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June 8, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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The Usual Blateroons and Marplots

It's hard not to be unimpressed when the usual suspects clamor en masse and en banc.

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Good day.
Hello.
Good morning.
Good afternoon.
Good evening.
Wherever you are, welcome.
Hello.
How are you?
Here we go again.
Here we go again today.
I've got so much to discuss with you.
So much for you to take into account so that I can make your world a little bit more, oh, I don't know, understandable.
Where I can come along and say, you're not the only one who thinks this.
You're not the only one.
Don't worry about it.
I know the feeling.
I know what you're going through right now.
It's amazing.
Andy's here.
Laura, Johnny, Dickie Bork, Larry Fisher, Weird Larry, Nancy, Nancy Rosa, Bernaysauce, the usual suspects.
Here we are, my friends.
Oh, I've got a lot to discuss today.
A lot.
Look at this.
Andy said, I put on some old Mahavishnu orchestra last night and chilled.
Lionel, when are you going to do another music, Sunday music?
You know what?
I'm going to do a show very, very soon.
You're right, on music.
I've been listening to a lot of stuff, as you know, on the Lionel Media, my subscription channel.
I was listening to some great stuff from foxes and fossils and all these great...
Groups that are just listening to old Natalie Merchant and just some incredible jazz.
And believe it or not, some Barbara Streisand that I know you're not supposed to like her, but I don't care.
Talent is talent.
Music, music to me is all that matters.
If you're great, if you're truly, truly great, I don't care.
Who you are.
It doesn't matter to me in the least when it comes to who you are.
So that's going to be...
My friends, I want to talk about so much.
In fact, give you a little overview of what we're going to be talking about today.
Intersectionalism.
Chesa Boudin.
I have no idea how the name is pronounced.
The San Francisco Recall.
We're going to be talking about interconnectedness of international everything.
Russia, Syria, NATO.
Nobody gets this.
Matthew McConaughey.
Who?
This Cretan Kid Rock.
I don't understand why.
I mean, it's a free country.
You can do whatever you want.
But this is a Cretan.
I mean, I'm just saying.
We'll talk about that.
Guns versus D-U-L-I deaths.
How did we figure that one?
The end of late night news, and CNN in particular, and how that's coming up.
The complicity and capitulation of NFL.
Oh, and by the way, FBI, and this is important, law enforcement.
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You know there's misfeasance, malfeasance.
Nonfeasance is when you don't do something.
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Okay.
Let's talk off.
Talk off?
What does that mean?
I don't know what that means.
Let's start off with something very important.
I cannot stand Hollywood and Matthew McConaughey.
Whether it's, I don't know, virtually anybody.
Who in the hell are you?
Who are you?
Who do you think you are?
By what?
Imposition of authority?
Did you, with this corny, stupid acting, all right, all right, all right, are you kidding me?
And you're going to tell me about gun safety?
One way or the other?
What is the matter of what's going on?
What is it?
Who are you?
And I know you're not going to like this.
I keep saying Chris Rock.
Kid Rock?
Oh my God!
This is cretinism!
He gets up in front of people and he tells Oprah that she can do this and this and he makes all kinds of phallic references.
This is what you like?
This is what America...
Is this conservatism?
Is that what this is?
I don't get it.
I don't understand it.
Who are these people?
Who is leading us?
Where is...
What is...
Somebody tell me what's happening here.
What's going on?
What's going on here?
You sound like Natalie Merchant.
I don't understand.
Is it conservatism?
Is it Reaganism?
Is it GOP?
What are we doing?
What is the...
I don't understand.
You get somebody...
You get a Kid Rock who basically curses and this?
This is conservatism?
Listen, I'm as filthy as the next person.
But my filth makes sense.
I don't say filthy things or scabrous things or scatological things or concupiscent references.
Just to shock you, I tell you something.
And if I use it, it makes sense.
I don't understand it.
What is going on here?
There are these people out there.
I don't understand.
Well, I'll be honest with you.
At LionelMedia.com, I went into some kind of a psych...
I do have some reasons why there are some folks...
And I want to get into this with you.
I don't know how to say this, but...
Well, I'm just going to say it how I say it.
I think there are some people in positions of various authority...
Who need a constant reminder as to maleness.
And they like to hang around those people that we consider men in particular.
It's kind of basically...
I don't want to say homoerotic.
I don't think that's it.
But there is Ted Nugent.
Now, Ted Nugent...
Was the mountain man.
Ted Nugent, I think, did more harm to the Second Amendment than anybody by coming across whatever this appliance is.
Birds would lose.
I shouldn't do that because sometimes dogs bark.
He made a fool of the Second Amendment.
He made a fool out of hunting and Double lunging.
No.
There are certain people that you love.
And you know who it is?
Men.
I go into a much, much...
I go full Freud on this one.
Maybe not now.
Now is not the best time.
But I'm going to tell you something right now.
We need to sit down and answer the question, what does it mean to be a man?
What does that mean?
Woman...
I'll let other people decide that one.
But what are we talking about?
Are we telling young men?
What does this word mean?
Assuming you have a young man who says, look, I'm a gender male.
I want to identify with maleness.
I want to connect.
What is it that I'm looking for?
What does that mean?
And it's a question that nobody can answer.
What does that mean?
We talk about gender all the time and gender transmogrification and gender assimilation and gender this and that.
What is it?
How do you explain it?
And the first thing you've got to tell somebody is it has to do with, number one, being an adult, being mature, being responsible.
Male, female, trans, doesn't matter.
This is called being an adult.
Being a person of your word.
Not being a liar.
Not being a gedrule.
Anybody talking about that?
This goes across the board.
What does this mean?
Is being a male, is it the swagger?
Or Jimmy Swagger for that matter?
Is that it?
Is it cursing?
Is it what?
Let me explain something, and I want to explain this to you.
If you think that patriotism, or we, or whoever we are, are going to live under a world where a political ideology is basically that we hate Oprah Winfrey, if that's what you think, if that's the Kid Rock School, she hates Oprah Winfrey?
Or he hates Oprah Winfrey?
And says vile things about Oprah Winfrey?
And Ted Nugent was saying things about Hillary Clinton?
That's it?
That's your political ideology?
That's being a man?
That's being rough and tumble?
What?
You're saying things that a woman should do with what?
What is this?
What, are you in a bar?
You're a cretin.
You're a cretin.
I don't understand.
Why are we doing this?
I don't understand this.
What is it that we stand for?
It's either one person coming along, wrapping in a flag, wrapping themselves in a flag, talking about whatever it is, or you've got somebody saying vile stuff about women.
Does that mean anything?
Let me ask you something.
I'm going to ask you a very serious question here.
Does anybody find it offensive, especially if you're a woman, if a man were to open the door for you or say ladies first?
Does ladies first...
The stuff that we kind of, you know, hey, there's a woman present.
Don't say that.
Does that bother anybody?
Yes or no?
Press 1 for yes.
Press 2 for no.
Does anybody...
Am I being old-fashioned?
Am I being, you know, misogynistic by saying...
Ladies first.
Yes ma 'am.
Opening the door.
Please.
Ladies first.
Please explain this.
Did that leave?
Did that go somewhere?
Did that make any sense?
I don't understand.
Maybe it's wrong.
Maybe it's me.
Maybe it's me.
And when somebody says, After you, or whatever it is.
Sometimes, very rarely, a young person will say to me, yes sir.
Oh, that kills me.
That kills me.
I call everybody sir.
Everybody.
Everybody.
Somebody who delivers the pizza.
Everybody.
Yes sir.
Yes ma 'am.
Absolutely.
It's...
It's respect.
It's respect.
And if you've got a beef with Oprah Winfrey, then say, what's your beef?
First of all, I don't know what the problem with Oprah Winfrey is.
She's Oprah Winfrey.
Come on, please.
Or Hillary Clinton.
What is it about the policy?
I don't understand this.
I don't understand this.
They used to be the same.
Excuse me, there's ladies present.
Don't say that.
There's ladies present.
Don't say that joke.
That's not...
Listen, hold it.
Wait a minute.
That's like if there's kids present or something.
It's out of respect.
I don't understand this.
What's going on here?
It's cretinism also.
It's anti-intellectualism.
It's boorish base.
I don't understand it.
I don't get it.
None of it makes sense.
Sense to me.
I'm not living in the past.
There's something to be said for that.
So going back to what I said, when you have a little boy or a young man, and you say to him, okay, here's what you do.
What does it mean to be male?
What does it mean to be female?
What does that mean?
Is it the way you dress?
Is it the way you...
What does that mean?
And does being a man, does being male mean you're heterosexual?
I don't think so.
I don't think so at all.
Absolutely not.
I don't think the two have anything to do with each other.
I think it has to do with there's something about maybe you might want to call it chivalrous.
You might want to call it I don't know.
You know when you're on a plane or something and there's a man or somebody who helps somebody, helps a woman?
First of all, old people, old women, older women?
I'm putty.
I'm putty.
Grandmotherty types?
Forget it.
Forget it.
They rule.
Older gentlemen?
Number two.
Grandfathers?
But grandmothers?
Nah.
Number one.
Number one.
Why is that?
I don't know.
And somewhere in that are nuns.
You don't see as much of them, but every now and then you see nuns.
And they're like the ultimate respect.
It's like the military.
Let me tell you something.
There's something we've really got to ask ourselves.
Now, am I being conservative?
No.
Absolutely not.
And here's the best part.
This is the best part.
For young men, in particular, who are out there trying to...
I don't know if people are dating anymore.
I don't know if there are suitors.
I don't know if anybody's interested in trying to seduce anyone.
Seduction.
I don't know if anybody knows what that means.
Are you trying to court?
To date?
How many kids today have never written or do not know what a love letter is?
To put love into words.
Well, read John Adams speaking to his wife or the great Sullivan Ballou letter from Civil War.
Does anybody understand this?
What are we teaching?
What are we teaching?
Look at this.
Liam says, my grandmother was my angel.
I miss her.
Oh, grandmothers are just.
They just kill me.
They just absolutely kill me.
There is a...
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
And when I...
There was a place years ago in Florida.
And it was a place that sold, they called it soul food, but to me it was just southern food.
But they had these African American, I think it was sisters, older, grandmother, white hair, big aprons.
I'm putty.
I'm putty.
I have just the...
Race.
I don't care who it is.
Just to say, wow.
Now what am I doing?
I'm being sexist because I'm treating somebody differently because of their sex.
I'm according them and I'm providing for them preferential treatment because of this.
Laura Floyd says, yep, dating and flirting is dead for the young, disconnected and depressed.
Flirting?
Flirting, Laura?
Flirting?
What does that even mean?
Being, shall we say, you seductress, you tempest.
Peter's from Tampa, right arm.
I don't understand this.
Flirting?
Flirting?
And if you told a young man, listen to me.
If you're interested.
Take it from me.
Take it from me.
Listen to this.
Ready for this?
Listen to me carefully.
If you do want to seduce, if you do want to be a seducer, if you want people to be putty in your hands, ready for this?
Young men, listen to me.
Be a gentleman.
Be a gentleman.
On your first date, your first, take it easy.
Because listen to what women say.
When they speak to other women, listen to what women say.
No woman has ever said, boy, I met this guy.
He's great.
He was into filthy jokes.
And he used the F word every day.
And he never opened a door.
Never, never, never, ever did anything.
Treated me like I wasn't even there.
And filthy.
And...
When it immediately almost attacked me.
Oh, I love that.
That's the kind of guy I like.
Come on.
What's the matter with you?
Here we go.
On a first date.
Should a man...
By the way, this is interesting because I never even intended to do this.
But I think it's very interesting and I like this subject.
Yes or no?
One for yes, two for no.
Should a man pick up the tab?
Thank you, Roland.
Like, subscribe, and share.
Thank you.
On the first date.
Yes or no?
Come on.
I like this.
Johnny Ryan says, now they write, love WhatsApps.
You get the person for flirting.
You're right about that.
Elizabeth, yes.
Heifel, yes.
Andy, yes.
Just absolutely.
That...
That...
You're probably thinking to yourself, what are you asking?
What are you asking me for?
You pay for it.
You pay for it.
Really?
Really.
You pay for it.
You don't even want...
And by the way, In business, a real man...
I know this sounds...
I can't believe I'm saying this.
Always fights with...
No, no.
This is on me.
Get up.
No.
Get...
As opposed to...
Do you want to split this?
Did you?
Okay, you had the...
You had the Cobb salad, right?
The Cobb salad.
And I had the...
I had the Mediterranean Fiesta...
Well, yeah, but then you...
Well, I had the beer.
Don't ever do that.
Don't ever, ever, ever, ever do this.
And young men, look at Lori Partridge.
It depends.
What are you, a lawyer?
The thing you should do, always, if you get a chance, if you know where you're going to go, give him a credit card ahead of time.
And tell him, do me a favor.
By the way, you should never, ever, ever tip less than 20%.
Ever, ever, ever.
Unless, unless.
That's just part of the deal.
Never.
But you should say, you know what?
Here's my card.
Put 20%.
I just want to walk out.
Don't even bring me a bill.
How's that?
Well, did you like it?
Yeah, let's go.
What about the bill?
I took care of it.
Don't worry about it.
You took care of it when?
I took care of it.
It's on my tab.
Don't worry about it.
What does that tell you?
It tells you you mean that.
You mean this much to me.
It means you mean that much to me.
You're that important.
That's all.
Oh.
Somebody said flirting.
Define flirting.
What does flirting mean?
What does that mean?
What is flirting?
Please, please, please, please.
What does that mean?
Flirting.
Imagine I'm a young man, or a young woman, I guess.
She can flirt too, I guess.
And should a woman flirt?
Of course she should.
What is it?
It's a dance.
It's a dance.
It's coquettish.
What is it?
How do you flirt?
What do you do?
What do you do?
Ivana says, I taught my son to be a gentleman.
Open doors, hold a door open for another person.
Yes.
Give your seat up for another person.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Someone who writes, Elizabeth says, they don't flirt, they sext.
Yeah, it's terrible.
This is terrible.
This is terrible.
And one of the things which is the most important is saying, okay, son, what are you going to do?
What are you going to do?
And by the way, Here's the best part.
I don't know if there's any young folks out here.
I don't know.
But please do me a favor, pass this on.
Because the younger people, if they listen to what we're saying, are going to be such a hit.
Such an incredible hit.
Because of the fact that they're doing this and that.
And here's the most important part.
I think it's important.
Because nobody does this, they will seem like freaks.
They will seem like freaks.
People will say, It's the most incredible thing in the world.
Who is this guy?
He opens the door.
And here's another thing too.
Men, young men, listen to me.
Do yourself a favor.
Talk about her.
Ask.
But don't ask.
Don't interrogate.
Watch.
That's interesting.
How did you do that?
How did that make you feel?
What happened next?
People love...
It goes to show you.
I mean, this is people sending pictures of...
I don't understand.
I mean, what are you kidding me?
And the kids don't know this.
They don't know it.
Measurer says, I was a bit upset a young woman offered her seat on the bus to me, presumably because I look so old.
Oh, come on.
It's nice.
It's nice to do that.
Nobody offers me anything, but that's okay.
Maybe that's because I'm...
My youth is...
I don't know.
I don't know what that means.
I have no idea what that means.
I have no idea.
You should be able to deal with anybody.
You should be able to talk to a kid.
Talk to somebody who...
An old person.
You should be able to be a conversationalist.
Be able to just figure out how somebody...
That's a great guy.
Alright, I don't want to...
But it's important.
So it goes back to this.
What does it mean?
What does it mean to be a man?
A young man.
A young woman.
To be a lady.
Act like a lady.
A lady?
What are you talking about?
Yeah.
Act like a lady.
Be a lady.
And here's something for you.
And to me, a One of the most beautiful concepts is modesty.
Modesty.
Modesty.
Somebody who says, I don't want to.
It's not that you're a prude.
It's not that you are...
Weirdly punctilious about your body or sexuality or anything like that.
It's because that your body is special, precious.
Why are you just...
Why?
What is the matter with you?
Why?
By the way, don't refer to each other as dude.
And when a woman refers to other women as dude, I don't understand what's going on here.
Now, by the way, let me say something right now.
Let me...
I believe, call me crazy, that my rules apply to gay and trans and straight and LGBTQ because it has to do with human decency.
It has to do with just appreciating somebody.
Being polite.
Being respectful.
Manners.
Just, just, I cannot explain it.
And we, manners are gone.
We are going to have generations of the most absolutely...
I don't know how to say this.
We are seeing something...
I've gone enough.
I've said too much.
Let me change the subject just a little bit.
Chesa Boudin...
Boudin...
Boudin...
Whatever this dude is.
This feller.
This fellow, he was recalled in San Francisco.
How many think that's a great thing?
How many think that's a great thing?
Yes or no?
Number one for yes, number two for no.
How many think that his recall was terrific?
That boy that fixed him, huh?
Yeah, they got rid of him.
That'll send a message, huh?
How many think that?
How many think that these recall elections mean anything?
This is going to be the end.
Boy, he learned his lesson.
How many?
How many, dare I say?
Ben says yes.
Sean says yes.
Not sure says two.
Lori says yes.
Andy Carmen?
Question mark?
Two question marks.
I don't know what that means.
You know you're talking about the San Francisco district attorney whose parents were radicals, I think, charged or convicted of all things.
Armed robbery to try to, you know, to secure monies for various radical events.
Well, let me just save your time.
The answer is, it doesn't mean anything.
George Soros, who was responsible for this, picked up the phone and said, Chesa, whatever your name is, Boudin, C-H-E-S-A-B-O-U-D-I-N, good for you.
That was great.
You were so good slash bad that they got rid of you.
That's great.
Could not have done it better myself.
Thank you.
That was...
Excellent.
Good for you.
They got rid of you.
They hated you so much.
They hated you so much.
And he'll also tell the rest of his folks, the rest of his people, and what are you folks doing?
What are you doing?
Anybody here get kicked out?
Nope.
Nope.
That's the way to do it.
Chesa, Chesa, whatever it is, you're taken care of for the rest of your life.
That.
That's the way to do it.
Gascon, you're pathetic.
Did you get recalled?
No.
What do you think I want you to do?
If you're following through with what I wanted you to do, the reason why I put you in, I want you to get recalled.
Alvin Bragg, the DA of New York, you're next?
Doesn't have it in him.
No, no, no.
Do not think for a moment.
This is the end of any of this stuff.
Do not think for a moment.
I'm telling you.
Now, let's move on.
First, by the way, let me say to those of you who have contributed, who offer tithings, for those of you who provide alms, for those of you who have seen fit to support our ventures here, I want to thank you.
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And that's for you.
That's a love.
That's a love.
That's it for you.
Okay.
Let me talk about something else that's happening.
Most of us are kind of the same age, I think.
I think we're kind of sort of the same age.
And we remember when a lot of stuff started.
Who remembers buying a.45?
Not a gun, but a.45.
A record!
A.45!
Remember that?
And you could look at the labels.
Roulette, Buddha, CBS, Epic.
I could just hold up a label across the room and you could tell what that is.
Dunhill, ABC Dunhill, Colljums.
You just knew!
45!
A 45!
You have to put that little plastic thing for the spindle.
And then we went from that.
Cassettes.
Cassettes!
Remember, I got a cassette player.
Fantastic!
I got a cassette.
Wonderful!
This is great!
A little counter.
And the cassette in the car.
Walkman.
A Walkman.
8-track.
Never got 8-tracks.
Never understood that.
The box.
You'd have a box in your car.
This box.
And you'd pull out these carts.
You know, just like a radio station.
And if you want to go, if you want to hear the beginning, if you want to hear Eli's coming by Three Dog Night, the beginning, you know you've got to switch over.
From the first song, halfway through the second, and you know, it's the weirdest thing in the world.
Do you remember that?
Quadrophonic?
Eh.
Lasted about an hour and a half.
Then all of a sudden, CDs.
CDs.
Oh my.
I remember the first time I bought a CD, I said, what is this?
Remember the CDs?
This big plastic thing.
I bought something like Fatburger, some jazzy, kind of an 80s.
Fatburger.
I think it was Yellow Jackets, Fatburger, one of those kind of cool jazz kind of stuff.
It's a big plastic thing.
It's like, what do I do with this?
You've got to crank it open and break it open and there it is.
And then, in the old days, the beautiful art, Henry Delft's art.
Look at this.
Look at this album!
I've got, look at this, I've got...
Oh my, I love this!
Iron-on decals!
Chicago was the best.
Chicago album, they give you a book.
I got a book!
Decals!
Or decals!
I've got a...
Lyrics!
Look at the pictures!
The smell, the texture.
The texture.
Some albums, from what I heard, from what I heard, people told me, Some of them were textured.
Jesus Christ Superstar had a very coarse, so people, if you wanted, from what I understand, the drug culture, would buy their weed, when they actually had real weed, from what I've read, grind it up, and you sit there like this, and you use the album, and it comes down, and the seeds, and then you go like this, and the coarse part of the...
Jesus Christ Superstar album.
When you go like that, just sift through it and the seeds fall.
And from what I've heard, there used to be these magazines and movies of the druggies who would do all this stuff.
And then you get...
Here's my CD.
And you got to go like this, you know, because I don't know about you, but I'm nearsighted.
So if I want to read something, I got to go like this.
I'm going like this.
Because I read near, but I...
Anyway.
I went like this.
I can't read anything.
I don't know what this says.
But look at the sound.
Look at the sound.
The sound.
The sound sucks!
Big Bamboo.
Larry Fisher.
Larry, you son.
Up in Smoke Paper.
Big Bamboo.
You freak.
You're a freak.
You're a freak.
I guess we read all that stuff.
Read all that stuff.
Read all that stuff.
But don't tell me.
CDs, better?
No.
No.
Albums.
Albums.
The lows.
The highs.
Even the...
Drop the needle.
The best.
The best.
There was a place in Chelsea years ago.
I finally, I found it.
This old, I had this old Russell Smith.
I was looking for this album.
I got it in an album.
I don't know.
Found it.
But you'd go there and they would make a DVD or a cassette DVD of an album.
And it was a DVD of the vinyl.
Not a DVD of a DVD.
It was a vinyl.
And it sounded better.
Okay.
Remember Dolby?
Remember the outboard Dolbys?
We would calibrate them.
Okay.
So then we'd just go through this stuff.
And then eventually, remember this, these wonderful days of, oh my God, going into, you don't know what I miss.
I used to go into album, stereo stores, audiophile stores, and see like a Mark Levinson system and tone arms that people would spend all their money on a tone arm.
He didn't have anything.
He just had a tone arm.
Not even the cartridge, just the tone arm.
And then you buy like a Lin Sondek.
Oh my God.
And then these speakers that would just be the special wire.
You would get the vampire wire.
You would get connected with this.
Oh my God.
Zero stat guns and all this jazz.
You would hold it.
And then maybe you'd get the European or the Japanese albums that were red or orange and they were clear.
That's wonderful.
And you just sat in these rooms and you...
I had Bose 501 speakers.
Bose 501.
They were the greatest!
There was a low end.
You cannot believe it was beautiful.
Oh my God.
It's just beautiful.
They don't have those anymore because everybody has headphones.
It's headphones.
There's no...
We had a place in Tampa.
Viviano's.
There was a place on 56th Street.
Near Temple Terrace, I used to go to, oh my god, in college.
I was just going, you go into this room where they, oh my god, it was dark, and it kind of had that, kind of that, Macintosh amps.
Oh yes, the Klipsch, Klipschorns, or Klipsch, yes, I know what you mean, the Klips, Klipsch, um, Mac, even Marantz.
I had a plain old Kenwood 35 watt.
Great!
Great!
Just wonderful!
Okay.
So we see it.
And because we have been...
Look at this, Sue.
Oh my gosh, you're bringing back memories.
But Sue, it's not just memories.
It's the fact.
That we saw this, and I know, transition.
And I'm very at home with saying, I told a kid a joke the other day.
I said, watch out, you'll flood it.
It's an old Robert Klein thing.
What?
You'll flood it.
Pump the gas.
Remember the carburetor?
Nobody had fuel injection.
Nobody knows anything about it.
Whatever.
Okay, fine.
Well, now we're seeing things that are happening.
And because we have lived in a world where there has been so much transition, so much change, we are seeing things change.
For example, let me tell you what we're seeing.
You are seeing the end of CNN.
Fox is a different animal.
Fox is a different animal.
There's a fellow named Chris Licht.
Who is trying to take credit.
He's being told by Sazlav and the Discovery people, wrap this thing up.
They killed CNN Plus right off the bat.
Right off the bat!
They didn't want to hear it.
The model is over.
Done.
Done.
And now they're saying, we're thinking about getting rid of people who are too...
Opinionated or too whatever.
Please.
Please.
CNN.
You're worried about that?
They don't want the model anymore.
It's not worth it.
There's no money.
There's too much of us.
Who in the hell is going to want to watch CNN?
I'm with you.
You and me together.
This is an intimacy nobody else has seen before.
Do you understand this?
Do you understand what we're talking about here?
Do you understand what we're saying?
Okay, fine.
Now, you know what else is ending?
Late night.
You know that James Corden?
Can you believe that BS, that story about, oh, I'm going to time to move on.
They, they, they, come on, they canned you, and that's the way it goes.
What are you going to do?
You had a good run.
Nobody's watching this stuff anymore.
They lie to you.
How about when all of a sudden somebody says, well, I'm on TV and I lost 80 pounds.
Did you have surgery?
No, I just ate carbs, no carbs, and I got a trainer, and you're a lying sacko.
No, I'm not.
I did my thing.
They're such liars.
These people lie.
Well, I'm moving on right now.
Can't wait to see the next endeavor.
The next endeavor?
What are you talking about?
They fired you.
They didn't fire me.
Yes, they did.
You know what they're going to have eventually at night?
You ready for this?
They're going to have like almost like the pop-up.
Do you ever see these pop-up?
I love pop-up stuff.
All of a sudden they're like, hey, what's that?
Where's the restaurant?
Okay.
There you go.
There you go.
Alrighty.
Well, they're going to have, at night, you're going to have rotations.
You're going to see maybe a comic here, a comic there.
No stars, no promotion, no money, no Johnny Carson, no this.
Why am I saying this?
By the way, Bernie Soss, Craig Ferguson was great.
Craig Ferguson was great.
Jay Leno was great.
And you know who was great before she went nuts?
Rosie O'Donnell.
Before she lost her mind.
And she jumped the shark when she started attacking Tom Selleck.
But when she would ask people about just things that...
Conan O 'Brien was terrific.
Conan O 'Brien was terrific.
Tucker Carlson.
I do a lot.
I used to watch that.
It's very smart, but see, let me explain something.
A little time out.
I get very bored very quickly.
I just, I will love something.
If it's a food, I'm saying, I gotta eat this every single day.
And then one day they say, I can't take it.
I'm fat enough of that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But God bless the fact that he, you know, that Tucker is the smartest person on TV.
But I have my theories as to why he has people like Kid Rock on, that other Portnoy.
This is when I say, okay, that's it.
There we go.
I got this.
I've seen this movie.
Thank you very much.
Paging Dr. Freud.
But I move on.
But it's changing.
The news.
You know what's going to be the biggest flop ever?
You know what's going to be the biggest flop ever?
January 6th.
Measure it says, Norm Macdonald.
I'm going to say something right now.
And you're going to hate me.
You are going to hate me.
And I'm going to tell you right now.
Norm Macdonald is the most overrated genius of them all.
Did you hear his last?
The last, the piece he recorded during COVID that everybody from Chappelle to...
I mean, they acted like this man, he spins gold with his words.
Gold!
What?
What are you talking about?
No, no, no!
Norm Macdonald!
Donald is just a...
You're kidding me!
Now, I'm not saying he's not talented, I'm not saying he's not funny, he says some good things, but you've got to be...
This is an example of, dear God, this is everybody saying this.
You know what this is like?
The movie Fargo.
Everybody had to say they love Fargo.
Oh, no, no, no.
You betcha.
It's the greatest movie.
And The Clash.
Remember that?
You don't like The Clash?
Rock the cast?
Come on.
The Clash.
Oh, my God.
The Clash.
For me, it was all during The Clash.
The Clash, Shane.
To me, it was The Knack.
Wasn't that My Sharona?
Which is Greg...
What's his name?
Greg...
Kevorkian's lawyer, his brother.
Anyway, we get into these things where you have to say, oh no, a cigar.
Oh, I've got to have a Cohiba.
A Cohiba?
What are you talking about?
A Cohiba?
You're in the magazine.
You're saying that because everybody's got to say this.
You've got to say it to be cool.
You've got to be kidding me.
I don't...
But here's what I want to say.
Now listen.
Spirit, Not Sure, Janet L., C.L., James, Brian Griffin, everybody, Sue Hollahan, especially you, Sue, especially you, listen to me.
Say something that you believe in.
Okay.
Let's see how good you are.
I want you to tell...
By the way, you just saw Top Gun?
That's good.
You're the only person I know.
I think the second person I know.
I don't believe any of these numbers.
Any of these.
I don't know anybody who saw it.
Okay?
Now, let me ask you a question.
Let's see how tough you are.
Let's see how tough you are.
I want you to tell me either a comedian, a group, a song, or something that it takes guts to admit.
Guts.
Let me tell you.
I'll admit it.
I'll tell you right now.
You may not like this.
Chick bands.
Bangles, Go-Go's, um...
Lita Ford, kind of.
That kind of rough stuff.
But mostly chick, but a real good chick.
Bananarama.
There you go.
I said it.
Bananarama.
You ready for this?
Robert De Niro walking.
Talking Italian!
Robert De Niro walking.
Italian.
Look at this, butthole surfers.
Nothing wrong with that.
Hee Haw.
Hee Haw was great.
Hee Haw was the biggest.
Slade, or is it Sade?
Sade, I love.
Dixie Chicks, I remember the original Dixie Chicks.
The original Dixie.
Dixie Dix.
You know what?
That might work.
Rob Zombies.
Zappa.
Zappa is not going out on a limb.
I can listen to Frank Zappa for 30 seconds tops.
Alright.
Valley Girl.
With Moon Zappa.
How do you like that?
I liked it.
I liked it.
I can listen to that.
The Monkees.
Not everything.
Pleasant Valley Sunday.
Love that.
That's a Carole King hit.
Loved it.
Oh.
Well, this isn't really going on all of them.
Peggy Lee, is that all there is?
Okay, here's one.
Sometimes, and it kills me to say this, sometimes I hear Barbara Streisand, I'm thinking, this woman's not human.
Oh, for other reasons, but her singing?
It's unbelievable!
Unbelievable!
Unbelievable.
Cat Stevens, Harry Chapin.
Have you heard this thing about...
Have you heard this stuff now?
What's that called?
Share the world.
Share the...
You know where they get together and they have peace train?
What the hell is that called?
Hang on a minute.
I'm going to tell you right now what it's called.
Hang on.
Hang on.
For the love of God.
You crazy bastards.
Hang on a minute.
I've got a friend of mine.
If you met him, I swear to God, he'd say, why are you crazy?
Why are you...
He sounds like Edgar Kennedy from some old...
Hang on, where is this?
You know what I'm talking about.
What do you call it?
Why am I...
I should be asking you.
What do you call that thing where they put people together, they do peace train, or they do...
Rolled into Nazareth.
You know, the band, The Weight.
And they have somebody from, somebody from, oh, MC5, Wayne Cranberry.
Oh, my God.
Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, dangerous madness.
Wow.
He wouldn't wear a, he wouldn't wear a raincoat.
Not Live World.
What do you call this thing?
It's going on YouTube now.
I just saw one.
They did Tito Puente's Oye Como Va.
And they have Carlos Santana, who, by the way, I think is losing his fastball.
But that's...
And then...
Oh, come on.
You know what I'm talking about.
No, not the conga line.
You...
Alright, hang on.
I'm going to get to the bottom of this.
Hang on.
Hang on.
This is called...
Hang on a minute.
I was watching...
Oh!
Have you heard Norman Brown?
Oh my god!
Norman Brown on guitar.
Johnny Highland.
I'm going through the stuff I did.
This is called John Anderson and you and I. Foxes and Fossils, I love.
Aoife O'Donovan and Molly Tuttle, Jerry Douglas.
Dear God!
Hang on, where is this?
I'm going to get this for you.
I'm going to get this.
Because you are of no help to me.
I'm looking at my YouTube.
How about Rick Beato?
Isn't he great?
Don't you love Rick Beato?
He just makes stuff up.
Bless his heart.
Rick Beato.
Hang on a minute.
Damn it.
I'm going to do this.
You know what?
You completely threw...
Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Playing for Change.
Only took forever.
Playing for Change.
That's the one.
Oh, Firefall.
Cinderella, can't you?
Well, I remember her and the boy.
Did he have all the joys and the toys that a young man should have before he gets too old?
And one morning she came to me with a tear in her eyes, a smile on his head.
I'm happy with child.
Rick Beato is great when he says, you know what makes this song great?
No, Rick, tell me.
Well, let's do this.
Let's do this.
He's got a minor 7. Diminished 4. E minor fat.
Sustained.
Augmented 9. How about his kids?
The kid who's pitch perfect.
E flat minor overs...
I'm sorry.
See, you know what?
I wasn't going to go there.
I wasn't going to go there with this, but I am.
Traveling Wilburys was terrific.
George Jones.
See my George Jones picture back there?
You don't see that, but the picture I met, I met the possum at Ruth Eckert Hall.
I've seen him before.
He...
My friends, I didn't mean to get into this.
I'm sorry, but I think it's kind of good.
We need to...
I hope that today, the good news is that because of Spotify and maybe Pandora to an extent, you can put all these various algorithms together and you can really, you know, enjoy these things.
Because I swear to God, I listen to jazz.
I'm always finding new.
There is so much great stuff.
Who said Fred and Ginger?
Watch them dance.
That's it.
Watch them dance.
Just watch them.
Lynn Samuels once said on her show that Hootie and the Blowfish were the lousiest band.
Well, you know what?
You can't say that.
I'm sorry.
You can't say that.
You make this fun.
I'm going to buy Prepare with Lionel.
Well, that's...
Well, you should do it, by the way, please.
It's preparewithlionel.com, preparewithlionel.com, preparewithlionel.com.
Now, I wish we could have a...
And don't forget, July 16th at the cutting room right here.
Yours truly.
Those were...
Those were wonderful days.
These...
See, I'm in a great mood today, thanks to you.
I'm in a great mood today, thanks to you.
I'm feeling good.
I've got this list of all these terrible things.
I'll talk about them tomorrow.
But being with you, remember that great line from Roxanne?
I'd rather be with you.
It's a great toast.
I'd rather be with you people than the finest people in the world.
And I mean that sincerely.
So this has been terrific.
My friends, I thank you.
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