Lionel Nation - You Only Take Flack When You're Over the Target
Aired: 2026-03-09
Duration: 07:00


=== When You're Over the Target (02:52) ===

[00:00:00]  Only take flack when you're over the target.
[00:00:03]  If you're in a bombing run and you're trying to bomb the enemy and you're trying to say, I wonder where the enemy is, are we in the right place?
[00:00:11]  As soon as you start seeing flack, you know, anti-aircraft artillery, you're over the target.
[00:00:18]  They'll let you know.
[00:00:20]  Okay?
[00:00:21]  And they only tell you you're crazy when you deal with a subject that has meaning.
[00:00:27]  If you went on and you said, Elvis is alive, Elvis is here, Elvis, they'd say, oh.
[00:00:36]  It bothers me that we haven't received enough information regarding, or enough blowback from people who have suggested that there's something to be said for UFOs and the like.
[00:00:46]  So I thought for sure people would say, whoa, these people are really making progress.
[00:00:52]  We have to shut them down.
[00:00:54]  They haven't done that yet.
[00:00:54]  So that means either they don't think it's that interesting or it's premature.
[00:01:00]  But that will happen too.
[00:01:02]  For those ufologists out there, pretty soon you'll be thrown into that mess.
[00:01:07]  But now you're considered quirky and not a threat.
[00:01:10]  The moment you start hitting pay dirt, the moment you start getting near, that's when things happen.
[00:01:17]  That's what happens.
[00:01:17]  Anyway.
[00:01:20]  So chapter one, conspiracy theories.
[00:01:23]  I feel it's important to say this, and I feel it's necessary, and I'm going to do it.
[00:01:27]  And if you've heard this before, please listen anyway, because you might hear something you never heard before.
[00:01:37]  I love words.
[00:01:38]  I'm a logophile, a logodaedalist.
[00:01:44]  I like new words, but I like also going back and reading definitions of a word that I thought I knew, especially gradations of words.
[00:01:55]  Like if I told you the difference between dislike, hate, abhor, detest, revile.
[00:02:02]  You know, it's like, wow.
[00:02:04]  Little fine-tunings.
[00:02:06]  Basically the same idea, but one different than the other.
[00:02:09]  Some more serious, some more inconsequential.
[00:02:14]  That's what this is.
[00:02:15]  So never feel like you should always go back and relearn something that you thought you knew, because you'll always find out something new.
[00:02:22]  So let's talk about the word conspiracy theorist.
[00:02:24]  First, you must understand, and you must also ask, well, what's the basis from an epistemological point of view?
[00:02:32]  What do I know about this?
[00:02:34]  How do you know what we know?
[00:02:35]  One of my favorite things.
[00:02:37]  How do you know?
[00:02:38]  You say you know things.
[00:02:39]  You know, they say if you go swimming too soon after you eat, you'll get cramps and sink to the water and die.
[00:02:45]  You can't go swimming too soon after you've eaten.
[00:02:48]  How do you know that?
[00:02:51]  I don't know.

=== Conspiracy Theories Defined (04:07) ===

[00:02:52]  Who said that?
[00:02:53]  I don't know.
[00:02:54]  Well, why do you say that?
[00:02:55]  I don't know.
[00:02:58]  That's what knowledge is a lot of times.
[00:02:59]  We just say things.
[00:03:01]  We don't really know why we say it.
[00:03:02]  And it goes on all the time.
[00:03:03]  And people in the media, who are the worst, the sock puppets, they know nothing.
[00:03:08]  So, conspiracy theory.
[00:03:09]  What does that mean?
[00:03:11]  You'll hear it all the time.
[00:03:12]  You'll hear somebody say, you know, I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist.
[00:03:15]  You know, I know this sounds like a conspiracy.
[00:03:18]  I know this is a conspiracy.
[00:03:20]  And they call it a conspiracy or conspiracy theorist.
[00:03:22]  Wrong, It's the wrong term.
[00:03:26]  What they mean to say is, I know this sounds crazy.
[00:03:28]  I know I have a theory about some alternative version of something.
[00:03:32]  I know I'm providing to you a kind of a theory about something that may or may not be based in fact.
[00:03:38]  I know something that you might think is either superstition or crazy.
[00:03:42]  That's what people are saying.
[00:03:44]  That's what people are saying.
[00:03:46]  People are saying, you're saying something that's crazy, that's baseless, that doesn't have any foundation.
[00:03:53]  That's a wives tale.
[00:03:54]  That's mythical.
[00:03:55]  That's mythology.
[00:03:57]  You got it?
[00:03:58]  Good.
[00:03:58]  That's what they mean.
[00:04:00]  First, a conspiracy.
[00:04:04]  The word is interesting.
[00:04:05]  It means to do something with somebody else.
[00:04:08]  The word conspiracy from the Latin or versions of it is conspirare.
[00:04:13]  To breathe with.
[00:04:14]  No, respiration.
[00:04:16]  By the way, suspiration is, these people who do that out there, these sires, they drive me crazy.
[00:04:22]  That's suspiration.
[00:04:24]  Respiration, you know.
[00:04:26]  But a conspiracy means to breathe with, meaning an organization, an agreement, a confederation, a kind of a plan between two or more guilty people,
[00:04:43]  meaning people who are planning to do something, not some cop thrown in there pretending to be a conspirator, but because the old days, some jurisdictions say you can't be charged with conspiracy if you're conspiring with a cop because they're not going to do it.
[00:04:58]  You need two guilty people.
[00:04:59]  Anyway, two or more guilty people conspiring.
[00:05:02]  That's all it means.
[00:05:03]  Working together, planning something.
[00:05:06]  If Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, if Tyler Robinson acted alone, that's one thing.
[00:05:11]  He's the sole agent.
[00:05:12]  If he worked with, if he planned, if somebody aided, abetted, counseled, procured, hired, encouraged.
[00:05:22]  Now we get into this kind of this accomplice thing.
[00:05:26]  And then sometimes when the accomplice gets a little bit more involved, you have a conspiracy where I'm planning.
[00:05:33]  I call you up here.
[00:05:34]  Listen, I can get a load of whatever this drug is, or listen, we can do something.
[00:05:40]  Listen, let's do this.
[00:05:42]  And the moment I hang up or finish the offer, the conspiracy has been committed.
[00:05:49]  Because in federal court, in particular, you're charged with a crime and the conspiracy, which is going to be done.
[00:05:54]  you charge with you with killing somebody and planning to kill somebody with somebody else.
[00:06:00]  It's the planning.
[00:06:02]  That's a separate and distinct thing.
[00:06:04]  That's the conspiracy.
[00:06:05]  Conspiracy to commit, conspiracy.
[00:06:07]  So when you say, is this a conspiracy theory?
[00:06:10]  That to me means, is this a theory or a hypothesis or some kind of argument that says that more than one person was involved in this?
[00:06:18]  That's not what people mean.
[00:06:19]  You don't care about how many people were involved in something.
[00:06:22]  Conspiracy means more than one people.
[00:06:24]  So now that I've belabored that point to the point of exhaustion, the word is wrong.
[00:06:28]  So when somebody, so remember this, when somebody says, are you a conspiracy theorist?
[00:06:32]  No, I haven't mentioned anything about the number of people involved in this.
[00:06:36]  And people will look at you like, what the hell is he talking about?
[00:06:39]  Or they might say, this guy.
[00:06:41]  Sorry.
[00:06:41]  Oops.
[00:06:41]  I'm having trouble hearing you.
[00:06:42]  I know I'm having a hard time hearing you.
[00:06:44]  No, I'm not just dancing.
[00:06:45]  I'm not talking to you.
[00:06:47]  We live in a world of eavesdropping.
[00:06:49]  Everywhere I'm being followed.
[00:06:52]  Remember, just because I'm crazy.
[00:06:55]  You know what?
[00:06:56]  I've had enough theory.
[00:06:57]  Just because I'm crazy.
[00:06:59]  No, no, nobody.