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Aug. 10, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Philosophy for the Apocalypse: Ancient Wisdom in a World of Lies
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This morning I noticed that I was in a particularly different, I was in a different mood today, a different way of thinking.
And the different way of thinking that I was thinking was more of dealing with the philosophy of things, the way you step back sometimes.
I don't want to sound like a lot of these folks, like Jordan Peterson and others, who are always looking for these platitudinous, no shit, obvious things that I find to be.
so problematic.
I never want to be in that way.
But I do think it's important for us kind of to get a bearing sometimes.
And I think it's important to grasp some things that are, to me, always, for lack of a better word, philosophically.
You know, when I do things sometimes, when you do live streams, you might do OBS as you're streaming.
You might do StreamYard.
You might go straight to YouTube.
works better than Firefox, works better than Safari.
On one particular day, your microphone is working perfectly, but then again on another day, it won't talk to OBS, but it'll talk to Chrome, but you're not on Chrome.
And my camera I use is myself, my iPhone camera, which is one of the best cameras there is.
It really is, it's true, but I don't really care.
I'm not into a lot of, maybe I should be, I don't care about studios, and I just don't care about them.
I just want to talk to them.
But I was thinking, isn't it funny how all these, this sense of technology has to work and connect, and if it doesn't, I'm wasting my time.
And that is our world that we live in.
Let's take you.
There is you.
The family person.
The husband, the wife, the spouse, the lover, the this, the that.
The father, the mother, the sister, the brother, the relative, the citizen, the employee, the employer.
What is your frame of reference now at any given time?
That's what's critical.
Isn't that interesting?
How do you fit in now?
my God.
And where are you?
I stop and think to myself, what we do every single day.
Excuse me.
And we are always trying, in one way or another, to be profound.
try to set up or try to gin the game.
And when you take somebody who is, I think, prototypically wise or sentient or sensate, however you want to look at it, somebody who is not a member of the past You see, I've got something really to add to this.
But I wanted to get this out to the world.
How do you do it?
Well, go online.
Go on, you know, stream.
Okay, that's a great idea.
We'll stream.
We'll stream online.
Hey, that's terrific.
Stream online.
That's fantastic.
Well, what do I do?
Well, you want to go on YouTube or Rumble?
Rumble's good, but it's not, there's no, it's simply, there's no money there.
It's not, it's just, it's not that.
YouTube is, YouTube is the way to go.
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever in making money doing things.
I'm a capitalist.
I am a, I think I offer a service and I, I can do what I like to do, but I can do it in a way that is most profitable to everybody.
But I got no problem with that.
If you have a problem with that, you are not for our way of thinking.
Okay.
So then when you do this, once you're involved in it, then you become into this, well, let's talk about metrics and likes and what do I do?
And how about that thumbnail and how about the title?
You can run, for example, if you run, you can, you can say.
I want to do a subject today on, I like this, it's called philosophy for the apocalypse.
I just think that sounds great.
So I ran some things into ChatGPT, which is just the best.
Crock is good, but ChatGPT 5 is, there's limitations, but it is still beyond anything you've ever seen.
So I wrote in a couple of things.
I said, I want to do this philosophy.
Give me five kind of YouTube high VIDIQ, vidIQ, or SEO.
ratings.
What's that?
Doesn't matter.
Give me the right amount of words, right amount of punctuation.
Do I put an emoji?
Do I put an emoticon?
Do I put this?
Do I put a colon?
Do I put a dash?
Do I put capitals?
Do I?
All these things tried and true figured out.
Do I put YouTube tags?
Do I leave it empty?
Do I put a tag?
How are search engines going to do this?
What is a big SEO?
Why does this work?
I don't know.
So, next thing you know, I'm not even thinking anymore about what I'm going to say.
I'm thinking about how I'm going to say it.
What I'm going to do.
Do I do the thumbnail?
Do I change this?
Do I put.
It's the bane of our existence, but the reality of what's going on.
And whether you like it or not, doesn't really matter.
Don't, don't be, don't be, don't get involved in the system.
We are looking for our, our latest, our latest milestone of sorts.
We've been doing this for a while.
And I have, I, I, to watch me, my growth of this thing has been, you know, whatever it is.
But I am now coming up to the 300,000.
There are people who are unboxing, you know, curling irons who have a million views, but I don't know.
That's one thing about life.
That's another.
about my wife, that's another philosophy.
But I'm very close to this 300,000, which is nice.
Sounds really good.
And again, here I am with the metrics.
300,000 of what?
People, you mean numbers.
And we categorize numbers and metrics the same way we do money.
Money, as you know, is a kind of a binomial system, so to speak.
But it's zeros and ones.
And well, I should say numbers.
I should say not ones.
It's just numbers.
And it's numbers that we artificially decide are applicable artificially that we say, these are the, this means something, this thing.
That's what we're doing.
Got a million.
Got it.
Next rule of philosophy is do not explain to understand a meritocracy.
Meritocracy means two things.
Why aren't some people so popular and why aren't other people not popular?
Why is some music great and some people not great?
I don't know.
Why didn't Badfinger take off like the Beatles did?
Why were the Beatles better than Freddie and the Dreamers?
At first, I don't know.
You can pretend you know.
I don't know.
Meritocracy is a different thing.
Why is Stern going off the air?
I don't know.
We can come up with things.
We can say things.
Now, that's a very., very popular metric in my particular group.
Very, very popular metric.
Each particular group has certain things.
Judge Napolitano, God bless him, can talk about Israel every single day.
And his numbers go through the roof.
And I'm thinking to myself, we're repeating ourselves.
I'm thinking, they're saying the same thing.
Over and over.
And sometimes it changes.
Don't get me wrong.
And this is not about him because I think he's great.
But I was watching somebody.
I'm not going to mention them.
These names have come up.
There was a woman.
Her name is Abby Martin.
And we used to be.
kind of sort of colleagues and she does a very good job, but she is so strident and her thing now is, Zionism, this will be the end of Zionism.
I'm thinking, oh, oh, oh, oh, take it easy.
Now some people love that stuff.
You're gonna you're gonna get rid of Zionism?
I don't think so, but that's okay.
Look, if it works, it works.
I don't know what this is.
So the first rule, the first philosophy is for the apocalypse, getting the message out.
What does that even mean?
What does that even mean?
I don't know in terms of what numbers, metrics, sincerity?, validity, likes, dislikes, respect.
I don't know.
You tell me.
There's also something I'm interested in right now.
I love when people, my new favorite subject is Nick Fuentes.
It's not Nick Fuentes.
It's, well, why is he all of a sudden such a big deal?
Why?
Why?
He's very good.
He's learned a few things.
He came out, he was talking about blacks and Jews, and he really hit him hard.
He thought, that's what I'm going to do.
And I could have told him, Nick, that's not going to work for for the long haul because you're you're you're not letting your your genius get in the way of this.
You're you're you're coming on too strong and you sound like a hateful person.
And there are people who absolutely there's one particular guy, excuse me, who was it?
I'm not even going to mention his name, but he is really, I don't want to say evil, but he hates Jews so bad.
I mean, he he cannot see straight.
I've run into people who hate the Jesuits for reasons I don't understand and they can't get in, they can't get in front of this.
But Nick Fuentes, why all of a sudden, where does he come from?
Where does he come from?
Where?
Why now?
Why now?
What did he do now that makes him so popular?
How does this thing work?
Isn't that interesting?
Isn't that, isn't that, it fascinates me to know it.
This morning, if you read, there's a lot of stuff out there, a lot of things which are really, really good.
And I want you to look at my ex, my ex channel.
And one thing which is very, very interesting, I put this piece up.
The other night, we were at an event.
I was at an event with Mrs. Dell, and we were in a place called, interestingly enough, the Hamptons.
And by the way, the Hamptons is this...
The Hamptons, there's like 25,000 Hamptons.
This Hamptons, East Hamptons, Hamptons, Bay Hamptons, Island Hamptons, East Hamptons, West Hamptons, North Hamptons, Hamptons.
They just love to say, it makes people feel so rich and important.
Well, you know, we go to the seasoned evangelists, of the hamptons so help me god i've never seen anything as boring in my life as the hamptons but there was a wonderful event that we did it just happened to be for Lynn's Warriors and some other things.
I'll let her tell you about it.
But it was a great venue.
Great, great venue.
But anyway, but we're in this place called the Hampshire, where they have this.
And I sat down with a woman and I realized this is the woman who has been in the investment business her whole life.
She's very, nobody's fool.
really knows stuff, knows money, knows money, and was giving me a line of shite regarding Ukraine Second message, no matter how smart you think you are, or no matter how smart you think other people are, so many people.
just simply do not get the message.
They cannot conceive of the complexity of the issue and the Ukraine, not the Ukraine.
Ukraine and I don't know why we say the.
We always do that.
And I used to do that.
So why am I saying this?
The Ukraine, the Georgia, the Tennessee, the France.
But they simply do not and cannot get out of the way of this story.
They can't.
So at the very top of my, I pinned to my YouTube, my, excuse me, my Twitter, my ex.
I can't call it X. I have this wonderful piece, this wonderful, wonderful piece, which is Jeffrey Sachs, great professor, explaining the history of Ukraine.
And I was trying my best to explain to my friend, this is what is so important.
And by the way, your likes, so I was going to say this, this 300,000, your like, if you are not subscribed, I am at right now as we speak, listen to this, 298,891.
Okay, so we're kind of we're there, you know, we're getting there but it's that thing and i find like wow do you ever look at a scale and you look and say oh god i feel it you don't understand oh i like that number yeah but you don't feel that number your pants are tight or this yeah but that number is good i like that number i remember one time years ago when levi's when levi's still do they have at the back of your the
back of your uh your pants they'll have the size.
I remember one time years ago somebody took a, took a, you know, like a Sharpie and blackened out that I'm thinking does the number not exist so see how we're becoming so metrically focused as am I so anyway apologies for that but as I was saying there is this reality that this wonderful woman did not know and I was explaining to her I said you you do not understand what is happening you
simply do not understand what is happening you do not understand what is happening regarding Israel I mean excuse me Ukraine you just don't know you don't get it If you go to a prison, you have to understand there are people in there who want to escape.
And they don't care about what's right or wrong, whether what they did was wrong, whether it defiled society.
They don't care about that.
They're not interested in that in the least.
They want to get out.
They want to get out.
And they are going, and if you if you leave that door open, they're going to get out.
this is a reality and you can talk all day long about what should be what shouldn't be recidivism crime we used to there's no god in the whatever you want the reality is that this place you have put people in they don't want to be and if they can get out they'll get out and
it's nothing personal okay the question question remains very simply as I explained to my friend, I said, do you understand and grasp the notion of what is?
the purpose of how do I say this what the president is doing.
President Trump does not know what he is doing.
Zelenskyy is trashing Trump's peace demands.
He's he doesn't know what he's doing.
He doesn't know what he's.
He simply does not know what he is doing.
President Trump.
He doesn't know.
He doesn't know.
He doesn't understand.
And I explained to my friend, let me explain something to you.
I said Russia sent troops.
Do you remember this?
When was this?
February the 24th, 2022.
And Russia pointed to Kiev.
We used to call it Kiev.
Just say we called it Peking.
Then it was Beijing and Mao Zedong.
But they pointed to Kiev's failure.
to implement, to follow the Minsk agreements, which were designed to give the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk special status within the Ukrainian state.
this is the agreement now I looked at her I said have you ever heard about the Minsk 1 Minsk 2 do you think that might mean something to you but Putin's a bad guy I know Putin's evil so the protocols Minsk protocols brokered by Germany and France were signed in 2014 did you know that no
former Ukrainian President Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev's main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and create powerful armed forces.
They always do that.
BB does it.
Everybody does it.
A ceasefire is to regroup, to get stronger, to take a breather.
It's to go to your corner and take it easy.
Russia then also cited NATO's military cooperation with Ukraine as one of the root causes of the current conflict.
Kiev, I don't want to say Zelensky, but Kiev insists that Russia's offensive was completely unprovoked.
Now the People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as well as Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, those regions.
So Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, those are the four oblasts so to speak.
An oblast?
Anybody?
They joined Russia as a result of referenda.
in autumn of 2022.
Crimea did the same in 2014.
So it's Crimea plus the four.
This This was coup in Kiev.
This was remember the great one?
This is Victoria Noland on the phone saying, we're going to run, I'm going to run this.
So then in 2022, Zelenskyy had been promoting his so-called peace formula, which calls for Russia to withdraw from all territories claimed by Kiev and to pay reparations and for the formation of war crimes tribunal.
Russian officials called his plan unrealistic while saying Moscow is ready for a diplomatic solution.
Now the Russians, you must understand, they're so great with this.
They're so understated.
They'll say, well, that's unrealistic.
Instead of saying, you're full of shit, you don't know what you're doing, you have no idea, okay?
They absolutely positively do not, do not, do not speak the way we do, not the way Trump does.
Trump looks like a buffoon to the rest of the world.
He says stuff.
He's sending a Lutnik in there.
Have you noticed this?
Where is Marco Rubio?
Does anyone notice anything?
Is anyone paying attention to this where is marco rubio how how is this how is this working do you not find it interesting where is marco rubio i'm not done yet where is marco rubio where is he what's he doing does he not feel like an idiot I don't,
I mean, seriously, does he not, does he not, does he not, does he not, does he not sound like an idiot?
Where is he?
You know, if you got Whitcoff, you got Lutnick.
Whitcoff is running everything.
And some people, I think it was the great Douglas McGregor who said, this is viewed as Trump's New York kind of contingent.
When I explained all of this to my friend, a very, very smart woman, she looked at me like, I don't know what you're talking about.
I said, do you find it interesting that you have been able to amass so much feeling of resentment, resentment and anger towards Putin and you can't even articulate slightly what the basis for this is.
So the next rule is you must understand we live in a world where people don't really know what they're talking about.
They don't know what they're talking about and they don't care that they don't know what they're talking about.
I talked to somebody the other day and they said The woman said to me, she says, well, you know, I support Israel.
I said, well, I support Israel too.
The country?
Of course.
I said, do you agree with what everything Israel is doing?.
I mean, I support my country, don't you?
Do you support the government?
I support the United States.
If anyone invades us, we're going to war.
We're not going to argue about why they did it.
So the next rule is people just say things.
They have these wonderful things.
They just repeat.
And they try to, for example, the next rule is people always try to reinvent themselves.
Bill Maher.
And I did a little tweet or whatever.
I said, I call it a tweet.
I'm sorry.
His attempt to reintegrate with an audience that never had, he never had, will go down in history as one of the most fruitless endeavors, the pageantry of self-delusion and the mistaken belief of relevance.
We are masked, marked, led, confused, kettled by a group of people who really don't know what they're talking about.
But for some reason or another, they.
Next point.
I put this up for my subscribers on my Twitter channel.
I'll share it with you.
Frank Zappa said the following.
By the way, a lot of these things that are memes, they never occurred.
There's one that you've seen it before where they said, one of these days we're going to know we've succeeded when most, I think it was William Casey, when Americans are, when Americans don't even know what the truth is or something, then we know we will have succeeded.
He never said that.
Never said it once.
Never said it once.
But it sounds good and people like it.
So Zappa, we believe, said, the illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion.
At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery.
They will pull back the curtains.
They will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
And that's something that everybody truly, I think, understands.
It's who we are.
Those of us who see the world in our way.
You're not going to hear this on, you know, cable news.
You're just not going to hear it.
You're not going to hear it.
I'm fascinated by how people refuse to address certain things.
geoengineering, ISCAT, HAARP, sonic heaters, weather modification.
There are so, there is, there is so, so many pieces of evidence regarding weather modification that I don't even know, I don't even know where to...
I love the incoherent.
It's a research organization that operates incoherent scatter radar systems.
You know what?
Incoherent scatter.
I love this.
It's a type of scattering phenomenon.
This term is commonly used when referring to the scattering of electromagnetic wave by random fluctuations.
It's incoherent.
Incoherent scattering.
That would be a great name for what we do.
Isn't it funny?
I just love that term.
When I just explained to you why the term incoherent scattering is funny, I promise you, my dear friend whom I spoke with, is not going to know what that even means.
What do you mean incoherent scattering?
What does that mean?
I don't know.
Is that funny?
Why do you think?
Am I supposed to think that's funny?
Is that funny?
Tell me if I'm supposed to think that's funny.
If I should, I will.
But I don't really understand it.
But that's okay.
Just tell me what I should know in order to be...
got it this is this is exactly what people think and i find it so wonderful that people just kind of sort of don't really get it but what are you going to do our friend uh is uh Goose downstory says Zappa gave very keen insight mixed with excrement.
Yes, he was also not a very good person sometimes.
Look what Moon Zappa did.
I mean, there's always the family part.
Thank you, by the way.
There's always the family part of it.
Just like Hulk Hogan.
People think Hulk Hogan, always so dirty.
He was a dirt bag.
this guy was a profligate this was a degenerate no i'm sorry i'm kind of old-fashioned a little bit i think that when you call somebody a man It means something more than just how much you can bench or things like that.
I'm funny like that.
I think it means there's something called honor and there's something called not being a saint, but just not being a dirt bag and pond scum.
And I'm kind of old-fashioned like that.
But anyway, I thank you for that.
Here's the line.
If the American people had ever known the truth about what we bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched.
He never said that.
Never happened.
Never happened.
But people like to think that.
And they figure, well, that's kind of what I think the bushes are.
So whatever.
I don't really care.
Next one.
This is today's X. I hope you go to my X at Lino Media.
The deceit that's practiced, the lying, is so, so practiced, so professional.
It transcends ordinary lying, becoming a polished art form.
They fabricate with such ease and confidence that the falsehood no longer registers as deception.
but as an accepted version of reality itself.
Isn't that beautiful?
Isn't that great?
It's true.
lying that we see is so good.
It's like when food is artificial, but it tastes good, but it's horrible.
You should be, it tastes good.
There's a wonderful quote.
I have a picture of somebody put, said the system didn't fail, the system worked.
That's the problem.
That's the problem.
Next, I asked people, there's a wonderful I said, did you know that President Biden is giving laptops to to schools in underprivileged communities?
Look it up.
Look up Biden laptop to learn even more.
The other day we were at a, at this event and my friend was, she left her phone on the table.
And Mrs. Ell looked at me.
She was aghast by what I did, but I did it nonetheless.
She had her phone kind of near us.
It was turned off, but it was there.
And it said, but Nielsen rocked it with the point.
Nielsen?
Nielsen?
Or Nielsen?
Who is Nielsen?
Let us know.
Let's say Nielsen, the point.
Let me see.
Nielsen.
I am unfamiliar with that.
Let me look it up.
The point.
No.
Did you mean this is Nielsen?
N-I-L-S-S-O-N.
Is that it?
Yeah.
The point.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Who was the original narrator of the point?
Yeah, that was Harry Nelson, yeah.
Yeah, and I Nelson, Harry Nelson, correct.
I'll tell you one little move, one little little little erratum when it comes to getting a name and you've you've missed it totally.
Anyway, Harry Nelson, very, very good, very, very good.
There's Sal Angelo, ladies, gentlemen, thank you.
Yeah, Nelson Schmelson, that's correct.
A very good, Nelson, by the way, was so good, but such a, such a terrible alcoholic.
He destroyed everything.
Destroyed his entire, I mean, he and then later on, he wised up and found a good woman and died very sadly, tragically.
There's a piece that says, did you know that it's actually possible to say, I don't have enough, or I don't know enough about this to have an opinion?
And I say, no, no, no, to have a valid opinion.
You can have an opinion.
You can have an opinion, but...
Next, I was looking at these wonderful...
Oh, I love these people who have these wonderful pictures of God and the...
the...
They have these wonderful mythological, these winged angels coming.
I mean, it is so interesting how many people truly believe that.
I'm not in a position to tell them they're wrong.
I just don't know.
Next, there's something called the moon illusion.
Please look it up.
There's a picture.
Please look it up.
Please look it up.
It's a wonderful thing.
And because speaking of philosophy about how an illusion versus a hallucination, a hallucination is something that's just not there but you think it is but an illusion to something that's there but you but it's kind of it's it's it's it's it's exaggerated or it's uh it's somehow you know bent out of shape it's distorted it's it's a lot of things if that makes any sense and what is so terrific about it is that what I find so interesting is that the the
notion of what you think you see and what you believe you see and what you want to see versus what you actually see is a completely different story.
And I find that absolutely and utterly wonderful.
Wonderful beyond anything you can imagine.
I appreciate that.
Moving on.
Again, just some philosophies this morning.
Things for you to think of randomly.
Just think about this.
My observations, things that I think are very interesting, very interesting.
very very important very very critical very very neat very one is look at this sign true or false america will never be great again until we put god first There's a picture of hands and you have the America.
Isn't that great?
Until we put, and the name of this is, I am a Christian American.
Whose God?
Your God?
My God?
The Palestinian God?
What about the irreligious?
What about Buddhists who don't believe in a God?
Be careful when you presume too much.
Be careful when you say these things that only apply to your neck of the woods.
There's a wonderful piece, by the way, that Veritas is doing about CPS and the like, and it's so good in human trafficking.
It goes without saying it is so important and so critical for you to kind of grasp how this thing works.
Marty McCarrick and the Secretary of whatever, they're talking about, hey, we're having more, we're having more, oh, Secretary Brooke Rollins, we have more, we have more sugar in our oranges.
Really?
Really?
We have more sugar in our oranges.
Am I supposed to?
What does that mean?
Well, we're makre making some progress.
You think that's progress?
They're trying desperately, desperately, desperately, desperately trying.
Goose Down says, I say focus on what is relevant to my life.
Avoid what robs my joy or health.
I can help, but can't save others, nor prepare for an unknown future.
Interesting.
Thank you.
Well, all future is unknown.
So therefore, what you're saying is we should not prepare for the future, which is interesting.
What robs my joy or health?
Well, it's interesting.
Health is one thing you should avoid.
What robs your joy?
Responsibility in some things will rob your joy.
You will never be able to, for example, do what misses L is doing regarding children.
And if you're worried about having your joy robbed, not only will it rob your joy, it'll rob your sense of reality.
It will haunt you.
You will be haunted by what you see.
It's a very, very So remember, I provide perhaps maybe a degree of exactitude that some people don't.
But when you say something, I take it to heart.
I take exactly what you were saying to heart.
And I say, and I, you know, how do I say this?
I am in the position of recognizing something.
I don't get upset when I'm seeing all these new things because I'm going to get upset over this.
I'm going to get upset.
But give you an example.
There are a lot of newfound people who are involved in this world of...
People who are involved in this world of Palestinian.
And they get angry.
This Anna Kasparian, she's already collapsing.
She can't do it.
Have you seen that?
She tried to, in fact, tuck her through her lifeline.
She tried herself to, this is junk yogurt gal, pal, but tried to do something.
She's a child.
She gets very upset.
Takes everything to heart.
Very, very, very personal.
She's of no use to anybody.
I don't do this.
If you're going to get upset, if you're going to scream, the Zionists, you're of no use to anybody.
You're of no use.
You want to be a prosecutor?
Yeah, okay.
You want to look at some pictures?
You're going to get upset.
I want you to look at some pictures.
You want to be a prosecutor?
Here, let's start with children.
Let's look for children.
Children who were found.
Let's look at children.
And you tell me.
Now, if you start crying, I'm going to say, great, this is the wrong job for you.
Because I got another box of pictures from another child who was found dead.
So if you're going to get upset over this to try to show the world how, you know, you're of no good, feel it, take it to heart, get the job done.
You're an adult.
Don't, don't, just because you're not losing your mind doesn't mean you don't feel it.
Some people love to go out of their way to show you how they feel it.
Abby Martin.
sees uh you know it's been you know who's very good is um katie hopper who's very good uh Aaron Monte, Max Blumenthal, very good.
They just, McGregor, Sachs, they're very serious, very earnest, but they don't lose their mind over things like that.
Goose Down says, prepare using temperance.
I don't know what that means.
I need to care enough for my health to be...
Hedonism and gluttony are wasteful.
Just care about life.
Well, that's pretty axiomatic.
Thank you.
Hedonism and gluttony?
Hedonism.
Gluttony.
Hedonism is very that's by the way, hedonism is a very that's a tough word.
That's a tough one.
And I don't know if it's I don't know if it let me look it up.
Always look words up that you I mean, I know what hedonist hedonism hedonistic I know what that means.
Hedonism means a philosophical belief that pleasure is the most important thing in life.
It suggests that actions are morally right if they lead to pleasure and wrong if they lead to pain.
Hedonism can be understood as a value, as a theory rather of value, a theory of motivation or a normative theory of ethicsics.
It's interesting.
Hedonism, I think, has a bad rep. There's a very interesting concept.
One of the, if any of you have suffered from clinical depression, one of the elements is something called anhedonia.
This is where nothing brings you pleasure.
Nothing.
When you used to enjoy maybe getting up in the morning, having a cup of coffee, going out and sitting on the porch and watching the sunrise or hearing whatever, whatever you liked to do, where you could say, you know what I like to do?
Let's go to the park.
Let's go to a movie.
When you do not seek or do not receive pleasure from that anymore, that's called anhedonia.
Also, do not speak of feelings in these glowy, kind of needlessly complicated, you know, just things are very, very simple.
Sometimes you can speak in a way that's lyricism has its own, you know, poetry.
Nobody speaks poetry in real life.
Poetry by its very nature is contrived.
But it's a beautiful contrivance.
It's a beautiful...
We like the way it sounds.
But sometimes, remember, you don't always have to be profound.
Sometimes the most...
Because there's a sense of...
I know what you're saying, but sometimes it's very easy to get so caught up in acting profound you miss the point.
You miss the point completely.
It's a very, very simple thing.
It's a very, very simple thing.
I've known people like that I've met people who are ultra spiritual to the point where they make you sick to your stomach I believe that I was somewhere else.
I believe that I'm a channel.
I lived in other lands.
I believe that.
Okay, okay, all right.
All right, Shirley McLean.
Take it easy.
It's annoying.
Or people who've had their own sense of, for example, Sean Ryan, I happen to see you early, and Tucker Cross and we're talking about their sobriety.
Nothing bores me more than your sobriety.
You're supposed to be sober.
You're supposed to be.
So why you're, I mean, I understand it.
But there's two ways of doing this.
One is to say, look, I want to help people.
I want to show them how to do this as well.
I want to show them how they can change their life versus I want to show everybody how great I am, how brave I am.
I want to show you how great I am.
I stopped drinking.
I haven't had a drink.
I've been 20 years clean and sober.
Me, me, me, me.
I stopped drinking.
I did my left.
I turned my right.
I stopped drinking.
I thought, what does Tucker talk about?
demons.
Tucker is really, He claims he didn't know about his father with the CIA.
Stop it.
Remember when he was trying to be the little lord of Fauntleroy with the bow tie and the trust fund kid?
And then he was, he's still trying to find himself.
He's not really a man yet.
And I say that not disparagingly, but he's not, you got to kind of just...
Part of it, I think, is acceptance.
You know what I mean?
But he's still trying to figure his way out.
He's still trying to negotiate reality.
It's not really there yet.
Hasn't figured this out yet.
He's not sure.
And sometimes people, they will do everything in the world, everything that they can for self-glorification, self-ratification, self-acceptance, because they really don't like themselves.
So they remind themselves, I'm a good person.
I mean, after all, I was sober.
I'm so bored about where you're sober.
I know, I know, I know, I know.
You stop drinking one day at a time.
Good for you.
I don't care about this.
You're one of 10 billion people who's done this.
I don't know what the story is.
It's one of those weird things.
And I guess one thing I'm going to do is tell you something.
Do not take yourself so seriously.
You are nothing.
If you dropped in right now, some people in your family would miss you, but the world still will spin or not.
You remember that somebody said that cemeteries are filled with indispensable men.
Find out what your core beliefs are and find out, by the way, how to tell people, tell people what you think, but don't tell people how great it is that you think this.
Some people love to say, look what I think.
Look what I believe.
Look what I see.
Look what I believe.
Look at me.
See, I think this.
I believe.
Okay, fine.
Thank you.
Give you a perfect example.
The other night, I saw a bunch of people.
They went to an event, and it was, I think it was Chicago with the Beacon.
It broke my heart.
I think Jimmy Panico, who's hanging into the last, I didn't see Bobby Lamb.
I think Jimmy Panico and Lee Locknane out of the original seven.
These other people, I don't know who they are.
You can't see Saturday night.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
So a bunch of people went and the entire.
event from what I saw was taking pictures of themselves.
Look at me.
I'm at, I guess, the beaconer.
Look at me.
Don't I look great?
Look at me.
Here's my BFF.
I love her.
I love me.
I love myself.
Look at me.
Look at me.
Huh?
Am I beautiful?
Am I great?
Am I sexy?
Tell me I'm sexy.
Am I sexy?
Am I sexy?
I'm at this event.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Am I sexy?
Look at me.
I'm out.
See?
See people like me.
See?
I've got friends.
See?
I've got friends.
I've got.
I go places.
I'm something.
See?
Love me.
Verify me.
Validate me.
Am I pretty?
Am I hot?
Am I hot?
Am I beautiful?
I swear by God.
I love.
I love my friends.
I love my friends.
We love my friends.
Look, I've got friends.
See, I love.
I must be something.
I must be worthwhile.
They love me.
Validation and verification through affection.
See?
They This is like, so sad.
It's like, Did you enjoy the concert?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look at me though.
We're out.
We're out of the concert.
And we're out.
We're, we're, we're in Manhattan.
Ooh.
What is this about?
Amazes me.
Absolutely, positively, simply amazes me what the power of this is.
And it even affects politics.
Look at me.
Oh, I'm a Yankee fan.
Oh, I'm a Yankee fan.
I'm a Yankee fan.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
My father was a Yankee fan.
I'm a season ticket.
I'm a season ticket.
Okay.
All right.
I'm going to say, I'm a season ticket.
I'm going to say, I'm a season ticket.
I love it.
are some wonderful people I know and they do a lot of great stuff.
I'm not going to mention your name, but you can figure it out.
And he owns the them.
And he's the he can say, oh, you're a fan, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I've had Caesar take.
Really?
You have a Caesar take?
That's pretty good.
I appreciate that.
Yeah.
Well, I own the Yankees.
What?
That pretty much, I mean, that sells it.
I like this.
You're okay, pal.
Thank you, Pilgrim.
You sound like something Ralph Cramdon would say.
I've always wanted to be a brain surgeon, so you can say, well, you don't need to be a brain surgeon.
Well, I'm a brain surgeon.
I'm a rocket scientist.
I'm a rocket scientist.
Do we even have rocket scientists?
Propulsion, jet propulsion.
You know, we don't need, you know, Goddard and, you know..
Yeah, whatever.
But what I'm trying to say is everybody loves to validate.
Well, I was with Trump.
I'm in a car shit.
I have no idea.
Watch how things change.
Watch Anna Kasperian.
Nick Fuentes.
Anna Kasperian.
Watch what's happening.
She couldn't take it.
Because she's basically, she's one of, she is a Karen being arrested in that.
She's a screamer and a yeller and a I'm not gonna okay fine watch that watch some other people change this people who years ago the the anti- or the pro-Palestinian people, they are so hot right now.
Their stock is so hot.
Norman Finkelstein, for the most part, this guy was almost, he, he, he actually was thinking about moving to Elba.
He was exiled.
And now he is hotter than ever.
He just, he just waited his turn.
Just wait his turn.
Watch Charlie Kirk.
Phony, phony, phony.
Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro.
Oh, the biggest crash and burn Candace Owens watch what happens absolutely lost where she was going it became her she didn't let the subject sell her she wanted it was more interesting to see how you wanted to see how she was angry how she was going let me tell you something sister or brother Brigitte Macron I'm gonna go after you and I'm not going away.
You don't know.
I mean, she just was like, oh, what's going on here?
Take it easy.
Where are you going?
It's that what's happening to you?
You can tell you right now.
Tell you right now.
Better watch out.
Oh, my God.
Lord help.
It was the most incredible thing.
Watch this.
And then what's interesting is a lot of her friends, speaking of philosophy, social media will lure you out onto the ledge and want to see you fall, want to see you fail.
They want to see you fail.
It's more than anything else.
Why is Theovon a go-to guy?
Well, how do I say this?
I think he might be, I think he's kind hard to say he is because he is.
There's kind of an innocence to him and I would have been surprised if anybody, if you would have surprised, I thought to myself, he really doesn't.
I mean, he's smarter than people think.
I don't know.
He just is.
And I can come up with some forced reasons why.
Theovan is one of these people that Joe Rogan loves to...
We're comedians.
Sorry.
We're comedians.
I don't think you understand this.
We're comedians, okay?
We're comedians.
So just don't, let me just warn you, we're comedians, okay?
So you may not understand this because you're just a regular person, but we're comedians, we're professionals, and we all laugh at each other so excessively and effusively, almost paroxysmally.
Histrionically, that's that kind of thing.
And Theo is, you know, sort of that group.
He was like, well, listen, we're in the cool guys.
You know, we went out to eat you tonight with Joe Rogan.
All of us comedians.
You wouldn't understand this because we're comedians.
You're not.
No, no, you're not.
I saw him do a set.
He killed.
Really?
And they speak about it like, wow.
I mean, it's so hyperbolic and so effective.
So to answer your question, I don't know.
If it works, it works.
Who cares?
He's hot right now.
Let's see if it, let's see his whole.
His JD Vance going on the Theo Vaughn show, Theo Vaughn, a couple of years ago would have been considered functionally retarded, but now, for whatever reasons, he's, you know, that's great.
That's one of the things.
You know who's interesting is like, you know, the guy, Jackass, what's his name, the one who does that Jackass thing, whose teeth, his teeth don't fit bad sizing.
You know, they don't fit.
It's like, it's like, Keith Richards, the work done now, it's like, you really gotta, you gotta understate it.
In any event, he now is doing his thing is holding his sobriety.
It's kind of interesting for a while.
There's so much.
That's one of the reasons why.
Howard Stern kind of just, I've got 25 million people I'm watching.
i can do this all the time i mean seriously you've got to really ask yourself some very serious questions you got to ask yourself there there are so many factions meersheimer colonel mcgregor colonel mcgregor is i would vote for him for anything anything He is that good and that great.
Where did he come from?
Why now?
Meersheimer.
I remember when I just bumped into him, this guy was an academic for years and then one day i saw one little thing he did and that's it he's the hottest tick of the town and well deserved so which you know who knows who knows but in any event remember don't take yourself so seriously and look for the essence of why things are interesting not for the the high fallout pilgrim thank you goose down story interesting how you
change that name, which is very interesting.
Sal, Angelo, thank you for your thoughts and your comments.
Remember, these are very, very serious times, and we need each other to focus with and on.
Take it easy.
Don't lose your mind in this whole thing.
It's very easy sometimes to kind of get caught up in the maelstrom of lunacy.
Okay, you got that?
You got that?
Okay.
Alright, my friends, have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change.
I mean that sincerely.
Don't we?
only pay attention to those people who really matter in your world that's all until then my friends have a great time a great beautiful day it's beautiful here 73 in new york city it's gorgeous Gorgeous.
We love you.
Have a great day, my friends.
Thank you.
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