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May 3, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Lionel Nation: Live and Delirious in NYC
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I didn't break it.
I just did something.
Anyway, about to go on live in New York City for my weekend piece on WABC.
2 to 5 a.m.
Yes, 2 to 5 a.m.
Not 2 to 6, 2 to 5 a.m.
Could I make sure that I'm even on?
I know this is a bit of a surprise, those of you who might be, for whatever reason, paying attention right now.
This is exactly 1.43 p.m.
Do I have anybody?
Just give me anybody who happens to be...
There we go.
There we go.
Gina, Gina, what...
I love the fact that people say, what are you...
What is everybody up...
What is everybody doing up so late?
The same thing that the rest of the world is.
I just went...
I just was driving by a number of bars and they're pouring out into the street.
Look at this.
Beijing trying.
143 in Beijing.
By the way, a good hello to our friends in China, our Chinese friends.
China, who has been absolutely so monumentally just blasphemed.
In any event, do I ever sleep?
You know, it's funny, Mary.
Of course I do.
I sleep a little bit here, a little bit there, but I love doing this.
Look at this Las Vegas.
Genius.
I'm going to call you genius, not Gina.
Genius in lost wages.
In any event, thank you so much.
Today, my friends, I'm going to be talking about a variety of subjects.
And I cannot get away from the guy who, I'm sorry, this will be a while before I get past it.
The fellow who had his way with a corpse.
And I've got to be careful of this, on a subway in New York City.
But not just had his way, but absolutely, oh my God.
You know what I just had?
By the by.
I'll just stop saying, by the way.
They have these little cereal things.
I mean, they're covered with a little sugar, which I shouldn't eat, but it was absolutely tasty.
Sugar and cinnamon, I have no idea.
Was it some kind of a dispenser?
In any event, I'm going to be talking about that.
And also, subjects which I think interest me.
Some things I should be interested in, but I don't care about.
Tariffs.
Nobody cares about tariffs.
By the way, is this coming out okay?
I just want to make sure the sound is okay.
Nobody gives a goddamn about tariffs.
Do you?
Do you wake up saying, what's going on with tariffs?
Do you?
Do you?
Do you think anything about tariffs?
Let me also say, by the way, my friends, please make sure you subscribe.
You subscribe to this.
And I'm also telling you something.
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I want to tell you something.
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The pod is the most wonderful point.
Did you see Trump Post?
Let me just say, thank you, Mr. Keurig.
What was the Trump Post that we speak of?
You see, dear friend, if you don't tell me what the Trump Post was, I have no idea what it was.
I already shocked him awake and you want to throw an ad at me.
I throw an ad at you because this is commercial.
This is commercial, yes.
And the people that promote us, the people that we promote, Our great products and great people, and I will never, ever, ever shy away or in any way consider the sponsorship of these great people to be somehow intrusive on our discussion.
So forgive me, but I am a proud capitalist.
Okay.
Pope, Pope, Laurie Martin Pope, welcome to the Fourth Reich.
I don't know what this means.
Let me see.
Let me see if I can go back.
Find out.
Great sound.
I care about tariffs a lot.
But do you want to talk about tariffs?
I shouldn't say you care about them.
Do you want to talk about them?
What is there to talk about?
What is there to talk about tariffs?
What is it that I'm asking?
What?
That you want to discuss that nobody's talked about involving tariffs?
What is it?
Tell me.
What?
What is it that I can do?
Father Guido Sarducci wants you to find the Pope in the pizza.
John, you have a genius.
You have a genius.
If you've got WeChat, I can send you the video.
Could you do me a favor?
Could you just tell me what the subject is that we're talking about?
Don't send me a favor.
Just tell me.
President Trump or Trump said this in the video so that I know what you're talking about.
That's all.
You don't have to send me anything.
You've got me intrigued now, but I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
I'm in California where they want to dump dumping zillions of fruit flies from overseas.
Oh, that's not going to be good.
That, of course, is the perfusion of Drosophila into the areas probably sterilized.
In order to stop the production of fruit flies.
Let me see if I can find this.
Kimberly says, yes, crazy right.
What is?
I don't know what this means.
Again, I don't know what you're talking about.
Listen, Uncle Lenny's not giving you a hard time right now.
I swear to God I'm not giving you a hard time.
I really mean it.
Bonjour.
Fruit fly.
Fruit fly.
Lionel is firing 24-7.
That's true.
That's correct.
Do we ever find that about what is...
What about Trump's...
Is Trump's...
Do we know about his thing?
I'm looking desperately.
How about Trump's post?
What is it?
I'll send it to you.
No, just tell me what it is.
No, I'll send it to you.
No, seriously.
Tell me.
What is it?
Okay.
Mad scientist...
WeChat.
All right.
You know, I'm not into, and I should be more into things like Telegram.
Telegram I use for some people.
By the way, I found out that all of my friends, all my European friends use WhatsApp.
WhatsApp is a great...
Oh, WhatsApp!
Mrs. L and I use it to speak to each other.
I can talk to her on the phone and can actually hear her clear on WhatsApp.
Than on the regular carrier that we have.
Okay, I'm looking here for news, Trump.
How about this?
I'm looking at X now.
I don't see what it is.
Well, we're going to go to our graves today, not knowing specifically what about Trump's tweet or post.
I still don't know.
I don't think Carney legitimately won in Canada.
Well, there you go.
That's their problem.
And I swear to God, I don't know what their particular predisposition is to self-destruction, but that's their problem.
I hear a Carney.
I always think of Art Carney, the great Ed Norton.
So when we're talking about that, moving on down the line, I wish you...
Folks had more of an interest in the royal family.
Because I am fascinated by it.
Fascinated by Harry.
The royal rumble.
King Charles' reaction revealed after Harry lashes out after losing security appeal.
As Prince says, the monarch won't speak to him.
This is the greatest thing.
This is fantastic.
AOC heckled by hysterical protesters shouting about Gaza genocide.
Quote, unquote.
Quote, unquote.
They're saying that there is no genocide.
Remember, pick the people you want to talk to regarding them.
Most people have absolutely no interest whatsoever in this subject matter.
I know two others.
I was watching yesterday some great stuff about General McGregor and the great Judge Napolitano and Scott Ritter.
Everybody talking about Ukraine, I realize nothing that they are saying, nothing in any way is of any interest to anybody here in the United States.
Nobody.
Nobody.
They don't care.
I have a friend of mine who I listen to him and if I told him I said, do you even know, are you aware of the allegations that are being made?
Allegations regarding genocide.
I think you see the car activity in the background.
I said, are you aware of the allegations that are made regarding the subject matter of genocide?
That's ridiculous.
I said, are you aware of the allegations?
Are you aware of what they're saying?
Are you aware of what they are claiming?
I said, so how do you think they're ridiculous?
How?
How are you saying they're ridiculous?
Do you know what the ICC...
Ah, who cares?
So you just don't care about it.
See, that's the thing which I find fascinating.
Dispute something.
Counter something.
Say it's not true, but just don't say...
I don't care about it and have that somehow transfer into an answer.
I don't care is not an answer.
You do realize that, right?
It's fascinating to me.
So, that's that.
I think the president after 100 days is great.
Where's Elon?
Do you miss Elon?
Do you miss him?
Do you see where they're talking about now?
Authorizing the payment now to Ashley Babbitt's family.
Don't you see that?
Now let me ask you quickly.
I've got my pad of paper out.
This is a thing called show prep.
This is a term which I hate.
And I have my bag here and I've got my notes.
And I'm going to ask you, and I want you to be my show producer right now.
Give me the top three stories you believe are the most critical.
Top three stories.
I'm going to talk about the necromancy, if you will, on the subway.
And Albert Fish, I'm going to be doing, you know, I do a private subscription kind of thing where I can talk about.
Because, you know, everything that I want to talk about right now, I talk about in AM, but I can't mention it here.
So what is the big subject here?
Cuba is failing.
I want you to think of, you're my producer, and I'm asking you, what are the top three topics that Americans find fascinating?
Not arcane and recondite subjects you find fascinating, but tell me what people find fascinating.
Pakistan and India.
Nope, that's not going to work.
People don't care about that.
Pope Trump?
Okay.
Come on, Laurie.
Let's get with the program.
What is the big subject right now?
Necromancy is too disgusting to talk about.
Necromancy, by the way, is talking to the dead.
You're talking about necrophilia.
That's a different story.
Necromancy.
Now, if there is a story that is gripping the entire world involving having one's way with a corpse on a train, am I supposed to ignore it?
Is that what I'm supposed to do?
Am I supposed to ignore it because it's gross?
Come on.
I'm waiting.
Let's go.
Thank you, Kimberly.
Kimberly Kennedy, ladies and gentlemen.
What's the story?
Come on, let's go.
Top three that people will be absolutely thrilled about.
Conspiracies are fact while evolution is still theory.
Evolution is not a theory.
Evolution is a fact.
And that's a very good one.
It's a fact versus theory.
You do know that gravity is a fact, but the theories behind gravity, they didn't know if there were...
Was it the Newtonian model?
Was it the Einsteinian model?
But while they debated about gravity, who was it?
Somebody said the apples didn't...
Suspend in air.
Evolution is a fact in some cases, though I'm thinking that there may be something to it.
There are other folks who were suggesting that this burst of development was so great that evolutionary models don't explain.
So that's very good.
You kind of got that monkey look.
Thank you very much.
Remember, we need better trolls here.
That ain't gonna work.
But I appreciate it.
It's cute.
Okay, evolution.
What else is there?
Come on.
Do you think people are still tired or tired at all about the notion of Epstein?
Do you think people are...
Because I'm not even close to that yet.
I could talk about Epstein all the time.
Royals and Harry lost in his appeal.
I think Epstein is still critical.
I think that...
That's one of those things that we are forever going to be.
Let me turn, how's the music?
There we go, that's the speaker.
Evolution is right, but all of it isn't as far as Adam and Eve.
I don't know what that means.
Does anybody here believe in Adam and Eve?
I know it's a stupid question.
Do you actually believe in two people, Adam and Eve?
That's a great question.
Do you believe in Adam, two people?
Adam and Eve.
Oh, jury selection of Diddy.
That's good.
Jury selection Diddy.
Okay, Diddy.
Ooh, you know what?
That's a whole thing about voir dire.
That's very good.
I think that might be good.
Does anybody believe?
Come on, Justin.
Get with the program.
Does anybody believe there were two people?
Adam and then Eve.
Anybody?
Anybody at all?
Okay, my friends.
Well, listen.
Did Shakespeare write the mainstream?
You have Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.
I know, Adam and Steve.
You know that's the oldest reference in the book.
In any event, I'm starting.
You hear this right now?
That's the sound.
That's the sound of the end of this piece.
I'm going to have to go right now.
Go to 77WABC.
Follow me over now.
Go to the ABC app.
77WABC.
I think it is...
I want to see something here.
I think it is called...
Can you hear this?
The crown jewel.
The crown jewel.
And that it is.
You know, it is number one.
I know people use that term, number one.
They don't really mean it.
They mean it.
This is, by the way, go to wabcradio.com or you can also sign up and get the app.
In any event, dear friends, have a great, great time.
I might see you later.
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I'll see you later.
I love yous.
I love you.
I honestly love you.
Wasn't that fun?
Thanks for being with us.
And always make sure you stay subscribed here to Lionel Nation because I may just pop up in a cab.
That's my next thing.
All right, dear friends.
Have a great day.
Don't forget, until next time, remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
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