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Jan. 19, 2025 - Lionel Nation

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VENTILATION FRIDAY: Mrs. L and I Sift Through the Flotsam and Detritus of the Week

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	It is time, ladies and gentlemen.
	That's right.
	The birthday girl in two days.
	Oh my goodness, you're right.
	Welcome everyone.
	Ventilation Friday is upon us.
	This is your show.
	I'm just driving the bus.
	I'm waiting for you to say something.
	No.
	Well, I want to welcome everybody on this Friday night.
	Maybe it's not Friday night where you are.
	These are very exciting times.
	Do you feel like the excitement's building?
	Why is that?
	Well, as we lead into Monday, Inauguration Day.
	Oh, yeah.
	You can't feel the energy when you talk to people or reading things.
	Or just, you don't feel it?
	I feel it.
	I feel a burden lifted.
	Unless and until I hear them say, so help me God, I'm just waiting.
	I have a question for you with that.
	Do you think it's possible with everything going on that at 12.01am they privately administer?
	Yes.
	And so the rest is just pomp and circumstance?
	Absolutely.
	Just to make sure everything's covered?
	Yep.
	Because we don't know.
	Pops Biden hasn't been there in months.
	We don't really know.
	We have to have some kind of forceful something.
	Don't you feel like he's...
	We know.
	I think it's done.
	Remember when...
	Remember when there was...
	Was it...
	Who was it?
	I think it might have been...
	Somebody who read something incorrectly, one of the justices, and they had to do it again.
	I think it was Obama or something.
	And then Joe made a snide remark.
	I remember.
	Ladies and gentlemen, George Gidman says, please direct this super chat to the indefatigable Mrs. L and her indomitable warriors.
	The world is a better place because of your yeoman efforts.
	You, my lady, are a hero.
	George, I could cry with those nice words.
	That is what means the most to me.
	Those are the words that really empower me to do this very difficult, hard.
	And those are not even words I use in my vocabulary, difficult, hard.
	I just don't.
	I'm a warrior.
	I move ahead.
	I find the world around me is stagnant, whereas I just keep barreling through, which is why I'm so excited for Monday.
	When we can officially perhaps announce more things with the Warriors, we'll be in Washington more.
	We will have open doors because, frankly, doors have been shut to me in the last four years.
	It's been very hard, even though I've done my best to knock those doors down.
	I mean, after all, we're constituents of Jerry Nadler.
	Need I say more?
	Need I say more, everybody?
	But thank you, George.
	That means so, so much because we are making headway.
	We chip away every single day.
	Our hashtag is Community Creates Change.
	We are doing it.
	So thank you very much for recognizing that.
	And today you were on, you know, one of the things that people don't understand or don't recognize by virtue of what you do.
	This is it.
	This is it.
	The shows, the channels, your efforts.
	And you were on today getting You Have a Caravan.
	A promenade, so to speak, of folks who are going to be blasting the doors down in Albany.
	And you're doing bus schedules.
	You're talking to bus companies to get all these quotes.
	Quotes.
	And information.
	I'm glad you brought that up.
	At the same time, I was getting quotes from the bus company.
	Apparently, people don't like to get quotes from bus companies.
	I always just jump right in like...
	So, um...
	And that is related to, I want to mention it, because it's very important that we collaborate and work with a wonderful group called the Wonder Girls, based out of New York and New Jersey and now branching into Connecticut.
	And these are middle school and high school girls.
	And started in 2020.
	And really empowering each other.
	And when I tell you they are doing great work with each other and building out in their communities at different middle and high schools, I am telling you this is the way to do things.
	So we have a Teen Safety Summit coming up on January 28th at Rockland Community College.
	And at the Safety Summit, of course, I will be there as a sponsor and supporting everybody.
	It's about 500 girls across Connecticut.
	New York and New Jersey.
	And we're going to have Homeland Security and DEA, which is what I was on the phone organizing today.
	And we're going to have FBI and we're going to have local law enforcement, some sheriffs.
	Anyway, so it's very important that we have these full-on collaborations because the DEA has a new way of thinking.
	And I really just love the office of Frank Tarantino here in New York who runs it, special agent in charge.
	They want to get in there and work side by side with schools and families.
	It's a whole new way of thinking, which is what we promote at The Warriors.
	Two things, three things.
	Number one, to our good friend, Trenty, whatever he says, if you streamed on X, you'd have ten times folds the viewers.
	We are on X. We're streaming now on X and YouTube.
	We're streaming on X. You got that?
	We're on X. Edie made it.
	Edie's here.
	Just want to let you know, just want to let you know, we're on X. Just, just, just want to, and here we go.
	Trending before says, why not stream on X?
	Again, we're on there right now, so just let you know.
	I'm just going to let you know.
	Thank you very much.
	Well, we're on.
	Number one.
	Number two, and I don't want to hog this.
	We talk a lot of garbage.
	Not a lot of garbage.
	No, it's our show.
	A lot of stuff about the FBI.
	The FBI, Christopher Reeve is one thing.
	This is not meant to be gratuitous, but the men and women who handle the frontline stuff, armed robberies, federal crimes, they're superb.
	So let's not, you know, all this Cash Patel stuff.
	That's one thing.
	DEA, in the old days, I don't know why, but they're trying to prevent kids and people from being poisoned.
	It's fentanyl.
	Our focus is fentanyl, fentanyl, fentanyl.
	We cannot understand.
	There's a lot of publicity.
	We understand people running the border, dealing, transporting, trafficking.
	Why people would buy any kind of drugs, even adults.
	They don't know this.
	Online.
	They don't know this.
	Well, they have to know.
	You can't buy drugs online.
	And I'm not talking even illicit drugs now.
	People are buying, you know, aspirin.
	People are buying and trying to get their prescriptions.
	You must be very careful.
	You must go to a real pharmacy, accredit it, and, you know, on an average 300 people perish each day in the United States.
	And by the way, we have some wonderful coded messages from Pilgrim who says...
	Who would indict if mayor id they are all corrupt?
	Thank you very much.
	Now you might say, what does that mean?
	I understand it, actually.
	I don't either.
	I don't.
	It doesn't matter.
	You don't have to understand what people say to understand the spirit.
	So thank you for that.
	I don't know.
	I think it has to do something with it.
	Now I think I don't understand.
	I changed my mind.
	I think, though, how about a lot of things to bring up for Ventilation Friday.
	Please.
	But I have to tell you something.
	That bothers me.
	I think I mentioned it to you earlier.
	This Mayor Eric Adams here in our beloved New York City at Mar-a-Lago today, lunching with Trump, visiting with Trump.
	I'm sorry, I don't know why Donald Trump is being so nice to Eric Adams, who, along with his partner Bill de Blasio, the former mayor, really ruined this city.
	I find it interesting that people now say...
	Remember the old days of Rudy Giuliani?
	We heard it was great during, you know, people who are new here from other places now, I heard it was so great during, you know, Rudy Giuliani, even Bloomberg.
	You know, the arts exploded under Bloomberg, whether you like him or not.
	He did a lot for the arts and public spaces around the city.
	And I don't know why Donald Trump is meeting with these people.
	I don't know.
	I just don't know why.
	Zuckerberg.
	I have to tell you, that's another one that upsets me, because this dumb act that Zuck has put on, when we have had, now hear me out on this one, countless parents and family members whose children were harmed by different things on the internet, whether it's bullying, eating disorders, we do know.
	And this is kind of this slippery slope thing that's a whole other program.
	We do know there are plenty of studies that say there are dangerous algorithms on these platforms, right?
	So we've had these private conversations.
	Don't bring that up.
	No, because I will ask you legal questions because a child will watch a bunch of bullying videos and then go out and bully a child, but necessarily not all kids do that.
	It's a very kind of mixed bag, but this Zuckerberg, you know, I know I was completely shadow banned during this period with my trafficking, which is very light the way I go on Twitter and things and Facebook and Instagram.
	And I would get Instagram specifically would say, I violated the community standards.
	I don't know what these messages over, I don't know, a picture of you and me maybe.
	I don't know.
	So I have to say I find it very offensive.
	That they're all running to Washington.
	I understand the thinking.
	We're going to all work together.
	They want to be with the cool kids.
	It's going to also be the owner of TikTok.
	I think Bill Gates is worming his way in.
	They haven't announced it yet, but he's getting in there.
	So I have a little bit of a problem like that.
	We need to put these people in their place kind of thing, and they won't pull this again.
	But what are your thoughts on that?
	Well, a couple of things here.
	First of all, I just want to say...
	I just saw this so interesting.
	This is Laura Hunter watching from Regina, or Regina, or Saskatchewan, or Regina, right.
	But I think it's pronounced Regina.
	And whenever I hear that, you know me.
	Well, listen, get your mind out of it better.
	Just going to say, which means sheath, wagina, in Latin.
	I'm going to go back to one thing about what Rudy Giuliani said and did.
	And this is why things were better.
	Rudy Giuliani had people like John Timothy, John Anemone, you know this Jadrool, this fat pig predator slob.
	Don't hold back.
	Which one?
	That they were arresting, who was having women put out for overtime.
	There was a woman, these administrative women, who made $300,000 in overtime.
	There's a wonderful New York City Platform, podcast, or YouTube, whatever it's called.
	And there's all these old NYPD homicide detectives.
	And they said, overtime was when you were on the job.
	You were a street person.
	You were doing extra.
	You were doing extra duty.
	Not administrative.
	That's not overtime.
	So this degenerate pervert...
	He's an idiot with this stupid mare, this monosyllabic, this subtard.
	Say it, say it, say it, say it, husband.
	He's an idiot.
	And by the way, I hope, I hope you watched the video on Karen Bass.
	Oh my!
	God!
	How did she ever get away with what is going to be coming out about her?
	Her main, the guy that she wanted, her main, whatever it was, he was being investigated by the FBI for threatening to blow up buildings.
	You've got this, Janice, whatever her name is, Quinones, $750,000.
	Okay, so what I'm saying is...
	I want to say something when you're done with that.
	It's her birthday.
	29 years old.
	I'm very proud of my age.
	Me too.
	I'm the only one.
	I'm turning 64. I'm happy.
	I'm not trading that in for anything.
	I'm smarter than ever.
	I have a fantastic husband, family.
	Oh, I tell everybody.
	I don't need...
	I want to be 29 again.
	I get every senior thing.
	You got one today.
	You got so excited.
	From the subway.
	I got this senior citizen.
	I love it!
	Now I forgot my great thought.
	You said we were talking about Bass and you said...
	Okay, but here's where everybody and people disagree and attack me about this one.
	And I blame Republicans, and I kid you not, because they were allowed.
	How did all these 96 DAs get spread across our great country?
	Who was watching this through all that Soros money?
	And then we had all these...
	These woke mayors or whatever's going on, where was the fight back?
	It's like we woke up one day and they were just all there.
	The DAs, these certain mayors.
	How about that one in Chicago?
	He's a mess, that one.
	We've got this one in New York.
	We've got Karen Bass out there.
	They were allowed to get away with it.
	What do you have to say about that?
	Where was the fight back a few years ago?
	Because the constituency didn't do anything.
	But the Republicans should have also...
	It goes back to New York.
	Let's use New York as an example.
	And I'm digressing a bit, but let me try this analogy a little bit.
	New York went very red, for lack of a better word, right, in this presidential election.
	The whole of New York State.
	Because traditionally, Long Island is red, upstate New York is red.
	The city, if...
	If they had worked harder campaigning, I'm going to go back to governor, not president.
	Governor.
	And president too, I'm going to go back.
	Like Republican, you know, the GOP here in New York City.
	There was a fighting chance Trump could have taken, right?
	Could have taken or would have been even closer.
	When we go back to governor with his horrific Kathy Hochul, Lee Zeldin came very close.
	Also, he did not campaign at all.
	In New York City, because the thinking always is downstate, as they call it.
	Oh, well, that's just blue.
	That's just blue.
	I'm not going to waste my time or money in those areas.
	No, you have to waste, not waste, you have to spend every penny fighting this evil, fighting back.
	So I don't like the mindset.
	So how did these 96 DAs get in?
	They were well-financed.
	That just didn't happen.
	But nobody knew anything.
	Look at your friends in Philly.
	You got that guy Krasner.
	They had no idea.
	Well, they seem to know all about TikTok.
	We'll get into that one.
	So they need to know about these important issues as well.
	And so, listen, all I know is we are thankful for Monday.
	It is very exciting.
	There's also this energy of, which I'm always promoting, and this is why I'm being welcome now, new ideas.
	Relentlessly stay in Washington.
	With all due respect, nothing works.
	By the way, I want to say a special...
	We got a note before to say a special...
	We had a request to say a special shout-out to a very special viewer.
	One of our favorites.
	Her name is Marguerite.
	We want to give our best to her and hope she comes along swimmingly.
	One day at a time.
	That's all we're going to say.
	She's wonderful.
	Now, we've got to get into this.
	I've got to ventilate a little bit about TikTok.
	Okay.
	Good.
	This is your area.
	Well, let's see, because I could talk about it all night.
	People have to understand.
	Yes, thank you.
	Hold it.
	I've got to stop, because I'm seeing Carla.
	Hold it.
	Carla.
	Carla, does it say anything, Carla?
	Because I have to.
	The rotunda, a forced choice due to force majeure, killer weather.
	Possible assassins are both.
	Interesting.
	Carla, before we get into that, I'm just going to call you out.
	Carla.
	Carla sent me today the most beautiful flowers and sweets for my birthday.
	I am stuffed right now because, Carla, I ate so many of them.
	And you are an absolute warrior.
	I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
	You made me very happy.
	Also my husband because...
	He was sharing in the joy.
	Thank you for being so generous.
	You truly are a warrior.
	And it was one of the most fantastic phone numbers that I apparently cannot master.
	That's all I want to tell you.
	Maybe it's me.
	I try to.
	I don't know, Carla.
	There's something disconnecting all of us.
	I think she's FB1 or Spook or part of the company.
	I'm trying on three different phones to call Carla and I'm getting cut off.
	I think we're being dispatched.
	Maybe there isn't a Carla.
	Maybe it's all a...
	No.
	Because I...
	But go ahead.
	Let's talk about...
	Before we get into TikTok, let's address Carla's question.
	I think, basically, they traditionally always stand outside for the inauguration.
	I do think it also slightly has to do with security concerns.
	Yeah, of course!
	And I think this might have been...
	I have no proof on this, everybody.
	It might have been planned all along, and they're announcing it now.
	What planned?
	We're going to move it into the rotunda.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes.
	Because I don't think...
	I've got no problem with that.
	There's no problem with that.
	He should be more guarded.
	Because remember, people are still...
	I've got to read this one line.
	The funniest, the best, just a second, the best one ever.
	I'm going to get the exact quote correctly.
	This was from...
	It was a tweet from RT.
	It was the best.
	Let me get this very quickly.
	Just this.
	Oh, here we go.
	Look at this.
	There's a picture.
	It says RT.
	Look at mine.
	It says, Trump's inauguration stage is under construction in the Capitol Rotunda.
	It'll be nice to see the FBI escorting Trump supporters into the Capitol again.
	Who wrote that?
	That's a good one.
	Do you think they understand they were being funny?
	No, yes!
	Are you kidding?
	Oh, absolutely!
	They have the most biting humor.
	It's wonderful.
	It's nice to see the FBI escorting Trump supporters into the Capitol again.
	No, I get it.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes.
	They most certainly do.
	All right, let's get into this TikTok.
	Okay, go ahead.
	So the whole thing about TikTok, I'm going to kind of bottom line it, is there was the hearing today with the Supreme Court about putting a stop on.
	It was called a couple of months ago, January 19th.
	Well, they issued a ruling.
	No, my birthday, January 19th, we will be banning a TikTok in the United States.
	Now, simply because people are crazy.
	They think it's because of speech oppression and all that.
	But it's simply because it has been deemed TikTok a national security threat.
	It has nothing to do with free speech, they're saying.
	It certainly has nothing to do, people are also not understanding this, with kids on TikTok and their safety.
	Which I'd like to hear a little bit about.
	Because if Chinese kids can be on there, remember TikTok is a Chinese platform, comes from China, is owned by a company called ByteDance.
	And the whole...
	Issue here is let's divest TikTok.
	Let's have an American company buy it, okay?
	And I keep asking, are they going to buy it and have some sort of clause about the protection of children?
	No, we're not talking about that, Lynn.
	We're just talking about it's a national security threat.
	So here's my prediction with TikTok.
	Everybody calm down, take a deep breath.
	TikTok is one of the top three platforms along with YouTube and Snap for children, for all people, I believe, but especially for children.
	It is going nowhere.
	It makes so much money.
	I am sure they are lined up to buy TikTok.
	I'm sure there's a whole group.
	We're seeing a lot of this.
	Kevin, what's his name?
	Leary.
	Kevin Leary?
	Or Earl Leary?
	Leary.
	Kevin O 'Leary.
	He's up.
	He's up.
	Well, he's a shark.
	He's a shark tank.
	No, everybody has some form.
	But, you know, he's out there talking a lot.
	He's offering up $20 billion cash.
	Maybe he's representing a whole group.
	Maybe he's representing a pack.
	I don't know.
	But it's not going to go anywhere.
	There's going to be something.
	They're not going to let this money grab kind of thing go.
	The bottom line is simply this.
	Gorsuch and others said, we are not banning it because of speech.
	This is not a First Amendment issue.
	It's not what you're saying.
	It's the fact that it's a foreign government, a foreign enemy government, actually using it to vacuum.
	Information and to collect data.
	Okay, well...
	That's theoretically what they were saying.
	Okay, but what do I say to you every day?
	They've been doing it for so many years now.
	That's why they're stopping now.
	You would have to take every platform...
	I'm sorry, this is my opinion.
	You don't have to yell.
	I'm yelling, you're right.
	Let me calm down.
	You would have to take every platform and do this, because...
	Every platform is sucking up the information.
	I want to say with TikTok...
	And Zuckerberg wants TikTok to fail because he wants his meta and his...
	That's why he's kissing Trump's ass at that thing.
	Because he wants to run it.
	Yes.
	Nobody is in good intention.
	He and Elon, a little different.
	Bezos, all these people.
	They are...
	Oh, Bezos, he's at the convention, too, standing by Trump, sitting by Trump.
	Inauguration, yeah.
	Inauguration.
	What did I say, convention?
	And Nellie's going to be...
	Did you see all the...
	Now, listen, I know you don't care about this.
	I'd rather hear...
	No, they do care about that.
	Don't say that.
	They care.
	We all care about this inauguration.
	No.
	They don't care about the acts.
	I'd rather hear an owl eviscerated with a spork.
	Now, listen to Nellie, but the point is, the message has gone out.
	It's a new day, and the Democrats are thinking, wait a minute, those were ours.
	All the people from Carrie Underwood to Nellie, everybody's coming over.
	It's changed.
	Well, everybody wants to be with the cool kids.
	And this is what's happening.
	But do you agree it's changed?
	We're not going to be going through this anymore where we had and Dave or people who couldn't.
	That was horrible.
	There was a young woman, a teen, I believe.
	And I think she was one of the idol winners or something like that.
	And she never had a career.
	She offered to sing at the last inauguration.
	What about Antonio Sabato Jr.?
	Whatever the hell this guy does, he was the first one!
	But you also have now, you've got Sly Stallone, as they call him in Hollywood.
	We call him Sly.
	I call him Sly.
	I call him Sly.
	I call him Champ.
	No, but you have, you know, if nothing else, they're going to be the ambassadors to get Hollywood back because, as Donald Trump said, you know, it's a shame what happened to Hollywood.
	Hang on a second.
	Nelson A., by the way, a good friend of Nelson, says, Happy birthday, Mrs. L. Thank you, Nelson.
	We'll see you both February 22nd at the Cutting Room.
	Don't get jealous, Mr. L. I love you, too.
	You are the best.
	We can't wait.
	Yes, let's talk about that February 22nd.
	We have a lot to celebrate on that night.
	It's the best venue, first of all, there is.
	It is the best venue.
	And they have been...
	Please say that.
	Let me tell you, when we first did this, this was dangerous.
	This was dangerous.
	People didn't want to hear from us.
	No!
	No!
	There are people...
	Well, I'm not going to mention it, but some people wouldn't even look at me and say, excuse me, I'm going to...
	Anyway, but Steve said, I don't care, I'm a venue.
	And he always treated us great food, great service.
	Always stuck with us through thick and thin.
	And last time it was a barn burner.
	And this time?
	It's going to be a different kind of show.
	And what we do is, what you do and others, we have cars.
	This is not a stand-up.
	This is almost like this.
	But you ask us, we talk, it's like nothing you've ever seen before.
	You are going to get not only the chance to hear this talk, but to be immersed with fellow travelers, people around you.
	Everybody there agrees because we have put up with more shite since the beginning and it was about time that we came out and we said, you know what?
	We're standing up and we're the cool kids now.
	So anyway, the information is available below February 22nd.
	People want because they actually write to me to ask about you or give me ideas to give to you.
	And what you do is so wonderful.
	People come up to her all the time and say, excuse me, my table is like, you're not the maitre d'.
	But anyway.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	I don't mind.
	No, no.
	I don't mind helping people, situating people.
	That's not what I'm talking about.
	I understand.
	It's fine.
	Q&A.
	People really have a lot of questions and are seeking answers, and they love community in the room.
	Yes.
	Because everybody's like-minded, sort of.
	And people sometimes who show up by themselves, you'll sit with somebody.
	This isn't like some weird wedding where everybody immediately will...
	Feel safe.
	It's a safe space.
	Yeah, this is...
	To coin that term.
	So this is not stand-up.
	So, I have to say something.
	Thank you so much.
	I have to say, speaking of shite, to use one of your words, I have to say it today.
	And that is...
	Carla's going to be there as well.
	I'm so excited about Carla being there.
	It's going to be so good.
	It's going to be so great.
	Just make sure that the red carpet is clean.
	I'll make sure.
	Roseanne.
	I have to mention her today.
	Dear, dear Roseanne, our friend.
	So she put out, you know, Granny Goes Bad.
	I kind of love it.
	I kind of love it.
	She did a rap video with Tom McDonald.
	And it's getting a lot of play.
	It's getting a lot of attention.
	And TMZ right away tried to take her Granny Goes Bad.
	And they tried to say she said, she corrected them though, like go back to where you came from.
	They twisted the words already on her.
	It didn't last long.
	But good for her.
	She is out there and she's interviewing people and talking to people.
	And I just had to share her tweet today because I'm going to call her a warrior.
	I'm going to leave it at that.
	Because she's been through it a couple of times.
	She's doing well, and we send her love, and hopefully we'll see her soon.
	Soul76 says, I heard Kay Guilfoy will be there dancing to Gloria.
	In Greece, maybe.
	In another country.
	By the way, you know, she is, you know, Roseanne, she's always been, if ever there is somebody, and I know people use this term all the time.
	But somebody who is...
	I don't want to say down...
	Down to earth sounds so stupid.
	Because down to earth normally means somebody's a little slow.
	She's the most unpretentious thing.
	Remember the Mandarin?
	I don't laugh at all.
	She was telling me stories when she was just a kid and her family.
	She's one of the most natural...
	It wasn't easy, her upbringing.
	No!
	Very bizarre.
	But it was the time, if you remember, when we saw her last time.
	Or we were there.
	It was when we didn't have paper straws.
	Because I almost broke my teeth.
	And they had these metal straws that got so cold.
	I didn't know in the beginning there were metals.
	So I bit into my straw and I almost broke my teeth.
	It was horrible.
	But anyway, I like her wrapping granny and she's got her braids in.
	Good for her.
	And she's doing her thing and good for her.
	I say, you go girl.
	I'll say one more thing about her.
	Not in her defense, but in actuality.
	The women of TV.
	Mrs. Goldberg was one.
	Carol Burnett.
	Roseanne.
	Mary Tyler Moore.
	Lucy.
	Think about what I just said.
	This is the pantheon.
	And not just of women, but of just grace.
	Roseanne, and also the first...
	Regular, ordinary, not this, you know, beaver, honey, I'm home, that kind of thing.
	No, she was just...
	Anyway, I don't think she realizes how great she was.
	She gave so many people help, step up, and some of those rat bastards...
	A lot of them.
	They stabbed her in the back.
	Immediately.
	And where are they now?
	Nowhere that I can think of.
	Including that rat, what's her name, the weird daughter who was married to that other freak?
	Anyone?
	Remember that three non-blondes or whatever?
	Oh, God, these people make me sick.
	Oh, and that other one, too, what's her name?
	Sarah Gilbert.
	No, the comedian, the black comedian.
	What's her name?
	Wanda Sykes.
	I don't want to talk about that.
	I will not discuss her.
	I will not.
	I'm not discussing Wanda.
	I'm going to leave it at that.
	I will not discuss that woman.
	But what I want to say, Roseanne is...
	I don't know if a lot of people know this.
	She's very...
	She's really very smart.
	If...
	I'll just say that.
	And very, very domestic.
	Great cook.
	She could do a cooking.
	Great grandma, too.
	She loves her grandchildren.
	She can't do enough.
	Really, but...
	She's very intelligent.
	And I don't know.
	She's used to performing and all that stuff.
	There's a lot of different Roseannes.
	Do you know what I mean?
	I just got to tell her something.
	She's got to realize that most of the people that she hangs around that she thinks are her friends, they're not.
	Let me tell you something about these four-flushing, two-timing brat bastards of Hollywood.
	They only like you.
	They only care for you if you're somebody and when you're on top.
	And the moment she caught any kind of grief...
	Forget it.
	I'm doing a lot tonight.
	I don't know why I'm doing it.
	I don't know why I'm doing it.
	Now, did you see any of the Kristi Noem?
	No.
	Anything?
	I didn't realize.
	I was busy and I was out working these confirmation hearings.
	I liked Pam Bondi, who was terrific.
	And Pete Hegseth loved him.
	Yeah, I was surprised by him.
	I don't even know.
	I thought this is terrific.
	And Pamela Jo did very well.
	Tampa's own.
	Tampa's own.
	Yes, and how about now Ashley Moody?
	Ashley Moody, Tampa's own.
	Senator, huh?
	Yeah, good for them.
	These are all part of the clique, as it were.
	I just want to point out, Ashley Moody does terrific work in Florida in human...
	Slavery.
	Remember everybody, I've rebranded trafficking because I do not like that word.
	I do not think it's descriptive.
	I do not think people really understand what it means.
	But I think you won't understand what slavery means.
	We also have to figure out...
	She does good work with all of that.
	What can we do Monday?
	I can't do this thing where I simulcast.
	I don't want to go through any copyright.
	I don't care what...
	That to me is so...
	So do a show.
	Yeah, we have to figure out.
	People should suggest.
	Maybe like three a day.
	Well, three.
	We'll do theater.
	You do your morning show, regular.
	Festivities are kicking off 9.30, where they're going to have some musical acts, I believe.
	Right?
	And they're going to start having some speeches.
	And I think around noon, he takes the oath and then goes to a luncheon kind of thing.
	And there's kind of that lull.
	So maybe you want to do a show after that.
	Yeah, we'll do that.
	During the lull.
	And then...
	No, I think you should do your regular night show.
	I think you should just do three.
	And there are a lot of balls, a lot of praise going on.
	And I believe he is promising Donald Trump to stop by every single one of them and make an appearance.
	And you know and I know he just loves it.
	He just loves people falling all over him, coming up to him, the women gaga eyes, right?
	The men, I mean...
	He's very, you know...
	He is very, very...
	He's got something.
	I don't know what that is, but he's got something.
	But when he meets, he's very approachable.
	He is very...
	Forget what you see on, you know, whatever.
	Just one-on-one.
	He's very nice, very quiet, very...
	His brother was the greatest.
	I got this picture right there.
	Yeah, I've been thinking a lot about...
	Robert.
	I wish Robert could be here to witness this.
	You know, but...
	I'm glad Robert missed a lot of the horror.
	But again, wouldn't it be nice if he was here to stand, because he stood alongside him last time, to see this again.
	You know, out of the horror comes goodness.
	But I'm feeling like this administration's really going to, they're prepared.
	It is rumored that they have 1,000 people ready to go in positions, which they had nowhere near this last time.
	They didn't really know.
	They were not prepared.
	They didn't understand.
	They even admit that.
	And they had people like, who was it?
	Condoleezza Rice mentioned, remember that guy, what was his name?
	The first fellow, he was the, oh God, the white-haired dude from Exxon.
	He picked the wrong person.
	Then there was Madison Kelly.
	But he didn't know.
	He thought they had experience.
	Because he didn't have a Jim Baker.
	He didn't have somebody who, he knows now though.
	Well, they're prepared.
	And he's got a couple of good people behind the scenes with him.
	And I think also, we know he'll be in Mar-a-Lago a lot.
	He'll be protected.
	People will be flocking.
	That's where he should be.
	But that's where people, like, even, don't you see them all now?
	They've been flocking there since he's been elected.
	And it's like, once he was elected, he became, doesn't it seem like he is president already?
	I know.
	Just, oh, I know what I want to say.
	Another thing that really offended me, I must ventilate about it.
	Are you ready?
	I received a White House.
	Press release today, maybe about an hour ago, January is National Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention Month.
	And this press release stating the Biden-Harris administration, that's what they call themselves, okay, how much they have done for human trafficking.
	And they listed out all kinds of things and a whole variety of things in other countries.
	And I, of course, am here to say, I don't know what you call these lies.
	I don't know what to call it.
	They left out the part about the open borders and all of the children and all of the people allowed to be trafficked.
	They never addressed.
	Nobody wanted to hear about it at all.
	No mention, of course, of any of that.
	They did not do their jobs.
	I am here to say.
	I don't know what this thing is I received.
	It's four pages of all the great things they did for trafficking.
	I'm here to attest to they did zero.
	That's it.
	Don't forget, he was the first...
	He did so much for...
	You know, this is a group of people, and I still want to say this, notwithstanding the group that we had to suffer through, but Native Americans, Indian tribes, oh my god, they're just...
	Don't say the M word, but they're just disappeared into the middle of the night.
	They're never heard from, and nobody cares about them.
	They're forced to live on reservations, alcoholism.
	I mean, I've never understood that one.
	Don't get it.
	Don't understand it.
	They're just like, oh yeah, well, you know.
	No, it's going to change, because I was there.
	I witnessed it.
	I was in the room when Donald Trump gave them.
	Monies.
	They've never been, because they have their own law enforcement on their land, their reservations, and he wanted to bring their law enforcement and our law enforcement together to coordinate efforts in helping, because they have a tremendous problem.
	It is something like close to 70%.
	Well, let's talk about something different here.
	This is interesting.
	You...
	Tell them your story about when you were born, and how, what was, it was right before the Kennedy, right before the Kennedy inauguration, when you were born, and how you had to, you want to go into that?
	How your story about how you were.
	Same story I tell you every year, that my father would tell me on my birthday every single year, and I miss that.
	Yeah.
	You know, in those days.
	A woman would stay in the hospital, I don't know, like five days, a week, something like that.
	A long time when they had a baby.
	As opposed to now, you're in and out.
	If you're there one night, maybe that's it these days.
	In and out.
	And there was a tremendous snowstorm.
	The inauguration for Kennedy.
	And my father, every year on my birthday, would say, I could barely get to the hospital to visit your mother for the inauguration.
	That's just a story.
	Every year.
	That's it.
	But they had to call the ambulance, the fire department.
	How can you miss this?
	That's the story.
	Oh, I forgot.
	Because, you know, they used to, in New Jersey, if you didn't shovel your sidewalks, they would come to your door because you had to shovel your sidewalks.
	And they came to the door and saw the shape of my mother with the fire engine or something like that and helped along, we'll say.
	Were they called for her or did they happen to show up?
	No, they showed up because the sidewalk, I guess my father was still at work.
	You know, people used to work in snowstorms.
	Well, you were from Tampa, but you used to go to school.
	It was up to my kneecaps, and I still went to school in a uniform.
	A dress!
	That was a skirt, by the way.
	But anyway, they came to the door, and my mother answered it.
	Very pregnant.
	And they just took one look at her.
	Because, you know, they were going to say, you have to shovel these sidewalks and things like that.
	And just said, forget about it, whatever.
	Do you need a lift to the hospital?
	It was that kind of situation.
	But I remember my father...
	And they took her.
	I think they did take her.
	I can't even remember the story.
	So you're here by virtue of the Good Fire Department.
	Not the L.A. group.
	That's another story.
	That's interesting.
	You know, we've got to find these stories out.
	I don't know.
	I do remember the fire department coming one time.
	I was very little.
	And you asked me a question today.
	You said, when you were a kid, do you have any specials?
	My only birthday I remember is my 12th when I ran over my sister's hair with a vacuum cleaner.
	I don't want to hear that story again.
	This is a long story.
	But short of that...
	That is not a good story.
	No.
	And it gives me nightmares since I have long hair.
	She's not the same since.
	I asked you if you're...
	Parents, you know, how were your birthdays?
	Because in our household, we had great birthdays.
	I would hang the streamers off the chandelier.
	Streamers.
	Off the chandelier.
	I would twist them up.
	I would jump on the table and make little decorations.
	My mother baked cakes a lot.
	Sometimes she got them from the bakery when we got a little older.
	But she would bake wonderful cakes and she'd always say, like, you know, what would you like to eat?
	What's your favorite meal?
	Because my mother cooked basically every night.
	And we always got lots of nice little presents.
	And my mother made it very...
	I should say my parents made it very, very nice.
	Very nice.
	Very, very American.
	You were far higher class in your...
	No, it's not about being higher class.
	You know what I mean.
	You had different things.
	We were very...
	You didn't get presents on your birthday?
	Oh, we got presents.
	Sticks, balls of twine, things like that.
	I'm sure your mother...
	No, no, no, we did.
	Baked you a cake or something.
	No, but you were bored of special china.
	Oh yeah, I used to love setting the table.
	Put out the silverware for dinner and the napkins.
	I loved all that.
	I used to do that almost every night at the table.
	I had no idea of the notion of wealth when I was a kid.
	I didn't know who was rich.
	I didn't know.
	When I went to high school, we had a lot of friends.
	Families were very, very rich.
	I didn't know.
	They were just...
	It didn't connect.
	I never felt...
	We always have what we wanted.
	I thought, oh, this is a big house.
	This is a different house.
	This is whatever it is.
	But it didn't make any difference because I just had no concept of it.
	None.
	It was one of those things where I just didn't know.
	I did not know.
	But this is...
	See, another thing, too, is you've got to understand, and this is very, very true.
	When a woman gets older today, it's a different...
	Why are you pointing at me?
	Because you're getting older.
	Hello?
	That's the whole purpose of it.
	It's weird.
	I'm proud.
	You've got to be.
	I'm proud, and Carla gave me those beautiful flowers.
	And you don't have to look like these people with the face and the thing.
	What are you telling me?
	God, these women who get...
	That's up to them.
	If they think it looks good, let them do what they want.
	Free will.
	But again, the comments are always like from other women, oh, they have good work.
	Oh, they have bad work.
	Forget it.
	But you know I'm not into that stuff.
	I'm into different things.
	I'm not into any of that.
	I'm into...
	Walking, exercising, eating well, love, healing.
	There's this thing, though.
	You have never, and I've got to say this, you have never done as much, aside from the immediate, never done as much for more people and had a real...
	It was so weird.
	There were some organizations you were in and you said, no, I want to bring...
	This to these women's attention.
	And somebody said, we don't want to do this.
	We don't have a social party.
	We just want to party.
	And I'm thinking to myself, as you got older, you became more serious.
	You've done more.
	But if not me, who?
	Seriously.
	What I'm trying to tell you is that people who get to your age, our age, you should see the friends, my high school friends, they're so boring!
	They don't do anything!
	Well, they're like retired people.
	Retarded!
	I said retired.
	I didn't say that other R word.
	But they don't care.
	Where is your excitement?
	They lost it.
	They slowed down.
	I never understood the world like I do now.
	I can't help but say something.
	I can't help but do this.
	I don't understand that retire.
	I don't fit in with anybody.
	Young people, old people.
	Everybody's so goddamn stupid.
	And then Trump kind of came along and then changed it a little bit because people at least are becoming more and more politically cognizant.
	I don't want to call everybody stupid.
	I don't like that.
	I do.
	You can call them that.
	I think people are overwhelmed.
	I was on today.
	Let me finish this thought.
	Yes, I'm sorry.
	It's not nice to call everybody stupid, okay?
	But people are overwhelmed.
	People don't have the fortitude perhaps we have.
	People are so busy trying to hold it together.
	People are so busy trying to pay their bills.
	People are having a hard time with kids these days because 30 and under...
	Have grown up in this digital environment.
	I'm sorry.
	Going through that whole COVID period, there's a lot of tough things.
	I'm a lot more understanding about things.
	And people have all they can do to get up every day, get kids off to school, keep food on the table.
	Yes, there are some stupid people.
	But no, it's very tough today.
	You don't even know what I'm saying.
	Go ahead.
	Kids are very good at hiding problems.
	Concerns.
	Well, that's why I'm always saying talk.
	You have to talk to your kids.
	Right.
	They're very, very good.
	But aside from that, there's just something that...
	I don't know what it is.
	Kids are talking to strangers on their phones because they're not getting the conversations and discussion at home with their parents, but they're opening up to strangers.
	So we have to flip that around and create these partnerships where the kids have to trust us and come to us, the grandkids, the kids.
	People, this cannot be where people are, you know, and children especially are unloading with strangers who then take advantage of them.
	Let me ask you, what does everyone think about, by the way, isn't she terrific?
	Isn't she?
	I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
	What do you think, what do you think about the cruise photo?
	We're not going to show that one.
	Our cruise photo was a working cruise.
	We never worked as hard as having breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks, dancing.
	The best pictures we have are driver's license photos.
	Okay, but you told me that...
	I look like Wolverine.
	I thought that photo, we went crack of dawn, like as soon as they opened.
	And I thought they'd just roll over the picture from before.
	And before I knew it, a guy snapped my picture, because I had no makeup or anything on.
	And then he's like, oh, you're like a mean-looking woman.
	Thank you.
	I'm like, well, I didn't know you were snapping.
	For the driver's license.
	I'm like, I didn't know you were snapping my picture.
	But when the driver's license people says, we've got to do this one again.
	But when yours came...
	Oh, my God.
	Why does it look like you have, like, a hood on?
	I don't know what I look like.
	I swear to God.
	It was bad lighting and that man was mean.
	He did it to us on purpose.
	When I was at Jesuit high school, my first year, 71, 70, I could show you my picture.
	You wouldn't even recognize me.
	We had a guy whose father worked at this place and we had to take our photos.
	And he was a Cuban fellow, very nice man.
	And he wanted you to say whiskey.
	He thought whiskey was like cheese.
	And he would say, he would ask us to say whiskey.
	But he would say, And you sit down like this, and we had our head goes, say wiki!
	And we, what?
	Click!
	And he went, next!
	And everybody said this, what?
	So we all looked like we were like mezzo bambu, you know?
	And I remember my parents looking at it, because remember you had the pictures?
	Do you want to buy a wall unit?
	Do you want to get a single unit?
	Maybe the wallet size?
	And my parents looked at this and said...
	I think we have enough pictures.
	Because we took a lot.
	Your mother took a lot of pictures, though, of everything.
	But it was the worst.
	It was just the worst.
	It was this whole thing.
	I don't even know why I'm talking about taking pictures.
	Oh, but you know what?
	Pictures.
	Those driver's license.
	And, of course, now it's like for 10 years, the driver's license.
	So we're stuck with them for like 10 years.
	Did you have, in your family, those runway light, movie films, 8mm, you know, like those lights?
	Where people would be like this, you know, Christmas, and it was like, look, movies!
	And somebody would bring out the 8mm, but you would have these lights.
	My mother had lights that got so hot.
	There were like four of these things, and we'd hold them up, and everybody, this was it.
	My Uncle Joe, my Aunt Pina.
	This was our photos.
	Do you remember this?
	Do you remember who has this?
	Oh!
	Look what else we have.
	Your mother took a lot of photos.
	Which we bought the other day for a friend, which we're not going to eat this because of the chemicals involved, but Jiffy Pop.
	Jiffy Pop.
	Remember that on the stove?
	I bought it as a joke, so when I do it on the stove, it explodes.
	But you couldn't find it.
	You couldn't find it anywhere.
	Jiffy Pop, by the way, from what I hear, there's a lot of stuff in there you don't want to...
	Well, I used to make it as a child.
	Yeah.
	But anyway...
	But I'm being very kind of nostalgic.
	It was simpler than it was, I think, better than.
	It was kind of fun.
	We didn't take a single picture of every...
	I figured who it was.
	Somebody who said, here's a picture of my grandfather.
	Maybe two.
	Today you say, here's 400 pictures of my grandfather.
	Now, let's look at some of the questions and comments.
	I did see one before.
	You know how good that was?
	Instead of saying, we don't want to hear about your comments.
	She says...
	I kind of had enough about your pictures.
	I'm segwaying.
	Jiffy Pop Guarantee House Fires.
	Somebody mentioned before, I'm sorry, I don't see the name, said, we never talked in my house, something like that.
	My parents said, children are seen and not heard.
	It was a comment like that.
	I hate that.
	I don't even like the word hate, but I'm using it.
	We have to talk to our children.
	We have to really listen to them.
	They are so suffering.
	And adults our age are suffering because their parents didn't speak to them and things like that.
	They're telling me now about this.
	I can't believe the number of people who don't remember their father saying, I love you.
	I can't believe that!
	I can't believe that!
	Anyway, look at this.
	Fiber optic cable is made for a degraded telecom utility.
	Thank you so much for that.
	That warm...
	I had Jiffrey pop.
	Look at this.
	When we went camping.
	But then you scream when it starts popping and exploding and like it just makes you scream out of nowhere.
	You're screaming, you're screaming.
	Well, you did a lot of screaming.
	When I popped the Jiffy Pop, yeah, I did.
	Look at this.
	Lionel was tuition high at Jesuit.
	I think it was when I was there.
	That's 50 years ago, you know, whatever.
	But yeah, it was maybe for, you know, in relation to that.
	Cheap in our days, private school, compared to these tuitions today.
	When I see things in New York, Brooklyn, you know, $60,000 a year, and that doesn't include books and all those extras they hit the parents up for.
	I really don't know how parents do it.
	I really don't.
	I do not.
	Looking at this, I'm reading some good ones here.
	That's why we need school choice, too.
	Yes.
	So people can choose.
	Where they want their child to go to school or use it for homeschooling the monies.
	We have to.
	So when I said earlier, the ideas now I'm having are welcome with the new administration is because nothing works.
	Look at this ADT phone card.
	Do you remember that?
	Remember the operator?
	Person-to-person collect?
	All that stuff.
	Do they even have operators?
	I don't know.
	If you dial zero.
	I'm going to dial it.
	Go ahead.
	Dial zero.
	We still have a landline.
	No, we have to.
	Because we can't get it.
	She's dialing zero.
	Here we go.
	You've got to turn it on.
	We don't want an emergency.
	That's the operator.
	Remember sometimes when they went from the...
	And then it was a male voice.
	And there was a comedian who says, Hello?
	Is this O?
	Zero, actually.
	But those were...
	I just...
	I don't know when it was phased out.
	The idea that you could call collect to somebody and leave a message.
	Would you tell...
	Yes, I'm calling.
	I'm here, okay?
	What?
	Did you ever do something like...
	Call your mother and just let it ring twice.
	That's what I'm saying.
	I think we're supposed to have a big snowstorm on my birthday.
	So that's reminiscent of the inauguration.
	But I don't know because they're wrong despite all the technology and apps and all of these people still on television with their maps.
	Look at this.
	They're wrong a lot.
	Matt says, we had a party line when I was a little.
	We never had.
	I think I did when I was a member of this one...
	You had a party line?
	When I was a little kid, yeah.
	No, we had a pink princess extension phone.
	My father, one time, we had this guy down the street.
	His name was Mr. Dorn.
	My father was talking to his father, and he was speaking Spanish.
	This guy said, why don't you people go back?
	My father went down the street and discussed with him.
	So you knew the people on?
	Yeah!
	Happened to know who they were.
	So you could just listen in on everybody's house?
	Oh, absolutely!
	That could be kind of fun.
	Without a doubt.
	Did you have an extension in your house?
	In the bedroom?
	Like your parents have a phone?
	I had one that we tapped into.
	It wasn't supposed to, but yeah.
	But I just thought those were just kind of fun, the idea.
	We used to be able to tap the number.
	The number you were calling, we had this, you could tap, it takes a very dexterous finger to take the little plunger and tap, you know, 8, 1, and then 3, and then do the area code.
	It took a long time.
	But that was just kind of fun.
	The idea was you had a quarter, and for some reason, whatever it was, you just had to.
	Like one time, I'll never forget, I was on Davis Island in Tampa, and I got hit.
	Somebody ran into me.
	And I had to call the cops.
	So I had to go.
	I went to just some apartment and asked, excuse me.
	I just got into an accident.
	Yeah, sure.
	Come on in.
	I know.
	Our beloved Carla is a pranker.
	Oh, I used to prank call the U.S. Now, would you say you used to prank call the U.S. from someplace else?
	Or were you, I've got to hear about this.
	Well, that's interesting.
	But anyways, we got that snow.
	You never did prank calls, did you?
	No.
	Oh, I didn't.
	I wasn't that type.
	I was very busy.
	Even as a child, I've always been into either cleaning, cooking, babysitting.
	How did Carla prank the viewers?
	I want to say, like, what was your best?
	Because that's a very...
	Let's hear what Carla has to say.
	I want to know specifically.
	We had one one time in Tampa on...
	I forget where it was.
	There was a...
	There was a...
	It was a Tampa...
	I think it was called this Chester Ferguson.
	They changed it.
	It was the main library downtown.
	And there was this lady.
	Remember the woman who was like the...
	You could call and ask her a question.
	What's the capital of Portugal?
	She would answer the question.
	She would just help you out.
	It was very, very quiet.
	Look at this.
	Love to slam that phone when pissed.
	Take that.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Right.
	To slam the phone.
	We can't anymore.
	Well, maybe in the cradle.
	You can't do that.
	No, it doesn't.
	It doesn't resonate.
	But there was a woman at one time.
	You can't slam phones anymore.
	But she was like this.
	It was in this library.
	She was always talking to people.
	She had this chignon.
	So one day I called her up and I had a speaker phone, which is the greatest thing in the world.
	Because we get friends who sit around.
	And I'd say.
	Ma 'am, yes, this is Nesbitt, GTE number 953.
	I gave him a number, like I had a number.
	Listen, I'm on the pole out here.
	I'm about a block and a half from me.
	It's hot as hell and I want to go home.
	But could you do me a favor?
	I've been getting a call.
	Remember when you would call and you would report somebody's line.
	You know, they've been on that.
	Operator, can you check?
	It's been busy.
	Yes, there is conversation.
	Could you see if anybody's talking?
	Yes, they are talking.
	Can I report this?
	And the operator would actually help you and assist.
	So anyway, I would call up and say, we've been getting reports.
	They're at the library.
	People are coming.
	Anyway.
	I said, would you do me a favor?
	I said, there's a particular device that I have.
	And it checks the frequency of the festeros and the gabin and the modulator.
	And I'm making all this stuff up.
	You have to say a particular sound.
	And it's a short E sound.
	And the word that we have that is best for me to put it is the word help.
	I know it sounds strange.
	But could you just say, help, and let me see if the festeros gabin is moving, if it's arcing, if it's pinging, if it's redlining.
	I don't even know what I'm saying.
	So she would say, okay, but help.
	I said, ma 'am, could you?
	I hate to do this to you.
	I can come there and check it out, but I'm tired.
	I want to go home.
	My kids, it's their birthday.
	Okay, okay.
	Help!
	This is in the library.
	I said, a little louder.
	Help!
	Help!
	It's like the Milgram thing.
	How much could I make?
	I swear to God, we got one woman.
	She was screaming.
	That is not nice.
	And we were just howling.
	I said, the lines of gas were almost there.
	So you're sitting there and you're reading your newspaper and there's this woman in the area screaming help in the library.
	It killed me because I thought of it.
	I thought of what it was like.
	Anyway.
	Harmless.
	Harmless.
	The FBI put out an announcement today.
	See how she does this?
	She just...
	AT&T was hacked.
	Now wait till you hear this one, and I have to investigate it a little further, though.
	AT&T was hacked, and they're worried that their informants are revealed.
	The rats.
	And I'm not sure how, even with it being hacked.
	That's not good.
	Yeah.
	So, there's a lot of things like that we don't even hear about.
	Nelson A. says, collect calling in pagers the best.
	How about this one?
	Stan Hollingshead says, aluminum foil on the rabbit ears for the TV.
	Stan, were you the person who had to move?
	Remember those, you had to move those things?
	It was fuzzy.
	Were you the one that says, go move it?
	Yeah, it's good.
	Hold it.
	What am I supposed to do?
	I'm Stan holding this.
	That's perfect.
	This is before we had the...
	We used to play songs as a prank call.
	Oh, I want to party with you.
	I want to party with you.
	We're going to party all weekend.
	Oh, I know.
	I used to do these things too where we could take, for example, remember in the old days where you would unscrew the receiver?
	Unscrew the cap, and there was this little cone.
	And the cone was this thing that...
	Somebody told me that clear nail polish...
	I remember buying this downtown.
	I bought this clear nail polish.
	And right at the contact point, I put a couple of dots so the charge or whatever, the signal would be intermittent.
	So the person on the phone sounds great, but the person he's talking to was...
	And people would say, what?
	You know, all day long, what?
	And I just sat back and I watched.
	Like a terrorist, you could take that thing out and there was no sound whatsoever.
	One time I was in an office and I found this.
	I opened up the drawer and they had, oh, call forwarding.
	I can move this phone over here, this phone over here, this phone.
	I loved it.
	We found out one time somebody had shrimp.
	Actually brought shrimp.
	And this wasn't my idea.
	Had it in a refrigerator or something, and they took the desk, the seat of this woman's desk, took the seat off, and there was a cylindrical, like a stanchion or a post.
	They put the shrimp in this.
	They put the seat back on.
	I mean, it's like bolting.
	And all day long, she is smelling.
	And you didn't know where it came from.
	It drove her nuts until this fish.
	Now, what office was this in?
	I'd rather not say.
	Yeah, you better not.
	I don't like the way this is coming.
	Cut Up Chatter says, weed out laughing by a song with kids.
	Five minute answering machine.
	Weed out by a song with kids.
	I don't know what that means.
	Well, my father would hate this.
	I would call up on the answering machine.
	He thought there was something wrong with the tape.
	Remember the tape?
	Beep!
	You know, after the phone call, beep!
	My mother thought that call waiting, no, that voicemail, she would say, pick it up.
	And I'm saying, what do you mean pick it up?
	She got it eventually.
	She didn't really get it.
	Eventually she got it.
	Eventually.
	Once, she got it.
	What else do we have?
	In Florida, anybody from Florida, we always heard about when people get off the phone when it's lightning.
	Because Floridians hate lightning.
	Stay off the phone when it's lighting.
	Stay off the phone.
	My mother said there was a person, just like the person with the razor blade and the apple.
	I don't think it ever existed, but she said there was a person who was on the phone, and they found him.
	What do you mean they found him?
	She made that up.
	No, no, but they heard him.
	He was on the phone, and so when you hear that, hang up the phone.
	My mother would say, don't take a bath.
	While there's a lightning storm.
	I think that's what she used to say.
	So one day, we had a portable phone with the extendable thing.
	It was a portable.
	There's the base.
	Portable phone.
	She said, get off the phone during lightning.
	I said, it's not going to hit the portable phone.
	It's not going to hit the base and then fly through the air into my phone.
	She did not understand this.
	She also believed that St. Barbara.
	I think she said it was a patron saint of weather.
	We had holy water.
	One time when I was young, she was throwing...
	It's like Dracula.
	She's throwing holy water.
	When it...
	In Florida...
	Was it going to be like a hurricane coming?
	It shook.
	I mean, the lights went off.
	I mean, it was like...
	This was a tropical...
	It was the most incredible...
	The thunder.
	It would be scary.
	And she's like this, in the name of...
	And I thought, doesn't the water conduct the electricity?
	Anyway, I did.
	Did you have in your bedroom, we had a little holy water, a little thing on the wall?
	Yeah, right by the, when you left, a little by the light switch.
	Did you have the crucifix with a palm frond in it?
	Well, we put it in after like Palm Sunday.
	I had one where you could slide, it would be a great stash.
	Box, whatever.
	But you could slide the top of the crucifix off and you had holy water and some kind of...
	Oh, no, I didn't have that.
	Did you wear a scapula?
	Remember your first communion outfit?
	A scapula?
	I didn't wear that.
	Did you get your kit?
	Your first communion?
	I didn't get that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Do you renounce Satan?
	What?
	No, I got a little prayer book.
	I don't remember that.
	A very famous friend of ours, I'm not going to mention, when his sort of granddaughter, he wasn't Catholic, was being baptized.
	And then the priest was saying, and do you renounce Satan?
	I wasn't here.
	Yes!
	Do you?
	He goes, yes!
	Do you accept Jesus?
	I said, you're Jewish!
	What are you doing?
	It's the kid.
	He goes, oh, I'm sorry.
	And I said, why are you saying this?
	You're Jewish!
	But he took it so seriously.
	You said something.
	And the baby kept saying yes.
	It was in Brooklyn.
	Please.
	It's the kid.
	You're not being baptized.
	He didn't understand.
	That was one of the funniest things.
	But he was very serious.
	Did you see the look on his face?
	He really thought, Maybe in his mind he thought he was like wanting to get baptized or something.
	You know what I want to do?
	Like an extra prayer.
	I want to write like if we had a show I would have one of my episodes would be the Costco ladies when we leave.
	Those really tough.
	Give me your thing.
	She lifts up the top.
	She grabs a gun.
	She almost knocked me over the other day.
	That Costco like get They get rough on me in that Costco.
	They get very rough.
	Have you ever walked out of a Costco and seen them eating the hot dog?
	At a Costco?
	And I guess it's okay.
	They're known for the hot dog.
	They're known for hot dogs and pizza.
	That's what they're known for.
	Don't you remember people went crazy?
	They raised the price.
	I forget what it was.
	$1.50 or $1 to $1.50.
	And...
	No.
	The day you see me having a pizza at a Costco, it's like the same as seeing me rummage through garbage or something.
	With all due respect, we live in the greatest pizza area in the world.
	There are little...
	Drive up places.
	With all respect to Costco, there's something about that that's just not good.
	Not good at all.
	Maybe it's me.
	They don't care about this.
	We're rambling.
	I'm not rambling.
	You're rambling.
	I know.
	Speak for yourself.
	I'm a rambling man.
	Well, I think we should tie it up.
	I want to get to that.
	Tie it up.
	Well, you know what I'm saying.
	What do you got in mind?
	A little rodeo.
	You be Dale Evans and I'll be Roy.
	I'm watching...
	What's our safe word?
	Trigger.
	I'm binging on a new series.
	Tell them about that.
	I finished seven years of 30 Rock.
	Now I know why years ago when I started watching 30 Rock, I gave up on it.
	What happened to it, in your opinion?
	I'm actually watching it...
	For a variety of reasons right now.
	Actually for business.
	And to see character development, story development, you know, the whole thing.
	So we'll leave that for a second.
	I thought it was very good for the first three years.
	It's seven years, this series.
	I just devolved into...
	Bathroom humor.
	But you know me.
	I don't just give up on something.
	I make sure I watch the entire series.
	And you do.
	So I can comment or have takeaways.
	I don't know how I found this in the middle of the night because that's when I watch these things.
	I think it's on Netflix.
	I'm pretty sure it is.
	It's called Primeval.
	Is anybody watching that?
	This series, I'm curious.
	It's kind of brutal.
	Good.
	But it's very well done and interesting.
	Well, what do you mean good?
	Brutal if it's necessary is a good one.
	Well, it's about America and Brigham Young and Native Americans defending their land and people moving in and this and that.
	I don't want to give the story away.
	I don't think that's going to give it away.
	Well, I did about five episodes last night.
	I think there's ten.
	I'm not sure.
	Any big stars?
	There is...
	Oh, Carolina guy says, I binge Primeval and it was great.
	Oh, see?
	It's a little brutal.
	Now, Leanne, I'm not saying Costco pizza is bad.
	I'm not saying that.
	Who said that?
	I'm telling her, I didn't say it was bad.
	We never tasted it.
	It might be the most delicious thing in the world.
	I'm sorry.
	But I'm just not eating it.
	I don't want to go there.
	You've got to be real pizza snob.
	You can go to little places that seem like...
	Oh, let me tell you.
	If you had small children or something, and a husband or wife, and you have to run around and shop quickly in a crowded Costco, you might want to sit them at the table there.
	But those people don't have children.
	I think people really...
	I've seen people in the...
	I didn't see it the other day, but that might be a good place for somebody to sit.
	You know what the worst thing is?
	The worst...
	This is so sad.
	Or any kind of rest stops.
	You know, like that one, like the Vince Lombardi on the turnpike, where you walk in there...
	Remember they had that one that was...
	Molly Pitcher?
	No.
	This was something they were selling.
	And it was put out by either some kind of...
	I don't know, but these kids were special.
	It was some kind of...
	Oh, yes.
	Remember that?
	Yes, I do.
	I thought, what is this?
	Yes, I do.
	And these people, we walked in and they said, would you like to buy this?
	And I thought, what is this?
	And I thought, who are you?
	No, they were very enthusiastic.
	Let's just leave it at that.
	Let's be nice.
	Please.
	But they got in our face, and they were like kids.
	That's a good word.
	No, but they were teenagers, but they were big, too.
	But I walked into it.
	I just want to go to the Roy...
	I just want to go to the John, and they got you right when you...
	And it was candy corn or something, but they...
	I think it was like candy corn.
	Yeah, they were serious.
	And they were very aggressive.
	But no, enthusiastic.
	No, they were aggressive and enthusiastic.
	Costco pizza is on par with bowling alley pizza.
	You know, yeah.
	Like tasteless.
	Well, there's something about...
	Yeah.
	Bowling alley.
	There's something about bowling alley.
	And also, you wouldn't know this, drive-in theater food is the worst.
	I never had it.
	Oh.
	I never had it.
	Did you ever go to a store and see that wiener, that hot dog?
	Somebody just said it at Kresge's, the hot dogs that went around.
	Yeah.
	I saw it on the chat.
	They would have that at the 5 and 10s.
	They'd be going around at Newberry's in New Jersey.
	Does anybody remember?
	J.J. Newberry's.
	I used to love that store.
	There used to be a gas station that sold these, I think, eggs or something in this pink water.
	I don't know what it was.
	I don't know what it was.
	Pink what?
	And I wanted to take this and go to some kind of a protest and go, you tell me this isn't a human life!
	I don't know what it looked like, but it looked like it was some kind of a, it was like formaldehyde.
	It was eggs or something in this, but it was the nastiest looking thing.
	I'll tell you what I thought was nasty.
	We pulled into, I think it was a gas station, like Wyoming, Montana.
	They were selling that food.
	Can you be more specific?
	That food, yeah.
	No, they were selling like...
	Goat?
	Goat?
	No, but it was like not fast food.
	It was like a gas station.
	It was a Phillips 66 near Denver, outside of Denver.
	And it was an Indian family, an Indian whatever, and they took over.
	It was a gas station.
	But they had goat.
	All this goat stuff, an Indian.
	It was like you could fill up your car and there was this...
	And get goat.
	That's what it was.
	I blocked it out.
	It got your goat.
	Montana or Wyoming.
	I think you're right.
	It was Colorado.
	You're thinking Chugwater.
	We went out there.
	I love Chugwater.
	Remember that day?
	It was 20 below zero.
	There's nobody around.
	It's like the top of the mountains got cut off.
	Remember that?
	It's very strange.
	It was a whole other world.
	I like that.
	Just the name Chugwater.
	I would build a ranch in a place like Chugwater.
	It's like in Florida.
	Shop Choppy.
	Where they have grunting every year.
	This is where you look for the earthworms and they used to...
	I don't have time for that.
	You know what you sound like?
	I ain't got time for that.
	Oh, Lord Jesus.
	Have you seen...
	There is a woman online.
	She says, Oh, Lord Jesus, here's the fire.
	I said, I've got bronchitis.
	I ain't got time for that.
	Well, they took that and they took Karen Bass and they superimposed it.
	It is the funniest thing.
	I ain't got time for that.
	Lord Jesus, somebody's barbecuing.
	I got a cold pop.
	I go, I got a cool pop.
	I ain't got time for that.
	I didn't put my shoes on.
	One of the funniest things.
	You know, you brought up Karen Bass.
	Let me just finish with this.
	I'm really very angry.
	These women have these power positions.
	The Kathy Hochul's governor of New York.
	The Karen Bass.
	And I could go right down the list.
	And they really do nothing for women and girls.
	And children.
	I'm going to just throw it in there.
	I might as well say all people.
	No, but I'm saying you think That would be a priority, especially for a woman, you know, girls, teens, women, and they're just not, I don't care what they write, what you hear, what press releases.
	Do they not have daughters, sisters, mothers?
	I don't get this.
	How they cannot feel some sort of compassion, you know, and there's so much talk out there.
	And I'm here to say, it does not trickle down.
	There's basically...
	Not a lot getting done.
	But I'm proud of the Warriors because we are getting a lot done.
	Hillbilly says, I remember a sign on Nebraska Avenue in Tampa that says, use tires and fish sandwiches.
	Let me tell you something.
	There was a place in Tampa, if you remember it, the original goody-goody downtown, the original one, was like something that was the most wonderful thing in the world.
	They had these cold aluminum chairs that were so light.
	We used to go in there in the summer with short pants, It would stick to you, but it was one of those...
	And then they tried to do it again, and they just couldn't do it.
	Just all I want to tell you.
	It's no big deal.
	By the way, thanks for bringing us right down with that.
	No, I think it's a very important comment to make that at times like this, and everything that everybody's...
	And it's important that we bring this up now.
	Yes.
	It's 2025.
	And it's your birthday.
	And I'm very serious about that.
	And everything everybody's been put through...
	It's horrendous.
	This is the United States of America.
	We pay taxes.
	They work for us.
	And they were allowed to get away, which is why I harbor, everybody, some resentments towards a lot of Republicans who could have done a better job.
	And I'm sorry.
	That's the way I feel with a lot of this.
	We must remain vigilant.
	I hope everybody knows right now, no, that it's not going to be this easy ride.
	We have a new administration.
	It is going to be a fight, a fight, a fight every single day.
	On another note, Leon Burns said, this might bring back memories, so we had to wear dresses every day of school.
	Tights helped a bit.
	We had to wear knee socks.
	Walden's books to read wrestling mags.
	We had to wear knee socks with our uniforms.
	Knee socks.
	Unbelievable.
	We did not wear tights.
	Knee socks and saddle shoes.
	That's what we wore.
	All right, my friends.
	Listen, thank you.
	We've been on for an hour and 15 minutes.
	Let me just say something.
	Time flies.
	Time flies.
	And by the way, this is so terrific.
	It's ventilation Friday.
	I was ventilating.
	We're going to do it.
	I hope you don't mind.
	I was ventilating.
	That's why you're there.
	Soul76, thank you.
	Cut Up Cheddar, K2Z, Nelson, Carla, the cooking CEO.
	Thank you, Carla, for all of your generosity for my birthday.
	Joe V, Nelson, Pilgrim Media, and George...
	Good men, ladies and gentlemen.
	I have no shame.
	May I say something?
	No.
	I mean, yes, yes, say it.
	We say this every day, and I mean it, everybody.
	Please, it's free.
	Would you subscribe to our Lens Warriors YouTube channel?
	Because I want to get to that 10,000.
	I kid you not, it will put us on YouTube in this new lane of having more of the videos, circulate it, distribute it.
	And out there, our goal at the Warriors, our mission is always education.
	Lens Warriors.
	Resources and getting you information.
	And especially now with the new administration, I want you to hear directly from me things I know to be truths and facts and what is going on so you can at least feel empowered.
	You can at least feel like you're getting some correct information.
	Absolutely.
	So please, that's what I want for my birthday because we're almost there.
	We're almost there, but we have to do a little bit more.
	So thank you.
	I'm thanking everybody in advance.
	Leanne says, Mrs. L is a natural beauty.
	Lucky Lionel.
	Absolutely.
	I'm the lucky one, everybody.
	I'm the lucky one to have this supportive husband with my warriors.
	But your heart and your arm.
	Well, because I can't believe what goes on.
	I know.
	I cannot believe people treat each other.
	I cannot believe they treat our precious children.
	Got a box of new Sharpies.
	Did you ever go into pen stores?
	We had a thing in Tampa called Hook and Holdsinger.
	It was a stationary place.
	And I would just...
	They had these...
	Lee's Art on 57th.
	Listen, there were very few real stationary stores these days.
	When you would see these pens.
	Oh, I love new pens and markers.
	And they had a little piece of paper and you could draw them.
	And they had...
	But this is the...
	Yeah, you got so excited when those came today.
	A new box of Sharpies.
	Sharpies.
	It's all it takes, everybody.
	But the fine ones, though.
	This is...
	You love it.
	And they last about two or three days, and they're completely gone.
	You love the Sharpies.
	I love a nice pen.
	I just love...
	And also, I realize that it's so difficult sometimes.
	My handwriting has devolved into nothing.
	Well, you have to practice.
	Sometimes...
	It's true.
	Your handwriting is very good.
	But I'll give you a card or something.
	It looks like some maniacal...
	Somebody who had severe brain damage was like, what is this?
	I will try to read it out loud and say, what is this word?
	I try to do it myself, but I can't.
	You know, my favorite also is I love...
	And I used to be able to do this.
	I loved...
	They were called mahogany.
	These were African-American cards.
	And I bought...
	No more.
	I bought every one.
	I thought they were good.
	But they were also...
	No more.
	Almost gratuitous.
	Things like...
	No, I think you bought one by mistake.
	No, no, no.
	But they would say, like, have a soulful Christmas.
	And they would be this...
	They were really...
	They're more gratuitous.
	You know, with the shadows, silhouettes of the fro.
	It was the same idea.
	But you could tell some white guy did it.
	Maybe two hands.
	Love you, sister.
	You know, that kind of thing.
	You give it to me.
	And one day I was in a store and I'm going through this and I'm doing it.
	And there was a mahogany section.
	I said, this is great.
	I'll buy everything I can.
	There was a black woman next to me.
	She said, well, that's very nice.
	I said, that is nice.
	This is one of my favorites.
	And she says, I said, what's that?
	I said, this is mahogany.
	What's that?
	I said, it's black cards.
	I said, did you ever notice all these cards?
	He goes, yes.
	And I'm explaining it to her, and she's kind of looking at me like, she didn't ask me, but she's like, well, do you have any particular interest, any connection?
	She never asked me.
	And also, did you ever see people who work at card stores?
	Don't they look like the most unhappy people?
	Don't you think they're really high?
	And sometimes they always have the cards, except for the age.
	75, 80, 65. There aren't that many card stores anymore.
	You buy them in the supermarket.
	You buy them at the CVS.
	You buy them in those kinds of places.
	There's no mail.
	There's no letters.
	There's no anything.
	Nothing.
	There's no idea of a card.
	I got a card today.
	A birthday card.
	In the mail.
	I got very excited.
	Remember when the new phone book...
	It's like Steve Martin in that joke.
	But the new phone book?
	I used to look at the yellow pages.
	How demended!
	First I looked to see if we were listed in our phone book.
	I think it was before they had unlisted.
	Did unlisted come?
	And you had to pay for unlisted?
	You had to pay extra?
	Unlisted came at some point.
	When I was very little though, everybody was listed.
	Looking for the numbers?
	And then there was like, looking it up.
	Did anybody in your house ever use the phone books as a booster seat?
	Oh, of course.
	Sit on the phone book?
	How uncomfortable to make a child sit on a phone book?
	And they're also a good way if you're going to beat somebody with a pipe, put the phone book on them and hit them like that, they'll feel the percussion but doesn't leave a mark.
	That's a terrible thing.
	A cop told me that.
	I know he did, but that's not good.
	I create my own cars.
	Let's wrap it up.
	I create my own cars but still have to create them.
	Those are the best kind.
	Handmade with words from my heart.
	I create my own cars but still have to create them.
	Okay, I like that.
	To come up with the words, the appropriate words.
	73 cents for a stamp?
	No.
	How much is a stamp now?
	I have no idea.
	Well, I buy those Forevers.
	I'm not really sure.
	They were 55. I think they went up again.
	This is terrible.
	I'm not sure.
	All right, my friends.
	Thank you.
	Isn't she wonderful?
	Thanks for just sharing.
	Thanks for having me on Ventilation Friday.
	I hope you don't mind just talking.
	We're just like company.
	Sometimes it's good just to talk.
	It's like we're on the front porch.
	You just come on over.
	Come on, sit down.
	I'll make you some lemonade or some whatever it is.
	And we'll just talk.
	Make you some Jiffy Pop.
	And visit.
	I'll just say a visit.
	All right, kids.
	We love you.
	See you tomorrow.
	Same bad time, same bad channel.
	And until then, remember, my friends, the monkey's dead.
	The show's over.
	Sue you.
	Don't forget, Lin's Warriors.
	Follow.

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