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Aug. 31, 2023 - Lionel Nation

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Hurricane Idalia, Prepping Embraced and Reconsidered, Mindless Media Weather Coverage

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	I am now a 65-year-old native New Yorker born elsewhere.
	I was born in Florida, in Tampa, Ybor City, Hillsborough County.
	But I've never been, I've never felt a part of that.
	I've never felt at home there.
	It's a very strange thing.
	There's a wonderful quote from Bob Dylan who said he was born...
	I'm trying to find this great line.
	I just thought of it now.
	I was born...
	I was born elsewhere, finding a way home or something like that.
	I throw in these things.
	There was this thing he said where, I'll find it eventually.
	But I've never felt there.
	I've never felt connected.
	I went to everything, grade school and family and everything.
	But I never felt a part of it.
	It's a very strange thing.
	I can go places and I will feel connected.
	It's almost like an esthete.
	Not an esthete.
	Not synesthesia.
	Not empathic.
	It's the closest thing to anything I've ever seen.
	I'm trying to think of the word for it.
	And there was something about it that I never connected with.
	The heat.
	The heat is insufferable.
	The heat is horrible.
	Just unbelievable.
	You just can't imagine how horrible it was.
	Horrible!
	Terrible!
	Just incredibly stifling.
	And there was a strange attitude.
	This is the Tampa area.
	Of people of wanting to be big shots.
	Wanting to be important.
	Wanting to be rich.
	Wanting to be famous.
	There were these little enclaves.
	And there were groups of people.
	There were the people who were...
	Who were Cuban and Italian, Sicilian mostly.
	There was that particular enclave because they always claimed that they really made the city and they were a part of it.
	And then you had other folks who said, no, no, no, we are.
	These were called the Crackers.
	A cracker in Florida, somebody who was born there.
	Somebody who was actually born in this state.
	It doesn't have any kind of racial characteristics until later on, used by others.
	And it had to deal with the homesteaders who would crack their whip, you know, as they would make their way across the state.
	You had the plants and the likes and the flaglers and all these, you had the Miami group.
	And then we had in Tampa, we had groups of people who were the South Tampa Palmasia Bayshore, snooty folks who thought they were kind of better.
	And it was so funny.
	They loved to pretend.
	They had names like Trey and all of these...
	Oh God, it was this one...
	It was so corny.
	And even then I thought, why are you doing this?
	Ah, here's Bob Dylan.
	Here's the quote.
	I was born very far from here.
	Let me try this again.
	I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.
	And it's the weirdest thing.
	I've always felt like I don't belong there.
	And I looked at it, and from a very early age, I understood phony.
	And I didn't know what phony meant.
	I liked people who were who they were.
	And I love people who just, I didn't know, I'm doing this after the fact.
	I'm like figuring this out after the fact.
	So a little bit of background.
	This is very important.
	This is kind of who I am.
	I didn't realize it at the time.
	It's much of what I am today.
	It's my motivation politically.
	And we had groups of people.
	We had a group, there's a thing in Tampa.
	Called Gasparola.
	Gasparola was since 1905 or something.
	These were supposedly the leaders of the community, white, southern, not, not.
	They called them Latins.
	Not Latino, the way they say it, but Latins.
	The Latin group.
	Ybor City looks where I was born at this hospital.
	My father was born there, too.
	It looks kind of like New Orleans.
	They still have roosters running around.
	It's kind of funky.
	It never really caught on.
	It should have done much better than it did.
	In any event, there were the Gasparilla folks.
	And then later on, this group called the Crew of Santiago.
	They were the Spaniards, the Cubans, the Italians, and they had their own little crew.
	Again, patterned after Mardi Gras and the crews and that sort of thing.
	And I used to sit back and laugh at this.
	Laugh at this.
	It's like, what is this?
	You're trying to be cool.
	You're trying to be cool.
	And I never, I never got it.
	I used to laugh at this.
	When I was doing afternoon drive, when I did a radio station, Gasparilla, by the way, this thing in Tampa.
	And by the way, Bayshore Boulevard is flooded now because of Idalia.
	Notice how I say that.
	That's the West Tampa.
	Cuban pronunciation.
	My Spanish, my native Spanish, is with a Cuban accent, because all my friends were Cuban.
	Anyway, so that Bayshore is where, that's the seat of the Confederacy, so to speak.
	That's the gym.
	That's where everybody, that's where everybody, all the big shots.
	Remember when they were, they talked about this Tampa socialite with General Petraeus, remember that one?
	It was on Bayshore.
	Bayshore was like, ooh.
	South Tampa, ooh.
	They even have a thing called Soho.
	They call this South of Howard Avenue.
	Oh, I mean, you have no idea.
	And from my, I understood this class thing.
	We were very middle class.
	We were very, you know.
	I had no idea of wealth or anything like that.
	I didn't even understand what rich meant, but I knew you think you're cool, and you think you're not, and they're not cool, and I got it from the beginning.
	Okay.
	So, later on, when all this stuff happens, they had this thing called Gasparilla.
	Gasparilla was named after a mythical pirate named Jose Gaspar, who raped, pillaged, and robbed, and when he was apparently This is the myth.
	When the Navy, when the Armada or something came to arrest him, he wrapped himself with anchor chain and threw himself off of a boat and drowned, much like that drug fellow who was unceremoniously tossed into the drink that the Daily Mail had highlighted.
	In any event, it was called Gasparilla.
	So I came up with something called Mantonella, named after Charles Manson.
	And I would constantly make fun of these people because they were haughty and pretentious and they thought they were...
	And when we were kids, we would sit along a couple of times around Bayshore and these, you know, the fathers.
	I don't want to say why, but it wasn't why, but it was like there were crackers.
	There were, you know, southern times, you know, names like, you know, like the Great Likes family.
	You know, there was a fellow, I'm not going to mention his name, but he was Italian, and he anglicized his name because he wanted to reject any kind of Italian lineage.
	Anyway, they would walk up and down, drunk out of their mind, they had 38s, they had actual guns with blanks in them, and they would fire them, and you're kids, and these people would walk, these pirates would walk by you, and then they would take the hot lead and throw them.
	And they would love to see black kids jump.
	And it was just weird.
	The whole thing was weird.
	And I never felt, never connected.
	Never.
	Never.
	It's like, you're full of it.
	And then the Latin folks, they came up with their thing.
	And they're walking around.
	I just...
	I never felt.
	I never felt.
	I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be.
	And so I'm on my way home.
	And then when I was a kid, we'll get to this in a moment, but this is, if you're interested, I hope you are.
	Because you're going to hear this no matter what.
	When I was a kid, the people that I connected with, the ones that I thought, I like this.
	I like this.
	This makes sense.
	This makes sense to me.
	This makes sense to me.
	It was the New York, New York scene.
	And Merv Griffin, even though Mike Douglas was, I think he was Cleveland.
	But the point is, I would watch these New York, and watch New York attitude, and New York this, and New York, the driving of the big, you know, the ball, whatever the...
	New Year's.
	And I thought, God, that's something lured me.
	I don't know what it was.
	I can't figure out what it was.
	I said, this seems like a neat place.
	And then I read a book years ago about the Westies.
	I thought, this is where Hell's Kitchen.
	And I always felt here.
	So when decades ago, when I relocated or came here, I felt a part.
	Jerry Wexler, the great, the great The great Atlantic Records impresario producer.
	He was a great friend of mine.
	He had the greatest vocabulary of anybody you ever could imagine.
	And he said to me, he said, because he eventually lived in Siesta Key in Florida, he said, you're from Tampa?
	He said, no.
	He said, you were a lockslicer born 100 years ago in the Lower East Side.
	Always felt a part of this.
	So as I look now, there was a long way to get there.
	As I look at what's happening right now to Florida, I see this thing.
	And I see this feeling.
	I had it this morning.
	And I've been saying this.
	I remember saying this to my father, and we would watch this.
	And even before anybody even remotely thought of this, even before anybody even said this stuff, I said, God has told you.
	This is where hurricanes are.
	Here.
	They're here.
	Historically.
	Here.
	In Tampa Bay, which people refer to, Tampa Bay is, you know, you have that, Hillsboro is inside, that's Tampa, and then there's Tampa Bay, and then you have the Pinellas County, St. Pete Clearwater, Pinellas, and all this stuff.
	But Tampa Bay, if you go to Davis Island, where Derek Jeter had his home, if you go to the intercoastal waterways around Passa Grill, which I love that area, you can literally, and I'm using this word correctly, literally, Here is your dock or whatever it is, your home, and here's the water.
	Any storm surge, anything, you're gone.
	You're gone.
	And they've been doing this forever.
	And I'm not saying it's their fault, I'm not saying it, but I never understood.
	Do you know what's going to happen?
	Do you know what's going to happen?
	And by the way, in the old days it was like if you're inland, You have nothing to worry about.
	Not anymore, because these things are...
	They all used to hover around the coast, and I used to always say to myself, why are you doing this?
	In 1989, 88, whatever the hell it was, the earthquake, giant stadium, remember that?
	Remember the Bay Area, the East Bay Bridge that fell?
	It was the earthquake during the World Series?
	And people were saying, why is there?
	Why did this happen?
	Why?
	Why is there earthquake?
	Why are there earthquakes?
	Why?
	Why are there earthquakes in San Francisco?
	And they said, because of the gays!
	Remember that?
	And I always said, no.
	God said, this is where you've known about this.
	What do you do?
	You build on hills.
	And why do you do this?
	Why do you do this?
	What do you think is going to happen?
	There were hurricanes forever!
	You know, and in Florida, the weather is just...
	Listen, there's a thing you've got to understand.
	If you're a real native, a couple things you know.
	Number one, first time of lightning, the Floridian's inside.
	He's inside.
	He doesn't even go.
	A real Florida cracker.
	A real native.
	He's inside.
	Don't even mess with it.
	Because I know two people who are hit by lightning.
	People say, your chances of winning the lottery are the same as being hit by lightning.
	No!
	People get hit by lightning all the time.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	They always say that Tampa Bay area is the lightning capital of the world.
	Nah, it's actually Java, but anyway.
	But it's lightning.
	Lightning like you can't believe.
	Lightning where the house shakes.
	Lightning where...
	God.
	I took a friend of mine from one of my best pals.
	Born in the South Bronx.
	We went to the area.
	And he said, what is this?
	I said, oh, it's going to rain.
	He goes, no.
	This is like in the morning.
	It's black.
	It was just a storm.
	Just a thunder.
	Just a storm.
	No, no nothing.
	Just, he couldn't believe what he saw.
	And from that time, From that time, we have been going through, and I'm watching this, this ceremony of weather.
	And I want to talk to you about weather.
	Why we do this.
	Why we mess with it.
	Why we challenge it.
	What is different about it now?
	The media coverage.
	The media coverage.
	They haven't changed.
	They have the guy in the parka with the suit, with the name.
	With, you know, the channel, and they're telling you, don't come out in the storm surge.
	What are you doing?
	And then every now and then, because of the internet, we would see the fake coverage.
	You see the person, I mean, the woman in the boat.
	Remember that time she goes, well, the waters are terrible.
	And somebody's walking along.
	You know, you always see this because media are, plural now, schmaltz.
	They want to go out for their Emmy reel.
	They want to go out, they want to hang on to a pole, they want to do this.
	And weather in particular, it goes back to a primordial, kind of an anthropological thing about weather that mankind has always been fascinated by.
	Always, always, always, always.
	It's what we do.
	We still do.
	And we don't understand it.
	And what we are seeing now...
	It's like nothing anybody has ever even imagined.
	And yesterday when I saw this, when we were kids, Publix was like the store.
	Publix is closing at 5. This is closing.
	Stay home.
	Don't go out.
	There's no basements, so there's no flooding.
	My aunt had a basement.
	One of the only ones, I think, because of the low water.
	People are there.
	And I'm asking people, I'm asking friends, do you have, these are lifelong, lifelong Floridians.
	Crackers.
	Florida crackers.
	Second, third generation.
	And I said, Do you have, are you prepared?
	That's right, because I'm going to do this right now because I've never seen anything where commerce and opportunity and reality are intersecting.
	This is about prepare with Lionel.
	I said, what are you doing right now if you can't get to a store for 30 days?
	And the reaction was like, 30 days?
	That's impossible.
	Okay.
	Two weeks.
	Two weeks.
	In their mind, they had this idea that no, this is, and I said, what are you, this is the Biden administration.
	All the rules are over.
	We can't figure out genders anymore.
	We don't know, nothing, everything is up, is down.
	We got a president.
	Who's facing the dock, who's facing prison.
	We have another $250 million to Ukraine.
	This is...
	There is some sick you-know-what who would love to see.
	I wonder what they would do like, what we'd do if we had things closed for 30 days.
	And that's why we're prepared with Lionel.
	They've got three-month emergency food supplies.
	Three months!
	And you can divvy it up, you can figure it out.
	It's recommended per person, but just go look at this.
	This is the thing that I am...
	It's like not wearing seatbelts.
	Well, today you have to wear seatbelts.
	But the point is, there was a time when I was a kid, there were commercials about people who would not wear seatbelts.
	Well, it'll wrinkle my dress.
	And I said, what?
	How people look at risk, I have no idea.
	People who smoke.
	People who smoke.
	Remember in the old days?
	Well, you know, if your number's up.
	But it calms me.
	It's good for you.
	My grandfather smoked Chesterfield.
	So today I'm awash and I'm being very nostalgic and looking at what was where I know these people, but I'm thinking they don't get it.
	Plus there's a bunch of new people in Florida.
	They don't get it.
	They don't understand it.
	You have not seen anything like this.
	When we were kids, everybody would throw stuff into the pool.
	Even if you didn't have a pool.
	You got furniture or chairs?
	Throw it in the pool because they're going to go.
	It's what gets thrown.
	The reason why you would go out there is down wires.
	Don't go outside.
	Down wires.
	Snakes.
	Moccasins.
	You think I'm kidding?
	Florida is tropical!
	Snakes, downlines, and things flying.
	They said if you have stuff in your backyard, throw it in the pool if you have a pool.
	Because that'll do it.
	It's primitive.
	It's primitive.
	And homes are not hurricane-proof.
	They tell you to leave windows cracked because when these vacuum, these jets of tunnels and columns of air and...
	It just spirals.
	It just pulls the roof off.
	I mean, it's just the most incredible thing in the world.
	And they don't know this.
	There's no, you know, hi, welcome to Florida.
	Have a nice day.
	Oh, by the way, here's your tutorial.
	And you would think with YouTube, people would know what to do.
	They don't.
	They don't know what to do.
	It's the weirdest thing.
	So prepare with Lionel.com.
	And there's going to be another one.
	There's going to be either weather.
	It's going to be some type of quasi.
	Crime or militaristic, we're going to have, as we had before, ransomware, ransomware and malware.
	Remember that?
	They closed all of the gas stations.
	I don't even know why.
	More Chinese balloons, trucker strikes, problems.
	Contaminated gas.
	All of a sudden, what if there's just no gas?
	Don't go.
	Everything is endless.
	And the thing which is the most interesting.
	And that's why, if you're listening, I've got a link here.
	I'm telling you, this is up to you.
	I can't force you to do this.
	The moment something goes wrong, the moment there's panic, the moment that somebody says, it's like...
	Watching murmurations of starlings, you see the cattle spooked and they start running.
	It's the most incredible thing I've ever seen in my life.
	It's the most incredible thing.
	And also, to see this, and I cannot believe this, to see the same weather, the same people with the same jackets, of course they're younger, with hanging onto the pole, going out there and trying their best to both.
	Alert.
	Inform.
	But to build their Emmy reel.
	Their reel.
	So that when you submit them for the awards, here you go.
	This is my Idalia reel.
	And it's going out there.
	Hey, there's a good shot.
	Get that storm surge coming in.
	To help people?
	No!
	So I can get my reels.
	How do you like that shot?
	That's good.
	What do you need to know?
	Seriously, what do you not understand about?
	Get the hell out of there.
	What do you not understand?
	You need to see this?
	Of course not.
	But they want you to see this because this is all I've got.
	This is the 50s.
	Reaching out, hanging on to these new folks.
	Hanging on, hanging on to say, remember us?
	Remember us?
	We're the 50s.
	This is when we had local TV.
	Local TV!
	We can still do it!
	We're still relevant!
	You think I'm kidding, don't you?
	You think I'm missing?
	I know how these people work.
	Right now there was a move.
	You have no idea in the move.
	AM radio, radio itself, they don't know what's happening.
	And you're having this onslaught of people who've never been news directors, never been journalists, never been anything.
	And everybody thinks it's a podcast.
	Everybody thinks it's just a...
	Have you noticed how all the podcasts are somebody in a room that's dark with lights behind you, kind of purplish and weird colors, overly processed mics, all into production.
	And the comment is shite, as the British would say.
	It's horrible, but it's new.
	Okay, fine, that'll go through it.
	The informational aspect is ridiculous.
	You have people who are not, it's not that they're not bright, but they have no idea what information is.
	They just see the way it's supposed to look and they replicate the way it's supposed to look.
	And when it comes to information, they don't want to provide the information to you, they just want the pictures.
	And that's what's going on right now.
	Since man first walked this planet.
	Weather has been like, what the hell is this?
	Weather, in my opinion, was the inspiration for religion.
	Weather was the first time they saw thunder and lightning and wind and suns and lightning and oh my god, how could they not think this?
	If you're hearing rumbling in the sky and you're some Neanderthal with the IQ of a soap dish and you're barely human, how can you not think that there's something mystical, magical, scary and daunting?
	Of course.
	Of course.
	Of course this is the way it works.
	And you watch this, and I'm, I just, and I'm looking at that, I'm thinking, these sick vultures, all they want to do is they want to pray.
	They want the shot.
	They want to see something float away.
	They want to see the disaster.
	They don't have to do it.
	We understand this.
	No, that's not what they want.
	This is 1950.
	This is Dan Rather.
	This is the weatherman.
	Do you have a weatherman in your home?
	Do you even know?
	Do you watch local news?
	Seriously, do you watch local news?
	I watch none of it.
	I watch none of it.
	It's just the worst.
	It's the worst.
	And weathermen have always been the yucky, yucky, roly-poly friend.
	And then when I was sort of in the...
	And it was very interesting.
	It was very informative for me to learn this and to see up front.
	It just inspired my utter contempt for the industry because of the morons that are there.
	They never even get you...
	And I would tell these people, you can't do a commercial.
	You can't do a two-minute...
	As live or whatever it is to discuss the local implications of migrants or whatever.
	You just can't do it.
	But they didn't care because they got new sports and weather and that's it.
	They didn't even care whether you knew.
	They didn't care.
	How did I look?
	How was the shot?
	How was the frame?
	How did I look?
	How was it?
	And they sit in a truck all day long and they're typing away on what?
	For the one shot, for this one 30 second nothing.
	They are there.
	For eight hours sometimes.
	They meet in the morning and they have their assignment.
	I'm going to go out there.
	I'm going to go out to the school.
	What are you doing?
	What is the point of this?
	Well, I'm going to be out there at the school.
	Are you going to talk to anybody?
	You're going to be on for a minute!
	A minute and a half, maybe.
	Why are you even going to this school?
	Because of the way it looks.
	But what are you saying?
	I'm not saying anything.
	Who cares what I'm saying?
	I'm there.
	I'm at the school.
	I'm at Yankee Stadium.
	I'm at the...
	I'm at...
	I'm on the flooded Bayshore Boulevard.
	I'm in...
	And again, part of my contempt, part of my...
	This is when I realized how stupid this is.
	How stupid.
	The informational industry is so bad.
	You don't know anything.
	You've got to know where to look.
	I was listening to something this morning.
	I'm going to do it on my private channel because I wouldn't dare do it too.
	It's called Internalized Ableism, the Neurodivergent, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Asperger's.
	It's just so much great, great stuff.
	And I was watching one of my favorite.
	One of my favorite people.
	This is Sabine Hassenfelder.
	This is this physicist.
	And she did one of the best ones ever on autism.
	And how people are in love with neurodivergence.
	And there is a social contagion to it.
	And a lot of people are saying, no, you're not autistic.
	No, no, you're not autistic.
	No, this is not a good thing.
	It's not a bad thing.
	But it's part of this psych word salad stuff.
	Anyway, it is fantastic.
	And I get to vote all the time I want to.
	That's what I want to talk about.
	Well, good luck with that one.
	And you know why?
	You know what the number one problem with that is?
	The time.
	Too much time.
	God bless Lex Friedman.
	God bless Joe Rogan.
	God bless a lot of people who are putting long form an hour and a half into things like the history of hallucinogenics and licking frogs or whatever it is.
	Thank God they're pulling people back into this stuff.
	Because we're in a tug of war.
	We're seeing the death throes of conventional prototypical This Heritage TV, which is just horrible.
	And this newfound, and I will take the new streaming media with all of its warts, all of its problems, all of its whatever, the very fact that for the first time in a long time, people are now being inspired to produce Their own version of whatever reality is.
	And I think it's incredible.
	It is so good.
	And you are seeing the death throes, the end, the denouement, the valedictory, the swan song, the curtain call, everything of the old media.
	It's done.
	It's finished.
	Even radio.
	I read these.
	I read these.
	These things, and radio people, terrestrial, God bless them, because that's where my heart is.
	They're saying, no, we have to pass a law that has AM radio in cars.
	What?
	Did you?
	I still can't believe it.
	Look, I first of all, I can't get anything.
	My signal is horrible.
	I use an app for, if you want to hear radio, but you're going to actually pass?
	A law that says...
	And they formed something that new cars have to have AM radio?
	Oh, dear God!
	How pathetic is that?
	There isn't a music...
	There isn't a...
	Morning shows?
	Music?
	You want to hear new music?
	Forget that.
	You know, the...
	It's...
	Do you?
	Just nod.
	Nod.
	That you are in the middle of this storm, this revolution, this wonderful change.
	It is wonderful.
	It is so wonderful.
	I can't say it enough.
	We need so many people out there like you to come up with your own channel, your own...
	I don't know why people don't do it.
	I don't know.
	The Ukraine coverage It's superb streaming.
	Superb!
	Superb!
	It is just...
	Oh my God, it's wonderful.
	The Trump coverage is...
	It's coming along.
	Coming along.
	But the very fact...
	That's somebody.
	I don't care who they are.
	I don't care if they're 10 years old or 20 or 40. It doesn't really matter.
	The very fact that they're putting together something and they want to talk about weather or trombone.
	Oh, and by the way, for the longest time I've been saying we need to teach people how to cook.
	Cooking by virtue of streaming is now so important.
	You can learn anything online.
	Anything.
	There is so much good going on in the world.
	But here's the thing.
	Step back and ask yourself the question.
	What is the psychological interplay regarding certain things?
	What is the psychological interplay involving events that happen and referring to vestigial, almost primordial, primeval, preternatural, atavistic, tribal things of mankind being wowed and cowed and freaked out over weather?
	It is so anthropological.
	This is mankind at its finest.
	And every place has it.
	Whenever there's a snowstorm here, they've got some guy at Home Depot who says, oh, they're buying all the snow shovels.
	It's like, you didn't have a snow shovel?
	Who doesn't have one?
	What, did you break yours?
	These things are dirt.
	Why are people buying snow shovels?
	These people didn't have them.
	Well, right now with COVID, there's a run on toilet paper.
	Toilet paper?
	What does toilet paper have to do with COVID?
	I don't know.
	They just do that.
	Remember when hand sanitizer?
	You couldn't find this.
	We would go into stores.
	Yeah, what's the percentage?
	What, 40%?
	40%?
	And we were like into, like what, 40% is not going to?
	I one time saw, I remember how they had these videos on how to wash your hands.
	Here's a heart surgeon who explains how to wash your hands.
	It was a fantastic thing.
	I will never forget that.
	I will never forget what I learned from COVID.
	I learned so much about human nature, about politics, about behavior.
	Everything I learned from tattoos.
	I'm still...
	I tell people, you do understand what tattoos are about.
	Are you talking about tattoos?
	Yes!
	Do you not understand tribalism?
	Do you not understand what people will do in order to comport, to comply, to fit in, to identify openly to the rest of the world, to self-identify as being somebody who is somehow a part of the tribe, the clan?
	If it was scarring, if it was those rings in the neck, a saucer in your lip, bones in your nose, scarring, hair color, dyes, covered in white, this is so...
	This is so tribal.
	This is so anthropological.
	This is the year 2023.
	This person's outside of Denver.
	Her name is Michaela, and she's covered in crap that when she turns 70, you're going to look like she was in a small fire.
	I mean, just everywhere you go.
	Look at the tribalism of how we handle weather.
	Look at this collective behavioral, this symphony, synchrony, this pavane, this pas de deux, how we're dancing.
	Oh, look, it's time for our, it's time for the hurricane follies.
	Let's do that.
	Even local folks who are doing the regular types of, what am I trying to say, local...
	Streaming, it's becoming cliched.
	Somebody has to do a take-off.
	Remember, a while back, it used to be public access.
	That was kind of like this.
	It was a precursor to what we're seeing right now.
	I hope, I hope, I hope that what we have discussed for the past 37 minutes is something that inspires you to sit back And think about this and look and see and not just wait for somebody to tell you what to think.
	I told you the other day you have to have your favorite websites up for you to check your newspaper and coffee in the morning.
	You have to go to your folks.
	Do not let people define for you what the curriculum is.
	Do not.
	I am always trying to provide you with autonomy, self-expression, trying to give you something a little bit different.
	And what do I always tell you?
	Vote.
	Vote.
	Do yourself a favor today when you watch anybody on TV, anybody on TV, anybody on streaming, ask if anybody says, and vote.
	Does Joe Rogan say vote?
	No.
	Does Joe Rogan say, listen, I'm going to be out there working at a registry?
	No, voting has nothing to do with it.
	Voting to most people is this, there's no connection whatsoever.
	Nobody talks about voting.
	Nobody.
	They'll talk about the elections.
	They'll talk about it passively.
	And one more thing.
	These places, going back to Florida, there have been places that have been flooding for the past 100 years.
	And nobody's done anything.
	They have sinkholes.
	They have the same corners that have been flooding for years.
	When it comes to flood, I'll bet you right now New Orleans has not changed.
	One thing, I'll bet you if there's another Katrina, it's done.
	It's finished.
	I don't know what happens.
	But 250, the latest tranche that we know of, went to Ukraine, which goes right into Zelensky's pocket, as Colonel McGregor says, to line their...
	For their homes in Venice or Miami or Cyprus, wherever they're going to move once this calamity is over.
	It's so incredible.
	So let me just throw that one at you.
	Remember, preparewithlionel.com.
	I don't care if you live in Florida.
	I don't care where you are.
	Something is going to happen every single day.
	And the folks who run the show are sitting back and just watching.
	They are watching your reaction.
	And they are watching.
	And the notion of the prepper?
	How we used to mock these people?
	Not anymore.
	Nobody's laughing now.
	Okay, dear friends?
	Okay.
	Make sure you do me a favor, please.
	Follow Lens Warriors.
	Great, great stuff.
	At Lens Warriors.
	Follow her on Twitter.
	At Lens Warriors.
	She did a great interview yesterday.
	Watch this.
	Watch yourself.
	Listen to what's going on.
	She is the authority on this.
	Follow her on YouTube at Lens Warriors also.
	Okay, you got that one?
	You got that one?
	And don't forget to subscribe, subscribe, subscribe.
	All right, dear friends, have a great day.
	Don't ever change.
	One more time.
	PreparewithLionel.com I don't know.
	Something is telling you.
	Get ready.
	And by the way, not just that.
	Is your home safe?
	If you have to leave, do you have weapons there?
	Do you have them secured?
	What are you going to do?
	If you had to leave for whatever reason, do you have everything secured?
	What about weapons?
	What about cash?
	What about gold?
	Have you thought about this?
	Have you thought about what do you do?
	Of course not.
	Because that would be prepping.
	Well, you better start prepping now, my friend.
	Because if you don't see what's happening, You're not paying attention.
	All right, dear friends, see you tonight.
	I've got a whole bunch more videos coming up.
	And I've got a new one coming up about what nobody gets about Tucker Carlson.
	I do a nice little psychological review of Tucker, who's fascinating, but not for the reasons you might think.
	All right, friends, see you tonight at 7 p.m.
	Don't ever change me in that sincerely.
	And don't forget these words.
	The monkey's dead.
	The show's over.
	Sue ya.

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