Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-18-23

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et cetera. Today is it is a Wednesday, October eighteen, two

thy twenty three. Jenny is going to be calling in in a moment talk.

Oh and Eric is on the Skype there, Eric Pilcher, my favorite

Conservative. Welcome sir, good after, good afternoon to you. I was

just saying too, Jenny's going to be calling in just for a few minutes

to talk about the hearing that happened today, and of course you and I

will do our usual thing after that as well. But welcome, how are

you feeling. You know, our v really isn't that bad. Yes,

you have RSV, which is uh what does that stand for respiratory something viral

something something? Yeah, for something virus. Ah, yes, Well,

at least you don't have the gone a herpasiful flu. That would be even

worse. Yeah, I mean they do the same test when you test for

COVID, you test for OURSV as well. Yeah. The only drawbacks they

said the symptoms can last for like two to three weeks. Oh wow,

that's a that's a long haul. I mean the average cold only last seven

to ten days two to three weeks. That sucks. That's lucky. And

they can't give you an antibiotic because it's a virus, right, so you

just, yeah, a kind of gotta deal with it. Let's see,

I'm just letting try. Oh, here we go. But yeah, it's

definitely uh it's been just like really bad cold. Yeah, it's the best

way to put it. Isn't anywhere close to COVID, at least in my

experience. Well that's good. At least Jenny is on the line with us

speaking of health issues and such. Hello, oh Jenny, can you hear

me? Sorry, that was my faults with my phone. Yeah. Actually,

today was actually a really cool day in that on Monday I told you

guys about having a meeting with Senator Hassen's one of our senior aides and our

own Miriam actually shared information about what happened with one of her family members and

how they were almost harmed by one of these Medicare disadvantage or so called advantage

plans. And Senator Hassen was really actually paying very good attention and utilize that

information today in the here and she spoke about Miriam and what had happened in

her family's situation, and that the Senate needs to act and stop these predatory

calls and predatory advertisements from happening, especially with people in our society who are

vulnerable. You know, these insurance companies prey on them and promise things that

don't exist, or do fault to advertisement or push them into signing up for

one of these plans. And all too often, once you're on one,

unless you're in just a handful of states, you can't get off of it.

You'll be haunted by pre existing conditions. So it was really amazing and

Senator has and also talked about another family up in the northern part of New

Hampshire who had also been harmed by one of these ma plans. And it's

it was really great to see activism producing fruit. You know. Yeah,

yeah, we do what we do. We talk about things, we try

to raise attention, but it's rare that you actually get to see some good

fruit come of it, to see what you've been trying. You know,

there are a lot of people yesterday that were reaching out to people and trying

to get them to talk to their senators that sit on the Finance Committee for

this hearing. And incidentally, now that I've just said that the committee is

still is open to receive comments, you can actually write to them and they'll

they'll definitely read it. And it does go into the record regarding medicare advantage

plans and advertisements or sales tactics that are predatory or you know, promise the

world but don't deliver. Like, hey, free glasses, but it's not

really free glasses. That's not exactly how it works. Unless you want beginner

glasses for a child, because that's what they cover for lenses, right,

that's not what an adult needs. You can't have, you know, a

hair's breadth of reading in beginner Bifle in beginner Progressives. I'm sorry, it's

it's ridiculous. They don't they sell you on it, right, Oh,

you'll get free glasses if you choose our plan. They don't tell you is

that once you get off of traditional Medicare, you're done. You're stuck because

any pre existing condition is going to get used against you with the gap plans.

That's the thing. So you can go back to traditional, but you're

going to have that twenty percent you have to pay unless you get a gap

plan. But that's the one place in our healthcare that you can still use

a pre existing condition against somebody. Right, So hopefully we're going to make

some headway on this now. And it's it was a definitely it was a

nose under the camel's ten, if you will, because it was a chance

to finally open the door to some hearings and talking about what these plans are

doing, and hopefully you get to talking about how they're ripping off the American

public and they're sucking in Medicare dollars that they pocket as profit. Yep,

exactly, Okay, huge shout out to our very own Miriam. She's amazing

and she stepped up and she you know, used her rights as a citizen.

She spoke up, and it made it all the way to the Senate

in DC and now it's actually making a difference. So I'm super proud of

you, Miriam. If you're listening, thank you. Absolutely well done.

Well done, Miriam. And is the is the video up? Can people

go and watch this online? You can? It is up. I have

a link that I just got recently that actually goes to trying to see whose

website It goes to, Oh, okay, yes, actually I'll drop it

into the chat room. Okay, and you know, contact me if you

want it. So this is a link that actually takes you right to the

governmental website of the Finance Committee, so you can actually see the video right

from there. And I think you've got to get I think a bit over

an hour in there when Senator has the starts speaking and actually talks about some

New Hampshire families and like I said, our own Miriam, and you know

what concerns her and what she wants the committee to look like or to excuse

me to look at in order to try and rain this in. I mean

to put it bluntly, CMS has got plenty of laws on the box about

what these plans are supposed to do or not do, and they're certainly not

supposed to display themselves as a medicare, but they do. They try to

sell you as if this is a form of Medicare, and it absolutely is

not. So you know, this is huge that this has finally happened,

and you know, I encourage you. They're accepting comments until November eighth.

If you have any trouble wanting to do that, feel free to reach out

to me. Be happy to help you. It's an opportunity to where your

voice gets hurt on the hill and hopefully works towards decreasing the risks out there

that you know, in decreasing the harm, I mean, ultimately I want

to get rid of medicare advantage altogether. But in this moment, if we

can at least stop them from sucking people in and lying to them or giving

them false advertisement or false hope, we're at least stopping the harm in that

way. Yep. Exactly, all right, Well, very good, Well

done, and well done to Miriam as well, if she's listening or if

she hears this letter. Well done to both of you. Jenny, you

Wayne Miriam, awesome work. Thank you. All right, I will let

you guys have your By the way, hi to my favorite conservative. I

didn't give you a problem. Well, what you're doing it far bigger than

anything I would have to talk about today, believe me. Oh that's nice.

No, stop that. Everybody people are doing the same. I'm going

to be like other people and I'm gonna hang up now and be a listener.

All right, Jenny, thank you? Yeah, yeah, go ahead,

Eric back on what she was saying. You know, I've been pretty

open about this. I'm a Type two diabetic. Yes, and my work

place advertises on our company bulletin boards you can get free uh cgms with our

insurance. What's what's us? What's the CGM Continual Glue Coost Monitor. Okay,

but the CGM is really it's an outdated version. It's the Lee Bray

one and they make Lee Bray three NAP Like the app for Bray one won't

even work on my phone. Oh really, that's not good. So I

have state insurance as a secondary to cover what my work insurance doesn't. Oh

okay, I'm almost surprised they even have that in Iowa. Yes, we

do allow people. It's very stringent, and you literally every four months,

you have to turn in check stubs with every medications. Every four months they

make you do that. Wow, yep, every four months. I have

to submit my check stubs. Oh my god, what a pain. But

at least they have it. I have to print them off, mail them

in and I do it by priority mail, just so I can get tracking

to ensure they get it smart smart every four months. So and you have

to mail them in. So it's not something you can send them a likettronically,

No, it has to be mailed in. Cannot be scanned it,

God forbid. Government function in the present day. Yeah, it's like okay,

all right, and then like one time, then they call you for

a phone interview. Really every time every four months, yep, you have

to go through the phone interview and they're like, well, don't know why

you're sending it, why you send it priority mail? And it's like,

well, because knowing you guys, you would tell me that I didn't send

it in. And then I go to the Then I go to my then

I go to my pharmacy and I'm told I owe money, right, And

it's like and they're like, well, we understand that, but it does

put great string on our mail room to have to sign for priority mail.

And it's like, well, considering that it's my tax dollars that employ the

mail room. Wait, I wait, hold on, so somebody actually said

that to you it puts great strain on our mail room. So that's astonishing.

Wow did they did they preface that with, uh, well, you

know we are a government employees that No, I shouldn't say that, but

I just it's completely ridiculous. Oh my god. Wow, Actually you don't.

Well, you shouldn't have to sign for priority mail unless you request the

signature. What if you what if you did it without the signature requirement,

but just send a priority so you still get the track in. I don't

do it with the signature requirement. I think because it's going directly to a

state building. Ye, someone signed or to ensure there's nothing in it that

can harm anyone. Oh okay if I had the Yeah, well, whoever

asked to sign for it, it's probably an incredible strain on their psyche and

it ruins their day. Apparently. Yeah, well, you know what,

tough luck. No, I don't blame you at all let me make fifty

two thousand a year signing for mail at a state office. That's right,

That's right now, Eric, before we go any further now, as you,

I'm sure you remember last year we had a chat GPT. I asked

chat gpt to prepare a script to introduce you with What's that you said?

Last year? Matt? Oh? Did I last week? Did I say

last year? Yes? It was, well, you know time time is

relative, Well it was really not, but no, last week, I'm

sorry. Yes, last year, I don't think we had chat GPT.

Uh. Last week we asked chat gpt to prepare a script that I could

read as an official introduction for you. Make it a little bit more official.

But I was thinking about it. I wasn't that happy with with the

one last week because I think it left out some pertinent details. So I

want to do that again. But I want to add in a couple of

things here. So I've got chat GPT open on this computer, so I've

already started the prompt. That's what you call it. Of course, you

call it a prompt, write a script to introduce the My favorite conservative segment

with Eric Pilcher on the I'm like an intermediate typer. I'm not super fast,

but not step on the Matt Connorton Unleashed radio show. Now here's the

important thing. I think we should include some pertinent details about you that should

go into the into the introduction. So I was also going to add to

the prompt include, Uh, let's see that you endorsed Chris Christy. Should

we include that? Let's not let's not talk about past mistakes. Oh you're

Oh, I'll have to follow up with you on that. I'm curious why

why you say that? Okay, how about include that his favorite wrestler is

Brett the Hitman Heart Uh? And uh? Well what else? What else

do we make sure? Oh? And and of course that you do the

classic film reviews. Uh? Yes, appro your universary of that at the

end of this month. Yes, yes, classic film reviews. Uh,

let's see lead. Uh guitar is in Jerry and the Scumbags. Yes,

we have to include that and uh oh and how about this? How about

if we say and regrets endorsing Chris Christy. How's that sound? No,

I don't regret it. It's just at the last Republican debate he said something

and I literally did the the double face palm like both hands because it was

just so cringe. I know exactly what it is, but we'll we'll,

we'll, we'll talk about it. But I'm pretty sure I know what it

is. We may have even talked about it before. I'm not sure,

but okay, so and may or may or may not regret endorsing Chris Christy.

How's that. Yes, that's fine. I'm surprised that you you have

it brought it up, but yeah, I'm really open to talking about it

because I'm I actually missed that debate in Dirk Don sent me the video and

he's like, it's your guy, and I'm like, oh, he said,

so he said something good and I clicked it and I watched it and

I'm just like this, this is how a candidacy ends. All right,

Well, let's see what we Oh, I'm sorry, yes, go ahead.

Well we'll go ahead with thept I'm interested, all right, So I've

clicked generate. We'll see what it comes up with. But we're gonna do

this, right. I have another surprise, got a little music for you,

A little for the background here. You're gonna like this. Ladies and

gentlemen, Welcome back to another exciting episode of the Matt Connerton Unleashed Radio Show.

We've got a fantastic segment lined up for you today and it's a fan

favorite, my favorite conservative Now you know me. I love to bring you

a diverse range of opinions and personalities, and today's guest is no exception.

Please give a warm welcome to the one and only Eric Pilcher. Eric,

it's always a pleasure to have you on the show. Now, before we

dive into the political chatter, I hear you're a man of many talents and

interests. First off, tell us about your love for professional wrestling. I've

heard you're a big fan of Breatha, Hitman Heart. And then you're supposed

to it actually wrote me an actual script, not an introduction. So then

you're supposed to say a bunch of stuff, and then I say, indeed

we do. In addition to being a wrestling aficionado, I understand you're quite

the movie buff. You do classic film reviews fantastic. Now here's something that

might surprise some of our listeners. You're not just a commentator, you're a

musician too. You're the lead guitarist in a band called Jerry and the scumbags.

That's pretty cool. Eric. Finally, before we delve into the political

discussion, I have to ask you've been known to have some mixed feelings about

your past endorsement of Chris Christie. Well, there you have it, folks.

A man of many talents and perspectives, Eric Pilcher, It's always a

pleasure to have you on the show, and I can't wait to hear what

you have to say during My Favorite Conservative Today. Stay tuned, folks,

because My Favorite Conservative with Eric Pilcher is coming up next. There we go.

How do you feel about that one? I like it, especially since

we included something about bresta hit me and Heart, who was probably my first

ero. Oh yes, yes, he's my number two, as you know,

as we've discussed before, my number one is macho man Randy Savage,

but bret'sa a close number two for me. But now, speaking of heroes

or uh, and I don't mean uh, I don't mean the person you

endorsed. I mean the person he referred to or the cartoon character. Rather,

I assume you're referring to Chris Christie's Donald Duck moment. Oh man,

oh why it was extremely cringe. Yeah, I did talk about that on

the show, but I guess I didn't think to mention it when we had

you on after the debate to talk about that, But that he said it,

or that smug grin that he had after he said it. Yeah,

it was very cringe, very very cringe. I was. I was sitting

there and I'm like, now I know how Howard Dean's supporters fell back in

two thousand and seven. Yeah, well, here, let's if I can

find Oh, here we go. Yeah, for people who either don't know

or just don't remember, I'll play the clip of it, and you're right,

his facial expression at the end is particularly cringe. Listeners can't see that,

of course, but you know, they can always go and look it

up online if they haven't seen it. But he he has a look on

his face like, oh that really I really killed with that one. Yeah,

this is whatded me of man. I bet guy, oh, the

disgusting guy in the off the disgusting guy in the office who're in the elevator

with that passes gas and wants to laugh that he did it, but gives

just a little grin. Right. Yeah, that's a good analogy. It

reminded me of the time years many years ago when Roman reigns, because it

was scripted for him, had to say suffering suck atash On in a promo

that was a Vince mcmanu Vince McMahon idea apparently. But yeah, let's that

was that was very bad. Now, let's play this for anyone who doesn't

know or doesn't remember why. It's a little refresher. This is Chris Christie

at his most cringe. Progressive prosecutors were elected by their constituents and they can't

be fired by a president. So what would you do to end the revolving

door of criminality? Well, look, Dana, the only one on this

stage who has done it. For seven years. I ran the fifth largest

office in this country, at the US Attorney's Office in New Jersey, and

we set records for the number of prosecutions that we brought that still have not

been broken. And the reason was that we went after the crime that was

affecting people's lives. And as president, I will point an attorney general and

it struck that Attorney general that you are to put all the resources that are

necessary to bring our cities back under control. The fact is they will be

stretched. There's no doubt about that. But that's what they take the job

for because they love the idea of enforcing the law. We've got to bring

long order back to this country, and not just in our cities. Sorry

everybody for the wind up. This is a longer version of the clip.

I didn't realize that. But we're almost to the we're almost to the money

shot there, and we needed in Washington to see also. And Donald Trump

should be here to answer for that, but he's not. And I want

to look at that camera right now and tell you, Donald, I know

you're watching. You can't help yourself. I know you're watching, okay,

And you're not here tonight. Not because of polls and not because of your

indictments. You're not here tonight because you're afraid of being on the stage and

defending your record. You're ducking these things. And let me tell you what's

gonna happen you keep doing that. No one up here is going to call

you Donald Trump anymore. We're gonna call you Donald duck. Hey set Oh

so bad? Actually everything was, Everything was good up until that last part.

Yes, And you know there was like a moment of fear I have

Yeah, when he was talking, and then he's like, anytime a politician

says, I'm going to look right at that camera. Oh yeah, no,

good, it's coming out of this. Yeah that's true. Uh,

that's true. You know something cringe is coming okay, you know, because

they make it bigger than what it actually is, right, and it's like,

oh no, do not do this. Look at your feet, look

at Nikki Haley, look at the flag, look at the wall, look

somewhere else. But no, and then you called him Donald duck. You

know what. It also reminded me of a little bit. So this is

I think I have the right clip here. I didn't pre listen to this.

This is from a twenty sixteen debate. And uh, I don't know

if you've heard this, Eric, or if you remember this, or if

the listeners will, but let me just play this. This one's definitely short,

I promise, and then I'll tell you what I find cringe about it.

We're gonna ran down of the White House this wall. Oh that was

uh oh that was very short. And then it went to something else,

did it? Did you? Were you able to hear that? Eric?

Yeah, I vaguely remember that. The I remember the audio on that wasn't

very good. I'm sorry, Yeah, go ahead, but if you're like

just just say the other word, like you're on cable TV, like kick

your rear end. You sound like my grandfather when if he's had if he's

had some valume and then he gets mad at oh, that's not the thing

that I found very cringe about it, and and other people pointed this out

too at the time. What I found cringe about it is so he's he's

he's says he's he's doing that thing you were complaining about where they were a

politician says, I'm gonna speak directly into the camera. So he does that,

and then he says he says he's talking to Barack Obama, and he

says, you know, come this November, we're gonna kick your rear end

out of the White House. And what was cringe about that was, dude,

Uh, he's in his second term. He's leaving, no matter what.

You don't have to kick him out. He's going to be leaving.

You're talking about him like he's an active candidate, he's this is it for

him. And that's what was so cringe about it, And what made it

even more cringe was knowing that the only reason he was even going out of

his way to say something about like something like that was because Republicans were still

mad at him for actually, you know, being friendly to Obama when Obama

went and visited after Hurricane Sandy, went and visited New Jersey and they shook

hands and you know, the quote unquote hug and all of that. So

that was to make up for that. But but it was just like,

dude, you don't have to kick him out of the White House. He's

leaving on his own accord. He understands when the next person is sworn in,

he has to go. So I always found that very cringe. Yeah,

yeah, I didn't even that didn't even cross my mind. But that's

very true. It's like evicting someone when they've already moved out, right right

exactly? Mean someone there's someone we know that knows a lot about evictions.

Yes, maybe they chime in. Interesting thing about that person too, though

it's never his fault anyway, Well we should uh yeah, go ahead,

And when did it's their fault? Right? Yeah? Like it's like a

judge doesn't allow an eviction order to be placed if you are innocent. Well,

I don't know if that's I don't know if that's always true. But

uh, I mean, we we've had a tenants, right activists here on

the show, who coincidentally I happened to run into as I was on my

win today because she works in this building and she's told some horror stories.

But but I do think in terms of the individual who shall remain nameless that

you and I are referencing specifically, I think it's probably a pretty safe assumption

to assume it it's usually his fault, it's always his fault. I'm sure,

Yeah, Yeah, I think that's I think that's pretty safe. I

mean, I'm and I am sure there are You're right, there are horror

story self help evictions and all of that. But yeah, to that individual,

yeah, no sympathy one your fault. Yep, yep. Uh.

We have a call. We'll see who's on the line here. Hi,

Welcome to Matt connorson Unleashed. Who's this deep? The rock runs deep?

The rot runs? Can I just say in the in the Imperial in the

imperial political system. I was going to respond to that with the red fox

flies at midnight? How about ghosts? Writ er? The pattern is full

Oh, that's a good one one. Uh. Dave Ridley has joined us

on the phone. Hello Dave, Hello, now we have we have,

of course, our friend Eric Pilcher from Iowa on the phone. Or you

are you calling to try to get Iowa to join nh exit and maybe and

would you be open to something like that where Iowa and New Hampshire seceed from

the Union together and we become even though we're geographically separated. We could somehow,

I mean, you know, the UK as parts of the UK all

over the world. I guess we could do it too, right, we

could have some sort of a partnership outside of the United States. Are you

calling to propose something like that? Because I think it's a great idea and

I just thought of it. Let me pump the boat on that right now.

Oh yeah, go ahead, Eric. I of Iowa's citizens can't spell

seceede, so uh, yeah, it didn't work well that that might not

be a disqualifier. What do you think, Dave? At first, you

don't secede or I favor the succession of the states from the Union. I

mean, Texas keeps saying they're going to secede, and I think it's probably

a bit higher in Texas than it is in Iowa. Of those uh that

can't spell it? So fair point. Yeah, So you think, if

you think about it, both New Hampshire and Iowa do have a maybe is

starting to have a shared interest in independence because we've just been it. Essentially,

New Hampshire has already been partially kicked out of the Union anyway, in

a sense that the Democrats are no longer allowing their their official primary here basically,

And I think that haven't they targeted Iowa too because it's too white?

Yeah? What what's up with that there? Eric? Is that true?

I have heard that for longer than it's been an issue that Iowa is to

white and I I will bash Iowa if it's warranted, Believe me, I

will, yes, But this is totally une warranted. I mean, we

are pretty diverse all things considered. America's oldest mosque is here in Cedar Rapids

Mother Mosque. I didn't know that. Yeah, we have the University of

Iowa. It's a very diverse campus. Iowa State University die very diverse campus.

Drake University another diverse campus. Yeah, we have a lot of diversity.

So the Iowa is so white thing. I don't know where it came

from. I don't know who's getting it out there, but it is completely

and utterly ridiculous. Yeah, and people are yeah, no, A go

ahad day. The reason I bring it up is just because they targeted our

primary. It seems like, aren't they targeting the caucus two? Or am

I? Am I getting ahead of myself? I'm the Democrat Party. I

did hear something about that. I know that in the case of New Hampshire,

it seems I mean, I think it's really just coming from Biden because

he wants South Carolina to go first. Because, as I've always said on

the show. I'm sure both of you guys have heard me say it more

than once. Joe Biden owes his entire presidency to South Carolina and to Congressman

James Clyburn of South Carolina because he was doa when he got there. He

came in like fourth or fifth in New Hampshire, he did horribly in Iowa.

Had he not won South Carolina on Clyburn's endorsement, he would not be

president today. So he's he seems to really favor South Carolina, and I

couldn't care less about New Hampshire, it would seem. Yeah, and I'm

for the uninitiated. I'm talking about the Iowa pocket. So the first few

things that happen in the presidential race that really have a big effect of the

New Hampshire primary and then Iowa caucus. May it actually may not be in

that order. Maybe the Iowa coccus first, but the Iowa Caucus is actually

even more important. It's just, you know, if they're trying to take

us out of their you know, traditional political system, then why should we

be part of their political system. I mean, it's gonna be wonderful to

have Iowa join in the Amshire in an independence movement of some kind. M

So you are open to that, Dave. Yeah. There's this organization called

Americans United for Peaceable Separation or something like that. And it's interesting how fast

people in independence movements become friends and united with each other, regardless of their

other differences. You know, because I considered Daniel Miller definitely to be not

just an ally but a friend, the guy who runs the Texas Nationalist movement,

and he he and I do not agree about politics actually all that much.

Yeah, but just because we're just because we're united them at one issue.

It makes the steel. It makes us feel I feel very closer to

the guy. He's actually, he's probably the most interesting politician in America.

I've heard the name Daniel Miller. Yeah, I feel like I've heard the

nationalist movement. He looks he looks like Texas. He's just he's he really,

if he wasn't leading the Texas nationalist movement, he would have a career

in the stand up comedy. He's you know, he's the federal government.

Federal government has an approval rating somewhere between that of syphilis and gonorrhea. And

they're telling us we're supposed to be ruled by him. It's like eating a

bowl of bowels. No, he's vulgar. By the way, well we

have we have an actual Texan in the chat room. By the way,

my old friend from high school, Markkastik, who moved down to Texas some

years ago and uh speaks, speaks highly of of the of the state.

So you want to do like a tri state sort of secession with New Hampshire,

Iowa, and Texas. Is that where we're going with this? Is

that the idea it'd be nice to have a fifty state as an independent movement

of fifty states, right, and I think we'd all get all the states.

I think we just get along better without using the federal government against each

other. Well, now you're getting I mean that sounds a little ambitious,

Dave. I mean baby steps. I mean, we gotta let's do the

three first and then we'll figure out the other forty seven. I mean,

come on, I mean, we could probably get Alaska in there. I

know Sarah Palin's husband was a big secessionists there, so maybe we can have

a quad. And then but if we have four states, So if we

have four states also seeded together, would those four states be a union of

our own? And if so, which state would be in charge of our

nuclear weapons? Because the only way, and Dave, we've talked about this,

the only way I'll go along with this whole plan, is if we

can have some nukes, just put me in charge of them. It'll be

fine, there's nothing to worry about. I'll be very careful. But you

know, if I see Maine or you know, New Jersey or somebody coming

to invade, you know, I'm going to fire one of those off,

of course, to protect us, all of us. Well, you know

historically what happened best with nuclear weapons. The big I think the second biggest

reduction in nuclear weapons ever was after the Soviets collapse and unilaterally. I think

the unilaterally reduced nuclear arsenal that resulted in the Americans didn't take advantage of it.

The Americans reduced their nuclear arsenal wia of massive by two thirds eventually,

So when the Soviets backed down, that's when the Americans started getting a little

bit more benign. So that's the thing you do with nuclear weapons. You

give them up, you back down, you walk away. You do what

South Africa did when they got rid of their nuclear program. You just walk

away from those things. Well, I'd like to I'd like to have at

least one. I mean we could we could, uh we you know,

just just just one ICBM just in case. Uh we could. Uh We'll

let Eric watch over it in Iowa. How does that sound, Eric,

We'll have another. I mean, you wants to have silos already in Iowa.

I assume you have silos. We do have silos. But here is

my thinking. I'm the type of guy that there's a little bit of me

that wants to watch the world burn. So I will turn the honor you

have given me to watch the nuclear weapons. I'm gonna give that honor the

Texas. Oh okay, now, how would that work logistically? Would you

let Texas actually have the missile itself or are you saying we'll put the missile

in a silo in Iowa, but whoever is in charge of Texas can have

the launch codes. The whole shebang, missles, launch codes all go into

Texas. Okay, all right, how's that? Does that sound fair to

you? Dave? Well, I mean, that's kind of what happened after

the Russians collapsed. After the Soviets collapse, they just handed all everybody handed

their nuclear weapons over the Russians basically, and that actually did not work out

all that badly. Yeah, you know, the Russians are a very imperfect

government, very imperfect system, the bad bad president maybe not quite evil,

but bad, and you know, and yet it has kind of worked out

just because having it in fewer hands is better. So yes, I would

certainly trust Texans with nuclear weapons a lot more than I would trust Russia.

But I agree with you there and a lot and a lot more than I

would trust Biden and his diapers well as a great man once said, don't

mess with Texas, and I'm referring to you. I'm sorry. Oh,

just to clarify, I'm referring to the song, not the person who actually

said it. When I say, great man, I'm so right? What's

that? Eric? That's with our union? Who would what if we had

Texas in charge of the nuclear weapons with the launch coakes. This is a

state that basically has a turnstyle for the death penalty. Who is gonna mess

with us? You blanket this union? Wrong? Nukes are coming your way?

Or a nuke because I think Dave will only let us have one,

and I'm not sure he's even gonna let us have that one. He sounds

like he sounds a little unsure about that. You sound a little unsure about

that, Dave. I think it would be better for all the American states

and the federal government to walk probably walk away from their nukes. I see,

I could be wrong. That's no fun. But you know the other

thing with independence, you know you were talking about having you know, three

states all the clear independence or something. The thing is, historically what happens

is this republic sort of the states that declared independence first are usually the safest.

So for instance, in Yugoslavia, the Slovenians went first and they they

were very successful with very little violence, and you know, you saw what

happened to the republics that declared independence later on, like like Bosnia. Yeah.

And then also in Russia, the Estonians I think were first and they

did really well. The Chechens were last and they ended up having war two

wars, yep. So it's you you want to be the first one out.

It was sort of the same thing with the Arab Spring, where I

guess it was Tanzania was the first country to anyway, the first country to

rise up in the Arab Spring, did very well and replaced their government peacefully

with with no bad results really right now, But all the other countries have

had problems, didn't do that well, and of course we know what happened

to Syria. So you want to be first with this stuff. You don't

want to be last one out the exit, right right, So New Hampshire

first is what you're saying. If we could be the first one out,

the exit will be the safest, right yeah, Right now, right now,

we're kind of we're kind of number two. We're like Texas, is

ahead of us, and we're we're doing the best we can to catch up

with them, but we're not. We're not as far along as we should

be. Does California fit in any of this? The only reason I ask

is California has, what is it, the seventh largest economy in the world.

They could usually succeed it and be their own country and maybe we could

ride their coat tails or would that that wouldn't exactly be us being first.

I suppose it would be better if they're road ires. But they are doing

pretty well there. I guess the third, the third furthest along. They're

doing the third best, and they have a pretty pretty strong independence movement called

you know col Exit or yes, California. Yeah, there was somebody years

ago who wanted to split some billionaire who he was either running for office or

he was thinking about it or I don't remember his name, but he had

a plan to like he actually wanted to not not necessarily secede from the Union,

but he wanted to take California and split it into five separate states,

which was an interesting proposal, or maybe six or seven different states. It

was pretty interesting anyway. Yeah, that Kim Draper, Kim Draper and uh,

yeah, that that failed. But you know, Rusfall Canning was always

he always likes to say, you could split any state all you want,

and that won't make very much difference at all. But if you split a

state off from the Union, you have effectively eliminated two thirds of the government

that's going on in your in your state, and and that that makes a

big difference. All right, Dave, Well, any anything else, anything

you'd like to add or well, I was going to tell you an exciting

story about Dean Kyman, the New Hampshire billionaire, and his successful secession attempt,

but I'll have to I'll think I'll call about that some other times.

Since I've taken up so many minutes. Well, we'll leave that for another

day. All right, that sounds good. Anything you'd like to plug you

want to plug NH exit NH exit dot us. All right, Dave,

we appreciate the call, my friend. Thanks guys, all right, you

got it? Bye bye? All right. That was Dave Ridley from the

Ridley Report and NH exit. Is there is there a strong secessionist movement in

Iowa. Eric, I never hear about it, but oh what's up?

No, not at all. That we're pretty we're pretty lazy. Yeah,

we do have enough. Oh sorry, go ahead. The speed takes a

lot of effort. Yeah, and we ain't about that, like like we

no, all right, well I get I. Yes, we'll we'll leave

you out of our new uh, our new uh separate country then, but

we do have a if New Hampshire and Texas and Alaska want to do the

heavy work, oh well we'll jump on it. We'll jump on it the

end. Oh okay, work smarter, not harder. We do have a

call. Hi, Hi, welcome to Matt Connorton unleashed. Who's this It's

your buddy in Texas. Oh, Mark, how are you? You sound

more? Uh? I haven't heard from you in a while. You sound

even more Texan than ever. Yes, I'm a proud member in Texas for

about a year. You've been what a proud member in Texas? A proud

member of Texas? Yes, yes, tex Oh tex It. I'm sorry.

Yeah, it's not a it's not a very good phone connection. So

that so that's a that's the name of the organization tex It. Yeah,

it is a textit movement that started a while back. Oh yeah, you

sound a little better now. Whatever change you sound better. Yeah, so

you're a part of that. Yeah, I joined the the email list or

whatever. There's a there's a group kind to seceed Texas in the state.

As you know, we're once its own country as well with its own currency.

Interesting. Interesting. Do you think it'll ever happen or is it just

kind of a because I think all the secession stuff is I mean, respectfully,

I don't think anybody's going to ever actually successfully secede. But what do

you think? No, I agree with you one hundred percent. I think

it's like curtain cats. But if it were to happen, I mean,

it's it's a good idea overall, but you'll never get everyone to agree on

anything right now if you weren't. If you were to successfully do it,

though, would you be willing to take Iowa? Because Eric would like to

tag along if possible with Iowa, but doesn't want to actually do the hard

stuff. Well, the wife went to Iowa. She's a hawk eye,

so yeah, we'd have to take that because her mom and dad's still living

here. Oh and and we might as well take Minnesota because that's where her

brother lives. So we'll just Canada that Eric Minnesota's Minnesota is a deal breaker.

We don't get along with Minnesota. Oh why is that so? Which

part the southern part where the Muslims are or the northern part where where the

farmers are. Minnesota in general, they're up there with Nebraska. It just

doesn't work. Like I don't understand. Like whenever my family is originally from

Albert Lee, Minnesota, whenever we go to Albert Lee, uh, they're

all they always scoff at us when they hear, Oh, you're from Iowa.

And it's like, you're in Albert Lee, Minnesota. You don't even

have a super Walmart. You have just a Walmart. Like, I pretty

sure we're step above you. That's one way to one way to measure it.

I suppose I thought maybe it was some sports rivalry type of thing.

It is like Nebraska football and Iowa football have a big rivalry. Iowa and

Minnesota in Iowa Wisconsin which Iowan Minnesota play for a trophy that's a pig.

It's a literal pig. Oh oh, well, well I've heard they make

great pass You're talking about the the Heartland Trophy that I would just won last

week. No, Uh, the Floyd of Rossdale is the one, and

yes, the Heartland Trophy is also a pig, which it's Yeah, it's

ridiculous there. The reason is, obviously is, uh, you know big

exporters of pork products, right right. I. I just think, like

I'm a big college forotball fan. If you're going to play for a trophy,

like, have it have a bit more than have it be something more

than a pig. Like there's a say, you could put makeup on a

pig, but it's still a pig, Like Notre Dame in sc play for

the Jeweled Chale, Like that's who doesn't doesn't like the frist smell of frying

bacon? Well if it came before it? Well, but is it a

live pig. No, it's just uh, it's just a pewter pig man,

a pig on a piece of wood. Oh. I thought maybe it

was like in a state fair where they they present the pig that won the

Blue ribbon or something, and you get to take the pig home and you

can make it a pet, or you can eat it or whatever you're gonna

do. Are you just reciting the plot line for Charlotte's Web I might have

I did read that when I was a kid. I don't remember much of

it. Melanie in the chat room says, why are you putting makeup on

a pig? Weirdo? Melanie's been coming at me an awful lot lately.

Yeah, I think she thinks you're a weirdo because of the makeup on the

pig. I've been reviewing horror films for almost two months now. I thought

that would make her happy with me. Yes, yes, well, I'm

sure it does. I'm sure it does on some level, but she still

has concerns. How are things in Texas? Mark? Thing's good? There?

You doing well? Yeah, we're we finally got ball It's down to

eighty two degree. I'm jealous, but we did. We just put in

our fall garden, so we got Brussels sprouts, cabbage, buckley, cauliflower,

and butternutsquash excellent, excellent. You know we have a Texan on the

show sometimes, Texas Mike joins us. He's a former a w A tag

team champion with black Jack Mulligan. He's retired, of course. Yeah,

yeah, Texas Mike. Yeah. I think I've heard him on the show

and seen him in studio. Yeah, yeah, he's He wears a big

belt buckle and uh spurs and everything. It's great. That's why we're so

popular in the Dallas Fort Worth areas because of that. Well, Mark,

I was just up in Dallas actually about a month ago for a movie premiere.

A friend of mine wrote a movie really and it's a Yeah, it's

an indie film. It's called The Jones Plantation. Oh wow, and uh

so what is this? So is that that's where it was premiering. Yeah,

they had a premiere up there and it's only about three and a half

hours from here, so we drove up to meet him. Oh very cool.

Yeah, it was nice to It is one of those people that I've

met online that never met in person before, so it was a good opportunity

after thirteen years, actually meet them in person. Oh wow, So is

it? Is it a film? That's just it's just got a limited release

for now, but it could could expand over time. Yeah, essentially,

it's a it's an indie film. They did the whole thing for about two

hundred and fifty thousands, which is usually about the food bill on a regular

production. Yeah, no kidding, no kidding. Hey, I was about

to say that's like the catering bill. Yeah, yeah, exactly. In

fact, i'll put the trailer. It's on YouTube. I'll put the trailer

in the link for today's show if anyone wants to check it out. Yeah,

it's available for purchase for ten dollars, okay, forever. Okay,

yeah, geez, maybe we can interview him on the show. Who knows,

we have a that would be interesting. All right, but yeah,

yeah, I'll check that out if you if you post that link, I'll

check it out. Definitely, definitely, okay, yeah, right on,

all right, Mark, all right, we'll just checking in from FEMA Region

six and all right, well, hey, we appreciate the call. Good

dear, if you good to hear from you, old friend. You all

right, Mark, take care, bye bye. All right. That was

uh yeah, I went to high school with Mark, but he didn't sound

like that when we were in high school. Obviously, he really picked up

that Texas accent, although Texans probably think he still sounds like somebody from out

of state, so who knows. But yes, I'm sorry, I have

a guest that's invading my recording space right now. Oh is it your dog?

Yes, he's trying to be on air. Oh okay, let's uh,

let's say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat. We can we

can go a little long on the segment. That's fine because I do have

some I have a couple of specific things I want to make sure we get

to. It's been a busy show, which is wonderful. Yah, but

uh yeah. In the chat room, Jenny is in there. She loved

that opening song, by the way, one of the songs I played well.

I did play the radio edit of Unicycle of course by Jerry and the

Scumbags, but I also played something from Best Not Broken, our musical guest

yesterday on the show, and such a great band and a great song.

Jenny was commenting on that. In the chat room, our friend Jay Fed

from the great state of Vermont joins us. Jenny said, shalom, peeps,

Eric, I see here in there of course DJ Steve from Retrospect Radio,

who I get to hang out with every Friday night from a two eleven

pm here at WM and H. He says, good afternoon everyone, killer

opening, thank you. B Pinard joins us. In the chat room,

Jenny was making a comment Please share the show in New Hampshire and Manchester groups

on Facebook. Share to wherever you would like. Matt and I are unable

to share our show anymore. Facebook made us spam and put us both on

warning. Yeah, Facebook is being really difficult about Like I shared the show

out to my own Facebook page and I get a warning that I'm spamming,

and it's like, but it's my show. Melanie we mentioned is in there.

Also. Hans Smith from the band Sepsis says, hey Metal, Matt,

hello to you. Let's see Carroll's the Warwitz is in the chat room,

Hello Carol. Ronda Faverro from the Great State of California joins us.

Isaac Banks of course from Greensboro, North Carolina. In the Facebook live chat,

Scott Robinson has a question. He says, why doesn't Dave Ridley just

move away? Well, I think, you know, Dave, for you

know, for our lack of our lack of autonomy here in New Hampshire.

He still loves the state and but he just wants us to be our own

country, that's all. Jay Bellow is in the chat room says love the

show and thank you for all you do. Thank you Jay. Jay of

course another very talented musician and he's been on the show with his band Chasing

the Devil. I still wear that shirt with great pride. Let's see,

we just want to make sure we don't miss anybody in here, oh,

Scott Robinson said, And don't forget Iowa also has an excellent wrestling team.

Every year, they really do. I think at one point they won like

twenty out of twenty three national championships. Oh wow, that's really good.

Yeah, Dan Gable, it was their coach. Uh. But you know,

college wrestling has really gained a little bit of parody. Instead of just

Iowa being dominant, they're more top heavy now. There's like one to four

contenders every year. Okay. Uh. Tom Blanchard is also in the Facebook

live chat and says enjoying the show, thank you, Tom. Glad you're

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three two five six seven. Isaac Banks in the chat room, says Matt

Connerton. Maybe sometime if you get a guest sometime. Is the Interrupters a

rock band? I don't know the Interrupters, but that's a that's a cool

name. Eric, Uh you have any uh any thoughts on what's going on

in the House of Representatives right now? Have you been uh been watching that

it's just a microcosm of everything wrong with this country. Well, that's a

that's a big statement, but go ahead. Look, we have to have

the house functional and we cannot get petty differences set aside to just nominate a

speaker. Petty differences is what led to the former speaker being ouse, and

now petty differences they're keeping one from being from getting the nomination. Well,

I feel that we're in a terrible position here because either we continue to not

have a speaker or we have Jim Jordan, and I think both of those

options put us on the road to ruin. Now, you're a conservative So

you might agree with Jim Jordan on a lot of things. You probably do,

But I think he's dangerous because I think he'll absolutely take us into into

a government shutdown. He's never voted for a continuing resolution and and I think,

you know, if he's Speaker, when the opportunity arises, I think

he'd be perfectly happy to take us over the fiscal cliff and into default.

So I think he's a pretty dangerous guy to have in that position. What

are your feelings on him? I mean, he is really really far right.

I mean I do agree with him on some things, but I kind

of get this Ron DeSantis vibe from him that put him in a position of

power. He thinks every house should be ward in June Cleaver, which,

no, it doesn't work like that. Oh. By the way, Mark

shared the link to that film in the Facebook laf chat. Thanks Mark,

I'll check that out. Yeah. Now there's there is another possibility that is

interesting. Oh, hello to Adam Slim who joins us in the Facebook clave

chat. Hello, it's a new name in there. The possibility of Patrick

McHenry, who I until very recently knew nothing about. But he is,

of course the speaker pro temp. They could give him some additional power so

that the House can function and still carry on some business. But I don't

know why, why not just if they're gonna do that, why not just

try to make him the speaker permanently. And I, like I said,

I didn't know much about him until recently. I still don't know a lot

about him, although I was surprised to learn today that he's only forty seven

years old because his hair is completely white. I guess he's got the Steve

Martin thing going where his hair is white. But he's still a young man.

But it's interesting because the Democrats are willing to work with him. You

know, Jim Jordan is obviously not someone that you know, they're gonna keep

voting for Hakim Jefferies, but it might be they might be willing to make

a compromise to at least give Patrick McHenry some additional power to get things moving

again, because right now, I mean, our government is essentially paralyzed as

this drags on, and I don't think people realize. I don't think a

lot of people realize how bad it is for the country. And I would

just add, and I'm curious to get your thoughts on this. I do.

I do also blame not primarily because it's you know, the I heard

the referred to as the Crazy eight, you know, Matt Gates and the

Crazy eight, but you know, they're the ones who created this problem because

they chose to houst McCarthy. But I do also blame the Democrats secondarily because

they could have saved Kevin McCarthy and then we wouldn't be going through all of

this, and it's, you know, kind of the devil, you know,

type of thing. And I'd rather have McCarthy than Jordan. I'd rather

have Steve Scalice than Jordan, but I'd rather have McCarthy than either of them.

But but Patrick McHenry seems like an interesting possibility. And he wears a

bow tie. You gotta love that. Who's worn a bow tie in Congress

since Senator Paul Simon. Not Paul Simon Simon and Garfunkle, of course,

but Paul Simon, the senator, the late senator from the state of Illinois,

who my dad actually took me to see speak live once when I was

a kid, uh back with my dad, believe it or not, was

a Democrat when I was growing up and was a big fan of Senator Paul

Simon. But uh, well, I don't know any prediction predictions, Eric,

where this goes. I thought it was I thought last time we talked

about this, I think it was two weeks ago, Jim Jordan was a

shoe in. He had Trump backing him. I thought it was pretty much

a done deal, and I was pretty much resigned to the fact that it

was going to be Jim Jordan. And I'm like, okay, you know,

at least we have at least there's a person there now, right,

hopefully they guide us through these choppy waters, you know. And but now

it's like, okay, Republicans, we say, are Republican representatives say they're

so much better than the Democrats and say how they put the country first,

and Democrats don't. Well, they're just showing their blind hypocrisy here that no,

they don't put our country first. Because if they would have put our

country first, this process would be done in over with. There would be

a Speaker of the House, they would be in position, and stuff would

be getting done. Yeah, they're not voting there. Oh sorry, go

ahead, this high ground and this this holier than dow throne that they love

to sit on is gone and over with. This whole debacle has made the

Democratic Party, sorry, the Republican Party, look like a bunch of bickering

schoolgirls. Well, we've never seen anything quite like it. We've never seen

a speaker ousted before, which reminds me that's part of why John Bahner got

out when he did. And did you did you? Uh? I don't

know if you were paying any attention to the vote today, Eric, but

somebody, I forget who it was now, somebody actually put when they were

doing the roll call, somebody actually voted for Bayner. Did you know that

I did not that person should have their vote rescinded. You see, I

think it's funny because obviously they were doing it, because they were doing it

out of protest of Jim Jordan. I have been a little bit pleasantly surprised

seeing some of these moderate Republicans sort of standing up to you know, because

I thought, yeah, you and I talked about it before, and I

think we both agreed that it probably was going to be Jim Jordan, because

that's who Trump very publicly endorsed. And you know, once the god Emperor

annoints someone that's what they're going to do, but apparently not. And some

of these moderate Republicans seem pretty you know, some of them who won in

districts that Biden carried in twenty twenty, some of them seem pretty worried about

what's going to happen if they support Jim Jordan. And I'm a a little

bit pleasantly surprised actually to see the the pushback on Jim Jordan. I thought

I thought he probably would be the next speaker, but it doesn't look like

he's going to be right. And I mean, I don't even know who's

next. No, that's the thing. There doesn't seem to be anybody next.

And I think here's here's I've been wrong a lot with my predictions on

this whole thing. It's been very difficult to predict. But I think it

is quite likely, not likely, possible, that they're going to give They're

going to again working because Hakeem Jefferies has already said he's open to this.

I think, uh, they will work with the Democrats as much as they

don't want to look like they're doing it to just make a bit of a

compromise, expand Patrick McHenry's powers as speaker pro tempt and then at some point

in the near future, if that seems to be working, they might actually

just try to make him speaker, because again, I don't know why they

don't just do that anyway, you know, I mean, he's running things,

you know, to the extent that he has any power, which is

very limited. Already, they're already talking about expanding his power, so why

not just make him the next speaker? So, but I don't know much

about the guy beyond that, I don't. I don't think I've ever even

really heard of him until recently. Right, there are so many variables at

play with this that that yes that I just I don't I'm with you,

Matt, I don't see how this ends. Yeah, well, Eric,

we are uh yeah, wow, it's it's uh five point fifteen. Do

you want to we can we can wrap up, But did you want to

plug the film review for Friday? Yes? This week is? This week

is Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness? Ah? Yes, so yeah, I'm

sorry, Scott, I was responding to a message. My apologies, Oh

Scott, Yeah, what is the double toothpicks in the background? Yes,

yes, Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness. Yes, and I actually, because

of being sick, I was behind this week. I watched it this morning

in just such an amazing film, Like so many different elements of movies are

included in this comedy, horror, fantasy, science fiction, like you can't.

What makes it great is you can't just put it into one genre.

Right. So that was the first one in the series, right, because

that went on to spawn a whole series of films. Right, it's the

third one. It's oh, it's the third one. O two, Army

of Darkness, the Diablo Cody, Evil Dead Remake and Evil Dead Rise.

And then there's the series Ash Versus. Oh. Okay, see I never

got into those movies, so I can't keep them straight. But what's the

name of that The actor with the big chim, Bruce Campbell? Yeah?

Is that? What he's most known for is those films. Yes, And

he's also written some He's also written some books. Uh. He's written Confessions

of a B Movie Actor, which is autobiograph, which is an autobiography.

He's written a chim book, How to Make Love the Bruce Campbellway, and

he's written Hail to the Chin, which is like Hollywood antidotes about his life

in Hollywood. Oh okay, yeah, I thought I I thought I had

seen that that he had written something. Then he also read something called if

This Chin Could Talk? Or am I maybe that was an article that I'd

read about him. That's the main title of his first book. You're right,

man, if Chin's Could Kill Confessions of a B movie Actor. Oh

okay, if Chins could Kill? Gotcha? Gotcha? Okay? Cool?

Cool? Well, yeah, so that'll be great. It's just such an

awesome movie, and the special effects are dated, especially when I was watching

it in four K. But I can only imagine when this movie came out

in nineteen ninety one. Every member of the Dead Eyed Army is claymation.

Oh really, it is so awesome and just the one liners Bruce Campbell has.

By the way, Isaac Banks, he's been really persistent with this suggestion,

he says in the chat room. Also hashtag Eric Pilcher if you do

the next movie review of nineteen eighty eight's Jack's Back starring James Spader and Cynthia

Gibb. I have actually heard of Jack's Back. The thing is, and

you know this, Matt, because I send you the list. Yes,

the film reviews are planned a month, if not two months in advance,

and next week's is already planned and I've actually started research on it. John

Carpenter's Halloween. Ah yes, yes, yes, yes, so Jack's back,

you know, maybe someday in the future, but it's not on the

Uh, it's not on the upcoming uh because you No. I mean,

like I said, I I have to have an idea of where I'm going,

and there are some times where I do have to, uh make a

quick change, like with true Romance and I forget the other one uh sweet

sweet Bax badass song that I had to be like we can't do it.

Yeah, I remember that, yes, yes, Uh, I remember late

night messaging you on Facebook like Matt, this ain't gonna work. Yeah.

Yeah, I remember that subject this film ain't gonna fly. Yeah. That

would have been That would have been tricky. That would have been tricky.

Very yeah. But no, I I do I do. You know.

I love getting recommendations and I will always take them under consideration since I know

now that I can just record clips and don't have to rely on finding him

online. Right right, Well, very good, So we look forward to

that, and Eric, we'll let you go and as you continue to be

on the end from RSV. But obviously you're feeling better. Oh yeah,

Like I said to you today, like I'll have one or two sporadic coughing

fits, yeah, throughout the day and a runny nose. That's about it.

I'm doing today is the first stamp. Actually felt like getting up and

doing stuff. Oh no, that's a win in my book. Yeah,

no doubt, no doubt. All right, Eric. Well, oh,

by the way, Isaac is also recommending the nineteen eighties movie Transylvania six five

thou. I will definitely look into it and see. Okay, that's all

we can ask, all right, Eric, Yes, well we'll let you

go for now, and thank you so much. Always enjoy getting to hang

out with you on Wednesdays and look forward to the review on Friday. I

look forward to presenting it and I always look forward to Wednesdays as well.

Matt. All right, very good, All right, Eric, thank you

so much, Take care, bye bye bye. All right. That was

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you in there. Well, we've got a little bit of time left.

I think that this is We talked about it a little bit with Eric.

But of course, you know, there's really two stories running concurrently right now

that are dominating the news. One is the war Israel versus Hamas and the

other, of course, the House Speakers race. I'd say the war is

the more depressing of the two subjects. But a couple things on the House

Speakers race that have come up today. If you don't know, if you

haven't been following or you haven't had a chance to catch up today, they

did do another vote today. Jim Jordan actually lost a couple of votes,

so something interesting though. People are saying, some people in the media have

made the observation that well, you know, he's actually losing votes, not

gaining votes. He's probably he probably has no chance of being speaker. But

remember it did take fifteen tries, fifteen bites at the apple, if you

will, so it would have to be a pretty big apple for Kevin McCarthy

to clinch the speakership. Having said that Kevin McCarthy is a divisive as he

was in some ways, not nearly as much, I would say, as

Jim Jordan for different reasons. But this is only his second vote, so

he might yet be able to convince some of these moderates. Although I'm skeptical,

and as I said to Eric earlier, but if you're just joining us,

I have a prediction, kind of a half hearted prediction, because I

have found this very difficult, this particular storyline, if you will, in

politics, so difficult to really predict that I'm used to being wrong about these

things. But I think that it is possible that Patrick McHenry, who is

currently the Speaker pro temp so which you know, he shows up and he

you know, hits the gavel and calls votes to order and so forth,

but the only thing they're really able to vote on right now, of course,

is the speakership. I think it's entirely possible that there is a deal

made Republicans working with Democrats to give McHenry some additional powers so that he can

actually so that the House can function on some level, and then eventually perhaps

making him speaker. Something interesting that I learned today about that possibility. So

because of the deal that McCarthy made when he was trying to become speaker,

because of the deal that he made with you know, as I heard referred

to today, Matt Gates and the Crazy Eights, those House Freedom Caucus members

who really wanted this. It only takes one House member to call for a

vote to vacate and then if he can get enough people to go along with

him, and by him, I mean Matt Gates, then the speakership is

vacated. And then that's what they did to McCarthy. Apparently there is nothing

in place now. The Parliamentarian would have to rule on this, but apparently

there doesn't seem to be anything in place to vacate the speaker pro temp position.

In other words, if they may make a deal to give Patrick McHenry

of where's he from North Carolina. I think if they make a deal to

give him additional powers, they could vote on that giving him additional power so

that he wouldn't be the speaker. He'd still be the Speaker pro temp,

but he would have the ability to actually run the House and have votes on

things like continuing aid for Ukraine, additional aid for Israel, things like that,

things that will have bipartisan support. And I don't know what happens if

he's still there in that position, fulfilling that function when it's time to you

know, when we're on the eve of another government shutdown. I'm not sure

what happens then. I don't know much about him. I don't know if

he's more of a moderate guy, that's my impression, but I don't know.

I know very little about Patrick McHenry and have a feeling I'm gonna have

to be learning a lot about him, we all are in the coming days.

But if they can give him those additional powers, but there's nothing,

there's nothing that says, there's nothing in the House rules that says you can

actually vacate the not the speakership, but the Speaker pro temp. You can't

vacate that. If that's correct, that there's no mechanism to do that,

then they could, in theory, expand his power and then just leave him

indefinitely or for the rest of this term as the Speaker pro temp. So

if he has all the powers that a speaker does and can fulfill all of

those functions, but without the fear, without that sort of damnically is hanging

over his head the McCarthy hat all the time. So did John Bayner.

That's why he left, So did Paul Ryan. Sort Of little more complicated

with Paul Ryan. But in theory, that's why he left. I think

he wanted to get out before Trump came in to the presidency. I think

that's what really chases Paul Ryan out. That's my theory. But so they

could give mckenry these powers so effectively make him a speaker, just not in

name. He'd continue to be the Speaker pro temp, but fulfill those duties

without fear of somebody calling to vote to vacate him if they're upset with him.

Somebody like Matt Gates gets upset because there's no mechanism to do that.

There's nothing in the House rules that says you can vacate the Speaker pro temp.

In theory, we'll see we're in uncharted waters here. We're in uncharted

territory because prior to the ouster of Kevin McCarthy, that had never happened before

in the history of the country. Again came close with Bayner and Paul Ryan,

especially Bayner Dennis Hastert he was probably would have happened to him. He

was forced to resign. He's in prison now. I believe he's still in

prison, you know. But uh so, maybe they can work out a

deal here. We'll see on that. But I saw this pop up and

I thought this was particularly interesting. This is on media, and I heard

something about this earlier in the day. It's like what GOP moderate boasts that

Jim Jordan is running into brick wall in speakers race after quote, harassing our

spouses, says here Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska, I think he's

the one that Brian kill me. That's how I say his name, Brian

kill me, called a dumbass. We might get to that too, if

we have time. Representative Don Bacon boasted that Representative Jim Jordan is running into

a brick wall in his quest for the speaker's gavel ahead of a second vote

on Jordan's candidacy this afternoon. Explained Bacon, quote, Jordan is headed for

defeat. He'll fight to death likely and we won't let off. Their tactics

angered us. They're harassing our spouses even unquote now Kyle Griffin tweeted this out

earlier representative Bacon to at NBC News. Oh, same thing, same thing

that I just read. Okay, Bacon's wife, This is where it gets

interesting. Bacon's wife, Angie Bacon. That's a fun name, isn't it.

Bacon's a fun last name. And when Mark was on earlier with us

and we're talking about pigs for trophies and Bacon, it says, would you

love to have a last name, like I'm thinking about changing my last name

to Bacon, by the way, And the other day on the show,

well, actually I think it was yesterday. Yeah, it was yesterday when

Best Not Broken was here. They were talking about opening when they opened for

the Bacon Brothers, or they've got a show coming up opening for the Bacon

Brothers. I'm telling you, Bacon, it just it dominates our lives.

It consumes us. Not literally, we consume it, you know what I

mean. This is Bacon everywhere anyway. Bacon's wife, Angie Bacon, has

received anonymous text messages asking her why her husband was not supporting Jordan and promising

that his opposition would sink his political career. An anonymous supporter of Jordan's texted

this to Angie Bacon, your husband will not hold any political office ever.

Again. What a disappointment and failure he is unquote, Oh wait, I

think there's more. There's more of the texts. I just clicked something.

UM. I'm waiting for that to load. Twenty Republicans voted against Jordan during

a vote yesterday, and he lost a few more members of his party during

today's vote. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ejected from his office when just eight

Republicans with the entirety of the Democratic Caucus, voted to strip him of his

title. UM. Skipping down here, but addressing the situation on CNN on

Monday, Bacon said, quote not Angie Bacon, but Representative Bacon. Quote.

I can't abide by the fact a small group violated the rules to get

what they wanted. So now I'm supposed to play by the rules. So

I got to So I think we got to have consequences and we have to

stand up to this. That's what Americans do. Unquote. I'm trying to

load the uh wow X. I'm trying to get used to calling it X

and not Twitter, trying not to live in the past. X is loading

very slowly on my computer, but I'm trying to load. I want to

see what else was tweeted to Angie Bacon. You know I say all the

time, leave Angie Bacon alone. What does she ever do? I mean,

what is her? What is her crime? The after her ass her

because she she married a guy with a fun last name like Bacon. All

right, So someone anonymously tweeted to Angie Bacon, why is your husband causing

chaos and not supporting Jim Jordan. I thought he was a team player.

Angie responded, who is this? Oh, now you have nothing to say?

I guess there was a Those are two separate text messages, and Angie

got a response, your husband will not hold any political office ever. Again,

what a disappointment and failure he is? And Angie responded, he has

more courage than you. You won't put your name to your statements. Aha.

Score one for Angie Bacon. Yes, at this point, I'm just

looking for excuses to say Bacon, But I thought that was interesting. You

shouldn't harass someone's someone's spouse. We have a call. Looks like our friend

Ron is on the line. Hi Ron, Yeah, Hellovia, I actually

dialed the wrong number. Can you imagine that happy from you anyway? Sir?

How ironic? Ah? See what I did there? All right?

Ron? Well, I'm sorry you misdialed, but always nice to hear from

you. Yes, thank you, sir. I have a nice all right

you tube bye bye? All right. Well, apparently we were on Ron's

mind because he dialed us. Uh, if you'd like to dial us six

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at WMNH ninety five point three FM. Also, media reports, Uh,

Fox News hosts are getting upset they've lost Fox News, it says here.

Fox hosts on Outnumbered fumed over the GOP's inability to reunite around a candidate for

our Speaker, as Jim Jordan failed to gain enough votes on the second ballot.

The House has been leaderless for the last few weeks. After Kevin McCarthy

was ousted. Okay, we know all that. Let's see so former Press

Secretary Kaylee mcinaney, I was like saying her name mcanany, asked analyst David

Webb about his thoughts on Patrick McHenry as temporary House speaker, which we were

discussing a few minutes ago, and Web said this quote, McHenry is pro

tem. If you change this and you start to try to adjust in the

Speaker's office, you affect the speaker's office, you affect the parliamentary procedures in

the Congress, you create a mess and you give the Democrats a weapon to

use this. There's a point at which, whether it's messy, you don't

like it, you're for or against it. This is getting idiotic. We

need some possibility at this time, and it's not all related to Israel or

Ukraine funding. There are investigations underway, there's an ex mean battle over the

debt ceiling. There is so much more that's going on that needs to be

addressed by Congress. Jordan's your best chance, whether you're for or against,

because no other path exists at this time. Unquote Fox contributor Dagan McDowell,

I don't think i've ever heard the name Dagan before. That's a cool name.

Then flamed Moderate Republicans for their quote backwards ass decision to support McCarthy but

not Jordan for speaker. She noted quote Don Bacon voted for McCarthy yesterday and

today. Jordan was Kevin McCarthy's right hand. He was his lieutenant. If

you like McCarthy, you like Jordan. That's the upside down, backwards ass

world that these Republicans are living in. Unquote well that's not true. If

you like McCarthy, you like Jordan. Again, Jim Jordan is uh,

you know Kevin McCarthy, I mean, not conservative certainly. But here's the

thing. Kevin McCarthy made it clear government shutdowns bad and allowing the country to

default on our debt is bad. So we're not going to allow those things

to happen. And he made sure those things didn't happen. And I mean

not just him, obviously, there's other people involved in that, but but

he made sure those things didn't happen. Jim Jordan has never voted for a

continuing resolution on the budget and generally opposes spending money on anything. As far

as I can tell, Jim Jordan will try to take us into a government

shut down, and I truly believe if Jim Jordan is House Speaker, we

could very well default on our debt for the first time in our nation's history.

So I never had a ton of confidence in Kevin McCarthy, but he

want a little bit of grudging respect for me when he came through when it

really really mattered, Right, I don't have any faith at all that Jim

Jordan will do the right thing on these in these instances, or support Ukraine

funding or anything. I have no faith at all in Jim Jordan. So

for anyone to say, well, what's the difference if you supported Kevin McCarthy,

you should support Jim Jordan. No, No, very different actually,

and that's why too. I'm upset. Like I said, I'm also upset

with the Democrats because again, you know, I always say I understand,

I understand why they weren't going to help McCarthy, but I wish they had.

I wish they'd saved him because now we're in this mess and this is

really bad for the country. I wish they had kind of taken a step

back. I mean, look, it might all work out. It might

all work out for the Democrats. If there is some sort of a calling

it a coalition government might be going too far. But if there's some sort

of a power sharing arrangement that involves giving more power to Patrick McHenry, and

then he can kind of run things, but the Democrats help him get the

in terms of being in a position to kind of run things while he's not

technically the speaker. Then the Democrats can call that a victory, I suppose.

But what if that doesn't work out. What if Jim Jordan finds the

votes and ends up being speaker, then the Democrats will have helped oust McCarthy

and Jim Jordan ends up being speaker, then we've really for the reasons I

laid out just a couple of examples, then we've really got a problem.

This whole thing is very, very bad for the country. So I would

have preferred the Democrats kind of taking the long view of things and sucked it

up and saved McCarthy. Again, I understand McCarthy didn't want the Democrats help.

He sure didn't seem like he did. It was like, what was

the analogy I used on the show yesterday. If you see someone drowning,

but instead of calling for instead of saying yelling out, please save me,

they're yelling out that they hate you, and they're flipping you off as they're

going under. You know, you might hesitate for a ho second, but

you should still go and save them. Just because they hate you and don't

particularly want your help, you should still go and save them. And that's

how I feel in this case. Yes, McCarthy was, you know,

going on the Sunday morning talk shows and talking about how evil the Democrats are

just as he was about to be ousted. So whereas he could have said

something maybe mildly conciliatory and just said, you know, I think that maybe

we should work together to keep me in place so we can keep the trains

running on time and so forth, but he didn't do that. He didn't

do that. He chose to go on the Sunday morning talk shows and talk

about how well we almost went into a government shutdown and it's all the Democrats

fault. And that was not the right play unless there was a part of

him that just said, screw it. If I'm going down, fine,

I've kind of had it with all of this, which I have to wonder

did that play into his decision, for example, to decide not to because

he could be running right now, He could have put his name in for

this, and some people you a couple, are are still voting for him.

They're they're yelling out McCarthy when when it's their turn to vote. But

this is really terrible. I mean, it's fascinating, but it's really uh,

it's really terrible. We're about out of time. The only other thing

we'll we'll probably get into this more in the first hour tomorrow because we've been

so focused on the speakers race. We haven't really talked much as much in

the last couple of days about uh Israel and Hamas, and of course Biden

went over to meet with net and Yahoo. I just I just just a

quick observation though that I want to make, and I'll probably expand on this

tomorrow unless something else happens, or you know, there's something else that we

need to get into, but just just a quick observation. I'm noticing something

here in terms of a lot of the dialogue around this. There's in terms

of Israel and well Hamas talking specifically about Himas and the Palestinians on both ends

of the spectrum. There's a certain way that people are thinking about this that

I disagree with. But people are taking this thing and interpreting it for their

own point of view, which is what people tend to do. And I

don't even mean an ideological spectrum like liberal, conservative and all that. Just

kind of put that aside for a second. I'm just talking about in a

vacuum, the spectrum in which people are thinking about Israel and Hamas and the

Palestinians. People on one there's you've got people on one end of the spectrum

who are so pro Israel. And by the way, I'm pro Israel.

I support Israel. I support their right to exist, I support their right

to be free from terrorism and their right to defend themselves absolutely unequivocally. So

just to be clear about that, because as I've learned the heart way,

I can be misunderstood about that. I don't want to be misunderstood about that.

Okay, so I support Israel. But there are people on one end

of the spectrum who are so fervid in their support of Israel that they they

they don't care at all about the Palestinians who are caught in the middle,

and they just want you know, there are people online. Again, it's

it's a small group. Most people generally are sort of in a place where

they have a reasonable some reasonable opinions, but there are people on one end

of the spectrum who just want just want the IDF to go in there and

just mow everybody down, and and and they don't differentiate between the Palestinians and

Hamas the terrorist organization. On one end of the spectrum, you have that,

and then all the way on the other end of the spectrum, you

have some people who are so pro Palestinian that they refuse to condemn Hamas as

a terrorist organization, which it very clearly is, but they won't even condemn

Hamas because they're so upset. Now again, I support Israel, but I

do have many criticisms of Israel on a policy standpoint in terms of how the

Palestinians have been treated, But none of that excuses terrorism. Ever, none

of that excuses or justifies terrorism. But what's the commonality between these two extremes

on either ends of the spectrum. They both have an inability to or perhaps

I should say more of a stubborn refusal to separate Hamas from the Palestinians.

Hamas is a terrorist organization operating out out of the Gaza strip, but most

Palatinians, I think, hate Hamas. You have to be able to separate

the two. So I would say to the people on one end of the

spectrum. You know, let's remember the Palestinians are also victims in this.

They're caught in the middle. So we have to separate Hamas from the Palestinians.

And I would say to people on the other end to the spectrum,

hey, Hamas is a terrorist organization and they're not. They're not there to

help the Palestinians. That's that's what they might pretend, but they're clearly not

because they've all they've done, all they've done is made things far, far

worse for the Palestinians with that terrorist attack on Israel. So they're no friend

to the Palestinians. But again, the through line, the commonality is you

need to be able to separate the two in your mind. You need to

be able to separate the Palestinians from Hamas. And we've got a lot of

people on both ends of the spectrum who just refuse to do that, and

I think that's I think that's a problem, and it's really infected our dialogue

on this. All Right, we got to go. We are absolutely out

of time. Thank you again to our friend Eric Pilcher. If you miss

any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit

oh, and thank you to Jenny for calling in earlier. She did share

a link in the Facebook live chat. By the way, if you want

to see the video from today's hearing and we got to go. I will

talk at you all a little bit later tomorrow to be exact. Bye, everybody,

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