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July 4, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Happy Birthday, America!
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Well, well, well.
Happy birthday, America.
Happy birthday, America.
Isn't that something?
How many years old are we today?
Who can first give me that number?
How many years are we today?
Give me the number as we celebrate the birthday.
I'm also curious as to the turnover time between the time I ask something and the time it actually shows up.
The actual number.
Who will get it first?
Who gets it first?
The number.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Look at the amount of time.
It goes out.
Isn't it something that goes out into the space?
247.
Extra says 270.
I like that.
It's close.
245.
Thank you so much.
250.
This is great.
1787.
247.
245.
This is good.
Interesting.
I thought a simple question like that would be so interesting.
1787, we're talking about the Constitution, but this is a different story.
And how many people even know what this Declaration of Independence...
I mean, it was a declaration, but were we really the...
I mean, we basically said, okay, we're leaving.
We're done.
We're finished.
Did that form anything?
Was anything really formed?
What about the Constitution?
What about the Articles of Confederation?
What about the war?
Huh?
And was it signed on the 4th?
Well, not really.
Well, what does this thing mean?
Of course, nobody knows anything about this.
I just did, as I do before this, I just did my, did over an hour of a separate, this is for my private, lionelmedia.com.
Well, I can talk about things that we don't talk about here.
And one of the subjects was how we have to be guardians of liberty in centuries and all that, but how we don't know anything.
Not only do we not know anything, we're not curious about anything.
Nothing grabs us.
And I was talking about something, and I said, it's one of those things where, oh, the Brad We love you, Lionel.
Well, we love you as well.
Thank you so much for your kindness.
I have a subject matter which I've always loved because people just respond so vehemently to it for reasons I will never understand.
And it is a subject that is verboten in some respects on various social media platforms.
But as you probably know, 20...
Soon to be 22 years ago, we had a thing called 9-11.
And when I talk to people about just what happened, I am never, never, ever, ever surprised by how little people know.
They have no earthly idea of anything.
And yet their motto is, never forget.
They always say this, never forget.
Well, let's see what you know.
Forget what you forgot.
If you go to Washington and you see the Vietnam Memorial and you ask people, do you know what Vietnam was about?
Why were we in Vietnam?
The most rudimentary Fact there is.
Many people say, I don't know.
Did they attack us?
Somebody must have attacked us.
Who attacked us?
It's incredible.
How do I get people?
How do I get people to care about something?
How do I get people to care about something?
It's so funny.
I was just...
Video presentation.
There was a young man I know who, very nice young man, and all of a sudden, for reasons that, well, I shouldn't say for reasons, nobody has to clarify the reasons for me, but all of a sudden, he was gay.
And we said, okay.
Nobody cared, which is 99% of the, nobody cares.
It's not, it's not.
Hey folks, yeah, I just want to let you know.
Yeah.
I'm really left-handed.
What?
I know I've been riding with my right, but when I'm by myself, I'm really left-handed.
That's what it amounts to.
Nobody cares.
Good for you.
You're gay.
Great.
Whatever.
Knock yourself out.
Have a good time.
But all of a sudden, when the gays...
And the trans!
And he was for the trans!
Trans!
You're trans, too?
No, I'm not trans.
What are you talking about?
I don't know.
I'm just, all of a sudden, I'm filled with this ferocity.
This ferocity of being gay.
I'm a gay man.
Okay, good.
Let me ask you a question, and I never, I would never do this, but I'm going to have this high, but that'll go which I brought up with you.
According to the Constitution, as you know, affirmative action had two separate divisions, two separate clauses.
Regarding the affirmative action case, the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause and the Civil Rights Act.
The Civil Rights Act applied to Harvard because Harvard was a private institution, but UNC being a state college, the Equal Protection Clause.
And it basically says, and this is post, now I'm having this hypothetical, this Kind of hypothetical discussion with you.
but um um Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.
14th Amendment.
Nor deny to any person Within its jurisdiction, the equal protection of the laws.
Is being gay, I would ask of my friends, is being gay a part of the equal protection of the law?
Is being gay protected?
Is being gay protected?
And what's funny is this person I'm thinking of lives very close to the birthplace of the country Philadelphia and Independence Hall The most important fundamental question does your being gay they're saying wait a minute affirmative action is you can't guarantee black people what if they guarantee what if they guarantee Gay people in
there.
Is there any protection?
Bottom line is simply this.
No, there's no mention of this.
No, but it's not in there.
You don't look there.
We know nothing about the Constitution.
What about marriages?
Is sodomy guaranteed?
Gay marriage?
No.
Now, it might have been because of a Supreme Court case, but not because of the Constitution.
You see, my friend, this is it.
It's not this Hey, we're America!
Yay!
Okay.
There's a picture of a guy driving around, some TikTok picture of a guy in a truck with a flag.
And you know what?
Good for you.
And I know during Trump, everybody loved the Trump thing because he made people feel great.
But what does this really mean?
What?
So the Declaration of Independence, what does that mean?
People will often cite this.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
No, that's not.
That's the Declaration.
It's not in the Constitution.
What?
What's the difference?
Does that mean anything?
They have no idea.
No idea.
In Philly, they have the Liberty Bell.
Well, it's not really the Liberty Bell, but anyway, it's the Liberty Bell.
And you can see the Liberty Bell.
What's the Liberty Bell?
I don't know.
But they line up, and you go, that's it.
That's the Liberty Bell.
What is it?
I don't know.
What do you mean you don't know?
Add something.
They don't even know.
They're lining up and they're looking at it.
And there's no curiosity.
There's no...
An autodidact is someone who is self-taught.
They have no idea what this means.
None.
What is this?
How about the Stamp Act?
The what?
That's why we're here.
And some might say it's federal.
I know people who during this stupid Hamilton that Juan Manuel Miranda, whatever his name was, oh God, it was Hamilton.
This and Hamilton.
That.
Hamilton was this big government, weird kind of federalist.
I don't know what the hell he was.
He loved government and he just thought it was great.
Eh, the Jeffersonians were a little different, but anyway, people couldn't talk about that.
No, no, he was just, they just loved Jefferson, I mean Hamilton.
And I said, you know that Hamilton had a slave, right?
What?
Wait a minute, what?
Yeah.
Did you read Hamilton?
Did you look anything up?
No.
But I know all the songs about what?
During the producers, when the famous springtime scene, did you understand what the producers was about?
Did you understand the irony?
Do you know anything?
This is a typical American.
I'm not speaking to you.
Do you know anything?
No!
But you want to drive around with a flag and say, Yay!
Okay, I guess that's better than something.
Because the left, or whoever they are, They don't have any flag.
There's no American anything.
Nothing.
You don't know, not you, I keep saying you, America doesn't know anything.
And the worst of the worst of the worst is the front-line Fox News kind of conservative Media time.
It's all the same thing.
It's about Hunter.
It's about the laptop from hell.
It's about everything else.
It's the most incredible thing in the world.
And today, 4th of July.
Happy 4th of July.
Fireworks.
Okay.
What does it mean?
That's why I keep telling you, my dream is to have a boot camp where people and parents, for maybe a week, it's no big deal.
You don't have to go to a group, but you just see it online.
And the thing is, you have right there on your phone, you have the greatest pieces of information, the greatest lecture series, and nobody's interested.
Let me give you something.
And I know this sounds like I'm bragging, but let me just tell you this bit about me.
And interestingly enough, Mrs. L, we found this out, we had the same thing as children, and we don't know why we did it, we just were.
When I was a kid, I don't remember, I don't know how old I was, but I remember clear as day, my mother saying, you know how you can tell when a book was written?
What?
Do you know how you can tell when a book was written, what year it was?
No.
Here.
Show me the book.
See that date?
It's a copyright.
That's when it was written.
Oh!
That's it.
I remember that moment.
I don't know how old I was.
I remember it.
Hmm.
Things like this.
See that?
Know what that is?
That's a wasp's nest.
Yeah.
Wow.
Bees have a hive, but that's a nest.
The bees are okay.
Those ones aren't.
Why?
I don't know.
Just like, wow.
And things started to just, I don't know why.
Things like, that's interesting.
Look it up.
Go look.
Isn't that interesting?
Yeah.
Now I could have done one of two things.
I could have said, no, not really.
But I was like, yeah, that was interesting.
When I was a kid, my cousin, my cousin was much, much older.
I think he was in college, and I was in...
I don't know what I was.
He was pledging a fraternity.
I think I told you this story.
And he's like this.
I saw him like this.
He was by himself with a mask.
And he's mumbling something.
And I walked over.
I said, what are you doing?
And he said, I pledged a fraternity.
Sigma Phi Epsilon.
And I have to know how to say the Greek alphabet.
Before this match burns me.
I said, well, why don't you use a longer match?
Again, I'm always trying to figure out why don't you...
Anyway, like one of those tapers, you know, like when you lie...
Anyway.
The Greek alphabet.
Yeah.
We had a...
I can still see a Brown Webster's Dictionary.
Always used.
In the back, they had...
I don't know why.
Alphabet's Greek alphabet.
Capital letters only.
Capital letters?
Just capital.
Capital.
You're not going to write them?
Yeah, capital.
But say them, okay.
I think he had 24, the other day he had 26. So anyway, I don't know the next time I saw him.
I don't know what period of time.
I remember going to him and saying, got a match?
Which I thought was funny.
Where's this kid?
What did you smoke a cigarette?
He said, yeah.
Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, gamma, lambda, mu, nus, iomacrum, pyro, sigma, tal, epsilon, v, c, omega, phi, gai, psi, omega.
I And he just, whoa!
Whoa!
Did you see this?
And then, I said, wait a minute.
This is interesting.
If you perform, if you just do the simplest of things, Just the simplest that nobody else is doing.
They will praise you.
This is Skinnerian.
Absolutely.
This is Skinnerian operant conditioning.
100%.
My God!
This is nothing.
In the 7th grade, I had to change schools.
Why?
I still don't know why.
I talked to my friends.
I said, why did we change schools?
I don't know.
Our parents didn't like this school or that school.
So I showed up.
And this is a true story.
I know you're not going to believe me, but I walked in.
I wasn't even thinking about this.
And spelling, for some reason, was, I thought, the easiest thing in the world.
Spelling could be hard, but in the 7th grade, nobody's giving you onomatopoeia or Albuquerque or anything like that.
It was just simple words.
So I walked in.
I sat down next to my friend.
The only desk available here.
You sit there.
We're still friends to this day.
Great friend of mine.
So, It was like 1969, 1970.
Sorry, right there.
And they said, well, we're having a spelling test today, but you just, it was my first day.
You don't have to take it.
I said, I'll take it.
I thought, nothing of it.
I thought, I didn't even think it was a test.
I could fail.
It goes against your grace.
Nothing.
I thought, okay.
We're having lunch.
I'll join you.
That's all it meant to me.
I know it sounds like I'm bragging, but I got the words right.
They weren't hard.
Everybody said, you didn't study?
I said, study for what?
There's nothing.
These words are nothing.
Anyway, they went, ooh, I said, oh, okay.
Here's the best one.
This is my favorite story, and I give it all the time.
Every week, don't ask me why, we had a workbook of something, some kind of workbook.
We would take it home on Friday.
Bring it back on Monday.
You had maybe one page, when I say a page, of things to answer that were, it was nothing.
Every week.
This chapter.
So, I came in the next week and I gave it to the nun, Sister...
Not Sister Kathleen.
Sister...
I'll think of her name.
Sister Christina.
She had an underbite.
She was from Ireland.
Anyway.
I said, I finished this.
I said, you finished it?
No.
I said, I finished the book.
I finished it.
I did all the chapter here.
It was the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my life.
Why are we doing this?
Just finish it.
20 minutes?
And you're checking?
There's nothing...
Why are you doing this incrementally?
Alright, make a long story short.
They thought I was this...
And I realized, oh my god, I'm like the guy on the island with a lighter and there's all these...
these...
villagers or...
Natives who've never seen light, and they go, oh my God.
And I've always been like that.
I say, what is the matter with these people?
All my life, that might be my, you know, the old tombstone thing, what is the matter with these people?
What don't you understand about this?
How did you not see this?
This is obvious.
You're wallowing in stupidity.
You're 57 years old and you're saying, hey guys, you've got tattoos with words misspelled.
You're not hot.
You're confusing the Constitution with the Declaration of Independence.
You're not a Republican.
You're not non-binary.
You don't even know what that is.
What is the matter?
You've just elected, so to speak, a Cretan.
My friends, I don't understand anything.
It's obvious to me.
My problem is that it's obvious.
The whole world is absolutely obvious.
Bobby Kennedy, they think he's such a genius.
It's obvious what he's saying.
I don't, I don't, what is wrong with these people?
I don't understand it.
I am motivated, drawn, By not knowing things.
Ignorance is my fuel.
I want to know how this works.
I think I told you, Mrs. L and I, we didn't realize this when I was a kid, and one of my favorite things was just to take the World Book Encyclopedia and just pick something.
Look at that.
She was fancier.
She had the Britannica.
We had the World Book.
And sometimes you get like a one volume at the store, you know.
And I thought, this is interesting.
Why?
Because I didn't know anything.
Let me say this again.
I'm not so smart.
I don't know anything.
But my ignorance propels me.
I want to say, ooh, I want to try that.
And sometimes that'll get you in trouble.
Believe me.
Sometimes there are people who say, I think he has an addictive personality.
No, I think he just likes to try things.
And he finds he likes things.
I am propelled by absolute anything interests me.
Because I don't know anything.
That's the difference.
Today, I want to know specifically how, and I'll go back, I'm not so sure.
Somebody said, you know the greenhouse effect?
You know the greenhouse effect?
I said, how exactly does a greenhouse work?
I said, well, you know, it's the heat and the heat.
Greenhouse, well, traps, I guess.
Is it the carbon dioxide?
Does it trap carbon dioxide?
Yeah, but plants give off oxygen.
And the more I talk, the more I realize I should go back and learn a little bit more about greenhouses.
The person I was talking to?
Not a clue.
Didn't care.
I don't have time for this greenhouse.
It killed me.
How does that...
How does that...
What?
How does this not work?
How does this work?
Last night, Mrs. Ellen and I are watching a movie, and we always say, okay, when's the woke...
Let's see who first notices the woke...
Angle.
To every movie.
Every movie.
Every movie.
There's going to be...
It's like, well, where is it now?
Where is it now?
Oh, there it is.
The girl's friend is biracial.
Okay.
The son, his high school love interest, is biracial.
Oh, okay.
And by the way, interesting thing about that, did you know that when you have people who are non-binary, you don't know if they're non-binary?
Because you want to say, is that?
Did you not?
Because at least with biracial, you can say, I think that's biracial.
Let me ask you a question.
Who does not find, who does not find races, musculature, Angle, morphology, physiognomy, brows, bone structure, epicanthus, eyes, hair, skin, color.
Who does not find that fascinating?
My friend's wife was a black woman who looked...
I've never seen anything like that.
She reminded me of somebody who looked almost like Cherokee.
It was the most interesting thing.
Now, she was also always angry and very...
I didn't dare, dare bring it up because she would take it as some kind of racial.
But I'm fascinated.
Look at the book of...
All of the people.
Remember National Geographic?
I love that.
Remember National Geographic?
Remember how great that was?
Oh, look at this.
Look at this.
Oh, my God.
Isn't this great?
What?
Where are they from?
This is fascinating.
Have you seen the Zauli dancing?
Have you seen this?
Z-A-O-U-L-I.
I think it's Ivory Coast.
Have you seen Zauli dancing?
This?
I've never wanted to dance.
I've never cared about dancing.
I've never...
You know, who was it?
Robert Duvall became interested in tango dancing.
He and his wife were into tango.
And they went to Argentina for the tango.
I want to go into Zauli dancing.
Have you seen this?
This is the greatest.
This.
Just look it up.
You're going to have to do this on your own.
And when you see it, you'll say, oh my God.
When you see it, you think somebody's speeding it up.
But there's people walking behind them to show you all these references.
You always see somebody walking behind to give you a frame of reference because you see whatever the scene was.
Who remembers The Gods Must Be Crazy?
One of the greatest movies ever.
Remember that?
Remember the first time you heard that?
What the hell was that?
The clicking sound?
I...
That was the...
I was fixated.
I was...
And the message, remember the Coke bottle out of the...
It was one of the most profound moments.
Can't talk about that.
Can't talk about that.
If somebody said, if I had a kid running, I'm marrying a Zowli dancer.
Yes!
This is the greatest thing.
I'm telling you.
Every question I have, everything I want to know, everything that's fascinating is either pushed down, tamped down, dissuaded by anybody who says, don't do that.
It's either what?
It's hate?
Hate?
No, it's interest.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
It's hate.
It's conspiracy theory.
Of course.
It's never because it's un-American.
There's no such thing as that anymore.
So on our 247th birthday, I'm telling you, we live in this incurious group of people.
You can today, today, if you go to your parties, just ask the biggest blowhard at the table, you know Uncle Dave, yeah?
You know I was wondering something.
Yeah?
Because if anybody would know this, you would.
I always tell you how to do this.
Always sign up.
You know, if anybody would know this, Uncle Dave, you would.
Well, no, no, seriously.
You must read newspapers and watch TV.
Well, I do have an uncanny interest.
You sure do.
Uncle Dave, is today the formation of the country?
Did the United States start?
And the Brits said, no, you're not the United States.
No, we are.
No, you're not.
And the Constitution, did that start it?
And the Articles of Confederation, that was before the Constitution.
So why didn't that take?
And when did they, how did they, when did they, huh?
And watch people, they will have no Earthly idea of what you're talking about.
They will have no idea.
You should see downtown Wall Street, Financial District, that's where Washington took his oath.
It's downtown.
Actually, that way.
Took his oath.
It was here.
And if you want to see what's happening, you go to New Jersey, Morristown, Battle of Brooklyn.
This is all the revolution.
It's here.
It was right here.
It was fascinating.
And if you get a chance, if you get a chance, and you get the chance to go near West Point, see where West Point is, and you'll see where all of a sudden the Hudson River goes, it turns, where boats have to slow down to make that turn, and that's where they got them.
They were going to have a chain they pulled up that stopped.
I mean, it's fascinating.
It's all here.
All this history.
It's the most beautiful thing in the world.
It's incredible.
But don't ask any questions.
Don't ask any questions.
And if somebody said, excuse me, yes, can we talk about the fugitive slave?
Huh?
The part of the Constitution where the fugitive slave, where you had to return, nobody wants to talk about that.
13th Amendment pretty much overdid that.
Let me see if I can say this again to you.
It's not the fact that nobody knows this.
There's no curiosity.
If one person says, you know, that's a good question.
I'm going to look that up.
Thank you.
You've got that thing in your pocket.
Your phone?
That's the greatest library in the world.
I'm constantly looking things up.
I don't understand it.
My ignorance propels me.
It makes me...
And the problem that we have today is not with America, it's with this government.
I despise this government.
Now, by the way, let me bring you up on a couple of things here, which is important.
Which is important.
By the way, I've been hearing a lot of talk about the Liberty incident.
They're talking about that in 1967.
Oh!
Ask somebody about the Liberty incident.
Americans down on morality, family, country, divide over how to define patriot.
This is from the Drudge Report.
Two and three don't know the meaning of Independence Day.
Yes!
That's our country.
Always go to Drudge.
Always go to others to see what are they saying.
Twitter killer set for launch.
Chaos opens door to rival Zuckerberg out for blood.
What is happening right now with Zuckerberg?
Zuckerberg is tired of being the nerd.
He and Lex Friedman are always wrestling each other.
They're getting each other in rear naked chokes.
And look, see, I'm tough.
I'm a man.
See, I'm a man.
You see that lately?
Look, I'm doing that.
Right, Lex?
That's right, Mark.
We're men.
We're going out and we're wrestling.
You're wrestling?
Why are you wrestling?
I don't know.
Because we're tough.
You're tough?
Okay.
You think that's...
You think bar fights are wrestling?
Anyway, what I'm just saying.
But you see where this is going with that?
Just keep an eye on it.
Keep an eye on it.
Remember what I'm saying.
Cocaine found in the White House.
Gee, do you think?
Listen, Biden might want to think of some tootski, some blow, or as he used to be called in some circles, Dwight.
How about this?
We need serious conversations about Biden's brain.
Magazine Dems should primary him.
Newsom hits campaign trail.
Building his own base.
I'm telling you, and I've told you this before, Gavin Newsom's going to be the President of the United States.
Period.
DeSantis disaster.
PAC official sounds alarm.
Ron faces Republican pushback for anti-LGBTQ video.
Bud Light mocked for new ad featuring men grunting.
Household savings collapse sparks...
Recession fears.
Jack Smith eyes lawyers in election fraud probe.
Oh, he is Jack Smith is going crazy.
Trump starts Independence Day by sharing F Biden meme at 2 a.m.
Run down Madonna.
Ignored symptoms of illness as she rehearsed for tour.
Now, let me just say something to you.
And I'm not going to go into detail, but this story about Madonna is caca del toro.
Okay?
Okay?
You know what I'm saying?
Hmm?
Okay.
That's all I'm saying.
You do know there's another world out there.
There's a world of...
They call it gossip, but it's better than that.
And this story is absolute nonsense.
Here we go.
Revealed.
USA funds shadow police units all over the world.
Did you know that?
Did you know that?
Shadow police?
What is this?
I just got a...
Republicans threaten surveillance.
And it's kind of interesting.
But, you know what we need?
And I'm saying it again.
America needs a revolution.
A painless, bloodless, peaceful, complete and total, up-to-down revolution.
That's all.
Now, let me ask our dear friends.
Two things.
Number one.
What will everybody be doing today?
What will everybody be doing today?
Do you have any...
There's going to be fireworks.
Are you a fireworks person?
Do we have fireworks here in New York or are they drones?
They're on the East River.
I don't know.
They're fireworks and drones.
I will never understand fireworks if you have to.
I know for kids.
One year, maybe a couple of years, we had fireworks coming and it was on the Hudson River.
We had a view of it.
I mean, it was like nothing.
I mean, it looked like it was the Grucci.
It might have been the Grucci family.
They're very famous around here.
After a few minutes, it's like, okay, boom.
It's interesting.
Kids love them.
They're terrible for dogs.
They're not good for the environment, whatever that means.
But anyway, I've never been at a fireworks department.
Absolutely.
Sergeant Stadenko is going to be mowing the lawn.
Going to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
Is that doing well, by the way, Indiana?
Huh?
No, they made it woke.
They made it woke.
Oh.
Oh, no, no.
Okay, forget that one.
I want to go see that Caviezel movie.
Sound of Freedom.
I want to see that.
Hanging with my dogs.
Lunch with a friend and chilling with my rescue pup and tuning in at 7 p.m.
Isn't that great, Ford?
Rescue pup.
That's beautiful.
Shouldn't you have fireworks with fire water?
Very funny.
Visiting friends.
Uh...
Let me see what else we have.
Chilling in the pool.
That's nice.
Sitting on my porch with a vodka cocktail and watching my neighbors blow stuff up.
I love that.
Love the fireworks.
Good for you.
Nothing wrong with that.
Yard work.
We saw something.
There was something that was very interesting.
There's a show called Master Gardener.
It's very interesting.
And I wanted to learn more about the history of gardening.
English garden, French garden, and how gardens used to be a combination of grocery store and apothecary, where people would grow their herbs and herbs for medicinal purposes and their food as well, which I never thought about.
It's fascinating.
There's something about the smell of dirt.
There's something about the smell of farms.
There's something about that.
It's very, very, I don't know what the word is.
Very, very, very pleasing.
Enjoying a cookout with my grandsons, my son and daughter.
Beautiful, Diane.
Excellent.
Please be careful about what happens when you burn food.
You know what's happening, what happens when you put fire to food.
I know you don't want to think about it.
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
They never talk about that.
How about when you fry certain things like potato skins?
Fried?
Baked?
You know what happens to the skin?
Might want to look that one up.
Just an idea.
If you're interested, you don't have to be interested.
Okay, I'm just saying.
Just one of those things.
Very interesting to see Mel Gibson.
New documentary, Boom.
By the way, Mel Gibson is not a part of this movie, right?
No.
Mel Gibson has nothing to do with this movie.
Nothing.
He is supporting it.
He's very close to Jim Caviezel, but he is not...
And by the way, I respect Caviezel's faith.
I respect the fact that he cares about what he believes in.
Anybody who says anything based upon what they believe in, I think it's important.
Okay.
It smells like a greenhouse this morning in the Catskills paradise.
Ah, yes!
The Catskills.
A beauteous place.
Certain places that are just...
Certain places that...
I told you about this guide that I was thinking about.
There's something very...
There's something very, very calming about seeing farms.
Real working farms.
Not just, you know, but a real working farm with people and all this stuff.
And I think I told you about how we saw this one fellow sitting under a tree, picnicking by himself.
I found that to be absolutely fascinating.
I don't know why it was fascinating, but it was.
It was fascinating.
In any event, my friends, I'm going to do one more thing, ask one more indulgence, one more.
Can we get a quick...
We haven't done this in a while because I love to see this.
Can we get an idea of where we are today?
And especially those of you who aren't in the U.S. We love you as well.
Let's do a quick kind of a rundown.
Where is everybody from?
Where art thou?
Where is everyone from?
That's all.
It says Gibson directed Caviezel, but that's it.
He directed him in...
The Passion of the Christ, or as some people call it, Good Friday the 13th.
That was something, but that showed you more about the particular pathology and the sadism that is inherent in all Mel Gibson movies.
He loves torture.
Jamestown, North Carolina, Cape Coral, Washington Heights, New York City.
Ooh, in the Heights!
Chile!
Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia.
Tasmania, Long Island.
Westport, New York, baby.
Little Italy, Ohio.
Kroonstad, South Africa.
Welcome, Casper.
Beautiful South Africa.
My fellow who I did my first tandem jump with was a South African.
Hagerstown, Maryland.
Bel Air, Maryland.
Pine Bush.
But soon to be from Dun Island, Florida.
Oh, I know Dun Island very well.
Erie, Pennsylvania.
Tahoe.
Beaver Crossing.
Ontario.
Nottingham, UK.
Thank you, Tony.
Litchfield, Connecticut.
Litchfield.
Ah, yes.
Litchfield.
Had some great friends live there.
That's a very...
That's way...
That's far out from us, but...
Homosassa Springs.
Ah, Homosassa Springs.
Is that Wikiwachi?
Is Wikiwachi Homosassa?
No, no.
I'm going to take Mrs. L to a Wikiwachi.
That's her thing.
She wants to go Crystal River, Inverness, Brooksville, Tarpon Springs.
Let me see.
Wikiwachi.
Remember that?
The mermaids?
That's in Hernando County.
Yeah, that's not too far.
Wikiwaji.
Wikiwaji.
I'm trying to think.
I forget.
Where was it where I had this moccasin come at me one time?
I'm not a water person.
I am not a...
My friend always says, hey, why don't you come by and bring your suit?
We got the pool.
It's like, no.
No, seriously.
We got the pool.
It's like, no.
No.
Nashville, Tennessee, Seattle, Jupiter.
Beautiful.
Let me see.
Look at the Oshafield, South Georgia.
Beautiful.
All right, dear friends, listen.
You have a great and glorious day.
We'll be back today.
Remember what it's all about.
It's not the flag.
It's the Constitution.
I know I sound like a broken record, but it's true.
The flag is nice.
If you believe that Betsy Ross story, that's all nonsense.
The Constitution is it.
And your duty as a sentient patriot is to understand it and know the history and know why.
So anyway, happy birthday, America.
We will see you tonight at 7 p.m.
Be very safe today.
Don't do anything stupid.
On behalf of Mrs. L, we love you.
We love you for your support and your honor and your goodness and your focus and your commitment to liberty.
That's it.
Until tonight at 7 p.m., remember this, the monkey's dead, the show's over.
Sue ya.
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