Lionel Nation - NYC Insanity: The Lionel Dangerously Benign Walkabout
Aired: 2025-05-03
Duration: 13:08


=== The Best Story Today (07:57) ===

[00:00:01]  Out and about.
[00:00:03]  Rather than me wasting my time staring at you and invariably getting the wrong side of the camera.
[00:00:10]  Let me invert.
[00:00:11]  Let's go back.
[00:00:13]  There we go.
[00:00:15]  That's what you want.
[00:00:17]  I'm on my way to record a piece that I do every week with the former governor of New York.
[00:00:30]  David Patterson, a fine, fine chap.
[00:00:33]  And I figured, rather than take another lift in, I figure I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to drive about or walk about and tell you what's on my mind.
[00:00:46]  The best story today that I can explain to you, the best story is this fellow that they caught, this illegal...
[00:00:58]  And what he was doing with a cadaver.
[00:01:03]  Uh-oh, look at that.
[00:01:05]  There's a traffic guy.
[00:01:07]  Used to call him the Brownies years ago.
[00:01:10]  Anyway, I can't tell you in fear of the algorithms that I'll be a force to deal with, but I can't say it.
[00:01:22]  Just go to New York Post, nypost.com, Read what this illegal did to a corpse on a subway.
[00:01:37]  You're not going to believe it.
[00:01:41]  I can't say it.
[00:01:44]  This morning I was on ABC and we were talking up a storm.
[00:01:49]  Talking up a storm.
[00:01:52]  Mentioning it in all of its glory.
[00:01:57]  I almost said by the by, but I won't.
[00:02:00]  Do you remember, have you ever watched Rick Beato?
[00:02:07]  Rick Beato.
[00:02:09]  Rick Beato has recorded from here so many times.
[00:02:16]  This is the power station.
[00:02:18]  The famous power station.
[00:02:21]  Where he has recorded with all of the...
[00:02:27]  Various luminary sting.
[00:02:29]  Anyway, he does a great job.
[00:02:31]  It's right here in the hood.
[00:02:36]  So going back to what I was saying, the story is so horrible.
[00:02:41]  I can't tell you.
[00:02:44]  This is the part about YouTube that drives me crazy.
[00:02:47]  This is a story.
[00:02:49]  I'm not waxing salacious.
[00:02:51]  I'm trying to explain what happened.
[00:02:53]  And I can't.
[00:02:56]  Because of the algorithms.
[00:02:58]  That's the part which if I...
[00:03:01]  Good morning, sir.
[00:03:03]  Good morning.
[00:03:06]  I'm very nice to people.
[00:03:08]  I'm very nice.
[00:03:10]  This is the world of New York scaffolding, by the way.
[00:03:16]  If you want to make money, go into scaffolding.
[00:03:19]  Everything is scaffolded for reasons I shan't understand.
[00:03:25]  Anyway, ah, Liz Solak.
[00:03:29]  No, Liz, they didn't bring it on the subway.
[00:03:33]  This man apparently expired.
[00:03:38]  Liz, conjuring ideas of lugging some stiff on your, over your shoulder.
[00:03:49]  No, Liz, he met his maker on one train.
[00:03:54]  Let me see if I can say this.
[00:03:57]  He was the subject of a rather demented form of affection by another patron who was, you guessed it, an illegal alien.
[00:04:14]  Huh?
[00:04:15]  Isn't that great?
[00:04:17]  So, read the story.
[00:04:20]  You can't...
[00:04:23]  Believe what he did.
[00:04:25]  You can't.
[00:04:27]  There's just no, there are no words.
[00:04:30]  No words to put it into effect what happened.
[00:04:33]  By the by, I think I got my 5G taken care of.
[00:04:40]  Are you noticing a better quality of upload?
[00:04:49]  Wonderful pizza joint, by the way, Norma.
[00:04:53]  This is a Sicilian pizza joint.
[00:04:58]  Very, very nice.
[00:05:00]  I told you I called up my carrier, and my antenna wasn't working.
[00:05:09]  I couldn't access 5G.
[00:05:12]  Now, let me warn you, I'm not looking in my rangefinder, so I could be filming the ground for all I know.
[00:05:20]  But you'll get used to it.
[00:05:22]  Let me see, how am I doing?
[00:05:23]  It's not too bad.
[00:05:24]  144 people.
[00:05:27]  Guess what this place serves.
[00:05:29]  Guess.
[00:05:30]  That's right.
[00:05:31]  Sushi.
[00:05:34]  How's everyone today?
[00:05:36]  Everybody good?
[00:05:38]  Come on, let's do a check-in.
[00:05:39]  Who's in?
[00:05:41]  With a roll call.
[00:05:43]  Where's everybody from?
[00:05:46]  Give me an idea where you're from.
[00:05:48]  Preferably city and state.
[00:05:50]  That Ohio stuff doesn't do much for me.
[00:05:54]  I love the variability of where people are from.
[00:05:58]  I appreciate that immensely.
[00:06:02]  It's still pretty fascinating to me.
[00:06:06]  Look at this.
[00:06:07]  Here they come.
[00:06:08]  There we go.
[00:06:11]  Can't read the trolls.
[00:06:13]  I'll let you folks take care of that for me.
[00:06:21]  It's a place called Lumiere, which in French means the cattle are dying.
[00:06:30]  Big plans this weekend, my friends?
[00:06:35]  I'm in that weird form of a weird state.
[00:06:38]  I told you last night.
[00:06:40]  Maybe I didn't.
[00:06:42]  I don't eat at night.
[00:06:45]  I have a...
[00:06:47]  I eat in the morning.
[00:06:50]  And maybe noon at the latest, I call it quits until the next morning.
[00:06:56]  They call it intermittent fasting, but I don't like that name.
[00:07:00]  I like the 18-6.
[00:07:02]  You wait for six hours and just fast for 18. It's not even fasting, it's just called not eating.
[00:07:13]  Here's a question for you.
[00:07:15]  When you give up meat, What do you call that?
[00:07:20]  Do you call it sobriety?
[00:07:24]  And you say, like, when was your last drink?
[00:07:28]  You know, I've been sober for...
[00:07:30]  What do you call it when you give up something, like, say, meat or dairy?
[00:07:36]  What do you call that?
[00:07:37]  Talk amongst yourself.
[00:07:39]  This is the Center for Justice Innovation.

=== NYPD Stars at Studio 54 (05:04) ===

[00:07:43]  I have no idea what the hell that even means.
[00:07:45]  It's a nice little courtyard.
[00:07:57]  Always.
[00:07:57]  Always working.
[00:08:01]  The company, the moving company, I'm just telling you that I love.
[00:08:06]  I don't know if you have them in your neck of the woods.
[00:08:08]  Piece of cake.
[00:08:10]  We had to move somebody at the time.
[00:08:12]  They are everywhere.
[00:08:15]  Everywhere.
[00:08:17]  Great, great group of people.
[00:08:19]  Great customer service.
[00:08:22]  I'm not getting anything from this, but they are all over the place.
[00:08:29]  all over the place.
[00:08:36]  This is where Jerry Orbach used to live.
[00:08:39]  Remember him from NYPD?
[00:08:41]  Not NYPD.
[00:08:42]  No, what was it?
[00:08:45]  What was that show he was on?
[00:08:47]  NYPD Blue, I think.
[00:08:49]  This is Jerry Orbach.
[00:08:51]  Way.
[00:08:51]  You see that right there?
[00:08:53]  He was, uh...
[00:08:55]  Can you read that?
[00:08:58]  What was the show he was on?
[00:09:01]  With, uh...
[00:09:04]  Look at this.
[00:09:05]  See this?
[00:09:05]  This is what will kill you.
[00:09:07]  If you come to New York...
[00:09:09]  I swear.
[00:09:10]  Look at this.
[00:09:10]  See this?
[00:09:12]  This is what will kill you.
[00:09:14]  These e-bikes.
[00:09:17]  Cross the Gate Avenue, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:09:20]  We're going to be going up a dink past the Letterman building.
[00:09:24]  Coming up.
[00:09:25]  Eventually, I guess.
[00:09:27]  What show was he on?
[00:09:28]  I'm looking.
[00:09:30]  Who was the Jerry Orbach show?
[00:09:33]  With Christopher Noth.
[00:09:35]  Not NYPD Blue, was it?
[00:09:38]  No.
[00:09:39]  When was it?
[00:09:40]  Somebody help me.
[00:09:43]  A little sleep deprived.
[00:09:47]  So if I maunder...
[00:09:50]  Studio 54, the original, is one street over.
[00:09:55]  Did you know that?
[00:09:57]  The Studio 54. In fact, this, I think, might have been the back door of Studio 54. Coming up, it's Letterman, or what used to be called Letterman.
[00:10:15]  This was Roseland.
[00:10:17]  You probably don't remember that one, but that was it.
[00:10:20]  A groovy place.
[00:10:22]  When Letterman always had the guests come in the side door, it was right over here.
[00:10:33]  Anybody watch Colbert?
[00:10:36]  Anybody even care about that?
[00:10:40]  This was where all the action appeared.
[00:10:43]  This is the side, the back door of the Ed Sullivan Theater.
[00:10:48]  Hello Deli is up here.
[00:10:50]  Remember that dude Rupert?
[00:10:53]  Remember Rupert?
[00:10:55]  Wasn't that fun?
[00:10:57]  Letterman was really something when he started.
[00:11:00]  See the Asians?
[00:11:03]  Always with the masks.
[00:11:05]  Maybe they know something.
[00:11:06]  Maybe they know something.
[00:11:09]  I'm a few blocks away from the garden.
[00:11:11]  There you go.
[00:11:13]  This is where they used to come in.
[00:11:15]  Here's Hello Deli.
[00:11:17]  This is where...
[00:11:20]  Look at this grand opening special.
[00:11:22]  How can you have a grand opening special of a place that's been there forever?
[00:11:30]  I guess he's not there anymore.
[00:11:34]  Anybody know the correct pronunciation of Asaya?
[00:11:40]  I bumped into Epstein at Studio 54. He was quite the bon vivant.
[00:11:50]  I was on with my friend Curtis Lee this morning and Curtis was asking yet again about the files.
[00:11:57]  I've given up telling people we don't care about the files.
[00:12:04]  There's the late show with the Colbert, huh?
[00:12:08]  Angela's Pizza is very good.
[00:12:09]  Let me go this way.
[00:12:15]  Down here, Broadway.
[00:12:17]  Can you see where the falls?
[00:12:20]  Now, you see here how the street, you have pedestrian, you have, here's shitty bikes, which I despise.
[00:12:30]  So you've got bikes, pedestrians, taking up valuable, driving real estate.

=== Lionel Nation Update (00:35) ===

[00:12:43]  The subway, my friends.
[00:12:44]  Pret a manger.
[00:12:46]  Here's the subway, my friends.
[00:12:47]  This is the...
[00:12:48]  This is the 7th Avenue station, the BD&E, uptown and downtown.
[00:12:56]  I have not been on a subway in years.
[00:13:00]  Here's something a lot of my Lionel Nation members will know.
[00:13:04]  Here's the short bus.
[00:13:06]  By the way, this goes out to my sister who will be watching later tonight.