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Feb. 19, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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In Search of Self

Solipsism, dude.

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Good day, my friends.
Where do you fit into everything?
That's what I'm going to talk about.
Where do you fit into everything?
Let me tell you what happened.
I have been horrified for most of today, already, very early.
Before I began anything, I happened to notice somebody had sent us something, and no particular reason, there was something that was sent, and it was a friend of ours who decided, for reasons I would not understand, to send a duck lip photo.
And let me explain to you what this is.
It was a picture, ostensibly, Good morning, good day, how are you?
But it was, look at me.
I'm sexy.
And the way that I convey this is this.
Doing a Dizzy Gillespie, kind of a glassblower.
There's something called a glassblower syndrome where you, your cheek muscles, not buccal, buccal, anyway.
I got this.
So I asked Mrs. Ellis, what is this?
Oh, that's the sexy picture.
So when is this sexy?
What is this?
Now, as you know, when you're trying to clear your ears, sometimes if you're in a plane, you know, when you're diving and you blow your nose, that's called a valsalva maneuver.
When you push down, also when you bear down, doing a variety of other things, you kind of get that look too, which is very interesting.
By the way, a lot of people sometimes will have strokes doing this.
During this particular action, because it might pop a berry aneurysm and whatever it is.
So there's this look.
So, let me try this again.
You're probably thinking, what is he talking about?
Which you undoubtedly will ask on a regular basis.
We got a picture from somebody saying, in essence, look how sexy I am.
This is me.
This is the world.
Here I am, and I am...
Sexy.
Invariably, it was a woman.
Now, there are men who are constantly, especially my age, who are saying, look at me, I'm doing push-ups.
I'm doing pull-ups.
Look at me.
I'm working out.
Look at me.
See?
And I realized, my friends, we have got to sit down.
And we have to ask ourselves, where?
Do we fit into this matrix?
Where do we fit in?
You want to call it spirituality?
Please do.
Please.
Please.
If I invite anybody to at least even think about something other than this solipsistic, self-referenced me, me, me, me, me.
It's not narcissism.
It's not...
I don't know what it is.
It's me.
People who have fallen in love with me.
Not me.
Them me.
You me.
We me.
Does that make any sense?
You follow this?
The other night, I don't want to mention the name.
Mrs. Allen and I were part of an organization.
She spoke.
It was fantastic.
And it happened to be a women's organization.
And all they talked about was how they can help out, what they can do with this.
How can we fix this?
How do we meet these people?
How do we raise money for these people?
How do we help these people?
It was beautiful.
Nobody said I. Nobody said me.
Nobody said let's have a beauty pat.
No, no, no, no.
It wasn't about that.
It was about I think it was spiritual.
I think in a weird way.
I think it was a very strange way.
We have got to figure out a way somehow to get to our young people and explain to them, listen.
I don't think you're getting enough instruction as to how to fit into the world.
I mean this.
I mean this.
This thing called empathy.
To be empathic.
When you see somebody suffering, do you yourself Feel it from your viewpoint or are you watching a movie?
Does anything traverse that divide?
Does anything make you say, oh my god, do you feel this?
Have you ever seen a little kid show a or show feelings of empathy?
Where they will see another baby or little kid crying.
And they'll look at you and they'll say, wait a minute, and they feel it?
We're losing that.
Somewhere we are losing it.
When we see things on TV as news, the majority of, well, I suspect that the real focus of this is not necessarily to engender a feeling of empathy on your part, but In order to get you somehow to watch this so that you will continue watching this TV show or whatever it is.
Am I being too harsh?
Am I?
We are here but an eye blink.
We are here but this moment of ephemera, this...
Ephemeral, ethereal, evanescent moment where we are just here, transitory, we are just...
And all I know is, out of everything that could be sent, out of everything that could be sent, everything that could be sent, everything out of...
People are fascinated by sunsets.
I don't know why.
That's okay.
At least maybe something else.
No.
There are people who are sending pictures of themselves.
Look at me.
I'm going to break into Errol Garner.
I'm as helpless as a kid, number three.
Why do you think that is?
What happened to us?
I think social media is not the cause.
It potentiates it.
Social media potentiates that.
Does this make any sense to you?
Is this too heavy for you?
It's another problem, too.
It's too heavy for people.
It's too...
People say, I don't want to talk about that.
I want to talk about whatever.
99% of what I hear on television is not interesting to me in the least.
In the least.
None of it.
It's not interesting.
At least what's being portrayed.
The other stuff is very interesting.
Do you realize that everybody that I know, I can't talk to?
I can't speak with?
Politically, socially, artistically, I cannot speak with them.
I don't know.
People I grew up with.
People I knew.
Let me ask you a question.
Have you noticed also people don't want to talk on the phone anymore?
People don't want to communicate?
People want to be distanced from you?
Have you noticed this?
Have you noticed this?
They want to just stay away from you.
They don't want...
Somebody wrote me, a friend of mine wrote me a very complicated question about some medical condition and I'm thinking, you didn't call me?
You wrote all this out?
You didn't call me?
What's the matter with you?
I don't understand this.
Remember when you were a kid, and you had one phone line, one?
And if you had a sister or something, and she wanted a call, and you'd say, oh my God, they would just talk and talk, and you'd say, what are you, you know?
And then they would have the teenager's phone.
Did you ever have a teenager's phone?
That's my favorite.
This is where the kid talks so much, or there was so much conversation, that, or conversate.
As people are saying, they use this word, conversate, which is fascinating.
Which I think is not preferred, but in any event, remember that when people did this, where they were on the phone saying, are you still on the phone?
Are you on the phone still?
Now there's no phone.
No, you hang up.
One, two, three, go bye.
No, you say, one, two, three, go bye.
Hang up.
Okay, hang up.
No, you hang up.
No, you hang up.
We even do this thing called prank phone calls.
Prank phone calls were the greatest things in the world.
I loved them.
I'm convinced that that was one of my first indicators of maybe liking, not radio, but we did prank phone calls all the time.
I loved.
This is before.
Call waiting.
Remember Star 69?
Who was it?
I found it.
If you hit Star 69, you could find out who called you.
Really?
Remember answering machines?
When they first came out with a little tape, and I would call my parents, they never really, and I would hear this, and this was so stupid, but they would fall for it.
I leave a message.
I leave a message.
And they would think, something's wrong with it.
It's not working.
My mother would say, on voicemail, pick it up.
Actually said this.
So cosmic.
I said, do you know what that is?
Pick it up.
It's a satellite.
Where is it to pick up?
Pick it.
Where is it?
She never understood what I was saying.
Where is it?
It was fun!
We were laughing.
It was great.
It was the phone.
Now it's just...
I'm doing that Drake meme.
Get away.
Get away from me.
Get away from me.
I don't want to talk to you.
Let me text you.
Maybe.
Just...
Maybe.
Didn't you have wonderful...
Didn't you have wonderful...
Phone was fantastic.
Fantastic!
Look at this.
Someone has their mother's voice on an old entry machine tape.
Still have the recorder to listen to from time to time.
Oh, I know.
Isn't that wonderful?
To hear these.
I can hear my grandmother's voice.
One time I was doing talk radio in Powell and my grandmother came by with my mother.
And I said, ah, what the heck.
Let's put my grandmother on.
So I said, now listen.
I want you to understand something now.
The name I use on this is, you know, Lionel.
My name is Michael, my given name.
So don't, so just, please.
I understand.
No, no, no, you don't understand.
You don't understand.
Sometimes it's very simple.
Sometimes when you're on the phone, or you're doing this, You forget because it's very relaxed.
It'll be just like talking to me.
That's one of my talents.
And you'll forget.
So you want to write this down?
I'm not going to write that down.
It's Lionel.
I know, but it's very easy.
Okay, fine.
Guess what she did?
So help me, like God is a comedy writer.
Well, let's talk to you.
Hello, Grandma.
Hello, Michael.
Right off the basket.
There you go.
There you go.
So anyway.
I thought this is going to be the worst radio anybody has ever heard.
She's a wonderful lady.
Wonderful.
But, you know, loved it.
It was classic.
They loved her.
It was fun.
Where is that today?
Nowhere.
I mean, not grandma, but...
Do you hear great talk radio?
Nope.
There's one talk radio guy I know in particular.
He can't stand the callers.
We don't talk to each other.
Talk radio was the greatest when people would call up and you would have the callers.
They were it.
They were...
It was human.
So human.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
We're losing our sense of self.
Call it spirituality.
Call it whatever you want.
The thing that makes us human, the thing that makes us uniquely human, we are losing it.
And nobody seems to care.
We're not talking.
We are remaining more and more compartmentalized within our own world.
And I'm telling you, it's getting worse and worse and worse.
And pretty soon we're going to say, you know what?
We don't need anything.
I don't need anybody.
I don't want anybody.
Okay, you got that?
It's a very, very scary, scary thing.
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I think...
By the way, is there anybody dating?
Is there anyone dating?
Just give me a yes.
Anybody dating?
Are you in the world of dating?
I don't care how old you are.
I would think maybe if you were older, I guess, anybody who was actively dating, I cannot imagine a fate worse than death over that today.
I cannot imagine today, in the climate of laconic quiescence, which is redundant, how people are dealing with that.
Who, pray tell, is dating and going through this process?
Yes, I guess people still go on dates.
I hear stories, I know stories, young people, older people, and it is...
Nobody is dating.
Isn't that sad?
Does anyone...
Well, not flirt, but does anyone court?
Does anybody say, ooh, I like her or him.
He's tickled.
Not tickled my fancy, but you know what I'm saying.
Anybody understand this?
You understand this?
That is the most incredible.
I cannot imagine.
Just think about the art of conversation today.
Would people want to even meet when they say, I'll just text you?
I'll just text you?
I don't want to see you.
Can you just send me a picture?
And you know, by the way, anybody who does it, I'll just text you instead.
What?
And let me tell you something.
Digital and all that, that's fine.
Computer, great.
But you cannot replicate.
All I'm saying is thank God I'm married.
Thank God I'm married to my wife.
Thank God I cannot.
I would be hermetic.
I would join a monastery.
I think I would be I would move probably to I would wear a cassock and walk through the streets with a staff yelling the end is nigh.
I don't think I don't think anybody I don't think anybody would...
Because there is something to be said for the notion of meaning and evolving and going through...
You know, let me just say something.
Sometimes there are things that we do that are important in the process that they are given.
Let me give you an example.
Have you noticed on...
If you ever watch YouTube or any kind of platform, the way these cooking people, they have these shorts, they throw meat, and they chop real fast, they speed everything up, and they throw it, and they spin it, and they put, it's like, it's the worst cooking, it's horrible.
It's horrible.
Because they just, each person is repeating what somebody else is doing.
And nobody's asking, is this a good idea or not?
I don't understand this.
Would you tell me when people started saying, hey guys, hey guys, you know, I want you guys, you know, you guys, I want you guys, you know, if you guys, look guys, hey guys, how can I help you guys?
When did this?
And you know why people will say it?
Because everybody else is doing it.
I understand that there's a certain thing called, you know, there's a certain degree of phrases.
Don't you hate that, honey?
Guys, hey guys, are you guys?
You guys.
And the reason why I hate it is because people are saying it because other people are saying it.
You can say that if you want, but you're not doing it because you want it.
You're doing it because that's what you're being told.
If you want to learn how to cook, I wish somebody would do me a favor.
Please, please, I beg you.
I beg you.
Speaking of spirituality, can we please...
Put a suspension on all food blogs and food shows with the syrupy, saccharine, anodyne, either grinning couple or the grinning, overly unctuous, unctuous, oily, effusive, needlessly conciliatory.
Can we stop this?
Can we stop this?
Everybody is repeating.
Everybody else.
Stop smiling.
What is the matter?
You're having a sandwich.
You've never had pizza?
I'm so excited.
You're excited?
You're getting ribs.
You've never had ribs before.
You're getting excited?
No, you're saying that because everybody else says that.
Stop saying that.
Now excited doesn't mean anything.
Just like guys doesn't mean anything.
Just like whatever it is.
Stop doing this.
Stop smiling.
You're getting ice cream.
It's okay.
It's no big deal.
Stop replicating what everybody's doing.
Please, let's go back.
Let's start from square one and let's reconnect to the humanity.
I want to go back to what I was saying.
Nobody's doing calls anymore.
I don't listen to that much radio, but you...
But it's like people don't want to hear other people's voices.
We're losing communication.
We're losing the ability to talk.
We're losing the ability to share things with other people.
I'm not saying this to say...
Willy nilly.
I think sometimes social media is fantastic.
The amount of information, the amount of processing, the amount of business and commerce.
Oh, I wouldn't change it for anything.
But normally technology will augment things.
It will accentuate.
It's not doing that.
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying it's not helping.
There are some people who are withdrawing.
And I don't know if that was...
If that was through intention or the intent, I don't know.
I don't know what's going on.
But my friends, listen to me.
Hey guys, we need to reconnect with something.
Bless you.
You okay?
Wow.
We need to reconnect with something bigger, bigger, bigger.
I have always admired 12-step programs who get together without the government and meet and try to solve this human problem called addiction.
And one of the conditions, I think, and one of the steps is that you must admit that you are powerless or there's something bigger than you or whatever it was.
And I thought to myself, I used to think, I don't know if that's a good idea.
Now I do.
Now I absolutely listen to me.
Are you listening?
You're probably not.
You're probably just writing things.
You're probably just writing things right now as we speak because that's what you do and I understand that.
But you're not listening.
Which I'm trying to explain here.
There's something called humility.
And humility is a recognition in my mind's eye of...
Understanding and appreciating how insignificant you are in the scheme of things.
And that's not as a negative thing, but do not take yourself seriously.
Do not take yourself seriously.
You are so expendable and so insignificant in the scheme of things, it's not even...
Maybe not to your children, but in the universe, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You are absolutely, without a doubt, that.
And more.
Without any possibility of overstating the obvious.
You've got to recognize the fact.
And it's liberating.
It's liberating.
We need to separate ourselves.
We need to stop being so, again, solipsism.
Only recognizing the existence of you.
You need to step back and realize you are just a molecule.
You are stardust.
We are golden.
I think Jordy Mitchell said it best.
Woodstock.
We just have to move, whether it's God or whatever it is, we need to step back from this.
And you have got to understand that it's liberating.
Stop worrying about what you look like.
Start thinking about what are you saying?
What are you doing?
What's your legacy?
What do you know?
When you leave, when you transfer into the next iteration of whatever this thing is, what is going to be your legacy?
A bunch of duck-lip photos?
I'm serious!
Have you thought of that?
What is this?
Do you care?
You might not care!
Okay, nothing wrong with that.
What is going to be your legacy?
When somebody speaks, they probably, I don't even know if they even do that anymore, but when somebody speaks or somebody speaks at your, your, I don't know, your memorial or whatever the particular thing is, what will they say?
What will they really mean?
What will they feel?
What did you leave?
What was your legacy?
What did you stand for?
Got a good picture of her.
Hi, I'm here.
You know, Aunt Lorraine, we all probably have a duck clip picture of her.
She sure did a lot of those.
She sure did.
In fact, we have thousands of pictures of...
Here's Uncle Stan.
Here's pictures of his food.
He took pictures of his food a lot.
Yeah, yeah, that's Stan.
Here's a guy who takes a picture of...
I don't know what...
I...
I don't know what it is.
I don't understand mine.
Do you read anything?
Does anything bother you?
Is there any news story that you can turn yourself with?
Maybe.
And the only good thing, at least about news, news politics, is that it's somebody else.
I'll take anything, even sports.
Talk to me about sports, as long as it's somebody else.
Something else.
Other than you.
Not how you're a fan or how you...
No.
Talk about so-and-so.
I used to think that obituaries were good.
I thought obituaries were wonderful because people could talk about how much they meant.
No.
People now say how much their loss meant to them.
No words.
No words.
Can't speak.
Can't talk.
No words.
I am...
Literally, I like when they say literally, they get them figuratively, literally confused.
I'm literally dying.
You are?
Call 911.
No.
Oh my God.
Tim McCarver passed away recently.
Very good sports announcer.
I used to see him at the park.
He used to walk every day.
Years ago, he used to walk.
Every time I'd be in the park, there I was.
Never talked to him, but he's a nice man.
You know.
Play for the Cardinals and Catcher.
Okay.
Other people said, no, no, no.
It's not enough for me to say, I thought the world would have.
No, no.
My world is done because my particular sense of bereavement is greater than yours.
My loss is greater than yours.
My appreciation for the absence of Tim McCarver in the universe, you can't even touch.
Even somebody's death, they seize as their own.
I'm doing a Godfather 3 here.
We really need to do this.
So if you spend any time helping others, talking to others, going to church or services or reading or volunteering or being a member of any kind of church or maybe watching news and talking about Other people,
how something affects them, enjoying this thing called being empathic, connecting to other people, and just leaving you out of the equation, it's liberating.
Just take yourself out of it.
Leave yourself out of it.
If you take somebody...
I would never understand how people brag about their children.
You shouldn't be putting your children on social media.
But I know somebody who...
Her son did something admirable.
She took a picture with her son.
It was all about her.
That's my son.
I taught him proud.
Not him!
He had nothing...
Ostensibly it was about his particular accomplishment.
No, no, no, no.
Her.
And I know it's none of my business, but if I said, you do know what you just did, right?
She wouldn't know.
She wouldn't understand what I was saying.
Remove yourself.
I'm going to tell you something right now.
You're going to think I'm nuts.
But whenever I see cemeteries, I say, see?
See?
That's what it's about.
See?
That's it.
The graveyards are filled with indispensable men.
The evanescent existence.
All these people.
All these people, all these monuments, all of these people had names and nicknames and concerns and worries and laughs and they had their favorite song and they had their favorite food and they had this and that and some were sick and some were young and some were old and all that.
That's it.
So whenever you get real, you know, duck lippy, just go out there and look.
Just, just...
Understand.
Put yourself...
Look at pictures of outer space.
Anything.
Anything.
One of the things that people do not want to ever address as to the notion of anything being out there other than us is the idea of sharing significance with something else.
You may laugh at that.
You may think that's absurd.
It's absolutely correct.
People do not want to think of the possibility of subservience or something else.
Let me give you an example of something.
We, we are less than our DNA compared to a chimp is I think it's like less than a half a percent different.
Like 99.6% or 99.5%.
So a half a percentage point difference.
We are a half a percentage point different than a chimp.
A half.
A half.
And look at the difference.
Look at the difference.
What if you were to ever come into contact with something that was 5% different?
Do you understand this?
Can you grasp that?
5%?
Again, we're a half a percent different than a chimp.
And the chimp can sit there and it can, you know, if it's a bonobo, it does different things.
You can make minimal tools.
You know what I found out?
Listen to this.
This will blow your mind.
You know why dogs are so interesting?
Listen to me carefully.
What is the thing about a dog's eye that is different than most?
I'll tell you.
Sclera.
White.
White part of the eye.
White.
Why is that important?
You tell when it's looking at you.
Others have big, like horse eyes and cats.
Big, big pupils.
Big.
No white.
Just big for the most part.
A dog has white.
And with that, you can see attention and focus and expression in a lot of things.
Think about that.
I never thought about this before.
And a dog looks at your eyes and notices things you don't know it notices.
And you notice it too.
A dog will understand when you point to something and it says, oh, you mean that?
A monkey won't.
A chimp won't.
It doesn't know what you're doing.
It's just pointing your face.
What about your finger?
They do not...
With a dog, you go like that and the dog knows.
Dogs are...
Remember, ethnosynology or...
I never thought about that.
And I've been thinking about this.
That is the greatest thing in the world.
When they look at you, see a dog look at you like this?
They look at you like, mm-hmm.
And they have no facial muscles.
It's all eyes.
They don't have a lot of lid, non-epicanthus, none of that.
They're just kind of looking at you.
And you're reading so much into it.
That's why they can read.
They're empathic.
They can tell if you're okay.
A lot of times they'll say like, oh, they can tell whether somebody's having a PTSD episode or whether it's more than just smelling.
They can look.
They can pick up on things.
Isn't that something?
They're going to end up being more empathic and more connected than we are because we are becoming more and more detached from reading people because we're not talking.
We're not communicating.
We're not...
You talk about this pineal gland and third eye and all this jazz.
Am I getting too heavy?
I'll stop if you'd like.
That's another thing friends of mine say.
I don't want to talk about this.
Can we talk about me?
Did you see my latest duck lip photo?
Can I send that to you?
Duck lips?
Can I show you that?
It's my sexy photo.
I'll send them to you.
That's okay.
Now, by the way, my friends, let me talk about something which...
Again, I don't want to ruin our deep conversation.
Electromagnetic pulses.
Oh, baby!
EMP attacks.
What will you do?
How are you going to protect yourself against an electromagnetic pulse?
I just put this link right here for EMP Shield.
You got five minutes?
Look at the FAQs.
Read this.
It's one of these.
Wow.
I didn't think about this.
Oh, yeah.
EMP Shield.
Made in America.
Made right here.
Veteran-owned.
Read it.
Read it in a few days.
Just let them.
They're very good at this.
But for car, home, generator, RV, anybody into ham radio?
I hope so.
Ham Radio?
Ham Radio is going to be very critical in the event of something really bad happening.
So EMP Shield, I am telling you, you're smart.
You don't need a lot of cajoling.
You're a smart group.
I don't have to sit here and tell you.
But they support us and we support them.
And finally, our friends at MyPillow.
That's right, MyPillow.
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Why?
Because we get credit for this.
And they have been with us since the beginning.
And we thank them.
And I want you to thank them as well.
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Everything.
Two, three, four, five times each item.
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Fine for dad or grad.
And yes, mama makes julienne fries.
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Okay?
You dig?
Okay.
Are you with me today?
Just give me an idea.
I'm not so sure.
I can't tell.
Are you following this?
Are you following this?
Because sometimes I get the impression that I could just get up and leave and some would say, that's okay.
It doesn't matter.
Which is okay.
We each have our own particular way of thinking.
It's 29 degrees today.
Does that mean anything?
Of course not.
Yesterday was incredible.
The wind, the howl, the excitement.
Wow!
It was beautiful to hear the whoosh!
Especially in buildings.
Oh, it's gorgeous.
See them coming over the Hudson?
Here it comes!
Comes from Jersey.
Here it comes!
It was a beautiful day.
I loved it.
I love the weather.
I love when it changes.
And I love the fact that when you get older, everybody wants to talk about it.
Does that make sense?
I'm going to give you another thing too.
I'm going to tell you about this.
I'm going to share this with you.
No particular reason.
Speaking of spirituality, a friend of mine said, Boy, I can't wait to get a massage.
I hate massages.
Get your hands off me.
I just don't.
I can't.
Unless I'm really in the middle of a cramp, which I don't have, or I really need to have some muscle workout, which I don't have, I do not want somebody with their hands on me.
I must be the only person, because everybody loves about massages, I just, no, no, no, no thanks, sorry, not interested, sorry!
And I think most of the people, very frankly sometimes, who get that, Sometimes I feel good.
I understand there's kind of a kinesthetic thing.
But I think sometimes people get massages.
Don't ask me why.
I wanted to share this with you.
Is there anybody who finds massages to be as annoying as me?
Is it me?
Eric says that.
Just say, leave me alone.
I don't know what this is.
Why are you doing that?
Sometimes they're very important.
Kids in particular.
Babies need to be touched.
Really, really important.
For all kinds of parietal stuff and presents and all that kind of jazz.
But just stop it.
Andy's driving to his grandson's basketball game.
That's a beautiful thing.
Remember one thing, Andy.
No matter what your grandson does, you always say, I love you.
You're great.
Colin says, can't stand him.
Get your hands off.
Now, I will tell you something.
I will say something, and let me just qualify.
Let me qualify.
The only thing, the only thing that I will say that I can say honestly, yes, I do agree, is if ever you're getting shampooed, that scalp massage, that's a different story.
That's, what do you call that?
Cephalocodal, proximal, distal.
Everything starts from the head, the development.
Of the blastocyst starts from the head out.
Cephalocaudoproximal distal.
Remember that theory?
Probably not.
Anyway, that I think means something.
Just saying.
Just saying.
Ivana says, gives me the willies.
I love that.
I love those expressions.
The willies.
There's something weird about that.
Realize people don't touch people.
Do you know that one of the worst parts, they've said this, about people who are in isolation and solitary confinement is that they never see, they never have human touch.
And they don't realize that.
And they never touch that many people.
They never...
You don't realize how many people, whether you shake hands or maybe you're in some approximate distance, but there's something very, very, very interesting about that.
That people need this.
They need that conscience.
And I'm convinced, I'm convinced that with more and more and more of this social media platforms, We're losing something.
And I will tell you something too.
People will also use the extension, the difference, the separateness of position.
They will use this as an excuse for it not being problematic.
Well, it's not like I touched you.
It's not like I was there.
We didn't really talk.
It's not the same.
Really?
Let me stop right there.
I don't want to go too far with this.
Because I don't think you're ready for this.
And I don't blame you.
My friends, a couple of things here.
First, you must follow me on Twitter.
Oh my God.
And I did something this morning.
One of the best pieces ever.
And are you aware of things called central bank digital currency?
No.
No.
If you're interested and you want to go deep and dark into the world that, frankly, you should, follow me on my private channel.
Okay?
That's all I'm going to tell you.
Now, here is Mrs. L's Twitter.
Follow her on Twitter immediately.
Immediately.
The best Twitter source there is.
Also, her newsletter.
Make sure you sign up right now.
Comes out on Wednesdays.
You've got plenty of time to hurry up.
Plenty of time.
It's some of the best stuff you will ever read.
Mine will also come out.
People, oh, they go crazy with mine.
I love people who say, can you make it shorter?
No.
You've got to read it.
And I throw stuff at you in my own inimitable style.
Here's my newsletter.
There it is.
And it is a beaut.
And finally, and I'm going to say this one more time.
If you want to hear the darker side, the more adult side, the more problematic side of everything that we're doing, please follow my channel at the following.
And it is right there.
Alright, my friends.
Have a great conversation.
Anything you want to add, honey?
Anything in particular?
Oh, oh, oh!
Her YouTube!
Yes!
How stupid of me!
You must see Mrs. L's YouTube channel.
It's going to be...
The hottest ticket in town.
And she doesn't say guys.
Not one time.
Which I think is reason enough right there.
Here is hers.
Please go.
Just click on this and you will immediately be able to subscribe like that.
All of that available.
All right, my friends.
Have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change.
I mean that sincerely.
We'll be here again tomorrow.
Same bad time.
Same bad channel.
9 a.m. Eastern Time.
Until then, remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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