Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-16-23

You're listening to w n H. Command God, don't get so greenly Matt zilthank you, Welcome everybody here, we go Happy Monday. It is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Ypshire. Also on Comcast Channel six if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connorton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact and fos, show archives, etc. Et cetera.

It's Monday, October sixteen, twenty twenty three, and I am not alone. Jenny is here at the news desk. I am present and accounted for Yes, and we have a great musical guest coming up today in the second hour. Quincy Lord from the band Sunset Electric is going to be joining us live in studio and it's going to be the world radio premiere of the new Sunset Electric track The Inn today and we're going to play some of their other music as well. We open the show with a song called One night Stand from and see Lord's solo album past the midnight hour.

I figured i'd play one of his solo tracks to open the show, but when he comes in later, we'll we'll focus on uh on the band Sunset Electric but uh, very very talented gentlemen. So looking forward to meeting him today, talking with him and the world radio premiere of the End. Plus we'll we'll play a couple of their other uh, their other tracks as well. UH so that will be coming up. And if you'd like to join us today in the meantime six O three two five O six oh seven, the studio line is open six oh three two five O six oh seven.

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A lot of their dry cleaners like to listen to us while the while they work. Melanie says, did you say Tracy Lord? I thought that would be a Matt Connorton unsheathed kind of guest. No, no, no, Quincy Lord, not Tracy Lord. Tracy Lord is a Tracy Lord might have appeared in a in a certain kind of film, at one time that one of those people my friends and I in high school might have watched on a VHS tape. But no, a Quincy lord is is our guest today coming in later? Yes, Melanie says, uh, fortnite is three weeks I believe.

Okay, so three weeks until sam Hayin or whatever. I don't know how this works, all this witchcraft. It's very frightening. Yeah. No, it's Samayan, isn't it? Or Simon Man, Now you get me almost much. Jfed must be doing laundry. Clearly he's referring to laundry. He says, I just put a load in. Oh my, And Melanie says one of those people that sounds judgy. Ah, yes, who you are? Oh no, I said one of those people. Yes I did, I admit it. Yes, what are you gonna do now? Melanie six O three two five seven is a studio aligned six three two five six seven.

You have you have had a busy day. I have had a busy day. Yes. Actually I had a meeting with one of Senator Passion's senior healthcare policy AIDS and it was very productive. It was a very good meeting, and I really felt very heard to be honest. But what's going on is the Senate Finance Committee. This is in DC not conquered. The Senate Finance Committee is going to hold a hearing Wednesday, So there wasn't a whole lot of time to prepare for this, and it's a hearing that's going to be talking about how the insurance companies who are selling Medicare advantage plans are using deceptive practices to sign people up.

For example, we know a New Hampshire resident who had somebody sign them up over the phone. But the person with somebody who has autism and needs help with these kind of decisions, but this age or what have you is able to cold call them and call them over the phone talk them into signing up. And thankfully the people who take care of this person had that come forward and found out what happened and they were able to undo it before it got stuck, like they were able to undo it that day. But for anybody else, you know, once you're signed up, that's it.

There's no second bite at the apple. You're stuck. So and they're also they used to acceptive practices. They you know, try and tell you, oh, you're gonna get a free pair of glasses every year, and then if you want kids version first year lenses for a preschooler, sure they'll pay for the lenses. Otherwise they don't pay for I know this because I just went through it. And anyway, this the hearing is also to try and start to get the Senate talking about the issues going on with Medicare. Advantage number one, it shouldn't be allowed to call medicare.

It's a posts. You know, it doesn't operate like medicare. It's not covering things like medicare. They shouldn't be able to use that word and trick people. So this hearing is really important in that, and I wish more people would come forward and share their stories of what's happened with them with Medicare, because the only way that we can get these rules enforced is if we bring them the cases and the evidence to show them that the existing rules and laws don't work or that things need to be changed.

Like you guys might remember, I told you I shared a while back, not long ago, about my data Farberg breast cancer checkup bill coming in and the insurance splitting it into two claims, making part of it in network and part of it out of network, right, So that's not supposed to happen, so we think, But here it did. Here it happened to me, and I was being told that I was on the hook for money that I really shouldn't because Medicare says that momography checkups are supposed to be covered one hundred percent.

That's a Medicare rule. So CMS needs to enforce these rules. And we need to tell our elected folks what's going on in the real world if we're going to get them to do anything about it. This hearing is to me an opening a chance to give them a touch of what we've got for evidence to show that they need to rain this stuff in. I mean, you guys know, I'm not shy about the fact that I want to see a national health care policy. But in the very least, we need to start making sure that these in private for profit insurance companies who are pocketing our premiums.

Moneys set aside for Medicare are being taken and given to these private for profit insurance companies and they are pocketing it as profit. Meanwhile, people are across the country don't get their care. I've been fighting with them over in infusion and they don't want to pay a few hundred dollars or six hundred whatever dollars for my infusion. But they made over eight billion dollars in profit in the first three months of this year alone. They're pocketing your premiums and they're taking money out of Medicare Trust.

These dollars are going to them to buy yachts or trips or whatever the heck the elitists want to do. You know that, I know that. Meanwhile, we're out here banging on the doors, going please give me the medicine. I don't want to die. And the only way this changes is if we share our stories, we come forward, we talk to our senators. So that's I spent today actually speaking to one of the staffers in DC. They are going to bring forward a lot of the information that we brought. I wasn't alone, there were other people in the meeting with me, But I intend on on paying attention to this hearing and hearing what they have to say.

I want to point out, though, something I found out that I was very disappointed in is that this Senate hearing that's going to discuss the sefter practices and the practices of how these Medicare advantage policies are advertised, does not include a single patient as a person who's going to come in and speak. The people that they invite to come in and speak are apparently these are people who work in the healthcare industry. These are the very people that are pocketing the money they're going to get to go testify, But no patients are getting to go testify.

And that's wrong. Anytime there's healthcare being discussed in Washington, DC, it should involve patients, the very people being discussed, not these people who go home to million dollar homes and never have to worry about an aspirin. They don't know for nothing. They're not the ones out there scared to death. They're gonna die because they can't get access to care. We are, and we need to speak up far more if we expect changes, because this is happening in the United States. This is not happening in other countries.

Other countries look at us horrified. Oh my god, you ruin people's credit on healthcare. Oh my god, you'll let that child die. It's the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States. Healthcare medical bills exactly exactly, and the only, and we need our voices in DC big time. They shouldn't beholding I'm a I'm angry. I'm upset that they hot a hold a hearing on this and they're not going to talk to the very people that get ripped off

or get signed up into these policies and now they're locked out of their healthcare. They find out after the fact they've lost every one of their providers because they're quote unquote not in network. Traditional Medicare doesn't do that to you. Medicare is Medicare. It's accepted everywhere that Medicare is accepted. There's no in network. It's all in network. So we're along road from getting any of this done. But I hope that you guys will seriously consider writing to your senators. If you need help reaching out on anything, contact me.

I would love to help you get involved and be a voice after the Winter in the chatroom says a great topic after the winter, of course, one of our recent musical guests, Yeah, and also says, hey, that desk looks familiar. What's up? And also Legion of Solid Sedge Simmer Facebook live chat Hey guys, and Ronda Favero from the Great State of California points out, we never get a seat at the table. Well, I'm working on that. Yeah, I need your help. Yeah, I mean that is a that is a great point. It does seem like patients are the last to be heard from.

Unfortunately. Part of this, too is that when we talk about what happens in healthcare and people getting denied care, do you know in New Hampshire we have the highest rate of denials in care of any other New England state. We're number one. I didn't realize that we are. We are also pretty pretty much up at the top of having the largest out of pocket deductibles to meet. We paid the higher amount in premiums, you know, and what do you get for it? Right? Only one percent of people who have their their claim denied actually try to appe heal it because the process is so daunting and so monstrous to a lot of people that they don't feel like they can take it on right, which is why, like I say, come to me, I'm not even kidding.

I've got organizations who have people that are waiting to help you get the care that you need and the care that you deserve, to get you paid into this system you promised that you were going to have this on the other end. Yeah, and now they're trying to wipe it out from under us, and there's stuff and more profits into the CEOs and the stockholders of United Healthcare and Signa and Anthem, oh and Anthem Blue Cross. They're going to change their name again. By the way, did I tell you that? No? Yeah, Elevants is their new name Elevants because you know the best way to hide from your horrible past is to change your name.

Well, that is true. Yeah, it's all like they haven't done that before. That is a classic tactic. Absolutely. So we're gonna have this new company coming in. You're gonna go, oh, new company, Elevants. Nope, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, anth them new name, same peeps. U. This is in the Facebook live chat and it says sounds like we are getting rid of the weakest, poorest, sickest people in New Hampshire. Well, it is part of the game, right because the health insurance companies, that's what they would prefer you, as we always say on the show, and not everyone is as blunt about it.

I'm not sure why, because this is a simple reality when you are when they're getting your premiums, whether you're paying them directly or whether your employer is paying them. Uh, you're you know you're you're a profit for them. Absolutely. But as soon as you actually need to use your health insurance, if something catastrophic happens, now you're no longer you're no longer an asset, You're now a liability. You're now costing the insurance company money. So ultimately, the insurance company would prefer that you die.

Yes, it is a business. We have a commodified healthcare system. They would prefer that you die. They only make money when you don't get care, right, if you're sucking up that money, you're too expensive. Yeah, they want to get rid of you. And there are plenty of people out there, and I've heard horror stories of people saying that they're Once they got really sick, their denials started coming in more and more frequent. Of course, more denials, more medications, all we're not going to cover that met anymore more things along those the lines, putting their lives more and more in jeopardy until they finally die.

This is the way insurance works. Insurance works like a swimming pool. Everybody in. If you're healthy, I'm making money. The minute you start costing money, you're diverting that money away from their pool, so they don't want that. We have a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connorton Unleashed. Who's this? Oh wow, it's Paulie paul See from Retrospecial Radio with poly Cu. What's up? You know? Jen? It's funny because not more than twenty minutes ago, I just got up the phone with my doctor's office because they the insurance company, put me on a new inhaler.

They took me off at inhaler from my asthma that has been working just fine for the past ten years, and they all of a sudden up and change it on me to a new inhaler that does not work. Oh and it wasn't my doctor that did that. It wasn't any practitioner that did that. It was the insurance company that made that decision. So now I'm fighting with my doctor's office letting them know that I need to get back on the original Hailer in haler though I was on, and they're not checking with a head doctor.

They're checking with the insurance company to see if I can have my old inhaler back, which is kind of scary and frightening and sucks. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, I mean they can absolutely give you the prescription. You know, it's a but you know, if you end up in this situation and you want some help, I know some people out there that are willing to help people fight their insurance companies to get the care, the the medications that they need. And I'm not even kidding. Theo's two main organizations, People's Action and Be a Hero, both of which have got systems set up and in place to help individuals.

Yeah, and you know, I think they really do don't care either way. If a person died, I think that they would prefer it absolutely, of course. Yeah, as long as you're costing them money and not making them money. Yes, from a business standpoint, they would absolutely prefer that you die. And don't kid yourself. This is a business. They're in it for profit. Why do you think they got stockholders and all of the shares that they got. They made eight billion dollars in profit in three months the first of this year, just United Healthcare, never mind the rest of them.

Ronda in the chatroom says, regarding what you were the situation you were just talking about, Paul, Ronda says, insurance companies practicing medicine without a license, which is yeah, that's effectively what they've done to you. That's exactly what they're doing. And it's United Healthcare. Oh why am I not surprised? You know, there are so many horrific stories that I have heard since I came out about my United Healthcare nightmares, and it's it's mind mind boggling. These people are not They're not in it to care for you.

They're in it to make money. This is why it's wrong to have a profit like that involved in healthcare. Healthcare should decisions need to be made between patients and their doctors. Yeah, thanks to these these schooligans, I'm gonna I'm gonta switch the ultra light cigarettes. Thanks a lot. Oh god,

well that's I'll let you guys go, all right, Paul, thanks for the call. All right. Always nice to hear from. Always nice to hear from Polly See from Retro Spectrum Radio with Polly C every Friday night from eight to eleven pm here at WM and H ninety five point three FM. And I have the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show along with DJ Seve and uh Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, who's also one of our great sponsors here at WM and H. Melanie in the chat room says, uh, what did you say about the flashlight you have lodged?

Oh, nevermind, that is more private issue now Paul was talking about as Inhaler. Yeah, I mean it's interesting that it's interesting. So is that's legal though, Like, I don't think that. I don't understand. That's a first for me. I've heard of that kind of thing before. Well, I've heard of medicaid. Yell. Now see I'm wrong. I've heard of that kind of thing before. But you would think it would be illegal for your insurance company to just well, there switch you. I mean that would be I mean, that's no different than them saying, you know, you're on this medication, but we now have decided you're going to be on this other medication.

See, they're allowed to have their formulary, and if it's not on their formulary, they informed the doctor and the doctor says, well, I'll have to give you this one in order to use insurance. The other side of that coined though, is remember there are some other avenues out there like GoodRx. I mean I'm not I don't work for these people. I use them for one of my meds because it works out better for me financially. So you can always go online to good RX, type in your medication and see what it gives you for options in your area.

You might find the copaid cheaper than it would have been for your insurance, or you know, that's another way to give yourself the option, because then you tell the doctor you're not using your insurance. And good RX is a good resource. It works for me. I mean, the medication that I need through my insurance is eighty five dollars. Through good RX at a grocery store is forty dollars. I seem to remember using good RX for my my eye drops when I was between insurance. I remember using good RX. I mean it works.

It helps people. We have to nickel and dime ourselves so we can afford our healthcare. Yeah. Tom Blanchard in the chat room says, I thought it was illegal for insurance companies to deny claims. Oh no, Tom. As a matter of fact, New Hampshire has the highest rate of declined claims in New England of all the New England states, we have the highest rate. What you might be thinking of, Tom is the affordable. Under the Affordable Care Act, it became although there's loopholes to this, which Jenny knows all about, but under the Affordable Care Act, it did become illegal for them to deny you based on pre existing conditions unless you're on a Medicare going for Medicare.

Help me, it's the supplement policy. Oh there's party. No party is medications No. The Medicare supplemental policy that you have to get medic gap Medica. Sorry, I couldn't split that out. When you first become eligible for Medicare, you get your Medicap policy, they have to give you a policy and they can't ask you about any kind of medical stuff. But once like I'm in, I'm on Medicare advantage. If I want to transfer back to traditional Medicare, oh sure I can. However, no medic no insurance is going to ensure me for metagap insurance, I'm not going to be able to get the policy, and I'll have to go without care for like six months to a year on any conditions that I had pre existing likes the RPS, small fibern neuropathy, so they get to take a walk on all my pre existings for six months to a year, so you die off before you can get the supplement going back.

With the exception of four or five states, New Hampshire could change the laws to enable people to go back without having that problem. There are a handful of states that do. New Hampshire is not one of them. Unfortunately, your pre existing conditions can be held against you and used against you in METAGAP policies. After the winter says, have a great day, guys, see you at Swarmy Fest. Yes, Swarmy Fest is only only a few weeks away now coming right up? Was it November fourth? I think yes, jel yes it is yep.

And speaking of Swormyfest, Hans Smith from Sepsis is also in the Facebook left chat. Hello Hans, and I sew Chris Rose from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is in there as well. Hello Chris. I been really happy we've been able to get a lot of the Swarmy Fest bands in. Oh yeah, yeah. Is there anyone you haven't gotten on? Yes? Oh okay, well there's a number of bands. Now there are two stages. Oh that's right, that's right, Yes, there's quite a few, but there's a number of them we have had on Yes, quite a few.

Yes. And Melanie in the chatroom says, appeals rights are required at least for Medicaid coverage. Yeah, so you have a right to appeal, right, But that doesn't mean it's going to help you in the end. Oh yeah, no, Actually, seventy five percent of appeals actually are overturned, but only about one percent of people actually apply for an appeal. Oh right, Can they tell you it's going to be in writing within thirty days? And they make it sound so daunting. But I will add this little caveat there are people they call them whatever, they call them service navigators or whatever, and the insurance companies that are supposed to work with you when you want to file something, if you need to file appeal or you want to file a prioritization, you can ask for one of these people.

And which I did, and I literally said to the woman, I am visually impaired. I don't even own a printer. I have medical situations that make it hard for me to write out try and write out something, especially since I'm a lefty and my hand looks likesnosage. Sometimes and I need your help to do this. So I have filed all of my appeals over the phone with the help of the service navigator, thereby getting my appeals and literally the same days that these ridiculous things are coming out that I'm having to appeal.

Yeah, Legion of Solace in the chat room says, speaking of Swarmyfest, we are giving away a ticket to join us as our guest, open to veterans and current service members. Details on our Facebook. Oh that's awesome for you. Very cool. Yeah, so details on Facebook, So go to the Legion of Solace Facebook page and you can learn more there. Excellent. That is very good, very good. That's really cool. I'll drop their link right in the chat room there. Excellent, excellent. Anything else on that or did you want to talk about the uh what speakership?

Oh? Shall we gosh? Yeah, we should, we should. I'm waiting for the country to just implode. Oh, Miriam just joined us in the Facebook live chat. Hello Miriam. Hello Duck six O three two five six seven. If you'd like to get in with a call six O three two five six seven. We do have a great musical guest. By the way, if you're just joining us coming coming up in the second hour, Quincy Lord from the band Sunset Electric will be coming in and really looking forward to meeting him. Uh. We played one of his songs at the top of the show today.

Well, actually we played a couple of things. We played something from Quincy Lord's solo album and then we also played the uh the AI all the there's all these AI song parodies. Now, the video is fantastic. Somebody on YouTube made an AI parody of the song locked Up by Akon, a song that I've played on the show before. I love that song, but uh but with AI an AI version of Trump seeing the lyrics and it's pretty funny. But you have to see the video that goes with it. The video is uh is hilarious. Oh, by the way, right AID has filed for bankruptcy.

I saw that, but it looks like it's they're they're staying open. They're just restructuring. So yeah, it looks like chapter thirteen, So it looks like they're or whatever it is. No, it's a chapter eleven. Chapter eleven. Sorry, but they're reorganizing and uh so they they will still be able to I saw that because you know that's where we get our prescriptions, and that's one of them. Yeah yeah, and that's one of the many pharmacies I need to use. That's where we get our vaccines. Yes, yes, I let them give me the jab Yes, and I enjoyed it, yes twice, even Hail Soros on the same day.

Mm hmm. And I'm happy about it personally. Of course, I became more more favorable towards vaccines after my doctor told me that the flu could kill me. Yeah, so you know there's that, But why worry about vulnerable people? Speaking of vulnerable people, what's going to happen if these oh God dufases caike it out of their own way and elect a speaker. How far off are we from literally having a government shutdown and oh, let's not pay our troops even though we've got two aircraft carriers out in the Middle East, We're going to stop paying the troops because that's what happens when we shut down.

Oh yeah, it's coming. They don't get paychecks. A little bit of an update on that, so Jim Jordan, because if you haven't been following along, and of course, you know, the the war with Israel versus Amasis has kind of swallowed up most media coverage. But but this is probably the second biggest story. But right now is of course what's going on with the speakership in the House. But this does affect everything else, including military readiness, and because well not only so, not only when we get to the end of this last continuing resolution, I think it goes to the middle of November.

Yeah, will once again be staring down the barrel of a government shutdown. But also, you know, our government in some ways is effectively paralyzed. For example, if you want to pass you know, some sort of new aid package for Israel, well you can't do it right now. You can't do anything in the House right now. And that's where bills like that have to start. But Jim Jordan, it says here, this is from the Hill dot com. Jordan builds speakership momentum as opposition falls. And of course Steve Scalise already got out.

He had signaled early that he probably was not going to do the whole go through the fifteen rounds trying to clench that speakership and all the horse trading and deal making that goes on. Oh it was something, but yeah, he wasn't he wasn't interested in going through all that. So he uh, you know, after that first vote, he said, well, I don't have the votes to be speakers. Wonder if we actually stepped back and look, would this be the most unproductive Congress to have ever sat in DC because they spent so much time on this stuff.

They never get anything done in my opinion, Yeah, people's work isn't getting done because they keep doing this. Yeah, their egos are ballooned to the size of Mount Washington, Well says here. Opposition to House eop speaker nominee Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio is crumbling as Republicans returned to Washington for a House vote to try to officially elect him. Four key lawmakers who signaled opposition to Jordan last week fell like a set of dominoes Monday, giving the Ohio Republican a significant boost boost ahead of an expected war vote Tuesday.

Okay, so this is going to be a floor vote tomorrow. Chip Roy of Texas told conservative radio host Eric Erickson today when asked about the opposition to Jordan, quote, my gut tells me we're somewhere south of ten who are still being recalcitrant unquote. It is remarkable. It is a remarkable development after thirteen days of turbulence in the House GOP following the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which left many lawmakers and outside observers skeptical Republicans could coalesce around a candidate.

Jordan emerged as the conference's nominee Friday, winning one hundred and twenty four votes on a second tally where Republicans were asked to vote yes if they'd support him on the floor. Jordan got one hundred and fifty two votes. He needs two to seventeen. A number of GOP members and political observers went into the weekend thinking Jordan faced a tough hill to climb to win the two seventeen Republican votes on the floor necessary to win the speakership, but Jordan now seems to be edging closer and closer amid a pressure campaign buys out lies to win support for the conservative Republican and ally of former President Trump.

Also playing in Jordan's favor is exasperation with the internal GOP turbulence that is keeping the House paralyzed as war breaks out in Israel and Gaza, as well as the threat of moderate Republicans working with Democrats who exert control over the speakership, which, by the way, I don't think that's much of a threat because I don't think that's going to actually happen. And even if it was, well, I wish that it already did, because, as I've said on the show, I actually do wish. I understand why they didn't, but I do wish that Democrats had rescued Kevin McCarthy.

I do too, because we can't. This is this is yeah, this is terrible. Their they their complacency is going to cost this country. Well, the thing is too I mean McCarthy and I could say many horrible things about him, and I probably have at various points. But but at least Kevin McCarthy understood couple of things that are important. He understood that government shutdowns or things to be avoided, and even more importantly, he understood that you cannot allow the country to default on our national debt.

Jim Jordan is someone who I think would be perfectly fine with because some Republicans, you know, some of the more conservative Republicans in the House actually think default would be awesome and cool. You know, global economic arm again and what the hell. Just rip the band aid off. That's how they talk about it. I'll just rip the band aid off, get it over with. Let me tell you how much I support the truth. Meanwhile, no paychecks for you. Meanwhile, the global economy would be flushed down the toilet.

But let's not forget the fact that Tubboville's got all over one hundred. I think it's closer to three hundred raises and appointments held up because of his personal opinion. Yeah, one person's personal opinion. This is the most inafvected Congress ever have done nothing but gridlock themselves and pass nothing and do nothing. But my concern about Jim Jordan is that he he won't have any problem with a government shutdown or when or when the time comes default. So he also is all along those ILKs that want to cut social Security because you didn't earn that, you didn't pay for that, it's an entitlement.

Yeah. So I really think that I could say something, but you'd have to beat me, right right, So I would have very much preferred the Democrats just I'd kept my save McCarthy, you know, not for free, you know, get something out of him for it. But I wish they had say, it would have been better than what we're dealing with now. Yes, Hi, welcome to Matt Connorton, unleashed. Who's this? It's John C. Hawkwood. To see is for congressional scholars. Congressional scholar I think that would be CS. But but that's okay.

Well, hello John. Well, when my parents gave me the name, they just made it one word because you can amchalar at the time. Well you can do that with proper nouns. That makes sense to do nothing. Congress was the eightieth Congress, which was elected in nineteen forty six and which Harry Truman ran against in the nineteen forty eight presidential election. It was headed by who is the Speaker of the House. He was a guy from Massachusetts. First name is Joe. I can't remember what the second was, and he occasionally popped up when the Republicans would win the House occasionally.

You know, since Roosevelt being elected in thirty two, you had that long period where the Democrats generally controlled both houses, you know, both Houses of Congress, the Senate and the House of Representatives. But when you look at history the like when we're talking about under Obama, is first, remember when the Republicans would have the House, Democrats would have the swim majority. Traditionally, I do nothing Congress like in nineteen forty six, is when one party controls the Senate and one party controls the House, and then things just get stalemated.

But this is the first time in history a Speaker of the House has ever been fired. And this is the first time you've ever seen, you know, a do nothing Congress. The result not of two polarized parties, you know, holding two different branches of government, like you know, the Democrats have the how the well remember on the Reagan for six years the Republicans had the Senate and then the Democrats held the House. Traditionally, if I remember correctly, you get like a quarter less legislation out of a house, out of a Congress, or two houses are helping, you tend to get, but you tend to get.

John, you've ever had the polarization inside a party. But I think I'm crazy. It's anarchy. You get a better quality, I think when there is that you know, during the Reagan administration was actually when Republicans passed legislation to make a woman's gynecologist a primary provider, not a specialist. They had to do it through lack as insurance companies wouldn't do it. But that happened because Democrats and Republicans work together. They're not doing that anymore. Nobody's working together anymore for the good of the people.

Everybody's out for their own egotistical item whatever that history they've all you know, this idea that you just have to read history. They always have been against each other. This is just the first time we've ever seen like this kind of This is like something from Civil War. This is not done. Yeah, because I think that there's just I think the point John is making though, is this is the first time we've seen it where it's within a party. You have one party sabotaging itself. They're so busy sabotaging themselves they can't work with the Democrats to do anything.

And even if you ask them to, Jim Jordan and his ILK I don't want to work with the Democrats on anything. Well, that doesn't get our country going. That's not how it works. They're not perfect, but it's not what works. The closest party. This couldn't happen in a parliamentary system. You'd already have you know, the government would fall the closest in the party. One of the reasons where we have whipped a whip in. You know, a parliamentary system is much stronger than a whip. I think, Jenny, you might have bet a whip.

I wassentative first time. Is that you have to volt the party line. If you crossed the aisle, they are serious consequences. I wasn't known for either leading up to throwing you out of the park, but here it's just I've never seen anything so crazy. It's anarchy, the closest thing I can remember that. But Jenny, you're right about doing nothing, because when you put this in a historic contest, you know, there's the famous do nothing Congress that Harry Truman, Joe Martin, he was the Speaker of the House.

Then he briefly went again. We know, we know Joe mart York, Joe McCarthy, as you know, anything that rose to Eller Truman did. They were communists, Pearl Rodgers out of the other thing. But you know, things still happened because you know, Truman was an effective president and Eisenhower was a very effective president. You know, I worked those states are so gone York. The Reagan administration was very effective because you know, they did have you know, Jim Baker's the chief of staff in the first time, and you have Bob Doll and people like that.

In the Senate. They were I mean, they always sniped at each other and bit everything. But this is just crazy. This is anarchy. The closest thing I'll just wait till you're off the phone, all right, thanks Sean. The closest thing I can recall to anything like this is during the rise of the Tea Party during the Obama administration, we had these Tea partiers who ultimately have morphed into the House Freedom Caucus. But they, you know, they they they gave John Bayner a lot of trouble. You know, they were about to remove John Bayner and he said, no, I'm good, I'm just gonna go on my own and and that's part of why Paul Ryan got out too.

But but yeah, we've never seen we've never seen anything like this. Nothing's getting done everything, and that's not a good thing. Some people think that's good, but it's not. It's not good. And the grand scheme of things, there are people who will end up dead because things are getting done right. Bottom line, I mean, and government shutdowns cost the economy trillions of dollars so and hurt a whole lot of people, So people take that too lightly. Also, every time there's a government shutdown, people become more and more desensitized to when the real sort of harbinger of doom shows up, and that's the debt ceiling.

Because what I've noticed happens is and polling data bears us out when we're on the edge of going over the well, the fiscal cliff, Americans surveyed don't think it's a big deal. And I believe the reason they don't think it's a big deal is because not only do most Americans not understand that issue, but they become desensitized to all the government shutdowns that happen. So when we're about to not raise the debt ceiling on schedule like we need to, most Americans who are only halfway paying attention, they assume that's the same thing as a government shutdown.

They don't understand that government shutdowns are bad, but very bad, but actually not raising the debt limit and going over the fiscal cliff would be catastrophic. Like I'm you know, I might sound a little hyperbolic when I say global economic armageddon, but talk to an economist, I'm not really being that hyperbolic. I mean that really is basically what it would be if we ever default on our debt, which we've never done. Jeff Nyan joins us in the Facebook Lave chat, as well as Carol Zo Warawitz.

Hello. I always see Carol too, well, not always necessarily, but I did see Carol I think Friday night in the chat room for retro Spectrum Radio with poly C

just a little bit more on this. So we've got a great guest sur No seven hour. But I'm sorry, what November seventeenth is the new date for shutdown? Okay, I was just checking to see what it was. Yeah. Government will now continue operating until November seventeenth unless lawmakers pass another spending bill before then, and they can't even vote on a speaker to agree with. This is why I'm worried. Yeah, oh yeah, this is why I'm worried. We're literally thirty one days away. Approximately thirty one days away.

Yeah, so that's looming. We can't It's like it's they're doing nothing. They're they're great at talking to microphones. They got that down. Pat

Jim Jordan likes to put on his little show of look how big and bad I am. Yeah, he's gone back on a number of things already that he always claimed to, you know, like I'm a speaker's vote should never come to the floor until you have the number of votes, And now it's his name on the ballot, and he's like, Oh, we're going to have the vote anyway. We're gonna do it anyway. Skipping down in this article a bit, it says Jordan is not out of the woods just yet. He still faces some opposition within the conference, and a number of his colleagues are keeping their cards close to their chests, setting the stage for a close race when the Ohio Republican goes to the floor Tuesday.

If all House members vote, Jordan can afford to lose only four Republicans. Representative Carlos Jamenaz of Florida said today he intended to support McCarthy on the House floor, even though the ousted speaker does not plan to seek the gavel again, and Representative Steve Womack of Arkansas, an appropriator who called Jordan polarizing last week, is not yet giving Jordan his public support. He told CNN in an interview today, quote, You'll know how I vote when I vote. I know there are concerns from the Appropriations Committee unquote on Jordan serving as speaker.

Yeah, that makes sense because the Appropriations Committee, that's you know, that involves the money, and Jim Jordan is probably going to well, I mean, you know, fiscally, he's going to be to the right of where Kevin McCarthy was. Yep, Melanie, Uh, Melanie said in the chat room, I got to clean this up a little bit, but she said, Uh, can you imagine being pregnant for nine months, doing everything you can, have a healthy baby, and Jim Jordan out Well, well, I assume he didn't come out as Jim Jordan.

You know, he had to grow into that, says here. Jordan indicated he would proceed to a House floor vote for speaker at noon tomorrow, regardless of whether he has to the two seventeen he needs. Jordan told CNN today, quote, we will go to the floor tomorrow. It's not about pressuring anybody. It's just about we've got to have a speaker. You can't open the house and do the work of the American people and help our dearest and closest friend Israel. If you don't have a speaker unquote, well there's something we can agree on.

The war that broke out in Israel is one factor putting pressure on Republicans to break their opposition to Jordan for the House to move on legislation to address the crisis. Another is exasperation with the drawn out process of choosing a McCarthy replacement. Chatter is also increased. Now this is interesting. I don't think this is going anywhere, but it says. Chatter is also increased among moderate GOP members about cutting a deal with Democrats to empower Speaker pro Tem Patrick McHenry of a Republican of North Carolina, to move legislation of the House floor, or even work with Democrats on another kind of compromise.

Wagner wrote in her statement announcing support for Jordan. Quote, too much is at stakedown control of the House over to radical liberal Democrats, which is why we must elect a conservative as an ex speaker unquote. Wilson McHenry, a conservative. Jordan, meanwhile, is pushing a unity message, he wrote in a Dear Colleague letter to Republicans on Monday, quote, the country and our conference cannot afford us attacking each other right now. In one notable line, Jordan wrote, he would quote make sure there are more Republican voices involved in our major decisions beyond the five families unquote leaders of the That sounds very mob like leaders of the quote five families the idiot.

Yes. The five main ideological caucuses in the House GOP were heavily involved in negotiations and discussions with McCarthy over various policy issues. This year. Jordan was the founding chairman of one of those groups, the House Freedom Caucus. See that's that tells you all you need to know. But that that's very scary to me, Jim Jordan is it would be very dangerous. As speaker, I firmly believe he'll take us right into a government shutdown, and when the time comes, he will take us into default.

Yeah uh yeah, or or Biden can try to invoke the fourteenth again. This is why the Democrats should have saved McCarthy. It just would have been the safer option. I understand why they didn't, but they should have. They should have sucked it up and just done it. Scott Robinson in the chatroom says it's too bad the normal Republicans won't hold Jim Jordan hostage like those weirdos held McCarthy hostage. Yeah, well that's the thing. Yeah, that's true, Scott. It it it Uh, it's very very difficult. That is something I've noticed just generally, and and I I think there's a couple of reasons, but it is very difficult for moderate Republicans to stand up to uh, to these House Freedom Caucus people who I think are very dangerous, you know, I mean if they stand up to Jim Jordan.

You know, Jim Jordan is Trump's choice. So any of these people who stand up to Jim Jordan or or say, uh, you know, we we oppose him, you know, they run the risk of being given an insulting nickname and uh and and Trump effectively ending their political careers. Because you know, once once uh, once Trump decides he hates somebody, then you know everyone who's MAGA is also expected to hate that person. And then you know, it's very dangerous to to stand up to Jim Jordan. Uh in that way good will come of him being a speaker.

Yeah, I don't uh, yeah, I don't feel good about any of this. It does say here again, skipping down because we're almost at the top of the hour. Jordan is also getting a boost from McCarthy, with whom he had become allies over the past several years after challenging him for the oucp's top spot in twenty eighteen. While the ousted speaker had voiced skepticism about the ability of Scalie to reach two hundred and seventeen votes last week, he is now bullish on Jordan. McCarthy said this morning, I'm sorry yesterday morning on Fox News quote, I feel very good about where Jim Jordan is at now.

That surprises me because I would have thought McCarthy would feel better about Steve Scalise than Jim Jordan. But I guess they were. McCarthy and Scalise were at odds a bit on some things. That surprises me too, actually, But yeah, but I'm a little bit surprised. But scary stuff. All right, we're gonna play. We're gonna play a track. I think I might have seen a musician in the hallway. I'm not sure, but if he's if I did not, I'm sure he's arriving any moment. But we're gonna play something from This is called put Me Under.

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Welcome back, everybody. We are into our number two New Marrow dose of Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester. And hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. Did I say channel I said ninety seven to night channel six. I'm still doing it. We're on Comcast channel yes, yes, channel six, which is quite an upgrade actually, so I don't know why I keep living in the past and saying ninety seven.

And of course hello to al of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connorton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact and fos, show archives, etc. Etc. Today is Monday, October sixteen, twenty twenty three. Jenny is here at the news desk, President accounted for and on the couch we have our great musical guest today, Quincy Lord is here. How are you, sir? I'm doing all right. How are you? What's going on? Doing well?

Doing well? And of course you are here from the band Sunset Electric. That's the one I did play one of your acoustics songs. I mean, I'm sorry, one of your solo songs. Rather, at the top of the show today at four o'clock, I played was it one night Stand? Oh yeah, that's a fun one. Yeah, yeah, that's a really cool song. I usually open with a try to find something you know, around five minutes to open the show, and I found that. I was like, oh, I really like that a lot. And of course today we're featuring music from your band, Sunset Elect and uh, we're gonna play in a little bit that track that the n uh in with two n's I N N and at least two you could do seventeen.

It doesn't really get the idea. Well then it would be the end. But uh, yeah, I really uh, I really like your band quite a bit. And uh and uh we should tell listeners too. You brought your acoustic guitar. So looking forward to hearing you play in a little bit too. Absolutely, that'll be very cool. I do, yes, yes, tell me about uh, tell me about Sunset Electric. What do you do in the band and uh? And who else is in it with you? Yeah, So it's a fun project. We've been going uh with this iteration of the band.

Previously had been like the Quincy Lord Band or something like that. Uh, We've been going for a little more than a year like this. I write most of the songs. I do the lyrics. Uh, But I'm one of four and a half people in the band. We have a my musical co writer there. The big one is uh just five, dear friend of mine. He Uh. We played together for years as an acoustic duo, playing all the breweries and bars and all that. I have Dan Morno on the bass guitar. We call him Smiles. He love him on stage like he's just always the whole time, big, big smile and a bunch of energy in the band comes from our drummer, Al Francis.

Uh. Justin and Al played together in a Beatles tribute band for a long time, so we've all known each other. The three of them were much closer as teenagers and I was kind of like had met them and then you know, passed five eight years something like that. We've known each other then. The half member we have a my friend Justin mckinnessy played some keys on a record. Sometimes he pops up live. Sometimes he doesn't, you know, so here you're not. We don't need him, but when he's there, it's nice. It's nice.

But yeah, it's a great group. We all have a lot of fun playing together and a lot of chemistry helps. You know. We're all friends and we're kind of friend before we started doing this, and we've played in different bands and iterations of this band together. So it's a lot of fun. We do a lot of you know, alt rock. We try and have a lot of energy. We love playing live. It's a good time. Yeah, you've got a great sound. Great sound. If you have any questions at all for Quincy questions or feedback or anything, the studio line is open six O three two five oh six oh seven six O three two five oh six oh seven.

You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connorton. You can email me Matt at Matt connorton dot com. And of course you can interact end Opine in the Facebook live chat, but give us a call. The studio line is open six O three two five O six oh oh seven. And looks like you've got some some fans. You're getting some love in the chat room already. Tina Donovan joins us and gives a thumbs up. Rachel Hall. I assume it's rachel Or. Maybe it's Chee Michelle Oh, Rachelle Hall, Rochelle, Hi, Rochelle Hi, Tina Rochelle should be in here.

Yeah, Rachelle says, welcome Quincy. Uh do you know Hans Smith from the on Sepsis? I'm familiar with my I believe my friend Zach just joined that band recently. I haven't met anyone else from the band, but uh okay, Yeah. Hans is in the chat room and says I dig that music. Hell yeah, so he likes what you're doing. I see Amy Raymond also in the Facebook live chat. Hello, Hello, Hello, let's see. Yeah, so you're getting a lot of getting a lot of support in there. That's good. Now do you still do are you still doing the acoustic thing in terms of live shows, I mean the I keep making that mistake the solo thing.

Are are you still doing that and the band or yeah? Absolutely? I uh you know it keeps it going, and you know the relative of it is uh, you know. I play music because I love playing music, but the band is really about the creativity and the energy and writing music and sharing people when you know, creating that moment. And if I'm being aus here like the acoustic thing will pay the bills, ye going to bars. I'll play my own music, but I also play covers and you know, play the game and do the thing.

So I do that. I'm a what kid? So I have this week. I believe Friday I'm at tackle Box in Marlboro, Mass. Sunday, I believe I'm at a frog brewing in Swansea. So yeah, I play a lot of breweries around Hillsboro and Worcester Counties, and I have a great time with it. And it's always an adjustment because I spent so long playing acoustic solo and you have like this freedom to like, oh you have an idea, like halfway through a song, you can just roll with it, or you know, you forget a line and you're like, well, I'm just going to play this cord and extra bar.

I can't do that with the band, you know. I get the dirty looks of like, oh you mess this up, buddy, and I'm like, just just rolling. It's going to be okay. So yeah, I still have that going. It's a good thing. I'm actually going to be this winter doing a solo record just because there's some songs I've written that don't necessarily fit with what the band's doing. And uh, you know, we did that whole album ourselves. We recorded it, mixed it, we mastered it, We did everything on our own, so it's a big undertaking, you know, when there was a learning process and a lot of fun.

But like, if I do an acoustic record, like there can be a lot less going on, it'll be less daunting. Yeah, and there's gonna be some acoustic versions of songs from this record too, so yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, but I always like to have multiple projects going. I love all sorts of genres and music, and yeah, I don't want to be pigeonholed, you know, to one thing right right, which I think is wise. Rhianna snow Cone snow Cone McCartney in the chat room says, Quincy, can I get your number?

Oh my, oh my, yes, And that's my partner of the last eight years or so. But whenever she's at a show and she's works at this bar where I play, and I always make a big scene of asking her for her number and trying to embarrass her in front of people. And yeah, it's always so this is her trying to get back at me. I gotcha. I gotcha. By the way, have you ever met anyone else with the name Quincy? It's not a name. Actually once one time and my partner is very excited to introduce us because she had met someone and it was a two month old baby that was named Quincy.

And she's like, there it is. But it's one of those names, you know, where it's unique enough that people always have to like, oh, the one other Quincy they've heard. Like people come up all the time like, oh, Quincy Jones or doctor Quincy or John Quincy. Adams is like, people, Quincy, you know Quincy Jones. What's going on? I'm like, leave me alone. Yeah, it's just not a name. You hear a lot, I hear it a lot. Yeah, justin fife is in the chatterman says, I'll give you his number. I have it. There you go that that would be my bandmate.

Yes, Now what does he do in the band again? He plays guitar, he sings. He's one of those annoying people who has perfect pitch. So like I let him do all the harmonies, and I'm like, okay, you sound good and do things in one take all take my time, right right. He's wonderful and he used to before Al joined a band, he was actually our drummer. So he's a oh mayn of many talents. Oh gee, So he's got a perfect pitch and he can play multiple instruments, and he's pretty annoying. If you're like, all right, one hundred and twenty six ppm, he'll get it pretty close.

And I'm like, this away, it's like a prodigy. Damn. Well he's jealous of I'm funnier though, so it's okay, well there you go. So it balances out. Now. I'm a I play bass and I can play a little bit of guitar, but I'm always super jealous of people who can like play multiple instruments, and likewise, I have perfect pitch and then the whole deal. Uh yeah, Justin says, oh shucks. Now, where does the name come from? Sunset Electric is there? It sounds like a name that would have a story behind it a little bit.

So actually, I'm going to be tell the truth here, possibly to my bandmate chagrin that there's the four of us with voting power. Again, Justin McInnis less important, doesn't have voting power. Yeah, I got out voted on the band name on this one. So oh. There had been a song I wrote called sun Sylllectric and it was a story about a It was basically the idea was that sun Sylllectric was an imaginary club and it's a song about going out, dancing and coming out and just it's a fun song. But the name of the song was sun Sylllectric and my bandmates were like, hey, you know, they don't make a pretty good band name, and I'm like, yeah, but this isn't a song I want.

You know, like, if you listen to a band the first time, like okay, you listen to like their top songs on Spotify or whatever, and then you look up the one if you see one that has their band name, you're like, oh, let's check this out. It's usually their worst song, like Black Sabbath is Black Sabbath, don't want to hear it right, And I'm like, this isn't a song. I like the song. It's a lot of fun. I don't want to represent a band, so I had to change the lyrics to that song. Oh, which is now on the record has let Me Fall okay, which is fine.

So anyways, that's where it came from. It was like my idea for like an imaginary club. It's just an idea I had. It was a weird song. It was a little different for our vibe. But uh that that's how it came to be. So you say you got out voted, So did you have a different band name in mind? I love rejected band name. It's just so much fun. My partner has the great list of them here. But the ones off top I had the name for the record. Graffiti Hearts was one that we had talked about for a while. We also went to the Centro.

I was one I really liked. Which is the botanical name for bleeding hearts. Oh, I'm pointing out my arm for all you people who aren't watching. Yeah, there's a tattoo at my arm doesn't look like that naturally, but I was of the opinion that that's not too marketable. Also kind of sounds like a hardcore band. Yeah yeah, people wouldn't know how to spell it noess right, that's so I'm like, all right, we gotta keep it simple. And some sat electric like took a little while to get used to, because at first people usually think like, are they saying that wrong?

Like those words don't make sense together. But yeah, now it's just you know, natural to hear. Yeah, yeah, And I like the logo. Who designed the logo. I have a friend beca Minnie that works at a North Point printing and her coworker Nick, she she she was at one of my shows and she was like, hey, like, you guys need some merch And I'm like, well, yeah, but we haven't gotten there yet, and she's like, I'll hook you up and so excuse me. Her friend Nick went and designed that for us, and yeah, it's really cool.

I like the two fonts together. Yep, it's just a cool thing. So we got fortunate with a you know, kindness of a stranger. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that always helps absolutely And where so now tell me about the album. So it's called what is it again? Graffiti Graffiti Hearts, Graffiti Hearts. Yeah, yeah, So I'm very excited for this record. It's a it's a combination of songs that I had written in years past and it never done anything with or didn't quite have them finished, and maybe like half the songs that were actually written for the record, But it's been great to hear how they you know, change and come to life with this iteration of the band.

And like I said, some of the songs like the end that we were talking about that you're playing for the very first time today, they're excited when we wrote that. Justin Fife, my guitar player now with the perfect pitch and all annoying in that was my drummer. So it's just me and him and our blast player Dan just jamming out and it just kind of came about. But then watching you know, what al my current drummer did with a song was just very cool to see how it changed and everyone adding their flavors to it.

Because a lot of these songs I come in and I've already written them, start to finish and yeah, you know, and I love the whole process. I love the mixing and mastering and all that. I hear a lot of times when I'm writing. Though I'm hearing like the finished song, I'm like, okay, I know what everything needs to do. And that's part of compromise with having a band, is like, ye, you can't be that much of a jerk and be like all the time, I'm gonna get some comments from my band here, but can't always you know, you have to let them do their thing.

Sure, but it's fun. And then there were some of the songs like dark Waves is one. I believe I had sent you over a lot of fun because Okay, I have like an idea for a song and then I, you know, I demoed part of it and played my bad drums on the E kit and brought to the band were like okay, well and then everyone just got you know, kind of free rein to do their thing. And it's way cooler because they did, because yeah, they did way different stuff than I would have come up with, and that, you know, I think that's important when you're making music.

But Dumb School has a lot of themes of uh, there's themes of nostalgia. There's a lot of me complaining about my mental illnesses and such, which you know, I think is important to share and put into words. And then you know, just to break the tension, there's a couple of songs they're just on there for fun. So yeah, I think it's a good mix. I like when you know, I like my own music. What can I say? Like, I'm trying to make music that I want to hear so and hopefully that other people want to hear also.

So I'm very excited for it. And you know, we're working on new songs for the next one. But uh yeah, Now when does Graffiti Arts come out? It's not out yet right right, We don't have the exact date. I believe we're aiming for November twenty eighth. Though the hold up has been the album art. I'm terrible at procrastinating things. I've been so focused on, you know, the mix and the songs and the part, the creative part I really like, Yeah, and so that kind of took a back seat. But yesterday we went and actually took the photos.

Okay, so now we just need to decide. You know, there was just a somewhere in Western mass this abandoned warehouse full of graffiti and stuff, and I'm like, all right, this is this is the right vibe for this. Let's and so we went there and took a bunch of photos and had a good time. All the classic things happened. Cop showed up. There was a really h yeah, there's a big white deer with the great antlers that like ran through the place. As we're there, We're like, don't stab us, but good to see you.

Oh wow. At the same time as the cop showed up too, so we're like, it might have like east attention there, but were they chasing the deer? One? I think it's pretty normal that people go to that abandoned warehouse. They were cool. They were like all right, take your pictures and go home. We're like, all right, yep, yeah, yeah, they were very nice. Oh that's good. That's good. Yeah. Rachelle in the chatroom says Quincy is a fabulous musician and person live, either acoustic or with his band, even just hanging out with live sans music is excellent.

His favorite word is that true? That's your favorite work. I don't think I've heard of you say it once yet today. Well, it's an excellent word. At the very least, there you go. That's very very sweet of Youelle. Yes, and Tina Donovan is asking can you pre order the album? Yeah, I'll be posting all that info once we have it, little patience. Yeah, well, you know, I mean it's it's a lot of work. People don't realize how much work it is. I mean, it isn't you know. There's only so much you can outsource for you.

It depends on how much control you want to have, right. Oh yeah, I you know, I want to learn, as in the early seasons here, I want to learn as much as I can about the whole process. So yeah, I'm like, well, let's uh, let's do as much of his as we can ourselves. I'm you know, I'm probably gonna do pay for some you know, campaigning and promotion just to help push it out into the world. But yeah, it's been a fun process. I'm very excited for it. Yeah yeah, cool, Well, brought your guitar, do you want to play something for us?

And then and then in a little bit we'll do the premiere of the Inn, which I'm looking forward to sharing with everybody. A great track, but also very very much looking forward to hearing you play live in studio with us if you're just joining us. Quincy Lord is here. He is live in studio. We've been talking about not only his his solo stuff, but of course he's in a fabulous band, an excellent band, I should say, Sunset Electric and uh, we've been playing some of their tunes too. But he brought his guitar and what are you what are you gonna play for a squincy?

So this is a song. How can you hear me? Like? This? Second? Perfect? Perfect? Great? So this is I believe this is an opening track to the record something I should know. Uh. This one is called at Liss and it's a song I wrote. One of those songs that came out pretty quickly. You know there's some that like I hammered away at on off for years, or you do a bit and then you pick it up later. It's one of those ones that's just like, okay, like a day or two. I just kind of hammered it out. It's called Atlas.

It's about my ADHD and anxiety and not just what a mess it kind of makes in my life, but my concerns with it and with the medication of it, and also how it affects those around me and kind of being honest with myself about that. So yeah, it doesn't mean I'm gonna make any changes about it. But right, but all right, I hear a sigh every time I drift away my thoughts could hide

and the worst side off the boot page I can lost in space and my trying to break freeth anon. It's not easy putting up when I interrupt their minds. I forgotten anyway, count in my guilt what he asks if by boucat so I shove it to wait, let Alice on and on ontil it leave out saying the fars of our homes not much I I enjoy since a numbness built the boy. Well, I just can't hide. Try up off the sleep it's spent hunting to me. My friend has these pills. I know she's just try him to help. No, but I'm afraid selling me less of myself.

Mister my ma guess somewhere inside me, let's seeing maintain I say, wakes up bees peace, And there's the bosting in my head. Thou won't stop until I'm dead. Then a thing to once gets clost to me this ropin peace of minds? Will I repeat ween not? What is me, what is my ses? It's been hen into me? Well, I'm lost that so it's spaking to me and I can ask for help.

No, well, I'm not adless. It's whetty cool guitar solo is

springing in my ears. That ben happen me is there's a trouble that can sucks this symphon name and it's broken. Peace of nice while I be between the lines, all love one is me? One is my disease? It spenhidding to me. Well, I'm lost my it's spen heetding to me, and I can't ask for help. So I'm not myself that I'm not auss. No, I'm not maself. Let him not out loss. Well I'm not adless. Well love that Wow, very nice? Thank thank you. You need a hand, No, I got it. Quincy's headphones fell off while he was while he was singing.

He was really into it. The headphones kind of kind of went it went backwards. Well done. That was fantastic. I love that. I love thank you, Thank you. That's really good. That's really good. I'd enjoyed watching the headphones comically and slowly fall off my head. That was great. If you're just joining us we have Quincy Lord in studio with us, and now that's that's gonna be on the Sunset Electric album. Graffiti Hearts that is, it's a bit noisier and a lot more guitar stuff going on. It's a came out very much like a Gaslight Anthem song if you're familiar at all, but uh, yeah, it's gonna be on the record.

It's a very fun song and like I said, it's for me. It's a song that's very vulnerable and open about yeah, myself. So that's an important one, you know, again, trying to balance out the songs they're just fun and the ones that, like you know, make you feel things. I'm like, all right, let's yeah, yeah, no, I got Youah. DJ Steve is in the Facebook live chat and says, Hi, Matt, this is great of course from retrospect from radio with poly C on Friday nights, but he's really enjoying you. And Legion of Solace in the chat room says when the album comes out, send us the links and will help you get the word out.

Very nice, Yeah, much appreciated, very kind of you. Well, I think what we should do now is because it's going to be about four to thirty. I think we should are five thirty rather. Sorry I'm in the wrong time zone. I think we should go ahead and do the world radio premiere of this track the end Now? Is this the first single from the upcoming album this Is and the officially it's coming out Wednesday and all your streaming platforms excellent. Yeah, it's a good one. Do you want me to talk about the song now or after?

Oh? Yeah, go ahead, and anything you want us to know about it now, go ahead. Yeah. You know, it's just a fun song, like we kept it simple. It's kind of we have a lot of fun playing this live. It's one of those ear hooks that very early on our audience, you know, starts sing along too, and that's nothing feels better than you know, when you're a young band watching people sing along to the songs. But it's you know, it's about a bit of desperate race, you know what's inspired by this time. I won't tell the whole story, but my friend and I were like hiking through Vermont and uh ended up at this Uh his foot, he hurt his foot.

It was downpouring, we were lost, and we ended up knocking on a door and uh, woman who became a good friend of ours. Tamra I answered the door and uh just looked us in the eyes. She's like, you know, we're two, we're probably eighteen nineteen at the time, and here's a you know, sing a mom home with two kids. And we're like, oh, we like we knocked on a door looking for shelter we didn't know, and uh yeah, We're like, no, we'll go somewhere else nowhere, and she just looks us in the eye. She's like, look, meny and tell me I can trust you.

When we're like yeah, and so anyways, like it's not a direct the song's not directly about that, but that's the inspiration. Just like looking for a place to go, a place where you can uh rest your bones. Yeah, yeah, very cool, very cool. All right, So this is called the Inn. This is Sunset Electric, and this is UH on the upcoming album Graffiti Hearts. But this will be out on you said Wednesday. It's very good, so you're hearing it here first, my friends. This is the world radio premiere. This is great.

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That is so good? That is called the inn. The name of the band is Sunset Electric. That will be out on the streaming platforms on Wednesday. So you just heard it for the first time right here on Matt Connor to no ut least. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM. Jenny is here, of course, at the news desk with us,

and on the couch. He's holding his guitar because I asked him if he'll play another one. Quincy Lord from the band Sunset Electric is here with us in studio, and what do you want to play for us? Quincy? I'm gonna play you a song I put out on a record a couple of years ago called Songbird Blues. All right, it's a gotta lower this for the guitar and this song how it's fine, irony is. It's a song I wrote about writer's block. Yeah, having such a hard time writing a song, and you know, I guess it solved itself an inspiration from this song poem.

There's a I believe it's a sounger poem called a Girl I Knew, and there's a line in it about she wasn't doing anything I could see except standing there on the balcony holding the universe together. And you know that line is kind of what brought this song about. So yeah, it's a cool thing. But yeah, some bird inspiration, it's just too worthy. Days A prone, so tired and not too pron to run away. Still, I tell myself when I'm playing my songs, I could say the stakes, let the feeling slip away in conversation.

My songue has a mamat. There's no sensation when I let my fingers glide across these springs. I only hear mistakes. Every word I said is out on place, and the clock is shown me its face. She sings, Please lain late later nights on the balcony obsessed dressing lights that opposed me through because happened west in light one of us. It seems to pull me back to light. Wells he to okay, I hold her clothes as I try to sing, oh no, as I try to sing, oh no. And it's down this river. Well, once I came to pray, I find my SPoD here

nelscotes have gone away. And then as night where we always hide the tart as rich a ben trying to fight. Oh my god, in light A song bird from a midnight glass of wine seems so tired, So she is so kind? Well could she be mine? Songbird? Beating line she sings, please lay late later and night? Oh no, balcony obsessed rest in words, let it post me through because I burned, wasting light for the voice it sings the poot, that's light. What was the issue? I can now holds? I got try to sing a long home was sh My song but sings the blues.

My song bird sings the boots. My song perd sings my song versings, so I can sue the song but blues.

Oh my god, I love that. That was awesome. That is fantastic. I hope you enjoyed my head. Well you're nothing if not consistent.

Yeah, that's funny. Things have happened. No, that that is a great song, dude, I love that. I love that. If you're just joining us, we have a Quincy Lord here with us live in studio. Uh. He is from the band Sunset Electric and he also has some solo material. That was one of his solo songs that he's just played for us, and that is great. Ryan Glenn Hirsch in the Facebook live chat says whoop and uh Rachelle says wow with a couple three actually exclamation points. So very good. Is when you when you play out solo because you mentioned you know, obviously you do some covers when you play these various places, I assume you mix in a few originals.

Yeah. I usually, you know, if it's a three hour set, I try and to at least an hour of originals, But it depends on the day and some venues I play, you know, they don't they don't pay for all the different royalties, so it's a very limited set. I'm like, I'm just gonna play originals here, like yeah, yeah, I don't want to go through the bother of like, all right, what's be and my what's as cap? Like I know what mine are? Yeah, yeah, exactly. I assume that's one of them that you play out. Well, yeah, that's a that's a great song.

Now is there any crossover do any of your do any of the songs from your solo material also end up in Sunset Electric? Oh? Absolutely? We uh so there's none. We aren't. We haven't like re recorded anything for another album, but yeah, definitely live we play a lot of the solo material. I mean, like you listen to One Night's Stand, which was the most stripped down from that album. Yeah, there's a lot of you know, noisier stuff in there. But we play a lot of those songs full band live because you know, we have them.

All ever knows the songs. And Justin Feiffe, my guitar player, had played drums on about half of that record and harmonies and everything, because why wouldn't I use perfect pitch boy right right right? Anybody else from Sunset Electric who had played on your solo material or just Justin not at that point, I h I played pretty much everything except for the drums. I had my old drummer, Nikki played half of it, and Justin came in later to play and did some harmonies. I think he did a couple of random guitars and bass slayers too, but uh, at that point was just me.

But we did play Dan, Justin and I had, you know, played for a while as the Quincy Lord band, just playing those songs. Oh okay, but we never put the didn't put the same time and effort into it as we have been doing since with this project. So yeah,

yeah, no, it's great. It's stuff. Now how many how many songs do you have as a band with Sunset Electric? So we have ten tracks that are going on this record, Okay, you know there's more we're working on and something they're like, oh it's that song, you know, like maybe someday, But yeah, it's those ten main songs. And I'm looking forward to what we write in the future and what we're working on now, because, as I started to say earlier, a lot of those songs had already like kind of come to fruition for me before the band was even involved, and you know, they added their flavorings and such.

But I look forward to the ones where I can come to the band with it less filled out. You know, there's always those times you get an idea and you're like, I know everything that's gonna happen, and it's like, guys, fight me about it later, like we're doing it this way. You just learn it this way and then change it later, like let's get the idea out. But but I'm looking forward to seeing, you know, when they have more influence onto writing and a lot of cool stuff comes about because I can make songs that sound like me all day long, right while songs that sound like Sunset electric right right exactly?

And U and the album where was it recorded? Because it sounds various basements of ours? Really? Yeah? Yeah? So the drums, the drums are the only thing. We had tracked most of those up at with A. H. Anthony Semino at Mojo Studio, which is up in like East End if you remember where the Old Man in the Mountain was, I throw a rock at it from there pretty much. U. So we tracked some of the drums there, but all the editing, all the other tracking, all the mixing we did ourselves. You know, I've been fortunate to work with the past, with the a few very talented engineers.

Anthony's one of them, Chris Short, when I was living in Orlando. I recorded with him at a Pack of Ranch recording and he helped me with that the solo record. Both of them had worked on that solo record that We Were You One Night Stand was from. But you know, there's sometimes it's cool because, like I said, with the band at your flavor, like it's even more so with the engineer because if you go in without you know, entirely known to sound like by God, like these guys will make it sound great. Any you know decent engineer is going to be like, Okay, we have an idea, we'll make it shine.

But when you have an idea of how you want it all to sound, that's when it's okay. It's frustrating sometimes when you don't have the means. So that's why this record was like, I'm doing it myself. I will spend hours on this one sound if I need to. I'm not paying anyone. So yeah, I've really enjoyed the process of mixing and that's something I absolutely love doing. It's nice too that we live in a time where you can really do that, where you you know, you can do something where it's it's largely DIY, but it sounds like it was done in a million dollar studio, you know, I mean it really does.

It sounds it sounds fantastic. I appreciate the compliment. Yeah, yeah, Well what about the mastering? Did you do that yourselves? Sir? H yeah, Justin took care of that. My Wow, guitar player there, Justin Fife mentioned him again. Wow. Yeah, No, it sounds sounds fantastic. And and what went in that does to the decision to do a full ten song album, because you know, we also live in an era where there's different ways to approach it. Like like when I was growing up, it was, you know, bands would you know, do a do a full album and then go out on tour and then eventually record another album, maybe an EP once in a while you'd see show up, but mostly albums.

But today you know, you can do you can do albums, you can do EPs, you can just put out singles forever. You know, there's there's so many different ways that artists approach it. Now, what went into the decision to do a full album? Sure, you know, I don't think it was. I don't think we ever considered any other way to do it, you know, I love writing. I had the songs, we only needed to write a few more songs for the record. And yeah, even then, you know, there's you know, the shoebox trope of like unfinished songs in like, I have so many of those.

I could pull out any point if I just needed, like, all right, we need two more songs. It's record, let's see what's what's going to fit and just flip through. But yeah, yeah, no, it's just, uh, we wanted to do it. We wanted to. I like to to I and I think most of my band also where people who like to listen to an album start to finish, I want to go for the ride and yeah, all my favorite albums, you know, you go start to finish, like r EM's Automatic for the people, The Killer Sam Town, Born to Run, Like its almost like start to finish.

You're not gonna find a bad song on them, like right, Uh, there's also albums I love that there's songs I don't like on but regardless, I want to go for the ride and you get more. I think you get more diversely that way, Like there's definitely a few outliers on this album that I you know, it's still cohesive, but it's it's a different flavor. It gives you a break from the rest. Like you we heard put Me Under and we heard the End. You know, a couple of those are they're noisier, big guitars, like, more aggressive.

There's a couple more laid back ones. Got to play some piano and stuff in there. So yeah, but I like to go for the ride and get the get the whole picture route. And also I just I can't stop myself from writing, and I just want to ask him, I make this a fifteen song album. No, that's a great way of putting a though. Go for the ride. I like that, and I think I think there are a lot of people who feel that way, because, you know, ten years ago, a lot of people in the industry said, you know, albums are dead.

You know, eventually we're going to get to a point where there will not be any more albums. Everybody's just going to put out singles, and and you know, here we are, and people are still making Like I said, not everybody. You know, some people, actually, a lot of people I've had on the show, they approach it like they put out singles and then when they have enough singles, they take them and put them into an album. But doing that strategy. But yeah, there are a lot of artists who still, you know, they want to do the full album.

They want to you know, they want to kind of make that statement. And are you going to have any physical discs or will it strictly be online or no, we will we are going to be printing CDs. A lot of people can be a hard time for that. Get Like, you know, I've found and I've been hearing a lot about how vinyls or you know, vinyl sales are going up and CDs had dropped so much as it. Yeah, you know, I'm I'm going to be getting a new car, and I all my friends have new cars and none of them have CD players.

Like you have to go it's now like having a Vinyl Like you have to go out of your way to listen to a CD or to install a CD bet deck back in your car. Right, and you know, for the novelty of it, people at that point would rather do vinyl. Now, yeah, vinyl is way too expensive to print. Yes, so we're going to hold off on that one for now. But we are going to have CDs because it makes me happy and a lot of people just like having something, you know, how many apocalypse comes, you know, you can find the battery powered like CD player and you know, listen to it as the world's burning.

Well, it's fun to have the artwork and the liner notes and oh absolutely, yeah. Yeah. And with vinyl, I what I think is too a lot of people, probably most people, if I had to guess who do buy vinyl, they don't. They never open it because they're not going to play it. They just want it because you know, they really love that artist, and it's a it's a way to sort of it becomes like a collector's item. They want to collect what that artist is putting out. But yeah, I've heard it's very cost prohibitive, Like yeah, you know, it's a big investment.

Well, I find if you can if your band is large enough to do like a big run of them, like if you're going to be getting a thousand or more, like then you're fine. If you're smaller than that and you're trying to print like the thirty you might sell like you're gonna have to be selling them for you know, too expensive to be fair to your fans, right right, Yeah, So it is what is I never understood the collector mentality. Honestly, it's just not the way I am. Like, I accept other people live their lives differently than me, and that's perfectly fine.

But uh, I don't have a I don't have an LP. I haven't played you know, if I'm gonna buy and I'm gonna put it on, and I like to buy and support. You know, there's a lot of my favorite bands aren't huge, and like I want to support them. And I think that's also why people will buy our many CDs and merch when they're ready to support us so we can make another record. And you know, I try and be that person also for the bands love. So there you go. Mike Lachlan, a very talented musician, is in the Facebook live chat and Mike says, is that my brother.

I don't know if you know Mike Lachlan, but you do look a lot like him. That's weird. It didn't occur to me till he said that, But yeah, you could easily be related to him. I'll show you after the show. I'll show you a picture of him on my phone. Although in the picture I think he's wearing a hat, but he's accept I'm not wearing a hat, but yeah, but but you do look you even kind of talk alike a little bit. It's weird. And Melany La Liberty says, I'm like that too. When I buy underwear from prison inmates, I never open them.

I just let them marinate for years. Yeah, we all have hobbies, that's right, that's right, different strokes for different folks. I guess well we are. We are almost out of time, so we are going to play one more studio track, dark Waves, another great song that you sent us to play today. But I want to make sure people know. So, so when's day the single comes out? The end on all these streaming platforms yep, and then uh and the album is when the album's gonna be at the end of November, and I do want to throw out there.

Feel free to listen to them. There is We won't have a Spotify page until that album comes out. That single comes out on Wednesday. There is another Sunset Electric that just happened to put out a single a couple of weeks ago. Uh So if you follow up page now, it's gonna be the wrong guys. Check them out anyways. I'm sure they're cool dudes. I like the song I heard, but uh, follow our social media's for you know, the updates and when our actual page is up. But them, no Wednesday. Were actually gonna be playing at the shaskiing on Thursday with some friends of ours.

Excellent, just down the road. So uh yeah, very good, very good. Yeah I did I did see that other that other band. I think they're from South South Carolina. I think yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that was it. Yeah, I ignore them. I'm sure they're good. Guys. I think you didn't you interview Wired for Sound at some point. Oh yeah, they're playing with us on we We played with them a bunch of time. They're playing with us at the Shaskin. Oh, very cool, very cool. You know what I love about them. I just think it's so cool.

They've got that that nineties grunge sound but with a double bass drum. Yeah yeah, oh he goes crazy. Yeah. I'm always impressed. His legs must be like huge. I would have always impressed. Like a shows, He's just like, I'm like, you were going crazy, man. Yeah yeah, but you never hear that. You never hear nineties grunge, but with double bass like that, it's so cool. That's a cool vibe. They have a lot of energy. I always love playing with them. And yeah, they're big pedals in their big noises sound.

It's just a lot of fun. Absolutely absolutely, Quincy, this has been wonderful. Thank you so much, my friend. Yeah, thank you for having me. Absolutely absolutely, Jenny, did you want to mention anything before we go your website or absolutely absolutely jencoffee dot com, j E n n co f f y dot com. I do know how to spell my own name, she says you. And there's a new video up, and there are some remarks up on the Kwalski versus the John Hopkins All Children's Hospital case. Yes, and again, if you want to have a link or the hearing on the Senate Finance hearing on Wednesday, let me know.

I'd be happy to send you the invitation. We are going to be having a viewing party as they talk about us without us. Yes, yes, all right, very good, Thank you and thank you all. If you missed a new part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit at w mn H radio dot organ on my website Matt Connorton dot com. Thank you again, Quincy Lord from Sunset Electric and we will leave you with this. This is called dark Waves from Sunset Electric. To close out today's Matt Connorton Unleashed and I will talk to you a little bit later.

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