Reflections on the Kennedy Family Legacy

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Well, she is a lady, she is my wife, and that's coming up Lnds warriors in this particular hour to let you know what's going on Regarding one of the most, the most Absolutely positively forgotten issues Barn not And I've got to say something also, which is important. You know, every now and then, I see, I always think to myself, what do you think Like I'm thinking, what would you think if or would I think if I was a listener And sometimes people will talk about John Kats Matison is the owner of this incredible monolithic Megalapolis called WABC, the heritage And sometimes you think to yourself, are they just being gratuitous? Is this because he's the boss? I know what you're thinking. And frankly, I would think it too. But I got toa tell you the truth is one thing I will tell you is the truth. And that's been my blessing and hass gotten me into a lot of problems. becausecause I tell you the truth, because anybody who wants to tell you wants to know the truth is a liar because the truth hurts But there are two particular subjects that I never thought anybody would ever be. as interested in as he The first is, I don'm going to talk about this in a moment, what I think gets Inorrectly called. You know, UFO, weird, paranormal. It drives me crazy. There's nothing paranormal about it. There's nothing odd or crazy because he has a very, very legitimate sincere curiosity ess of this And I never saw this before Never Never TV, anything, anything involving mainstream media. never saw this And the second is what is happening regarding child predation and and and basically child Everything from child trafficking to what just call it predation? And I'm just gonna say that And I mean that He has been absolutely fearless in that respect. And you would think to yourself, why wouldn't people I wanted to discuss child trafficking. I have no idea I have no idea I I that blew me away And by the same token, there's another issue which drives me similar to that somewhat. It's the idea of This world that we live in regarding extraterrestrials Nobody takes it seriously I remember one time I was doing a A mediia piece. I'll just leave it there and somebody from the Excuse me from the art department as it were, came up with something and I was being very, very serious about The subject of we didn't call it UAPs then Is somebody do a little flying saucer Little green men they kind put the Ntennae on the head I'm saying what is this And it was almost like a reflexive thing. One time, by the way, years ago Tucker Carlon when he was on Fox News wanted to address extraterrestrials and somebody there did the same thing Somebody in the art department had some flying saucer hovering down, looking cartoonish. Looking like a joke, like it's crazy And for some reason, reasons I won't ever understand, humanity has decided The biggest story in history. Let me say that again The biggest history in human history It belongs somewhere between ghost stories, celebrity gossip, I guess If you mention unidentified objects in the air, UFO's, UAPs unidentified aerial phenomena or the possibility, the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence life And then suddenly the music changes. you know, the light dims someomebody plays the theme from some science fiction movie you'll hear the Thman And its it's spooky in a host Sirks. Knowingly the audience kind of laughs. That's that late night stuff. That's that At Bell stuff. Put it on late at night Why I mean, I'm glad to be here but mean why But think about what we're actually talking about If there is even the slightest possibility that intelligent life exists somewhere, somewhere else in the universe then nothing else comes close in important Politics, notot elections Not stock markets, not sports championships, the World Cup notot even war Nothing everything changes. Because for thousands of years Human beings looked into the sky. It's a part of who we are and the night sky and wondered if we were alone. And then people saw things and have seen things every civilization asked the same question The ancient world asked it. phhilosophers asked it. scientists asked it. childildren still ask it today Are we alone? And even the subject of that has become rather trry Even that has become oh well. Thereere's that question again. And that may be the oldest question our species has ever asked Because it goes, it is so hardwired It is so hardwired. If you ever see a baby develop, you ever look at how their parietal lobe kicks in? the notions of presence and spatial placement It's the oldest questions our species has ever asked Now, Imagine the answer is no and it is no by. Imagine that somewhere beyond Eth whether we call it a civilization star ass, whatever. asssume another civilization exists and has existed. And imagine that intelligence, technology, consciousness all developed someomewhere other than here millions, perhaps, billions of years earlier And suddenly Humanity is no longer the center of gravity, no longer the center of the story. And we become one chapter in a much larger book And that realization alone would change religion, philosophy, science, history, Our maps would change, our understanding of ourselves would change Even the word humanity. seem almost anachronistic. It would take on a completely different meaning. Humanity, human We would be speciesists, not a racist, but a speciesist And yet, listen to how we discuss it We have somehow trained ourselves to react with nervous laughter And the the subject is pushed to the to the edge of serious conversation I don't know why, but it is as though curiosity itself is embarrassing, as though you have to ask permission. Is this okay to be talking about this Don't worry talk about it later Th about it late at night Why? Well, you know Art Bell. A Art Bell. People say, God bless ourrt Bell. I curse Art Bell because Art Bell made it sound like we only talk about this when the kids are asleep proper custom company, not now This isn't legitimate. Just wait, talk about that later. This is the most important issue there is I hear people talk about this. I'm gonna say this right now. this stupid World's Cup. I don't care about it. I couldn't Who won last year? I don't know. Listen, almost listen, bread in circuses, you knock yourself out. But compared to this, if somebody says there are erested in unidentified aerial phenomena People still picture, of course, they still say this little green manen You know Tin foil hat. It's actually aluminum. It's actually aluminum foil hat late night radio callers reporting lights over the desert. That's nice and that's important. Now why is this important? Why is this critical Because for decades, popular culture wrapped the entire subject in a layer of ridicule And you can hear it here. You will hear you will hear it invarably you know, I don't think there's any evidence for all of this. I think it's own garbage Who were you It's just garbage. Really? Sure. Garbage. Well what is the basis for this? I don't know. I just It's just garbage. It is absurd The easiest way to make people ignore Something is not to ban discussion is to make discussion socially expensive peopleople afraid of being laughed at. And they will silence themselves It's self restraint. It's a chilling effect. Scientists worry about their reputations. pilots worry about their careers. It is absolutely serious. Military personnel worry about being dismissed. Ordinary citizens worry about sounding foolish So the most important question ever asked becomes the least respectable subject at the dinner table And that should bother us a lot a whole lot. very, very seriously Let me explain something to you. I'm going to make this very clear, curiosity is not irrational Qions, no matter what are not dangerous Investigation is not insanity. If experienced military pilots and commercial pilots repeport seeing objects that they cannot explain That deserves attention And if advanced sensors detect things that remain unidentified that deserves investigation Unidentified doesn't mean extraterrestrial It simply means unidentified Science begins with this thing called mystery. Science from the Latin Siens knowledge In law, sci enter Knowledge. D you know what you were doing And science also begins with somebody saying What exactly was that? What is that? everyvery major discovery in history Every major discovery began with questions that sounded strange. before they sound an obvious The Eth moves around the sun. Invisible germs cause disease, continents drift, space sometimes time bend at one point All of these ideas sounded Ludicrous, ridiculous Remember Ignat Semelvis Wh suggested, whyy don't we wash our hands might be a good idea before we deliver babies to wash our hands pererhaps every unexplained event Everything. eventually receives an ordinary explanation. Maybe advanced technology from human adversaries explains some reports. who knows? pererhaps atmospheric conditions, explained in others Maybe equipment errors explains to more or or there's something there All I know is this, we are told from the beginning to mock at this, to laugh at this to laugh to markck this And instead of investigating It's incredible To ask why Let me give you an example of something, and I don't want bring politics too too much into this, but sometimes there's a perfect analogy This past week, we had an election And I have never heard Anymore inane, insipid, vacuous, void, vacant upid abbsolutely mind bogglingly stupid conversations as to what happened Whatatchs with this? And I'm thinking even the subject of of elections is relegated to people who spout the word communism S, is that what you believe this is about So if people don't understand an election that has been staring us down for I don't know how long. How do you explain anybody all of a sudden to say, yes, but when it comes to matters beyond the terrestrial, that I will be able to glean. I think there's something wrong with I think it might be because of may be perhaps The education system, maybe we haven't learned how to think Maybe we've never learned critical thinking. I don't know. I'm not sure But we're going to get to it. And coming up, we're going to talk about probably one of the most existential concerns to everybody, parents, grandparents on like is the predation of children with Lin's warriors coming up. This is the linel with you on another side of midnight Did you know that Saint Luke's University Health Network, based in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, has been recognized by the US government as the highest performing health system in the United States for quality? You heard right. 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This weekly feature of ours I think is probably One of if not the most important part is it's wararrior weekend with my beloved, my wife, Lynn Shaw from Lyn's Warriors, Lynswarriors. org. You know, artificial intelligence. We're hearing about this to the point where we're kind of like tuning it out We're habituating to it, AI, AI I'ake a mantra But this is advancing at a speed that isn't even a speed It's just here And we're told it's inevitable and that it's everywhere. It's ubiquitous and that we should just adapt to it. But something unexpected is happening Parents are asking questions and schools are reconsidering how AI should be used in classrooms, and lawmakers in particular are demanding accountability and even technology leadeers are acknowledging that safeguards are necessary. And this isn't this isn't a backlash against innovation It's humanity pushing back against the idea teechnology should U replace human relationships in childhood. Oh, no, no, no, no. Supplement is one thing So Lyn's Warriors believes that AI should enhance lives, not define them. teechnology should serve families, augment, supplement, not the other way around And most importantly, children deserve protection before prophets. Today we're discussing why people are becoming I beginning rather to draw healthy boundaries around AI. and I bring to you to the Microphones here, My beloved, Lyn Shaw from Lyn's Warriors. Welcome, Wifey. Wlcome once again. Good morning, husband Thank you, thank you, thank you. I can't say it enough because you allowing me to come on the platform share this information, which I know media does not share for the most part with the public. And also to John Katz Matitis and the Cats round table every Sunday morning, allowing me to share and talk about things that are so important to, you know what? All of our warriors out there. so thank you for that Absolutely. So this week was very, very big I'm going to pretend like I don't know what's happening, but You having been to Washington, what is going on? The first question is, do you believe? that humanity, and it's a very kind of a grandiose term, but humanity is beginning to push back against AI. And what is the evidence of such There is a tremendous push back simmering underneath. The public needs to know about this because You know we at the wararriors talk to people all over the country and they don't know each other like they don't know everybody's doing this unless we connect them. That is part of our work at the Warriors, right? Our tagline is community creates change. So if you're out in California or Washington State and we're here in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, we're bringing everybody together. But people are realizing that this artificial intelligence, this AI, right? again, thrust upon everybody, it affects far more than what you might hear in the media, such as, you know job loss or taking over the world and all that stuff. Now as you pointed out with the warriors Pro Innovation, Pro teechnology It is here to stay We're not trying to fight against any of that We want it to be you know, safe for our kids. We wanted to work for our kids and our families want to work for it We know that people have been waking up parents teachers in schools, business owners. know even our lawmakers down in Washington, I had extensive talks this past week It influences AI, education They know this now. There's enough out there, we're researching, we're spreading the word about what's happening in the schools, okay Relationships right in your own home, kids with parents. How is AI affecting that? Mental health, we have so many studies now that we have learned you know, about childhood development from the birth really of the internet in nineteen ninety six to now. So he's got thirty years lyel like under our belt of different studies, of different Educators coming out, different psychiatrists, different parents, kids themselves the harms. So now parents are asking whether Innovation is moving too fast E more than that, because we all know it is moving too fast, but where are the safeguards Because right now, big tech, No regulation. This is what we fight for all the time. They have no responsibility, no accountability. So now AI comes along. And they are demanding, you safeguards designed to protect children. And this is what's going on. And you know what? I want to point out that last Sunday on Father's Day, John Katmat's WABC Radio ran a full page ad in the New York Post callalling out something I think nobody talked about, but us basically, that forty four state attorneys generals sent a letter, hardcore letter to big tech CEOs, all of them, you know meta with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman with Open AI, a whole slew of them, and forty four bipartisan, okay Democrats, Republicans, they said AI, if you're coming for the kids and you harm them, we are coming for you. And that is a remarkable thing. forty four state attorneys general. and you know what ides well because before you know what the holiday season will be here and the toy makers are going to unleash a slew of toys, everybody filled with AI, the teddy bears, the gaming further isolation when this child's bonding with a toy that will talk back to them, tell them everything they want to hear as opposed to their parent or their sibling or a friend. So you know it is good. I say it's good right now. There's a lot of hope and more people are You know, becoming educated.readay I add something just a moment, which said it was very, very interesting. Again, not not to bring well, it sounds really not to bring politics into it because politics is front and center. But in New York, in the race regarding to the replacement of Jerry Nadler U there were two candidates who came in first and second Wh and I don't think people caught this. who made as a very critical point, a platform of their candidacy AI and protections regarding children and What I'm seeing, you and I, of course, talk about all the time is that you were seeing And I'm using these terrible terms left and right. people of all ages and racis and denominations and political inclinations recognizing this. This is going to be the signature issue that is going to transcend politics. Would you agree I would agree tremendously. Look, we saw it and nobody really picked up too much on it with District twelve right here in New York, right New York City. candidates, the candidate that one and Alex Boris, candidate number two who obviously did not win, but didn't lose by that much candidates. let's start with Alex Fororerest. He does come from Palent here. He does come from a whole tech, you know, he's a tech guy Silicon Valley But he ran on the platform of, you, he's a young father and family and AI and how it will affect kids and families and Absolutely, It's out there on record. openen AI themselves. They came after him. they put it out in print. They did interviews. They said, we're going to defeat him. We're going to you know smash him into the ground. These are the words they used And they said, we are not going to let anything affect any of our AI, and they spent millions and millions against him. Now just hold that thought for a second. Now, the person who won Lashher His platform was also against all this AI unleashing it And he won. And again, Alex Borer is just by a few points, right hereere's the thing about this story that nobody's picking up on. It's not what big tech these CEO's thought would happen. They thought the public would just blindly accept all of this. like we did when we were thrust into, you know, thirty years ago when it started with my space and I became Facebook, and then everybody's on TikTok and everybody's on Instagram. and we just kind of got brainwashed and went along with it But again, now thirty years later We have a lot of history. We have a lot of studies That's telling us the harms caused, you to children, especially. and they are they can't believe these big tech CEO I'm going to say guys because it's really like a hand fful of five guys controlling everything that this is the backlash that it's happening, that even there are hundreds of millions of dollars to stop an Alex Borest. Now granted, he did not win very close and also the candidate last year who did win also against this AI. And they're just scratching their heads thinking, wow We thought this automatically, you know, we would win again like we did with social media Uhh. peopleeople have been awakened in America and they're like, no more, we're going to push back. And I think this is great news. We're questioning more We're talking to Lyn Saw from Lynswarriors. org on YouTube at Lynn's Warriors and on exet Lins underscore wararriors. This week on your YouTube channel on L Warriors you talk to, the oldest, not the oldest, but the longest tenured congressman in New Jersey, he was talking about this Everybody is talking about this. You were talking this week to members of the White House, Washington, think tanks, groups. It is It is not what people think. It's not this notion of AI being chat GPT That's not it. I think we need to get into a definitional problem. Now, what roles do schools play in all of this, if anything Listen First of all, we have to talk about kids go to school, right? Whether you're homesch, the majority of kids in America go to a school Right now, it's a pivotal moment. I truly believe and many of my fellow ethical technologists and people in Washington, we believe in America right now, this is a point of change. It'll go down to history with all of the technology, the AI, everything seems to be chaot, right? If you really look at it and break it down Schools right now have this tremendous opportunity to teach responsible AI, let's call it AI literacy Okay becausecause what we have to do with kids Remember, everybody, let's go back developing brains. The different studies. The brain's not really developed until age twenty five, twenty six. We have to preserve Okay, critical thinking critical analysis, creativity, independent learning No matter where you go to school, okay? And so we know right now from our national report cards that in all fifty states, kids are failing. The highest score is one state, It's like Ohio, thirty two percent for science, kids are up to par. l the kids are failing. Okaykay? We have all these studies now. We're talking all fifty states So right now, this is this moment, this moment in history where AI should be a classroom tool not a replacement for the teachers, okay, notot a replacement for the creativity, the curiosity, the imagination It can implement And we're seeing such tremendous, I'm say seeing in the last year, okay manyany of the schools across the country opting out of phones great thing. And people push back and say, Ohh, yeah, great, but that's not like twenty four hours a day. Weillll take the six, seven hours a day. kids are in school. And in California, even even in California as well, they're doing this.' not it's not just It's not where you think It's all over the country. This is why media needs to spread the word so more will jump on board and know like we're not alone. We're doing this too. But having those phones out of the classrooms for six, seven hours a day, again, the kids are focused not only on their academics, right? They are focused on relationships with their peers. So instead of the four kids at the lunch table or in the playground, all on their devices phones when they're standing next to each other, which we have seen we see all the time, right? You know walking down the street here in New York, the four of them and they'll all be on the phone texting at the same time, not talking to each other You see it all over the place, right? You see even you, people out to dinner, the kids are all on the devices, even though they're all sitting next to each other. But so we've gotten the phones out of the classrooms and now we do have the studies say academically better attention spans, better But now the pushback, we have something called Chromebooks. in the public school system in America government issued Okay, we learned all this during that COVID period when the kids were forced to learn at home or we thought they were learning, right? Be that was a tremendous setback for children academically. But we learned that is the good thing about that whole horrible period. We've learned kids school online what they're doing. So these chromebooks now, which, by the way, our government distributed to millions of children without putting any safety features on, which they could have turned on all kinds of safety features that come with the Chromebooks, but they blindly just distributed across the country. and that's where parents and caregivers their kids were supposed to be at home during this COVID period, you know doing math momom walks in the kitchen to stir the soup or whatever she's doing. She comes back out and littleittle Johnny's watching pornography and it's supposed to be his math lesson. That's where all these parents started coming forward, fighting back what's going on here. But the Chromebooks now, and Governor Josh Sapiro in Pennsylvania just announced, we're taking all these Chromebooks out of the classrooms by early twenty twenty seven Not only that, Josh Shapiro also said, we're going to have mandatory cursive writing, music to my ears, cursive writing back in the classrooms. because you know what, why know, I've said this to you for years. like and I learned this from the nuns in Catholic school, but it sticks with me decades later When I write something down, I physically write it, I remember it better. Right? So now we have studies that say if kids actually write they remember it better. So we're getting these chrome books out of the classrooms. We're going back to cursive writing. We're going back to a tremendous movement started by parents called pencils of paper where we're not going to have these devices. A lot of schools will still tell you, we only do it online. Your child has to be on the Chromeberg or your child has to have their own laptop. Well, you know what You absolutely don't have to have that. You can ask for a text you can also ask for a package of papers. That's the title, Pencil to paper where your assignments for the week. You know, like we used to get those sheets in school, you know printed out with the math assignments and all that stuff, you can get this package of papers. And so you can get your textbook You can get your package of papers or assignments for the week. And you know what? otherther kids, we have reports are saying like, this is kind of cool. L I want a textbook too. I want a package of papers to do my assignments. I don't want to be online. So that's what we at the Warriors, we spend a tremendous amount of time encouraging all of this behavior spreading the word about this behavior, spreading the resources, where to go, the websites, know all of this is free. How a parent or caregiver or a grandparent because a lot of grandparents day raising kids or really involved in children's lives, like where you go to start all of this and where you know have your like minded people. So again, you're not alone. because one thing people tell me all the time like, o, I don't know anybody else was doing this or I feel like on man out or something. So I think this is a tremendous, tremendous opportunity. I want to share one other thing There is a class action lawsuit right now There's a program in American public schools, okay, called I Ready I ready is something most classrooms are using. Is that the letter I or EYE? No, no, it's just a small I. so it's like I and capital R I ready So most parents at the beginning of the school year, they'll get a sheet, right? The kids come with the backpacks and a million sheets they put on the table for you to sign. And parents are, again, blindly checking off, yes, my son or daughter can use a chromebook. Yes, they could be a Google. blah becausecause I talk to parents And they'll always say, I don't know. I checked off like thirty things. We've got to do better, everybody, parent up You can't just blindly check off what's allowed in the classroom because this program I ready, which parents have checked the box for at the beginning of the school year They now we have found out, are taking all of your child's information, right? Because they're tracking their learning within the classroom. And they're sharing it with these well, you're a lawyer, third party, unbeknownst to the parents or something, sharing the data, the information So right now there's a tremendous, it's brand new, this class action lawsuit. Like you cannot take our children's information, even though we sign, you know, check the box for I ready in the classroom, right? It's tracking like their spelling, their math, their this. you know, it seems. rememember the days we had there was a program like we had different colored cards or something in the classroom But this is the same sort of thing, but again, it's online. then what did they do this? I reready? They turned around and they're selling it to who knows what? Well we do know, everything's going into that big mishmash, you know AI and these data centers, right to scrape the internet eventually when people go on Chat GPT and all these other sites You know what? I ready. So get into your classrooms. undernderstand this is a time for you to talk to the teachers, talk to the principal, talkalk to your children. That's where it starts. and listen to what we have to say at Lyn's Warriors because we really know we hear so many things before the public Here's them And there's also something people understand. When you talk about there are many dimensions to these fears. First of all, there's the idea of kids using The screen's too long When a child should not have, you know you know the expression you're trying to drink from a fire hose When a child turns on a game And all of a sudden the child is inundated with colors and noise and blast and flash mesmerizes the child. And the child does not learn to track It doesn't learn how to follow. It's just bombarded, assailed by this Later on, that makes the ability to read even more difficult because theyve never learned tracking The number of kids who go through their life never working on their hand movement, proprioception, being able to throw a ball, being able to figure distance and They just don't do this because they're too busy holding Their thumbs are very good. Oh my God, their thumbs are so so acrobatic. So what we're doing is And I want people to understand I'm not old fashioned for the sake of being old fashioned. You mentioned cursive writing The idea, do you know that when you write a letter followed by another letter followed by another letter versus cursive which connects words It changes the way we process. Yeah. It's not merely this isn't just cutesy stuff But this is so critical. We'll talk about this later, but what it does is It requires motor coordination, memory, sequencing and visual processing all simultaneously This is not, again, we're not going to go back to quill pens and the minuette This was important This was critical and what happens is people think, Ohh, we don't need that anymore. And more and more, have you ever seen people hold you being a child of Catholic school Have you ever seen somebody hold a pen today It's like they're holding a stick or or I don't know what a a a crowbar the implement. they've never used it. They don't even know what to do And there's no way that that can be healthy. So I just want people to say, your message, Lenss Warriors is not going back to the nineteenth century But going back to those fundamental abilities and characteristics and talents that people need throughout their life. Yeah, I'm agreeing with everything you're saying. But I want to ask why you should. way Well, you know, sometimes we don't, but it does create lively debate in the household. But anyway, I. Ind. We have to talk about what's going on in Washington a little bit to give you flavors so people p And the responsck becausecause in all this conversation, what is the responsibility Big tech, right? Let's talk about should they have responsibility? a greater responsibility. Yes, yes and yes Okay, productuct design These big tech companies should prioritize child safety. I don't understand what is so hard about this fromr the beginning, putting out a product to the best of their ability. It's not asking a lot, right? To the best of their ability safety now, listen, people push back. Well, you know, it's up to the parents. Oh, yeah, there are safety features. When you make it so difficult when you have an iPhone that has thirty one steps to put on a safety feature. I'm telling you that because the parents contact me by step ten When we're exhausted. We hand our child the phone and say just be safe. They do it by they do that on purpose because we have plenty of whistleblowers who have come forward, okay? And they have told us this, what goes on at these big tech companies. Again, a reminder It is incredible. There is no regulation. It's like, you know, if you eat food or something and you get poisoned, we have all these food recalls or medicine recalls. And I'm always saying to my God, we have these bicycle helmets and the seatbts. and now we got booster seats. A the car seat you need a booster seat. you got to do this nothing It's opening up the world these devices, handing them to children, right? It's the world. It's their fingertips This is this is a line in the sand right now because we've been working as you know. twenty two hours a day, no exaggeration in tandem with Washington because it's going down right now. We've got hundredundreds and hundreds of parents we were with this past week on Capitol Hill. We've got them now who are angry and upset because we had a piece of legislation called We have one called Kids Online Safety Act, Senate version seventeen forty eight, which I have to throw in the bill number because the House has put out a version called the Kids Act. And they've erased our Senate version seventeen forty eight by the great Marscia Blackburn, Senator Marscia Blackburn, and Senator Richard Blumenthal, bipartisan everybody. And theyve watered it down and they took out the most important three little words, duty of care. Big tech, you have duty of care out your product with reasonable safeguards. So the House took that, lumped our Kids Online safety actct in with all these other pieces of legislation. They're going to jam this down everybody's throats. and they're going to say on Capitol Hill, hoay, We've got a child safety package And the public thinks you hear child safety. Okay, this is good. They've done something. Check the boxes, check the boxes. There is tremendous pushback. We want our Kids Online Safety Act Senate version seventeen forty eight to stand alone. I would a resident to do an executive order put M Duty of care, Th little words. We have to keep our kids safe because again, we're talking about artificial intelligence tonight. This thing is going very, very quickly though Okay, but let me a couple things just just sped by here Number one, we're talking to Lynn Shaw from Lyn's Warriors, Lyswarriors. org Lyn's Warriors on YouTube and Lyn's Underscore Warriors on X Number one, let's slow this down a little bit. There is an issue that came up this past week. And it is about preemption. Now most people don't know this, and you can take, by the way All of cable newews and just chuck it becausecause they are beholden. to the very people who are responsible for big tech. This is my opinion So you're not going to hear anybody delve into this The notion of preemption, meaning Every state should be able to say, under the notion of state' rights, what they consider to be acceptable or not But what this legislation now is they're saying we'll go ahead and we'll pay lip service to this notion called child protection But we're going remove states rights and we're going to preempt it, meaning there will be one standard determine at the federal level, and that's it Now, those civil libertarians and those hardcore conservatives who talk about stage Rice, they don't know anything about this They've never heard about this That's number one. Number two, you mentioned standard of care If there's no teeth, Just like a contract that doesn't have any responsibility, it's illusory Imagine having a piece of legislation that doesn't provide any A rround any any anything Just because it's passast doesn't mean it's effective. Tell everybody what happens when you will get a piece of lelation and I've heard this, you get a piece of legislation. yourour colleagues will then refer to their legal teams ll pour through this and they'll say, this doesn't say anything or they remove something. There's hundreds of pages and thousands of words and one little section that eliminates something can invalidate it. Explain a little bit about that, how you feel like, wait, we have this terrific piece of legislation called Protected Children Act when in fact, it says nothing And we come up against this all the time, But what's happening right now with the Kids Online Safety Act is unprecedented, okay And that is, I am a little more blatant in your description because I call what they're putting out there the house a piece of toilet paper. Okaykay? It is a roll of toilet paper. I was in an office the other day. And they're like, Well, you can't say that. I'm like, whyy not? Becauseuse that's exactly what it is. When we get these lawyers involved break it down and you know you get both sides. And it's just pages and pages of nonsense that equals zero. okay? And so they do this constantly, but it's called running the clock you know on Capitol Hill. Don't run it to the last minute so they can jam this through at the last minute. Remember, Congress is going, you know, they go on their summer breaks soon, right? Yeah. I think everybody should continue working. We have a lot of issues going on in America you know, maybe take a weekend or a four day weekend, but please We got a lot going on. When you have Hundreds of parents on Capitol Hill. crying for their dead children. H've been harm ort buying drugs, you know, easily, two clicks on Snapchat. That's the truth, everybody Cyber buying. you're feeding these dangerous algorithms to teen girls, okay, how to starve yourself to death Subway sururfing, which we've always had, let's face it in the big cities, especially here in New York. You always heard about it my whole life, but not to the extent of TikTok promoting videos go out there, film it. You'll get clicks, likes,'ll put you on this platform and kids are dying, okay? They have a responsibility So now we've got to have the government do something. okay? This is not about freedom of speech. This is about they have a responsibility. There is more money. Capitol Hill. Josh Hawley gave a terrific speech the other day. He is you know he's my pick. He he's forty seven years old. He's all invested with the child safety. You're going to be hearing a lot of great things from him. He has something called the GR Act, but he directed everything towards parents and families. Let me do this. Ebody else is kind of using the kids Get these bills with thousands of pages that mean nothing again, the toilet paper. you As you know, the clock is my enemy. In closing Lyn Shaw from Lind's Warriors, what is the takeaway which you want everybody to to understand and to remember I want everyone to understand AI can assist people, but it cannot replace parents or teachers or grandparents, mentors or friends childildren need to develop the resilience, confidence through human beings, human relationships, not these algorithms online, and there's a lot of hope because families are more engaged. schoolchs are having more meetings Ecell conversations. And you know what, researchers, lawmakers and technology leaders are recognizing child sa you must remain at the top. Thank you, than you. Thankk you, Linshaw from Lindwarriorslindwarriors. org Thank you, my darling. This was this week's installment of Warrior Weekend. We will talk to you again next week. 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Hearing that perfect song exactly when you need it Sometimes life rigs things in our favor, like learning about your new favorite ROMC voicemails for Isabel. Now playing only on Netflix of midnight with Lyel entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network. This sounds like a hyped up version of Take the Money and Run by Steve Milleran. Tower powerower Bum cittity. eight hundred eight four eight nine two, two two Lino with you. Let me mention a little something if I could about cursive writing. This is why it's very, very critical for me to. I am not somebody who believes in this notion of hey, let's just go back and do things the way they were. No, no, no, no, no. Sometimes Steephven Stills may have said oldld times, good times, but not necessarily, but cursive writing is still critical because of what it does, notot because it's old fashioned or nostalgic ives parts of the brain, especially for developing children Typing and printing does not. writing in cursive requires and this is critical a new motor coordination, new memory, sequencing Visual processing all at the same time simultaneously conominantly. And studies have found that handwriting strengthens learning improves retention But when you have to write fluidly, When you don't stop and start It changes the way you process things It's there were people who cannot read historical documents Do you know? do you know? that there are kids in grade school. I've got a friend of mine who's a Elementary school teacher The number of kids who cannot read an analog ock. Let me say that again Remember when you were kids, the big hands on the twelve and the little hands on the three I can remember, I didn't understand what that meant When they first gave me an idea of the clock I didn't get it. Now I have to use analog and digital depending upon what I'm doing. If you're in the radio biz, if you're in the audio biz or the technical biz and you have a countdown, And you have this thing called a hard out. If they say be out by fifty eight thirty That means fifty eight thirty. notot twenty nine, not thirty one. So you've got to watch that And you've got to figure out how do I say stuff and stop exactly at fifty eight? past the hour and thirty seconds. You might need an analog clock, watching the second handand may be better for you. I don't know. But it's the idea of time It's not a number that means nothing. It's sequencing And there are things that we did as kids that we thought were kind of just stupid. id't really matter They were absolutely critical. Let me say something right now. It should be and I don't really believe in mandatory much of anything, perhaps, Certain things But I might make an exception with teaching a child an instrument Find out when you're I hope Pray to God is not drums, Rhythm is good Tuba, something like that. Preferably a harmonica maybe or maybe a guitar.'ll be easyily portable But music changes everything Your ability to mathematically also bifurcate. Your world into your left and right hand and being able to either to take something out of nothing and to create a sound Punctuate nothing with a rhythm timing and notes And knowing sevenths and fifths and major sevents, it's absolutely positively critical. We have more coming up on another side of midnight. Our number two fastly fastly quickly approaches eight hundred eightight four eight nine, two, two, two. 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He was that great George Carlland joke. and he owned a chain of doll and Big men's shop in Beijing parents he has a tremendous lineage. His grandfather by the way was look at Pearl Harbor. So he has quite the provenance, let me just tell you Also our men A the at the helelm Jackson insists upon writing all caller information in cuniform, which is fascinating as well. In any event, we'll be here until five AM I want to reiterate two things, which is just I'm enraged to buy this I don't know if I was born perhaps maybe on another planet, another time, another dimension, but to me, the most fascinating subject Barn is the idea of other life forms, intelligent life forms coexisting in the universe to us And that's not considered weird or out there or outer space or Star Treky It's the most fascinating subject of mankind Yet you never know it by talking to a lot of people who think, oh God, becausecause we have destroyed that. And you know why? through this idea called the limited Hangout You have been inoculated against the subject Why? You know how vaccines work sometimes? They take a dead virus And they will introduce it. These are classic, not MRN v vaccines, but classic vaccines. They take a dead virus And then or whatever the particular I guess they you do have bacteria as well, but normally a virus introduce it into you Your body sees this It doesn't know it's dead Do doesnn't know it's inactive or inert but it starts to develop antibodies. And basically you develop a resistance against that forever by tricking by tricking, so to speak, your body into thinking that it's been exposed to this particular pathogen or what happen By virtue of an old Intel procedure called Limited hangout You're given these constant little littleittle hors d'oeures in amuse bouche, this little tiny, oh look This week, we're going to release UAP information Look, we're on the verge of having such a such. I'm not going to mention which cable news, but they talk about it all the time and nothing's released Look at the Epstein files. Nothing. Sing. Do you but remember President Trump? I think he was sincere. I think he wanted to do something. We're gonna reveal and release information on the JFK assassination. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. You have been inoculated You have been vaccinated. your intellectual immune system. you think it's been released because they're talking about, No, they haven't released anything. They're talking about releasing it That's the limited hangout. this little bit of information And by the way, I love speaking with you And the best part about it is that the fact that I've got a long swath, a long stretch to be able to talk And I loved and I think most of us loved the idea of, you know, Art Bell pelled My only beef is that he gave people the impression that This type of talk is not for polite company during the day. We talk about adult things. We don't talk about this crazy flying saucer stuff. That's that night That's for the crazy people who are upate And you know people think that You know they do Be because of this connection that we have to him. Well, I've got news for you It is the biggest story Piod There is nothing. There is abolutely Nothing. Just imagine just for one second. Forget AI What if, and I'm just saying this, but what if there was contact that was made And let's assume that you were talking to A living, perhaps brareathing or respiring, suspperating version of humanity That's even better than AI What if somebody from another time advent you said cancer, We had that. We know what that is You're looking at it completely differently And I ask the real question, The question nobody wants to answer Do you believe there are some forms of cancer that we could have cured or are able to be cured? Billions of dollars that would have been lost precludes a more of a Shall we say an aggressive accelerated form of cure. Do you think Within the vaults of certain companies, there might be information that leads to a cure. Do you think so that are being withheld? If they cured cancer, you know what happened to the economy Do you have any Do you have any idea Are you kidding me Now am I being cynical? Not at all I'm calling it exactly the way It is So let's go to the phones, my friend, alwaysways, your thoughts, your comments, by the way, they are so fascinating All I ask you is that you remain courteous. Try to remain cogent as much as possible and think Before you speak, let's go to Tom in New Jersey, Tom. You're on another side of Midnight with Lionel. about any data? You were talking about cursive writing. So I have a story, a short story about cursive writing and reading and in my experience Yes the teachers in school couldn't teach me how to do cursive. You remember over the chalkboard, you had the alphabet, you had on, it was on capital letters and then on the bottom you had cursive letters or lowercase Yeah, yeah. So when I try to learn when the when the teacher try to teach me how to learn how to do cursive, just say for the word cat. I would do it just like it was on you know over the board The letters were not connected. So my stepmother taught me how to connect the letters. I know Now for reading, teachers couldn't teach me how to read. So my My stepmother, she taught me how to read, and it was very simple You just break the words down into syllables and knowing that over and over. It was I learned and I'll tell you one thing, out of all the gifts I ever had in my life, those were the two best gifts I ever had given to me without a bow, the best ever Do you know that they believe it has been said? that reading is one of the most unnatural things that human beings do. that the fact that we can read it all is incredible because you're looking at something You're looking at what amounts to be squiggles or blocks and you're looking at it And then you look at that and you recognize. Remember, there's recall and recognition You look and you go, Ah That's that C letter That's the cat word. Got it. You don't when you read today, you don't even say the words. you recognize it In fact, what AI is Huh It's like reving Yes, rightight, Eactly Right, But what I'm saying is what AI is doing is' trying to, this is called LLM the learning mechanism Learn language is it tries to anticipate what the next word is Do you know that when you're reading You can almost, you know when a preposition is coming when you just know this. after a period of time, but that only comes through Reading And the only way to learn these things is to read. Now by the way The idea of cursive. Cursive is wonderful too because it's fluid. You don't stop You have to connect, as you said, you wrote the letters individually You wrote them. seeee and by the way, thank you so much for your call, Tom. Thank you, please call me again. I remember one time thinking of the hardest thing for me when I was a kid was fractions I didn't understand it. didn't make any sense to me. And then one day I said, Oh, okay. I don't know why I don't know why There was something about language that was interesting. When I was a kid, my I forget how much older he was, but my cousin was in college And he was pledgingigap, Sigmay abbsalon And I walked in when Dany's got this He's got this match. And he's mumbling something. I said, what the heck is wrong with Joey here. So I said, what are you doing He said, I'm pledging a fraternity. I said, What does that mean Well I'm trying to join. I said, OkayK, what are you doing? He said I have to be able to recite The Greek alphabet in to light a match, a regular you know of a paper match. I don't even have books of matches anymore, but anyway I said, whyy do you have to do that? He said, Well, that's part of the I guess the initiation saidid, really, The Greek alphabet you say, yes So I went home We had this Webster's dictionary and in the front They had, I think it was Cy M bicon you know, alphabet, which is nice in the dictionary. then the Greek So I remember this alphabeta gamm adelta, you know, went through this whole thing And I remembered it memorized it So when I saw him I don't know how much time later. I said, A Joey got a match He said, Huh? I said, Ga match? He said, Yeahah So you gave me an imagine, I went to the alphabet again I that Epson eight they't kept it up fear up anyyway went to the whole routine And blew out the match and I thought, there we go And then my friend in my class, Ralph We were in Catholic school. He's a physician now. I showed him. I said, goo to this book, leararn this You know, alpha, would prefer A beta gamma was G D, whatever. but we used to send each other notes. in What we thought was Greek It was capital letters. We never really bothered with a lower case So one day, as I'm passing this stuff to him Sure enough Sister Mary Agony or whatever her name is. she says, let me see that Are you passing notes? And I knew we got her this time. Let me see that Sure, sister, here it is. And I'm looking around Rpha. I waitil she get a load of this. And there we are, she's reading. You know the expression is Greek to me. So there we are passing notes to each other in what we thought was Greek. It wasn't really actually Greek, but it was using the Greek alphabet And I thought This is great. She didn't know what I was saying Not only that, and this is the most important part We both realized we got attention You see We were the ones they said, did you wereere you really sending notes to each other in Greek? I said, Well, it's not Greek, but it was I said, Yeahah We've never had that before. I said, Ah And that's when I learned very early,' like, why don't you try to impress people or put it this way. Don't raise a stink Don't cause a commotion do something to get the same amount of attention that somebody else tries to get by thing of fool, but do it differently Have them appreciate your talent if that makes any sense Anyway, and then I went into radio and all that was shattered. Let's go to Matt in the Bronx. Matt, you're on another side of midnight with Lyionel Good morning, Lel Lyionel. cururious you ever heard of doctor Paul no, excuse me, Dror Kevin McDonald Dr. Kevin McDonald I don't believe so. What does doctor McDonald do Okay, He's actually well, a retired professor of psychology at Cal State. He wrote a book, He wrote a book, The culture of Critique And it basically goes into the origin of a lot of left wing political movements that have Tremendous Do me a favor. Do me a favor, Matt. I want to give you I want to give you plenty of time. Put your ho for just a second. I like this. I'm intrigued by this After we take this much needed interruption We're going to return to Matt and we're going to discuss this. I like where this is going. The other side of midnight with Lyel, entnertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network You see, Kevin Dros, who was manning the boars By the way, doing great since the fertilizer accident Continued success and recovery to you, my friend But he remembered I mentioned Steve Miller take the money and run and he played it back. See he goes to show you. It goes to show you that with perseverance and with enough occupational therapy, there is hope This is Lyel with you on another side of Midnight where let's go back to the phones. We had a very interesting at least a intriguing ostensibly Matt in the Bronx Matt, you were talking about a particular scholar by the name of McDonald. And what is your point, good, sir? Right. Well, the reason why I want to mentioning Kevin MacDonald and his book, The Culturure Critique, There's a whole chapter in the book devoted to the origin of nineteen sixty five Immigration Act that completely changed and altered the demographic landscape of the United States under the Johnson administration. And the reason why I bring up the book and immigration in and of itself is in light of the recent slew of victories in the primaries here in New York City of Mayor Mam Dani back candidates Now Mamani, I want to remind you, is himself an immigrant And these victories that were secured in the primaries could not have been secured without massive votes from people who are either immigrants themselves or descendants of immigrants. And one aspect one aspect of these radical socialists that were essentially elected to Congress because they're not going to be facing any serious opposition in November So pretty much one aspect of their agenda is an anti Israel agenda, which has an undercurrent of anti Semitism underlying it Now, as you might suspect, a lot of Jewish groups are apoplelectic that some of these candidates are so vociferous in their anti Israel position. And it's the supreme irony, I believe In so far as the groups like the ADL, the American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, on and on, And Jews as a demographic group in the United States themselves wayay back in the nineteen sixties, they were pro immigration They were They were instrumental in getting the laws overturned in nineteen sixty five, which led to the sitation demographic situation now that you have. We have rising colonies of Thd world immigrants in our cities and in many of our. now let me stnop you right there. This is is a fascinating story And one might listen to you and say that This is a tad, with all due respect rather disjointed Immigration versus illegal immigration That's one distinction. And do you believe that immigration lends itself ultimately to someome consider to be either anti Semitism or anti religion And so Therefore, your position is, isn't this ironic? Is that what you're saying? What is the thesis of your point, sir? Yeah, it's ironic that, you know, Jewish groups are alarmed the consequences of these That being said. Okay, that being said, that irony noted What do you suggest is the best way to approach this Or is anything or is this merely an observation that you're making? Oh no there is a solution. The solution is to gut the nineteen sixty five Heart seeller Act which opened the floodgates toillegal to third world immigration into the United States.. And it's let me ask you not just Ghead How do you stop You're against third world immigration or immigration. Well thir Third worldld immigration How do you stop third world immigration? For example, if you have fine people from let's say Europe or what have you or certain acceptable parts of Asia How do you define that by statute How would you draft that No third world. How would you say that exactly Prior to the nineteen sixty five Act, we had precisely that We have something called the National origin systemystem And that was designed to maintain the ethnic balance in the United States, which at that time was overwhelmingly majority European derived. So you're going to say Okay, let me ask you this. So you would think If you had your way, irrespective of any kind of historic or statutory precedent You would advocate a new immigration program that deals with European centric immigration only Is that what you're saying Yes. And so far as those want immigrants who are most assimilable and who are going to contribute and not become burdens on the taxpayer, not going to be whyy would cral Why would Why would somebody from Europe? and by the way, Europe is what twenty two, twenty five different countries? I don't know how many we are. But anyway, but why would that guarantee a similability versus somebody else Are you really recently who was a Megan Kelly was went off on Haitians. She was absolutely vituperative against Haitians, you do realize that some of the greatest people that we have had have been from people from all over the place. I mean, immigration is very, very tough for you to say, we're going going to allow certain people. Maybe we should have certain religions. Maybe we should have also certain IQ levels. We should have minimal educational background We should have also minimal health We should make it very, very difficult. So we have almost like Dare I say Almost like a super, I don't want say super race, that sounds terrible, or an Uber menj or anything along those lines, but kind of like a person who probably might be better than your average homegrown American Matt, thank you so much for your call. a fascinating point of view I always like that. I always think there there's a kernel of truth behind it, but please call me against her. I appreciate that. A most fascinating Fascinating piece. Let's go to Cliff in West Sacramento Cliff You're on another side of midnight with a linle. Cliff are you there, Cliff Yes, can you hear me Do I fear you Yeah, can you hear me I I can hear you Ct me come in Berlin Come in Berlin, can you? want to say that miss I miss listening to you during the week you and Lynn And your original call screen or Jerry. I miss you all And I want to Jerry Allry. And I just want to say hello to the the eighty three year old retired school teacher who called in last night U That's not me, but that's okay. Okay. That's great So I called you in March of this year. Now Cliff, do me a favor, Cliff I know you're a good man I like that. Let's talk about now. Nobody remembers your call in March. I'll be honest with you. I'm not going to pretend I did. I don't even I don't even remember March, much less your call. So what is on your mind tonight, sir or this morning I have I have Five tips For your listeners on how fiveive Five tips on how to save money on their electric bill Oh no. Can you just give us the one major tip And all has to do with your refrigerator Okay. how is that, sir Okay In the back of the freezer and Oh, you've talked about this. You've called me before about the refrigerator tip. Yes, I could And let me tell you something, C if I thank you again, and let me tell you something, out of concern for my listeners That was so riveting and caused such a free soul of reactions, a Phillips, so to speak that I don't want to risk that reaction again because I remember people took to the streets out of a sense of freneticism over your admonitions. And I thank you. I want you to call me again But Believe me, I'm open to a lot of things, my friends And that's great. but refrigerator safety of power tips is not is not one of them. I respect you too much for that. Now please I'm not suggesting that's boring Far be it for me to suggest that. I'm intimating it very strongly, but I'm not suggesting it Aay at all. Okay, so refrigerator tips, not exactly comompelling. but important nonetheless. Benny in Bayside You're on another side of the midnight with Lino Yes, hi, to save electricity on your refrigerator unscrewy up the v n' choking U Anyways, u Benny, you have can I just say something? You have a wit? That is so wrong So natural, so almost patellar. It's frightening. Please don't ever abuse it. it use it sparingly. You have a talent, my friend. I really wanted the point I really wanted to make was back in the day, like when you had to come to America, if you had no paperwork or anything, You needed a sponsor back then And the sponsor had to be a citizen of the United States. and it wasn't like somebody who was here for like a week or two They had to have a job and pay rent or whatever, you know, prove that they were a citizen Sure, sure. Why can't we go back to that meananing if you want to come to the United States and you have no paperwork. I mean again You have to understand. We have people are coming in, they show you like paperwork like, I work on this farm Well, okay, where else did you work? This farm, whereere did you get paid u three meals a day, you know There are many people coming into the United States that have zero paywork, zero background check Can I find you know, it's that's a very good point Let me also give you something. Do you know the number of people Eespecially living in the Great. area, the great state of New York or this particular area, who and by the way, around the country, whose parents came in through Ellis Island absolutely positively had Nothing They had Nothing And using this wonderful theory of yours and I appreciate this, but using your theory, they would have been rejected summarily that they would have not have found founders or sponsors. They noobbody knew them People who didn't even have paperwork, peopleople couldn't read or write They would just check for, you know, eye diseases and basically. I'm not suggesting Do you realize some of the greatest people in New York City alone I mean people who are wealthy beyond wealthy or who have contributed to the arts or scientist or business, or just upstanding great family people. They're forebearerars came here with nothing Absolutely and came here and worked hard And we're a testament. Sometimes we talk about these third world people versus Europeans Well, there were some European Italians and there were some European Greeks who or Spaniard, whatever who had nothing Who couldn't spe who who who had the most minimal of talents and I look what they did They had they had a spirit and a work ethic and a commitment to to and they love this country What about them Half of them, according to these wonderful ideas owed in because you wouldn't have a sponsor Okay Alrighty. I love that sound that don't That means they're off into the abyss Let's go instead right now to a person by the name of Danny. Capital letters, please. I beg you I begg like I've never begged capital letters, Danny, you're on another side of midnight with Lionel Hi, Lionel. I love your show. You are a fascinating individual And than you I just love listen to your show. People should keep in mind a lot of people who once Elldis Island immigrating, they were sent back home for illness. And some of the people who actually came here returned back home too after living here. That's never spoken about. And then they co immigration like in nineteen twenties, they stopped it. But it was fascinating what happened. But today, I think it's a lot more different because I think the federal government, the corporations are just really behind the whole thing. would also with China and Saudi Arabia just to flood America with third worlders and not even determine where they who they are, what they came from. And there's a lot of scams of welfare and money. Let me also explain there's there's something else which is important. The prior administration under what could only be described as a deliberate plan ploy Um stratageym, whatever you want to call it deliberately wanted to perfuse and flood our American system with people And and my favorite unaccompanied miners Children who were brought in most probably who ended up either in trafficking or dead under the Biden administration. Do you remember when we were I remember People in And o God, in Jersey around these private airports, we'll see these white planes coming Westchester, Florida Pouring it And we wonder where were these people coming from And that wasn't Ncessarily a bad system. That was a deliberate Again, kind of a perfusion like you would inject just scores of humanity deliberately for reasons that week we can guess. Was it the replacement theory People say that's such a racist theory I'm not so sure about to build a permanent Democratic. Majority Is that it? All I know is There was no plan that was allowed. They were just allowed to just pour in And then And then we got into this idea of trying to confuse immmigration with illegal immigration And then when the government tried their best to to round people up ice ed I think they got a terrible about That was so I don't want to say ill conceived. But the PR or lack thereof, it was horrible And there were some people who were abused So I think we need to start from scratch. All I know is Growing up as far as I was And I'm We originally from Florida where we had Cubans in the Mariele Bolt lift in the eighties. We didn't have this again, this This flood, this tsunami of humanity. It changed I don' of think is necessarily legislation I think it's people who want to change the demographics of our country, of our great country and not with the finest people. Does that make any sense? By the way, Lenny, are you still there But yes, I'm still here. and many where are your Where are your people Let me ask me, what is your nationality? Where are your people from I'll give you the best description. They are white. They were European. I have a background with four different countries in Europe and Christian. they were very Christian like But I just want to ask you a question because I know you're Sicilian and you're proud of it, and you're also think half Puert Rican, you're proud of it. But the thing is What is the obsession? like this is because you're a great mind. What is the obsession with Fauci's name, Pelosi's name, and Luigi Mangion. Nobody remembers the guy who firebombed the eighty year old woman in Denver, Colorado this year, Boulder, Colorado. Nobody remembers the guy who shot the National Guard woman, that beautiful girl just before Thanksgiving Nobody talks about that crooks And that other guy grew up who went after Trump and their backgrounds, you never get their names. the guy who went after Trump two months ago at the correspondence dinner. Nobody knows his name anyway. But that qu exactly Hellosi and Luigi, they keep going after those names, why is that ' they hate Italians, but say the truth. So say the truth to everybody. They hate Italian. Now wait a minute, let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question You're telling me the reason why Man Juni, these are these are this man who gunned down an insurance executive This street minet. Gun him not killed them. execution stound And now is this subject of this weird kind of a Like Richard Ramirea is you kind of a night stalker this passion these young women. you need to tell me there's nothing independently a newsworthy or interesting other than his Italian surname. And do you mean that fellow who could have basically killed If you listen to other people, Fauci You're saying it's his Italian name and Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the house, it's her Italian name that that's the subject of our fascination Are you suggesting that Of course I am. Those are newsworthy. They're all newsworthy, but there's other people involved with f she's like Deborah Burks's doctor. She was with Trump in the White House. They never mentioned her I I think right. But you were saying But did she testify as much? Was she as obnoxious as he was There's a lot of people out there.'s That does not protect her from what went on during those years and the years before it too.'s China is a multi trillion dollar country now and they have their own labs. We funded their lab. come on. They want a China sent the virus another st. You will China sent the virus to America No, no. no, A lot of people are saying this. In fact, they called it the Woo flu and they're also suggesting that Dror Fauci was responsible for gain of function. That's right, Fauci, not Berke's, Fauci Now listen, I appreciate Lenny. I want you to call me again. I'd love the fact of course there is sometimes anti Italian or anti Whatever. you can get any group and I swear to you, there's somebody who's going be anti that person But there' a lot of reasons to despise Fuci and Pelosi other than their' Italian Lennia, I thank you so much. Please call me again, good sir. It's fascinating to hear how people u What's the word? How they perceive things as such Now, all I know is Very simply, there's something very Very different this happening And byy the way, Lenny, let's get rid of that line there. just it just haunts us. There we go. Get rid of that. That swoop that awayake Come on, Rosche, there we go, add a baby, add a baby. Expurgate. There we go, ablate. Bodl arise, Yes, sir Yes, sir. See I'm telling you right now Let me tell you something Fertilizer accidents as Kevin Cushot. They're debilitating And they can take a long time to work through with occupational treatment, but you know what? there is hope. There is hope are so many people that are so despicable But let me also tell you something And this is what I was saying before and nobody wanted to listen to me When M Donny came up, do you know what I love about this guy? I hate this guy. Oh my God. And the first time people meet him, they love him He's a nice guy. What a smile. He's playing you like a chump. He knows with that stupid grin. He's a nice guy. he's He's engaging I've got to I know a person who despises him the first time he can take a picture with him, Oh my God, he said, this is a great guy. He's engaging. thinking, A you kidding me Do it A you that easily swayed? But maybe you weret Here's the bottom line I want to go out and I want to ask people, whyy do you like certain people What is it that you're after? There is a schism Ladies in Germs, a schism in the left and the right Left and right, in my humble opinion, are changing. I don't want to say they're dead But many, many people suggest that the left right paradigm is over Let's take the right, okay you have a significant factaction of the right. You've got people like Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones, and you've got Marjorie Taylor Green, and you've got Massey and you've got Joe Kent, and you've got others. and you can dismiss them all you want You can say, Ah it doesn't really matter. It matters Because with them, they have millions of people that admire them. So that you have a little little riff, a little split with the right. So Be careful of that Rite is not as Uniform as one would think, then we talk about the left This was very interesting Mom Donnie came and said, I like these three people And people I go, There's no way these people have a chance. What are you kidding me This this one says terrible things about defunding the police. This one's a lunatic, and everybody's a communist b. Nobody knows yet can define what a communist is. It's a pejorative to them and they don't understand even communists. I've known one communist and they say that's not what it is However, So they came along the base so Mam Dani is And by the way, his name can still not be pronounced by ninety percent of the population. but he's three for three. It's a hatchrick He endorses these people and lo and behold They get in. So instead of trying to figure out why, and of course, it's New York and New York is different. They call it the combi cororridor and all this kind of stuff Always with the names, always with the pejorives they're listen and the Democratic Party And the Republican Party, they don't want to listen. because there's a whole new group of people who have different concerns now, but they dismiss that. it's ridiculous. They' this will pass. This is just a fat. Really? So the other day You had Tish James They sent Tish the Dish out And she went out excoriating these people. Why they're not the left They're not at James Carville, who absolutely is worthless. I don't know what what what his function is, but he's also excororating. these people are crazy. That's a good way. Keep it up, James Your party Inult them Make fun of them. That a baby, that smart. So you have the left that is splintering and the right that is splintering You're going to have a new configuration. And I've been telling you for the longest time findind out what people Think, Let me give you an example. My wife and I know a young lady She is absolutely Proably one of the smartest head on great head on her shoulders, hard working You would consider to be, I mean, good family, ethics, religious Um Just great She and her friends love M Donny. Rather than yell at her. I said, That's fascinating. Why? She says, I like his energy. I like his commitment I like his and again, his his youth, his smile. Same thing they did with John Kennedy. John Kennedy was one of the biggest frauds anybody's ever seen. Most people knew nothing about. He was more of a Republican than anything else. He wasn't this leftist. It didn't matter. He was handsome His wife was beautiful And it was Camelotte and The only thing I can say is let me just say this. again, this is me personally speaking Jack Schlasberg The only thing I can say out of all of the insanity that happens whenever we have any kind of an election, the very fact that this person was summarily drubbed means that there maybe there is a God. Maybe there is a scintilla, a green of common sense This kid No what the hell he was talking about And it was the last gas The last vestige of the of the Kennedy name, even though it's Schlasberg, but the Kennedy aura the Kennedy' spirit The way people it's over It's over. Now listen. But don't get angry. Listen to what I'm saying. Realibrate, Readjust, donon't give up the way you think But if you want to win elections You better first of all realize why are people voting the way they do? And if you want to go after them You can do one of two things. You could try to lure them to your side or you can try to dissuade them from voting for those whom they care for And if you're going to do it The way we normally do it when I say we is just to mock them, make fun of them call them, you know Just I I think are you do you think anybody's going to listen to this What is your message This is the most fascinating stuff. Let me just tell you something I've been in the T radio business technically professionally for thirty eight years. I haven't Never. en I've seen revolutions. I remember when Rush came along, Oh my God, it was absolutely incredible. It was clearly de markarked. demarcated of conservative and Republican and GOP. I remember when the u A contract with America and Newt Gingrid and was strong and And then Clinton What we're seeing right now is the complete and total elimination of those labels, those rubrics that we loved, that we're so familiar with too voters of today, they don't know what that means So the left and the right, they're both disintegrating There's a new party coming and that's the one I have my eyes on Our number is eight hundred, eight, four eight nine, two, two, two, more coming up on Another sideide of Mid Night with me, Lionel. the other side of midnight with Lionel on the Red Apple Podcast Network I love this song The lyrics are so deep That's right. the great John Lee Hooker I love to have Johnny Hooker have his speaking style taught to people moving into our country from elsewhere so that this would be their first view of this. By the way, speaking of which, have you by the way, Jackson or Kevin, have you seen any of the newew Chinese cars BYD. And these others, the yang, Wang, U nine extreme. H you seen these? Have you seen Chinese design Oh my Side I know we're not supposed to like these folks, but let me tell you something. it is incredible Somebody told me years ago, you remember was it Huawei The Chinese phone. People don't get that. The Chinese are gonna care us and listen to us okay So a friend of mine had one. he said, If you ever get one, you will never look at an apple or an I mean, the design is incredible So watch what's happening right there We are you I just want you to understand, you're going to see things that nobody has ever seen I mean this, I mean this. You were seeing the development of a new form of of How do I say this? politics? You have a new group of people. You have anthropic Um Anthropic U palland here. Open AI, the Altmans, the These are the strangest B. I have ever seen in my life Youember whenever remember when you had u Like an Austin Powers' movie, so to speak, the evil evil person. Remember on Hawaii F O they had wool fat He was the evil guy. And then remember the Wild Wild of West, Megolito Loveless, Michael Dunn, the midget. He was the bad guy There's always the bad guy. they were weird and they would pet a cat or their hair would You can't get weirder than this AI group Period, Elon Musk is the most normal of them all. Think about what I'm telling you And these people have no conception of humanity None. They don't care about Anthing, war, death, destruction, the elimination of the humankind, they feel imbued by some kind of an AI God That enables them to do things And you mere mortals better get out of the way And one of the things which I fear because I personally like President Trump personally. I think I would like But whoever is advising him Whoever is guarding the door is not doing a very good job. These people are going to turn they on the president and us. They have no affiliation with anybody. Perion They have no affiliation Let me just forget me just remind you of something very quickly I still haven't heard anybody explain to you what AGI is, artificial general intelligence. These are advanced models that can turn things on and off at will These are things that will have their own sense of presence their own sense of morality, their own sense of right and wrong theirir own Whatever you want to call it. We're not talking chat GPT We're talking about all of a sudden in the middle of a war, Let's say your weapon system just shuts down Well, let's assume that just during the course of something of something is rerouted. a phone says, why? Because let's say some AGI system independently doesn't like what you're doing. thinkinks it's wrong Oh, we haven't we haven't even approached that yet The third, the final hour coming up, my friend, on another side at midnight Wh' the linel? It reminds you boom, boom, boom boom ide of midnight with Lyionel, entnertaining and informative. On the Red Apple Podcast Network How, let me try this again in English. I know with you on another side of midnight. This is hour number three of this thing of ours so glad to see, by the way, I just want to give a hearty hello and Iios over and just arouousing just round of support to our good friend Kevin Droros, who's working the The boys today. You know, Kevin has an interesting past In the late eighties, he was taken into custody by authorities for making loud noises when they changed the mannequin at Macy's It's a long story. It happened then This is a guy who thought Vveto powers was an Italian spy ppe Three people understand that joke, but that's okay. I'm used to it. It happens But it' always goes to show you that listen, kids. When they tell you you can't do something, when they tell you that you're unable, that you don't have the ability, they're probably right But the point is every now and then you can prove them wrong. That's all I want to say. insspiration is the name of the game Now, I got to tell you something which I wanted to bring up right away. This annoys me to just no end. I swear to you, it just annoys me If the existence of non human intelligence would be, as I believe Biggest discovery in human history Why is discussion of UAP still treated as entertainment rather than science. Yeah, I mean Do you think cancer breakthroughs are on Entertertainment tonight. or Would Andy Cohen have a special on canancer dream? No Wire reports from military pilots offten with gun turret photos or Navy personnel. Why is it met with jokes when those same pilots are trusted with billion dollar aircraft and national security missions. We laugh at them Why does the term UFO immediately trigger ridicule while unidentified aerial phenomenon, which I hate, receives kind of more serious treatment maybe, despite describing essentially the same thing Why did we change the names of these things It's like all of a sudden it was peaking, became Beijing Remember Qatar became gutter And then atar and then atar and Look how we spell the name. Oh mao se tung, Mao dg G Turkey Hrdawan' Turkey is now Turkey, which is the way they say it. but all of a sudden we get that one right? All of a sudden, it's cool to say that Dafy Do yourself Ask yourself how many ways can you spellQadafi? with a G, a Q, a K Anyway, all of a sudden, UNFOs are no UAPs And how much of the stigma, I guess that surround you APs How much of this was created by popular culture rather than evidence. I don't get it Why does I'm not done yet. Why does society confuse investigating a possibility with endorsing a conclusion Why is there no critical thinking? Why do we laugh at this Why It's just the same thing when you talk about, you know, they say, by the way, one of the You always hear this in all the various trade magazines and trade provises in the world of podcasting, the number one format is true crime. Really True crime You know what the best true crime story is right now? In my day it was OJ. You know what the best one is now Tyler Robinson He didn't do anything D. You cannot leve this During the OJ cge, is this is a subject, a different subject, sort of During the OJ case I remember on a Friday night When I first Yeah it was kind of brand new with the old ABC you know this is ninety three, ninety four, whatever it was. It was a Friday night and I happened to have on A Nicks game. I never watched the Nicks. never. but it was, I don't know what it was and all a sudden they broke in with a slow speed chase And I thought thousand. First of all was the greatest oxymoron in a slow speed chase. And so who is this? It's O J. Simpson. Really yeah. Who's that guy dri? That's Al Cowling. What happened? Well, he's in the back of a Ford Bronco He's got ten thousand dollars in cash, he's got a fake mustache, a suicide note, and a three hundred and fifty sevenents And I said He killed this woman.'s getting The other side of midnight with Lionel, entertaining and informative On the Red Apple Podcast Network All right, my friends This is another side of midnight with the lineel eight hundred eight four eight nine two, two two. Let's go back to the phone, shall we? Let's go back to the phones and back to the ph. Let's go to Paul in Connecticut, Paul You're on another side of Midnight with Lyionel Morning lel. C a possible conspiracy that's going to be happening, I think, that the Chinese are going to be taking blood samples of the Ebola virus people over in over in the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo and possibly using it for experiments in China. Also that I'm afraid that this virus is leaving Africa now and it's in France with one case there because of sick people traveling I remember without like it was yesterday There was a book called Hot Zone. it was a movie with Dustin Hoffman, as you may recall And I was on WABC We talk to the author of the book Hot Zone And he talks about Ebola Ziir And this is this is a hemorrhagic virus that completely liqufified or removed any kind of clotting factors you bled through your eyes, through nipples. It was it was the most horrible thing anybody has ever seen Then there was another version called Ebola Restin from this Virginia uh, this is a non lethal version of it. This has been around Remember when birds fllew was big? Rember when monkeypox was big? Rember when used in my let me ask you, rather than me make the ment a fact. do you think sometimes We are having fear used as a vector as kind of a weapon against us You think they love to always keep us on edge Do you think there's anything to that? Not that there's no There's truth, off course, there was an Ebola. But what do you think is behind this the masses, but also the you know, the people are it's coming from people eating bats, but then when it goes to the possibly being used as a biological weapon, then it is something for people to. Are we doing Excuse me, more of the bat This sounds like you remember the pangals Remember the Chinese wet markets Are you noticing a repetition of things here? Have you noticed Yes I'd like to get to order, a pack order of batlings. Chinatonic possible, but I mean, no I'm serious about this. Do you see that there is this notion of this always this exotic See, this is a part. This is it appears to have originated As an animal virus, this is called zoanotic. This is where where we share And it started in Central Africa and West Africa and occasionally spills over into humans and the leading are you leading Monkeys monkeys and bats. No we're doing that goes back to the AidDes Aides,'s monkeys back let me explain to you if youd like me to explain to you. The leading scientific theory is that Certain species of African fruit bats as the natural reservoir. carrying the virus without becoming seriously ill themselves Humans may become infected through contact where the infected wildlife, including bats or other animals, that become infected from the bat And the virus, interesting, was first identified in nineteen seventy six during simultaneous outbreaks. Let me do this. Let me put you on hold for a second becausecause I wonder this is a fascinating subject Let me remind you you're listening right now to the other side of midnight with Lionel All right, my friends You know, I love the notion of disease, whereere it comes from, how it came. R rememember during the notion of AIDS. AIDS came from the African green monkey And then that came from People having se part it was a family show, but people people took that as to having sex with monkeys. like, no, that's not where I came from a little bit about this. this is fascinating. The virus It was first identified in nineteen seventy six, my high school graduation year during simultaneous outbreaks of what are now the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan And the disease was named after the Ebola River which was near one of the original outbreak locations. Now remember They were getting very upset when they said, Wuhan, the Wuhan. They said, Well, bring up aone that's racist. It's Chinese You cant associate a place with the disease? Well what about, you know, Lyme disease? Lyme Connecticut, Ebola German measles. it went on and on Scientists strongly suspect that fruit bats are the primary reservoir, but an important scientific detail remains After nearly fifty years of study The definitive natural host has not been conclusively proven. You see, batchs remain the leading candidate because they can carry Ebola genetic material and antibodies without showing illness But researchers continue to investigate whether other species They also play a role And once Ebola enters humans, it spreads through direct contact with blood or other bodily fluids of an infected person rather than through the air like influenza or measles So with Ebola onene would suggest that in that particular case, wearing a mask is not Well you don't know. Let me tell you what's going to happen And they say that, of course, with all due respect. People will be so frightened of Ebola, and they should be Remember, we've been through H one N one, COVID SARS COVID two Monkeypox Um What else do we do? Oh, u Thanky Ps The latest I forget. And then we go through a few of these and then we kind of forget and then we move on. Things just go away. Remember all the problems we had with air traffic control. what happened? It just went away What about the drones in New Jersey? It just went away They're just here for a couple of days and they and they just go away So pretty soon we're not going to be talking about Ebola anymore. We're just not going to be It's going to be the next thing But what's interesting to me, which I find fascinating is we have to teach people How to become an autoact, how to be self taught to learn this. How do you G get to the bottom of this. How do you find out moreore about this. and all of this information is right there Paul in Connecticut, Paul, I think we were talking to you. Paul, your final comment regarding this scourge, Is this something that you think about that you worry about, How are you concerned It's a concern. you know, I'm glad I have my basic needs, M like place to live and some money to get groceries try not to drink too much, but besides that you know, it is a concern, but I'd I don't want to dwell on it Well Paul, I thank you so much. Please call me again. Don't Of course, having a place to live has nothing to do with you not getting Ebola. But it's good. I understand. You know what? It's a start U Let me see this Let's go to Mike in Brooklyn. Mike You're on another side of the other excuse me, another side of Mid night with Lionel. One of those ses. Good morning, Rionel. My question to comment is that in Brooklyn, we have rabies we have to worry about twowo people have been attacked by by raccoons within this month Rade here in Brooklyn And the Gunks that are in the neighborhood. One of them tested positive for rabies and the other one There was the mine was inconclusive Any idea Oh Skunk attacks Are you there, Mike Yeah. M Now What are the local officials saying about this? And is this a source of concern for you, sir? Yes, absolutely. I'm the one I'm one of the people that got attacked The raccoon, thank God, my dog was with me The dog took on the raccoon and killed it It was a twenty five pound raccob I'm visually impaired. I didn't know it was a raccoon. I didn't even know what it was. It attacked me and my dog just happened to be right next to me in the garbage cans and everything will fly and I was running the other way did a scuffle I found out it was a raccoon and that one tested negative for rabies. Okay Gunk that bit me in September of last year That one wasn't tested. The Animal care wouldn't do nothing And the one that I came in contact with U june fifth I went to pick it up because it was in the yard and the dog was barking at it and everything and found it it was dead in the yard When I picked it up, it slept and it went right into my hand. Hang on a second. stop for a second, Stop for one second The skunk attacked you when, when was this? Okay, the skunk attack, the first one, the skunk attack was September of last year Okay, now let me stop you right here. I don't know Okay, I don't know and it was not tested. I don't know about rabies, but I think the incubation time s probably not nine months. I think you're probably clear. Maybe I'm wrong I don't know how long it takes The Department of Health, I was under the same pressure too because I don't know much about it, but I'm finding more information as I go The Department of Health says that that then the rabies can liay dormant in you for seven years and then hit you like a fridgeerine That's what the BO department out was telling me And it says discus here. that one was that one was inconclusive But within the last week, they found another rabid Cum two hundred feet from my house. Now let me ask you this, stop for one second In a very brief cursory check on my point It says rabies is one of the most variable incubation periods of any infectious disease First, typical incubation period one to three months Possible range a few days to more than a year and most common range is twenty to ninety days. So the biggest factors are usually the location of the exposure becausecause the virus travels through nerves toward the brain Bites closer to the head or the face or the neck generally result in shorter Incubation periods then bites on the legs or the feet So You Probably, I don't know I think you should you should perhaps do do you have a primary care physician? haveave you talked to someomebody that cares for you And I had, but I haven't been going to them, so I have to go back to them, that's for sure But N let me explain to you something Let me expl you something. and I love you to death. All right? I love you 'use you're like a brother to me. and I love you But what the hell is the matter with you? I would be on the phone. I'd be in front of that doctor's office. I'm saying, I got hit. I've been attacked by skunks Raccoons. I'm apppparently the word is out that I'm an easy I'm an easy mark What am I looking for, doctor? What are my symptoms? Do I have anything to worry about promise you If I got attacked by a skunk with rabies, you would not ever hear me say, I don't know. I would know exactly So I'm just telling you as a human being, Forget the Department of Health Get somebody to definitively answer this question. You probably are okay. I'm just saying. As a layman But how is it that you have been coming into contact with S You in but Brooklyn Yeah How were you attacked by skunks, raccoons You know every now and then, you remember when they have like for example, the wolf, the cooyote. Every now and then in Central Park, this coyote shows up from I don't know where the hell is from and then it goes away. There's the lone coyote. And then it goes away What kind of a luck do you have? Were you born under some star Some sign That says Let, you know, let's make sure Mike attracts, you know, rabid vermin Itays. My birthday is the fourth of July, so try to make it today there. Well, listen, Mike, I tell you you There was a girl attacked by a raccoon two weeks ago Right around the corner here What is this like raccoon sentence overrun by raccoons And it seems to me that they're starting to become a little on the aggressive side now Yes, Yes Have you called mayayor, mom, Donny and said, Now listen I know you're busy with these social discness But I'm over here being attacked by rabid, you know, raccoons. You got to do something about this. This is incredible This is so city cououncil woman, but she wasn't in the office. the one I want probably wasn't in the office, but please Listen, Mike Mike, you come again, my friend. Thank you so much and if we and happppy birthday in advance, dear friend, canan you believe this right I brackon attacks This is something. Mike, I thank you very much. Let's go to Benny and Bayside, Benny. You're on another side of midnight with a linel Hey, Sczby Pack was the best. Mike. I can't hear what you I can't I don't know what you just said. What did you say Mike As far as Mike the pestqu Yes, o. purple, purple Pps on behind is he has purple bone on his behinds Stop for a second He was attacked by a skump Are you wait a minute. why are his joking Right? This is a very serious subject, Benny They're very serious. There are really what's on your mind here in Queens in Brooklyn There really are Okay. And my neighbor any one time was like, Yes, sir Penny, I'm just curious. the purpose of your call, sir? I don't think it was skkunks I't really was it It was re tell you that of Lynn, I love what Ln stands for your wife Absolutely. And she runs on like Mie Red Blls at two o'clock in the morning. Yes As she's going a million miles an hour, And then as you going to like fifty And then all of a suddenly, you jam it in reverse with your ADD You know, what do you think about this? You know? And I just absolutely love the two ofas reallyally do. Beny, do me a favor Beny do me your favor Explain to me how I throw it into a reverse with my ADD What is that mean?? Oh you have attention deffes disorder Dfinitely, no doub Why do you say that? because suddenly youll be talking about a subject and No do it Let me ask you about this Let me ask you Wait a minute. Let me ask let me ask you a question There you go. If a person if a person had let me ask you let me ask you a question about what you're just saying If a person has a multiplicity of questions if there are many questions that are inspired by an issue. It's like you would be talking in a conversation Why is that attention deficit? Why not a super acuity to the subject that I'm talking about What if a subject so inspires me It makes me ask other questions. Maybe, and I ask this with all due respect, maybe I'm not the problem Maybe you can't follow Just a thought, Benny. J just maybe a thought. We are both exactly right there with AVB No, no, you haven't you haven't said this. This is not ADD This is not a tension deficit This is the ability to see many issues regarding the subject You do understand the difference, correct I do absolutely, but you going on subject on one projective and then All of a suddenly, you make a left turn. I. No't know, but I'm saying love I love it. I think the moment, I think the projective that you say that I'm on being changed, it's because the subject changes or a nuance change I'm just saying with all due respect. your brain. It might be you, my friend Benny, I thank you so much. Have a nice day, sir. please call me again How about that, Kevin? you got that you got that hint? you got that tag When I say, thank you very much. Have a nice day. You know what I mean? That's like I'm just saying One of my, I don't want to say pet peeves But one the one of the things which I find interesting is that when you talk about a subject any subject There is automatically ten, at least derivative subjects within that subject No matter what it is No matter what it is, takeake rabies What is it? common is it Is it rare that it happens in Brooklyn What are the symptoms What would you do if you contacted this? Remember you heard these terrible shots When I was a kid, they said they give you these painful injections in the abdomen and I just gave you ten Questions roughly that are subsumed under the rubric under the issue of rabies. That's not ADD. It's not changing subject, it's not going left and right. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, maybe it's me. Let's go to let's go to Frankie in New York. Frankie, you're on another side of Midnight with Lionel By now we really got a problem with the skunks Last night, I almost got attacked by five of them taking their garbage out. Yep. Five you w, wa, wait wait. Where did this happen? The mom papa and three little ones Where do this happen, s? in my backyard Where is your backyard in Glendale Okay So take me through this. You were taking your garbage out Yes. And how did they you? Do they growl? Do they make a noise? What happened? Well They st they came up the stairs from the other backyard N I said Oh man, I thought it was a cat first So then I saw a white stripe and I said, noope, those are not cats So I was going to take a photograph because it was so strange T The mama turned around and lifted its back tail. and then I backed up because you know Oh, that's it It's like the New York City New York is turned into a mutual of Omaha's wild kingdom here. We got the R boons Yeah. When when the how do you know it was the mother? because it was the bigger one And there was another lar one and then there was there was like three of them following And you can tell and it lifted its tail, indicating it was about to spray you but didn't No, because I saw that dig turn around, lift the tail up and I backed up Wit. No, I understand that That's what I said. It lifted his tail, but didn't. It did not. No Excellent And did you did you call anybody about this? Did you do you hesitate happen No? No No, this is the first time Why wouldn't you call the authorities to let them know you're being attacked or swarmed by skunks If you think they're going to come for a skunk when they don't come when your car's getting its t is taking off You know, from a We don't think that's worth it Okay, Frank, I thank you my friend. have a good day. Thank you. I don't know about you. Maybe I'm just I Thank you, sir. I would be immediately for whatever it's worth Letting someone know And I'm also, let me also tell you something. I'm a firm believer in emailing. You know, we stopped emailing. I don't know why we just stopped doing this Everybody wants to text now. Can I text you this? No, I don't want you to text me anything Send an email. And if you were to send something to a a division to a part of the government that handles whatever vermin control is They have that email It's different. It's hard to lose it By the way, the same thing goes when you petition Congress The best, believe it or not, are phone calls because after x amount of ph my wife will tell you, after X amount of phone calls They have to report it But believe it or not Eailing is critical Most people don't do this. I'm very surprised at that. Let's go to Sean in Brooklyn, Sean. You're on another side of midnight with the linel. Lionel, I'm loving this show. They should put Bobby Kennedy as in charge of the New York City parks deepartment from hearing all these people But a lot of it is coming from West Chessey County because so much housing was built there and a lot of their areas were you know destroyed, So the beer come down, the possum come down, rack. Let me ask you a question. Back to what you said. Why should Bobby Kennedy be in charge of becausecause we always used to hear like you said, like, o, there was a wolf in Wolf in Central Park. And we know Boby Kennedy brought a a bear carcass down to Central Park and now he laughs about it. He put a bicycle next to it I mean, should we really have them dealing with the red dye number one and red dy number two with that background with that resume. But anyways, Well, we never y to also, but also Bobby, Bobby has been picking up a lot of snakes And didn't he do something something somewhat obsene almost with a where they Porcupineers not porcupine, they some other type of thing peaking of Bobby Kenny Here's my question to you, what exactly has he done? I mean, other than Red Die And introducing beef tallow The idea of frying French fries in Beef fat this is better for you. This is better for your atherosclerotic prerevention, beef tallow. Other than that, what has he done Just curious Well, I could tell you a few things. First, let me give you a little bit of a lighter note there. Bobber Kennedy Jror, you know, would wear groucho glasses and go into white castles. Okaykay. So these guys with this background and everything. I mean, I think he's a little bit older than you. I mean, he looks How do you know how do you know how do you know he he wears groucho glasses in a white cast Well, it's kind of a joke because I don't believe these guys as. I don't ex He probably eats Captain Crunch for breakfast. come on. I mean these guys you know, at his age, the way he's built, I' taking anything away from him. He's had a life, he's had an easy life and a hard life because there certain things that went on But sure. The thing is at that age, I mean, come on. You're not gonna to be built like that. I mean, if he is,ll I'll call him a big compliment, but a lot of times he are you getting it? What are you getting it ' getting. Well, you said, well, what has he done? I' just I've already said him. He's Hang on a second. You think I'm all over the place. Let's talk about you Let's go with your first observation. You said he's like seventy one, seventy, whatever he is. He's the seventies at least What Are you suggesting? Are you suggesting you take some type of some type of of performance enhancement drugs, steroids, Mayo hormones, testosterone, Is that what you're saying I'm not suggesting that. I'm saying a guy is that veryery difficult to be built the way he's built. afore you know, therefore I' got a linebacker. All right, put the with me on this Fh Sean, don't move. Let's don't don't veer from this. Wk with me on this It It's very rare to be built like that at his age. Therefore, what? why is he built like that at his age? Don't tell me because he works out. That doesn't matter What are you suggesting Well, I will suggest because I know a lot of men in those day agerou who do use tosterone to increase the tox because it goes down. The levels at that age usually go down, right N by the way by the way, most of that is mythical Most of it is the idea of it being so low that you have to have supplementation. Not a good thing. Hey, Sean, I thank you so much. Please call me again. We were going nowhere with that. Let me explain a couple of things to you. And this is just me as a just as a as a how do I say this It's just a lay personers Men I remember one time I have a physician friend. I said, What's the story about low tea? He said, you shave? I said, Yes. Have you lost your beard? I said, No, I goes, you're fine. Okay That's interesting. I never thought about that Number two. There are some little dormant, how do I say this? some prostate cancers that are just sitting back Dormant They say that most people If you look at most men who die if you lived a regular life and died of natural causes and theirre seventies or eighties or what happen If you were to take biopsies of them post mortem, you would find Three cancers prostate P canancer. after a period of time Pstate cancer, it's very slow in some cases, but that you're invariably going to have that if if you live to be one hundred and fifty, you're going to get a prostate yet. It's just a matter of time It's just one of those things. That's why one of the reasons where for example, if you have prostate cancer One of the treatments is an orchaeectomy or castration to stop the feeding of testosterone Why am I saying this Let's say there's a little Dormant Cancer Somewhere in your body, a man prostate just laying back figures, you know what? I'm not going to really develop whatever. And all of a sudden Here you come along with these blasts of organs of testosterone and human growth hormone and wait a minute Hold it. I may have a resurgent. Wait a minute, I'm feeling invigorated. It's the little cancer that could It's just like when we eat meat with all of these these hormones in them. whyy do you think little girls are deeveloping breasts and having secondary sex characteristics and menarchy and menstruation Why do you think they're happening so early? Why What do you think the reason for this is? It's a very scary thing. There's just some So what I'm saying is be very, very careful. And there's a lot of folks too I hate to say this to you, but A lot of men who don't understand that. you know, when you're getting older You're not going to be able you're not twenty years old anymore Now This may becomes as a shock to But I have never seen so many people like Pete Hagsith Robert Kennedy Jior. He didn't want to do pull ups. Pull upps and push ups. Look, I can do pull upps Can you imagine General Patton doing that? No Can you imagine George C. Marshall doing No They would say, I'm not gonna do a pull up at all. The saddest thing I saw the other day, the saddest was Poor cash patel. Bless his heart. He's got the country music singer, girlfriend And Cash Patel went to a party Okay, went to a party for I think it was FBI family members And do you know he walked in And he had his FBI badge on his belt The director of the FBI, he's like a little boy who likes Badges and raid jackets. Can you imagine J. Edgar Hoover with a badge? I one time talked to The great Ray Kelly What the perhaps the greatest police commissioner we've ever had And we were talking and he said, I don't know how the subject came up. But he said, Yeahah, I've got a badge. I think I think it was Teddy Roosevelt's badge. He said, Do you carry a badge? He says, no. I don't think so. his wife says, I'm the commissioner You don't know who I am It he didn't need to do that. He's been a cop his whole life. He doesn't It's like he doesn't have to turn the lights on and wear raid jackets. It's very interesting So what I'm trying to say is some people love The The accoutrements so to speak of youth and masculinity and you know, badges and look at me, I'm a man. and what I'm saying is Please work out, please exercise. stretching is incredible But man. And ladies, remember, age is not a bad thing. It's a good thing becausecause the alternative to aging is, well, I don't want to talk about this. But be very careful when you try to push things. Don't tamper with things You're not going to be when you see a guy who's seven years old and he has thick veined vasculature in his bicep O That is not a good thing at all. That's all I'm saying. eight hundred eight four eight nine two, two two. when we return from this interruption A very good to interrupt. a bit of a break We're going to finish up with as many calls as possible as we Cplete This session of another sideide of Midnight With Lel The other side of midnight with Lionel, Enertaining and informative. On the Red Apple Podcast Network. I ready line up with you twenty five or sixty four, actually That song envisions twenty five or twenty six minutes to four in the morning which we should have played at that time, which would have made a little bit more sense, but who cares L's like that, you go with the flow. eight hundred eight four eight nine two, two, two. Let's go back to the phones Back to the fun. Let's go to Mike in South Carolina, Mike You're on another side of midnight with linel Good morning Line. I love it. twenty five or six to four Chicago. You know how when I played the drums to that song I had to shake my hands up for like two minutes forget it. upem up. You know what, Lionel Interesting subjects you have, of course How about the Kennedys How about the Kennedy? How about the Kennedy? How about those Kennedys? Yeah, H's what I think about the Kennedys Okay, John Kennedy's father, Joe, was a bootlegger. Okay I was nine years old when he was assassinated in nineteen sixty three and this event. And look at the whole family, they're sort of dysfunctional. And I think in all reality You know, the Kennedy family, they should put a bridge up in Massachusetts and they should name it Tenda Swimmer Kennedy. You know, well head to candes I think a name what Mary Joe Kpeckney, that's who it was ninety six m But anyway You have so many varied subjects You know, you Well, as do you. Well let's go back a couple of things. Joe Kennedy was a bootlegger to be sure But he really made his money in Hollywood. He really made his money in stock. He was a SEC chairman. The bootlegger was initial. That was what he did maybe initially That really wasn't how he made his. That was kind of overdone He was probably anybody who lobotomizes his daughter. and doesn't even tell his family about Anybody who has an affair with Gloria Swanton and brings her to the family breakfast table In front of his kids. This was a weird, this was a weird group of folks Weird weird group of folks. and I remember reading about Gloria Sansson. Yeah, Papa Joe he was very eclectic. Let's put it that way. Well also he was remember, he was the one who initially he was canned by FDR because he was he was a tad of an isolationist if His ideas did not necessarily work Interestingly enough John Kennedy was really not meant to be the star. It was Joseph, the eldest brother And when Joe Kennedy, the brother, found out that John Kennedy had became famous during the PT one hundred and nine event And then profiles andcourage. he was so upset. This is is what they say that Joe went upstairs and cried or whatever. And that's when he hatched this kckamimi plann. to fly this bomber that's loaded with explosives and then parachute out to try to gain fame and it did not work. I mean, it was it was a really strange group. And I'm and that let me tell you something, New York dodged a bullet becausecause of that Jack Schlosberg who has no business getting anywhere. He's never worked a day in his life. I don't think he knows what he I'm just gonna to leave it at. That's a That's a very interesting young man. Thank God All right, my friend, Mike, I thank you. Please call me again. Have a great day. Let's go to Johnny in New Jersey. Johny You're on another side of Midnight with Lionel. I think we lost Johnny What are you gonna say eight hundred eight four eight nine two, two two You know what we haven't had in a long time is the person who's sleeping We used to sometimes get somebody who was just snoring Right in the middle, I mean, just it happened on a number of occasions. which is a A great Ego booster. You're not be snoring I will tell you, my friends, one of the things which is a fascinating subject I do not know Why