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Aug. 26, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Happy Birthday Lionel: America’s Voice, The World’s Icon

Happy Birthday Lionel: America’s Voice, The World’s Icon

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Oh, is it time?
It is time for America and the world to come together in what amounts to the first of many celebrations of today as you and the world and all of us celebrate an American institution, intrepid truth warrior,
an inveterate slinger of reality, somebody who has been absolutely indefatigable in his never-ending pursuit of perhaps maybe a blustering reality.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, moi.
Welcome, dear friends.
Welcome.
Welcome to this.
This.
The first day of the rest of our lives.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
John Fennell, ladies, gentlemen.
There's Bradley joins us.
Oh, feel the love, ladies and gentlemen, as I grovel in self-indulgence.
Because let's face it, why not?
Why not?
Why not, dear friends?
Why not?
That's what I always say.
Welcome, dear friends.
ZB, oh my God, mini mode.
Everybody's there.
This is the worst, most uncomfortable chair in the history of chairdom.
How is everybody this fine, fine?
friends.
Beckman's from Vegas.
The world is there.
What a day, my friends.
We're all alive.
We're still, we live still in a great country with great potential and a great group of folks dedicated, dedicated to the pursuit of justice and the American way.
That's right.
I crawled out of some filthy gutter for this.
Thank you so much, TLS Bud.
Thank you.
The love.
Feel the love.
It is a bulliance.
It is non-peril.
My friends, coming up this evening a little bit of head a little bit of heads up on the WABC show we're going to be having misses L will be joining us at 1 a.m. to talk about the latest she'll be my special guest to find out what's happening what this great president and the first lady are actually doing and and what still needs to be done regarding fentanyl and trafficking and the like that's a lot there we go there's Zach Louie
Harper is there.
Oh my God.
Sasha is there.
Ross Munson.
Birthdays are always nice indeed.
Do you feel any olders today?
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
Chris Nalita says, how was the Fed created and why is this not taught in school?
That's the kind of love.
See, that's the kind of Chris I love who walks in and while everybody is providing this encomia, this effusive outpouring of love, he says, how was the Fed created and why is this not taught in school?
Thank you, my friend.
That's the kind of connection I love.
That says it all, my friend.
That says it all.
Maybe you'll get a bigger coffee mug.
Well, this isn't a mug.
My friends, what do we even talk about today?
Where do we go?
What is the biggest story?
Thank you so much, happy birthday.
Oh, look at this.
Spuggy.
There's so much to discuss today.
And the best part is trying to talk to the rest of the world about what we know versus what they know.
And the hardest part is, you know, my friend, is to talk about things that everybody knows.
Because most people, as you know, don't know what the hell we're talking about.
They don't know what we're talking about.
Happy birthday.
I prefer the home studio.
Musk for governor of California.
Ah, yeah.
Well, the home studio is great.
I appreciate that.
But see, I'm just not there right now.
See, believe it or not, I got news for you.
I pay very close attention.
Sometimes when you post a video, if you mix it up, if you're maybe outside one minute, sometimes when you change what you're doing in the slightest way, it really works.
Thumbnails and all kinds of stuff.
Please tell me, my friends, please tell me you saw the interview with the inimitable, the ineffable, the one, the only, Mr. Scott Ritter.
I had one of the best times later.
That is up.
Please, please watch that video.
Watch it now.
it to friends he is an absolute treasure also remember last night the president issued an order indicating from 9 a.m.
9 p.m. rather today now actually we're doing it now a little bit early but from midnight on and then from 9 p.m. on, all car lights are on, okay?
Allison Pocknail says, Scott is a treasure.
Allison retracted that.
You remind me of Carlin.
Cheers.
That's an honor.
Thank you for this.
George Carlin is a treasure, as is Mr. Ritter as well.
Warding, they are virtually impossible to open.
Don't know what they mean, what they are, but thank you so much.
Turn on your headlights, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, Scott is, he represents a group of people that we need so much more of.
And you're not going to hear him on Fox.
You're not going to hear him on Newsmax or, oh, you're just not going to because he violates and veers from the official narrative of the conservatives.
And that's what I'm trying to tell you, my friends.
I ain't a conservative.
I ain't a conservative.
I don't know what that means.
I'm not sure what it means.
I don't know what any of this stuff means.
Conservative, liberal, Democrat, all I know is when it comes to certain particular policies, I am 100%...
Have you noticed?
Have you helped?
Virtually had a typo.
Thank you so much.
Oh, look at this.
Our friend Beagle Boy, our Kiwi from New Zealand.
Love the show.
Thank you, my friend.
Thank you.
And what do you love about it?
Me.
But what do you love about it?
It's different.
It's a different attitude.
It's a different attitude.
Because I'm not able to be pinpointed into and pigeonholed in a particular way of thinking.
You know it and I know it.
Same as my son, H. Piappy Bertilano.
Thank you, Glassman.
We are Virgos, whatever that means.
I don't know if any of this stuff means anything.
I've read these stories.
Look at this.
This is interesting today.
I like to see what our friend Chad GPT says.
Who were the famous people or notables and historic figures and actors and actresses and the like born on this day?
Let's see who's out there.
What does it mean?
Nothing.
August 26th That's it.
Let's see.
Mother Teresa, ladies and gentlemen, McCaulie Culkin, Melissa McCarthy, Chris Pine, John Malkovich.
I did not know that.
Branchard Marsalis, Cassie Ventura.
Remember Cassie Ventura?
They beat the hell out of her.
James Harden, NBA superstar.
Bill Whittaker.
Groucho Marx.
I had no idea.
Groucho Marx.
Thank you, Mad Max.
Thank you so much.
You're a good man.
Thank you for that.
Look at that, John Makovic.
Who knew this?
Unbelievable.
Groucho Marx in my entire life?
Do you believe it means anything to be born on a particular day?
I don't.
I don't.
Groucho Marx born.
No, this is October the 2nd.
This makes no sense.
See, I don't know where this name comes from.
Julius Henry.
Boy, they were wrong with this one.
August 22.
Groucho, Marx.
See, I knew something was up because I would have known that.
I would have known that.
That is, anyway, anyway.
Does it really matter when you're born?
Does it matter?
Not really.
Does anybody of you, does anybody of you, does anybody know about or know anything regarding this crazy thing called this world called astrology?
I don't get that.
I'm, of course, feces.
I tell people this on a regular basis.
I'm born under the sign feces.
And that's all that really matters.
So today we're going to be talking about a lot of stuff.
We've got Mrs. L coming up.
We're going to be talking about flag burning and the notion of the First Amendment, ladies and gentlemen.
It's more your rising sign.
You know, I don't know this.
My grandmother said, my mother always said I was born at 1205 a.m.
I really, honestly, don't know.
I really don't know.
Famous notables born on August 26.
I'm constantly looking through this.
I knew something was, I knew Prince Albert.
Mother Teresa, one of the biggest cons ever.
Did you ever hear this story?
You know who did a wonderful story about Mother Teresa?
Christopher Hitchens and...
Penn, Penn Gillette.
I like this.
What is the dark and bad and evil side of Mother Teresa that no one talks about, her sins and her crimes.
As you know, people throughout the course of history will repeat something by virtue of memorization and this.
The glorification of suffering, questionable use of donations, ties to dictators, harsh religious stances.
Did you know this about Mother Teresa?
We'll talk about this about the time, but I always think this is fantastic.
Mother Teresa, wow.
Critics argue that Mother Teresa's homes for the dying in Calcutta were monthly more in the warehouses of misery than hospitals.
Reports describe needles reused after sterilization, without sterilization, lack of painkillers, and basic medical neglect.
She was quoted as saying suffering brought people closer to Christ, essentially seeing pain as spiritually valuable rather than something to relieve.
She raised hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide for the missionaries of charity.
Journalists like Christopher Hitchens and Arub Chatterjee alleged that the money wasn't used to improve care for the sick, instead it was hoarded or diverted to build convents and expand the order.
Her order kept huge financial reserves while the poor under her care often lacked the most basic of supplies.
She accepted money from some highly questionable sources, Charles Keating, convicted U.S. savings and loan fraudster, the Duvalier regime in Haiti.
She is staunchly opposed.
to contraception, abortion, and divorce, even in cases, even in cases of rape or extreme poverty.
I think I'm going to talk about that today.
They're going to get very upset about that because, you know, as you know, people just believe they love Mother Teresa without knowing anything about why they love her or whether she's great or why she's great.
I find that fascinating.
Per usual.
I see another beautiful donation there to the cause.
You're very kind.
You're very, very kind, my friend.
Very, very kind.
Let me see who's available here.
I love going through How do I say this?
I love going through history and finding people who are despicable.
I love this.
That's right, Arjuna.
Taylor, happy birthday Lonto.
Thank you so much, Arjuna.
What a nice person.
Yes, over 300,000 subscribers.
Thanks to you, dear friends.
Thank you.
We're making headway.
Also accused of child trafficking.
Yes.
Because remember, there are always these people who just believe without asking anything as to what these people are about.
She was also accused of child trafficking.
Yes.
Walmart, Johnny, thank you, my friends.
It's so wonderful.
See me just reading along your wonderful thoughts and comments.
How great this is.
How great.
Here we are at 1233 on this Tuesday, on my birthday, with you.
You, you, my family, my weird, strange family.
You know, I hope that you recognize something.
There's a lot of folks out there who have these, you know, lives.
But I don't think they talk to people.
I don't think they feel...
You notice how much I talk to you?
Like, look at this, like Patty, like Diane, June Taylor dancers, ladies and gentlemen, look at this.
We talk more.
It's not just me lecturing.
It's speaking in many respects to you and yours and sharing this wonderful day.
Look at this.
TL Spud.
TL, why do you think you're strange?
Do you really think you're strange or would you like to consider yourself strange?
Are you really novel?
Is there anything strange about you?
Not really.
Strange people don't think they're strange.
Crazy people don't know they're crazy.
Lionel is a Leo Virgo cusp.
How is this on the 26th when the cusp is a 22nd or 23rd?
How does that work?
Isn't that right?
Isn't that the cusp?
Isn't that 22nd or 23rd?
I tell people all the time, feces.
I'm born under the sign of feces.
And nobody says anything.
I'll tell you one thing I know that I'm strange, and I mean this sincerely.
I have never, ever, ever sought solace in being like everybody else.
It's never been to me anything that I think is even remotely favorable.
I don't take any glee.
I just don't like.
There's so many people who are so goddamn boring.
Boring is the worst.
Or who are predictable.
So there's one thing I've always loved to do.
I've always loved to take something like what we're doing.
and trying to figure out how to do it a little bit differently.
Strange people try to convince you that they are normal.
Strange people, by the way, strange in a good, strange is a weird way.
Strange means that it is somehow, they are somehow out of the ordinary from what you consider to be regular, if that makes any sense.
Does that make any sense to you?
Strange to them, or strange is somebody who fights the system, who fights it.
The strange people I was listening to before, Alex Jones talking with Tim D about Islamist infiltration.
Is she strange?
Yep.
Thank God.
Nick Fuente's doing a great piece on the story of the connection between David Fromm and JD Vance.
Is that strange?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think that's wonderful.
George Washington, Lincoln, anybody worth a damn.
John Lennon.
Everybody's strange.
So many people do things and they do it so predictably.
I think being strange is one of the strange things.
Sing on the cusp is five days to assign either.
Sing on the cusp.
How old are you, young man?
Ah, 67 today.
67.
And I, again, I'm September 3rd, have no idea what I am.
I think September 3rd, you are a Virgo.
Whatever that Virgo thing means.
Let me read something about this.
And this is what a lot of people suggest.
Give me an astrological review of my personality born on this day at 12.05 a.m.
Personality traits and the like.
Now I don't believe in this.
I don't understand it, but I'm going to read it nonetheless.
And let's see what people say.
Again, my rising, I don't think any of this stuff matters because how I am here, let me see if I can explain this to you.
Let's assume these headphones.
are the sun.
Okay?
And let's assume that this is the Earth.
Now, I'm born at 1201, 12, okay, I'm here.
What effects does this have on everybody here, on this side of the Earth?
What difference does it make?
Okay.
Maybe it's over here.
And is it gravitational?
What does that mean?
I think it says Sun is Virgo, First Deacon, Ruler Mercury, tone analytic, precise language, service oriented with a producer's eye for quality, what the hell does that mean, pattern spotter who catches what others miss,
that's true, calm on the surface with a quietly relentless drive, performance for receipts over rhetoric, editorial instincts that cut, fluff, and polish ideas.
Very good.
Humor that is dry, quick, a little surgical.
Strength, system sneaker who organizes chaos into clean lines, highly observant with excellent recall, maybe.
I think this is most people.
This is nonsense.
Communication style, brisk, exact, evidence first.
You ask clarifying questions that force others to tighten their arguments.
Satire is a scalpel, not as a sledgehammer.
You value brevity, then hit with a memorable line.
Maybe.
Relationships.
You show love by fixing problems.
Okay, whatever.
I also want to know this.
But for whatever reason, your mother, you have it earlier, okay?
Okay.
Here's the question.
What about that?
How does that work?
How does that work?
Is it the day you would have been born?
Is it is the day that you are born?
What is born when your head hits the air?
Because if there's a difference between midnight and, let's say, 2 a.m., that could affect rising signs.
And if you're planning on having a baby, a child via Cesarean, can you plan, can you talk to an astrologer ahead of time and work backwards, kind of retro-engineer your personality?
You say it's your birthday.
Thank you so much.
Wow, that's pretty accurate for you.
I think this is accurate for everybody.
I think you want to see these things.
What about negative traits?
Do you have to be a member to leave a message on YouTube?
No.
You're doing one now.
I don't know what that means.
Could have and would have no longer has an importance.
It's the day, the hour, the minute they did the cesarean is your birth.
But what do you mean did the cesarean?
They do the cesarean and then they wait.
They cut what?
Marco says he's blocked, which makes my reading that impossible.
Virgo may be the most valuable sign to make civilization thrive.
Maybe.
My mom moved the date up to get tax reductions, fifth kid, C-section.
Interesting.
section interesting I didn't mean in the chat I don't know what to tell you my cloud is now an environmental hazard isn't that interesting I think we love to find order I think we love to find order I think we love to find things that explain the idea of randomness drives us crazy It makes us go berserk.
We love there to be something.
We love there to be order, an end, something that's., I guess, something that makes everything make sense.
We hate the idea of randomness.
I love randomness.
I love it.
I don't like anything.
Astrology involves a certain degree of preordained.
I don't believe in anything preordained.
I don't believe in fate.
I don't believe in any of this stuff.
Remember the three fates?
Clotho, Lacesis, and Atropo.
The three fates.
What were they?
I remember in Latin class.
Clotho, yes.
Lacesis.
Oh, Atropo.
I was correct.
The spinner, the elator, they represent inevitability.
Even Zeus, king of the gods, was said to obey their decisions.
They embody the flow of time.
The three fates, known as the moirai in Greek mythology, are the timeless figures who rule over human destiny.
We love there to be order.
We love there to be a reason.
We hate randomness.
I love randomness.
I love when things happen out of the blue.
The second you come out of the stomach, the stomach,.
And you take your first breath as your day of birth.
Your entrance into the world from the womb.
It's not, by the way, it's not from a stomach.
It's from the uterus.
Stomach, you're confusing stomach with an abdomen.
Abdomen is the area.
Thorax, viscera.
It's a wonderful thing.
Cesareans are terrific, especially when they move intestines back in.
Gotta make sure there's no kinking.
Make sure a woman always makes sure that a mother can pass gas because you don't want intestines to be kinked.
Very, very common.
Not a good thing.
I love the random.
Nature is random and we are part of nature.
Indeed we are.
Speaking of randomness, I need to check my Powerball.
You know, I do Powerball as well.
I have this thing called Jack Pocket or Jack.
It's called Jack Pocket.
Jack.
Yeah, Jack Pocket.
I love this.
I just have to go to this kind of a bodega place and check with this dude and I'm checking my orders and I have not won anything.
see something here How many of you play the lottery?
I know it's stupid, right?
I know people.
Let's get that out of the way.
I buy the one ticket thing, which I think is the most important.
You see, jack pocket.
It makes it so much easier.
By the way, also, I'd like to also endorse something called Keeper.
Keeper is the best password connection there is.
It is the best.
It's called Keeper.
Have you seen Keeper?
Keeper is they come up with passwords that you cannot, you would have never come up with ever.
And what's interesting about that is that they are, when you put them together, they are fascinating in that they come up with stuff that is just mind-blowing.
In any event, let me just do this.
I don't have this.
Anyway.
Check out the jackpocket.
I'm not endorsing it.
I'm not getting paid for it.
I just like it.
Because, you know, I know whenever you talk to people about lottery, people get so bent out of shape and say, what's the point of it?
I say, what's the point of anything?
I think slot machines are stupid.
How people do this, I have no earthly idea.
I think there's nothing sadder than somebody who goes to Atlantic City and just sits there and stares.
ascent trust I gamble lol bro you still on bro
you're ever finding order in chaos, are you a control freak or a chaos enjoyer?
No, I don't know.
Happy birthday from Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Johnson, the best password is a story unique to you.
Won't forget it.
That is true, but you don't want anything that appears to be even remotely sentence-like or that I prefer complete randomness, brackets, symbols that you don't normally use.
I played the Daily 3 and it hit 500 many times.
Not bad for a $3 combo ticket.
Used to go to AC, now it's depressing.
Oh, absolutely.
It's exceedingly depressing.
Very much so.
So, I also think that gambling is probably the worst seriously the worst form of addiction by far.
How about Rodney?
Rodney Dangerfield never did a thing for me.
Rodney Dangerfield...
God.
Thank you.
I know this is sacrilegious.
I know there are people who swore by Rodney Dangerfield.
I know that to him he was, to many people he was the greatest thing.
But for some reason he seemed always formulaic.
He seems like he had this thing already worked out ahead of time that no matter when you seem, you're going to get the Rodney Dangerfield joke, if that makes any sense.
So I don't really get that.
I think Bobby Kennedy may be coming around, don't you?
Maybe he's going to be getting away from this fruit loops and all this other kind of nonsense.
So in any event, my dear friends, listen, let me just say, I've got to hurry this thing up.
Thank you.
Thank you for your kindness.
Thank you for gracing the portals.
Thank you for your kindness.
Thank you for just being okay.
Thank you for not being an asshole.
There's nothing worse than that.
And sometimes people who just love to just, that's not my thing.
I don't care if you're a little contumacious every now and then.
But for people who are jerks, I don't particularly care for it.
So anyway, thank you for that.
Thank you.
And to our dear friends this morning, Arjuna Taylor and Mad Max, thank you for your support.
your kindness as well.
All right, dear friends, don't forget to go to WABC77, WABC.
Make sure you listen.
Make sure you pay attention.
Make sure you focus on that.
That's coming up.
up at 1 a.m. misses l is going to be my first guest and we're going to be talking about something which is uh wow I get these these breaking news things which aren't really interesting anyway so that's coming up at 1 a.m. Eastern time so please listen have a great day don't forget to subscribe to Lionel Nation my friends and thank you thank you for gracing me you are the best birthday gift anybody can ask for it is a pleasure speaking
with you and a pleasure sharing ideas and thoughts and the like.
All right, dear friends, have a great and glorious day.
Don't ever change your meaning that sincerely.
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