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Feb. 2, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Washington DC Up Front — @LionelNation

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All right, my friend.
So good to see you.
So good to be back.
Let me start off by saying it is so good to be back and how if I miss one day of this, it throws me out of whack, out of kilter.
And perhaps, perhaps you might be the same.
Let me say right now that we have never, ever needed your help more than ever to subscribe to this channel.
It's that simple.
The metrics...
The algorithms, everything.
For reasons I can only imagine.
Need, desperately need, your likes and your subscriptions.
Tell your friends.
Tell your friends.
That's all.
You know the routine.
I don't want to start off with this usual cavalcade of the...
Because I don't know about you, but my brain turns off when I hear people say...
And I don't even hear it anymore.
I don't even hear...
Okay, you guys.
Hey, guys.
That guys thing.
You have no idea what the guys thing does to me.
Under the guise of...
Hey, guys.
Hey, guys.
Can you guys?
Hey, guys.
Not only that, have you noticed an absolute unimaginable spate of cursing?
It's almost caprolalia, which is this spewing, this almost like it's a tick.
I don't think anyone It recognizes the fact that these words, I mean, I've known them, I use them, but it's not my verbal hamburger helper, if that makes any sense to you.
It's incredible!
Does it add authenticity?
Do you think that's it?
Do people think, does it make you sound tough?
Do you think you've just...
that you've just...
Discovered these words?
Is that it?
I don't know.
I am not a prude by any stretch of the imagination.
I don't react like, ooh, that's a sin.
No, I believe a full and a beautiful vocabulary includes all words.
Words that make a lot of sense.
Words that convey an idea.
But when they are used as a substitution for wit, as an interjection, For everything?
Especially when you don't realize this.
You don't realize this.
Okay.
Yesterday, December 7th.
No, yesterday, Mrs. L and I spent the day doing her noble work and I was doing some business as well in our nation's capital, the District of Columbia in the city of Washington.
I cannot put into words what that experience is like whenever I'm there.
And I'm going to try my best to give you a feel, but not what people normally think.
It's not the usual.
It's not the usual stuff that makes this interesting.
No, no, no, no, no.
That's not it.
It's what I noticed in comparison to other moments.
And the first thing I noticed, which was so interesting, we left.
This is how we roll.
If you'd have told me this years ago as a youngster, our train left at 4.20 in the morning.
4.20.
So we're up at, I don't know, she's up early before me.
We're up, ready to go out the door like nothing.
And I loved it.
The city was quiet.
It was wonderful.
Dead.
We walked in there, and there's two stations in New York, two train stations.
There's Penn Station, which is, oh, God.
Oh, my God.
Dear God.
And then, across 8th Avenue, there's the Moynihan Penn Station.
It used to be the post office, but it's this beautiful, beautiful, new, gorgeous, marble, Beautiful, beauteous train station.
Well, that's not open at 3.30.
You know, when you show up.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
That's not, that's not, that's not, no, no, no.
You have to go to the old one.
So we walked in.
I said, oh, that smell.
This is right at Madison Square Garden.
This venue that has held...
It's right there.
This is where the Rangers play and the Stones and everybody, you know, Ali, Frazier, and the whole bit.
Okay.
There was nobody there.
There's nobody.
We walked in and said, what is this?
So, I walked over to one of the folks, one of the attendants, the M track attendants.
I said, is this, is this where we're supposed to be?
Yes.
Okay.
There's nobody there.
It was kind of, and I use this term really loosely, it was kind of clean.
It was kind of clean.
They had this kind of Zamboni thing driving around.
There were a few, you know, those zombies walking, but just a few.
Not like before.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
So we get on the train, and it's beautiful.
It's wonderful.
It's like it's very, very rhythmic and very soothing, very kinesthetic.
And everything was fine.
Until then they realized, we're not in the quiet car.
Oh, no!
Oh, no!
And across from us, sure enough.
She's on the phone, uh-huh.
Yeah.
So anyway, it's not even, it's four o 'clock in the morning.
People are, you'd think somebody would say, I'll talk.
But there's no, uh-huh, yeah.
So anyway, and they want you to hear what they are saying.
Not only what they're saying, but the conversation.
They live in a world, this inertial bubble, where you don't exist.
Dear God.
And I am looking.
And I'm sending daggers, and people go shimmy.
And finally, the next stop, there is a God, apparently.
Because it's weird.
People go from New York to, they take a train to Newark.
Okay.
And by the way, there's a Penn Station in Newark, and there's a Penn Station here, and there's Newark, Delaware, and Newark, and there's all kinds of, you gotta make sure you really know what you're doing.
Anyway, thank God.
Thank you, Jesus.
She's off the thing.
So next time, quiet car.
Quiet car.
So we finally got into D.C. Union Station.
Walked in.
I thought, where is everybody?
It's 7 o 'clock.
In the old days, it was rocking.
Washington?
Washington was like, my God, it was New York Times 10. Not now.
It's the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.
I'm thinking, what?
What is happening here?
What is happening?
So as we went out into this beautiful area, I think Teddy Roosevelt, it's just, there were these little shops, and it's all gone.
And there was this one place where you could go, this one restaurant that I went to for years.
Gone.
I don't know what happened.
It's just empty.
And I walked out.
And there's normally the flood of Ubers and cabs.
Nothing.
I mean, there's nothing.
It was the strangest thing.
The strangest, strangest thing I have ever seen.
Now, I just filled in.
I just, we'll go into more detail.
I don't want to say too, too much on a public level because some people I know are going to be listening and they're going to say, he's talking about me.
He's talking about our, you know, place or club or place.
And I don't want to get too, too much into that.
I just did, just, just did a brand new, very private, for the private, you know there's the private channel, right?
This is the private channel.
And somebody said, is it X-rated?
I said, yes.
You know why?
It's the truth.
It's this stuff where you say the truth.
Well, you don't hold back.
You don't hold back.
You don't say, you don't worry about anything because of the truth.
The unabashed, unabated, unabridged, unedited truth.
The real, hardcore, really serious, or, or, better yet, let me just say this, not only the truth, but your opinion.
So this is my link for that.
I'm putting it up right now.
Please, if you're listening to this on a phone, let me know.
What you think.
Do you realize that you don't really ever come close to telling people what you think?
You may think things that would never be tolerated.
Never.
And they're just an idea.
Oh, dear God.
So if you want to hear me in what I think, Where I'm not worried about what them did.
Because, let me tell you something.
Private channels, paywalls, sorry.
That's open game.
You asked for it.
You consented to it.
I didn't force it on anybody.
We're not under any rules.
Sorry.
Sorry.
And it's the truth.
It's just this brutal truth.
So that's that.
I'm going to bring you to that.
We were in a room.
We're in a particular...
I'll talk about this later.
We're in an establishment.
And it is rocking.
This world...
We're having breakfast.
We're having my steel cut.
And you're so close to people.
You get to hear everything.
And if you're like me...
Because I do believe there is either, I'm not on a spectrum, but I'm on a frequency, I think, or a wavelength, in which I can hear 20 different conversations at the same time.
Magnus Carlsen can play chess with 20 people.
I can listen to 20 people.
I can see this guy over here.
This one's on the phone.
This one's on, this one guy over here was talking about because his daughter's driveway was iced.
This one over here is complaining about the temperature of the room.
This one, I just can do it.
And frankly, I love it.
I love it.
It's like hearing.
It's like being able to hear.
Remember the old days when you had radio like Delco?
Remember you would push.
You would do this and you would be kind of in.
You would be between the stations.
Imagine if you could hear all of them at the same time.
And make out what they're saying.
That's the way I am.
And I'm listening, and most of these people are lobbyists.
The most insincere parallel universe I've ever seen.
And there are these ways that men speak.
I thought it was over within my generation, but apparently not.
And I was never good at it.
I mean, I didn't want to be good at it.
And it's like this.
Tom, how are you?
Good to see you, buddy.
Boy, they let anybody in here.
You know Dick Lisa, don't you, Dick?
You know Tom, don't you?
Yeah.
Yeah, how's it going?
Working hard?
Hardly working.
You know how they do this?
It's this corny, insincere, yeah.
How's everything?
Listen, you tell Mary Jane hello.
Yeah, sure.
Didn't you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know.
Billy Weber.
It's this foe.
Then there was a contingent that was music to my ears.
It was a group from Mississippi.
And they show there's a chivalry and it is a gentility And the closest things to manners that we'll ever see.
And it's more of a, you know, like they can say, good morning, sweetheart.
You know, they're just wonderful.
They just light the room up.
Do you mind if I sit here with you?
And at one particular time, I say, well, if the good low is well and the creek don't rise.
Oh, and we're talking because I'm in it.
I'm from Florida, and we're talking, and I have not, I have not, Jabberjawed in that patois in a long time.
And it was beautiful.
And we're in this room.
It's so crowded.
And the woman over there, she's about the thermostat.
She's going crazy by the thermostat.
I don't know why.
The funny thing was, she said, they're in this club.
It's kind of a private club.
It is.
It's a private club.
It's very nice.
Very nice.
So we're sitting there, and she said, I'm going to go to the ladies room.
This is another one.
She says, would you watch my bag and make sure nothing happens to it?
And everybody looks at her like, what was that?
What do you think this is?
Penn Station?
You can leave your bag.
You can leave your bag there and your wallet open and you can...
What?
It was great.
And she caught herself like, oh, that's right.
Are you saying we would take your...
It was great.
Again.
And what was accomplished?
Nothing.
And then when a senator or a congressman would walk in with their button on, their little lapel, oh, rock stars!
Rock stars!
We were leaving, Mrs. L, and somebody says, do you know who that was?
That was, there's 535 congressmen.
It's 100 senators.
So what?
They work for us.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
That's like me saying, with all due respect, I said, you see that guy there?
He's the manager of this club.
I'd rather get, he can do more for me than that congressman from Indiana, wherever he is.
Because that guy who owns this club, runs this club, and the waitress is more important to me because they kind of work for me, sort of.
I need something from them now.
This guy's never going to do it.
Anything for me.
He doesn't do anything for his constituents.
He's there in Congress to make as much money as he can to get out and to pretend, which is what Washington really is.
I want to explain this to you.
I want to explain this to you.
But first, I want to talk to you about something which is important.
I don't want to say this.
I don't want to say this, but you know, it's that season.
It was cold as you know what yesterday.
Cold as hell, which makes no sense whatsoever.
We're in trains and we're with people.
And this is about just plain old influenza.
Just influenza, the flu.
And my body's being bombarded.
I'm trying to eat right, do my stuff, and I'm trying to...
And I'm doing everything I can.
And you're doing as well, too.
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Where do you get zinc from?
What kind of foodstuffs would you get this from?
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Have you done this yet?
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I get vitamin D newsletters.
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It's really a hormone.
You know that, right?
It's not really a...
Do you ever have your D levels taken?
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Do you know what a Potemkin Village is?
Who knows what a Potemkin is?
Class, Potemkin Village.
Class, Potemkin Village.
Anybody?
What is a Potemkin Village?
Quick.
Quick.
Anybody?
Let's see.
Let's see if you're up to speed.
See if you're paying attention this morning.
Anybody know what a Potemkin Village is?
Potemkin Village is...
Anyone?
Any of you wonderful people?
A Potemkin Village.
A village of the Potemkin.
Okay, I hope I'm back.
There we go.
I hope I'm back.
Refresh, everyone.
Refresh.
Okay, what is it?
Let me give you a Potemkin Village.
A Potemkin Village.
Always look this up to get the exact and the precise.
Where in the hell is this thing?
Here we go.
Potemkin Village is...
It was right here.
Like I said, look things up always.
Potemkin Village is any false construct devised to disguise a shortcoming or improved appearance.
Remember, everything is deception.
Deception, deception, deception.
The origin.
Grigory Potemkin was a minister and a lover of the Russian Empress Catherine after the 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea from the Ottoman Empire.
They set up this...
As soon as the barge carried the Empress arrived, men dressed as peasants would populate the village and they created, in essence, something that was not there.
It It does not exist.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is Washington.
It does not exist.
You've got a White House and you've got these people walking around.
Let me tell you about this.
If you're ever in D.C., get on the phone and call your representative and say, I'm coming by.
I'm a constituent.
Watch your reaction.
You won't believe it.
They work for you.
And then you might be met by a 20-year-old who doesn't know what she's doing, or he's doing, can't speak, doesn't look at you in the eye, and is there for, I don't even know what they're being paid.
Or you have the hotshots.
We saw one, not going to mention the name, but you wouldn't know the name if I told you, with going in and having aides run behind him with a suit.
They think they're rock stars.
Excuse me?
You won't believe what you're saying.
It's a Potemkin village.
It is a movie set.
It is this artificial world in which they want you to believe that something of consequence is going on.
And please, like this video.
We are not getting enough likes.
That's all I'm going to tell you.
You go from one to another and you'll see this.
And you see these people making their treks.
And you see these...
Do you notice too?
They have fewer protesters and fewer people on the corner.
They had these people right in Mont Lafayette Park.
There was always somebody protesting something.
You didn't know what it was.
Saw fewer and fewer and fewer.
It wasn't the same.
It was empty.
It was weird.
But, which means that there's no more excuse for them to hide from you.
In the old days, oh, no, no, no, no, you can't come in.
Oh, no, you know, you understand.
Okay, sorry, we'd love to meet with you, but not anymore.
Well, guess what?
That's over with.
So if you go there and you say, I want to meet my delegation.
I want to meet my congressperson.
I want to say hello.
They will treat you like, do you have an appointment?
Excuse me?
Wait a minute.
Hold it.
You don't understand how this thing works.
That's like you asking your babysitter or your lawn person, or if you have one of those, or your housekeeper, do you have an appointment?
See, we've lost the sense of duty on the part of Americans politicians.
We've lost this.
And I think a lot of it's our fault, to be quite honest with you.
They don't do anything.
And let me also tell you what they do.
They pretend that they're doing things.
They sit around and they posture and they just talk about stuff.
And you have all the cameras in this one area.
You know where you see them all?
You see these various office buildings?
You'll see.
It's like a big feed.
It's one little camera and you can book time for it.
They can't set up.
They all kind of share it.
And you run out there and you'll talk to somebody.
You know, in some respects, you might want to think that some people on TV are far more important than the people in Congress, which is ridiculous, but I think that's true.
And there are people who have this, for some reason I never will understand this, I do not understand this, but there is this sense of, I guess you might want to call it a, like a, They have these, I don't know what the word is, these love affairs, they think that these people are stars or something, I guess.
I don't see this at all.
I am not impressed by any of these folks.
None.
None.
I have met these.
I have met these.
I know what I'm talking about.
I am not impressed.
Years ago, when I got out of...
College.
I was a district aide for a United States senator.
I worked for these people.
They would come to me and I would help them with passport stuff or immigration things, you know, or they wanted to, we had tours we would work if they were going to D.C. Oh, God forbid you treated a constituent wrong.
Not contributors, a constituent.
We didn't know who these people were.
We had our share.
I could tell you some stories that are just incredible.
Now I want you to listen to me and listen carefully.
I'm going to give you the best advice, the best observation that anybody can give you.
And especially, this is for people of all ages.
And I want you to listen to me.
And I know what I'm talking about.
And what I'm saying is not considered popular because I don't care about being popular.
I want to be correct.
Being correct and telling the truth will basically, in most true universes, result in your popularity and the like.
But I want to say two things before we begin.
Let me warn you about this.
Number one, have you been watching what you're reading about food?
Eggs!
Have you read this?
Have you read about...
I'm telling you, this is the thing that...
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I just put this link down for you.
For food, they are telling you story after story after story.
Here in this country, you don't go around...
The rest of the world and see what they are saying regarding food.
There will be food crises.
Now, I don't know what you think a crisis is.
For example, when you think there is literally, actually, nothing ever produced anymore.
On any available store shelf.
If that's what you think it is, no.
There's always going to be something there.
A bottle of sriracha, some graham crackers.
There's always going to be something there.
That's not what we're talking about.
What happens if you've got a very serious supply chain problem?
Something happens.
And use your imagination.
Can you go 30 days right now, 30 days per person in your household, 30 days.
If I sealed your house, sealed it up, locked it, I should say not sealed it, could you exist?
Or would you say no?
Could you say, I've got it, I've got it, I've got 30 days, right?
Sure.
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That's it.
It is just talking to you.
Period.
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Either you get it or you don't.
Most people do not know what you're talking about.
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EMP attacks.
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Now let me tell you something.
Every now and then, Mrs. L will tell you, same for her, whenever we go on any kind of vacation, not vacation, it wasn't a vacation, this was a work, but we were up pretty, it was a long day.
And it takes days for me to Process everything.
It takes days.
It's the weirdest thing.
It takes days.
Days.
Because I'm so overwhelmed.
Do you see what I see?
I think Peter Francis said, do you feel what I feel?
But that's beside the point.
Now, I was watching something.
I was sitting in this nice little, kind of like a...
Room waiting for one of our little meetings.
And I happened to have my iPad on.
I was watching an old interview with Don Hewitt.
Don Hewitt was the producer of 60 Minutes.
And Don Hewitt was talking about the Kennedy, the first debate with Nixon, and then later on with this and that.
And then Mike Wallace was giving an interview.
And they were as alive as you could...
Possibly be.
But, of course, they're not with us anymore.
And they were talking about the role of the press.
The media.
The media.
The role of the media.
And why people distrust the media.
And the media.
And Mike, do you think that this indefatigable bulldog...
And I'm listening to this and I'm saying, this is a time capsule.
What are you talking about?
The media?
CBS?
What?
Listen to this.
It's like Murrow saying, well, you know, the responsibilities of the press, of the radio, what?
I've got people, I've got friends of mine, and it kills me to say this.
He yells me.
He yells me.
Radio.
Stick radio.
Stick.
Antenna radio.
It's app.
A radio is a podcast.
And I meet these people who don't understand this.
They think that call letters, they're still here, but they think that people say, oh, no, no, no.
There's a Wall Street Journal article.
A friend of mine in the business says, more people listen to radio than everything else.
I'm thinking, what?
I mean, what?
What?
What are you talking about?
Now listen, let me explain something to you.
Please, please bear with me.
There is this frequency, this can, this spectrum of information.
And, Nobody today is worried about how you get it.
The number one, I personally believe, the most across the board, the most important, and I'm not saying whether I think this is, it doesn't matter what I think.
One of the most important voices is Joe Rogan.
Period.
End of discussion.
There are other people and other...
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
And I have a friend of mine who is in the world of talk radio.
And he said, who is this Joe Rogan?
I said, who?
What?
That's like saying, what is this McDonald's?
What is this...
This thing, football, you call it?
Who's Tom Brady?
Now, in this D.C., every...
This is bread and circuses.
You know that.
I couldn't care less whether Tom Brady retires again.
Whatever.
But listen to me.
Weigh it.
Put it on the scale.
Weigh it.
It's big.
It's big.
This weighs a lot.
This news.
The absolute value of this.
You know what absolute value is, right?
The absolute value of 4 is 4. The absolute value of negative 4 is 4. It determines magnitude.
Direction has no interest.
Magnitude!
This is a story!
Whether you like it or not, whether you agree with it, whether you care, whether it's the biggest news in the world, it doesn't matter.
This is happening.
And in the world of informational programming, spoken word or whatever, Joe Rogan is it.
And there's nobody.
Rush Limbaugh was an anomaly.
At his height, his power, but then, his power was like no one's, like no one's.
Because he, listen to me carefully, Rush Limbaugh would He would advise you.
He would say, this is what I think you should do.
News people don't really tell.
They do tell you that, but not like that.
That was in your face.
Do this.
Vote for him.
Whatever it was.
Very, very powerful.
Now, I don't want to talk anymore about whether Murrow was important.
One of the biggest radio voices in my lifetime.
That nobody, but nobody could even get near as Paul Harvey.
But that's history.
It's a waste of time.
What we have today is a completely different world.
And what I'm telling you is you may not have known the difference.
And that's one of the benefits, I think, of being from my generation because I was able to see this.
I was able to compare it.
But those days are over.
It doesn't matter.
It's interesting.
I don't care anymore.
It's over.
It's over.
What is happening right now is the most important thing in the world.
It's called information.
Me getting the information to you.
What is information?
Well, for example, would you like to know if you are carrying a particular recessive gene that could lead to a lethal...
I think it's important.
Would you like me to let you know about a pathology report that I have?
About something you should know about?
Maybe a radiology report?
That lump in your neck?
Would you think that?
It's just information.
It's just information.
Would you like that?
Would you like to know where you're going?
You've got to pick somebody up at the airport.
Would you like to know where this airport is?
I've got something here.
This is called information.
It's all it is.
Would you like to know This.
Would you like to know the score?
Would you like to know where the Super Bowl is?
Would you like to know what I did?
Information about before, about a Potemkin village.
What does this mean?
What is the derivation?
What is the etymology of it?
Information is critical.
It's crucial.
And you can argue whether it's true, whether it's fake, whether it's exaggerated, whatever it is.
The information part, and by the way, information is also divided up into Debate, opinion, whatever.
It doesn't matter.
It's information.
It's information.
People love information.
When you sit there and you watch something, if you're watching a TikTok video, if you're watching anything, somebody's dancing, it's information, it's data.
There's no such thing as, well, that's not important.
You say junk food.
Does it matter?
Does it matter?
Would you rather own A McDonald's franchise?
Or a bunch of health food stores?
Answer the question.
I don't want to talk about it because I'm into absolute value.
Not good, not bad.
Not important.
Whether Joe Rogan is important, it doesn't really matter.
I don't care about this.
And right now, everything is different.
Politics, the world, what we know, who's there.
If I could have a...
A device where I could go into Washington and say, how many elected critical officials are here right now?
Think of it as a fuel gauge.
Is it full?
Is it empty?
I think you'd be shocked as to how many people weren't there.
I think you'd be shocked.
Let me ask you a question.
Name the most important and most critical piece of legislation that has affected you in your recent life.
Name the most important issue right now.
Name how is it being done.
The information that comes in and this is the most important part.
That which is forgotten.
It comes in and it's just...
Forgetting is, there's no corollary.
I was trying to think.
It's almost like, you know, wasting food.
You didn't eat your food.
That's not it either.
Imagine this.
You sit down to eat.
And all of a sudden you say, what were we just doing?
Eating.
Right.
Never happens.
You very rarely think, God forbid, where was I going?
Or what?
What is it?
Oh, it's a car!
Excuse me.
We don't forget stuff.
We, I mean, we might even slip your mind, but we just don't forget.
You don't come home to your kids and say, don't tell me.
Jerry?
Yeah, go.
No.
But when it comes to news and information, we forget.
This comes in one day, it's gone.
It's just gone.
It just goes.
Away.
It just...
That is the thing I can't explain.
There is no repository.
There is nobody keeping score.
There is nobody telling you, wait a minute, we're not done with that yet.
No, no, excuse me.
Pardon me.
Hold it.
We're not ready for the story yet.
No, we're not going to get...
Tom Brady, we're not going to get to you in a moment.
Not yet.
We're not done with this.
We have this story about these forest fires or this, whatever it is.
No.
There is no gatekeeper.
There's no conductor.
There's no air traffic controller.
There's nobody telling you, wait a minute, hold it.
Because, and this is important, in 1980, roughly, when CNN started, when they went, one of the biggest things we ever saw, when it went from regular news to cable, Ted Turner said something that nobody believed anybody would say.
He said, why?
Should we turn off or go off the air?
We're going to go 24-7 with news.
What?
And we're going to start five minutes after the hour.
That was the one I loved the most.
Let these other people start and we'll come at 5 o 'clock.
We're not going to compete with people at the top of the hour.
We'll come at 5 o 'clock.
Just watch them and then move over.
He was a genius.
CNN was it.
You're going to go 24 hours?
Yes.
Who's up at...
Who's up at 3 in the morning?
Who's up at 3 in the morning?
Yeah, who's up at 3 in the morning?
It's always 3 in the morning.
Sort of.
Somewhere.
What do you mean?
This is the way we used to think.
Remember the Indian?
The test pattern?
They would have this...
They wouldn't...
The Late Show, the Late Movie, who thought of that?
Design came along and Ted Turner said, we're not going to do this.
It changed.
Oh my God.
Now we've got to stay up, yes.
There's always somebody to watch.
Ted Turner says it costs more money to turn things off than to start it back up again.
Why?
In New York, we are great repositories of Korean food.
I love Korean food.
And these are the most beautiful people.
They're wonderful.
Hardest working, most industrious, and little Korea is, you've got to see, it's a machine.
There's one particular place I like in particular, and I like the manager, the owner, I don't know who she is.
And I asked her one day, it's open 24 hours, and I said, do you ever close?
She looked at me, And the question is, do you have keys to the front door?
If they say no, that's a good sign.
They never close.
We never lock that door.
It's never locked.
Never.
Close?
Why would we close?
Okay.
During Mike Wallace's time and Don Hewitt and, you know, Huntley and Brinkley and all that jazz.
That was then.
Now you're going to have somebody sitting in a room, smoking cigars, maybe having a single malt, and talking, perhaps profanely, about a myriad of subjects.
Somebody might have a wool cap on.
Somebody might have a studded earring.
Somebody may be in boxes.
Somebody may say, hey guys, you know guys, hey guys.
That drives me through the roof.
I don't know where this...
Hey, guys.
You know, guys.
Okay, I want you guys to know...
Okay, this is called the pencil, guys.
Okay, guys.
And this is the tip.
Now, guys, they call this lead, but it's graphite.
There's no lead.
And this is called, guys, the eraser.
And they'll have music.
And you may think, this is the most stupid thing I've ever seen.
Oh, yeah?
People love it.
Remember, absolute value.
I don't care what you think.
This is the way it is now.
Mike Wallace is dead.
Don Hewitt is dead.
It doesn't exist anymore.
The thing that you want, you ready for this?
Is you just want the truth.
That's all.
Other people may not want it.
Governments may not want it.
Organizations may not want it.
Politicians may not want it, but you want the truth.
And there is nothing, nothing that drives you more crazy than when somebody lies to you.
And you know what really makes you crazy?
What really?
This is the number one cardinal rule I've seen in my observation.
Don't censor people.
They go berserk.
They go berserk.
And the number one rule, because it makes no sense what I just said, is never say you're going to be open and free and then not mean it.
They go berserk.
They just go berserk.
Ever tell somebody, That you're going to be open and honest and cool and groovy and you don't.
That is unforgivable.
That's it.
I'm glad to be home.
Honey, you glad to be home?
I am, but I'm revved up to get work done.
She's revved up to get work done.
Speaking of revved up, let me tell you this much.
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You can say whatever you want.
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It's fantastic.
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Her newsletter is read by...
Everybody.
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Oh, yes.
I'm sorry.
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You just go right here.
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Let me tell you, tomorrow morning, I hate to do this.
We've got to be with another important...
Not that you're not important.
I shouldn't say that.
We have a meeting that is...
I can't move.
I don't want to start off at 6 and all that stuff.
So, it may be later than on.
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I want to do one at, you know, 4. I might want to do another one.
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I mean, I don't know how to tell you this.
And don't tell me, well, there's no excuse not to subscribe.
I'm subscribed to stuff.
I don't even know how I...
Who are these people?
I'm subscribed?
Did I do that?
Okay, fine.
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Don't ever change and mean that sincerely.
And until tomorrow, this is your new best friend, Lionel, reminding you, as we always say with this particular valedictory, this, this, this...
Oh, and one more...
I don't know when we're going to do it tomorrow.
It might be 4 o 'clock.
It might be noon.
I don't know.
That's why you've got to subscribe.
But it will not be 9 a.m. Eastern Time.
I'm just telling you this.
So you've got to subscribe so you know what I'm talking about.
Might change it.
That's it.
So, we'll see you tomorrow.
Same bad time, same bad channel.
And as we always end with this valedictory, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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