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Live Immersion: The Physics of Laughter — @LionelNation

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	Excuse me.
	When do you first remember laughing or humor as a person?
	Did you first become connected?
	And you've got to go back and think about it.
	When were you aware of comics, comedians, cartoons, funny, laughter, the variations of laughter, the divisions of laughter, what laughter means, what laughter doesn't mean, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.
	When were you aware of this?
	Now, the rule that I've always had, which I'm going to break right now, is not trying to analyze what's funny.
	That's a waste of time.
	The physics, the chemistry, the biology of laughing is another story.
	Laughing and laughter and this notion of comedy.
	I'm going to give you a couple of observations and it's something that I want to encourage in you because one of the things which you will find, and if you can develop this and remember this for the rest of your life, you can have a delightful time with your friends and family looking and breaking apart and looking at things that you never thought were even subject to debate in the first place.
	Things that you just never even thought about.
	And the more you look at them, you're saying, wow!
	Now, I am an observationist.
	That's what I do.
	I've always done this.
	I've always been fascinated by the David Attenborough look of the world.
	And the sloth...
	Did you ever hear this?
	How the sloth comes down the tree.
	I saw somebody say that bees don't fly in the dark.
	Any kind of behavior I find fascinating.
	Fascinating.
	If you look at a restaurant, look at a place that opens up and you think, wow, I'm going to go in there because they have balloons, it looks fun, it's inviting, the behavior of commerce, you name it.
	I have people that I know who are absolutely, I believe, demented.
	They're not dangerous, they're not, you know, institutionalizable, but they're demented.
	Beyond anything you've ever even imagined.
	Demented.
	But that's a different story.
	So let me first begin by telling you that it is imperative that you subscribe to the channel, that you like this video, that you hit that little bell so you're notified of new videos and the like, and that you recognize that your metrics count.
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	Let me tell you things that in my age, my development, this stage of my life, what I love to do first is to use this A thought experiment.
	What's it?
	Gedanken?
	Experiment?
	What did Freud call it?
	The Gedanken?
	This thought experiment.
	I'm talking to somebody from another planet.
	Another star system.
	An EBE or whatever it is.
	And I'm explaining something to him.
	They, whatever.
	Her.
	And I'm explaining this.
	I'm saying, let me explain to you something that we do.
	This is what humans do.
	We do this thing called laughing.
	And laughing is one of the most complicated exercises you can imagine.
	A couple of things to note.
	First, everybody laughs kind of at something.
	There are derivations of laughter.
	There are iterations of laughter.
	One of the basics of laughter, one of the breakdowns, if you will, is this thing called, and this is important, this thing called smiling.
	That's not really laughter.
	Laughter is the ultimate stage.
	It starts off with a smile, but then we throw into words like humor, laughing, comedy, performance laughter, where I'm trying to do my best to...
	I don't know what you want to say.
	I guess the word is...
	You want to figure out a way to maybe explain certain things, perhaps.
	And one of the things which I'm noticing right now, and I've noticed this a while back, is in the world of comedians, this is the most...
	I don't know what the word is.
	This is the most interesting group of people they are.
	Let me explain this to you.
	And this is an absolute truth.
	Listen to me carefully.
	Number one.
	They speak as though they have an ability that's almost dangerous, God-given, superhuman, and beyond anything that you or I or any of us could ever even remotely grasp.
	They are given this power.
	They are given this ability.
	And they speak about it in this almost like this formulaic, Years ago, I had the chance to work with a bunch of comedians, and they wrote for all of the late night, everybody from, you name it, Saturday Night Live was one, the Daily Show, you name it.
	They wrote for comics.
	None of them really performed.
	But they wrote, and they immersed themselves in it, and these were the most unfunny people I've ever met in my life.
	I mean, they were tragically and scarily unfunny, and uninteresting, and unappealing, and it was the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life.
	I'll never forget this.
	At one time, there was this one fellow who was demented, and I happened to say, what are you going to be doing tonight?
	I don't know why.
	And he said, I'm going over to Trevor's house and we're going to write.
	Oh, what are you going to write?
	Comedy.
	And I laughed.
	He didn't think it was funny.
	And I thought, only in America can somebody who is completely detached from anything that is written.
	And this guy was a professional comedy writer.
	And he presented this stuff, which wasn't really funny.
	At all.
	But among his fellow comedians, it was considered funny because they collectively said, this is our sense.
	And in this group, it was dark.
	This wasn't the Larry Gelbart, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, 2,000-year-old man, Shelley Berman, no, no, Seinfeld even.
	No, no, no.
	This was dark.
	Dark.
	So this dark comedy person, Would get hired at this show, and then when they need other writers, these other dark people, and they...
	Now, I'm not saying it wasn't funny.
	It was dark.
	And I realized, oh my God.
	So that kind of set me on the path of...
	I always thought these people were funny.
	One time I remember sitting around in a...
	a quote, pitch session.
	I said, what's your favorite joke?
	I'm in a joke, you know, like a joke, a recitation of facts.
	Two guys walk into a bar and one guy's got a parrot and the bartender, you know, that kind of thing.
	Didn't know what I was talking about.
	Well, one time I remember watching so-and-so said, here's a great joke.
	Here's a joke I wrote.
	He wrote, and they will say things in this phrase and they all will laugh, but here's the next part.
	This is what I would explain to my friends.
	Am I extraterrestrial?
	They laugh as though people don't know how to laugh.
	They laugh as though somebody has never laughed in their life and they're trying to mimic the behavior of somebody who's laughing in a way that convinces you they're laughing.
	Who has seen comedians in cars drinking coffee or whatever it is?
	Jerry Seinfeld.
	Acts as though he is going to drive off the road over the hilarity of whether it's Norm Macdonald or whoever it is.
	Uncontrollable.
	They'll sit around with this one.
	It'll be Louis C.K. or it might be whatever it is.
	And they sit around and they become detached.
	It's like they put their foot in the clutch, a lot of kids know what that means, and their engine is spinning, and they're showing you, because I'm in the biz, because I'm in this biz of comedy, I'm laughing.
	I have this heightened sense of what funny is, and therefore will exhibit it by this over-the-top overreaction to something that's really not that funny, in my opinion.
	I don't know anybody who laughs like this about anybody, except comics trying to...
	Virtue signal to other comics.
	Yes, I'm part of the group because after all, why would I be laughing this hysterically out of control if I did not understand the...
	Okay, you got it?
	See how this works?
	It's the strangest thing ever.
	And they always talk about it as this...
	Almost like a doctor says, well, we have an infection.
	And we're going to apply antibiotics.
	And then we're going to go to a we're going to go to a a brief segment.
	And we're going to attack this.
	And after the patient should rebound.
	They speak about things very formulaically.
	Very linearly.
	As though this plus this plus this equals this.
	And you know what?
	It might have always been like this.
	I don't know.
	Today and this is me.
	I don't listen to comedy.
	I don't laugh.
	Nobody's ever really made me...
	A couple people, I thought, well, that was funny.
	But a lot of my response is, that's very good.
	I like clever.
	I like something.
	That's just me.
	Other people may not.
	I was watching a documentary last night on the genius of Buster Keaton.
	Buster Keaton, did he make you laugh?
	Does slapstick make you laugh?
	Does it laugh when the building falls?
	Or do you laugh when it falls and he's in the doorway and it misses him?
	Is that funny to you?
	It doesn't make me laugh, but I know other people do.
	Then we get into the notion of why people laugh almost reflexively because they feel like they're going to have to.
	They feel like they have to laugh because I'm in this setting and I don't want to be rude.
	There was a story about that years ago in the book, I've lived to tell it all, George Jones was talking about how he, how he, this is very good, how George Jones said he was at a casino or something, and he had actual Native Americans, actual Indians at this casino.
	And there was a comedian, I think it was a comedian before him, I hope I'm getting the story right.
	Who went out and...
	I think it was George.
	Anyway, who said, I did a terrible job.
	And the head of the tribe or whatever came back and said, you were fantastic.
	We loved you.
	He says, that's not funny.
	He says, no, no.
	You were so funny we almost laughed.
	And it was considered communally disrespectful to laugh at somebody.
	Now that's the story.
	Whether it's true or not, I don't know.
	But the point is, it's interesting.
	And then we have people today who are trying their very best, and YouTube has provided this, and I study it in ways you cannot imagine.
	It's not what they're saying is, look at their reaction they're trying to invoke.
	And now you're taking, and here's a rule which is so important for you to understand, and listen to me, listen carefully.
	There were, let me go back a little bit.
	In 1980, 85 and on, when talk radio blew up, people became, this isn't a post-Rush world, people were on radio shows and they wanted to be, or they were politically insightful or whatever you want to call it.
	And they weren't necessarily radio people, they were either political Thinkers or theoreticians or whatever you want to call it.
	The radio people took great offense at this because they said, wait a minute, I've been in radio for a long time.
	I've been working overnights at KISS 103 and I've been doing this for 30 years and I've been all over the country, all over the world, these journeymen kind of folks and here I am, you know, whatever it is.
	And I am a comedic genius, and I should be able to...
	Okay, fine.
	Well, what's very interesting to note about this, oddly enough, and interestingly enough, which I find, is that they didn't understand that, but you don't know anything about politics.
	You don't understand this.
	You don't grasp this.
	You don't understand the issues.
	You think, because you sound like this, and you're a puker, and you're talking...
	You think that's it?
	There was a fellow I heard the other day on a Sirius channel.
	It might have been the 70s or something.
	It was museum-quality puker.
	Now, puker, by the way, is a term that is used, I think you know this, in the business for somebody who talks like wax or stax, you know, that George Carlin would do the Al Sleet, you know.
	Sort of.
	That's what it is.
	It's almost a formulaic, corny, anachronistic, over-the-top, hyper-exuberant.
	And I heard this.
	So to make a long story short, the people who said, they said, no, just because you've been on radio, it's the subject matter.
	Don't you understand this?
	It's the subject matter.
	You've got to have interviewing skills.
	You've got to know this.
	You have to know.
	You have to read papers.
	You just can't.
	Mimic somebody, but because of your voice, this mellifluous golden voice of yours, that's not going to do it.
	The same thing is happening now with comedians who think, oh, I can do a podcast.
	Why?
	Because I'm a performer.
	I'm a comedian.
	But you're a comedian, a lot of times, with a set, wrote, scripted piece of material.
	Do you know?
	Can you explain that?
	Do you understand what...
	Nord Stream 2 is.
	Do you understand the notion of colony collapse disorder?
	Do you know the difference between a caucus and a primary?
	Do you know politics in the world and the issues?
	Can you find China on the map?
	And they will say to you, well, no, but my quirkiness, because I get such a reaction out of people, in...
	What often is a very scripted routine.
	It will naturally convey into podcast L. And if I saturate the conversation with as many F-bombs and expletives as possible, that will...
	Oh, and I also have a lot of tattoos.
	So you can see I'm okay.
	But that will convey to the audience inclusion.
	That will show them this guy's good.
	He's got the tattoos.
	He says the F word every three seconds.
	And he laughs a lot.
	And he'll have on other comedians and they'll laugh this way.
	No!
	But it's transforming people into thinking, yes, that is comedy.
	Yes, that is culture.
	That is the new culture.
	So people will come and look at this now and say, I want to do that too.
	So what do I do?
	I have cats.
	I curse very heavily.
	I kind of know the periphery, the first layer of the issue.
	Maybe I'll wear a hat or a cap or something that...
	There is a food blogger who has a red bandana.
	It looks like either the Bloods or...
	And that's the only way you know who he is.
	Whatever.
	So it got me thinking, where is this trajectory taking us next?
	Where are we going next?
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	Now, I want to go more.
	I found something interesting last night, which is so fascinating.
	I read an article, I even posted it, and of course people weigh in because they're experts on everything.
	And it is the notion of, quote, anorexia as a palliative.
	In terms of certain forms of disease like cancer and otherwise.
	Now wait a minute.
	Hold it.
	When people hear this, most people, well, the right people would say, I want to hear this.
	I want to hear what you have to say.
	Explain this.
	How does not eating, in the case of, let's say, a wasting syndrome like cachexia, how, why would anybody suggest not eating?
	And what's interesting was, many have looked at this and said, one of the natural ways that the body handles certain diseases is for you to lose your appetite.
	Why aren't you hungry when you're sick?
	It's fascinating.
	So therefore, in certain cases, they looked at rats and animals that were basically...
	Not starve, but lower, increase, the caloric intake was lowered dramatically.
	They took that blood, reintroduced it into sick people, and it helped them tremendously by not eating.
	Something happened.
	And the other theory was that we eat too much.
	There are people I know who say, I've got to eat.
	Why?
	I haven't eaten since noon.
	Are you hungry?
	Well, yeah.
	Well, what happens if you don't eat?
	What?
	What happens if you go to bed hungry?
	If I go to bed hungry, what are you talking about?
	Could that be beneficial?
	Yes!
	That may seem counterintuitive, but it was fascinating.
	And because people did not like that idea, they were arguing against it.
	Now, when somebody is depressed, one of the significant examples or signs of such There's something called anhedonia, when you don't take pleasure in things, when you don't like things, when you don't find yourself in any way enjoying your usual hobbies and the like.
	Also, not laughing.
	Not laughing.
	Seeing no humor.
	Never, never finding yourself in a position of being For lack of a better word, amused by something.
	Oh, and by the way, I just did a brand new, brand new video at my private channel using this on a very, dare I say, brutal political argument, which I don't...
	It's for adults.
	Not because it's dirty.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	But because of the subject matter.
	It doesn't lend itself to...
	Popular thought because people are going to go, what?
	So if you like that, that's the link right now to my private channel.
	But in any event, when people don't laugh, it's the strangest thing in the world.
	And I heard the other day somebody suggest, they were talking about that a lot of times comedians, comedians, have their, they call it now the cancel culture and And you hear a lot about this.
	The cancel culture has existed since Oscar Wilde, since Lady Chatterley's Lover, since name it, since book burning, since Fahrenheit 454, since Lenny Bruce, since the private censorship.
	Look at Mort Sahl, what happened by virtue of the Kennedy family.
	Mort Sahl was very, very explicit.
	Mort Sahl dared to say something as a comedian against John Kennedy.
	And Mort Sahl found himself, he said, as a victim of this kind of, quote, canceling.
	And people forget this.
	People forget it.
	They don't recognize it.
	They don't understand it.
	We lost Mort in 2021.
	And he was...
	Let me see.
	He was, how old was he?
	He was 94. And he was, believe me today, nobody would, I don't think anybody would understand him because of who he was.
	But it's not a new concept.
	And the reason why is because sometimes there's something nothing more dangerous than the notion of somebody making light of something.
	Making light of something and Laughing about a situation.
	I saw something years ago which I found so interesting.
	Around the fall of the Soviet Union, it was reported, according to this thing that I saw, that the KGB, when it was the KGB, not the FSB, but the KGB, or whatever, was dispatched to collect jokes.
	To hear what people were joking about.
	Because they posited correctly that you can see where a country is going by virtue of what they are laughing at.
	When you're laughing at something, laughing means collective agreement, because you will never laugh at a joke somebody tells you, somebody you don't like.
	It also points to the absurd level of something, let's say, the government's doing that everybody agrees.
	It makes no sense.
	So, comedy is very, very important.
	Comedy, political comedy, whatever you want to call it, to determine what people think.
	It's one of the most powerful ways to speak editorially, but understand really what it's about.
	And also look at the notion of what it is to laugh.
	Are they laughing because they think it's funny?
	Or are they laughing Because they think it's funny because they agree with you.
	What came first?
	The humor or the agreement?
	If somebody says a real funny joke about you, you're not going to laugh because you don't think it's funny.
	But somebody else does because it's not them.
	So it's all relative to the circumstances.
	Also now, look at a child.
	When a child laughs and smiles, this to me is worth everybody's attention 100%.
	What is going through that child's mind?
	And what's going through that child's mind in terms of dreaming?
	What's a child dreaming about?
	What is a dog dreaming about?
	And what do blind people dream about?
	What do deaf people dream of?
	And just all that.
	I could talk about this forever.
	When a child is laughing, when a child does it, when you make a funny face, why is a child laughing and not being frightened?
	When you say, and it starts laughing, it understands at a level that is so deep.
	It knows it's not threatening.
	It knows it's not in any way problematic.
	It knows you're not in pain.
	He or she understands it.
	Gets it.
	You can't train a kid.
	Gets it.
	But if a child doesn't laugh, doesn't see it, sees it in this kind of a black and white flat approach, that's not good.
	Because laughing is something that lets you know A little bit about positive mental health, how you feel, and also laughing is something.
	And you can go through all of the oxytocin releases, and you can talk about what it is in neurochemistry, and yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	But I am so interested of why people laugh today.
	And I'm going to tell you this much.
	My belief today, by virtue of what we do via...
	Social media.
	I believe a lot of our collective reactions are part of a choreographed symmetry of reaction.
	We agree.
	This is how, it's like Tai Chi.
	In the morning when people get up and they do it like this, they're all doing it together.
	That's what we do.
	We laugh at things because we're told to laugh, it's cool to laugh, and people love to say they laugh.
	Some people say, you mentioned Bill Hicks.
	Bill Hicks has never made me laugh, but Bill Hicks, I look at it and say, wow, it's very interesting.
	He's a very, even angrier than George Carlin.
	Especially when you watch through the Carlin years about the transitions of where he's been through.
	It's fascinating.
	He's the same, but circumstances change.
	I listened to a George Carlin routine the other day that was so ridiculous.
	It's from the 70s, I guess.
	Whatever.
	He was talking about a political dualism that doesn't exist anymore.
	And I thought to myself, this is the silliest stuff I've ever heard in my life.
	In the old days, I'd listen to old Dick Cavett and I would listen to leaders speak about, I don't know, different things.
	I realized this is the most unsophisticated level of understanding.
	But at the time, it was considered, wow, this is really, this is deep.
	But it really wasn't.
	For then it was.
	But now it's almost simplistic.
	So what's happening now is, I'm sorry to say this, that social media, I think, are in many respects not necessarily...
	Well, let me give you an idea.
	Does fast food make a country healthier or sicker?
	And for the most part, you probably say sicker, and the reason is not because it's a fast food, but this is the way it works.
	In order for something to be fast and popular, it has to appeal to a lot of people at the same time.
	And in order to appeal to a lot of people at the same time, It does not have to be iffy.
	It's got to go right to their heart.
	Fat, fatty, sweet, and salty.
	All kind of, it's savory of course, but all kind of mixed together.
	And they will do whatever they have to do to get you to like it and come back.
	And that's how that works.
	So fast food's fine.
	But what happens is when you give human beings the ability to Present this platform.
	They don't go for the healthy stuff.
	Because healthy doesn't pay.
	It's this stuff.
	Now, when you provide platforms and comedy and whatever, do you think we're going to go for the higher order stuff?
	No.
	No.
	How do you think Christopher Hitchens would do today?
	How do you think Stephen Fry would do today?
	Have you ever seen IQ?
	Is IQ this British game show?
	It would last...
	12 seconds in this country.
	I think it's IQ.
	Stephen Fry hosted it and it's just Bill Bailey and all these great actors.
	It is...
	Wow.
	So look at where we're going right now.
	And what's laughter and comedy going to be like in the next...
	I don't know.
	Whatever.
	It is beyond...
	It is beyond...
	Interesting.
	Will Rogers was probably, at the time, one of the most important people around.
	Will Rogers was critical.
	Critical to everything.
	To everybody.
	Will Rogers was it.
	Oscar Wilde was great as well.
	But Will Rogers was, I mean...
	By the way, Will Rogers, one of his best buddies, one of his best friends of all time, Mussolini.
	Remember Will Rogers said he never met a man he didn't like?
	Was that old John Rickles joke?
	Will Rogers never met John Rickles?
	What do you think was good about Will Rogers?
	Why was he funny?
	Because he knew everything.
	He knew exactly.
	Mark Twain.
	Mark Twain, you read him today, and he got it first.
	The funny part came later.
	Today, I respectfully submit, it's the opposite.
	You're told to laugh, and then you will work out the math later on.
	That's not funny.
	Excuse me.
	He's funny.
	Laugh.
	Okay.
	It's like years ago, people say, you have to love The Clash.
	If you listen to music, you have to, The Clash.
	Oh, I love The Clash.
	You have to like the movie Fargo.
	You have to.
	Or else you're a pangendrum.
	You're just some parvenu.
	You're nobody.
	You don't like Fargo?
	Oh, my God.
	Oh, my.
	God, dear God, you don't like Fargo.
	What's the matter with you?
	Very complicated.
	And now we get into something even more important.
	Never ever call something comedy.
	Because if it's comedy, you don't have to explain it.
	There was a time in this country, I think the number one station in the country was country music.
	And nowhere in the name of the station did it say country music.
	Country.
	And the program director said, if you don't know this is country, we can't help you.
	So what they do is they say, here's what we're going to do.
	We're going to take comedy, and we're going to make comedy funny.
	We're going to take a comedian, and we're going to put him on our news show, and we're going to deliver the news funny.
	Or studio audience.
	Studio audience.
	Fascinating.
	Why do people laugh differently en masse than they do at home?
	Why do studio audiences work?
	Why is a studio audience important?
	What if you listen to a person just say, what if you listen to a person that you love, one of your favorite acts ever, just speaking to you alone with absolutely no audience participation, no laughter, no nothing.
	Just this person, almost like an audiobook.
	That, if you laugh, I read Donald Fagan's Great.
	Listen to Donald Fagan's audiobook.
	It was fantastic.
	Norm Macdonald's audiobook.
	Very good.
	Man, I can't even hear how it's laughing, but it's really good.
	And you can see, that's a great sign, as opposed to listening to something.
	Imagine George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words without an audience.
	Just listening to it for the first time.
	Just having him tell you this?
	You might say, Are you sure about this?
	So the audience throws off the distortion.
	One of the reasons why you have live performances is not just, of course, to sell tickets.
	Yes, but it's a different story.
	If you saw Freddie Mercury at his height, Queen or whatever, if you were the only one at Woodstock, you'd hear all the acts, but you wouldn't have that interaction.
	You wouldn't have that there.
	And that's another thing.
	Studio audiences are always The...
	kind of like the fudge factor.
	It's just...
	Let me stop right there.
	Let me stop right there for one second.
	Hold it.
	Let me hang on a minute.
	Just one second.
	Hang on.
	I just was about to post something that I did not want to post.
	Let me see.
	There we go.
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	Vitamins and immune system because people love, especially in our neck of the woods, they love to talk about this expertise of vitamins.
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	I actually one time had somebody, true story, you're not going to believe me, lecture me about amino acids and he was smoking.
	People have this idea that they are possessed with the knowledge of, I don't know why, of vitamins and health and nutrition.
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	I've ever seen.
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	Why does that work?
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	And vitamin D, vitamin D3 in particular, believe me.
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	Electromagnetic pulse attacks.
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	Now, my friends, I've got to tell you this.
	I will not mention the names, per se, but in the history of my talk radio career, I have had, I've interviewed a lot of people, and some people were wonderful.
	Just wonderful.
	And every now and then, program director, Would say, hey, I got an idea.
	Why don't we get this comedian to come in and do our show?
	Not understanding that the comedian, for the most part, many of them, not all, but many of them have a scripted act, so to speak, that they work with.
	And that things change on the fly and they just thought, obviously, they would be terrific.
	Boy, I can tell you.
	I can tell you.
	The stories of disasters for people that are big names, who just, they thought, well, shouldn't you be able to, doesn't this convert into, no.
	Or, somebody who says, hi, we're on, we have, let's go to a comic, stop right there.
	Never introduce somebody as a comic.
	If you're going to have somebody on your political show, just bring them out.
	Don't tell anybody.
	Don't say, and now here's genius.
	Wait a minute.
	It doesn't sound like a genius because immediately you've told the audience, listen, and I've seen this before.
	I've seen this before.
	So they come out, let people laugh on their own.
	They might say, this guy's good.
	You know, he should be a comedian.
	But don't tell people at a time.
	And then you get the smirk.
	And then they think that everything they say, by virtue of the fact that they're saying it, What's that song, 16th Avenue?
	Lacey J. Dalton.
	And then one's...
	Some lonely room where no curtains ever hung.
	Rolled off someone's tongue and about this moment of inspiration when this song, 16th Avenue, when this song comes, when this moment, when they think that I am so good and talented being a comedian that I'm going to come out and people are going to hear me and they're going to say, this is profundity.
	This is clarity.
	This is genius.
	Sometimes you find it annoying.
	Especially when some comedians laugh at themselves because they've never read the joke.
	Or they're reading in the prompter for the first time.
	Laughing at yourself?
	I don't understand this.
	Who does this?
	Who does this?
	Sometimes the stories are so...
	There are some Nobody would ever do this.
	But if ever you wanted to see somebody, and you've got to be able to carry it off, somebody on a news show who says, let me show you something.
	We give you our word.
	We've not adjusted this or edited this.
	This is exactly what happened.
	Roll it.
	And then you come back.
	It can be the funniest thing because you're...
	What you're telling people is, you're not telling them anything.
	Your reaction is saying, I'm not even going to dare discuss it.
	It is so obvious.
	It is so patently obvious.
	Of course, nobody would do this.
	I still like when people get stuck on prompters.
	When whoever's hitting the prompter doesn't know how to do it, and all of a sudden you say, and the most important part of the issue, that kills me.
	I'm sorry.
	Excuse me.
	Now, everybody's an expert.
	Everybody is whatever it is.
	And I'm not telling anybody what to do.
	What I'm telling people is marvel at why funny and laughter mean something.
	And when you're laughing at something, are you really laughing because you find it funny?
	Or are you laughing because everybody else is laughing?
	You ever see somebody yawn and you yawn?
	Why?
	People are still arguing about yawning.
	Well, it's because you have a drop in oxygen.
	No, you're not.
	And you're trying to...
	No.
	And by the way, you're not getting oxygen in by yawning.
	It's the opposite.
	You're not breathing.
	People just have these things.
	They just make up these wonderful tropes that you keep saying them over and over.
	But there are things that we do.
	And when it comes to laughing, the bottom line is, most of the time, There's nothing funny there.
	You're not laughing because it's funny.
	You're laughing because other people are laughing.
	You're supposed to laugh.
	Or it's a sign of your recognition.
	Have you ever seen people walk around all the time smiling?
	I saw a woman the other day.
	I swear to God, I sat on a little bench in this little town and I saw this woman walking by herself.
	She's like smiling.
	And I expected to see like in a movie where all of a sudden some building blows up.
	You know, like she's a bomber or something.
	She's walking away knowing.
	It was the weirdest.
	And there she was just smiling.
	But it's almost like a...
	Ooh.
	Isn't that funny?
	Smiling.
	That scared me.
	Just...
	Get a bench.
	Sit on a bench.
	Get a bench.
	Buy a bench.
	Sit on a bench in any small little town on Main Street and just watch.
	Oh my God.
	Oh my God.
	And you watch people.
	And learn to be, always ask yourself, the behavior that I'm observing is what's happening now, not what's happening 20 years ago, 25 years ago.
	The Gen Zers of today, obviously are not the Gen Zers of before, but in that group.
	When I was 12, I guess 13 years old, we bought POW, Bracelets.
	And I had one of a guy, he was a bomber, he was shot down, and he wrote us, all of us who bought, because you were sent away, and it was this flimsy cop, remember this is silver, and I used to have to tape it, because I wanted the original one, and you said, I'm not going to take it off until he comes home, and he came home.
	And I got this wonderful letter, and it was wonderful.
	13 years old.
	It wasn't a big deal.
	But everybody 13 years old did this.
	We had three networks.
	We were concerned about the Vietnam War.
	We're 13!
	We knew the names of the places.
	We knew these.
	We knew that we had people in our towns.
	Every night Walter Cronkite would show the names of the people.
	We all had...
	I had friends whose older brother were there.
	I mean, it was...
	We couldn't escape it.
	And we didn't have any social media.
	We just had three networks a night and a morning newspaper and that was it.
	That was it.
	But we were so socially conscious.
	And we got it.
	And we had albums.
	We had comedy, of course.
	I think one of the greatest, I know nobody wants to talk about them anymore, but when Bill Cosby came out with his stories, they were legendary.
	To Russell, my brother whom I slept with, Lighter Than Air.
	I listened to those and loved it.
	Noah.
	What's a Cuban?
	Right.
	I loved it.
	It was clean, brilliant.
	Bob Newhart, Button Down Mind, Andy Griffith, Merv Griffin, all of the Borscht Belt people.
	I loved it.
	I got it.
	I understood it.
	And then, what really, and you know, Lenny Bruce was really before my time, and Mort Sahl was, and Dick Gregory was very important, very activist.
	But in my lifetime, What was really important was George Carlin.
	And George Carlin went from, and then he went into the, hey man, dig.
	You know that?
	Listen to Lenny Bruce, and you hear the delivery exactly.
	Listen to Lenny Bruce.
	He changed everything.
	The way they did it.
	From Jackie Leonard to Jackie Vernon, you know, to this.
	And it was really, really important.
	Bill Hicks later on, I don't think he got that.
	It'll be a while before Bill Hicks gets his due, because it's kind of an acquired taste.
	But Carlin changed it.
	Seminole, huge.
	Richard Pryor, a different story.
	Today, who is doing that?
	I don't know.
	I don't know if we're...
	Why?
	Because social media is saturating us with this.
	There's nothing unique about it.
	We're being killed with this proliferation of comedy.
	And that's good.
	Nothing wrong with that.
	I'm not lamenting it.
	But what I want you to do is this.
	I want you to ask yourself the question.
	Why is this so?
	And what does this mean?
	And take the simplest of...
	I've got a question for you.
	Are your kids of dating age, are people dating anymore?
	I'm not trying to be cute.
	Are people dating?
	Do we have dates anymore?
	I don't know.
	Alright, do me a favor.
	First of all, this is Mrs. L's Twitter.
	I beseech, implore, and import you...
	I love that word, too.
	Here's a great word.
	Zycigy.
	Look it up.
	Zycigy.
	Try that one.
	This is her newsletter.
	And something which you must be aware of, she is superb.
	Superb.
	I'm going to put on also your radio spot.
	She's such a pro.
	She puts everybody to shame.
	She puts everybody to shame.
	And also people say, how can I learn more about Linz Warriors?
	How can I do it?
	Right here.
	Right here in our show.
	Right there for you.
	Oh, the YouTube.
	Yes, the YouTube channel.
	The YouTube channel.
	Please.
	You!
	She needs a YouTube follow-up.
	Look, we have been...
	I'm not going to go through this.
	You don't want to hear it anymore.
	And also, let me tell you.
	For my particular private channel, here's what I do.
	Number one.
	I give you over an hour a day of stuff you don't hear anyplace else.
	Number one.
	Number two.
	A story, normally from a site, that nobody will ever let you print.
	Usually.
	And number three, I talk about music.
	It's like if I were to have you at my pad, and I'm going to say, I want you to listen to this.
	And I will play things for you.
	From Dillian Faraz, to some Sarah Hickman, to Luther Allison, to...
	I'll get on a kick.
	I'm into a Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks thing.
	Marianne Price.
	Also, how that merged into Ray Benson, The Sleep of the Wheel, little Dale Watson, how they're each...
	It's almost like James Burke's connections.
	Little Django, a little John Jorgensen, a little bit of this.
	I like intermediates.
	I like to explain how the world of rock and country was responsible, how we needed Graham Parsons.
	Graham Parsons, with tremendous help from Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis, who broke away from country altogether.
	This is the thing.
	I absolutely adore blues.
	The blues hour, oh my god.
	And the more primitive, the more rough, the more authentic, the more I love it.
	Same thing with country.
	I would rather take Ernest Tubb or Tex Ritter over whoever is around.
	So I do that as well, explain that one.
	I came across an old Sarah Hickman, who by the way is not the poet laureate, she's the musician laureate of Texas.
	Some people that you may not necessarily know the names of.
	You may not be too into them.
	And I love introducing people in my pieces that you don't know, like Robert Lamb from Chicago, the stuff he's written.
	Oh my God!
	And what Chicago put out that you never hear about?
	We have, thanks to the greatest thing ever, I think Spotify and Algorithm Radio, you're able to put into...
	Have you heard Johnny Highland?
	Johnny Highland's a very large, blind...
	He is the most uncool looking.
	He plays the Telecaster-esque like you cannot believe.
	It's like Danny Gatton in that realm.
	It's unbelievable.
	There's so much out there.
	So that's in my private channel.
	I invite you.
	Because I can say what I want and I don't have to worry about anybody.
	And the comments, even more so.
	Alright, my friends.
	Have a great and glorious day.
	Enjoy the day.
	Enjoy the day.
	Thank you so much for your faith and your being a part of this.
	See you tomorrow.
	Same bad time, same bad channel.
	9 a.m. Eastern Time.
	Until then, remember these wonderful words of Valedictory.
	The monkey's dead.
	The show's over.
	Sue ya.

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