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March 9, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Gene Hackman’s Final Days: The Shocking Truth Behind His Wife’s Mysterious Death!
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My friend, the mystery involving the death of Gene Hackman and his wife apparently have been answered.
And there seems to be no evidence Of foul play, as I told you.
There was absolutely nothing to make me think that, or to make you think that.
But some people jumped on it.
It's weird.
It's like, where were you getting, what facts?
I don't know.
I don't know.
What do you mean you don't know?
I don't know.
We need to teach people how to...
Determine and to deal with the notion of critical thinking.
Just like some people, somebody emailed me and said, I think, you know, the Charlie Kirk thing you're reaching, would you have gone on the inaugural show for Gavin Newsom?
Do people not understand when to be upset, when not to be upset?
I submit to you, no they don't.
They have lost all sense of kind of proportion.
What matters, what doesn't, what information we have, what information we don't have.
It's a fascinating subject.
Gene Hackman, as the details of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, their tragic deaths continue.
When does a death become tragic?
I'm not going to argue whether it is or isn't, but you'll find out it was natural, but sad because of his neurodegenerative state.
But the deaths continue the facts to unravel.
The story emerging from their Santa Fe home is nothing short of haunting.
What was initially suspected to be a case of foul play has now been ruled a harrowing sequence of natural deaths, two separate but interwoven tragedies that left one of Hollywood's most revered actors alone and lost in the grips of Alzheimer's and unknowingly living.
Alongside his deceased wife for nearly a week.
And you don't know whether she had any kind of degree of putrescence or decomposition.
Did he know?
The first ominous sign came when maintenance workers who had not seen the couple in over two weeks arrived at their sprawling 9,000 square foot property.
On February the 26th of this year, the front door was ajar.
An eerie signal that something was amiss.
Something was weird.
Something was strange.
Inside, the workers stumbled upon a chilling scene.
Gene Hackman collapsed near his cane in the mudroom, his body showing advanced signs of decomposition.
Now, next to his cane, he was walking to and from, he might have been, and could have been walking about, perambulating, on his own, in the fog of Alzheimer's, unaware that his wife was even dead, with nobody checking on them.
And his wife, Betsy Arakawa, was found lifeless on the bathroom floor, a space heater still humming beside her.
prescription pills scattered across the tile.
I think one of these were for some type of thyroid, synthetic thyroid medication and the like.
One of their three dogs was dead nearby.
The other two miraculously had survived.
One standing guard near Arakawa's body.
The other found outside.
And that was true because one was, I believe, inside a closet in a kennel.
But listen to what happened.
The initial horror of the discovery sent shockwaves through law enforcement, prompting immediate speculation.
Had the couple succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning?
A botched robbery?
A double suicide?
The strange positioning of their bodies?
The unsecured door?
And the dead pet?
Fuel these theories.
And they also looked they also looked to the daughters who weren't acting right.
And people were saying there's something fishy.
What do you mean fishy?
They can't tell you why.
But it didn't set right with people.
However, my friends, as investigators and medical examiners began piecing together the timeline, a much more unsettling truth emerged.
Gene Hackman had unknowingly wandered his home for nearly a week alone and unaware that his wife had already passed.
Maybe he was aware.
Maybe he walked in, saw her, looked down.
Didn't make the connection.
Didn't understand.
Who knows?
You would think somebody at that advanced stage would have had a caretaker of course, but she apparently was the caretaker.
And we don't know.
We don't know.
We don't know anything.
And people are saying, I think this is kind of a, this is fishy.
This is fishy.
Why is it fishy?
I don't know.
I just don't like the sound of this.
Why?
I don't know.
It's my nature, I guess.
I just think things are fishy.
So Betsy Arakawa's cause of death was soon revealed to be Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome.
Does that sound fishy for you?
Huh?
Does that sound fishy?
Does that sound fishy?
A rare but deadly disease contracted through exposure to rodent droppings, but also rodent urine.
The urine, the smell, it's not, I believe, zoonotic.
It doesn't transfer from one to another.
You're inhaling the vapors, the aerosolization of normally.
Rodent urine touching droppings and the like.
But it wouldn't, she wouldn't pass it on to him.
He would have become somehow a contact.
Keep in mind also that the rodent droppings, these rats, these are Santa Fe, prairie-like.
They're not the usual Norway rat, that city kind of a rat.
It's a different type.
Which could play.
I'm no rodent expert, as many of you are.
I think there's something fishy.
Why?
I don't know.
It's what I do.
I don't believe anything.
Anyway.
Now, officials confirmed that she had likely died on February the 11th, the last day she was seen on security footage running errands at a Sprouts Market.
The 11th.
Investigators noted that her symptoms would have mirrored a severe flu before escalating into respiratory failure.
With no one to call for help, she died alone.
Her body left undiscovered for days.
As for Gene Hackman, the details of his final days paint a tragic picture as well.
His death, Estimated to have occurred on the 18th was attributed to hypertensive atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease.
The Oscar-winning actor had a long history of heart complications, 95 by the way, including previous cardiac surgeries and multiple heart attacks.
95!
His pacemaker recorded an abnormal rhythm On February the 17th, signaling his body was failing.
Alone, confused, and battling advanced Alzheimer's, Gene Hackman likely wandered his home in a state of increasing distress, unable to comprehend or react to the loss of his life, or could have seen her.
And not understood death while she was sleeping.
And it was some indication that he might have actually been walking around with his cane by the door.
Who knows?
Now the final days of Gene Hackman's life were marked by eerie details.
His stomach was empty at the time of death, indicating he had gone without food for several days.
He was found near his cane, suggesting he may have collapsed while attempting to move through the house.
The dead dog, a beloved companion of Arakawa, raised further speculation.
Was it also a victim of hantavirus exposure, or had it simply perished in the chaos?
Well, law enforcement and medical examiners have since ruled out foul play, despite what some of our folks in the chat are saying.
I didn't find him fishy.
I know these things.
But the macabre nature of the deaths has left the public with an unsettling reality.
An elderly man, once one of Hollywood's most powerful and commanding figures, Unknowingly spent his final days in solitude, surrounded by the fading echoes of a life that had already slipped away, and his wife near him, but he didn't know.
We don't know.
We think.
Gene Hackman, as you know, was revered for his roles in French Connection, Superman Unforgiven.
The movie Scarecrow he made with Al Pacino.
Where I got my name Lionel from.
The Conversation.
Remember John Cazale, who played Fredo, was in Godfather 1, Godfather 2, The Conversation, Deer Hunter.
I think he was in the one.
All of the movies he was in were just classics.
There's none of them or two perhaps.
He had largely retreated from public life after retiring from acting in the early 2000s.
He and Arakawa, a former classical pianist, led a reclusive existence in their Santa Fe estate, prioritizing, it seems, privacy over the glitz and glamour and schmaltz of Hollywood.
Their love story spanned over three decades, was one of quiet devotion.
But in their final days, that very isolation may have sealed their fates, their separateness from the world.
Now, hantavirus, as many of you know, because you are experts in this, and I know you are because I know how you are.
But hantavirus, and this is redundant, so I'm going to say this anyway, for those few who don't know.
But hantavirus, though rare, Is particularly deadly, with a high mortality rate and no known cure.
New Mexico sees only a handful of cases each year, making Arakawa's infection an unusual and cruel twist of fate.
How she contracted it remains a mystery, perhaps from cleaning an infested area of the house or unknowingly coming into contact with contaminated surfaces.
How did they know this?
And you would know this.
You would know this because you are experts in this.
I realize this.
But how much of the mummified, decomposed body would remain or would retain enough of the information to allow testing for hantavirus?
I know you know this.
I know you know this.
But I don't know.
The virus, as you know, is transmitted through aerosolized rodent droppings, urine as well.
It's known for its rapid and severe effects, making early medical intervention crucial and critical.
Unfortunately, isolated as she was, help never arrived in time.
And as more details emerge, the haunting elements of their deaths continue to grip.
The concept of Gene Hackman trapped within the fog of Alzheimer's, existing in a home filled with silent loss, if you think about it, it's really nothing short of, it's almost like cinematic but in a noir way.
The couple's bodies found partially mummified due to Santa Fe's dry climate.
Add an almost, I don't know what the word is, gothic layer to this unfolding narrative.
And beyond the Hollywood tragedy, if you think about it, there are deaths underscore broader themes.
The fragility of aging.
The risks of isolation, not having people around you.
And the terrifying unpredictability of a disease like Hantavirus.
Think about this.
In this world that celebrated Gene Hackman for his commanding presence, the reality of these final days is sad, stark, dark.
A man who once ruled the silver screen.
I was watching this morning, as a matter of fact, an old inside the actor's studio.
Gene Hackman was, I think, the 100th.
And Dustin Hoffman was the 200th, and they roomed together in New York.
Dusty.
And he lived with Gene Hackman and his then wife, like on 106th in Amsterdam or something.
And they wanted him to kind of leave, because they were a married couple.
And he said, look, I've got somebody you can stay with, somebody I know, and it was Robert Duvall.
These were the three that hung around.
And they said, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, they were at the, I think it was a Pasadena playhouse or something, and somebody said, you will never amount to anything.
You have no talent.
It's something, isn't it?
Isn't it really something?
So sad, so sad.
This lost soul, unknowingly and unwittingly awaiting his own demise, Who would think that happened?
As of March 7th, today, officials continue their investigation, reviewing security footage and cell phone data to refine the timeline.
Yet, my friends, I think you know this, despite these grim circumstances, there's one thing that remains absolutely clear.
Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy's final chapter of life It's haunting.
Isn't it something?
A tale of faith and love, the eerie silence of a home where they wanted seclusion.
And it might have been the seclusion that theoretically could have killed them.
Because had they been around people who could have helped, who could have done something, maybe something would have changed.
Maybe something...
Something different.
Maybe something.
Maybe something.
I don't know.
So, so sad.
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I'm always fascinated by death.
I always have been.
The focus of it, the process of it, the evidence of it, what happens when you're Dead, how you die.
Putrescence, putrefaction.
I never understood when I was a kid.
Why do they decompose?
Why?
Well, because they're dead.
Yeah, but what happens when they decompose?
What?
Okay, you're...
What does your heart pumping have to do with Why doesn't decomposition take place now?
I didn't understand this as a child.
I understand it better now.
Nobody wants to talk about this.
There are certain things we don't talk about.
Did you ever notice this?
We don't ever talk about these things.
We don't talk about bodily functions, elimination.
We don't particularly care for that.
That's gross.
We don't talk about sexual matters, process.
Not the act itself, but we don't talk about the process of it.
The mechanism.
You know what I mean?
Lubrication and tumescence.
No, we talk about it, you know.
We never talk about it.
Isn't that something, though?
Isn't that weird?
The other day, I don't know what it was.
I do not know what it was.
It was on YouTube.
I don't know what it was.
And there was this symphony of dogs in the middle of the act.
And I thought, what is the difference about what they do and what humans do?
By the way, quick joke.
Guy's looking outside with his kid.
Two dogs are getting on.
The kid says, Dad, what are they doing?
And the father says, Oh, God, this is not what I wanted.
I always wanted to tell my son that people get making love and human sexuality and not...
This, not...
Oh, you know what I'll do?
I'll make up some story just to...
Oh, I'll wait for a better time.
He says, well, see, son, the dog on top, he's sick, and the one on the bottom is taking him to the hospital.
And the kid says, ain't that just like life, Dad?
Try to help somebody, and they...
Anyway.
I found out recently that a guy I've known for 50 years, fraternity brother, Former police officer.
I got this thing.
Thank God for Facebook.
How many times have you found somebody who died because of Facebook?
Oh my God!
So and so.
Look at this.
I didn't know.
And the way people handle it is a very strange thing too.
But I found out that...
He went and he wasn't feeling that good in like days.
Days!
He died of what amounted to a liver cancer.
And it was just...
And this was this big guy.
And just reduced.
And there's something about...
There's something about it which I've always found fascinating.
And please forgive me.
Don't listen to this if this bothers you.
Because this is a part of life.
Death is a part of life.
But there's the look.
There's the death stare.
I don't know what it is.
There was a...
Did you ever see Mike Nichols in one of his last interviews?
He did that thing.
He had that.
Jonathan Winters, of all people, had it.
The twinkle, the life, this whatever, it doesn't.
He didn't have it.
And I saw him and I thought, wow.
Isn't that something?
And then you get into thinking about, you know, is it fair?
I don't even want to get into that.
But it's fascinating.
And here's Gene Hackman, 95. Heart attack, heart attack, heart attack.
Never got him.
But he didn't kill him.
And then he realized...
Not dying is not necessarily a sign of health.
And isn't it also funny how we think we know these people and they're frozen.
Did you remember seeing Gene Hackman that first time when you saw him walking skinny, hunched up?
Oh my god!
That's Gene Hackman?
And we always act like, what's the matter with you?
Jesus Christ!
Well, what do you want?
Because we remember them as Popeye, Doyle, and Piccadilly, and Poughkeepsie, and I was watching.
Same thing with Clint Eastwood.
Have you ever had a celebrity death really affect you?
Really affect you?
I don't know what I'm going to do when...
I don't know what I'm going to do when Mick Jagger dies.
That is going to be the one that the only time I can ever tell you in my life I really it just got me was January 23rd 1978 I woke up before the internet and I found out that Terry Katt The guitar player from Chicago,
whom I loved and saw, and that he died of an accidental, self-inflicted wound.
That's it.
That's the only one I really, really took to heart, really affected me, really made me sad.
I mean, I'm not trying to make this bigger than it is, but...
But it was really something.
I thought, oh my god.
Terry, Kat.
And then Gene Hackman, the other day when I'm thinking, this is really weird.
He's, there he is.
Unforgiven.
And just, he's frozen.
How did he go from looking like that, I know this is a stupid question, right?
From that to this.
He'll always be frozen.
It's so interesting.
And I wonder about the estate builder.
Who owns the estate?
How is it devised?
I don't know anything about his daughters.
They could be fine people.
We were already suggesting that they were buzzards and vultures ready to move in.
Many of you were suggesting there's something fishy here.
I don't know.
We weren't even there.
And we're making these opinions based upon nothing.
Hantavirus.
Yes.
Hantavirus.
I was listening to somebody.
Oh, Prince.
Prince.
I've heard, I'm never going to say this, I've heard many, many people suggest his cause of death.
Pilgrim said my 90-year-old friend broke his hip yesterday.
He's okay.
Well, 90-year-old, that's very good.
Those things are really scary.
American Rebel Prince.
I've heard a lot of interesting.
Theories of what he really died from.
I don't know.
Prince was born in a 1958 club.
Me, of course, Prince, Alec Baldwin, Michael Jackson, Madonna, I think Angela Bassett, some other people as well.
Pilgrim said, should we dwell and ponder our own demise?
Should we dwell?
Dwell?
Ponder?
I don't know.
I was going to say something about old people.
What's so interesting is that they go into the hospital for something that keeps them out of the hospital if there's any way you can.
Any way you can.
I have my friend Whom I've known since the third grade as a physician.
We've talked.
And he has said to me, you do not want to die in the hospital.
Make sure that we...
Nobody really wants to speak about that.
We had a friend of ours, Mrs. Allen and I had a friend who lived in the neighborhood.
And I said, we haven't seen so much.
She was very, very accomplished.
Anyway.
Didn't think about it.
Read the newspaper.
She went to Sweden and committed self-harm by virtue of their program or whatever it was.
And I thought, I don't know about that.
It's very, very sad.
And it was like, wow, kind of haunting.
Isn't it weird?
Sometimes people that you don't know that well, or that you knew tangentially, or maybe that you saw on TV, you realize, gone.
They're gone.
And then, as a kid, I still remember thinking, where do they go?
I don't mean, and heaven makes sense.
It's so easy to go.
We're in heaven.
Oh, okay.
Easy for a kid.
What happened to our dog?
He's in doggy heaven.
Will we see him?
Absolutely.
Everybody's happy.
For a kid.
What do you want to do?
Talk about the demise?
No.
But, later on I thought, okay, that was for kids.
And then later on people said, no.
No, that's what I believe.
Really?
Yeah, okay.
Well, don't you?
I never really thought of it.
You don't believe in that?
You think this is just it?
It's my favorite.
You think this is just it?
What do you mean just it?
This is pretty good.
No, that's not what I mean.
You think it's just over?
Other religions do.
Well, they're wrong.
How many times have you heard people say that?
Do you think that's it?
There's no purpose?
You mean that's it?
My father had a friend one time, one of the greatest lines, he never realized how funny it was.
They were talking about cremation.
And he said, cremation?
He said, I don't know, cremation.
It seems so final.
I love that.
You mentioned before, should you ponder that?
There comes a time when you...
When your friends, it happens, you hit a particular age of the conveyor belt, it happens quite a bit.
I remember my friend Jerry Wexler, when he was 90-something, he says, whoever told you that getting old was great was crazy!
I thought that was funny.
Wooden banjo boy.
Thank you, sir.
We love to talk about death in a very, we just, I always stay away from it.
Stay away from it because people really don't want to talk.
I stay away from most topics.
Israel, Middle East, death, politics, religion, diet, anything.
Because when I get into, I get into arguments with people.
And I say, do you really want to talk about it?
I say, no.
Why?
Because you're not going to like what I say.
I don't understand this.
You don't want me asking the questions I ask.
I said, well, I said, okay, let me give you an idea.
Do you think, do you believe, do you believe that we are sentient?
Sentient.
That we like now, say, I know where I am.
I'm sitting at this desk, and it's a Friday.
I got my wuzu.
I got my fan going.
I got my smart.
I'm here.
Hey, there's a, do you think that it's like that?
Do you think so?
Why not?
Okay.
What if you die early?
Very, very early.
Stillbirth?
Or miscarriage?
I think you're a human.
What is your status?
Will you see?
Will someone see you?
Will they recognize you?
Or will they be this sentient?
I ask these questions.
When Gene Hackman died, at what state will he be in heaven?
The Popeye Doyle, Gene Hackman?
Or the 95-year-old Gene Hackman?
Big Dick says, Uncle Lenny, this is Big Dick from Chicago.
Here, live forever.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
We're not going to live forever, and we can't live forever.
You don't want to live forever.
It's not in the cards to quote, live forever.
There's no, it doesn't, it is as unnatural as anything.
I told you the book.
That changed my life.
Sherwin Newland's How We Die.
Victoria Newland's father.
Fascinated me.
Fascinated.
I remember one time when I was a kid, my parents were very, very good.
Very good about death.
I've never had a death, sex, anything.
They always acted like, eh.
No reaction.
They never got upset.
And the first dead person I saw was my great aunt's husband.
Valentin.
Great guy.
Loved him.
And he was a really good egg.
And he died, so my mother said, we're going to go see him.
We're going to go see him?
I had no concept.
I was young.
I said, what do you mean we're going to go see him?
We're going to go see him at the funeral home.
See him?
Yeah, he's there?
Yeah.
But he's dead?
I didn't understand any of this.
And she said, yes, we'll show you.
It's very calm, very matter-of-fact.
So we were there, and I thought, oh my gosh.
This is interesting.
She says, touch him.
Touch his, touch his.
I'll never forget.
I said, oh, this guy goes, yeah, he's dead.
That's his body.
That's his, you know, it's kind of, later on, somebody calls it a space suit, which I kind of like.
And she said, Check the door.
I said, what do you mean?
See if anybody's coming.
Why?
So she took out all this stuff.
She had a mask card.
She stuck that in the thing.
She had a metal.
She stuck that in there.
Everybody's loading them up.
And I said, and even as a kid, even as a kid, I understood what was happening here, how weird this was.
I said, what did you put that in there for?
It's not funny.
She said, for good luck.
I'm sorry.
And I think, he's dead.
But, that's okay.
It started me in this, these people are weird.
Good luck.
This is the strangest.
What's the matter with these people?
I'm just a kid.
Then, then, the one that freaked me out more than anything, it just was.
I forget who it was.
It was somebody who died with glasses on in the casket.
Glasses.
I was whatever.
I can never gauge my age when I think that some event took place and I was 8 or 10. I was 13. Who knows?
But I do remember this happened.
I don't know what year I was.
And my mother was very, very odd sense of humor.
I said, why is he wearing this?
I'm serious!
And she never said, that's a stupid question.
She said, well, because people will recognize him.
And I'm looking around here and I'm saying, what do you mean recognize?
You mean they would come here and say, who's this?
The name's in the door, got the card, all of his family's here.
I mean, when you see somebody take their glasses off and they clean them, you don't say, hey, who are you?
That only worked with, you know, Clark Kent.
You know, I'm Clark Kent.
I'm Superman.
I'm Clark Kent.
You know, I never, I never.
So I'm like, I said, you won't recognize him.
He said, well, he always, he always wore them.
I said, didn't wear him to bed.
He's dead.
And even then, I realized, and I'm not kidding you when I say this, I realized, These people are weird.
I don't get it.
I don't fit in here.
Don't they think this is the oddest thing ever?
They don't recognize him?
He's got glasses on.
He's got a suit.
It's the weirdest.
And later on...
What I found, I remember the first time we went, right around that time, whatever that time was in my life, I don't know, 5, 10, whatever my age was, somebody had a baby.
And I think we went to the hospital or did something.
That blew my mind.
Where did it come from?
What do you mean?
And my mother goes, you know where it came from.
No, no, I understand the process, but this plus this and we have a human.
Wow!
That's the wildest thing I've ever heard in my life.
How did that happen?
How?
Blew my mind.
Blew my mind.
And then she said, what are you so upset?
I said, That's what we should be freaking out.
Not freaking out.
That's the thing that amazes me.
It's not the death.
Death wasn't much of a...
I mean, it was interesting in terms of the process.
But I didn't understand why isn't that...
Where did this come from?
This baby.
You know, one minute I saw...
She's got a big belly.
I never understood it.
Never understood the whole thing from a kid.
From a kid.
Death, birth.
And I thought, okay.
So I never thought anything of it.
I thought, I'm just, maybe I'm a little, maybe I thought, really seriously, maybe there's something wrong with me.
I don't get it.
I don't know why these people are, they're so, they, they're so at home with it.
But I found out it was because they didn't ask, they didn't ask any questions.
They just accepted it, or the questions they, or the questions they, they didn't ask questions, they just made stuff up.
Well, when you die, you go to heaven, and you go, really?
How do you know that?
Well, I don't know if we know that, but that's what I believe.
What do you mean believe?
You mean hope?
No!
No!
Loved it.
Fascinates me.
And the idea of when you die.
It's one of those things, right now, you have somebody you have not spoken to for a long time.
Maybe your parents, maybe you don't call them enough, and I most heartily recommend you do that.
I, of course, like most people, if you could live your life again, I don't put this thing in there.
I don't really go into the regret thing.
But I would do things differently.
I would be far better as far as saying, I'm here.
I love you.
Click.
That sort of thing.
I think it makes a lot of sense.
But, when you don't talk to your parents for a week, maybe a month, depending upon...
Some people, they live out of state.
They think nothing of it.
You know they're alive.
You know it.
And then one day they said, oh, your parents, you get a call, mom or dad or whatever passed away.
Oh my God.
It looks exactly like it did when you weren't talking to them.
But at least you knew, but if I wanted to, I could.
Or that they're there.
But they're not there anymore.
They're someplace else.
But they're not here anymore.
But this time it bothers me.
But I wasn't talking to them last week.
They could have been dead then.
I don't know.
It's the idea.
And then when you have a child and your child has a pet.
You ever try to explain that to a child?
First of all, pet death is the word.
Any kind of death.
The death of a child.
Death of a pet.
No.
Unnatural.
But death of a pet is what most people first get a hold of.
This notion.
Where kids say, this is weird.
And it's so hands-on.
You might bury it in the backyard.
You might go to the vet holding a dog when they euthanize it.
Oh, my God.
I know people want to do what they feel good, but I don't know.
Whoa.
Whoa.
That's really hard.
Goodbye!
You call them up, and they leave, and they come pick it up, and that's all.
Goodbye!
That's it.
That's it.
But pets?
Oh, dear God.
Oh, my God.
And then this idea of Max Planck, the Max, Max, Plank.
I've got to get the name right.
Institute came up with this idea that life does not end.
He talked about microtubules.
Did you read this up?
Look at the Max Planck Institute.
Look at death or whatever conservation of energy or whatever you want to call it.
And I do believe that the idea of us ending Is ridiculous.
For example, does Gene Hackman exist?
Yes.
He exists to me the same as he did five years ago, ten years ago.
He's there.
I can see him give interviews.
Somewhere, at some time, in the future somewhere, this will be somewhere.
And somebody may come upon this and say, what the hell was this?
I don't know.
And who were these people?
Who was Fred Haddad?
Who was Liz Solak?
Who was Alice Searcy?
If I can sit through SNL, present-day SNL, I can sit through anything.
You are really smart and funny.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
I would much rather say, I just...
Enjoy celebrating the insanity of things.
I was listening today to Jim Downey talking about Norm MacDonald.
Fishman says, I'm a grown man.
I lost my lab bow today.
14 years old.
I've been crying all day.
It's almost more than I can handle.
Fishman, My heart and my love to you, and I do not ever explain it or feel like, of course, they're better than people.
Do you know that a dog looks, they have these, they had this device.
I don't know what the hell it was.
But it was something where you could see where the dog is looking.
And the dog looks in your eyes.
And the dogs have whites around their eyes like sclera.
You know, the white part of it.
So you can see emotions like others don't have this.
Cats and...
A dog watches your eyes.
A dog, if you point, the dog gets it.
A monkey won't get it.
Bonobos won't get it.
Chimps don't get it.
They don't get it.
They go like this.
What are you doing?
Why are you showing me your finger?
No, this!
This!
Dogs do that.
They sense.
They smell.
They know things.
They...
I remember hearing stories about how a dog sometimes can tell if a woman's pregnant.
She'll come up and put the dog's head on the belly of the mother like...
Picking up things, scents, smells, acids, ketones in your blood indicating PTSD, depression, anxiety.
They're incredible!
Oh my god!
And it doesn't matter what kind of dog it is.
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
Labs or golden retrievers or chihuahuas.
It doesn't matter.
They just...
And I...
I cannot say enough about how I think they are just incredible.
And I always have...
Why do you think that we are so great?
We're at the top of the food chain.
Why?
What's so special about us?
Think about this.
You feel this, my friend.
You cry if you want.
You cry.
You look at the toy.
Oh!
Thank God we got pictures.
Thank God you got pictures.
Thank God you're coming home and the way they hear.
I love that.
They know keys.
They know a car.
They know a door.
They know stuff.
It's, oh my God.
You're going to get me crying.
They're just beautiful.
And then we only get them for short and we even give them dog years.
I don't even know how that's about.
It's like we compacted it.
Well, he's seven.
Why don't we just say he's 83?
No, it's dog years.
And they're just there's a there's a I want you to watch, I think it's called, have you seen Dodo World?
What's it called?
Dodo?
Is it Dodo?
There's one I like called Dogumentary.
We don't have any dogs, but I love dogs.
I love dogs the way I love golf.
I love to talk about golf.
I like to watch golf.
I don't want to play golf.
But it's called Dodo.
Dodo.
I think it's called Dodo.
Yep, the Dodo.
Have you seen this?
Oh!
Tiff off.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Oh!
Don't look at this, my friend.
The Dodo.
Oh!
The dog that they find in the pound that's been abused and he's afraid and kills me.
*clap* *clap* *clap*
So I'm sorry.
I'm sending out...
That's my prayer.
*Rain*
This is a great show, isn't it?
This is a great show.
Anywho, everybody okay?
Everybody okay?
Everybody alright?
Don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, how do I say this?
Run from your heart.
We always say, oh, no, no.
We act like it's a fart or something.
Like, I'm sorry.
I don't mean to get upset.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean it.
The thing that makes you a human, you're not a psychopath.
When something just, a piece of music, or, ah, it's incredible.
So anyway.
I know you didn't want this for your Friday night, so we better put an end on this, because I'm going to start.
I don't know why that got me.
In any event, remember this.
Oh, oh, and by the way, get a new dog.
Immediately.
Immediately.
Get a new dog.
Don't wait.
Don't say, oh, no, no, no.
Get a new one.
And you'll feel so much better.
Alright, my friends.
Oh, God.
Hehehehe.
We went from antivirus.
It's not funny.
It's not funny.
It's not funny at all.
Believe me.
Believe me.
But, what are you going to do?
Alright, my friends.
Thank you.
I didn't mean to bring everybody down.
Fishman, I love you, brother.
We'll dig a bow for you.
Alice Searcy, thank you.
Big Dick Daniels, I know, I know, I know while I'm breathing.
Oh my God, I didn't know.
Nothing like an air rotation in mid-breathing.
Wooden Banjo Boy, thank you, Pilgrim.
American Rebel, thank you.
Check with us, okay?
Would you promise Fishman tomorrow when we get, whether it is, just check in right away.
Let us know how you're doing.
Let us know how you're doing.
Get a new one.
I'm telling you, you will immediately take that love from Bo and...
Alright, my friends.
Have a great night.
Sorry for the...
It just hits you.
Cut Up Chatter says, I've loved so many.
You're a sweetheart.
Oh, thank you.
But every now and then, it's like something just comes and it just hits you.
It's like, where the hell did that come from?
But you know what?
It's like, that's the part.
It's like, here.
It's your heart.
It's the thing that makes you who you are.
Don't ever run from it.
All right, my friends.
Have a great and glorious day.
Thank you so much.
We'll see you in the morning, whenever again.
Got some good stuff on, oh, I, Tara.
Charlie Kirk, a new one, but a phony.
What a phony.
And what else did we do?
Oh, Ricky, Baby Gerald says, I come for the free-form logic, but it's Uncle L's humanity that keeps me coming back.
Oh, Baby Gerald, thank you.
There is humanity.
You have no idea.
Sometimes I don't think people would really...
Just, this is stuff Mrs. L talks about.
Last night she was at this event.
She goes to these events for one is these events for kids.
I mean, it just it paralyzes you.
It's like, you can't believe this is going on.
Really terrible stuff to children.
What?
I don't get it.
I don't.
I'm not talking about...
Look, some people are...
Maybe you're a bad parent.
Maybe you're...
But to hurt a kid.
To sell.
Anyway.
This is not what you meant to do on a Friday night.
I apologize.
I really don't, but I'm supposed to say that.
Alright, my friends.
Have a great night.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Until then, my friend.
Remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue you.
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