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Feb. 4, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Mind Wide Shut: How the Grammys Have Been Reduced to A Celebration of Depraved Degeneracy
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My friend, I was going to, and I plan to still talk about today's subject, mind wide shut, how the Grammys have been reduced to a celebration of a depraved degeneracy.
But I want to tell you something that happened.
Before, just recently, as we speak, I mean, just before I went on the air, as we say.
I don't know if this is on the air, whatever you want to call it.
Two different cases.
A friend of mine, a school teacher, called up.
He said, you're not going to believe what's happening.
He said, tell me.
Kids in her school, Hispanic kids, don't know the story.
She's a teacher.
She's in elementary school.
Not sure exactly their status.
Are they legal?
Are they not legal?
Nothing.
The kids come in and some have been there since kindergarten.
Some have been here for decades.
Some have for whatever it's worth.
They ain't legal, or nobody knows.
They're freaking out.
The kids are going nuts.
They don't want to go to school.
They're afraid of ICE, and they don't know.
And, I mean, there is a panic.
Now, hang on.
I said, okay, go ahead, continue.
Kids are texting, I'm afraid, I'm terrified, I don't know what to do.
They're looking at ISIS, kind of like the brown shirts or whatever it is.
It's like, okay.
Another case, friend of mine.
Lefty, lib, lives in the nice part of town, kind of a Westchester-y kind of place.
They do this usual thing.
One of their efforts is in volunteering.
Wonderful.
To help out food, kitchens and things like that.
You know, getting food, okay.
Okay, great.
His wife goes, knocks on the door.
Doors are like locked, padlocked.
What's going on?
Who is it?
And they're asking me questions and they're inside huddled, freaked out.
That ICE is going to come and grab them.
And they have been grabbing people.
I mean, they have been grabbing people.
So I said, in both instances, I said, that's terrible.
Why don't they become citizens?
Do they have a criminal record?
How long have they been here?
Well, they've been here for sometimes decades.
and why didn't they want to become a citizen?
I've got one friend who's got dual citizenship in Ireland, another one in Scotland, another one a bunch in Israel.
It's done all the time.
Why didn't they do this?
They planned to be here.
Do you mean to tell me they What are you supposed to do?
They're terrified that Trump...
Trump told them.
Trump did this in 2016.
They were doing this then.
What, did they think he's kidding?
It's not Trump.
It's the law.
And I'm starting to lose it.
And I'm saying, wait a minute.
If you don't pay your mortgage, pay your rent, pay the lease on your car, they get your car.
It's a deal.
I don't know what you're supposed to do, but they've been here for a long time.
Get the goddamn citizenship!
What are you supposed to do?
What do you think this is?
Especially when you have kids.
You've got receipts.
You've got people to buy.
Not only that, I told my friend, I said, well, you and your wife, you know, you've got your kids, your empty nest.
Why don't you invite some families over?
Have a move in with you.
They can do some, you know, work or whatever it is.
No.
But their first goal is either, number one, to slam Trump.
It's the law.
And second of all, you're going to be hearing more about this coming up.
And they're acting like, what, did they think he was kidding?
He did this in 2016!
So we're going to talk about the depraved and degenerate world of the Grammys and Kanye West.
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You have no idea what this did to me before, right before I talked to you, right before I'm talking to you, I'm thinking, oh my god, these people are, what in the world, what is the, what?
And what's interesting about this more than anything else is the fact that they are, I guess, I guess, I'm not really sure, but They're in this weird, kind of a strange world of thinking that what am I supposed to do?
What do you suspect that we're going to do?
I really don't understand it.
These people are here illegally.
I'm trying to think, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
And this is what we're hearing.
And I'm only telling you this because I promise you, you're going to be in the position, you're going to hear somebody say the same thing, and you're going to be hearing, I mean, not that it matters.
But this is the most incredible thing I've ever heard in my life.
What do you think he was doing?
What?
Kidding around?
You think he's kidding around about this?
You think Trump's what?
When they said ICE Tom Homan?
He doesn't mean that.
I've been here for a long time.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Come on, I've been here for a long time.
I've been here for a long time.
What does that mean?
I don't know.
I've just been here for a long time.
I don't know what this is.
Let me tell you a story.
Clients.
You wouldn't know this, but you know when you first start off, you go from the prosecutors, you go out, and I mean, you get any cases you want.
And I do a lot of traffic stuff, and you have NVDL, no valid driver's license, suspended license, and you say, did you ever get a license?
Mm-mm.
Did you get your license to suspend it?
I know, but I didn't know it.
What do you mean you didn't know it?
Do you have a mail?
Do you ever open the mail?
What are you talking about?
Suspensions.
What?
When you get a ticket, did you pay the ticket?
No.
It's that kind of mentality.
I don't know what it is.
I swear to God, I don't understand.
It's like they're the same people.
The same folks.
It's like, what did you think this was?
You should have said there, listen, Pedro, if you want to stay here, welcome.
We love you.
Here's what you do.
This is the thing you do.
Wait a minute.
There's Bailey.
Come on, Bill Bailey.
Lionel, you are a hero from our Atwood fam.
Excellent.
I'm very proud to be a member of that group.
But Bailey, you know this.
I don't understand what's going on here.
If I, from the moment, You have no idea.
I one time represented somebody.
He said, well, he had a problem because anyway, they found a gun at his house.
I said, well, what's wrong?
He goes, well, I'm not a citizen.
I said, wait a minute, what?
And he'd been here for like 40-something years and man of the year.
I said, wait, wait, wait, wait, what?
What is the matter with you?
He was British.
I don't understand it.
I don't get it.
I don't, you know, I...
The first thing I would do is if I went to another country, I would say, what do I have to do to be here?
They're going to come and they're going to knock down that door.
What do I have to do?
What do I have to do?
Tell me.
Well, you should do this.
Okay, I'll do it.
Does this make sense to you?
And you're going to be hearing this.
CNN's going to send...
We're talking today to Pedrito and Juancita.
Obrador from El Salvador, Guatemala.
And they're here and they're crying in their case.
We've been here for...
And it's sad!
As a human being, I'm saying, uh-huh, yes.
It's like when you heard somebody, you said, I went in and the dog attacked me.
But the dog, there's a sign that says, beware of the dog in Spanish, you know.
Or I put a loaded gun to my head or I did something stupid.
What did you expect was going to happen?
I don't understand this.
I'm not a mean person unless you get into trouble.
It was the weirdest stuff.
You have no idea.
I spent my...
People who, they go through this, they say, you have a DUI?
You got another one?
Well, I got a problem.
I say, they don't know what that means!
You're done!
You're finished!
You're through!
You were on probation and you got another one?
You're dead!
You're finished!
I can't do anything!
Probation was the worst thing ever.
It sets people up.
I had clients say, uh-uh, I'll do a year and a day.
It's state time.
I'm not going to do probation.
No way.
I said, how easy is that?
You and I could do it.
You and I could do it.
It's like there's another world here.
What did you think was going to happen?
I used to go, when I used to appear, well, when Anthony Cumia had this place, well, His office, the compound media, was at this part of, like in the garment district, this one place.
I mean, it looked like an old abortion clinic or something.
It looked really a seedy place.
But they had these, they had a lot of these sweatshops and a lot of foreign people sewing things.
It was like going back into the 50s.
But they had this law firm.
It was this immigration law.
And they were all over the place!
People with You know, chickens and baskets.
I'm making this up, but I mean, it was, that guy had a business that you can't believe.
They know about that.
You don't think somebody coming to this country says, what do I have to do to be here?
Well, you've got to do this, this, and this.
Okay, let me start now.
Are you an illegal?
Well, I guess I am now.
Did you do any?
Okay, what do we do?
The fact that you're trying to do something is also great, too.
A lot of folks, they didn't do anything.
But then again, you had four years of Biden and these Democrats who basically told him, you don't have to worry about anything.
You're here.
Here's a card.
Here's a debit card.
Take it.
Here's an ATM.
Take it.
You can go here.
They had not too far in the kitchen, so to speak, right there, they had the Watson Hotel.
Used to be this great, oh my God, this great Holiday Inn.
Oh, it had one of the few rooftop pools.
A friend of mine, the great Joe Sacala, was there.
It was a big...
Everybody went there, and it was a nice, nice bar.
And they turned it over.
Mayor Adams, who said we're a sanctuary city, basically spent...
They gave millions of dollars to house every...
It turned into a shithole.
And it was horrible.
And you would walk by and you would see these people.
They looked like they were from another planet.
I've lived in New York.
I know foreign people.
This is a jungle or something.
Who is this?
Okay, let me tell you something.
And then there was, what was the one on 8th Avenue?
The big one?
The Row?
Yeah, it used to be.
It used to be called the Mildew Plaza.
Now it's the road.
Anyway, that was all over the place.
Bikes outside.
Oh, and then you saw these kids walking around.
You could always see the new shoes, laptop, backpack.
They were families.
But I said, what the hell is this?
And they came out.
And then they were somewhere.
I don't want to say the T word, but you know what I mean?
I mean, it was incredible.
And then they would sit around outside and supposedly they were doing a lot of delivery.
A lot of people do delivery here.
But this was like a lot of selling weed and drugs.
I mean, it was everywhere.
Now, so help me God.
I should go blind if I'm blind.
Somebody rang the bell and gone.
I mean, Where are they?
Gone.
Gone.
I love it.
I love it.
This is not a statement against I'm not a xenophobe.
I love it.
Now, there are a lot of folks here who are a lot of them who are good people.
I had a friend of mine who owned On the kind of a, like a smoke, candy shop, candy store, smoke shop kind of a place.
He's from Yemen.
And all of them came and they said, we want to work.
A lot of these people said, we don't know what this is.
We said, what do you want me to do?
Just come to New York and here.
And they said, well, what do we do?
I've got my family.
I don't want to, well, we'll take care of you.
No, I can't live in the Watson Hotel on 50th Street.
I need a job.
And they said, no, don't worry about a job here.
They didn't even care about these people.
They said, here's a card.
Just enjoy yourself.
They said, but where are we?
What am I going to do down the road?
Plus, they come from South America, and when it's cold, they're saying, you're in New York City, a lot of these people that go from the jungle, I'm going to say the jungle, I keep talking about the jungle, but you know, I mean, some impoverished city, to Manhattan, and it's freezing?
And they're saying, what are we doing here?
What's my plan?
I don't care about any plans.
Whatever you want.
In fact, the deep state, as you know, wants you to just absolutely just drive people nuts.
Raise all kinds of hell.
Break all kinds of laws.
We want the complete and total destruction of you.
You got it?
That's exactly what happened, my friend.
That's exactly what happened.
Do you hear what I'm saying?
It's incredible.
Absolutely incredible.
Anyway, they're gone!
They're gone!
And here's the story.
You're telling me now, after he was elected, what did you think?
What did you think he was kidding?
Well, Tom Holman, you know, Tom Holman, he's not exactly the, you know, he's very sincere.
He's not the clearest speaker, but I mean, he says, we're going to go back there.
Tom Holman said, you look at the guy and say, this guy means business.
We're going to get you.
We're going to get you.
If you're not illegal, go.
And if you come here, you're breaking the law.
And that's it.
That's it.
But these lefty, these trump-hating fools who are going out there and I'm saying, oh, we're delivering food.
Why didn't you invite these people into your house?
Why didn't you get them a lawyer?
What do you want to do?
You just want to feel good.
You just want to do this virtue signaling.
Look how great I am.
Oh, I go on a...
Here, I'll give you some platanos once a week.
Here's a...
Help these people.
Let them move in with you.
You don't have...
Move into Rye or Tuxedo or Westchester or Larchmont.
Come on!
Bring them in!
Greenwich, Mendham, Ruck, please!
They don't want that.
Hell no!
Come on!
Let these folks in!
No!
And black folks are thinking, who are these people?
Let me say this again.
They were brought into this country and just said, you're on your own.
Here's a card.
You can say it to Watson on 57th between 10...
What?
What do I do here?
I don't know.
Well, and my friend who owns the smoke shop, these people come, can I work for you?
Can we deliver?
What do I do?
You're better off going to a smaller town and maybe working out.
But you're in a city of 8 million people?
It goes to show you because these heartless bastards didn't care about them.
They wanted chaos.
That's what they wanted.
It's incredible.
Absolutely incredible.
And now they're screaming and yelling.
They want, I don't know what they want.
They want something.
Crypto Domini says, Elon on X confirmed 200 billion a year to scammers.
Confirmed.
I don't know what this means, but I think I know what you're talking about.
Did you see USAID today?
USAID?
Oh my God.
Did you see where those rat bastards, like who was it?
Elon Omar almost lost her shower cap.
She was there, and this other guy was there, and Jamie Raskin, they said, and we're going to storm this place.
Wait a minute.
That sounds like insurrection.
Wait a minute.
That sounds like seditious conspiracy.
Wait a minute, Pam Bondi.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
There was a story in the Daily Mail about Pam Bondi.
It was all wrong.
Do they do any research?
I don't know what's going on here.
They are shitting.
Bricks.
They don't know what to do.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
USAID, Department of Education, that's closing.
It's like, what's going on here?
USAID, that's Tricky Vicky Newland.
This is Samantha Power.
This is all those folks.
This is how we fund revolutions.
This is like, oh, did you hear the latest one?
Did you hear where Biden, you're going to love this, signed with, who is this, CAA?
Biden signed with CAA, the big agency.
What do you think they're going to do?
What do you think that was about?
Come on, let's go.
What do you think?
What do you think that's about?
Why did Biden sign with CAA?
Come on, this is the talent agency.
You know, like William Morris kind of a thing.
It's the CAA.
Why do you think he did it?
Why?
Come on.
I'm curious.
Let's go.
Let's go.
I'm waiting.
I'll wait a little second.
Okay.
Let's go.
Who is it?
The character he will play is a deceased.
No, he's not going to play anything.
Laundry money?
There we go.
Not laundering money, but that's how he makes his money on the back end.
That's what they did to Obama and Michelle.
Hey, you're going to work for...
Hey, I got a deal for you.
I'll get my cut.
What is that?
You and Michelle are going to develop some movies for Netflix.
What?
You're going to develop movies.
Develop movies?
What do you mean, develop movies?
What movies am I...
What?
Shut up!
Oh, yeah, right, right.
See?
Now you're getting good.
Now you get your money in the back.
We're going to assign you to a five-story development deal.
Really?
Yeah, right.
Confirmed through the Biden administration.
Or what?
Don't know what's confirmed.
Again, that crypto doesn't...
He earns his keep.
Crypto?
What does that mean?
Crypto?
Cryptic?
Don't know.
But in any event, this is how he gets his money in the back end.
Hey, Joe, you're going to write a book.
What?
You're going to write a book.
Okay, sure.
And you're going to do a development deal, and you're going to do an audiobook, and you're going to do it, and you're going to do a speaking engagement.
I don't care if you even do it.
You're going to do it.
They're going to cancel.
Just like...
Remember the deal that, the one that failed completely was with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry?
Remember that one?
That was Spotify and the whole thing.
So that's what that is.
It's not that he's actually going to do anything.
That's really, as though he hasn't stolen enough money.
He hasn't stolen enough money.
He needs money.
He's going to get paid on the back end.
He took tens of millions of dollars from foreign nationals.
He is a crook.
Okay?
You got that one?
All right.
All right.
Let's talk about some good stuff.
Let's talk about the Grammys.
I love this.
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You know what I mean?
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Friends, let me start with this and let me bring you up to speed on a couple of things.
First and foremost, I am not a prude.
I'm not a prude, in the least.
I don't, I'm not with people, oh, you said this.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Sometimes people say things for different reasons.
I have no...
If it's artistic, if there's a reason for something, as long as cursing or sex or whatever is not used as a substitution for wit or talent or whatever it is, I've got no problem with it whatsoever.
None.
Doesn't matter to me.
Sometimes I think it's funny.
I think certain things.
You know, when it comes to nudity, nudity is one of those things where I don't know more than often it's not necessary.
It's not necessary.
It's like, what are you doing?
What's the purpose of this?
Why is there a nude scene?
I remember one time when we were watching Schindler's List and I thought when they showed people walking to their death they were nude to show you specifically the horrors and the embarrassment I'm thinking to myself this is not gratuitous!
People were actually Actually, I'll never forget this.
I say, you think this is gratuitous?
You think, look at these people.
This is the way it was.
This was necessary.
I couldn't believe.
Somebody said, no, it's nudity.
I remember when I was a kid and we saw Ten Commandments.
What was it?
It was Adam and Eve.
Eve had her hair and everything.
She turned around and basically it was a And I remember thinking as a kid, I thought, oh my god!
This is before anything.
Then I said, and I remember my father, I said, my god, they're naked!
And my father said something to the effect of, you do know this is about Adam and Eve, right?
Yeah, I mean, duh!
I said, oh yeah, you're right, yeah.
So it wasn't, it wasn't, it was necessary.
Kanye West, I know we don't care about this, but this is so funny.
Kanye West and this thing, I guess, he's married to?
It's like this descent into chaos.
Sometimes I've heard him speak and he makes sense.
Sometimes Cat Williams makes a lot of sense.
Cat Williams, notice where he just, Cat's just gone.
He did that Shannon Sharp thing and he's gone.
I think they told him, don't you ever.
Do that again.
But the new lows have culminated into a disastrous appearance at the Grammys.
And guess what?
It cost him $20 million.
He blew a $20 million deal with Japan.
Now you know this.
I don't know what the story is.
He's married to this Sensori.
Isn't that funny?
Is that ironic or what?
Sensori.
She's a...
The censor, Bianca.
Sensory.
And what her story is, I have no idea.
She walks around naked?
Okay.
But it's like, oh, would you put that on?
It's sad.
It's like she's the pathetic showgirl who doesn't know it's over.
Anyway, to make a long story short...
He blew, apparently, a $20 million deal to perform in Japan.
I don't know how it worked out.
His investors, horrified, horrified by this bizarre, whatever this red carpet stunt was, including his wife, Bianca Sensori.
Bianca.
They pulled the plug on upcoming concerts at the Tokyo Dome.
Now, whether this is true or not, I'm 20 million.
And the fallout is also kind of emblematic.
I love this guy Kanye's self-destructive streak where every public appearance seems designed to alienate and freak out and to offend.
I don't even understand it.
And the Grammy stunt, which is even funnier, that these sick bastards, they found him to be problematic.
These rat bastards stink.
You went too far.
Remember WAP?
Remember that WAP business with Cardi B and Lezo and all these people or Lizzo or Lezo, whatever the hell they're called.
This one seemed crass, inappropriate, and culturally tone deaf for these people.
This is how bad it is.
It's like, imagine one time, who was the guy they threw out of Guns N' Roses because he was on drugs?
Imagine being thrown out of Guns N' Roses for drugs?
Oh my God!
I think that was the one.
Anyway, it's fueled, as the reports say, backlash, not only in Japan, but among his American folks, colleagues, music insiders.
See, once you get that stank label on you, that's it.
You're through.
One time, this guy was considered a creative genius.
It's true.
Kanye now seems to be...
I don't know what it is.
Now, I don't really care about...
This is not about him.
I don't really care one way or the other.
The point is, they found this because it's over.
So anyway, so he shows up.
He's 47. She's 30. She's, quote, an Australian architectural designer turned muse and partner in provocation.
She's a muse.
So she basically is walking around nude.
And the best part is, nobody invited them.
Nobody.
And the displays that he puts on are, they're never spontaneous, but they're meticulously staged for outrage and maximum shock value.
And they was, of course, now we have a lip reader.
You notice that?
We always have a lip reader now.
We always have a body.
A body language expert, which is complete horseshit.
But now they have lip readers, and they claim that Kanye instructed her, quote, to make a scene.
And she complied without hesitation.
By the way, can you imagine being some of these lip readers?
And you're a lip reader on some of the music shows.
Somebody says, I don't know they don't know right.
You're a lip reader.
I don't know what he said.
I don't know what this is.
So this weird situation has led folks to label their relationship, you know, once in coercion and control with, I mean, Kanye's dictator, whatever it is.
But the best part, investors in Japan, a country experiencing right now a cultural reckoning, Did you know this?
Over women's rights?
Oh yeah!
Japan are wondering too about this thing.
There's more and more videos about how Japanese men are awful and terrible and how birth rates are declining and public opinion has no room for this bullshit that can be interpreted as degrading or manipulative making this Moment of whatever it was, this misjudgment at best, rather costly.
This is so beautiful.
Little did he know that.
And the timing for this schmuck couldn't be worse.
Remember, he's part...
He and the Kardashians and that world and the left and the Grammys and these people.
Did you see when the best...
I thought I'd never live when Beyonce...
Who, by the way, did you see her in 2005?
Her skin is so light, she's got blonde hair.
Have you ever seen anything like it?
Oprah, too.
Their skin, they bleach their skin, they straighten their hair.
Excuse me!
I thought you hated white folks, or not hated them, but you were always into this woman of color!
Hell, I'm darker than you!
What's going on here?
Now, he's been apparently living back in Japan for, they say, about a year.
I don't know this.
A decision most likely motivated by, you know, whatever, personal retreat, business ventures.
But instead of cementing his presence and being part of it there, now they say this absolutely destroyed everything.
And they show him now as being perceived as being disrespectful, not only to Japanese culture, but also to his own commitments.
Quote, somebody said, Kanye is just effing up every opportunity that comes.
And I love the fact that it's an insult to their culture.
And in this market as meticulous and respectful as Japan's, oh, it's beautiful.
See, I love the way, I love the Japanese way of thinking.
I love that.
I mean, this is beautiful.
One of the things I found interesting, there was a while back when they asked somebody, and I like these YouTube videos on expats.
I saw some ones on China.
How these guys got out of there alive, I have no idea.
Well, look at poor...
Oh God, our friend, what's his name?
I can't believe I forgot.
The guy in Ukraine.
In Japan, somebody said one time he met with Gonzalo Lera.
Somebody said I think he liked a girl or liked the Japanese and they're really so Polite to him.
So polite.
Then he said, and the subject was something about, well, I have, you know, I'd like to get serious with your daughter.
And the father said, oh, no, no, no.
No.
No.
Why is this?
You're not Japanese.
Basically saying, in effect, you're not going to dilute or Taint or contaminate our bloodline.
Nothing personal.
There is, you gotta watch these Japanese, YouTube's are great about being black.
There are people who are born in either United States, they're either black from the United States or from Africa, and they speak perfect Japanese.
Perfect.
And they don't have Racism.
How do I say this?
It's not that they don't like you.
They like their Japanese way.
And it's not only that.
It's interracial and they don't mix whatever.
Now, I'm not saying this goes for everybody, but I thought, isn't that something?
Isn't that something?
Do you get along?
Fine.
Everybody gets along.
That's okay.
And I'm sure there's exceptions.
But the point is, they have different ways of thinking.
There's a different respect, a different...
I love these things you don't do in Japan.
One is you never walk and eat.
You don't eat in public.
You don't eat.
You don't walk with food.
You don't talk and yell on subways.
I love this.
I wish we could do a thing right now.
Backpacks.
I hate backpacks.
Oh my god.
And an elevator say, take that god damn thing off!
I'm behind you!
You've got this Sherpa-like lawnmower on your back?
Take this thing off!
And there's nothing worse than somebody wearing a suit.
A man wearing a suit with a backpack.
It's so low rent.
In any event.
They're dying.
The left.
They are dying.
They don't know what to do.
Their stupid world of this whatever this is.
Their TV shows are just horrible.
Everything's falling apart.
There's something that is so I hope you're getting the And I ask you again, my friend, please subscribe.
Did a couple great ones today.
Did one on geoengineering.
Make sure you subscribe.
Make sure you put in your address book, lionelmedia.com.
This way it'll recognize.
It's kind of like a vaccine against my words.
It doesn't like them.
All of a sudden, it says, wait, this is spam.
And it's not necessarily in yours, not just for me, but other things, not your spam filter per se, but also your spam folder, but your spam filter.
But this generation's most memorable moments include, this is also, remember Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's infamous WAP performance in 2021.
This was during Biden.
WAP.
A hyper-sexualized spectacle that should have remained in a strip club.
Remember that?
This vile, vile.
And here's the thing.
I'm not saying this, dear friends, as a prude.
I'm not saying this as somebody who is...
By the way, here's Dennis.
Dennis Card.
Thank you, Dennis.
I'm not saying it's somebody who goes...
There's nudity and then there's crassness.
And there's this end of it.
And by the way, there's another thing too.
Did you see there's a wonderful piece?
Oh, Nelson, by the way, says, Hi, Mr. L. I haven't watched a Grammy since Whitney Houston performed.
That was in the 90s.
What crap we need to watch now.
Get your ticks for 222.
Yes, February the 22nd.
Thank you so much.
February 22nd at the cutting room.
Information is available in the description part of this.
Never nudity.
Never, never nudity.
Never gratuitous filth.
It's never gratuitous.
You pay for the filth.
Just kidding, of course.
But thank you for that.
You're very right about that.
I come from the 70s.
That's my, that's my, that was my The greatest time ever.
The greatest music ever.
Ever.
It was an absolute...
And the 60s were the 70s.
Woodstock was 1969.
The Beatles were done in 70...
70 or so?
It was the 70s.
Mrs. L. Washington and I, there was a Twitter piece today.
It was fantastic.
It was beautiful.
It was absolutely beautiful.
About the whole scene.
It was wonderful.
I loved it.
Springsteen was around.
Dylan.
Chicago.
Go down the list.
Motown.
Carla, the cooking CEO, says Brazil has the largest Nippon community in the world, outside of Japan.
It is interesting.
I see how they molded the Brazilian way of life.
Especially in Sao Paulo.
Food, arts, and martial arts.
Interesting.
I was listening tonight to just before Elise Regina with Jobim.
Oh my God.
That music killed me.
That music.
When I was Younger, you know, first grade, we kind of become aware of something.
I remember the Beatles, sort of.
But my mother was the first one who told me, this is when Sergio Mendes was big, and Giorgio Berto, and Tom Jobim, and, you know, it was this movement, this Stan Getz, Astro Giorberto, Stanley Turrentine, that CTI, Cree Taylor Records album.
And I went berserk over Brazilian music.
Maybe because my mother would say, this is good.
And I'd hear that sound.
First guitar I got was kind of a nylon string.
Played that.
Brazilian kind of a samba style.
Completely different.
Made the most sense.
So anyway.
It's funny you say Brazilian music at the same time.
There's a woman, by the way.
It's called Brazilian Love Affair is the name of the group.
Her name is Deline Faraz.
Oh my God!
I listened to Maschinada with LA Transit.
It's the best version I've ever heard.
Jorge or Jorge, I don't know how you pronounce it in Brasileiro, but...
Giorgio Ben-George.
Moshinada is probably the most known song, maybe, in the world.
Sergio Mendes.
We saw Sergio Mendes at Carnegie Hall, too.
Which is very...
He made it.
But Jobim was the guy.
Was the guy.
And I...
I don't know why you mentioned Brazil, but it was funny.
I was listening to Elise Regina, who was just...
Oh, and when she died, I went...
And Jobim died here in New York.
I remember the time.
Oh my God.
That music is still unbelievable.
In any event, so when I see the music today, I don't want to sound like some old fart, I don't want to sound like some guy, but I say you have no idea of how I loved authenticity.
I am never going to say anything about any music you decide you like.
I don't care if it's...
Bob Wills or Snoop or whatever it is, if you like it, God love you.
I don't have to like it.
And when hip-hop came, rapper for hip-hop, the music died.
It just turned into this sample.
There was a few people here and there, but this recycled.
Horrible.
Then the thuggish and the gangster.
Oh, it was awful.
And then the...
Oh, God.
Rudimentary beats, rhythm.
James Jamerson gave us Motown, the greatest bass player.
Oh, my God.
How did this happen?
I despise it.
I despise Buys it.
But it's up to you.
But I've got to tell you.
You can say if you like something, I can say hey, I can't stand it.
And when I hear that, sometimes that it's filthy.
And there's this something happened.
And look, it's always been fashion.
Zoot suits and whatever it is.
Leather jackets.
And I think we're finally done with the pants below the under.
I think we're done with that one.
But the filth and F-bombs in front of women and children, it's like, have we just succumbed or slid into this form of cultural savagery?
Like this boorish, ghoulish, horrible.
So I gave up a long time ago on that.
And I don't want to know it.
And frankly, there's some stuff about...
There's some, I hate to say it, some salsa that I swear to God, there's one song.
I just don't have the ear to differentiate it.
Now I know Lionel like Kendrick Lamar is not like us.
Have no idea.
By the way, today, Bailey, Buddy Holly died today in 1959, along with Richie Valens.
Big Bopper.
And who was the one who gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight?
Who was it?
Say it!
Say it!
Who was it?
Who was the person, the famous person, who gave up his seat?
Tell me.
He was part of the crickets.
Not Patsy Cline.
Nope.
Nope.
Part of the...
Play bass for the crickets.
Nope.
Who was it?
I'm waiting.
Waylon Jennings.
Jerry Garner got it.
Waylon Jennings.
Hang on a minute.
There's Waylon.
Waylon Jennings.
The only two things that are worth living is guitars tune good and firm feeling women.
I don't need your name in the marquee lights.
Duke and Bach, Texas.
Waylon and Waylie and the boys.
The sexual life we're living got us.
Oh, God.
Wailing?
Mm!
The best channel on Sirius is Willie's Roadhouse.
I think it's Jeannie Seeley, the old lady.
Oh, we're here with Jeannie today.
Bobby Baird's birthday.
Best song.
I love that.
Farron Young.
I hated that as a kid.
Oh, my God.
But Jim Reeves and Farron Young and, oh, God.
Stonewall Jackson and great Tom T. Hall, but back before.
Anyway.
I don't expect people to like that.
I understand it.
That's the way that works.
I dig that.
You're entitled to your opinion.
I'm entitled to mine.
And it's funny, there are some things that you like when you're older, or not older, maybe when you're younger, that you, you know, I think sometimes it's like your palate.
Sometimes you understand something.
Have you ever had a music where all of a sudden you get it?
You say, oh my God, like I was years into the blues.
The West Coast of Florida had some of the best blues bars all along the beach.
Unbelievable.
It was just extremely authentic.
Wonderful stuff.
Don't know how I got there.
It doesn't matter, my friends.
It doesn't matter.
All I'm saying is the music business is dead.
Those folks, I should say.
Oh, by the way, listen to Rick Beato and is it Lefsitz?
I think it is.
Crypto, by the way, crypto's got another secret message for me.
Referencing your debit card money to illegals with Elon on X confirming $200 billion a year to fraud.
Dear God.
Well, thank God for Elon.
Thank God for him.
Notice how Vivek Out the door.
He said, I'm not going to get anywhere with this.
Elon says, no, no.
I'm in charge of this.
I'm doing this.
Okay, fine.
That's all I'm going to say.
That's all I'm going to say.
So my friends, let me just remind you of something.
You have to pay attention to certain things.
I was telling you the other day that a friend who works in retail said that younger people today Enjoy.
What is it?
Golden Girls and Friends.
They want to see what it's like to have friends again.
Girls are going to want to date.
People want to go on and say, I'll never forget somebody said one time, this was a couple years ago, a woman asked Mrs. Dell, what is it like to date?
What is that like?
Nelson A. says, We won Mexico and Canada, Bent the Tariff Knee.
Oh yeah, that didn't last long.
That didn't last long.
Carla, the cooking CEO, says, What is a popular song that you can't stand?
Can't stand Sweet Caroline.
You know, it's funny you say that.
I...
Neil Diamond, I loved him, Turn On Your Heartlight, I still think is one of the most beautiful songs ever.
But the E.T. thing, Sweet Caroline, ba-ba-ba.
Why did that turn into...
I'm trying to think about ones that I cannot...
It's interesting.
I'm going to think about this.
JT says, I didn't miss the show, Mr. L, never.
I would never think you would.
I would never think you would, my friend.
Dear God.
I...
We'll tell you, this is a little different.
There is a sound that makes me so sick.
It's normally at a bar, or something where liquor is served, and women are drinking and they're drunk.
Men drunk are one thing, women drunk, I am convinced now, and I say this with all due respect.
The percentage of insane women is going through the roof.
Through the roof.
I don't know if it's always been like that, but I'm noticing it now more.
So you be at a place, and all of a sudden some song will come on, and you hear, I can't do that woo, it's that woo.
When I hear woo, I can't do it.
That's my song!
Woo!
Or somebody will start singing.
But loud.
And it doesn't qualify as a song.
But when I hear the woo, I go bananas.
Ladies and gentlemen, Sam Mufaleta joins us.
Sam says, wrong, it was Dion.
Don't believe Hollywood.
What do you mean, it was Dion?
What was Dion?
What are you talking about?
You have to realize that when you write something, ten minutes later you go, No, it wasn't.
What wasn't?
What are you talking about?
By the way, there's a great Dion song with a bunch of, not covers, but duets.
Absolutely incredible.
So let me ask you, what do you mean it wasn't Dion?
Again, I don't know what that means.
I wish I knew.
I just...
Not every girl is like that, Lionel.
No, I never said that.
But a lot of them are.
Spend some time watching...
I know this is not fair.
But I think, you know, when I want to kick back and just relax, I watch crazy people getting arrested.
It's calming to me.
I don't know why.
I love them.
There was one other day Mrs. L showed me there's a woman at an airport and she's behind the scene.
I said, oh, I see this all the time.
And I they are women.
They are women.
Not all women do this, but they are women.
I just I don't know why it is.
Well, my friends, we're never going to hear What Sam Mufaleta said.
But that's okay.
That's okay.
Don't worry about that.
By the way, Dion from the Bronx, from Arthur Avenue.
Remember, Arthur Avenue.
If ever you come to New York, Little Italy, new.
Downtown, new.
Little Italy is Chinatown.
No, no, no.
There's a few places.
Arthur Avenue, the Bronx.
That's where it is.
It's the best Italian food and it's legit.
This is where Belmont Avenue, this is where Dion was.
This is the real McCoy.
I'm sorry.
El Cortil and whatever it is.
There's some different funky places but it's a different subject.
Alright my friends, what a night.
What a night.
What a beautiful night.
48 degrees.
It was going to snow before but it didn't or yesterday.
Bailey, I want to thank you.
Crypto, Domini, Dennis Carr, Nelson A, Carla, the cooking CEO, Cito, Crypto again, Nelson A, JT, and Sam.
We'll never know what you were talking about, Sam, but hey, what are you going to do?
What are you going to do, my friends?
What in the world are you going to do?
By the way, terrible story about Astro Gilberto and Stan Getz.
Remember that story?
All right, my friends.
Have a great Great, great day.
Don't forget, February 22nd at the Cutting Room.
It's been a long day.
Tickets are available.
I want to see you there.
I want to see each and every one of you.
Thought of our change, I mean that sincerely.
All right, my friends.
Have a great and a glorious day.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Don't forget to follow Mrs. L at Lens Warriors.
We'll be back in the morning.
Until then, my friend, remember this.
I always tell you this.
Remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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