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Dec. 28, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Why DEI Quota Plagiarist Phony, Racial Arsonist and RuPaul Doppelgänger Claudine Gay Matters
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Alright dear friends, here we go for this evening's event.
This thing, this soiree, this event.
The chance for us to meet and to talk and for me to give you A version of the world that is not heard anyplace else.
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I'm not any of these things.
I don't know what this is.
I am not an atheist.
I am not an agnostic.
I am irreligious.
I don't care.
I am like no one you will ever meet.
Do you hear what I'm saying?
Do you hear what I'm saying?
Just when you figure me out, I'm going to change my mind.
And I'm appealing to you the rational, open-minded, sentient human being who believes in truth, believes in evidence, and reality.
To use the Mearsheimer quote, we are realists in the light.
And I want to say welcome, welcome, welcome, all of you, welcome, first of all, to receive this beautiful, absolutely gorgeous Christmas card from our dear friend Liz Solak.
Liz, thank you so much.
We get some great stuff.
And I want to say a special hello to a new listener.
And he reminds me a little bit of William Donovan, Wild Bill Donovan, the original head of the OSS.
That's exactly who I am thinking of.
So we're going to call him Wild Bill in honor of Mr. Donovan, who was responsible.
Basically, he was the architect for America's intelligence system, whether that's good, bad, or different.
We have a lot to talk about tonight.
We're going to be talking about...
One of the most fascinating issues right now, which is going to be this subject more in depth, but I've been reading and reviewing this, and it seems like more people are predicting, including Catherine Harrods and others, a black swan event, a la a national security crisis with unpredictable high impact, predicted for 2024.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, what is a black swan?
What is a black swan?
What does that mean?
Good question.
A black swan event.
It is, as you know, a metaphor that describes an event or a circumstance or a situation that is extremely rare, extremely unpredictable, and has severe consequences.
You see, the term originates from the belief that all swans were white, as black swans were not known to even exist.
However, when black swans were discovered in Australia, it became a metaphor for unexpected and rare events that have a significant impact.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized this concept in his book, The Black Swan, The Impact of the Highly Improbable, where he explores the nature of highly improbable and unpredictable events and their profound effects on society, finance, and history.
So that is coming.
And I have been telling you, dear friends, I have been telling you to prepare and get ready Get ready for what appears to be what will undoubtedly be, I think, either a false flag or a flag, a deliberate event, especially coming up regarding New Year's Eve, because we're being told here in New York City, get ready!
Get ready!
Get ready!
And the question we're going to be talking about as well is a very simple thing.
When you have something that you want to say, something valuable, something, let's say, regarding...
That which is going on in Israel and the like.
Do you have the right?
Let me ask you something.
Do you have the right to interrupt traffic?
To interrupt my and our on New Year's Eve?
Whether you're pro-Israel, pro-Amas, pro-Palestine, pro-Hezbollah, pro-Whatever!
You can be pro-anything you want.
I don't care.
It doesn't matter to me.
But can you do this?
When does your right, when does your right to speak up stop and my right to enjoy New Year's Eve again?
When?
When?
Hillbilly, bless your heart, Hillbilly, says hell no, but Hillbilly, Hillbilly, Hillbilly, wait a minute, Hillbilly, Wild Bill, is there a connection there?
You do the math.
I think there is.
I think there is.
Speaking of black swans, but...
Martin Luther King would say, excuse me, when we boycotted, when we had the Birmingham boycotts, the Soma and the Margin, it always interrupted the course of commerce and the like.
It always intervened and interfered.
That's the purpose behind it.
We're going to be talking about that.
Also, more airport meltdowns.
We're going to be talking about Dershowitz and Brianna.
Dershowitz is...
He's lost his fastball.
Dershowitz just...
It just ain't happening.
It ain't happening.
It's just...
But don't feel bad.
He's 85 years old.
The biggest flop in the world that I do not understand, maybe you can help me, and I swear to God, please don't take this the wrong way, is Tucker Carlson.
What a wet fart this guy is.
A waste of time.
People interview him with such excitement, and he says absolutely nothing.
So let me stop you right there.
Let me, of course, welcome all of our new friends, all of our new followers, all of our new friends and foes alike.
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Alright, dear friends.
Today's subject matter is why DEI quote a plagiarist, phony, racial arsonist, and RuPaul doppelgator.
By the way, she also looks like Urkel.
Yeah.
Claudine Gay.
Why it matters.
Why it matters.
And let me tell you something right now.
I'm going to say something very, very, very, very, uh...
Oh, what's the word?
I'm going to say something very, very kind of silly and base.
But I'm going to tell you the truth.
Because I always talk to you about the truth.
I always talk to you.
I always tell you the truth.
And you know I do.
If she didn't look the way she did, nobody would be talking about her.
If she did not look like she does, like Urkel or RuPaul or whatever it is with the hair and the big glasses.
You think I'm kidding?
How many agree?
Look at her friend from Penn.
Look at McGill.
I mean, they fired her, but she looked like an assistant principal.
Whatever.
But this woman...
See, we've been through this.
How many of you said, uh-oh, I know what this one is.
What is it?
Nothing.
First time you saw Claudine Gay.
The first time you saw Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, didn't you say, okay, I know what this one is.
Yeah.
Okay, she's a scholar.
Right, right, right.
Of course, of course.
Of course, she's a genius.
It's the only reason she's there.
It's not because of her race, not because of her look.
Somebody kept saying, well, you know, it's the first non-binary.
She's married.
Well, what is different does that mean?
She's married.
She is.
She's got it all covered.
She's got the non-binary look, got the hair, got the chopped off hair, got the Urkel look.
She's perfect.
Didn't you think, I know what this is about.
I know what this isn't.
I know what this is.
Remember this one?
Who doesn't plagiarize?
Who doesn't?
Presidents of Harvard University where you know you're going to be just skewered.
Remember Mike Barnacle?
Doris Kearns Goodwin?
Never mind.
Never mind.
You know it and I know it.
And we can pretend all day long.
We can pretend all day long and we can sit there and go, no, no, no.
Listen, when I saw her, I've seen this my whole life.
Don't you remember?
How many of you, how old are you?
You know my big, this is my 65th.
When I was in school, when I was in college, all of a sudden we had this brand new thing.
African American Studies.
Remember that?
Remember African American?
That's a class?
Yeah.
Not only is it a class, it's a major.
It's a major?
You can major in African American Studies?
Okay.
I thought, well, if you can major in theater, if you can major in communications, whatever the hell that is.
Okay.
But where did this come from?
Because all American history was European.
And it failed to recognize, you know, it's a free country.
Then came women's studies.
Remember that one?
What the hell is that?
What do you mean, what's that?
What the hell is women's studies?
Well, you know, African-American, well, it's women.
Women's studies?
Do we have right-handed studies?
Why did they get their own major?
Hey, look, if there's theater and dance and there's anthropology and if you have, you know, okay.
But you know when this was coming, right?
Remember when this was coming in the 70s?
I do.
I do.
And then there was the feminism!
And feminism at first, at first, please, remember what feminist was at first when you heard feminist?
Hairy armpits, no bras, Andrea Dworkin, but not as attractive.
You think, oh my god, remember that?
When you heard feminism at first?
I know I'm being cruel, but it's true.
Hey, look, if I'm wrong...
You weren't there then.
I saw this.
I was like, what's this?
That's a feminist.
Why?
It just is.
Oh my God.
What is this?
What do you mean, what is this?
All of a sudden, remember that?
They said, I saw, I swear to God, there was a, it reminded me today, walking down the street, this girl, she must have been in her 20s.
She had no bra, and it was the most disgusting thing.
It looked like two kids fighting under a blanket.
I swear to God, these look like two headlights of a Buick just going slamming back and forth.
Not pretty.
Not pretty.
And you look at this and you say, you know what?
If somebody looks like this and you're 20-something years old and you have such a lack of concern over how you look, you realize that hygiene is not a big priority in this woman's life.
You know it's true, right?
Remember when all of a sudden there'll be some stories, they say, hey, some women aren't shaving their armpits.
Why is this a story?
I've been there.
I remember this.
I remember this.
Remember, it was kind of an offshoot, maybe of the hippie movement, sort of.
Maybe there was that earth woman, kind of.
Who was that?
Was it Jimmy?
Oh, God.
What the hell was his name?
Jerry Garcia.
Remember Mountain Girl or whatever that kind of...
Remember that?
That weird kind of wild...
Like Leslie West in a muumuu.
You know what I mean?
That kind of like...
I remember this!
Oh, you're a feminist, are you?
Okay.
Alright.
Okay.
We're not gonna wear...
Okay.
I know.
I know.
Feminists.
Why look attractive?
No, I understand.
Hey, look.
It's a free country.
I've been through this.
I've been through this.
Thought it was interesting.
Then we went through the whole...
Then all of a sudden...
Right after the 60s, then came the African American, but kind of the return to Africa.
Then all of a sudden, you know, Jerry Johnson became Mobutu Shabazz, you know, with a big fro and glasses and a dashiki and a necklace and right on.
Okay, fine.
You know, you were, remember Blaxploitation?
Remember that?
The brother man in the motherland.
Okay, great.
I loved it.
It was great.
Great music.
Oh, dear.
God, it was wonderful.
Remember Billy Preston and those big wigs?
Remember that?
Remember those huge fro's?
They were wigs, but they were big.
And then, oh, I loved it.
Oh, Gil Scott Heron.
The greatest musical.
Oh, God.
Lady Day, John Coltrane, Johannesburg, The Bottle.
He was the father of rap, as far as I'm concerned.
But that was part of that thing.
Remember the days of Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Angela Davis?
It was great.
It was a hip militancy.
In fact, even Bernstein brought this up.
Remember Radical Sheik?
Everywhere.
One time...
Mike Douglas had on, remember he had, this week on Mike Luggs, we have John and Yoko on, and he had a rap, you know, Stokely Caramel, and the black man!
Thank you so much.
Here's Mike Douglas, they're talking about how to make your favorite Prano Pup recipes, you know, but all of a sudden, here's Rap Brown, you know, standing behind as they're making something in an electric frying pan.
I mean, I love that.
There was one guy who always says, as a black man!
Can you just answer the question?
Sir, this is a Wendy's drive-thru.
Please.
Can I take your order?
As a black man...
Okay, fine.
As a black man, who was your favorite?
New York Yankee.
Everything was militant.
Listen, that was my...
I thought it was kind of groovy in a cool way.
Carla, the cooking CEO, says...
Class of 2027 majors in wokeism and minors in Taylor Swift earning $200,000 in federal student loan debt that they believe should be forgiven.
Way to go.
By the way, Carla, what is Carla the cooking CEO?
What is that?
What does that mean?
Thank you, by the way.
It's very, very interesting.
Very, very, very interesting.
I find that fascinating.
Let me see this.
Let me close some things down, dear friends.
What do I want to sit back in the what?
There's a Taylor Swift class?
Oh, listen.
Listen, I have no problem with that whatsoever.
I have no problem with that whatsoever in terms of Taylor Swift.
I think Taylor Swift is a genius.
I think she's an absolute genius.
We were talking to a wild bill today and he said, what?
What?
Anyway, different story.
But that was a part of my thing.
I'm very amenable to this.
But I saw this coming.
I thought, okay.
Remember when Jesse Jackson all of a sudden said, oh look, he's got this 10 pound afro and he's wearing a dashiki.
Okay.
And I have friends who say, oh, so you're African?
Yes.
You're born in Plant City, Florida, but you're African.
Okay, fine.
I dig it.
Look at me, I'm an Italian.
I'm going to wear a gondoliers hat.
I'm just going to wear, I'm going to get into my thing.
Listen, people, this is my youth.
This is my youth.
Remember when Stevie Wonder did the thing, and then they did the braids, and I remember one time, I'll never forget, when during the...
Oh, God, God, God.
During the...
Oh, when...
What was it?
Who did X the movie?
I think it was Spike Lee, right?
Or wasn't it?
Anyway.
When they had X hats.
Everybody had X. X. X. Somebody said, I wonder who Malcolm X is.
I swear to God somebody said that.
I laughed my ass off.
I said, Malcolm X?
Dear God.
I sent a friend of mine.
There was a song years ago, Float On by the Floaters.
Float.
Float on.
Sagittarius, and my name is Lawrence.
Float on, float on.
I like a woman of the world who loves her man.
Float on, float on.
You know, Libra, and my name is Jerome.
Float on.
And my name's like Tyrone, and you know, those are great names.
Well, the best one, my friends and I, we were still sending it.
My favorite.
Float on!
Float on!
It was like Larry, Larry, Larry.
This is before Bob Newhart, but it was Larry.
Cancer.
And my name is Larry.
Float on, float on.
I love it.
I want a woman who keeps her mouth shut.
All of the women were...
I like a woman...
Please, you've got to go.
It's the greatest song ever.
All right.
Long story short, when all of a sudden, within...
Because go back and watch...
Remember, this is my youth.
And we didn't make distinctions between white or black or whatever it was.
All of a sudden, horoscopes were the biggest thing in the world.
Sagittarius and Cancer.
Cancer t-shirts, Cancer...
We're selling out left and right because of Larry.
This guy Larry from Floater.
Cancer.
And my name is Larry.
Floater!
Floater!
I don't know where Larry is now.
But if I say, no, it's not.
You have to.
Anyway.
This one.
Oh.
On the front of your car.
You know.
Libra.
Not university, not Harvard, but it was in the front of your windshield, your astrological side.
You know, feces.
That was my favorite, by the way.
Oh, look at this.
Silver Fox.
Sly and the Family Stone.
Love them.
Oh!
The greatest.
On my private channel, I did a tribute to Larry Graham from Graham Central Station.
He was the thump.
He created that.
He was it.
Do you remember the 26th?
Do you remember seeing the Summer of Soul?
Questlove did this.
Please see The Summer of Love.
It was the greatest.
Who was it?
Who were the groups?
I think it was Sly and the Family Stone.
Oh, here we go.
Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone, the Fifth Dimension, Staples Singers, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mavis Staples.
Blinky Williams, Sly and the Tommy Stone, and the Chambers Brothers.
Oh!
Time has come the day!
The Cowbell.
The original Cowbell.
I don't think they made a penny from that.
You listen to that 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival.
Watch it.
I want to cry.
That was the greatest music.
I loved that.
Loved that.
Okay?
It's the greatest music of my life!
When I was a kid, 11 years old, 12 years old, my cousin and I would go to Curtis Hickson Hall.
We saw the Tempts, Temptations were my favorite, Four Tops, um...
Well, other people...
Later on, you know, Steppenwolf and other people.
Cheech and Chong when they were arrested, but that was later on.
But I remember one time, my father would drop us off.
He didn't know where we were going.
It was just, we're 12 years old.
And he's driving up and he said, what is this?
And it was all, well, I wouldn't say it's all black, but pretty much.
But do you remember when there was a style?
When you saw the most incredible clothes, remember this in the back of magazines, the hats and not pimp look, but just platforms and oh, God!
Everybody was there to just show off their finest dread.
There was a walk.
And I'm telling you, There was a friend of mine who was a great New York City disc jockey named Chuck Leonard.
Great friend of mine.
Had a voice.
And there was a walk.
You either know it or you don't know it.
But it was a walk.
And cool, it was a black dude, kind of a shaft.
If you were white and tried it, you look like a poser.
Believe me, there was no racism.
There were so many white people trying to be black.
It was...
I loved it.
Oh my god.
The temptations.
Papa wasn't on the stone.
I wish it would rain.
Psychedelic shack.
I think Psychedelic Shack.
Let me tell you about a place I know to get in and don't take much dough where you can really...
They got a neon sign outside.
It says, take a look at your mind.
You'd be surprised what you might find.
Rolling guitars and...
Look at this.
Ibrahim, thank you, brother.
Thank you, Ibrahim.
Okay.
So, thank you, sir.
So when I heard, going back, this is a long way to get there.
Black Studies, Women's Studies.
Okay, fine.
I'm from, this is, you know, we were Coolsville.
Nothing bothered us.
That's okay.
I got no problem with that.
That was my generation.
But we knew.
Stephen Lynch, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you, Stephen.
Welcome aboard, my man.
Thank you.
Stephen's an official member.
He took the blood oath.
And thank you for that, by the way.
And by the way, don't tell anybody where the blood oath is, please.
Remember, YouTube members stays YouTube member.
Okay.
What are we going to talk about?
Just give me a moment.
I'm just going back to these.
Oh, God.
Please see The Summer of Love.
Oh, oh, oh, another great one.
It was the documentary of I think it was Rumble in the Jungle.
It was...
You know, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.
And it was...
It was James Brown, I think the Spinners, with Felipe Solwin.
Felipe Solwin.
That's...
Remember, One of a Kind Love Affair, Rubberman Man, the guy who did that kind of free-form freestyle with the thick glasses, that's Felipe's soul win.
I saw them, too, a million times.
Loved it.
I cry, my friends.
I cry.
I cry.
Those were great, great, great days.
Oh, my.
God.
And let me tell you something.
I sound like...
I don't want to sound like an old person.
I don't believe so.
I know nothing about rap, hip-hop, any of that stuff.
I do miss the incredible sounds, the singing, the...
I miss great singing, or I can decipher words where it's not...
That's it.
And I sound like I am from another planet.
Ibrahim, thank you, sir.
You're a good, good, good man.
Oh, Ibrahim, you gifted five subscriptions.
Thank you.
You're a good man, my friend.
Unbelievable.
Ibrahim, thank you, sir.
My lord, to what do we owe this incredible beauty?
This love?
Okay.
I'll tell you what.
I mean, he wouldn't have it written down here.
I mean, he wouldn't have it written down here.
I'm kind of Israel-ed out.
Are you?
Are you?
Oh, stylistics, Gina.
You're the one that I'm waiting for forever.
Oh, unbelievable.
Ibrahim, you're out of control.
Thank you, my friend.
Out of control.
Okay, the drifter that was before my time.
But I gotta...
Anyway, I don't want to do this.
This is boring because if you're not from my generation or our generation, you're going to say, what the hell?
Oh God, Billy Paul, me and Mrs. Jones.
We got a thing going on.
Remember that one he did?
Me and Mrs. Joel.
Mrs. Joel, Mrs. Joel, Mrs. Joel.
doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
Boo!
Which is kind of sort of like Pina Colada.
Sort of, but not really.
You know what I'm saying?
Remember Major Harris?
Okay, let me tell you something right now.
I'm going to give you one that I heard the other day, and nobody looked this up.
Nobody looked this up.
Please.
But I answered the question.
You know that song that we always do?
Na-na-na-na.
Na-na-na-na.
Hey, goodbye.
Who did it?
Quick.
Don't look it up.
Don't look it up.
Who did it?
Who did it?
Who was the group?
This is one of the most important songs ever.
This was probably one of the biggest songs ever.
I'm trying to get the exact title of this.
Who did it?
Let me see if anybody got this one.
Who did it?
Anybody get this one?
Nope.
Steam.
Thank you.
Terramento.
Steam.
Stephen Lynch got it.
Oh, Paul got it.
Oh, wait a minute.
By the way, Bananarama.
Let me tell you something.
Robert De Niro walking.
I know you're not supposed to like him.
I love that song.
Venus.
Their cover of Venus.
How about Venus, the original Swedish group?
I don't think she knew what the hell she was even saying.
Steam.
Na-na-na-na.
Na-na-na-na.
Hey!
1969.
Written and recorded by Paul Lika, Gary DiCarlo.
This is this fictitious band called Steam.
Everybody was watching a...
I was watching a...
What the hell was I watching?
What the hell was I watching?
I was watching one of these airline meltdown videos.
You know those airline things?
And...
Which is the most important thing in the world.
And what's so phenomenally funny out of everything was that whenever somebody would pull off the plane, they did the na-na-na-na, hey-hey-hey, goodbye.
Unbelievable.
That song is so much a part...
My parents didn't know this.
Kids today don't know this.
That was the song you sang when...
Oh, by the way, spell the line.
Eric Burden in war.
Why can't we be friends?
Let me tell you what I heard the other day.
I went nuts.
Ohio Players.
Sweet Sticky Thing.
Remember the Honey album?
With this nude negress.
Isn't that a great word?
Negress and negritude.
But she's pouring honey over her.
Sweet Sticky Thing.
Oh, dear.
Oh, my God.
Now, let me tell you something.
I was trying to explain to somebody, I said we had soul, we had R&B, and R&B, by the way, is a name that was created by and concocted by one of my best buddies in the world, Jerry Wexler, one of the original, well, one of the founders, the producers of Atlantic Records.
And he came up with the one R&B because he hated the term race music.
Okay, so if you had to tell somebody, if I tell you this, you know what it means.
R&B is one thing, soul.
And then came funk.
Funk.
Different story altogether.
Subcategory, perhaps.
Maybe.
Tower of Power.
Parliament.
You know.
Get that funk out of my face.
Remember the Gap Band?
Whip it, baby.
I don't know if that's funk per se, but who created everything?
Larry Graham.
Larry Graham took the bass and Bootsy Collins after that?
Stanley Clark?
Sort of.
Graham Central Station, Sly and the Family Stone, Larry Graham, that was it.
Absolutely, positively the most important, the singular sub-genre.
R&B, soul.
Remember, soul music.
Soul was, oh my god, James Brown.
One of the greatest songs ever.
Edwin Starr wore.
Right on.
It's going to make me want to cry.
Makes me want to cry.
Some of the greatest music.
I remember that.
And that's the thing I'm telling you.
There's two things that bring people together.
Food and music.
There is so much incredible stuff.
By the way, The Brad says, bought a mattress, pillows, topper, and use your coat, but I tried to bump out your coat five times before I finally pushed it through.
Love ya.
You're the beautiful...
I'm gonna call that Mike.
Say, Mike, what are you doing to me?
What are you doing to me?
By the way, as you know, I keep saying by the way.
Don Rickles.
Anyway, he'll never say.
Anyway, I played...
For you, on my private channel, on my private, private channel, I played some music that blows me away.
And when you get a chance, on my private channel, I always do this, line of media.
I want you to hear, if you play the guitar, listen to this Japanese guy.
I think he's like 24 years old.
Ichika Nito.
Ichika.
Neato.
Dear God.
Where...
Here, I'll give you this little tidbit here.
Where did this freak of nature come from?
Dear God!
Oh my!
There is so much great music today, my friends.
There is so much...
You have no...
There's a, what is his name?
There's an Italian guy who plays funk.
Must be 720.
I gotta get his name.
Oh my god.
I can't believe what I'm hearing.
There's a Chinese bluegrass band.
They're playing bluegrass and they're talking about just, I think, well they were doing assembly bluegrass but they were singing Amarillo by Morning, you know, George Strait.
I don't think they know what the hell they're saying.
It almost made me cry.
Chinese bluegrass.
There's hope for the world.
I'm telling you.
There's hope for the world.
If ever there was something that really made me think about this, about how we can bring people together.
I know that sounds corny.
It's music.
Music.
Now, let me stop for one second.
I want you to listen to me carefully.
Where is my thing?
Ah, yes.
Here we go.
I want you to listen very, very carefully.
And I'm going to say this and I'm going to be very, very quick.
Be very, very quick.
As you know, I believe that you should be prepared for emergencies.
You should have generators.
You should have water.
Water purification systems.
You should have food.
And I don't mean having some, you know, beef jerky in the larder or banana chips.
I'm talking about something a little bit more substantial.
And that's why you got to go to preparewithlionel.com.
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In fact, use this right here, right here on our show.
I'll give you this link right here.
This is preparewithlionel.com.
This goes right to it.
That's all I'm going to say.
You're smart.
What am I going to do?
Beat you over the head with this?
I've got to explain to you emergency food?
I think you understand.
You're not stupid.
Remember when they used to think, oh, you're a prepper.
Really?
You think I'm a prepper?
I don't think so.
Anyway, my friends, let me ask you a question.
Ready for this?
Want to have some fun?
Want to have some fun?
I love this.
I'm going to ask you the question that I love.
Okay?
And it's everybody in my generation.
I say my generation.
Ready for this?
Listen to me carefully.
Somebody says, steaks in the freezer.
For 90 days?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
Okay.
What was your first concert?
The first time you went to a rock and roll concert, maybe with your brother or your oldest or whatever, but you went, and I don't mean, I mean a rock.
Or maybe it wasn't rock per se, but your very first one where you thought, holy shit.
And that feeling you never have anymore?
What was the first one?
Rolling Stones, look at this, 1960.
Look at this, Chicago.
Liz, I love Chicago.
When Terry Kath died, my heart broke.
When Terry Kath, and Danny Serafin, and Bobby Lamb, and Lee Loughnan, and Walt Parisator, and Peter Cetera, And Terry Kath, before Lob Deer, before Donnie Dacus, before Chris Pinnock, before those other people, I don't know what it was.
Oh my god.
Watching Terry Kath, my heart, I've never seen anything like that.
Never seen anything like that.
I saw Steely Dan in concert before they were even doing it.
But my first, I'll tell you right enough, first Three Dog Night, Tampa Stadium.
Opening act, I believe it was Buddy Miles, and I think, I think, Well, I think it was Buddy Mouth.
But it was Humble Pie.
Look at the name.
Marshall Tucker.
1977.
Oh, Toy Caldwell.
Toy, Tommy Caldwell, Paul Riddle.
Can't you see 24 hours at a time?
I've been down around Houston, Texas where the sun shines most of the time.
And I don't want you to think that you're the first one to leave me out here on my own.
Cause this ain't gonna be the first time this old cowboy spent the night alone.
My idea of a good time is walking my property line and knowing the mud on my boots is my...
Oh, losing you and Paul.
Oh, God.
But Troy Caldwell played with his thumb.
Dear God.
Fleetwood Mac.
Skinny Vinny.
Traffic.
Oh, my God.
Randy Travis.
Oh, Randy Travis.
19 and...
Operator, please connect me to 1982.
There's a dirty piece of cardboard that reads Montgomery Ward.
It's taped across the window of my old Ford.
A six-pack on the front seat and a box of chicken wings.
I'm dialing across the radio for a song that I can sing.
Oh, God!
Storms of life!
Oh!
And I feel like a stone you've picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of my heart.
Oh, God!
Oh, Randy!
I'll tell you what, Storms of Life changed everything.
Super Tramp was incredible.
John Philip Sousa marched for survival.
Randy Travis, his voice.
Oh, God.
Dear God.
Unbelievable.
Oh, Cat Stevens.
Remember Cat Stevens?
Before Cat Stevens got into that.
Yusuf, whatever the...
Yusuf...
Bobby Goldsboro.
Summer the first time.
Honeycomb.
Was it Honeycomb?
No, was that...
No, that's not Honeycomb.
That's not Honeycomb.
But Summer the first time.
Bobby Goldsboro.
Yes, Gene, I saw that.
Yes.
With the original with Wakeman.
Hal Bruford.
Chris Squire.
John Anderson.
Oh, they were incredible.
Look at this.
Hendrix, 68 in Cleveland.
You lucky son of a...
Oh, there stands the glass.
Who said Webb Pierce?
There stands the glass.
It's my first one today.
Well, I gotta get drunk and I sure do dread it because I know just what I'm gonna do.
I'll spend all my money, call everybody, honey, and wind up singing the blues.
I'll spend my whole paycheck on some old wreck.
Honey, I can sure tell you, well, I gotta get drunk and a sure dude ready, because I know just what I'm gonna do.
Boss Gags, when, when, um, when Boss Gags, whatever that big album, that main album came out, 76, 77, dear God.
He owns, by the way, in San Francisco, he owned a bar called Slim's years ago.
ELO was wonderful.
I never really got into as much as possible.
ELO, silk to grease.
Thank you very much.
Greengrass and high ties.
I can't believe you're saying that.
Robbie Yoho's brother...
Is it Donna Yoho?
Robbie Yoho was like a year...
They're from Tampa.
He was like a year in front of me in Jesuit, and I think his brother was whatever.
Anyway, that was...
Remember the hats?
Greengrass and high ties.
Hurry Sundown was another one, too.
They were really, really good.
They were into that kind of a...
They would play that almost like...
Remember Molly Hatchet?
Flirting with Disaster.
The great artwork.
Do you remember that?
Incredible.
Do you remember that?
It was wonderful.
That was...
People don't know this.
I think you know this.
That was post...
I think Allman Brothers, my friend Jerry Wexler, A&M Capricorn Records, but I think it was Allman Brothers, Charlie Daniels,
Marshall Tucker, Outlaws, Heavy Guitar, Lynyrd Skynyrd, it had nothing to do How do I say this?
It has nothing to do with...
What am I trying to say?
It has nothing to do with southern, you know, confederate flags, but a mental...
Look at this, Wet Willie.
Look at this, Edie Crowley.
Oh, God, Roberta Flack.
Lyric Theory to Baltimore.
Before she wrote Killing Me Softly, I was eight years old.
Remember the stuff she did with Donny Hathaway.
Donny Hathaway, by the way, wrote one of the most important songs ever, Valdez and the Country.
And listen, if you can, please listen to Valdez and the Country from Lydia Pence in Cold Blood.
First Taste of Sin, one of the best versions.
Valdez, everybody did this.
George Benson did it.
Everybody did Valdez.
Um...
Oh, ho, ho, ho.
Look at this.
ETW says, bring up Jerry Reed's Eastbound and Down.
First of all, you don't ever play, Eric, one of the greatest guitar players of all time.
You don't even, you know, you can't get near that.
It's like you wouldn't want to humiliate.
It's like trying to be I'm going to do some Yo-Yo Ma for you.
No, I don't think so.
Little Feet.
Gene, I can't believe that.
Lowell George.
The best one?
Red Streamliner.
Time Loves a Hero.
Dixie Chicken.
Red Streamliner with Michael McDonald.
Doing background for like that one little second.
They say, time, time's of a hero, but only time will tell.
I love that song.
That was, I think, from the Time Loves a Hero album.
I love them.
Foghat, Peter, Paul, and Mary, David, not exactly.
Still very, very good.
Very, very good.
Remember, they did Leave It on a Jet Plane, who was written, of course, by John...
Denver.
I told you my John Denver story.
I was at the Rock and Roll, or excuse me, the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
And I was in the men's room.
And he was there.
And when I got done, I went by.
I said, I don't care what anybody tells me.
All this nonsense about, you know, Ginger or Marianne.
You were killing his island, my friend.
And he looked at me.
And I said, Bob Denver.
Then he got the joke.
I kind of laughed about that.
Very, very tragic.
Great guitar player.
Creedence Clearwater.
Creedence Clearwater, by the way.
Good job, Ant.
He got his money back.
Or his recording rights.
Chuck Mangione.
Remember his brother Gap Mangione?
I remember seeing Chuck Mangione at Bayfront Center in St. Pete.
And his father was outside selling stuff.
Rush will never get the credit.
Well, I shouldn't say that.
Rush.
They did exactly what they wanted to do.
Superfly.
Oh, Superfly.
And the pusher man.
What was his name?
Curtis Mayfield.
Remember he had his glasses down like this?
I love it.
Yes, Gypsy King's song.
Yes, that was wonderful.
Peter Gabriel.
Peter Gabriel was...
Peter Gabriel...
Was responsible for creating what I believe was MTV.
Okay, that's enough.
Thank you.
You've indulged me.
Thank you.
I couldn't take any more Israel tonight.
I couldn't take any more Claudine Gay.
I wrote this today.
I want to just relax a little bit.
I had a nice day.
I had a nice day.
I really did.
And I just wanted to share that feeling with you.
We'll be back tomorrow.
We'll be back to the muck and the mire and the grossness and all this stuff.
We'll be back.
By the way, the last concert we went to, Steely Dan with Walter Becker at the Beacon.
That's it.
I mean, sometimes there's some clubs and that kind of thing.
But we got into this years ago.
Mrs. Allen and I got into these little Manhattan clubs.
We saw Andrea Markovici at the Algonquin.
I know Lanny Hall and Herb Alpert.
Little small New York clubs.
Very, very important.
Very, very important.
All right, my friends.
Thank you.
The nation is growing, Hillbilly.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And dear friends, Ibrahim, Stephen Lynch, thank you so much.
Silver Fox, Carla, the cooking CEO.
You are so, so kind.
So, so wonderful.
You are so beautiful to me.
Can't you see?
You are so beautiful to me.
Now, by the by, as the great Burt Sugar used to say, my great friend, by the by, there is a, where is this?
I want you to make sure you do me a favor.
And you have been terrific, and I thank you for this.
Please sign up for Mrs. Ells.
YouTube channel right here.
I'll put it right here.
Right there, my friends.
Please do it.
Do it.
And thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Sarah Ratliff, thank you.
Psycho Donnie T, thank you.
Lloyd, Chris, Carlos.
Don't forget Wild Bill who's listening.
Carla the Cookings, thank you so much.
Chris, Hillbilly Edie.
Karen Blaze, David Martin, everybody's here.
The whole group.
The whole group.
I'm telling you, music and food are the things that will bring peace to the world.
Okay?
I'll be getting more and more into Tabla.
Oh my god.
John McLaughlin in particular.
Just listening to some old Dave Grusin.
Just this old...
Was it GSR?
Lee Rittenour and...
Oh, remember Larry Coriel and that wonderful group?
Ibrahim says, everyone sign up right away.
Excellent, Ibrahim.
Thank you, dear friends.
All right, my friends.
Have a great and a glorious day.
We will see you tomorrow.
Have a great and a glorious day, Ibrahim.
Your kindness is without peer.
See you tomorrow, my friends, 8 a.m.
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