interesting period right now. so what do you make of the current state of america? well, i put an album out about i think this was in 2005, and the title of the album was liars. and i have this tendency sometimes to be a little bit prophetic in the music that i make. and at the time, it wasn t necessarily about politics. it was just about the human tendency to be dishonest in great and small ways. in other words, if someone says, how do you like my new hairdo, and you don t like it, but you say, it looks great on way. you re trying to find ways not to lie and sometimes there s no way you can t. so i made a record about all the ways that people are dishonest with each other. i never thought that a political party would make that a canon, you know, that essentially the reason why liz cheney isn t in the republican party was because she refused to lie. in other words, to be a republican means that you have to first and foremost be able to lie. and lie until you get cornere
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Bumpy last night, one more debate to go before the iowa caucus. And the. Broncos are ready for the playoffs. Why the key to victory could depend on play calling. Live view at mile high right now and the wind is blowing out there. Pittsburgh steelers are coming to town for that big game on sunday. We have weather rolling into parts of colorado right now, lauren. Good morning. This is a live look outside this morning, mile high stadium, beautiful look for us. We have some cloud cover this morning. You cant tell because its so dark out there. But we are looking good, ready for this broncos game. Dont forget to wear your orange this morning. Well talk about the game forecast in a moment. Right now 38mileanhour gusts winds out there. 25 degrees at dia, 30 in fort collins, warmer in the mountains this morning with 21 in avon and 23 in grand junction. Rock this morning. On the satellite and radar, we have snow on the western slope already, cloud cover across the front range and Winter Weather
you know, that essentially the reason why liz cheney isn t in the republican party was because she refused to lie. in other words, to be a republican means that you have to first and foremost be able to lie. and lie until you get cornered and then you never apologize for lying, you never admit that you lied, you just shut up at that point or go on to another lie. and that especially irks me, having done a record about all of the ways that people will consciously and unconsciously be dishonest with each other. all right. todd lundgren, thank you so much. we greatly appreciate it. the new album is titled space force. it s out now and absolutely great album. and it is now the fourth hour of morning joe, 6:00 a.m. on the west coast, 9:00 a.m. on the east. we have a lot to get to this
so music goes through these cycles of like, that s a new form, that s a new genera, let s do that, then they turn it into a formula, it becomes boring, and then everybody starts looking for another genera. by the end of 80s, everybody was ready for what they called grunge music. you know, nirvana. nirvana kind of broke the hypnosis that everyone was into, trying to create music by formula. and that happens, you know, with regularity. unfortunately right now, we re kind of the doldrums. but the bright side is that we do have, you know, that global nervous system that the internet represents. and so even what would have been the most marginal artist who could never get heard at all can at least find some kind of audience. todd, you seem so much in music, and you mentioned this being a doldrums area. you re also very into politics, and i would argue that it s an