.
I don't know.
That's what I'm going to talk about.
How are you going to prove it?
Let's go.
Let's talk about this.
I care about the proof.
Let's assume you had a knife pulled on you by your dentist.
You went to the dentist.
He closes the door.
He pulls out a stiletto and threatens to kill you with it.
And you run out and you leave and he sees the next patient and you call the police.
And you say, I want him arrested.
And you can arrest somebody because it's a felony.
It doesn't have to occur in the presence of the officer like a misdemeanor.
And you say, what happened?
He pulled the knife on you.
Did anybody see you?
Nope.
Did you tell anybody?
Yeah, I did.
Okay, that's good.
We go to trial.
The dentist says, I don't know what you're talking about.
I never pulled a knife.
Why would I pull the knife?
You pulled a knife, didn't you?
No, I didn't.
That's it.
Is that justice?
No.
Well, maybe.
You can't prove the case.
What are you supposed to do?
Find people guilty and you can't prove the case?
Because we know.
So if we know these things, and you can't prove it, or if...
Jack Smith or whoever said, go ahead.
Yeah, I'm the counsel for Twitter.
So what?
What of it?
Yeah, but you were the counsel for the FBI.
Okay, so what?
What about it?
Yeah, but you were...
So, so what?
That's the problem.
And instead, when you have somebody else, did you see what CNN did?
CNN didn't cover it.
Does CNN have to cover this?
No.
George Stephanopoulos never mentioned it one time.
This corrupt media.
Does George Stephanopoulos have to do anything?
No.
ABC's got its own problem with that Amy Robot business.
That's a great story which I don't want to tell you about because I know you don't care about it, but it's the best story of them all.
Anyway.
You may not like this.
I want to uphold the law.
And I might say, sorry.
They've been doing this since the beginning of time.
You don't think?
You don't think?
Do you know what Lyndon Johnson used to do?
Pick up the phone and call people?
Kennedy did this?
Nixon does this?
Everybody!
Are you kidding me?
So, are you deputizing?
Are you, in essence, what?
Limiting somebody's free speech by deputizing somebody?
Yeah!
So the problem is, it's been going on, but why is this different?
Well, they shut him down.
Okay, fine.
So if somebody goes, if they call Jack Dorsey, Mr. Dorsey, yes.
Did you cancel President Trump's account?
Yes, I did.
Why?
Because we don't like what he said.
We think it's misinformation, disinformation, data information, blah, blah, blah.
Is it because the government told you to?
No!
They agreed with it, but that's not why we did it.
We don't like that.
And we, Mr. So-and-so, did you?
And we shut down Babylon Bee because we think it's transphobic.
That's what we thought.
Can you do that?
Yeah!
Sure you can do that.
Did anybody tell you to do that?
No.
Does this happen?
Now, we can make some, we have to change the law.
We have to look at social media.
Almost like a utility.
That's number one.
Number two, we've got to repeal Section 230.
Once you do that, that's it.
Then they'll be real open to change.
But if that doesn't happen, we're wasting our time.
And that's not news.
And we know...
That the FBI had Hunter's laptop.
We know this.
What do you want to do?
What do you not know about this?
We know all about this.
What is it that you want?
This is the thing I don't...
This is what I...
I'm trying my best.
What do you want?
If I ask, you know, Tucker Carlson, what...
Tell me, Tucker, what is it?
If I could grant you any wish, here's my magic wand.
Boop!
What is it?
What would you like me to do?
What?
Tell me.
Do you want Trump's account reinstated?
What do you want me to do?
Do you want me to get CNN to apologize?
Okay, come here.
Apologize.
Say you're wrong.
We're wrong.
Okay, what else do you want?
What do you want?
Do you want Hunter Biden prosecuted?
Would you like that?
Yes.
Prosecuted for...
Okay.
We'll do that.
What?
You want Christopher Brady to say, okay, we had the laptop and we declined to prosecute.
Okay, fine.
What do you want?
What's going to happen?
Here's the thing he's never asked for.
Here's the thing that nobody asks for.
Here's what nobody is saying.
I would have...
Good evening.
Welcome to...
I don't want to keep saying Tucker.
Whoever.
Whatever.
Welcome to the Mandy Lifeboat show on Fox News.
I'm standing outside of the office of Representative Jim Jordan.
We've asked Representative Jordan, Congressman, what he's going to do regarding this.
And we're not going to leave until we get an answer.
Mr. Jordan, will you be conducting hearings now in your position with the House?
And Mr. McCarthy, you apparently being ostensibly the next Speaker or House Leader, what will you be doing?
Ted Cruz, let's go to the Senate side of the Capitol.
Let's talk to Senator Ted Cruz.
Senator Cruz, what will you be doing?
What can you do?
What can the federal government do?
I'm not going to talk to Glenn Greenwald anymore.
I don't care about Matt Taibbi.
God bless him.
I don't care about that.
It doesn't matter to me.
We got that.
I got it.
What are you going to do?
Let's go to the DOJ, Department of Justice.
You had this.
May I speak with so-and-so?
You're not going to talk to me.
I want everybody to tell me, no, I'm not going to talk to you.
You're not going to talk to me.
You're not going to answer this to the constituents.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
If you have this, and you can have a wonderful memo, almost like an amicus brief, where you file this memo, the following charges should be considered in impaling a grand jury.
Are you going to be doing this?
Are you going to be looking at this?
Are you going to be looking at, for example, how a social media platform might have been deputized as a proxy to deny First Amendment rights?
Are you doing that?
Ted Cruz?
Marsha Blackburn?
Anybody?
John, John, John, John Kennedy?
Are you doing this?
No.
Is anybody doing this?
No, I don't want to talk to Glenn Ray.
No, I don't want to talk to Harmeet Dillon.
No, no, no!
No, I don't want to talk to these people.
They can't do anything.
These are guests.
Paid contributors.
I don't want to talk to these people anymore.
They don't do anything.
And the guy with a hat, I especially don't want to talk to him.
I want to talk to people.
I want to talk to retired FBI agents.
I want to talk to retired DOJ.
I want to talk to people who can actually, heard, do something.
Because we are just wasting our time.
And I don't know how to tell you this, but you're wasting your time.
And nothing is being done.
Nothing is being done.
They're still arguing whether...
Did COVID start in Wuhan?
Are you kidding me?
That train has left the station.
Now, somebody somewhere has to figure out this thing, and I don't know how to tell you this anymore, and I've read this, and I've watched this, and I think it's interesting.
But no news organization has to cover anything.
Now, today's a very interesting case.
You have Warnock against Herschel Walker.
Whom, no, who, who, he, don't forget who and he, whom and him, anyway.
Who will win?
In your opinion.
In your opinion.
Will we know tonight who wins this very important race?
Mr. Warnock or Mr. Walker?
Let me ask you, and I'm not asking you the question of who is your preferred candidate.
Who is going to win?
That's all.
That's all.
Who?
Because right now, I can tell you what's going to happen.
You can write, most probably, we will not know tonight, whatever happens.
There will be some thorough investigation and there'll be write-in votes, there'll be a problem perhaps here and there and then we'll kind of wait and then we'll kind of see what happens.
Every single time it happens.
Every single time.
And it'll be this...
And I don't know if...
I mean, I'm kind of...
I don't know about you, but I'm just kind of electioned out.
I used to kind of enjoy that, but now I don't.
Because I don't know what's going to happen.
I don't know what's going to happen with that.
But I will tell you this.
I will tell you the most important issue here.
That whatever happens, there needs to be...
I'm sorry to say this.
A bipartisan committee to say, here's the best recommendations, the best minds.
We're scouring the world.
Who has the best election system?
We might want to consider that.
We might want to consider kind of redoing this.
Are mail-ins the best?
Are there problems with this?
Remember in 2000, the hanging chads, the dimpled chads, the pregnant chads, everybody, remember that?
Okay.
I thought maybe we learned from that.
I don't know.
I don't know.
All I'm saying is turn cable off but look at it very sparingly just to see how they're missing the point and then turn it off.
Go back and review this.
Go back and see.
Go back in history.
We have other issues too.
Russia, China, the holidays coming up.
The alleged...
It depends where you want to look.
It depends.
But you have to be an autodidact.
You have to be the individual who reviews this yourself.
You must do that.
Now, the good news is I must tell you there appears to be that Ronald McDaniel will not.
I don't think she's going to win re-election.
I think Harmeet Dillon is a very, very able contender for that particular spot.
Which is fascinating.
I believe that she is looking to be the, to run the Republican National Committee.
We'll see about that one.
Mr. Mike Lindell, by the way, it's funny because I was just about to speak regarding Mr. Lindell.
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Now, Now, what do I tell you?
Well, a couple of things which are very, very critical.
Number one, I've got to tell you this one thing which just kills me.
My newsletter is going out.
It was out yesterday.
I reissue it to people who did not open it or something.
You get kind of like a double shot at it.
And I got this letter from somebody, and I cannot believe what I read.
I am shocked.
Shocked.
Somebody says, you know what?
This is too long.
And here's the subscription form.
It's too long.
I just want to stop right there and say, the words are too much?
Yeah, I don't have enough time, and I'm just kind of busy.
Then don't read it.
It's too long?
This is where we are today.
This is where we are.
I'm a simple person.
I don't read a lot.
This is too taxing.
Chop it down.
But I'm going to throw out half of my ideas.
I don't care.
This is inconvenient.
The toil of reading is such that I find it cumbersome.
Think about what that means.
So sign up for that right now.
It's just...
Because it's kind of like a...
It's a pastiche of ideas thrown at you.
It makes you say, hmm.
But somebody actually said, Too much to read.
Think about that.
Another person said...
What?
Well, also they say, don't get me down.
Give me positive information.
Okay.
You see what it is?
It's a child speaking.
I can't read with your big words.
And I want to hear good news.
I've got to tell you this.
This just means something a lot to me.
Mrs. Ellen and I were looking at some things.
I wish there was a channel.
Because everybody's doing podcasting and there's all kinds of podcasts on various formats and that sort of thing.
And some are very, very good and some are great.
Some are terrific with just all kinds of...
Oh...
Production.
One guy has this voice, and that's right, because when you look at the grizzly bear, it's like, what are you doing?
He's modulating.
He just loves this.
He loves his voice.
It's like, I find that interesting.
Have you seen food?
This is my favorite.
You want to do a, these are cooking.
Okay, I like it.
But you've got to do this.
You've got to, hey, and you slap a piece of meat.
Hey, take your thing.
You chop it up.
Here's your dash of this.
And they show you basically how to make hash or something.
I think of Jacques Pepin, who was very good, very labored, or repair, or even very eerie, the Tony Bourdain, Anthony Bourdain.
He's on all these shows, even though he's no longer with us.
But there's this This rough and tumble and this slapping of the meat fast and jump cuts and sizzles.
There's a food kind of competitive eater who fails a lot.
I find this fascinating.
He actually fails.
He says, oh, that was a tough one.
Well, I was close.
Wow!
But there are others And there are others who are so bad, they've never completed a sentence, or they're just not very comfortable doing what they're doing.
And I'm not saying I'm an expert, I just like doing this, and I think you would see that I'm not rather timorous about what I'm doing.
I'm here and I like doing what I'm doing.
Other people you can see, it's painful.
I heard one guy the other day who just stops.
He just has these pauses.
It's like, you think there's something wrong with my phone?
What the hell is going on here?
There are some, I'm telling you right now, some of the best podcasting and YouTubing available is the Organized Crime XOC.
Who watches that?
It is, it's like wrestling.
A-Lite.
Versus Sammy the Bull, versus Franzese, versus Ruggiano Jr., versus Panisi, this one, that one, George Anastasia, and they form little internecine battles with each other.
It's wonderful!
To hear this, I'm telling you, I never thought, and they are, In terms of production, you know, not that great or whatever.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
The rawness of it.
It's fascinating.
You think you're in the life?
Did you do any work?
He didn't do any work.
He's not in the life.
I'm in the life.
I never heard of him.
Is he in the work?
No, he didn't.
And they argue who killed people.
You didn't kill anybody.
They don't say it like that.
In essence, they say, you didn't kill anybody.
I killed more people than you.
Did you really kill them?
Did you kill them?
Well, I ordered it.
Well, that's not the same.
Did you ever have a gun in your hand?
Did you ever use your hands?
Did you ever...
It is incredible.
It is some of the most interesting.
It's like a subculture that is so wonderful.
Next, I love...
I can't watch them.
I can't watch any kind of food blog.
Mark Williams was great.
Food Ranger was great.
And now they've spawned all of these unctuous, saccharine, grinning, happy, overly excited over nothing.
Everything's exciting.
And they can be in the middle of the worst part of the world, sitting on a plastic chair behind an auto parts place in Phnom Penh, eating a bowl of gruel.
I'm so excited.
I'm thinking, I don't want to be there.
Thanks for giving me a heads up.
This is the best.
Is this a mole?
I'm so excited.
You flew across the world for this?
I want to have awards for the worst podcast, worst subjects, worst, one of the most weird ironies.
How about the fake setups where the woman, there's a woman behind him, she doesn't know.
This is the wife, but I've got, I put this spring-loaded wig in this drawer, so when she opens it, she's going to, and she's, Got her back turned and doesn't know that the filming is going...
Anyway, it's horrible!
But I love it.
I love it.
Then, I go from one to the next.
I saw this...
I don't know if he was Mexican or South American, man.
Making...
Doing concrete work.
Recreating a curb.
It was incredible!
Then you talk about the war channels.
Then you talk...
I mean, I...
Who needs television?
Who can watch a TV show when I'm watching a guy squatting over a plastic chair in Phnom Penh, eating chicken foot soup in some Cambodian, whatever it is, and then you jump to something that's some mobster with the Lugatz family.
It's incredible.
There is such a richness in this.
There is such a...
It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life.
And some of it is so good.
Some of it is so great.
I love when you see a zoom and somebody's head's too low.
You see his name and they haven't adjusted the length of the camera.
Thank you very much today for American.
We're talking to Professor Nemuel Lobalowicz and his head's here and you see this space.
I love that.
I love it.
You have no idea how much I love it.
There's such a richness.
I would rather watch that than cable news.
You have no idea what it does to me.
Fake handoff.
Hey, that's a wacky tie.
Well, what do you mean, Janine?
Well, I don't know.
What, did you lose a bet?
What's wrong with my tie?
Well, I mean, it's okay if you're in a circus act.
Well, thank you so much.
And this feigned happy...
Oh, dear.
No!
Give me the guy sitting on the plastic chair in the middle of some Mongolian steppe.
Eating yak milk.
That's the greatest!
Don't you understand?
Don't you understand?
This is just...
There's so much fascinating stuff here.
It's incredible.
Anyway, enough with that.
Now, I just want to share that with you.
That's why years ago we used to love to listen to gardening shows on the weekend.
Remember those gardening shows?
Oh my...
God, they were just...
From this one guy, Jerry.
Hi, I'm Jerry so-and-so.
Jerry...
He was an ex-cop.
He had a show on the weekends.
And everything he did was he put soap.
He would put soap.
Most incredible thing I've ever seen in my life.
Anyway, enough of that.
Okay.
Please follow Mrs. L. Please follow Mrs. L. Here's...
A good place to go.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm doing it right now.
It's Lens Warriors, and I'm going to give you a great one.
This is her video.
This is on Rest in Peace Hollywood.
This is great.
She is so up to speed on this.
Please follow her.
Go to YouTube.
Watch this one.
Lens Warriors on YouTube.
Please do this.
Please like my video.
Please subscribe.
The number...
I must be on some kind of a...
I don't know what, but the numbers are like...
Okay.
The guy who's sitting on the plastic chair in the middle of Budapest eating eye of newt on a piece of naan.
I'm not saying it's not warranted, but anyway.
You have a great and glorious day.
Don't forget to preparewithlinel.com.
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And I'll be at the cutting room.
January 14th.
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See you tomorrow.
Have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change.
I mean that sincerely.
And don't forget, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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