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May 12, 2024 - Lionel Nation
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Plumbing the Depths of MOTHER
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Good day, my friends.
This is Sunday, the 12th of May.
This is Mother's Day.
We're going to devote our attention to...
The subject of mothers.
Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers.
And I say that they used to be considered a joke, but I don't even think people really get the joke anymore.
We're going to look at what it is, the psychological, the Freudian, the connectivity, the role, the importance, how people have been destroyed by mothers.
Destroyed.
Others nurtured.
People who've never been mothers, people who wanted to be mothers, people who couldn't be mothers, people who lost children, had too many children, parents.
It's a fascinating multiplicity of emotions, the notion of motherhood, parenting, what it means.
And as usual, most Americans will go through today as a rote exercise, not really giving it much thought.
That's what we do.
We don't really think about things.
We never, ever, ever sit back and, again, plumb, unpack, dive deep into what things mean.
So we're going to discuss that almost exclusively.
I would be remiss if I did not tell you, as I normally do, that, my friends, it is now 177 days until the election.
I just want to let you know.
And many of us saw the next re-elected president last night appear in New Jersey at Wildwood in what appeared to be certainly the largest rally of its kind in New Jersey.
Whether it was 20,000 or 10,000 or 100,000, I don't know how many thousands there were, but suffice it to say, there were a lot of folks.
So we'll talk about that.
Not really.
I'm going to talk about mothers.
I'm going to talk about what this means.
Because I've been thinking a lot about this.
And I want, and I want, again, to try to impress upon you.
And maybe you, I can't believe how many people don't do this.
To impress upon you the necessity of diving deep.
Spending time.
Like Mandelbrot's fractals.
Just keep going deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper.
You'll never get, there's no end, there's no, got it!
There's no bottom of the pool where they throw in a, A ring and you dive down it.
Got it!
Doesn't work like that.
You keep diving.
And every time you dive, you learn something new.
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Let us begin by saying, first and foremost, to everybody, to everybody, welcome, welcome, welcome.
Happy, happy Mother's Day.
And I want to discuss a few things about that, if we could, which I think are important.
I think they're critical.
Raul Rodriguez, by the way, to all, happy Mother's Day.
Thank you.
I don't want to start off with this, but I will.
To many people, this is a very sad day.
And there are folks who have women who, for whatever reason, have foregone either marriage or motherhood.
Either by election, by happenstance.
I know more people than I ever thought I would.
Women who are, for whatever reason, never married.
And that's got to be something.
If you're 50 years old and you've never married, you know that people, and you shouldn't, Because that is completely an option which I think is more and more available and more seen but they think either you're gay or there's something wrong with you or
maybe how can you not be married?
I don't know if that I wonder what this current iteration Of young folks are going to do regarding that?
I don't know.
Because I believe that one of these days, if we continue as is, we're going to see more and more people who are themselves not going to marry because of, I think, this inculcated, encouraged selfishness, this solipsism, this narcissistic me, me, me, me, me.
I mean it.
Compounded and exacerbated by social media.
I'm going to be doing an analysis, very interesting, of this fellow Jack Schlossberg, who is Caroline Kennedy's son, who I think needs two things.
Number one, deep psychoanalysis, and number two, drug testing.
Talk about that.
Talk about a weird family with that.
But I do find the notion of families.
I do find the notion of this fascinating.
And I do find the notion and the realm of this to be something that is so worthy of this.
First, is it a woman's role to be a mother?
There's a societal role.
Of who we are.
And then there's the idea of how we, there's a society, the societal role of who we are, and then there's this individual, and then there's this idea of where do we fit into this realm, this human spirit, this symphony of man.
Like, you know, the animal, we're humans.
Do women, is that what you're supposed to do?
Do women have to have children?
Is that the way we measure their worth?
Is a woman, is a mother, excuse me, a woman who said, I don't want to have children.
Not for any particular reason.
Not because I'm selfish, not because I'm...
I'm anything.
I'm just...
I do not...
This is not anything I've aspired to.
I love children.
I have nieces and nephews and that sort of thing, or maybe not.
I don't have any deep-seated problems.
I don't have anything in my own life that makes me not want children or anything along those lines.
That's not it.
I just...
Is there something wrong with them?
I've known, I know a number of people who said, I just don't, I don't want children.
Or, what about people who say, I don't like children.
I don't like being around them.
There's nothing that, I don't feel this pull, this natural whatever.
Is there something wrong with them?
Or is that the most mature and respected?
Adoption.
If you want to be a mother, obviously you can adopt.
Is that the same?
And I'm not asking the question because they don't know.
I'm asking it to inspire, I hope, an analysis to think about this.
Is there something about that?
Is there something about This notion, is it the same?
I put a video, a link, to a movie that came out in 2010 about babies, which is a relationship, obviously, to mothers.
And it looks at Namibia, Mongolia, Tokyo, and San Francisco.
Four babies, or families, and how they are raised in it.
If you haven't seen this, you're missing quite a bit.
I'm interested about people who don't marry.
People who don't have children.
How does society treat them?
What do they feel like?
Now, of that category, there might be people who, for whatever reason, cannot have children.
For whatever reason.
Or, we know people who are This is, to me, the most interesting.
This fascinates me.
As you know, a friend of ours, our dear friend, our father Lloyd, our friend, died at 103.
And there's a group of women called the Sisters of Life.
These are young people who are nuns in full habits.
I mean habits.
The old time habits.
Who devote their lives and their teachings and their directions to helping women who are pregnant.
They walk these women through the process from whenever they need them all the way through.
They take care of medical care, doctors.
They put their money where their mouth is.
It's where the rubber hits the road.
Not like a lot of these conservatives who say, I think that I'm pro-life and we should abolish road.
Well, Casey abolished road.
But anyway.
Great.
Are you going to help mothers?
No.
Are you for any kind of welfare expenditure?
No.
Are you going to do anything to encourage them?
No.
I'm just going to talk again.
Well, these sisters, these nuns, devote themselves to them.
So the other day, we're at this tribute to Father Lloyd, and he was very close to them, and they had a number of the new, they're called postulates, I think.
These are young women who are entering the A nunnery, as it were.
The sisterhood.
And they looked, well, everybody to me, they looked like 12 years old.
Now think about this.
They are foregoing marriage.
They are foregoing families.
They are foregoing motherhood.
And they are spending their life, ostensibly, counseling women who've had children.
That they will never have.
I, as part of my many frustrated areas of interest, I'm a frustrated chef, frustrated physicist, frustrated physician, frustrated musician, and a frustrated psychoanalyst.
I would love...
To hear the complexity of what they think.
Some would say, oh no, this means nothing.
Others would say, yes, it is a bit ironic.
Then I want to know, do you believe there is this thing, this natural urge, this atavistic, primordial, natural pull that pulls women to be a mother?
You don't even know where it's from, from the time babies, little girls.
They start pushing babies and buggies and babies and they start playing mommy.
Boys don't do this.
I think men talk about having families, but I don't think men grow up talking about being fathers.
I don't think there's this...
I don't know if there's that same...
Again, I keep saying atavistic, but this...
I don't know.
Mothers, I think, are people who say, I am put on this planet.
I am feeling this universal perpetuation of the species influence that pushes me towards this.
Is that true?
And then, another group, when mothers go bad.
The first rule I would tell kids is I want you to listen to what I'm saying because they told me this and I didn't believe them and it's true.
One day when your parents are going to be dead, when your parents are dead, you're going to sit back and you're going to remember and you might tend to romanticize a little bit about how great everybody was, how great they were.
By the way, always floss.
These things are great.
Don't leave them on the ground.
Flossing, inflammation, heart attacks, heart incidents, the connections are there in any event.
You're always going to feel like, I should have done more.
I took them for granted.
I didn't call enough.
I was a jerk.
Get ready.
So while they're alive, and while you can pick up the phone or go into the other room, I know they...
You're too young to understand this, and they themselves might be too young, but believe me when I tell you this, one day when they're gone, that's it.
And then you're going to have to ask yourself, how do I deal with it?
Don't really know.
But let's talk about the dark side.
Do you know how many, I think women, maybe more than men, women have not been close to their mothers.
How about mothers who do not, who themselves have been scarred?
Mothers who should not have been mothers.
And we'll talk about that.
There are some people who should not have children.
And not because of any kind of genetic problem or anomaly that they're passing up.
But there are some people who are just, who are so mentally damaged and so So problematic.
They should not have children.
Have you seen this before?
I have.
I have.
It's amazing how many people will say that they hate their mother, which is so difficult to realize.
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I used to see Peter Max a lot on the Upper West Side.
He would hang out at this one restaurant.
He was always there.
That's not really Peter Max.
That's from the 60s.
That's that wonderful stylized art that kind of, you know, We saw everywhere flowery kind of thing.
But here's my question.
Here's my question and this is really critical.
The mothers that have hurt children because we can write this subject families.
What about multiple siblings?
I mentioned this kid Schlossberg who is this guy's demented.
He's not right.
He is not right.
I am telling you.
There's something not right about this guy.
But I digress.
What about when you're a member of the Kennedys and you're a member of 9, 10 kids?
And then you're in a family of 10 kids with 10 kids with 10 kids.
Pretty soon you have 100 and then in-laws and then you've got 200 and then you have kids, families within this and then you have kids.
Within the kids, and you have children within, and there comes to a point where you say, okay, that's all right, but I think there's identity dilution, where you become, I know one family, I think they had 11, and they're called by, what are you, seven?
Oh, you're six?
Who's six?
They have no names.
They were just like...
Who's the oldest?
You're the oldest.
And they have these things about the oldest, the youngest.
You go through all this stuff.
Recency, primacy.
I will tell you, I think that parents tend to be better parents who are older and have either had experience or have had other children because they don't get upset.
They're just calmer just with life.
But what about mothers that screw people up?
Why is that important?
Your mother is the first person to identify and tell you who you are.
You don't know who you are.
Are you good?
Are you talented?
Are you funny?
Are you pretty?
Are you interesting?
Are you liked?
They tell you what you are.
They tell you your self-worth, your frame of reference.
They make you feel who you are.
They tell you.
You come out with a blank slate.
And people who say, well, you know, you shouldn't let a parent.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
This is important.
This is important.
You don't know anything.
A child comes out, tabula rasa baby, blank slate, doesn't know anything.
And then it goes through this period of time I told you of kind of identifying oneself.
Here I am.
This is, you know, parietal lobe stuff and proprio-centric.
You know, where am I?
Where do I fit in?
Hey, these hands are connected to me.
Wait a minute.
What's me?
What's this thing?
Self-awareness.
Self-awareness is something which puts us into the realm from machine to...
Think about it.
Without self-awareness, first of all, knowing that you exist.
And not that you're just watching a movie, but that this is connected to you and that you are fixed into the planet.
It's incredible.
But more importantly, your parents and most probably your mother is the person who tells you who you are.
So your sense of self-awareness, Confidence, sense of talent, bravery, right or wrong, figuring in, am I spoiled?
Add to the complexity of that.
Siblings, now you're competing with people your same age.
You have this affinity.
You know you're connected somehow to them.
But as a kid, you don't know anything.
Your mother tells you more of who you are than anything.
Then there are people who have been given up for adoption.
We don't talk about that as much, but that's even more fascinating.
And then there are kids who find out that they were adopted and they spend their life learning who they are and What am I and where are they from and why did you leave me?
Then it gets even more interesting.
Then, with the idea of DNA analysis and genealogy, people who were told, look, I'm going to give this baby up, but I do not want to see this child again ever.
Okay, or can you assure me of that?
Oh, absolutely.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Okay.
Then somebody somewhere swabs the cheek and says, hey, there's somebody in this particular area who blah, blah, blah.
And then you get a genetic genealogist who comes in and guess what?
Knock on the door.
Hi, I'm your son.
What does that mean?
How do you go to somebody and say, you left me.
You gave me up.
You had another family, stayed with them, but not me.
Now, you can be 50, 60, 70 years old.
You can be the smartest person.
You can be Ed Witten.
You can have the greatest mind, but that psychological, social, emotional little glitch will always be with some people.
Maybe somebody else says, look, it happens.
Nothing personal.
Hey, I'm glad you didn't abort me.
Thank you very much.
Maybe it's like that.
Everybody's different.
There are people who still feel that when there is divorce, they were abandoned.
They were rejected.
Daddy, I know this is daddy, and mommy sometimes.
Daddy didn't leave mommy.
Daddy left me.
And what about fathers who get Custody.
Total custody.
Because now there's shared parental responsibility by statute of most jurisdictions.
What about mothers who say, I don't want this.
I want to move on.
How about mothers who don't grow up?
Mothers who compete with their daughters.
Mothers who are jealous of their daughters.
Mothers who view their daughter, because there's something weird, as being a competition for their husband, for daddy, daddy's little girl.
I mean, I can write for you every permutation, every combination, every aspect of it, and we'll never get done.
We'll just write all the combinations.
Yes, Mother's Day is a wonderful day.
But it's more important.
And it is about women.
It is about women being mothers.
It is about women.
This is not about playing men's basketball.
This is not about competing against swimming.
This is not about competing against a woman.
A woman is a different species, a different everything than a man.
I want you to listen to me and I don't want you to laugh or make a joke.
Men are from Mars.
I am telling you this.
I know this like I know nothing else.
Women and men are completely Completely different.
And if you don't understand this, and boys sometimes will learn this between dealing with mother, maybe dealing with sisters, you know this.
And I'm not saying one's crazy and one's not.
I'm not saying that.
And women will say that boys are different in the world.
I understand this.
This DEI bullshit has nothing to do with the fact that for whatever reason, whether it's God or nature or happenstance or a roll of the dice, not only are you different because of a uterus, but you're different because of a mindset.
A mindset and a way of a different limbic system, a different everything.
A different way.
This weaker sex stuff is not even.
I don't even know where that comes from.
And of that, you can have, listen to me, you can have a heterosexual woman, a homosexual woman, a gay woman, a non-binary, you've got a woman.
I don't care what anybody says.
You can say, you know what?
I feel like a man.
You're a woman.
Now, you might change things, and you might, yes, physically, whatever, but the part of your brain that makes you a woman, and I'm not saying, remember, good or bad or better, or I'm just saying different.
Different.
Different.
Gender is not like race.
I can take somebody who's quote black and somebody who's quote white and if I keep marrying them together pretty soon, I don't know what's what.
But you can't blend a man with a woman and have them marry and then you get this hybrid.
No, you get a man or a woman.
You can't mix them like colors.
You can't take red and white and get pink.
It doesn't work like that.
You get red and white and you mix them together and you get red or white.
It's the damnedest thing.
It doesn't even seem to make sense because this is a solid.
This is a standard.
This is a condition of nature that is not subject to, you know, petition or legislature or AOC.
When men and women mate, they get either a man or a woman.
They don't get a hybrid.
They don't.
It doesn't work like that.
What you think romantically, what you think sexually, what you are attracted to, what you are subject to by virtue of fetish or predisposition, that's another story.
But you are a man or you are a woman.
And you, you might have some genital imperfections.
If you are born with six fingers or ten fingers on one hand, you are a human with ten fingers on one hand.
You are not a duck.
It doesn't work like that.
But somehow, we've gotten away from this.
And somehow, we don't understand that there are things called God, and I'm going to use God as a kind of a...
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People...
Also love this idea that, and they love to make things very simple.
Men, someone wrote, men are for strength, women are for emotions.
They say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Too simple, too simple, too simple.
We'll talk about fathers.
Fathers are critical.
But specifically, let me rephrase this, fathers.
Fathers in terms of a male figure.
Ideally, fathers are great.
Sometimes people are married, families, where it's the grandfather.
And the grandfather is the father.
And when kids grow up, they need to see, this is a woman, this is a man.
And women especially Especially, especially need to understand the connection that what men are to them.
When you explain to a little kid, daddy talks to you like a daughter, but talks to your brother like a son.
Even they get it.
Okay, I understand.
Now try to explain it, I can't explain it.
I can't explain it.
You always look at the question of, You could always, remember, whatever you don't have as a child, you never correct it.
It's like whenever a tree bends, if a tree's growing and all of a sudden it goes like this, oh, you can strain it up eventually, but there'll always be that part that's crooked.
I can always tell and see if a bone is broken.
Bones get tough.
Sometimes breaking makes them harder than, you know, before.
There will always be that little thing.
You never get over that.
You never get over it.
Why?
Because there was that foundation in you that wasn't there.
It wasn't there.
You can't override this.
You can't do mind over matter.
You can't say stuff.
Talk to anybody who's been through trauma.
Talk to somebody who feels things like survivor's guilt and explain to them.
This doesn't make any sense.
You walked away from war and you weren't hurt and now you feel guilty?
That doesn't make any sense.
It has nothing to do with making sense.
None of this makes any sense.
It's the way it is.
And if you're lucky, if you're lucky, you'll probably just come out okay.
And then we have this.
Then we have people who have terrible mothers.
Terrible fathers.
Or no mothers.
And they're fine.
They're actually, they actually, they say, well, I'm not going to do that to my kid.
I'm not going to treat my kid like that.
By God, I'm going to be there.
My father never came to me to see me play baseball, but I'm going to be.
And in a weird way, that creates this super dad.
Who, by virtue of their own particular loss, they turn around and they invert it to actually make kids better.
Kids benefit from that.
It's very complicated.
There are people who spend the rest of their lives in therapy trying to figure something out.
There's no figuring it out.
The question is, are you going to accept this?
Or how do you accept it?
And what do you do with it?
It's one of those things.
Have you ever had the opportunity, and I've, luckily we've ever, I'm very lucky, very, very lucky.
My mother was just funny as, funny as hell.
And so much, so much of my personality is absolutely connected.
My mother and I saw things, I got it, saw things twisted.
And it wasn't, she didn't train me, we just got it.
We just got it.
Just understood it.
Nobody sat out and said, okay, you're going to understand this.
I remember one time as a kid, she had, she collected everything.
Before we knew what hoarding was, she just kept everything.
We didn't even know how to name it.
My father told me, he was like, well, let me know.
My father was the best because he was like, well, that's the way it is.
What are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
Are you going to get upset about this?
Don't get upset about this.
It's the way it is.
She keeps stuff.
I don't know what to tell you.
And I'm like, well, that's the way it is.
So there was this thing when I was a kid.
We had these closets that were filled with...
I don't know what to...
And sometimes I would just...
I always loved to explore.
I used to do it at my grandmother's house, my aunt's house.
I would just walk around.
It's just terrible.
I would open it up like a...
Like a garage, you just look.
It was fascinating to me.
Oh, look at that.
My aunt had a ringer.
It was this old, one of these old washing machines with a ringer.
You know, you got a tit in the ringer, the expression.
Anyway, my mother had this little cartoon.
Here was a cartoon.
And it wasn't a cartoon, it was an ad.
Now, I was a kid.
I didn't really understand.
Well, here was the ad.
Guy looked like Wally Cox, skinny, little...
Pork pie hat, little bow tie, and he's like this, looking very afraid, very scared.
He's in an airport parking lot.
There's miles of cars, just miles of cars, and he's standing in his car like this, looking very, very afraid.
And the line says, where will you be when your laxative starts to work?
And I looked at this, and I was, I don't remember.
And I thought that was the funniest thing.
And I got it.
It was that subtlety.
I had this thing one time made for her.
We loved expressions.
One time she said, it was...
Thanksgiving or something, she was doing things, and she was a great cook, but she was always doing, and she was trying to be profound.
I was like, okay, here's the food, and now it's time for me to say something profound.
She says, food always tastes better after you've eaten it.
And then she gives it like this, and I thought, oh, okay.
So that was one of my favorites.
That was one of the, you know.
And by the way, there is a video coming up of my favorite expression.
It's coming up.
Lionel members, you can see it now.
But it's one of the most profound statements and philosophies that I get from a movie.
We're going to be doing favorite movies coming up very soon.
So, anyway, that was one.
But the one that killed me.
And she said it.
And I got it immediately.
I got it.
And nobody told me.
Nobody said, you understand why this is funny.
No, I got it.
I got it.
She said, death.
Death.
Death sometimes changes people for the worse.
Yes.
Yes, that's true.
And I had it made into a calligraphy.
We framed it.
Gave it to her.
It was one of those no shit.
And we'd crack up over that.
It just killed me.
There's something about and other people, you know, and I'm not saying it was Particularly deep.
But I got it.
Plain old flat on jokes.
Three Stooges stuff, no.
Faulty Towers, she dug.
Monty Python, she dug.
And so you see things and I...
There's just so many things.
So my memories...
I don't feel sad.
I just look back and I laugh.
I laugh like hell.
My sister, they wanted to put her in some Santa Claus picture.
And she'd always cry.
I don't know why.
They said, why don't you get in the picture?
I'm not going to get in that goddamn picture.
Hell no!
I'm in the 8th grade, whatever it is.
What, are you kidding me?
What if I'm seen in that picture?
No!
Yeah, but she won't cry if she's with her.
I don't give a damn.
I'm not getting in that picture.
Well, sit on your lap.
She's not sitting on my...
Either she goes, and I told her, look, either you take the picture with Santa, or that's it.
I'm not going to do it.
Here's how they compromise.
You know what the picture was?
It's me.
It was me.
Holding my sister.
Like I don't, like I'm trying to give her to Santa here.
Take her!
I don't even know who this is.
Get the hell out of here!
One of the funniest.
And we had a picture.
killed me my father I'm not crying upset.
These are tears.
I don't laugh.
My father had a dog.
Ugliest dog.
I hated this dog.
It was just, I don't know.
So anyway.
My mother said, we're going to take a picture of the dog.
We're going to take the dog to a photographer.
And the dog was always skittish.
I think the dog was, well, we used to use the word retarded then, but we don't use that word.
I don't know what you call canine dementia is.
But anyway.
So, uh, we went, so she calls the doctor.
The vet says, listen, is there something we can do for this dog to calm this dog?
I can't pose the dog.
The dog's not, the dog's not, you know, it won't sit still.
So my, so the vet says, yeah, give him a Valium or whatever it was.
I don't know, some little dog.
By the way, animal Valium, they have it.
It's diazepam.
It's just as good as it's cheaper.
And if you want cheap drugs, go to a vet.
Just saying.
So they give the dog the Valium.
I don't know, maybe it was too much.
Here's the way the dog was.
With this tongue hanging out.
The dog looked dead.
Well, she's got to take the picture.
She booked the time with this guy.
And again, the dog is like, With a tongue hanging out.
It looks dead.
You know when dogs die, it's terrible.
Again, she's got a hold.
Again, one of these pictures, she's like this.
And you see her hands holding the dog with her tongue hanging out.
It's the ugliest.
My father loved it.
Oh, it's as great as it.
Do you notice the hand?
And I told him, I said, do you notice the hand?
Yes.
The dog's narcotized.
Look at it.
I know.
No, no, look at the tongue.
This is the ugliest picture.
What is this?
This is like they unearthed, exhumed this.
And I said, you're not going to put that on a wall, are you?
Sure enough.
Sure enough.
I mean, it cracked me up.
Now, I don't know why.
To me, everything was kind of funny.
And I looked around.
Nobody really got it except my mother.
She got it.
We're laughing.
I said, this is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life.
It just kills me.
So, you know, I just, I was very, very lucky.
Very, very lucky.
I think at the time, in the 60s, we lived, well, growing up in the 60s, all of our mothers looked like moms.
They didn't look like tramps.
Maybe they were.
I don't know.
They didn't have tattoos.
They didn't have phones, obviously.
They weren't always taking pictures of themselves.
They were moms.
And you went to somebody's house and it was their mom.
And you showed respect to their mom.
And you kind of knew if you did something, which I never did, but if you did something, that mom would call your mom.
And there was these things called moms.
And they were called housewives.
And they were really good and really important and very, very valuable and very, very critically important.
They were called moms.
That's simple.
Moms.
And it was kind of maybe June Cleaver-ish, kind of, sort of, but not really.
And every day in school, the moms would come pick you up.
And you knew everybody's car.
This is Mrs. So-and-so.
And the station wagons would show up.
And they would pick you up.
And the fathers went to work.
And the fathers, you know, I don't know about you, but my father came home every day exactly the same time.
I mean, exactly.
If he was having some kind of an extramarital dress, he had to do it at work because he was there every day.
And that was it.
It was stable and we thought nothing of it.
I heard of maybe one person getting a divorce.
Maybe.
It was kind of a rarity, so to speak.
And there was a sense of stability.
And there was a thing where when we were...
And I know I'm always sounding.
I'm always...
Act like I'm this ancient time traveler.
But my history is the only thing I know, so forgive me for that.
But we would never be at home, though I liked watching Merv Griffin quite a bit, but we had no problem in going out and being in packs, riding bikes, and going to people's homes.
This one had a tree, and we'd go in the backyard, and this and that.
You know, it was just a very, very...
And I realized that it was the most fertile, intellectually fertile and peaceful and calm and rational way to live.
And today, now at the time, we never had any weird...
We never had people on TV talking about non-binaries.
We never had people to see where Target all of a sudden decides, hey, we're going to get rid of this pride stuff.
And tucking, remember the clothes you could tuck in your genitals?
I mean, they lost their minds.
What do kids think like that when they feel like that?
In any event, going back to the Mother's Day, there is something which is also very interesting.
I think I told you this before.
There's an office that Mrs. Ellen and I would be working in.
And as we went from one floor to the next, virtually the entire building was dedicated to a fertility type of clinic, of source, in vitro, IVF, floor after floor after floor after floor, packed.
Women, couples, trying their best to just have a child.
Just have a child.
And there are people who have tried everything in their power.
You go to other parts of the world, and there are so many people, so many children, there's too many children.
I'm not for depopulation, excuse me, but there's too many children for limited resources.
I'll leave it at that.
Is it fair?
No.
Not at all.
And I've often thought about this conversation.
God comes down to earth and says, what are you doing?
Why are you having...
I saw a lady who had a child at 40?
Yeah, I never intended that.
No, I want you to have a child as soon as a girl begins or enters menarche and menstruation, and that's when she should have a child.
Say, excuse me, God, I don't want to tell you your business, but...
I think you know as because of the hormonal problems we have with all the food and the adulterants, kids are having periods at the age of eight.
So I don't know if that's natural.
Number two, people are not mature enough to have children.
It's very expensive to have a child.
And people are putting off their careers so that a woman can maybe have a career.
And God will say, excuse me, I don't think you heard me the first time.
Number one, I'm God.
Number two, I designed the woman's body.
To be able to withstand the rigors of birth and to be able to have it with greater facility.
Uterine linings are more pristine, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And I don't care about putting things...
What did you say?
Putting things off until what?
What?
No.
No.
This is where society and reality...
In biology, none of it makes any sense.
This is where none of it makes any sense.
Now, then look at mothers in black communities, white communities, European communities.
Think about what it means to be a mother in Gaza now.
What does it mean to be a mother in certain Palestinian enclaves?
Don't bring that up.
Why not?
Just don't bring that up.
Really?
Really?
There's something also which is interesting about being a mother.
And I've seen this before.
I've seen relatives and others.
You take a girl who all her life has been this Miss Pris...
Kind of, ew, that's gross.
A real pain in the ass.
A real look at me, kind of an egomaniac.
Selfish.
Rude.
And then all of a sudden, this kid isn't a kid anymore.
And this kid has her own kid.
And all of a sudden, she turns into this animal.
And she looks at you and you know, she will kill you.
If you get near this.
And it's not just an expression.
Yeah, a father might...
A father certainly would show anger, but...
How do I say this?
It's not merely territorial.
It's not like you took something that was mine.
You violated something that was mine.
Oh, no.
To a mother is that you basically killed me.
Because unlike anything else, this thing, this body of Christ, anyway, this thing, this baby, this blastocyst grew in you.
It's like a virus.
It's a parasite.
It leeches off you and you become one and you're sharing things and you're Oh, it's not.
You can have all the artificial whatever you want.
There is something.
This becomes you.
And it is you.
It is a part of you.
Where you became.
Where you let off.
And it begins.
Who knows?
And then when this thing all of a sudden...
And you talk about hormonal postpartum and what happened.
Some women say it's the most exhausting.
Other women, they're happy when they're pregnant.
They can't wait to be pregnant.
They love being pregnant.
Other women, it's horrifying.
Morning sickness.
It's fascinating.
Because what happens is What you see here is what happens in the wild.
It brings us down all to the level of being animals.
And I say that in the best of sense.
Animals.
The perpetuation of the species.
And unlike most animals, humans are not born.
Kind of fully formed.
Ready to go.
Horses born.
Up!
Standing up!
There you go!
Ready to go?
Oh no, our head was too big so the birth canal has always got to grow and it's not really ready and you know and how kids how kids how kids how kids grow up and how these richer folks send kids off to boarding schools and get them out of here.
It's good.
I never understood that.
Well, that's the way that rich people do it.
Well, that's not a good thing that rich people do.
That's not good.
I would be so afraid of somebody hurting my kid.
I'm going to send my kid off to some boarding school with some weird guys.
Oh, no.
No.
No.
Uh-uh.
Sorry.
What I know about what they do to kids now, forget it.
Forget it.
Not even remotely interested in that.
I promise you today, most people will spend no time thinking about what does this word mean?
What does this concept mean?
And there are people who are themselves mothers who will say, I never really thought about it.
And the reason why is it's not something that we are prone to do.
We are not apt to do this.
We are not into asking questions.
We don't do this.
We don't like doing this.
It's not who we are.
But it's a fascinating story.
And I'm going to say this again.
And I'm not trying to be politically problematic or disputatious or anything like that.
I'm just trying to tell you.
Mothers are women.
A man cannot be Mother.
You might be able to use a kind of weird abdominal implantation because of some ectopic pregnancy analog, which they've talked about doing for years.
When I see these men, have you seen these Instagrams of men pretending they're in pain with their periods?
Have you seen this?
This is nothing but theater.
Like Jack Schlossberg, who has lost his mind.
One more word on him.
You're not John Kennedy Jr.
This is weird.
This is weird.
John Kennedy Jr. had class.
He had style.
You're this phony knockoff who's got some very deep-seated issues.
I'll just leave it at that.
And by the way, drug testing.
Just think about it.
I know what I'm talking about.
Just thinking about it.
And there are some things that are true.
So on today, on this day, we say to you, Happy Mother's Day.
We look back on our own mothers and grandmothers, because grandmothers are just, oh, to me, to me, to me, the height, the Mount Olympus of femininity, of the woman, is the grandmother.
The greatest.
This is when mothers, this is when women, they lose all this bullshit and they're saying, I'm your grandma now.
And they start wearing sometimes grandma clothes.
And that's when I like them.
They might like a shift or a moo-moo or maybe a house dress.
They don't care.
And they're just great and they're funny and they're smart.
And you don't really sometimes see, I hate to say it, because this societal stuff is gone.
All of the pressure is all of that.
And so grandmothers are in another realm.
That's like a mother but a...
But another, this is where this woman, I mean, you just cut out the middleman.
They just love you because if you get really out of control, they say, get, go home.
So they only say, my grandma!
And for some reason, for some reason in our country, I don't know about other civilizations, other, we call them mom, dad, mother, father, papa, pop, mom, mommy, ma, that's about it.
Grandparents?
You come up with names that are so stupid.
Brad says, by the way, Brad Runge, or Runge says, Happy Mother's, Happy Mother's Day to all listening to the best one.
Oh, excellent.
Thank you.
What was the name that you gave your grandparents, your grandmother?
It's always a name like Mimo, Mimo, Mimo, Mimo, Dooboo, Boopie, Dooboo, Boopie.
You know what I mean?
This is the most important.
See, somebody says, Papa was my first love.
There is something.
A father shows a daughter how men...
It's different.
Say different.
And the thing that's the most important, especially if you are a new parent or you have grandkids or whatever, it's a very simple rule.
Very simple.
Make a note of this.
You will never go wrong with this.
Love them.
Make them think they are the greatest things ever.
You can always humble them, but you can't bring them up.
Kids happy.
Make them laugh.
Give them trophies.
I love this.
I can't believe it.
These kids today, they go out there and they get a trophy just for participation.
That's not life.
Hey, do me a favor.
Shut up.
Give them the trophy.
Tell people, you're great.
You tell little girls, you're beautiful.
You're talented.
We love you.
You're fantastic.
You're the best.
You're great.
Hey, did you see what you did?
Put it up.
Did you see that?
That's beautiful.
Make me another one.
Did you do that?
That's great.
You're smart.
You're great.
I didn't do so well in school.
Did you try?
Yeah, that's all that matters.
Come on.
I'm proud of you.
That's terrific.
That's it.
It's simple.
You marinate them.
Somebody said you marinate kids, and then later on, they're juicy.
It's simple.
And the number of people that I know whose fathers never said, I love you, people say, well, I kind of knew it.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
They say, I love you.
You know that, don't you?
You know that.
Look at me.
You know that.
And you make kind of a game out of it.
Look at me.
And if somebody tells you, your father or mother doesn't love you, what do you tell them?
Somebody says, they don't love you.
What do you tell them?
What do you tell them?
You know, you make a joke.
You tell them they're crazy.
And you, that's it.
They can still end up being screwed up.
I've seen that happen.
Look, it's a crapshoot.
They can still end up doing drugs and have the wrong friends.
But at least you can say, I did my part.
They're not going to be, you know...
Climbing some bell tower yelling top of the world, Ma, because Daddy never told me he loved me.
Uh-uh.
Uh-uh.
When you have a kid, be very careful about their looks and don't worry.
And if they're overweight, don't make food an issue.
Don't scare them.
Don't say, you're not going to leave until you finish your plate.
No!
Or how about that father who made his kid run on the treadmill?
Oh my God.
That's it.
Very simple.
So anyway, we love you.
Happy Mother's Day.
Mrs. Ellen and I send you our best.
Have a great and glorious day.
And if you want to also, I ask you this very, very important and critical thing.
Make sure you do us a favor.
And follow her.
She has some of the best.
She has a brand new audio only out that's really good.
That's really good.
That's her link right there.
So anyway, friends, thank you to all the mothers.
Happy Mother's Day.
Enjoy yourself.
Think about it, especially if you've lost a mother.
Think good stuff.
Connect intellectually.
Connect spiritually.
Connect.
They are there.
It's like they're in another room.
It's like when they were alive and you didn't call them every day.
You are doing stuff and you realize, well, my mother's alive.
I mean, I'm not talking to her, but we're not on the phone.
I'm over here.
I'm in Indiana.
That's the way it is right now.
Your parents are still here.
You just haven't spoken to them on the phone, but they're there.
And now that may sound kind of crazy to you, but the idea of, remember, object permanence.
Piaget said it best.
Just because you don't see something.
Doesn't mean it's not there.
That's all.
Because most of the time in your life, you never saw your parents.
Most of the time, you were busy.
You didn't see them during the day.
You saw them a little bit.
Not all the time.
So just remember this.
And I also have something too, which I want to say, and I don't want anybody to take this the wrong way, okay?
But this is just my unsolicited advice.
I think one of the ghoulish things that we do, most ghoulish, is cemeteries.
I don't know where this came from.
I don't know if somebody could say, let's think of a cruel and sick way to go and to have this death pasture where we put metal, I mean not metal, marble and...
Granite slabs with names.
So all these, just so that you're just immersed in death with names and when they lived.
I hate, hate cemeteries.
I do not understand.
I do not.
And we do it out of tradition.
I like when they say, well, he's at rest.
What does that mean?
Rest well.
Rest.
What do you mean rest?
He passed.
Transitional.
Passed into what?
He just passed.
We're euphemistic about this.
We spend too much time thinking about the corporeal.
This is your space suit.
A balloon.
Show a kid a balloon.
What is this?
What is this?
A balloon.
Here, how come it won't fly?
Because there's no air in it.
What was that?
Because there's no air in it.
Air?
Oh, you mean like a spirit?
You mean like that life force?
Oh, I see.
So, when the life force isn't there, the balloon is still a balloon, but it's empty.
Because the thing that made the balloon the balloon wasn't the color, wasn't the shape, but what was in it.
When you start telling kids and explaining to people about this notion of a spirit, of an idea, of a life force, it never goes away.
It never goes away.
It's not there.
No matter how, no matter what mental gymnastics or pretend world you come up with, it never goes away.
So anyway, dear friends, so thank you, thank you.
Brad Runge or Runge?
Runge?
Thank you.
Thank you so much for that.
And also, hang on.
There we go.
Oh, Madam Stamp, thank you.
Please email me, lionelmedia.com, and I will get you that address.
Raul Rodriguez, thank you as well.
All right, dear friends.
Now, today, we will not be with you this eve because we are celebrating accordingly.
And with that, I will say there is some good stuff coming up.
Make sure you remain connected via subscriptions and the like.
I've got a good one coming up on philosophy.
And I'm going to do a detailed analysis of Jack Schlossberg, who is my new favorite lunatic, because I love lunatics.
I have been...
I have been attracted to crazy people my whole life, and that's why I'm with you.
Anyway, any Mother's Day thoughts?
Mrs. L says mothers are the true warriors.
Absolutely.
All right, dear friends, have a great day again.
Ladies, happy Mother's Day.
And also, well, I'm not going to.
Just remember what I said, okay?
All right.
We'll see you manana.
Have a great and glorious day.
And don't forget, my friends, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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