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Good evening, sports fans.
It is Friday night.
Ventilation Friday, December the 20th, five days before Christmas.
I and Mrs. L are here for you.
For this, our time to ventilate, to express, to suspire.
To just go through everything and anything that's on our mind, in any particular order, any particular subject, your thoughts, questions, your comments, open-ended, not that there's any rhyme or reason to what we talk about during the day, but today in particular.
And, my darling, let's give everybody an idea of where...
Where we just are driving.
Well, I don't know if they are strong enough to hear about our day, but first of all, I want to welcome you to your own show.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Welcome.
Lionel Nation, Ventilation Friday.
Hello, everyone.
Well, it occurred to me we were on the west side.
We were downtown.
We were Soho.
We were on the east side.
We were in midtown.
Irving.
Village.
Actually, we hit almost every neighborhood.
And then early this morning, before we did all that, I was on foot.
And I ended up in Rockefeller Center, where the tree is and the mobs and masses, which, frankly, I have to say I'm happy to see.
Because I remember a few years ago when we didn't have the mobs and masses, so I welcomed them.
And to see families and taking pictures and joyful.
I welcome that all the time.
And then I was on 6th Avenue, and the crowd formed in front of the Fox Studios, which is 48th and 6th Avenue.
Unbelievable, because they have their own Fox Square, and they have their own Christmas tree.
And people were so happy taking pictures.
I just loved seeing that.
The big balls on 6th Avenue, right?
That was a real crowd pleaser, the big balls.
The big balls.
The big Christmas balls and ornaments.
They have these big red balls.
They have like a big Christmas tree with the hooks on them.
A huge across the street from Fox.
And people climb up on the little fountain area you can climb and they take pictures.
And it's just wonderful.
But then somehow, and this is where the whole thing derails, we ended up in Weehawken, New Jersey.
But that was lovely.
And then we made our way back and now here we are.
But these fine folks.
Well, I've got to tell you this story.
We went to a Whole Foods and we walked in and I love the olive section.
Don't tell them.
I went great.
They've got stuff.
I never heard of them.
And you notice I walk away when you go crazy in the olive section.
I mean, I don't know what I spend.
30, 40 bucks on a house.
Yeah, but it's quite profound.
But things, I'm not even sure what they bought.
Red, yellow things, they look terrific.
So anyway, so I'm walking down the aisle.
Let me explain to you this.
You know the woman, DeRosa, Barbara DeRosa, whatever her name is, the lunatic.
The one you would see who looks like Emo Phillips.
You know, this crazy woman who was yelling at this woman who looked like her, who had David Ferry Painted on black, black eyebrows.
Her hair, dark, jet black.
Parted down the middle.
With like a Cruella de Vil kind of a jacket.
And a dog!
This big, white people bring dogs into stores.
So I, and she's, I said, look at this.
I tell Mrs. Del, look at this one.
She says, I don't want to look.
I said, no, look!
So she's on the phone and she walks by.
She says, I'm a professional!
Don't they understand that?
I'm thinking, this is nuts!
Everywhere we go.
Now, she wasn't hurting anybody.
She wasn't.
She drove off in a Tesla.
I never want to make fun or look at somebody.
Oh, I do.
Behind their back.
No, I leave that to you.
Because I never, whatever they're going through, obviously they're mentally disturbed.
Because she really was.
She had very dirty white tube socks on.
Flippers.
I'm a professor!
And she kept talking to herself on the phone, but I don't think she's really talking to anybody on the phone, to be honest with you.
And I kept seeing her, every aisle I went to, she seemed to be there, screaming in the phone.
Then when we get to the front to check out, self-checkout, because we like that, I picked the open little checkout.
She happened to be next to us with a full cart of food, so I guess she left that somewhere while she was walking around the store, ranting and raving in a phone.
And I bet you anything she wasn't on the phone with anybody.
But I felt bad for her.
But I really didn't feel bad for her.
And I'm sorry.
I try to be better than this.
When she went outside and she got in her Tesla and drove away.
I know, but I thought, what a danger to society.
She's driving a Tesla, driving any car.
You know what our friend Joseph Sola says?
I just saw a soaking wet...
A German Shepherd at Costco.
So gross.
Absolutely.
But who lets their German Shepherd go out in the rain and be soaking wet?
That's like abusive.
Two issues right there.
Two issues.
Okay.
Who wants to talk about Germany?
Anybody?
Anybody in for that one?
This is shocking and horrifying.
I want to hear what everybody has to say because I do not understand the world we live in today, why precautions are not...
Taking more precautions so these cars and trucks can drive into the Christmas crowds around the world.
I just don't.
It's like the guns in the schools.
Why they don't.
Every single school.
I don't care what school it is in America.
We're going to have to make sure the doors are locked.
Right?
Metal detectors.
We have to do it.
So, what does everybody think about this?
This is the issue.
People are going to be saying, it's not Islam.
We don't want this to be Islamophobia or words to that effect.
Did you see him get out of his car and just put himself on the ground waiting to be apprehended?
Yes.
Did you talk about recently there was a 10,000 mostly young men a march there in Germany where they're screaming through the streets and threatening people?
Horrible.
I mean, this is...
Beyond.
But we have to keep...
I feel like there was something in Germany a few years ago, or there was something in Switzerland.
We've heard these Christmas markets being ruined like this before.
So, what is everybody waiting for?
Let's see what people have to say.
The issue that I have...
I think that we have to...
Let me fix something right here.
Let me see here.
I want to fix my phone here.
Just a second.
I want to fix my mic.
What the hell is going on here?
Hang on a minute.
Just keep talking.
I'm working on my...
I've got to change my one...
Well, I don't want to shift gears, as they say, until we get into hearing what everybody has to say about this.
Because I feel like, again, this is more like we're being normalized to these stories.
And we're going to keep hearing about them.
It's horrific.
How's it going to stop?
When's it going to stop?
Haven't we learned anything?
So let's get to it and start taking these precautions.
A lot of distractions going on just today.
I have a couple other ones I do want to talk about, but I want to talk about this story first.
I guess I'm just going to jump into it because it's been bothering me since...
The mic's going to sound weird because I have to change it.
Go ahead.
Oh, I should still talk while the mic's not here?
Still talk.
I'm going to barrel on through.
And does it happen to people on the stuff?
There's no mic at all.
They're just talking.
Yeah, that's annoying.
That's very annoying.
Sometimes you can hear, like, noise in the back.
Or sometimes their voice echoes.
All right, we do the best we can do.
Whatever.
So here's why I'm upset.
And I'm ready for the pushback, everybody.
Because Speaker of the House Mike Johnson...
Hang on a second.
I'm going to try something.
I'm going to try something very, very, very...
I'm gonna give this a shot.
Hang on.
Thought that fixed it, but it didn't.
Go ahead, Annie.
Just talk about Mike Johnson.
We're going to barrel through this.
So something I talk about quite frequently, because we've been at the Warriors, along with others, is the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, four years in the making.
And it has gone through so many revisions.
Even early last week, Elon Musk came on board, and he helped us craft some new language, along with Linda Iaccarino, Who runs X4Him.
And all we needed from Speaker Mike Johnson, who has been in the news a lot in the last 48 hours, is for him to put this to a final vote.
And also, blame must be also given to...
Things are beeping here.
I don't know what's going on.
It's my woo-zoo.
Majority Leader Steve Scalise.
They are both.
He's the majority leader.
All they had to do in this lame duck session...
Is bring it to a vote.
And we know it would have passed.
Because it's the one child safety piece of legislation that has had tremendous bipartisan support.
And I thought with Elon coming on board and helping us craft the language, it is for all children.
Nothing's happening.
But you know what?
That's okay.
And hopefully everybody will sign up for my newsletter.
If you haven't already, it's going out over the weekend.
Our holiday hopeful newsletter, right?
Lens Warriors.
And you know what?
We are going to bring it up again in 2025 because when legislation does not get passed, you have to start again with the whole new Congress.
And we are prepared to go into year five with this, with the backing of Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino, and others.
Linda Yaccarino.
I know.
I say that because I want to give her credit.
I like that name.
And her name's Linda Yaccarino.
Linda Yaccarino.
But here's what I want everybody to understand about the Kids Online Safety Act.
If you look at anything, when you look this up, look, big tech has spent that we know about over $100 million to stop this Kids Online Safety Act.
I assure you.
It has nothing to do with stealing your privacy, a gateway, getting into your computers and phones and all that.
It is really about one thing, or I would not be supporting this, working on this, and also telling you about this, right?
It simply says that big tech must bear responsibility for the dangerous algorithms that we have multiple studies.
That they even admit to in front of Congress when we've had these different sessions over the last couple of years.
They have to stop fulfilling, sending these algorithms to our children.
Just don't have them, okay?
Eating disorders, self-harm, all this stuff.
It has nothing to do with you or me and our privacy.
And you know what?
Didn't do it, Mike Johnson.
And on top of it, now he's got everything else going on, but he's got to step down, this guy.
And he's going to...
He's going to be gone.
What are your thoughts on it?
Because this is just out of control.
No, but it basically is Congress does.
I don't like to say Congress, because this was historic legislation where both sides came, really came together to say historically the numbers, right?
It was 91 to 3 in the Senate in July.
Like, we want this for our kids.
We want this.
Well, tell him why you think the real reason why he did this.
I'm getting to that.
So I really don't know.
I don't have proof, but I put my thinking down.
Well, why do you think?
I'm getting to that.
Steve Scalise is from Louisiana.
Mike Johnson's from Louisiana.
And it was recently announced, it really fell on deaf ears, that META, which we all know is Facebook and Instagram and Mark Zuckerberg, they are going to be building this groundbreaking facility in Louisiana.
Okay?
To store all the AI information.
Now, I started connecting dots and thinking, well, I always say big tech rules the roost.
When people are out of Congress, they want to work either on boards of banks, tech corporations.
I really think it has something to do with that.
So now, Mike Johnson will probably be gone.
I don't know about Steve Scalise.
And somebody will come in and they will indeed pass the Kids Online Safety Act in 2025.
There's no reason in this lame duck session, the end of this Congress, this couldn't go through.
I mean, after all, Paris Hilton came to the hill, as we say, and she got her institutional child.
And that's these camps and ranches where troubled kids go.
And it's been found over years.
Many kids have been harmed and hurt and even died on these ranches.
But hers just flew through.
I mean, she's been working on it a couple of years with a wonderful woman in California, Senator Shannon Grove, a Republican.
But she came and everybody wanted a photo op with Paris.
I say good for Paris, good for that piece of legislation, but we need this piece of...
Internet, safety for kids.
And something's got to be done because nothing's been done since the Internet was born in 1996.
Well, actually, I'm wrong.
1998 was the last piece of child legislation, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
You can't sell kids information.
Nothing's been done.
So let's maybe sunset Section 230, which is holding everything up, calling all these platforms, billboards, newsstands.
Let's do something in 2025.
And this is it, Kids Online Safety Act.
You know, some of these devices I was saying today are like a childproof cap for prescriptions.
They're there.
They don't in any way impede your ability, affect your ability, interfere with the distribution of drugs.
They just make this thing safer for kids.
And if somebody were to say no...
We don't want to make drugs safer for kids.
We don't mind the idea that kids could be themselves, could find themselves.
It's my woo-zoo, by the way.
But if somebody said, we don't really care about that, what does that tell you?
What does that tell you about their real goal?
Their real goal will be, obviously, to hurt and harm kids if they stand in the way of something as simple as child-proof caps, which we all know child-resistant.
That's what this is.
Whenever you give me this nonsense about, well, you know, big tech is afraid, they want nobody to affect them whatsoever.
And by the way, Elon Musk was behind this.
Which I was certain it would, with his involvement, really get past, as was everybody else.
But that's okay.
We have 2025.
We have the new administration coming in with Elon and some others.
And I'm very confident.
That it will be passed.
And I am sorry.
I have to disagree.
I am the first one who says privacy, privacy, privacy.
But all is out of control.
Parents are overwhelmed.
Parents, yes, indeed, should be watching what kids are doing and helping them and putting guardrails up and talking to them.
But let me tell you, if you work like I do with a single mom with three jobs and three kids, And she's overwhelmed trying to pay that rent and buy that food.
She can't be sniffing around online all day.
Yes, she can certainly have the conversations.
She can certainly do everything we suggest at the Warriors.
You know what?
Parents should not have to always bear the full responsibility for big tech who's making billions off the backs of you and me and our children.
Agree.
So that's what I have to say.
And I also don't think, I don't think people really care about kids.
I just don't think the government really cares about it.
No, they really don't.
And I don't think they have any consideration.
I don't think it means anything.
It just doesn't hit home.
It's bottom of the totem pole.
Not if you say dogs or cats or things like that.
Let me ask everybody, do you believe that there's any sense, do you notice any difference in Christmas this year?
Since President Trump was, this is important, since he was elected, do you feel, do you see more Christmas trees?
Do you see more Santa hats in the street?
Do you see more references to Christmas?
Do you feel that this cultural coma that we've been in has been somehow allayed or relieved?
What do you think, my friends?
What do you think?
I want to see what people said.
Because I'm noticing, I think there's a difference.
I'm hearing more music today in the damn Whole Foods.
We're doing all these questions.
And can you think of the third...
It was cute.
It was cute.
They were saying they were looking for the third elf.
They were just playing around.
I think it was kind of cute.
Don't tell this nut next to what about the third elf.
Well, she actually was...
You don't remember?
She was saying, what about the elf?
What do you mean about an elf?
No, I feel sorry for her because obviously disturbed and we have to feel sorry.
Laren Depp says, I see more Christmas greetings, which is important.
I like that.
There's more Merry Christmas in New York.
I don't know what the hell that means.
Well, where do you wear that shirt?
But I despise Trudeau.
And anything he does is wrong.
Let me just put it that way.
So I'm sorry for you.
I think that's horrid.
Horrid.
No one is banning to say Merry Christmas.
A lot of people said you had to say Merry Christmas.
I don't know what that means.
No one is banning to say Merry Christmas.
A lot of people said, You had to say Merry Christmas.
I don't know what that means.
How many times...
It's so weird.
If anybody listens to me, all they hear me say is, I don't understand what that means.
I don't know what that means.
Well, listen, I've been in two meetings, though, I can recall.
I don't know what most people are talking about.
I'm just going to put that out there.
I'm trying my best.
I've been in two meetings recently where somebody said Merry Christmas.
One woman actually went...
I'm supposed to say Happy Holidays.
I'm like, okay, you can say Merry Christmas, you can say whatever you want, Happy Holidays.
I'm hearing more Merry Christmas.
It really was New York Happy Holidays for a long time.
I'm hearing the Merry Christmas and I'm receiving messages even of Merry Christmas more this year.
So I'm happy about that.
People should say what they want.
How many times a year?
What is Jewish New Year?
Yom Kippur or Yom Kippur?
I don't know.
But we'll get this Happy New Year from our friends or Jewish friends.
Happy New Year.
I go, Happy New Year to you.
I don't clarify anything.
I don't say, wait a minute.
What makes you think I'm Jewish?
Or why would you talk?
I don't care.
Good for you.
When I see a menorah, when I see this, where's Kwanzaa?
What happened to Kwanzaa?
Don't you remember Kwanzaa?
I do.
Don't you remember Kwanzaa?
Am I the only one?
Remember in 1970?
But look at what Darlene is saying.
I work in a Catholic.
I know a second.
I work in a Catholic, supposedly Catholic.
I work in a Catholic, supposedly Catholic, that only has happy holiday signs on the Catholic.
See, now that's shameful.
That is bullshit.
That's disgusting.
You know, that's the kind of stuff that irks me.
Really?
I'm going to go one step further and listen to me and understand this.
Christmas is the birth of Jesus the Christ.
Remember, it's Jesus the Christ.
Remember, passion of the Christ.
Yeshua or whatever.
It is not about trees.
It is about the birth of Christ and the origin, if you will, of Christianity.
Anybody got a problem with that?
That's what it is.
You know?
We give behaviors like, oh, you know what?
Throwing salt over the shoulder.
We care more about trivia.
Don't run from it.
It's exactly what it is.
Mud says...
Mud Cloud says, one, I want to fix a thing for a customer.
Had no charge.
She called my boss because of my t-shirt.
That is absolute.
There is a place in hell for the person who did that.
Kansas says Merry Christmas, but I just thought of something that came back to me, and I don't know why, all these years later.
Do you want to hear what it is?
So, in our all-girls Catholic school, and I was in the Glee Club, as you know.
Oh, they love your brooch.
Thank you very much.
What about your other one?
I have a heart on.
I have a love you that's for you on my shirt.
I've got it all going on.
Where's the other one?
Oh, I didn't put Santa on.
He's on my coat.
Okay, there we go.
All-girls Catholic school.
And when we would put on our performance at Christmas time, the Christmas concert.
When we would put on our performance.
Our Christmas concert.
We sang a Hanukkah song in an all-girls Catholic.
That is a little weird.
Think about it.
What is a Hanukkah song?
It's like, I can't sing, but it was like, you know, even though I was in the Glee Club, it was something about my dreidel and my dreidel.
Oh, oh, okay.
But I think now that's a little weird.
You know, all girls' Catholic school in the 1970s would be singing Hanukkah songs.
It was New Jersey, but I don't know.
But anyway, let's skip that part.
I want to express and to teach people, just listen to them and get over it.
It doesn't matter.
It's great.
I wish the whole world was religious, not that rat bastard who mowed those people down.
That's not Islam.
Do you believe that?
Does anybody truly believe that?
Now, these other folks who decide to protest in Germany, that this is Germany, say, wait a minute, hold it.
That's another story.
Does that go for the entire faith of Islam?
Of course not.
When we decided to use, we white folks, Christians used the cross, the burning of the cross as a sign for the Klan.
Is that an endorsement of Christianity?
No!
And if you want to talk about...
That Adolph guy, you should have heard his comments regarding Christianity.
If I read them to you, you would say, these are the most beautiful things I've ever met.
You know who said it?
So let's just leave that out of the equation.
This notion that this is somehow Islamophobia.
Nobody cares about that.
Well, Sherry loves the show, so thank you, Sherry.
Sherry's up there.
Sherry McDermott.
Right there, your pastor.
The comments are coming in.
I'm trying to keep up with what people are saying.
So I put my glasses on so I can see the comments.
Cord Oliver says Hello everyone and Merry Christmas.
There's Cord.
Bless his heart.
I love that.
So much great.
Let me see what else you just...
My justifiable fear of public places.
It's far too dangerous out there.
Fred couldn't say it better.
That's one of the reasons why, and I don't want to be the poo-pooer here, but I would not put any amount of time or any amount of justification or hope on somebody, the left in particular, not doing something to interfere, disrupt, disengage, or cancel.
Today, one month from today.
And I don't want to get anywhere near D.C. Sorry!
No.
And we're not scaredy cats, and I'm a warrior, so I don't even go to Bryant Park here in New York, which is a beautiful Christmas market, skating rink, carousel.
I just don't go in the crowds.
I also don't go to Columbus Circle.
They have a Christmas market, open stands next to Central Park.
Any car could just plow into the...
I mean, there's no guardrail.
Next to Trump International Hotel.
Why not avoid them?
I mean, I avoid them.
Why not?
Indeed.
Now, do we notice also, is everybody excited getting into this notion of Christmas?
Do you...
When you were...
We're going to be...
Because I believe little kids, Christmas in particular, It's for little kids.
I agree.
I also believe 100% in Santa.
I'm telling you, even though it was my first red pill, when I realized my parents, for my own good, believe me when I tell you that.
I realize, oh, okay.
You really believed in Santa.
You say this every year.
Absolutely.
I never did.
I went along with the story, but I think because my mother brought me shopping with her.
That was the first clue.
Do you know, I don't remember ever sitting back.
You didn't see your mother buying anything?
No, no, no.
Well, listen, we had clues.
But I don't remember when this moment was.
Have you ever looked back and thought that an event happened?
Much earlier than it did, and then you look at the pictures, and you remember the end of the, when you had a snapshot, you got it developed, it had like the month and the year, the bottom, you know, like imprinted.
So anyway, you get one of these things, you'd say, yeah, I remember this happening, and then you thought I was three or four or five.
You were like ten.
So I don't know when these moments were.
He's always asked, how does he do this?
How does he know?
Because we got our...
Gifts on Christmas Eve.
We did Christmas morning.
I got older, we did Christmas Eve.
How does he know?
And then there was a basket.
I'm surprised at you.
You believed that he could fly through the air all over the world and deliver to every child?
I never went for it.
I never questioned it.
There's anybody off here, but they told me about God, too, and I'm supposed to believe whatever they tell me.
I didn't sit down and say it.
I went along with Marissa.
I went along with it just because it was fun for my younger siblings.
And also, as I got a little bit older, my mother would give me the gifts to wrap.
That was kind of a hope her wrap everything.
Marissa says, yeah, I figured out Santa wasn't real, but went along for my parents.
That's what I did, too.
I'm with Marissa.
Now, can you?
Bend over and get that little tree.
I don't like that tree in the corner.
Somebody's looking for our Coca-Cola Santa because I put him in the living room.
Here we go!
No, this is a good tree.
This is really good.
Look at this.
Is that beautiful or what?
Come on now.
No, this is from the dollar store and I just love it.
Falling apart a little.
And I put you on the front of it.
Isn't it the cutest?
It is the cutest.
I'm going to bring this over here.
We don't want to keep that in the corner.
I put a Lionel train on it.
I don't know if everybody can see that.
I put your little Lionel nation on the front.
Come on now.
I put our camper.
Remember our camper story, people believe?
That broken down camper picture?
This is a part of the shrine over here.
And I put a little disco ball because I still love disco music, everybody.
You know what else we have, which is one of the things we have, this picture we have here.
The shrine, I can't show you this, but I got...
Picture we've got our truck memorabilia.
And I have something which is also very, very important.
I have the picture.
What is it?
What are we looking for?
The mask card for Robert Trump.
Why don't you just bend over, scoot the chair over and get it?
What's the big deal?
You get that and I'll get Santa.
You get that and I'll get Santa.
Here we go.
This is it.
This is...
This was the greatest guy ever.
This was President Trump's brother.
This is Robert Trump.
And he was born on my birthday.
We were born exactly 10 years apart.
And he died on August of 15, 2020.
And this is, he was absolutely the best guy.
I love him.
Loved him.
And I keep thinking, what would he think?
What would he think?
He, you know, just...
He was very dignified, quiet.
And I also want to throw in, I do want to say this.
He was very much an encourager of mine to form the Warriors.
And I would say Robert, because I would talk about it nonstop.
And he'd say, you have to do something.
You have to go out in the public.
You have to get to the front of this.
You have to speak.
For those who can, I'd say, Robert, I don't want to form a nonprofit.
I don't want to raise money.
I'm not a public speaker.
Remember all that stuff?
And you know what?
I really, part of my mission was, with his untimely death, really getting going to honor him because he really was the first one who would say to me, you have...
You just have to do it with your passion.
So I honor him with our work at the Warriors.
That's right.
This is my one since I was a little kid.
I don't know how old.
I might have been 13. I have no idea.
I love his little face.
Look at his face.
You know what?
That thing was...
That is a pretty sturdy...
That is an antique treasure.
Look at those cheeks.
But I believe there's something about the thing that is the most important about Santa.
The most important.
It might be religion.
It might be whatever it is.
It might be nature.
It might be sunrises or sunsets or whatever the hell it is.
But everybody needs this feeling of awe.
Where you look at something, your A.W.E., where you were awestruck, gobsmacked, where you, something just confounds you.
It overwhelms you, where you think this is, and when you see a little kid, and they see this, and they're excited, and they have cookies that you leave on it, Santa was here, and you see this look on their face, I don't care about anybody else.
That just...
You just created a part of their brain that appreciates because they have to think about this.
It's object permanence, but it's also imagining just when a kid thinks.
Ever seen that look where they put things together?
It's just incredible.
And I think it's important for their intellectual development and their emotional development to actually feel that way.
Honest to God.
Now, later on, Like, you know, Santa is like having a pet.
Pets are great until the pet says goodbye.
And then your heart is broken.
But it was worth it.
You know what I mean?
Does that make any sense?
I think kids don't have...
I don't think kids...
I don't think we...
I don't think we do enough for kids.
I don't think we take kids to planetariums.
I don't think we do any of that stuff.
I don't think we...
Where we teach people...
Kids just freak out.
To look through a telescope?
How many kids have never looked through a telescope?
Never, just that sort of thing.
Anyway, I don't want to preach.
Well, that's exactly what you were doing, husband.
I am preaching.
But you know what?
A couple of comments, because they're going by.
Thank you, Smiling Sue, about your hair.
Oh, look at this.
Hang on a second.
Also.
I'm sorry.
Darlene Bradley says, I remember going to see Santa and she'll...
Shilato's Department Store, and they actually had Live Ranger on display in the store.
I never saw Live Ranger.
That is incredible.
Well, Trump Tower has a Santa Claus because he contacted me twice.
Oh, that's right.
I'm over for pictures, and I kept saying Santa.
We're busy.
And he said, please come Monday at noon.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Two things.
If you want to see...
In fact, is it on your Instagram?
Did you put up the Louis Vuitton?
Is that on your Instagram?
You should put that up.
The most incredible, by New York standards, thing we've ever seen is the Louis Vuitton store on 57th and 5th, right there.
And it is, how would you describe it?
Covered in, it looks like...
What would you say?
Before we continue, Pete, I want to address your comment.
I think my husband learned everything from me, but we'll just let that go.
That's how it works in this house.
You know how a trunk looks?
They're a Louis Vuitton trunk, piled up sky high.
I would say probably about 30 stories up in the air from the ground.
Trunk, smaller trunk, smaller trunk.
People stand all over the streets taking pictures.
It is the most beautiful piece of art you have ever seen.
People are in awe of it.
And they also have some visuals that kind of like these birds and things.
There's a zebra I saw yesterday when I passed by that kind of circulate around the whole building.
But it looks like a building that's a bunch of Louis Vuitton.
Suitcases.
It's absolutely gorgeous.
Whoever thought of that, they actually deserve a gold star.
And right there, crossing 57th Street, is Tiffany's.
And then right next to that is Trump.
And tell them about the activity.
The constant...
And this is not just now.
For years, people love this.
The gift shop.
Is packed.
And the Trump grill is packed.
And you got Santa Claus now.
I avoided it yesterday when I was across the street because I didn't want to go into those crowds, but they were pouring in.
And when I looked across the street, everybody's taking selfies.
Everybody's smiling.
Everybody's happy.
And you have a large police presence and they have...
Guards there and things.
But people are so happy.
So happy.
But Santa is there, if anybody's in New York, on Monday at noon.
Darlene Bradley says, My sister and I went to Costco today to get Christmas party supplies.
Saw a box of pre-cooked wild Red King crab legs for the bargain basement price of $479.
No, that can't be true.
Oh my God!
No, is that true?
Is that true?
All I know is we buy two bags of groceries.
We passed on the crack.
Yeah, I mean, we buy two bags of groceries because I jam everything in.
You know, you have to bring your own bags here in New York, New Jersey, the whole thing.
Remember the joke?
Guy walks into a fish store and says, how much for crabs?
He goes, $10.78 a pound.
He says, shake hands with a millionaire.
Anyway, sorry.
That's like one of those Catskills.
It's true.
She took a picture.
You know, today it was funny.
I always loved people at stores who are pushing something.
Like at Costco, they have these poor people with a hat, and they sit there with these little, you know those cups like you would put pills in?
Those little paper, little corrugated, like little shot glass cups.
Those pill things, they give people the drugs in?
And this woman's like this, and she's scoping up.
They give you like one corn chip and one little thing.
It's this trail mix.
What are you kidding me?
Anyway, so they sit there, and sometimes they'll say, that's all right.
All right, so today when I was at the olive rack.
Losing your mind.
Losing my mind.
All of a sudden, behind me, I hear, no dairy, no soy.
I'm like, Jesus!
I thought somebody said, what?
That's when I ran away.
I said, what?
And I turned around and go, oh my goodness, I'm sorry that you were yelling.
There was this woman.
There was a woman who was selling this yogurt, which we bought for her, out of the blue.
Scared that.
I thought she was yelling at me.
I'm going to have to give her some business.
No soy, no dairy.
What is this?
She's selling her product.
Honey, go with the joke.
For the first millisecond, I thought it was some kind of a coat.
Oh, go ahead.
You would be the worst audience.
I'm waiting for you to get to this.
What?
What does that mean?
Let me finish.
Fred, are you finished?
See?
So Fred had mentioned somewhere in this chat, because I saw it, a Macy's live feed or something looks good, looks nice.
We passed Macy's today in the car.
Because there's a little park right across the street on Broadway.
Beautiful, beautifully decorated.
That used to be a real drug den.
I don't know if you remember, like, you know, back in the 70s and 80s.
Well, 70s, you were in Florida.
They really, maybe I want to say, in the 90s, they cleaned that up and made it a beautiful place for people to sit, and they planted all these beautiful plants.
But it was jam-packed, and Macy's looks like what it's supposed to look like on Christmas, with all the lights and decorations and crowds.
But again, very crowded in that whole Herald Square area.
C. Ward says, I've been to the Tiffany store.
You just mentioned, wow.
It is, and the real...
Breakfast at Tiffany's.
They were doing some refurbishing.
Tiffany's?
Okay, so Tiffany's front door used to be on Fifth Avenue, right?
Tiffany's is part of Trump Tower.
That's part of the retail.
For some reason, I don't know why they did this.
There used to be a Nike store that opened in like the 90s on 57th Street, right around the corner, right?
Which was also a tenant of Trump Tower.
But when Nike went out of business, moved, shut down, whatever they did there, and it was a very large spot.
Tiffany's remodeled the entire store, and they put their main front door now is, there's no door on 5th Avenue anymore, which I don't like, right?
Because we think of 5th Avenue, Tiffany's.
They put the door on East 57th Street, which is right around the corner.
They took over the Nike space, they enlarged it.
I have to say, when I'm passing by early in the morning, the store opens at 10, people are already lined up outside to get in at Tiffany's.
Tell us where they were lined up.
But then again, in the...
Where were we?
When was it?
Soho?
I don't know where there was a village.
We went by, they had molded the Gucci store.
Sometimes, for the out-of-the-way places, what was the place we saw were on our way to Broome?
It was today.
I said, look at those people lined up.
Where were they going?
I have no clue.
But you know what's also interesting is that some of the malls, Short Hills Mall and others.
It was that, no.
It was not a store.
It was that Italian restaurant.
It was that Italian restaurant.
What are you talking about?
The people lined up to go in.
I said, why are they lined up in the middle of the afternoon?
Oh, Balletto, yeah.
That's a thing.
Yes.
On Houston, right?
That was the one where Bowie went and all this kind of thing.
Well, they were lined up to get in there.
But in malls, you'll see in Hermes and this, you see people lined up and they have a security guard and they're allowed in two or three at a time.
And I'm thinking, are they just looking?
Are they going to buy anything?
I don't know how this thing works.
But there are more people out ostensibly looking at these stores.
Louis Vuitton, huge.
Tiffany's huge.
I see people today with shopping bags.
I see people with bags.
Also, you can always tell on Christmas time, on 57th Street, the big star, right by 57th and 5th.
Every year, you know it's Christmas.
And then a couple of years, remember they didn't have it one year?
First of all, it's like a big snowflake.
A snowflake.
It used to be flat years ago.
Then it became like three-dimensional at one point.
Then they didn't put it up one or two years.
People went berserk.
Now it's incredible.
It changes colors.
Green, red, blue.
It just illuminates all of 57th.
And today, I was, you have got to see me drive in New York traffic.
It is an art.
I am telling you.
It is rough.
I have a friend of mine who, well, an associate.
Who's very upset.
Very nervous.
He can't do it.
Very anxious.
Takes a lot of pills.
He couldn't do this.
And I kept thinking, you have to swing in.
You've got to catch that light.
You cross.
If you block the box, you're moving in.
And you're fighting next to the guy next to you.
Nobody ever gets hit.
Nobody ever does it.
Then we got into the tunnel.
We got into the tunnel.
Go into Weehawken and say, it's another thing to say, wow!
It's combat!
It's incredible!
You've got to see this.
Everybody has got to, at one point in their life, drive in Manhattan.
I wouldn't recommend it.
You have no idea.
I'm surprised there aren't crashes all over the place, and also people being run over, because people do walk.
I see them looking like this, reading their phone.
And cab drivers are the worst because it's not their car.
Lyft and Uber people are careful because it's their car.
But cab drivers from some country who doesn't, you've got his name in the back with no vowels in it, and he's on the phone, he doesn't care.
And they live in a parallel universe.
The yellow cabs are absolutely Almost non-existent.
It's totally sad.
You know, one time I had the same cab driver twice.
That may not sound like much to you, but think about the odds of that.
Just randomly, twice.
Same guy.
I had the same guy twice one time because I remember his story years ago.
He was a grandfather from Queens.
He had the cab all decorated.
That's when he used to kind of get, like, American people driving cabs and people from Queens in the Bronx.
And he had all his granddaughters, all their pictures.
You know, years ago, there were no dividers.
It was just the drivers.
They always talked to you.
Always.
Great conversation.
I had the same guy twice.
The greatest honor.
Well, put it this way.
Like, when you were up, people say, well, I got a table at...
No.
Well, I was at...
I met so-and-so.
Now, for me, it was one time right there in front of the Daily News building where Picks used to be.
It was raining.
It was a miserable day.
Couldn't catch a cab.
I'm in the middle of the block.
And all of a sudden, this bus stops and says, hey, you're Lionel.
He says, where are you going?
He stops in the middle of an empty bus that's out of service.
I said, Westside, hop in.
I said, me?
Hop in.
So I'm sitting next to him.
I'm talking to him.
He says, we're going like this and people are like waiting.
That's terrible.
Who's that guy?
So anyway, they went and dropped us off right here.
Everybody at the front desk said, we don't have a bus go up here.
They stop at corners, you know, and they dropped me off at the front door.
This is unheard of.
My own bus.
That's it.
And we couldn't take pictures because we didn't want to get them in trouble.
But also, I just want to address, listen, everybody should experience, sorry, I saw some of the comments, New York City once in their lifetime, despite everything you're hearing, seeing.
No, I just want to say, there is nothing like New York City.
And even the tourists that stand six across and staring up in the air at this wonder.
Or I've seen them in Central Park.
Or I see them just looking at the decorations.
Walked happy.
There's so much good going on here.
On a daily basis, if I'm walking around, I'm not seeing anything.
It's New York.
It's always been New York.
It's going to get back to New York.
It's going to get better.
And people are flocking back here.
So I don't like those comments.
Wouldn't go near it now.
And you know what?
We have a new administration coming in.
Eric Adams, not sure what's happening with him, but he's all of a sudden stepping up.
You know, we're going to clean the streets.
We're putting the...
Kathy Hochul, governor now, is putting 250...
Did you see him with...
Did you see him with...
With Luigi?
What was that?
Walking behind...
Walking behind a movie.
Did you see that, though?
For this Luigi?
I've got to show you something.
No, but that, did you see the picture, that visual with the guns and they brought him in and this and that, and they brought him into court and put him in little khaki pants and like a navy blue pullover, I think, with a white button-down shirt?
But that visual, like, we got him.
Okay, why aren't they doing this with Trendy Aragua?
Why aren't they, although they did arrest him just up in the Bronx, so that's starting.
But really, how about the traffickers?
Why aren't they going after them like that?
They called him a terrorist threat.
That's what the traffickers are.
I don't know what that is.
Kathy Hochul, National Guard, subway system.
This is the point.
What are we looking at here?
We've got to wait!
I'm putting it up.
I should have done this before.
I didn't do it.
Just give me a chance.
I'm hurrying.
I'm putting it up.
I've got to do this.
Jesus!
Okay, watch this.
Watch this.
Okay, hang on a minute.
This...
This is so...
This is so good.
Alright, here we go.
Growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word computer is.
They don't know.
They don't know these things.
And I want the world to open up to all of them.
Because when you have their diverse...
I'm sorry.
Somebody very carefully and very succinctly said they treat black people like they don't know anything.
And she's Miss Liberal.
These people have never heard of a computer.
What are you talking about?
Why would she even say that?
Because all the black people I know are so offended by the way they're treated and spoken to, made examples of...
We're just so offended by these people, the way they talk about us.
Why would she even say that?
Do you remember?
Hang on a minute.
Another one I'm going to show you.
This was...
Give me a second because I've got to go from this.
I've got to go back.
I've got to go back on this.
Just a second now.
I want to show you this.
Archie Bunker was still...
We don't even know how great it was.
We don't recognize the genius of this man, of this show.
It would never be allowed on today, but this was...
I think it was 50 years today.
I'm not...
Sure.
But in any event...
Was it 50 years?
In any event.
Oh, what a video file.
Here we go.
This moment when Archie...
It was this editorial rebuttal.
This is when a man from the street and he gave a lecture on gun control and guns and carrying guns.
And it was one of the best.
Look how they combed his hair.
He always wore this.
Here we go.
Good evening, everybody.
This is Archie Bunker of 704 Houser Street, veteran of the big war, speaking on behalf of Guns For Everybody.
Now, question.
What was the first thing that the communists done when they took over Russia?
Answer, gun control.
And there's a lot of people in this country who want to do the same thing to us here in a kind of conspiracy, see?
Now, I want to talk about another thing that's on everybody's mind today, and that's your stick-ups and your skyjackings, which, if that was up to me, I could end the skyjackings tomorrow.
You could?
All you got to do is arm all your passengers.
You know, he ain't got no more superiority there, and he ain't going to dare to pull out no ride.
And then your airlines, then they wouldn't have to take the passengers on the ground no more.
They'd just pass out the pistols at the beginning of the trip, and they'd pick them up again at the end.
The greatest show ever.
It was so good.
I met him, well, once, then twice, and then...
Years later, I said, I hate everybody.
I said, I don't want to.
Because everybody was there.
It was kind of like a closed party for this place.
And nobody was there.
I said, I don't want to be a fan or whatever.
But I've got to tell you something.
I said, my father, if I didn't say hello to you, because he watched Matlock.
Carol O 'Connor was the greatest guy.
He said, let me tell you a story.
He said he was trying to get a cab and he couldn't get a cab and all of a sudden he sees this cab whip around with the light off.
He says, get on in.
So he takes him off and he says, okay, how much do I owe you?
And the cab driver said, if my father found out that I charged you, he was the nicest guy at Kennedy's.
He came in with Ann Mara, Jerry Stiller, Larry Hagman.
They were all in there.
That was such a great place.
I remember sitting at the bar with Peter O'Toole discussing the second Hannibal movie with Ray Liotta, where they were eating his brains.
Remember this?
And I was saying, could that have been possible?
I said, well, yes, if they weren't doing the Broca's area or weren't against the area of the brain, which controls...
And we got into...
Eating brain.
This is when New York, you walked into saloons and ginger.
You would see people all the time.
Remember the Carnegie Deli, Allen Ginsberg.
We don't have that anymore.
Think of all the people that we've...
I remember one time, who was it?
What the hell is her name?
Warren Beatty's sister.
Shirley MacLaine.
At Lecter's.
Remember Lecter's?
I sure do.
All of a sudden it was cold.
She was banging on the door.
She goes, let me in.
He goes, we're closed.
I said, what do you mean you're closed?
You're supposed to close.
You're closing early.
We're closing.
I said, it says 8 o 'clock.
What are you doing?
Anyway, so I turned around and said, that's nonsense.
And I look.
I said, it's Shirley MacLaine.
So we're yelling at them.
And then we're like, off we went.
One time I was in the store, in a video store, and I'm talking.
And I said, this was this wonderful, the one near the Sheffield, this wonderful Iranian woman.
She knew every movie.
She was wonderful.
We were just discussing this, debating this.
And I said, this is so-and-so.
And I hear this voice.
No, it's not.
And I looked, and it was, again, David Bowie's wife.
Imam.
Imam.
Imam or Iman.
She was there.
No big deal.
Marvin Hamlisch.
I used to see a lot of people.
Georgia Engel, Nipsey Russell, Mitch Miller, Colonel Clink, and D 'Agostino's buying toilet paper.
Everywhere.
Not anymore, though, right?
No.
A lot of them died off, though.
Died off, but then there was this...
And then we have these characters in the neighborhood.
What about the guy with the sailor hat?
How old is this guy?
He's got to be 95. He was a sleight of hand magician.
Remember the real skinny black guy?
Real skinny with a toothpick.
I haven't seen him in a while.
I think he's not with us anymore.
But he was just this.
I've never seen somebody.
He was a drummer.
I found that.
So skinny.
Never in my life.
It's incredible.
6 '3".
Like emaciated.
But with a toothpick.
And walked up.
I never understood Snarky is bringing up Flip Wilson.
I never understood, even as a little kid, I never understood Flip Wilson and that Ernestine.
I, uh, you know, I really didn't.
I guess there was something.
He was hot.
Remember Ernestine?
The devil made me do it.
Killer.
I mean, after a while, but look, it worked.
I know it was a bit that worked, as we say.
Well, he was one of the few black acts.
Still at that time.
Think about that.
The first one was Bill Cosby with I Spy, and then the first Cosby show, and then later on.
Will Jordan.
Do you know who Will Jordan is?
You probably don't.
Will Jordan was one of the best mimics ever.
Mimes or mimics or whatever.
Will Jordan is the Will Jordan.
Will Jordan was this character actor.
Is that it?
No, that's not it.
I think it was.
He was 91. Ed Sullivan.
Right.
He imitated Ed Sullivan.
Will Jordan.
And I...
We were at Kennedy's.
And he shows up.
He was in the neighborhood.
And I said, I can't believe it.
He was doing...
He did the best Ed Sullivan imitation ever.
But he was a professional.
He was doing James Mason.
Next to me.
I never...
I couldn't believe...
He's from the Bronx, too, with that accent.
And he could do all those...
You know who also was?
Roscoe Lee Brown.
Remember Roscoe Lee Brown?
Roscoe Lee Brown was so full of assurance.
But Roscoe, when he talked like this, and he walked in, he goes, Hello, Connor.
And he talked like this.
Hello, I'm...
From Woodbury, New Jersey.
From Woodbury, New Jersey.
He was.
That's like the fellow from St. Elsewhere.
Whatever his name is.
He's from Reynolds, New Jersey.
What is...
Yeah.
But he came in and...
Hello, Connor.
You're from New Jersey.
And he took great offense at that.
My aunt worked for David Letterman in the 80s.
I used to go to Letterman's anniversary parties every year.
Such a different time.
His show was so...
In the 80s, it was good.
Good.
His show was...
I'll give him the 90s, too.
I'll give him the 90s.
Absolutely so innovative.
Bill Sheff, I think, was his head writer.
It was a different perspective.
Then he kind of got serious.
Then he got to be a lefty.
Maybe he was a lefty.
No, but those were good days, like the 80s and 90s.
You know who was also very nice and we liked a lot was Paul Schaefer.
We see Paula.
He's still very nice.
He just performed with Darlene Love.
They went on, what show did they go on?
It was Jimmy Fallon they went on.
Because we follow each other.
And she performed her Christmas classic that she used to perform every year for David Letterman.
And Paul Schaefer played with her, as well as Little Stevie.
Really?
They're Disciples of Soul or something, their group is called, and Paul directed it.
Well, he got to be a little lefty.
Well, he's back.
He's trying to get back in.
They're trying to redeem themselves.
And Paul Schaeffer was always very talented and did a lot of jingles when I was in the jingle business, fresh out of college.
I was hiring him for our...
Our company left and right, because a lot of these musicians behind the scenes would work on, when we did live music for TV.
Oh, you were, we were talking today about that.
Yes.
You booked.
Paul Schaefer, I booked all the time.
Nobody knew it would be him on commercials, but they would make a lot of money on the side.
Who would send me other names just that you booked?
I don't want to out anybody.
No, no, they're musicians.
Those are musicians from different groups.
But just, it's okay, it's not a crime.
Don't give any dirt about it.
No, I'm not giving any dirt.
I'm not giving any names.
I just said Paul Schaefer.
Just a lot of them from different groups would do a lot of...
That's it.
I'm thinking of one.
You can say one if you're thinking of one.
The great names.
Dr. John.
Oh, Dr. John, yes.
Mack Rebinack, who my friend Jerry Wexler used to know.
Dr. John was from another planet.
These were great, great people.
Little Stevie and I used to...
He lived, he was in the Sheffield years ago, was over here, and we used to meet right in the middle, there was this bench, sometimes late at night, and he had some guy with him, he'd bring water, and we would sit and talk radio.
Yes, he did.
I mean, it was just, it was just no time people could just pick up with somebody and talk.
The best story was, the best is one time we were at Kennedy's, which was the greatest Irish bar ever, but it's since closed.
So it was the night of the Sopranos.
The debut at the Ziegfeld.
So we were there and he said, come here.
And I said, sure.
I thought he wanted to talk or something.
So we walked outside.
I mean, there was a lamp right outside the door.
Who's standing there?
Right there.
Keith Richards.
The light and his wrinkles.
Not pretty.
It was...
Bizarre.
That's Keith.
But it was no hello or nothing.
Just like, you know, have a nice day.
Just that.
There was Kiefer Sutherland.
Tony, Gandolfini was in there.
A lot of times we didn't know who was who.
And nobody bothered.
Remember how they...
They went out of their way never to bother them.
Don't ask for autographs.
Don't ask for...
No, I never saw any of that going on.
Never.
I see that Susan is asking something I want to ask you about.
What is up with the drones?
Because yesterday and today I've been extremely busy running around.
Do we have any updates?
Does anybody know anything?
We never got answers.
Named it.
Named it.
I have not seen any, actually, in the last two days flying up and down.
I'm not staring out the window outside the Hudson.
I'm watching, but I haven't seen any.
It was last Sunday.
Last Sunday night along the West Side Highway.
Well, I told you to keep driving and keep your eyes on the phone because I saw four drones while we were driving home and they fly pretty low over the Hudson and they're pretty big and we still have no answers?
None.
Absolutely not.
We do have answers to Joe Biden was incapacitated during his term.
Oh, yeah.
And those are...
No kidding, everybody.
I mean, really?
Now, what can be done about that?
What do you think should be done about that?
What was Gamala and Joe doing at the White House at 1 a.m.?
What the hell was that all about?
A lot of nothing, is my opinion.
Why did they do that?
Is that just the gaslighters?
Yes, because they're too dumb to do anything else.
And somebody is saying, do you think it's the 25th Amendment?
So he steps down so she can pardon him?
No.
He hates her.
Don't be surprised if he doesn't pardon Trump and Trump doesn't pardon him.
And I think 100%, I have no problem with that whatsoever.
No.
No.
I'm not.
One day we're going to have the pardon has been so abused it was never intended for this.
The pardon historically was used at the time of the country starting when people weren't affiliated with anything they might have fought against.
He says, who am I fighting against?
Fighting against the Continental Congress.
What the hell is that?
So in order for people, and also after the Civil War, in order to assuage fears, to get people to comply, the notion of the pardon was used to bring people together and to smooth our problems and whatever.
We don't need this anymore because we have appeals courts.
We have appellate review.
We have constitutional amendments.
We have due process provisions.
Cruel and unusual punishment.
Eighth Amendment.
We have a lot of things.
So the argument being made by a lot of people is, we don't need these parts.
And by the way, if you subscribe to my email newsletters, you will have known that.
What a segue.
But here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
I am very angry, as we all saw it with our own eyes and heard it with our own ears, about this Joe Biden.
For the last four years, deteriorating in front of us every time we saw him.
And we were told he's sharp as a tack.
And everybody stood by him.
And that criminal media all stood by him.
And promoted him and pushed him.
I really think there has to be some sort of accountability.
Because you know what?
Despite what everybody thinks, kids are watching, especially teenagers, think about what they think about right now.
They're seeing, they're hearing, it's all this...
I'm sorry.
And there's no accountability.
Right?
And that's why this Diddy case that I keep...
I'm on with Nancy Grace every week about, as I call him, Dirty Diddy.
You should...
I gotta tell you this.
You should hear Rome and Nancy Grace.
Because it's like a long period of time.
And so I forget.
I'm in the other room.
There's quiet.
And I forget she's doing this.
And all of a sudden, let me tell you about him.
It's a dirty day.
Yeah, all the time.
He does.
I go, what the hell are you?
I bring her back, Nancy, because I always say, and I'm not a lawyer, we need proof.
We need ultimate proof about everything.
Because if we surmise, if we guess, if we come up with these theories, Nancy, you know what?
And nothing goes anywhere without the proof.
And the case sticks.
And there's real accountability, right, for criminal action.
Again, we need that proof, Nancy.
Then it does a real disservice to true victims, real victims, real survivors of any of this sexual exploitation.
Because we know with that other person who's not around anymore, there was really no closure.
Right?
And then the money gets involved and everybody's getting involved in these lawsuits and grabbing money.
And it becomes very diluted, the whole thing.
So I always bring Nancy back to, let's get back to, and I told her from the beginning, this case will ultimately stand on where minors involved.
And that is what they have to look at and go for.
But the case is scheduled for May, the trial.
And the feds have, supposedly, videos and information.
We'll see where that goes.
I say it's about minors.
I don't know how they can really, really get them.
You let her have it.
I have to.
It's very great.
Because she's talking about what he's eating in jail.
And I don't want to talk about that.
I want to talk about the case.
I want to talk about real survivors.
She is...
Look at this.
Susan loves Nancy.
Susan loves...
I love Nancy, too.
She is box office.
Nancy knows her stuff.
Nancy's got...
She's on every single platform available.
What do you think about Jaguar Wright, honey?
I've been on with Jaguar with my good friend Sean Atwood.
I don't really have a comment.
I just want to say, be careful, Jaguar.
Be careful.
That's all I'm saying.
I want to address one thing I heard, and I have no proof, everybody.
Remember?
Sorry.
No, but it goes along with my story I'm about to tell.
This?
Oh, okay.
Well, I got to hear this.
I heard...
That's a segue.
I heard, everybody.
There is a top person, a real...
Blister.
That somebody has a job.
You ready?
Their full-time job is following this person around to clean up after them because they're having accidents right and left in their pants.
We're going to leave it at that.
We're going to leave it at that, but I'm just saying.
So it's got to be somebody obviously older.
Is it Joe Biden?
I don't know.
Oh, we don't know.
No, we don't know.
I've heard it, but that's...
We don't know.
Can you imagine going for the job interview for that?
That's what I'm saying.
Who makes a job like that?
Would you like to work with Hollywood?
Yes.
Do you like big names?
Well...
I think I'll tell you the story.
Neil Bortz was a big conservative talk show host out of Atlanta.
Great guy.
One of the few I liked.
But he was excellent.
And he told this story.
And he had this voice like this.
And he was very, very...
So he had this woman.
Hello, Mr. Neil.
You know, she was...
I don't know where she was from.
But she's like the cleaning lady.
He says, now listen.
Whatever you do, don't go in that...
It's not like Nixon.
Whatever you do, don't go in that room.
Okay, Mr. Neil.
Whatever you hear, do not...
Go in there and go, okay.
She's wondering, what the hell is going on here?
Because he's there.
His wife's gone.
There's nobody there.
So he goes into this room where he was doing a radio.
He had a Comrex, the old-fashioned stuff with a microphone.
And he hears this, and I don't care what you people say.
Don't you ever!
And she's like this.
She's like dusting.
So she thought he was yelling at somebody or losing his mind.
So when he would open the door to go to the john or something, she kind of looked in.
She didn't understand what the comics were.
No idea it was in radio.
No idea.
She thought this man had just lost his mind.
I think one of the funniest things of all time.
That's my opinion.
Okay.
One of the few times.
That's like you and Nancy.
You're yelling and screaming.
I forgot.
For some reason, I just can't control myself.
I tend to yell on this program, but okay.
The Saturday Night Live rendition of her, I thought was brilliant.
It was pretty good.
I thought it was brilliant.
It's the greatest form of flattery.
They ought to have Nancy on SNL.
Do you know what I mean?
Okay, I've had enough of this.
It's an hour and ten minutes, honey.
Where has the time gone?
I just, I don't know, but it's the season of happiness.
Look at this, White Monkey.
Thank you, White Monkey.
White Monkey gave us our only tip tonight.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Well, I...
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
I want everyone to sign up for my newsletter.
Yes.
Because, as I said, I'm sending one out.
Full of juicy tidbits.
Remember, whenever you want to laugh.
Growing up in the Bronx, who don't even know what the word computer is.
They don't know.
They don't know these things.
And I want the world to open up to all of them.
Because when you have their diverse...
But you didn't really suffer any flack for this.
Or any getting kicked out of office.
The parody.
The comment by this gentleman who did this, obviously.
That just, it's soap.
It's soap.
And I don't laugh.
When I saw this, I almost died because it absolutely nails from this miserable Kathy Hogle who has all of our congestion pricing, all of these contraptions spread out.
We've got to figure out the thing you said.
Toll meter.
Toll meter, yeah.
So you read your...
What do we have to figure out?
You showed me this article about how you go around it.
You go down West Side Highway.
You go through Jersey, come around the top.
You can't go to Jersey.
They've got us, except if we just go up and down the West Side Highway, trapped.
There's no other way.
But there was some, on a very serious note, there are good things pending.
In Washington that I'm very hopeful for with the new administration regarding child safety and attention to this.
And I really do think, despite we say Congress, they're not paying attention to the kids.
They aren't.
I do think the Trump presidency will be bringing a lot of these things to the forefront, especially we're seeing little X being carried into the halls of Congress.
Paris Hilton brought her little boy into the halls of Congress.
Vivek brought his little son into Congress.
There's going to be a push to show.
Biden brought his little, I mean, Hunter.
Honey, you're wrecking the story.
Now I have thoughts about that.
Anyway, there's going to be this kind of family push and kids.
Good.
I like that.
We have to talk about family.
And there's also a push for strong fathers coming about.
I like that.
And also, there was a horrible case, and I have to bring it up because it came to a conclusion today.
If anybody heard of the Delphi murders in Indiana, where this horrible Richard Allen was convicted of murdering a 13 and a 14-year-old, two best friends, in 2017, and he's going away forever, if not...
Good.
Forever, ever, if you know what I mean, with our algorithms.
And he worked in the local pharmacy and what he did to those two little girls.
But finally today, we have some form of justice all these years later that he is going to be gone.
Because there's so many just today.
There was a death penalty the other day.
What?
That was a nasty doo-doo.
A lot's happening.
And just here in New York, I was...
Just before we started, two teen girls, both 14, one from Long Island, one from the Bronx, missing, gone.
And one, they don't understand.
She had no shoes on.
So it's like somebody she met pulled up from the house or something and called her out.
Not a trace.
Her father is frantic out in Patchogue, Long Island.
He's offering a $15,000 reward.
If you go to Lynn's Warriors on Twitter, I have information about her.
We've got the other one in the Bronx.
I'm going to post information.
So many kids are missing and never found.
It is completely frightening and shocking.
So hug and kiss your kids and make them feel safe because with all this stuff going on, remember they have all these devices, right?
So they're hearing and seeing a lot of things that we didn't have to deal with as kids, you know, in their faces.
So that's all I have to say about that.
It's the holiday season.
It's Christmas.
Thank you, my friends.
We're going to be doing this again.
Well, it's Ventilation Friday.
The week just flew by, right, everybody?
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