Lionel Nation - She Learned How to Act Human By Watching Movies
Aired: 2026-03-13
Duration: 03:35


=== There Is No Normal Grief (03:35) ===

[00:00:00]  She's like the psychopath or the person in the old days before they called the spectrum disorder.
[00:00:04]  Sometimes Asperger's people would go to movies and see how people reacted.
[00:00:08]  This is called surprise.
[00:00:10]  This is called affection.
[00:00:11]  Okay.
[00:00:12]  I got it.
[00:00:13]  She was doing the act.
[00:00:14]  She was this.
[00:00:14]  She was shocked.
[00:00:15]  She was shell-shocked.
[00:00:16]  Then she comes out.
[00:00:17]  We all grieve in different ways.
[00:00:18]  She wears the gold lame.
[00:00:19]  She's walking around.
[00:00:20]  It was, it was the state of the union.
[00:00:28]  Here's this woman next to her who was just, I mean, rock solid grief.
[00:00:34]  Unfettered, unedited, unqualified, absolute grief beyond any form of, I don't know what you want to call it.
[00:00:53]  Unbelievable, horrible, terrible grief.
[00:01:00]  Grief that transcended everything.
[00:01:05]  Everything.
[00:01:07]  And you could see she was looking at him like this, like, oh.
[00:01:11]  So that's it, huh?
[00:01:14]  So that's what grief looks like.
[00:01:16]  Is that it?
[00:01:18]  Okay.
[00:01:20]  How do you do you use the mental item?
[00:01:25]  No, you don't do that.
[00:01:26]  I notice you don't look up.
[00:01:27]  You don't do that.
[00:01:28]  What's that thing you do?
[00:01:30]  Is that crying?
[00:01:30]  Is that crying?
[00:01:31]  Okay.
[00:01:32]  How long did you work on your routine?
[00:01:34]  Oh, you don't have a routine?
[00:01:35]  It's incredible.
[00:01:37]  Our good friend Barbara says, have you thought of being an actor or a comedian?
[00:01:43]  I'm dying of laughter.
[00:01:44]  Franz.
[00:01:48]  I have done that and do it from time to time.
[00:01:51]  Stand up, did that.
[00:01:52]  And I had a big, big, big, big break, acting break.
[00:01:57]  I was on one episode of House of Cards.
[00:02:01]  That was a tour de forest.
[00:02:02]  Hailed by critics.
[00:02:04]  And by the way, every night, I'm doing something which is important.
[00:02:08]  I do overnights on WABC, WABC, the flagship overnights with, put it this way, think Art Bell meets like occupational therapy or something.
[00:02:24]  It's the wildest of this one, 77 WABC, and you can find the links of that.
[00:02:30]  So anyway, watching this, you realize there's not an authentic part about her at all.
[00:02:37]  And she, and the thing is, these people, these idiots, Tyler, Boyer, who's a guy with this with the pizza?
[00:02:43]  Oh, don't get me started with that.
[00:02:48]  They act like they should say, Erica, yeah, you can't do this anymore.
[00:02:54]  You're a freaking fraud.
[00:02:57]  You're a fraud.
[00:03:00]  What are you doing?
[00:03:03]  How can you not, how can you blow grief?
[00:03:08]  All you had to do was just be normal.
[00:03:13]  And she would tell you, there is no normal.
[00:03:16]  There is no Erica.
[00:03:17]  I don't know which, I mean, there's different Ericas.
[00:03:20]  There's the, I was the reality show on Erica.
[00:03:23]  There's this, Erica.
[00:03:25]  What are you?
[00:03:26]  What are you, what are you talking about?
[00:03:28]  There is no.
[00:03:31]  There is no Erica.
[00:03:33]  Erica doesn't exist.
[00:03:34]  Erica doesn't live here.