Lionel is an Emmy® Award-winning news decoder and legal analyst of the first order who defies category. He's a lawyer, former prosecutor, constitutional sentry, author, essayist, television and talk radio veteran, pioneer podcaster, bluegrass musician, lecturer, vegan and extreme shuffleboard aficionado. He's not a conspiracy theorist but a conspiracy analyst, borrowing from Gore Vidal. He obliterates the left-right paradigm and illusion of political compartmentalization. Newsweek called him “[a]n intellectual known for his irreverent political and social humor.” Jerry Wexler, renowned record producer, said “He wears the mantle of Lenny Bruce, with Lenny’s own tropisms: The Oblique, The Irreverent, The Tangential, The Concupiscent, The Polymorphous Perverse, The Arcane, The Numinous. And yet Lionel brings to the table his own savory: A love of the mother tongue and a gonzo vocabulary that puts his logo on all his works, whether talk-show hosting, standup-comic spritzing, or hanging out – with himself a minor art form.”