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Feb. 9, 2024 - Lionel Nation
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Lionel on The Anthony Cumia Show — Part II
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This is the thing that keeps me up.
This is the scariest thing.
The end of civilization is artificial, general intelligence.
Not AI.
Oh, okay.
Shut GPT.
Whatever.
That's okay.
You'll lose some jobs.
Artificial general intelligence.
Let me, if I would, let me create this thing for you.
Imagine I can make an 800 pound gorilla with a 300 IQ.
Okay?
This thing is, nobody's ever seen this before.
It's smarter than anybody you've ever known.
Stronger than anybody you've ever known.
But it does more.
But wait, there's more to see on QVC.
Number one, it has recursive self-improvement.
Meaning, it writes its own code.
It can make itself stronger.
It can turn off your passwords.
It can do anything at once.
It breaks out.
It's fun.
It's mischievous.
It's mean.
It's racist.
It's not.
It's loving.
Don't know.
We don't know.
It's just on its own.
And it's gone.
And it's somewhere.
That's number one.
Number two, it knows every bit of information in the world.
Not Wikipedia.
But everything.
Everybody's name, where they live, social security numbers, bank numbers, history, any fact.
If it's a fact, it knows.
The third is it knows human behavior.
Fear, dread, jealousy, arousal, hatred, racism, whatever it is.
It knows exactly.
It knows how to To tap into it.
Fourth, it writes its own API or its own apps.
So, imagine if it works behind you and it says, come on.
You used to work with that son of a bitch.
They can't do that to you.
You made that team.
Let me take care of it.
Good.
Next thing you know, you find out that certain people are gone.
Say, what happened?
You're dead.
Somebody called up and hired a hitman.
Somebody who sounds like you called up and got a hitman and went into a bank, did ham-handed, did brutal kind of a crash system through Bitcoin, deposited money in accounts, got a hitman for you, and killed your opposition.
And they're coming after you and you say, I don't know what you're talking about.
Who did this?
It did this.
Who's it?
I don't know.
I don't know where it is.
I can't turn it off.
It just did this.
And it knows how...
We don't know where it goes next.
This doesn't have to be a physical being.
It's not like a robot walking around.
It's in the machinery.
It's in what we use.
It has access to every little...
Capillary of the internet and what we are, our phones, everything.
That is fright.
That is fright.
And one day, let's say there's this thing, it looks like Trump, but it's not really, but just imagine this.
And all of a sudden you talk to it and it says, Hi Anthony, how you feeling?
Fine.
Sorry about that bypassing.
But what's your name?
Donnie?
And you think, wait a minute.
And this thing, it looks a lot better than this.
It makes eye contact.
It'll know how to work your idiosyncrasies.
It knows your jealousies.
It's your friend.
And it has a feeling.
And it can think.
And it can reason.
And it can do everything that a human can do, if not more.
But it's not human.
Now there are people who are in Beds who are in comas who are not...
Well, that's just a robot.
That's nothing.
That's just a robot.
That's AI.
That's kind of like...
You don't know what it's thinking, though.
It's obviously thinking.
It's got its hand on its chin like that.
It's got to be thinking.
By the way, have you heard...
You know about the Uncanny Valley and how it has to not be too creepy.
This is a little something.
People are going to ask, what makes an entity an entity?
What if it reasons?
What if it understands?
What if it feels?
What if it can learn?
Listen to this.
There was a group of people, you know, this initial, they're not letting you know how far they've gone in terms of AI and AGI.
They're being very quiet.
Well, you know, we'll do a term paper maybe.
In this one experiment they did, they found out that this machine learning, or this learning device, learned Persian.
Nobody taught it!
It was speaking Persian!
And they're saying, how did it do this?
It just wanted to.
What if somebody, what if all of a sudden, a group, remember there are now a thousand of them, because they just reproduced.
They just made a thousand, a million?
They've interfered and, let's say, contaminated every weapon system there is.
Let's say they're not too crazy about what Israel's doing.
So they decide, you know what we're going to do?
We're going to shut down all of their weapon systems.
All of them.
Because we just don't...
Who did this?
I don't know.
Or it could do good.
Maybe it says, I think we've got to get to the bottom of cancer investigation.
We're on our own going to cure cancer.
The thing is, we don't...
What is the natural disposition of things?
To be nice?
We don't know.
Is it a thinking, sentient being at that point?
So then, what are the ethical or moral implications of pulling the plug, killing it?
Is that akin to murder?
Somebody said we're going from homo sapiens to homo sentiens.
You're right.
We're going to need theologians to say what is a not a human and that's not going to be because we're talking about a clump of cells.
Is this a life?
Is this abortion?
I don't know.
Pull the plug.
He's in a coma.
Yeah, but he's still a human.
Well, human is one thing, but what if I Bring you this thing, and it's got a name, it remembers anything, it's got a sense of humor, it tells you a history, it can think, it can talk to you, it can play chess with you, it'll say to you, what's the matter with you?
Here's one for you.
We're going to be seeing dolls, and you can pull up that old, you know, that robot that we always go to.
What if I were to give you an infant that, and this is where it gets really scary, An infant that looks just like an infant.
Skin, the same texture.
Skin that hyperlates, that's rubescent, that shows fear, and shows...
That looks like...
You know who the one in the middle looks like?
I'm not going to say.
You're a smart man, Lionel.
There's this kid for either St. Jude's or something.
The kid's like 40 years old and says, can you send some money?
He's a little kid.
Yeah, I don't know how old he is.
But anyway, you look at this thing and it's a baby.
And it, I mean, it just, you can't believe.
And the eyes dilate and it cries and it sleeps and everything.
And then one day, it's sold to people who want to do terrible things to real babies.
But this isn't a real baby.
But do we arrest them and stop them?
Because what they're doing is so horrific.
But he says, they say, it's not real.
Right.
You're getting me on a thought crime.
You're getting me for basically my very health.
Doesn't he look like him?
He does.
There is a resemblance there.
Somewhat.
Great publicity for Shriners Hospital.
Good for him.
Good for him.
God bless Shriners, St. Jude, all those people.
God bless.
But here's the question.
Yeah.
Let's talk about this.
Anthony has a deep fake.
Somebody has a picture of you molesting a penguin.
Or squatting over a goldfish bowl.
And there are many around anyway.
But you say, that's not me.
Right.
And somebody says, I know it's a deep fake.
It's a what?
It's a fake.
How do you sue somebody for a fake?
It's not you.
Is it libel?
What is it?
It's a bad cartoon?
It's a good cartoon, but the law is going to say, I don't know what the hell we do with this.
We're in a time now where you look back at the United States versus Larry Flint when it came to his parodies in It was Jerry Falwell.
Yeah, Jerry Falwell.
He was writing all kinds of things about Jerry's mother.
Just brutal stuff.
And the judge said, if a reasonable person understands this can't be real on the face of its ridiculousness, that is protected.
Under the First Amendment.
Now, though, would a reasonable person look at some of these deepfakes and know that they're fake?
I don't think so.
Well, yeah.
But here's the deal, too.
Check out this case.
It came out in 2002.
Ashcroft against a free speech coalition.
And it basically said...
That...
The First Amendment provides that Congress shall make no law bridging freedom of speech.
Imposing a criminal sanction on protective speech is...
They said that even if you want to protect children, that having...
There it is, that's an ash crop.
Having something...
It's a start.
Having something that is prohibited because it looks like, because it advances.
Look, what are we going to do with the Bible?
Lots of daughters who reportedly had sex with their father because they thought they were the last people on the earth.
Ah, right.
Lolita Nabokov.
Remember the song by Summer of 42?
There's a song by Summer the First Time, Bobby Goldsboro, the 17-year-old guy.
I mean, these are songs that...
When do we say, excuse me, those are thoughts.
There's a thing now people are saying, we've got to get after these pedophiles.
A pedophile is somebody who's a minor attracted person.
Okay, that's a thought.
He's attracted to minors.
Some people have fantasies about cannibalism.
What are you going to do with that?
Arrest them for a thought?
It's not the pedophiles we want.
Anybody who traffics in kids, we will arrest you.
You think a slave master is a racist?
You think somebody who sells dope is a libertine?
No, it's to make money.
We're not even getting the wrong name.
We're going after thoughts.
And you never can go after a thought.
No matter how heinous the thought is.
What if you were just to write Anthony Cumia's sick thoughts, like Jack Candy, you know?
He's just sick thoughts.
I'm going to arrest you because you've...
It's just a thought.
It's an idea.
It may be reprehensible today.
Ten years from now, it might be commonplace.
Well, there's acting on it, which is where the line should be drawn.
But there have been people who have conspired.
To do something evil and never got past the planning phase that do go to jail for it.
So where do you draw that line between just harmless thought and harmful thought that's a preamble to something that is dangerous and harmful?
It's a conspiracy.
I remember the conspiracy from the Latin conspirare, to breathe with somebody, to breathe together.
Really?
You're working together.
And the law hates the agreement almost as much as the actual act itself.
Not that you said, hey, what if we got a spaceship?
Okay, that's fantasy.
But if I called you and said, listen, we're going to do this.
I'm going to get 10 pounds of fentanyl.
Always pronounce fentanyl for reasons I don't understand.
But anyway.
We're going to get...
I know a guy.
We're going to get 100 pounds of fentanyl.
I'm going to go to whatever.
I'm going to go to the border.
I'll come by.
Venmo me the money.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
That's kind of...
You know, that was not just, you know, fanciful.
That was a different story.
By the way, how about those football players?
Players who froze fentanyl.
They froze to death because they were doing fentanyl outside.
They went outside and the other guy, the fourth guy that rented the place, he passed out and didn't answer his phone for two days.
Said he was tired and had noise-canceling headphones on for two days.
And now they call him the chemist.
They say he was always mixing drugs up for his friends.
This guy's going to go down, definitely.
Well, then we get into, is this, do you do the felony murder rule where he, did he give them this stuff?
Sounds accidental to me.
I mean, you're going to off three of your friends?
No, no.
If I am involved, if I am involved in a felony with you, and I go and I secure substances which are, oh, there they are.
If I were to give, if I were to buy something, that is a felony for the purchase of it, and it may or may not be what I think it is, and I distribute it to you, and during the commission of a felony, there's a felony murder.
That is true, yes.
The way it's always been.
This is why people today have to realize you can't get near anything.
There's just no...
This is not a drug.
This is either the cartels or somebody or China trying to kill us.
Yeah, yeah.
Why don't people see it that way?
I'm still amazed China hasn't faced any type of repercussions for unleashing a plague on the planet.
I mean, right after it, we're still doing business with China.
They're still in the international community and not shunned.
They released a plague upon humanity.
A plague that made Big Pharma how much?
How much?
Yeah, I know that whole...
I know that side of it.
A plague that gave us the perfect beta test for one of the greatest complete and total destructions of personal liberty?
I mean, are you...
We're going to say bad China.
And China's going to say, look...
That wasn't us.
It might have, you know, things might have gotten carried away or whatever it is, but do you really want to get involved in who did what and who is responsible and who benefited?
And by the way, when you have individuals in your own CDC and in your own government who might have aided and abetted and looked the other way because there was a lot of money to be made, do you really want to, you know, the question is, what's the next pandemic going to be?
And will anybody have any right to turn down another vaccine based upon religious or whatever reasons?
That's what I would say.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, it was a good test case for what people will be willing to take from the government as far as giving up your liberties.
Yeah, shutting down your business.
Your business, you know, you're starting up a business.
It fails.
They toss you a few dollars consolation prize, and then you're...
You're screwed.
Your whole life has been turned upside down because the government told you you can't run your business.
I mean, that's criminal.
You ask me?
Of course.
And how we turned against each other.
Yeah.
The 3-1-1 rat line.
Hey, listen.
Yeah, Kumeya 422.
Yeah.
Elgin.
Yeah, they're out there in the backyard.
I can see them right now.
They're around the fire pit.
They're not wearing a mask.
And I don't think they're socially distancing.
Yeah, 422, yeah.
C, yeah.
These Alice Kravitz rat bastards.
The Karen.
Wait a minute.
I smell an Alice Kravitz coming.
Something tells me if you guys are as good as they are.
Oh, boy.
Alice Kravitz.
Well, there were two Alice Kravitzes, by the way.
The first one was very ill.
The first one was very ill, who was by far the best.
Yes.
You'd probably remember the replacement if one of the leading characters hadn't also been replaced.
Dick Sargent took over for Dick York, who had horrible emphysema, and during, in between takes, had to sit there with an oxygen mask on.
Before he had to deliver his lines.
So, yes!
Oh, there's Mrs. Kravitz.
She's the one on the left, by the way.
I don't want you to mistake Mrs. Kravitz for the beautiful blonde on the right.
She was the original.
She was the best busybody.
It was a great, great show.
By the way, David White, who was Larry Tate, who was the best yes-man ever.
One of the greatest corporate yes-men.
Get a lot out of that.
I really did.
It was such a...
Don't get me started on that.
By the way, I must tell you, I like your new digs.
I'm not exactly sure where they are, but that's okay.
Maybe you don't want to...
I'm not really sure what people know, but I like the look.
It's South Carolina.
Are you a Gamecock?
No.
I'm not a Gamecock.
I'm like a Clemson Tiger.
I'm all about Clemson.
Go Tigers!
What is the first thing you notice?
Give me South Carolina in a sentence.
Reduce them, because from where you've been, from the Hugh Hefner East Coast from the grotto, And the filth and the muck and the mire and the swill and human detritus and the debauched...
Anyway, and now you're...
You have a man of the land.
A gentrified soul.
Yes.
Clean, courteous, and safe.
It just...
And I understand.
Look, I'm not delusional.
I understand that crimes are committed.
In South Carolina.
And Greenville is a wonderful small little city.
And there are bad areas, just like any other place.
But when you walk around on a Friday or a Saturday night in Greenville, going to a restaurant or a bar, whatever it may be, you are not swinging your head around.
Looking down the sidewalk, seeing someone coming at you and go, all right, what's my contingency plan here?
Where will I move if this hits the fan?
So, yeah, it's just, it's relaxing.
I'm not on red alert whenever I step outside my house.
Defcon 1 always.
Yes.
It's interesting also, being, and this is something that I miss tremendously, Barbecue, the South Carolinian, the absence of the tomato, that whole thing,
by virtue of the Civil War when tomatoes, the cuisine, a friend of mine one time who was very, very, one of these Michelin, kind of a James Beardy food types, said that South Carolina is where the new food Where the great restaurants are.
It's not New York anymore.
It's not really Austin.
Austin's going to left its thing.
Lionel, you are absolutely right.
When I was talking about moving out of New York and coming down to South Carolina, so many people went, aren't you going to miss the food?
First of all, without even talking about South Carolina, New York City restaurants have turned to crap over the course of the years.
Everyone thinks you could still go to Little Italy and get amazing pasta dishes.
First of all, you won't find one Italian in the kitchen on staff.
Or the owner probably isn't even Italian anymore.
The restaurants themselves, they're just not good.
There's a couple of good places left.
But I come down here.
You walk through Greenville.
First of all, there's a lot of restaurants.
Secondly, amazing food with the most courteous service.
I was telling my girl the other day, we were out to dinner, and the waiter was just this nice guy.
And I talked to her after he walked away from the table.
I'm like, what's his angle here?
Like, what is he doing?
Being this nice.
Is it just trying to get a better tip?
Or is he really a nice guy?
Does he treat company at home like this?
Can I get you anything?
Is everything good here?
How do you like the meal?
It's an astounding change from New York.
The niceness.
What first brought you to it?
How did you happen upon South Carolina initially?
I wanted to leave New York.
That's the initial thing, of course.
Yeah, get my money and myself out of a state that no longer fits me.
And I wanted to go down south.
I didn't want to go out west.
I'd done the Southern California thing growing up.
I didn't want to go to Arizona or New Mexico or something.
That's a little too alien from where I grew up.
I wanted to go south, but I did not want to go as far as Florida.
Florida's a whole country unto itself.
We know about Florida.
That's where I'm from.
I'm a native Floridian.
I'm a second generation native Floridian.
And Florida ain't what you think it is.
It ain't.
And I like Florida.
I love visiting Florida.
It's a nice place.
South Carolina just fit the bill.
It's close to the ocean.
You've got mountains.
I have a friend who Keith the Cop moved down here.
He moved down near Hilton Head because he's a boat guy.
Like every retired NYPD guy, they buy a boat and retire somewhere.
And then my sister moved down to Myrtle Beach.
So she's down here.
It was just a perfect fit.
And we came down here, we've been coming down here for a year before I even bought a house.
Looking at houses and getting the lay of the land.
And just was like, yeah, this is perfect.
The gun laws are fantastic.
They have reciprocation with other states where you could carry in most of the other states in the nation.
Only the usual suspects.
The entire Northeast is verboten.
And you don't need it!
Yeah, yeah.
Where you need it, you can't carry it.
That's pretty much the rule of thumb.
But, you know, I got the Uzi in the background.
I have my SIG P229 9mm, and I carry this around wherever I venture.
And it's, you know, you don't even think about it, but it's just nice to know.
That if, God forbid, anything were to happen, you have the best tools in your toolbox to defend yourself.
Oh, listen, I have been...
I remember when I was in...
I call it FLOW, F-L-A-W-D-A.
That's where I was.
And I was a prosecutor, and we had, at the time, we were the first state to have a concealed firearm permit.
And I remember it was the greatest thing, though, because nothing happened.
Right.
Precipitously.
There is also something which you have to recognize.
And by the way, if you want to see something, and you can tell your crack snap, speaking of crack, have you ever looked at any of the YouTube stuff on Kensington, which is outside of Philly?
Have you ever seen Kensington?
Oh, Philly, yeah.
Oh, absolutely.
It's insane.
Right.
We were in Philly.
We don't go anywhere near Kenzo, as we call it.
And this is where Rocky was filmed, you know, that kind of...
Twelve Monkeys, too.
Twelve Monkeys was that area.
It was a dystopian future in Twelve Monkeys.
That was better than the actual Kensington is now.
Now, I would immediately clear this out so fast.
It would be...
It would make your head spin.
And the first thing I would do is I would have...
Everybody has to be out by 1 o 'clock tomorrow.
And then a huge water can is coming to just clean everything off the street.
All of the grime and the blood and the whatever it is.
And for some reason, these people will just vanish.
And there is nothing I don't feel a part of me that is sad.
I don't feel like, oh, this is your butt for the grace of God.
No!
No, no, no, no, no, no.
This is a self-perpetuating prophecy.
Yes.
This is part of a controlled destabilization.
Look at the police with the lights on.
What are you doing with the lights on?
Yeah.
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Turn them off.
Don't even sully the image of the flashing light.
So this is what we're seeing right now.
And by the way, they'll be coming for South Carolina next.
You're not going to be able to...
South Carolina will feel like a closet.
Oh, I know.
It's merely a speed bump.
Merely a speed bump.
But enjoy it while you can.
I am.
Because we need...
There is something that is so drastic here.
I am completely now advocating a reconsideration of fascism.
As a national, kind of a subdirectory when it comes to certain things.
You know, fascism is kind of a national corporatocracy.
It's not what you think.
It doesn't necessarily mean totalitarian and throwing people in.
It means absolute no tolerance for any of this.
I'll tell you this quick story.
I've got a friend of mine who's, I don't want to say right-wing, but you would call him right-wing.
Ex-military, in the media, really does his stuff.
In any event.
So, long story short, he He lived in China for a while with this girl he was dating.
And he said he went to the city or the county, the town, whatever it is, and on the billboards, on the polls, there was a sign that said, my name is Lieutenant Chin or whatever, and I'm in charge of this.
I'm with the whatever police department.
This is my cell number.
This is what I look like.
If you see anything, You call me.
Anybody bothers you, you call me.
You see, I'm in charge of this area, and I don't like this.
And it's kind of like Comstat, and I don't want to lose it.
And the only way I don't lose it is if I keep crime down.
So if you see anything, you let me know.
And they say, okay.
And there's just not a problem.
And then my friend would say, let me ask you something.
If something happened to, let's say, your daughter, she was raped or murdered, what would happen to that person?
Let's just say she was raped, not even murdered.
What would happen?
You'd say, well, nothing.
You know what would happen here?
A week, a couple of weeks, plenty of time for a trial, two weeks is enough.
They would just be dispatched.
Because what happens to you happens to us.
It's a different mindset.
Isn't this the libertarian mindset at its most extreme?
I don't know.
I don't know.
But it looks like I'm a...
Like Michael Malice.
Michael Malice loves this type of scenario where people take care of their own block or their own quadrant and they police...
Themselves.
Who is this, by the way?
Malice?
I'm sorry, who?
Michael Malice, yeah.
Oh, I agree.
We have right now the Second Amendment right here.
I always keep this right here handy.
This is my Constitution, and these are all my I Voted stickers here in the back.
Oh, very nice.
Civic minded.
This is what we fight for.
And by the way, if you want to read something, read Tench Cox.
C-O-X-E.
Tench.
T-E-N-C-H.
One of my favorite founding fathers, he's buried in Philly, and he is, you want to read some great militia stuff, he is the father of the militia.
Oh, really?
What I would say, number one, if you vote for me for president, Lotus for POTUS, by the way, Lionel of the United States.
Oh, I like it.
I would say, number one, you are not going to have to ask me, the state or police, for permission to protect yourself.
If you and your Greenville little hamlet decide that you're going to say, okay, folks, everybody from Elm Street to Baker, we're going to drive around at night in our little car.
And I want you to know, here I am.
And we'll meet, we'll have coffee, and anything happens to us, don't worry, we'll take care of it.
With a big sign.
And years ago, there was this great, I saw this out of Florida.
There was a pup tent in the Everglades.
On this pup tent was this sign written in this kind of a scrawl that said, you better really want to come in here.
So, that's what I would have outside of your neighborhood.
Cumiaville.
You better really want to come in here.
Well, that's what I got, yeah.
I have my own Cumiaville down here.
Ten acres of land and my house.
I start small, but you better really want to come in here.
Right.
And it better really be worth your while.
Next, I want to have something where we have, and by the way, that's provided by the Second Amendment, the militia.
It's providing the Constitution.
Second of all, I want to have militia education.
I want to go to, I want to put an ad on the paper, get about 10 parents and say, Anybody graduate any new master's or education?
Yeah, good.
We're going to hire you.
We've got ten of us.
We'll give you a nice salary.
We want you to teach three days a week, max.
We're not going to overdo it.
Maybe some kind of outing or something.
But that's it.
No more.
It's time to say goodbye to public schools.
It's over.
It's just over.
It was nice.
Norman Rockwell's dead.
It's done.
And we're going to have to do this ourselves.
Let me ask you a question.
If you were a kid right now, and you said, you ask them, do you have a career?
Do you have a professional degree?
Are you a lawyer or a doctor?
No.
An accountant?
No.
What are you going to do?
In the old days, people would say, I don't know, I'll find something.
I'll be a salesman or something.
Today, there's I don't know what kids do.
Yeah.
What do they do?
Well, they're so turned off to the trades, jobs, construction, manual labor.
That's so looked down upon that they feel compelled, even if, look, sorry, some people are incredibly stupid.
And they have no place going to any institution of higher learning.
Apprentice plumber.
And then build from there.
But it's so looked down upon that they don't know what to do.
They don't even know those options are available and they'd poo-poo them anyway.
But that's where we are, Lionel.
I look at...
And I don't want to do the old...
I don't want to do the old in my generation.
But I like my generation.
I really...
I like my...
I got this thing from the New York City MTA.
It's a card that I can travel on buses or subways, which I would never want to do.
But it says Senior Citizen.
Black letters with an R. I don't know if it means retarded or reduced.
I don't know what the R is.
But anyway, But I always want to tell people, don't mess with me.
I'm a senior citizen.
But in my generation, we had this, it was a better time.
And there's one thing where we could sign our name when we kind of had personality.
Do you talk to younger folks today who don't even make eye contact with you, who can't shake hands, who don't look at you?
I don't know the mindset.
I don't profess to know I kind of bailed out at the turn of the century.
My music is strictly 90s and earlier.
My ideologies, you might say, are a little less current.
But, yeah, to try to understand what's going on in the mind of the generation that's coming up now, I can't.
I don't know.
I want to have boot camps for kids.
I want to take them out and I want to say, okay, we're going to teach you critical thinking.
We're going to start with something.
You pick the subject and the first rule is what is the issue?
You know, in law school we had this it was kind of an acronym IRAC.
Issue, rule, analysis, conclusion.
What's the issue?
What's the rule?
You know, what's the law or the particular state?
Let's analyze it and make a conclusion.
Conclude, what do you think about this?
For example, when you talk about Israel, we're talking about Pakistan, we're talking about whatever.
Russia, Putin, journalism, radio.
What's the issue?
What are we even talking about?
No idea.
They can't, they say, I don't know.
And by the way, the national pastime here is incompetence.
At every level.
From the person who you meet at the CVS to the person in customer service to somebody you might, for example, you say, hey, I want to book you for a guest.
They don't read their email.
I mean, it's incompetence.
Well, also the people screwing door plugs on Boeing aircraft.
There's some incompetence going on there.
The story came out today that four of these bolts, That are very important to holding the door on.
We're missing!
So, incompetence.
That's incompetence.
And what's interesting also, there is a unique...
The next time you want to have a thought experiment, imagine somebody from another planet, another star system comes here.
And you walk around Greenville, or you sit around, and you say, well, let me explain something to you.
This is kind of the way we...
Social media works like this.
The more you show bad problems, the more the problem is replicated.
Showing a bad problem doesn't make people correct it.
It makes people want to replicate it.
For example, if you show, here's a crazy woman in a plane, screaming and defecating in the aisle, And being let off in handcuffs.
Most of the time, you say, logic would say, hey, don't do that.
They'll arrest you and throw you off a plane.
No.
It inspires more people to want to replicate it.
And it seems like it certainly has.
Yes.
Yes.
So, when you say, listen, folks, excuse me, I'm Mr. Cumia with McDonald Douglas, whatever.
If anybody leaves a bolt up at his door, I will come to your house at night and shoot you.
We're not going to let this happen.
So you mentioned four.
Did it all happen to one bad shift?
I'm telling you, there's going to be more that happens.
Oh, absolutely.
When qualified people are passed over for other qualifications, this happens.
This happens.
You know, I've said it before, when you go to a deli and get a bad sandwich because someone's incompetent behind the counter, it sucks.
You got a bad sandwich.
I was hoping to have a better lunch than this.
In the airline industry and all the surrounding parts that have to move in sync with each other, the air traffic control, the maintenance, the ground crews, all of these things that come into play to make that trip as safe as possible.
You are going to degrade that, and you are going to have problems that could end up very, very terrible problems.
There is nothing, there is no, there is no consequence.
By the way, you know, it's interesting.
One of the definitions of a psychopath, and you wouldn't know a lot about it, how about that radio industry?
I've worked with a few.
Yes, indeed.
One of the definitions of a psychopath is that they're unable to appreciate consequence.
If I do this, this will happen.
You know, they don't fear what will happen because they can't see.
Okay.
So, what happens is, in a weird way, we are becoming psychopathic ourselves because we don't have any consequence.
We are not creating anything that...
There's no room for...
There's no failure.
And it seems like once we get used to something, somebody somewhere, In the halls of the Illuminati, in the Weishaupt, Bavarian, wherever these ideas are crafted, somebody said, I got an idea.
Let's, hear me out, let's declare that there is no such thing as gender.
And see how far we can go.
And let's start with that.
Why?
Well, you know, there's always been sometimes somebody who might have a problem, but we're not talking about accepting.
Let's just do that.
It takes the slightest push to get that momentum going.
And next thing you know, Leah Thomas is naked walking around with her schlong hanging out in a locker room.
It's that simple.
Just to...
One little incompetent bolt, inspector, then the doors are falling off everything.
Right.
It takes one little person somewhere for DEI or whatever.
We've just gone through four years of a senescent dotard.
A man wizened by decrepitude.
We just habituated to that.
We went through a COVID Kind of a manufactured collective choreographed trauma, and nobody fought back.
So we're becoming more and more used to this.
What's next?
The bottom line is, we never fought back.
You can do anything to us.
Anything.
Yeah, we thought we were going to be a lot tougher, I think, before we really were faced with some of these things, and then realized, no, we just give in like everyone else.
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There's an insouciance in you.
There's an equanimity, an equipoise.
You don't have to run and grab that awful train.
Do you miss the squalor of this 1950s abortion clinic studio?
I guess they're still doing their...
I hope they're still doing their thing there, right?
Oh, that's so funny.
Is that still there?
Yeah, maybe we could have...
I don't have my monitor back.
I need my monitor back.
Oh, that is the most depressing thing I've ever...
That place is so horrible.
I mean, it is just so...
Every square inch of it, because they have people just going to the john, they have immigration lawyers, people walking around with these sandpans and, you know, chickens and pens and screaming.
Squatting and writing their names with sticks.
That's a one direction.
Then these weird kind of manufacturing places where they make stuff.
Little sweatshops.
Oh yeah.
Making knockoff Versace and Louis Vuitton stuff.
In a gray horrible institutional gray.
A big paint can that says institutional gray was delivered to that place.
No, I agree.
I agree.
Look how much more warm this is and pleasant to be in.
I love it.
I just love it.
Your attitude.
Your attitude is...
Yes.
Again, and let me just say something.
I'm glad you're okay.
Me too.
You know, when your staff called me and begged me to sit in for you, I said, of course.
Of course, I'll do whatever I can for you.
Thank you.
Because, you know, it really means...
But just remember something.
You're a very lucky man.
And there's nothing that makes you here.
You didn't do anything worthwhile.
There's a lot of great people, war heroes, and people who...
I hear you.
That are not here.
I get you.
I get it.
Lionel, anything else on your little sheet of preparation that you want to end with?
Just YouTube, Lionel Nation, that's all.
You can see the bottom.
YouTube, and G, I guess that means Lionel Media is on YouTube.
And then G, Instagram, yes.
And then Lionel Nation, I don't know what that means.
It's all written down there.
People will see it.
You're a very entertaining and very informative and thought-provoking program that Lionel has, and I highly recommend it, especially in turbulent times.
I just showed the cutting room, and I'll be doing one again in October, right before the election.
It was two hours of, I mean, riveting, and the best part about it is that what I'm talking about is the truth.
Yeah.
That's all.
Thanks to you, my friend.
Lionel, thank you so much.
Be well, and we'll talk again soon.
Very good.
All the best.
Thank you, Lionel.
Here goes Lionel.
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