Lionel Nation - Lionel Nation in the NYC Streets
Aired: 2025-05-30
Duration: 08:35


=== Back To Reality (02:53) ===

[00:00:00]  To connect with you on the subway.
[00:00:03]  It was phenomenal.
[00:00:05]  But I couldn't.
[00:00:07]  So let me switch this around.
[00:00:09]  You don't want to see me.
[00:00:13]  You should see the You should see the looks here.
[00:00:24]  Hang on a minute.
[00:00:27]  Hang on a minute here.
[00:00:30]  Just a minute here.
[00:00:32]  Just a minute.
[00:00:34]  God dammit.
[00:00:36]  I want to be able to switch this thing on the side.
[00:00:40]  Hang on.
[00:00:41]  Hang on.
[00:00:43]  Sorry.
[00:00:44]  I know you hate this, but you gotta let me do this.
[00:00:46]  Sorry about that.
[00:00:48]  Sorry.
[00:00:49]  Check this out.
[00:00:50]  Look at the tourists.
[00:00:51]  Can you see this?
[00:00:52]  You wouldn't have believed what I saw.
[00:00:56]  I was on the N train from downtown from the courthouse.
[00:00:59]  It was humanity.
[00:01:01]  And I couldn't get a damn signal anywhere.
[00:01:03]  Could not get a signal.
[00:01:05]  Drove me nuts.
[00:01:07]  Anyway, how's everybody?
[00:01:10]  How's everybody doing?
[00:01:13]  Serafina, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:01:15]  Tourist trap.
[00:01:18]  the smell of the funk.
[00:01:21]  I have been...
[00:01:25]  But I am liberated.
[00:01:28]  I had two days of downtown, two days of the courthouse, two days of great Vietnamese.
[00:01:33]  I had a vegetarian banh mi today and some wonderful, wonderful morning glory or hollow vegetables.
[00:01:46]  They are phenomenal.
[00:01:50]  507, people are getting off, people are going home.
[00:01:52]  Famous McGee's.
[00:01:54]  McGee's up here at the street.
[00:01:56]  McGee's.
[00:01:58]  I am so out of whack, so out of touch, so out of everything.
[00:02:06]  But I'm back to normal, back to reality.
[00:02:08]  So glad to be back.
[00:02:10]  Got the show tonight one to five, which is beauteous.
[00:02:15]  McGee's, by the way, used to be the place next to, um, next to, What am I trying to say?
[00:02:21]  Used to be next to...
[00:02:26]  That's it.
[00:02:28]  I'm gonna go see a photo.
[00:02:28]  Oh, look who it is.
[00:02:30]  It's Make the Dream.
[00:02:31]  Big Dick, how are you?
[00:02:33]  I'm sorry, I can't read.
[00:02:34]  I don't have my stick.
[00:02:35]  I know you like landscape.
[00:02:37]  I know you don't like this.
[00:02:38]  I can't do the landscape.

=== The Original Soup Nazi (05:56) ===

[00:02:40]  For some reason, I don't know why.
[00:02:44]  I don't know, so I apologize.
[00:02:46]  Oh, you know what this is up here?
[00:02:49]  Remember the soup Nazi, Seinfeld?
[00:02:52]  This is the original guy, right up here.
[00:02:55]  And he was every bit the prick that was described on the TV show.
[00:03:07]  See that?
[00:03:08]  Soup Kitchen.
[00:03:09]  Al Yagana.
[00:03:12]  Yagana.
[00:03:13]  See those funky things they put their hands into with the e-bikes?
[00:03:17]  Anyway, this is for my sister, by the way, the shut-in.
[00:03:20]  That's it.
[00:03:21]  That's the original.
[00:03:23]  That's it.
[00:03:27]  He was a prick.
[00:03:29]  Absolutely.
[00:03:34]  Here's Spyscape.
[00:03:36]  Nobody knows what the hell it is.
[00:03:40]  Let me see if my favorite shoe man is in.
[00:03:44]  The best.
[00:03:47]  I hope he's in.
[00:03:49]  I want you to meet him.
[00:03:50]  He's a great friend of mine.
[00:03:53]  And again, I apologize.
[00:03:54]  I know you like landscape.
[00:03:56]  I'm sorry.
[00:03:57]  I just pulled this out very quickly.
[00:04:00]  I bet you've heard that line before.
[00:04:02]  And look at this guy.
[00:04:03]  See this guy yelling?
[00:04:05]  See this guy just yelling.
[00:04:06]  No particular reason.
[00:04:09]  Hang on.
[00:04:10]  I want to show you something.
[00:04:15]  a subway.
[00:04:15]  This used to be the Mali That was Barcelona.
[00:04:23]  This was the biggest dive bar.
[00:04:25]  Of all time, it was the greatest.
[00:04:32]  Hang on, let me see if he's here.
[00:04:37]  Look at this up here.
[00:04:39]  Let me show you something.
[00:04:41]  Excuse me, sir.
[00:04:43]  See the picture up there?
[00:04:45]  See it?
[00:04:46]  Right up there.
[00:04:49]  See the Wall of Fame?
[00:04:50]  We've got Letterman.
[00:04:54]  Joey Orbach.
[00:04:55]  We got ice cube, ice tray, cold beer.
[00:04:59]  We forget about him.
[00:05:03]  Diddy.
[00:05:04]  See the woman on the left?
[00:05:06]  This one on the left.
[00:05:07]  This is Wunder Klemperer's daughter.
[00:05:10]  I'm sorry, daughter.
[00:05:11]  Why?
[00:05:17]  I just want to stop and say hello.
[00:05:18]  I bought my YouTube it.
[00:05:19]  This is the best shoe man in the world.
[00:05:22]  The best.
[00:05:23]  This is Lorenzo.
[00:05:24]  I'll come by and see you when you're not busy.
[00:05:27]  The best.
[00:05:28]  The best.
[00:05:29]  Rostell's Shoe Service.
[00:05:31]  Right here on 8th Avenue.
[00:05:33]  Right here.
[00:05:35]  Look at these cute little things he has here.
[00:05:38]  Look at these.
[00:05:39]  Isn't it great?
[00:05:40]  These little tchotchkes.
[00:05:44]  He is one of the few.
[00:05:47]  We come in and talk politics.
[00:05:50]  He's one of the nicest gentlemen around.
[00:05:52]  I wish I could catch him now.
[00:05:55]  He was quite the artist.
[00:05:57]  How he keeps track of his shoes, I have no earthly idea.
[00:06:02]  Seriously, I have no idea.
[00:06:04]  You know what?
[00:06:04]  I'll come by and get him again.
[00:06:06]  I'll come by later.
[00:06:07]  Anyway, this was brief.
[00:06:09]  Sorry about that.
[00:06:10]  This is my favorite, favorite, favorite.
[00:06:17]  My favorite.
[00:06:19]  Did I say that enough?
[00:06:20]  Health Food Place, Westerly Natural Market.
[00:06:26]  54th and 8th.
[00:06:28]  Sorry about all this.
[00:06:29]  I'm gonna show you this.
[00:06:34]  The smell of this is phenomenal.
[00:06:37]  This is amazing.
[00:06:48]  After I'm eating, sometimes late at night, my sugar drops.
[00:06:52]  I say my sugar, my whatever it is.
[00:06:54]  Look at this assortment of all of this stuff.
[00:06:57]  Look at this.
[00:06:58]  Look at this.
[00:06:59]  I love this place.
[00:07:00]  Let me take a little tour.
[00:07:07]  The aisles are thin, or not very wide.
[00:07:10]  They're rather narrow, but they're worth it.
[00:07:14]  You know what I love about this place the most?
[00:07:16]  Check this out.
[00:07:18]  The funky mushroom.
[00:07:21]  Look at this.
[00:07:22]  You've got the royal trumpets.
[00:07:24]  You've got organic maitakes.
[00:07:27]  This I love.
[00:07:29]  This is lion's mane.
[00:07:31]  This is oyster mushrooms.
[00:07:35]  These are organic chestnuts here.
[00:07:39]  This is gray oyster.
[00:07:42]  A variable melange of whole foods.
[00:07:50]  This is my favorite over here.
[00:07:53]  Follow the heart.
[00:07:54]  Blue cheese.
[00:07:56]  Blue cheese.
[00:07:58]  Plant-based cheese.
[00:07:59]  One of my favorites.
[00:08:02]  Let's walk through this.
[00:08:02]  This is westerly, by the way.
[00:08:04]  54th and 8th.
[00:08:06]  Inderhood.
[00:08:07]  80 million kinds of hummus.
[00:08:12]  This is excellent stuff here, by the way.
[00:08:15]  Check this out.
[00:08:23]  Wonderful stuff.
[00:08:25]  Wonderful stuff.
[00:08:26]  Let me show you this over here.
[00:08:28]  The soups are incredible.
[00:08:31]  A veritable pastiche of foods.
[00:08:34]  Let me go this way.