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Aug. 21, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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The Human Glory of Music

Music is the language and rhythm of life. A syncopation of the world through mathematical formulaics. It is the soundtrack of humanity.

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All right, my friend.
Here we go.
It is a Sunday morning.
It is a Sunday morning.
And I am with you again.
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So that you and I can discuss this moment and share this moment together.
And so that I can provide to you something a little different than everything else that we're seeing.
And frankly, I reject all of it.
It is so stupid.
And I have a wild hair on my head today.
I don't want to be crude.
But I want to talk to you about something which is so important.
So critical.
So amazingly.
Truly amazingly.
Interesting about how we, you, you in particular, not I, you, are being bamboozled by the biggest bunch of just, I don't know, phonies, these right-wing phonies.
I don't expect anything from the left.
Don't get me wrong.
I don't even listen to them.
But you've got these folks who are now cornering the market, cornering the market on virtue and value and honesty and morality.
And it makes me sick, especially when I know a couple of these people are lying through their teeth.
Do you understand this?
We will get to that in a moment.
And I want to say, first of all, welcome to you.
Let us remember one thing.
The first rule is we are going to be cordial.
Cordiality is something which I think is lost.
One of the reasons why I detest travel is the airport and the airplane and the airline.
Having to deal with these boorish wastes of flesh and DNA and skin, I cannot.
I cannot.
Take people.
I am seeing things.
I am seeing levels of cultural and interpersonal savagery that I never thought even possible.
So whenever I can, disagree all you want.
I don't care about that.
But just always remain cordial.
That's all.
You'll have much better discussions that way.
This I promise you.
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Now, I want to tell you something that happened this morning, and I was in an absolute rage.
Well, as much of a rage.
I really don't go into rages.
I gave that up years ago.
There's no need for that.
It's the most stupid thing in the world.
And there was something which I wanted to tell you about which is so important.
There was a story I read today about Harry Styles.
I don't know.
Let me ask you something.
Very, very quick, quick, quick, quick, quick kind of a thing.
How many, and please be honest, don't, don't, you know what?
I almost can take rudeness over fake and bad humor.
I know you're not trying to do that, but sometimes people will force and say, I want to be funny.
I want to think of something clever to say, and it's not either.
I'll ask you a quick question.
Have you heard of Harry Styles?
Yes or no?
Harry Styles.
This is a British performer, young man.
He's played Madison Square Garden.
Billy Joel claimed, I own this place.
Billy Joel has been playing, what, once a month or whatever it is.
And Billy Joel, bless his heart, but he gets on my nerves like he can't believe it.
And I'm just asking whether you've heard him very, very good.
On Saturday night, last night, Madison Square Garden was transformed into Harry's house.
This is according to the New York Post.
As Harry Styles brought his love on tour, 2022, trek to this venue for the first of 15 sold-out performances.
Now, do I believe they're sold out?
No.
I don't believe anything.
But still, this is one of the biggest acts of rock.
I watched some of his various music over the course of whatever.
He has one video that has over a billion.
You don't see a billion.
A billion downloads.
A billion.
A billion.
And of course you can say, well maybe it's not really a billion.
Okay, fine.
Maybe they fudged the metrics.
I don't know.
But that's the number.
You don't really see that.
So whenever you think you're really something.
Whenever you think, hey, I got 4,000.
Try a billion.
And I'm looking at this, and first of all, it reminds me of a time when I could, number one, understand lyrics.
Number two, it's not about filthy, disgusting, gangster, thuggish, sorry.
You know what I'm talking about.
There's some hip-hop that's terrific, but then there's others that it's just not whap and disgusting, and I don't know what you're talking about.
It's actual lyrics.
I like that.
He actually seems to be singing.
He doesn't have a lot of backup, a lot of stuff.
There's a lot of good that I see because of return to performance.
It's something different, and it's old-fashioned.
But when I say old-fashioned, lyrics.
And you can argue whether they're deep or not, whatever it is.
I'm glad to see people out.
I'm glad to see people spread their money.
I'm glad to see New York City come back to life post-COVID.
I think it's good, good, good, good, good, good.
And he's huge.
He's just huge.
And I don't want...
Anyway, let me stop.
So anyway, so then I meet these people.
These are the people who I can't stand.
The phony, baloney, forced, conservative commentators.
Moral arbiters.
Moral arbiters.
Now, what he's done, he has, in addition to all that, he has been, he has worn dresses, or high heels, he's been androgynous, or whatever you want to call it.
Non-binary.
And, of course, And I'm not going to mention two people in particular.
But you'll know the names.
And one in particular.
If this person is not I don't know what the word is.
Hidden, gay, crypto-gay, closeted, whatever the phrase is.
I'll eat my hat once I get a hat.
This is the part that Just infuriates me.
And the other one, I'm not so sure.
Now let's start off with the following.
This month, in fact in five days, I will be the ripe old age of 64 years old.
I just love seeing that.
And I am a child of the 60s and an adolescent of the 70s.
And I remember How I hated, despised people who came forward and started talking about my music, people I liked, it was too loud, it was too this, it was too that, and especially when Hollywood, in particular now, is pushing a lot of stuff which is non-binary.
By the way, I prefer quaternary, just to let you know.
But pushing a lot of binary stuff and non-binary stuff.
And what they're doing themselves, this kills me, what they're doing is there are so many people who themselves are gay.
And everybody knows it.
And Hollywood protects them because they realize this is going to affect the box office.
How can you do this?
Be consistent.
The answer is because they don't believe anything they're saying.
Hollywood is the propaganda unit of the shadow government, of the military, of whatever.
Hollywood has been like this.
There was a time when Hollywood was very, for lack of a better word, right-wing, Capra, Jack Warner, HUAC, all of that.
And it's always been a repository of freaks.
And here's the bottom line.
I cannot tell you enough.
I cannot say it enough.
I can't.
I don't.
I do not believe that sexuality, sexuality, preference, is a disease, is normal, abnormal, just like I don't believe left-handed and right-handed and blue eyes and whatever it is.
I think these are variations that we have seen throughout time, and it's nothing.
The moral stuff that you attach to it, I don't get.
You know it and I know it.
If you have a child who's gay, truly non-binary, truly, not just gay, fine.
Let's get that out of the way.
We all know that.
I feel stupid even saying that because it's kind of like the Larry David, not that there's anything wrong with it.
Okay.
So here's what drives me crazy.
So I'm reading around about styles, doing a little research, and sure enough, we have this...
And I can't stand these people.
They represent the right.
The left, I don't even recognize, but the right, because I'm forced, they're the only...
I'm being associated with these people.
And there's a couple in particular.
Who are going out of their way of St. Harry Styles.
Who wears a dress or high heels.
This again is the loss of masculinity.
And blah, blah, blah.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Okay.
Great.
All right.
Great.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's so corny.
And you see these people in the various streams trying to...
Fulfill this con that they are the moral arbiters.
That they believe in family and God and Jesus.
It's just so corny.
They don't believe it.
They say whatever they have to say to con you.
This is their thing.
This is what they believe in.
This is their schtick.
This is their schmaltz.
I'm serious.
You ever see a CPAC come over?
They take patriotism and they destroy it.
They make it mad as an avenue.
They make it schmaltzy and corny and sick and I despise it.
Despise it.
Now, what am I getting at?
Let me tell you what I'm getting at.
I'm going to go through a history of something.
Today we're going to be a little bit lighter.
You're going to enjoy this.
You're going to enjoy this.
This is one you might want to bring the kids around for and say, you know what, let's share this.
Let's share this.
Because invariably, people who get into this business forget where they've been and where they're from and what it was like when they were a kid and what they enjoyed and what they were told when they were young about their music and what they liked and what they thought.
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Let me ask you a question.
We got into this age thing.
You know, I don't like anybody.
I already told you this.
I can't stand people my age.
I can't stand them.
Oh, dear God.
I know somebody who's a year younger than me.
He says, well, I'm so old.
Let's get out of here.
Get out of here.
I don't even know what this is.
I don't understand this.
I don't understand this.
How old is everybody?
Give me your number.
Give me your number.
Let's go through the list.
How old are you?
Just very simple.
Just give me an idea.
Just give me an age.
How old are you?
Be proud of it.
It's your number.
I'm not asking your weight, your BMI.
How old are you?
I'm a Virgo.
Actually, feces, but a different story.
Five days from now.
Okay, we got a 70. Look at this.
Anal mech.
I like that.
Carol, 77. 56. 62. I like this.
57. 62. 58. 59. 54. Let's get a prize for the oldest and the youngest.
By the way, those numbers are great.
70. God bless you.
49. 47. I think this is beauteous.
58. Good.
37. There we go.
A linden.
How about that?
25. Johnny.
Thank you.
Bless you.
Remember that story?
Every time you sneeze, your heart stops.
No, it doesn't.
No, it doesn't.
60, 70. Good, good, good, good.
57. Good, good.
Okay, good.
So we're basically, we're in the same group.
We're in the same group.
And it's so funny when I see 72 and I go, wait a minute, that's right around the corner?
We got a 40?
Okay.
Let me tell you who was the most important person in our culture.
In our culture.
Let me tell you who it was.
And see if you remember this.
I'm going to give you his name.
You tell me who it was.
You ready?
His name was George Raymond Wagner.
Who is that?
George Raymond Wagner.
First one who gets it wins nothing.
George Raymond Wagner.
Who was that?
I'll wait.
There's a little bit of a delay.
Nothing wrong with that.
George Raymond Wagner.
Let's wait.
Let's wait.
I'm waiting.
Somebody's going to get it.
Oh, Gina's going to be 51. Penzarella.
Mayor of New York City?
No.
That's Jimmy Walker.
There is a wife.
Nope.
Captain Kangaroo?
No, that's Bob Keeshan.
Don't know.
Thank you, Nick.
No clue.
Me neither.
It depends.
Chuck's dad?
Nope.
Awesome.
I don't know what that means.
There's Lori.
I'm 67. Thank you, Laurie.
Hour later, by the way.
Come on, George Raymond Wagner.
Come on!
The guy who did something.
Pro wrestling.
Thank you, Fred Brown.
Keep going.
Come on, Fred's hot.
Gorgeous George.
Thank you.
George looked it up.
Gorgeous George.
Gorgeous George was the most important person ever.
Let me give you some perspective.
Who's a pro wrestling fan?
George Steele.
Wrestling changed my life.
My two buddies in life.
I mean buddies.
I mean buddies, buddies.
Hang out.
Bounce around.
Gordon Soley.
Bobby the Brain Heenan.
Absolutely.
Great.
And I never understood a single word he said, but I sure did like his mind.
I think joy to the world.
Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
Hoyt Axton.
I never understood what gorgeous George did.
Now understand this.
19, it was right after World War II.
Right after World War II.
America just beat the Germans.
Right?
The Nazis, the Japanese.
We were, I mean, we were He was from, I guess, career was, he was 5 '9", not the biggest guy in the world, but it was, what year did he, I think his last match was like 62, but understand what this was in the 40s to 50s.
First golden age of professional wrestling.
One of the biggest stars of the sport.
Flamboyant, charismatic.
Okay, now understand this.
Let me put things into perspective.
Because you must understand perspective.
If you don't get perspective, Strongbow, that's of course Scarpa.
Big John Studd.
I knew all those people.
NWA, Ricky Steamboat.
NWA knew him well.
Not knew, I mean saw them.
Post-World War II, America is doing great.
We are masculine.
We are on top of the world.
We are so bad, it's not even funny.
This is before the Red Scare, and we were just a red, white, and blue, red meat, and here comes this guy with golden locks, golden bobby pins, the capes, doing this, looking at the time.
They made no distinction between binary, Okay?
Nobody said, not that there's anything wrong with it.
There was a lot wrong with it then.
Nobody, there was no understanding.
Liberace, we'll get to Liberace in a moment.
Nobody knew what to do in professional wrestling?
This isn't Edward Villella here.
Professional wrestling?
America?
What?
Who's this guy?
He shocked people.
They didn't know what to do.
And this is before wrestling went really kayfabe.
Really.
This is so flamboyant.
Now, let me just jump to the gun.
Guess who said he was...
Let me give you this quote.
Listen to this.
This is how important it was.
And there's a reason for this, by the way.
There's a reason for this.
In fact, in my next newsletter, this is the quote.
When I was nine, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George.
He said, I'm beautiful.
I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him.
If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him.
I said to myself, that's a good idea.
I am the greatest.
I'm pretty.
And then I took it a little further than he did.
Muhammad Ali.
Muhammad Ali.
I mean, this is James Brown said it was him.
Elton John.
Elvis.
Now let me ask you something.
Do you remember, and there's a reason for this, let me just say this, there's a reason for why I'm going through this, very painstakingly, very methodically I'm going through this.
Do you remember when you were a kid, and we all seem to be roughly of the same era, epic, if it were, as you were, do you remember glam rock?
Do you remember when People thought that Mick Jagger was a little...
Do you remember this?
Do you remember?
Mick Jagger?
David Bowie?
Bowie, I should say, actually.
Not Bowie.
Bowie's the knife.
Do you remember that?
Iggy Stardust?
Glamrock?
The New York Dolls?
David Johansson?
Who are the other ones?
The other big...
All the hair, man.
What was this?
It's Gorgeous George.
Mick Jagger and Bowie.
Remember the stories about that?
Remember this?
Fingernails?
The whole bit?
Mascara?
What?
Did people...
Did you forget that?
We've been through this.
Mark Bolin, T-Rex, Goldust.
Bowie was...
By the way, New York Dolls, I saw...
David Johansson, one time it was an Irish bar, we stepped out for whatever, and this, David Johansson, that face, David Johansson's face could catch about a quart of rain in his face, the lines of his face.
But as he walked away, so help me God, he looked like a ten-year-old boy.
I've never seen anything like it.
He just, there was nothing there.
It was, it was, I've never seen anything, he looked like, imagine a 70-year-old, it wasn't 70, but he, this place, that one.
Do you remember that?
Gary Glitter, well, Gary, remember, it was a Gary Neumann cars, he had his problem.
Little Richard, thank you.
Little Richard, all of that.
Gorgeous George.
Absolutely.
And Little Richard himself, remember he was gay and then he wasn't in them, whatever, eh, whatever it was.
We had no problem with that.
We had no problem with any of this.
We loved it.
Who cares?
All the hair bands, all the...
It was nothing but it was as...
And we used to use words like effeminate and this and...
It was rock.
We loved it.
It was experimental.
It was shocking.
It was different.
Now, let me say something.
The people that I'm talking about, the conservatives, are giving me this line about, well, you know, it's masculinity.
It's like, oh, would you shut up?
We're not talking about teaching kids various curricula in school.
It's a different story.
It's a different story.
Kiss.
Freddie Mercury.
Liberace.
Liberace was Gorgeous George.
Do you think Liberace ever converted somebody into gayness?
Whatever that means, gayness.
Do you think?
What are we talking about?
It is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life.
Freddie Mercury was unbelievable.
I don't know anybody today.
When Freddie Mercury took the stand, did you ever, I never saw him in life, but during, remember the big rock, what was that called?
We Are the World of Live Aid?
Oh my God!
He was just, it was a production, like, he had two sets of teeth, or he had extra, I should say, he had extra teeth.
The whole notion of spinal tap.
Now, let me just say this again.
You've got this Harry Styles.
I can't believe that these people, these conservative types, maybe they're just too young to understand, I don't know, but they're stodgy and they're corny and they're bloated.
And they keep repeating this.
I don't know what this conservatism is.
Yes, I understand that teaching kids in school.
Yes, we're right.
But this is entertainment.
Where have you been?
Where have you been?
Elton John.
I don't know.
And professional wrestling.
Oh my God.
Professional wrestling was a harbinger of everything.
Not only that, we had satanic.
Remember a Buddha Dean?
Mark Lewin, the Purple Haze, Kevin Sullivan, Abuda Dean was my favorite.
I don't know what the hell that was.
Mark Lewin would come out and...
He was maniac Mark Lewin.
Came from the water, the Purple Haze.
It was great!
Undertaker, Satanic, Alice Cooper.
Alice Cooper, I don't know what Alice Cooper was.
Have you forgotten that?
Have we forgotten that?
Is this what conservatism is?
Is this where we are today?
Seriously.
Count me out.
I'm not even a part of this, but here's my card.
Just count me out of this.
This is so stupid.
They are rehashing stuff that my parents' generation said.
There's no end to this.
There's no end to this.
And I swear to God, the thing that is the most important...
For you to do as a parent, make sure you do this.
Ask your kids, what are you listening to?
And like it.
Like it.
Listen to it.
Listen to it.
It's the greatest way it...
Yeah, it's great to throw the baseball around and do all this stuff, and I think that's terrific, but just ask yourself, just, just...
Very, very simply, listen to your kids' music.
I was extremely impressed.
Now, I've got to tell you something.
Yesterday, I heard something which, and I do not think, I do not think, and I'm telling you right now, if music brings you happiness, whatever it is, good for you.
We were driving right around Port Authority, last night.
And there was a car that pulled up.
And there was a group of people in this car.
I swear to God.
I swear to you.
If I said, okay, what would you cast?
Right now, let's take this scene.
What would you...
You can make a movie based upon this.
It was a car with a color I've never seen.
Music pouring out so loud.
I can't even imagine.
Filthy.
I'd say, this is going to be a bank robbery.
They're going to rob a bank.
That's what I think.
It looked like that.
It was nothing but at night, just scary.
Boom, boom.
Okay, fine.
I don't want to ban it.
I don't want to.
This is not Felicity.
Nobody.
This is not.
Maybe they were happy.
I don't know.
I'm trying my best.
All right, fine.
That's the way it goes.
That's the way it is.
Here's a guy talking about love and this and that and that and people are clapping and nobody's killing.
There's nobody storming the stage and people are dressed up and people are...
My God, it was like the days of old of conviviation.
It was wonderful.
Great.
Have fun.
I don't want to go, but it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
And yet, this is what they do.
I can't believe it.
If conservatism means stodgy, it's not going to work.
Closed-minded, it's not going to work.
It's not going to work.
The thing that made this country great, the thing that made human race, the human species, is the ability to understand something.
Let me throw at you Dali.
Salvador Dali.
Rocky Horror Picture.
Thank you so much.
Jelena.
Absolutely.
Remember that one?
With that guy Tim Curry and the trans...
People have been in drag.
Milton Berle.
Some like it hot.
Shakespeare.
Hasty Pudding.
What is the matter with people?
Do you think what we're talking about, what's happening to children and the war on parental primacy, By the way, you've got to see this video she did with Landon Starbuck.
Go to Lynn's Warriors.
You've got to watch this.
It's great.
I don't understand.
I don't understand.
Is this what being conservative is?
Is that it?
Are you confusing trying to destroy a child's frame of reference in school?
The same...
As arguing about a musical act?
Dear God!
What was the music that you listened to when you were a kid that your parents hated?
I'm very lucky.
My mother was extreme.
Listen, I was listening to Joe Beam when I was a kid, so we were a little different.
But, Jack Benny.
Thank you, Ray.
What did you listen to when you were a kid?
There's John Pierce, he's 72. What did you listen to when you were a kid?
Oh, Monty Python, Benny Hill.
What was that drag?
What's the difference?
What did you listen to?
What did you love?
What was the stuff that made you think, wow?
And one of the fun parts about listening to music was making your parents...
I'm lucky to say.
Floyd Kramer.
Thank you, Mark.
Led Zeppelin.
Oh my God.
Ray Charles.
I remember we had a neighbor when I was a kid.
We had a neighbor who loved Ray Charles.
And some of the other neighbors would say, Because that was a little bit...
James Brown.
I'm a sex machine!
With the hair, the cape, gorgeous George.
Everything is gorgeous George.
Everything.
Tommy James and the Shondells.
I have a picture with Tommy James.
He was at one of my shows.
The Tommy James.
Remember Moni Moni?
Mutual of the New York building.
You can look out the door and see it.
Money, money.
Marilyn Manson.
Maybe not the best example, but there you go with that.
How about Gigi Allen?
I know nobody's into that.
When I want to get obscure, it's more of a performance.
He used to throw his own waste.
Not good.
Beasties?
Come on.
For the love of God.
And let me also tell you something which is important.
Oh, Paul Butterfield.
Look at you.
See, this is the hardcore.
This is the...
I don't know why.
I was talking to my friend the other day.
I've known him since, let me see, 50 years.
Exactly.
And we were talking about going to concerts.
Oh, Steppenwolf, the Bodines.
I loved them when Sammy Giannis was one.
Steppenwolf, John Kay, and little, kind of, those were the, I mean, that was something.
I saw Peter Frampton, Lakeland Civic Center.
Frampton comes alive.
That's great!
Now, let me tell you what I think is very, very simply this.
Number one, stop being some old Not old chronologically, but this old mentality.
Conservatism, I hate that term.
I don't know what this is.
I'm not a conservative.
But there's certain things I'm going to do as kids.
The best thing you can do to your kids is tell them, I like that.
It's a connection you will make like you cannot believe.
You like my music?
I like your music.
I like your music.
I like that.
That's good.
Really?
Because they own it.
Let's listen.
Here, put your thing on.
Let's sit in the driveway.
Listen to this.
Let's put this on at home.
Put this on the record player like Joe Biden would say.
Absolutely.
I remember one time I played for my dad.
I liked growing up.
Tony Bennett.
Oh, Herb Alpert?
I thought it was great.
We had this old...
Do you remember?
We had a...
A stereo.
It looked like an entire cable.
And you lift up this.
God forbid you put your head in and it falls if the thing's not tight enough.
And you had this little space on the left where you could put your albums.
I still have my Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass.
Hang on there.
From my youth.
Remember this one?
Remember whipped cream?
This was pretty racy stuff.
Herb Alpert.
Incredible.
I don't know why I've got this.
I've also got an old grand funk.
I don't know why.
I have no earthly idea why I've got this.
I love this.
We used to play Louis Armstrong.
All Bossa Nova.
Sergio Mendes.
Jobim.
My mother loved Deodato.
By the way, Deodato, his son-in-law, is Stephen Baldwin.
When Bobbles, Bangles, and Beads, CTI albums, Creed Taylor.
When you can sit with your parents and like something and dig it.
I took my father one time to see the Gypsy Kings.
It was great.
I think that's one of the best things.
And kids have to do it to an extent to parents.
And there's nothing worse than when your kids say, I don't really know.
Don't you listen to anything?
Not really.
That's not good.
That is not good.
You know what got me through COVID?
Other than my wife.
But you know what got me through all this stuff?
Music.
So it gets me through everything.
It's the way I start today.
I listen to things, and it puts me in a mood that I just...
So going back to what I said, the reason why I can't stand these people is that I don't have anybody to believe in, and I don't have anybody to talk to, and I'm committing metrics...
Suicide, because you have to, if you're going to do something on streaming, you've got to be one or the other.
You can't, they don't want gray.
They don't want this.
They don't want, they don't like, well, maybe, no, they don't want that.
I want to say make America gray again, as somebody once said.
To make it gray.
To make, to make, it's not Manichaean, it's not Apodictic, it's not Left and Right.
To be able to see what's going on.
To see what's happening.
There is so much that I want to...
You're going to think this is crazy.
I want to have like a summer camp for families and kids.
We start all over again.
We start all over again.
It's like you've never heard politics in your life.
Never.
First thing we do, number one, the Constitution.
It's the greatest thing in the world.
It's fantastic.
Once you know the rules, it teaches you framework.
You can't expand upon it.
You can't say something that it's not.
But with all these people coming into our country, and I'm going to say something right now, and I know nobody wants to hear this, but if you, I would take a family.
I would take any Central American, South American family so long as I can get rid of families here.
We have an American mindset.
We have platforms of people in every demographic you can imagine who are so selfish, so useless in terms of The way things are and should be.
That I actually am welcoming new people.
How's that?
I'm actually, I'm actually, actually welcoming new people.
And I want to go back to music.
And I want to go back to art.
And I want to go back to what's happening.
I'm going to ask you a question and I want you to think about this.
If I could do this, this has been one of my questions for the longest time.
Let's say I were to start a desert island experiment.
It's a thought experiment.
And out of nowhere, I get these new people.
I don't know how I'm going to feed them.
The logistics of this.
But just work with me.
Imagine, theoretically, I can see how they would start On their own, without any influence whatsoever.
What would you notice that they did?
That's my question.
What would you notice that they would do?
What?
What would they do?
The first thing they would do, they would come up with language.
Human beings have language.
Not like dolphins.
That's not a language.
That's not a language.
That's communication.
But a language is different.
Language is verb and syntax and noun and learning.
We would have language.
Then we would have art.
We would have dancing.
This is something that I would leave.
I have no dancing interest whatsoever, but they would dance.
Competition.
Somebody somewhere would throw something.
I bet you I can throw this far, then you can.
No, you can't.
I can't.
That would happen.
And then art.
Making something.
Making something.
Putting it together and saying, I made a fire.
That's pretty good.
You know, he's good at that.
And this sense of aesthetic pleasure.
I'm the best at this.
And music is the thing that we do in every...
I...
I have, as you know, a separate channel, linomedia.com.
And what I do is I always put a song or whatever that I think is important, relevant somehow, for whatever reason.
And I found, and by the way, anytime I can promote great women guitar players, blues players, But I found these three sisters, they're Georgian, Soviet Georgian, playing, singing their song, completely alien to us, singing like sisters, so you can hear that genetic, that beautiful similarity.
Like the Andrews sisters, the Mills brothers, even the Osments, who, by the way, were never given enough credit.
You know who else is a great family band?
Cowsills.
Cowsills are...
And Susan Cowsill?
Unbelievable.
Saw them in the cutting room?
You can't believe how good they are.
They were the inspiration for the Partridge family.
I think you knew that.
But they are incredible.
Anyway.
So I'm listening to this.
And here they are playing this song from their native language and it's music.
It's the most...
Fascinating thing.
How about, I love Mongolian throat singing.
Who in the hell thought of that?
And then somebody, obviously percussion was the first form of music.
Somebody, percussion, rhythm, blood flow, heartbeat.
Before strings and woodwinds, it was percussion.
Maybe signaling, maybe no.
Let me tell you how great YouTube is.
Even though they demonetize us, but not demoralize.
I'm watching sometimes kids play the guitar on YouTube.
I can't believe what I'm seeing.
I can't believe...
There was a little girl.
Maybe you've seen her.
She's Japanese.
She might be six years old.
I don't know.
And Robert Plant is watching this.
I get to hit his little drums.
I think it's his pair.
This little Japanese girl rocks.
She has...
A genius.
She connects into...
She plugs like Emily Letell.
I mean...
What was that?
Eunice.
Plugging into the...
She connects into this cosmic thing.
It's not even funny.
Years ago on Talk Radio, we used to ask the question, why can't women...
Why aren't they great guitar players?
I mean, Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford.
Who?
Who's great?
I don't know which of the Wilson, the guitar player.
Holy mother of God!
Are you seeing?
Are you seeing what women and girls can do?
Play?
What were we thinking?
Where are they?
Thank God for this.
And they've got two million followers.
This is the greatest thing in the world.
And to have this little girl, she's Japanese, playing the immigrant song, or, you know, she's playing, or as Chris also played, Rory Gallagher.
I mean, I can't believe what I'm saying.
This is the most beautiful thing that humans do.
And if she wants to wear a wig or be flushed, who cares?
Nobody's hurting anybody.
We're not killing anybody.
We're doing something that humans do.
We're making this glorious sound of music.
Music should be taught in school.
Music is mathematical.
Music is to play any kind of instrument for you to sit down.
I don't care if you play turkey in the straw.
I don't care if it's a fiddle, an accordion, a guitar, whatever it is.
It doesn't matter.
I love watching string.
I'm a string guy, so I like bazooki.
Not bazooki, but these different lyres.
There was a Chinese fellow in the subway playing marimba, which is really percussion, as is piano.
I can't believe what I'm saying.
You see little kids playing.
And they have these little tiny guitars and they have to make it smaller.
And there was a little girl I thought, no, this can't be.
She looked like she could barely talk.
And she is...
Now, do you believe in talent?
Yes.
Tao Wilkenfeld, Johnny Ryan, plays with Jeff Beck.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing with Tao.
She's from Australia or whatever.
She looked like a little, this big bass.
What a sound!
Dear Nancy Wilson.
Couldn't believe what I was hearing.
And she's a great singer, too, by the way.
And then years ago, have you heard Diane McPartland, Diane Shore play the piano?
That voice?
Great piano.
I don't know where we got into this notion of women, men, or better musicians.
Absolutely.
Absolutely not.
Insanity.
Absolutely insanity.
Look at this.
Peter goes to Tom Jobim.
When I heard Jobim and Elise Regina play Waters of March or whatever it's called.
Oh!
It's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life.
Joe Beam is from another.
He, I've never heard anybody play punctuate rhythm, come up with sounds like he does.
Never.
And I think, in my opinion, my most favorite song of them all, the one song that I think that is perfection.
Is Wave by Joe Mim.
Absolutely.
And I love the way...
Anybody who plays a Wano Samba...
Wait.
There was a comedian one time who did this song about it.
He said, I wonder how the Mexican hat dance was written.
Wait a minute.
Hold it.
Wait, wait.
Anyway.
Crack me up.
Remember Pete Barbuty?
You don't remember him.
Pete Barbuty used to come out.
Johnny Carson.
Jazz.
He had a blonde cigar.
And he took a plunger.
The end of the plunger, sticks it to the side of the piano, puts his cigar in there, and he plays.
Oh my God.
Monty Alexander.
Watch Monty Alexander play the Battle of the Republic.
He's Jamaican.
I've known him.
I've known him for years.
He lives in the hood.
Watch that.
I just sit back and I can't believe what I'm saying.
I can't believe what I'm saying.
The level of...
Oh!
Here's one for you.
I think this is...
This is good for maybe...
I'm sorry.
Five minutes.
J.D. Beck and Domi.
Have you heard this?
J.D. Beck...
J.D. Beck is...
I've never heard anybody play drums like this.
J.D. Beck has a percussion.
He's got this little thing he'll put out.
I think he's got like a...
His kit three?
Maybe a snare?
I don't know.
He puts a towel, a box.
He just plays...
I've never heard anything like it.
Nobody plays like him.
And Domi is all over the place.
Five minutes of this is like, okay, I got it.
But watch this.
Unbelievable.
I'm trying to think of some others.
There was a...
What is his name?
Plays keyboards.
Lost a lot of weight.
I can find it.
Jose something.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
This is something.
And the guy that still blows me away every single time I hear it is Nick Drake.
Nick Drake, one of these days, there has to be, there are Nick Drake's Festivals and, you know, it's like if you meet somebody who knows about Nick Drake, there's a passion for him.
So let me just say this.
I am not a conservative.
I don't know what that means.
I'm extremely understanding, extremely accepting, extremely Open-minded, progressive as far as so much more so than you.
I'll bet you anything.
However, the moment we violate your rights, the sanctity of your autonomy, your primacy, your family, your peace of mind, your world, your freedom, the moment I do that, we're off.
We're done.
Finished.
Stop.
My freedom stops at that moment.
Period.
I've got to respect you.
I've got to respect you and your family and your faith and your God or lack of a God or whatever it is.
I've got to understand that the government is our slave.
I hate to use that term.
Our servant.
The government is this thing that we create.
We control it.
It never controls us.
Now, if that's conservative, let me know.
Let me know.
Let me know.
And the run of the mill when it comes to sexuality and the expression of sexuality is so vast, the amount of freaks among us would blow your mind.
They may look like you.
They may dress like you.
They may not have a stud in their nose or pink hair or anything like that.
But it would blow your mind.
So the level of expression when it comes to sexuality is so great because we do not have estrous cycles.
We do not have heat cycles.
We do not have, you know, our sexuality is cortical.
It's based upon fetish and experience and likes and dislikes.
But when you politicize sexuality in order to destroy order, When I say, oh no, no, this is good, when my goal is to destroy order, to confuse, to destabilize?
No.
This is when we say, no, no, no, no.
But, this is a country that better accept a huge swath of variations of sexuality and expression, and I'm all for that.
Absolutely.
Now here's what.
This is a series.
This is a series of behaviors.
And this is my life.
This.
This.
This is it.
This is what I explain everything.
This is what I live by.
This.
Do you know what this is?
Do you know what this is called?
Do you know what this is?
It's called balance.
This is what I do.
I'm balanced.
On a tightrope.
You balance.
You shift.
Riding a bike.
You're making micro-adjustments.
The reason why you're going like, you're not turning over is because you're balancing.
This is life.
It's Balancing.
It said, yes, this is okay, but...
And nobody in the world of conservative or liberal or whatever talk, and nobody in the world of Bill Maher and Jordan Peterson and all these people, the new Schopenhauer's of our time, nobody's into balance because balance is boring.
And balance means adjustment.
And balance means concession.
And balance means, yeah, well, maybe so, so whatever.
I don't care.
And it doesn't mean just to each his own, but accepting it.
And saying, okay, I got it.
I dig it.
I can see that.
That's all.
I can see your point.
Also, to be empathic, I understand what you're saying.
I got it.
I understand.
I may not share it, but I understand it.
What I'm just suggesting, you're not going to see anywhere on any cable news show, anything, because the amount of discussion, the level of discussion, the depth is so de minimis, so horrible.
It's...
Enough with that.
Now, please, as you are done, go to Mrs. L. Linz Warriors on YouTube.
Watch the interview with Landon Starbuck.
Fantastic.
Subscribe and like hers.
She's at Linz underscore Warriors, okay?
I'm at Lionel Media.
And also, as I said before, And this is important.
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It was wonderful.
It was wonderful.
But, because my speech is dangerous, apparently, I don't know why, they have seen fit to extinguish that.
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You can even send a check.
Whatever melts your butter.
You can be a patron.
You can contribute.
You can see that we continue unfettered.
And more importantly, more importantly, great thought, great talent, great should always be remunerated and rewarded.
That's it.
You want to kill the music industry?
Tell them they don't get paid anymore.
It's done.
It's finished.
Okay?
Harry Styles is not appearing 15 times because he likes crowds.
It's because of this.
Not money.
This.
Alright, my friends.
You have a great and a glorious day.
Remember, talk to your kids today and ask them, what are you listening to?
And no matter how bad it is, you say, I like that.
I like that.
You will see a connection you can't replicate in real life.
Alright, my friends.
Have a great day.
The monkey's dead.
The show's over.
See ya.
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