Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-23-23

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free because we cannot. But that's all right. Hey, we got something

very special for you. Though me I'm going to know for the audience because

they've been deprived. It's been a long time since I've done this, been

a decade today on the show. No, it has not been a decade,

but it's been a little while. Today on the show, Yeah,

I'm going to be performing something. Yeah, And well, here, let

me give you a little We'll give you some context first. So a letter

has been written by a Congressman from the Great State of California, representing California,

a United States Congressman named Tom McClintock. Now, I probably disagree with

Congressman mcclintalk on a variety of things. I don't know that much about his

voting record or anything. Per se. I don't know that much about him.

I've always been aware of him because mcclintalk is a name. You hear

it and it sticks with you. But uh, but I I did not

know that. Well, let's let me put it this way. I never

imagined that I would be doing what I'm about to do with anything that he

himself produced. But where'd that article go? So? Who he? Who

he? McClintock. This is from Newsweek. This will explain what's what we're

about to do, it says Republican mocks Matt Gates. McCartney critics McCarthy.

I keep doing that. I don't know why. In a super snarky letter,

Sky. You probably already know where this is going, says here.

Representative Tom McClintock, Republican of California, allegedly penned a super snarky letter that

my Florida Republican Matt Gates and other representatives critical a former House speaker, Kevin

McCarthy. McLintock is reported to have addressed the Republican lawmakers, most prominent of

which was Gates, and sarcastically congratulated them. McCarthy was removed from his position.

Okay, we know all about that. We've been talking about that quite

a bit on the show weeks. Yes, yes, and uh, I'm

going to now I have the letter here. Are you're going to do what

I think you're going to do? Oh? Yes? Oh? Scott Robinson

in the chat room says, I feel a dramatic reading, or maybe a

reading with some smooth jazz. Yes, oh no, this one requires no

smooth jazz for this. But you are right, Scott, because I'm dying

to share this letter with all of you. It is. It is quite

quite a work of art that Congressman mcclintocks has put together here. But anybody

could just any radio hosts could just read the letter. But no, you

deserve you demand. I mean you might not know it, but you demand

one of my world famous dramatic readings. You're using your hypnotic powers over that

microphone, aren't you. Yes, Miriam Banish says, I do love the

dramatic readings, don't you all, Miriam? Don't you all? Now this?

Uh the reason this requires a dramatic reading is the it is prepare for

maximum sarcasm in this letter. Uh. It is so acid tongued. I

will probably have a canker saur on my tongue just from reading this aloud.

Oh my, But I will not be reading it. I will not be

merely reading it. I will be performing it for all of you. Yes,

well, now, so this is this is really something? Are you

going to take your shirt off? No, that would be strange, but

it would be a performance. Uh, not the kind anyone wants to see.

I do have body hair now this So this is dated October twenty first,

twenty twenty three. It is on the Official Congress of the United States

House of Representatives, Washington, d C. Stationery, and it is addressed

too the Honorable Andy Biggs ken Buck, Tim Burchett, Eli Crane, Matt

Gates, Bob Good, Nancy Mace, and Matt Rosendale, sometimes referred to

as the Crazy eight. Oh. Ronda Faverro joins us in the Facebook live

chat, of course, from the great state of California. Ronda, I'm

glad you're joining us, because I am about to perform a dramatic reading of

the letter, the open letter written by Congressman Tom McLintock from your home state.

Yeah, to Matt Gates and others. And this is good stuff.

Okay, you ready, m laid on me? All right? Here we

go. Okay, dear wayward colleagues, your letter of October twenty, in

which you graciously offer to martyr yourselves as long as you can get your way,

is perhaps the most selfless act in American history. I was certain that

our Republican colleagues who refused to vote with the Republican majority would have been inspired

by your stirring example of party discipline and loyalty to quote vote with the team,

as you so eloquently phrased it. I was frankly stunned when they did

not. I do not understand why a handful of our Republicans couldn't see the

simple fairness of the principle to which you have been so unswerving in your devotion.

Heads I win, tails, you lose. We should have been moved

by your willingness to suffer censure, suspension, or removal from the conference to

enforce your personal press diferences on the overwhelming majority of your unenlightened colleagues. We

should have appreciated how you and two hundred and six House Democrats saved us from

a Republican speaker. We truly don't deserve you, but your sacrifice is not

in vain. You have succeeded in replacing the outdated concept of majority rule with

an exciting news standard that a speaker must be elected by ninety eight point two

percent of the Republican Conference. Sunday a Messiah will be born unto us who

can achieve this miraculous threshold, And on that day your judgment will be vindicated

and you will be hailed as the geniuses that you are. I think we

are all truly humbled to learn that your quote fidelity to Republican virtues and principles

remains unwavering. Who could not be moved to tears to read that you offer

your self sacrifice. Quote sincerely and with the hope of unity with purpose.

With this in mind, I modestly suggest that you plan your martyrdom in the

only way that truly matters, to have the wisdom to see the damage you

have done to our country, and to have the courage to set things right

before it is too late. I'd close a proposed resolution that perhaps one of

you can offer as we begin the fourth week of national paralysis and as the

world burns around us. Signed your secret admirer, Tom McClintock. Oh my,

I'm so emotionable. Just marvelous dollars, babless bugglers. Thank you,

well done, We thank you, oh, thank you all. Wow,

this is we are all blown away by your brilliant ye broke, I appreciate

it. Yes, so that was uh and I have a canker now I

can feel it on my tongue. It was that acid tongue sarcasm in that

letter. But there you go where it is. That was Tom McClintock's letter.

By the way, my favorite, just I have to point out my

favorite part of this whole thing is when he says you have succeeded in replacing

the outdated concept of majority rule with an exciting news standard that a speaker must

be elected by ninety eight point two percent of the Republican Conference. Someday a

messiah will be born unto us who can can achieve this miraculous threshold. I

just I love that. I love that. So there you go. That

is Tom McClintock's I'm sorry, Congressman Tom McLintock, the honorable Tom McClintock from

the great state of California, whom has earned a new level of respect from

yours truly because honestly, prior to this I I've really paid that much attention

to him. Carol's the Warwitz joins us in the chat and says happy Monday.

Hello Carol, Hello Darling, nice to see you now. Ronda Hi,

Yes, yes, Rondo favero fur se here here here here, yes,

yes, slatting your brilliance, thank you. Yes, yes. And

if you don't know today, as of now, I think they're voting,

they're not voting until tonight, right for some reason. Yeah, So they're

going to get together to night behind closed doors and discuss nine different candidates.

Now, these people can't find their way out of a paper bag with only

two candidates. How the heck are they gonna narrow down nine before they actually

plunge this nation back into the nineteen twenties. Well, I mean, hey,

look at we're twenty nine days away from the government shutting down, so

there's that. Sure, then we'll default, So that'll happen. Oh,

that's a little more ways off. Fortunately, the defaultry troops stationed around the

world, aircraft carriers being repositioned, and we're gonna stop paying them in twenty

nine days. Because Congress can't get out of their own way to do anything.

We sent them there to do the people's work, which they haven't done

for over two weeks. They're too busy with their egos. More than two

weeks. I think we're in day twenty. If I'm not mistaken, I

think you're right. Yeah, yeah, Day twenty of just nothing. A

paralyzed legislative branch of our government for the first time in our comedy, who

said that the world is burning around us, because it's true, it is

well, and we're doing what we got. Egos arguing behind closed doors,

that's what we've got. And they want to rule the country but they can't

even handle Congress. Yeah, yeah, only one house. Can you imagine

if they had control over both of them? Jeez, Scott Robinson says,

why rush it? No need for rash decisions, That's right. Nothing major

going on in the world, No, nothing we need to take care of.

Oh, we're just cruising along. Oh and by the way, seven

of the nine Republicans, seven of nine, I feel like that's a Star

Trek reference. It is seven of nine running for speaker are election deniers.

They voted to not certify the election of President Biden. Or at that point,

are any of them eating and embedding of the insurrectionists, you know,

like Jordan? Well, I think that, Yeah, I think that was

more of a Jim Jordan thing. None of these other well, I don't

know. It says here now, this is from media. Seven of the

nine House Republicans who have put forward their names for speaker are election deniers.

One of the many signs of the pervasive influence former President Donald Trump wields over

the party. The slim majority Republicans have in the House has led to an

ongoing struggle for power, as hardliners like Matt Gates demanded concessions from Kevin McCarthy

before they finally let him claim the Davil on the fifteenth round of voting,

only to oust him mere months later. Since then, the House GOP caucus

this is a good refresher for anyone who's not caught up. Since then,

the OUGOP caucus has done its best impression of raging dumpster fire, with Representative

Jim Jordan being the latest flop in his run for Speaker, failing in count

on one, two, three consecutive floor votes and losing support each round.

As fellow Republicans denounced these strong arm tactics from Jordan, allies before I closed

door caucus vote ordered him to stop trying to make fetch happen. That's not

an expression I'm aware of, but it's in the article make fetch happen.

Republican House members have been unfiltered in their anger and frustration about the festering debacle

their own GOP colleagues created, and polls show even GOP primary voters don't approve.

There's been some chatter about reinstalling McCarthy or granting Speaker pro Tem Patrick McHenry,

Republican of North Carolina, some additional powers to allow the House to function,

but right now the next step will be a candidate forum held at six

thirty tonight, followed by what is expected to be multiple rounds of votes tomorrow,

with the lowest vote getter being dropped each round until one man is left

standing. By the way, the Patrick McHenry thing, I thought that was

a good idea, that one, But as I was mentioning on the show

on Friday, for those who don't know, there's a there's a pretty major

roadblock to making that happen. There's a catch twenty two here that I just

learned about last week. Oh, I don't know this that well. It's

funny. It's one of those things that it once he realized it, it

seems obvious. But until someone mentioned it, it had never occurred to me.

So the idea that was being floated around was give Patrick McHenry the speaker

ProTem who apparently got to be that because he was on a list, a

secret list that Kevin McCarthy a had about who would step in if anything happened

to early. Before you say what you're gonna say, I just want to

spit this out to see if I'm close or not. I'm blaming it on

ego because Jordan was backing the idea of empowering empowering Patrick McHenry with more powers

in order to have the House do some work while they're trying to find a

speaker, and then at the last second he backed out of that and they

had a third round of voting for him that failed. In my understanding is

it's ego that caused that. Well, there is there more than that.

There's another problem though, there's a technical problem. And like I said,

it's something that seems obvious once I heard someone say it, but until someone

said it hadn't occurred to me, and then I was like, oh,

yeah, the problem is Okay, they can't vote on anything until they have

a speaker, which is why the House is paralyzed. While in order to

give Patrick McHenry additional powers to you know, do the people's business and get

the House moving again on a temporary basis, you have to vote on that.

Except here's the catch twenty two. You can't vote on it because you

can't vote on anything until you have a speaker. See, it's a trap.

There's no way out, there's no I mean, like what happened if

the speaker died and now you have the speaker ProTem you still have to elect

a new speaker. Does that mean the House is dead in the water until

they do? Yes, But in a I did not know that. I

thought the speaker ProTem could go if there was you know, natural progression to

them, No, you would you would have to elect a new speaker.

I wonder if that it has to do as a protection because that person is

also the third in line for the presidency they get. Yeah, maybe maybe,

I don't know, but I mean but also, I mean, this

has never happened before either, not like, none of this has ever happened

before, So I don't think anyone could have foreseen there has to be something

the only otherwise, what's the point of having a backup? The only thing

they could do well, because the backup presides over the election of the new

speaker ultimately, I mean that's Patrick McHenry's only real role as Speaker pro tem

is to elect get a new speaker elected, to conduct the votes to get

a new speaker. If Democrats were smart, they'd be trying to peel off

a little handful to vote with them and get back to work. Well,

that was part of the idea too with maybe you know Democrats would go along

with that. Compromise in terms of Patrick McHenry. But but you can't.

What they could do is just elect Patrick McHenry speaker. That's what I think

they could do that. That would be a smart move because it seems like

everybody could get behind that guy. Yeah, but is he even on the

list though he's not on the list. No, he's not running. They

should elect they should, they should, they should seriously, just like I

don't know, try and convince them, because if if that's somebody the Democrats

can get behind, then we can get that done and move along. Right.

He's, like you said, he was on the short list, so

he's obviously been vetted before he was given the speaker pro time position. Vin

or Kevin McCarthy dislikes him. I don't know. I mean, I honestly

had never even given the guy any thought until all of this happened. As

I think is the case with most people. It's all his fault. Well,

the ego is more important than the country, him and the other seven.

Oh yeah, I mean the guy's the total psycho. Yeah, plunge

the country into literally standing still while the world is burning around us, because

that's beneficial, that's helpful. Yeah, that's helpful, and there is blame

to go around. As I've said, you know, I do wish the

Democrats had stepped up and saved McCarthy. I understand think I understand why they

didn't. Well, the thing is, it's like like the analogy that I

came up with that I like to use as it's hard to save it like,

if someone is drowning, you should save them no matter what. But

you might be forgiven for hesitating a nanosecond if while they're drowning. Instead of

they're yelling something like help me, I'm drowning, they're yelling I hate you,

I wish you were the one drowning. Then they're flipping you off as

they're going under the water. I mean, that's basically what macarty. Because

the weekend before this happened, McCarthy was making the rounds on the Sunday morning

talk shows doing his usual you know, he doesn't he doesn't talk about bipartisanship

unless it suits him, unless it suits him in the moment, obviously,

well he was let it go. Well, he was on he was on

the Sunday Morning because they actually played a video of it before they before you

know, at the meeting where the Democrats decided whe they were going to do

or not do, and they showed him on the you know, Sunday morning

talk shows just blaming the Democrats for everything under the sun and not being conciliatory

about anything. And you know, and I think that the reason he did

that, well, I have two theories I think he made because he could

have he could have reached out to the Democrats in theory, or they could

have reached out to him. There could have been some kind of a conversation,

some sort of an agreement where I mean, you know, they weren't

going to save him for free, but maybe some sort of something conciliatory for

the Democrats. But but where enough Republicans would would still stay with McCarthy that

you know, they could have run right over Matt Gates and the other seven,

you know, if they had all worked together in a bipartisan way.

Unfortunately that's not how the world works anymore. But I think he made a

calculation that it would be actually potential worse for him to do that, to

be seen working with the Democrats, and that maybe maybe Gates and the others

would back off, you know, maybe they were bluffing on actually trying to

take him down. But if he but if he was seen approaching the Democrats,

then they would definitely take him down. So I think he just made

a calculation that it was safer to just continue to trash the Democrats and hope

that his own conference wouldn't take him out or you know, the fraction and

that was stupid. Well come on, that was yeah, that was his

that was his calculation. It took you fifteen votes to get elected, Yeah,

fifteen rounds. Why would you even think that. The other thing you

think. The other theory I have though, is he also might have just

said he also I mean, you know, he's a human being. He

may have just reached a point where he just said, I can't do this

anymore. Whatever happens happens, and I'm just gonna worry about it and him.

Who could blame him? Who could blame him? So but I do

wish the Democrats had saved him. I absolutely do, because this is horrible

for the country, what's happening now. And and look, they have no

excuse. I mean, you know, the the crux of the blame lies

with Gates and these others. But you know, the Democrats had no excuse

for not being able to see what was going to happen. And what what

almost happened was Jim Jordan. You know. So you might not like McCarthy,

you might not trust him, you might find him, but he won't

shut the government down, right, But at least yeah, at least in

McCarthy you have because some of these House Republicans are perfectly fine with government shutdowns

and even supported the idea of default, so which is so dangerous, including

Jim Jordan, by the way, who never voted for a continuing resolution,

not once in terms of keeping the government open and funded. So so they

should have been able to see what was going to happen. Yeah, they

didn't trust McCarthy and they were happy to stick the shive in him. But

at the same time, uh, you know, if you can see past

the politics of it, this is really bad. Un let's see. But

then I thought too, At one point I thought, well, actually,

though, I might eat my words on that, because if they can manage

to get up some sort of a power sharing agreement, get mckenry in there,

who apparently used to be more conservative. He used to be a he

was a like an old tea part like a tea party guy at one time.

But then he kind of moved to the middle middle of the party,

not the middle of I think the party moved. Yeah, but he he

seems apparently he's a reasonable guy and he's not for shutdowns in defaming maybe like

him and jefferies co chearing. Well so well, I thought, well no,

but he would have you know, he would have had to give some

you know, conciliations to the Democrats. But I think that but again,

so if that had worked out and the Democrats actually gained power, then I'd

be sitting here eating my words, saying, oh, well, you know

what, they actually played this perfectly because for them, they got more of

what they wanted in the end. But again, but then I realized when

I heard I wish I could remember, I'd like to give them credit.

Whoever was who pointed out that, actually, no, that can't work because

in order to give mckenry that additional power, you have to be able to

vote on that, and you can't vote on that without a speaker, and

once you have a speaker, there's no reason to give mckenry additional power.

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the situation, well, we appreciate that. Uh. The studio line is

open if you'd like to chime in on any of this. Six three two

five six seven six three two five six seven. And there is a name

that we're hearing a lot. Is Tom Emmer, the majority whip who is

seems like he could be the guy, except he's got a problem because he

uh he voted to certify the election. Uh, but he's actually done a

lot of the work and that he would be more part of this too.

Is you need somebody who knows what they're doing. You can't, like,

we don't need an on the job learning situation going on here. We're this

far into a mess. We're twenty nine days away from shutting down government.

You know, Like I said, we got troops in the middle of the

ocean on aircraft carriers poised to go into battle. I don't think we should

cut off their paychecks now, you know what I mean. Like, there's

so many bad things on the horizon that need to be dealt with in Congress

now, not waiting weeks from now, and we're all biting our nails and

praying for whatever. You know, this is not what we need. We

need the country to be to be working. Republicans need to get their egos

out of the way, do what's best for the country. For freaks fake

well, it's just a small I mean, like I said, it's just

they can't agree on anybody. Well, we have those eight who they can't

agree on anybody. Yeah, I know, they can't get over their own

way to legislate into government. There's nobody who can get to two seventeen.

It's ridiculous. You need like a handful of Republicans that care more about the

country than they do their egos to just go vote with the dumbs right,

just put well, that's not going to happen. Well, I mean,

I don't disagree, but I don't know what else to do with I mean,

the alternative is to just sit back and watch it all burn. So

Politico explains this about Tom Emmer, who I guess is kind of the top

candidate of the nine. It says his House Republicans sort through a field of

short timers and backbenchers to pick their next speaker whip. Tom Emmer stands out.

The Minnesota Republican helped the GOP clot's way back into the majority as a

two time NRCC chair. Not only has he won support from colleagues by raising

money and campaigning across the country, he has spent the past nine months as

whip building relationships among conservatives and centrists alike. But Emmer has a Donald Trump

problem. The former president has told associates that he doesn't want Emmer for the

job, as Trump's allies have already taken a social media and talk radio to

pan him as too out of step with the leader of their party. Said

one anti Emmer member, that's kind of fun to say, quote he's openly

hostile to Trump, which isn't helpful since Trump will be the nominee. It's

laughable that he, at the end of the day would end up being the

Speaker of the House. Even if he gets the majority of the majority,

he will come far short for members who won't vote for him on the floor

unquote. To be sure, Emma has shown a willingness to go against Trump

when other top Republicans would not. He was one of the few senior GOP

leaders, for instance, who voted to accept the electoral votes that clinched President

Joe Biden's victory. But Emmer's But Emmer World is pushing back hard on the

whisper campaign against him, and his allies have a retort for every charge,

from the fact that Emmer supported both of Trump's presidential bids to one ally's insistence

that he's quote never heard him say a negative thing about Trump unquote, to

the autographed photo of the two of them that Emmer keeps in his office.

Rather, they say, the entire conflict has been concocted by his foes in

the House, who have grievances that have nothing to do with Trump. They

point to a representative Jim Banks, Republican of Indiana, who narrowly lost the

contentious whip race last year, even after many MAGA World figures weighed in against

Emmer and to allies of Conference Share Elease, a Stephonic Republican of New York

whose orbit has also clashed with Emmer's, dating back to when the two sparred

over her push for more women campaign recruits. By the way, not one

of the nine Republicans running for speaker as a woman. I noticed that.

Yeo. I did notice that, and I'm not surprised. A lot of

people are noticing that. One Emmer ally said, quote Banks activated Trump World

against Emmer, and a lot of that was unfounded. But they're still lingering

false narratives from that race. It didn't work for Banks, It's not going

to work now to paint Emmer as if he's a never Trumper unquote. The

issue for Emma is a narratives can be hard to change, particularly if Trump

himself is bear is buying them. One Emmer critic predicted there will be quote

at least ten hard no's unquote ready to oppose him in a floor vote.

But that isn't stopping Emmer world from responding point by point to the allegations being

made against him. Emmer denied the oh wait, what is this? Oh

okay, here's so, there's a list here of the of the charges,

not charges in terms of legal charges. That's a different high profile Republican,

but just accusations against Emmer by his fellow Republicans. Why they some of them

might not like him? Okay? Charge number one. As head of the

NRCC, Emmer told GOP candidates to distance themselves from Trump on the campaign trail.

The response, Emmer denied the allegation, which appears system from a twenty

twenty two CNN story during a Fox News interview where he likewise praise Trump as

a fantastic ally for the House GOP. Instead, he said he told candidates

to know your district and how best to win, which I guess is another

way of saying, if you're in a you know, if you're in a

purple district, you might not want to be too close to Trump. Charge

number two and I'm kind of skipping a lot of this, but charge number

two, Emmer has not endorsed Trump for president. The response from Emmer's allies

true, but neither have other senior GOP leaders, including former Speaker Kevin McCarthy

or Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who have all tried to stay inside political switzerland

as the presidential race swirls around them. Emmer's allies says he'll endorse whomever wins

the nomination. Trump included when the time comes charge number three. This is

interesting. Emmer's office was behind a whisper campaign during the whip race, accusing

Banks of hiring Tucker Carlson's son Buckley to win favor from conservative media. The

response, Emers denied that the blind quotes in question came from him, including

the Tucker Carlson himself. Indeed, the anonymous comments could have come from anywhere.

Many GOP lawmakers said much the same thing about Banks to reporters around that

time. By the way, so Tucker Carlson's son is named Buckley, I

just I don't know. Maybe it's a family name. It's probably after William

F. Buckley. Maybe the charge number four just Buckley who wants to be

named Buckley? I mean, I guess when you're that rich, you don't

care what your name is. But still charge number four. Emmer didn't do

enough to help Jim Jordan win the speaker's gavel since he was angling for his

own bid. The response that is so bs one. Em or ally told

us hisitor circle noted they allowed Jordan to use the Whips office conference room to

meet with holdouts in that at one point, Jordan's foes even yell that Emmer

seemed to stop calling them about changing their minds. So I'm gonna skip down

a little bit here, but it says here comes a hard part pinning down

two seventeen and again the reason where the reason we're focused on Emmer is because

it's generally believed that of the nine candidates, he has the best chance.

So it says here it might all come down to what Trump himself does.

The former President hasn't weighed in against Emmer publicly, and he isn't yet making

calls to Whip opposition. People knowledgeable about the race said, will that change

if Emmer wins the nomination. Some in the Whips orbit hope he might stay

neutral, particularly after his backing for Jordan failed to anoint him speaker. Emmer

has some hard right allies who might help, like Andy Biggs and former uh

Oh, the former House of Freedom caucus chaer who helped out aust McCarthy,

broached Emmer as a potential alternative. Matt Gates has also been acting as a

bit of a go between between Emmer and Trump world. Uh. The one

Emmer critic argued Gates's assistance might backfire given a toxic standing among most House Republicans

right now. And uh, there's a little more there, but that's that's

the so. I guess Emmer is kind of the front runner in this so

we uh we shall see six O three two five O six O seven.

If you'd like to join us a six O three two five O six O

seven, I would just say do it h soon because we have a great

uh musical guest coming up in the second hour, Dakota Smart. We'll be

here with us. Who else is on that list? Uh? So the

nine candidates and most of these people I know very little about, but Tom

Okay, Tom Emmer, who we were just talking about, of Minnesota,

Mike Johnson of Louisiana, Byron Donalds of Florida, Kevin Hearn of Oklahoma,

Jack Bergman of Michigan, Austin Scott of Georgia, Pete Sessions of Texas,

Gary Palmer of Alabama and Dan Mooser Muser. Don't know of Pennsylvania, honest,

don't know. I am, yeah, I don't know much about these

people, says here. Now this is from media. I At the point

that Congress was voting on the Electoral College certification on jan six, twenty twenty

one, Trump and his allies had filed and lost over sixty lawsuits in state

and federal courts across the country, with the rulings often coming from judges appointed

by Republican governors and presidents, even by Trump himself. The entire accumulative total

of evidence quote unquote submitted with these lawsuits, even if viewed in the light

of light, most favorable for Trump, would not have been enough to overturn

the election. So it's just explaining why you know these these seven of nine

who voted against certifying the election. I'm kind of in favor of Jack Bergman

Michigan. Now, I don't think I know much about him. The reason

I say that I'm kind of in favor for him is because he's a retired

Marine lieutenant general. He's served four terms, and he's made frank statements about

how important it is to ensure that our government and particularly our military is funded

and working correctly, So I see him as being the guy that won't let

the country shut down. And maybe he has a little cooler head than some

of these other folks. I just I'm leaning towards anybody who is not going

to be in favor of letting us burn right and sitting back and roasting marshmallows

over the fire next to Trump. That's my opinion. So who's out of

that guy again? Jack Bergman, I don't know a hole of a lot

about him, I feel like, but if I'm picking from one of the

nine, he's the guy I'm leaning towards because of his military background, because

he's flat out said he wouldn't defund the military, which means he won't let

the government shut down because he recognizes that military people don't get paychecks when the

government shuts down. So he seems to me like a safer bet because of

those factors. Yeah, because of the and given the climate of the world

right now, like this is not a good time. Plus, I think

he would try and work harder on getting these UH nominees cleared from the military

appointment, all of these promotions that have been held up well that's being held

up in the Senate though, by Tommy Tubberville. So yeah, but if

you had a decent speaker in the House, you could do some kind of

you know, agreements. Maybe he's got something he needs gone through the house,

maybe he can do something anything. I don't know. I don't think

there's anything you can do with u Tubberville. Yeah, no one senator should

have this much power. He's for somebody who claims to care about our country

and our borders. What he's doing to the military is horrible. Yeah,

absolutely, undermining our defenses. He's hurting our military. Absolutely, he's preventing

people from taking positions over from others who have retired, and the retireds are

gone. They're not forced to stay on. They're gone. There's nobody in

that position, which is absolutely not what you want to hear for a military,

at least in my opinion. In my opinion, but yes, I

would be more in favor with Bergmann for the simple fact that I don't think

he'd let the country burn and close and default on our bills. And Okay,

well, who knows, maybe he'll end up being the guy. Don't

trust anybody from the state of Florida anymore. So Donaldson's out in my book

just because of where he's from. Oh all right, yeah, No,

I don't trust nothing coming out of Florida anymore. What's wrong with that state?

Oh my god? Sometimes yeah, that any favorites anybody you even think

might be remotely decent. I mean, everything I read about Tom Emmer,

he doesn't he doesn't sound completely insane. So maybe him. M But again,

like I said, if I had my way, you know, they

wouldn't have Vowsedid McCarthy and I don't have a lot of nice things to say

about that guy, but I would have rather that, Like I said,

I would have rather the Democrats had saved him. There is uh, this

will probably be the We're getting already getting close to the top of the hour,

so this will probably be the last thing on the subject. There's a

according to media, there's a new poll. Overwhelming majority of Republicans fed up

with House Gops speaker drama. It says here. According to a new USA

Today Suffolk University poll, sixty seven percent of Americans believe the House should elect

a speaker as soon as possible, compared to twenty five percent who don't care.

If a new speaker is chosen and a vast majority and the vast Republicans,

oh, this is sorry, this is written strangely, and the vast

majority of Republicans agree. Media needs a I've often said this, They need

to need to proofread these and overwhelming fifty seven percent of Republican voters want the

speaker drama to be over compared to thirty four percent who are willing to put

up with a longer delay in the House choosing its new leader. David Pale

Paleo logos, Sure I'm not saying that correctly, A director of Suffolk's Political

Research Center told USA Today, quote, how often do you see Democrats,

Republicans, and independents agree on anything in DC? Look at every demographic,

gender, geography, age, race, education level, income, political philosophy,

even those who trust CNN versus Fox News. They are all speaking in

the same seven words in unison, elect a speaker, and do your job.

The same poll found the House's overall favorability rating and the toilet In all,

fifty four percent of voters have an unfavorable opinion of the House, compared

with just twenty five percent of Americans who have a favorable opinion. Well that

I mean that last part that's kind of like whatever. I mean, people

generally tend to have a low opinion of our elected lawgivers and overlords to begin

with. But yeah, I mean, you know, a majority of Republicans

don't like to see this. There are some of course, who you know,

are fine with you know, they'll say, well, you know,

when the governments, when the government's functioning, they're doing things that are better,

so it's better to not have government working. There are people who seem

to legitimately and sincerely believe that, but you know, you gotta think it

through. But yeah, I mean, I don't know, I don't know

who can get to two seventeen. And you know, maybe when they do

finally have a speaker, maybe they should change the House rules so that,

you know, maybe you just need a majority. I mean, I understand

that if you do it by majority vote, that would require a lot more

party discipline on the side of the Republicans because if you if you were to

do it by majority vote and not worry about minimum thresholds, than Hakim Jeffries

would be elected speaker because Republicans would be split and Democrats are united behind their

leader in the House, Hakim Jeffries. But can you have to can there

be like a shared speakership? Well, not on paper, but but again,

I mean you could have. I mean, this is not getting better,

and I get a funny feeling when we wake up tomorrow morning, they're

not going to be ready to vote in the House. Yeah, how many

of them? Do you think you're going to be willing to sign the pledge

to stand behind whoever? I don't see that happening either. The pledge.

Yeah, there's trying to there. There's talk of trying to get a unity

pledge. So, in other words, if they if the caucus can agree

on a candidate, they all sign this pledge that says they're going to back

the one person that comes out as the candidate's most vote getner and take that

to the floor. But you have it's a it's an agree to follow whoever

gets the most it. So, yeah, I don't see that happening either.

I see. No, they've not had unity all this time. What

makes you think signing a piece of paper is going to give them unity?

This is going to be the worst seated Republican Congress ever. Yeah. Hey,

but Matt Gates the most famous that he's ever been, the most famous

idiot, and he's loving it. He he's come off in the last couple

of months as a complete sliine ball. He already did, though it doesn't

matter like everyone already thought he was a slneball, well now even more so

because there's been evidence to come out that he is a real sline ball.

Referring in part to Cassidy's book, which I have now completed, by the

way, Yeah, that was funny. Yeah. And for those who don't

know, Cassidy Hutchinson wrote a book called Enough and she's the one that testified

in front of the jan sixth committee that actually was the basically the uh what

would you call it? Well, she's been described as the star. She

was the chief of staff to the chief of staff. Yeah. Yeah,

and she flat out talked about how Gates had uh tried to hit on her.

Oh yeah, but she said that she has higher standards in men than

Matt Gates. Yeah. I mean, uh yeah, he's he's loving this,

you know, he'd uh and and uh Jim Jordan too, another guy

who you know, he's he's on Fox News a lot. He does a

lot of television. I don't know if he didn't have such a high profile

in terms of all of his television appearances, if he ever would have been

considered. But yeah, this is uh, this is a mess. This

is bad not getting better. There was some nine candidates. They can't pick

between two. Yeah, boy, yeah, it's uh, that's too much.

It's gonna take them forever to narrow that down. Yeah. I don't

know how that's gonna work either. Like, these guys spent the last two

weeks over two people. They're going backward. Yeah, and that didn't get

anywhere and now we got nine. This is this is not working. This

is not not helping the people. Need a way out. Can we like

have a vote of no confidence in our in our Congress? Like, is

there anything we can do? Can we recall a few or something? Oh?

You know, you know what I wanted to mention too is something that

we learned a lot over the weekend about and then well we're close to the

top of the ar but just quickly, something we learned a lot about over

the weekend is some of these House members who did not support Jim Jordan,

who got all kinds of harassment and death threats, and one of them.

I think it's Congressman ken Buck. He's being evicted from his office back home

in his district because apparently his landlord was furious with him for not supporting Jim

Jordan. So now his landlord is evicting him from his office. Hey,

at least it's not a death threat. So but way to show the world

how to lead there, Republicans. Oh, it's just incredible, incredible.

Yeah, and you know even I mean even a lot of republic well NA

polling data shows it. But yeah, I mean, you know, my

dad when he he's said it, both in text messages, but I think

he said it on the show too, the last time he called in that.

You know, he thinks it's an embarrassment. It is, you know,

it's uh, it's gonna be me more in there. It's gonna become

exponentially more bad or more embarrassing. I should say. If in twenty nine

days we stop paying our bills, our troops are keeping the you know,

and they've given away the house in twenty twenty four they have given it away.

There's no way they're going to people to maintain, to get rid of

some folks right now, there's there's no way they're gonna be able to maintain.

And it's not over yet. We have to wait and see what happens

in the next act of display going on in Congress. Yeah, well I

see uh, I see a musician out in the hallway. So we will

we will get to break and uh, we're gonna show some love to our

amazing sponsors. And then we're gonna play a single again. And then when

he when he gets in here, we're gonna play. Uh, we're gonna

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et cetera. Today's Monday, October twenty third, twenty twenty three.

Jenny is here at the news desk. I am present in accounting for and

joining us on the couch, and we just heard his track Greatest Thing You've

Never Seen, which I really really like. Dakota Smart has joined us.

How are you hey, I'm doing good. Thanks for having me. Yeah,

thanks for joining us. You had a cool name. Dakota is a

cool name. I like that. Thank you. It's not like I've heard

of other people named Dakota, but not very many, I don't. I

think you're the first Dakota I've ever actually met in person, So that's awesome.

I really like that song. Now, where did you record that.

So I recorded that in Nashville at Blackbird Studio. Oh, somebody else was

talking about Blackbird Studio on the show. We've we've had a few guests who've

recorded in Nashville over the years. I think I remember somebody else talking about

that. Now, did you go down there specifically to record that or were

you also doing some touring or Actually So I went down to Nashville for a

few reasons. I go back and forth and wanted so that I can get

into writer's rooms and write with other right, with other writers, to pitch

songs to publishers, and also to record. So this year I went down

there to record ten songs and that was one of them. And we also

have a few that we're going to play in the air in a little bit.

Very cool. How long has that been out? So? I released

Greatest Thing You've Ever Seen on September twenty ninth. Okay, so it's pretty

so it's pretty new. Yeah, And this is this is the first of

all the songs that I've recorded in Nashville that have come out so far.

Oh cool, excellent, excellent, And can you tell us about the video?

I see your name in the credits at the end, so it looks

like you do a lot of that yourself. Yeah, So the video was

was really cool. What we did is me and my girlfriend actually went and

took my truck up to link in New Hampshire and went through the Kingga Mangus

and filmed the music video up there. And we wanted something that was just

it really highlighted New Hampshire, you know. We wanted something that when you

look at the video, you're like, man, that's what New Hampshire looks

like. Yeah, almost makes you want to just go and visit it,

you know, yeah, like it. So we did that and she was

filming it and later on I took all the videos and edited them and put

it together. Excellent. Yeah awesome, Yeah, thank you. Do you

have other videos or just that one so far? Yes, so I've I

have a few videos that are out there of the stuff that is recorded from

Nashville. This is the first one that I put out. I have edited

the second one so far, but that one's not out yet. Yeah.

I'm really excited about that one too. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. If

you have any questions or feedback or anything at all, off for Dakota Smart

is with us in studio. The phone line is open six oh three two

five oh six oh seven six O three two five oh six oh seven.

You can also text us 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 into opine in

the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that we can

hear and enjoy your Adulca tones is to give us a call at six O

three two five oh six o seven. And as far as do you write

everything yourself or do you collaborate with anybody? So everything that I put out

under my own name is entirely me. And I've been writing music since I

was maybe about ten years old. Oh O kidding, but I really got

serious with it when COVID hit. Yeah, and I've been playing piano since

I was eight. I started playing guitar when COVID hit as well. So

a lot of the songs that you hear with guitar. One of these tracks

actually that will we'll play in a little bit called killing It. That's a

song that I play on guitar, and uh, it's been a very new,

like recent thing for me playing guitar really yeah, and it's it's crazy

because when COVID hit and I started playing guitar, my songwriting just like advanced

by leaps and bounds. And I think the reason why is it just gave

me like something to challenge myself. And as soon as I knew three chords

on the guitar, I was I was already just writing songs. Wow.

And I wrote a little over one hundred songs in twenty twenty, oh my

god. And yeah, it's just been crazy. I try to write.

One of my biggest inspirations tell me that you should write. Try to write

something every day, even if you don't finish it, just try to write

something every day. Yeah, and that's why. So it's just been,

you know, song after song. So yeah, I'm really excited about it

and all the stuff that I put out under my own name. Yeah,

is me one hundred percent. I noticed in the video because you mentioned playing

piano and starting out on that in the video, there's is that actual?

Is that actually you in the video playing piano or yes? Oh cool?

Yes that was so the beginning of that video, we actually went to one

of my gigs and film me setting up. Yeah. And one of the

things that I thought was really interesting about it is like I wanted to show

where I am as a musician right now. You know, I want to

show that, you know, everybody, you know, they come to the

gig, they see all set up, they see you know, the lights,

they see everything. You know, they don't usually see the setup and

the breakdown and that whole process. So it's like, man, I really

want to show a little bit of like you're in the behind the scenes.

You're you're somebody who's like coming to the show before anybody else, Like you're

you're somebody who's helping set up. To show just kind of the work that

goes into it, even at this level. Yeah, and I thought that

that would be something really special to share with the audience. Yeah. And

the but the the the part where it's it's a it's a kid playing piano?

Is that actually you that's that's actual? Yeah, those are older videos

of me playing piano. Oh that's cool, that's nice. Is it a

This might be a little bit of a nerdy question, but is it is

it difficult to the process of because I assume those were all like what VHS

tapes of you. Actually no, so those are man, I gotta remember

my mom. She's you know, over the years, she's been taking videos

of me playing and performing, and she's, you know, my mom's my

biggest fan. Yeah, and she I think that was like on an old

cam quarterer. I want to say. Yeah. So it's it's funny because

you know, I just got a new laptop just recently, and we ended

up taking that video and putting it on the laptop. So, you know,

beforehand, I couldn't do anything with it. But yeah, you know,

after putting on the laptop, it's like, oh, it's actually here.

I can tell you some of that. That's what I was curious about.

If it's difficult to do that, I think it like I think beforehand

it would have been. But you know, we've this year, we've like

been going through all the memories and all the kind of stuff that we videotaped,

and we're like, hey, we want to use some of this stuff.

Yeah, you know, instead of just having this sit like in the

vault forever, right, let's take some of this stuff out and see what

we can do with it. Yeah. Yeah, And what was the inspiration

for that song? The greatest thing You've never seen. So the funny thing

about Greatest Thing You've Ever Seen is that the first verse and chorus of it

I wrote within maybe I don't know, twenty minutes one night. It was

like one o'clock in the morning. I don't know why I'm usually up at

one o'clock in the morning, because that just seems to be the time of

my brain is like, oh, that's time to write a song. Yeah,

yeah, and again, I think I think this song really speaks to

musicians, but I also wanted it to speak to the everyday person because I

feel like everybody, everybody's like they have a goal, they have a dream,

they have something that they're working towards, and it feels like a lot

of the times, you know, ninety percent of the work nobody sees.

And I really wanted something that could just relate to those people, or really

to anybody on the level where it's like, hey, you have these dreams,

you have so much that you do in the background, and I kind

of wanted to bring all in the background and you know, kind of show

that yeah, yeah, another thing is too the next you know, I

finished the first verse in the first course and then I started, you know,

showing friends and family, and I got the advice that hey, why

don't why don't you make the second verse a little bit more about you know,

your family and kind of you know, their struggles and whatnot. You

know. Yeah, so yeah, I think it's the inspiration was came from

a couple of different places, one being a musician having my dream that I'm

chasing, and also trying to relate to everybody who is chasing a dream,

right, because yeah, you know, there's a lot more work that goes

into it with anything in what people usually see. Absolutely. Yeah. It's

like they say, you know, you know when when somebody gets famous and

they say, oh, they were an overnight success, and it's like,

well, there's really no such thing. You didn't see everything they had to

do to get to this point exactly. Yeah, yeah, no, I

think that's really cool. And like I said, the videos, the video

is really great. Thank you. Absolutely well, do you want to play

another one of these? We can play one of these studio tracks, these

new ones that you have, Yes, so yeah, I'd love to do

that. I'll let you, I'll let you pick. Yeah, the next

one that I'm planning to put out. There is a song called porch Light.

Okay, yep, and it's kind of a funny love song. And

was this also? Were these all done in Nashville? Yes, these were

all done in Nashville. Cool, cool, All right, we'll give this

a listen. This is porch Light from Dakota. Smart check this out.

I think that I really gonna mess it up this time. And you don't

want me in the house, Tony, I guess it looks thigh. I'm

sleeping out sign if you hear me in there. I forgot my boots over

by either stairs and now I'm standing out on the porch singing over these chords

to show you that I can. I'll be half you rather than standing waiting

in the come for a second chance to treat you right. And I know

I was out of line and let you down. This time. I'll be

singing if it takes all night. So honey, oh being up this store,

I'm waiting for you underneath the porch man. When we were just kids,

I was in love with everything you did, and you wouldn't take my

crap. You'd give it rapster had back and show me how to live.

We're older now, but in my heart still a at sohow and I got

what I has. My lesson has been learning and A miss you ride Now.

I'll be half here right along, standing waiting in the cold for a

second chairs to treat you right. And I know when I was out of

line and A let you down. This time, I'll be singing if it

takes all night. So honey, col being up this store, I'm renny

call you underneath the wall line. I'll be out here rather than standing waiting

in the cold for a second chance to treat you right. And I know

when I was out of line and it let you down. This time,

I'll be singing if it takes a night. So funny all being up the

store, I'm waiting for you underneath the porch line. I'm waiting for you.

Oh when I'm waiting for you, Oh when I'm waiting for you.

Underneath the thought line. Welcome back, everybody. Oh that's good. Porch

light by the great Dakota Smart, who has joined us live in studio here

on the program. And I gotta say, I love your voice. Thank

you so much. Yeah you really really good. And uh you're getting some

love in our chat room too, U. DJ Steve, who joins us

soft Friday Nights for Retrospectrum Radio says, Hi, Matt and Jenny, great

show so far. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, one of our great sponsors,

says, really like this. Isaac Banks says, good song, Matt,

I'm listening to you right now. Dakota Smart is the best jay fed

from the great State of Vermont says I like that, and Isaac Banks says,

awesome song. I love it, very nice, very nice. That's

awesome. Yeah, thank you guys so much. So we were talking and

you're gonna play You're gonna play something live for us. Yeah, it was

so that this song is has been one that's very near and dear to my

heart. One of the reasons why is it's been so much fun to play

this one out live. Uh. And this is a song about just being

a musician on the road, playing show after show, night after night.

And uh, it's called killing it. So yeah, all right, you're

gonna give this one a go. By the way, before you do that,

I just want to tell you someone named Lori Smart is in the chat

room a relation. I assume, yes, And uh, Laurie says,

go Dakota, so very good. That's awesome, very good. Ain't no

loon. I'm gonna end up running out of town, so we don't just

hand on my shoulders. Couldn't give me fun and all these miles on the

beat of car, get it for the gold. This did a gutten bronze

stream mine know me for a minute to them go give me in the backseat

right and in the taxi loves me, let me leave me battle skills their

strong these days has been going that way. He show me what I gotta

do to get paid. He he ain't no more. We can fall change

if it's happening. It's happening, you know. Went back again, show

me where to sign down the lines and I'm killing it. I'm giving little

tees, but it can't stay. Whether than man never changes ways over these

heels. He'll love me the next stage, leaving that no mad lifestyle thing.

Do it wit alone, bit of car. They work. My heart's

in the lyrics that it don't get hurt now. They said they know means

they're on but your phone. He's never gave a damn till my songs got

heard. These days has been going that way. He show me me what

I gotta do the good paid, ain't knowing more? Who weakened tha change

if it's happening, it's happening. And you went back again, show me

where to sign dot the lines, and I'm killing it. These days has

been going that way, showing what I gotta do the good paid, ain't

no more weaken faun change if it's happening, it's happening. And you went

back again, show me where to sign doting lines and I'm killing it.

Very nice, very nice. That was awesome, Thank you so much.

If you're just joining us. Dakota Smart is a live in studio with us

here and just played one of his new songs and that one's uh, that

one's not out yet, correct, No, that one's not out yet.

Yeah, the studio version. Yeah, really really good. You've got let's

see. Lisa Mackenzie Rodriguez if I'm saying that correctly, says, awesome song,

porch light, amazing voice, Dakota, You're yes, you're killing it.

Very nice, that's awesome, Thank you so much. Yeah. Uh.

DJ Steve says that was very cool, really liked it, and Isaac

Banks says, go, Dakota, you rock, very cool, very cool,

that's awesome. Thank you guys so much for the love. Absolutely absolutely,

if you if you have anything for Dakota, Uh, the studio line

is open six oh three two five oh six oh seven, six oh three

two five oh six o seven. If you have any questions or feedback or

anything at all. And how many oh you've Do you have any idea how

many songs you've written? In to you said you wrote one hundred and twenty

twenty alone, so I think you had said. Wow, man, that's

a that's a hard question to answer. It's got to be in the in

the hundreds, right. Oh oh yeah, so I think I mean I

start so again. I started writing when I was like ten years old.

So yeah, I'm guessing I've I've probably forgotten more songs than anything. I

probably wrote a little. I've probably written at this point, probably close to

three hundred four hundred songs. Wow, Yeah, that's a lot. Do

you remember the first song you ever wrote? Unfortunately, yes, I knew

it's a I will say one of my biggest inspirations is is Ed Sheeran,

And one of the reasons why is because he's he's an amazing songwriter and it's

funny because he actually talks about his early songwriting and he's like, you know,

everybody thinks it's like something you're born with, and he's like no,

It's like he's like no, he goes, it's something you have to put

the ten thousand hours and you you really have to. You just have to

keep writing and keep writing. It's like it's like turning on a faucet,

you know. At first, he's like, you know, you're you're you're

gonna get the dirty water until it finally starts to run clean. And and

I think that's really just a beautiful way of looking at it, because you

know, it's really all in your control. Like to anybody out there who

who you know, really wants to write music and wants to write good music,

it's all in your control at all. Is is just in the time

that you put into it, right, And I think that's just a really

beautiful thing. Yeah, do you did? I assume that the first song

you ever wrote. I assume there's no version of that that continues to exist

or no, no, no, there's not. I had somebody a singer

songwriter on the show recently, Lou Antonucci. I think he say say his

name and and he surprised me. He uh, you know, he's an

older guy and he you know, he's got decades of songs. And he

said, he actually the first song you ever wrote. He actually still he

played it on the show. Is like, wow, that's awesome. He

was really good too, and I said, wow, you you started out

started out well? Yeah. Now are you playing out a lot? You

doing a lot of shows? Yeah, So that's that's my full time right

now. Is elling live shows excellent? Is it always just you? Or

do you collaborate with anybody? Do you have a do you ever have a

band? Or once in once in a while, I'll collaborate with friends or

play with the band, But most of the time it's just me. Okay,

okay. Tom Langard is in the Facebook live chat and says that was

great and gives a big thumbs up, very good, very good. And

when you play, do you do like a full night? Like do you

go somewhere and do like a three hour because obviously you have a lot of

a lot of music. Yeah, I'll usually be doing my My average gig

is usually three hours, sometimes four. I have done a five. I

don't recommend it, really, Yeah, that's that's Springsteen type show there.

Wow. Yeah, it's uh, this summer has been amazing. You know.

I want to give a big thank you to all the venues who have

been you know, having me come out and play show for them. It's

been absolutely amazing. I think I started with fifty dates for the summer when

I got back from Nashville this year, and I think looking back at it

for the total year, I think we're getting close to one hundred. Now.

Wow, that's really good. Yeah. So it's just been you know,

sometimes three gigs a week. I mean, I think I've been averaging

the summer close to three gigs a week, sometimes up to five, sometimes

five gigs in four days. Wow, having multiple gigs of days. Yeah.

Yeah. What was the show where you had to play for five hours?

That was? That was me and a buddy we were playing for I

think it was a I think it was called Harborfest in Maine, Okay,

and we had to play for five hours. Luckily that show, we were

able to kind of you know, take a break each and have the other

one play a couple of songs and then we'd you know switch off a little

bit, which was a lot of fun. But yeah, that was that

was my five hour show also. Actually no, I did have a private

party that was five hours as well, but I took a couple of long

breaks to even it out. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And

uh, how did you learn to sing? Are you self taught or did

you take lessons or so? I actually, when I was younger, I

started singing in church. Actually that that was the first place that I started

singing. And my parents are very musical. My dad he plays in a

band. He's a bass player and a guitar player, and my mother is

a drummer. Oh wow. Yeah, so I came from a I come

from a very musical family. Yea. And yeah, so that was that

was my first experience of singing just in public. And then after that,

I really like any chance I could talent shows, anywhere that I could get

up on stage, I would get up on stage. Yeah. So your

your dad plays in a band currently, he actually plays in a band.

I think they're they're going their separate ways right now, but he he's been

playing in a band for the past few years called Marcie Drive. Okay,

yep, I think I've heard of Marcie Drive. Yep. And and your

mom's a drummer. Does she play accurrently at all? Or she she Once

in a while, she'll she'll play, but she usually doesn't play out live.

So it's it's, you know, if we're we're all hanging out,

or we're going and watching the show and hanging out with with friends and what

not, she'll come up and play a couple of songs. Oh wow,

cool cool. Yeah. She actually because of the fact that I grew up

having a drum kit in the house, I actually was self taught, just

picked up the sticks and started learning how to play drums. Yeah, oh

wow, Are you a good drummer? I don't know actually, So,

I mean I think I guess I can sit in with most bands and play

a set. But to me, like, I wouldn't say that, like,

you know, it's my strongest instrument. Yeah, I'd say I'm proficient

at it, Like I can sit in with a band and play some tunes,

but you know, I'm my my inspiration is you know, people like

John Bonham and whatnot. Yeah, but yeah, it's it's interesting to me

that you mentioned having a drum set in the house because of your mom.

Because a topic of conversation that's come up on the show recently with a lot

of a lot of our guests. Is it seems like most drummers, I

know, they're in multiple bands. Yeah, because drummers are in such high

demand because it's hard to find drummers. And I always say, my theory

about that has always been that most most kids, when they're growing up and

they first start getting interested in music and they want to learn a musical instrument,

when they go to have that discussion with their parents, if they say

I want to play drums, the parents are usually like, uh, oh

no, right, nobody wants all the racket and everything. You know that,

and you know the tube another thing that would be loud and annoying.

But so that's always been my theory about why drummers are And so because like

most drummers we have on the show there and they're like, yeah, I'm

in like ten different bands. And but in your case, you actually grew

up with a drum set in the house because of your mom. So that's

really cool. Yeah. I think that's why drum kits are usually put in

the basement so that if you are playing the drums, you know, it

tries to keep the noise volume a little bit lower. Yeah, yeah,

absolutely. Did you Did you ever write with your parents at all? Ever

write a song with them or I've never like sat down and wrote a song

with my with my folks, But they definitely give me a lot of ideas.

And you know, they're usually the first ones to hear one of my

songs when it's done. Yea. And because of the fact, like my

my parents are very supportive and I'm very very grateful for how supportive they are

of the music. So a lot of the times, when I get done

with the song, I usually go, hey, you guys want to hear

this and check this out, and and they'll give me an honest opinion on

it. Yeah, And a lot of the times they have some really great

opinions. Really. Yeah. So it's I mean, you know, it

makes sense. You know, they they they know you the best out of

anybody, right, That's true. That's true. Yeah, Well we should

you want to play another I could play another studio track? Yeah, let's

do that. Let's see what haven't we I think we have one, or

actually we have a couple we haven't played, right? What? What?

What should we play next? What? I'll let you pick. I'm thinking

I got to remember what's on there. You gave me Blue Eyed Crazy,

which we haven't played, and uh oh, and I guess that's it because

you you played killing It and we played porch Light. So yeah, well

we'll spend that track blue Eyed Crazy, all right, and anything anything we

should know about this before we uh before we play it. Yeah, definitely,

because it just by the title, it sounds like there might be a

story. Oh there is, there is, Yeah, this is This song

has been a lot of fun writing wise. There's a lot of songs where,

like you know, you you start writing it and it just becomes you

know, an hour goes by, or maybe two hours and then and then

sometimes you're like, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna shelf this and just

leave it right. This song was like the total opposite. It was like,

the first verse and chorus came to me really quickly, and I was

playing it on guitar, and I actually had the idea of like, all

right, I'm like, you know, in my heart, I'm a songwriter,

and I wanted to try and sit down and write a song for somebody

else. So the first verse in the chorus just flew by, and then

I shelfed it because of the fact that I had to I had to run.

I couldn't finish the song right then and there. And like a few

months later, when I was in Nashville, I was going through songs to

record and I was like, wait a minute. I stumbled upon the the

like little phone recording I had of this. I was like, man,

I go, I really want to finish this and see what it would sound

like. And I switched it from guitar to the piano, so this is

actually a piano track. I'm playing the piano on this song, and I'm

like, this is one of my favorite songs for the piano part. Like,

I'm really proud of this one. But I got done writing it and

I talked to my I reached out to my producer so that the guy who

produced my songs in Nashville. His name is Liel Reynolds. He's a Grammy

nominated producer. He's really really amazing, really fun guy to hang out with

and really fun in the studio. And when I sent him this, I

said, hey, I go, I really want to get the song to

the list of songs, and he goes, I don't know, man,

it's you know we kind of already had to set a songs and then he

listened to it goes yeah, we got to record this. Yeah, but

this song was one that like I want to I feel like the best songwriters

are the best listeners. And I feel like if you're someone who can listen

to someone else's story and then put it into words and relate to other people

with that as well as your own, I feel like that's just really one

of the measures by that you're a really good songwriter. Yeah, And I

just want to challenge myself with this. So I took inspiration from a lot

of other you know, friends of mine who are in relationships and you know,

some of my own relationships in the past, and kind of just pulled

them together and created the song. But yeah, all right, all right,

very cool. So this is this is called Blue Eyed Crazy from Dakota.

Smart. Seeing that the doors will both a bomb and folded as all

the bousy men have broken in, you leave the options open for your victims

and crawl back. I feel like every other j you're just anohing nuther before

the twy ride, nevery when you bowl the opten you baby, should you

find to try to spread that shot down by your knockdown by your pretty little

boot him kind of being on your right the ring for the one and that

would be my man. The fuck then you pull me through? I guess

the sister who I say? And you you always wanted to be the one

who's in control. My car husband off a single something tells me how to

probably hit the road to yow the map to everything. And though I was

always saasen and you hell raising bringing me down to my knees, I guess

your amas just smaller roun free. Shut down by your knockdown by your pretty

little blue I crazy head had a thing for your boy the ring called the

one a double beep BP be in. Can't fuck that one you bud be

through. I guess it's just a blue iron crazy you shut down by your

knockdown by your pretty little blue I crizy head had a thing for your by

the ring for the one of double beet up. Can't fuck that what you

pulled me through? I guess it's just a blue iron. I guess it's

just a wag crazy shut down by your knock down by your breeding the bock

crazy had a thing for your bottling for the one a double Beat Baboo Jim,

I guess just the boo and crazy you. I guess just the boo

hay, crazy you. I guess it's just the boo and crazy new.

I think you got a hit song there, Dakota. Thank you. I'm

not kidding. That's really good. That is Blue Eyed Crazy from Dakota Smart,

who has joined Jenny and I here in studio. That's Dakota right on

the couch there for those of you watching online. And yeah, that is

Blue Eyed Crazy. Great great track. If you have any questions or anything

for our guest, Dakota Smart, the studio line is open six oh three

two five six oh oh seven six three two five six seven. So how

did how did that come about? Your connection with I'm sorry, I forget

the name of the producer you mentioned Little Reynolds litl Reynolds. How did that

come about? Uh? So, we actually we're looking for somebody to produce

the songs that uh I was wanting to record down in Nashville, and uh

we just reached out to to Blackbird Studio and we said, hey, who

do who do you guys recommend? And they gave us the name of Little

Reynolds and after you know, just looking up some of the stuff he's done,

and also just you know, getting on the phone and talking to him.

I said, man, this is this is a really cool guy.

I really want to you know, work on some songs with him. And

then what was the process like of of getting started. Did you have to

send him some demos and see what he thought or yeah. So so what

we did to start was we went through a bunch of demos and we were

kind of just shooting ideas back and forth. And and by the way,

this this timeframe was like a few months from the actual time that we got

you know, started talking and then actually went in the studio, so we

had a lot of time to play around with ideas. And by the time

I got to Nashville, it was kind of crazy because it was like I

had so many things that I wanted to do and so many like just people

that I had reached out to, and I was like, hey, you

know, I want to play at this venue. I want to you know,

I want to write a song with you, and and is this crazy?

Like I think one of the hardest things is like trying to schedule your

time, especially in that situation. So when I got down there. We

ended up having to like just find a time to get together and do pre

production, and I think it was one of the first things we did.

So we did pre production and that was really really cool because it was like

one of the first times that we were able to sit down and like really

take a deep dive into these songs. And then we just talked about sounds.

Were like, hey, what's your inspiration here, and what do you

think the drum kits should sound like? And what kind of guitar sounds you

like? And I just you know, just unloaded my whole creativity like vision

on him about everything, and and you know, he gave me his ideas

and whatnot. It was really awesome. So uh, I mean, especially

when it came to like the drum kit when it comes to Tom's, I

like, like a muted Tom sounds so like kind of like the Beatles.

They put tea towels over the toms, and I thought that was really cool.

So I was like, man, we got to do that. You

know, if the Beatles did that, I got to try it. I

got I got to see how that sounds. And we actually did that on

the drum kit for for all of these songs and I think, yeah,

I think I think all of them. I got to remember correctly. But

anyways, just just stuff like that, like getting right down into the nitty

gritty of what we wanted the kick drum to sound like all the way to

all the toms, and you know, should the guitar be more you know,

should it be more bright? Should it be a little bit darker?

You know, do you want electric here? Do you not? And and

you know, how do you want to play your piano part? So that

was that was really really cool. It's interesting that you mentioned drums because I

have been saying for years that I feel like as far as how drums should

sound like, I don't really I don't listen to a lot of country but

but occasionally. But my observation though has been with with you know, quote

unquote new country. Is Nashville really figured it out as far as how drums

should sound. Yeah. I think what's what's hard about it is that everybody

has a different idea on what the drum kits should sound like. Yeah,

And to me, I mean, I think it's just because I'm an old

soul, I just I love a lot of the the older sounding kits,

but I like, I like the tone and the texture to them, but

I want them to you know, to be present on the track, right

right, So, like I I like a kick drum that's that's present,

that's that really has you know, that's something that, like you you feel

it sometimes more than you hear it, Yes, exactly. And uh and

I love that. I love toms, that dead sounding you know, te

towel toms. I feel like, because of the fact that there's so much

going on in a track, you know, sometimes having something that rings out

like those toms that ring out really far, I just feel like sometimes it

just ends up becoming muddy. Yeah, you know. So to me,

it's like that that kind of dead sounding sixties style drum. Uh. It

just it it's so present in it. It's it's so crisp when you hear

it. Yea. And because of the fact that a lot of people,

you know, it's it's something that was really popular in the sixties, I

feel like it's something that can kind of come back in a style today.

Yeah. And and by the way, obviously, so you know your music

isn't certainly isn't country, But how do you describe it to people? Who

haven't heard of your music. So I have inspirations all over the board.

Like I grew up, the first genre of music that I really wasn't like

fell in love with as a kid was blues. Like I used to listen

to BB King all day and I love that. My dad got me into

BB King, And then later on I went from BB King man to what

was the artist Stevie Wonder? I went from BB King to Stevie Wonder,

and then I got a little bit more into rock and roll as high school

hit. And also I had a phase where I was really into cold Play.

Actually this is good to note. When I was younger, the song

that made me want to start writing music was Clocks by Coleplay. And the

reason why I was a little kid, I was watching a movie and I

heard the song Clocks in the movie and it just made me feel something,

and I just said to myself, I want to make people feel something like

that song made me feel something. And that was actually the thing that,

believe it or not, that got me like just just started writing. And

then I went from like that kind of stuff into folk, and I really

love folk. I think from a lyrical standpoint, I'm very much a folk

writer. I like to write stories and I also have a very heavy rock

influence, but I also do have some country influences. I mean, I

really loved Johnny Cash, and I love a lot of the more roots country

stuff. I don't know if you heard of the artist Zak Briancues, but

I've I've really gotten into a lot of his his music, and I feel

like lyrically, that's like my bread and butter. I like stuff that is

just honest, you know, and that's that's kind of my inspiration. So

I'd say that I'm folk rock with influences of country. And yeah, the

story of how I got into, uh, Johnny Cash was pretty funny.

My my grandfather was a truck driver, but he he passed away when I

was three, so I never really got the chance to like to meet him

and know him. And one day I was hanging out, you know,

after school, talking with my dad and he said, hey, do you

want to know what your your grandfather used to listen to. I said,

yeah, I'd love to know what he used to listen to. And he

showed me the song boy named Sue, and I laugh so hard listening to

that. That's just such a funny song. Yeah, and I listened to

it on repeat and and after that I was just I was I was hooked.

I was a Johnny Cash fan. Yeah, and I mean that happened.

I was probably like I gotta say twelve or younger something like that when

I first Yeah, so he's been he's been an influence from a young age.

Okay. And by the way too, So we were talking while the

off air, while the song was on Blue Eyed Crazy, you were talking

about the piano part. Yes, the solo there. Yeah, so that

was the solo in that song is probably my favorite solo I've ever done,

period. And it took me. And actually, what's funny is is that

I'd be in the studio and and and the lull would be talking to me

behind the glass, and I would do a solo and then he'd be like,

all right, do one more, and I do another one, and

he'd go, right, I don't know, man, he goes, I

don't think that was the one, And then he just he just kept playing

it back until until he looked at me and he goes, yep, all

right, we got it. And at that point I didn't even I couldn't

remember half the other takes. Yeah, yeah, no doubt, but I

just had to I just had to trust, you know, his judgment and

being like knowing when we got the actual like that's the solo. You know

what's cool about it too, is it fits a song so perfectly, but

you don't you kind of don't see it coming. Yeah, and that's you

know. I think that's what's really cool about that track is that a lot

of songs they go for the guitar solo, And I mean, my first

instrument was a piano, and I want to highlight that. Even though a

lot of the times when you see me playing originals today, a lot of

the times I will be playing the guitar. But I really wanted to highlight

all those years of playing piano and in all those years of playing with bands

and doing solos, and and I was like, you know, I really

want to have something like that. So yeah, we we gave it a

try, and luckily it fits. So yeah, absolutely, let's see Lisa

Mackenzie Rodrigue in the chat room says, very cool. I love the beat

and your piano playing is amazing. All of these songs are big hits.

Way to go to coda from two of your biggest fans. Thank you so

much. Roni Favero says, my favorite drum kit was a North They are

shaped like horns. Really, I don't know, yeah, that's what she

said. I'm gonna I'm gonna have to look that up. I don't I

don't think I've ever heard of that. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah

yeah, Now, so what's the status of so the songs that we've been

playing, these are not out yet, do you know when they're going to

be coming out or so We're looking at releasing Porch Light at the end of

next month, so that'll be the next single. Yeah, that's going to

be the next single, and then we're going to take a break through December

from releasing anything because you know, if I feel like December people are,

you know, getting into the Christmas spirit and whatnot, and I don't,

I don't, you know, I want to kind of take a break and

releasing music and then just hit it hard in twenty twenty four. Yeah,

and a lot of these songs are going to be coming out in the beginning

in twenty twenty four. I think I think I'm looking at maybe doing a

song a month or maybe you know, every six weeks or something like that,

and I have a lot, Like you know, this is four songs

out of ten, and four of them are full band. We actually the

song killing It is one of the acoustic ones. So I want to bring

a variation today. And we're thinking about doing an EP of acoustic songs because

six of those songs that I recorded down there are acoustic. Oh okay,

yeah, So it's a I'm really excited about it because these are you know,

these are so much different compared to anything that I've ever written before.

Really yeah, and it's just a whole new like I feel like a whole

new chapter for me as a songwriter. Oh cool, Cool? Is some

of your stuff online if people want to hear. Yes. So the first

album that I ever put out was actually in twenty twenty two. It was

an album called Leap of Faith. I felt like that was pretty fitting for

my first album. And another thing is is like these these albums, you

know, I play shows all summer and I save up money to go and

record, and so the first album, you know, when I chose,

I was like, man, I really need to put something out that is

like a big body of work. I put out Leap of Faith, and

I called it Leap of Faith because of that, because it really was.

It was a huge leap of faith to be like, Hey, you're going

to take all this time in this money and you're going to invest it in

yourself. And what's cool about that is all the all of those songs in

Leap of Faith were actually written when I was in my teens, no kidding.

And then we had to postpone the release of the album because of COVID,

And the reason why is because I wanted to have a release party and

I wanted to actually do a show. So we ended up waiting. Yeah,

we ended up waiting almost in a whole year because of the fact that

we couldn't find a venue in the in the like in the peak of COVID

that was willing to do a release party, which which made sense, you

know, we weren't. So we waited and and and once once we found

a place, it was it was great. You know, people from my

hometown they all came out to see me play and and you know, I

just I'm so blessed for that. It was amazing. And will will there

be a video for Porch Light? Yes, there will be a video.

Actually, that's that's really funny that you asked that, because the video for

porch Light is a com a combination of videos that we took in the studio.

Oh okay, so it's gonna This is the coolest thing about the porch

Light video is that it's gonna be really a big like behind the scenes of

like this is what went into creating this. And I feel like that's gonna

be really cool to get people's reaction to that. Oh, excellent, excellent.

We've got a little bit of time left. Did you want to play

one more on your guitar or not to put you on the spot, but

I could Yeah, we could do that. Yeah, I'd love to.

I'd love to hear you play some more awesome. Yeah, whatever, whatever

you want to play. And I think, if anything, i'd be willing

to do a cover for you. Sure, Yeah, if you'd like.

Yeah, if you're just joining us. While he's grabbing his guitar, Dakota

Smart, Dakota Smart is here with us in studio. He is on the

couch and he's got his guitar. He's gonna he's gonna play something for us.

Yeah, whenever you're ready to just go for it. Alrighty are you

able to hear me? All right? Oh? Yeah, yeah, you

sound great. Yeah. Now this is a cover that I usually play on

the piano, but we're gonna try it on the guitar and see it sounds.

He'll be a fine bounds Clyde. I'm telling you, baby, these

things eat out your bones in drive your young mind, crazy boy when you

please your head between the collar and jall. I don't know much, but

this no WD at all. And I'm dandy fine too. And I'm dandy

fine, don't cause if I say him, I miss you. I know

that you won't, but I miss you in the mornings when I see him

the sun. Something in the orphane tells me here when I adarn to you,

I'm just a man to me, you are that I am? Where

the hell of my songs to go? A pointing myself again. Something in

the orange tells me he'll never coming home. A needy hear you see you've

been withing no night this orhane don singing your eyes from Barbarlay. Your voice

only trembles, and you trying to speak. Take me back to us dancing

this wood used to create. To you, I'm just man to me all

that I am. Where the hell the my spones to go for pointing myself

again? Something in the ore end tells me he'll never come in upon if

you live to day here. I will just stare her out through here.

The Oran stuches all things around, cross treason too, How I hit you?

Please turtain those headlines around to you. I'm just man to me all

that, and where the hell and the my spones to go opposing myself against

Something in the Oran tells me you'll never come in home if you leave to

day out. Just stare at the way the Orange touches all things around,

Chriss treason do? How am hit you? Please turn those headlights around?

Please turn those headlights around, Please turn those headlights. Oh round, nice

great Dakota Smart. Who does that song? So that is something in the

Orange by Zach Bryan. Oh okay, wow, great tune, great tune.

Thank you. Yeah, that's a so that's usually something that I play

on piano. So if you ever come to see me play live, you'll

hear me cover that on the piano. Yeah, it sounds pretty good on

that kid, I'll tell you, thank you, absolutely absolutely. We are

almost out of time, but of course you've got the website dakotasmart dot com

yep, and so people can find all your your music and your social media

through there. And what do you have now? Do you have any shows

this week that you want to plug you anything you're plan out this week?

Actually that is a good that's a good point. I do have one on

Saturday coming up at the Front four Cellars. Actually I should check my schedules.

I want to make sure I get this one right. Yeah yeah.

Where is where is that Front four Wolfborough? Wolfborough? Oh okay, the

leaks Yeah yeah yeah, beautiful area. That's a that's a nice place in

the summertime. Yeah, I'll look and make sure that I have the right

time. Yeah yeah. So it is going to be on Saturday, the

twenty eighth. It is going to be Front four Cellars and I'm going to

be starting at five o'clock and that is in Wolfborough, in Wolfboro, Yeah,

yep. So if you guys want to find me on social media,

you can find me at Dakota Smart Music and that is on everything that's Instagram,

Facebook, YouTube, even TikTok as well. Excellent, very good,

very good, Well, thank you so much for coming in today. This

has been amazing. Yeah. Oh I actually I forgot one last thing to

mention. I should have mentioned this earlier. I am I'm actually going to

be playing this year at the New England Music Awards on November twelfth. Oh

congratulations, thank you. Yeah, so that's the tickets for that are actually

for sale on the New England Music Awards website. So if anybody wants to

come and see me play live on the New England Music Awards stage November twelfth,

I'm going to be there. Very lot of fun, very cool,

excellent. Miriam Banish in the chat room says glad I was able to listen

long enough for a song I missed someone I was at an appointment. Well,

of course, if you missed anything today, Miriam, it will be

up in just a little bit at wmnhradio dot organ at my website. Matt

connorton dot com. Paul Murray in the chatroom says, great interview, Glad

you liked it. Laurie Smart says I love the way he performs the cover

Something in the Orange by Zach Bryan, but we love his originals even more.

Absolutely, Will Vegas from Will's Autocarez and the Chatterman says, Dakota is

really good. Long day at the shop and his music really helped me out

today. Excellent, excellent. I'm glad to hear that. Thank you so

much. And Laurie Smart says he's a five time nominee for the New England

Music Awards. You're humble. You didn't mentioned that you are a five time

nominee. And Julie Murray says, enjoyed watching this show. Thank you so

much, Thank you so much. We got to wrap up, Jenny,

did you want to plug your website? Of course you can always check me

out at Jencoffee dot com j E N N c O f f UI dot

com. There is a new video up and new article up and there'll be

more coming soon. As always, fighting for healthcare for all and who's our

I was trying to look it up really quickly. Tomorrow you have Darling Hill.

Darling Hill will be our musical guestrow On Wednesday, slim Ball you will

be coming in. And then on Friday, Ty Charles is the Peregon Dream.

Yes, but some new stuff coming. Oh, very cool, very

cool. That's awesome, awesome week and Thursday will be a best of because

I will be in Providence at an event. Yes, yes, indeed,

all right, so we gotta go. But Dakota Smart, thank you again,

my friend. Thank you guys so much for having me. Absolutely and

we'll leave you with a little more of this one album. Man A crashed

on my twenties, buying and buying soon and go be past it over on

the pain I can give you pretty boys, baby, just come back to

bid and gig your other boys. Twenty five is speaking on the corn.

Guess say once you're thirty men the music is altho. Reason around the clock,

just to appreciate. I can. If the weirdest gonna kill me in

the industry, say speak sorry thought, I'm not at any in the sensation.

My hometown tells me, boy, get write it holding grated. If

the world haven't guessed it in the creed, I'll be the greatest thing you've

never seen. If it don't got hide in the ceiling him the name doesn't

travel to newshal I'll be playing everybody got the billing. I'll be the greatest sing

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