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Feb. 25, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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When Humans Behave As Crowds

Murmurations incarnate.

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Good day.
Good day, my friend.
I hope you're having a good day today.
So far, maybe not.
And if you're not having a good day, what am I supposed to do about it?
That's one of those things where you say, I hope you're having a good day today.
You do?
You really hope I'm having a good day?
You hope?
Well, I don't know if I hope that.
Well, why'd you say it?
Well, it's an amenity.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Really?
Well, not really.
You're really praying?
Well, no.
No, I just say that.
I sort of say that.
Well, why do you say that?
Well, I say it because, I don't know, I just say it.
How you doing?
Great.
Have a nice weekend.
Do you care about that?
No, I just say that.
I say things like that.
Gesundheit.
Goodbye.
God be with ye.
Kind of a truncation.
Goodbye.
We say things all the time.
Hi, how are you?
How's it going?
How's it going?
Hey, what's up?
What's up?
We just say things.
We say things.
Which is today's subject matter.
When humans behave as crowds.
Oh, I love this.
Now, my friends, as you know, today is a lot of discussion regarding Russia and Ukraine.
If you're interested in what I have to say about that, you're not going to hear it here.
I'm going to direct you to my private account where I go into explicit detail.
And the reason for it is simple.
And I want you to understand something.
And I don't mean...
To say this disrespectfully.
But I don't talk to people who don't know what I'm talking about or what they're talking about.
And it's a good idea not to.
I was talking the other day, or trying to, we were discussing, somebody was talking about diets and I realized this person had absolutely no idea.
By the way, that is my private channel right there for you too.
And by the way, if you're at home or if you're...
Later on, using this as a phone, please hit the more, whatever.
Anyway, people don't know what's going on.
They really don't know.
There might be a couple of people who even have the wherewithal to know the subject.
So I don't talk with them a lot.
I just don't.
I am the best at changing a subject.
Mrs. L will tell you.
I can change a subject so fast, you don't even realize it.
I'm off to the next subject.
I'm off.
Because I am not going to waste my time talking to people about whatever it is.
I don't want to spend my time reacting to things.
Because as you know, my friends, life in general is surveying the battleground.
You can look at life as a battle.
I think...
Love is a battleground.
Who did that?
Not Paula.
What is her name?
Love is a battleground?
Pat Benatar.
Love is a battleground.
See, when you're in a battleground and you're a general and you're up at the mountain and you're surveying, some people use the term surveilling.
Oh, by the way, while we're at it, please learn myself.
If you say, here's a picture of Of Jerry, Jody, Joey, and myself.
No, no, no, no, no.
Stop that.
Please.
Functuation.
Grammar.
Learn it.
Anyway, when you're up at this mountain and you're surveying the battleground, you realize there's all kinds of people coming at you.
A battle has very many different sides to it.
World War II was the European theater, the Pacific theater, there was Navy, there was Marines, there was amphibious, there was paratroopers, there was air assault, there was air, there was logistics.
That's what life is.
That's what life is.
And you have to understand, you have to understand, that when you were looking, when you were looking, Survey the group.
And there's one very wise person that people would rather believe.
That's fine.
But do yourself a favor.
Today, stop wasting time.
Figure out how to change the way you deal with them.
Now, by the way, a couple of things.
Please like this video.
Please enjoy this video.
Please, you know the routine.
I'm not going to waste my time.
Let me give you an analogy.
This is one of my new passions.
When I say passion, it's a subject which I could lose next week or tomorrow or next week.
But I'm into this thing about dog breeds because I learned this.
My favorite dog breed from what little I've learned by perusing YouTube channels is the Cane Corso.
This is the Italian Mastiff.
I was watching somebody who actually put together a TikTok video called them Cain Corso.
Didn't even think about pronouncing the name correctly.
Called it Cain Corso.
Actually saw this.
It's like sometimes you'll see a great meme.
And then there's the most glaring misspelling or mispronunciation.
Why didn't you review this?
No, you spelled it wrong!
Oh no!
But they don't care.
That's considered priggish or unnecessary.
But I love this thing called the Cane Corso.
Love it.
And I love this.
Let me explain to you why.
You can see this dog.
And you'll understand why I'm telling you this.
When you explain this dog, first of all, this has been by virtue of breeding and sometimes you put the ball of dogs together and they turn out great and sometimes they don't.
But this dog, if you raise it the right way and if it kind of raises around you, it understands you're the master or my whatever it is and I love you.
I protect you.
We're like this.
You can do almost anything to me.
And this, this area, this is ours.
It's mine.
They just do this.
Other dogs, they don't care about anything.
This dog does.
Why?
Who knows.
And there's these little videos.
There's a little, there was just a toddler.
She's like in diapers.
She just can barely walk.
And she's babbling and grabbing the ear.
This dog's head is...
This dog could have opened his mouth and just bitten the head off.
Never do that.
This dog loves this baby.
And the other...
There were two of them.
Two conicorsos.
Huge!
150, 160 pounds.
Monsters!
They love this thing.
That's the master.
I don't know if you can say that today.
I'm not really sure.
But he loves this baby.
Baby's grabbing it, hanging on it, and the dog says, that's fine.
That's cool.
I'm here.
And all of a sudden, somebody rings the doorbell.
And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, comes this instinct.
And this thing says, somebody's here?
Oh no, you're not.
Imagine being...
The burglar who walks in and sees this thing.
And sometimes people love to live kind of vicariously through their dogs.
They love these seemingly vicious dogs.
They're not good for police work because, frankly, they scare people too much.
They're also not in the best of shape.
They can't really go far.
They kind of get winded.
But for protection.
But for loyalty.
That's it.
Now, The other one is the Dogo Argentino.
Now, you can pronounce it various different ways.
You can come up with different...
I mean, I kind of go through it.
This is also one of these mastiffs.
The Dogo Argentino.
This Argentine mastiff.
This one is bred for dog fighting in Cordoba.
Also for hunting large games such as peccaries and pumas.
This thing is really fast.
More fleet of foot.
Better stamina.
Now, why do I say this?
Why am I talking about dogs?
I've told you about my hypothetical conversation I have with...
Somebody from another planet.
I've told you about my hypothetical conversation I have with somebody from another planet.
Some other, some other, I don't know, life form.
And I would explain to this person, we love dogs, and we breed dogs, and our dogs do certainly this.
And better yet, let me explain to you the behavior of humans.
Because everything that we do is about human behavior.
Everything.
Politics, television, social media, children, relationships, anything.
Advertising, behavior.
Your behavior, their behavior, our behavior.
You have an individual behavior and you have a collective behavior that you act upon when you are en masse, when you are in a group.
You're different.
You're different.
And I deal with people all the time.
And the first thing I say is, what's this group?
Everybody I meet is in a group that I've met before.
That's the best part about the longer you live.
I've always been paying attention.
I've been cataloging these behaviors.
And there are people now who all of a sudden love to be by virtue of social media.
They create new versions and new iterations of their personality.
And they love to be involved in certain stuff that they are identified with.
I know there are people who are in the political world.
I know people who are in the podcasting world.
I've known these people forever.
I used to know them as talk radio.
I used to know them.
In the TV world, there's the TV person.
Then there's the personality, which is different.
There's the talk radio person, the podcast person, and then there's the...
Personality.
The star.
The star.
And you see what I would tell to this person from another planet, whatever I say.
You see that guy there?
Okay.
His problem.
And I don't want to suggest breeding humans.
That sounds terrible.
But if you could take traits of people.
If I could figure out his problem is this is about him.
You see, the best If you want to be the most effective in any kind of a communications platform or music or whatever it is, think about the essence of what you're doing, not you.
If this is about you, you'll lose people because you'll lose focus.
The reason why people came in wasn't about you, it was about what you were saying.
Believe it or not, really, yes, it wasn't about you.
We don't care about you.
Do we really care about Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise?
No.
It was their roles.
It wasn't about them.
We didn't even know who they were.
Oh, yeah.
Do we care about politicians?
Was it really about Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama?
No.
It was about what they did.
Oh, yeah.
It wasn't about them.
It's never about them.
It's what they did first, and then we find out, oh, and by the way, they're interesting or whatever it is.
But there are people I know.
What's about them?
They start out first.
And this is what you have to understand about when humans work in groups.
You know that show called Comedians in Cars with Coffee or whatever it is, Jerry Seinfeld?
This is where Jerry Seinfeld laughs convulsively at the least funny individuals.
Like this new thing people are saying, oh, there's a cancel culture.
No, that's kind of it, sort of, but no.
No, no.
Yeah, some people should be canceled because they're just whatever it is.
Anyway, this is the thing.
You've got to understand something.
And one of the things that you've got to understand with age comes Liberation.
Comes liberation.
To liberate yourself.
To liberate yourself from yourself when you don't care.
I don't mean you're negligent towards yourself, but you just don't care anymore.
You say, I don't care about me.
I've done my thing.
I know who I am.
Fine.
Let's talk about the task.
Oh!
You see, Let me just show you right now.
Look at some of the people who are talking.
And I want to say this, and I'm not saying this in a mean way, but I'm saying this in a way that's very interesting.
Just look at some of the people who are here and look at some of the people who are just talking right now.
And by the way, please like this.
First, not everybody who's watching now, whatever, is typing in and talking.
But look at what people are trying to say.
Look at how people right now are fighting to jockey for position.
Look at the group that we have here.
And look at the group.
We have some who are saying, I'm smarter than you.
One in particular.
I know more than you.
I figured you out.
I have unlocked the psychic connectivity between human beings.
I know this.
I'm going to keep Telling you that everything you see, your world is an illusion.
Your sense of commitment to truth is not really based on that but in something else which is because I am the philosopher.
And we meet these people all the time.
I'm the philosopher.
I'm a philosopher, I see.
The reason why you're doing that is not because you wanted that, but because you were told you want that.
Because you live in a consumer society where everything that you want is based upon that, not what you need, but what you want.
And I spew this all day long.
That's the philosopher.
Then we got to look at me.
Hey!
That's it.
This is the one who is in front of the, who says, let's go to the Today Show and stand outside and wave.
Why?
I don't know.
Those are the people I've always wanted to know.
Why are you doing that?
It's 30 Below.
Hey!
We love you, Al.
I don't even know if they do that.
I haven't watched the Today Show.
I don't even know when.
But we have those people as well.
Then we have the people who love the low-hanging fruit.
These are the advocates.
These are the people who take the most obvious things available and they will act as though they have, in part, or analyzed it with such a profundity, something that nobody has ever thought about.
Something that is so, you know, well, I don't know about you, but leaving your home with a door unlocked is not a good idea.
Thank you so much.
I'm paraphrasing.
Then there are people who do this.
This is what I would love to do.
I have a TV show.
Let's say I have a TV show.
I'm going to say, come here, you.
Jerry, come here for a minute.
Listen.
Today, I want you to go on and I want you to say that something really, really dumb.
I want you to confuse World War II with World War I. You're going to make a statement.
You're going to say something.
And you're going to say something that's really just so stupid that everybody will go crazy.
Because it was so dumb.
You're going to make...
Remember that great line?
Remember that great line from Animal House?
And they said, And when the Germans attacked us at Pearl Harbor, do we sit back?
No!
Remember that?
How many times have you used that?
I want you to go on and say that.
Why am I saying that?
So people will react.
Yeah, but it's wrong.
I know.
Yeah, but I'm going to look kind of like an idiot.
No, you're not.
No, you're not.
Do you know what we're going to get?
The number of people Who are going to be talking about this?
And they're going to be calling up the next day?
And watching the next day to see if you say anything more?
Yeah, but aren't you maybe sacrificing me?
Not at all.
Yeah, but I'm going to be going and saying something that's...
I know.
And this is the next rule about humans.
We don't know fame and infamy.
We don't care about this.
We don't.
It doesn't matter.
Are we watching this for some particular reason?
Yes.
We're going to watch, oh, so-and-so's back.
From when he was suspended for not knowing that Germany never attacked us at Pearl Harbor.
Remember when they suspended that guy?
Yeah.
Well, he's back today.
Let's tune in.
And the numbers go up.
Because people, they don't care.
Normally, people say, I'm not going to watch this.
Well, anybody who confuses Germany with Japan, I don't want to watch.
It doesn't work like that.
It doesn't work like that.
No, no, no, no.
You're going to watch.
Oh, okay.
And then you're going to say this.
Then you're going to say, can you believe?
I would have a show and then I would have this kind of fake website that did nothing but trash the show.
Done internally and have my people say, who is this?
And I would say, I don't know who that is.
How did they know what we did?
They must have an insider and it's me.
That means if I work for a network, I'm going to have a TV show, let's say a news show, and then I'm going to have a website or something that attacks it.
That's going to drive people crazy.
And people will say, well, according to the insider, did you hear what so-and-so said?
And then I'm going to walk around the network and say, whoever's doing this, we're going to get to the bottom of this, but it's me.
Why?
Because the way crowds work, it doesn't matter.
Fame, infamy, just notice me.
Doesn't matter why.
Nobody ever says, that was marvelous.
Did you hear that debate on bimetallism?
It was fantastic.
No, we're not going to see that.
We're going to see this.
Because this is American, this is human group.
What pulls people in is not out of admiration.
It's you've done something which is noteworthy.
Usually something which is ignominious.
Something which produces opprobrium.
Something that makes people usually laugh or mock or whatever.
That's who we are.
That is it.
We used to have a show called Bloopers and Practical Jokes.
You notice that?
No, I don't think...
Everything is a blooper now.
You know that, right?
Everything is a blooper.
Everything is a blooper.
There's no distinction.
We don't know what this is.
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That's another thing about this.
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Turmeric.
What?
That's the biggest thing right now.
Remember how that?
Everybody was going crazy.
All of a sudden, what is going on?
Turmeric!
This is a curcuma longa wine.
I don't know why.
It just is.
And everybody just, you gotta have that.
Remember when green tea came along?
Green tea.
Green tea.
It's good.
And we became experts on it.
Okay, that's good.
And then people said, for a while there, they said, this doesn't have gluten.
Is this gluten-free?
Why are you gluten-free?
Must be good reason if we don't have gluten in it, right?
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And I appreciate that.
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Okay?
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Okay, fine.
Next, let's talk about food.
I saw a very interesting interview there with Guy Fieri.
Not Fieri, Fieri.
What was that?
Because you've got to say it like that.
And he's talking about stuff that all of a sudden people are noticing weird.
All of a sudden there's problems with chickens and eggs and meat and this.
What are some of the things that are not being able to be found now?
People are having a hard time just finding certain staples, as it were.
Why?
Because the...
Supply lines and the arteries that provide foods to you are very precarious, very prone to breakdown.
And my patriot supply simply makes the most sense.
You buy this.
You can save up to, you say, no, $250 on a three-month emergency food kit.
And we're not talking like this.
Mom, what is this?
Banana chips?
How many of these?
No.
No. 2,000 calories a day, 25 years shelf life, breakfast, lunches, dinners, every conceivable combination of food you can imagine, just go to the website.
And you have it in your closet or in your garage, and it's there in case you need it.
And you sleep at night, and you get one for every member of your family.
90 days worth.
That's it.
You move the canoe out of your garage, you get rid of the bike that nobody rides, and you put this in there.
It's Emergency Food.
What's that again?
Emergency Food.
PrepareWithLionel.com That's the name of this.
PrepareWithLionel.com Period.
End of discussion.
Okay.
I love human behavior.
You have no idea.
May I ask you something?
You don't have to say this.
Are you a member of a club?
Are you a member of a club?
I'm thinking, am I a member of a club?
I mean like professional and bar associations, but a club?
Are you?
Are you a member of a club?
Because that's the thing that here in New York, oh!
I don't know how big they are now, but oh my god.
You want to have lunch at the Harvard Club?
How about the Yale Club?
You got those clubs.
The Penn Club.
And then the University Club.
And then we have the Lotus Club.
And then we got the...
What's that one on 5th?
Really, the one that's Metropolitan.
I'm a member of the...
Would you want to go to my club?
Do you ever go to the club?
We're a member of the club.
This is my club.
It's a yacht club.
I used to be in the Legion of Mary.
I don't even know what that is, but it sounds...
I like that.
A Legion of Mary.
You know what I noticed something, too?
Maybe you can help me with this.
When I was a kid, I was in parochial school, Catholic school, and we had Ash Wednesday.
And let me tell you what it was.
It was just this little, little kind of...
By noon it was gone.
It was like nothing.
It was a little tiny nothing.
It was just like powder.
It was more for you.
You know?
And there's also St. Blaise.
Remember that?
Catholic school.
This is really old school.
This is where they would cross the candles.
Remember this?
And this used to be from dust.
But it was this little kind of a thing right here, and sometimes it would just be gone by noon.
Today, it's this encrusted, like a relief, like a statue or some plaque, some life-size cross.
Big, big, big!
I never remembered that.
Did you, honey?
When did it get so big, these crosses?
I think it's a wonderful thing.
It's, you know, it's an expression of your thing.
I don't remember this.
I never, ever.
I remember sometimes somebody was like, you know, you forget, and you go like, they go, oh, I lost my, oh, whatever.
And you want to tell people, I had it this morning, you know.
But nobody walking around said, see?
See?
See?
Which is fine.
Whatever your face is.
Mine was kind of smeared.
It's always smeared.
You're right.
It was just a very simple thing.
Now I notice, my God, when did this change?
I have no idea.
When did this thing change?
Growing up also Catholic, remember when we had the Confession time.
Confession was important because you got out of class.
Got to go, sister.
Sorry.
I'd love to be here.
Got to go to confession.
Gotta go.
Gotta go.
Okay.
You sure gotta go.
Gotta go.
Okay, fine.
We'll go.
You sure I'm going to go?
I'm going to go.
I'm going to go there.
Okay, fine.
You sure about that?
I'm going to go.
Okay.
Well, that was fine.
That was then.
That was whatever it is.
And then you'd come back.
Then you had to do the penance.
And you could kneel next to your, which was tough, on these floors, next to your, which was kind of weird, next to your desk.
Those wooden things with a hole in it.
Remember they had the hole for the inkwell?
We had these, like, what is this hole for?
With this bracket?
That's for the inkwell.
For the what?
These are how old these were.
They were ancient.
Anyway, it was very quiet.
But it was very dark.
They called it confession.
And you went into this creaky church and you walk in and there was this there was the booth and then you sat in this booth and then all of a sudden you see this this board or sliding something or other moves over and there you were.
And you could kind of see you knew who the priest was but they didn't know who you were I don't think.
And you Didn't see anybody, and you could feel rather free, and it was very dark.
It was kind of interesting.
Well, then one day, they changed it.
And I'll never forget this.
It was the eighth grade.
Get out of class.
Oh, sorry, Father.
I'm in the wrong room.
I'm looking for the confession.
Oh, this is it.
This is it.
They didn't announce it.
They didn't tell us.
They didn't say, oh, by the way.
Aren't we going to the church?
No, we're doing it here in a classroom.
What?
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Yeah, I say, well, we're in a classroom?
Hey, Jerry, how's your mom and dad?
Fine, Father.
And your sins became very, very generic.
Like George Carlin says, I just want to be a better Catholic, Father.
I have no idea.
That changed everything.
And then I have no idea what they're doing now.
I have no...
Clue.
I have no...
I don't particularly follow that.
Reconciliation versus...
What is that?
Criminal reform?
Restoration.
Reconciliation.
Restoration.
We'll talk about that.
If you'd like to hear more about that, check on my private channel.
But what was very interesting was it was kind of sedate, if you will.
And I don't know.
I don't really see this.
I don't really notice this anymore.
I laud and applaud and recommend everybody to seek whatever your spirituality is, whether it is corporeal, whether it is astral, whether it is whatever, whatever, especially when you realize that there is more to the world than just you.
That's all.
It's a very humbling experience.
It's just, you know, it would be too, dare I say, solipsistic, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.
All right, my friends, let's talk about this.
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We are a MyPillow home and so should you be as well.
So my friends, I also want you to know where do I go to learn about human behavior?
Malls?
Families?
Have you ever had the most interesting thing?
And nobody ever talks about this.
When you marry, When you involve yourself in a relationship, whether you marry or not, like my father used to always say, you know, you don't marry the girl, you marry the family.
Well, that's a little bit, whatever.
But to an extent, that's something, because all of a sudden, these people, this isn't yours.
These aren't like neighbors.
Oh, no, no.
There's a fusing.
And it's fascinating.
And you get to see, you walk in, and you catch a family unit that has already developed years before you got there.
And you see kind of like the end result of years and years of jockeying for position.
You figure out who's the alpha, who's not, who's this.
It is fascinating.
Watch how that works.
Also, when you go to restaurants, look at how people act.
Look at how people act and look, do they talk to each other?
Look at the number of people, couples, who don't talk to each other.
And I don't mean on their phones, they don't talk to each other.
It's the most interesting thing I've ever heard.
Have you ever been at a restaurant and heard somebody talk?
I hear people behind me, in front of me, to the left, to the right.
It's very disconcerting sometimes.
And I think to myself, my God!
Imagine being so demented, so twisted, so disconnected from reality that you found this even remotely interesting.
But I'm fascinated by it.
Listen to what they're saying.
This is nothing.
This is gibberish.
I love it.
I love it.
Do we still have bowling teams?
Do we still have bowling?
Bowling alleys.
That's another world.
The sound.
Don't you love that sound?
When you walk and you hear that crack of the bat, isn't that?
We've never lost that sound.
Metal bats in baseball ruined it.
That ding, I hate that, I like that.
But bowling alley is the same.
You can have lights, you can have this, you can have that, you can do midnight, doesn't matter.
It's a bowling alley, a bunch of drunk people wearing other people's shoes.
That's another enclave, another group of people who meet.
And some take it very seriously and some don't.
And then you see the old pictures.
I love the old black and whites with the pin, you know, Guzman's plumbing, you know, and they stand there and they got their teeth from the 50s.
I love that.
I loved!
We did this thing one time where I was in a suicide and crisis center.
This is a true story.
So somebody said, okay, listen.
Can we have a bowling team?
I said, well, you know, that might be interesting.
You know, because I can't bowl.
So I volunteered.
I said, you know what?
I'll go and I'll talk to these people with this.
Remember, it was in Tampa years ago, off of 56th Street.
It might still be there, like in the Temple Terrace area.
This one bowling alley.
And I walked and said, hi.
And our team was called the Lifesavers.
Right?
So I said, look.
Hi.
I was in college.
I said, we're not serious about this, but can we, you know, what do we do?
I guess I'm going to do it.
Okay.
And I kept the scores and the handicap and all this stuff.
But listen, we're not serious about this.
I just want to let you know.
Don't put us in the league with anybody who's really serious because we can't bowl.
There may be weeks we don't even show up.
I have no idea because we're not dependable.
We're not dependable, but we save people's lives.
Go figure.
In any event, within one week, one day, whatever, everybody got competitive.
Immediately, I said, wait a minute, what's going on here?
This is supposed to be fun.
Hey, what are you doing, Jerry?
Come on, Jerry.
Jerry, we're not going to make the semifinals.
The semifinals?
What semifinal?
Immediately, they went crazy.
You know what else I found when people went crazy?
Softball teams.
There's always somebody who says, I'm the jock.
And they ruin it.
I like when you can go out and you can say, listen, if you miss, so what?
And let me also tell you something.
And I want you to listen to me very carefully.
I am for giving everybody a trophy.
For little kids, I'm sorry.
They'll learn this competition later.
I like to say, hey there, Megan.
Did you have a good time?
Yeah, here's your trophy.
Great.
Wasn't that fun?
See you next week.
You're having fun.
My whole thing is, you were very nice.
We don't laugh at anybody.
We just have fun.
You'll get to this competitive stuff later on.
But right now, you're a kid.
Swing, miss, I don't care.
Just enjoy yourself.
Be courteous.
That's what I want to teach people.
Competition later on.
This is a game.
Everybody loves to say, these kids all get a trophy.
I say, well, maybe in high school, but these are little kids.
So what is right?
So what?
Enjoy it.
Enjoy yourself.
That's the best part.
And there are these, we live, there are a lot of parks around us, one in particular, and there's these soccer.
How about no matter the weather?
Four below, raining, they're always, year round, it doesn't matter.
They're really into this.
And that Maradona, you know, ball handling stuff.
You see, that's the thing I want to do.
We're okay because once you, when you're a kid, you have your kid at home, and then you can say, okay, now listen.
You're going to go now to nursery school or kindergarten.
Now you're leaving.
Now you're entering the group.
And it's something which is so critical, so critical in your life, in your development, that it could either be wonderful or devastating.
And it's when you say goodbye to your child and they're on their way.
Because that is when the corruption...
And the deterioration of the spirit comes.
Because remember something.
And I'm going to leave you with this.
It's not parents who have the most effect on children.
It's their friends.
And I would say now maybe social media to an extent.
But I don't think people have friends.
I think social media are their friends.
That's the truth.
And I'm sorry, I hate to break it to you because parents love to take too much credit, too much blame.
Well, you know, we taught them in this house.
Well, maybe you did.
They just happened to agree with you.
I'm going to leave you right now, Don Corleone, and I'm going to thank you for being a part of us.
Thank you for sharing this.
Please do me a very, very big favor.
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They're beautiful.
They're so good.
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And they're never salacious or glad-handed.
That's all I'm going to tell you.
That's the first one right there.
Mrs. Ells.
And also, her YouTube, her Lens Warriors on Twitter.
Our Twitter stuff is terrific.
She shows me stuff.
She has stories she digs up that nobody does.
And you'd be surprised the people in the business, the people who follow her.
But they'll never give her credit.
Never.
Boy, can we tell you about that.
You have no idea what we have to deal with on a regular basis.
But that's beside the point.
Alright, one more thing.
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Alright, my friends.
You have a great and glorious day.
Thanks so much for being a part of us.
Thank you for being with us.
Thank you for your kindness and your courtesy and your Well, that which you appear to be.
I'm going to say that enough.
But anyway, have a great and glorious day.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Same bad time, same bad channel, 9 a.m.
Until then, remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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