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April 1, 2024 - Lionel Nation
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Who's Plotting the [SG] Destruction of Diddy? A Dark Prelude to the Collapse of Hip Hop
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Good day, dear friends.
And first, before we begin, from all of us at the Lionel Nation Homestead, on behalf of Mrs. L and me, I wish you and your family...
A happy Easter today.
I've got my Easter threads on, my pastels, my spring look, even though it's 49 degrees.
It doesn't matter.
It's important that you understand this.
This is Easter.
Whether it's Easter, Christmas, Ramadan, Yom Kippur, anything.
Spend a time.
Spend some rudimentary time.
Looking into the rudiments, the basics, the belief system of what faith is.
What is the essence of this?
I cannot tell you how interesting it is for me to be a part of something in which I study something Follow, but I understand the thinking of it.
I love the thinking, and I have been studying the various colors of Protestantism up to and including just Christianity in general, Catholicism versus Anglican Church, the Episcopals, the Presbyters.
Presbyterian, the Baptists, the Lutherans, the Calvinists, the Coptics, the Presbyterians.
Interesting.
Very interesting.
And I suggest the gradations.
The Coptics are into apophysis.
They define themselves by what they're not.
When you look at the notion of catechesis, The religious basis, what are the fundamentals?
Transubstantiation of the Eucharist, this has become God, the body of God.
Consubstantiation, it is symbolic along with.
This is so important.
And I love the rules, and while I cannot tell you which...
How to follow your faith.
I can tell you, you will enjoy it much more if you spend a little time.
And YouTube, at its most rudimentary level, will send you into a world of at least looking for what these things mean.
I cannot tell you how many Catholic friends have never looked at the catechism from catechesis.
They think they know, but they don't.
And there is nothing more dangerous, my friends, than thinking you know something.
Thinking you have an understanding when you have not even remotely close a foundation of it.
How do you handle religion with children?
Simple.
You never tell a kid no to something.
You open up their wonderment.
Religion is critical.
It opens up.
It's great for inspiring imagination.
What it does far too often is it closes things down.
It tells people what you are not.
Again, apophysis.
We are not this.
What is sin?
What is the relation of the church versus the word versus God?
One thing I like about Baptists, You cannot baptize a baby.
You can only baptize an adult.
You have to know what it is.
The acceptance of Christianity is volition.
You're not baptized as a child.
But then again, we get into a lot of other things.
What happens if a child dies before does it go to heaven?
This is where limbo came in.
Years ago, it was a very dark part of the Catholic Church, which a lot of folks...
Who are not of my age range do not remember limbo.
Do not remember it.
Where unbaptized babies and people went.
It was a fascinating...
Oh, thank you.
Feliz Pascua.
Thank you, Raul.
And the same to you, dear friend.
It's a fascinating, fascinating, fascinating subject.
Fascinating.
Willie Will, you honor me with your kindness.
Thank you so much for that.
Thank you so, so very much.
You are wonderful.
Thank you for this.
I want to talk to you about today and our own message here of tolerance and really understanding.
Really understanding, Willie and Raul.
Really understanding what is this about.
You do not Don't necessarily have to suggest a complete and total collective acceptance of something personally for you to understand why it is of interest and why it is interesting.
Be not judgmental.
Do not tell people who is right and who is wrong.
Always try to go for the understanding.
I get it.
I understand it.
I see it.
Love gradations.
Love the colors.
Love the shades.
Love the hues.
Love this thing that we as humans do today.
It is called this pageantry where we go out and we celebrate and you see families and you see kids.
And there was this wonderful...
Where did we see that kid with the Easter bunny?
Where was that?
We were someplace.
It was a little baby, little kid.
He said, oh, the Easter bunny broke my heart.
We were walking.
I don't know where the hell we heard it.
Anyway, we were someplace.
Someplace.
And...
Yeah, and this one little kid was just so excited about this thing.
And here's...
Huh?
CVS.
Yes, yes, CVS.
This kid could barely talk but understood this.
And here's what I want.
This is the thing that is amazing.
And I say the word amazing.
We use the word too often.
We oftentimes, well, I think we do.
This thing called amazing.
That's amazing.
I'm amazed.
You're using that as a crutch.
Amazing.
I'm awesome.
Awesome.
When you are in awe of something.
There are times when certain things will overwhelm you.
When you...
I think the birth of a child is one thing.
It's like, holy...
This is one of those things that...
Because death, obviously the opposite of that, is your sorrow.
Nobody ever looks about...
What's the next transitional stage?
It waylays you.
But for you to be and to look at the birth of a child, oh my God!
It blows your mind.
By the way, Mark, I love the reference to Tertullian.
Excellent.
I saw something which was so important.
And I mean this beyond anything.
And it's so critical that you understand this.
And it was so terrific.
And this is what I love about kids and what I hope you as a parent always do.
And what's so...
It's the most wonderful thing is to see wonder.
Not awe, but wonder.
Where you cannot conceive of something.
And in my younger times, What was critical to me was when I had my mind blown.
When they told me once, God always was.
I can remember as a kid thinking, and it was like stretching my brain out.
It was the first time my brain said, okay brain, let's work on this one.
Everything has a beginning and has an end, right?
Beginning and an end.
You make something, it, whatever.
Certain things are, And then later on I said, what if it's not biodegradable?
There's no end.
I really thought about this.
But anyway, so there was this child.
And for the first time, this kid understood supernatural, mystical, almost religious, the Easter Bunny.
And that Easter Bunny...
Did more to get the attention of that child, you could see it was wonder.
Wow!
And you didn't understand, is it really a bunny?
Why does a bunny bring eggs?
That's a chicken.
I mean, you don't ask questions like that.
Just don't worry about it.
And there are people who love to deconstruct.
Well, the bunny, of course, as you know, is the fertility.
Stop it!
This is the first time this kid is saying you're thinking about something that's not there and you're excited.
And it's magical and mystical.
It's the first time.
And parents do not ruin it.
That's why Santa Claus is critical!
Critical!
Or whatever your version of this.
I'm sorry.
I don't know why.
I guess it's contrary to Judaism and other forms.
Kris Kringle, Saint Nick.
I always thought of Santa Claus as kind of like a, you know, not really religious, but it didn't matter.
This kid was excited.
And we're breaking through in this corporeal world where he walks outside and there's a street and there's a car and there's the wind and there's the sun and there's mom and dad and there's this and that.
This, this wasn't here.
This was magical.
It's an incredible thing.
And if you can teach a kid, and I have that.
I have that.
Thank God.
I love when something blows my mind.
And I'm just drawn into it.
And because when I was a kid...
I was very, and Mrs. L too, I had no problem.
I didn't need to be entertained.
I entertained myself.
I loved that we had the world book.
She was quite fancier.
She had the Britannica.
And I can remember just sitting in and just learning something.
Today, just before, I'm going through this thing about just the different variations.
I never really understood, but now I get it.
And I'll watch it again and again and again.
When Mrs. L and I drive, we'll put in a YouTube, kind of a lecture about something I never thought about.
I never thought about this.
I heard a lecture the other day that said, if it were not for fire, we would still be in trees.
Now think about this one.
Fire allowed us to cook.
Fire allowed us to take food, which we could not normally, which is a lot easier on the gut, to cook.
It changed the way we process food.
It changed digestion and allowed us to lose this.
Have you ever seen the way an ape has this big gut because it chews forever and it breaks this stuff down?
Oh my God.
That's why you can tell we are meant to be herbivores because our intestinal tract is...
Convoluted versus if we were a raw meat eater, it'd be straight through.
So there's less putrescence, less putrefaction.
Fire allowed us to eat softer foods, allowed us to lose the gut, allowed us to come down from the trees, allowed us to move around.
We didn't sit there like these things all day chewing on leaves.
Fire!
Fire was responsible for...
And when I learned something new, I was like, I had no idea.
I remember one time, I was a kid, somebody said to me, you know why stop signs are red?
Blood.
Yes!
Blood.
The universe.
Whoa!
Red.
Whoa!
Blood.
Green.
Come on.
I guess grass.
I don't know how green was.
Green is okay.
Why do we nod?
Why in so many cultures is this yes?
I've told you this before.
I love this one.
Why is it yes?
Why is this no?
Why is shaking a head no?
This mimics the look you make when you suckle your mother's teeth when you were breastfeeding.
This is nurturing.
Not only that, the oxytocin, the connection between this love and this thing and this.
And what do you do when you have something?
When you want to spit it out?
You shake your head left and right.
You don't spit it out like this.
You shake it like that.
You fling it.
That's no.
I love stuff like that.
So today is a celebration of a tradition.
It's spring.
It's family.
It's...
Kids, it's going to a restaurant, it's watching kids eat, the sound of kids, and you wear these little clothes that break your heart.
You take kids and you put them into these really natally attired kids with bow ties and ruffles and little suits and things.
It is something that human beings thrive on.
It's called tradition.
Tradition registers singular events.
That's all.
And when you're old and you look back and you get these pictures, it's like I'm always on you.
I don't know about you.
Do you ever get these pictures from YouTube?
I guess iPhone.
It's just boom, boom.
Parents, relatives, boom.
It's like they're sending me messages.
Wow.
Look at that.
I should have paid more attention to my parents.
Should have paid more attention.
Should have recognized how important that was.
But I was a kid.
How was I supposed to know?
How was I supposed to know?
Should have called parents more.
Should have done more for them.
Should have understood.
Should have, should have, should have, should have, should have.
Did you find yourself saying that?
Boy, I did.
Boy, that was stupid.
It wasn't stupid.
You didn't know.
You didn't know.
You did what everybody else does.
I should have realized.
Boy, I would have loved to have gone back.
I didn't know how great that was.
That was fun.
I remember when I was a kid, my relative, my, oh my god, my grandmother, my grandfather, my aunt, her sisters, all Sicilian, loud!
Loud!
I used to think, are they yelling at each other?
Loud!
Fun!
Big tables!
Big!
It was like, so funny, these people didn't, none of these people worked, you know what I said?
It was like, they didn't work.
They lived, I don't know how they did it.
But they all had huge tables.
Huge.
Or, as we say in Hell's Kitchen, huge.
With a Y. Huge.
It's just incredible.
And at the time, I didn't realize this.
I didn't get it.
I didn't understand it.
It didn't make sense to me.
How was I supposed to know this?
Or maybe it's...
Maybe it's...
We tend to romanticize.
We kind of look back.
Maybe it was okay.
Maybe I'm just looking back.
That's what we do, because you have the lens of history.
The lens of history, you know, changes us kind of like a kaleidoscope.
It changes things.
You know, maybe I'm making more out of it.
I don't know.
I doubt it.
I doubt it.
But just today is a very important thing.
And recognize this fact.
And when you see kids, when you see them in the Easter Bunny, I've got friends, family, people, young people.
People in the family, friends, who think for some reason that I'm some kind of a militant atheist.
It's like, I'm not!
I tried to explain to somebody, I said, I want you to learn French.
I don't understand French.
But I know a lot of people speak it, and if you're interested, you should learn it.
It's the same way I'm with religion.
If this is your connection, learn it.
Appreciate it.
I don't have any...
It's like me saying there's no French.
Why?
Because I don't understand it.
I don't speak God.
I don't speak that kind of God, but I speak the psychology of faith.
It's beautiful.
It's so interesting.
Oh my God.
Transubstantiation, blood and bread.
It's incredible.
Now, we as a member, what is the word, what do we call ourselves?
Can I ask you something, my friends?
Are we...
What do we call...
By the way, such wonderful things.
You write such wonderful, beautiful people.
Happy birthday, peeps.
Love you.
This is beautiful because we do have this wonderful relationship.
We're like this family.
We're this unique mixture.
We meet.
We have individual folks.
I'd love one day to fly into some...
I don't know where.
I say, you're?
Because I don't even see...
I just see a name.
I got to see a name.
You know what I mean?
Or I see a thumbnail.
I don't know, but I feel like I know you.
You're the thumbnail.
Sometimes I look, and I can't see.
I think it's a one.
Wouldn't it be something if you said, I'm Wild Bill.
I'm whatever.
I'm, oh, okay.
It's very interesting.
See, TV doesn't do that.
Radio doesn't do that.
And by the way, another thing too.
I've been watching lately a lot of the live programmings from other channels.
They don't really seem to be talking to each other.
They're just saying things.
If you're talking to each other, I think that's great.
It's very interesting.
It's a multi-layered, multi-dynamic.
I'm saying something you're doing if you're talking to each other.
And for the most part, I mean, seriously, I would say almost exclusively, everybody's so nice.
Here's Kimmy Cliff.
Doesn't Kimmy Cliff sound like a character in a 60s sitcom?
Kimmy Cliff.
Or Jimmy Cliff, who was a great reggae singer.
Thank you for that.
Very, very nice.
Oh, look at this.
Just had breakfast at a Bucky's in South Carolina.
Wow.
Bucky's, I really...
You know what?
I'd like to see that.
I really want to see...
Buc-ee's.
That I want to see.
I don't want to go anywhere.
I swear to God, I don't want to go anywhere, but Buc-ee's I want to go to.
Because it's just, it's so unique.
I used to like, there were all places, truck stops.
Have you seen truck stops on YouTube where they have their, I mean, they're so elaborate.
It just, it fascinates me.
It fascinates me.
I had a brisket sandwich last weekend.
Look at this.
Look at this.
This president has outlawed Easter.
What this man has done to change this trans day...
Look, we have been saying this.
We don't care.
One thing or another.
And I think I speak for all of you.
I think I speak for all of us when I say we don't care about transgender.
Don't care.
Don't care.
I mean, fine.
Doesn't matter.
But when you say that today is...
If they said...
Let me give you an example.
Let me give you an example.
If Joe Biden had said today that today is National Bluegrass Day.
Bluegrass.
Aficionados would be furious.
How dare you refer to Easter as bluegrass?
Yeah, but you're a bluegrass man.
Excuse me.
So it's not a matter of, well, you're just against this trans denoting because you're not trans.
No.
No.
I don't want this to be National New York Day.
No.
No, no.
National Lionel Day.
No, not Easter.
No.
That's no...
You see what I'm saying?
They're doing this on purpose.
They're doing this on purpose.
But here's the interesting thing.
Maybe they're smarter.
It's made me defend Easter like nothing else.
When you tell me I can't do something, it's like the First Amendment.
I never realized how much I loved it.
Never, never, never...
I never understand it until something comes to threaten it.
So, When somebody says, we're going to take...
People always argue that Christmas was too commercialized.
Well, that's just kind of a...
I don't know what the word is.
That's sort of a kind of a...
You know, kind of a remnant of...
I can't help that.
But this is a different story.
Let me give you an example.
Let me give you an example of something which I never really realized.
My friend who's here, we'll call him...
Vinny.
And Vinny emailed me and said, did you see the Alex Jones documentary?
I said, no, I didn't.
It was about Sandy Hooker or whatever it was.
And I watched it.
And I thought to myself, ah, you know what the issue is with that?
It's not free speech.
It's not opinion.
It's not First Amendment.
Alone.
The issue is, when you say something that you know or have reason to believe will incite people to react upon it, number one.
Number two, they have this thing in contract law years ago called outrage.
If I tell you that...
I don't believe something was the way it was recorded, and you are personally outraged by it.
Do you have a cause of action?
For example, if I say, if I say, if I go on TV and I say, we lost the Vietnam War.
Let's say this.
We lost the Vietnam War.
Or if I report, if I'm Cy Hirsch and I report on My Lai.
And then somebody sues me because they own a VFW hall that was defaced by people who now hate the military and hate this by virtue of what I said.
Was that necessarily foreseeable?
It's a fascinating subject.
We won't discuss this now.
But it goes back to what I said initially.
I love to think about it like, oh, okay, that's interesting.
Because it's not the idea of that.
You can't say something.
It's like, what if you say something?
What if you say something and it causes somebody to be offended, to be hurt?
Bill Maher did a thing recently or a while back where he thought he thinks he's the smartest man in the world and he fell for this internet story about how the story of Christ is kind of basically What am I trying to say?
It's pagan.
It's Mithra and Osiris and blah, blah, blah.
Okay.
It's the oldest.
It's not really true.
It's very lazy.
Now, what happens if that causes great personal sadness?
What if it causes people to go crazy and deface churches?
Because I've said there's no such thing as this.
What if nativity scenes are crushed because of something that I said?
That's kind of where we're into right now.
Is that a conspiracy theory?
When I say something, if I say, I know there are folks, and I think this is a, I don't want to bring up, this is our constitutional Bible, this is the blueprint for an American, but if I were to say, I don't think we landed on the moon.
Let's just assume.
Let's just assume.
And I think it's a lie.
And I say that.
Now, do I have the right to say that?
I think so.
Okay, but what happens if Buzz Aldrin sues me?
Because I'm calling Buzz Aldrin a liar.
And people are calling Buzz Aldrin up.
And people are threatening Buzz Aldrin.
And he had to move.
Now, it depends kind of on what I said.
So, it's one of those things which I want people to be aware of.
Because it is my goal, if I'm the bad guy, and you can call the deep state, the police state, the intel state, the shadow government, the ruling class, the invisible, whatever, whoever these people, I don't know, whatever word works for you.
But I want you, I don't want to take your rights away.
I want you to give them up.
I want you to turn your back on them.
I don't want to take them away.
I want you to hand them back.
See, I don't need these anymore.
This is about good.
Good.
And I say, well, you didn't want them.
You didn't want them.
You have a right.
I love this.
And I have been, oh my God, I remember there's so many things that are so wonderful.
Congress shall make no law.
Respecting an establishment of religion.
Boy, that's a real tough one.
Nino Scalia spent so many times, you wouldn't believe the arguments, the arguments about the Establishment Clause.
What is it isn't?
When is the government, is it like the Church of England?
We can't do the Church of England in this country.
But we're not in England.
But we can't establish something.
And then it says, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof of religion.
What about when we told the Coptics they couldn't smoke dope?
What if we...
Why during Prohibition could Catholics drink wine but others...
You see where these rules are?
As soon as they give you a rule, I come up with 50, and you do too.
Questions?
We can't let them take your religion away.
We can't let them take...
Totalitarian regimes...
Hate religion.
Religion is hope.
Religion is autonomy.
Religion is courage.
Religion is, ooh, they don't like religions.
They don't, it's not good.
And then we'll come up with every conceivable way, everything to destroy it.
Up to and including, one of the worst things ever was to tell people during a pandemic, and I'll leave it at that.
That you cannot recognize, you cannot enjoy freedom of religion, freedom of faith, to exercise the free expression of your religion, but because you might contract some virus, while you can protest and you can burn things down, and that's no problem.
I mean, this is just it.
It's one of those things.
And I also want to tell you something which is so great about you.
They're trying to destroy our ability to read into things.
They're calling us, and have called us, conspiracy theorists.
No matter what it is, no matter what we, no matter what it is.
And this is, for example, today's call, The Shadow Government Destruction of Diddy, A Dark Prelude to the Collapse of Hip Hop's Legacy.
Now let's go through something.
This is so interesting.
And this is one of those aspects I told you that I think President Trump would be very wise to utilize.
It has been suggested for the longest time, I'm not necessarily agreeing with this, but it has been suggested that either AIDS was caused or AIDS was allowed to flourish in a community that a lot of conservative types did not care about.
Or a lot of countries didn't care about it.
Gays, IV drug users.
That was the theory.
That was being posited.
That was being advanced.
That nobody cared about it.
That Ronald Reagan turned his back on funding.
That it was considered tantamount to siding with gay folks, etc., etc., etc.
And that's really Again, that's just an idea.
Now today, if you said that, you would be shut down, cut off, deplatformed by virtue of you saying something that somebody didn't like.
It's just to shut you up.
They didn't have something that you liked.
Oh, you like this device?
Oh, we'll take the device from you.
Oh, you like Instagram?
It's beautiful.
Addict you to a platform.
And have proxies come in and basically threaten to destroy...
Anyway, you know how that works.
So all along, there's been this stuff.
And then there was this idea that somehow crack cocaine was introduced into the black community.
Again, I think there are theories that have been positive.
I know not firsthand about that.
I can't speak expertly, but I do know the theories.
And I do know the hints.
And I do know this.
And I know it's not that far-fetched.
What is that called?
That's a conspiracy theory, and you're crazy.
A lot of people believe it.
Maxine Waters, you might think she's crazy.
You don't really hear about her anymore, but she said that.
A lot of people did.
A lot of people did.
And it makes sense.
First of all, you can get rid of a group of people you don't particularly care for.
And if you think that this...
Institutional governments in this country have bent over backwards and held black America.
You don't know anything about history.
I'm not saying it's full-fledged hatred, but pretty close to it.
And then there are people who say, yeah, but you know, if this comes in, it's a lot of money.
We can get a piece of the action.
Another dread conspiracy theory that was being suggested.
That the reason why this wasn't stopped was because of the money this made, the corruption, By the way, the new networks of such, interesting as well.
Fascinating.
Then right around black music, I say that very, very loosely, and forgive me for being so generic, but for purposes of this conversation and this explanation, I'll just use that term.
Hip-hop.
I mean, no, pardon me.
R&B, soul, funk, rock and roll.
Okay, great.
Great.
All of a sudden, in the Bronx, at one apartment, there's almost an apartment number.
There's a place where hip-hop was, and the history of it is so interesting.
It just started.
And there were DJs, and at first it was rather It was kind of fun.
It was dancing.
By the way, breakdancing and dancing is back.
Okay.
It was nice.
Sugarhill Express.
Rapper's Delight.
Cute.
Debbie Harry.
Cute.
Gil Scott Heron, I think, is just unheralded father.
One of my favorites.
Also, Syncopated Rhythm.
Hank Snow.
I've been through this before.
You've heard me give you this five-cent lecture.
The etymology, the etiology, the teleology of rap music.
Okay, fine.
Then, then, all of a sudden it got dark, got dreary, it got scary, it got ominous, and it dealt with the city, and the hood, and Compton, and the West Coast, and the Crips, and the Bloods.
And it became, and as soon as it took off, everybody went there.
And I'm not suggesting it's not valid, but it was viewed as an expression of a particular music, of a particular idea, of a particular way of thinking that was commonplace to them, common to this particular area, reminiscent and explanatory and explicative of a way of life that others...
Okay, fine.
Whatever.
If Merle Haggard can sing about...
I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole.
I mean, come on, you know, prison and he did it.
Johnny Cash did it.
Everybody did it, but, you know, boy named Sue and hitting people and shooting people.
I mean, you know, that's okay.
It's been around for a while.
But all of a sudden, this was different.
Because these folks were scary and they wore weird clothes, Adidas shoes, a black hat.
And a gold chain.
This guy's got a clock.
This guy's got gold teeth.
This guy's got diamond teeth.
This guy's got platinum teeth.
This guy's got tattoos.
He's got this one.
And their names.
What the hell?
Master Ronnie, old dirty bastard, smelly bastard, stupid son of a bitch.
All these names.
What is this?
And of course, wife-o said, whoa, whoa, we don't understand this.
Whoa, wait a minute.
Who do they think?
And like idiots.
Like idiots.
They started to say, hey, look how much money we got.
Oh, my God.
Country music never did that.
They talk about, we're just living.
I'm Jolene, Jolene.
Multicolored coat.
Mama tried.
These people are close to being a billionaire, as you can imagine.
But they're talking about picking cotton and, you know, mama and baking biscuits and me low.
We're humble.
Not these folks.
Oh, no.
Here's a gun.
And then...
That's right, the wireless mouse.
No, the internet came along.
So these gedrools said, I'm going to take pictures of my money and my guns and everything and...
whatever this stuff is, scared the hell out of...
A lot of people, white folks, and not everybody in the black community dug this, but it was huge.
And then there's white kids emulating this.
Some kid named Sean goes, I'm from Compton?
What?
I'm from Compton?
F the police?
Listen, listen, Dermot, take it easy.
Got some Irish kid who thinks he's with the Crips.
It was wild.
Didn't like that.
Authorities didn't like that, but they said, no, no, no.
Let them go.
Why?
They're killing each other.
What?
They're killing each other.
Go ahead.
They're killing each other with the gangs.
They're killing each other with crack.
And this music is turning them off.
Let them go.
And also, it was like an infantilizer.
They go, they're children.
This isn't going to last.
This is...
Greg Allman said rap is short for crap.
This was rap, of course, now it's hip-hop.
Or as you're saying in Swedish, hip-hop in their hood.
So, I still want to hear Indian hip-hop.
And I'm not going to do that for you, but just imagine what that sounds like.
And the crips and the bloods, they never...
You mean to tell me, excuse me, you can't get everyone...
It's right there.
You could put everybody in prison.
Every single...
I mean, you could wipe this out.
They didn't want to.
Too much money.
You see, I don't want to say the feds.
I don't mean the FBI.
I don't mean the brave...
Good men and women who, you know, work for the federal government, who investigate bank robberies and interstate, you know, child trafficking.
Oh, no, no.
We use that word sometimes, feds, kind of as an over, you know, kind of a rather generalized version of this.
But for the longest time, I told you, wise guy I knew, asked me, he said, do you ever wonder why we're still here?
Everybody knows who we are.
Everybody's got a big mouth.
You can go on YouTube.
Everybody's got podcasts.
You can go to any.
You can go to Ozone Park.
You can go to wherever.
You can go to Brooklyn.
You can go downtown.
Just hang around.
And they know.
See that guy, Columbo, Lucchese, this, this.
He's made.
He's made.
He's a wannabe.
He's straightened out.
He just got his badge.
I mean, they know everything.
This is like the open secret.
It's the most It's, it's, it's, everybody knows who these folks are.
Whatever, whatever legacy, whatever remnant the mob is today.
To make a long story short, my friend said, they don't stop us.
They want us to be exactly there.
They don't stop.
How about motorcycle gangs?
They still have them.
You think Hell's Angels are gone?
You think nomads are gone and pagans and this and that?
No?
Do you think they're selling, remember those chocolate bars when you were, when your school would be running, you get that white, with a white label?
You know, St. Aloysius, and you sell the chocolate bar.
You think they're doing that?
No.
But they're there.
You got the Albanian mobs, Russian mobs, Chinese riots, you got everybody.
You've got, you've got, Plus the cartels.
Plus MS-13.
And even be telling me, you can't stop the Hells Angels?
I mean, if you wanted to.
They got a jacket that says Hells Angels.
MS-13 says, MS-13.
They tell you, here we are.
In fact, if you put that on there and you're not a member, you know, bad things happen.
Does the government get rid of them?
Nope.
Could they?
In a heartbeat.
The bloods in the cribs?
That's not a racketeering enterprise?
If that isn't, I don't know what is.
They can wipe them out.
Completely.
They can do this.
I don't know who owns the intellectual property rights or the Bloods and the Crips, but they did this for I think it was the Hells Angels or somebody.
The government moved on their logo.
As my friend said, they want this.
They want the angle.
They want the networks.
They want the people.
They want the dope.
They want this.
Because they want to put their blood in our veins.
They want us to be, to maintain these.
They use them to do dirty work.
They use them to look the other way.
They use, you probably didn't know this, but in some parts of Sicily, when all of a sudden they were being inundated with African and foreign illegal aliens on rubber, you know, cigarette boats or whatever.
Guess who put a stop to that?
The mafia.
Don't forget, they call the mafia there, not in this country.
The term mafia is never used in this country.
Never used on wiretaps.
Never.
Cosa Nostra, you know, whatever, blah, blah, blah, that's here, but Mafia, the term is never used here.
Mafioso, never used here.
It's always Sicilian.
Always Sicilian.
So here we have right now.
So here comes Diddy.
And Diddy, or didn't he, but Diddy for some reason, all of a sudden, as we've seen with Epstein, all of a sudden, ta-da!
We're tired of you.
By the way, this has nothing to do...
I couldn't tell you a Diddy song.
I couldn't...
I don't know this.
So, I'm not saying this is any kind of purveyor or a genius with this movie.
But there are people, a lot of folks, for example, like Jay-Z and Oprah and Tyler Perry and Steve Harvey.
And a lot of Kevin Hart and this group of the anointed, like the...
Cat Williams called him the Illumina.
I don't know who they...
But whatever, who we're saying, all right, that's enough.
They have nothing to do with it.
I'm not suggesting Oprah's into gang activity.
But this is their power.
It's like the Democrats have this iteration.
Clooney.
Hanks, Spielberg, Streisand, you know that kind of stuff?
Same with this.
Same group.
I mean, same.
Different faction.
They're tired of this.
And then one day, they say, that's enough.
We don't know why.
Why did they whack Epstein all of a sudden?
I don't know.
What did he do?
I don't know.
Nobody was after him.
Nobody was...
That came kind of sort of late, but that could have been quash.
That could have been...
Sometimes they...
Who knows what?
You...
There is no singular unit.
There's no singular way of thinking.
But as is the case with others...
In fact, Joe Rogan was talking to Joey Diaz about this.
Do you think they went in and took the tapes?
Took the tapes of what?
Took the recordings of what?
What?
What?
If they did, when I say they, if anybody took this, they took them to protect these people, not to use them.
Whereas Epstein was an extortion plot, that was a honeypot, they took those recordings not to protect anybody, but to continue using them.
Edie says, I saw Deborah Harry and Chris Stein at Hurrah!
Club, New York City, 1980.
Oh, those were days.
You know, Deborah Harry, that Lower East Side, and thank you, that whole Lower East Side scene, CBGBs, from the Talking Heads, from Harry to, right from the Ramones and the Stooges,
and you know, At the same time of this punk, which is very important, and then versions like MC5 and Wayne Kramer and all that, that was a very critical part there.
And that is, if you don't think, let me tell you something, if you don't think that's important, you don't understand how things work.
Let me control the...
How do I say this?
Let me control the culture of a society.
When I say culture, I don't mean high culture, high brow.
I mean, let me control what you read, what you listen to, what you think.
Far more important than anything else.
What you listen to, what your fads, your...
I look at fads.
I look at things.
And I don't know if you ladies have ever had this, but something happened the way we are losing our faces and our sense of self by virtue of plastic surgery and the like.
I see it all the time.
And I can't speak enough.
There is something that is so sad when I see people Who don't look like themselves.
It's almost a friend of schizophrenia.
It's weird.
It's this strange thing that I'm noticing.
And I look and I'm saying, remember, whatever the story is, you don't understand all of it.
You don't understand.
Now on this Easter day, I would ask you, I need at least 70 1,000 likes.
I know that sounds crazy, but you can do so much.
I know you don't realize it.
I'm just going to say it one time.
I don't want to belabor the point.
Thank you.
Your support is wonderful.
Just want to remind you, the likes put us into a different realm altogether.
That's all.
See, what we do right here, what I love to do is I love to just expand upon things.
I want it to expand.
I want to talk more.
I don't want to sit there.
You know, Rogan does this to an extent.
He does this.
He really enjoys moments of, oh, wow, yeah, that's...
I'd love to see how we break this down.
And how there is somebody somewhere.
I'm going to go back to what's going on.
On Easter, and they only pick Christians.
They were never doing it on Rabinad.
They were never doing it on...
Jewish High Holy Days, they do it just for Christians, because they hate Christians.
Why would they have this trans whatever day?
Why?
Why today?
I don't care if you want to have it, that's fine.
It's up to you.
Why now?
There was a thing a while back, and you might have remembered this, but I was a part of this protest.
It was me, I was there, the Catholic League, just because I like what a lot of the stuff they're doing.
Jackie Mason was there.
And it was a thing, and it was involving something where it was Mother Teresa's birthday.
Now let me explain something to you.
Mother Teresa, you can really argue, you can listen to Christopher Hitchens, you can listen to a lot of people, you can say that she's really, you know, whatever.
But this is an icon.
This is somebody that people really, really So the Empire State Building said, no, we're not going to do this, because we have this strict rule against, we're not going to endorse, ratify, or in any way speak to the legitimacy of a religion or whatever.
But they had something for Mariah Carey's new album, and they highlighted the...
NASCAR.
I mean, it was like, I couldn't believe.
And all they had to do with Martin Luther King, Dr. Martin Luther King.
He's a reverend, you know.
And it was this anti-Christian, but anti-Catholic.
And by the way, if you think Christians about anti-Catholic in particular, because everybody who was ex-Catholic or was raised feels like there's this carte blanche to go after them.
The child predation in Catholic schools has been virtually eliminated by virtue of lawsuits, by virtue, by the way, of also the replacement of priests from a lot of these places.
But it was there.
And the Catholic Church absolutely has to answer for that.
But it became almost like carte blanche to be able to say, say whatever you want.
Trash them.
Trash them.
And I didn't like that.
It's not fair.
It's not fair.
Especially when you want to especially when you want to look the other way when it comes to other religions.
Let me ask you something.
Do you believe there is any possibility in the creation theory being correct?
Are you maybe you didn't hear me.
Meaning that Darwin It's not as cracked up as you think it is.
Do you think there's anything to be said for that?
Are there any prominent scientists?
Are there any prominent scientists, prominent physicists, prominent theoretical physicists and the like?
Do you think, like, was it Berlinski and Galertner?
Do you believe that there's any evidence of intelligent design?
Do you?
Do you understand that?
Now when you tell people this, I know some who just go berserk.
I say, what are you attaching the hip to?
Darwin?
Do you believe?
There are people who have said that evolution is wonderful to explain little changes.
For example, on Galapagos Islands, the turtles, The turtle, on this one island, they really don't move from one, but they're basically right next to each other.
This one particular turtle has a curve at the top of the shell.
And another island, whatever, doesn't have it.
And the reason why they believe is that the vegetation was higher.
So those animals, those turtles that were born with maybe at least a mutation or something that allowed for this curve, Could raise their head higher, eat, that species would prosper, would reiterate, reproduce, and others would not because they wouldn't be able to.
Okay, fine.
So that's terrific.
Great for little incremental things.
How a finch has a particular curvature of the beak.
Okay, great.
But when it comes to huge stuff, big, in one particular period they said, All of a sudden they say, where did this come from?
All of a sudden.
Okay.
Their idea, not mine.
They will tell you people, people who don't know anything about what I've just said, will attack you because you're religious and you're stupid and you're archaic and you're far-fetched and you're into some kind of weird superstitious Mythological lunacy.
You're an idiot.
You're a fool.
You're crazy.
You're a nut.
You're out of your mind.
See?
That's the way they think.
That's the way they think.
And that's the part that...
There are people who are militant atheists.
They believe that there's something called the God gene, which doesn't necessarily provide for...
A predisposition to the belief in the hereafter, or the higher up, or the divine.
But they basically use it as an example of eliminating the possibility that what we're talking about right now exists at all.
They're basically saying there is no God, there is no nothing.
And the reason why you say this is because you believe in this, you're stupid, you're backwards, and it's part of this weird superiority because the left, prototypically the left, among other things, were atheists.
They looked at religion and religious faith as somehow emblematic of some closed-minded, you know, Ronald Reagan.
Did you see where they're yelling at, did you see this?
Where they're saying that Donald Trump, who wanted to sell a Bible, or is selling a Bible with his name on it, or keep America great, whatever the hell it is.
That somehow this was, all of a sudden, these people are worried about this as sacrilegious.
Oh, this is sacrilegious.
Oh, really?
You think this is sacrilegious?
You're concerned about that?
Wow, how dare he?
They bring out Al Sharpton.
Al Sharpton is what?
This con man?
You're bringing him out?
Al Sharpton is speaking on behalf of God?
Look, whether you like anybody, whether you think it's tacky, what I'm saying is this.
Do you mean to tell me?
That this administration, whose evil seed son is putting out finger paintings for a million dollars, and this person?
This is okay?
Nobody minds that?
But all of a sudden, these radical left woke folks are now hyper-sensitive about what this sense of Disrespect that's being seen, that's being evinced for them?
Come on.
These are the same people who on Easter, the same people who now are so religious, so pious that they absolutely, they're loathing what President Trump is doing.
Bringing all these black preachers to a company and say, how dare you?
On the holiest day of the Christian calendar, they do this.
This trans...
But yet, when it comes to Trump, they show this hypersensitive, supercilious adherence to that of this false piety.
Raul Rodriguez says the Vatican has a telescope in Arizona.
Do you know, Raul, thank you, that the Vatican, for the longest time, Has said some very interesting things.
The Vatican, under one of the encyclicals, under Pius XII, said that you can absolutely believe in evolution and in Christian or Catholic ideology and philosophy because as long as you believe that this is the mechanism of God and that the final product, you know, is evolution is imbued with the Spirit of God, then fine.
People always say, well, Catholics say you can't believe in it.
They never said that.
But here's the most important.
We have this thing about washing, ablution, the notion of it.
Washing, the baptism, these various rites that we have.
And the reason why you want to baptize is because you were born with original sin.
You were born with this.
You must seek forgiveness and redemption.
You must accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.
And baptism is the sign that...
Why?
Because you are from the beginning, to quote Greg Lake, from the beginning you are a sinner.
Okay.
What was interesting was that in the Vatican, the Vatican, the Vatican has said that if there are indeed other forms of life other than us, they may not be Possessed of original sin like we are.
Meaning that these folks, these critters, these aliens, these guys and gals and things flying around may not be in need of possessing or may not be in need, I should say, of seeking or asking for or being granted Forgiveness.
They may be born without original sin.
How will that affect you?
This is from the Vatican.
And they also believe that it is possible for you to believe or for you to think about these interstellar travelers as almost like angels.
So let me tell you something.
It's a fascinating subject.
Remember, it's not what you think it is.
It's not what you think it is.
And also remember something that when you listen to other religions, whether it's the Muslims with their Hajj, or whether it's Ramadan, or whether it's, you know, the anything.
I mean, Shinto, it doesn't matter.
I think That mankind is better, if for no other reason, it is better when man believes in something other than himself.
And that's why I vehemently disagreed with Christopher Hitchens, because he said that religion is the source of all this pain.
Religion is the source.
Well, excuse me, government has also been the source of horrible.
Totalitarian regimes and this terrible collective and orchestrated choreographed subjugation of the human spirit and will.
I'm not going to get rid of government because Mao or Hitler or somebody decided to use the government.
It's the most ridiculous thing in the world because these folks, Daniel Dedet, Sam Harris, Krauss, Hitchens, they become professional atheists and they believe they Look, it's one thing for you not to believe it.
That's fine.
A Buddhist, don't forget, is technically an atheist.
And they suggested that atheism was a religion.
Well, somebody said one time, if atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby, which I love that one.
So today, my friends, on this wonderful day, enjoy this day with your family.
And remember when you were a kid and you enjoyed...
Eating those Cadbury eggs and the Peeps and that green straw and getting a basket and getting a little, you know, a little whatever.
Just that time.
Dressing up with shorts when you and your sister or your brother took these pictures.
Remember when we were kids, we had those crew cut haircuts.
We looked like we were in a mental hospital.
And your father would always say, hey, it looks good.
The father always said, looks cool.
I was never overheated by hair.
That looks really good.
It would be a butch wax.
Hey, look at me.
You look like an escapee.
Remember that?
And you're standing there with this.
I had this madras jacket one time with a bow tie.
And you never wore it except for Easter.
They bought it for you.
I kind of like those pastels and things like that.
And you stood there and you're trying to find the egg.
An egg left by a rabbit, which makes no sense.
But enjoy those days.
Enjoy your family.
Understand the essence.
This is where Christianity, this is today is the day.
Catholics go for the crucifixion.
Protestants go more for the resurrection.
That's okay.
To each his own.
I'm not going to argue.
But think of something.
Think of the tradition.
Think of how today, at least people are thinking about something.
And it's Easter.
We don't have anything.
You know, we had Festivus for the rest of us.
You know, there was, you know, there's people that want to say Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.
Well, Easter's Easter.
Easter's Easter.
I mean, I don't know anything you want to call it, but Easter.
You got it?
Easter.
And that's it.
And if you get the chance, and we talk a lot about Israel, but if you get the chance and you are a devout Christian, you must make, you must, I've been there twice, you must go to Jerusalem and go to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre where Christ was buried in the crucifixion and you will have your minds blown.
You will feel something the likes of which you can't imagine.
You will feel a collective energy.
I don't care if it's bouncing off the walls or something.
And I'm not saying it's God or Jesus or whatever.
But when people walk in from all over the world and you see all of these various Christian Priests, whoever, you're not sure who they are, are they Coptic or the Eastern Rite?
I don't know.
But with cassocks and sandals and beards and hats and stuff, I mean, it's wild.
It makes you feel very insignificant.
But when you say, that's Gethsemane, that's, and this is where Jesus was born, this is Bethlehem, this is Nazareth, this is it.
This is Gethsemane where the Where they ground the olives.
It's right there.
There you can see it.
This is where, and you can drive and see, this is where, look at where Mary and Anne, her mother, look where they, it's wild.
Wild.
And it's there.
And it's a place where all of us, and of course you see the Temple Mount and you see there.
I mean, you can see, wow.
You see everything.
I mean, there you are.
This is it.
Caesarea that Herod made to Caesar.
You can see the remnants of the amphitheater.
I mean, it's just incredible.
It's just incredible.
And there is something about that.
There is something mystical, magical, something that connects to people.
So, enjoy this day.
Enjoy this wonderful, wonderful day.
Thank you.
And to our dear friends who were so kind to me today, Raul Rodriguez, Edie Crowley, and Willie Will, thank you so much for this.
I wish you and your family a great and a blessed Easter.
I am going to go with Mrs. L. We're going to be doing something.
We like to keep it on the down low, as it were.
And I'm going to be going, regaling our table mates with my lore.
And I'll tell you all about it later.
But we're going to a real, real funky place.
And I normally hate schmaltzy places to eat.
This, I love something that's unique.
So I'm going to tell you about that later.
We always tell you after the fact.
All right, dear friends, we love you.
I mean that.
Easter hand farts for all of you.
I didn't mean anything about it.
That sounded horrible.
In any event, thank you, my friends.
We'll see you.
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All right, dear friends, thank you again.
Again, happy Easter to you and your family.
Have a great, great day.
Don't go nuts.
Better yet, go nuts.
I'm sorry.
Cadbury eggs.
I think whatever's in there is some kind of serotonin something or other.
It's just, whoa.
And there's something about this.
I don't know what it is.
Years ago, I have to stay away from it.
I can't get near it.
I cannot get near it.
I can't.
There's certain things I just can't.
I don't have a sweet tooth.
But that, historically, peanut M&M's, forget it.
Forget it.
And Reese's peanut butter cups, frozen.
Forget it.
Remember Andy's mints?
Those little mints?
Remember that?
Frozen.
Cold candy somehow.
Just forget it.
Absolutely forget it.
Just...
Go nuts.
And there are some things you have to kind of unwrap.
It's like, if you ever have a bag full of pistachios, no, I like to open them.
If you shell them, it's not the same.
That's me.
Spandex is hot pizza.
Nothing wrong with that, my friend.
And I happen to be right now in the pizza capital of the world.
That's all I'm going to say to you.
All right, dear friends, have a great and glorious day.
Happy Easter to you.
And we'll be back later today, so make sure, don't be surprised if all of a sudden we're doing a live show.
And don't forget, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue you.
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