Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-13-23

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0:15 you welcome everybody here we go Happy Friday. It is Matt Connorton Unleashed and

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1:11 show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is Friday, October thirteen,

1:15 twenty twenty three, and I am not alone. If you haven't girl

1:19 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

1:30 good? Cold out today? Eh? Every time I come on, Oh

1:36 here's the weather today, guys, it's cold. It's cold, It's not

1:41 it's beautiful. Yeah. You were saying that earlier too at home, and

1:45 Jenny and I are both like, you really think it's cold? I don't

1:49 think it's cold, man. I just nearly got blown down Elm Street.

1:52 Oh it was is windy. Yeah, Elm Street's quite the wind tunnel last

1:55 time, which makes it cold. You can have a warm wind, you

2:00 can have a west Yes you can, Yes, you can, yes,

2:01 yes, sahaha, you can't because when I was in Cali last year,

2:07 it's the first time I've ever experienced like a warm wind like that. Yeah,

2:10 it was like one hundred and eight. Yeah, and I will we

2:14 got out, we got out of the van to go into a gas station.

2:16 I was like, even the wind is wind is hot right now?

2:20 Yeah, this is weird. It felt so weird. Yeah, yeah,

2:23 what's up? What have what have you got going on tonight? You're gonna

2:27 be right up the streets, same old, same old, six o three

2:29 bar and growth tonight Friday the thirteenth. You know, I wasn't even thinking

2:32 about that. Yeah, I was happy. Didn't even occurred about it all

2:36 day. Didn't even occur to me that it was Friday the thirteenth. Knock

2:38 on what nothing bad happens today? It's been pretty good so far, so

2:40 far, so good. Yes, yes, what time? What time you

2:45 go on? Nine pm? And is it just you. No, it's

2:47 my goy Sean White too. Oh okay, Sean White you uh you work

2:51 with him a lot, don't you. Yeah, that's one of my best

2:53 friends. Excellent, Yeah, he's actually tonight. The reason I chose I

2:57 wanted to do tonight was because this is I think the third year in a

3:01 row i've done Friday the thirteenth with him or something like. Oh, okay,

3:05 some type of Friday the thirteen. Oh, very cool, very cool.

3:09 Yeah, no, but I'm super excited because it's my last night there

3:14 until uh Sunday thirtieth okay, no, twenty nine, yeah, twenty nine,

3:23 because I'm doing my Halloween party there. Ah, very good. Yeah.

3:27 Then we're then we got a lot of renovations happening, and a bunch

3:29 of other stuff happened over there. I'm excited. I'm excited. What the

3:31 six o three is being renovated, Yeah, a little bit. And then

3:37 we're gonna be doing a lot. We're gonna be I'm gonna be there a

3:38 lot less, but a lot more. To a point, I'm gonna be

3:44 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,

3:52 but I'll probably walk into that bar later and they'll scream at me.

3:55 Really yeah, no, that would be arable great. Yeah, So that'll

4:04 be DJ Reckless tonight at the six oh three right up the street here.

4:08 Yeah, and coming up on the show today, We've got a great show

4:12 for you. That track that I opened with is called Island, and the

4:15 band is called My Last Mile. They will be here with us in the

4:18 second hour, and I'm really looking forward to meeting those guys. I love

4:21 their sound. We've got some other studio tracks too that we're gonna play when

4:26 they're here. But I had to open with that song. I love that

4:28 song. That is so catchy. I love the production, I love everything

4:30 about it. So My Last Mile our musical guest today in the second hour.

4:34 Later on in this hour, however, it is Friday, which means

4:38 we have Eric Pilcher's classic film review, and this week the subject is nineteen

4:44 seventy eight's George A. Romero film Dawn of the Dead, which was I

4:48 believe a sequel to Night of the Living Dead. You ever get into those

4:54 movies, the zombie movies there, I hate horror movies. You can't do

4:58 it. I can't do it, which is probably why I'm single, because

5:01 any girl that asked me to go to a movie during the month of October,

5:04 let me tell you it ain't happening. It's just not no kidding,

5:08 Nope. Do you hate all horror movies just that entire genre? Yeah?

5:13 Interesting, I don't do good. I don't do good with stuff like that.

5:15 Yeah, I mean it's just so weird. No, it's not.

5:19 I don't think it's weird necessarily. I mean a lot of people, uh,

5:23 you know, everybody has different taste in film. I mean I don't

5:27 like, uh like to me, the horror genre. I mean there's types

5:30 of horror movies that I like, but there's types that I don't like too,

5:33 Like slasher movies I don't like. Yeah, I don't like slasher movies.

5:36 I don't understand. Uh, I don't understand the appeal I never have,

5:41 even like Michael Myers. Yeah, I don't like that stuff. Like

5:45 I saw that. I saw that movie last. I saw the New Friday,

5:48 the New Michael Myers maybe from last year. Is he He's He's?

5:53 Uh? Is he Halloween Michael Myers? Because Friday the thirteenth is Jason.

5:56 Yeah, that's Jason. I almost said Friday the thirteenth, so I knew.

5:59 I knew it was wrong in my head. Yeah. Yeah, but

6:00 I almost said Michael Myers was on Friday the thirteenth. That would have got

6:03 canceled immediately, right, that's right. Yeah, I yeah, I don't

6:10 like that. I don't like that stuff. But yeah, I think it

6:12 is Halloween. Okay, yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense.

6:15 But oh yes, Eric, Eric Pilcher is in the chat room. He

6:18 says, yes, it was Donna the Dead is the sequel Tonight of the

6:20 Living Dead. Yeah, those those movies are kind of cool. I just

6:26 I don't like anything gory. That's why. That's why I don't like slasher

6:29 movies. I don't. I don't, I genuinely. I just I'm not

6:32 trying to put anybody down who likes that stuff, and you know, I

6:34 don't want to offend anyone, especially of course our friend Melanie La Liberty.

6:39 But I even even when I was a kid, I just did not understand

6:44 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

6:53 out in November. I believe they're like Halloween or something about Thanksgiving. It's

6:57 called Thanksgiving. It's like a slasher movie though, and it's like it's so

7:00 weird. Yeah, the previews for it, like I kind of want to

7:05 go see it just because of the lineup of people they have in the movie.

7:10 Yeah, for acts, for actors and actresses. Yeah, but I'm

7:13 also like, is it a is it a comedy? Is it like a

7:15 comedy horror movie? It looks like a straight horror movie because because when you

7:18 say it's Thanksgiving, I just imagine somebody like trying to kill people with uh

7:23 a turkey or something. It's imagine Halloween, the movie Halloween. Yeah,

7:29 but instead of Halloween, switched the holiday with things. Oh okay, gotcha?

7:33 Yeah, yeah that makes sense. That's the vibe I got from that,

7:35 at least from at least from the previous because I've been seeing the previews

7:38 for months now every time I go to the movies and I'm like, yeah,

7:41 I don't know if I want to see that. Oh yeah. And

7:43 also they they're coming out with like five Nights at freddy Too for Freddy's And

7:47 it's like that was like a game like my thirteen, like my now thirteen

7:51 year old nephew would play when he was like six. Yeah, and now

7:55 I'm like, now I'm concerning that he was playing it at six. Ah

7:59 yeah, I'm like, uh, I don't think we should have let them

8:03 watch or play that game? Yeah? Maybe not. I mean I'm not

8:07 I'm not a prude about any of that stuff. But what I do wonder,

8:11 I do wonder sometimes. Well, you know, there's a lot of

8:13 research that's been put into like movies that are war based, I mean,

8:18 not movies, I'm sorry, video games that are war based, like first

8:22 person shooters where you're in battle, and the way it kind of glorifies war,

8:26 and that that that actually is used as a recruiting tool to get young

8:28 people interested in going off to war and trying to get them to join the

8:33 military. And I say that with respect for you know, I respect our

8:37 and love our veterans, and of course my dad's a veteran. I don't

8:39 want anyone to take anything that I'm saying wrong. But you know, people

8:43 have noticed that these video games like uh, what's what's like the really big

8:52 call of duty? Call of Duty? Yeah, the very big that's a

8:56 monster franchise in video games and see I don't again and I try not to

9:00 make any judgments about it, but but it it is. I mean yeah,

9:05 kind of kind of glorifies war, doesn't it. Yeah. More recently,

9:07 Yeah, but like if you go to like twenty like twenty fourteen,

9:11 I believe, or whenever Black Ops the he was released, Yeah, that

9:16 was more like futuristic, like but not futuristic oh like gameplay and yeah,

9:24 so I don't know, it's hit and miss, and like I get what

9:28 you're saying. Yeah, like battlefield games like battlefield Like that's straight up you're

9:31 like you're on like a battlefield that you're in the middle of a war.

9:35 Yeah, and it looks like it. Even the scenery everything looks like and

9:39 it's just weird. Yeah, that stuff bothers me, always has. I

9:45 just uh, I just wonder. I wonder about the cultural impact of it

9:48 all. I see a comment in the chat actually speaking on the thing of

9:50 games, that they came up with a game called Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Yeah.

9:56 I played that game a few days ago. Yeah, uh uh,

10:00 nope, nope. And a few years ago, when I was like thirteen,

10:05 they came out with a game call. It was like Friday the thirteenth

10:07 where you could be Jason or whoever is Jason, right, yeah, yeah,

10:13 Jason Vorhees Yeah, and you could run, you could be like you

10:16 could be him and chase people other like five other players around the map and

10:22 kill them. Yeah, or you could be one of the survivors, yeah,

10:26 per se and try to survive. And it was so weird, but

10:30 it was so good really yeuh yeah. I was like I could use this

10:33 game. And then they took it off the market because well they did.

10:35 Yeah. I think they faced a lawsuit or something on it, really,

10:39 or or it's still up and it's just like the servers aren't active. I'm

10:43 not sure. I'm pretty sure something happened though. Oh interesting interesting. Yeah.

10:48 And by the way, for anyone who I just want to throw throw

10:50 this out there, for anyone who thinks I sound like, uh oh,

10:54 Matt, he sounds like a prudish old man who doesn't understand why these young

10:58 people like these things. I've always felt this way about I've since I was

11:03 a kid. I felt the way that I feel about slasher movies. For

11:07 as long as I can remember. I've always been concerned about video games that

11:11 are based on war. None of this is new to me. It has

11:16 nothing to do with me getting older and I'm turning into some sort of curmudgeon

11:18 who just doesn't want young people to have any fun because I know that somebody

11:22 out there thinking that why is Matt? Matt just doesn't understand the youth,

11:28 you know, like I'm sitting here going you know, back in my day,

11:30 we played nice games like pac Man and Dig Doug. It's not that

11:35 It's not that I've always felt this way, even when I was a kid.

11:39 Matt was like fourteen playing Street Fighter? Did they have Street Fighter when

11:46 I was fourteen? They probably did it? Yeah, they think they did.

11:48 They might have or or whatever the let me see when it came out,

11:52 or maybe Mortal Kombat possibly, I don't know. It's hard for me

11:58 to remember. I don't know. I mean because it came out on uh

12:05 Sega. Yeah, I mean we had Sega when I was a kid,

12:09 nineteen eighty seven. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, so yeah, that

12:13 makes sense because Capcom release did it, released it, and they're owned they

12:16 were owned by Sega. Do you know, though I will not I haven't

12:20 touched a video game controller in in probably like fifteen years and I refuse to.

12:26 I'm going to start live streaming, live streaming, and where do you

12:30 get you on the live stream? We're gonna get you to play like Call

12:31 of Duty or something. Well, here's the here's the problem though, So

12:35 you know, addiction, it's not just physical, it's psychological. I actually

12:41 avoid video games now because and I have for a long time, because I

12:46 find them psychologically addictive. The last time I played a lot of video games

12:50 when I was a kid. But the last time I played a video game,

12:52 I was at somebody's house and it was one of those Raw versus SmackDown

12:56 WWE games, and yeah, this was quite a long time ago. And

13:01 I'm at somebody's house and I was like, oh, I've never played this

13:05 and I haven't played a video game in a long time. And they fell

13:09 asleep. I'm at this person's house. They fall asleep on their couch.

13:13 I started, or we started playing that game before they fell asleep, and

13:16 then it was just me playing it. It was probably like nine pm at

13:20 night, and I fell into that trap of I'm sitting there, you know,

13:26 Okay, the match ends, the game's over. Just one more game,

13:28 yep, just one more game I had that I specifically remember the first

13:33 time that ever happened to me. I was at my buddy Devin's house one

13:37 night and we were playing Skate three. It's a skate it's a skateboarding game.

13:41 And we got to the point where we wanted to land like a fifty

13:45 thousand point line, which is which was unheard of at the time. It's

13:48 super hard to do on the specific map we were on. We started at

13:52 like nine pm and it got to the point where like we were up till

13:56 four am. Yeah, like we were tripping. That's what happened. It's

14:03 addictive, yeah, And it was just insane. Well because when I played

14:07 that game, that was the last video game that I ever played, that

14:09 Row Versus SmackDown game. Because started it, I think it was about nine

14:13 o'clock and next thing I know, it's one in the morning. And and

14:18 I I said, I got to go home, and I I put down

14:22 that controller, and I just said, I'm never picking up another video game

14:26 controller. That that was four hours of my life that I could have been

14:31 doing something productive. And I got sucked into this game, and and and

14:35 and I had to force myself to put down the controller. I could have

14:39 just kept going. So I just said, this is too this is just

14:41 too psychologically addictive for me. I just can't. I can't handle it.

14:46 So so I never Uh, I never played another video game since then.

14:52 We were just on the topic of Raw versus SmackDown. Have you talked about

14:58 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.

15:07 So I don't know if you saw what I posted earlier. Oh, I

15:09 did see them on my Facebook. Yeah. Yeah, I think Tony Kahan

15:15 just irks me. He just irks me. Now. He's he's so pathetic.

15:18 He's a little immature in some ways. I think I can't I can't

15:22 find it here. It is so for contact stuff for anyone who doesn't know.

15:26 So. Tony Kahan is the owner of ae W All Elite Wrestling.

15:31 He posted on x or Twitter. He said this week, two active decade,

15:35 two active decades long rating streaks from two great legends were ended with all

15:41 due respect. Until this week's head to head AW on TBS versus WWE on

15:46 USA, neither Johnsen nor Undertaker had ever been on a WWE show with under

15:52 one million total followers plus under four hundred k in the demo who came?

15:58 Most people reading that aren't even going to exactly one, like, yeah,

16:02 it's petty, it's petty on his part. He's he he knows a w

16:07 is gonna fail. Oh I disagree there, I don't. I don't think

16:11 the story lines are I don't think failing. They're they're doing. They're doing

16:14 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.

16:19 I'm sorry, Oh impact, Impact is a perpetual failure and has been

16:25 for decades. They should just be a house show at this point. No,

16:27 but aa w No, I mean they're very successful and I think they'll

16:32 continue to be. In Getting Adam Copeland over there was huge. Oh yeah,

16:34 yeah, absolutely. I knew he wasn't gonna say retired. He just

16:37 came out of retirement. Yeah, he just came out. He's he's probably

16:41 gotta I want to say another four years. Yeah, he very well may,

16:45 he very well may. Yeah. It was that it was that back

16:48 injury that really got him, obviously or is it a back or neck injury?

16:52 Neck? Neck, that's nothing to fool with. Yeah, but yeah,

16:56 I'm glad they brought they brought back John Cena. That's huge. I

16:59 mean, well that that's because of the He's gonna make his money because of

17:02 the writer's strike yea. Yeah. And he even said it during the fastening

17:04 press conference that way, when when the writers come back, he's going back.

17:10 Yes, but it was like he he got called out too, which

17:14 was interesting during the press conference. I don't know if you watched it.

17:17 Oh, I saw. I didn't watch the whole thing, but I saw

17:19 what you were talking about about what he used to say about The Rock back

17:22 in the day, about how the Rock abandoned wrestling for Hollywood, and and

17:26 then they turned a storyline into it, yeah, which was obviously great pay

17:30 great play by them. And now people say the same about Sena. But

17:33 he's apologized. He apologized to The Rock for uh and they're good friends now.

17:37 Yeah, I'm still can you give me more background on the Endeavor situation

17:44 where Endeavor fully owns WWE, So like, what does that mean? So

17:49 Endeavor who owned UFC, they bought WWE and now w w E and UFC

17:57 are together under a new umbrella called t k O or t k O something.

18:03 Yeah it's k O, I know that. Yeah, So so they're

18:07 all they're all under the they're all one giant company now, which is so

18:11 weird. I don't see what the point is, you know what I mean.

18:15 And Devor was willing to pay. You know, Vince wanted to sell

18:18 the company and Devor was willing to pay for it, and uh, it's

18:21 it's a huge, huge money. And yeah, now they just got to

18:25 get Vince to go back in his hole and go away. He won't.

18:30 They're trying to push him out. From what I understand, they're trying to

18:33 the They I don't know that they necessarily realized when they did that merger,

18:37 just how much of a a liability Vince is se mergers Barstool. Barstool just

18:48 got bought back because they sold the pen which for some sports book thing.

18:53 I saw something about this, But Dave Dave Portnoy bought back Barstool. Yeah,

19:00 are the rest of the rest of the shares because the thing with Penn

19:03 was Penn's stock because of all the bad publicity around Barstool and all the well,

19:10 what is what is Penn. Penn is a sports book company. Oh

19:15 okay, creates like bettings, websites and stuff like, oh okay, that's

19:18 a huge, huge business. Yeah. Yeah, so they created Barstool sports

19:23 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

19:36 up down, up down, and it was just like Penn's like, we

19:38 can't do this anymore. Really, yeah, So so they bought it.

19:42 So so they bought it, but they left. Did they leave Portnoy in

19:45 charge of it? Yeah? Portnoy still handled like most of the things,

19:51 they just handled the sports book side of things. Okay, but well that's

19:56 similar. That's similar then to the merger with UFCNWWE because they're still letting they're

20:00 still letting Vince technically be the chairman and and Triple A is still in charge

20:04 of creative. I don't think without Dave Portnoy Barstool if Dave Dave Portnoy were

20:11 to leave Barstool today, yeah he would, they would not be successful.

20:15 Well my impression, yeah, that my impression is, and I haven't paid

20:19 nearly as much attention to barstool as you have. But you know, but

20:22 I'm aware of it, and uh yeah. My impression is it's kind of

20:26 it kind of revolves around his personality a bit right, and and he's kind

20:30 of unpc he's unhinged, which is he's unhinched, he's unhinged. What what?

20:37 What? What? What do you say? Because he's an interesting guy.

20:41 I don't I don't know a lot about him, but what I've seen

20:42 of him, he's pretty interesting. He is your typical Boston, Boston guy.

20:48 Yeah, he's your typical Boston guy. He comes off that way.

20:52 Yeah. He he doesn't mess around. He will go to any length that

20:56 if you tried to to fame him, he will dig. Yeah, he

21:00 will prove you wrong. It will put out Like the Washington Post tried to

21:04 do an article on him, and then a business insider I think tried to

21:08 do an article on him that was full of lies. He debunked every single

21:12 lie, broke every single lie down in a video. Yeah. Then he

21:15 called the reporter and said, hey, why don't you interview me? Oh

21:21 they never interviewed him. Yeah, And she goes and he goes, why

21:23 are you saying this in an article about me? She goes and the art

21:26 and the reporter that wrote it or the journalist that wrote it was like,

21:30 well, it wasn't meant to be like that. Man. Yeah, I

21:34 was like, so you're getting caught in a lie and you know now you're

21:38 backtracking is what you're doing. So why didn't they when Penn bought Barstool?

21:45 Why didn't they just get rid of Portnoy? If Portnoy was the problem,

21:48 or did they or did they assume that without Portnoy no one would care anymore

21:53 about Barstool. I think it was a little bit of both. I think

21:56 because Portnoy still owned the majority, I believe I'm not entirely sure. Don't

22:02 quote me on any of this. Okay, but oh so Penn is a

22:04 publicly traded company then yes, okay, yes, yes, yes, yes,

22:08 okay, I'm trying to think. But Barstool, I assume was not

22:14 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

22:22 the chat room and says, I assume he's referring to Portnoy. He's charitable

22:25 and charismatic, definitely a force. He is very charismatic and he has done

22:30 a lot for small businesses, especially during COVID. There's no denying that.

22:34 There's no denying that, unfortunately, fortunately and unfortunately, Yes, yes,

22:41 yeah, that's one company that if I ever ever had a contract like come

22:47 up for me, I'm taking it. I'm taking it. Yeah, that's

22:49 a huge company. And that's like I base so much of what I do

22:53 off of Barstool too. Yeah, well, like what do you mean,

22:59 Like I watch like the trends on Barstool and stuff like that. So like

23:04 a lot of the videos I make on Instagram and stuff like that which end

23:07 up getting taken down thanks Instagram, like interviews and stuff like that. There's

23:15 multiple avenues to Barstool, which they have the they have the social media thing

23:19 where they have like social media accounts, the colleges and I have good That's

23:26 why I was able to do what I was able to do at Murphy's was

23:27 because of Barstool, because Saint Anselom's has a Barstool account, which I was

23:33 able to get in contact with the person running it and be like, hey,

23:36 man, can you promote this with me? Right? And then we

23:38 can possibly down the line do a joint collaboration party, a Barstool Reckless University

23:45 party, and they posted it and then next thing you know, there's three

23:48 hundred people. Because barstool is a party brand. Barstool is a college party

23:53 brand. Essentially, it's college lifestyle. Now, I just went to I

23:59 did no, I have, I have been to the website. I didn't

24:03 know if it was barstool dot com or barstoolsports dot com. But if you

24:07 go to barstool dot com, it must be Barstool Sports because if you go

24:08 to just barstool dot com, it redirects to a Rumble account. And the

24:14 top video is titled Dave Portnoy is a Huge Liar, Part one. So

24:18 apparently somebody someone bought that domain in said yo, somebody has it in for

24:22 for Portnoy. Oh. Dylan Reynolds is in the Facebook live chat and says,

24:27 hello, Hello, Dylan. Hold on, I'm pulling up the article

24:30 on Variety magazine. Oh while you look that up to I'm suddenly reminded speaking

24:34 of very talented musicians. The live it finally came out. It's on YouTube,

24:41 the full live show of Jerry and the Scumbags and of course, I'm

24:45 the bass player has been released on YouTube. Are our incredible live concert and

24:51 so great to play with those guys. It's available right now if you go

24:53 to the Jerry and the Scumbags YouTube channel. Something reminded me of that,

24:59 but yeah, it's very very cool and and I actually talk on Mike between

25:03 a couple of the songs. It's great, it's great, massive, I

25:06 know. Okay, So here's the straight story, h huh of what happened?

25:11 So Dave Portnoy bought back Barstool for a dollar after selling it to Pen

25:21 for five hundred and fifty million dollars, and he bought it back for a

25:25 dollar. Yep, how does this happen? He said? It says Portnoy.

25:32 Portnoy paid one hundred pennies for Barstool Sports. That that's after Pen Entertainment

25:37 Casino, an online gambling operator, paid a total of about five hundred and

25:41 fifty million dollars to acquire one hundred percent control of Barstool. Just a few

25:45 months before deciding to cut Barstool loose, Penn sold one hundred percent of the

25:51 outstanding shares of Barstool to Dave Portnoy in exchange for a nominal cash consideration one

25:56 dollar and certain non compete in other restrictive covenmants, so meaning they can't continue

26:03 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

26:18 hundred and fifty million dollar profit. Oh essentially basically, Yeah, that's incredible.

26:23 So the reason for this right here, I believe is what it's looking

26:26 like is the extreme fire sale of Barstool Sports back to Portnoy came as Penn

26:30 entered into a major deal with ESPN to rebrand the online sports betting business from

26:36 Barstool Sports Book to ESPN Bet. So that makes sense. That's not something

26:40 I was aware of. Under the terms of the deal with ESPN, Penn

26:44 will pay one point five billion dollars in cash to a ESPN over a ten

26:48 year term, in grant ESPN approximately five hundred million, and warrants to purchase

26:52 thirty one thirty one point eight million Penn common shares that will vest over ten

26:59 years in exchange for media, marketing, brand and other rights. So essentially

27:06 they just basically dropped fifty billion dollars. I'm but that's obviously a lot more

27:12 than I'm yeah, yeah, yeah, but like over that's that's a lot.

27:18 So they're taking a loss at that point, how are you making money?

27:21 So are they so? In other words, so did they have to

27:22 get rid of Portnoy essentially to uh make this deal with ESPN? Yep?

27:29 Okay, because port Nooy and ESPN are not, from what I believe is

27:33 the case, they're not like on good terms. Okay. Actually, fun

27:41 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

27:48 was sick. It was sick. We have a call, we'll grab this.

27:53 Hi, Welcome to Matt Connorton Unleashed. Is this Hi, Matt,

27:57 it's her Pilcher calling in. If anybody knows, that's Eric. So hey,

28:03 we're gonna be getting to your ass. Why I'm calling in. We're

28:07 gonna we're gonna be get into your film review in a couple of minutes.

28:11 But uh yeah, what's on your mind? Well? I was calling in

28:15 regards to this, No, Dave Portnoy in ESPN do not get a lot

28:22 in any way, shape or form. That's what I thought on the line

28:25 ten Sports did take a massive monumental loss in this deal, not to mention

28:32 what they paid for Barstool Sports, and then sold it back to Dave Portnoy

28:36 for a dollar. Now, why is so? What's the issue between ESPN

28:41 and Portnoy. I don't know much about that. I had to guess it's

28:52 Dave Portnoy probably said some things about ESPN that they did not like. Okay,

29:00 SPN is in good with the NFL big time. UH so that has

29:07 to be taken into account. Dave Portnoy has said some pretty unsavory things about

29:12 Roger Goodell. He did a T shirt with Goodell on it that made him

29:19 look like a clown. Michael remember Michael Rappaport is a frequent guest on ESPN

29:26 programming, the former barstool employee. He had a hilarious attempt at suing Dave

29:36 Portnoy for defam defamation. Uh that blew up in his face monumentally when Portnoy

29:42 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

29:56 versus uh Michael Rappaport thing just because and again, you know, not being

30:02 a sports fan, I've never paid that much attention to Dave Portnoy, but

30:04 I have paid a lot of attention to Michael Rappaport. Not only do I

30:08 think he's a great actor, but I always enjoy his appearances on The Howard

30:11 Stern Show. And uh so when that, when that all happened, I

30:15 was paying a lot of attention to that because I'm definitely a fan of Michael

30:18 Rapaport. But uh yeah, so wow, So Portanoy really came out.

30:25 Like I said, he made about more than a half a billion dollars on

30:29 this whole uh debacle, So good for him. Also, need to understand

30:33 Dave is going to take a loss this year as well. Oh he is,

30:37 because he's cutting about twenty percent of the Barstool work force he has.

30:41 Yeah really well, I mean because Penn over because Penn really hired too many

30:48 people, so he has to go in and cut the work force, I

30:55 mean, which that leads to severance packages, possibly unemployment hearings if he chooses

31:04 to contest. There's a lot of things that go into that back end of

31:10 it because Barstool was hemorrhaging money under Penn Sports Oh okay, okay, so

31:18 he's going to take a lost, a major loss this year. Yeah,

31:23 how many people work there? Because I'm looking at the Barstool Sports dot com

31:27 and there's a lot of content. They have a lot of bloggers. Yeah,

31:33 well that's by work a pen. They wanted more content, more content,

31:37 more content. But what made barstool great is you had like twenty to

31:44 thirty people that contributed yep, and it felt like it was natural, Like

31:49 you got like you could really talk with these people. Yeah, you're literally

31:56 it didn't seem it was organic. It wasn't stake or force. And when

32:00 Penn took it over, it became like any other sports website. It just

32:07 got muddled up with Bleacher Report, the idiots at dead Spin, the uh,

32:15 the Barstool Sports website itself is a little bit I mean they're they're obviously

32:22 hugely successful, so it doesn't matter, but the site itself is a little

32:25 bit dated. It looks a little bit, it looks a little more twenty

32:30 thirteen than twenty twenty three. So I can tell you why, Oh,

32:32 okay, what point? Because a lot of their a lot of it comes

32:37 a lot of their traffic comes from uh, Instagram videos exactly. Oh,

32:44 okay, snap trap, chat videos, TikTok now, facebook videos, YouTube

32:49 videos. They don't need Barstool Sports to be a like top of the line

32:54 website. Interestingactly, No, that makes sense. That does make sense.

32:59 Yeah, I mean because when you view that content elsewhere, you're just going

33:04 there to like maybe buy the shirt set of Roger Cadell looking like a cloud.

33:08 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

33:17 to be like ESPN. Yeah, no, makes sense because you're not going

33:22 there for that. Yeah, they're going there for a quick fix, right

33:27 right. I think if you would look at the analytics a Barstool and maybe

33:32 ESPN, the average viewer probably spends sixty percent less time on Barstool than they

33:40 do ESPN. There's also a lot of barsol accounts. There's probably at least,

33:46 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

33:54 so successful with what I do out here, is because I reach out to

33:59 those accounts. Because on each of those are those accounts, there is a

34:01 kid on campus that runs those accounts and it is passed down. Yeah,

34:06 yep, I follow barstool Irish. We have to Eric, we gotta.

34:14 We should probably move on because we do have your your film review, and

34:17 then we've got a musical guest coming up later. Oh but one more thing

34:21 though, Oh no, no, don't apologize. No, I always love

34:23 hearing from you. But I do want to say though, before you go

34:27 too, congratulations of course to all of us associated with Jerry and the Scumbags.

34:31 Of course, the live album is out. It is available on YouTube,

34:36 and I dare say I think we all sound quite great, you know

34:40 what I mean did obviously, you know, being in this major competition that

34:49 we're in, this remedial version of the East Coast first West Coast feud going

35:00 back to the nineteen nineties, mainly because we're up against the notorious moron uh

35:07 you know, or brain boy Smalls as he should be called. Uh huh

35:14 yeah. No, it's I love the fact that I'm able to contribute to

35:20 Jerry and the Scumbag Yes, yes, absolutely good good stuff. Uh so.

35:25 And in addition to your the one other thing we should mention to,

35:28 in addition to your film review, that we're going to do in a minute.

35:30 You've got this weekend will be uh the Exorcist Stop podcast. Correct.

35:36 Yes, I'm going to try and edit tomorrow when I get off work.

35:39 I am suffering with a head cold right now. Oh yeah, you do

35:44 sound stuffy. Yeah it's not fun. Yeah, but yeah, worst case

35:52 scenario is I'll do it Sunday when I have the day off through edit it

35:57 and have it ready. Yeah, we'll let everybody know and social media of

36:00 course. But if you want to see the the very cool artwork, you

36:04 can go right now to Matt connorton dot com slash Exorcist and uh and that's

36:09 where you'll be able to find the podcast when it's ready. But the artwork

36:13 is amazing. So well, yeah, I appreciate that it was fun to

36:19 do, and uh, you know I My hope is that just people enjoyed

36:22 a fraction of the amount that we had and enjoying doing it. Yeah,

36:29 very good, very good. All right, Eric, We'll let you go,

36:31 but looking forward to the film review and hope you feel better. Yeah.

36:37 I think tonight I will take a lot. I will take some night

36:43 quill and just be going to bed. There you go, sounds like sounds

36:47 like a good plan. All right, Eric, I said, must be

36:52 nice. I said, must be nice, can't relate. I'll love to

36:55 sleep, but what's that sleep for the week? Well, I do work

36:59 as I work eleven thirty day Central time, so yeah, there you go.

37:04 I mean our DJ full time, which I'm blessed to do. Yes,

37:07 yes, absolutely, I would much rather do that than what I do.

37:10 And you're very good at what you do. So all right, Eric,

37:15 Well we'll talk to you soon. My friend get some rests. Thanks,

37:19 all right, you got it? Bye bye? All right. That

37:21 was our friend Eric Pilcher. And before we get to the field, now

37:23 are you saying for the band or do you have to im out? You

37:25 got to go go get ready? Okay, So before we do that,

37:29 let's remind everybody what you have going on tonight six oh three buying Growth tonight,

37:34 Manchester, New Hampshire. Yeah, let's it. Sorry to bore everybody

37:37 with the barstool talk. No I thought it was interesting. Oh, don't

37:40 get me started on barstool Let me start it, don't. I could go

37:45 another three hours, but that's it. Oh my all right? All right,

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37:57 till one am? Nine to one, yep, nine to one. Very

38:00 good. Thank you for coming in. Always a pleasure. And we're gonna

38:02 get to Eric Pilcher's classic film review Down of the Dead, and then when

38:07 we come back in the second hour, we will have in studio with us

38:09 our musical guest today, my Last Mile. Really great band and looking forward

38:15 to talking with those guys. But here it is Eric's classic film review George

38:19 A. Romeros Don of the Dead work. In nineteen sixty eight, George

38:27 Romero brought us Night of the Living. Did it became the classic horror film

38:32 of its time? Now George Rameiro brings us the most intensely shocking motion picture

38:44 experience for all times. It gets up and kills the people it kills get

38:49 up and killed. This situation must be controlled before it's too late. They

38:53 are multiplying too rapidly. Dawn of the Dead beat me on the roof at

38:59 nine o'clock. Think about in the chopper. We've got to survive. Somebody's

39:02 got to survive. They kill for one reason. They kill for food,

39:07 they eat. They're victims. Imagine if you will, that something has gone

39:12 terribly wrong soon now, except the fact that there's no escaping the horrible consequences.

39:22 George Romero brings back the dead. Night of the living dead has ended.

39:30 Dawn of the Dead is here. We must not be allowed by the

39:36 concept that these are our family members or our friends. They are not.

39:40 They will not respond to such emotions. Operated dead post of band the mind

39:47 that it's everywhere. What the hell is It looks like a shopping set up,

39:52 one of those big indoor malls. What are they doing? Why do

39:55 they come here? Some kind of instinct memory? What they used to do?

40:00 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

40:25 is a horrible, puntingly accurate vision of the mindless accesses of our society gone

40:31 mad. They must be destroyed on site. When there is no more room

40:40 in hell, the dead will walk the earth. We are down to the

40:45 line. Boats, we are down to the line. Dawn of the Dead

40:53 sequels are some of the most polarizing films in cinema history. They are debated

41:00 is being worthy to the previous film, or even if they should have been

41:07 made. Ten years following his landmark Night of the Living Dead, George A.

41:13 Romero returned to the beasts he created zombies, and in turn gave a

41:21 rare instance in film more where a sequel could even be considered to supersede the

41:29 original. Released in nineteen seventy eight, Dawn of the Dead continues Romero's story

41:37 of the zombie apocalypse. When the film begins, the world is in more

41:43 chaos than we left it at the end of Night of the Living Dead due

41:46 to the fact that the undead are winning on their rampage tearing through the living

41:52 The film stars frequent Romero contributors Ken Free in his most known role, and

41:59 special effects group guru Tom Savini. In this film, to escape the undead,

42:06 four individuals land a helicopter on the roof of them all to seek refuge,

42:10 and that refuge could end up being their demise. I mentioned chaos that

42:17 has overwhelmed the world, and the opening scene of this film shows that the

42:22 film begins at a local news station where two individuals are on the air arguing

42:30 about what is going on behind the scenes. Individuals are arguing over what toa

42:35 air, what not r and even if they should be on the air.

42:39 Why I chose this scene is the fact that we hear a common trope in

42:44 these Romero films that society can be crumbling and falling apart, and instead of

42:52 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

43:24 if we do we don't know that, we don't know that. We got

43:29 to operate on what we do know. I'm still dreaming human beings would say

43:37 we tied the cut. I probably explained a few several times. The guys

43:40 in the crew are going crazy, a couple of them plowing the coop already.

43:46 I don't know how long we're gonna standing here to going off your station.

44:01 You just got to report the half those stations have the knocked out.

44:05 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.

44:10 You believe the Dada returning to life and attacking the living. I'm not

44:14 so sure what to believe. Doctor. All we get is what you people

44:16 tell us, and it's hard enough to believe fat. It's fat hard enough

44:20 to believe without you coming in there. You're not running a talk show here,

44:23 mister Verman. You can forget pitching an audience tomorrow. You're talking about

44:29 a Frendie gives another list of rescue stations. Charlie's receiving any stations. Tatlers

44:40 are inoperative as of now. Charlie, the risky stations. We can't say

44:44 people, they're not going to prest the station. You've had all information on

44:46 the air for the last twelve hours. Given one stop killings, have given

45:05 to see me, way to me. No, by the mother, Gunnar,

45:10 you have not listened. You have not listen to the situation for three

45:15 weeks. The people see people are willing to accept your solutions, doctor and

45:22 I, but one don't blame them. Every dead body that is not exterminated

45:27 becomes one of them. It gets up and kills the people it kills,

45:31 get up and kills operated rest the stations. Tay Dan, you've got it

45:37 open. I'm just trying to do to look at shot. But I think

45:46 Foster shright. We're losing our hills going on. Who killed those Supersundy has

45:52 these orders from that Darren told you to kill those sumers. Kill them.

45:58 They're out of days. You know they are going on. Since this film's

46:04 release, a common opinion is that this film is a criticism of consumerism.

46:10 The undead marched aimlessly towards the mall, and when they get in, they

46:16 stumble around without direction, so it's easy to see where one can get that

46:22 opinion. For the four individuals that seek refuge in the mall, new station

46:29 workers Stephen and Francine and officers Peter and Roger, the refuge becomes a hedonistic

46:35 paradise. Our next two clips set them all up. First, the individuals

46:42 arrive and fill out a plan to get inside and attract little attention from the

46:47 undead, and then, when their greed takes over as they raid shops throughout

46:53 the mall, Roger is bitten and begins to turn to a zombie. This

47:00 scene is very hard to watch, as while Roger dies, the three survivors

47:07 are watching an individual speak on television about the nature of the newly deceased,

47:14 rising to feed. What the hell is it? Hops like a shopping center,

47:25 one of those big indoor malls. Oh my god, no chance,

48:07 we got it. Let's get out here. Wait a minute. They can't

48:09 get up here. Yeah, and we can't go down there. Let's check

48:12 it out. Most of the gates are down. I don't think they can

48:38 get it to the stores. I haven't seen any of them up on the

48:40 second floor, the big department. Those usually use both floors. If we

48:45 can get it up top, okay, yes, the poll is not often

49:02 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

49:13 an important place in their lives. Thank you, look at this. They

49:21 said, you got down into the mall. Now business, how do we

49:31 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

50:19 care of me when I go. Just try to get some sleep back the

50:22 safest strength. I I don't wanna be walking around. I don't want you

50:29 to like fat Peter. Peter. Yeah, I'm here, man, don't

50:44 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

51:14 percent of the food available in the human body. The kind of thing with

51:17 that small amount the body is usually intact enough to be mobile when it revives.

51:23 What are you saying, I mean, you know, use science dummies,

51:27 suggesting dummies for dummies. Listen, quiet, quiet, one wonders whether

51:34 it's worth saving. This is worth saving? For all I know, the

51:38 brains are already dead. And that's the idiots that are still alive. Yeah,

51:44 and I figured out how to stay alive too. And I'm trying to

51:46 help you dummies in your calm helping way to irritate my way logic, way,

51:53 illogical, hell, illogical. Hell, I'm showing you a way that

52:00 we can up the food supply twenty times for a whole specimen that is walking

52:09 around there in increasing numbers. We should feed them. What else are you

52:14 going to do with them? Give me an alternative? I thought you scientists

52:17 could come up with an actual way to solve the problem rather than feeding the

52:22 opposition doesn't make any sense in enemy with the commentary at play, it could

52:29 be argued this film is more thought provoking than the original. My opinion is

52:37 the criticism of consumerism is so in your face that it is not the primary

52:43 piece of social commentary. But to describe what the point of the film truly

52:49 is, why not go to the source. Our final clip of this review

52:54 is a clip of an interview Romero did with BBC two in nineteen ninety seven

53:00 regarding this film and what he was trying to show us about human nature through

53:07 the zombie apocalypse. Now, this interview does have film clips interjected into it,

53:15 just to warn you, so you're not sitting there thinking that I did

53:17 anything to the clip itself. I don't think anyone would have gotten it except

53:30 Dario Argento approached us to Italian director and we showed him the script and he

53:36 said, I'll be the first money in on this one. I mean,

53:37 basically, he caused the movie to happen. A theme that I've always used

53:46 is just this idea that we don't talk to each other. I mean this

53:51 complete lack of communication that we have and a willingness to adopt a position,

53:55 willing to accept your solutions. Doctor, and I for one, don't really

54:00 read dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up

54:05 and kills the people it kills get up and kill. You know, it's

54:08 sort of tribalism or you know, I think it's white. I think it's

54:12 black, And there's no attempt to try to figure out, you know,

54:16 any sort of middle ground or build a bridge. I mean that's true in

54:20 everything from religious wars to the O. J. Simpson case. I'm not

54:22 so sure what to believe. Doctor. All we get is what you people

54:24 tell us. And it's hard enough to believe. It's back hard enough to

54:29 believe without you coming in there. If you're not running a talk show here,

54:31 mister Berman, you can forget pitching an audience. The moral to me,

54:36 that is the most appalling thing about what we do to each other.

54:38 And so it's a theme that I've tried, I've worked with, particularly in

54:43 the zombie films. I think if your people start shooting at you, then

54:49 sure you're all going to shoot back at the same common enemy. But in

54:58 a situation where there's where anything is ambitigu us, I think there's going to

55:01 be at the very least arguing and that and perhaps at the worst, you

55:07 know, people murdering each other for their point of view. My god,

55:14 what are you doing, Sury. Isn't it until the shooting starts, there

55:20 is no common enemy? And that I think that in trying to decide who

55:24 the enemy is, or if even if there is an enemy. That's where

55:30 we just need to talk and figure out what our strategy is going to be.

55:35 We're here. I did alright this time feeling. I was trying to

55:45 do it like a comic book kind of visual The blood it is, you

55:49 know, very red, bright red flowering out behind somebody's head. What we

55:54 were going for was just this garish, kind of ecy, comic book kind

55:59 of a look. None of that stuff was particularly threatening. The repetition of

56:02 the violence. I mean, zombies get shot every few minutes in the action

56:07 parts of the film, and you sort of get immune or inured to it.

56:12 Again, that was part of what we were seeing in the eighties,

56:15 I mean about us just getting so desensitized by the things that we were seeing

56:19 on television and you know, show the military and the hunters and all that

56:22 just just you know, enjoying it. And as that being an outgrowth of

56:25 geed, you know, we got ourselves a new shooting gallery here. And

56:43 also it worked to sort of ramp you up towards the really grizzly scenes in

56:47 the end, when we become just pieces of meat there at that point,

56:52 and then the people upstairs in those quarters. It's sort of what we do.

56:57 We live somewhere over here while all this you know, violence, and

57:01 you know, the world's exploding. If I ever do another one, if

57:09 I ever do the you know, the the two thousand one, I think

57:15 that's what it'll be like. I mean, you know, maybe humanity will

57:16 have come back. There'll be security guards, and the zombies are out in

57:21 the street, you know, sort of like the homeless. But will we

57:24 care as long as we get you know, as long as we have this

57:27 valet to bring the car and we can get out of there. And that

57:30 really have to deal with it. Obviously. The film's success does not need

57:37 to be stated. However, it does deserve recognition, based mainly on word

57:43 of mouth in some commercial advertising, this film well exceeded box office expectations.

57:50 It grows twenty four million dollars worldwide after being made on only a nine hundred

57:57 thousand dollars budget, and it is the most proffitable of Romero's Dead series of

58:02 films. This film is just as influential as Night of the Living Dead.

58:08 It has been remade, had tributes done to it, parodied, and even

58:14 became the primary basis of a successful video game series, Capcom's Dead Rising.

58:22 It is harrowing, dark and brooding as great as Night was. Dawn is

58:29 a rising of a new era for the zombie film and is the best of

58:32 the series in my opinion. It is rare to have a sequel be more

58:37 highly regarded than the original, and that is the case here that makes this

58:44 must see viewing no matter the time of the year. I hope you join

58:49 me next week when we continue our Halloween slate of films with Sam Rainey's rollicking,

58:54 hilarious time travel in demon filled Gorefest Army of Darkness starring the Great Bruce

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1:06:39 Very well? And who are we missing? So you are actually a quartet?

1:06:44 Yeah, we're missing our drummer Mike Goslin and our basis, Nick Truist.

1:06:47 No rhythm section, I see. Now what do you guys each do

1:06:51 in the band? Well? I play rhythm guitar okay, and I do

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1:07:20 good. Jenny, Jenny really likes it too. She was she was saying

1:07:24 to me, you're really gonna like this band. You know, when she

1:07:28 first kind of presented presented you guys to me, you know, she does

1:07:31 all the book in it, and I said, yeah, these guys are

1:07:33 amazing. Have you been around a long time? My Last Mile originally started

1:07:39 an upstate New York where I'm from, and I had a different lineup then,

1:07:43 and this was back to like twenty sixteen, oh seventeen, and we

1:07:46 did a lot of shows up in that upstate New York scene. We released

1:07:49 the EP The Storm Is Out, and then time went on. I moved

1:07:53 out here when COVID started, and I kind of hung it up for a

1:07:57 little bit. But then Rich actually and I started jamming to get and he's

1:08:00 like, you know, I really like those songs. Yeah, and I

1:08:01 would really love to play those songs. So we had a couple of guys

1:08:05 just you know, to get a feel for him, and we finally got

1:08:09 the lineup that we actually really want, and these guys all loved the love

1:08:12 the songs, and we marry rehearse them every week, and we're also working

1:08:15 on new material as well, because like I can't just say, hey,

1:08:19 let's just rehearse you know, all the old stuff, we also have to

1:08:23 make it kind of more. It's also kind of like a new band.

1:08:25 It feels like sure at the same time, Sure, it's a lot of

1:08:28 fun. Rich. What was it about the songs that made you want to

1:08:31 be a part of this and to work with Aaron? Oh? The songs

1:08:35 were definitely they're catchy, They're mostly upbeat. I mean it gets you bob

1:08:42 in your head a little bit, you know, And uh, I just

1:08:45 really was digging the sound and I pulled them aside and I was like,

1:08:49 hey, I think we should, uh we should bring this back. Yeah.

1:08:53 And I was definitely like like starstruck because this sound was so like so

1:09:00 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

1:09:11 kind of it's got a certain timelessness to it and that you know, it

1:09:15 sounds contemporary, it sounds comfortable with things that are out today, but it

1:09:18 also, you know, twenty years ago it would have as well, you

1:09:21 know what I mean, there's a certain there's just a timelessness to it where

1:09:25 in any era, I feel like these songs would succeed on that, you

1:09:29 know, like you said, getting your head Bob and all whatnot. You

1:09:30 know, it just really good stuff. Thanks you. I'm a big fan

1:09:34 of like old school sounding stuff. I grew up on eighties rock and metal

1:09:38 Azzi, Yeah, Group, Pantera, stuff like that. To me,

1:09:41 all that stuff was more appealing personally than what I listened to nowadays. But

1:09:45 there's a lot of good modern bands, so we try to keep bringing like

1:09:47 that old school influence, but we also kind of modernize it a little bit.

1:09:51 Yeah, definitely the idea. Yeah, yeah, and how are these

1:09:56 songs recorded? What's the production like, because you know, like they sound

1:10:01 amazing, just not only in terms of the songs themselves, but sonically they

1:10:04 sound really good. It's all the amps are miked up, all the drums

1:10:10 are miked up, and that's really kind of it. You know. We

1:10:14 just we do it in a we do it digitally, but also try to

1:10:18 stay as analog as possible when doing it. And wow, no kidding.

1:10:23 So it's kind of the idea you do it all yourselves. I do a

1:10:26 lot of the tracking. Yeah. On our EP, The Storm Is Out,

1:10:29 I did all the we did all the tracking. I sent it to

1:10:31 a guy named John Felino. And Latham, New York, and he mixed

1:10:33 it all, okay yesterday, and then we got back and then our old

1:10:38 drummer, Tyler Shoemaker, who now plays in a group called The Broken View

1:10:42 out of Upstate New York and they're really talented as well. Him and I

1:10:45 did Island that EP together and he did all the mixing and master and he

1:10:50 went to school for it and yeah, and that was a lot of lay

1:10:54 guitar layers and okay, just weeks on it and making just six songs.

1:10:58 Okay, yeah, because it I mean, every everything you sent me it

1:11:00 sounds great. It sounds like it was, you know, done in a

1:11:02 million dollar studio. So that's but we're you know, but with the technology

1:11:06 that we have now, we're fortunate to really be able to. I mean,

1:11:09 there's so many different ways you can approach recording and have it sound really

1:11:13 good. You know. So has any of the So have you guys written

1:11:18 anything? Are you in the process of writing together? Because obviously these songs

1:11:23 were all already written when you came into the band. Rich is that all?

1:11:28 But so many callers we actually wrote that together? Yeah, oh cool,

1:11:30 Okay, that's the newest one that we've done together, is so many

1:11:35 excellent? Yeah, yeah, well we'll play that in a little bit too.

1:11:40 I'm looking forward to sharing that with everybody. But I assume there's more

1:11:43 in the works. Absolutely, Oh yeah, definitely. We are putting our

1:11:46 nose to the grindstone and uh trying to uh, you know, give give

1:11:53 some good stuff. Now, what about what the other guys? Are they

1:11:56 involved in the writing or is that they're gonna be I couldn't imagine them not

1:12:00 wanting to be you know. Yeah, an idea kind of spurs off of

1:12:03 one of our heads, like with a you know, a riff or something

1:12:05 or a melody in the head, and then yeah, we'd present it to

1:12:09 them and yeah, absolutely, Yeah. Is it weird for you? Is

1:12:14 it? Is it weird playing some of these songs with with a whole new

1:12:17 configuration of the band or does it feel like a normal sort of evolution of

1:12:21 things or one thing I've noticed with our new drummers he kind of puts a

1:12:27 little twist on some of them. He plays the parts pretty much precisely,

1:12:31 but like there's times he might just put a little twist on things. And

1:12:33 also and I'm fine with that, Yeah, at first it's yeah, I

1:12:36 can't. It was a little like this is a little different, but as

1:12:40 time went on, you know, it didn't feel like it was really any

1:12:43 different. It felt really fun. And also just to add those little twist

1:12:46 on the songs, like when we go and play them live, yeah hear

1:12:48 them, and that's that's kind of neat. I was. I was in

1:12:51 a band years ago that went through a few different drummers and and I always

1:12:56 found it kind of you know, every drummer would who would come in would

1:12:58 kind of put their own twist on things, and I for me, it

1:13:01 kind of kept it exciting, you know, because, yeah, the songs

1:13:03 would feel a little bit different, but it was kind of like, okay,

1:13:06 the song we've been playing for five years now, it feels new in

1:13:10 a way, you know. So so I know what you mean about how

1:13:13 it it. You know, you get used to it being different than it

1:13:15 actually kind of sounds good, you know, with with that little bit of

1:13:19 a twist on it. But it must be surreal, right to some of

1:13:24 these songs who have played them in the old version in a different, not

1:13:28 really different part of the country, the Northeast, but still you know,

1:13:30 in New York and then to and then to be doing them here. It

1:13:34 so, but you haven't you haven't recorded yet with this new with the full

1:13:39 band, or have you just a song so many colors? Gotcha? Gotcha?

1:13:43 Okay? Are you guys playing out a lot to play a lot of

1:13:46 shows. We played a little bit on this this year, and we started

1:13:49 playing out a little bit last year. I know we're playing Swarmy Fest on

1:13:54 November fourth at Jewel. Yeah. We played Jewel a couple of times and

1:13:57 we always have a good time there. Yeah. And also one thing I

1:14:00 remember thinking when was we have a song called Awakening that we played. I

1:14:03 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

1:14:11 hear more of that, more of the punch and everything. Yeah. So

1:14:14 yeah, really excited to do that. But yeah, once that's done,

1:14:17 mom, we'll probably get some more new songs written and then just keep looking

1:14:20 up shows. Yeah. Yeah, we're looking forward to Swarmy Fest. Uh.

1:14:24 You know, Jenny and I will be there representing the show, and

1:14:26 uh, I can't wait, really looking forward to that. Yeah, definitely

1:14:29 can't wait. I can't wait to get up there and uh, you know,

1:14:31 have some fun and uh get the crowd moving, you know. Yeah,

1:14:34 for sure? Where where are you guys from? Where where are you?

1:14:38 Webon? We're both from Lebon's. It's actually funny. He's only like

1:14:42 five minutes down the road for me. There are two guys live in Claremont,

1:14:46 New Hampshire. Okay for a rehearse every week? Oh I got youa

1:14:49 yeah, yeah, yeah, I used to. I used to occasionally go

1:14:54 up to West Lebanon when there was a Strawberries there years ago, and I

1:14:57 used to I used to go to work up there occasionally to help. But

1:15:00 yeah, so what's that like an hour from here or yeah, yeah,

1:15:04 it's about an hour? Yeah for sure? Now are there are there up

1:15:09 up there? Like what's the what's the situation? Like? As far as

1:15:12 venues up there? Are there places to are? There a lot of places

1:15:15 to play or I find if you're in a cover band doing like classic rock

1:15:18 or a country band, you know there's saw whole pub and there's uh,

1:15:24 there's probably I don't know a couple of breweries up there. Yeah. More

1:15:28 going toward Vermont, I find that it's it's better for that kind of thing.

1:15:30 Yeah, we do a couple of covers, but we're not that type

1:15:33 of band that plays you know, yeah, three sets and we have we

1:15:36 did start off doing that, but we like playing our own stuff and incorporating

1:15:41 a couple. We like playing with other bands as well on a line up.

1:15:44 Yeah, yeah, that's kind of We find that that's more funs.

1:15:46 You find more people and even if the venues empty, you're playing to the

1:15:48 band, right Yeah, yeah, oh I know, I know all about

1:15:54 how that works. That's for sure. That's for sure. Are they do

1:15:57 you guys have any particular bands that you play a lot of shows? You

1:16:00 know? Sometimes I mean it kind of happens organically by accident really, but

1:16:02 sometimes bands have certain bands that they just sort of team up with do a

1:16:06 lot of shows with ding Tombstones. Oh, I love them. But those

1:16:11 guys that they're one song I talked to Alex a lot on Facebook. They're

1:16:15 one song caught my eyes out. That's like one of my go to,

1:16:17 like daily songs I listened to and yeah, I just love it. And

1:16:20 then there's a new one he's just released. But yeah, no, I

1:16:24 find we I find we end up with those guys a couple of times,

1:16:26 and I feel like there's another one I can't I can't remember. Uh yeah,

1:16:31 I can't remember their name, but I can I see them right in

1:16:34 front of me. I know, I know. It's Greening Tombstones is one

1:16:40 Jay Fed in the Facebook live chat, he's in Vermont. He says,

1:16:43 you live close to Vermont. Have you ever considered growing beards? Well,

1:16:46 Rich, you've got quite the beard going there. I'm gonna say, yeah,

1:16:49 not not as much as Jay Fed is one of those guys with a

1:16:53 big long beard. And Aaron you've got somewhat of a beard. I had

1:16:56 a full on and then now I'm working, I'm gonna grow it back Novembers

1:17:00 around the corner. Yeah, definitely, So mine will be a little bit

1:17:02 bushier, a little bit longer. Yeah. We all have facial hair in

1:17:06 the band. Yeah, we're all bald except Nick. Nick has long hair.

1:17:11 Yeah. Oh really Yeah, Yeah, I got hair. It's there,

1:17:14 It's just underneath of my head. That's what I tell people to We

1:17:23 have Aaron and Rich from my last mile here in studio with us. If

1:17:26 you have any questions or anything for the band. The studio line is opened

1:17:30 six O three two five oh six oh seven six o three two five oh

1:17:33 six o seven. Where does the name come from? By the way,

1:17:38 Gosh, that's that's a good question. I think our old drummer, Tyler,

1:17:42 I think he came up with it. We were just sitting at a

1:17:44 pizza shop one time and he'd said something along the lines off, I'd walk,

1:17:47 I'd walk some mile, or I'd walk a bunch of miles to do

1:17:50 this or something. And then he was like, oh that, and then

1:17:54 the other guy with us he was like, oh, that'd be your last

1:17:56 mile. Then I just mile it. I'm like, how's that for a

1:17:59 band name? And they're like, that's not bad. Once we got we

1:18:01 went through a couple other ones. Once we got some artwork back, Oh

1:18:05 I want to they settled. But what what were the other ones? I

1:18:09 love rejected band names. That's like my favorite thing. What like what what

1:18:13 my last name? West Fall was one? I remember that. Okay,

1:18:16 I didn't want to do that, really, I don't want to play the

1:18:18 whole solo artist thing or the Yeah, I mean west Fall is not a

1:18:23 bad name for a band, but but I can see where, Yeah,

1:18:25 you didn't want to you wouldn't want to do that necessarily. Actually, we

1:18:32 had deviation for a little bit. Yeah, what do we have that for?

1:18:35 Like at least a month? Didn't we at least a year? Was

1:18:39 it a year? Oh? Really? Like a month? Oh wow,

1:18:44 I think that. I don't think there were a lot I can't remember.

1:18:46 Yeah, yeah, my last Mile is a good name. Thanks. I

1:18:49 dig it's it's got a certain gravitas. Now, how many do you guys

1:18:56 have a full album or if you just put out singles at this point?

1:18:59 Two two EPs? Two EPs comes out? I came out in twenty seventeen

1:19:03 and then Iland was twenty twenty. Okay, has the sound changed over time?

1:19:08 I mean, obviously it's it's had to have changed a little bit because

1:19:11 you're you're playing with different guys, But I mean, has a has it

1:19:14 the sound and style overall changed at all? Or vocally? Probably a little

1:19:18 bit because I'm not twenty two anymore. They're pretty high, but I still

1:19:23 but I still like to hit high notes. I don't like to scream much.

1:19:25 But we were trying to push, like so many callers is a lot.

1:19:28 I think that push is gonna push us more into a heavier, kind

1:19:30 of a darker direction, Yeah, which is kind of what we want for

1:19:32 this next EP, and we have a call. We'll see who's online here.

1:19:39 Hi, welcome to Matt Connorton unleashed. Who's this, Hey Matt,

1:19:42 it's Jackson. Oh Jackson from down south? How are you? I'm good?

1:19:48 Do you have a Do you have a question for these guys? I

1:19:51 do, actually, and I do have a question for you. So I

1:19:55 I literally just got the cot with my guy who does who's doing my LPF

1:20:00 application for my town? Yes? And I have to put my antenna up

1:20:05 in a tree. Well it's got to go somewhere, Jackson, I know,

1:20:11 And now I have to content f a mm hmm. Well that's uh

1:20:18 yeah, yeah, I did got a question. The one thing I do

1:20:20 have a question for. Yes, Uh my question just dropped down on mine.

1:20:27 Crap. Oh all right, well that's well, that's that's uh,

1:20:34 that's unfortunate Jackson. All right, Well, uh so you don't have a

1:20:39 you don't have a question for for the guys you you forgot it? I

1:20:42 do not, yep. Okay, Well you're distracted because you have to figure

1:20:45 out where to put that antenna. I understand. Yeah. Well well all

1:20:51 right, Jackson, Well good luck with that I appreciate the call. All

1:20:56 right, alrighty, I guess Jackson had a question for you guys, and

1:21:00 then he, I don't know, he got the starstruck or something. He

1:21:01 got nervous. I was gonna ask him where from here? Where he was

1:21:05 from? Down south? Oh? Yeah, definitely, yeah, he's uh

1:21:09 I know the answer to that too. I think he's in Georgia. I

1:21:12 could be wrong. He calls the show once in a while. Yeah,

1:21:16 where where are are you? Where are you from? Originally? Aaron?

1:21:19 Because you, yeah, you don't sound like you're from here necessarily. No,

1:21:23 I'm originally from Saratoga, New York. Okay, okay? And Rich

1:21:28 did you grow up here? Yep, I grew up here. I been

1:21:30 in New Hampshire all my life. Okay, well, very good. Let's

1:21:35 uh yeah, let's play what was the name of that song? The one,

1:21:41 the one you guys were just talking about. Uh oh, I found

1:21:45 it so many colors. We should uh, we should give this a listen.

1:21:51 And then, so what what should we know about this track? This

1:21:54 is the one you guys wrote together, is that correct? Yes? Okay?

1:21:57 Cool? And so this is the first one you guys wrote together,

1:22:00 and anything else we should know about this. This this must be the newest

1:22:02 one, right Yeah. Not our current drummer, Mike Goslin, but are

1:22:06 We had a guy who was with us for a little bit, Paul Picard,

1:22:10 Yeah, who also plays in Robin V group around the area, and

1:22:15 I think, I think there's another group you might play with. But he

1:22:17 actually played drums on this song, Oh okay. And we sent it to

1:22:20 a guy named Ian McDonald in New York and he did the mixing mastering,

1:22:24 so we we did all the tracking together and then Paul did the drums on

1:22:27 it. And Paul's also in the music video for it. Oh cool.

1:22:30 And then there was another guy named Chris ray Jeski who actually came in and

1:22:32 played lead guitar on it. Oh okay. Cool. Cool. By the

1:22:36 way, with drummers, doesn't it seem like every drummer is in like multiple

1:22:40 like drummers basis five or six different bands. Oh yeah, I have a

1:22:44 theory about that. I think the I think the reason for that is,

1:22:47 you know, when you're growing up and you develop an interest in playing a

1:22:50 musical instrument and you have to talk to your parents about it, you know,

1:22:54 the last thing they want to encourage you to take up his drums.

1:22:56 Absolutely. So that's that's my theory. So every drummer isn't and base bass

1:23:00 players are an I demand too, but drummers like it's just it's crazy.

1:23:03 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

1:23:09 is so many colors. This is my last mile here on Matt Connorton unleashed.

1:23:14 Check this out. They call him scene. I'm a tony mother,

1:23:36 call him sante. You are the big on my dreams. Suspass you dressed

1:23:45 you talton dombey. I am an angel on your show. I'm the one

1:23:53 who can call me. I am one and you should not see and I

1:24:00 like bad batcher. You cannot be. There is nothing hugin jupers solf.

1:24:06 There's nose are running back as you got your jell. You should have not

1:24:14 the slong go. You should not before I struck by something. There's somebody

1:24:23 pace. This says at dosing like, don't sap if not something comes Yeah,

1:24:30 this accessible paste, this says it. That's it, Like that is

1:24:33 legit. Get about your best friend, silly, I stop by y'all to

1:24:58 sad with you and not again. And it's not my bo J's only son.

1:25:04 You are not forgive. There must be some way to say, so

1:25:13 say my hand you descending to help. I hate to say I told you

1:25:19 so. You're dream carry out so far us, so many columns, there's

1:25:26 so many days, it says, as they days out, not to so

1:25:32 many cons you missides. It says some thousand like days, not chuning.

1:25:39 God, it's not so many con so many us, he says, a

1:25:45 doesn't like days out down in so many cones, you misusicide, he says,

1:25:53 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,

1:26:57 Sue says, as this society my last Mile, and the track is

1:27:38 called so many colors. That is great, really really catchy. We've got

1:27:42 a couple of the guys from the band here live in studio with us.

1:27:45 We have Aaron and Rich from My Last Mile. We're going to talk with

1:27:48 these guys some more. I do want to remind you, of course,

1:27:51 today is Friday. It's my favorite day of the week here at WM and

1:27:55 H. It's my my long day here and I do love it so because

1:27:58 I will be back tonight from A to eleven for retro Spectrum Radio with Paul

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1:28:04 on that show, along with DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry,

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1:28:38 sorry, the retro Spectrum Radio Facebook page. So really looking forward to that

1:28:41 and I love I love my Friday nights getting to hang out on Retrospectrum Radio.

1:28:45 It's a lot of fun. But we've got we've Aaron and Rich from

1:28:48 the band My Last Mile in studio with us, and if you would like

1:28:53 to join us if you have any questions or anything for the guys. Six

1:28:56 three two five six seven. The studio line is open six O three two

1:29:00 five oh six O seven. You can also text me at six one seven

1:29:04 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

1:29:13 you can interact endo o Pine in the Facebook live chat. But the best

1:29:15 thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your Dulca tones is six

1:29:19 O three two five oh six O seven. And hey, Jackson, if

1:29:25 you remember the question you had, you can even uh you can even call

1:29:29 us back. We will we will allow that. But uh, yeah,

1:29:31 that's a great track. Guys, so many colors. And so that's now

1:29:36 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

1:29:44 sent me, is it? Are these are the new ones kind of heavy

1:29:47 like that? Or do they vary or I would say yes, they definitely

1:29:53 will get heavier as they come. Yeah, but if they're still they're in

1:29:58 the works, yeah for sure. Yeah. And Aaron, Are you writing

1:30:02 all the lyrics still, are you the Yeah? Primarily yeah. I mean

1:30:08 I get you know, subject matter, I'll get him influenced and such.

1:30:12 But usually I kind of write like I'll have a vocal melody in my head

1:30:15 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

1:30:20 of an overarching theme or approach or some of it's personal? A lot of

1:30:28 it's actually personal, But I kind of just write. Again for me,

1:30:31 like songwritings more of a spur of the moment kind of thing. If it's

1:30:35 in my head, if it's something I can nod on my head to and

1:30:39 that I really like, you know, that's kind of where I think,

1:30:41 oh, this might actually be a good song. And so as far as

1:30:45 the theme goes, not so much. It's kind of just just based on

1:30:49 what I'm feeling, you know, certain things I've experienced in the past,

1:30:53 certain things I'm experiencing now. That's kind of where it all comes from.

1:30:57 Sure. Sure, we have a question for you in the face book Love

1:31:00 Chat. Isaac Banks, who is from I know exactly where he is in

1:31:03 the South Greensboro, North Carolina, he says, speaking of interesting questions,

1:31:08 My Last Mile, how are you fellas? What's your favorite Hoodie and the

1:31:12 Blowfish song? Let her cry? I'm doing great, it's awesome. Thank

1:31:17 you for asking that. I don't think I've actually listened to Hoody and the

1:31:24 Blowfish, so you mean recently or ever ever? Fair enough? But I'm

1:31:31 doing well. Thank you for adving. I was waiting for him to say

1:31:33 wagon Wheel. Oh goodness, let her cry. That was a huge h

1:31:39 that was a huge song. My god. Yeah, they were the biggest

1:31:42 thing out there in the mid nineties. Have you guys opened for you guys

1:31:46 open for any national acts that have come through the area or not here.

1:31:51 In twenty seventeen, Mile Last Mile did do a warp tour appearance on Long

1:31:58 Island. Oh no kidding. Yeah, it was like a local you know,

1:32:00 we were the local band, sure from way up north. I got

1:32:02 picked and we went. It was like fifteen twenty minutes, but was well

1:32:05 worth it. Oh that's cool. Remember that year they had Eye Prevail.

1:32:11 Gosh, Hate Reed was somewhere nice still Maybe Chelsea Grinn might have been August

1:32:19 Burns Red. It was a much heavier year for Warp for and then the

1:32:24 following year in twenty eighteen, that was the last year they did it,

1:32:26 and then they stopped doing it. I was kind of bummed about that.

1:32:29 Yeah, twelve was so twenty eighteen was the last Warp tour. Huh,

1:32:32 I know, twenty nineteen they did select shows, but like, oh,

1:32:34 okay, yeah, gotcha, gotcha. Did you get to see Hate Breed

1:32:39 while you were there? Absolutely? Yeah. Yeah. I used to be

1:32:42 in a band called First Shove and we used to play, we used to

1:32:45 cover. We did very few covers, but we we would do a last

1:32:47 Breath, which was honestly my favorite part of our set. It's so quick

1:32:54 though, it goes by so fast. It's such a short song. But

1:32:56 just the adrenaline of playing that. Yeah, but I've never seen them live.

1:32:59 That must have been. That must have been. That must have been

1:33:01 cool. Now what so? What? Uh? What brought you to New

1:33:04 Hampshire? Like, did you did you guys know each other prior to you

1:33:09 come in here? No, my fiance lord here. Yeah, I was

1:33:15 living in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at the time, and just oh we

1:33:18 met and yeah, I've been here ever since and we were still together that

1:33:25 how long were how long did you live in Myrtle Beach? A year?

1:33:28 Okay, yeah, I have family down there, and I I thought why

1:33:30 not? But then I realized I'm not a Southern especially this time of year.

1:33:35 I'm very I like the seasons a lot. I like this time of

1:33:39 year is like my favorite time of year. And I felt like when I

1:33:42 was down there, just you know, the leaves never changed, like at

1:33:45 Christmas time. It's cool, but at Christmas time it'll be driving through like

1:33:47 a neighborhood and you'll see like all the Christmas decorations and then just a palm

1:33:51 tree and grass. It's just not the same. I'm just seeing the snow

1:33:55 and decoration. I guess see, I'm the opposite. I would love that.

1:34:00 I love that. I love a spring and summer my times, I

1:34:02 I don't like. I don't like fall because well because of what it leads

1:34:06 to the winter, and that is true. Yeah it gets colder and then

1:34:13 yeah, I don't want to do this. Yeah, Like I think I

1:34:16 think I would do fine down south. How about you, rich? You

1:34:18 think you'd you do all right down there? No, because I'm in New

1:34:21 Hampshire too long. I'd probably like yeah, me too. That's why I

1:34:26 think. That's why I think I would do well down there. No,

1:34:29 but I do love New Hampshire too. There's a lot to there's a lot

1:34:30 to love here. Oh yeah. Definitely hunting fishing, that's that's my game

1:34:35 toward this time. Yeah. See, I don't hunter fish. I don't

1:34:39 do any outdoorsy things. I'm terrified of deer ticks and there's wild animals.

1:34:44 You know, you could be eaten by a bear or mountain lion or something.

1:34:46 It's true, the blair Witch is out in the woods. I think

1:34:50 I saw a movie about that once, and that's that's very frightening. But

1:34:54 no, in the winter, i'd like to be able to just teleport from

1:34:57 one room, one warm place, to another, you know, I think

1:34:59 that be great. But uh no, But in the summertime, it's it's

1:35:02 beautiful here certainly. Now, everything every everything that the band has is all

1:35:09 it's all up on the streaming services, right. It's on Spotify and everything,

1:35:12 Modify, YouTube, iTunes, gosh, I haven't even looked at iTunes,

1:35:18 and it's on Ideas yeah I think, yeah, we use a distro

1:35:24 kid and yeah, it's all on every streaming service. Now for those who

1:35:28 don't know, so distro kid obviously, how do you find them? Is

1:35:32 that a good service? I hear mixed reviews from people. I've never personally

1:35:36 had a problem with them. Yeah, it's just you know, you pay

1:35:40 X amount a year. Yeah, and sometimes you might pay a little bit

1:35:43 more if you want it, like you know, if you want your EPR,

1:35:45 album or single or whatever out on a certain day. Yeah. Yeah,

1:35:49 I personally have never had a problem with them. I mainly only use

1:35:53 it though, to just upload tracks and maybe check stats and little er things.

1:35:57 But yeah, I personally never had a problem with them. Now,

1:36:00 do you guys have any physical copies of your CDs? I get I get

1:36:03 such varied answers on this because it seems like to a lot of artists that

1:36:10 physical media is still really important, which surprises me sometimes. And then to

1:36:14 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

1:36:21 curious how you guys feel about it, and if if you have any actual

1:36:24 physical discs, I'd say they will be coming at some point, but we

1:36:30 normally just have our stuff on Spotify and yeah, YouTube and iTunes and all

1:36:35 that stuff. Yeah, yeah, I think the storm is out back when

1:36:39 that was, when we released that, we did, we did a couple

1:36:42 of gigs in Albany and Sarahtogua, New York. We I think we made

1:36:45 a couple of copies and yeah, I think at the time, gosh,

1:36:49 you might have used CD baby maybe and they they made all the copies and

1:36:56 a little of the artwork and a sleeve and put the disc in. But

1:36:58 yeah, honestly, I'm a big fan of physical music. I'm actually really

1:37:01 a big fan of DVDs. I collect horror DVDs, like that's my collector's

1:37:06 item. I love horror films and DVDs and that's my that's my thing.

1:37:10 I love a DVD. Yeah, especially if like your Internet goes out or

1:37:14 something. You have your player, you can plug it in, you know

1:37:16 what I mean, You're not just sitting there born in the dark all day.

1:37:18 Yeah, you know. But for us though, I at the moment,

1:37:23 no, we don't have any physical anything physical. Yeah. It's interesting

1:37:27 how how different artists approach it differently. I mean a lot of some artists

1:37:30 now too well, I mean obviously all the majors you know, they put

1:37:33 everything out on vinyl. But I've I've even met the local artists from the

1:37:36 area who will do like a run of vinyl. But it's apparently, from

1:37:43 what I'm told, it's extremely expensive to do it. It's really cost prohibitive.

1:37:47 Yeah. Yeah, it's the biggest mistake I ever made. I've had

1:37:50 a whole bunch of vinyl records, probably about the size of the desk I'm

1:37:53 sitting in front of it. Yeah. I shipped them all to my friend

1:37:56 in Texas and for three hundred dollars. And I was just so all of

1:38:00 those things. They were heavy, and they pick up space. It's just

1:38:02 one of those things I wish I never got rid of. Oh really,

1:38:04 Yeah, how much did it cost a ship? About one hundred and fifty.

1:38:09 I think I did one hundred, so I was very expensive. Yeah,

1:38:13 I can imagine. Yeah, yeah, just right, Oh yeah,

1:38:16 yeah absolutely. I was shocked a few years ago. I was on band

1:38:20 camp and uh, when I real this was maybe five or six years ago,

1:38:25 so this trend may have already passed. But I was shocked to see

1:38:29 some artists selling cassette tapes like cassettes were back, you know, and and

1:38:34 it's like, I mean, I guess if you're a fan of tape Hiss,

1:38:36 you know that's cool. But but I was. I was just shocked.

1:38:41 And the first one I found, I was like, oh, is

1:38:43 this a joke? Is this? Like I realized, you know, a

1:38:45 lot of these artists are are are selling cassettes, and of course most people

1:38:48 who buy them probably never actually play them. They're just buying them because they

1:38:51 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

1:39:00 and goes, what what sticks around that you don't think is going to stick

1:39:03 around, and and what does end up going away that you think is going

1:39:08 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

1:39:16 two EPs, and then do you have any singles that are not on that

1:39:18 are only singles that are not on one of the EPs as of right now,

1:39:21 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

1:39:31 a single. Yeah, oh okay, but we uh yeah, So Many

1:39:35 Colors that will probably go on to our next EP, may not if we

1:39:40 have a different if the songs are in a completely different theme than that,

1:39:44 yeah, or if they're even if we decide to go a different route with

1:39:46 mixing or whatever, then obviously we would probably just leave it as a single

1:39:49 and go on go forth with that. But as of right now, mainly

1:39:54 So Many Colors is the only one that's a single. So what what Shinedown

1:39:59 song did you cover? Okay, Oh, that's a great song. When

1:40:03 Shinedown was really big, I got I got pretty sick of them because what

1:40:09 was the really big song? Second Chance? Right? Oh? Yeah?

1:40:12 Was it that one? Or was there was there another one that was really

1:40:15 big? No? I think it was Secon Yeah it was second Chance.

1:40:20 Oh god. I grew to hate that song because I heard it so much.

1:40:24 But then I heard Sound of Madness and I was like, Okay,

1:40:26 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

1:40:32 can imagine you guys doing that song because I can. I can hear it

1:40:36 in my head with your voice. Here's the hard guy to replicate is he

1:40:40 really hard? Yes? Are they still around yes, shindown. Yeah.

1:40:45 Sometimes it's hard to keep track of who's still. Like I just found out

1:40:49 the other day the godsmack is is gonna be uh playing I think at this

1:40:53 new arena And I was like, I didn't even know they were touring to

1:40:58 me too. Yeah, I know, I had no idea. Let's uh,

1:41:02 well, let's play another track because we still have Let's see, what's

1:41:08 the other one we have here? Oh? Every Night that's the other one.

1:41:15 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,

1:41:30 uh I wrote that about I get asked, like we were talking about

1:41:33 this rehearsal and somebody's like, oh, it's every night, I think that.

1:41:36 Isn't that a relationship song? I said, no, it's not.

1:41:41 It's not you. It's written to make you think that, but it's really

1:41:45 not why I personally wrote it. Oh okay, yeah, all right,

1:41:47 all right. Do you want to tell us why or is or do you

1:41:50 want to keep that a mystery? It goes kind of in the lines of

1:41:56 like alcoholism issues, addiction issues, and all that stuff. So that's kind

1:42:00 of it's basically like kind of being on a hamster wheel. Yeah yeah,

1:42:03 gotcha think so something a lot of us can relate to. Certainly, all

1:42:08 right, let's give this a listen. So this is called Every Night.

1:42:12 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

1:44:01 playa Yes, I have seen special, breaking good times. I can't believe

1:45:19 if you said that you to the sidecoris as you would not know this.

1:45:34 I feel listening. The band is my Last Mile. The track is every

1:47:11 Night, and we have Aaron and Rich live in studio with us here on

1:47:14 Matt Connorton Unleashed here at w m n H ninety five point three FM,

1:47:18 and guys, it's been wonderful to have you here. I love the music

1:47:23 and I was Aaron, I was sending you off air too. I love

1:47:26 the solo on that. Thanks. That's that's really good. That's really good.

1:47:31 We should Obviously you're very googleable, as I like to say, if

1:47:35 you if you google my Last Mile, actually, if you google my Last

1:47:40 Mile band, I think that's probably the easiest way to find you. But

1:47:44 of course you're on all the social media right and everything, and yep,

1:47:46 we have a Facebook page. Yeah, so if you find us my Last

1:47:50 Mile on Facebook and subscribe, that'd be great. Yep, follow us YouTube,

1:47:56 and then we're in the midst of making a website. Are based.

1:48:00 This is a cyber guy. I don't know what he does. He's an

1:48:03 engineer. Oh yeah, we're going to work with him and getting that all

1:48:09 getting all situated in coming weeks. Oh, very good, very good.

1:48:13 Yeah. Yeah, And now what do you have coming up? So you're

1:48:15 gonna be a swarmy fest obviously that's coming up in November. Do you guys

1:48:19 have shows before then leading up to that or no, we're kind of getting

1:48:23 we're kind of just getting everything tight for that and we're in the midst of

1:48:26 making some new music. Yeah at the moment. And do you have Probably

1:48:31 too soon to know, but do you have any kind of an et a

1:48:33 on when we might hear some new stuff? Or December? Oh? Really

1:48:39 Christmas time? Absolutely? Oh fantastic, fantastic. Well, we'll have to

1:48:43 have you back when when that's ready, because I definitely want to definitely want

1:48:46 to play and talk to you guys. Yeah, love to come back.

1:48:49 It's great, absolutely, absolutely well, this has been great. Thank you

1:48:53 guys. We're actually gonna play I'm gonna play Island. I opened the show

1:48:58 with it today at four o'clock, but you know, obviously there's a turnover

1:49:00 in the listenership over the course of a two hour show, so I'm actually

1:49:03 gonna end the show with it as well. This is my personal favorite of

1:49:06 the I love this song. This is so catchy. So we're gonna We're

1:49:11 gonna play this in a moment, and I'll just remind the listeners too,

1:49:14 don't forget. I will be back tonight from a two eleven pm for Retrospectrum

1:49:17 Radio with paullyc right here at WMNH ninety five point three FM. Also thank

1:49:23 you to DJ Reckless for joining us earlier. He will be tonight from nine

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1:49:36 And if you missed any part of today's show, it will be up in

1:49:40 just a little bit at Wmnhradio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot

1:49:45 com and guys, thank you again Aaron and rich from from my Last mile.

1:49:50 This has been great guys, thanks for having me. Thank you absolutely

1:49:54 you got it and we will leave you with this. This is Island from

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1:50:32 side like Day always says the same. It's a song I can to and

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