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May 26, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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DAILY BRIEFING: Repackaging the American Dream

It's not just a dream but, oddly enough, a plan and course of conduct.

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Okay, my friends.
Come on.
Gather around.
Come on.
Come on in.
Have a good day.
Have a seat.
Take it easy.
This begins our day, our Thursday daily briefing.
I say first of all a hearty hello and a hi-ho silver to you and you and to everybody there.
I want to thank you for joining us, being a part of this soiree, this confabulation, this high summit as we speak.
There is a lot to talk about.
Before I begin, there is a brand new, brand new Lionel Nation video.
It's called Uvalde Distraction, Obfuscation, Confusion, Reorientation, and SG, Shadow Government, Sock Puppet Sleight of Hand.
Nothing to see here.
Absolutely riveting.
Riveting.
Without peer.
There's nothing like it.
And that is for, let's say, a harder take, a more adult take.
This is more of a, shall we say, I don't want to say perfunctory, but more of like a, think of our daily sessions as kind of like a survey course.
You know what I mean?
Versus a graduate level.
It's a survey.
Kind of give you an idea of what's going on.
Give you an idea of what's happening.
Now first, I would be remiss.
I would be remiss if I told you, didn't tell you, I should say.
The number of people that have actually responded to me and said that they have so enjoyed my, our discussions as to the way it was then when we were kids.
When we were growing up.
And the reason, by the way, for that is very, very simple.
It's not merely to be nostalgic.
It's not merely just to say, when I was a kid, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That's not the point.
The point is that some of the stuff that we did actually was better.
And some things made sense.
And a lot of the folks who are trying to do the news today, whatever this thing is called, they just do not have it.
And let me explain something to you.
There are people who believe that the reason why they are on news, and maybe this is in fact true, maybe the reason why they are doing this is because somebody thinks they're sexy.
Now I'm sorry to say this, I don't want to keep bringing this up, I don't want to keep reminding you of this, but there are people who for whatever reason are there on various iterations of television shows because we think and they think they are sexy.
They believe this.
They're not smart, intuitive, well-read, historically verse.
No.
Or there are people who have been there for a long time, or the people who work cheap, or what have you.
The real news, the real important news, is important.
Now, I just put up for you Mrs. L's YouTube channel.
And I want you...
You should see her latest interview with an expert that will blow your mind.
Because I'm telling you, digital safety, they're coming through your phones.
They're coming after your kids through phones.
I know nobody wants to think that, but it's true.
It's absolutely true.
Now, let's start with a few things here.
First, there are some things you have to know how to do right away before you can do any version of it later on.
What do I mean?
If you want to play drums, you've got to have a drum kit.
You can try with electronic stuff at first, but unless you play an acoustic, so to speak, drum with skins and hi-hats and cymbals, unless you play acoustic guitar, Unless you play a trumpet.
Unless you play a regular piano.
You don't.
You cannot do anything.
You have to have that as a frame of reference.
And you can't hide that.
You can't fake that.
You can't.
I've been playing a lot of Billy Strings lately.
Great bluegrass player.
Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle.
Just any play.
Plain old.
Acoustic guitar.
That's it.
You can't fake it.
You can't.
You have to have the basis for this, the foundation.
There are people in the news who don't know anything about this.
They have no frame of reference.
They don't know what they're doing.
They want to be a star.
And when we were kids, we did some things which just kind of made sense.
And it's not that we want to...
Always look back and say, weren't those the great old days?
I'm not into this nostalgia.
Would you want to go back to high school?
I wouldn't.
Would you want to go back to those years?
I wouldn't.
I don't want to go back there.
Not at all.
Not at all.
But I do notice some things that are beneficial, which are very, very critical now.
And one of the things which is the most important is that we are, I promise you, we are just telling the world simply this.
If you do certain horrible things, If you do certain horrible things when it comes to school, school violence, school shooting, we guarantee you, your name will be in the pantheon of great shooters.
We guarantee you this.
If you don't have a self-image, if you don't have anything that even remotely, remotely is of worth, we will guarantee you permanent status in the pantheon of school shooters.
You got that?
And the reason why this is impossible or possible is because the media themselves keep doing this.
They create this.
If I could do an experiment, and I wouldn't want to do this, but if I could, I would prove it to you.
I could prove it to you.
I'm not versed in, I don't know, suicide and certain chemical things.
But let's just assume I'm kind of like the Mengele of...
Social scientists.
And I say, okay, beginning tomorrow, I'm going to show people how they can kill themselves with a pencil.
And it's a particular procedure, let's say, whatever, using the karate, something crazy.
And I'm going to give it a name.
Like eating tied...
Pods or cinnamon, people who are consuming massive amounts of cinnamon or planking.
I'm going to give it a name so that when you see it, you'll know it's me.
It's like couponing on radio.
Tell them that Dave sent you and you'll get 10% off.
So they'll say, boy, this advertising is working.
Well, six people came in, they said Dave sent them.
Anyway, if I were to say, if I were to make this up and say, there is a...
There is a very dangerous procedure and practice that is making its way across high schools.
And if I hypothetically were to give it a name or to describe it, I promise you within three days it would be all over the place.
But that doesn't make any sense because you warned them.
No, I didn't warn them.
I told them how to do it.
Yeah, but you...
Wait a minute.
But you...
Wait, what?
You told them, you warned them.
I warned them, but I also told them how to do it.
See, if I tell people how to do it, they'll do it.
If I tell people how to do something, they will do it.
So that on social media, when you pour something up, monkey see, monkey do, they do this.
That's what they do.
And it's obvious.
And not anybody, nobody, nobody anywhere is saying anything about that.
Now, when we were kids, I'll give you an example.
Kids, it wasn't that long ago.
Sorry.
I mean, you know, when you say, well, it's 60 years ago or 70 years ago, it doesn't matter.
In human evolution, that's nothing.
Same kids, same people, post-World War II, post-Korea.
We had cap guns and holsters.
And we played with guns.
Guns were a part of our play.
Cap guns and everything.
Girls and boys and holsters and Gene Autry and this and that.
Roy Rogers.
We did this.
Nobody!
Nobody!
Nobody ever, ever, ever, ever, ever went a step further and said, well, I'm going to do it at school.
It never crossed our minds.
Crime was suppressed.
Sexual battery, certain violent offenses, it just never happened.
We didn't even have kids who were abducted.
Oh, it happened.
I mean, it happened.
But not like now.
Something happened.
It was different.
And I look at kids, and the reason why I look at kids is I have to look at my own reference point because I was a kid, and I remember this, and I'm looking at people right now, and I see what's happening.
I posted something on Twitter.
There was a picture of a guy from 1880.
It was a fat man, a large man, the fat man at the circus.
I thought it was pretty awful.
People would travel hundreds of miles to see the fat man.
I guess auditioned.
This guy was a fat man.
It was so rare.
People would go 100 miles to see the fat man.
300 pounds?
I've got kids today who can outdo that.
It's just unbelievable!
I don't understand that.
It's not just kids.
It's everybody.
What is the matter with us?
What happened to us?
And whenever people in my generation always talk about this, they say, well, when we were kids, we rode bikes.
Oh, would you stop that?
We didn't ride that many bikes.
We rode bikes.
We're not Lance Armstrong or...
Or, uh, what's his name?
Who is that French dude?
No!
By the way, Mrs. Ells again.
Oop.
I was going to put this up there, but I didn't.
Hang on a minute.
Let me put this up.
Mrs. Ells, uh...
That other thing keeps popping up.
You know how that thing is.
Very, very annoying.
Alright.
Do this.
Please.
It means a lot to me.
Her last interview was fantastic.
Alright, so we saw that.
Why?
What happened?
What happened?
Good luck with this one.
I have no idea what happened.
I have no earthly idea.
I don't know why.
What happened?
What happened?
Crimes were different.
What happened?
Everything took off exponentially.
There were Crips and Bloods and 50s and there were motorcycles and things like that.
But it's just...
You know, one of the reasons why, believe it or not, people believe that they suggest that Spielberg's West Side Story, this movie or whatever, didn't work, was that kids weren't there thinking this was about gangs.
Instead, they're thinking this...
This Jerome Robbins.
What is this?
The Sharks and the...
Whoever it was.
The Jets and the...
Somebody used to joke years ago that the West Side Story was a story about the incomprehensible, terrible living conditions of Puerto Rican dancers, which I thought was kind of funny.
There it is.
What happened?
What happened?
And it's just obvious.
While everything else in the world is going on, which I can't seem to be getting anybody's attention about this, we focus on this.
And the reason why we focus on this is because it's easy.
And you can send people out.
And you've got to understand this.
Please listen to me.
Listen.
Listen.
Newsrooms are shuttering.
They don't know what to do anymore.
You see where Jen Psaki?
She's going to streaming.
Now that's considered a relegation and it shouldn't because this is streaming.
Thank God for streaming.
We're streaming, but we're different.
This is a different story.
They don't know what to do with this.
The news business, they don't know what to do.
They've got her and now what do we do?
What do we do?
How do we fix this?
You're seeing...
The various media platforms closed.
When we were kids, I hate to keep saying that, but it's true.
Our refrain, our weekly, our evening show, our evening show was the same format.
Two people, maybe one, usually a man, never two men today.
No.
A man and a woman, or two women.
Preferably diverse.
Fine.
Whatever.
As though that matters.
It's gratuitous.
Anytime you add diversity, not because, no, no, this is the best, no, no, she's the best anchor there is.
People think, well, it's the Katanji effect.
And I'm going to pick the first black woman.
Why'd you say that?
Anyway, it hasn't changed.
Seventy years!
For 70 years, since the 50s, it has not changed.
It has not changed.
Listen to me.
They're freaking out.
Do you understand how great that is?
They're freaking out.
They're freaking out because everything's changing drastically.
And here's what I want you to do.
I want you to promise me.
I want you to promise me.
I don't want you to just say you're going to do it.
I want you to do this.
I don't want you to just say, I want you to do this.
You have to stop watching cable news.
You have to.
It doesn't, it doesn't, it's so bad.
It's so bad.
Let me tell you what they do.
You're going to love this.
First, don't get any stars.
Guests.
It's the guest.
That matters.
Not the star.
You start off with it.
It's the guest.
The star is fungible.
Star doesn't really mean anything.
That's not it.
You get people to come in and hope to God.
Remember the morning zoo format?
Did you ever remember that thing in the 60s, 70s?
Morning zoo.
Remember radio?
I don't know if you had your morning show.
It was funny.
It had morning drive.
It was local.
And you had your local person.
It was wonderful, right?
It was your thing.
And then, somebody came up with this thing called the Zoo Format.
Radio was great.
Radio was pretty much music.
It was the top 40, whatever.
Around the 70s was great because AOR came along.
Album-oriented rock, or somebody called it All Over the Road.
And it was...
We had a great station.
I don't know about you, but your great stations, when you were, you know, teenage, formative, your radio station defined you.
You had the sticker on your car that told people, I listen to this.
It was as much a part of you as anything else.
It was your label.
And I love it.
And you had certain people that, ooh.
Growing up we had...
I thought the greatest station in the world I ever heard was WUSF.
From the University of South Florida.
The Underground Railroad with Brock Whaley.
Put on your headphones and you could hear the train going through your head.
Whoa!
60s, 70s psychedelic music.
Underground.
The Underground Railroad.
Wow!
Subversive.
Do your parents know this?
Do your parents know you're listening to this?
It's great.
FM.
FM.
Dark.
Furtive.
Scary.
Late.
Dangerous.
Right?
FM.
AM was.
WQSR.
Loved it.
102.5.
Oh my God.
It was the greatest.
Oh my.
Brian Auger.
Followed by Fats Waller.
Followed by Horace Silver.
Followed by.
I mean it was a no.
No.
Where does this go?
Community radio came along.
I was always into alternative.
And you put the sticker on your car and it says, look at me.
I'm a QSR guy.
Whoa.
Hey, I like you.
Somebody said, ooh, all things.
Ooh, NPR.
You like that long hair music.
You know, that classical stuff.
It defined us.
Look at this.
This, this, this.
Used to tell you your radio station.
And they were so important.
They had the jocks and the...
Radio wasn't so important.
Did you ever go to a radio station?
You were invited.
Wow, I went to the radio station.
I saw it.
I saw this guy.
Oh, my God.
I remember one time with my parents, this guy, Chuck Monroe.
I never wanted to get into radio.
I never thought about it, ever.
It just happened.
I was with my parents.
Knock on the door.
At night, hit the buzzer.
Come on in.
There's nobody there.
Oh, I love it.
It's just like American Graffiti with the Wolfman.
There's one guy.
Loved it.
Loved it.
And now I listen to...
There's a lot of good college stuff around here.
Columbia University has a radio station.
There's one.
I don't even know where it's from.
I think it was in Columbia.
I think it was in Bluegrass.
I don't know what it was.
But I remember I got the hotline number and I called this one person up.
I said, I've got to tell you something.
I said, you are excellent.
And this person thought I was kidding.
I said, no, no, no, no.
You're very authentic.
This is real.
This is real.
You feel this.
You really mean this.
I kind of was hoping SiriusXM would kind of do that, but not really.
It's not even a satellite anymore.
I don't know what it is.
It's something else.
Okay, so what happened was then came the zoo format.
This is when it all died.
It all died.
The zoo.
The morning zoo.
Three, four people.
Not one guy.
Not one guy who had a personality you can't believe.
Listen to the air checks.
Oh no, no.
I had a friend of mine one time who...
I can tell you the story real quick.
I don't want to give his name out, but he is heard right now.
So many commercials.
He has a radio voice.
You cannot believe it.
I work with the great Johnny Donovan.
WABC.
Incredible.
Pipes.
Not a puker.
Puker's a head robotic.
Listen to this.
This guy I knew was so good.
He was so evil.
One time we went to lunch and he takes a he takes a if you can imagine this.
Imagine this is a wallet.
I don't have a wallet.
And he took a $20 bill and he cut the corners off.
So it says $20, $20, $20, $20.
And he opened it up, so he glued the corners, so when you close it, it looked like it was, you know, $80 in there, or something, some configuration.
You just saw $20, $20, $20.
So we went to eat, and we're outside, and I hate to eat, this alfresco guy, I don't know who he is, but I hate that.
So anyway, we're sitting outside, he says, watch this.
So he takes this wallet out, and he just drops it, right by us, right...
They had a little perimeter, A gate or whatever.
Put it right there.
I said, what are you going to do?
He says, watch.
So people would walk by, see this wallet with it, open it up and drop it and keep walking.
I saw this repeatedly.
I said, what is that?
He says, watch.
Just watch.
I said, I am watching.
What are they doing?
They open it, look at it, look shocking, drop it and keep going.
He showed me inside and said, hey you, some expletive.
You're being filmed.
No, there's not $80 in here, you idiot.
Put it down, keep going, and whatever.
He wrote this.
Keep going.
That was very funny.
Listen to what else he did.
He was at a...
I forget what it was.
Some store.
Remember the old days?
You'd walk down an aisle of a store and there would be a stanchion or a pole and there'd be a microphone.
Do you remember this?
Remember the microphone?
Where you could say, clean up aisle 5, or people would talk.
Not in everyone, but every now and then you see that microphone.
So one day he was in a Kmart, or I don't know what it was, he picks up this mic.
He's got this voice you can't believe from God.
And he's announcing a sale for the next 15 minutes.
Everything on aisle, whatever it is, is 50% off.
Thank you for God.
Attention Kmart shoppers or something like that.
Drops it and all of a sudden you hear you hear the carts and the movement and you can just because you can't really see.
It was brilliant.
But here's the best one he did.
We were at a gas station one time and he reaches in He has a bunch of cassettes.
They're all lame.
He takes one and he leaves it on top of the pump.
Just leaves it there.
So what is this?
This guy is demented.
He says, oh, that?
Here, listen.
He takes another one, puts it in his cassette players.
He plays it and he has the best production you've ever heard.
Best production.
And you hear him in this voice.
All right, keep going.
Don't look behind you.
Just keep going.
Now, I'm not at this light, but at the next light.
I want you to turn right.
Just do what I say.
That's where I keep going.
So, you thought you'd get away.
Kind of like Joe Tex.
You thought you'd get away now, didn't you?
Don't give me what you promised me.
Give it to me.
Come on!
Joe Tex and the Sexalettes, not politically correct.
And he went through this whole thing about, just keep driving.
I want you to go half a mile.
You'll see.
And he went through.
It was so...
I said, why did you do this?
He said, because I'm imagining what they're thinking.
It's almost like Mission Impossible.
You know, good morning, Mr. Phelps.
It just...
This was genius radio.
Genius radio.
This was one of the best.
And then the zoo format came.
killed everything.
Killed everything.
Killed everything.
To be WKRP was still the best radio show ever.
Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever.
Because it really depicted it.
And then what happened was the zoo came along and he put all these people on in the morning.
Everybody's saying something and hoping they got somebody who says something funny.
That's it.
They hope they got somebody who says something funny.
Put somebody on.
Hey, that's funny.
Hey, everybody in the morning.
By the way, there's Mrs. L's.
I want you to do it right now.
Well, listen to me, of course.
Hey, everybody!
All these noises and...
Processed echo.
Every feature you can imagine.
You've got the ditzy weather girl.
You've got the stupid sports guy.
You've got the guy with the feature.
And you've got the big, swell-headed, egomaniac leader who runs the show, who runs the board.
Oh, it's the worst!
It killed everything!
That's evening news.
That's evening news.
What was that I just saw?
Pepsi?
They'll no longer be sponsoring the halftime shop.
Pepsi ends 10 years Super Bowl halftime show sponsorship.
It's over!
Everything is changing.
So anyway, so that zoo format now is on TV.
I cannot tell you how many, I'm not going to mention names, but how many times I'm saying, this is excellent.
All of a sudden they stop.
Let's right now go to the KPI Talk Radio Maven.
Dick is in you.
I think, why are you talking to him?
I want to talk to you.
You're stretching this out, aren't you?
You're talking to this guy because they don't think you can...
You don't have enough for me?
You don't have enough for you to say?
You're going to bring this idiot in or you're cross-promoting some other show that doesn't do as well and you're bringing this person on to tell me what they think about indiscriminate school shooting?
Oh, I never thought about this.
Oh, thank you.
What, is Gene Shalit unavailable?
Bring him on next?
This is where we are right now.
This is the inanity.
It's vapid, vacuous, void, vacant.
It's stupid.
Everywhere.
And then, then, then it gets better.
They stop and they say, well, let's see what they said on CNN.
I don't want to see what they said on CNN.
I'll take your word for it.
It was stupid, right?
Is that what you're trying to say?
Okay, fine.
I don't.
What are you doing?
You're at the end.
You're at the end.
Of your trajectory.
Don't you understand?
We've got some of the best.
Let me tell you something.
There are people on YouTube right now, different channels.
It may not look like much to you.
It may not look like, you know, hey, this guy's making coffee.
He's just talking to himself.
But it's some of the most compelling stuff there is because they know what they're talking about.
Instead, you've got this one who's talking nonsense.
I can't believe it.
Now the rule is simple.
I don't know about you.
Stop talking about people who do terrible things.
Don't have their picture.
How many would agree?
Would you mind, would you seriously mind if we had a rule, not imposed by the government, but if you said, today there was a tragedy at this middle school, we're not going to tell you the name of the person?
We're not going to show you the person's Facebook photos, Instagram.
We're not going to read passages from his or her manifestos.
Usually a he.
We're going to talk about the victims.
We're going to talk about what we can do.
And maybe whatever it is.
And that's it.
But we're not going to mention.
We're not going to show you the picture, the name, where they're from.
We're not going to be interviewing the neighbor.
What do they always say?
Loner.
Kept to himself.
He was a loner.
Excuse me.
There's a lot of loners out there who don't do any of this stuff.
Nothing wrong with being a loner.
A lot of loners out there are loners.
It's like a car.
We'll give you a loner.
Don't you give me a loner?
This is your loner?
Oh my God.
You know, I don't understand this.
I don't understand this.
And then people right now are saying immediately, Well, you know, they were there for a second.
Oh, they're deconstructing.
You know, the police could have been there.
How come the police weren't here?
How come the police, how come they didn't, how come there was a delay between this and that?
You're doing this again, aren't you?
You know where this is going?
Nowhere.
Nowhere.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
I'm getting to the bottom of this.
Why are you getting to the bottom of this?
Because I'm getting to the bottom.
I'm figuring this out.
Oh, you're figuring this out?
Okay.
Good for you.
Go figure this out.
Nobody wants to figure it out.
Nobody wants you.
And if you don't watch it, if you feel too close to figuring it out, they may not let you figure it out.
Nobody cares about this.
We're going to move on.
This is interesting.
Keep doing the usual thing.
And then you have the usual suspects that come forward.
Absolutely never.
It does not.
It does not.
Nothing ceases to amazement.
Now, if you didn't watch cable news, you're not reading the newspaper.
And if you want to see something, watch what somebody else says about us.
Look what the Brits say about us.
The Greeks, the Italians, the French, the Canadians.
The Canadians are right there on the border.
I forget which one was it.
Was it Detroit?
I forget.
They've got guns.
You can do some damage.
You don't need an AR-15 or a Bushmaster to do some serious damage.
What is with us?
What's happening here?
What's the matter with us?
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's the strangest thing.
We've had people all our life who've been weird.
There have been weird people our life.
They don't do this.
I don't understand this.
I don't understand it.
There's something very strange here.
And people say, look at this.
Johnny Masek says, what's a newspaper?
I have no idea.
This is just incredible.
And then we want the police.
We want to defund them and then we want to blame them.
They're terrible.
You were late.
Wait a minute.
You don't want them.
Well, we want them, but only to blame them.
What?
What?
I've got to tell you this story.
You know, Michael Moore.
Say what you want.
There was a video.
There was a documentary he did years ago.
I don't know which one it was.
Was it Bowling for Columbine?
Something like that.
And he compared two cities that were basically...
It might have been Detroit.
I don't know what it was.
But it was a Canadian city.
Maybe you saw that.
It was a Canadian city and then there was the U.S. And...
He said, what is the difference between us?
We're right there.
Here's the border.
Canada here.
U.S. here.
Gun violence here.
No gun violence there.
They're right there.
Same TV.
Same everything.
What is going on?
The thing I'll never forget.
The thing I will never forget.
Was they said, Look at what the national...
This is before Trudeau.
Look what the national symbol is.
Go to their brochures for travel.
Look at what they promote.
What do they promote?
What is it that they promote?
The Maple Leaf.
Okay, what else?
What else?
The Horizon.
Okay, what else?
What else?
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The police, the red, you know, Admiral, what's his name, Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, whatever the, Dudley Do-Right and all that stuff.
The essence of them was law and order.
What is our law?
What is our as a police?
I don't know.
It's iced tea?
No.
Who is the guy with the huge LL Cool J?
What is he, he's 50?
What is he, 60 years old?
What is he?
Are you still doing this stuff?
God bless him.
I don't understand.
Our law and order is something different.
Oh, by the way, time out.
Would you please tell me, and God bless Tom Cruise, God bless him, 59 years old, almost 60 years old, would you tell me why do you think I want to see him A 60-year-old fighter pilot?
Wait.
What?
I am being top-gunned to death.
All right.
What is this?
Top-gunned?
Can you think of a new, maybe a new twist, maybe a new angle to this thing?
Please!
This is the thing where I don't...
I mean, I don't get it.
And there...
I mean, everywhere I turn around, people are...
Maybe they'll go see it.
I don't know.
Is there anybody here going to go see Top Gun?
Top Gun?
Let me...
I'll tell you right now what it is.
We've called you back, Maverick.
Yes, sir.
Oh, please.
We've called you back.
What is this?
The last time he was in a jet, they have different machines.
Now they have Raptors, F-22s.
Where is this thing?
Where is my biplane?
What's going on here?
There's no imagination anymore.
What's new?
It's either Marvel stuff.
It's either CGI nonsense.
Where are the movies?
Where is the industry?
It's over.
Let me ask you something.
What was the last movie you went to?
In the theater.
Honey, what was our last movie we went to in the theater?
Can you remember?
Huh?
Oh, it was called The Automat.
It was a documentary.
You're right.
Okay.
That was quick.
What was the last movie you went to?
What was the last movie?
Tell me.
Anybody?
Fred says, I cannot wait to see it.
Fred Brown, everybody.
I'm going to party with you, Freddy boy.
I'm going to party with you.
Prof K says, I was thinking about it.
Practical effects look impressive, but even the first film is overrated.
Practical effects?
I like that.
I kind of wanted to see it in Jurassic Park.
Jurassic Park was the last one.
Look at this.
I like this one.
Arch Stone says, air-to-air combat is a dead end idea.
Steer your killer drones from a comfy chair in Florida to kill people.
You know, you're on to something there.
Boss Baby?
Russian Movie?
Departed?
Battleship?
The Northmen?
Stephen King's It or IT?
Lord of the Rings?
I can't get into the Lord of the Rings.
I can't.
I can't.
I can't do it.
Blazing Saddles.
How great.
Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino?
Loved it.
You know why?
So politically incorrect.
Cyrano.
I'm listening to...
I like audiobooks more and more.
And...
I'm listening to Mel Brooks's...
It's interesting to see the author.
Blazing Saddles was so wonderful.
They couldn't do this to them.
We had a sense of humor.
See, we could see Blazing Saddles, and no, he wasn't a racist.
He was actually the opposite.
He was actually showing that racism is stupid.
This is when we had a sense of humor, the taking of Pelham 122.
This was the original one, not 123, 122.
Of course, the great Robert Shaw was in that one.
It's so sad.
It is so sad.
It is so over.
It is so over.
Every single thing.
Everything.
Oh!
Did you get a load of this?
Have you noticed how the NBA is coming out of the woodwork saying, I'm going to weigh in about Uvalde.
Okay.
This is important.
Go ahead, coach.
Oh, LeBron James.
You have to say something about that?
Okay.
Good.
Good.
Free speech.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Okay.
I have a question for the NBA.
Yes.
Anything about China and Uyghurs?
Nope.
Shh!
No, no, don't you want to talk about it?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, you want to talk about some stuff?
Okay.
By the way, It's True, It's True was Young Frankenstein.
That was, of course, Madeleine Kahn who did that one.
A little bit different there.
Or maybe you were talking about that.
Maybe, maybe, maybe you, you.
We were talking about it.
I don't know.
Inglourious Basterds was wonderful.
I still like movies.
I still like movies.
I like going to it.
I like a nice artsy fartsy theater.
The sound of music.
Now, Dale and I are from Townville.
We had, of course, Britton Plaza.
We had like two or three different theaters.
Britton Plaza was one.
University Square Mall.
They had Cineplex.
Floraland Mall.
I went to the mall.
I got in there and you walk in and you smell the popcorn, that palm oil stuff.
You wait.
And then you sit there and you can say, now can you talk?
No talking.
Can you talk during...
What about during the previews?
Does that count?
That counts too.
Because they put the lights down halfway.
Remember that sometimes?
They really lower the lights.
And then they...
I liked it.
I liked...
My son and I just watched Network.
Franco, Network, Patty Chayefsky.
I've got a book about that.
It was very, very, very good.
Loved that movie.
One of the most important movies of all time.
I know you didn't care about this, but I'm going to tell you this one.
In my life, The movies that absolutely, to me, stuck a chord.
Aside from the obvious.
You know, Godfather.
Really, Godfather 1. Godfather 1 was just...
It was so perfect and impactful and just great.
But network was important and the movie that I will never get tired of that was so incredible.
That is, I don't know, is fatso.
With Dom DeLuise and Bancroft, Ron Carey, the Bufalado brothers, Chubby Checkers.
Absolutely brilliant.
Just Dom DeLuise.
You ate the Oni.
You ate the Oni.
And I don't like movie reviewers.
I don't like people telling me, well, it was a bad movie.
Well, let me decide.
Let me decide.
Because these people are artsy-fartsy, and they talk about certain things, but there is something about being in that world where you are lost.
Espo saw it.
Fatso.
Look at this.
Franco just watched it last week.
Wonderful.
Deer Hunter.
John Kazali.
John Kazali.
He had the shortest career ever.
Godfather 1, Godfather 2, The Conversation, Deer Hunter, and Dog Day Afternoon.
One after another.
Incredible.
Just incredible.
And they were so brilliant.
And they didn't...
I don't know what it is.
I don't know what it is.
I don't want to get into this thing about, well, it was so much smarter then, but I know smart when I see it, and I know when somebody's trying their best to...
It was different to it.
They had a movie line.
They had a story.
They had a book, as we say in the world of Broadway.
Cool Hand Luke.
And I'm watching now, and I'm thinking, I don't know what's happening.
I don't know what's happening.
I think that should come back.
There are brilliant, brilliant, brilliant people.
But if Judd Apatow is your idea of brilliant, and Spielberg is still very, very good, but there is wherever the independent thing is, I don't know.
Again, again, again, I know this is stupid.
I know I'm beating a dead horse here.
Here he goes again.
The movies were better.
Not really better, but there was something...
Because there was a time when, frankly, if you can watch...
I don't know.
Oh, here's one for you.
Here's one for you.
I'm going to say something to you that you always wanted to say, and I'm going to let you say it.
Movies that you just don't get.
Or you didn't think were that great.
You just didn't think they were that great.
They said they were great, but you said, I'm sorry.
I begged to differ.
I had somebody tell me one time, Godfather, I said, after I built it up, don't worry.
Say whatever you want.
There's no such thing as a wrong answer.
The Godfather.
Except that one.
You didn't like The Godfather?
Anyway.
Because there's some movies you gotta like.
You gotta like Fargo.
You gotta like Fargo.
Fargo business.
Okay.
Yeah, you betcha.
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good.
I mean, it's alright, it's good.
Oh no, it's great.
You've got to love, I'm going to tell you right now, the big Lebowski, eh, it's okay.
It's alright.
But the one that I say this and people think I'm out of my mind.
This is so sacrilegious to say this.
So sacrilegious.
Citizen Kane.
I swear to God, is it okay?
But the angle, don't you understand?
The first time, they didn't have a ceiling.
They didn't show, okay.
All right.
2001 A Space Odyssey.
Thank you.
Brad Pitt, bad acting.
Look at this.
Inglourious Bastards was bad.
You know?
Dr. Zhivago dances with wolves.
Sorry.
Dirty Dancing.
Thank you.
Big Lebowski.
I can see why it's important.
I can see why it's critical.
I can see why.
But that great?
No.
What was understated?
The dude?
Philip Seymour Hoffman probably was more.
The dude?
Turturro?
Steve Buscemi?
John Goodman?
Everything was over the top?
Come on!
You know, Bad Santa, by the way, Andy Carman, was very, very, very good.
What was the movie?
Scariest movie of all time?
Two.
First, Deliverance.
I think you know why.
That, 16 years old, 15, 16, seeing that?
Number one to me?
Fatal Attraction.
Fatal Attraction is just...
That's it.
Patton was wonderful.
Good movie.
Good movie.
By the way, have you ever heard Patton speak?
Do me a favor.
Listen to Patton speak.
Listen to any of his...
He did one particular speech where he and General Doolittle were speaking.
He sounds almost like he's from Louisiana.
Very, very...
Very, very strange.
Very, very strange.
Do you remember movies that came out?
Love Story?
Okay, The Exorcist.
The Exorcist was made in a studio right in Hell's Kitchen.
And I've seen the Billy Friedkin, the interviews of this.
Exorcist was an extremely critical story.
So was Rosemary's Baby.
Very, very important.
Very, very critical because it made people really think about...
Elizabeth said, fatal attraction made men paranoid.
You're right about that, Liz.
Absolutely.
Without a doubt.
It was...
To see the...
Just...
Because what scares me...
Now, Jaws, extremely overrated.
You know...
Ron...
Mr. Shapiro...
Or Shapiro, as a friend of mine says.
Sometimes I think there are things that are...
Like, for example, to me, the Beatles are overrated.
But I'm never going to...
In any way, try to dispel the impact that the Beatles had on the world.
This is L's YouTube again.
That's all I'm going to tell you.
The Shining, weird, weird, I don't think that Jack Nicholson, I'm sorry, it was over the top.
Sling Blade, Mr. Drake.
I saw Sling Blade before it even opened.
I was on the air on WABC at the time, and all I was doing was, love them tater.
And people were saying, what are you doing?
What is this?
Why are you doing?
Alright then.
And I kept saying, what was the movie I saw?
You saw a movie.
Why are you doing that?
Well, you're going to know this.
I was on the air.
They didn't know.
People were asking me, we're noticing you're making this noise.
Why are you doing this?
I said, there was a movie.
What movie?
Well, it's not out yet.
Well, don't do that.
I said, well, I'm telling you, everybody's going to do this.
It's going to be like one of those things you do.
Everybody's going to do it.
Sure enough, there you go.
Rosemary's Baby, I want to ask you something right now.
In an answer one or two, one for yes, two for no, is there Satan?
Is there the devil?
The personification of evil in one source.
Not fallen angels, but the devil.
Is there the devil?
Yes or no?
Not bad people.
Not evil.
Because there's goodness and there's evil.
But one guy, In essence, if there wasn't for the devil, there wouldn't be evil.
Think about this.
The devil not only has to be the devil, but if there would have been evil without the devil, what's the point?
If they're going to say, look, we're going to have evil no matter what, whether there's a devil or not, but you believe that there is the devil and he comes down and he always picks some little girl or some person.
And instead of the devil coming in and being low-key and spreading, you know, his evilness, oh no, he comes in and makes this girl...
What is the purpose of that?
What did that do?
And then all you got to do is you hold up a cross and he leaves.
You put some garlic around your neck?
What is that?
Dracula?
I get him confused sometimes, but I mean, that's it.
He leaves.
He leaves.
All right, I'm going.
What is the purpose of that?
As opposed to the devil comes in.
I'm the devil.
Are you the devil?
Maybe.
And I'm going to invade.
And I'm going to take over the president of France.
I'm going to get Macron or something.
I'm not going to get some little girl in some village who is repeating some phrase that...
But I love the way...
When Max von Sydow found that particular talisman or that object in Iraq, I think at the time, that was interesting.
And remember, the devil is a fairly new phenomenon.
There was no devil in the Bible originally.
It was a take-off of pan, the cloven hoofs, the hoofs and the tail.
But I was the devil every year for Halloween.
Every year.
Loved.
The devil loved it.
Loved it.
First time I heard about the devil, I loved the pictures of the devil.
Jesus was nice.
I got it nice.
Thank you.
Let me see the devil.
With the horns, purple.
Each one was like, could you be...
And even as a kid, I'm thinking, why doesn't he camouflage himself better?
I don't understand this.
Why didn't he just do a better job?
Don't be so...
I don't understand it.
And then other voices.
The voice was Mercedes McCambridge.
Remember that?
Remember her?
She was the voice of...
Who would be, by the way, who would be the worst voice of the devil?
Flip Wilson.
I don't know if that was what you're answering.
Rip Taylor.
Charles Nelson Reilly.
I mean, just...
It was a wonderful...
I'm just waxing...
I'm waxing desultory.
I'm being elliptical now.
And I mean that sincerely.
Alright, my friends.
Thank you for allowing me to get into that.
I just wanted to...
Exorcist 2. Demon Named Pazuzu.
Okay, there you go.
You have to know...
Pee Wee Herman would be a good devil.
Morgan Freeman is a devil.
Very good, Janet Smith.
Very good.
Fauci.
Andy Devine.
Jill Wills.
Foster Brooks.
Paul Lind as the devil.
Gilbert Gottfried.
Nancy Pelosi.
That's good.
That's very good.
Come on, set up.
That's so good.
Andy Devine.
I wish I had a pencil, then mustache, Boston Blackie kind, two-tone Ricky Ricardo jacket, and an autographed picture of Andy Devine.
I remember being butt-toothed skiddy, writing fan letters, disguise, niece, penny.
Oh, I wish I had a pencil, then mustache.
Pacino as the devil?
Come on.
How about Lucifer?
No, if I was the devil, I would be...
I'd say, I'm not the devil.
Yes, you are.
No, I'm not.
Here, I can't do any tricks.
You're the devil.
I'm not the devil.
Every now and then, I would do a little magic, but nothing.
The devil's an idiot.
He's just stupid.
There he is.
He's a devil.
There he is.
Always, always, you know, breaking down in sores.
And when the sores go away, by the way, just...
What was this?
Well, that's a long story.
Well, I was possessed.
What?
Yeah, I was possessed.
I was a kid.
It's a long story.
You might have heard about it.
They made a movie about it.
All right.
All right, that's it.
Thank you for sharing this moment of levity with me because these are, these are very, usually bad times, but I think through our conviviation and our Soulful connectivity.
I think we are making headway.
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