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May 20, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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DAILY BRIEFING: Quo Vadis?

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All right, my friends.
This is today's Friday's Daily Briefing.
A chance for you to kind of look to see where are we going.
And I want to start off today by noticing we have a poll.
I ask a very simple question.
Will Joe Biden run in 2024?
So far a resounding 78% of you said no.
That poll will remain up for you to add your insight.
But I want to talk about something which first...
It's something that I want to share.
May I ask something before we begin?
I don't normally do this.
I don't want to intrude upon your privacy.
But is it possible for us, for you just to, and I think you should never ever be concerned with your age.
People are very funny about that.
They're very odd.
People are like, I don't want to talk about my age.
Your age is something good.
You earned it.
Because the opposite of getting old is, well, I think we know, how old is everyone here?
May I get an idea of how old you are?
How old?
Let me get an idea as we begin this.
I am of the great age of, I think this year I will be 64. And whenever I have to stop, I say 64. And I think, you know, when you get to the point, you get to some points, you say, well, whatever.
See, we have a 57-year-old, 49, 50, 66, here we go, Ben Trovatore, we got a 35-er, 59, 61, 64. This is good.
By the way, you are a great demographic.
Did you know this?
A great Demographic.
Because you buy stuff that's expensive.
Be proud of it.
Look at this.
67. 17. Excellent.
Welcome.
I want to get to you in a moment.
75ers.
12. Well, good.
Boomers.
54. 36. 60. Good, good, good.
Now, you will remember.
Especially those, I think, 60 and thereabouts.
We had the greatest, the greatest, the greatest, the greatest, the greatest.
Someone wrote jazz magician.
Reggie said, it's funny, jazz, it's a good point, Reg, jazz and blues in particular.
And country, revere their old.
Little Jimmy Dickens, Ernest Tubb, Willie.
Willie is going, you know, as long as he possibly can.
So, Willie's looking at 90. So, the point of all this is that certain people respect theirs.
Blues, they go on forever.
So, when we were younger, we had the greatest television of all time.
The greatest television.
It was just superb.
Not only was it great television, we had the great theme songs.
We had theme songs.
We don't even have themes.
We don't have anything anymore.
We just have noises like...
That's it.
If you went to young people and say...
That's it.
Do you know what it is?
The songs were almost as important as...
Boy, the way Glenn Miller played.
Different times.
Classic genius go down.
One of the greatest...
Oh, my God.
Psycho.
Not Psycho.
Twilight Zone.
In fact, the only award-winning song...
The award...
Very good.
Tony, New Zealand.
Nice cartoons.
Actions.
Absolutely.
Bonanza.
Welcome back, Carter.
Carter.
Or Carter, as I call him.
Welcome back, Carter.
How about Carter?
John Sebastian.
Welcome back.
It's a very weird way of pronouncing words.
Anyway.
The only famous, the only show of note, the only show of note, That did not have any music.
It was 60 Minutes.
That's it.
Everything was better.
Everything.
And the news.
Do you understand what it was like to live in an era of Cronkite?
There's no such thing as it.
Fake news?
What's...
It's not, it was oxymoronic.
There's no news if it's fake.
What are you talking about?
What are you, what are you talking about?
Taxi was great.
Bob James, songs called Angela.
I think off of his Touchdown album.
It was better.
Three networks.
We knew everything.
We had a newspaper in the morning.
Depending upon where you live, maybe one in the afternoon.
That's it.
No CNN.
No breaking news.
They never broke in with anything.
Anything.
Do you understand that?
Nothing.
Kennedy.
That's it.
Breaking news?
No, no.
It'll wait.
It'll wait.
Developing story.
Breaking news.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
It'll wait.
6 o 'clock.
Then 6.30.
Right 6 was the news, the local news, then 6.30 right after that.
Cronkite.
And that was the end of it.
Maybe 11 o 'clock, that's it.
Then something came along.
Nightline.
During the Iranian hostage case.
Oh my God!
You're on at night?
Day 143.
This is Ted Koppel.
Oh my god.
Nightline.
I think that was Rune Arledge who might have started that.
Nightline.
At night?
At what?
Tell kids that.
What are you talking about?
How about the late show?
The late, late show.
And there was the end.
The end of this concludes our broadcast day.
The Indian.
The test pattern.
We have this thing, Seeds for the Sower, from Meadow, Georgia.
Our Lord says that to be free of sin is the first...
I didn't know what he was talking about.
At the end, it's three in the morning.
The test pattern.
Falling asleep on the couch with the test pattern going, for God's sakes, turn it off.
What?
It's over.
No more.
3 o 'clock in the morning?
No, no such thing.
When did they go off?
Funny what, was it about 2 o 'clock?
1 o 'clock maybe?
I don't know.
Who knows?
Yeah?
I would say like 3 to 6 a.m.
3 to 6 a.m.?
Okay, maybe.
Remember the emergency broadcasting?
This station, in conjunction with the emergency broadcasting system, will conduct this test.
This is only a test.
What the hell was that?
Had this been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed, where the hell to get out of town?
Because, you know, that was it.
It was just different.
We knew more.
We knew more.
Let me say that again.
I don't think you really understand what I'm saying.
We knew more.
How did we know more?
There was less information.
We were smarter.
We were smarter.
We went to school.
We were smarter.
We had things like penmanship, geography, math.
We actually had school.
We learned stuff in school.
And it wasn't so much innocence.
Yeah, innocence to an extent.
Innocence is one thing.
Naivete is another.
Naivete is another.
We weren't naive.
Innocence is different.
It's a little different.
But TV was, oh my God, it was certain nights.
Sunday nights.
Who remembers?
What was Sunday night?
Ed Sullivan.
I don't know why I'm watching Ed Sullivan.
The Wonderful World of Disney.
Mutual of Omaha.
Sunday Nights.
Marlon Perkins.
Jim Fowler.
Bonanza.
I don't remember what Bonanza was.
Friday Night.
The Wild Wild West.
Love American style.
That was the Cow Sills, by the way.
It's beautiful.
It's just beautiful.
I remember when All in the Family came, 71, 72, we knew right away Archie Bunker was a joke.
He was the joke.
Nobody said, hey, did you see that racist show?
We said, no, it wasn't racist because we realized, no, he was the joke.
He was it.
They're making fun of him.
Today, we wouldn't...
Well, you can't say that word.
No, no, but he's the Joe.
I don't know what that means, he's the Joe.
He said this word and that word.
I don't understand that.
Well, why am I talking about this?
Well, let me tell you.
Recently, there was a thing called Upfronts.
Upfronts is this thing, this event, which used to mean something every year.
And what it does is, they used to have this thing every year at the...
Carnegie Hall, maybe here in New York, maybe Lincoln Center, maybe whatever.
It's kind of like the way Fashion Week was at Bryant Park.
It was when we were classy.
So, every year, ABC, NBC puts a big party on for its affiliates.
Introducing the new stuff.
The new shows.
The new shows.
Here's a great show.
And you have the stars.
They come out and they mingle with the station owners.
I mean, it was a deal.
This is where you showcase.
This is our new stuff.
That's dead.
This year, it was a flop this year, wasn't it?
It was a flop.
Because it's over.
That model is over.
Not that television is over.
Not that entertainment is over.
Not that stories and people...
No, that's not it.
It's a different story.
It's a different kind of a take.
It's a different kind of world.
And what's so incredibly interesting in all this event is that the people who run the show don't understand how this works.
They don't understand.
They don't understand.
They think that they're Fred Silverman.
They think that they're Grant Tinker.
They think that they're Brandon Tartikoff.
That they're Rune Arledge.
That they're...
Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, remember that?
For the game shows.
They think, or Sherwood Schwartz, they want to be the big shots.
And these people in the old days were smart.
And I love listening to the...
I guess it's the world, these interviews on the...
I mean...
And you're explaining how things came about.
How did MASH come about?
Mary Tyler Moore.
Casting.
Mary Tyler Moore is still.
Because Ted Baxter, the three people.
Ted Baxter, the idea of Barney Fife and Howard Beale.
These are three people.
All of them supposedly not real.
But these people meant the world to me.
Ted Baxter presaged the joke of the news person.
It's a joke.
They made fun of him.
Cronkite was, I think, 10 years off from retirement.
Cronkite was at the top of his game.
How did they ever look at that as being a joke?
How did they, before Ron Burgundy, before all this stuff, how did they do this?
One of my heroes.
Howard Beale is what everybody wanted to be.
Everybody wanted to be the person who said, I'm going to tell you the truth.
I'm going to tell you the truth.
Listen, go to the window.
I'm as mad as hell.
I did this.
They actually let me do this.
I think, and I will go on record, for a...
For a local show, PIX11 News, a mainstay in New York, for how many years was that?
I don't even know how many years.
What?
How many years did it?
Four years?
Huh?
Four or five.
I don't know.
It was so...
It was so mondo.
So, they let me do whatever.
It was wonderful.
And then, you know, new people come in and they want to change.
And that's okay.
I dig that.
But there was a time when somebody said, do it.
We've got nothing to lose.
Every night.
Every night at 10.50.
Every night.
Seven days a week.
Seven.
Not five.
Not three.
Seven.
Every night.
I did a commentary on everything.
It was the greatest thing I've ever seen.
And people liked it.
They liked it because they said, thank you!
And it was Howard Beale!
And you've done RFID chips, hydro-imperialism, name it!
I've got to tell you my greatest moment.
I'm telling you right now.
I'm telling you, this is my...
I...
It was during Libya.
I said this, I had the graphic, I said this is a map of Libya.
This is the Fezzan, right here.
So where the black Libyans are.
They love Gaddafi, by the way.
This part here.
At the top is Tripolitania, and then Cyrenaica.
These are the three divisions.
And in Cyrenaica, there's this place called Benghazi.
In Benghazi, if you notice, this is a picture of the, and I had this picture, so this is a picture of the courthouse.
In Benghazi.
And that is the Al-Qaeda flag.
Translation, the rebels that we are supporting are Al-Qaeda.
Nobody, even remotely, said anything near this on TV, on any news show.
But I did it.
And people lumped it.
Because there was a spirit of, it's not a conspiracy theory.
It's true.
People loved it.
Those days are over.
Those days are over.
It's done.
Not the truth.
Not TV.
It's a new group of people.
And it's a new desire from these unimaginative people to...
I've got to tell you this much.
I'm going to read this.
I'm not going to tell you where it's from.
I did a comment on this at lionelmedia.com which is where you get to hear this.
I'm going to read you this.
This was a statement made by someone.
I'm not going to mention who.
This is regarding the network plans.
And if I told you this, you would laugh even more so.
But this person said the network wanted to reimagine their morning show.
To shake up.
To reimagine.
Reimagine.
And it feels so good.
Peaches and her.
We will reimagine our morning show leveraging our correspondence and unmatched resources in the United States and around the world to provide news that viewers need.
To know as they start their day.
We're looking to be a disruptor of the broadcast morning news in this space and we believe we have the people we want to leverage to be a disruptor.
I laughed so hard.
I would have fired somebody immediately who dared use these hackneyed phrases.
You know what I would have said?
Watch.
You'll see.
watch shit You're trying to tell me, you, this group of people, you, you marvelously weird bunch of freaks and kooks, God bless you, You're going to be watching, first of all, and I'm going to give you something nobody else is saying.
It's the contrary.
They're going to be repeating everything that is the acceptable truth.
You will never hear anybody say anything that's contrary to the truth.
People are so afraid.
And the reason why is we have kids and young people today who aren't being trained.
Let me tell you my second idea.
And you're probably thinking, what was the first idea?
The answer is, I don't know what the first idea was.
I'm not even sure what my idea was.
But in my mind it was.
I would have, in my perfect world, I never went to camp.
Anybody here go to camp?
If my parents...
Strike that.
I tried this one time and said, don't you ever...
It was a YMCA camp.
It was the worst thing.
Summer to me was...
I'm staying home.
I was a kid.
I want to watch all my TV shows I normally can't see.
I want to do my thing.
I do not want to go on a lake in a canoe.
Pretend I'm an Indian or whatever.
Do not.
End of discussion.
But if I could, I would take kids and not make it a camp.
Maybe do it at home with a laptop.
But I want them, I want to Train them.
I want them to be brilliant observers of the truth.
I want them to be able to philosophize.
I want them to be able to think on their own.
I did something yesterday at linomedia.com.
It was one of the most fascinating subjects there is right now and it's been going on for a long time.
And I can spend time on it because today there appears to be a real problem with people spending any amount of time.
They just don't like it.
It's just taking too long for you to say what you want.
And there is a movement to protect non-human rights.
I hope you saw this.
Less than 30 cents a day.
You've heard me say this.
Let me start off with this.
Who has a pet in their home that means more to them than most of their relatives?
Who?
Do you have a dog?
A cat?
A bird but a dog?
And that dog's death was more devastating to you than anything you have ever experienced.
Any parent or...
Not children.
No, no, no, no.
But usually.
This dog that you couldn't believe how your life was shattered.
This dog that was so great.
This dog.
Dogs in particular.
So important.
So critical to you.
This is...
These things are not...
I was going to say...
I said, you know, these dogs, they're not human.
I said, that's true.
As if human is so great.
No, they're better than human.
They're better than human.
I don't know how this came about, but there is this thing that loves you.
There are other pets that kind of like you, you know, maybe, but it's time to eat.
Cats are far more.
You know, affectionate, but a dog?
A dog.
I was looking at something the other day.
It was about, there was this wonderful, these dogs.
Cane Corso, out of Italy.
Italy, the Cane Corso.
This is the biggest thing.
You could put a saddle on this thing.
It's huge!
And this family had a baby.
Little, tiny baby.
Obviously.
I mean, newborn.
What are we going to do with this dog?
This thing is.
Because, you know, every now and then you'll see some kid who's attacked.
And it's a rarity.
I'm sorry.
And pit bulls get the worst...
They get the worst coverage.
I don't know why, but they do.
Anyway.
I saw this documentary.
It was a video.
And this...
Oh, my God.
Do we get rid of him?
The thing is too big.
What if he doesn't understand?
He or she or whatever?
No.
The dog said, ah, that's a baby.
We know about babies.
We protect babies.
We don't abandon babies.
Well, let's face it.
The runt of the litter, sometimes it gets a bit draconian.
We don't hurt them.
We don't...
Sell them.
We don't traffic them.
No, no, no, no, no.
I got this.
This is a baby.
This is my baby.
This is my territory.
This.
It almost makes you cry.
They sit at the window and they look out and the dog's like this.
God forbid anybody tries to take that kid.
That animal.
There is nothing in the world like that animal.
Nobody, no people aren't like this.
That gets it, understands it, recognizes it, shows a sentience that I, I, it's just, it's, people don't get this.
There are people who can say, don't leave your dog, don't leave your child with a stranger, lock the door.
That human, that human, top of the, you know, the pecking order, the feeding, oh no, no, but a dog?
Oh, a dog's fine.
Dog gets it.
Oh, no, no, dog's going to, no, no, no.
These dogs right now can sense a child.
About to begin the initial throws of a seizure.
This one dog can tell when its master is going through PTSD.
Something happens.
This dog can pick up behaviors you can't even imagine.
Do you understand this?
You can't even imagine how sensate they are.
It's incredible!
I saw this interview, this guy's talking, and all of a sudden the dog comes up, starts licking his face, and the TV interviewer says, do you want to stop?
He goes, no.
The dog recognizes I'm going through it.
The dog can smell something.
Something.
Anyway.
So that animal.
Now, does any animal have rights?
Answer me a question.
We always talk about Roe v.
Wade, the 14th Amendment, life, liberty, and property.
Does that dog have a constitutional right?
A right, either by natural law, whatever that means, by the Constitution, by statute.
They're talking about non-human rights.
And there's lawsuits that are talking about trying to save...
Elephants in zoos because they're trying to say this animal has a right, a non-human right, a liberty interest.
It's the most fascinating thing.
The implications of this are just...
Okay.
How do we teach kids to explore?
We could talk about that for a week.
What is a right?
Who determines a right?
A right versus...
Because right now people are saying, well...
You don't have a right.
Your animal's right to live is derivative through you, meaning your animal, your pet, you own it.
I can't harm your pet because it's a piece of property.
You have rights for me not to harm your animal.
But the animal, well, we have criminal laws that prevent You know, animal cruelty.
What does that mean?
What about psychological cruelty?
Well, we don't want to get into psychological cruelty.
There are people listening right now, listening right now.
These are beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
We are not...
Okay, reconnection successful.
Okay, very good.
Good, good, good, good.
I'm sorry for that interruption there.
But let me continue.
I think we're okay now.
Let me see.
Yes, we are okay now.
Okay.
I have a friend.
I'm not going to mention his name.
He's a good, good man.
He's a hunter.
Follows the law.
Follows the rules.
Deer hunting.
Hunters are responsible for keeping the species alive.
We wouldn't have deer were it not for, in some respects.
In Jersey, New York, Connecticut, sometimes there's too many deer.
You see them on front lawns and they destroy property.
He spends his time wanting to kill the animal.
He spends his time balancing the scope, trying to line it up, use the right ammunition so it's a dispatch to kill the animal.
How do we justify that?
Does that deer have a right?
Now, you...
In your own heart of hearts can say, yes, I understand.
I think we do.
Try codifying that.
Try putting this into a law.
And let's start off with something that I hate.
I hate, more than anything, zoos.
I hate SeaWorld.
I hate any kind of seeing orcas, the cetaceans, bottlenose dolphin, orcas, porpoises.
They have a paralymbic system that you can't imagine.
Their brains have this enormous paralymbic system where their ability to appreciate loss and separation is something that we can't even put into words.
To take an orca that swims 100, 200 miles a day, put them in a confine...
I'm sorry.
Now, how do you codify?
Does that have rights?
What about the people who purchased it?
Is it a form of intraspecies slavery?
This is the thing that we need to be able to explain.
And this is the thing that we've got to be able to go and take kids during summertime and say, rather than go on a lake in a canoe, let's pose philosophical questions.
Because you, as an adult, Are going to have to deal with things, issues, sub-issues, that are so complicated, they defy description.
Alright, my friends.
That concludes.
I must move on, and you must as well.
Thank you for being a part.
Quo Vadis.
Where are you going?
Look it up.
Where does that phrase come from?
What does that mean?
Look it up.
Research.
We'll meet again tomorrow.
Same bat time, same bat channel.
Again, linomedia.com.
For those information, I do a disquisition on monkeypox that, well, you'll see.
Thank you for being a part of this.
Have a great and glorious day.
Don't forget, Mrs. L, go to YouTube, Lynn's Warriors, sign up, subscribe, be a part of that.
And on her Twitter feed, Lynn's, L-Y-N-N-S.
underscore warriors on Twitter.
And I'm at LionelMedia.
Have a great and glorious day.
See you tomorrow, my friend.
Same bad time, same bad channel.
Ta-da!
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