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Sept. 5, 2024 - Lionel Nation
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There's No Way Que Mala and A-Walz Can Sustain This Gibberish Until November

There's No Way Que Mala and A-Walz Can Sustain This Gibberish Until November

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The first rule that is required for anybody who's paying attention to what's going on, especially politics, I'm going to presume that this is brand new for you.
I'm going to presume this, because I'm running into people that I know.
People I've known all my life!
I don't think they've ever followed anything politically in their life.
I don't think they understand, not only that, I don't think they understand anything about anything.
And I know that sounds a bit much, but it's the truth.
First and foremost, let me talk about a couple of things here.
Number one, I want to just jump to this.
President Trump has...
Done something which I have been wanting him to do for the longest time, and that is to embrace the notion of social media.
And there are some people that I really like who are very, very good.
This might surprise you.
Lex Friedman, whom we will discuss.
Joe Rogan.
Piers Morgan, great.
Great.
Not for information.
Piers Morgan is...
Geraldo Rivera is Morton Downey Jr.
He's not a Larry King.
Larry King was great because he got out of the way.
Larry King and Lex Friedman are the same.
Joe Rogan, you tune in Joe Rogan for Joe Rogan.
Joe Rogan is very, very unique.
Larry King was one of the greats during his time because of what he did.
He got out of the way.
He got out of the way completely.
I can't say this enough.
He got out of the way.
He didn't.
It wasn't about him.
It was the guest.
I've got the guest.
He just did it.
And you could say, some people said it was laziness.
No!
Listen to Uncle Lenny.
Let me ask you a question.
What do you do better, you, than anybody else that you know, or maybe in the country either?
What do you, what is the one thing that you do that is hands I should say heads and shoulders above everybody.
What is it?
What?
What do you do?
What?
It's a tough thing to do.
And the next question is, if you do it better than, I mean, most people.
I mean, how many people would you have to sample before we found somebody better at this than you?
Think about what I'm telling you.
Would it be a hundred?
A thousand?
Ten thousand?
A million?
I mean, how really good are you at what you do?
And the next thing is, is it significantly important societally?
If this...
Sorry, I gotta get up.
There we go.
If this, if this is for some reason important to you in society, if this, getting this particular sound, means something, I am one of the few because most people cannot do this.
Most people could be one out of 10,000.
I mean, there are people who make these, you know, not only that, I can't do it, but they'll just make noise.
But I think you'll understand it.
Barry Taylor says, I loved it when Don Rickles was on Larry King.
That was pure magic because two people, it was just perfect.
By the way, remember something too, Barry.
A lot of times you can't explain why things are true.
This is important.
Very few people can do it.
Is it of significance?
No.
Nolan Ryan was born with a either rotator cuff or some kind of a shoulder Something or other, that didn't break the elbows and shoulders.
He just, I mean, we would have thrown our arms out years ago.
If it weren't for baseball, Nolan Ryan would be, you know, robbing liquor stores or pumping gas or whatever it was.
It's funny, obviously, pumping gas, because now we have a lot of people pumping gas who are foreign and who maybe own the station, but in any event.
So the first rule is remember something.
What do you really do well?
I want you to think about this.
What do you do well?
Do you know it?
Next rule is never tell anybody what you do.
If they don't know it, it's not important.
If you have to tell them, if you have to tell them, you know, it's not important.
Normally they'll tell you, oh, I know what you can do.
Oh, I know what it is.
Sometimes if it's a sports thing, you're not going to know.
You might be a great...
Cricket batter or whatever the hell they're called and nobody knows it.
So aside from that, okay.
The secret to life, one of the many, many secrets, is to find out what you're really good at and exploit it and hope to God it's exploitable.
Hope to God that enough people want to see what you're doing.
Hope to God that enough people care about it or think it's important.
Hope to God.
Next rule is never do something that you wish you were good at and convince yourself that you are good at it.
I've seen this.
There are people sometimes who look and they see themselves as being funny.
Funny to them means everything.
It's the most important thing in the world to them.
And they will go and they say, I want to be A stand-up comedian.
And I've heard it sometimes.
You know, I've heard this kind of...
Believe me, I've got a real problem with, and I've met some of the strangest people, these stand-up comedians who are the most unfunny, unimaginative, and look at stand-up as a...
Not even as a...
As somebody who's...
You know, George Carlin was somebody who...
I wish sometimes he would stop doing the routines.
His views of life were just...
He was hatched.
He was from another world.
Oscar Wilde and others as well.
I keep mentioning Mitch Hedberg.
Absolutely.
But there were other people too who were just kind of shtick.
Buddy Hackett, Jack Carter, Jan Murray.
We can go through the list.
I was watching a bunch.
Don't ask me why.
I'm into these rotations.
All of a sudden, I'll get into police cars, police chases, and police arrests, and tasers, and high-speed chases.
And then, like our friend Lori Partridge watches Russian aircraft disasters.
And then, now I'm getting into these people who are the...
who are the...
And I don't want to mention their names, but a couple.
They're very good at being interviewed, but I've seen their quotes.
To me, it's like, what made you think you were funny?
Maybe you could just stand up there and just yell at people.
They want, more than anything else, to be great comedians.
And I don't understand it, but God bless.
I don't understand Jackson Pollock either, but to Kooning, maybe, not him.
So the first rule is, remember, find out what you're really good at.
Number two, hope to God that it's somehow recognizable and you can make some money in it.
Thank God that what you're doing, like Nolan Ryan, if it wasn't for baseball, if you were born in Egypt, what good does this do?
And the third thing is, also, don't ever try to do something you're not good at.
Sometimes you find yourself, you say, I'm really good at this.
And I guess I'm thinking more to maybe show busy types of things.
Because sometimes there are things you can really become, you can train well.
You can be a great urologist by virtue of training.
You're not born to be a urologist, but you are.
A major monumental thing happened as of recent times.
And that is this thing.
Fill in the shtick.
Indeed.
I think I know what you're talking about, but yes, that's what I'm saying in some respect.
There's one fellow who is actually very, very funny.
I'm not going to mention him.
I do want to mention his name because some of the people I know.
And if you're talking to him, he's really smart.
But once he gets on that set...
Then he becomes a comedian.
Then he does this thing.
He does a joke like this.
And I told this joke one time.
And here's this joke.
Can I tell you this joke?
Okay, here's one of my jokes.
So, he is so-and-so.
Remember the roast?
If ever you want to see something which is the worst of the worst of the worst.
The worst.
The bottom.
The nadir.
Here's the barrel.
Scraping the barrel.
Are the comedies in order for the celebrity roasts that people did.
Pat Cooper was the best roaster ever.
He was always the closer.
Don Rickles couldn't do it.
But other people, Lisa Lampanelli.
You are so gross that your blank looks like four miles away.
It's like this.
No.
Formulaing, it doesn't even matter who it is.
It's just who can be gross.
Now, gross is great.
I will really gross people out and never say an F word.
Not because I'm that much of a genius, but if you really want to gross people out, oh, if that's what you want to do, you're doing it the wrong way.
You're doing it the hard way.
You're doing it the usual way.
If F-bombing, and I'll get to the point of today's show, F-bombing, by the way, is the worst crutch in the world.
S-bombing, even funnier.
S-bombs, very funny.
Almost, almost, that is the most versatile word there is.
Okay.
In the past couple of years, decades, people have risen to the top.
Joe Rogan.
Lex Friedman.
Others, I, whatever.
And because I don't find them interesting, does not mean they're not interesting.
It just means I just don't find them interesting.
I think there is an art to fried chicken.
I have not had fried chicken in, I don't know, 15 years, 17 years.
I have no idea.
Doesn't mean that...
So you see what I'm saying?
Okay.
Lex Friedman is today the Larry King.
Lex Friedman is one of my heroes.
First of all, Lex Friedman is as interesting as...
I don't want to say a wet fart, but he is...
I would say, when I first saw him, I would say, like most people do, oh, he's one of the, and they always say, Asperger's, Spectrum.
Maybe he is, I don't know.
Flat affect.
No emotion.
Non-emotive.
And what do you think is the reason for that?
Where's the black suit?
And I love it.
Think about it.
Black suit.
Black tie.
Kind of the institutional haircut, like the mental hospital haircut.
And he talks like that.
And the problem is when you...
And here's a guy, he's talking the best of...
He's talking to particle physicists.
His stuff on artificial intelligence is just next to...
It's perfect.
Why?
It's because the guest.
The guest.
He gets out of the way.
Same thing with Rogan.
But what they both have in common, more than anything else, and Larry King did this.
Which is, but Piers Morgan does it because it's, Piers Morgan is Schmaltz, Piers Morgan is, he's a wrestling promoter.
It's a work, but he's very good at it.
Lex Friedman really is truly, seriously, and Rogan too, seriously fascinated by the person they're talking to.
Fascinating.
You never feel like, oh, he's just phoning this in.
He's just...
Joe Rogan can talk about, and how did they move the boulders or the blocks to make the pyramid?
And if this swampland, and if the Benchuka from the island of Ternady and the Moluccas does in fact...
Pose the most poisonous bite.
Then why don't...
Then he's got Joey Diaz who is miraculously fascinating because he's a Cuban.
I know these people.
But he's probably...
He is the degenerate's degenerate who has an impish kind of a winking charm.
It just works.
Others...
Others, eh.
To me, numbers mean nothing.
Numbers mean absolutely nothing.
Don't ask me what makes a good show.
There were some shows that, hi, welcome to Appalachian Cooking.
Today we're going to make crumb cake.
And it's this woman in this thing and she has like four followers.
I think it's the most brilliant thing.
I'd put her on in a minute because it's kitschy, it's weird, and I don't know what's good and what's not.
Why am I talking about that?
Why?
Why am I talking about Lex Friedman?
Why?
This.
Right here.
This is why.
Speaking of marijuana, let me ask you.
Speaking of marijuana, it's up with Trump.
I don't know why that cracks me up.
Speaking of rectal prolapse, you know.
Speaking of pilot idle sift, you know.
Speaking of Margaret Hamilton, you know, I just, I love, this is not a non sequitur, but I just, that just cracks me up.
But listen to this.
Speaking of marijuana, let me ask you about my good friend Joe Rogan.
So you had a bit of tension with him.
I like this.
This is called bringing the heat.
I love this.
Bringing heat.
This is good.
This is when Trump is the best.
Trump is the best.
Now look at Trump.
Look at the way Trump looks.
He's talking to a man with a bad buzz cut in a black suit who looks like a mortician's assistant at some Route 3 funeral home, okay?
But he's interested because Trump realizes this guy's got more people watching than anybody else.
Watch this.
When he said nice things about RFK Jr., I think, you've said some not-so-nice things about Joe.
I think that was a bit unfair.
Oh, Lex, please.
Call Bring in Heat.
See, Rex doesn't understand wrestling.
Rex is too young.
Rex doesn't understand Gordon Sully, Dusty Rhodes, Eddie Graham, you know, Ric Flair, Heat, Heels, Baby Faces.
No, no.
We've got to show him how to do this.
I would love to see you do his podcast because he is legit.
Greatest conversationalist in the world.
Now listen to this guy talking about great conversation.
Remember, I love Lex Freeman.
I love him.
The man is, I swear to God, Lex Freeman might be, in terms of style, he says interesting things because he talks to interesting people.
He is in the wet fart category, but he's great!
Lex Freeman, obviously, could actually reverse teen...
Pregnancy by describing the sex act.
And there are few people who can do this.
And then the man becomes tumescent.
And the corpus, both corpus cavernosa, become engorged through tumescent intrigidity by virtue of extravasation from the spongiform into the erectile penis, the glands.
As well as a bubble-earthrow rave, retract, epididymis becomes...
I mean, people say, you know what, forget it, I'm not interested.
No, I'm talking about sex.
No, no, it's okay.
He could...
I mean, the man would be like human saltpeter.
Just nothing.
He just...
But he would be talking to somebody who would make it interesting, and that's his genius, I think.
So what's the story behind the tension?
I don't think there was any tension.
And I've always liked him, but I don't know him.
Good.
I only see him when I walk into the arena with Dana, and I shake his hand.
Thank you for that.
I see him there, and I think he's good at what he does, but I don't know about doing his podcast.
I mean, I guess I do it, but I haven't been asked, and I'm not asking them, you know?
I'm not asking anybody.
It sounds like a challenging negotiation situation.
No, it's not really a negotiation.
And he's sort of a liberal guy, I guess, from what I understand.
But he likes Kennedy.
I found this out before Kennedy came in with us.
He's going to be great.
Bobby's going to be great.
But I like that he likes Kennedy.
I do, too.
He's a different kind of a guy, but he's got some great things going.
I think he's going to be beyond politics.
I think he could be quite influential in taking care of some situations that you probably would agree should be taken care of.
No, I have no idea what that means, but it doesn't really matter.
This is the genius.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the future.
This, no, strike that.
This is now.
This is now.
I would tell, I would tell, my Friend.
Little background here.
One of my great buddies in the world was a fellow named Jerry Wexler.
Jerry Wexler had the greatest vocabulary of anybody I've ever known.
Jerry Wexler was the founder of Atlantic Records.
One of the founders with Nessui and with Ahmed Erdogan.
He personally handled Aretha Franklin.
He was part of the Muscle Shoals team.
Just go back and read any of the...
He was.
And he and I became great, great, great, great, great, great, great friends.
And he and I would talk about, oh my God, about Dylan and about Lenny Bros.
He knew everybody.
And for some reason, he moved to Sarasota.
It was like Siesta Key at the time.
And he used to listen to me and we became friends.
And it's so funny, when I first heard his name, I didn't know who he was.
I never heard him.
I heard of my friend Nat Adderley.
Nat Adderley is Cannonball Adderley's brother.
Nat Adderley.
Oh, God.
Sack of wall.
The great...
Nat was a great...
Born in Tampa.
Great blues man.
A jazz man.
Nat's answering machine would be like this.
Beep.
All right.
Okay.
Beep.
That's it.
I don't know what that meant, but that's the way it was.
So one day he was on my show.
And that was just this okay.
And his friend Goosby Jones.
Oh, great people.
Anyway.
It was during a time of radio when it was so a time of my everything was just exploding.
It was when talk radio was really great.
It was really great.
Now it's just...
So when I was on that, and Nat says, hey, can I see what you've got?
I said, yeah.
I said, here's the screen, and these are the callers.
And he says, okay.
And he goes on this, and he goes, wait a minute.
He goes, Jerry Wexler.
Do you know, is that Jerry?
Is that the Jerry Wexler?
I said, who's Jerry Wexler?
He says, who's Jerry Wexler?
I said, I've never heard of him.
I never heard of him.
I knew of Almond Erdogan.
I knew Atlantic and Atco and Iron Butterfly.
But what related to Aretha and Muscle Shoals?
I'm sorry, it wasn't my thing.
He says, We'll put him on next.
I said, okay.
So we put him on with Jerry Wexler.
He goes, Jerry!
Nat!
And Nat's eyes.
This man never gets excited about it.
He's known that.
He's known everybody.
He's known everybody.
And his eyes are bugging out.
I said, Jerry Wexler.
I just didn't know.
I'm sorry.
So I got his number.
And I'm talking to Wexler on the side, off the air.
I said, so...
He says, you don't know who I am, dude.
I said, honestly, no, because I don't lie to people.
He said, wow.
I said, let me ask him, Jerry.
I said, if...
Who could you get on the phone?
He said, me just, like, in the studio.
There was no internet.
I'm not looking his name up.
I don't know who he is.
Who could you get on the phone?
He said, Mick Jagger?
You know him?
I said, of course, I know Mick Jagger.
So Jerry always wanted to kind of...
He said, I can't believe it.
You're the only one who's not kissing my ass.
I said, I'm not.
I was on the phone with him a couple of times.
You know how they have a call waiting?
Beep!
Sorry, I gotta go.
It says, Etta James.
Ever hear about her?
Etta James call?
Steve Winwood called one time, and I'm talking to him.
I said, well, you tell Steve Winwood from me.
Tell that son of a bitch.
I'm on the phone.
Okay, call me back.
And he would say, oh my God.
So, why am I saying this?
Jerry Wexler heard Aretha Franklin.
Took Aretha Franklin to Muscle Shoals.
Jerry Wexler didn't play any instrument.
He had a New York Jewish voice.
Sounds exactly like Leonard Suskin, the physicist.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Anyway.
So he brought her up.
And he said, okay.
And he looked at her and he says, take us to church.
And she was doing these songs that just never caught on.
And he said, no, no, no, no.
Take us to church.
She says, what are you talking about?
So she gets a piano.
Her piano playing was...
Out of this world.
Like Nat King Cole.
Nat King Cole is one of the greatest piano players ever!
Ever!
But you don't think of him that way.
Alright, he sits down.
And the Muscle Shoals guys listen to her and they say, oh my god, that's it.
And this blues person, this R&B, by the way, Jerry Wexler named it R&B.
He worked at Billboard.
They used to call it race music.
He named it Rhythm Blues.
That was his.
Concoction, if you will.
He knew, he heard her, he said, take us to church because of her gospel.
And gospel turned into R&B and R&B turned into this and this and that.
And he knew it!
And nobody could touch her.
And she...
Why am I saying this?
Because Lex Friedman and Trump and Joe Rogan, the greats, know what they do.
And they never budge.
And if you like them, great.
If you don't, what are you going to do?
He's not trying to imitate.
Maybe in the old days, maybe I can see sometimes Joe's stand-up.
I've seen it.
It's okay.
Nothing even remotely noteworthy.
But maybe he's trying too hard.
Maybe he goes to these clubs and he wants to be like this guy and sound like this guy.
I don't know.
I don't know what the other story is.
I have no idea what he's doing.
Maybe he wasn't like I was, raised with Larry King, David Susskind, and the others.
Maybe I'm sort of, you know, because the guys I thought were geniuses were people like Ernie Kovacs.
Jack Parr and others, those are the best.
He went and he told people how to speak.
Laurie Cuck, by the way, says, your man Dom Luker was on site Chirac yesterday, met with a room full of black Trump supporters.
Oh, Dom Luker is superb.
He is, again, he is a, how do I say this?
He's transcendental.
He's somebody who just fits perfectly.
He is great.
Absolutely.
He's so smart.
So smart.
He gets it.
Ryan says, we have Harris spending money campaigning in New Hampshire, Virginia, and Minnesota this week, and David Plouffe for Plouffe, advisors of the campaign, saying communist path is extremely difficult, but doable.
Sounds like those internals are brutal.
Ryan, don't believe anything you say from any of these people.
Don't understand any of it.
Don't believe anything you hear anybody say.
Not yet.
What is he going to say?
What are you listening to?
It sounds interesting.
I appreciate that.
So the reason for this, 27 minutes I'm into this, and you're wondering, is he going to get to the point?
I'm going to get to the point.
My point is a long intro.
Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, building up to the story.
They didn't start off the Godfather with shooting Salazar right away.
It wouldn't make no sense.
Donald Trump needs to be brought back, pulled apart from these people.
The same thing with Lex Friedman, same thing with Joe Rogan.
I don't think they need it as much.
And you've got to sit down, and somebody needs to sit there and say, now let's take an assessment.
What is it that you really do well?
They never did this.
Everybody in talk radio always wanted to change you.
Everybody in talk radio always wanted to change you.
Everybody.
They always did.
It was the damnedest thing.
They hire you.
They bring you up.
And the first thing they want to do is they want to tell you.
They want to team you with somebody.
They do whatever it is.
Sometimes they're right.
There are some people who are absolute successes that I will never, ever, ever, ever understand why some people are great, some people aren't.
I don't know.
I'm not even going to talk about the metrics of it.
What Donald Trump does is if you let Donald Trump be like he is with Lex Friedman, you will like him.
You will like him.
I don't want them to hear you, Mr. President.
I want them to like you.
And they will only like you if they see you in the best possible light.
It's not your, you're not the most brilliant speaker.
You're not the most, no.
He does a performance that nobody's been able to do.
But he does that only for people that like him.
But then again, that's true with most people.
Taylor Swift, a lot of people who go see Taylor Swift, I think that's, by the way, you know the Taylor Swift thing's over with.
It's over, it's done.
She milked it, God bless her, but it's everything, you know.
Stones are different.
Stones are different.
We're looking at something right now, my friends, which is the most important.
We have a group of people, this is called, this is 62 days away.
And I'm going to tell you something right now.
I'm going to tell you something right now.
And I want you to listen to me.
If Paul McCartney were to announce that he is playing somewhere, he will fill the arena.
Because it's Paul McCartney.
They love Paul McCartney.
They remember Paul McCartney.
He doesn't put out a new song in 25 years.
His song Freedom after 9-11 was one of the worst songs ever.
It doesn't matter.
It's Paul McCartney.
Period.
You want to discuss why?
Good for you.
He was a Beatles?
Yes.
I don't know.
That's just the way it is.
Not everybody's going to the Paul McCartney concert.
A lot of them are, but not everybody.
Not everybody.
Let me ask you something.
Not to be sacrilegious, but if you found out Jesus Christ was coming to the MetLife Stadium, you would see people, the whole world would show up, right?
The whole world.
To see Jesus Christ.
I'm not trying to be sacrilegious.
I mean it.
I'm going.
The whole world would be there.
So, it's possible.
The whole world didn't show up for...
Paul McCartney.
But a lot did because they like him.
Same thing with Trump.
They like him.
They want to go see him.
They want to be a part of the thing.
They want to go to a concert.
They love him.
He's able to connect it.
I swear to God, I don't know why.
Politicians don't do that.
They're not famous.
I've never seen anything like this.
Not even Reagan.
Trump is a rock star.
For Trump people.
But what about people who don't like him?
That's what I'm interested in.
That's what I'm interested in.
And when he speaks, do you know, and I know this is not in any way, in any way, meant...
As a comparison, in the least, okay, so think of it what you may, what you must, but do you know there were no known available recordings of Hitler speaking in a normal voice?
Did you know that?
Did you ever hear this story?
Did you hear this story?
It's the truth.
There never were any recordings, except for one.
It's the rarest, and was it Hugo Gans, or whatever his name was, who was doing that famous Hitler piece?
He said, I only have Hitler yelling.
I only have Hitler yelling.
When he...
I forget the story.
It was a railroad, like a special car.
This guy wired.
I don't know if they found the guy, killed the guy.
Finland or something.
Who knows?
But you hear him speaking!
And he's down so normal, it's not even funny.
He's got a real deep voice.
And he's talking about, well, you know, the Russians are tough.
You know, they've got a lot of tanks.
You know, the Russians, if you've got to...
Oh, my God.
He's normal.
The first thing you think of is he sounds like a normal person because you think of this guy as he's got to be crazy.
He's got to be crazy.
He's got to be walking around.
Kill them!
Kill these people!
No!
He's not!
He's just Trump when you just when he sits and just talks because you got to get people to like you today.
Something to do with the issues.
We live in a We live in a Larry Tate world, mad men.
We're selling not stories, not positions.
It's likability.
It's weird.
And we're only looking to the people who represent the undecided and The independence.
Evan Webb says, you are one of the few that takes a long time to make a point that I like to listen to.
What I do not like, the ego of those who claim to always be right.
Too much ego is a turn-off.
Balance needed.
Oh, absolutely.
Thank you for that.
Laurie Cuck said, stash isn't so crazy on regular speed.
JS, I have no idea what that means, but I'm not going to figure it out, but thank you.
If anybody can provide a translation, let me know, please.
The thing that gets me today, we don't speak to crowds.
We don't have stentorian crowds.
Do you know that during the time of Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln blew their minds because they said, you can't go out and campaign.
They said, what?
You can't, dude, bro, literally, you can't.
Campaign.
What do you mean I can't campaign?
You can't do this.
Why can't I do this?
What are you talking about?
You can't, I can't do this.
What does that mean?
Because in the old days, they came to you.
Lori says mustache and just saying LOL.
Okay.
I guess solid.
Thank you.
Abraham Lincoln said, I'm going to go out and ask people for a vote.
They said, you can't do that.
They said, what do you mean?
Dude, you can't do that.
Well, I think I can.
Well, you can't.
But he did.
Then there were people who put up pictures.
He had the old days.
He had actual pictures, photos, and then you could post them.
FDR said, I'm going to do the fireside chat.
You can't do that!
The president, what are you, on a radio?
What are you, so pedestrian?
This is the most patrician.
We are in the world of, somebody said one time, in Bollywood, in India, all of the, you want to see pictures, movies, oh my god, we can't get near them.
The Bollywood stars there are nothing like anything you can get near here.
There's no words.
On a lot of these posters because of the illiteracy race.
I don't know about now, but then.
So they just put up posters.
And people would come out because they were trying to sell a movie with just pictures.
That's it.
The first thing in the world I would want to tell President Trump is you've got to be yourself.
You act like that.
Lex Friedman brings it up.
The moon, the darkness, the sound, the American flag, whatever it is.
Friedman just does it.
He just, hearing two people talk, it sounds in a weird way.
I don't want to compare him to Hitler, but it's like Hitler's voice.
It's like, you realize these people are normal.
They're just regular people.
Trump's not this, this, whatever this is, mean, nasty person.
Roel says, Aretha says, I never loves a man the way I loved you.
Thank you.
She also said it's time to get greasy.
Or greasy.
Norma says, the dumbing down of our nation is showing.
It is dumbing down, but it's also, don't kid yourself, Norma.
There were times when we were pretty dumb before as well.
And I want to get to people, I don't want to, dumbing down, yeah, yeah.
What it is, it's also critical thinking is done.
We don't really, people were far more aware.
Critical thinking is far more different.
Far more.
I was listening to a debate between Miranda from Iran and Piers Morgan.
Piers Morgan is a lovable oaf, the Jadrool.
He's the Archie Bunker, so to speak.
Meat and potatoes, low-hanging fruit, nothing deep.
But how can you explain October the 7th?
You know, that kind of stuff.
No depth.
Black and white.
Good guys, bad guys.
But he's perfect.
He set up Alex Jones for one of the greatest scenes.
1776!
And Pierce Morgan says, this is bloody beautiful.
How are the numbers?
Pierce is a showman.
He doesn't care.
When he's getting a schmooly boutique and junk yogurt, oh my god!
I couldn't watch it because it just bored me.
But a lot of people liked it because it was a lot of screaming.
Edie Crowley says, the best thing about you, Mr. L, is you're real.
Uh-oh!
Thank you.
Keeping it real.
I also don't care, which is a very important thing in the world.
I just don't care.
I'd like you to like me.
I want you to like me.
But if you don't, I...
You know what?
Maybe another day.
Maybe another day.
My sense of self is not in any way redeemed or made plausible or viable by what somebody else thinks.
Now, in politics, it's a different story.
You've got to like me.
And I would do things completely...
If I ran it now, I would do things completely differently.
I would do things...
I swear to you...
Do you remember when the queen met with a black woman in...
Where was...
I forget what...
Chicago.
And the black woman hugged the queen.
And they said, excuse me, you can't hug the queen.
And she said, excuse me, this is my house.
And you're coming to my house.
And I hug people.
And the queen is my guest.
So if you don't like it, you know, blow it out your...
Oh my God, it was wonderful.
I would make sure that I would sit down and I would use everything that I can.
I would just completely throw away this notion of CNN.
It's over with.
It's done.
It's finished.
It's through.
It is so...
It's so bad.
I one time sat with Regis Philbin.
Best guy.
He was born a day after me.
Anyway, we always used to.
We were talking about Sinatra and Rickles and Joey Bishop.
I'm trying to explain to him Hulu.
It was like...
And he said, Larry King, Larry King, who's very good friends with us, well, Larry King gets it.
And I'm saying, but what you have to do, the thing that's the most important, you either have it or you don't, is people have to like you.
And I don't know how to quantify that.
If they like you.
People would like Trump more if he would be himself.
He's never been himself.
That's not him.
That's the public.
But when he sits back, and what I would do is, okay, I'm going to be you.
Ask me a question.
Ask me a question.
And then I'll tell them.
Just now, what he said about Joe Rogan, I like the fact, that was the tease.
I don't know, maybe I should.
Maybe I'll go on.
I don't know, I don't ask people.
But if I were Trump, I would say, let me ask you something, Lex.
And by the way, your name is Friedman and it's spelled Fridman.
Okay, fine.
It's a free country and he's Russian.
You know that, right?
Okay.
He's into the whole jujitsu thing and all that kind of jazz.
And I will sit there and say, I don't think you realize this, Lex, how important it is.
How many people you can say, when you look at those numbers and you say a million, two million, three million, do you know what that means?
Do you know what that means?
When you say a million people, a million, I don't think a million people's ever, maybe cumulatively, but a million people, I don't know.
I've never had a million people listen to me.
And believe it or not, if they don't, I understand.
It's one of those things.
It's one of those things.
I can't help it.
It's just one of those things.
There are so many great things out there.
So many musicians who are so...
Best country music singer right now, alive today.
Right now, pound for pound, is Dale Watson.
Dale Watson, he doesn't...
He's not number one.
I don't know why.
Because of politics?
I have no idea.
And he knows that, and I know that.
Same thing if you're into certain things, if you're into different, you know, there's just, you just have to accept it.
You just have to accept certain things.
But the thing about Trump, what he has to do is he has to talk about something.
And when you get to talk about it, if something, if somebody's listening to him.
If he were to say something, he says, you know what the bad part about politics is?
I'll tell you this much.
Everybody pretends like they hate everybody.
Hot Pocket says one of the best interviews Trump ever did was back in the 80s or 90s on Oprah.
Even her crowd was totally on his side.
Well, remember, she also let him do it.
She also let him be who he wants, and he was liked in those days.
It wouldn't be like that today.
First of all, Oprah wouldn't do it because Oprah is a tool.
But aside from that, the world has changed.
They wouldn't give them that same...
Some of the greatest interviews I've ever heard, you're going to laugh when I tell you this, is Charles Manson.
Charles Manson was talking to...
Charles Manson was absolutely positively railroaded by Vincent Bugliosi, who was a psychopath.
And you can read all about chaos or whatever.
Charles Manson.
Charles Manson.
Never killed anybody.
I'm just going to tell you this.
By the way, a true story, and I didn't know this until then, it was on years ago, I was talking to Vincent Bugliosi, came in, and he did this book about impeaching the president, or whatever it was, or Bush, and he came through, and he walked in, and the first thing I said to him, the first thing I said, the very first thing I said, just because it was me being me, and I said, Charles Manson never killed anybody.
Then he said, well, Hitler never killed anybody.
You're comparing Charles Manson to Hitler?
Who killed those people?
Tex Watson did.
Those people did.
Tate LaBianca?
They did it.
Oh, he ordered them?
Okay, do me a favor, Vince.
Kill that guy in the other room.
You're not going to do it.
Anyway, I thought it'd be kind of funny going off into this kind of a surprise thing.
He went berserk.
Now I know one.
It's like one of the famous, one of the things I did one time where I hit it off with Bo Diddley.
Bo Diddley came in.
And I said, your name is Angelo Cacciatore.
You're a Sicilian by, when did you change your name to Bo Diddley?
And I didn't know you.
I had no idea about the Sicilian background at all.
And he looked at me and he said, what are you talking about?
I said, don't play stupid with me.
I heard about that.
I heard about you.
I know what you do.
So answer my question.
And he looks at me.
And I kind of gave him a wink, and he started laughing.
And I said, look, you can laugh all you want.
Because I don't crack up.
We were like the best of friends.
He said, nobody's ever done this before.
I said, I know!
This is fun!
Let's have fun!
And the thing about Trump is, Trump's got to understand something.
You've got to sit there and say, listen, I hope you...
This has gotten so much weird.
We're into the name-calling, and I realize that.
This one's a liar.
I've never met Kamala.
I've never met her, but I'll bet you she's a nice person.
I think she is.
I mean, if you met her, I think she's sincerely, I think her natural thing is to be nice.
I don't think she's not trying to do anything wrong.
I don't think she's trying to hurt anybody.
I don't think she's an enemy agent.
I don't think any of this stuff.
But I just, I think differently.
And I worry about some stuff.
And I'm here to talk about me.
I want to talk about her.
I want to talk about me.
And I'm worried about something.
I want to leave a legacy.
I don't need this.
I'm 78 years old.
I want to leave something for my grandkids or for you.
And I want to make an impact.
And the thing I want to do is I want to make America strong so that you can do what you want.
So that you and your family can enjoy what makes this country great.
Your ability to be free.
I can't believe when people say that I believe in stuff.
I've never said anything about abortion.
I'm not for abortion, but I would never mandate.
Women being sent to prison who get an abortion?
I've never said that.
Nobody does.
I meet with people all the time.
Friends of mine, they say, we have to abolish abortion to prohibit us.
You want to put a woman in prison who gets an abortion?
Because that's what you mean.
I guarantee if you say it like that, people say, that makes sense to me.
You've got to rephrase it.
You've got to rephrase it.
Crime?
Let me ask you something.
Laurie Cuck knows something, but Laurie says Shane Gillis in person is who the president is in real life.
Okay.
Shane Gillis.
Yes.
Shane Gillis, by the way, he's one of these...
It's funny how he...
Lately, there's been this resurgence in...
He was shut out of...
Interesting.
But, going back to this.
I see people all around me, and I don't even know where to start.
And I talk to you about this.
And I talk to folks.
And I listen to people who talk about things.
And I love hearing these.
I was listening to a lefties losing it today.
Always watch that.
Always.
And I think to myself, are these people crazy?
They're not crazy.
They're just faddish.
They're just into fads.
Who remembers the hippies?
Anybody?
Do you remember the hippies?
Did you ever have somebody maybe, like in 1969 I was like 11 years old, but I remember it.
I remember people, older brothers, but do you remember real hippies?
Hippies were, they didn't last that long.
They were from It all ended in 1969 with Manson.
It all ended.
Because, hey, Ashbery went completely bad into drugs.
But the whole notion of, hey, peace and flower power and all that.
Remember that?
Woodstock and the people.
It's just three days of fun and music, man.
Playing the music in the bubbles.
Do you remember that?
Do you think these people are crazy?
Laurie says, Shane does a history podcast with Louis C.K., smart.
Poor Louis C.K. You know what Louis C.K. is known for?
His self-pleasuring in front of people.
I actually was listening to Joe Joe Joe Rogan talking about these, I know, I heard about Louis C.K. You know, I just I don't know.
Excuse me.
What did he do?
Did he kill anybody?
No, he Pleasured himself in front of a few women.
Okay.
Are we talking about this?
Really?
You would think of Sarah Silverman.
I know.
I don't know.
Louie.
You're kidding me, right?
You all are worried about this?
I think we're going to make it.
I think we're going to make it.
I think maybe we are.
But let me go back to what I was trying to say.
This is the whole thing.
Hippies.
We weren't crazy.
That's kind of like the lefties are.
Each one kind of helped the other.
Hey, I went and painted a flower on my hair, man.
Wow!
I'm barefoot.
I have bell bottoms and I'm not shaving under my arms.
Wow!
I've got a natural fro.
I've got a peace sign.
I've got into colors.
I'm wearing different patches on my...
It was a groove.
Don't you remember this?
All of a sudden, hey man, the peace sign.
We're going to, you know, communes and we're going to eat granola.
And then after manhood, that's it.
Gone.
Done.
Finished.
70s came along and it was different.
But there was a time frame.
Don't you remember how people...
That's how these lefty folks, as you call them, are thinking.
It's a part of their groove.
They talk to each other like that.
And this guy Wallace or Matt Walsh or whatever it is, he gets these people and goes, I can't believe my daughter is actually preferring a white doll versus an African-American, Pan-Pacific, Asian...
I'm thinking, Matt, this is just a hippie.
Haven't you met people like this?
I knew a woman since Cannes.
She was kind of an ad exec type or TV media whose son was like painting his Toenails.
It's like wearing a dress.
I remember, I was looking at Mrs. Ellum saying, what the hell is she so happy about?
She thought it was a great scene because within her world, in the Upper West Side, in her country, that was great.
She was an open mom.
She was loving.
Jonestown is deeper than I thought also.
Lori Cuck, all of a sudden, is this funny or what?
Please do me a favor.
Promise me.
Laurie, you watch other people's, like watch, no, I don't want to say Judge Napolitano, but anytime you go to a go to a a live stream, drop that in there.
All of a sudden, Jamestown is deeper than I thought also.
I have a bunch of them lined up, ready to go.
You know, I've always been frightened by the size of Lincoln's ears.
Enter.
What?
Sometimes I go to bed without saying goodbye.
Eh.
I'd rather be with you than the finest people in the world.
Eh.
It's not really things are far away.
They're just too small.
Eh.
You know, just throw these things out, these seeming non-sequiturs that will cause a host to say, what?
It's like not trolling, the classic way of trolling, but a better way.
Evan Webb says, Jim Wright told me he felt American politics started to fall more than, more.
When two parties stop going to the same parties and places after fighting and debating on the floor.
Jim Wright, is this his ex-speaker with the eyebrows and that sort of thing?
I've got friends of mine, by the way, I'm sorry, I've got many friends of mine who are absolute, who think Trump is a loon, and we're still friends.
I think it goes to my friendship.
I mean, I've got...
So, some people, that's all they know.
So, there's stories, I love ya.
You should do this as well.
And others, and other different, different, different, seeming non-sequiturs.
Now, understand, let me go back to why this thing, I'm just watching this thing about Lex Friedman and these people.
I am, I love this medium.
I was watching today.
This is my TV.
Now, I will tell you this much.
Recently, at night, we were going through the entire Mary Tyler Moore because it was from my youth.
It's one of the most brilliant programming to watch how things develop.
The idiocy of Ted.
Sue Ann became that she's a trollop and she was evil and she's like a psychopath.
You know, she's evil, but with a smile.
Rhoda kind of came and went.
The image of Mary.
Mary was never, it was never about her.
It's one of the best shows ever.
Worst sets, worst everything.
Ted Baxter, the Vatican pressure before Howard Beale, before Ron Burgundy, who, they had the episode where Walter Cronkite appears on the show.
And it was just the most beautiful thing in the world.
To be a citizen of the world, you must be a citizen and you must be a student of the various media.
You must.
You must understand this.
You must know how things work.
And this is how we get the word out.
More people will watch Trump with Lex Friedman because what he's doing is Lex is giving you the okay.
Lex is saying this guy is worth it.
And the reason why you can't, you can't ask.
You can't ask.
Okay, Mila, to go on, she doesn't intuitively understand the issues.
There is no, she has never developed herself.
She's always been the wrong person.
There are some people who really, honestly, understand themselves.
They really do.
Samantha Power, by the way, who you could say is corrupt, married to Cass Sunstein, really knows her stuff.
People like Reagan.
Nixon knew their stuff.
Kissinger knew their stuff.
You think Anthony Blinken knows his stuff?
Do you think these people...
Do you know what that's like?
No.
Now, I remember this.
And you know this.
There are three groups of people.
There are people who are going to vote for Trump no matter what.
There are people who are going to vote for any Democrat no matter what.
And there are these people in the middle.
The people in the middle I want to talk about.
But I'm going to say something to you and I want you to remember something.
Anything I tell you is a waste of time if...
The ballots and the voting is not secure.
I don't want there to think somebody sitting back watching us now and saying, look at these bastards talking about the likability and Lex Freeman.
I got 100,000 votes just ready to go.
That's seven states, 15 counties.
I got the votes right here.
I've got all of the battleground states.
I've got them.
Let me know.
I'm going to drop them in.
Lori says, on this day in 1998, Google was born.
Can you believe that?
1998, honey, Google was born.
Nobody knew what the hell that was even about.
We still don't know.
We drive down, if you go down the West Side Highway.
Around 20-whatever Street, there's the new Google Complex.
It's huge!
I mean, it is right around Chelsea area, kind of, sort of.
It's just enormous.
I had a friend of mine who, I haven't seen him in a while, but he worked for Google and invited Mrs. Alamee to meet him.
And we went to this, it was in like an old AT&T building.
Google bought the entire, it was in Chelsea, the entire building.
And the reason why they liked it was because they could put cables.
And we went in there, and it was like going into another world.
But the one thing that freaked me out was, you don't have to work at a particular time.
They want you to stay there all day long.
They want you to stay there.
Anything you need.
They had sleeping rooms.
You could bring your animals.
They had little pods.
They had little rooms to...
Little conference rooms.
But what blew me away, not literally bruh, but was their food, their commissary.
Anything you want.
Over here we have omelets.
Over here we have vegetarian.
Over here we have a name it.
Name the food.
And they've got chefs there all the time.
Nobody following you.
Nobody has to check in.
They brought a truck, a food truck, a delivery truck, up through the service elevator, and it was serving soft-serve ice cream.
With outside beautiful, you know, terraces.
I mean, this, I've never...
It just was incredible.
If you want to learn how to make an omelet, you can go over there.
You want to back rub.
You want to...
What do you want?
What do you need?
And I don't know what these people did.
I said, what do you do?
Do you program?
What do you do?
I don't know.
But it was packed.
And huge.
Fascinates me.
Absolutely fascinates me.
And the difference between me and other people is that when I don't know something, I want to find it out.
To other people, they say, well, since I don't understand it, it must not be that important.
No.
There's nothing that burns them, that makes them understand.
I love the psychology of elections.
I love it.
It's about human beings.
It's not about who's better, who's...
No, nothing to do with it.
And Trump is not perfect, but I promise you, more people will like him.
Because everybody has an uncle like him, a neighbor, a brother, a friend.
He is the guy you want.
When you are, when he's the security guard, the guy who's watching over, the guy who says, well, you know, that's Jerry.
He's a little odd, but you know he does a good job.
Trump is not odd.
He's just kind of, we like the way he seems so independent, and it's that aloofness.
And also, if Trump was not a serious threat to the left, nobody would feel this.
Nobody felt this way about Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, because Marco Rubio never was a threat of anything.
Trump is a threat to everything those rat bastards believe in.
And that's the way that is.
It's all personal.
Now, my friends, a couple of personal things, too, for you.
I waited until the end, but it would mean a lot to me if you would care more about the future and your family and understand a couple of things.
Number one, on the 26th of November, yours truly will be.
Have you ever been to one of these before?
No.
Stand-up comedy?
Hardly.
It's different.
It's...
I don't know what you want to call it.
People ask questions.
We have cars.
We have this.
We got some music.
26 at the cutting room here in New York.
That's the way that goes.
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Lori Cuck, you were magnificent.
Evan Webb, thank you.
Hot Pocket Edie Crowley, Norma Lutz, or Lutz, as she capitalizes her last name.
Be aware of that.
Raul Rodriguez, thank you.
And let me see.
Ryan.
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What you seem to do.
What it looks like you're doing.
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