Rebirth and the Salesman, or Why I'm Samuel Beckett Again (Take 2)

A Neo daily show on life after Hollywood, Washington, and New York (aka the U.S. of Israel, the world’s leading criminal racket).

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You're doing yoga with Sean, MP, right?

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MP, Minister of Parliament.

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I'm this country's prime minister, for Christ's sakes.

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Right?

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If Trump is the president, right?

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For goodness sakes.

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Right?

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Somebody asked me who my drug dealer's number was.

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I was like, oh, you be my boyfriend, Arthur?

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He's my love drug.

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You know, it's true.

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I am a total recluse.

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I do not like to go out at all.

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Oh, you know, but I would like to have a car, right?

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That's where Rebirth and the Salesman comes in.

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Arthur would not.

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I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever get over it.

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The moment when Arthur picked me up in a Saab 900.

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But there was no T. It was not turbocharged.

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Okay, because Arthur had long been healed from crystal meth abuse, right?

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Bright, clean, shiny day.

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Angels in America.

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Partes.

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Tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve.

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See, I mean, to make it topical, right?

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Tim Waltz's W-A-L-Z's daughter compares Abrego Garcia to Jesus,

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but can't see the Palestinians who are at minimum also Jesus.

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right?

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Meanwhile, the Trump administration is well within their right.

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It's an interpretation of the law.

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This is what a country of lawyers and business people have created people,

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a country of rule by literal law,

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right?

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It depends on what the meaning of is is, right?

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Here's the chatterbox slate, right?

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No.

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Oh, Timothy Noah, yet again, another Timothy, another Noah, right?

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September 13th, my friends, welcome to rebirth.

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And the salesman Arthur picked me up in that car, my friends.

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And we went, he drove us to

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The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens to see the cherry blossoms.

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The rest, as they say, is history.

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I know why.

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Oh, Arthur, hold me.

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Do you hear that?

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I'm hamming it up for Easter.

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This is my Easter rising story.

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Thank you, Gwendo.

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Thank you to the Armenian quarter.

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They are sky riding.

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My friends in the air.

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I'm doing my yoga.

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It is so tight.

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Oh!

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I have so much pain.

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But Paso, a Paso, I am getting there.

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Oh, did you hear that crack?

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Just some psychosomatic.

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Oh, work, yeah.

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Thank you, Marc Jacobs.

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Exactly.

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Play it as it lays and also speed the plow.

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Right?

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This is an astonishing play, it turns out.

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I'm doing a mixture of philosophy,

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history,

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historicizing,

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and political commentary,

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my friends,

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right?

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I mean, it's outrageous when you think about it, right?

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The president of El Salvador comes to the United States of America at a huge White

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House photo op because it's great for his domestic politics,

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right?

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It also is a measure of the United States' decline,

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that that's who the United States can do business with right now.

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And it's literally a business deal because the United States is paying them $6

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million a year or something starting

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And they're already seeing that money.

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Unlike,

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for instance,

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all the money that was appropriated under the Biden administration for

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infrastructure rebuilding,

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which hasn't been spent and won't be for the most part.

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because everything's just accelerating towards Chinese economic control.

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And as I keep saying,

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to keep it really topical,

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to keep the heat on,

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right,

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as I undo my hair,

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right?

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I mean, Bernie Sanders and AOC, right?

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I'm so glad to see that these, and Wes Moore, if these are the people that, you know,

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the Democrats are putting forth or are testing out already for 2028, it's really sad.

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Because the easiest way to restore everything that everybody says they want,

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which is America's development...

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would be to cut ties with the state of Israel.

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Now that would be a blow truly to the economy of the United States of America,

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but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

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And it doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.

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This is my Easter rising story.

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What, you think I'm not going to keep saying this?

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I mean, it's a beautiful day out

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Ray,

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after two really gray days,

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and I get very depressed with gray weather,

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persistent gray weather,

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especially in a place in Los Angeles,

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and I'm using my indoor voice.

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I must watch my tone, Arthur said.

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I'm just a child of the 60s.

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I oppose segregation and I oppose war.

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Call it by its name, the Palestine War, the Gaza War.

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The Gaza War, the Palestine War overall is no different from the Vietnam War.

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On Earth, we're briefly gorgeous.

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It is about an aesthetic education.

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If you're not happy with the way you're living your life,

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this is my Easter rising message,

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rebellion,

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defiance.

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Right?

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Right?

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Since when is killing another people,

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forcing them into safe zones,

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a Passover or an Easter tradition?

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Right?

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Why can't people be content with what they already have?

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Why can't people be content to relax and to rest, right?

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I don't understand this obsession, right, with enemies.

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Enemies should be a love story.

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Do you get my joke, my friend?

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This should make good copy for Instagram.

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I don't really particularly care how it plays together.

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unsubstack, but here's the real T people.

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Right?

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Depends on the meaning of years.

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Excuse me.

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Depends on the meaning of the word is.

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From that Slate article I referenced earlier as I bring these 15 minutes of

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stretching it out to a close.

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Straight improv, my friends, today.

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Rebirth and the salesman.

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Because I do have Arthur Paul Sanchez to thank for my rebirth.

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Six years ago.

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Just six years ago at age 41.

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We were together actually that Easter.

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He said his mom was gonna be in church the entire day, or maybe that was every Sunday.

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Years from now,

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Ay, ay, ay.

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Arthur Paul Sanchez, my love drug.

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Years from now, September 13th, Tanya, my other love drug.

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Years from now,

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when we look back on Bill Clinton's presidency,

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its defining moment may well be Clinton's rationalization to the grand jury.

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but why he wasn't lying when he said to his top aides that with respect to Monica Lewinsky,

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quote,

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there's nothing going on between us,

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end quote.

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How can this be?

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Here's what Clinton told the grand jury according to footnote 1128 in Starr's report.

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It depends on what the meaning of the word is, is.

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If the, if he, if is means is and never has been, that is not, that is one thing.

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If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.

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Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms.

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Lewinsky that has asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no.

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And it would have been completely true.

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The distinction between is and was was seized on by the commentary at when Clinton

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told Jim Lehrer of PBS currently aligned with The Atlantic,

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right,

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and that racket.

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Right after Lewinsky's story broke, there is no improper relationship, quote unquote.

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Chatterbox confesses that at the time he thought all these Beltway domes were

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hyperanalyzing and in need of a little fresh air.

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What have I been talking about, WHYY?

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But it turns out they were right.

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Bill Clinton really is a guy who's willing to think carefully about,

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quote,

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what the meaning of the word is,

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is,

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end quote.

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This is way beyond slick.

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Perhaps we should start calling him existential Willie.

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Well, to be or not to be, my friends, let me not be.

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accidentally erase yet another tape rebirth in the salesman we're getting there my

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friends in which I right or is it he right there is no Hollywood Washington and New

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York anymore my friends they've all been dethroned as capitals right

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Right?

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Choose your illusions wisely.

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That's all there are.

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All right?

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Your illusions.

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All right?

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Mm-hmm.

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I have to do my laundry.

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Ciao for now.

ICYMI⥥⥥