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March 18, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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St. Patrick's Day and Tradition
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Good day, my friends.
Good day.
Today is St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick's Day.
Now, I am torn between two lovers.
No, I'm torn.
Here's my green.
First, there's nothing that annoys me more than a bunch of virtue signaling, phony, you know, patty Irish.
I'm Irish, you know.
I'm Irish.
It drives me nuts.
You're not Irish.
I don't care if it's Finnegan, Callahan, it doesn't matter.
Your name, your name, first of all, you're an American, most people, but your name has, you don't know the first thing about the Irish, about their traditions.
You don't know anything about that.
Nothing.
You know nothing about them.
But, oh no, but you're, oh no, but today you're, alright.
Alright.
Everybody wants to be, oh, now listen.
This is what today's subject is.
Tradition is wonderful.
But the phonies out there.
But then again, I'm thinking, well, look, at least they're happy about something.
Okay, fine, be happy.
But the phonies, oh my God, the phonies are just, they're everywhere.
And it's a balance.
And this has been my whole, all my life.
I'm saying, why are we doing this?
Because we're told to do it.
I remember going through this when I was a kid, whether it's Christmas and birthdays, why are we singing?
As long as I can remember.
I would say, is there anything that we won't do in the name of tradition?
Is there anything?
There's some great quotes.
Lemony Snicket.
Just because something is traditional, is traditional rather.
There's no reason to do it, of course.
Well, maybe.
Maybe.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure, it is in decay.
Oh, wait a minute.
I like Gustav Mahler said, Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Oh, I like this.
I like this.
The less there is to justify a traditional custom.
The harder it is to get rid of it.
So it's a balance.
And I'm the only person today talking about this.
Nobody dares talk about this.
And I realize, this is me.
I've been like this my whole life.
I can argue the point, but I'm not going to be in a position to do something unless I really want to.
In New York?
You have St. Patrick's Day in New York?
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
You don't know what it was like.
You don't know what it was like.
We had a place that's since closed.
It was an Irish pub, but it was more than that.
It was one of the best restaurants ever.
The food was incredible.
It was just, it was a party all the time.
It's not like, what's his name?
Eddie Murphy.
It was a party all the time.
You know when you would say, hey, we're going to a birthday party on Saturday.
Okay.
And you go in, and hey, I'll go down, and it picks up.
Then around 9 o 'clock, people are feeling loose, and okay.
Imagine you could just go, walk in, and any time you walked in, it was a party.
I know it sounds extreme.
And people expected you to be like that.
And nobody would say, hey, isn't this a...
They never knew anything about it.
Isn't this a little early to be starting?
What?
What are you talking about?
There was a place in New York years ago called the...
We had the Barney Stone, but this is a Barney Rock.
It was right by the garden, right down the street from Madison Square Garden.
Right there.
And they would open...
I wasn't in there at the time, mind you, but they opened like at 7 o 'clock, and they had iron workers and people who would be on high rises, and they'd come in.
They're doing boilermakers and shots, and they're walking in with their hats.
So there was a tavern, a wild saloon.
I never saw this before.
It was incredible.
It was another world.
I don't suggest you get into it, but what I'm saying is, it was crazy.
And they never offered any apologies for this whatsoever.
I mean, just...
And St. Patrick's Day?
A week.
A week.
This one place, they would come in from all over the world.
And there was a Holiday Inn down the street that they would go to.
Now it's...
And they're all dead.
For everybody that I know from that time, they're all dead.
It's all gone.
And then COVID hit, of course, and we didn't have that.
You go to this one bar, this one place I'm talking about, you walk in, and all the chairs were gone, and the sky is gray!
Chairs are gone.
No glass.
You have plastic glass, which is an oxymoron.
And it would take you 20 minutes just to get, excuse me, Pardon me.
Excuse me.
Coming through.
And you would just be going like this.
You wouldn't be moving.
You would just be turning like this.
Why am I not moving?
Because you're doing thrusts.
You're not moving.
Excuse me.
Pardon me.
Unbelievable.
I saw this.
I don't know if kids today would even understand what this was.
They partied.
Do kids do this?
I mean, people would just...
And then, when you couldn't get through, when you couldn't...
We say, there's no...
Isn't there a fire hazard?
Fire hazard.
No, don't you think...
Isn't there a number?
What are you, crazy?
Doff to the mickey?
No, no, I'm just...
No, no Colin.
No Des.
I'm just saying that.
And then when there would be no room, there would be this...
Bagpipe.
And they'd make it.
I'm thinking, how did they do this?
It was almost like the clowns in the car.
It was incredible.
And then, of course, the Irish Irish, the Irish from Donegal or from Galway or whatever, Irish, I didn't really know them when I was growing up, but I knew these.
And most of them, I'm sorry to say, not most of the Irish, For the people that I knew, we're fine.
Some, I had no idea what they were saying.
We had one guy, we called Thomas the Pirate.
He always sounded like a pirate.
Arr!
Aye!
Aye!
What are you saying?
Arr!
Arr!
Make noise!
Then we had the people, we had the famous Irish who thought they were Dylan Thomas.
They thought everything they said was brilliant.
There's one guy, Thomas.
Another Thomas.
He drove me crazy.
Because everything you'd say, he'd have a retort.
As though he's brilliant.
Hi, Thomas.
How are you today?
Well, I'll tell you what.
It depends what you mean.
How are you?
How are you?
RST?
Is that a letter?
Is that a question?
And today?
Today is merely yesterday, tomorrow.
I said, would you stop it?
You're not brilliant.
This is nonsense.
So I would come back with him and he'd get mad.
Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to go right now.
I'm not going to take a leak.
People say a piss.
Piss of the making.
No, it's a loo.
Who's loo anyway?
Loo.
Loo, you know, a loo.
Skip to my loo.
Is that what it is?
Is it a skip or is it a hop?
That's not it.
Is it a hop, skip, and a jump?
It's a loo.
And I would just do these, this word, these, these, whatever it was.
I didn't know what people meant.
One guy says, you're pissed.
I had no, I didn't know what that meant.
I thought it meant, like, angry.
No, I'm not.
I think you are.
I'm not.
Yes, sir.
Why would I be?
Why would you be?
What are you doing?
What?
Why would you be?
Why would I be?
What are you talking?
What?
Who's?
I think he's best.
I've been sitting next to him.
He's fine.
Nobody told me.
He's doff to the mickey.
I don't know what that means.
Sometimes it was, you know, it was, you kind of figure it out.
I didn't realize the word partner was such a big...
Partner meant...
I didn't know.
Partner meant girlfriend, boyfriend, whatever.
People say, that's my partner.
Oh, hey, great.
Aye.
I told you that.
Aye.
Aye.
Am I supposed to say aye?
Aye.
Aye.
Why is he saying aye?
Aye.
Aye!
And I'm thinking back too, what is this?
What are we doing here?
Aye!
And I don't know what...
I don't know what we were talking about.
We would be talking about this and aye!
I told you the best one ever.
And I've got to tell you the best.
And everybody, if we want to, I don't care if you want to, any Irish bar, especially the old-timers, And on the west side, Druids, you know, which was the sunshine.
This is where the butcher, Eddie...
I'll tell you one great story before I forget.
This one there, it was that guy.
The best one ever is this one who said, this one there, the man there, you say that you're...
You say the man there is Joe Biden.
And I love to put him on...
I always want to put him on like talk radio and have him say something.
But he would know what I was doing.
But he would say, for example, I'll tell you what today was on to your man there, Joe Biden, with the Kamala Harris.
He said, he's coming to the FBI with a one-day...
Ha, ha, ha!
No way, for Christ's sake!
What the...
I don't know.
Whatever.
So there was a story, years ago, I've got to tell you the best story ever.
This is the best story I think I've ever heard.
Guy first came in to town.
Now, at the time, at the time, listen carefully, there was a, in the west side, there was these things called the Westies.
Have you ever heard about the Westies?
There's a lot of talk about the, you know, the mob.
There's all these mob shows, but the Westies, Featherstone, Coonan, McCluskey, Beatty.
And there were loads of them.
All on the west side in Hell's Kitchen.
All of them.
The stories.
And a lot of them were pretty much gone or in prison at the time I was there.
But before, just like at the tail end, in the 70s they ran this place.
And drugs pretty much got them.
But while they were still moving, there was a guy named...
His nickname was, well, I'll just leave it at that.
He might have some relatives around, I don't know.
So, my friend, this one there, him, he was working at this bar, and the owner says, tell you what, do me a favor.
See the one there?
You're one.
Now, you know what the one is, right?
I didn't know this.
Your man.
No, your man.
Your man Truman.
My man?
Means that guy.
Now, she, the woman, the girl, whatever, it's your one.
Like, you know, I saw her the other day.
I saw your one the other day.
I don't even know her.
It doesn't matter.
It means her.
Don't worry about it.
I didn't know this.
Your man.
You know, your man.
Your man, Charles Manson.
What?
My man?
Because I always thought there's some kind of an affinity.
No, it just means him.
Okay.
So he tells us.
Tell you what.
See, you're on there.
Throw her out.
Lay in the bar.
Throw her out.
He's a hooker.
What?
He's a hooker.
It's a family place.
It was Northern Ireland.
Place in your face, in your mace.
It's a family place.
Get rid of her.
He says, who?
Which one?
You're one.
Now, there's a bunch of people.
He should have said, the woman with the red, you know, he should have been a little bit more specific, but he didn't.
He thought he knew.
And he wants to do a good job.
He just got it from Ireland.
This is years ago, obviously.
Everybody I'm talking about now is no longer with us, I think.
So he walks up and he says, let's go with this one.
Grab your stuff.
Let's go and get out of here.
She says, Grab your stuff.
Get the hell out of here.
There's no family place.
This one, there's no waste.
Come on, go.
Go.
She says, I beg your pardon.
Your thought does it.
Grabs her bag.
Like, grabs her.
Says, open the door.
Drags her out.
Throw it.
That throw her.
But, like, pushes her.
Takes her back.
Get out of here.
There's a family place.
And, of course, she said, what?
Anyway, so she left.
He sits back down.
He goes back.
The bartender, the owner, comes back.
He says, I thought I told you to get rid of her.
He said, what?
He goes, no, not your one.
Your one.
He said, who did I throw out?
And he said, you didn't throw out the woman next to her, did you?
And he realizes, Uh-oh.
Um, yeah.
Do you know who that was?
Now, this is not good.
When somebody says, do you know who that was?
It was supposedly, the story goes, the wife of the most feared member of this august organization called the Westies.
So the story goes.
And he thought, he said, they told him, you're going to leave?
We'll give you the money?
Get on a plane?
Go back?
He said, but I just, his dream was to come here.
His dream doesn't matter.
You're going.
Because that guy, okay.
He figures that's the end of it.
And he said, isn't there any...
Can we talk to anybody?
No.
One day, as he was kind of there at the place, who walks in but the husband of the wife that he threw out, alleging she was a lady of the evening.
His face, they said there was no blood, He exsanguinated.
It was just...
So he came and he says, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold it.
It's okay.
Everything's okay.
Because he knew his reputation and he knew what this poor guy was going to do.
He goes, no, no, no.
Everything's fine.
Please, sit down.
Let me buy you a drink.
This is a...
He says, I just want you to do me one thing.
He says, I'll do anything.
No, no.
Tell me what she looked like.
Tell me the expression on her face.
Don't leave anything out.
He thought it was the funniest thing that he ever heard.
But from that one day or two days or whatever it was, the stories.
One time I was there, and there was another one there, and my friend says, you know who that is?
You know who that is?
Don't look, don't look.
You know who that is?
I said, I can't look.
Don't look.
I'll make up a name.
Eddie Callahan.
Don't look.
I said, I don't know.
He goes, whatever you do, don't bring it up.
I said, don't bring up what?
Don't bring up the fuck who he is.
He says, who is he?
Don't look at him.
All right.
So I figured he must be one of them.
This guy comes over so nice.
He looks like this cherubic grandfather.
And we're talking.
And my friend, this fellow has his back, so he goes, so he says, nice to meet you.
I said, hi, I'm Lionel.
What is your name?
Don't ask him your name.
I said, how can you not ask the man his name when you're introduced?
He goes, all right.
So before you know it, he says to me, this grandfatherly type, he says, well, you know, years ago I found this out.
We're talking about law or something like this.
Well, you know, when I was in prison, I said, Prison?
My friend says, I don't talk about it.
I'm not doing everything.
This man told me everything within the first five seconds.
His name, he was in prison, what he was in prison for.
And I'm like this.
I'm trying to act like I don't hear it.
I'm not listening.
I don't care.
This, oh my god, this story.
A great, great, great...
I shouldn't mention...
I don't mention names of people, but there's a lot of folks that...
There's a lot of folks...
I don't want to mention their names, but you would know who they were.
I will tell you this much.
One night, there was a person who I think you would know him.
He says, come here, I want to show you something.
They were in the back.
I said, is this really important?
He says, this is important.
I said, okay.
So I walked all the way to the front.
And they were going to an event.
It was a premiere.
And there was a light right there, right like the Irish pub kind of decor, this light.
And underneath the light, where the light is causing any wrinkle you have just looks like this because of the shadows.
Underneath the light.
I walked right out.
There he was.
Under this light.
Keith Richards.
Under this light that makes everything look like...
It was burned in my mind.
I've never seen anything like this.
Oh my god.
Not attractive lighting.
Nice.
No talk.
That's when...
New York was you never knew who you were going to talk to.
I did talk to Peter O'Toole one time about the movie Hannibal.
I just saw the movie Hannibal.
This was with Ray Liotta.
And I was discussing him.
There was this one part about this cannibalization of brain tissue.
And I said, it's funny.
I said, you know, I was thinking that...
If they're in Wernicke's or Broca's area, if he's basically ablating, and I'm talking to Peter O'Toole, about what would happen if he were to remove tissue from the brain that affected speech and aphasia.
He thought that was the most fascinating thing in the world.
I said, are there technical advisors there?
Carol O 'Connor, nicest man in the world.
Ann Mira.
Remember Stiller Mira?
Wonderful.
Just the...
Who was it?
Rod Stewart's band would come in.
This one guy in particular.
It was when New York was so great.
And everybody...
The worst thing you could do...
Was to act like you cared about somebody.
Where you would, you know, can I have your autograph?
You would be, I mean, it's like, who can be more uninterested?
That's the thing that was wonderful.
On St. Patrick's Day.
In particular.
And those days are gone.
That's just...
So today, the largest, I think it's going to be 2 million, it's the, what was it, 1790, what was it, 17 what?
1762 was the original St. Patrick's Day.
At first I didn't want to, now I have Irish, my mother would say, you know you're Irish, she said, I'm not Irish.
I know he was named, but I don't know, I've never been to Ireland.
I can do Ireland.
There are certain accents.
By the way, I can go to places.
And I'm telling you, if the owner is old enough, he's been around for a while, he knows who I'm talking about.
Jimmy Neary on 57th Street.
What was his face?
What was Jimmy Neary's place?
Neary's.
Yeah, Neary's.
There was Neary's, Kennedy's.
Desmond's, then it was Druid's, Faces and Name, there were just, there were so many, Armstrong's, now it's a bagel place, that was famous.
And an Irish pub, Gallagher's, which is just more of a state place, but still, Walter Cronkite was always there.
There was such a...
I want to tell you, I want to use words like magic.
You never...
When Rudy Giuliani came and took place, there was never crime.
Nobody worried about anything.
Nothing.
And it was just...
I wish I could take you there.
It was really, really something.
I hope it returns.
But, as people now are talking...
I wear a green, okay, because we need tradition.
Don't let it go.
I've got friends of mine from parts of the world.
They love St. Patrick's.
They don't know what the hell they're talking about.
They don't know who St. Patrick is, but they love it.
I said, this is about as American and everybody, you know, somebody someday will find it objectionable.
I don't know.
I'm trying to think how.
Using my twisted logic, how would somebody find that to be objectionable?
The Irish music.
Have you ever heard the chorus?
Oh my god, fantastic.
What they went through, the Irish, especially around the time of the Troubles.
And this, and I hate this, it's not racist, I don't want to use that word, but this, This gratuitous...
Stop this.
Oh, hello, Father.
How are you?
How about a potato?
Don't do that.
They don't.
Lucky charms.
And I like it, too.
No, Irish spring.
Money, yes.
But I like it, too.
I hate that.
The Irish are just beautiful.
And the sounds, and you can always tell North and South.
Absolutely complete.
Jerry Adams, all the mothers, all the volars.
I saw John Hume one time.
Phil Coulter.
All these great, oh my.
What these folks have been through, and they're just, they're incredible.
I love them.
Funny, but as you know, as different, and as...
I'm going to say the word beautiful, but the way we just lump them together.
How would you lump an American?
If you went to Ireland, and you wanted to do a movie about an American, what American would you pick?
What?
New York?
Texas?
Montana?
How about Utah?
Would that be a good representation?
What is representative of the United States?
What?
I don't know.
Think about this.
What?
Oh, Father Ted was wonderful.
Father Ted was great.
This movie, the one with Colin Farrell, you know, that's alright.
But I gotta tell you something.
These folks who came here in Aram, in New York, many of them came, they got on a, well in the old days, they made great lives for themselves.
Many of them were on a boat, Queen, the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen this, the Queen that.
They had folks, they worked together, they had their own bankers.
They would have...
When you came here, you went to see this one.
A lot of folks with the Polish have it.
They would help you either to get a loan or help you out.
They really stuck together.
And they were the most profoundly, profoundly patriotic Americans you've ever seen.
One of the funniest ones.
Oh, my friend Johnny.
Who was, got his citizenship, and Johnny would, not only did he have a hard time, so, remember, there are people I've never had a conversation with, but he had something with his, like his voice, or, so I don't even know.
I can imagine him in court.
Your Honor, state your name for the record.
Oh, wow.
We're off to a bad one.
And the night of December 15th, did you happen to be in the corner of 47th Street and 8th Avenue?
You know what?
Let's just forget this.
Let's just settle this.
I don't know what he's talking about.
911 dispatcher?
Hello, 911?
What?
Hello, poison control?
My child just ate drank strontium.
My man?
What?
I was just, um, yodeling.
Well, yodeling might be good.
I don't mock them.
I love these people.
Oh!
Remember Annie?
Remember the old lady in the courtroom?
She would turn around and go, ha!
She would just turn around and I don't know what she would do.
Like she'd walk up with you and she'd kind of waddle that up and you'd say, yeah?
And then she'd...
Like, tap you on the shoulder and go, ha!
That was it.
That's awesome.
Nice lady.
I don't know, but she...
I love these people.
And whenever I hear her, I say, oh.
And by the way, a couple of things.
Number one, please, do not talk about their accent.
They don't have an accent.
You have an accent.
Number one.
Number two, do not use the word brogue.
Some take great offense.
I think it was a princess, Margaret or Anne or somebody.
A brogue is a shoe.
And some people say, you speak like you have a shoe in your mouth or something.
They say, no, no, no, not a brogue.
Don't do that.
Next, they don't care that your grandfather Was a Callahan from Donegal.
They don't care.
And they do not recognize you as being Irish.
So if somebody says, I'll tell you what, I'm an American.
You say, where are you born?
Bancrana.
You're an American.
My grandfather was from Cincinnati.
Okay.
Okay, uh...
Okay.
Did you ever come to this country?
No.
But I'm an American.
Now you would say to yourself, you don't know what you're talking about.
But my grandfather, I don't care about your grandfather.
What are you talking about?
But yet, when you meet Irish people, you're Irish.
And they look at you like, why do I have to put up with this?
It drives me nuts.
Where did you ever think?
And I've got friends of mine here, you know, they're, I'm Italian!
Okay, alright.
You know what?
Maybe, sorta.
They're Italian-American, they're from the Bronx, Staten Island, you know, and they've never been to Italy, they can't speak it, or they speak in Italian that's so, I don't even know what it is.
Okay, I'm an American.
I'm an American and my...
I'm not trying to be corny about it, but it's all I know.
And I love everybody's version of where they're from.
I love especially your food.
Have you ever had Ethiopian food?
Right down the street from us.
I don't want to have it every day, but it's interesting.
Persian, Iranian, the rice.
I love it.
I love and appreciate cultures.
And there is an incredible...
The African food and Moroccan and then we get into Middle Eastern.
Middle Eastern is just one...
Okay, fine.
I'm an American.
That's it.
That's all I know.
And here's the thing.
When somebody...
Oh, I was going to tell you.
So as we're sitting around one time, this one guy...
He was doing the test for his citizenship test.
So we had the book, and we were quizzing him.
He was the bartender.
We were sitting there talking to him.
And I said, before you answer, let me read the question.
Let's see if anybody else can answer it.
Nobody.
Of course, they had their load on.
They weren't paying attention.
But the number of people...
Americans don't have to ask how many congressmen are there or how many original colonies there were.
They don't know.
You're presumed to know this.
But the people who come to this country the people who have to take that test anybody who has to take an affirmative step to learn they know more about history than we do.
But we made it very very clear when he came in everybody was crying.
He was so proud.
He was an American citizen.
Of course, he has his Irish lineage, and of course he is.
I don't know if he has dual citizenship.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
He's an American.
And he went through the testing, and he went through the this, and we had a big party.
Can you imagine a party?
Any excuse to party.
It was beautiful.
And I learned more about being an American from him.
I learned more about the notion of patriotism growing up with Cubans.
I learned more about liberty and tyranny and things as a kid from my friends whose parents came here from Cuba.
I didn't know what this meant.
But the Monroe Doctrine I heard about before they even taught us.
I learned about America from foreigners.
I learned what it meant to be an American by listening to people who came here and loved this country.
Who loved this country.
And still love it.
Isn't that interesting?
It's just like we learned about blues and Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf from Brits who came here and reintroduced us to our music.
The great blues music.
We did this.
And this is something.
We don't ever forget something.
We are a heterogeneous group.
Nobody has ever said, nobody has ever suggested for a moment that there's something like, well, you've got to be born here.
That's one way.
But so many people that I knew went through the process and proudly became citizens and they are as hardcore American as anything else.
Do not confuse the fundamentals with what people say.
That's all.
I think you know what I'm talking about.
Huh?
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Balancing the idea of what, indeed, is tradition.
Mark Twain says, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
D.H. Lawrence, wonderful quotes, beautiful thoughts about tradition, about doing things, and tradition and superstition.
I'm telling you right now, I still don't know how that thing works.
And I am still not...
...
Tradition that is symbolic, tradition that means something, yes.
But I'm not going to be a slave.
I'm not going to do it just because.
When you put on any news show, you see people sitting on the couch with a green.
Hi!
Okay.
St. Patrick's Day, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Do you know where that comes from?
Do you know who St. Patrick was?
Well, do you know the history about this?
About who he was exactly?
The story about Ireland and the snakes and the whole...
Do you know...
Anything at all about St. Patrick's.
St. Patrick's is bigger here than in Ireland.
Without a doubt, without a doubt, everybody I've ever known says, in their hometown, it's like, well, it's okay.
But here, corned beef, cabbage, soda bread.
Those people can endure Like you cannot believe.
And please, please, read about their independence.
You know, De Valera in 1922 and the Partitions and just what this was about.
It's fascinating.
It's fascinating.
And when you do read this, remember, if you read of the history, don't take sides.
Just understand the sides.
That's all.
So today, does anybody have any plans for, may I ask, you fine, fine folks here, what are your...
Yes, Paddy Wagons was indeed a...
Today's a wonderful day.
Paddy Wagons, of course, you were saying, I was just thinking, my mind...
Took off in four or five different directions.
That was also kind of a disparaging.
The Irish went through a lot.
You know, this lace curtain shanty, you know.
The Kennedys went through.
The Kennedy family.
They're even in Boston.
But what is everyone doing today?
Are you having green beer?
Are they dyeing the water green?
You know?
Is that it?
I never understood that.
And what you can do too is you can look at YouTube and just listen.
You can go on tours just to hear, just to visit in terms of...
Oh, by the way, the music.
I love...
I mentioned the cores.
The guitars, when the Chieftains, and even, was it Dan Tominsky played this?
I think Dan Tominsky played with the group?
Very country, very, well put it this way, our country, takes from the Gaelic, when the Chieftains, Dan Tominsky, Jerry Douglas, well they didn't have a dobro, but when you hear these folks play, when the pin whistle and that, Drum.
I remember one time sitting in.
I remember when I was sitting in, there was a group.
And I'm watching them.
I said, I can keep up with this.
And they were doing some Irish stuff.
And I said, do you know any bluegrass?
Can we twang this up a little bit?
You know, the immaculate twang of Mother Bluegrass.
And they were legit players.
We were in this back room of this bar.
I said, well, play it like this.
So I would take what they were playing.
I was watching it.
It's a very simple progression.
I said, but let's do it like this.
And I countrified it.
Made it gut-bucket.
And they loved it.
And they were doing a little Bill Monroe riffs and things like that.
But it was the same.
And I said, did you see what happened?
Where did we get this from?
This is from Appalachian.
This was Bill Monroe.
This was the mountains.
And I love the way music all blends in together, and all of it.
It's just, oh, it's beautiful to hear this.
And when you're playing with somebody, and you're playing along with them, and especially any kind of guitar playing, I kind of dig.
And then, you can look at some marimba band playing Cielito Lindo, and you have the Guitarrón, and you have...
Four or five different types of stringed instruments.
The strings from the bouzoukies to the Chinese playing these malleted types of things.
It's music.
So remember, what brings everybody together is food and music.
That's the thing that is interesting.
When you hear...
Have you ever gotten into this tabla percussion Indian?
Oh my God!
What is that?
Never heard that.
Completely different.
The whole notion of bagpipes and the drone.
What do you think the drone is?
The drone with dulcimers?
Oh, go get me started.
When I start going into the music ramble, my brain switches, and I just start seeing it all in this beautiful mosaic.
It's very hard to explain, but I see it all blending together beautifully.
How about Shane McGowan?
The Pogues?
You know, whiskey in the jar.
I hear that in my brain.
But that sound.
Oh, it's called...
Oh, I know I'm not saying it.
Boudrain, Boudran, Boudran.
How about the wonderful names, like trying to spell...
I never knew what they say.
S-H-O, Fada.
Hi, Fada.
Say, Fada.
What are you, Alan Sherman?
What's this?
The Fada and the names.
Wonderful.
Michael, Michal, Patrick.
Love it.
So anyway, happy, happy, happy, happy St. Patrick's Day.
And as my dear late friend would say, this one, that of both sakes.
Come there, there's one, this.
Everybody come together.
Don't drink too much and get pissed at the Mickey.
And always end with a laugh where people will nervously, you know.
Have a great and a glorious and a beautiful day.
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Have a great and a glorious day.
Happy St. Patrick's Day to you and yours.
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