Lionel
speaker
60 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Lionel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I am the judge. In order for you to say, if I were to say, Dr. Drew, you are very good at this. And by the way, can I say something professionally? Because I've been doing talk radio since like the 80s. Your spot load is fantastic. You can cram more commercials into a show than anybody. I am so in awe of you. You can do commercials within commercials. You're like Paul Harvey used to do.
Did you ever hear Paul Harvey? You would think it's a story. It's a commercial. He goes, and I turned to Angel. I said, there's my Buick. I said, God damn it, it's a commercial. Anyway, you're fantastic at that. No, I mean it. And people believe you. See, you have this thing where you can say, and where does this come from? From seagull species. But Lionel, to be honest,
Oh, no. Are you kidding me? I love it. I love it. In fact, what you do is you thoroughly check it. Make sure they're done and Bradstreet rated. Make sure the check's clear. Make sure they don't skip out. Or you check them, all right. And you should. Listen. Listen. You're not, you know, I used to have on my business cards. I'm not a missionary.
I'm not putting this planet to just dispense great advice. I'm here for this, not money, this. But anyway, let's talk more about Lionel.
Let me tell you, I had, I had, I love, have you ever done a spot where you didn't know what it was? Remember, I've done talk, right? They handed stuff to me. I didn't even know what it was. There was a commercial years ago called Collage. And it was, I think, it was a meditation series of CDs and music where you would play. I think that's what it was. And it had a mask.
One of those, you know, Arlene Francis kind of like, look, I used to call it the Polish Lone Ranger. You know, there's no eyes. Anyway, you wear the mask. That's a Polish joke. I'm sorry, please. It's from our generation, Drew. It's when we could joke around. Remember Mad Magazine and National Lampoon? Anyway, so I did this spot. And I say, can I do whatever I want? He goes, yes.
And I said, when you come home at night and you're feeling bad, you put on collage. Anyway, I didn't even know what it was. Do you know they sold out? They kept upping the schedule. They said, keep doing it. I said, what is it? I don't even know what it is. But I was selling it out. There was a Barnes & Noble. And I didn't know what it was. That's how good I was. So let me tell you something.
What you're doing right now.
I would say that because. I'm Dr. Drew. I don't know what the hell this is. I've never used it. But listen, if you want to take a chance, that's selling it. But listen, aside from that, what you're doing right now is so important and so critical. Because the thing, remember what you're doing. You're their friend. It's not about what you say. They know you. And you know what else is good about you?
Can I say something? As a professional, the balance. I'm not sure. I love the balance. You bring your crew into it, the laughing. A lot of these jerk-offs in the business don't want anybody, you know, horning in on my time. I like it. It's fun. Because the bottom line is people have to like you. And if they like you, that's the most important part.
So many times you hear these people on TV and they're miserable. That notwithstanding, we were supposed to talk about theoretically, right? What, Ukraine? You want to talk about Ukraine? Be honest. Do you really want to? Sure.
Because I hear lots of...
Well, first of all, we're using – you see, Drew, we're from a time when we had the press. We had Cronkite. Remember that night when Cronkite spoke? Kids don't even know what that means today. This guy was it. Like LBJ purportedly said, you know, when you've lost Cronkite, you've lost middle America. And by the way, let me add something to your mother about the dry cleaning bags.
I heard that one too. Because I heard they would actually move. They would come at you in the middle of the night. They moved. But you mentioned a thing poking your eye out. Mine was breaking your neck. And my father was an absolute Arden fan. My father was an Arden fan of if you eat and go swimming, you will die. You will get a cramp and sink like a rock.
But that's all public health bullshit. Yeah, but it's a waiting pool. It's a waiting pool. Years ago when laughing, when we were kids laughing, there was a guy named Alan Seuss. And there was a joke that I saw. It cracked me up then. I was a kid. Somebody threw a bucket of water on him. And he yelled, cramps. I've got cramps. Now, nobody, see, we get it.
But you mentioned before somebody, your prior guest was talking about the milk cart. That was Eitan Pates. It was here in New York. And I remember there was, and I want to say this, and I think we were very lucky. And maybe everybody says that, you know, when they were kids. But I did things like, for example, one of my favorite games with my sisters and friends, we would call jump off the roof.
We put a towel around us. We thought we were Superman. And we would jump. And one day, my father was watching. And he saw this. He saw kid after kid. And he came out and referred to me. I thought my name was God damn it until I was like 35. God damn it? What are you kids doing? And I said, we're jumping off the roof. He says, okay. And he closed the door.
Like, I just want to know what you're doing. Not don't do it. You're going to break it up. Yeah, I just want to know what it's called. I just want to make sure I know what it's called. I had, and maybe you did too, not BB guns, but pellet guns. And it was the crossman with the pump and you get this thing. And one time, did you ever read Boys Life magazine when you were a kid?
That was highlights. Remember highlights? Yeah, highlights.
Highlights. You were so bored because you went into a doctor's office and you weren't going like this. You were saying, what the hell do you got? Gem cutters quarterly. What are you, a sadist? Give me a life. And you would sit there and you had nothing to do. And we could somehow amuse ourselves. We used to travel in a car from Florida to...
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