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May 9, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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LIONEL Takes You On A Relaxing Fun Walking Tour of NYC Neighborhoods and New York Characters

LIONEL Takes You On A Relaxing Fun Walking Tour of NYC Neighborhoods and New York Characters

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Just to make sure, you know, you can hear what I'm saying.
Did you hear the word?
We got a new pope.
This guy is going to make Bergoglio look like Trump.
This is an anti-Maga, anti-Trump guy who makes no bones about it.
And this bullshit about, well, the Catholic Church wants to get back to conservatives.
Nonsense!
You know, a couple of times I've been doing this and all of a sudden it just goes off.
And I'm walking around with this stick in my hand like a goddamn fool.
I'm not taking pictures of anything.
None of you people are telling me anything.
So, enough about me.
You don't want to see me.
You don't want to see me.
I understand.
We're going to walk around down here.
Let me tell you what's going on here.
Let me give you a couple of things here.
All right.
A couple of things.
First of all, as I perambulate, look at this, 4.13 Beijing time.
How the hell are you?
Forgive me for not being able to read, to walk and read.
It's not a good thing.
A little dangerous, but I thank you so much.
I'm glad you're with me.
I had to get out today.
Oh, my God.
Plus, guess who's got jury duty?
Hey!
Yeah, yeah.
I figure, should I try to postpone it?
You know what I mean?
Should I postpone it?
By the way, I stopped myself.
These are these little gardens that you can be a part of.
They're all over the place.
I'll take you by one that's pretty good.
It's kind of a neat one.
But it's...
It's these little gardens where you, like this little chair here.
I know it doesn't seem like much, but for people who like to get out and smell dirt, you can kind of, you know, volunteer.
This is your particular square of land.
Look at this, parking tickets.
Stupid.
Yep, jury duty.
I got it.
It's once every six years, so I got to go downtown.
The good news is I'm going to try everything in my pocket.
They don't give a damn about me.
I'm a lawyer.
I don't care.
I'm in the media.
I don't care.
Hang them.
It's a civil trial.
Okay.
So I do my thing.
Normally you're there maybe a day, two days.
Mrs. L was there one time.
Oh, my God.
It was like the last one.
It was a case that went pretty.
It was a pretty serious case.
And oh, no.
We were thinking, dear God, no.
So.
We'll get to the Pope in a minute.
Now, in case you've just tuned in, in case you've just tuned in, I will say something, a sentence, stop in mid-sentence, continue on, change subjects, move to another subject, see a bird, see a duck, stop, talk about the duck, back to the Pope.
I'm just telling you.
I'm not making any, any kind of...
Apologies.
This I've got to show you, which is so great.
This is the biggest deal.
This is West Side Highway or 12th Avenue.
Nobody ever says 12th Avenue.
See that military?
Sort of.
Nah, no, that's a private.
Look at this.
No sad.
Not hurting anybody.
Look at this, premiering here, Sunset Pier 94 Studios.
This is going to be one of the biggest six state-of-the-art sound stages, private production office suites, premium support spaces, world-class service team, one of the biggest monster studios.
This is incredible!
Thank you two.
I appreciate that.
This is huge.
They cut the grass today.
So I smell the grass.
And I love it.
When you used to see these buses, that meant either Antifa or illegals.
When the Antifa folks would come in, a whole bunch of them wouldn't.
Line up right around the Central Park.
This is where the comfort came in.
These are where the cruise ships come in.
This is where you can see a drive-in there.
We can look out the window and see boats and that sort of thing.
So the Pope, more liberal, more progressive than anything you can imagine.
Please, by the way, like this.
We have...
Listen.
Listen to me.
Stop.
I've got to stop for a second.
Now listen.
I don't want to be these bastards who sit here and browbeat you all the time.
We have 232 likes, okay?
Excuse me.
It's 240 people watching.
I need 200 likes, okay?
I also need Filipino Krugerrands, Filipino Deutschmarks, Cash, Cash App, Venmo, buy me a coffee, buy him a coffee.
Buy everybody a coffee.
Look at these bricks, how old.
I love old masonry.
This is DeWitt Clinton Park, but this is beauteous.
So anyway, I love doing this.
This is a lot better.
I can walk.
I do my little afternoon constitutional.
I talk to you.
It's like you're right with me.
Don't you love it?
Give me a 5x5 if you love it.
Tell me you love it.
Tell me you love this.
I mean, this is great.
It's like we're together.
You know what I mean?
There's that ugly hustle club.
Let me tell you something.
Listen to me.
Listen to me.
I'm not lying to you.
Everybody has a new dancing.
I'm sure it has its place.
But it is the saddest thing in the world.
The saddest thing.
Years ago, I told you I had a client who was charged with L&L, Ludo Lascivious, and interestingly enough, she said, "There's no way they could have seen me." And with Ludo Lascivious, the key, the operative facule pattern, is that you have to be in the open.
You can't be lewd in your car if nobody can see you.
The idea is that people see what you're, you know, doing.
So anyway, to make a little story short, I look out and she tells me that, she says, there's no way the cops, there's no way the cops could see me.
She said, come by the club.
It was the Tang that was in the causeway.
So I went there years ago.
I don't know if Bobby Rodriguez owned it or Joe Rudner.
So anyway, I went to the door.
This is a true story.
She answers the door.
She's completely nude.
Now, in Tampa, there was really, I mean, they didn't sell liquor, but it was complete nudity.
She says, okay, how are you?
I thought, wait a minute.
This is odd.
I haven't seen nude clients.
She's a very, very nice woman.
I think her husband was a cop.
So anyway, she says, okay, now look.
I was over there, and blah, blah, blah.
She says, you know, you're right.
There's no way you can see it.
I said, where's your paperwork?
She says, it's backstage.
So, all of these girls that were dancing, all of the girls that were dancing, were dressing, so I walked in, that they had been nude outside.
And when I walked in, this kind of a dressing area, they said, "Hey!" Like, "What are you doing?
We're dressing!" I thought, "But you were nude!" I know, it's...
Come on, 120 likes, come on for...
New York!
It's Pizza Headquarters.
More pizza, more stops, more dollar joints than you can imagine.
Every other corner.
Everything.
We're going downtown, 12th Avenue.
See?
See right here?
This is where the comfort was.
See where the ship terminal is?
I took you to the Intrepid last week.
I think I took you.
I've got to keep...
That's why I hit that like button.
Hit that like button.
I went to...
I went to...
What am I saying?
This noise is like, Jesus.
I can't think and walk at the same time.
Or chew gum, for that matter.
Look at this.
What the hell is this?
Wow!
Huh?
Huh?
Look at that.
Over here, look at this encampment.
Look at this one.
I'm not hurting anybody.
Very sad.
Wow.
They are all...
I don't want to spend too much time.
I don't want to gawk.
I mean, they're in the open and everything, you know.
But there's this kind of a voyeurism I don't like.
I'll show it to you briefly, but I feel sorry for these people.
They didn't ask for this.
They didn't want to be like this.
I'm serious.
I think it's a horrible, horrible thing.
It's a terrible blight on life.
You don't see it too, too much.
It was bad.
Really bad a while back.
I've never seen heroin.
Never done heroin.
I've never seen, I think a friend of mine, this bartender one time showed me, what packets of heroin look like.
But I've never, you know, done it.
So it was kind of alarming.
But heroin is nothing compared to the stuff people are using now.
This is the glass house.
And people in glass houses...
This is where Bobby Kennedy came with Shmuley Botia, where he begged the world not to think of him as anti-Semitic.
Let me go this way.
Busts, busts, busts.
See that?
It's a glass house.
I'm very serious about people who are whacked out of their minds on drugs.
They're out of it.
They're so gone.
Any of you like that?
I hope you're not.
You can just walk around.
If you just want to, like, just, you know what you want to just say?
I'm going to take a walk.
You can walk for miles and go to a different neighborhood and just kind of, I don't know, it's very safe.
Nobody bothers you.
That's why when people give New York a bad rap, I'm thinking, do you really know what you're talking about?
Do you really get it?
Look at all the buses.
I hope your day is well.
That Pope, an American Pope, now, Sunday, Sunday Live, we're going to have on Professor Eric Thaddeus Walters.
You know, I might talk to some people I meet.
I don't want to violate their privacy, but there are certain ethnicities, and I say this in a good way, all of their laughing is over the top.
You know, very excessive.
But I will try to do that.
If I see somebody who might talk to me, you know, that sort of thing.
But I was saying something profound, and I'll be damned if I can remember what it is now.
This is the...
Is this the Lexus place?
Yeah.
See, up and down here, 11th Avenue, this is where all the car dealerships are.
Oh yeah, Lamborghini, Bugatti, really high-end stuff.
These are the Lexus folks.
Lexus here.
Manhattan, Jeep and Chrysler and all this other kind of stuff.
That's why during the George Floyd stuff, this is very interesting.
We knew something was up.
We knew something was up when we started to see A lot of these car dealerships all of a sudden removing their cars from the showroom.
It's as though they knew something.
It's as though they were told something.
It's as though they had the high sign that there was going to be a problem with it, sure enough.
There's something, can you see the mobile gas station?
Gas stations, very, very rare.
You gotta know where they are.
You don't see a lot of those around these here parts.
So, in any event, I keep saying in any event, I can't believe the phrases I say reflexively to the point of...
Annoying even me.
Look at this.
How are ya?
Say hi to the degenerates.
Welcome!
Get the hell out of here.
There we go.
See?
Don't remember this.
One time I thought about it.
But then I thought, you know what?
They're going to remember that.
There's road work ahead.
Wasn't that nice?
It's a beautiful day today.
I'm like an old fart.
I was talking about the weather.
Seriously.
It's beautiful.
Because when it's not beautiful, it's nasty.
It can be cold and...
or blowing or...
or blowing.
That was profound.
Did I say that?
I sure did.
Oh, Bartolo's open.
This place has been under...
This is an Amazon joint.
Amazon is everywhere.
Amazon controls everything.
The world.
Now look at all these cars.
Can you see how crowded that is?
Try to find a place to pull up, to fill up your car, to get air.
Absolutely no space whatsoever.
Those bastards on that.
You don't want to hate them.
Look at the horses.
Can you see them?
Can you see them kids?
Wave to the horses.
Can you see the horses?
Want me to wave at them?
Come on, you know you want it.
Look at that.
Isn't that something?
Where else can you see that?
Isn't that beautiful?
Isn't that beautiful?
How are ya?
Beautiful, Reg!
Beautiful!
Huh?
Isn't that beautiful?
Oh, check this out.
You know what's up here?
See those people up there?
That's the Daily Show crowd.
Talk about pathetic.
That's the Daily Show.
This I want to check out.
This is a brand new cafe.
This was a shithole.
Joint, and now it's a brand new little farmer's cafe.
I want to show you something coming up.
The little gardens.
Oh, look at this.
This is the dandy shop.
Look at these people, look.
Can you see them?
Who in the hell?
Who in their right mind?
Irish Art Center.
Great place.
Great place.
Now this I really like.
Let me show you this.
I told you there were these little oases.
These little gardens.
This is one of them.
Look how nice it is.
You, by the way, thanks for the likes.
220.
Good.
I'm no Tim Pool, and for good reason.
This is called the Juan Alonzo Community Gardens and Parks.
Juan Alonzo Community Garden is dedicated to the memory of Juan Alonzo, a longtime resident and beloved community gardener who spent countless hours working in this garden.
In 1993, At 565 West 52nd, a vacant lot of debris was transformed into a community garden.
So you see that?
You have access to this.
You've got garden plots.
I just think this is so great.
And you come in, you till the land, toil the land.
It's yours.
Everybody kind of, in a community way, kind of digs the whole thing.
There are many of them.
There is a place on the Upper West Side where they have a tulip show every year.
And it's beauteous.
Absolutely beauteous.
Look at this.
I might fall in love with you.
Not very artistic graffiti.
This used to be the Irish Arts Council here.
This funky place.
I was here one time when Liam Neeson was here.
This was the old...
This was the old place.
This beautiful graffiti.
Not graffiti, what am I saying?
This is a police athletic league.
The mural.
Are you having fun, kids?
Give me a 5x5.
Tell me you're having the time.
Tell me you're feeling...
Tell me you're just feeling great.
We're walking in the afternoon.
You and I are just...
We're just having a stroll.
That's it.
Nothing heavy.
You don't see Tim Pool do this.
And for good reason.
What is my fixation with Tim Pool?
I have no...
He wears a wool hat on this side.
Oh, look at those cute little dogs.
Dogs are a wonderful thing.
I don't have one, but this is community housing.
This is part of a thing called NYCHA.
NYCHA is New York City Housing Authority, public housing.
Scaffolding everywhere.
Everywhere you go, scaffolding.
Right now, the verger, the green.
The...
I don't know what you want to call it, but the...
The tint.
The tint.
The taint.
The hue.
You know who used to live here years ago?
My good buddy Ed Schultz.
Remember Ed Schultz?
He was on RT, and then he was on...
I think it was MSDNC before.
Good guy.
Died much too soon.
And his wife, too.
Good egg.
Good egg.
Ah, the smell of garbage.
The smell of victory.
Anybody with a necklace?
Remember the Tonton Macou in Haiti?
Secret police?
You used to put a tire around your neck, set it on fire.
Don't you love this?
You don't hear Tim Poole doing this.
Candace Owens isn't walking around with you in her neighborhood.
No, she talks about everybody being trans.
Sometimes, I don't know about you, but sometimes you just say, enough with this.
Enough!
Oh, what's this?
It's a little...
Oh, let's walk through here.
I did not even know this was her.
There I be.
There I be.
Got my walking shorts on.
The wind, the breeze, the beauteousness.
Little respites.
Little momentary pieces of seclusion.
Little areas.
Little vestibules.
Little vestigial areas for you to get away.
Just do your thing.
Good afternoon.
I'm going to say something to you, and you're going to think it's racist, but when you think about it, it's not.
Black people will normally say, good afternoon.
They say hello.
Look, look, look, look, look, look.
I noticed it the other day.
These were old bricks.
They're clean.
I know this means nothing to you, but I love the cobblestones.
Not good for your suspension, especially when you have a Yugo like mine.
But look at these old bricks.
These bricks must be...
Oh my God, how old?
Absolutely beauteous.
Goodyers!
This is a nice little joint here called Ardisia.
Beautiful.
Everything's beautiful.
A little place called Dots over here.
We've yet to go there.
I'm enjoying the whole thing.
Seriously.
Absolutely enjoying the whole shebang.
I want to take you over to the greatest guy in the world.
I don't know if he's there.
There's a place, there's a tire store.
And it used to be where the Irish Art Center is on 11th.
And it's called Seibert Tires.
It was there, I swear to God, from day one, from the beginning of time.
It was an absolute, this wonderful, funky place with all of these great little doodads and...
Good afternoon, sir.
Good afternoon.
How are you doing?
Good, sir.
He's security.
Don't mess with me.
I like to ask people, have you ever had to take a life?
No, seriously.
Come here, take a look.
Come here, take a look.
Hello.
Look, over here.
Love this place.
Seibert's Tire.
Nicest...
I'm not going to mention his name.
Nicest guy in the world.
You can't see this, but...
Christmas, Halloween, he has always festooned with various...
This is pretty bleak.
Look how funky this is.
Can you see this?
Let me see if he's here.
Is John in?
He is.
He's walking around.
Give me a second.
Sure.
I want to just get him on my YouTube channel.
I love that man.
I love that man.
His name is John.
I want you to meet him.
The best guy in the world.
The best guy in the world.
He's in the bathroom.
Well, pull him out.
Go in there.
Thank you, my friend.
He's in the John.
Oh, wait.
Hell's Kitchen's finest cyber-tiring car.
Please.
If you're in the neighborhood balancing the nicest dude...
I'm not going to wait forever here.
You ever hear this tire company?
Never?
I'm going to sit right here.
We accept used batteries free of...
I'm going to sit here for a minute.
Let me read some of your comment here.
Yugo Place.
Yep, I bring the Yugo, Claudia, every now and then.
Across the street is the Police Athletic League.
Beautiest place here.
So far, so good.
You notice that?
I don't think we're buffering.
I hope not.
We're not doing anything.
Show us the Yugo.
No, I can't do that.
Because if I showed you that, the first thing you're going to do is you're going to say, you're going to want one, you're going to think I'm flaunting my wife.
Hey buddy, how are you?
I'm just filming on YouTube, just want to warn you.
Good man.
Nicest dude.
I love when people say, the nicest person.
But you know what?
You'd be surprised.
People think everybody in New York is rough than me.
They're not.
They're nice.
He's a hard-working guy, too.
Kids are coming home from school.
Looks like something out of law and order.
It kind of does.
Can't tell you if the phone is off.
Well, it's still going.
Take care of my brother.
I call everybody brother.
Now, if I told a woman, my sister, she'd think, what the hell are you talking about?
How much longer should I wait for John?
Should I wait for him?
Upstate New York.
There we go.
I swear to God.
You know what I would love?
What I think is really the best is to have a porch with rocking chair.
And you can just talk.
It's beautiful.
That is to me...
Forget back, you know, pools and all that stuff.
I don't care about that.
Give me a nice porch.
A nice porch.
A beautiful porch.
I'm going to go ahead and start with the other side.
Amen?
A lot of the folks in the hood come by in the morning and they'll just drink coffee.
Christmas time.
Halloween, you cannot believe.
Goblins.
What the hell is a goblin?
Ghouls.
You don't see Tim Pool.
And for good reason.
Are we having fun?
Are we having fun?
Seriously, are we having fun?
Are we having fun?
That's all I want you to know.
Tell me you're having fun.
Well, I can't wait anymore for this.
I mean, this is okay, but up to a point.
We are on YouTube.
Do you mind if I put you on?
Would you have a seat here?
Can I interview you?
I'm trying.
State your name for the record.
Good to see you, buddy boy.
This is John Everett.
You know what?
I'm going to do this.
I'm going to do this.
John Everett is the best.
How long has Seibert...
You're going to be famous now.
This is a great...
There's the camera there.
I was telling the folks...
Yes.
You were on 11th, which is the Irish Arts Council.
How old was that building?
That building was built, I believe, in like 1895.
Originally a horse stable.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah.
For many years, and then we moved in there in 1916.
And you were in high school then?
Oh, sure, certainly.
You were in high school?
Absolutely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is, I was telling my fans, I've got legions of fans all over the world.
We are live all over the world.
Everybody say hi to John.
See you right there.
Hey, John.
Hello.
Also, watch this.
Give us a kind of a roll call.
Where are you from?
Check this out.
We have China.
Over here in the back.
You'll see this.
Show John where you're from.
Just go through a list.
Hang on.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Look at this.
People are saying hi.
Do you see they love you?
Hello.
If you love Lionel, I love you.
There we go.
They're pouring in Tokyo, Japan.
Love it.
So anyway, I was telling people how great the hood is.
Yep.
Hell's Kitchen.
You have been a mainstay.
And especially right around Christmas time, Halloween.
What's the story behind that?
The displays that we do.
Yes!
Many years ago, when I was raising a daughter upstate, we did big Halloween displays at the house.
And once she graduated high school, that ended.
And I said, you know, what can I do to carry on this tradition?
So in the city here...
I said, you know, there's a lot of kids down here, a lot of children.
And how can I spread that joy?
Well, let's do it in the city.
And now that we moved over to 52nd Street, we have about 15 or 20 animatronic figures.
Yep.
Spider webs, strobe lights, fog, you know, fog machines.
And the kids in the neighborhood love it.
And we go through approximately 100 pounds of candy every Halloween for the kids.
It's beautiful.
And then there's Christmas.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Yeah.
Even, it's so funny, even in your other place, the, I'm not going to show them the bathroom, but the little, the appointments, the accoutrement, the bric-a-brac, this is such a great, and also telling the folks, they're part of Lionel Nation, by the way, that there are people in the neighborhood who come by, they have coffee.
Absolutely.
It's just, this is just...
Oh, and let me add, we also give out dog treats, about 20 pounds a week.
Because there's a dog park down the block.
Yep.
So everyone stops in, or I should say their dogs lead them to the biscuits.
Right.
And so we try to be a part of the neighborhood, even for folks that don't have cars.
We want to be your neighbor.
So that's what we try.
This may, this is, and people, you know how people always have a terrible attitude of New York.
Oh, it's cold.
Yep, yep, yep.
Some of the nicest, greatest people.
And your main man there is the best.
Yes, Mr. George.
Mr. George has been here.
He's been a good fellow.
Everything is great.
Now, by the way, I want to go into it.
John is a good American.
Proud American.
Proud American.
Yes.
Now, I'm just going to say one thing.
I'm not going to go too much.
One of us.
Okay?
What I'm going to say.
God bless you.
Good man.
Good man.
John.
Mr. John Elliott.
Wasn't that fun?
Wasn't that great?
So, Seibert's tires.
Love that dude.
Anywho, let's go down here.
That was worth the price of admission.
Seriously, and I know people say this, one of the nicest fellers.
And he's a good guy, too.
Good American.
Good patriot.
You know what I mean?
It's sad when that's...
That's an oddity.
You know what I mean?
It's sad when that's rare.
You know what I mean?
You dig what I'm saying?
Loads of dogs.
And everybody picks up after their dog.
They walk around with the inverted vegetable bag, picking up warm, steaming piles of shite.
Absolutely positively.
Can you see the line over there?
Maybe across the...
Happy, happy, happy.
Can you see this?
There's the Daily Show.
Who?
I don't even know if Stewart's still on it.
I have no, no idea.
Simo is digging it.
Isn't there something?
This is that park over there where I told you where all the dogs are.
Over here.
Let's go over here.
You got time, right?
You got time for me, don't you?
11th Avenue.
Clear sailing, ladies and gentlemen.
Clear sailing.
I got to tell you, I love this.
My sister-in-law is shut in.
She watches it.
And people are telling me that they're doomed to what we don't know.
I kind of stay around the hood a little bit.
You know what I mean?
I just kind of...
To Whitclinton Park.
I forgot to tell you this.
Let me show you this right here.
I mentioned this the other day.
This.
Look at this.
The enhancement and the beautification of the Doughboy statue area of DeWitt Clinton Park is made possible by a generous gift from the government of Flanders, Belgium.
Isn't that beautiful?
This is DeWitt Clinton Park.
It's about 5.83 acres.
Very big on the bags.
This is what I told you.
This is from the Flanders Fields.
This is thanking us for our...
From Flanders Fields, if ye break faith with those who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow on Flanders Fields.
How many people today could even explain to you what World War I was about?
Seriously.
Every day, come rain or shine.
Hell or high water.
Look at the folks playing, I think they call it the "fute ball".
It's great to see people moving around, actually perambulating and doing that sort of stuff.
The n-word.
The omnipresent n-word.
I guess it means, I guess it's okay.
I don't particularly care for it.
But, look, maybe in a weird way, maybe they kind of neutralized it.
You know what I'm saying?
Maybe they neutralized it.
They have various teams and the like.
This is beautiful.
In any event, dear friends, so that's it.
I wanted to say goodbye before it poops out.
Let me tell you something.
I've enjoyed this immensely.
I want to thank you for this.
Thanks for being a part of this.
Thanks for being a part of our thing, of our time.
I'm glad you get the chance to share some afternoon stroll with me.
Coming up, 8 o 'clock tonight, live, we will have Charles Ortel talking about the various goings-on today.
And then Sunday, we're going to be talking to our friend Eric Thaddeus Walters about the Pope.
About the vacant sea.
What does that mean?
Sede vacante.
All right, my friends.
All right, kids.
Love you.
Talk to you later.
Don't forget, monkey's dead.
Show's over.
Sue you.
Ta-ta.
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