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CTP (S2EMarSpeical9) Mar 2025 Music Weeks Wk 2 Ep 3: Need For More Upbeat and Positive Fare In Our Entertainment (Books, Movies, Music)
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CTP (S2EMarSpeical9) Mar 2025 Music Weeks Wk 2 Ep 3: Music, Movies, and Faith: A Conversation with Writer Cy Young
Music and movies intersect in a thoughtful conversation with writer Cy Young about the need for more uplifting entertainment in our culture. We explore how modern content often suffers from heavy-handed messaging that alienates audiences rather than engaging them.
• Cy Young shares his name origin story – his father adopted the name after the legendary baseball player Cy Young
• Hollywood's reliance on star power over good storytelling prevents innovative content from reaching audiences
• Marketing requires at least seven touchpoints with potential audiences before making an impact
• "Woke" agendas in entertainment (books, film/movies, music, etc.) turn people off when they feel forced or manipulative
• Great films like "The Man Who Would Be King" and "Ben-Hur" demonstrate how powerful themes can be conveyed without explicit preaching
• Biblical interpretations and translations, including differences between "kill" and "murder" in commandments
• The value of spontaneity and authenticity in conversations versus scripted, predictable content
• The power of focusing on friendship and human connection in storytelling
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Welcome to ChristiTutionalist Politics podcast aka CTP in association with TheLibertyBeacon.com and I am your host Joseph M Lenard and that's L E N A R D CTP is your no muss no fuss just me you And occasional guest type podcast as Graham Norton would say let's get on with the show

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JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Hey gang, just a brief intro into music weeks. Here they are now. I was also considering going down the list of all the people that you see over the music weeks to be part of each episode, let you know who's coming or who may have been or whatnot. The list has grown. Too big to really go into here, I don't want to take that much time. Music weeks, thankfully, has grown into a pretty big deal. So it's grown a lot more than just the one music week. Originally, it was going to start out as into multiple weeks. Now, let's go ahead and get into this particular day's music weeks episodes and I'm trying to drop them Monday through Friday each week of music weeks. Welcome to the institutionalist politics podcast, aka CTP. I am your host Joseph M. Leonard and that's L-E-N-A-R-D. CTP is your Nomus, no fuss, just me, you and the occasional guest type podcast. We appreciate you tuning in to Grand Norton will say, let's get out of the show! Welcome everybody. I have Cy Young with me here today and the obvious question is, are you named after the baseball player?
CY YOUNG: No, no, I'm not. My dad was born in 1900 and Cy Young pitched the first World Series in 1903, well, in three games, and built an E-14. I'm going to scream play about it. It was very interesting when my dad, no, he was, I don't think his name was Cy Young, it was something young, but somebody said, no, you shouldn't name yourself after him. So he did, he picked up Cy Young, so I inherited that.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah, well, that answers the next obvious question. No relation then. No, no. Yeah, yeah. Well, and to my audience, you might ask, well, do I not do any research on my games? Yes, did I not know that? Well, actually no, I didn't know that. And yes, obviously, I research whether someone will be a good fit for a topic for the show. But beyond that, I don't like to do a lot of homework. I'd rather just have a spitball session and go with the flow, right? The same obvious questions that would come up to an audience member, hopefully then, would come up to me. And you and I, so the audience knows, stumbled across each other through a service called podcast guest list, where people find each other for podcasts. And in your bio, it talked about, and I wrote back to you, would love, I'll read it right from the note that I sent you, would love to discuss the need for more upbeat and or positive uplifting fair all through our entertainment, but especially our TV shows and movies. I just talked to Don Glade a few months ago about movies, some specifics, but we're going to kind of talk some generalities, I guess, right? Because I agree with you wholeheartedly. There's a whole lot of garbage out there.
CY YOUNG: Exactly. Well, I saw a great film last night. I thought it was great. I don't see very many films, Joe, but this was called the blood, what was it called? What was it? About the overlays and how they came back and how they tried a new system. Moneyball. Moneyball. Yeah. It was really Brad Pitt was really great in it. And I thought it was the concept, I thought was great, was that this guy, this general manager with the overlays was doing something different. He wasn't doing the 40 years of what the GM's usually do, the scouts usually do, the owners do, he was doing something different. And boy, did it pay off. They won 20 games, real record in a row. Now they didn't win the World Series, but they won 20 games. So his new thinking and new way of thinking really paid off, but he had to fight like a tiger to get it done.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah. Yeah. Based on a true story and a lot of different, not just baseball now, try to at least put a little of that philosophy, especially in this modern day and age of all sports having salary caps. Right. Well, you have to play a degree of Moneyball as it was called. Yeah. That came out of a few years ago. I saw a couple months ago a movie called Our Gile. Now I'm an author. I wrote terror strikes coming soon to a city near you, which is a political thriller, but our Gile, one of the premises or sub premises is that Dallas Bryce Howard plays a author who writes spy novels. And then there are a bunch of twists and turns from there. Did you see that film? I did not see it. No. Yeah. That was just out a few months ago. I really liked it. It's also known as the cat movie. And if you see that if you look up the preview, you'll understand why because a cat prominently plays through the whole movie. So it's really like comedy, drama and action. And it's a lot of fun. Like we're talking the need for more upbeat. You know, it's comedic. It's fun. It's over like the fight scene on the train is so over the top. It's funny. Yeah. You know, and so we need more stuff like that, in my opinion.
CY YOUNG: Well, I think we do too, but it's who's producing it and who's directing it. That's the question. I don't know. These guys come and go all the time. When I was trying to get stuff done in Hollywood, I had an agent in New York, Peter Miller, and we would submit stuff to them and they'd say, well, we need this star. If we don't get this star, we're not going to get it done. I had a movie called, what was it called? Deathlode, I think. Deathlode. And it was a very powerful action film. And one of the producers was a guy who had produced a movie, not, well, I guess about 30 years ago, from that from now, but then it was about 10 years ago. And he was a very good producer and he liked it and he wanted to rewrite. So I did a little rewrite on it. And his people who we worked with him said, cited a great rewrite on this. Deathlode is called. But they couldn't find a star, a guy who could write a more or so I can shoot people. There you go. You need somebody who could write it more or so I can shoot people.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Well, Tom Cruise can certainly do that these days, but back then he was still not quite the star he is today.
CY YOUNG: But I had another movie. Let me just tell you about this. You know who Donna Miller says? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, Donna Miller, I knew her when she was Donna Miller. Oh, Donna Miller in Chicago. She was 16. I was 24. We were studying dancing at Stone Cameron in Chicago. We went to see a movie. We held hands and kissed. It was wonderful. Anyway, cut to the third dog. I asked 25 years later. I had the screenplay and it's called Overdue. It's about a gal who's a reporter who's trapped in the library, research library on 42nd Street in a snowstorm. It's really, really strong. Somebody opted it. It was very strong and they got it to Donna. I thought, oh, yeah, Donna, I know Donna. Well, if you're not going to believe me then I don't, I don't remember. Anyway, that's kind of the way that goes. But anyway, so you do, you live with your learn.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah, you know, right. You never know where people are in their immediate life and career to whether they think something will fit or not for them. Yeah. But I think there is, in some cases, a reliance on stars too much. I wish, like when we're talking about upbeat films or whatever, films like you're talking about options, them wanting a big star, if they would take their chance on the next upcoming star for your film, you know, we need to give some more people a break.
CY YOUNG: Yeah. Well, that would be good if they would think of it that way. I don't think they do. I think it's totally personal. They think of it as a personal thing. Is this good for me? And am I going to do that? No. You know, basically that's, it's kind of every small, narrow concept. But people are very selfish. They just, you know, we face that there. They think about themselves first. And then if that's going to work for me, well, think about it.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah, that's a shame. That's a shame. But because everybody had to get their start somewhere, right? Exactly. Everybody needs that one big break. And it's a shame. I've seen a bunch of other movies with like some people that we thought would be the next up and coming star. And I can't think of her name, but I'm thinking about the old Sylvester Stallone cliffhanger film. The woman that was in that, I thought, Oh, well, Sly's giving her a break and she's likely to be a pretty big deal going forward. But then I never seen her in anything after that.
CY YOUNG: You know, I've seen some women in films and I thought, yeah, or guys, and I thought they'd be great. I never see them again. And I just think it depends upon your agent. It depends upon if you know anybody in highwood. And that's, that's the first thing. That's, that's number one. If you know somebody, well, your way ahead.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah. My terror strikes book coming soon to a city near you. I do have listed on Story Rocket. I'm hoping somebody would pick that up and make a movie of it, but I'm not going to hold my breath. That's for sure. Yeah. Yeah, I'm self published. Yeah. So, so, but yeah, I, you never know. Like you said, sometimes it becomes personal and people rub somebody. You know, well, so and so discovered that person, I'm not going to have anything to do with that person. The petty games that go on, right?
CY YOUNG: Well, there's a lot of that, it seems. We just unfortunate. I think people they cut themselves off from all kinds of ideas. I think they're just all kinds of ideas right here. And now if we can just keep our mind open and think about it. And like you said, it's very difficult to get published. And if you self published, then you have to fight like a demon to get your stuff done. Then you've got to learn how to do how the publishing company would do. How would they, how would they promote this? And then you got to go and promote it yourself. And I think people are learning that. I'm learning that into it's a hard way, but I have a gal who works for me, Judith. She's really, she works with me actually. And I'm going to give her credit for the books because she's very good at that. And she knows the computer and she knows how to work it. She knows how to come in and out and that sort of thing. And you need somebody like that unless you're a good out of yourself. Are you a good computer guy?
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): I'm a former IT guy. So well, there you go. Hey, there you go. So that help. I've been out of IT for 20 years now. So, you know, there's a whole lot going on around us that I'm not in tune with either. I'm, I'm old and dated myself as insofar as how quick things change with computers. But I'll, yeah.
CY YOUNG: Can you spell algorithms?
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): I know what it is, but the A.G. The spell algorithm.
CY YOUNG: It took me two weeks to learn to spell it because I wanted to do rhythm with it. It's A-L-G-O-R-I-T-H-M.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah. I know what it is. I know what it does. That's more important than knowing how to spell it.
CY YOUNG: I know one of the things about moneyball. That's what they did. They did algorithms. But I thought that basically an algorithm is something very simple. There's an algorithm to the breath of your teeth. There's an algorithm to making a fried age, you know? It's just a matter of what the algorithm does is they people come in and they, and they do it more technically and they tie it together.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): They examine for patterns and behaviors and things that will return a positive for what you put in. Obviously, you don't want to expend energy and get negative in return. You want positive outcomes. But you were mentioning like about with stars and that's the big crutch, I think, is with all these producers and directors. The star helps sell the ad, which helps sell the movie. So it's almost kind of laziness in my mind. Yeah.
CY YOUNG: But it's like Disney says you have to promote a thing, some idea of movie or whatever, seven times before it's going to kick off. So that's very good for us to know as self publishers of books. You've got to get that book at least seven times in front of the people. Not just Amazon and book Bob and all that stuff, but just constant. It's a gross thing. And as soon as you learn that, boy, it is a fight. It's a battle. Everybody is fighting there. But the guys that get through there, they're making a hundred thousand a year and do very well a lot of them. So it's just a matter of focus. That's what it is.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah. Yeah. That's a general marketing rule because I've been involved. My show is Christitutionalist Politics. My Saturday shows usually deal with the politics. My interviews usually don't. But that's very true of a candidate also. You want to get a TV ad, a radio ad, a robocall, a couple of mailers. It's the same marketing concept. You want to touch someone seven times in various ways in order to really get into their consciousness and then going back to a star in a movie, the star will catch somebody's eye on the TV ad whereas no name actors or lesser-knowns, they would have to, and again, it goes back to laziness, I think, they would have to work harder to sell the film. And they don't want to do that. They just want to print money. They say, oh, this will be a hit if you mention Brad Pitt. If Brad Pitt's in it, hey, we'll just print money.
CY YOUNG: Yeah, there you go. Well, that's true. But I think the idea of focus is really important in whatever you do, whether it's a film, whether it's writing a film or getting a film produced or published, whatever, it's a matter of focus and how do you focus your thought so that you will get the most out of it? And I think that a lot of that is just quiet listening because I get, I'm sure everybody else does, I get all these thoughts that come at me, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And you got to say, no, no, no, yes. And you find out what works. And I think that's the key. I'm very warm here.
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JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah, I'm that way. My mind goes a million miles a minute, exactly. And you've got to be able to learn to focus and on things. But let's get back to the general concept of upbeatness in movies. Because like today, that again, I generally with guests don't go political, but these days, it seems like everything has to have a woke agenda in it. And there's a big pushback against that on some, but and those films rather than being upbeat, they're about beating people over the head with a message they don't want to hear.
CY YOUNG: And then Joe, that is so wrong to do that. If you have a message, who was it that said, you use a, use Western Union, but don't use a book or a play. And a lot of stuff on Broadway is like that now. There's a message they have to get across and they do. And I think it turns people off. I think everybody wants to be, be, be pushed like that. If let, let, and the individual come to it so his own ideas, his own conclusions by himself. And people are capable of doing that. But you have to present a picture to them that is clear and focused. And if you do have a point of view, you have to, I think you have to couch it in terms that saying, okay, this is my concept. I have a BC and that's my concept. Now, what's your concept? You know, how do you see yourself with that? So I think it's being open, it's being open to other people's concepts of ideas.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah. Now, obviously a movie has to have a message of some sort or there's no plot, right? Like the old Seinfeld thing, a show about nothing, right? But that show obviously was about a lot of things. No one specific thing. Now, like this show, Christitutionalist Politics mainly geared towards Christians. Obviously those are going to have a preach message and people expect that though. Where the trouble comes in is when you're going to a movie and you're getting bait and switch, you're expecting a certain generic kind of entertainment and then they beat you over the head with something else you weren't expecting and just aren't there for.
CY YOUNG: Exactly. Joe, give me an eye. Give me an example of something that you promote, which is focus on Christ, Christ, the Christ Christian thing. How would you focus something like that?
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Well, that's a good question. You're turning the table on me here. I'm trying to even just think of what the last Christian movie was that I saw. And I see so many movies that like you earlier trying to think of money ball, I see so many movies, I almost forget them immediately. Oh, I know. I saw a movie the other day on Amazon Freebie channel. They have a channel called Freebie that's all free movies. And I saw a movie called Time Changer that was actually from 2002 I never even heard of. And I felt like it was almost divine intervention for me to see that having a bout of insomnia, the few nights that I stumbled upon it. But I felt like it was divine intervention because that movie felt like it was speaking directly to me because I have Christitucilist politics to book coming out in June. And that to me made me think of something that I needed to put in the book that would have been absent had I not stumbled on that film. But again, I knew it was the Christian film going in. Whereas like one of my favorite all time Christian films is a film called The Resurrection of Gavin Stone. Now some people in this audience are gonna oh my god you can't use resurrection. A regular human can't be resurrected. That's blasphemy. It's a comedy. It's meant in fun, in just it's a metaphorical resurrection of the character coming to Christ from his secular lifestyle. But to me that is a great movie because it isn't just about preaching and beating people over the head with the Bible. It's a comedy. So yeah, this guy, a Hollywood guy, gets sentenced to community service for having done typical Hollywood prankster antics and gets sentenced to community service. So he volunteers for a church and he starts to learn what that's all about. So to me that's great because it's for non-Christians also. You know rather than beating people over the head with the Bible, give somebody a comedy while at the same time, subtle delivery of Christianity to them. And if they walk away wanting to learn more great, if they don't, at least you tried.
CY YOUNG: Well that's a good point, Joe. Also I think you can write you can present a Bible story and it has nothing to do with preaching. For instance, I have a book that is an outscream play called The Boy from Nain in AIN and I have a Christian film company that says that they're interested in it as a film. Now do you know what you bought the Bible?
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Quite a bit. I don't have it memorized front to back. I can't say it to you.
CY YOUNG: The Boy from Nain is based on the incident in the Bible where the Jesus, the young man who dies in the town of Nain and he's a young man and as they're carrying him out, Jesus appears with his followers and raises the man from the dead. You're talking about Lazarus? No, I'm talking about Nain in AIN, a boy. That's interesting. He raised a lot of people from the dead.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Well Lazarus is the most well known, but yeah. And of course I talk about this on my show all the time. The different Christian sects have different Bibles and not every gospel is in every Bible. So I have to admit I'm not familiar. I'm not recalling that story.
CY YOUNG: Well another thing that bothers me about these different sects is the different Bibles. Now do you know anything about the original Bible? How it was created? There is a Bible, King James Version?
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Well yeah, from named after King James because King James didn't ordain it, didn't curse it, didn't he? He's the one that commissioned is the word I'm looking for. He's the one that commissioned it. There's a head of mental block.
CY YOUNG: He commissioned, I think it's about 62 or 63 of the most brilliant scholars in England and Scotland, that whole area, to do this, to translate this book into the King James Version. And the poetry, the erudition, the education of these people is just brilliant. And the poetry of the King James Version of the Bible, which is the original version, is wonderful. And most of these other Bibles, I mean they're by their Bibles about God and Christ, but they don't have the poetry. And the poetry is very, very important. He that dwells in the secret place of the most side. It's very beautiful. That's by one belief about people who should use the King James Version, but people use their own version, which is, I guess it's okay.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah, and I have discussed that on the show several times. It's like you're saying the King James kind of create his own counsels Nicaea and commissioned a Bible. Now, I have an issue even with King James Version though, because it is thou shalt not murder innocents, not thou shalt not kill from the original Latin Aramaic Hebrew and Greek. Thou shalt not murder because if you read Genesis, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy, the death penalty is biblical. So killing is sanctioned and or sanctified in certain situations, but the innocent murder or slaughtering of innocents is not. So even the King James Version has a bit of a distortion. And I know that will upset some people, but.
CY YOUNG: I'll look that up. I don't know anything about the murder. I know it's thou shalt not kill thou shalt not commit adultery, etc, etc. So I'll look that up. You see, it's thou shalt not murder in the original.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): And no, not the King James has killed, whereas the original text, the Aramaic, the Hebrew, the Latin and the Greek had murder, because again, the distinction between those two words is significant.
CY YOUNG: Yes, it is. Yeah, it sure is. Yeah.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Well, that's cool. And then that's like Matthew seven. Judge not lest ye be judged. Well, there's more to that scripture than just those seven words. And that's really condemned not lest ye be condemned, because there are more than a dozen other scriptures that say you shall judge in this manner, biblically. So again, Matthew seven, in a way, is a distortion. It's condemned not lest ye be condemned. For final judgment is for that of the Lord, right? We are to judge. We're not to be completely nonjudgmental. We are not to condemn another, except for, of course, in earthly law in earthly court. And again, to go back, killing is biblically sanctioned in the case of death penalty. So we've distorted things a bit over these thousands of years.
CY YOUNG: Yeah, we sure have. Yeah.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): True. But we've gotten way off of movies.
CY YOUNG: Yeah. I think some of the greatest movies were done like 40, 30, 40, 50 years ago. For instance, The Treasure of the Serum Adre is a wonderful film. And it's by John Houston. But I think the greatest film ever created was from a short story by the Indian writer. And it's by the name of it is, my point is the name of it. It's with, well, I'll think of it in it pretty soon. It'll come back to you later. It's a very powerful movie. And it's from a short story. And it's a very, it's a big action film too. And I know that Houston wanted to do it with Clark Gable and Tony Power or something, something like that. But instead he used Sean Connery and the English guy that's so good. And the man who would be king.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Oh, there you go. Yeah, I've seen that. Yeah. And another really good one that's biblical is Ben Hur. And that's another one of those films that people will see it. And that necessarily understand they're giving a Bible message, which again, which to my mind is what makes it great. Like when I was talking with Don Galade, you know, C.S. Lewis came up and the witch, the lion, the witch in the wardrobe, which is also really a Christian underlying theme film. But he wanted to present it in a way that it would be more secular for people to see. So I think we're talking that same line of how you can have a film that can appeal to the masses and not beat them over the head with the underlying theme. You're hoping they will take away from it. Like you said earlier about bringing them in and letting them see it and them going away with their own thought, not having been beat over the head by the either the Christian message or the modern day woke message or whatever. Just be entertaining and hope your audience gets it and wants to learn more.
CY YOUNG: Good point, Joe. And I think that to go back to the man who would became the point of that is a very general, wonderful point. These two men have been soldiers together through the many, many campaigns. They're very, they're great friends and they have this pact that they won't, you know, they won't have any sex with any woman until they get to what they want, all the money that they can find. So they go over to this foreign country and it ends up with them. They're going to be killed because they have, it's kind of involved, but the Sean Connery character has a medal around his chest. And it's about the one of the big sex that's around and they think he's a god. They think he's a god and somebody shoots an arrow and hits that and he doesn't kill him because they hit that and they think that's a proof that he's a god.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): They see that as a miracle. Yes.
CY YOUNG: Yes. Right. At the end of it, he gets caught because the woman he's going to marry bites him on the lip and the lip bleeds. So they know he's a phony. So they come to him and they kill him. And Sean Connery, Michael Kane, Sean Connery, Michael Kane are back to back and all these bad guys are going to kill him and Michael Kane and Sean Connery says, you forgive me, buddy? He said, yes. So it's about friendship. It's just great because Sean Connery dies. And this guy comes back and he's OK. But anyway, I think that's the way to really to promote an idea. It's very warm and friendly and these two guys friendship is the key.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah. And before we go too much further, I want to again admit that I didn't know that one story that you mentioned. I will have, I recommend Bible Gateway online. They are a great service. You can compare the various different Bibles. So I will go research and check beyond Lazarus and the others that Jesus brought back to life and find that story, which you are saying to see what versions of the Bible. It is in what Bible versions it is not in because some people in this audience, I have no doubt, will have known immediately what you were talking about. Whereas again, I'm imperfect. I'm frail. I'm human. I have. Yeah. You know, I don't know it all. And you know, unlike a lot of talk show hosts, I admit, I don't know it all. And I'm not going to pretend and play like I do.
CY YOUNG: That's for your genius. Let me get on my cat. OK.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): So I will kind of just still space. And for those of you looking on behind the scenes on my YouTube video, bright on bit shoot, rumble channels, you will see size one of size cats. She's got in the background there. I was saying before we started the show, what a what a beautiful fur baby. What's the cat? The cat that's in your background, what's that catch name? That's Millie. Millie.
CY YOUNG: We thought we were getting another female, but we got another male. So the male chases her around and she goes and eyes under the bed. And it takes me. But she's a beautiful cat. You just gorgeous. Yeah.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Yeah. All my fur babies are gone now. And I have health issues myself. I have enough time, probably taking care of myself, let alone bringing another newer life into my home to take care of. You know, so I don't want to do that as much as I miss the companionship of my fur babies. I don't feel at this point I should commit to an animal who would probably outlive me and cause that problem of separation that they would have when that were to occur. So at any rate, and I say that tongue in cheek because you don't know, but the audience will know, you know, some people do a lot of arm and I got my verbal crutches at any rate. So at any rate, I appreciate you joining me here today. Again, this goes back to the top of the show. No, I don't do boatloads of research on my guests because I just want to let the rabbit holes open and we go down them as we come across them. And say pardon? Fontanini. Exactly. Exactly. You know, there are a whole lot of shows out there that are scripted and the host knows exactly what the guest's going to say, the guest knows in advance what the questions are going to be. I don't want that. I'm not going to go there to me. That's dishonest. For better or worse, and sometimes it's for better and sometimes it's for worse. That's what you get here.
CY YOUNG: And you keep it open and you keep it spontaneous. And I think people like that. People like something that they think that's real. I do too. If something spontaneous, he's not a phony guy if they're trying to promote something, he just is just a guy talking about himself and his life and about his God. We all have our God. We have to understand and express. And that's for I'm very much into that. I really appreciate it.
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Amen. I hear you on that. Yeah. Some would call it folksy, right? But there are other hosts who try to force folksy as a schtick. And I don't like them. People either. They're phonies, right? Like you said, real and honest, you and I just shooting the proverbial stuff, right? You better get sad. Yeah. Well, I can say it, but I certainly prefer not to on a Christian show, right? Kids could be listening. So thank you again. Sayyung, nothing to do with the ball player, except for his dad did like the ball player. Thank you for stopping by, son. I appreciate you. Where before we go, where can people find you if they want to reach out?
CY YOUNG: Do you have a website stuff like that? My website is saiyungbooks.com. C Y Y O U N G B O K S dot com. No period during anything. You go there and that's my website. I got my screenplays there. I placed my short plays, my books. I've got my everything up there that I should have got my magnets, which are short, short books about my key character, Frankie Scarmazino, who is the key kicker in my mystery series. He's with the New York, New York Giants. And that's
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): basically where you go. Interesting, interesting. So that's kind of your most latest set, your series. It revolves around this kicker for the Giants. That's correct. Yeah, we've got three books
CY YOUNG: going out with that. They're out right now, actually, kickers. But be sure you say saiyung authors, because otherwise you'll get a baseball player. Right, exactly. Exactly. So remember,
JOSEPH M LENARD (HOST): Cy young as you would expect to spell young or well, cyyoungbooks.com. I wanted to reiterate the site.

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BONUS MATERIAL BELOW from: TheLibertyBeacon "Music, Tv, Politics; and yes some more on Movies too" [See original piece at: https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/music-tv-politics/ , for referenced links, images, and embedded videos.]

Music, TV, & Politics…

A few weeks back I had a “Lets go to the Lobby for Snacks and Politics” piece and its follow-up “Movies, Snacks, Politics, part 2” so makes sense – lets talk briefly about Music and TV…

But first a brief reprise about Movies – I hope you all caught “They Live” 35th Anniversary this year (while showing in many Theaters September 2023) and if not at Theaters please rent or stream it after you read this. Reminder: “They Live” an early John Carpenter (Writer/Director) piece where he dared to go down ChristiTutionalist Politics line before I coined the term and “Aliens” (the E.T. variety) as stand-in for the #DeepState always moving and manipulating behind scenes. Human-nature of those willing to go-along-to-get-along to Cash in for themselves. The 15-minute (minor exaggeration) I hinted at in the Movies pieces is great metaphorical outline for the verbal back-and-forth we often have with DUMBocrats to get them to see Reality!

VIDEO (3m 08s): Jason Aldean - Try That In A Small Town (Official Music Video):
https://youtu.be/b1_RKu-ESCY
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Music:

#IStandWithJasonAldean (and, yes, too Oliver Anthony)
CMT (Country Music Television) crumbles to Cancel Culture, pulls “Try that in a Small Town” Video. And what my book (Terror Strikes: Coming Soon to a City Near You) about, not just Foreign Terrorists but USA Leftist Terrorism within & destruction of Western-Culture (as whole, not just US). #JasonAldean #BoycottCMT

I tack this on here, as Patriots in good Independent Studios or Patriotic Producers/Directors need to assure this Song gets on the Soundtrack of their PRO-AMERICA Movies as many times/places as possible!!

Lastly, I know this is OLD NEWS to a degree and you are well aware and likely heard this story for several weeks already via FOXNEWS, NEWSMAX, OAN, and other outlets (including the ridiculous attempts by Left #ENEMEdia to make this somehow a Racist song calling for violence when the Writers (no, not Jason) and he (Jason) indeed all on the same page as to why they wrote it and why he wanted to Record it. AN ANTI-CRIME and ANTI-VIOLENCE piece, but if/when push comes to shove that we do have a Right to Defend ourselves from it. To protect and prevent our Communities being Arsoned to the ground by ANTIFA and #BlackLyingMarxist Hitlerian Brown-Shirt thugs.

Only the Left and their constant Race-baiting have the gall to say scenes (that show people of ALL RACES) is somehow Racist as an indictment of Black people? Who are the Racists? They are, if they say crime automatically equals Black people! Meanwhile scuttling #BidenCrimeFamily investigations and still creating major reach (stretching beyond all credulity of those Laws intent) on Statutes to try to charge POTUS45/Trump! Spare us the “What about the Lynching that took place at that Courthouse a hundred years ago” manure that no-one knew about until the Leftists #ENEMEdia desperate for a Talking-Point managed to dig up that History. I guess the Hannah Montana and the Christmas Movie filmed there are now also Racist (just like they tried to deem Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” as somehow Racist). When are Black Americans going to wake up to this pathetic and desperate Race-baiting?!?! Whom, in Poll after Poll show they want more police protection from the runaway and rampant Crime happening due to FASCICRATS weak-on-Crime and other failing policies!!!

Thank you to all that emailed or called CMT or Cable Companies that carry CMT and let them know they would like CMT pulled from their line-up as money will be the only thing they understand. As discussed in the BIDENomics pieces they chase the Woke ESG pennies, we must make then suffer huge dollar loses until they learn to stop pandering to the Cancel Culture manure.

A friend of mine posted a Breitbart article titled “Woke Maren Morris Announces She’s Leaving Country Music: ‘Misogynistic & Racist & Homophobic & Transphobic’” (no, not gonna link it) that I would talk about but all our “kind” reactions (here are those) were “WHO?” And some “less than polite” responses too (including a few snide ones from yours truly). LOL

VIDEO (2m 24s): Adam-12 and Emergency! Crossovers:
https://youtu.be/HIJHcgS7R7g
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Television:

That’s now Movies, Music, but what about TV? May as well take a pot-shot at that too?!?! I had for decades hoped we’d get a reboot of “The Streets of San Francisco;” like Hawaii Five-O was, and Magnum P.I. was; and while I liked those originals (I did not tune-in for those reboots) but that was long before Newsome, Piglosi, others, have completely destroyed it over these last couple of decades. So, maybe best we can hope for is reboot of Adam-12; though that was set in L.A. which has equally degraded into one of Dante’s layers of Hell, but maybe could be reset into a different City; as a method of bringing traditional values and BACK THE BLUE back; as opposed to all the Trash we’re getting these days (like, sadly, the reboot of Quantum Leap went all WOKE)?!?!?

Some final thoughts:

Now after three-parts total of/for “Movies and Politics (Music and TV tacked on in part 3)” I could go on forever, and probably no surprise to anyone that is a regular reader of mine that at some time in near future I would have a part three (more on Movies, and to pivot to Music and TV) as I now have!

Follow-up to the piece a few weeks back discussion of one of my all-time favorite Directors/Producers Roland Emmerich (and the part 2 “Movies, Snacks, Politics” piece): Many know Toby and/or Noah Emmerich, two of the people involved in/with the great Movie CELLULAR (with Noah Emmerich*, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, William H. Macy, Kim Bassinger, more) I just rented (via my DISHnetwork OnDemand feature (sign-up with my VCD0026116345 referral code for discounts)) to watch again as it is an A+ (remember, when that film came out was just at the time of proliferation of Cell phones with advanced features and therefore absolute genius script at that time). A good “temporary escape from Politics film.” From GOOGLE (about Noah): On television, the native New Yorker was a series regular on BACKWASH and played the despondent Dr. Edwin Jenner in the two-part Season 1 finale of THE WALKING DEAD. Emmerich's brother is film producer Toby Emmerich, but they are not, Emmerich explains, related to Director/Producer Roland Emmerich.

The Emmerich lines via DuckDuckGo (here).

Gasp, can you believe it? YES, you’ve reached the end of this article already! LOL Hey, gotta poke fun at ourselves if we are to be able to laugh at others. I am indeed trying to SCALE BACK the length of my pieces! 😊

VIDEO (33m 32s): ChristiTutionalist (S1E5) SNEAK PEEK @ Sat 7/22 "Let's go to the Lobby, for Snacks & Politics" (the corresponding part 1 of this series) Show:
https://youtu.be/rOeNv_ZT9bg?si=nXLXMB_FMpQInTaE
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[Part 2 Behind-The-Scenes Sneak-peek Video]

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