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Feb. 13, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Live Immersion: Relatively Speaking — @LionelNation

Live Immersion: Relatively Speaking — @LionelNation

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You know, if I didn't...
Look at the news today.
Just as a headline, I would have never known today was the Super Bowl.
Would have never known this.
I cannot put into words.
I cannot explain.
I cannot explicate.
Lim describe how throughout my life I have never understood.
Sports, yes, but this rabid tribalism, nativism, I don't know if that applies, but this ceremonial, procedural, collective, group, whatever you want to call it.
And I have said this, and by the way, let me explain something.
I want you to answer this question with a yes or no.
One or two.
By the way, welcome.
One or two.
And please like the video.
Please subscribe to the channel.
You know, you know, you know.
I want you to answer the following.
If you have heard of this term, answer yes with one.
If you've never heard of it, be honest.
Don't feel bad.
Answer two.
Very simple.
Have you ever heard of the phrase, Bread and circuses.
If you've heard of this before, if it makes sense to you, if during the course of your life it has come up from time to time, if you use it, panem et kirkensis, if you speak classical Latin versus church Latin.
Big difference.
We say Kikero, not Cicero.
So long.
Weniwidiwiki versus Veniwidiwiki.
You got it.
See, if you've heard this, I know immediately who you are.
It's like when somebody said EMP.
I know what that is.
I know who you are.
You're over here.
If I had a party, if I could slide the door and say, Brennan Circus is, huh?
Little shibboleth is a phrase that indicates kind of a level of inclusion, or I don't know what the word is, but it implies kind of like a, it's a phrase, open sesame, a cowabunga buffalo bob.
It means something.
But look at the number of people who have absolutely heard of what this means.
Look at the people who recognize exactly what it means.
And if you haven't, don't worry.
It is from the Russian, Russian, the Roman poet Juvenal, J-U-V-E-N-A-L, about the first century common era.
We used to say A.D., but we don't say that anymore.
And...
It's a phrase which is used to imply a lot of things, and it's very, very, very interesting.
And it implies and speaks to the notion of distractions, where people, citizens of Rome in particular, citizens of Rome, would be themselves the subject of, not complacency, but you could...
Keep them happy by providing them with bread and circuses, food and something in order to be a part of.
And I have loved this.
I did a brief little video.
People hate to hear it, by the way.
They hate to hear it.
And at my local, private, I go into exceedingly, exceedingly great detail, specifically as to why sometimes distractions are good and how this, believe it or not, might pose problematic to a number of people that you would be surprised about.
But I enjoy anytime humans, as you know, I like macro and micro psychology, psychology of the individual, psychology of the person, and I like the psychology of the group.
I like the psychology of people who work...
Collectively.
When you are on a team, you are in a class.
This is where you live.
This is your city.
This is your homeowners association.
This is your alum, your alma mater.
You're an alumnus or an alumna.
We're always a part of something.
We're always put into categories regarding political, where we live, your age.
Well, you're Gen Z. You're this.
It's one of the things we love to compartmentalize.
And you're in a group.
And one of the things which is the most important is that as part of a group you have to think your group is better than the other guy.
Your group is better.
My group is more noble.
My group is better than you.
Well, you might be...
And then we have...
Let me just say this.
Within the fandom itself, within it, you have the most fascinating.
I had a friend of mine who came from Ireland.
And he...
Ireland, Ireland, Ireland.
Not somebody born, you know, here, but an actual Irish...
He's from Boncana or Donegal or someplace.
Anyway, when he moved to New York, he noticed, because he was a big football team fan, and he realized everybody in Woodside and Sunnyside, where all the Irish live, here in Queens, he noticed that they were Mets fans.
He said, I'm going to be a Mets fan.
So he went one time, I think he went to a bar and he just...
He just looked around.
Saw what they did.
Saw what they wore.
Saw how they acted.
Went on a game day.
Okay.
Then he went.
Bought a jacket.
He went and he bought the accoutrement.
Maybe a foam finger.
Foam finger!
Whatever he did.
And he went.
And he went to the cheap seats with Shea at the time, Shea Stadia.
And he immediately jumped into it.
Not really sure exactly.
He kind of knew the principles.
Baseball's not that difficult, but it had similarities to cricket and whatever.
So he did this.
And he went.
And he did it.
And he immediately saw himself, made friends, came back the next week, just got to this country.
Just got to this country.
Met everybody.
Why?
By moving into the group and by saying and by providing them with that which had to be said to indicate to them that he was a member of the clan, of the group, of the tribe, of the team, of the village, of the whatever.
See how this thing works?
It's brilliant.
It's brilliant.
And even this group right here.
I was thinking about this before.
And I'm going to say this.
I don't mean any disrespect, but I'm going to say this.
Imagine if somebody could live stream an event.
George Washington, Christ.
The Silver Cross, William Jennings Bryan speech, the Gettysburg Address, whatever.
Imagine what it would look like today if we could live stream events that used to be merely listened to.
What would that look like?
What would that sound like?
What would that be like?
Imagine if we could have people And you would have, number one, people would be, some who would be listening, most would not be commenting, but you would have people in the live section saying something, typing something, cutesy, pithy, not you, mind you, but pithy, little reactions, little one word.
Emoticons, a cross, or this or this, or something over and over again.
Or maybe they would put together the word by taking kind of like a prism, what am I trying to say?
Little, you know, graphics.
They wouldn't be listening to a word anybody said, but they would want to say, but while we're in the group, I want you to know I'm here.
So you would have a subgroup within the event, and that's what we have at arenas.
You have somebody who hopes for that scanning, because before, you know, the producers go and they look, and somebody will wear, it'll be, you know, 20 below zero, he'll have no shirt on, he'll paint himself green, even though the team is blue, or maybe he'll appear to, anyway.
And you will have...
Basically, the most scintillating of commentary from ex-players themselves who say, well, Bob, I'll tell you what, that fellow sure knows how to support his team.
He sure does, Dave.
And it goes on and on.
So you have the group, you have the team, then you have the people within it.
And then we have parties today.
And then, invariably, when you go to a To a bar, or a sports bar, you will have the...
And this is the best of the best.
This is what I find the most famous.
You will have the rights of the hyper-masculine.
You will have the person who, number one, will show you.
Number one, I'm louder.
I know more about the game than you do.
I'm going to scream at the TV set.
I'm going to scream at the ref to show you, number one, first of all, I'm here.
It's the way a dog does it.
He barks to let you know.
I'm here.
I'm marking my territory.
And I'm going to let you know I know more about this than you do.
And I'm going to scream at the TV set in order to maybe perhaps do some weird metaphysical transformation.
I'm going to have this person On the screen, change his mind, because he will know telepathically that I'm in a bar in Lodi, New Jersey, screaming at this set.
Oh, it'll happen.
You laugh at this.
The only time we ever saw this, or I saw it in professional wrestling, where the crowd actually had an effect was in professional wrestling.
The ref was Stu Schwartz, and after he missed the tag, Everybody started booing.
The referee looked at the audience and said, what?
We did like this, meaning the tag was made.
And Stu said, okay, fair enough.
And he changed his mind.
Only in professional wrestling, but nothing else.
It is the most wonderful balance of behavior today.
And then we have this phenomenon, which I will explain to you.
In such a beautiful, beautiful way.
And this is the female, the distaff fan.
I will explain that very, very quickly.
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Now, Let me say something, and I'm going to start off first by apologizing if anybody takes any offense whatsoever at what I'm about to say.
But I know a number of people like this.
Let me see if I can explain this to you.
Everybody wants to be noticed.
Have you noticed?
Have you noticed everybody wants to be noticed?
And I spend my entire time just watching.
Just watching.
Yesterday, December 7th, Mrs. L and I went out to one of our favorite events.
You know what we like to do?
You know what I like to do?
I like to just shop.
Not shop, but food shop.
I just kind of go.
And I will say, honey, you just look around and I'm going to be right over here.
We happen to be at a TJ Maxx.
And I go in the back where they have this whatever.
And I just watch people.
And it looks like I'm listening to something, but I'm watching them.
The way people will go up to clothes and just touch them.
There's the touchers.
Watch this.
Gents, do yourself a favor.
Go in the back.
You can meet other men there.
I found this old man back there.
He was in the shoe section.
They have these, you know, these little stools where you can sit down to try on shoes.
He was just sitting back, you know, he just gave up.
And I felt like saying, no, go over here.
Home settings or whatever.
People go and they just touch stuff.
I thought, well, this is odd.
Then you have the mother and daughter and they're just touching.
They're just touching.
We stood behind a brother and sister who were talking to each other and the sister...
I think if she had some type of a stabbing implement, she would have taken her brother out right there.
They hated each other and talked without any understanding.
Why?
Because they live in their bubble, their inertial bubble.
So I just study people.
Now, what you have to see is the following.
And please, with all due respect, if you go to a party, you will see The usual fellow.
Oh, and Yankees fans.
Oh, everybody's got...
Well, not everybody, but a lot of people have a copy of the World Series Ring.
The Yankees World Series Ring.
Why do they have it?
Rudy Giuliani's got one.
A friend of ours.
Okay.
Alright.
I know people love symbols and that sort of thing.
Okay.
And people, I got the hat.
You got a baseball hat.
Oh.
Oh, are you on the Yankees?
No.
Oh, you were?
Okay, I got it.
I got it.
But then comes the female, the distaff, the woman, the wife, the girlfriend, the whatever neighbor, who says, oh no, guys, move over.
Using the, hey guys, if you think you're a fan, no, no, no.
No.
I'm going to do it.
I may be a woman.
I may be, You know, Derek's mom, Larry's wife, but oh no, I will out-fan you any day of the week.
Have you met these people?
Have you met these people?
This is even more fascinating.
So this is a fandom, this is a look at me, that traverses even the regular sports kind of world, but goes even further, that says, I'm not even normal.
I'm beyond this.
Now, as I mentioned before, in my private channel, I talk about this is actually good.
And you're going to say, wait, wait, wait, why?
Well, I'd rather not say so now.
I'd rather not say it in this particular forum for a variety of reasons, which you will not understand.
I promise you.
But if you're interested, That's my private channel.
And the reason why is simply this.
You have been, for so long, told to just move along.
Don't ask questions.
Don't investigate.
Your level of understanding is here.
Do not traverse, do not betray your level of understanding.
It's here.
It's here.
It's not going anywhere.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
This is your level of understanding.
Do not go beyond it.
Stay there.
But recognize what's happening.
I saw something yesterday, which I swear to you, there's a place we go to on the east side.
It's a little ice cream shop.
It's never open.
It's always closed for a private party.
And they're kids' parties.
There's an ice cream.
And they're always kids.
And I walk by.
I must look like some kind of a degenerate.
I'm staring inside.
I'm thinking, how many of them are in here?
And outside, they...
Park their strollers.
These prams and strollers are expensive.
It's like going to Bike Week in Daytona.
All the bikes line up.
All the parents leave the strollers outside.
And inside, these little kids are walking around and they're just...
It's great.
It's the new kind of sort of dad where you bring the dad out.
You can tell he's not very used to this.
And the mom is doing all the talking.
Have you noticed how moms learn how to do baby talk?
You notice how this woman, five years ago, spoke like a human being, acted like a person, now is a mom, God bless them, who speaks like a mom.
Do you want the cookie?
You already had your cookie.
You want another cookie?
And the kid, if you could do a thought bubble, said, listen lady, we're at a party here with cake and ice cream.
What are you yelling at me about a cookie for?
What are we doing here?
I don't even know these people.
We're here because we're parents.
We're new parents on the east side.
And we're going to show each other that our kids are best dressed better than...
Even kids' parties have ceremonies, have rites, have procedures.
This is Gustave Le Mans.
This is crowds.
This is the way we work.
It's beautiful.
It is so beautiful.
Look at the way we act.
How many times?
I've got these friends.
All they do is want you to know that they are partying constantly.
This is on Facebook.
They party constantly.
They're always drinking.
They're always, hey!
Hey!
Why?
Because it doesn't exist unless it's documented.
This is another twist.
To this.
This is another angle.
This is another angle.
Do you understand this?
This is another angle.
This is the most beautiful thing in the world.
I swear to you.
I can't tell you.
I can go anywhere.
Everywhere I go.
Let me go say something.
Mrs. L will tell you something.
That place was packed.
Wasn't it yesterday, TJ?
Nordstrom Rack?
Money.
Money.
Go in and look at the register.
Don't look at people walking around.
The register.
And I looked at them and there's one TJ.
I said, oh my god, the line was...
And I said, do they have three, you know, cashiers?
Because sometimes they have like one.
No, it was filled!
That's a great sign.
That's a great sign.
We always love to look at businesses.
We always look and say, why is this business big and this one isn't?
Why?
Why is this one doing well and this one doesn't?
I don't know where you live, but in New York, in Manhattan, and maybe others as well, there is a nail salon, what, on every corner?
Two on every corner.
There used to be banks on every corner.
Now it's nail salons.
How many nail salons?
Do you know what they do?
There's one I want to take you to.
I want you to just go with me.
Just go with me.
Just listen.
Just go in the corner.
That's what I would do.
They basically will do things where they will say, Oh, you want a fiber tip of leather velvet?
What?
That's $120.
I'll take it.
What is it?
We're going to take your fingernail.
We're going to wrap it in saran wrap.
And I'm going to put a heat lamp on it.
What does it do?
Nothing.
But everybody else, but it costs $150.
I'll take it.
There's more.
And I'm looking around here and I'm saying, I don't see, I'm seeing the most ecumenical of people.
Every race, every cash, and it's just one.
And there's one across the street.
There's one thing about New York.
Let me tell you something.
You better be really good at something.
You better be really good because there's somebody right behind you who wants your spot and can make that rent.
Okay?
Now, let me go back.
And let me give you a little hint.
Why do I like teams?
Why do I like events like this?
Let me ask you something.
Why do you like them?
And I'm giving a little bit of a preview.
Why do you like events like this?
Why do you like them?
Why do you think these things that we go to, these wonderful little Super Bowls and the like, why are they good?
Tell me.
Tell me why They actually benefit society.
Well, let me tell you if I could, if I could say this, if you don't mind.
One of the things I like about this is I like the fact that people I like the fact that people sometimes see things bigger than just themselves.
What do I mean?
I like when people are out.
I get scared when people stay inside.
I get very scared.
I don't like that.
Humans are a social species.
We are.
Wolves are kind of different.
Dogs are This ethnosynology.
Wonderful, by the way.
I talked about this on my site.
I like when humans are out.
I like when they're out.
I like when they're walking around.
Humans are very dangerous when they feel shut off and hidden.
And there has been, for a variety of different reasons, a lot of folks who have been staying inside.
Kids who didn't go to school, kids who say what you want, but kids who, just very, very frankly, it concerned me.
People need to be out.
People need to be out.
And people need to be out and sharing with each other.
So that's the good thing.
Next.
It's important for you to see things bigger than yourself.
Being alone is selfishness.
Being alone is only thinking about you.
That's dangerous.
I get concerned about that.
I get concerned about that because I think it's good for people to go out.
Next, I think it's important for people to feel that they're a part of a team.
Something that is better because it's a wonderful way of expressing.
It shows allegiance to something bigger than yourself.
You may kind of laugh at this.
You may think, well, that's kind of a bit...
No, it really makes sense.
You see, one of the things which you have to explain...
How do you explain to a kid?
Pick up that thing.
Don't leave.
Don't throw things down.
Be polite.
Be cordial.
Be all that you can be.
Why?
Because we want to be nice.
Why?
Because we're a member of this.
Why?
Because we're a member of this group.
We're a member of this city.
This is our neighborhood.
This is our town.
It's a very interesting concept to be able to show people that you're part of something bigger.
That it's just not this solipsistic you.
This is this weird part I've talked about on my channel about this inhibition and this solipsistic dangerousness that we get into.
And I mean this.
I mean this like you cannot believe.
It's also important For people to realize and to recognize that...
In fact, let me ask you a question.
This is very, very important.
I want you to give...
I want to ask you a question.
You don't have to answer if you don't want.
But I want you to give me a word that describes your...
I guess your ethnicity, your culture, your...
So, for example, I know people who say, I'm Irish, I'm Italian, I'm Spanish.
Whatever it is.
Give me a word.
Give me something that explains.
And yes, you can put American.
We understand this.
And I understand that as well.
But, but, is there something that you identify with?
Is there a culture?
Is there a language?
Is there something that you identify with?
What would that be?
What does that mean?
What do you say?
Yes, I am such and such.
I am whatever.
Tell me what that word is.
And then see if you can see why I think that's important.
Afro-Caribbean.
Isn't that beautiful?
Now you can say Caucasian because it tells me a lot.
Midwestern.
Human.
See, that's all I say.
I'm going to answer a question.
Most cleverly.
I'm going to say human.
Breathing.
Why?
Because I want to be funny.
Don't you want to answer the question?
No, I want to be funny.
I want to stick out.
Breathing.
Aerobic.
A-robe.
I'm an a-robe.
Don't you get it?
I'm not going to answer the question.
No, I always...
No, because I don't stand out that way.
I'm not here to follow instructions.
I'm here to stand out.
Which is fine.
Floridian.
Brooklyn.
Northern Italian.
I like this.
This is the most interesting thing in the world.
Yankee.
Now Yankee would be the team.
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
Here's one for you.
You see this right here?
This is the most beautiful thing in the world.
I would love to go to somebody and say, now listen, from another planet, maybe somebody that's flying over, who knows.
Let me explain to you.
You saw the Earth right here.
This is the way we see the Earth.
We see the earth like this.
See all those colors?
Those are countries.
Countries, cultures, languages, money, songs, history, identity.
It's a pastiche.
It's a mosaic.
It's a cornucopia of humanity.
That's the way we see each other.
That's beautiful.
I love that.
That poses a very serious threat to a lot of people.
They don't like that.
I don't want.
Why?
Because, well, it's easier for me to maybe be able to, I don't know, kind of reconfigure these if people don't have an allegiance to a particular language, history, or whatever it is.
That's why it's important.
Being in New York, you get to hear more languages than you could ever imagine.
I hear more languages every day.
Many might be English, I don't know, but it doesn't matter.
Heterogeneity, I love.
Love this.
That's the one thing.
It is the most beautiful thing in the world when you sit there and you say, listen to these people.
Listen to the way these people.
Listen.
I can take you within driving to any community you want.
Do you want Armenian?
Turkish?
Brazilian?
We have to go to Portuguese.
We go to Newark.
Ironbound section of Newark.
That's where the Portuguese are.
Want to go to Russia?
We're going to go to...
This is Little Odessa.
Brighton Beach.
We're going to go to Greece.
Go to Astoria, Queens.
Italy?
Depends.
Which one?
Sicilian, Italian, Calabrese?
There's many, many places for them.
Chinese?
Korean?
Japanese?
German?
We used to have a thing called Germantown.
York?
Actually, up the...
Where would you like me to take you?
It's all here.
It's all here.
Different...
Indians?
Punjabi?
Pakistani?
Where?
And I always ask.
I have one of my dear friends.
I love him to death.
He's from Ghana.
And I say, where do you get the best Ghanese food?
He goes, oh, and he points to it.
I love that.
Think about that.
He has that culture.
He has a name.
He has a food.
He has a place.
Vietnamese food?
Oh, God.
Oh, that's just...
Where did this come from?
And let me go back to where we started from.
When people have teams, they have this.
I like that.
I like that.
I worry about the...
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is something which frightens me to no end.
Let me stop for one second, remind you of something which is very, very important.
Remember last week?
How were the egg stories going, honey?
Remember that?
You couldn't find eggs?
Remember that eggs?
People were going crazy with eggs.
Eggs were like, what?
You can't get eggs.
Eggs!
Where are they?
What's going on here?
How'd that happen?
Wait a minute.
Did you see what happened?
People said, Eggs!
And all of a sudden they had to have them.
It's just like whenever there's a snowstorm here.
We need toilet paper and bread.
I have no idea why, but we do.
Whenever there's any kind of feeling or any kind of discussion of any kind of horror, people just go out and they clean out everything.
Everything.
Whenever there's a snow, you can't find a snow shovel.
I'm thinking, did they not have a snow shovel?
They're buying one now for different...
All these people are new.
Transplants?
Why are they buying snow shovels now?
Did theirs break?
I don't understand it.
Do you see what happens when something happens?
If for some reason there was a, for whatever reason, food all of a sudden says, we got a problem.
And your local news shows go out and they stand at some Piggly Wiggly or an Acme or a this or a that or a Kroger's or a Albertson's or wherever it is.
And they say, we're talking to the manager, when will you open again?
I don't know, what's happening?
Well, we've got delays in food, and all of a sudden you see people driving around, and you've got maybe a security guard to kind of keep an eye on things.
Once that panic sets in, it goes crazy.
We've never had a period of time where we've been out of food, where things have closed down for, I don't know, a long period of time.
Look at the poor people in Syria, Turkey.
It's beyond horrible.
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Now, I hope you never think I'm thinking too much about this.
Because if you do think that, nothing I'm going to do to stop.
But what we do right now is, for the most part, we tend to be very, very quick in terms of looking at things and not I don't know what the word is.
We tend not to be...
I don't know what the word is.
We tend to be...
We don't really get it.
We get kind of bored easily.
We sit back.
We kind of miss the point.
We don't really see it.
We don't see it.
We don't understand it.
And that's the part which is the most important.
This is the thing too.
We also tend to be very, very easily miffed.
We want things to move along.
This is the most important thing in the world.
And I'm telling you right now that today, right now, is also going to be more betting than anything you can imagine.
Do you understand that?
More betting Than anything you can imagine.
Or betting.
I hope you do not have anybody in your family who has, in any way, a betting problem, a gambling problem.
I hope it's not true.
Because there is no addiction like it.
And we are having more people who are promoting this.
Who are Promoting through app.
It's free.
I don't want to ever stop it.
People say it's better to have gambling in the open versus organized crime.
Okay.
Fair enough.
But with this comes loan sharking.
It's something that will always be a part of our world, unfortunately.
But please.
Please.
If you have anybody in your family, especially today, and you feel, uh-oh.
Remember the issue from All in the Family?
Remember the one issue where Edith went crazy?
Because Archie was about to bet, or she feared he would bet.
Remember that one?
Do you remember?
She was so terrified.
Anybody here have anybody who's ever been a gambler?
An obsessive gambler?
And I don't mean somebody to gamble, but I mean somebody who there is no end to it, who will risk everything.
It is the most fascinating and the most tragic of addictions you can ever imagine.
Period.
Have you ever seen this?
The only person, historically, that the compulsive gambler will not cheat is the bookie.
If he loses, if he loses credit with the book, he's through.
He's done.
There is no satiety.
There is no feeling of, ah, it's next, next, next, next, next, next.
There is nothing like it.
And when you've seen it, you don't realize people have that whatever it is.
It may be genetic.
I don't know.
I'm not an expert at it.
But you don't realize it.
And it's not necessarily people who are moms or could be.
We have these little candy shops and magazines.
Well, there's like smoke shops now where you go and you see these people with a scratch.
They're just sitting there and it's not fun.
There's nothing fun about this.
Look at their face.
And they can do it in like three swipes.
They have used that quarter or that nickel so fast to get through this.
It is the...
Look at this.
My best friend's dad lost everything due to bedding.
Well, this is beddings.
Businesses, homes, parents' home.
Yep, they get the VIP treatment in Las Vegas.
Yep, yep.
Somebody's first husband, it was horrible.
It is beyond anything you can imagine.
And the thing is, you can sit back and do one of two things.
One, you can sit back and just laugh at them and say, ah, they're weak.
But you can say, no.
I listen.
YouTube has wonderful, wonderful...
You listen to psychologists, psychiatrists.
What is it?
How do you fix it?
How do you stop it?
How do you do this?
This is the most important thing in the world.
If you can get into this and find out what's happening, there's a variety of other things, and it's not just old men.
We used to have something called OTB, off-track betting.
Oh my God!
To go into that place?
It looked just...
And something happens to men in particular, sorry to say this, who walk into casinos.
I'll show you how to do it.
James Bond.
Who was that movie?
Not Rounders.
It's always the game, you know.
People who watch gambling, you know, closer gambling with a...
I'd rather watch a 7-Eleven surveillance video than this.
But the idea of being cool, where they show their friends, I'll show you how to do it.
And they go in and they play with their chips and they have that little thing they do where it flutters and shuffles and they wear the glasses.
Remember Doyle Brunson?
Who was that?
The guy with the cowboy hat.
They would just sit there and talk to you.
Now you've got people with headphones on.
They're staring.
They look like the Unabomber.
Again, hiding, hiding.
Maybe the mask will help.
And it's weird.
And they get into this.
And they know every behavior.
Free drinks.
Free drinks.
If you can't see what that's about.
I don't know what.
I don't know what.
But it's incredible.
And sometimes they'll go and they'll sit there.
I mean, if you...
I'm not mocking it.
It's true.
And pool, you're talking about the hustler?
Pool players.
Have you ever seen people play pool at a bar?
They used to have a cigarette.
Have you ever seen hustlers, real honest to God, where they actually had Pool halls and hustlers.
Here in New York they had the Amsterdam billiards and all these.
I mean you could walk in and you could see people who were just play and they were giving themselves away.
They weren't hustlers because they all knew who each other was.
People who've devoted their lives.
What is the name of the fellow?
I actually watch him.
I'm going to find it.
What was the name?
Oh!
Efren Reyes.
Efren Reyes.
Have you seen him?
Efren Reyes from the Philippines took Poole to a dimension that nobody has ever seen before.
Think about this.
Let me also tell you something before I forget.
I'll leave it at that.
When people were doing daytime trading, day trading, when people were pretending they were doing all this stuff and all of a sudden everybody was into Dogecoin and Bitcoin and this and they just jumped into it.
Remember when they were doing all this AMC stuff and they were shorting this?
That's the Greatest.
People sit back and they say, watch this.
This is the most important thing in the world.
Is to see this.
Minnesota facts.
I love that one.
So anyway, my friend, just think about this.
Enjoy your day today.
Enjoy your day.
Oh, also, do yourself a favor.
I have a brand new newsletter coming out tomorrow.
First things first.
Oh, you're going to love this one.
People get very upset with it.
Because it tends to be the truth.
It tends to be the truth, and that is one of the worst things that you could ever imagine.
Okay?
Next, follow me on Twitter, which is important.
And I tell you what, there are so many people that I...
I'm going to leave it.
Some of you, bless your heart, most...
If not, 99% of everybody who writes in are wonderful.
But there are a few of you who I'm thinking, you must, you must, you must be interesting to live with.
That's all I'm saying.
Anyway, this is the newsletter tomorrow.
Now, Mrs. L also has a follow her on Twitter at the following, which is very important.
I've got all my stuff here.
I copy and paste.
Please.
She has one of the most important, the most...
How important Twitter accounts there is.
And don't tell me about how you don't like Twitter.
I know, I know, you don't like anything.
Okay, great.
Thanks for filling us in.
Now, newsletter.
This is Mrs. L's newsletter.
That's terrific.
And one day, by the way, one day, and I do this on the private channel, don't do it here, but I talk about how there are internecine battles on YouTube, which is so interesting.
You see, let me explain something.
Let me just leave you with this.
What you're seeing right now is, when you do these lives, and this is why it's so important.
If you watch TV and you're going to get a new show, what are you going to do?
You're going to watch this.
If you could watch a live TV broadcast and actually respond like you're doing, you could destroy that broadcast.
Because as somebody was saying, As somebody was discussing, many of you would say, well, that's ridiculous.
And during the commercials, you'd say, well, that's stupid.
Why do I want to buy that?
That's crazy.
What are you talking about?
I have one of those.
It didn't work.
And it would be this...
And then you would have people fighting.
People would watch news.
They wouldn't be listening to the news.
They wouldn't want to be watching what you're saying.
Because you've got to understand something.
And I'm going to say this for the last time.
Social media provides this beautiful platform of disinhibition where anonymity and this asynchronous, solipsistic, delusional import.
This is the only time, and with all due respect, this is the only time when anybody will ever listen to you.
Think about it.
When this chat is over, you go to another one, but nobody's listening to you.
You can pick up the phone and call people.
Nobody's home.
They're not going to take your call.
I mean, you could talk to children or relatives, but they don't want to hear from you.
This is flypaper for the lonely, and I'll leave it at that.
My friends, you have a wonderful and glorious day today.
I'm not going to watch any.
I think we are going to watch.
We do watch the Super Bowl halftime, just to get an idea of the complete and total devolution of society as we know it.
But short of that, that's not it.
You have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change me in that sincerely.
See you tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel, 9 a.m. Eastern Time.
And until then, remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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