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March 10, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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When Asking Questions Is An Artform

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Dear, dear learned colleague, dear, dear fellow citizen, dear lover of the truth, I'd like to start off tonight, today, this evening, tomorrow, yesterday, now, oggi, by explaining to you this notion called, this thing in evidence law called authentication.
And it works something like this.
If ever you go to court, let's say it's small claims, which is also a very, very dangerous, dangerous place to be.
Dangerous!
Dangerous.
Be very, very careful.
I almost had a Hannity whistle there.
Have you noticed that?
You've got to file down, whatever it is, but just those S's.
I'm sorry if there's birds or kids listening.
Or dogs.
Sometimes I hear this, and it's just...
When you are in a courtroom, And you say, Your Honor, I'd like to show my...
I brought somebody.
I want to show them something.
Jerry, is this...
Excuse me.
Would you please authenticate this?
What?
What is that?
Well, it's a picture I've got.
It's a picture of the...
It's a picture.
And it works like this.
Ideally.
Your Honor, I'm approaching the witness.
Always approach the witness.
And I'm showing the witness.
What has been marked as plaintiff's exhibit or defense exhibit number one for identification.
I show it to opposing counsel to inspection for inspection and possible objection.
Mr. Lonsworth, do you recognize this?
Yes.
What is that?
That's a picture of the engine block that we're talking about.
Is that a true and accurate depiction of the event that occurred when it was taken?
Yes.
Does this accurately depict the engine block?
As it was?
Yes.
Your Honor, at this particular time, I'd like to move for plaintiff's exhibit number one for identification into plaintiff's evidence.
Exhibit.
Exhibit one.
It's in.
Now it's in.
And the court can look at it.
If you don't introduce it, jury never gets to see it.
Can't look at it, can't review it.
As you know, as of late, there are people who are on various television shows all the time trying to show you this is what happened.
Let me show you.
Tonight, this is a special on the Vietnam War.
Is that what happened?
Is that a true and accurate depiction of the Vietnam War?
Is that it?
Is that what happened?
Well, sort of.
Tonight, Ken Burns.
It's the Civil War.
Excuse me.
Is this a true and accurate depiction of the Civil War?
Is it?
Is it really?
The Civil War?
Well, it's a really good question to ask.
I mean, are we really talking about the Civil War here?
Is that what you intend to...
Is that what this is about?
Because if it's not, what are we talking about?
That's not what happened.
That's not what happened.
That's...
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Tonight, World War II.
And we're only going to talk about North Africa.
Wait a minute.
Is that a true and accurate depiction?
No.
It's accurate, but that's not the totality.
That's not everything that occurred.
That was part of it.
Give me the whole thing.
See what I'm getting with this one?
Give me the event.
Don't pigeonhole.
Don't cherry-pick one particular aspect of it.
And that goes for all parties.
That goes for everyone.
Do you see how that works?
Do you see how that works?
It's interesting, isn't it?
It's real interesting.
It's fascinating to me.
It's fascinating.
So when you see people on TV and they're showing you something that happened or a story or an event, they're not showing you the whole thing.
They're showing you a portion of it.
That's it.
That's it?
Yeah.
You see, there's this evidence law requires that Before you can do that, before you can introduce something, you've got to show the whole piece.
Let me give you an example.
Years ago, there was a guy named Russ Meyer.
Remember Russ Meyer?
He was into kind of a skin, not skin flicks, but girly things.
And what was her name?
Oh, God.
What was her name?
Come on, you fellas, you remember this?
What was her name?
Russ Meyer.
He was this guy.
And there we go.
He did movies such as Faster, Pussycat, and Kill.
Edie Williams.
Edie Williams.
Edie Williams, by the way.
I don't know if Edie is still with us.
She's 80 years old.
Edwina Beth Edie Williams.
She was the rather whatever.
Anyway, so sometimes when pornography laws were kind of sort of first being played with, I don't know if anybody's even doing that anymore.
I was one of the last people to ever actually, seriously, truly Prosecute pornography, an actual pornography.
In the middle of the case, in the middle of these movies, Russ Meyer would always have somebody stand up and say, and America is the greatest country in the world.
And they'd play the flag in the middle of this.
And we believe that our country stands for the proposition.
And they would use that to say, wait a minute, this is not pornographic, because after all, it is a patriotic piece.
And the court said, wait, wait, wait, wait.
They changed it to Roth Memoirs Test, I forget which case it was, but it said, the item, taken as a whole, you can't just point to one part of it and go, whoops, see, there it is!
That's it!
No, no, no.
So when you see things depicted on television as to what happened, you've got to ask yourself, is this what happened?
When you see a picture from a movie, is that the whole movie?
Or from a party, let's say.
Remember when you were a kid, you'd look at it.
Oh, look at this.
Here's my second grade birthday.
Look at this.
Oh, look, here we are.
Does that depict what happened?
Well, it was a snapshot.
Does that?
So you tell me.
You tell me.
Every time somebody gives you a story, every time somebody tells you what happened, every time gives you any kind of an aspect of something, you've got to ask yourself, is this taken as a whole?
I I I The rules of evidence apply to everything.
I also want to tell you about something which is the most important.
One of the most important cases, there are some wonderful cases that the Supreme Court came up with, which were, oh, Map Against Ohio, the exclusionary rule?
Oh my God!
That was the one that says, basically, if this cop screws up, violates the Fourth Amendment, you can't introduce the evidence.
A lot of people were against it then.
They said, well, why should we violate the people's right to a fair trial because of the constable's error?
Sorry!
Well, here was a case, 1963 case.
Brady against Maryland.
Everybody knows that.
All prosecutors and defense lawyers know that.
Criminal.
Brady material.
Brady.
Brady against Maryland.
What does that mean?
Exculpatory evidence.
If I have evidence, I'm a prosecutor.
That exculpates.
There's inculpatory, things that get you in, that helps the prosecution, and exculpatory, that which gets you out of the jam, so to speak.
In those cases, it's a very interesting situation.
I, as a prosecutor, have to turn this over to you.
I can't keep it.
I can't hide it.
I can't say, well, you don't need that.
No, no, no, no, no.
If I'm showing you DUI, let's say, video of you maybe stumbling on a roadside sobriety test, but I also have video of you doing handstands and weird balancing acts that, well, I don't think you should see that.
I can't keep that from you.
I've got to give you everything.
This could help him.
And you don't even have to ask for it.
If it's found out, if you withhold Brady information, oh my God.
Then you've got to ask the court.
The court says, why did you do this?
Was it inadvertent?
Was it a mistake?
Was it negligence?
And how do we remedy this?
How do we remedy this?
What do we do?
Well, if it's during a trial, you can say, you know, take a minute, maybe grant a continuance, you might want to look at this, take depositions, whatever you want to do.
But if after the fact, if you say, wait a minute, I entered a plea.
And I didn't know this.
I entered a plea for this DUI.
We pled guilty for DUI.
You never showed me this where he's doing a balancing act on a tightrope.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
That could have helped me.
I could have gone to the jury and said, he's not drunk.
Look at him.
But you withheld that?
You had that?
I didn't know that.
That's very, very important.
It makes sense, doesn't it?
Before 1963, it's okay.
Before that was Miranda.
It wasn't even Miranda.
Nobody understands Miranda.
People always, I don't know what they think.
Defendants' clients always say, he didn't read me my rights.
Did he ask you any questions?
No.
Don't worry about it.
Yeah, but he arrested me.
It doesn't matter because people think by watching TV that that means you're under arrest.
That's the signal.
You have the right to remain safe.
Oh, I must be under arrest.
No, I think the handcuffs probably might be giving you a...
You see, I go by what are the questions?
What are we doing here?
Now, all of that goes out the window.
When you try to handle stories or deal with things on news programs.
Why?
It's very simple.
The reason why is because of the fact that people don't ever have time to say anything on news programs.
And unfortunately, that seems to be where 99% of folks kind of get their information.
And that's a sad thing, but it's true.
That's where they get their information.
We're wasting our time pretending to know what's going on.
We're pretending that we understand and that we're, well, I'm watching this and I'm reading this and it doesn't matter.
People don't really grasp what's happening.
They don't know anything about this.
They don't want to know about it.
People are very incurious.
People don't really care.
People do not care.
And that's the way that is.
Unfortunately, But when you grasp the beauty of being able to turn information over and say things, and whether it's hearsay, whether there's an exception to the hearsay rule, and oh my God!
It opens up your worldview.
Did you know that?
It does.
Because you've got to understand something.
You've got to understand something.
Never are things black and white.
I know.
I live in a world of gray.
Dark gray, light gray.
Make America gray, again, somebody might say.
There's no such thing as the truth.
100%.
There's always some version of something.
How you weigh that.
Whether one exculpates or outweighs the other, it's a different story.
But let me stop right now because I want to talk about something which is also inculpatory to an extent.
Perhaps.
I think it's very, very critical.
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There's nothing you can do to stop me.
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I love them.
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But I think one day they're going to find out.
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Well, this is called an EMP flare.
What is it?
It's called a Carrington Effect Corona Blast.
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I didn't know that.
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I sit back this morning.
I had a very, very early, early, early Early meeting, and I'm driving back from this event, and I'm listening in the car to some old, oh, I just love lectures, and I was listening to Irving Kristol.
You know who Irving Kristol is?
He's the father of Bill Kristol.
And I think commentary was, he was the grandfather of neoconservatism, at least American.
Weekly Standard was his son, but, so he was talking about things, and it was him, and it was, Oh, American Enterprise stuff, and Bork, and you know, the usual types.
And what they were talking about then was so incredibly relevant today, yet absolutely anachronistic compared to what we're seeing right now.
Because the world we are living in right now is like nothing we've ever seen.
Now, by definition, Everything you're currently doing is like nothing you've ever seen.
Kind of makes sense, don't you think?
Of course it does.
But I realize that what I'm saying right now is not important to 90%.
But the idea of how people love to name political ideology, liberalism, progressive-ism, left-right, conservatism, neoliberalism,
neoconservatism, Radical egalitarianism, equity, diversity, inclusion, how we use words like even shaming, our nomenclature.
We use these terms.
We use these terms.
It's fascinating.
And I realize that somewhere, somewhere, There must be somebody willing to sit in a slow and a methodical way, go through all of the changes and realize, no, not today.
Maybe somewhere, but not today.
Not today, no, no, no.
On YouTube, no, no, no, no.
Too much, too...
I don't want to say too slow, but too...
Not dirty enough.
I'm sorry, but it's fascinating.
Give me a word that describes your political ideology.
Give me a word that explains your religious belief.
Give me a word that explains your nationality, or where you live, or your whatever.
Give me a word that describes you.
And there are very, very few That really are of any import.
In fact, the words that describe you, most of them are used by other people as well, because you're not the only one.
I'm a Christian.
So what?
Other people are Christians.
Okay, well, I'm a Calvinist.
Okay, well, maybe we're getting somewhere.
What are you politically?
Well, I'm a liberal.
Okay, are you left?
Would you say left?
Would you say you're a George McGovern liberal?
Are you a Thomas Jefferson?
Wait a minute.
What?
What do you like?
I like country.
I like country.
I like country music.
Would you call yourself a lefty Frizzell country music?
Would you call yourself more George Jones or George Strait?
Or would you even be, dare I say, of the Bakersfield group?
Kind of like Buck Owens and even Merle, who really wasn't Bakersfield, though he was born there.
Kind of a Dwight Yocham-ish?
Would that be it?
Or are you more of a Steve Warner?
Wait a minute.
You see how these names...
I love this.
I was listening to this.
I'm thinking these names don't mean...
Who cares the name of something if we can't fix it?
Does that make any sense to you?
Who cares the name of something if we can't fix it?
Fix it.
It's like when you're a pathologist and somebody says, well, I found out the name of the disease.
What is it called?
Ectoplastic hemato...
Okay.
How do we fix it?
I don't know.
But that's the name of it.
What?
That's it.
Great.
Well, that's...
Thank you.
I've done my job.
Wait a minute.
That doesn't tell...
You've just given a name.
Yeah, I know.
Why do I fix it?
I don't know about fixing it, but that's the name.
That's the name?
Do you see what's going on here?
It's all we talk about.
Just names of stuff.
How do we fix anything?
You know what else is interesting?
Listen carefully.
Americans in particular think that as long as they see it online or if they see it...
On cable news, or maybe if somebody in the Senate is talking about something, that that's addressing it, even though nothing's being done.
It's like diagnosing the problem with no treatment.
Because you are so used to watching things that you think that when something is covered, something is referenced, something is mentioned, something is announced, something is recorded, something is broadcast, you think, aha!
Aha, what?
Well, we've gotten to the bottom of it.
Gotten to the bottom of what?
I don't know, but we're naming it.
It doesn't mean anything.
It doesn't matter.
Nothing that we're seeing right now has anything to do with reality.
I promise you, nothing.
Nothing!
One more thing.
What would you do right now?
I'm changing something.
If all of a sudden, Everything shut down and you could not go to your grocery store anymore.
What would you do right now?
How long would you last right now?
How long could you go?
No stores.
No nothing.
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How long could you go?
How long?
They just say you just sealed up your home or whatever it was and you say, okay, well, we got...
Dried stuff.
Assume you got water and stove and all that stuff.
I got some water.
I got cans of stuff.
Okay.
How long can you go?
Every single day for you and your family and you're not going to go crazy.
How long can you go?
What would you have?
Where would you go?
First day and spreading it out.
You don't know when it's going to end.
Can you go 30 days?
Can you go 90 days?
Can you go 90 days per person?
Think about what I'm saying.
Could you go 90 days if somebody just sealed off your home?
Nothing was there.
Could you do that?
I'm not going to worry about 90 days.
Really?
No, you can't.
You're not ready.
Stop it.
People will fight you.
No, I think I've got some banana chips.
Don't we have some stewed prunes?
Marge, don't we have...
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This is as serious as it gets.
Absolutely as serious as it gets.
And people say, I don't want to talk about this.
I just don't, don't, don't, quit, quit bringing up this thing about the food.
You always bring about, yeah.
I know, I don't want to talk about that.
I just, look, it's all going to be fine.
It's going to be fine.
Okay.
That'll be famous last words.
Remember Joe?
Yeah.
Bless his heart.
What was that thing he said?
Oh, yeah.
It'll all be fine.
Well, I guess it wasn't fine.
Yeah, miss old Joe.
Wasn't fine at all.
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Okay.
So, you know, when we get done with this, people...
Oh, I love people.
People send me stuff all the time.
Hey, did you see this?
I did.
Did you see this boy?
He really laid this guy.
Hey, did you see...
Did you see Chuck Schumer?
Boy, he really gave it to him.
Oh, did you see...
Did you see Jim George?
Oh, he gave it right back.
He sure did.
And I'll tell you who gave it back even more was that other guy.
And people think that somehow that is a substitute for actual legislation.
No.
No.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
No.
Now, I don't mean to be negative.
I don't mean to make you worried.
I don't mean to make you feel bad.
But my friends, Or do you see what's happening here?
And I'm telling you that I'm looking for somebody who says, okay, let's tackle it this way.
Everybody seems like on social media, they just want to kind of amuse me.
Don't amuse me.
Don't placate me anymore.
Tell me the truth.
Don't amuse me.
It's not amusing.
That simple.
I've got a really great, oh, I've got a beautiful newsletter coming up today.
Oh, it's great.
I mean, really good.
Rather piquant, just piquant.
It's wonderful.
I heard somebody the other day was doing something which was very interesting, and I tend to stay away, and I would suggest that you stay away from religion, because people do not.
Care about that.
They don't want to hear.
Unless you are 100% in agreement, nobody wants to hear about you.
By the way, that's the newsletter link.
You must.
You must.
Listen to this one.
But I was hearing somebody the other day say, you know, I don't know about you, but I always think it's a good idea to test your theories about stuff.
Always test yourself.
If you're married, if you're in a relationship, ask yourself, what would I do right now?
If all of a sudden somebody said, you know what?
We just found out.
You're not married.
There's no record of it and you can leave if you want and there's no need for a divorce.
You could just walk out right now.
You could take half of whatever you want or take all of it and there's nothing.
Most people, I think, would say, that doesn't make any difference.
I'm staying right where I am.
Some might, but most people, and that's the best thing in the world.
When you say, I didn't need that.
It helps, but I don't.
So always test yourself.
And always ask yourself, what if I'm wrong?
What if I'm wrong?
What if I got this thing all wrong?
What if I'm not doing this right away?
Am I saying I believe something because I really believe it?
Or because I was raised this way?
Or because they want me to say this?
Or because I get...
Positive feedback from saying this.
Always ask yourself.
Always question it.
Question.
Go through a series of, if you believe in it, great.
And, by the way, if you claim not to believe in something, always question that.
Are you sure you don't believe?
Are you sure?
Isn't there a part of you that says, I don't know.
I do think it's kind of interesting that a lot of things happen here by random, or whatever you want to call it.
Always keep an open mind.
Don't ever be like one of these people.
There's nothing worse.
I don't know what's worse.
Well, people always say, to me a militant atheist is always just boring.
They just want to disprove everything.
Okay, okay, fine.
It's like walking around saying, I don't speak French.
Okay, good.
No, I really don't.
No, I believe you.
I don't know why anybody wouldn't want to speak French.
Okay, don't, but they do.
But there is a thing called French.
Don't forget, remember.
Remember this?
Don't forget, remember.
I said that.
If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby.
One of my favorite lines from all time.
I've given you too much to think about.
I know this.
I recognize the fact.
And I don't want you to be too...
I don't want to overwhelm you.
I don't want to give you too, too much to think about.
Because this is tough.
Because you're going to get done with me.
You're going to go off and you're going to go to your usual sources.
Does anybody ever make you really think?
Does anybody ever question you?
Anybody ever question a particular issue?
Anybody?
No, they don't do that.
They just tell you.
They're apodictic.
They are black and white.
I am not black and white.
Do you understand this?
Alright, my dear friends.
Let us, first of all, celebrate this day.
By recognizing the fact that we are lucky to be here right now.
We are lucky to be alive.
And it is an honor, as always, to speak with you and to talk with you.
And I wish you nothing but the best today.
Please have a great and a glorious and a wonderful day.
Don't ever change anything.
Sincerely, we'll see you tomorrow.
Same bad time, same bad channel.
9 a.m. Eastern Time.
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That's the good one.
See you tomorrow, my friends.
9 a.m. Eastern Time.
Until then, remember, the monkey's dead.
The show's over.
Sue ya.
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