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June 25, 2023 - Lionel Nation
01:03:35
Are You Believing Anything About the Wagner Mercenaries Retreat?
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Good evening.
Happy Saturday night to you, dear friends, wherever you are.
Is anybody buying any of this Wagner mercenary?
We're going to go back to Belarus.
We're leaving.
We're going to withdraw the mutiny.
Anybody buying any of this?
Any of this story in the least?
I'm not even going to go into it because Americans don't know anything about it.
Don't care about it.
It means nothing to them.
Absolutely nothing.
Are you Evgeny Prigozian?
No.
It's a story where, uh-oh.
You know, I'm not saying nothing here, but I'm reading, of course, nothing in this country, but I'm reading various...
The Wagner Group, military company, parentheses PMC, is returning to its, quote, field camps.
This, according to its leader, Evgeny Prigozhin, announced late on Friday.
His unit staged a mutiny overnight, seizing control of multiple military and administrative sites in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, as well as launching an advance towards Moscow.
The insurrection had reached the brink of major bloodshed, Progosian said, announcing that Wagner's advancing columns will return to their camps.
I am not in any way, absolutely I am not in any way buying any of this.
Any of this.
I don't know what they're planning on doing.
I don't know what.
But like I said, America knows nothing about this, and that's that.
That is that.
You see, this InfoWars host, Owen Schroyer, pleads guilty in January 6th case.
Schroyer, who was accompanied by InfoWars founder, Alex Jones.
At the Capitol on January 6th, admitted that he unlawfully entered and remained on restricted grounds.
He said that he then made his way to the east side of the Capitol.
I wonder what the sentence is.
I'm reading that Schroyer is facing up to six months of federal prison and his sentencing hearing has been set for September the 12th at 10 a.m.
Um...
Yeah, I mean, come on.
Schroyer's case is unique in that he previously signed a deferred prosecution agreement in another case connected to an incident in 2020 in which he interrupted a congressional hearing.
As part of that deal, he had agreed not to utter loud, threatening, or abusive language or to engage in any...
Well, that remains to be seen.
I still, again, try finding anybody in this country who will say, do you want to talk about that?
Well, not really.
Would you like to discuss this?
Well, not really.
Do you understand it?
Not really.
But, you know, sort of, maybe, kind of, I don't know.
Isn't that something?
Isn't that fascinating?
I find myself all the time saying, are they going to know about this?
Here's something for you.
Ready for this?
You're going to love this one.
There is a new move right now, and many people are discussing it, in the biz.
And the biggest stuff that's going on right now in the world of Silicon Valley is immortality.
And the idea that somehow people are going to extend life.
This is bigger than anything they can.
This is the biggest thing.
And they have been doing this forever.
I have heard stories I have heard stories about people, famous people, people whose names you would know.
I'm not going to mention them, but who did everything from, oh, what's the word?
People who were doing everything from blood transfusion things to replacing drugs to a variety of different things.
And what they're doing is, interestingly enough, is they believe that somehow there is this thing, there is this thing that is, I guess, a version of life, immortal, or something along those lines.
Now, let me see if I can explain this to you.
See if you can understand it.
See if you can grasp what I'm saying.
What would be the first questions you would ask?
Because right now they're saying that by doing a variety of different things, people are looking at their chronological age, and then they're looking at their biological age.
And they're saying that you can, by virtue of various things, you can actually have a...
You know, you could be 70 years old, but actually have a biological age that's maybe 10 years younger.
Now, anything about this at all?
Here is the best part.
Are you ready for this?
Listen to what I'm saying.
One of the things that is required that I'm telling you, I have been saying this, Ever!
Now listen to this.
If you want to do one of the best things to really, I mean, sock it to yourself is calorie restriction and fasting.
Good luck, America.
Good luck!
Ain't gonna happen.
I know we abandoned this.
The story of the Wagner group.
Because America doesn't care about that.
They have no interest.
I just want to let you know I'm changing the subject.
Because America just has no interest.
They don't know the first thing about it.
Even Bobby Kennedy Jr. said, well, you know, I realize that Putin's a thug.
Why is he a thug?
Well, I've got to say that.
You've got to say that Putin's a thug.
Why is he a thug?
Why?
I mean, explain it to me, Bobby.
You're very good.
You're a man who knows facts.
Well, I don't know.
I've got to say it.
Okay.
One of those things.
So, I'm changing my mind because nobody cares about this.
In the least.
Nobody cares about this.
In the least.
It makes no difference to anybody.
None.
Nobody cares.
They couldn't tell you the first thing about it.
Nothing.
Nothing!
It's the most incredible thing in the world.
Probably one of the greatest stories that really affects us as a species, as a country, that is the idea of Russian containment still in a post-Soviet world from Kennan to Meersheimer against Kotkin to maybe the role of NATO as an agent provocateur.
Deliberate false flags and provoked riots.
It's the most important issue in the world and nobody cares about it!
Nobody understands it!
They don't know the free couldn't find it!
Here's a globe.
Where's Ukraine?
Roughly.
Where is it?
Or the Ukraine, as people say.
Where is it?
Give me an idea.
I don't know.
What's the Maidan in Donbass?
Who is the rights sector?
I don't know anything.
They have this idea that Putin is just this bad guy who said, I'm going to go in there and take that back because I'm trying to reconsolidate and reunify the Soviet Union.
It's the biggest bunch of nonsense I've ever heard in my life.
European commentators are laughing their arse off at it.
But what do we know in this country?
Nothing!
We don't know anything!
We don't know anything!
Do you get the point of what I'm trying to say?
We don't know anything!
Have I made that clear?
Nothing!
Nothing!
We just don't...
You know, it's whatever.
It's over there, I guess.
I don't know.
That's who we are.
And we have this idea that somehow...
Who was it that Martha Radich...
She said to Vivek Ramaswamy, Don't you understand?
Don't you think the United States should be in there to help?
No!
It's none of our business!
What are we doing?
We have no interest in this.
None of it.
Don't we learn?
Don't we learn?
What are you talking about?
$100 or something billion?
For what?
What are we talking about?
What is the goal?
What do you want?
The first thing you have to understand, and we'll get back to this, hormesis, which is another thing.
The number one, everybody knows this.
Number one.
Okay?
We're going to declare war.
Call it declare war.
Call it a military action.
Call it whatever you want.
Call it whatever you want, okay?
You got it?
Good.
You got it?
Good.
Good, good, good, good.
Terrific.
Wonderful.
Okay.
Here's how it goes.
Listen to me carefully.
What's the first thing you think?
The first thing you say is, when is it victory?
What is it that we're trying to accomplish?
Do you have that?
Do you got that?
You got that?
Rule number one.
What's going on in Russia?
Was it a mutiny, I-Cain?
Well, like I said, I-Cain, and by the way, thank you so much, I don't know anything.
Even Russian news and international news, it's been rather quiet.
But if I was this feller from, if I was this feller, From Wagner, I'd be very...
I'd be very worried.
Something tells me.
Maybe I don't know this.
Maybe I don't.
But I think something tells me that for everything that they say about Putin being all this stuff...
He's a bad guy and a bad dude and all this.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
You know better.
You know all about this.
What do you think he's going to do from somebody who supposedly was maybe a merc who now mutinied against him?
What do you think he's going to do about that?
What do you think would be likely?
What do you think Pergosian's...
Should he buy the green bananas?
I don't know.
I don't know anything about that.
But all I know is one thing.
Don't believe anything you're saying.
Or anything they're saying.
Nothing.
Nothing.
Unless you talk to the right people, just don't believe.
Believe me, America doesn't care about this.
They go, whatever.
Yeah, good.
Yay!
Nothing.
But like I said before, By the way, thanks for the likes.
I appreciate it.
Do you know what our friends in Vietnam, if we have anybody who was in Vietnam, thank you for your service, but do you have any idea what's going on here?
Do you have any idea, any idea, any idea what that was about?
The first thing they said about Vietnam was, they said, what is our goal?
What is it we're trying to do?
What is it we're trying to do?
Tell me.
Tell me.
What is it?
What's the goal?
Is it to what?
They would take a hill, and then they would wait, and then they'd leave, and the NVA would come back, and they're going to take the hill again, and they get the hill, and then they say, well, that's not a way.
That's not very good.
And then somebody else would turn around and say, you know what?
Maybe the best thing we can do is maybe, maybe let's just do body count.
Let's just count the bodies.
That's a good way to do it.
We'll just count bodies.
And dead day ever.
R. Heath says, I am not able to join live as often as I'd like.
This group is so intelligent, especially our Professor Lionel.
R. Heath, thank you so much.
You should join more.
Thank you.
*Rain*
Listen to the wonderful, wonderful, wonderful...
Oh, my God.
I listen.
I love this audio book.
It's called The Dispatches by Michael Herr.
Oh!
The best.
Absolutely the best.
World War II was clear.
We went complete and total surrender.
It was against Hitler.
It was against Germany.
It was against the Axis.
It was against Japan.
It was against Mussolini.
It was specifically what they've got to give up.
It was simple.
Give up.
And they gave up.
It was surrender.
Unconditional surrender.
Same thing for the Civil War.
Then it started.
Korea.
Don't know what that was about.
It just kind of ended.
R. Heath.
It just kind of sort of ended.
And they were actually counting bodies and legs and limbs.
True, in Vietnam.
We didn't know what it was.
So here's the story.
Martha Radditch, or whatever her name is.
I'm not going to sign any American man or woman or soldier going anywhere to Taiwan in Finland.
For what?
For what?
It's none of our damn business.
Let them figure it out.
I don't know.
We don't care about this.
This is a weird Cold War thing that I can't figure out.
White Monkey says, don't mercenaries eventually go to the highest bidder?
Maybe CIA or NATO paid more?
Well, you know, it's funny.
Mercs are weird.
As you say this.
And it's one of the things that we, you know, ever since the days of the Hessians and...
Blackwater, private contractors.
We're also going to see, you're going to see companies like Microsoft have their own army.
their own, we talked about that before.
...
The thing that is the most important is to understand specifically what What is going on?
And if you don't understand, you've got to listen.
You know who George Kennan is, right?
Listen to George Kennan and read.
This was the architect of Soviet containment.
Listen.
Remember, World War II, it's over with.
Nobody trusted Stalin.
Nobody.
Nobody.
This is our ally?
Well, weird bedfellows.
And Stalin was double-crossed by Hitler.
Stalin was the one who said, we're going to show you, when they went through a Leningrad, remember in 19, it was 1921, 80% of every male, every Soviet male born, so they say in 1921, died.
Now you could say it, maybe other old age or not, it was born in 1921.
War, whatever.
It was the most unbelievable had Hitler not gone to Leningrad.
Oh my God!
Barbarossa!
That was the most ridiculous thing because he micromanaged.
Remember he had people that were great.
Rommel was incredible!
And Rommel, who was kind of involved in that coup attempt, he said, Rommel, we'll let you have it.
You can off yourself.
I mean, this was unbelievable.
And the bulge, the last minute?
Let me ask you a question.
We're still figuring this out now.
Why did Japan ever attack?
This country.
Did Japan ever think, oh, we're going to win.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
We got this down.
What were they thinking?
Seriously.
It's the most basic question in the world.
Why would they do that?
It'd be like if Guam took us on.
I mean, they weren't completely devoid of any military.
They had Navy.
But did they really...
What do you want?
When you take somebody on, what do you want?
What was the purpose for that?
Why?
Ask yourself this question.
It doesn't make any sense.
What happened was they were pushed.
Embargoes.
They figured, that's it.
We're going hard.
They are still debating as we speak.
One of the ultimate, quote, conspiracy theories of all time was whether FDR knew anything about this.
I mean, there is so much.
And others have suggested that it was really England.
It was Churchill, Tertius Gaudens, who said, remember, Tertius Gaudens is a, if you and I are fighting, the best thing for me to do, It's to bring somebody else in and then I back out and let you go at it.
Tertius Gaudens.
That strategy.
Some suggested that.
Why?
Why was it that FDR all of a sudden move all the aircraft carriers out and put them all together real close like that?
That's good.
That's good.
Now, I don't know.
It seems kind of weird.
Remember when Churchill was saying, you've got to go in, you've got to help?
He goes, I can't go in.
What are you, nuts?
We had the war to end all wars.
I can't go in there.
First of all, you want me to go in and fight who?
You've got Britain, France, and Russia against these?
Not exactly, you know, the Cub Scouts.
They can do it.
And plus, people said, we're not going to go in there and look like we're doing this for a bunch of Jews, or we're not going to go in and sidle up with a bunch of commies.
Are you kidding me?
This is, this is, I mean, they'll have my head.
This is FDR.
What are you talking about?
What are you talking, how can we, what?
And they were, and they were, and people said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That's, that's over there.
They're still arguing this.
Pat Buchanan was asking.
This is World War II.
World War II they were debating.
It wasn't all clear-cut.
Well, December 7th took care of that.
December 7th took care of that.
Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
I have spent my life listening to people, and it's the most fascinating story to sit there and say, what really went on?
Tell me.
Tell me what really...
Tell me what actually went on.
Tell me.
Tell me the truth.
Tell me.
I want to know.
I'm still trying to figure out Vietnam.
What was that about?
George Lund says, Yamamoto was not looking for a prolonged conflict with the U.S. The goal for Japan was to sue for peace.
I know the sleeping giant...
You know George...
Thank you, by the way, George.
I don't know if that Yamamoto line was...
They even suggested whether...
A little bit kind of strange.
You know what I mean?
R. Heath, you got that?
You got that, R?
Thank you for that, my fring.
Thank you for that.
That's beauteous.
I wonder about that.
I'm just...
If you see about R. Heath there.
It's very touching.
Very, very, very very touching.
People do very, very nice things.
I've spent the longest time In fact, where is this?
Oh God.
I want to give you the greatest Vietnam.
I know this is different.
Oh, hang on.
It's a tech war lecture.
It's so bad.
Everybody takes it.
Oh, Vietnam.
I normally, I can never remember this guy's name.
I can never remember his name.
And it's so...
When they came along, this is the most...
I'll put it up somewhere.
I don't have time to find out.
It comes down to simply this.
And this kills me.
This kills me when somebody says, do you know what the real reason for this was?
Do you know what the real reason for Vietnam was?
No.
Do you know what they did?
They took McNamara.
And he looked at, he said, we're going to do a technological war.
We're going to use, we're going to, we're going to, and I know I'm switching from World War II to Vietnam, but I've got to tell you this because this is so beautiful.
Same thing with Russia.
Same thing with Wagner or Wagyu, for the matter.
It's not just about what you think it is.
Where is this?
They live there.
Remember this.
This is their neck of the woods.
You want to go after Russia?
You want to go after Ukraine?
They live there.
This is their border country.
This is their.
Imagine if we had, think about this, All of a sudden, California tumbles into the sea.
My old school.
California somehow seeds itself or whatever to Mexico.
And all of a sudden, we're finding things like, wait a minute.
We're getting part of like Texas and I should say maybe Texas.
They're Mexico now?
Yeah.
And this little branch off, you know, Laredo or LaGrange or wherever it is, I don't know where the...
All of a sudden, they're being prompted and promoted by China to join the Chinese delegation, the Chinese version of NATO, on our border!
California!
Where we go there, we have family there, we speak.
Intermarry.
What do you think we'd do?
I don't know about Joe Biden.
What would Trump do?
They would tell this California spin-off, oh, you're not going to join up with China.
Oh, no, no.
You're not going to have Chinese missiles on our border.
No way!
That ain't gonna happen.
What are you gonna do about it?
What are we gonna do about it?
I'll tell you what we're gonna do about it.
You would know exactly what we're gonna do about it.
And we're warning you.
We would tell California or whoever it was, you dare sign up with China, you're done!
You're done!
Move out!
Clear out!
We're moving in!
You're not gonna like this ending!
We are not going to let you do this.
We are not going to allow China to set up some satellite proxy, some bulwark right there on our border.
It's...
Ask yourself this question.
Ask yourself this very, very simple, simple, simple question.
This is the thing I don't understand.
I do not understand.
And I mean it, and I...
But I've got to tell you this story.
I've got to tell you this story.
When you go to war, and I love...
There's a great book, too.
The Generals by Thomas Ricks.
And the greatest ever, maybe, George C. Marshall.
O.P. Smith.
The Marine, Chosen Valley.
Oh, my.
Reservoir.
Oh, my God.
Korea, what they did.
Oh, my God.
And that idiot.
Oh.
Douglas MacArthur and Westmoreland.
Idiots!
And what was his name?
Rick Sanchez.
Oh.
You know who was actually a very good general was Petraeus.
But anyway, anyway, anyway.
I find this so fascinating.
The first question you would ask is, what is victory?
What is victory?
What is it?
And if you look at Ukraine right now, luckily, what has happened?
They're not a part of NATO?
Did they vote?
Are they in?
What are we talking about?
What's going on here?
The whole world's like, well, I don't know.
Does it make any sense to you?
No.
Well, what's going on?
What's happening?
What are we doing?
I don't know.
But I'm going to switch back to Vietnam and then I'm going to go back to these other people.
The first thing you're going to always ask is, where is this war going to be?
What time of the year is it?
What's the weather like?
Where are we going?
It's tropical.
Okay, that's alright.
Say what you want about Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal.
There's no snow.
What kind of terrain is that?
Well, it's not good.
Iwo Jima is not good.
Why?
Basically, it's volcanic.
You can't dig.
It's just...
I don't know.
And they're waiting for you.
They're waiting for you.
Oh, you know where they're also garrisoned?
The country you do not want to mess with is North Korea.
They're in mountains.
They're ready to go.
Their military service is like 10 years.
They're a garrisoned country.
They have as many or almost as many military as we do.
They're just ready for this.
They are ready.
I'm just...
It's this...
What do you think we should do about Taiwan?
What do you think that's about?
Tell me.
Taiwan, get this, Taiwan has more, makes more, their GDP, their money, their economy is greater than China!
I love Taiwan!
It's a gold mine!
And what about this?
So when I said before, when you push a country, And you push them, and you push them, and you go like that, and like that.
Somebody is sometimes...
Whether it's Putin, whether it's China, whether it's anybody.
Look what happened with Vietnam.
We had no idea.
We thought we're going to kick their...
It's going to be over before you know it.
Same thing they thought with North Korea.
They said, we're going to be out of here.
Until China said, okay, alright.
Then there was the weather.
Then there was the terrain.
Then there was, what kind of, what kind of battle is it going to be?
Is it land?
Is it what?
Who are the people?
How do the people there, do they see the way of the invaders?
Are they sympathetic?
Who are you fighting?
Do we have to go there?
Russia, Ukraine, they're already there.
We're going to go there?
No, they're already there.
They don't have to go anywhere.
In Israel, I was there the second time, I think it was Gaza the second time, the parents would drive their kids, their kids, IDF, to the place for deployment.
They would meet at these, like, You know, truck stops.
These, kind of like these, you know, like, not stuckies, but these travel stops for gas and whatever it is.
People would drive their kids there because they live there.
There's no transport trucks.
We live there.
You drive to the front.
Here we go!
And they'd show up and there they are.
And they'd say, see ya!
And sometimes the parents would pick them up.
Bring them home.
It was the weirdest thing.
That's the benefit of having a war where you live there.
When you don't live there, you gotta get there.
Then when you get there, do you fit in?
Can they hide you?
Do they want you there?
Are you happy?
I mean, what is going on here?
And then the rest of it.
Then we got Mark Milley who wants to have what?
More and more of this trans whatever?
I don't know.
Look.
I am against war.
Period.
You don't win.
Now, if you can tell me, it's very simple.
What is your goal?
Alright, you can convince me.
What is your goal?
Can you define it?
Well, alright, stop right there.
I want this guy out.
Say what you want about Allende.
Say what you want about Chile.
Say what you want about Pinochet.
They went, okay, got it.
Operation Ajax, Mosaddegh, the Shah.
Got it.
That's finality, alright.
I got it.
Everything else?
I don't know.
Maybe.
Well, Vietnam, what do you want?
Well, we want the...
What?
We're going to stay there?
What do you want to happen?
You want to get rid of what?
You're going to get rid of the North Vietnamese?
What?
This is a civil war.
What do you want?
What are we doing there?
Well, we can't let those...
Well, how are we going to stop it?
I don't know, really.
But we can't let those...
We can't let those commies move up like a domino effect.
Well, how are you going to stop it?
Well, we're not really sure, but by God, we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age.
This is Curtis LeMay.
Curtis LeMay!
Remember the Bell's Palsy with that cigar?
He was Buck Turgidson and Dr. Strangelove.
Remember that?
Oh, Curtis LeMay was great.
He firebombed with bombers, with napalm.
Firebombed!
This guy was serious.
And you ready for this?
Listen to this.
He was against dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan.
Curtis LeMay.
So was MacArthur.
So was Eisenhower.
Stimson.
Everybody was against it.
Everybody.
Except Truman.
Why?
So he could show the Ruskies.
But the Ruskies knew about it because of Klaus Fuchs.
What are you talking about?
The history is...
Here's the rule of war.
Don't do it!
Shut up!
Every time a missile, watch those defense stocks.
You know that.
I mean, that goes without saying.
Listen, Harry Truman, not Harry Truman, Eisenhower knew a lot about that.
The military-industrial complex.
Remember that.
He could have said a lot of things.
War is going to be And all of these people, all of these folks, as long as they don't have to go, as long as they're not there, that's the part that kills me.
If they don't have to go, oh, they're great.
I was listening to somebody one time.
There's so much great oral histories of Vietnam.
Oh, God.
There was this black gentleman.
I'll never forget.
He said he was...
He said, I didn't really know what this was.
And I kept hearing this thing.
He said something like a steel mosquito, he called it.
And he thought, boy, these things are...
These bugs.
He goes, those aren't bugs.
Those are bullets.
Right by his ear.
This far away.
And he said he dropped, and he realized he was almost paralyzed.
I've got bullets.
Not just bullets.
One, he's heard number.
Missing him through some divine...
Nothing hit him, and he's hearing him fast enough to be...
How far away is that from his ear?
This far?
Three, four?
And they all missed him?
Do you think about Jackie Kennedy?
One little...
If you're shooting here, one little micron off turns out to 12 feet down the road.
This guy dropped.
I'll never forget it.
He goes, I couldn't believe it.
What am I doing here?
And he's shooting.
He says, what are we shooting at?
One guy never saw...
Vietnam, I think it's so weird.
He said, we never saw the enemy!
I never saw him!
All I saw was people that I knew that were...
Booby traps and people hit, snipers.
I never saw them!
That's why My Lai was, oh My Lai was, they just.
And by the way, My Lai was another story too about how they just had enough because they were, no they didn't.
No they didn't.
Their unit wasn't that necessarily scarred by the tragic deaths of their buddies.
No, no, no, no.
I just made people like that.
Made them.
And when you go to war and you're coming back, guess who's not going to take care of you?
We are.
We don't care about that.
Figure it out for yourself.
Don't give us this PTSD stuff.
Just get over it.
Suck it up, buddy.
Please, stop it.
We don't want to hear about that.
And where exactly are we getting all these people?
See, I love when people talk about things.
Oh, they love, they talk about stuff.
Going back to what I originally said, somebody said, hey, you know, there's this new effort on Silicon Valley to extend life.
You're going to have to go on diets and fast.
You can't fast.
You can't go three minutes after lunch.
You're going to go into a sugar, like an insulin shock.
You can't do that.
Well, I like to read about it.
You're not going to go into hormesis.
You're not going to go into some kind of a calorie deprivation.
What are you talking?
We talk so much nonsense.
And war?
Do yourself a favor.
Have you ever looked at, go on YouTube, you can see them, the shell-shocked versions of these Poor, incredibly horrible.
These young men in World War I who are just, I mean, you look like this is almost, you think it's a joke.
It's not a joke, but they're shaking like you cannot believe because of the shells and the trench warfare and the artillery and the gas and oh my god, it was the worst!
And we just don't learn.
And I know I talk about this a lot, but it's amazing because I, especially everybody who I know who's so religious, Jesus must be saying, or whoever, must be saying, what are you people doing?
What are you doing?
Why?
What am I, what are you talking about?
Why am I going to go to this country?
I don't...
This guy's got a beef.
This is his country.
Do you think the North Vietnamese were bad people?
This is their country.
They want to do it their way.
And we said, oh no you don't.
They said, oh yeah we are.
You're not going to do that commie thing.
Oh yeah we are.
Maybe.
Whatever.
It's none of your business.
We're not going to let that.
Why you...
What?
It's...
If they put a, like a 20%, I don't know, profit cap on munitions, you wouldn't see any war.
What?
That's right, General Dynamics, Radio, you only make 20% of it.
What?
There'd be no more.
None.
Miraculously, somehow we'd figure something out.
Say, hey guys!
Don't you want to figure out something else?
Well, you know, I know how we can, I mean, if you want to get, let's say you want to get Russia or you want to get Ukraine or you want to get China, whatever it is, let's go after their infrastructure and their grid.
Shut up!
What?
There's no money in that?
What are you talking about?
No, I can just shut everything down.
I know you can shut everything down, but there's no money in that.
Every time we drop a missile, you know how much?
That's a couple of million dollars right there.
Yeah, that thing, that thing, one of those.
One!
You want to do what?
You want to get some nerd kid to shut down an ATM in Kiev?
Sorry.
Yeah, but that would be more effective.
Effective has nothing to do with it.
It's about making money.
That's what we want to do.
That's why we're going to learn them democracy.
It's unbelievable.
We never learn.
And look at Vietnam now.
Look at Vietnam now.
Look at it.
We go there.
We kind of see them.
I personally, I don't want to go there, but their food is just very interesting about Vietnam.
The spicy and the hot and the cool.
Remember, whenever there's a place that's real cold, you get spicy food to make you sweat.
It heats you up because you're cold.
If it's real hot, Eat spicy food so you'll sweat and cool down.
So the food is incredible.
Very, very interesting.
Very, very...
You've seen, you know, not pho.
P-H-O is pronounced pho.
There's soup.
Pho.
It's like something with a couple of letters missing.
Pho.
Who gives a pho?
Table two.
Thank you very much.
Great stuff.
But we don't learn.
What are we talking about?
Bobby Kennedy's absolutely correct with that one.
Absolutely correct.
He's good.
Bobby Kennedy's good.
You know that, right?
I think I made myself very, very clear with that one.
So anyway, we'll see how that is.
I did some wonderful videos that are coming up.
One that drops later.
Notice how I call that drops.
We call it drops.
For all you kids.
And I've got some things and some of them are interesting.
There is called this one I've got one that says there is no intelligent life on earth.
One's called meet the shadow government.
Tattooed and tattooing and dermal desecration.
Life is a conspiracy theory.
Why do you say Do you speak like a child?
Obesity is our national pastime.
And there is no intelligent life on earth.
And I just did one call.
Trump 2024.
Trump 2024 is...
Ready for this?
Trump 2024 is Godfather 3. So go figure that one out.
Remember how disappointed you were with Godfather...
Oh my God.
Another subject.
I'm going to say something to you, and if one of you understands this, I'm lucky, because nobody does.
I'm fascinated by mouths and tongues, especially over a period of time.
I don't know why.
Jeff Bridges.
I was watching a documentary of Peter Bogdanovich explaining the movie The Last Picture Show with Sybil Shepard, Timothy Bottoms, Ben Johnson, who won the Academy Award.
and uh uh And Jeff Bridges didn't have this.
I don't know what happened to his tongue.
I said, why is he talking like this?
You see him now, and I don't know what's going on.
Al Pacino, next one.
Francis, do I talk like this?
What happened?
What happened?
Why did you talk?
Why did they talk like that?
Why do they talk like that?
I'm so fascinated by that.
What happened to the bow?
Is it applying?
But their tongue got bigger.
The other day somebody sent me another video of Hannity and the S's.
Oh my God!
I couldn't take it.
I couldn't take it.
Sometimes I think I'm on certain spectra because I can't take a lot of noise.
If I go to a restaurant, if there's too many people talking, I can't take it.
I can't talk.
I can't hear myself.
I've got to get out of here.
Especially when I can hear conversations.
But the noise.
Oh my God.
Doesn't that just get you?
There was one woman.
Her name is...
Her name is Sarah Vowell.
Sarah Vowell.
If you watch Sarah Vowell speak, she used to be on John Stewart.
Watch that one and I cringe.
I crawl up in a ball.
I just, wow.
Wow.
It fascinates me.
I love, I guess maybe as a kid, you know, as a stutterer, and I'm interested in how impediments and sibilance.
Rudy has sibilance.
Not as bad as it was.
It was pretty bad then.
Zazilov, he said, "This is the one, he does this, And he's always picking his nose.
Watch that one.
I never hear a word he says.
I'm just fascinated.
Why does he do that?
I'm changing the subject.
Because I've had it.
Anybody see the new Sex in the City?
No.
They are pushing the lesbian thing to the point of enough.
Enough.
I just happened to catch a bit of it, and I'm thinking, that thing, they're trying to recapture it.
That thing is over.
You can say whatever you want.
Sex and the City was one of the most important shows.
It did so much for New York.
It did for New York what Woody Allen did, what a lot of things.
It was a very, very, very, very critical voice.
Karen says, yeah, Bobby's voice.
Bobby Kennedy's voice, yeah, that's spasmodic dysphonia.
You know what?
It's funny.
I, uh...
It's, yeah.
But you know, in a weird way, though, he kind of owns that.
You know what I mean?
He owns that.
It's like when, um, first time you saw Gorbachev, you saw he had a port wine stain.
You go, oh, what is that?
It's a port wine stain.
Wow.
What?
He said, wow.
I like when people say, yep, that's my thing.
I say people with big moles and things, I always found, that was interesting, you got a big something, you know, some mark or some whatever.
But I just think it's so interesting how you can, oh, Marty Feldman, he had exophthalmia, I believe it's pronounced.
He has that, also has that, probably has a thyroid disorder, that Graves disease and that.
Not creature shock.
Oh, God.
This is pressure?
It's fascinating.
The...
There is...
I could spend...
There's a YouTube channel where they talk to kids and people who have the rarest diseases of them all.
It's the most fascinating thing in the world.
Because you don't know what normal is until you see something.
There's a disease.
And I find people, I find neurological disease is very interesting, but schizophrenia, anything, it's so interesting.
And imagine what it was like being a schizophrenic.
I know I'm changing the subject.
During the Middle Ages or during a time when they thought, he's possessed.
Incredible.
And brings me back again to the devil and to the exorcist.
I'm back in the exorcist.
I can watch that.
The commentaries of what they did was fascinating.
And the movie was so crude and so strange, but it was so interesting.
So, so, so interesting.
Speaking of this thing last night, We just saw moments of it.
They're trying to give you sex by showing you sex.
What is the sexiest movie you have seen and define that to me?
Not pornography.
Not people having sex.
Because that's not sexy.
That's sex.
It's a big difference.
That's sex.
What is a movie that you saw that was the height of erotic, or it was romantic, or whatever, that really made an impact?
Not something that is, of course, two people just doing it.
Because if you ask people today, they would say, I don't know what you...
Look at Liz Solak.
We've got to hit 50 more, and we're going to hit 300 likes.
Isn't this sad?
I've got to beg for this.
We've got to get 300.
Thanks, Liz.
See you're keeping track.
We need more likes.
We need to bring this to 300.
Belle du Jour.
You know, it's funny you say that, Alan.
Belle du Jour is the movie that William Friedkin, when he got this Fernando Ray or whatever, who played the...
He thought...
He meant...
He wanted to get the guy from Belle du Jour.
Fernando or whatever Ray was a mistake.
But it was that movie that he wanted.
Eyes Wide Shut.
Very interesting.
I had the hardest time with Eyes Wide Shut.
Footloose is one and Grease.
Now that's interesting, Karen Joyce Andrews, why you would think Footloose and Grease is sexy.
But that's interesting.
Fuck, I can't argue with that.
What does this make?
Risky Business, Pretty Woman.
Ooh, don't mention Pretty Woman and Mrs. L. Whoa!
Don't mention that!
That was a movie that glorified prostitution.
That did more...
That did more harm for human trafficking than anything.
Easiest romantic love story.
You know what?
Summer of 42?
Summer of 42. You know, it's funny you say that.
Michelle, the Summer of 42. I loved Summer of 42. Absolutely loved it.
And it was Jennifer O 'Neill and this guy, the guy who played Buggy or Boogie or whatever his name is.
Whatever the heck his name was.
But there's also a song by Bobby Goldsboro called Summer the First Time.
And what are they about?
They're talking about a young man and summer of 42, he falls in love with a woman.
I think he is deflowered, to use that defloration phrase.
But her husband either is killed in World War II or is away and They just met and he went berserk.
Now, I thought the movie was beautiful.
It's beautiful.
But technically speaking, am I a hypocrite?
If Summer of 42 was a man with a young girl, no.
In a weird way, American Graffiti was beautiful.
Love Story was...
I had a hard time with Love Story.
I had a very, very hard time with Love Story.
Last Tango in Paris, that was a very, very important movie.
King Kong was a love story.
He also was a love story, too.
Believe it or not, Sling Blade.
Think about it.
This is the most important thing in the world.
That movie was about a man who loved, he loved that boy.
I don't think it was homoerotic.
But it was about Frankenstein, but he loved that young man.
And he, in order to free his family, spoiler alert, takes care of Doyle and whatever it was.
When you break this down, I don't think people are able to understand the idea of a love story.
I don't think they can, you know, a crush.
Or...
No, I don't think it makes any sense.
I don't think it makes any sense.
I don't think it makes any sense.
Casablanca, very, very stylized.
That was so...
That was real love-love.
That wasn't...
That was just...
I mean, you know, we'll never see each other again, and oh my God.
So, that doesn't make it.
Those days, that idea...
You know, one of the most interesting love stories was this woman.
What was her name?
Mary Jane Letourneau.
And Mary Jane Letourneau, I kept thinking, is she crazy?
Or does she love this?
Student of hers, I think it was a Polynesian young man.
Is she in love with him?
Really?
They'd catch him, put her on probation, and they'd go right back at it.
And you wonder, what was that?
Was that legitimate?
I don't know.
I can't figure it out.
It could be, but...
And none of that...
How about the graduate when he shows up for the wedding?
By the way, listen to a song by Lyle Lovett called L.A. County.
Kind of a little harsh, harsh word.
Another great love story, a song, very, very, very, well, the greatest love song ever.
He Stopped Loving Her Today is still the greatest country song ever.
And he stopped loving her today because he died.
And they went back into his home and they found every love letter with every single I love you underlined in red next to his bed.
This man was just crushed.
His whole life!
I sent a picture in his bed.
I found some letters in his bed.
Dated 1962.
He had underlined in red every single I love you.
I went to see him just today.
Oh, but I didn't see no tears.
All dressed up to go away.
First time I've seen him smile in years.
He stopped loving her today.
And then she shows up to his funeral.
You know, she came to see him one last time.
Oh, we all wondered if she would.
And the thought kept going through my mind.
This time, he's over her for good.
Oh my God!
He stopped loving her today.
They placed a wreath upon his door and soon they'll carry him away.
He stopped loving her today.
Oh my God!
That's the greatest one ever.
That just...
I mean, he took another realist...
Oh, Miss Emily's picture.
John Conley.
It's straight in Miss Emily's picture by my bed.
He has...
He shows her...
I don't know if she's dead.
I don't know if he broke up.
He goes home at night and he gets drunk.
He goes to work.
He pours three fingers bourbon in a coffee cup and cry on my best friend's shoulder down the hall.
He's just broken hearted and straightened Miss Emily's picture on the wall and shows her picture to his friends and I mean he's just oh my god that's a great song Miss Emily's picture but the best Radio Lover.
I got another George Jones.
Radio Lover.
Now think who thought of this one.
He's a disc jockey.
And he knows, she knows that she hears him every night on the radio.
And she knows the coast is clear when she hears him on the radio.
Because she's fooling around, this poor bastard.
And on the anniversary of their first, on their first anniversary, he decides to record his show and come home and surprise her.
Well, he surprised her all night, alright?
And the best line was, and these are the last words she ever heard.
Coming to my heart like you do every night with the song of the radio.
These were the last words she ever heard.
Oh, man!
You tell me country music.
That's where I got George's picture up there.
That is beautiful.
The Bridges of Madison County.
I never saw the scent of a woman.
Interesting.
Love Hurts.
Hurts?
I just did a Hannity right there.
I just did one.
Alright.
Alright, my friends.
That's it.
Well, you have a great and glorious night.
Remember, forget about Wagner.
It's not going to work out.
Nobody cares about that.
To George Lenz, thank you, George Lenz.
To Whitey Monkey, thank you.
R. Heath, thank you very much.
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You have a great and glorious night, my friends.
Watch something interesting.
Learn something.
Watch a documentary.
Listen to a lecture.
Don't do something different.
We'll see you tomorrow night.
Same bad time.
No, tomorrow morning.
Same bad time.
Same bad channel.
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Thank you so much.
Talk to you then.
Don't ever change.
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