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Feb. 14, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Disinhibition as Pastime

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My friend, as I promised, I never watched one second of the Super Bowl last night.
I never watched a second of it.
I never watched a second of it.
I never watched a second.
Woke up and I looked.
I said, oh!
Kansas City won.
This is hours later.
I have no interest in it whatsoever.
Um...
Um...
I commented in brutal detail on my private channel.
Brutal.
Which I implore you to check out and read.
Because, by the way, so that you understand something, maybe you can grasp this.
I'm putting the link right now.
This is a polite version that is accepted and acceptable through the various prisms of our opinion vectors today.
That's all.
And I need a lot of wiggle room, I need a lot of time, I need a lot of space, and I need a committed audience who understands what it is I'm trying to do, where I'm not jumping to a conclusion without evidence of such, and the conclusions that I do jump to or draw are oftentimes made by no one else.
I know that sounds rather cryptic, but it's the God's honest truth.
I didn't watch a second of it last night.
I did not watch a second of it.
And let me tell you one of the reasons why.
Why do I say this?
This morning, one of the first things I did was I called a friend of mine.
I've known him since the seventh grade.
I changed schools in the middle of the seventh grade.
For reasons I still don't understand, but my parents didn't like something.
It was a Catholic school.
I went from Sacred Heart to Saint Lawrence.
Saint Lawrence is Saint Lawrence of Rome.
Saint Lawrence of Rome was a martyr.
Saint Lawrence of Rome was responsible for one of the most famous one-liners in Contemporary catechism that we knew then, because we were much, I don't know what Catholic school is now, but then we were into the martyrs.
And one of the stories was St. Lawrence of Rome.
And Lawrence was burned, burned alive, tortured, whatever it was, on a gridiron.
And a gridiron is, of course, interestingly enough, It's a term that we use for the Super Bowl by virtue of the lines.
It was a griddle.
It was a grill.
And St. Lawrence was...
You can look it up.
He said something to the effect at some particular point, turn me over, I'm done on this side.
St. Lawrence...
Turn me over.
We all knew this.
This is the story of St. Lawrence.
The saint was tied on top of an iron grill over a slow fire that roasted him.
This is according to stlawrenceprimary.uk.
God gave him so much strength and joy that Lawrence joked with the judge saying, turn me over.
Before he died, he prayed that the city of Rome would be converted to Jesus.
He prayed that the Catholic faith would be spread.
But I heard, turn me over, I'm done on this side.
Now, this is what we heard.
This is what I heard in seventh grade.
I was 12 years old.
Actually, 11 and 12, whatever it was.
And I, at that time, asked the following question.
I said, is it not odd to you?
And I got a big laugh.
Is it not odd to you that in order to attract us to the faith, you were constantly telling us about people who were killed by publicly professing this faith?
Isn't that kind of a disincentive?
I didn't say it like that, obviously.
But it was one of the best lines ever.
I was 12 years old.
Everybody got it.
I think that's pretty good.
I remember talking to my friend this morning.
The morning after, either it started and I saw it for the first time, or it debuted the night before, but we were meeting outside.
We met every morning.
We would do the Pledge of Allegiance.
I think...
I think...
I think the Battle Hymn of the Republic, I don't know, we sang a bunch of songs.
In lines, because nuns were very much into lines and formation at the time.
And I remember all of us sitting around talking about all in the family.
How we couldn't believe what we were hearing.
How this comedy, which we understood.
We understood the nuance.
We understood the context, how Archie was portrayed as the buffoon.
And he was the racist, but he was the buffoon.
And how clever.
I remember this.
We got it.
12 years old.
13 maybe.
But we got it.
It was a different world then.
It was a different world.
And at the time, Vietnam was still on.
We were two years out of Woodstock.
The world was changing.
The music was changing.
You know, it was a groovy time.
Even for a parochial school in Tampa.
And all of us had a uniform on.
And we could talk about that.
It was very interesting.
I used to think at the time that it was...
I went through a lot of things.
I thought, you know, I don't know if this is good.
Because even then, I didn't understand the regimentation of people into the uniform.
It was such a good word, the uniform.
All my years in grade school, it was either black pants or blue pants.
Blue pants was at Sacred Heart.
Black pants were at St. Lawrence.
White shirt, black pants.
Everybody.
You didn't know who was who?
At the time, I thought, this was a very, this is rather draconian.
This is not a good thing.
This stifles individuality.
Now, I realize it was genius.
It was genius.
That's my whole thing.
We were talking this morning.
I wish I could have shared it with you.
We're laughing about how we, the concerts we went to, our parents would drop us off.
Drop us off.
We went to Tampa Stadium.
Saw Yes and Three Dog Night, Buddy Miles, Chicago, Doobies a Million Time, Marshall Tucker.
It was just a great time.
Perhaps we're nostalgic.
Maybe not.
I don't know.
This is before the internet.
This is before A-Track.
For 8-track, that was kind of new.
And because of our ability to appreciate these things, we see things incrementally.
And we're always comparing the way we were then.
And we're trying to remove from the filter of this, this built-in sense of...
How do we say this?
This built-in sense of...
Nostalgia where you always soft soap and through puffery embellish because you're looking at your historical lens through whatever.
You get our friends who...
I was laughing.
I said, well, this is our Medicare year.
And I thought that was funny.
And he says, age is only a number.
I said, so is IQ.
I don't know what that means.
I don't understand what that means.
I don't get it.
Because let me explain to you, me.
This is what you have to understand.
If it means anything, if you care, let me explain to you, me.
And how I've always been.
It's that simple.
If everybody is running this way, if I walk in and there's a crowd, and people are running, not running for safety.
No, that I understand.
When people are screaming and somebody goes this way, no, no, I am.
But if somebody's running this way because of a fad, a movement, something you should like, something you should love, I'm the opposite direction.
Nothing ever happens, happens, what was that?
I'm in Rochester.
Nothing ever happens where the entire cacophony of the majority agrees.
Nothing good.
I don't want to have anything to do with it.
So last night, when everybody was talking about the Super Bowl, I was watching documentaries on stuff that I just love.
And I go from one to the next.
It's like being in the film forum.
And you can go from one to the next.
I'm tired of this.
The Black Death.
Oh, this looks like fun.
Watch this for a moment.
The History of the Musket.
Let's go here.
That's me.
I guarantee you, last night, during the Super Bowl, there was only one person on the planet watching the history of the musket and the black death, black plague, me.
Because I don't want to be a part of this.
I have no interest in being some lemming, some whatever it is.
And that has been the secret of my success and sometimes Well, failure is a weird word.
I don't really believe in it.
There are some things I just opt out against.
I just don't do it.
And I want you to understand something.
The time is not too late for you to be a heretic.
For you to say, I'm not doing this.
I'm not saying break the law or, you know, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I believe in order.
That's another story I'll tell you about.
I'm talking about what's going on right now.
And to look at things and say, I guarantee you, you're missing the point.
Most people are missing the point as to what something is.
I guarantee you.
So last night, we're in bed.
Mrs. L wants to watch the Halftime show.
She wants to comment on it.
This is the most important.
This is her thing.
I said, okay, fine.
So I turn this way, and I'm watching her.
Rihanna came in.
How fast did you say she was pregnant?
Right away.
Oh, she's pregnant.
I said, who?
Rihanna.
Whatever.
I'm in chapter two of the Black Death, so I'm kind of enthralled in that one.
Okay.
Now, I talk about that on my private channel, as you can imagine.
But here's the question which I want to ask you.
And this is the most important.
The reason why people watch this is that there was a time in the old days when this was really, really important.
I mean, really important.
Do you remember the date of the...
How was it?
Do you remember the Apple commercial when Macintosh, excuse me, Macintosh, Macintosh.
You remember Macintosh?
Do you remember that?
Macintosh.
The Macintosh computer.
I think it was this.
It was an ad on the Super Bowl and it was so incredible.
It was 1984.
It was something like that.
It was brilliant.
It was innovative.
You...
It was a part of our...
I know this is a bad example.
It's like the back of a cereal box.
It was like the cartoon inside Bubblegum.
It was this thing that we knew.
You went there to see this unique platform.
And it was when commercials were brilliant.
When McMahon and Tate...
When Mad Men, when Madison Avenue meant something, it was incredible.
It presaged.
It was Vatic, Pythonic.
You're seeing something which is bigger than anything you can imagine.
That's what it meant then.
The Clydesdales meant something.
One of the most poignant ones ever.
One of the most poignant pieces ever was the moment They told you...
It was right after 9-11 when the Clydesdales kind of bowed.
It was beautiful.
It was beautiful in terms of the message.
Somebody thought of that.
Somebody...
I said, yes, I understand it.
Let me stop right now.
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Now, going back to what I was saying about the Super Bowl, what was it that ever affected you?
Now, this is something which is important.
I don't understand advertising.
I don't get it.
I don't understand advertising.
What is it?
Because I don't know if I've ever been affected by anything, even remotely.
In my life, that was what you would call the product of advertising.
Maybe I have and didn't know it.
I don't think so.
What is it that ever affected you where you thought you were really affected by it?
Mine, growing up as a kid, it was music.
It was what your friends did.
It was what you saw on television.
When there were the hippie days, remember watching Greg Brady?
Headbands, and there was that hippie, that world of psychedelic, dragnet, blue boy, all in the family, Mike Stivick, Meathead, Archie.
That wasn't considered radical left.
That's what people thought.
Archie represented a lot of people that we knew.
And we loved it.
And people really didn't, because Archie was basically, it was so funny, Archie was kind of stupid, not kind of.
And the message was simple.
That was a huge, huge moment.
Maude, the spinoff.
The Jeffersons.
All of, TV, those shows were critical.
Critical.
The war.
Vietnam was the most, that was the most, I am.
Mesmerized.
Mesmerized.
Have you ever read, was it Dispatches?
The stories.
Just.
And I don't know, and I guess people feel that today.
I guess, I guess they remember that.
But I don't know how a commercial is.
What did any of the commercials, which I did not see, on the Super Bowl, Or during the Super Bowl.
What difference did they make?
How did they affect you one way or the other?
What was it?
Do you remember?
There was a show.
There was this one ad.
First of all, who let the dogs out was one.
But there was that, what's that?
Remember that?
It was one Super Bowl.
I don't know what it was.
It was a beer.
What's that?
Everybody said it.
It was one of the most effective pieces of advertising ever.
Why is that?
People didn't even know why they were saying it.
Do you remember Where's the Beef?
Clara, whatever, for Wendy's, Where's the Beef?
It became a part of our vernacular.
That is critical.
That was it.
Commercials were something.
There was one for, one of the most effective but ineffective, I've told you this many times, was for Mamma Mia!
That's a summer speed cut!
And people say, what was it for?
And they said, um...
But they remember the ad.
Mamma Mia!
That's a summer...
And it was Alka-Seltzer, but that came at the end.
It was just this guy going through, take, Take after take.
When it was too hot.
And the woman was like this.
And the final scene was when...
Remember Iron Eyes Cody?
The Native American in the canoe.
It was beautiful.
And he just had that look.
He's Sicilian.
Didn't matter.
He's got the look.
And he's...
I don't know what they're talking about.
And he looks down and there's paper and garbage and he looks and there's a tear.
That was it!
Oh my God!
So poignant.
So perfect.
We don't talk about that anymore.
We don't talk about garbage anymore.
Lady Bird Johnson, don't litter.
Don't litter.
I saw somebody throw something out of a car.
I didn't know what I wanted to do.
I thought, this must be some atavistic 60s response to this.
My God!
I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
It was incredible.
It was incredible.
We don't talk about that anymore.
Remember the green peace sign?
Remember the green?
Remember that?
It was for ecology.
We called it ecology.
Stephen Stills, second album.
The Ecology Song with the Nashville Brass.
Danny, remember the Nashville Brass?
About the sky and the quality of air and breathing and the water.
I loved it.
It was a yeah!
Remember the ecology and keeping waters, you know, yeah!
Nobody laughed at that.
Nobody laughed.
It was a yes!
Why?
Because it was a collective.
It's what people thought.
And somebody somewhere figured out, how can I get people to listen to this?
Remember the Jesus movement.
Remember God's, Jesus Christ Superstar was the greatest thing ever.
I remember in Catholic school, some of the priests were saying, I don't know about this.
Are you kidding me?
What are you talking about?
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ Superstar.
Oh my God.
We listened to it at school.
It was the biggest thing anybody's talking about.
It was cool.
Godspell.
Then there was the one-way movement.
Remember this?
Remember this was peace and this was one-way.
One-way.
Jesus movement.
Cover of Time Magazine.
Newsweek.
Jesus.
Christianity.
Yeah!
Cool!
Yeah, man!
I remember those and it was very, very interesting.
And then...
Now, you either remember this or you don't.
In Catholic school, around the 70s, remember this?
The folk mass.
Somebody came up with this idea.
I don't know what that meant.
Folk.
It went from the organ, the guy with the B3, to the pipe organ, to closer my guy to thee, and we are one in the...
I remember this song, they will know we are Christians by our love, by our love.
It sounded very, very...
You know that song they always play to indicate something Indian in Westerns?
I don't know.
What is that song?
Is there a name to that?
That's like...
It was always Asian.
I mean, they always have these songs.
Anyway.
The folk mass came.
I remember this.
And all of a sudden they had guitars.
Well, I said, oh, I can do this.
I'm playing guitar.
This is great.
These songs were...
And remember we had this Sister Gregoria.
Sister Gregoria.
Sister Gregoria had brought out a box of every type of percussion instrument you can imagine.
Ayrton would have gone crazy.
They had claves, maracas, Tambourine.
They had stuff from the Brazilian rainforest.
They had that thing that...
I mean, we had stuff.
We had noise.
We had the gourd that had the...
Sheila E. would have gone crazy with us.
So all of a sudden, we are...
The mass was, we are one in the...
The Christians...
And it had that...
It was like...
And Carlos Santana on acid.
All of a sudden in church.
And I would laugh.
I'm thinking, do they not hear what's going on here?
They didn't.
They thought it was cool.
It's a folk mass.
This isn't folk mass.
This is like rhythm or disjointed rhythm.
I don't know what this thing was.
But I remember these things.
And there was this movement.
And it was part of the...
The entertainment and the social didn't come from a commercial.
It didn't come from a...
It just kind of came out of nowhere.
All of a sudden, we're just doing these.
And then one day, one day, because we all had flared pants, bell bottoms, then one day, gone.
Just gone.
Nobody had them anymore.
Don't know when it was.
I don't know whoever signaled the...
We said, that's it!
Remember watches in the 70s with the big thick band and the clips?
I had those.
Why?
Because I saw somebody wearing them.
Maybe it was a guy on TV.
Maybe Paul Butterfield.
Maybe he did this.
Maybe he had it.
I don't know.
But I'm thinking, I'm going to wear that.
Aviator, certain glasses, certain styles.
To wear long hair.
To have long hair.
You want long hair.
David Crosby almost cut my hair.
Your hair's too long.
Hair.
Hair.
The play hair.
Everybody want to have hair.
When I was in high school, all they cared about was their hair.
Couldn't touch your collar.
Then the folks...
Who could grow froze said, okay, nothing about vertical.
So they walked around with these Billy Preston, you know, white and black.
But it didn't touch their collar.
And I'm walking around like, what do I do?
And then once we got out of it, we said, okay, we can grow hair.
Ah, we don't want long hair anymore.
That looks...
Who controls these vicissitudes?
These changes?
Who?
I don't know.
That's what fascinates me.
But it's not the Super Bowl.
It's not commercials.
Commercials are everywhere.
Do you know what affects people now?
They think maybe influencers.
Though I doubt that greatly.
Greatly.
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preparewithlionel.com Now, I love to point out trends.
Mrs. L and I love to point out trends.
We love to see what is going on.
What is happening?
I want to see it before it changes.
What's happening now?
I love to watch what are people wearing?
What are people doing?
What jewelry are people wearing?
What about shoes?
What about...
I listen.
I watch.
How do people get their news?
What...
What constitutes the news?
I can't believe the number of people that I know, adults, who are in business and otherwise, who know absolutely nothing.
I mean, this is something, I can't even put this into words.
Maybe you've known these too.
I've known folks like this as well.
It's like, what is it that, what is it, what is it that makes these people catch on?
What is it?
I mean, I'm walking around here thinking to myself, I'm like, I'm tired of being the one who's yelling at the sky.
I'm not Cassandra.
I'm not Chicken Little.
I'm not Henny Penny, whatever it is.
I'm not that.
That's not my thing.
I am not going to talk anything about balloons.
I talk about that in my private channel.
Because if this is the point, everybody's over here.
I have never seen so Many people chase the laser pen and not ask, why are we doing this?
Your cat sometimes will chase a light into the wall, sometimes, maybe a couple of times, and then it says, okay, I know what you're doing.
I got it.
We don't get it.
Why do you think that is?
Do you ever think about this?
I don't know.
And isn't it wonderful how people celebrate sports?
Isn't it interesting how people in hometowns say, Hey, our team is winning!
Yay!
I went on a couple of occasions to Yankee, when the Yankees won the World Series, downtown, way down on Wall Street, the Canyon of Heroes.
You have never, one time I went to, there was a million people.
And we had to get on the stage.
We had to be on the stage at City Hall.
So that's one of the funniest stories of my life.
Never forget that as long as I live.
And I was in front of what amounted to a million people.
A million.
Robert Merrill was there.
Rudy Giuliani was there.
Poor Robert Merrill.
We had him singing this song because they were...
Anyway.
A million.
Now people say, no, no, a million.
I do not like crowds.
When I mean crowds, I don't mind crowds going to New York City, but I don't like where I can't move like this.
I got out of the subway.
I could not fall down.
Let me say this again.
If I decided to, there were people, we were so compressed.
We could not fall down.
People brought kids and dogs.
It was a horror show.
I have never seen anything like this.
I can't imagine what a stampede would be like.
But nobody...
It was peaceful.
Nobody did anything.
They were happy.
Today, you don't even have to be happy or sad.
People say, let's turn something over.
Nobody turns anything over.
It was the weirdest thing.
I just thought, well, people are happy, plus nobody could move to turn anything over.
What has been the biggest crowd you've ever been in?
I look at pictures of Woodstock.
Dear God!
And the first thing I think of whenever I see Woodstock or Times Square is, where do they go to the bathroom?
It's not like, well, because you're old.
No!
I've been asking them my whole life.
What do they ask astronauts?
How do you go to the bathroom?
It's an important thing!
Where do you go?
How do you do this?
I still don't know why people show up every year, 2 o 'clock in the afternoon, and once you get into this area, you can't leave.
If you leave, you can't come back.
There's no bathrooms, no nothing.
No backpacks, no umbrellas, no...
What is it?
What is it?
It's the most incredible thing in the world.
How does that work?
And by the way, somebody writes sardine cans.
How many people eat sardines even if they know what that expression means?
I used the term the other day, broken record.
And somebody looked at me and said, I don't know what you're talking about.
You've never had a record.
I don't know.
I told you this one.
Somebody said, CC me.
I said, that's funny.
What do you think that means?
What?
CC.
That means when I send you a copy.
No, no, no.
It means, what does it stand for?
Carbon copy.
Okay.
What does a carbon mean?
Carbon paper.
What?
I realized, dear God, don't you, I used to want to know, I'm always looking for, where does that expression come from?
What does that mean?
You know, dead ringer.
Remember that, the dead ringer?
Supposedly, the story is that people, they would always be afraid that, because there were no medical examiners, people who would die, they're always afraid they might come to.
And so after you put somebody and you bury somebody, what if they came to and they supposedly had a string that came out of the casket to a bell?
It's just a story.
And so that the dead person could ring it and say, hey!
Think about that in the middle of the night.
Somebody late at night and you've got a bell and you're just hiding and somebody hears a bell.
Anyway.
Dead ringer.
The whole nine yards.
All these expressions.
See, I wanted to know that my whole life.
People today say, I don't know.
That was before my time.
Don't you have any interest in this?
Nope.
Don't you want to know the derivation of this?
Nope.
Really?
Nope.
Aren't you curious?
Nope.
Huh.
That's interesting.
Not interested.
Now let me go back to my phone.
That's it.
So I want to know these things.
Now my friends, let me tell you something.
Today I've got a brand new, oh my newsletter.
This is a beaut.
Sign up for it right now.
I'm putting the link right here for you.
Sign up for it right now.
It's coming out today.
And I love people.
I'm not going to go into it.
But I think it's one of the best things.
I get so many new...
I'm on so many lists of things.
I don't even know where I do.
It's okay.
This is the one you're going to want.
And some people get so, frankly, I don't know, not upset, but it makes people...
Somebody said to me, can you make it shorter?
I don't want to have to read this.
You don't want to have to read it.
Don't you read?
No.
Okay.
Well, if you'd like to read, and this is not...
Voluminous to the point of being exhaustive, I would suggest and commend you to that side.
Also, my Twitter is just on fire, putting snippets of videos, always trying to find new ways of me to say, I don't belong there.
I don't believe that.
And by the way, in the private channel, I talk about things.
There are little internecine fights going on on YouTube which are so funny.
But I don't want to bring it up to the public.
But let me talk to you.
Because I don't...
It's like this.
My outside voice and my inside voice.
Now, also, do me a favor, a great favor.
Let me ask you.
I want you to go to Mrs. L's Twitter and her YouTube channel.
By the way, she's on Rumble.
She's everywhere.
And one of the things, which is so funny, I've got to tell you something right now.
Everything that she has been talking about in terms of education, digital safety, getting parents involved, everything is now being, I'll say it, copied.
En masse.
It's one of the most, as I said, Gorbada says, the most beautiful words in the world are, I told you so.
And she's telling them so.
So please follow her there, both her YouTube, she's at Lens Warriors, I'm at Lionel Media on Twitter, and please follow her, her YouTube channel.
Alright, my friends, have a great And a glorious, and a beautiful, and an excellent, and a productive day.
Don't ever change.
I mean that sincerely.
We'll see you tomorrow.
St. Bat Time, St. Bat Channel.
9 a.m. Eastern Time.
And until then, I leave you with these words, as I do always.
The monkey's dead.
The show's over.
See ya.
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