Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-13-23

0:03 Your listening to WUMNH. Come he guy, don't get so freely matzelf going you welcome everybody here we go Happy Friday. It is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six. If you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connorton dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact infos, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

1:13 Today is Friday, October thirteen, twenty twenty three, and I am not alone. If you haven't girl problems out for bath for your son. I got ninety nine problems but one

1:25 patrol. DJ Reckless is here. What's up? How are you? I'm good? Cold out today? Eh? Every time I come on, Oh here's the weather today, guys, it's cold. It's cold, It's not it's beautiful. Yeah. You were saying that earlier too at home, and Jenny and I are both like, you really think it's cold? I don't think it's cold, man. I just nearly got blown down Elm Street. Oh it was is windy. Yeah, Elm Street's quite the wind tunnel last time, which makes it cold. You can have a warm wind, you can have a west Yes you can, Yes, you can, yes, yes, sahaha, you can't because when I was in Cali last year, it's the first time I've ever experienced like a warm wind like that.

2:10 Yeah, it was like one hundred and eight. Yeah, and I will we got out, we got out of the van to go into a gas station. I was like, even the wind is wind is hot right now? Yeah, this is weird. It felt so weird. Yeah, yeah, what's up? What have what have you got going on tonight? You're gonna be right up the streets, same old, same old, six o three bar and growth tonight Friday the thirteenth. You know, I wasn't even thinking about that. Yeah, I was happy. Didn't even occurred about it all day. Didn't even occur to me that it was Friday the thirteenth.

2:38 Knock on what nothing bad happens today? It's been pretty good so far, so far, so good. Yes, yes, what time? What time you go on? Nine pm? And is it just you. No, it's my goy Sean White too. Oh okay, Sean White you uh you work with him a lot, don't you. Yeah, that's one of my best friends. Excellent, Yeah, he's actually tonight. The reason I chose I wanted to do tonight was because this is I think the third year in a row i've done Friday the thirteenth with him or something like. Oh, okay, some type of Friday the thirteen.

3:07 Oh, very cool, very cool. Yeah, no, but I'm super excited because it's my last night there until uh Sunday thirtieth okay, no, twenty nine, yeah, twenty nine, because I'm doing my Halloween party there. Ah, very good. Yeah. Then we're then we got a lot of renovations happening, and a bunch of other stuff happened over there. I'm excited. I'm excited. What the six o three is being renovated, Yeah, a little bit. And then we're gonna be doing a lot. We're gonna be I'm gonna be there a lot less, but a lot more.

3:41 To a point, I'm gonna be doing Fridays by myself. Possibly, I don't know yet though, Oh okay,

3:49 well, very good, very good. Though probably shouldn't have said that, but I'll probably walk into that bar later and they'll scream at me. Really yeah, no, that would be arable great. Yeah, So that'll be DJ Reckless tonight at the six oh three right up the street here. Yeah, and coming up on the show today, We've got a great show for you. That track that I opened with is called Island, and the band is called My Last Mile. They will be here with us in the second hour, and I'm really looking forward to meeting those guys.

4:21 I love their sound. We've got some other studio tracks too that we're gonna play when they're here. But I had to open with that song. I love that song. That is so catchy. I love the production, I love everything about it. So My Last Mile our musical guest today in the second hour. Later on in this hour, however, it is Friday, which means we have Eric Pilcher's classic film review, and this week the subject is nineteen seventy eight's George A. Romero film Dawn of the Dead, which was I believe a sequel to Night of the Living Dead.

4:52 You ever get into those movies, the zombie movies there, I hate horror movies. You can't do it. I can't do it, which is probably why I'm single, because any girl that asked me to go to a movie during the month of October, let me tell you it ain't happening. It's just not no kidding, Nope. Do you hate all horror movies just that entire genre? Yeah? Interesting, I don't do good. I don't do good with stuff like that. Yeah, I mean it's just so weird. No, it's not. I don't think it's weird necessarily.

5:21 I mean a lot of people, uh, you know, everybody has different taste in film. I mean I don't like, uh like to me, the horror genre. I mean there's types of horror movies that I like, but there's types that I don't like too, Like slasher movies I don't like. Yeah, I don't like slasher movies. I don't understand. Uh, I don't understand the appeal I never have, even like Michael Myers. Yeah, I don't like that stuff. Like I saw that. I saw that movie last. I saw the New Friday, the New Michael Myers maybe from last year.

5:50 Is he He's He's? Uh? Is he Halloween Michael Myers? Because Friday the thirteenth is Jason. Yeah, that's Jason. I almost said Friday the thirteenth, so I knew. I knew it was wrong in my head. Yeah. Yeah, but I almost said Michael Myers was on Friday the thirteenth. That would have got canceled immediately, right, that's right. Yeah, I yeah, I don't like that. I don't like that stuff. But yeah, I think it is Halloween. Okay, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense. But oh yes, Eric, Eric Pilcher is in the chat room.

6:17 He says, yes, it was Donna the Dead is the sequel Tonight of the Living Dead. Yeah, those those movies are kind of cool. I just I don't like anything gory. That's why. That's why I don't like slasher movies. I don't. I don't, I genuinely. I just I'm not trying to put anybody down who likes that stuff, and you know, I don't want to offend anyone, especially of course our friend Melanie La Liberty. But I even even when I was a kid, I just did not understand the appeal of that. It's I find it just horrifying to these movies.

6:47 Speaking. Since we're on the topic of slasher movies, there's this movie coming out in November. I believe they're like Halloween or something about Thanksgiving. It's called Thanksgiving. It's like a slasher movie though, and it's like it's so weird. Yeah, the previews for it, like I kind of want to go see it just because of the lineup of people they have in the movie. Yeah, for acts, for actors and actresses. Yeah, but I'm also like, is it a is it a comedy? Is it like a comedy horror movie? It looks like a straight horror movie because because when you say it's Thanksgiving, I just imagine somebody like trying to kill people with uh a turkey or something.

7:25 It's imagine Halloween, the movie Halloween. Yeah, but instead of Halloween, switched the holiday with things. Oh okay, gotcha? Yeah, yeah that makes sense. That's the vibe I got from that, at least from at least from the previous because I've been seeing the previews for months now every time I go to the movies and I'm like, yeah, I don't know if I want to see that. Oh yeah. And also they they're coming out with like five Nights at freddy Too for Freddy's And it's like that was like a game like my thirteen, like my now thirteen year old nephew would play when he was like six.

7:54 Yeah, and now I'm like, now I'm concerning that he was playing it at six. Ah yeah, I'm like, uh, I don't think we should have let them watch or play that game? Yeah? Maybe not. I mean I'm not I'm not a prude about any of that stuff. But what I do wonder, I do wonder sometimes. Well, you know, there's a lot of research that's been put into like movies that are war based, I mean, not movies, I'm sorry, video games that are war based, like first person shooters where you're in battle, and the way it kind of glorifies war, and that that that actually is used as a recruiting tool to get young people interested in going off to war and trying to get them to join the military.

8:34 And I say that with respect for you know, I respect our and love our veterans, and of course my dad's a veteran. I don't want anyone to take anything that I'm saying wrong. But you know, people have noticed that these video games like uh, what's what's like the really big call of duty? Call of Duty? Yeah, the very big that's a monster franchise in video games and see I don't again and I try not to make any judgments about it, but but it it is. I mean yeah, kind of kind of glorifies war, doesn't it.

9:07 Yeah. More recently, Yeah, but like if you go to like twenty like twenty fourteen, I believe, or whenever Black Ops the he was released, Yeah, that was more like futuristic, like but not futuristic oh like gameplay and yeah, so I don't know, it's hit and miss, and like I get what you're saying. Yeah, like battlefield games like battlefield Like that's straight up you're like you're on like a battlefield that you're in the middle of a war. Yeah, and it looks like it. Even the scenery everything looks like and it's just weird.

9:41 Yeah, that stuff bothers me, always has. I just uh, I just wonder. I wonder about the cultural impact of it all. I see a comment in the chat actually speaking on the thing of games, that they came up with a game called Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Yeah. I played that game a few days ago. Yeah, uh uh, nope, nope. And a few years ago, when I was like thirteen, they came out with a game call. It was like Friday the thirteenth where you could be Jason or whoever is Jason, right, yeah, yeah, Jason Vorhees Yeah, and you could run, you could be like you could be him and chase people other like five other players around the map and kill them.

10:22 Yeah, or you could be one of the survivors, yeah, per se and try to survive. And it was so weird, but it was so good really yeuh yeah. I was like I could use this game. And then they took it off the market because well they did. Yeah. I think they faced a lawsuit or something on it, really, or or it's still up and it's just like the servers aren't active. I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure something happened though. Oh interesting interesting. Yeah. And by the way, for anyone who I just want to throw throw this out there, for anyone who thinks I sound like, uh oh, Matt, he sounds like a prudish old man who doesn't understand why these young people like these things.

10:59 I've always felt this way about I've since I was a kid. I felt the way that I feel about slasher movies. For as long as I can remember. I've always been concerned about video games that are based on war. None of this is new to me. It has nothing to do with me getting older and I'm turning into some sort of curmudgeon who just doesn't want young people to have any fun because I know that somebody out there thinking that why is Matt? Matt just doesn't understand the youth, you know, like I'm sitting here going you know, back in my day, we played nice games like pac Man and Dig Doug.

11:34 It's not that It's not that I've always felt this way, even when I was a kid. Matt was like fourteen playing Street Fighter? Did they have Street Fighter when I was fourteen? They probably did it? Yeah, they think they did. They might have or or whatever the let me see when it came out, or maybe Mortal Kombat possibly, I don't know. It's hard for me to remember. I don't know. I mean because it came out on uh Sega. Yeah, I mean we had Sega when I was a kid, nineteen eighty seven. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, so yeah, that makes sense because Capcom release did it, released it, and they're owned they were owned by Sega.

12:18 Do you know, though I will not I haven't touched a video game controller in in probably like fifteen years and I refuse to. I'm going to start live streaming, live streaming, and where do you get you on the live stream? We're gonna get you to play like Call of Duty or something. Well, here's the here's the problem though, So you know, addiction, it's not just physical, it's psychological. I actually avoid video games now because and I have for a long time, because I find them psychologically addictive.

12:48 The last time I played a lot of video games when I was a kid. But the last time I played a video game, I was at somebody's house and it was one of those Raw versus SmackDown WWE games, and yeah, this was quite a long time ago. And I'm at somebody's house and I was like, oh, I've never played this and I haven't played a video game in a long time. And they fell asleep. I'm at this person's house. They fall asleep on their couch. I started, or we started playing that game before they fell asleep, and then it was just me playing it.

13:18 It was probably like nine pm at night, and I fell into that trap of I'm sitting there, you know, Okay, the match ends, the game's over. Just one more game, yep, just one more game I had that I specifically remember the first time that ever happened to me. I was at my buddy Devin's house one night and we were playing Skate three. It's a skate it's a skateboarding game. And we got to the point where we wanted to land like a fifty thousand point line, which is which was unheard of at the time. It's super hard to do on the specific map we were on.

13:51 We started at like nine pm and it got to the point where like we were up till four am. Yeah, like we were tripping. That's what happened. It's addictive, yeah, And it was just insane. Well because when I played that game, that was the last video game that I ever played, that Row Versus SmackDown game. Because started it, I think it was about nine o'clock and next thing I know, it's one in the morning. And and I I said, I got to go home, and I I put down that controller, and I just said, I'm never picking up another video game controller.

14:27 That that was four hours of my life that I could have been doing something productive. And I got sucked into this game, and and and and I had to force myself to put down the controller. I could have just kept going. So I just said, this is too this is just too psychologically addictive for me. I just can't. I can't handle it. So so I never Uh, I never played another video game since then. We were just on the topic of Raw versus SmackDown. Have you talked about the Tuesday night wars that are going on right now AW and Raw NX No.

15:03 I Actually I'm surprised EZG didn't bring it up when he called yesterday. So I don't know if you saw what I posted earlier. Oh, I did see them on my Facebook. Yeah. Yeah, I think Tony Kahan just irks me. He just irks me. Now. He's he's so pathetic. He's a little immature in some ways. I think I can't I can't find it here. It is so for contact stuff for anyone who doesn't know. So. Tony Kahan is the owner of ae W All Elite Wrestling. He posted on x or Twitter. He said this week, two active decade, two active decades long rating streaks from two great legends were ended with all due respect.

15:42 Until this week's head to head AW on TBS versus WWE on USA, neither Johnsen nor Undertaker had ever been on a WWE show with under one million total followers plus under four hundred k in the demo who came? Most people reading that aren't even going to exactly one, like, yeah, it's petty, it's petty on his part. He's he he knows a w is gonna fail. Oh I disagree there, I don't. I don't think the story lines are I don't think failing. They're they're doing. They're doing really good numbers and they say, did that huge show at Wembley Stadium.

16:18 Now, they're not going to fail. But I don't think I'm thinking impact. I'm sorry, Oh impact, Impact is a perpetual failure and has been for decades. They should just be a house show at this point. No, but aa w No, I mean they're very successful and I think they'll continue to be. In Getting Adam Copeland over there was huge. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely. I knew he wasn't gonna say retired. He just came out of retirement. Yeah, he just came out. He's he's probably gotta I want to say another four years.

16:43 Yeah, he very well may, he very well may. Yeah. It was that it was that back injury that really got him, obviously or is it a back or neck injury? Neck? Neck, that's nothing to fool with. Yeah, but yeah, I'm glad they brought they brought back John Cena. That's huge. I mean, well that that's because of the He's gonna make his money because of the writer's strike yea. Yeah. And he even said it during the fastening press conference that way, when when the writers come back, he's going back. Yes, but it was like he he got called out too, which was interesting during the press conference.

17:16 I don't know if you watched it. Oh, I saw. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I saw what you were talking about about what he used to say about The Rock back in the day, about how the Rock abandoned wrestling for Hollywood, and and then they turned a storyline into it, yeah, which was obviously great pay great play by them. And now people say the same about Sena. But he's apologized. He apologized to The Rock for uh and they're good friends now. Yeah, I'm still can you give me more background on the Endeavor situation where Endeavor fully owns WWE, So like, what does that mean?

17:48 So Endeavor who owned UFC, they bought WWE and now w w E and UFC are together under a new umbrella called t k O or t k O something. Yeah it's k O, I know that. Yeah, So so they're all they're all under the they're all one giant company now, which is so weird. I don't see what the point is, you know what I mean. And Devor was willing to pay. You know, Vince wanted to sell the company and Devor was willing to pay for it, and uh, it's it's a huge, huge money. And yeah, now they just got to get Vince to go back in his hole and go away.

18:29 He won't. They're trying to push him out. From what I understand, they're trying to the They I don't know that they necessarily realized when they did that merger, just how much of a a liability Vince is se mergers Barstool. Barstool just got bought back because they sold the pen which for some sports book thing. I saw something about this, But Dave Dave Portnoy bought back Barstool. Yeah, are the rest of the rest of the shares because the thing with Penn was Penn's stock because of all the bad publicity around Barstool and all the well, what is what is Penn.

19:12 Penn is a sports book company. Oh okay, creates like bettings, websites and stuff like, oh okay, that's a huge, huge business. Yeah. Yeah, so they created Barstool sports book. But the thing where Barstool is they have so many controversial and like

19:30 so many controversial figures and opinions, like their their stock was going up down up down, up down, and it was just like Penn's like, we can't do this anymore. Really, yeah, So so they bought it. So so they bought it, but they left. Did they leave Portnoy in charge of it? Yeah? Portnoy still handled like most of the things, they just handled the sports book side of things. Okay, but well that's similar. That's similar then to the merger with UFCNWWE because they're still letting they're still letting Vince technically be the chairman and and Triple A is still in charge of creative.

20:05 I don't think without Dave Portnoy Barstool if Dave Dave Portnoy were to leave Barstool today, yeah he would, they would not be successful. Well my impression, yeah, that my impression is, and I haven't paid nearly as much attention to barstool as you have. But you know, but I'm aware of it, and uh yeah. My impression is it's kind of it kind of revolves around his personality a bit right, and and he's kind of unpc he's unhinged, which is he's unhinched, he's unhinged. What what? What? What? What do you say?

20:39 Because he's an interesting guy. I don't I don't know a lot about him, but what I've seen of him, he's pretty interesting. He is your typical Boston, Boston guy. Yeah, he's your typical Boston guy. He comes off that way. Yeah. He he doesn't mess around. He will go to any length that if you tried to to fame him, he will dig. Yeah, he will prove you wrong. It will put out Like the Washington Post tried to do an article on him, and then a business insider I think tried to do an article on him that was full of lies.

21:10 He debunked every single lie, broke every single lie down in a video. Yeah. Then he called the reporter and said, hey, why don't you interview me? Oh they never interviewed him. Yeah, And she goes and he goes, why are you saying this in an article about me? She goes and the art and the reporter that wrote it or the journalist that wrote it was like, well, it wasn't meant to be like that. Man. Yeah, I was like, so you're getting caught in a lie and you know now you're backtracking is what you're doing.

21:41 So why didn't they when Penn bought Barstool? Why didn't they just get rid of Portnoy? If Portnoy was the problem, or did they or did they assume that without Portnoy no one would care anymore about Barstool. I think it was a little bit of both. I think because Portnoy still owned the majority, I believe I'm not entirely sure. Don't quote me on any of this. Okay, but oh so Penn is a publicly traded company then yes, okay, yes, yes, yes, yes, okay, I'm trying to think. But Barstool, I assume was not prior to being bought by no Barstool was not until they were bought by Penn.

22:17 Okay, I gotcha? Uh with me? Huey the gecko is in the chat room and says, I assume he's referring to Portnoy. He's charitable and charismatic, definitely a force. He is very charismatic and he has done a lot for small businesses, especially during COVID. There's no denying that. There's no denying that, unfortunately, fortunately and unfortunately, Yes, yes, yeah, that's one company that if I ever ever had a contract like come up for me, I'm taking it. I'm taking it. Yeah, that's a huge company. And that's like I base so much of what I do off of Barstool too.

22:55 Yeah, well, like what do you mean, Like I watch like the trends on Barstool and stuff like that. So like a lot of the videos I make on Instagram and stuff like that which end up getting taken down thanks Instagram, like interviews and stuff like that. There's multiple avenues to Barstool, which they have the they have the social media thing where they have like social media accounts, the colleges and I have good That's why I was able to do what I was able to do at Murphy's was because of Barstool, because Saint Anselom's has a Barstool account, which I was able to get in contact with the person running it and be like, hey, man, can you promote this with me?

23:37 Right? And then we can possibly down the line do a joint collaboration party, a Barstool Reckless University party, and they posted it and then next thing you know, there's three hundred people. Because barstool is a party brand. Barstool is a college party brand. Essentially, it's college lifestyle. Now, I just went to I did no, I have, I have been to the website. I didn't know if it was barstool dot com or barstoolsports dot com. But if you go to barstool dot com, it must be Barstool Sports because if you go to just barstool dot com, it redirects to a Rumble account.

24:14 And the top video is titled Dave Portnoy is a Huge Liar, Part one. So apparently somebody someone bought that domain in said yo, somebody has it in for for Portnoy. Oh. Dylan Reynolds is in the Facebook live chat and says, hello, Hello, Dylan. Hold on, I'm pulling up the article on Variety magazine. Oh while you look that up to I'm suddenly reminded speaking of very talented musicians. The live it finally came out. It's on YouTube, the full live show of Jerry and the Scumbags and of course, I'm the bass player has been released on YouTube.

24:47 Are our incredible live concert and so great to play with those guys. It's available right now if you go to the Jerry and the Scumbags YouTube channel. Something reminded me of that, but yeah, it's very very cool and and I actually talk on Mike between a couple of the songs. It's great, it's great, massive, I know. Okay, So here's the straight story, h huh of what happened? So Dave Portnoy bought back Barstool for a dollar after selling it to Pen for five hundred and fifty million dollars, and he bought it back for a dollar.

25:26 Yep, how does this happen? He said? It says Portnoy. Portnoy paid one hundred pennies for Barstool Sports. That that's after Pen Entertainment Casino, an online gambling operator, paid a total of about five hundred and fifty million dollars to acquire one hundred percent control of Barstool. Just a few months before deciding to cut Barstool loose, Penn sold one hundred percent of the outstanding shares of Barstool to Dave Portnoy in exchange for a nominal cash consideration one dollar and certain non compete in other restrictive covenmants, so meaning they can't continue probably to do Barstool Right sports Book, which makes sense, makes sense.

26:07 Yeah, and then so Dave Portnoy made a five hundred so basically a five hundred and fifty million dollar profit. Oh essentially basically, Yeah, that's incredible. So the reason for this right here, I believe is what it's looking like is the extreme fire sale of Barstool Sports back to Portnoy came as Penn entered into a major deal with ESPN to rebrand the online sports betting business from Barstool Sports Book to ESPN Bet. So that makes sense. That's not something I was aware of. Under the terms of the deal with ESPN, Penn will pay one point five billion dollars in cash to a ESPN over a ten year term, in grant ESPN approximately five hundred million, and warrants to purchase thirty one thirty one point eight million Penn common shares that will vest over ten years in exchange for media, marketing, brand and other rights.

27:03 So essentially they just basically dropped fifty billion dollars. I'm but that's obviously a lot more than I'm yeah, yeah, yeah, but like over that's that's a lot. So they're taking a loss at that point, how are you making money? So are they so? In other words, so did they have to get rid of Portnoy essentially to uh make this deal with ESPN? Yep? Okay, because port Nooy and ESPN are not, from what I believe is the case, they're not like on good terms. Okay. Actually, fun fact, I was in a barstool article, like when I was on tour.

27:45 You were yeah, because because of Sammy Adams. Oh yeah, it was sick. It was sick. We have a call, we'll grab this. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connorton Unleashed. Is this Hi, Matt, it's her Pilcher calling in. If anybody knows, that's Eric. So hey, we're gonna be getting to your ass. Why I'm calling in. We're gonna we're gonna be get into your film review in a couple of minutes. But uh yeah, what's on your mind? Well? I was calling in regards to this, No, Dave Portnoy in ESPN do not get a lot in any way, shape or form.

28:23 That's what I thought on the line ten Sports did take a massive monumental loss in this deal, not to mention what they paid for Barstool Sports, and then sold it back to Dave Portnoy for a dollar. Now, why is so? What's the issue between ESPN and Portnoy. I don't know much about that. I had to guess it's Dave Portnoy probably said some things about ESPN that they did not like. Okay, SPN is in good with the NFL big time. UH so that has to be taken into account. Dave Portnoy has said some pretty unsavory things about Roger Goodell.

29:14 He did a T shirt with Goodell on it that made him look like a clown. Michael remember Michael Rappaport is a frequent guest on ESPN programming, the former barstool employee. He had a hilarious attempt at suing Dave Portnoy for defam defamation. Uh that blew up in his face monumentally when Portnoy had his deposition. And so there's a lot of things that go into it.

29:52 Most of it is media politics. I actually do remember the the Portnoy versus uh Michael Rappaport thing just because and again, you know, not being a sports fan, I've never paid that much attention to Dave Portnoy, but I have paid a lot of attention to Michael Rappaport. Not only do I think he's a great actor, but I always enjoy his appearances on The Howard Stern Show. And uh so when that, when that all happened, I was paying a lot of attention to that because I'm definitely a fan of Michael Rapaport.

30:19 But uh yeah, so wow, So Portanoy really came out. Like I said, he made about more than a half a billion dollars on this whole uh debacle, So good for him. Also, need to understand Dave is going to take a loss this year as well. Oh he is, because he's cutting about twenty percent of the Barstool work force he has. Yeah really well, I mean because Penn over because Penn really hired too many people, so he has to go in and cut the work force, I mean, which that leads to severance packages, possibly unemployment hearings if he chooses to contest.

31:05 There's a lot of things that go into that back end of it because Barstool was hemorrhaging money under Penn Sports Oh okay, okay, so he's going to take a lost, a major loss this year. Yeah, how many people work there? Because I'm looking at the Barstool Sports dot com and there's a lot of content. They have a lot of bloggers. Yeah, well that's by work a pen. They wanted more content, more content, more content. But what made barstool great is you had like twenty to thirty people that contributed yep, and it felt like it was natural, Like you got like you could really talk with these people.

31:54 Yeah, you're literally it didn't seem it was organic. It wasn't stake or force. And when Penn took it over, it became like any other sports website. It just got muddled up with Bleacher Report, the idiots at dead Spin, the uh, the Barstool Sports website itself is a little bit I mean they're they're obviously hugely successful, so it doesn't matter, but the site itself is a little bit dated. It looks a little bit, it looks a little more twenty thirteen than twenty twenty three. So I can tell you why, Oh, okay, what point?

32:34 Because a lot of their a lot of it comes a lot of their traffic comes from uh, Instagram videos exactly. Oh, okay, snap trap, chat videos, TikTok now, facebook videos, YouTube videos. They don't need Barstool Sports to be a like top of the line website. Interestingactly, No, that makes sense. That does make sense. Yeah, I mean because when you view that content elsewhere, you're just going there to like maybe buy the shirt set of Roger Cadell looking like a cloud. You're just going there to read news and get their cake on the news.

33:14 Yeah. In sports, you're not there to digest. It doesn't have to be like ESPN. Yeah, no, makes sense because you're not going there for that. Yeah, they're going there for a quick fix, right right. I think if you would look at the analytics a Barstool and maybe ESPN, the average viewer probably spends sixty percent less time on Barstool than they do ESPN. There's also a lot of barsol accounts. There's probably at least, yeah, five thousand barsoo accounts, because there's one for almost every college.

33:51 Every major college has a Barstool Twitter feed exactly. That's why I was so successful with what I do out here, is because I reach out to those accounts. Because on each of those are those accounts, there is a kid on campus that runs those accounts and it is passed down. Yeah, yep, I follow barstool Irish. We have to Eric, we gotta. We should probably move on because we do have your your film review, and then we've got a musical guest coming up later. Oh but one more thing though, Oh no, no, don't apologize.

34:22 No, I always love hearing from you. But I do want to say though, before you go too, congratulations of course to all of us associated with Jerry and the Scumbags. Of course, the live album is out. It is available on YouTube, and I dare say I think we all sound quite great, you know what I mean did obviously, you know, being in this major competition that we're in, this remedial version of the East Coast first West Coast feud going back to the nineteen nineties, mainly because we're up against the notorious moron uh you know, or brain boy Smalls as he should be called.

35:12 Uh huh yeah. No, it's I love the fact that I'm able to contribute to Jerry and the Scumbag Yes, yes, absolutely good good stuff. Uh so. And in addition to your the one other thing we should mention to, in addition to your film review, that we're going to do in a minute. You've got this weekend will be uh the Exorcist Stop podcast. Correct. Yes, I'm going to try and edit tomorrow when I get off work. I am suffering with a head cold right now. Oh yeah, you do sound stuffy. Yeah it's not fun. Yeah, but yeah, worst case scenario is I'll do it Sunday when I have the day off through edit it and have it ready.

35:58 Yeah, we'll let everybody know and social media of course. But if you want to see the the very cool artwork, you can go right now to Matt connorton dot com slash Exorcist and uh and that's where you'll be able to find the podcast when it's ready. But the artwork is amazing. So well, yeah, I appreciate that it was fun to do, and uh, you know I My hope is that just people enjoyed a fraction of the amount that we had and enjoying doing it. Yeah, very good, very good. All right, Eric, We'll let you go, but looking forward to the film review and hope you feel better.

36:37 Yeah. I think tonight I will take a lot. I will take some night quill and just be going to bed. There you go, sounds like sounds like a good plan. All right, Eric, I said, must be nice. I said, must be nice, can't relate. I'll love to sleep, but what's that sleep for the week? Well, I do work as I work eleven thirty day Central time, so yeah, there you go. I mean our DJ full time, which I'm blessed to do. Yes, yes, absolutely, I would much rather do that than what I do. And you're very good at what you do.

37:13 So all right, Eric, Well we'll talk to you soon. My friend get some rests. Thanks, all right, you got it? Bye bye? All right. That was our friend Eric Pilcher. And before we get to the field, now are you saying for the band or do you have to im out? You got to go go get ready? Okay, So before we do that, let's remind everybody what you have going on tonight six oh three buying Growth tonight, Manchester, New Hampshire. Yeah, let's it. Sorry to bore everybody with the barstool talk. No I thought it was interesting.

37:40 Oh, don't get me started on barstool Let me start it, don't. I could go another three hours, but that's it. Oh my all right? All right, So six oh three tonight, starting at nine pm. Yep, all right, very good. So if you're in the area, make sure you check out DJ Reckless at the six o three nine to what do you go till one am? Nine to one, yep, nine to one. Very good. Thank you for coming in. Always a pleasure. And we're gonna get to Eric Pilcher's classic film review Down of the Dead, and then when we come back in the second hour, we will have in studio with us our musical guest today, my Last Mile.

38:12 Really great band and looking forward to talking with those guys. But here it is Eric's classic film review George A. Romeros Don of the Dead work. In nineteen sixty eight, George Romero brought us Night of the Living. Did it became the classic horror film of its time? Now George Rameiro brings us the most intensely shocking motion picture experience for all times. It gets up and kills the people it kills get up and killed. This situation must be controlled before it's too late. They are multiplying too rapidly.

38:55 Dawn of the Dead beat me on the roof at nine o'clock. Think about in the chopper. We've got to survive. Somebody's got to survive. They kill for one reason. They kill for food, they eat. They're victims. Imagine if you will, that something has gone terribly wrong soon now, except the fact that there's no escaping the horrible consequences. George Romero brings back the dead. Night of the living dead has ended. Dawn of the Dead is here. We must not be allowed by the concept that these are our family members or our friends.

39:39 They are not. They will not respond to such emotions. Operated dead post of band the mind that it's everywhere. What the hell is It looks like a shopping set up, one of those big indoor malls. What are they doing? Why do they come here? Some kind of instinct memory? What they used to do? This was an important place in their lives. We've got a war.

40:15 We have spawned our own savagery. Soon it will consume us all. It is a horrible, puntingly accurate vision of the mindless accesses of our society gone mad. They must be destroyed on site. When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. We are down to the line. Boats, we are down to the line. Dawn of the Dead sequels are some of the most polarizing films in cinema history. They are debated is being worthy to the previous film, or even if they should have been made. Ten years following his landmark Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero returned to the beasts he created zombies, and in turn gave a rare instance in film more where a sequel could even be considered to supersede the original.

41:30 Released in nineteen seventy eight, Dawn of the Dead continues Romero's story of the zombie apocalypse. When the film begins, the world is in more chaos than we left it at the end of Night of the Living Dead due to the fact that the undead are winning on their rampage tearing through the living The film stars frequent Romero contributors Ken Free in his most known role, and special effects group guru Tom Savini. In this film, to escape the undead, four individuals land a helicopter on the roof of them all to seek refuge, and that refuge could end up being their demise.

42:15 I mentioned chaos that has overwhelmed the world, and the opening scene of this film shows that the film begins at a local news station where two individuals are on the air arguing about what is going on behind the scenes. Individuals are arguing over what toa air, what not r and even if they should be on the air. Why I chose this scene is the fact that we hear a common trope in these Romero films that society can be crumbling and falling apart, and instead of working together, we look towards our own interests, in our own survival.

43:19 You are right, what the hell, that's a whole different study. What if we do we don't know that, we don't know that. We got to operate on what we do know. I'm still dreaming human beings would say we tied the cut. I probably explained a few several times. The guys in the crew are going crazy, a couple of them plowing the coop already. I don't know how long we're gonna standing here to going off your station. You just got to report the half those stations have the knocked out. Give me a list, Sure, I'll just pull it out of my ass.

44:07 Right. You want the day to return into life? I want so. You believe the Dada returning to life and attacking the living. I'm not so sure what to believe. Doctor. All we get is what you people tell us, and it's hard enough to believe fat. It's fat hard enough to believe without you coming in there. You're not running a talk show here, mister Verman. You can forget pitching an audience tomorrow. You're talking about a Frendie gives another list of rescue stations. Charlie's receiving any stations.

44:39 Tatlers are inoperative as of now. Charlie, the risky stations. We can't say people, they're not going to prest the station. You've had all information on the air for the last twelve hours. Given one stop killings, have given to see me, way to me. No, by the mother, Gunnar, you have not listened. You have not listen to the situation for three weeks. The people see people are willing to accept your solutions, doctor and I, but one don't blame them. Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them.

45:28 It gets up and kills the people it kills, get up and kills operated rest the stations. Tay Dan, you've got it open. I'm just trying to do to look at shot. But I think Foster shright. We're losing our hills going on. Who killed those Supersundy has these orders from that Darren told you to kill those sumers. Kill them. They're out of days. You know they are going on. Since this film's release, a common opinion is that this film is a criticism of consumerism. The undead marched aimlessly towards the mall, and when they get in, they stumble around without direction, so it's easy to see where one can get that opinion.

46:23 For the four individuals that seek refuge in the mall, new station workers Stephen and Francine and officers Peter and Roger, the refuge becomes a hedonistic paradise. Our next two clips set them all up. First, the individuals arrive and fill out a plan to get inside and attract little attention from the undead, and then, when their greed takes over as they raid shops throughout the mall, Roger is bitten and begins to turn to a zombie. This scene is very hard to watch, as while Roger dies, the three survivors are watching an individual speak on television about the nature of the newly deceased, rising to feed.

47:17 What the hell is it? Hops like a shopping center, one of those big indoor malls. Oh my god, no chance, we got it. Let's get out here. Wait a minute. They can't get up here. Yeah, and we can't go down there. Let's check it out. Most of the gates are down. I don't think they can get it to the stores. I haven't seen any of them up on the second floor, the big department. Those usually use both floors. If we can get it up top, okay, yes, the poll is not often that there could. What are they doing? Why did they come here?

49:07 It's a kind of instinct memory, what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives. Thank you, look at this. They said, you got down into the mall. Now business, how do we get down there? Now? The death of Roger. I'll stay with it.

49:59 It's take care of me. Want you to, Peter, You take care of me when I go. Just try to get some sleep back the safest strength. I I don't wanna be walking around. I don't want you to like fat Peter. Peter. Yeah, I'm here, man, don't do it. To be sure. I am coming back. I'm gonna try

50:54 not too. I'm gonna try not to come back. They use maybe five percent of the food available in the human body. The kind of thing with that small amount the body is usually intact enough to be mobile when it revives. What are you saying, I mean, you know, use science dummies, suggesting dummies for dummies. Listen, quiet, quiet, one wonders whether it's worth saving. This is worth saving? For all I know, the brains are already dead. And that's the idiots that are still alive. Yeah, and I figured out how to stay alive too.

51:46 And I'm trying to help you dummies in your calm helping way to irritate my way logic, way, illogical, hell, illogical. Hell, I'm showing you a way that we can up the food supply twenty times for a whole specimen that is walking around there in increasing numbers. We should feed them. What else are you going to do with them? Give me an alternative? I thought you scientists could come up with an actual way to solve the problem rather than feeding the opposition doesn't make any sense in enemy with the commentary at play, it could be argued this film is more thought provoking than the original.

52:35 My opinion is the criticism of consumerism is so in your face that it is not the primary piece of social commentary. But to describe what the point of the film truly is, why not go to the source. Our final clip of this review is a clip of an interview Romero did with BBC two in nineteen ninety seven regarding this film and what he was trying to show us about human nature through the zombie apocalypse. Now, this interview does have film clips interjected into it, just to warn you, so you're not sitting there thinking that I did anything to the clip itself.

53:22 I don't think anyone would have gotten it except Dario Argento approached us to Italian director and we showed him the script and he said, I'll be the first money in on this one. I mean, basically, he caused the movie to happen. A theme that I've always used is just this idea that we don't talk to each other. I mean this complete lack of communication that we have and a willingness to adopt a position, willing to accept your solutions. Doctor, and I for one, don't really read dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them.

54:04 It gets up and kills the people it kills get up and kill. You know, it's sort of tribalism or you know, I think it's white. I think it's black, And there's no attempt to try to figure out, you know, any sort of middle ground or build a bridge. I mean that's true in everything from religious wars to the O. J. Simpson case. I'm not so sure what to believe. Doctor. All we get is what you people tell us. And it's hard enough to believe. It's back hard enough to believe without you coming in there. If you're not running a talk show here, mister Berman, you can forget pitching an audience.

54:35 The moral to me, that is the most appalling thing about what we do to each other. And so it's a theme that I've tried, I've worked with, particularly in the zombie films. I think if your people start shooting at you, then sure you're all going to shoot back at the same common enemy. But in a situation where there's where anything is ambitigu us, I think there's going to be at the very least arguing and that and perhaps at the worst, you know, people murdering each other for their point of view. My god, what are you doing, Sury.

55:16 Isn't it until the shooting starts, there is no common enemy? And that I think that in trying to decide who the enemy is, or if even if there is an enemy. That's where we just need to talk and figure out what our strategy is going to be. We're here. I did alright this time feeling. I was trying to do it like a comic book kind of visual The blood it is, you know, very red, bright red flowering out behind somebody's head. What we were going for was just this garish, kind of ecy, comic book kind of a look.

55:59 None of that stuff was particularly threatening. The repetition of the violence. I mean, zombies get shot every few minutes in the action parts of the film, and you sort of get immune or inured to it. Again, that was part of what we were seeing in the eighties, I mean about us just getting so desensitized by the things that we were seeing on television and you know, show the military and the hunters and all that just just you know, enjoying it. And as that being an outgrowth of geed, you know, we got ourselves a new shooting gallery here.

56:37 And

56:43 also it worked to sort of ramp you up towards the really grizzly scenes in the end, when we become just pieces of meat there at that point, and then the people upstairs in those quarters. It's sort of what we do. We live somewhere over here while all this you know, violence, and you know, the world's exploding. If I ever do another one, if I ever do the you know, the the two thousand one, I think that's what it'll be like. I mean, you know, maybe humanity will have come back. There'll be security guards, and the zombies are out in the street, you know, sort of like the homeless.

57:23 But will we care as long as we get you know, as long as we have this valet to bring the car and we can get out of there. And that really have to deal with it. Obviously. The film's success does not need to be stated. However, it does deserve recognition, based mainly on word of mouth in some commercial advertising, this film well exceeded box office expectations. It grows twenty four million dollars worldwide after being made on only a nine hundred thousand dollars budget, and it is the most proffitable of Romero's Dead series of films.

58:02 This film is just as influential as Night of the Living Dead. It has been remade, had tributes done to it, parodied, and even became the primary basis of a successful video game series, Capcom's Dead Rising. It is harrowing, dark and brooding as great as Night was. Dawn is a rising of a new era for the zombie film and is the best of the series in my opinion. It is rare to have a sequel be more highly regarded than the original, and that is the case here that makes this must see viewing no matter the time of the year.

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1:04:00 it's a show steps to speaks stee that's great stuff. The track is called Seaside. The band is My Last Mile and we've got a couple of the guys from the band here with us in studio. We're going to talk with them in a moment. Really looking forward to this. But this is Matt Connorton Unleashed. We have entered our number two New Marrow Dose. We are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six if you're in Manchester and hello to all of our online listeners Acrassination and around the globe.

1:06:17 You can go to my website Matt Connorton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Friday, October thirteen, two thy twenty three, and we have Aaron and Rich from the band My Last Mile here with us in studio. How are you guys doing well? How are you very well? Very well? And who are we missing? So you are actually a quartet? Yeah, we're missing our drummer Mike Goslin and our basis, Nick Truist. No rhythm section, I see.

1:06:49 Now what do you guys each do in the band? Well? I play rhythm guitar okay, and I do a little bit of a backup vocals okay, very good. And Aaron, how about you? I do leave vocals and lead guitar. Excellent, excellent. Yeah, I've been looking forward to talking to you guys because I opened the show with that song Island, and of course, so we just hear at seaside and we'll we'll play another track in a little bit. But I love your sound. It's you know, it's it's kind of kind of heavy rock, but it's super catchy, you know, very melodic, just really good.

1:07:20 Jenny, Jenny really likes it too. She was she was saying to me, you're really gonna like this band. You know, when she first kind of presented presented you guys to me, you know, she does all the book in it, and I said, yeah, these guys are amazing. Have you been around a long time? My Last Mile originally started an upstate New York where I'm from, and I had a different lineup then, and this was back to like twenty sixteen, oh seventeen, and we did a lot of shows up in that upstate New York scene.

1:07:48 We released the EP The Storm Is Out, and then time went on. I moved out here when COVID started, and I kind of hung it up for a little bit. But then Rich actually and I started jamming to get and he's like, you know, I really like those songs. Yeah, and I would really love to play those songs. So we had a couple of guys just you know, to get a feel for him, and we finally got the lineup that we actually really want, and these guys all loved the love the songs, and we marry rehearse them every week, and we're also working on new material as well, because like I can't just say, hey, let's just rehearse you know, all the old stuff, we also have to make it kind of more.

1:08:24 It's also kind of like a new band. It feels like sure at the same time, Sure, it's a lot of fun. Rich. What was it about the songs that made you want to be a part of this and to work with Aaron? Oh? The songs were definitely they're catchy, They're mostly upbeat. I mean it gets you bob in your head a little bit, you know, And uh, I just really was digging the sound and I pulled them aside and I was like, hey, I think we should, uh we should bring this back. Yeah. And I was definitely like like starstruck because this sound was so like so there, and yeah, that's that's what got me wanting to bring us back.

1:09:08 Yeah. I feel like too, the sound of this band, it's kind of it's got a certain timelessness to it and that you know, it sounds contemporary, it sounds comfortable with things that are out today, but it also, you know, twenty years ago it would have as well, you know what I mean, there's a certain there's just a timelessness to it where in any era, I feel like these songs would succeed on that, you know, like you said, getting your head Bob and all whatnot. You know, it just really good stuff. Thanks you.

1:09:33 I'm a big fan of like old school sounding stuff. I grew up on eighties rock and metal Azzi, Yeah, Group, Pantera, stuff like that. To me, all that stuff was more appealing personally than what I listened to nowadays. But there's a lot of good modern bands, so we try to keep bringing like that old school influence, but we also kind of modernize it a little bit. Yeah, definitely the idea. Yeah, yeah, and how are these songs recorded? What's the production like, because you know, like they sound amazing, just not only in terms of the songs themselves, but sonically they sound really good.

1:10:06 It's all the amps are miked up, all the drums are miked up, and that's really kind of it. You know. We just we do it in a we do it digitally, but also try to stay as analog as possible when doing it. And wow, no kidding. So it's kind of the idea you do it all yourselves. I do a lot of the tracking. Yeah. On our EP, The Storm Is Out, I did all the we did all the tracking. I sent it to a guy named John Felino. And Latham, New York, and he mixed it all, okay yesterday, and then we got back and then our old drummer, Tyler Shoemaker, who now plays in a group called The Broken View out of Upstate New York and they're really talented as well.

1:10:44 Him and I did Island that EP together and he did all the mixing and master and he went to school for it and yeah, and that was a lot of lay guitar layers and okay, just weeks on it and making just six songs. Okay, yeah, because it I mean, every everything you sent me it sounds great. It sounds like it was, you know, done in a million dollar studio. So that's but we're you know, but with the technology that we have now, we're fortunate to really be able to. I mean, there's so many different ways you can approach recording and have it sound really good.

1:11:13 You know. So has any of the So have you guys written anything? Are you in the process of writing together? Because obviously these songs were all already written when you came into the band. Rich is that all? But so many callers we actually wrote that together? Yeah, oh cool, Okay, that's the newest one that we've done together, is so many excellent? Yeah, yeah, well we'll play that in a little bit too. I'm looking forward to sharing that with everybody. But I assume there's more in the works. Absolutely, Oh yeah, definitely.

1:11:45 We are putting our nose to the grindstone and uh trying to uh, you know, give give some good stuff. Now, what about what the other guys? Are they involved in the writing or is that they're gonna be I couldn't imagine them not wanting to be you know. Yeah, an idea kind of spurs off of one of our heads, like with a you know, a riff or something or a melody in the head, and then yeah, we'd present it to them and yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Is it weird for you? Is it? Is it weird playing some of these songs with with a whole new configuration of the band or does it feel like a normal sort of evolution of things or one thing I've noticed with our new drummers he kind of puts a little twist on some of them.

1:12:28 He plays the parts pretty much precisely, but like there's times he might just put a little twist on things. And also and I'm fine with that, Yeah, at first it's yeah, I can't. It was a little like this is a little different, but as time went on, you know, it didn't feel like it was really any different. It felt really fun. And also just to add those little twist on the songs, like when we go and play them live, yeah hear them, and that's that's kind of neat. I was. I was in a band years ago that went through a few different drummers and and I always found it kind of you know, every drummer would who would come in would kind of put their own twist on things, and I for me, it kind of kept it exciting, you know, because, yeah, the songs would feel a little bit different, but it was kind of like, okay, the song we've been playing for five years now, it feels new in a way, you know.

1:13:11 So so I know what you mean about how it it. You know, you get used to it being different than it actually kind of sounds good, you know, with with that little bit of a twist on it. But it must be surreal, right to some of these songs who have played them in the old version in a different, not really different part of the country, the Northeast, but still you know, in New York and then to and then to be doing them here. It so, but you haven't you haven't recorded yet with this new with the full band, or have you just a song so many colors?

1:13:42 Gotcha? Gotcha? Okay? Are you guys playing out a lot to play a lot of shows. We played a little bit on this this year, and we started playing out a little bit last year. I know we're playing Swarmy Fest on November fourth at Jewel. Yeah. We played Jewel a couple of times and we always have a good time there. Yeah. And also one thing I remember thinking when was we have a song called Awakening that we played. I remember thinking to myself hearing it through their sound system, just that thunderous sound.

1:14:08 See, playing live too is a little different than the recording. You hear more of that, more of the punch and everything. Yeah. So yeah, really excited to do that. But yeah, once that's done, mom, we'll probably get some more new songs written and then just keep looking up shows. Yeah. Yeah, we're looking forward to Swarmy Fest. Uh. You know, Jenny and I will be there representing the show, and uh, I can't wait, really looking forward to that. Yeah, definitely can't wait. I can't wait to get up there and uh, you know, have some fun and uh get the crowd moving, you know.

1:14:34 Yeah, for sure? Where where are you guys from? Where where are you? Webon? We're both from Lebon's. It's actually funny. He's only like five minutes down the road for me. There are two guys live in Claremont, New Hampshire. Okay for a rehearse every week? Oh I got youa yeah, yeah, yeah, I used to. I used to occasionally go up to West Lebanon when there was a Strawberries there years ago, and I used to I used to go to work up there occasionally to help. But yeah, so what's that like an hour from here or yeah, yeah, it's about an hour?

1:15:06 Yeah for sure? Now are there are there up up there? Like what's the what's the situation? Like? As far as venues up there? Are there places to are? There a lot of places to play or I find if you're in a cover band doing like classic rock or a country band, you know there's saw whole pub and there's uh, there's probably I don't know a couple of breweries up there. Yeah. More going toward Vermont, I find that it's it's better for that kind of thing. Yeah, we do a couple of covers, but we're not that type of band that plays you know, yeah, three sets and we have we did start off doing that, but we like playing our own stuff and incorporating a couple.

1:15:41 We like playing with other bands as well on a line up. Yeah, yeah, that's kind of We find that that's more funs. You find more people and even if the venues empty, you're playing to the band, right Yeah, yeah, oh I know, I know all about how that works. That's for sure. That's for sure. Are they do you guys have any particular bands that you play a lot of shows? You know? Sometimes I mean it kind of happens organically by accident really, but sometimes bands have certain bands that they just sort of team up with do a lot of shows with ding Tombstones.

1:16:09 Oh, I love them. But those guys that they're one song I talked to Alex a lot on Facebook. They're one song caught my eyes out. That's like one of my go to, like daily songs I listened to and yeah, I just love it. And then there's a new one he's just released. But yeah, no, I find we I find we end up with those guys a couple of times, and I feel like there's another one I can't I can't remember. Uh yeah, I can't remember their name, but I can I see them right in front of me. I know, I know. It's Greening Tombstones is one Jay Fed in the Facebook live chat, he's in Vermont.

1:16:42 He says, you live close to Vermont. Have you ever considered growing beards? Well, Rich, you've got quite the beard going there. I'm gonna say, yeah, not not as much as Jay Fed is one of those guys with a big long beard. And Aaron you've got somewhat of a beard. I had a full on and then now I'm working, I'm gonna grow it back Novembers around the corner. Yeah, definitely, So mine will be a little bit bushier, a little bit longer. Yeah. We all have facial hair in the band. Yeah, we're all bald except Nick.

1:17:09 Nick has long hair. Yeah. Oh really Yeah, Yeah, I got hair. It's there, It's just underneath of my head. That's what I tell people to We have Aaron and Rich from my last mile here in studio with us. If you have any questions or anything for the band. The studio line is opened six O three two five oh six oh seven six o three two five oh six o seven. Where does the name come from? By the way, Gosh, that's that's a good question. I think our old drummer, Tyler, I think he came up with it. We were just sitting at a pizza shop one time and he'd said something along the lines off, I'd walk, I'd walk some mile, or I'd walk a bunch of miles to do this or something.

1:17:51 And then he was like, oh that, and then the other guy with us he was like, oh, that'd be your last mile. Then I just mile it. I'm like, how's that for a band name? And they're like, that's not bad. Once we got we went through a couple other ones. Once we got some artwork back, Oh I want to they settled. But what what were the other ones? I love rejected band names. That's like my favorite thing. What like what what my last name? West Fall was one? I remember that. Okay, I didn't want to do that, really, I don't want to play the whole solo artist thing or the Yeah, I mean west Fall is not a bad name for a band, but but I can see where, Yeah, you didn't want to you wouldn't want to do that necessarily.

1:18:31 Actually, we had deviation for a little bit. Yeah, what do we have that for? Like at least a month? Didn't we at least a year? Was it a year? Oh? Really? Like a month? Oh wow, I think that. I don't think there were a lot I can't remember. Yeah, yeah, my last Mile is a good name. Thanks. I dig it's it's got a certain gravitas. Now, how many do you guys have a full album or if you just put out singles at this point? Two two EPs? Two EPs comes out? I came out in twenty seventeen and then Iland was twenty twenty.

1:19:05 Okay, has the sound changed over time? I mean, obviously it's it's had to have changed a little bit because you're you're playing with different guys, But I mean, has a has it the sound and style overall changed at all? Or vocally? Probably a little bit because I'm not twenty two anymore. They're pretty high, but I still but I still like to hit high notes. I don't like to scream much. But we were trying to push, like so many callers is a lot. I think that push is gonna push us more into a heavier, kind of a darker direction, Yeah, which is kind of what we want for this next EP, and we have a call.

1:19:36 We'll see who's online here. Hi, welcome to Matt Connorton unleashed. Who's this, Hey Matt, it's Jackson. Oh Jackson from down south? How are you? I'm good? Do you have a Do you have a question for these guys? I do, actually, and I do have a question for you. So I I literally just got the cot with my guy who does who's doing my LPF application for my town? Yes? And I have to put my antenna up in a tree. Well it's got to go somewhere, Jackson, I know, And now I have to content f a mm hmm. Well that's uh yeah, yeah, I did got a question.

1:20:19 The one thing I do have a question for. Yes, Uh my question just dropped down on mine. Crap. Oh all right, well that's well, that's that's uh, that's unfortunate Jackson. All right, Well, uh so you don't have a you don't have a question for for the guys you you forgot it? I do not, yep. Okay, Well you're distracted because you have to figure out where to put that antenna. I understand. Yeah. Well well all right, Jackson, Well good luck with that I appreciate the call. All right, alrighty, I guess Jackson had a question for you guys, and then he, I don't know, he got the starstruck or something.

1:21:01 He got nervous. I was gonna ask him where from here? Where he was from? Down south? Oh? Yeah, definitely, yeah, he's uh I know the answer to that too. I think he's in Georgia. I could be wrong. He calls the show once in a while. Yeah, where where are are you? Where are you from? Originally? Aaron? Because you, yeah, you don't sound like you're from here necessarily. No, I'm originally from Saratoga, New York. Okay, okay? And Rich did you grow up here? Yep, I grew up here. I been in New Hampshire all my life.

1:21:32 Okay, well, very good. Let's uh yeah, let's play what was the name of that song? The one, the one you guys were just talking about. Uh oh, I found it so many colors. We should uh, we should give this a listen. And then, so what what should we know about this track? This is the one you guys wrote together, is that correct? Yes? Okay? Cool? And so this is the first one you guys wrote together, and anything else we should know about this. This this must be the newest one, right Yeah. Not our current drummer, Mike Goslin, but are We had a guy who was with us for a little bit, Paul Picard, Yeah, who also plays in Robin V group around the area, and I think, I think there's another group you might play with.

1:22:17 But he actually played drums on this song, Oh okay. And we sent it to a guy named Ian McDonald in New York and he did the mixing mastering, so we we did all the tracking together and then Paul did the drums on it. And Paul's also in the music video for it. Oh cool. And then there was another guy named Chris ray Jeski who actually came in and played lead guitar on it. Oh okay. Cool. Cool. By the way, with drummers, doesn't it seem like every drummer is in like multiple like drummers basis five or six different bands.

1:22:43 Oh yeah, I have a theory about that. I think the I think the reason for that is, you know, when you're growing up and you develop an interest in playing a musical instrument and you have to talk to your parents about it, you know, the last thing they want to encourage you to take up his drums. Absolutely. So that's that's my theory. So every drummer isn't and base bass players are an I demand too, but drummers like it's just it's crazy. Every yeah, every drummer I know is in like god, twelve bands.

1:23:06 All right, let's give this a listen. This is really good. This is so many colors. This is my last mile here on Matt Connorton unleashed. Check this out. They call him scene. I'm a tony mother, call him sante. You are the big on my dreams. Suspass you dressed you talton dombey. I am an angel on your show. I'm the one who can call me. I am one and you should not see and I like bad batcher. You cannot be. There is nothing hugin jupers solf. There's nose are running back as you got your jell. You should have not the slong go.

1:24:15 You should not before I struck by something. There's somebody pace. This says at dosing like, don't sap if not something comes Yeah, this accessible paste, this says it. That's it, Like that is legit. Get about your best friend, silly, I stop by y'all to sad with you and not again. And it's not my bo J's only son. You are not forgive. There must be some way to say, so say my hand you descending to help. I hate to say I told you so. You're dream carry out so far us, so many columns, there's so many days, it says, as they days out, not to so many cons you missides.

1:25:34 It says some thousand like days, not chuning. God, it's not so many con so many us, he says, a doesn't like days out down in so many cones, you misusicide, he says, it doesn't like days, not choting. Go and break it up.

1:26:34 Where where the stories side sign sizes this is as so many g give me, Sue says, as this society my last Mile, and the track is called so many colors. That is great, really really catchy. We've got a couple of the guys from the band here live in studio with us. We have Aaron and Rich from My Last Mile. We're going to talk with these guys some more. I do want to remind you, of course, today is Friday. It's my favorite day of the week here at WM and H. It's my my long day here and I do love it so because I will be back tonight from A to eleven for retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C. I have the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show, along with DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, who's also one of our great sponsors here.

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1:28:40 So really looking forward to that and I love I love my Friday nights getting to hang out on Retrospectrum Radio. It's a lot of fun. But we've got we've Aaron and Rich from the band My Last Mile in studio with us, and if you would like to join us if you have any questions or anything for the guys. Six three two five six seven. The studio line is open six O three two five oh six O seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connorton.

1:29:10 You can email me Matt at Matt connorton dot com. And of course you can interact endo o Pine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your Dulca tones is six O three two five oh six O seven. And hey, Jackson, if you remember the question you had, you can even uh you can even call us back. We will we will allow that. But uh, yeah, that's a great track. Guys, so many colors. And so that's now the uh, the newer material that you're writing together. Is it similar?

1:29:41 Is it? Because that's I think that's the heaviest of the ones that you sent me, is it? Are these are the new ones kind of heavy like that? Or do they vary or I would say yes, they definitely will get heavier as they come. Yeah, but if they're still they're in the works, yeah for sure. Yeah. And Aaron, Are you writing all the lyrics still, are you the Yeah? Primarily yeah. I mean I get you know, subject matter, I'll get him influenced and such. But usually I kind of write like I'll have a vocal melody in my head and I'll just you know, add the lyrics to that kind of yeah.

1:30:18 Uh. Is there any kind of a theme to your lyrics, any kind of an overarching theme or approach or some of it's personal? A lot of it's actually personal, But I kind of just write. Again for me, like songwritings more of a spur of the moment kind of thing. If it's in my head, if it's something I can nod on my head to and that I really like, you know, that's kind of where I think, oh, this might actually be a good song. And so as far as the theme goes, not so much. It's kind of just just based on what I'm feeling, you know, certain things I've experienced in the past, certain things I'm experiencing now.

1:30:55 That's kind of where it all comes from. Sure. Sure, we have a question for you in the face book Love Chat. Isaac Banks, who is from I know exactly where he is in the South Greensboro, North Carolina, he says, speaking of interesting questions, My Last Mile, how are you fellas? What's your favorite Hoodie and the Blowfish song? Let her cry? I'm doing great, it's awesome. Thank you for asking that. I don't think I've actually listened to Hoody and the Blowfish, so you mean recently or ever ever? Fair enough?

1:31:30 But I'm doing well. Thank you for adving. I was waiting for him to say wagon Wheel. Oh goodness, let her cry. That was a huge h that was a huge song. My god. Yeah, they were the biggest thing out there in the mid nineties. Have you guys opened for you guys open for any national acts that have come through the area or not here. In twenty seventeen, Mile Last Mile did do a warp tour appearance on Long Island. Oh no kidding. Yeah, it was like a local you know, we were the local band, sure from way up north.

1:32:02 I got picked and we went. It was like fifteen twenty minutes, but was well worth it. Oh that's cool. Remember that year they had Eye Prevail. Gosh, Hate Reed was somewhere nice still Maybe Chelsea Grinn might have been August Burns Red. It was a much heavier year for Warp for and then the following year in twenty eighteen, that was the last year they did it, and then they stopped doing it. I was kind of bummed about that. Yeah, twelve was so twenty eighteen was the last Warp tour. Huh, I know, twenty nineteen they did select shows, but like, oh, okay, yeah, gotcha, gotcha.

1:32:37 Did you get to see Hate Breed while you were there? Absolutely? Yeah. Yeah. I used to be in a band called First Shove and we used to play, we used to cover. We did very few covers, but we we would do a last Breath, which was honestly my favorite part of our set. It's so quick though, it goes by so fast. It's such a short song. But just the adrenaline of playing that. Yeah, but I've never seen them live. That must have been. That must have been. That must have been cool. Now what so? What? Uh? What brought you to New Hampshire?

1:33:05 Like, did you did you guys know each other prior to you come in here? No, my fiance lord here. Yeah, I was living in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at the time, and just oh we met and yeah, I've been here ever since and we were still together that how long were how long did you live in Myrtle Beach? A year? Okay, yeah, I have family down there, and I I thought why not? But then I realized I'm not a Southern especially this time of year. I'm very I like the seasons a lot. I like this time of year is like my favorite time of year.

1:33:41 And I felt like when I was down there, just you know, the leaves never changed, like at Christmas time. It's cool, but at Christmas time it'll be driving through like a neighborhood and you'll see like all the Christmas decorations and then just a palm tree and grass. It's just not the same. I'm just seeing the snow and decoration. I guess see, I'm the opposite. I would love that. I love that. I love a spring and summer my times, I I don't like. I don't like fall because well because of what it leads to the winter, and that is true.

1:34:10 Yeah it gets colder and then yeah, I don't want to do this. Yeah, Like I think I think I would do fine down south. How about you, rich? You think you'd you do all right down there? No, because I'm in New Hampshire too long. I'd probably like yeah, me too. That's why I think. That's why I think I would do well down there. No, but I do love New Hampshire too. There's a lot to there's a lot to love here. Oh yeah. Definitely hunting fishing, that's that's my game toward this time. Yeah. See, I don't hunter fish.

1:34:38 I don't do any outdoorsy things. I'm terrified of deer ticks and there's wild animals. You know, you could be eaten by a bear or mountain lion or something. It's true, the blair Witch is out in the woods. I think I saw a movie about that once, and that's that's very frightening. But no, in the winter, i'd like to be able to just teleport from one room, one warm place, to another, you know, I think that be great. But uh no, But in the summertime, it's it's beautiful here certainly. Now, everything every everything that the band has is all it's all up on the streaming services, right.

1:35:10 It's on Spotify and everything, Modify, YouTube, iTunes, gosh, I haven't even looked at iTunes, and it's on Ideas yeah I think, yeah, we use a distro kid and yeah, it's all on every streaming service. Now for those who don't know, so distro kid obviously, how do you find them? Is that a good service? I hear mixed reviews from people. I've never personally had a problem with them. Yeah, it's just you know, you pay X amount a year. Yeah, and sometimes you might pay a little bit more if you want it, like you know, if you want your EPR, album or single or whatever out on a certain day.

1:35:48 Yeah. Yeah, I personally have never had a problem with them. I mainly only use it though, to just upload tracks and maybe check stats and little er things. But yeah, I personally never had a problem with them. Now, do you guys have any physical copies of your CDs? I get I get such varied answers on this because it seems like to a lot of artists that physical media is still really important, which surprises me sometimes. And then to a lot of artists it's like what what physical media? Why what y're we?

1:36:17 You know, So I encounter very different attitudes about it. So I'm curious how you guys feel about it, and if if you have any actual physical discs, I'd say they will be coming at some point, but we normally just have our stuff on Spotify and yeah, YouTube and iTunes and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, I think the storm is out back when that was, when we released that, we did, we did a couple of gigs in Albany and Sarahtogua, New York. We I think we made a couple of copies and yeah, I think at the time, gosh, you might have used CD baby maybe and they they made all the copies and a little of the artwork and a sleeve and put the disc in.

1:36:58 But yeah, honestly, I'm a big fan of physical music. I'm actually really a big fan of DVDs. I collect horror DVDs, like that's my collector's item. I love horror films and DVDs and that's my that's my thing. I love a DVD. Yeah, especially if like your Internet goes out or something. You have your player, you can plug it in, you know what I mean, You're not just sitting there born in the dark all day. Yeah, you know. But for us though, I at the moment, no, we don't have any physical anything physical.

1:37:26 Yeah. It's interesting how how different artists approach it differently. I mean a lot of some artists now too well, I mean obviously all the majors you know, they put everything out on vinyl. But I've I've even met the local artists from the area who will do like a run of vinyl. But it's apparently, from what I'm told, it's extremely expensive to do it. It's really cost prohibitive. Yeah. Yeah, it's the biggest mistake I ever made. I've had a whole bunch of vinyl records, probably about the size of the desk I'm sitting in front of it.

1:37:54 Yeah. I shipped them all to my friend in Texas and for three hundred dollars. And I was just so all of those things. They were heavy, and they pick up space. It's just one of those things I wish I never got rid of. Oh really, Yeah, how much did it cost a ship? About one hundred and fifty. I think I did one hundred, so I was very expensive. Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, yeah, just right, Oh yeah, yeah absolutely. I was shocked a few years ago. I was on band camp and uh, when I real this was maybe five or six years ago, so this trend may have already passed.

1:38:27 But I was shocked to see some artists selling cassette tapes like cassettes were back, you know, and and it's like, I mean, I guess if you're a fan of tape Hiss, you know that's cool. But but I was. I was just shocked. And the first one I found, I was like, oh, is this a joke? Is this? Like I realized, you know, a lot of these artists are are are selling cassettes, and of course most people who buy them probably never actually play them. They're just buying them because they like that artist, and oh it's cool to have a cassette, you know.

1:38:54 But it's it's just it's fascinating to me to see what technology he comes and goes, what what sticks around that you don't think is going to stick around, and and what does end up going away that you think is going to be here forever. You know. It's it's it's very interesting to me.

1:39:14 But uh, now, so as far as so you've got you've got two EPs, and then do you have any singles that are not on that are only singles that are not on one of the EPs as of right now, it's uh, it's so many colors. We did a shine Down cover

1:39:28 a couple of years ago, and that I think also we released maybe as a single. Yeah, oh okay, but we uh yeah, So Many Colors that will probably go on to our next EP, may not if we have a different if the songs are in a completely different theme than that, yeah, or if they're even if we decide to go a different route with mixing or whatever, then obviously we would probably just leave it as a single and go on go forth with that. But as of right now, mainly So Many Colors is the only one that's a single.

1:39:57 So what what Shinedown song did you cover? Okay, Oh, that's a great song. When Shinedown was really big, I got I got pretty sick of them because what was the really big song? Second Chance? Right? Oh? Yeah? Was it that one? Or was there was there another one that was really big? No? I think it was Secon Yeah it was second Chance. Oh god. I grew to hate that song because I heard it so much. But then I heard Sound of Madness and I was like, Okay, I like them again. That's a great track. That's a good album.

1:40:30 I've never heard the whole thing. Is it good? But I can I can imagine you guys doing that song because I can. I can hear it in my head with your voice. Here's the hard guy to replicate is he really hard? Yes? Are they still around yes, shindown. Yeah. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of who's still. Like I just found out the other day the godsmack is is gonna be uh playing I think at this new arena And I was like, I didn't even know they were touring to me too. Yeah, I know, I had no idea. Let's uh, well, let's play another track because we still have Let's see, what's the other one we have here?

1:41:11 Oh? Every Night that's the other one. Anything anything we should know about this twenty seventeen just a band written song.

1:41:25 No, I guess I really really Yeah, it's colorful. I like, uh I wrote that about I get asked, like we were talking about this rehearsal and somebody's like, oh, it's every night, I think that. Isn't that a relationship song? I said, no, it's not. It's not you. It's written to make you think that, but it's really not why I personally wrote it. Oh okay, yeah, all right, all right. Do you want to tell us why or is or do you want to keep that a mystery? It goes kind of in the lines of like alcoholism issues, addiction issues, and all that stuff.

1:41:59 So that's kind of it's basically like kind of being on a hamster wheel. Yeah yeah, gotcha think so something a lot of us can relate to. Certainly, all right, let's give this a listen. So this is called Every Night. This is the band My Last Mile. Check this out. Can't believe sand

1:42:34 to recie this sweet free, Agree, Agree as change says days, So playa Yes, I have seen special, breaking good times. I can't believe if you said that you to the sidecoris as you would not know this. I feel listening. The band is my Last Mile. The track is every Night, and we have Aaron and Rich live in studio with us here on Matt Connorton Unleashed here at w m n H ninety five point three FM, and guys, it's been wonderful to have you here. I love the music and I was Aaron, I was sending you off air too.

1:47:26 I love the solo on that. Thanks. That's that's really good. That's really good. We should Obviously you're very googleable, as I like to say, if you if you google my Last Mile, actually, if you google my Last Mile band, I think that's probably the easiest way to find you. But of course you're on all the social media right and everything, and yep, we have a Facebook page. Yeah, so if you find us my Last Mile on Facebook and subscribe, that'd be great. Yep, follow us YouTube, and then we're in the midst of making a website.

1:47:59 Are based. This is a cyber guy. I don't know what he does. He's an engineer. Oh yeah, we're going to work with him and getting that all getting all situated in coming weeks. Oh, very good, very good. Yeah. Yeah, And now what do you have coming up? So you're gonna be a swarmy fest obviously that's coming up in November. Do you guys have shows before then leading up to that or no, we're kind of getting we're kind of just getting everything tight for that and we're in the midst of making some new music.

1:48:28 Yeah at the moment. And do you have Probably too soon to know, but do you have any kind of an et a on when we might hear some new stuff? Or December? Oh? Really Christmas time? Absolutely? Oh fantastic, fantastic. Well, we'll have to have you back when when that's ready, because I definitely want to definitely want to play and talk to you guys. Yeah, love to come back. It's great, absolutely, absolutely well, this has been great. Thank you guys. We're actually gonna play I'm gonna play Island. I opened the show with it today at four o'clock, but you know, obviously there's a turnover in the listenership over the course of a two hour show, so I'm actually gonna end the show with it as well.

1:49:05 This is my personal favorite of the I love this song. This is so catchy. So we're gonna We're gonna play this in a moment, and I'll just remind the listeners too, don't forget. I will be back tonight from a two eleven pm for Retrospectrum Radio with paullyc right here at WMNH ninety five point three FM. Also thank you to DJ Reckless for joining us earlier. He will be tonight from nine to one am nine pm to one am at right up the street at the six to oh three DJing there. And of course I don't forget our amazing sponsor, the Hop not right across the street at one thousand Elm Street.

1:49:36 And if you missed any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at Wmnhradio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot com and guys, thank you again Aaron and rich from from my Last mile. This has been great guys, thanks for having me. Thank you absolutely you got it and we will leave you with this. This is Island from the band My Last Smile, So you and die. Serial trips on the side like Day always says the same. It's a song I can to and try to get bout it to doctor so to be that sounds don't shot A can't evans power the cast save always say did that stay okay?

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