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May 30, 2025 - Lionel Nation
08:35
Lionel Nation in the NYC Streets
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To connect with you on the subway.
It was phenomenal.
But I couldn't.
So let me switch this around.
You don't want to see me.
You should see the You should see the looks here.
Hang on a minute.
Hang on a minute here.
Just a minute here.
Just a minute.
God dammit.
I want to be able to switch this thing on the side.
Hang on.
Hang on.
Sorry.
I know you hate this, but you gotta let me do this.
Sorry about that.
Sorry.
Check this out.
Look at the tourists.
Can you see this?
You wouldn't have believed what I saw.
I was on the N train from downtown from the courthouse.
It was humanity.
And I couldn't get a damn signal anywhere.
Could not get a signal.
Drove me nuts.
Anyway, how's everybody?
How's everybody doing?
Serafina, ladies and gentlemen.
Tourist trap.
the smell of the funk.
I have been...
But I am liberated.
I had two days of downtown, two days of the courthouse, two days of great Vietnamese.
I had a vegetarian banh mi today and some wonderful, wonderful morning glory or hollow vegetables.
They are phenomenal.
507, people are getting off, people are going home.
Famous McGee's.
McGee's up here at the street.
McGee's.
I am so out of whack, so out of touch, so out of everything.
But I'm back to normal, back to reality.
So glad to be back.
Got the show tonight one to five, which is beauteous.
McGee's, by the way, used to be the place next to, um, next to, What am I trying to say?
Used to be next to...
That's it.
I'm gonna go see a photo.
Oh, look who it is.
It's Make the Dream.
Big Dick, how are you?
I'm sorry, I can't read.
I don't have my stick.
I know you like landscape.
I know you don't like this.
I can't do the landscape.
For some reason, I don't know why.
I don't know, so I apologize.
Oh, you know what this is up here?
Remember the soup Nazi, Seinfeld?
This is the original guy, right up here.
And he was every bit the prick that was described on the TV show.
See that?
Soup Kitchen.
Al Yagana.
Yagana.
See those funky things they put their hands into with the e-bikes?
Anyway, this is for my sister, by the way, the shut-in.
That's it.
That's the original.
That's it.
He was a prick.
Absolutely.
Here's Spyscape.
Nobody knows what the hell it is.
Let me see if my favorite shoe man is in.
The best.
I hope he's in.
I want you to meet him.
He's a great friend of mine.
And again, I apologize.
I know you like landscape.
I'm sorry.
I just pulled this out very quickly.
I bet you've heard that line before.
And look at this guy.
See this guy yelling?
See this guy just yelling.
No particular reason.
Hang on.
I want to show you something.
a subway.
This used to be the Mali That was Barcelona.
This was the biggest dive bar.
Of all time, it was the greatest.
Hang on, let me see if he's here.
Look at this up here.
Let me show you something.
Excuse me, sir.
See the picture up there?
See it?
Right up there.
See the Wall of Fame?
We've got Letterman.
Joey Orbach.
We got ice cube, ice tray, cold beer.
We forget about him.
Diddy.
See the woman on the left?
This one on the left.
This is Wunder Klemperer's daughter.
I'm sorry, daughter.
Why?
I just want to stop and say hello.
I bought my YouTube it.
This is the best shoe man in the world.
The best.
This is Lorenzo.
I'll come by and see you when you're not busy.
The best.
The best.
Rostell's Shoe Service.
Right here on 8th Avenue.
Right here.
Look at these cute little things he has here.
Look at these.
Isn't it great?
These little tchotchkes.
He is one of the few.
We come in and talk politics.
He's one of the nicest gentlemen around.
I wish I could catch him now.
He was quite the artist.
How he keeps track of his shoes, I have no earthly idea.
Seriously, I have no idea.
You know what?
I'll come by and get him again.
I'll come by later.
Anyway, this was brief.
Sorry about that.
This is my favorite, favorite, favorite.
My favorite.
Did I say that enough?
Health Food Place, Westerly Natural Market.
54th and 8th.
Sorry about all this.
I'm gonna show you this.
The smell of this is phenomenal.
This is amazing.
After I'm eating, sometimes late at night, my sugar drops.
I say my sugar, my whatever it is.
Look at this assortment of all of this stuff.
Look at this.
Look at this.
I love this place.
Let me take a little tour.
The aisles are thin, or not very wide.
They're rather narrow, but they're worth it.
You know what I love about this place the most?
Check this out.
The funky mushroom.
Look at this.
You've got the royal trumpets.
You've got organic maitakes.
This I love.
This is lion's mane.
This is oyster mushrooms.
These are organic chestnuts here.
This is gray oyster.
A variable melange of whole foods.
This is my favorite over here.
Follow the heart.
Blue cheese.
Blue cheese.
Plant-based cheese.
One of my favorites.
Let's walk through this.
This is westerly, by the way.
54th and 8th.
Inderhood.
80 million kinds of hummus.
This is excellent stuff here, by the way.
Check this out.
Wonderful stuff.
Wonderful stuff.
Let me show you this over here.
The soups are incredible.
A veritable pastiche of foods.
Let me go this way.
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