Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-25-23

You are listening to umin h command God, don't get so greenly madself. Thank you everybody. It is Wednesday. I almost said Tuesday. Easy g in the chat room had me confused. It is welcome. It is when to day. October twenty five, twenty twenty three. This is Matt Connorton, Unleafed and we are live from these studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe.

You can go to my website Matt Connorton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etc. Etc. A couple tracks that we opened there with. I played Fury by the band Edgewise and I played some meage Wise for a specific reason, so Chris, if you're listening, I wanted to open with something of your band today because I appreciate you very much. And also I played Damsel Disorder from Darling Hill. Kate Shimkey from Darling Hill was with us on the show yesterday and she's amazing and that song has been stuck in my head since I heard it.

So we have a great musical guest today on the show too. Coming up in the second hour, we're gonna be joined in studio by Slim Volume. They've got a batch of new tunes that are not yet available, so you'll be hearing them here for the first time, the world radio premiere. And uh, they've been on the show before and they're they're great and I love the new songs. I got to hear them obviously, really really good stuff. And we have a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Who is this? Hey, it's really you cannot hear the show.

I'm trying to listen live and it's just playing music. Uh, where are you listening? Where online are you listening? I'm listening on the on the w m n H site and it's just playing music. Yeah, w MNH dot org. And then I go to live Listen Live Matt Conra and it's just playing music. And the same thing happened yesterday. Actually that I think you had a show yesterday because then I found it on the podcast. Yeah I was here. All right, I'm gonna pull the I'm gonna pull up the website on uh this computer here, and uh, let's see what happens.

That's uh, that's concerning if there is a problem waiting for the players. Anyway, when I have a piece of I have a piece of New Hampster News, it's a good time. Yeah, that's fine, just just saying, on a second, Dave, I'm going to pull this up here. It's a good time. How about that second show over to me for the next five minutes? Did you hear it, Dave? Dave, listen about second show over to me for the next five minutes. That's that's the feed. It's it's played. Where where are you? Are you A? Are you at w u m n H radio dot org.

Maybe that's what it is, w n H radio dot org. You're you're on the wrong website. Okay, so you're not broadcasting there anymore, No we are. And I was asking you it sounded like you were not at w m n H radio dot org. Is that where you are? I don't want to yeah, because I checked and the show's definitely playing on the website. Okay, good, Well, I don't know who knows. I'm pulling it up and I'm just really the Mhradio dot Yeah, Wnahradio dot Org. Listen live. I'm clicking that now, clicking it again, and it's playing, yeah, playing me.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. You scared me, Dave, Well, did you? Uh? Yeah, Well, like I said it, I don't know. Yeah, go ahead, like I said it happened, happened twice, happened to me yesterday too. But I don't want to I don't think I don't think you. I don't think your listeners are gonna want to listen to me doing technical support for myself, right, yeah, no, you're right, Okay, yes, go ahead, Dave. You have some new answer news. Here's something they will probably be interested in. So you remember, you know, you know, in the twenty fifteen era, everybody was all gooey eye and over that wonderful thing to police we're going to do.

They were going to have body cams, right, and that was going to provide transparency to the police. Well, in Hillsboro District Court, Uhtrea Freking dot Com is reporting that the Hillsborough District Court Prosecutor has filed a protect a request for a protective order against a YouTuber for the crime of uploading video from a Hillsboro police bodycam. Hmmm, how did the how did the YouTuber obtain the footage? If we just contacted the police department and said send me the footage, and I think they're required to do that, and what they said, you're not allowed to upload YouTube.

That's weird. I wonder why that doesn't make any sense. Well, they they felt they found they upload they found a statute. Right, there's some statutes they dug up that that said that they could be interpreted to mean that. Well, say a copy of it here, I have a okay, here it is a quote r S A one oh five D colon two quote. Except as authorized in this section, no person, including without limitation, officers and their supervisors shall edit, alter, erase, delete, duplicate copy, subject to automated and analysts, analysis or analytics of any kind, including but YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA.

H there was also there was also I think there was something. There may be something in there about sharing it. Well, I say, okay, here it is okay, including he said, including, including, but not limited to face facial recognition or otherwise. I keep keep losing it. There's something in there that they took they took them and you can't share it? Does it make sense? Yeah? Okay, here it is, uh, after all that legal ease. It includes the word share, display, or otherwise distribute in any manner, Okay, any BWC recordings.

I know that's I'm sorry, that's so difficult to understand. But that's the way they wrote the statute. No, that's very easy to understand. Okay, I think so. Yeah, So according to that statute, he can't upload it to YouTube. Well, what's the point. Yeah, what's the point of transparency if you have to cover it up? Right? Oh? I agree, I fully agree with you. Yeah, I'm not arguing with you. I mean, obviously the statute. I think the statute's pretty clear that you can't upload it to YouTube. But I would.

But yeah, my question would be, well, why not. Fredo is in the chat room and says they will lose the case. Foya is law Freedom of Information Act can't win that case. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, but you know, in most in most cases, it will just have the chilling effect that people will be afraid to post it in the first place, right, right, And I guess that's probably why the law is written that way. So that while they can't necessarily refuse if they're asked for bodycam footage, they can't legally refuse to give it to you necessarily, but they don't, but that they don't necessarily want you putting it in out there for other people to see.

So in theory, if if you wanted to show it to anybody, you would have to show it to them on an individual basis. But you couldn't. You couldn't just put it up on YouTube or some other site for everyone to see. So it's a way of it's I guess it's a way of sort of gumming up the works. It's just today's latest government abuse in the least bad government on the planet. Right, imagine the thousand things I'm not calling you about because there's not time. Yeah, Fredo says in the chat room. No jury in New Hampshire will uh will find in favor of the h Did you say it's it's the who is it again?

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department, Hillsborough District Court. So whatever live the prosecutor is there? Oh? Okay, they didn't try to do anything. That's why they didn't do anything that requires a jury Uh, you don't need a jury for a miss you know, a misdemeanor, or at least not a Class B misdemeanor. And you don't need a jury for one of these protective order requests or whatever. That's just one of those things handled, you know, handled by the court without without having to get the people involved.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, apparently. So has this individual actually been charged, Well, he's been charged by Hillsboro by Hillsboro. Hillsboro District Court has charged him for something else. I think it was for. They claimed that he told people to call Hillsboro District Court something. They're claiming he called the told them to call Hillsborough PD. They're claiming that he did that and apparently are not allowed to do that either. All right, well, so I mean learned.

Well that's too bad, though, No, I agree with you about transparency, and you should be able to put that on YouTube. It shouldn't be a problem. So yeah, I just imagine how bad it is in a place like Illinois or New York. Right, what do you mean, Well, I mean, because it's just these these places are so much more authoritarian. New Hampshire has the smallest government in the lower forty eight right, right, and those places have the biggest and I think Illinois passed a lot that you weren't allowed to film police at all, although not at least not audio.

Although I'm not sure we have the smallest government necessarily, it depends on how you look at it. Maybe we have the least intrusive, perhaps, but I don't know if we have the smallest, given that we have the like the third or fourth depending on who you ask, a democratically elected legislative body in the entire world. So if you think of it that way, we actually have a very large government. But uh, yeah, it depends on it depends on how you measure it. Yeah, but no, but I do get what you're saying.

Oh, by the way, sow, our friend Tom Blanchard in the chat room just solved the mystery for us, h Dave. I'm embarrassed. I didn't think of this myself. Tom says in the chat room. He probably doesn't realize. You play a couple of songs at the beginning of the show, And that makes sense because I saw that this same number was calling while one of the songs. Because I usually open with one or two songs on the show before I do the theme music and the official intro. That's why you heard music. Okay, yeah, I was thinking that yesterday I called more like four thirty, but maybe I called earlier, So okay, sorry, sorry minutes talking about nothing.

No, that's okay. Or I'm glad we figured it out, or you called later, because you know, I also play music at the top of the hour for the changeover as we go into the second hour, and then we have a typically we have a musical guest in the second hour. So you may have called later in the show and didn't realize, but now you know. So if you hear music, it's just because my show does have a musical component to it, more so than it used to. Fact. So there you go. Well, for anyone who wants to anyone who wants to do something about this particular government abuse or any other come to form do Chiresociety dot com right here based in Key Yes, Yes, all right, very good Dave, Well, thank you and we appreciate the call.

Thank you, all right, you got it man, take care, bye bye, all right. That was Dave Ridley, of course, of the Ridley Report, though he never mentions the Ridley Report anymore. He's very focused on NH exit and so forth. But thank you for figuring that out. Tom. It seems obvious, and yet somehow that didn't occur to me, But yeah, I did. He was calling. That was the second time he called. The first time he called. It was right after the show started, and I always open with at least one song, so yeah, but yeah, we played a little edgewise and then a little uh Darling Hill.

Kate Shimkey of Darling Hill, she was here with us in the second hour. I got a I got a very nice uh voicemail and text message from my dad. He was very impressed with her music and really enjoyed the interview as well. I think he said it was the best. Uh. It was his favorite so far on the show as far as musical guests. So so that was cool. Yeah, she's amazing. She's amazing, and I love that song six oh three two five o six seven. If you'd like to join us six oh three two five o six seven, you can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six.

I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at mattconnorton 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 dulcet tones is to give us a call at six O three two five O six oh seven before we go in further. There's obviously a lot of news to get to, and then we've got, like I said, we've got Slim Volume joining us on the program in the second hour, just just briefly. And I'm gonna be a little bit vague because it's I can't bring I shouldn't.

I don't think it would be appropriate to bring too much of this on to the live radio show here at WM and H, so I'll be a little bit vague, but I do want to say thank you to everyone who has been so supportive. I put up a post on social media last night, and then I did something additionally today, and my god, thank you so much to the people who have stepped up to help with that. I really love and appreciate you all. It's I'm having a I'm having a hard having a hard go of it, as they say, I'm having a hard time with some things right now.

I'm struggling. So people have been very supportive and very kind and I just you know who you are. And by the way, that's part of why I played Chris h from edgewise. If you're listening, thank you, especially my friend. Uh, you'll be hearing from me. That will be reciprocated, I promise. I know, I know you're not necessarily looking for it, but it will be. It will be absolutely so. But anyway, I just wanted to say a quick thank you if you know, you know, it's not something you'll see on the Matt Connorton Unleashed Facebook page, but if you look at my personal Facebook page, you'll you'll have seen it.

But uh, that's what's going on. So uh I uh, but I I do uh, I do appreciate all of you. So I just wanted to say that and thank you to everybody. Uh six O three two five O six O seven six O three two five oh six o seven. The studio line is open. So we have can you believe it, we have a uh a house speaker. His name is Mike Johnson. I went to high school with a guy named Mike Johnson. But it's probably a very common name. I'm willing to bet there's a million Mike Johnson's out there. This seems like it would be a very common name.

The Mike Johnson I went to high school with was a musician, very talented gentleman. I think, am I thinking of the right Mike Johnson. There might have actually been more than one Mike Johnson at my school now that I'm thinking about it, because like I said, it's a very common name, so and unanimous among the Republicans when they got it together, they really got it together. I believe it was a unanimous vote. So he easily got to two seventeen. I suspect part of it was fatigue. But so that's that's over.

I know very little about Mike Johnson, and we'll all, uh, we'll all be learning more about him together. Uh. But uh, I guess the other thing that that also has happened that happened after I think happened after Mike Johnson's the vote to make him the House Speaker is Donald Trump storming out of a courtroom after taking the stand. So he doesn't he doesn't usually like to take the stand. I don't think his lawyers really want him taking a stand and being asked questions directly by a magistrate

or a prosecutor or anyone else, but he took the stand, so might we might look at that first. That's this interesting and I'm hoping to see video of it. From what's being reported, he stormed out in a huff. He was quite displeased with the proceedings. So so there's a lot to chew on. But before we get in any of that, I do want to say hell load everybody. In the Facebook live chat, Riley King joins us a fellow broadcaster, and in fact Riley says, good afternoon, have a great broadcast. I'm on air doing my afternoon show as well.

Well, wonderful, wonderful. Jenny is in the chatroom and says, shallom peeps easy g Eric Agnan says Happy Taco Tuesday. Whoops, Happy Prince Spaghetti Day. Glad you caught that before you put that comment. Hans Smith of the band Sepsis says, Hey Metal Matt, Hello, Hans, nice to see you. Melanie La Liberty from the Great State of Vermont says, hey guys. Fredo I mentioned in the Facebook live chat or I do enjoy saying his full name, Alfredo Enrique Benevitas of course, from the band Dank Sinatra and Cosmic blossom and a.

Fredo occasionally posts videos solo of him online just playing guitar or playing bass. Fantastic musician and a great, great person. It's been on the show a few times. Now. Let's see. Let's all right, let's look at this. Donald Trump storms out of trial. This is the headline on newsweek dot com. It says Donald Trump stormed out of his two hundred and fifty million dollars civil fraud trial today after a judge deny I had a directed verdict in his favor. The trial stems from a lawsuit in New York attorney Letitia James filed in twenty twenty two alleging that Trump and top executives at the Trump Organization conspired to increase his net worth by billions of dollars on financial statements provided to banks and insurers in order to make deals and secure loans.

As it turns out, for those who don't know, apparently that is considered not okay. So if you're thinking about doing that, if you yourself are some sort of New York real estate mogul, and you're thinking about inflating your assets for fraudulent purposes, don't don't do it, or at least don't do it. If you're a former president, then you're really potentially in a bind. Well, I suppose it was before he was president. It doesn't matter. Just don't do it. Don't do it. It's never worth it. Following a cross examination of Michael Cohen in which Cohen was asked if Trump directed him to inflate the number, Trump's legal team requested a directed verdict on his testimony.

Clifford Roberts, who is part of the former president's legal team, noted that quote, the state's key witness just countered their entire case. I can't think of anything more appropriate now unquote, So I guess he tried to get the whole thing tossed. However, Judge Arthur anger On, I hope I'm saying that correctly. I've heard her pronounced twenty four different ways in the media. I'm exaggerating. I've heard it pronounced twenty one different ways. Judge Arthur anger On denied prompting Trump to leave the New York courtroom, apparently in a flourish Adam Klassfeld, a senior legal correspondent at The Messenger, wrote on X quote yes, by the way, if you're wondering I have given in.

I'm not calling it twitter anymore. I'm calling it x quote. At that point, Trump stood and left the courtroom, mumbling unbelievable, unbelievable. He was followed by Secret Service and his son Eric. Good to have Eric around extra protection. I guess this comes after anger On questioned Trump about a comment made to reporters on Wednesday during a break of the trial, and subsequently finding his testimony not credible during a hearing about whether he violated a gag order. He find the former president ten thousand dollars.

That's the cost of doing business. He's got a campaign. I mean, that's part of his campaign, is saying horrible things about all the people trying to put him in prison. I mean, you know that's part of the deal. Oh, or I should say that's the art of the deal. You see what I did there. That's his book anyway, all right, whatever,

let's forget him for now. We have actual people in elected office to talk about, specifically, this guy, Congressman Mike Johnson. He is our new ladies and gentlemen, here is your winner, a new Speaker of the House.

I guess you could you could say, if you want to think about it in those terms. He won a tournament, you know, so he didn't actually pin anybody because it was vacant, the title was vacant, and then he won the tournament and won the title. I know very little about him, and I think we're all going to learn a lot about him in the coming days. All I know so far is he's he sounds like he's pretty conservative. He sounds like he's to the right of McCarthy. And again, I if you're a regular listener, you might be tired of hearing me say it.

But while while I certainly put the uh, while I put most of the blame on the Republicans for lighting the fire, lighting the fuse, if you will, and ousting McCarthy, I do also put some blame on the Democrats for not saving him, because I knew this would happen. You end up with something you know. You've got McCarthy, someone you know is you know. I mean, I think he's fairly conservative himself, but or at least certainly beholden to the conservatives in his conference. But a House Republican who understands that government shutdowns are a bad thing and should be avoided, and that default.

Going over the fiscal cliff and defaulting international debt is a very very very bad thing and must absolutely be avoided. There are a lot of House Republicans who don't feel about it that way, too many. So the safer option would have been even though he didn't want the help, he made it clear he didn't want the help. But although now he gets to blame the Democrats afterward after he didn't get the help, but I think the right thing to do would have been to save him. I really do, because now there's somebody even more conservative, and this might be this might make it difficult when it's time to you know, because he's not going to keep any of the deals McCarthy made in terms of the budget.

McCarthy wasn't even keeping the deals that he made, living up to his end of the bargain on things that he had negotiated with the Democrats and with the White House. So I don't know. One of the things I heard about him today is that he is practical. He's a pragmatic person. So that might be good.

That might help, That might be better. I don't know. We'll see, but let's look at this. Five things to know about Speaker Mike Johnson. Let's see this is from the Hill dot Com. All our eyes

are in Representative Mike Johnson. He is a Republican from the great state of Louisiana, the fifty one year old who's election to be the fifty sixth Speaker today put an end to the over three weeks of turmoil and GOP infighting in the Laura Chamber. Johnson, who is serving his second term as Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference, won the Speaker's gavel in a two twenty to two oh nine party line vote over Minority Leader Hakim Jefferies on Wednesday, more than three weeks after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was booted from the top spot.

Johnson was nominated by his colleagues at a closed door meeting last night, just hours after House Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota withdrew his bid among conservative opposition. Emmer was the third Speaker nominee the Republican Conferences had put up since McCarthy's ouster. As he prepares to reopen the House to its normal functions, Johnson's stance on a variety of issues has come under a microscope. Here are the five things that we know about Johnson. Okay, number one. Johnson has opposed Ukraine aid.

Oh hello to us. Scott Robinson in the Facebook live chat who says, what's the old saying it's better to know the devil you know than the one you don't. Yes, absolutely, I think I've used that exact thing, referring to McCarthy as the devil you know. Yeah, would have been they should have saved him. I really believe that. Jfed in the chat room, of course, from the Great State of Vermont says good afternoon, Good afternoon. Jafed Johnson was one of fifty seven Republicans to vote no on a forty billion dollar aid package to Ukraine.

He later told the Shreveport Times, quote, we should not be sending another forty billion dollars abroad when our own border is in chaos. American mothers are struggling to find baby formula, Gas prices are at record highs. The American families are American families are struggling to make ends meet without sufficient oversight over where the money will go. Unquote. Ukraine has been a divisive subject with Republicans, with the majority in the party favoring sending Ukraine AID for its war with Russia, but a number of conservatives say no more money should be sent to Kiev.

Johnson gave statements back in support for Ukraine shortly after the invasion, but he's since voted against AID. I'm telling you, I got a bad feeling. We are all we are going to end up walking away from Ukraine. I feel like it's already happening, and not just us either. Somebody, somebody in NATO said something really unhelpful. That's not unusual. I don't want to get I don't want to get distracted. But oh Polly C joins us in the Facebook live chat and says, hey, Matt big fan. Friday night, will be murdering two Birds with one Stone, will be celebrating our three year anniversary with WMNH, and will also be celebrating Halloween eight pm Eastern Friday Night.

Yes, Yes, the three years of retrospect radio here at WMNH ninety five point three FM gone in the blink of an eye. But I do love my Fridays here at WMNH. It's my long day here and I love getting to do this show and then getting to hang out with Polly C and DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry. All Right, Johnson, uh okay. Johnson was one of one hundred and seventeen Republicans who voted no on a standalone bill to provide three hundred million in aid to Ukraine, a total that was stripped from the Pentagon funding bill ahead of a potential government shutdown last month.

Johnson has been quick to express support for money for Israel, another issue he'll have to deal with. Quickly asked Speaker, Israel and Ukraine could become intertwined in Congress in the wake of President Biden's one hundred billion dollar emergency funding requests to Congress that includes military assistance for both countries as well as border funding. That was smart, by the way, to make sure that there's money for border funding in that in that bill, because that makes it that just makes it harder for Republicans to argue against it, you know when they say, well, shouldn't we be doing more to protect our border?

Well, yeah, there's money in there for that too. So I mean it's you know, it's more complicated than that, but I'm just saying I think that was smart to put that in there, all right. Second thing that we know about Mike Johnson. Johnson pushed to overturn twenty twenty election results well, because, of course he did. Almost immediately after the twenty twenty election, Johnson emerged as a supporter of then President Trump's unfounded claims that the election was stolen from him. Days after the twenty twenty election, Johnson wrote on x then known as Twitter, quote, I've just called President Trump to say this, stay strong and keep fighting, sir.

The nation is depending upon your resolve. We must exhaust every available legal remedy to restore Americans trust in the fairness of our election system unquote. Later in twenty twenty, Johnson led and by the way, that was one of the things that they why they wouldn't support Tom Emmer was because he's well. Actually, with Tom Emmer, it's a little weird because he did vote to certify the election, so he gets tagged as not being an election denier. But then he did sign that amicus brief encouraging Texas to overturn their well, obviously Trump carried Texas, but encouraging Texas to help overturn the election.

I forget exactly how that worked. But later in twenty twenty, Johnson led an amicus brief signed by one hundred House Republicans. Oh this is it and this is Tom. Emmer signed this as well, supporting a Texas lawsuit that aimed to overturn the twenty twenty election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. After the brief was introduced, Johnson posted to X quote President Trump called me this morning to let me know how much he appreciates the amicus brief we are filing on behalf of members of Congress.

Indeed, this is a big one unquote, and you see why Trump likes him. Johnson was also one of one hundred and thirty nine House Republicans who later voted to object to the objection results in Arizona, Pennsylvania, or both. Shortly after the jan sixth riot at the Capitol, a reporter last night tried to ask Johnson about his involvement and attempts to overturn the twenty twenty election. Multiple GOP members flanking their Louisiana colleague began to laugh, and Representative Virginia Fox of North Carolina yelled, shut up, Oh that's where she's from.

I haven't seen the video. I've only heard the audio, but I knew she was. Uh, she's got a pretty thick Southern accent. She reminded me of k Ivy, Governor of Alabama, Right k Ivy. Johnson smiled, shook his head and said, next question. You know what I like about k Ivy? Very conservative obviously, but very pro vaccine, which I appreciate. She believes in science. Imagine that. Okay. Third thing, Johnson is an ally of Trump. Yeah, kind of figured that out. Johnson has also come out as a vocal critic of the mounting legal battles against Trump, arguing the former president and disfavored Republicans have been targeted by legal and political systems.

He wrote on X in March, quote in America, everyone is innocent until proven guilty, unless you're Donald Trump or one of the disfavored Republicans targeted by Democrats unquote. Johnson serves on the House's Judiciaries Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and has used discussion of President Biden and his family's alleged foreign business dealings to call out the quote bogus charges against Trump, which include a case from the Special Council Jack Smith over Trump's efforts to overturn the election.

All right. Number four Johnson voted against the recent bill to keep the government open. Oh great, see this is why, though, this is why the Democrats should have saved Kevin McCarthy, because this is what we're getting into now. It is. Look again, I'm not going to place Look, the blame lies with Republicans who are in the majority, who can't control their own conference apparently, and you know you got Matt Gates of the Crazy Eight that's where this all started. But again, Democrats do carry some blame here too, because they could have prevented this.

They could have prevented this guy who the more I'm learning about him, the more frightened I am. They could have prevented this guy from being in the New House Speaker. You understand what I'm saying. It's, you know, come on, like I always say when somebody's drowning, you know, and instead of yelling, you know, help me, I'm drowning, they yell something like, hey, I wish you were drowning instead of me, and I hate you. You might you might hesitate a nanosecond, but you should still save them. They should have saved McCarthy.

Charles Richardson joins us in the Facebook live chat and says, greeting to everybody this afternoon, and thank you you too, Charles and Charles thank you. And we won't get into it here the other thing, but you know, I appreciate I appreciate you, sir, thank you for what you did today. Um, let's see okay. So yes, Johnson voted against the recent bill to keep the government open. The pressure is now on Johnson either tackled the House a series of unresolved appropriations funding bills or to pass a longer continuing resolution to keep the government open.

Pasted the November seventeen deadline for a shutdown. Shortly before the House was sent into chaos without a speaker, Then Speaker McCarthy brought to the House floor a clean short term funding bill known as a continuing Resolution, that averted a government shut down just hours before funding was set to run out. I was very close down to the wire. Johnson was among the ninety Republicans who voted an opposition of the Continuing Resolution, though it still passed in a largely bipartisan three thirty five to ninety one vote.

Yeah, so they didn't need his vote, and maybe if it were closer, he would have voted for it because he would not want to being one of the people blamed for a government shutdown. That's sometimes that's how that works in Congress. You know, people vote against things knowing that it might come back to haunt them if there's an actual consequence for them voting against something. But if they know that what they're voting against is going to pass anyway, then they can vote against it, and then they later they can say when asked about it, oh, I didn't support that.

I voted against it. Whereas if you vote against something and your vote actually counts because you're voting against something and a lot of people are voting with you against that thing, and you're you know, you end up responsible for something like a government shutdown. So so we don't know how he actually, you know, if there weren't that much of a buffer, shall we say, we don't know how he would have voted. But in his Dear Colleague letter to the Republican Conference, Johnson pushed for the House to pass all twelve of its appropriations measures.

Well, then why do you vote against the cr because he didn't want did he want separate votes on all of them. That's probably what it is. Here's what he said in the letter. Quote, I'm confident we can work together to accomplish that objective quickly in a matter that delivers our principled commitments to rein in wasteful spending and put our country back on a path to fiscal responsibility. Unquote. Okay, yeah, so he just e didn't want an omnibus bill. I mean, there actually is as reckless and stupid as I think it is to send us plunging into a government shut down.

There is, under different circumstances, there is an argument for not doing an omnibus and voting on these things individually. I'm not saying that that's how we should do it. I'm just saying there is an argument for that that I'm open to. But in this case, I think the cr is a safer option, especially when you're up against the clock. I mean, you know, in the interests of time. Johnson said he would like to reach a consensus and discharge the appropriations bills for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Commerce, Justice and Science from the Appropriations Committee, while laying out of calendar schedule to consider the bills, on the floor, Johnson said, if another stop gap measure is needed, he would propose a measure that expires January fifteen or April fifteen, quote, to ensure the Senate cannot jam the House with a Christmas omnibus unquote.

And the fifth thing that we have learned about now House Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson has a good relationship with conservatives, It says. Johnson's relationship with fiscal conservatives and other Republicans who had made McCarthy's job difficult appears to be off to a good start, given his unanimous support Wednesday. Yeah. Again, if you don't know, every single Republican voted for Mike Johnson, every single one, no dissenters. It was unanimous. So and I don't know how much of that is enthusiasm for him or how much of that is just, dear God, we have to put an end to this, and I would imagine it is a probably a healthy mix of both, Johnson said last night.

Quote, we have a very busy agenda. We have appropriations bills to get through the process. But you will see this group working like a well oiled machine. Unquote. Representative Matt Gates, you've heard of him right who led the effort, Dowson McCarthy said, quote it was worth it unquote when asked about Johnson's nomination last night. Quote we adore him, and I think he's going to do a great job for the country and for the right reasons. Mike Johnson is not has not been bought and paid for. Mike Johnson does what is right unquote.

See, if Matt Gates is this enthusiastic about this guy, we might have a real problem. By the way the bottom paid for a thing. I will say this, Uh, Matt Gates has been talking about you know these uh are are elected lawgivers and overlords as I like to call them, about how they are about bought and paid for by special interests and super PACs and all that. He's he's been pretty outspoken about that, and and he has he has said some things that I agree with. Unfortunately, his uh everything else about him is uh, well, what's the word horrible?

He seems to be a genuinely horrible human being. But you know when he talks about uh, when he talks about you know, bought and paid for. Same with Vivek Ramaswami, when he talks about politicians being bought and paid for. There is truth there. There's some truth in that, it says here. Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina echoed Gates's comments, writing in a statement on X quote, we told the American people they deserved someone who would be honest and represent their interests, not Washington's.

There's no denying this was a difficult process, but one that was well worth it. Unquote. Tim Burchett of Texas, one of the eight Republicans who, as said McCarthy, said Johnson is a quote good man who answers to the people unquote, and said he was proud to vote for Johnson. Conservative firebrand Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia, a close ally of McCarthy, voted for Johnson today, after previously noting she wanted assurances that the candidates would pursue impeachment inquiries into Biden and other top candidate I'm sorry cabinet officials.

In a post on X shortly after the vote, Green posted a photo with Johnson congratulating the Louisiana Republican. So there you go, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, the new new Speaker of the House. Let's see we'll do one more quick thing and then we'll we'll get our guests in for the second hour. We have a slim volume coming in in our number two New Marrow dose. There was

uh, now you know what that's that's gonna be uh too much to get into right now. I had I had something else in mind, but it's it's a big subject. We'll have to we'll have to circle back to that.

Actually, just one other thing to kind of put a tag on the Mike Johnson thing. One of the things about Kevin McCarthy that helped him get to the speakership to begin with, even though it was obviously very difficult. Oh j fed says, I love slim volume. Yes, yes, is his fundraising ability. Kevin McCarthy can raise a lot of money and help his party raise a lot of money. And it does say here McCarthy's fundraising guru will back newly anointed speaker Mike Johnson. You know, because we were just talking about are politicians being bought and paid for?

Well, yes, McCarthy's fundraising guru will back Mike Johnson and give him full support, which means money, money, money, money. Oh Katie from the Morning Show joins us in the Facebook live chat, Hello Katie. Jeff Miller has been a top fundraiser, advisor and longtime pal of McCarthy. It says here this is from Politico. The force beyond Kevin McCarthy's fundraising operation is moving to support House GOP's new speaker, Mike Johnson, an early sign of some unity among the GOP amid weeks of fractured chaos in the House.

Jeff Miller, a top fundraiser, advisor and a longtime pal McCarthy, will begin fundraising for Johnson's camp, he said. As the new speaker takes the helm of the House GOP, he also assumes responsibility for the party's House fundraising operation, the resources behind maintaining the slim speaking a slim the slim GOP majority in a heavily fought presidential election season. Johnson, far from a prolific fundraiser, raised just a half million dollars since the start of twenty three. Only a half million.

What a loser to half a million? Come on, and now you're House Speaker. I'm sort of kidding. Oh, Katie says much love to you, Matt. Thank you, Katie, I appreciate that very much. Same um so, Miller said in a statement to Politico, the Miller the fundraising guy quote. Throughout my career, I've raised money for Republicans as a volunteer, and I intend to continue to do so. I will absolutely help the new speaker raise the resources to grow a majority in the House. Nothing is more important than electing more Republicans to the House of Representatives.

Consider me like an ATM machine. I added that last part wasn't part of his quote. I added that I was editorializing. Republican lobbyists told Politico that Johnson was largely an unknown entity on K Street without the inner circle of longtime Republican leadership like McCarthy or one time Speaker hopeful Steve Scalise, but his selection today also ushered in a mad dash of K Street, Dennison's elbowing to get close to the new speaker before the vote. One Republican on K Street said they were about to start making calls to plan one of Johnson's first fundraisers as speaker.

Yes, they're right on it. Gotta get that money. Yes, yes, yes,

very exciting. In the second hour, New Maridos, we will have Slim Volume live in studio with us. They will be making their return to the show. They have been on the show before. I've heard the new tunes. You're gonna hear a bunch of new stuff today, some new studio tracks that have not yet been released. So a world radio premiere, really really good stuff. I love the new songs, so looking forward to sharing that with you. So there is plenty more to come. We're only halfway there. Matt Connorton Unleashed.

We are live w m n H rip the novels. If you're listening to w n H you come in, God, don't get so freely madzing you. Welcome back, everybody. We are into our number two new marrowed dos of Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connorton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

Today's Wednesday October twenty five, twenty twenty three, and we have some musicians in studio with us. The guys from the band Slim Volume have returned. How are you guys? Not too shabby, my friend? Good, very good, very good. Let's let's do this. We're gonna play some of the new tunes, but let's start at the news desk and tell us who you are and what you do in the band. I'm Trent. I am playing guitar, singing and co writing some lyrics. All right, yeap. My name is Mike. I play lead guitar for these guys and do some co writing as well.

Hello Mike, Hello Jake. I played bass and sing okay, and John and I did I played drums? Now now who was here last time you were? It was me in trin Okay, okay, So we got we got the full band or is there somebody else who's missing this? Well done? Well done? Oh though, I'm glad you're all here. This is great. Yeah. You've got some fans in the chat room too, and probably more. We'll be arriving. Jay Fed from the Grey State of Vermont says I love Slim Volume, and Katie from the Morning Show here with Peter White.

She says, woo, me too, and uh, Melanie, Melanie on the chat room, you know, because we're on uh she's watching on Facebook and with the overhead cam you can see the full studio. And Melanie said, h are they trying to fool us? Couch guy and window guy are the same person? Nice try fellas and here it's something we can I guess. So, yeah, that's something we could get into. These are balanced and opposite appearances, right right. I didn't think people would catch us this fast, but it didn't take long.

Yeah, that's a good that's a good get. Yes, two of you are clean shaven. It would appear, which isn't actually, which is unusual in this day and age. You almost stand out by not having facial hair because everybody has facial hair. That was kind of interesting too, like none of us have tattoos. A little bit of a twist on like you know music scene guys too, that is unusual. I've I've often said that myself. I played in a bunch of bands and I've never gotten a tattoo. I've never even had a piercing like, I've never had an earring.

I've never had any kind of a piercing of any kind. I just don't want to punch holes in my flesh. But a couple of the bands I was in like it, Like I was, I kind of stood out because I was the one guy who had no tattoos or piercings of any kind. But uh, yeah, so I guess I'm not alone here. We're an inkless band. Well, now tell me about the new tracks, because these are none of these are out yet, correct, so they're kind of half new, half old ish. Yeah. Yeah, man, there's a lot we could say about all of them.

Running Thin, which I think we should play first when we get to that. Yes, that's kind of the first track that we all wrote and recorded together as a band. Oh really Okay, Yeah, one of the other ones goes back to actually last October, and then we have another brand new one that we're previewing that we're very excited about that we just recorded in September of this year. Okay. I always thought there was something a little bit special about Running Thin, just because, as Tran was mentioned, and it's like one of the first ones that we truly wrote as a band, like all collectively sat down in a room and like, to me, like the day is super vivid.

I remember like leaving we gras got some grub and it was just like such a beautiful, majestic day out and it was just kind of like hit different and like we were going to practice and just feeling kind of like on cloud nine. Yeah, and like we out there and things just kind of like fell into place super super quickly on it and it's just like a really really cool experience for us to have, like for the first time. Oh, very cool, very cool. All right, So that's Running Thin, Running Thin. Ye. Yeah, let's let's give that a listen and then we'll we'll get we'll come back and we'll chat some more and get caught caught up with all that you guys have been doing.

But uh yeah, like I said, I love these tunes. I listened to all four of them, really good. But all right, so this is Running Thin, brand new from Slim Volume. Check this out. If I don't get going, I'm glad

if I make no steaks when we'll win. No, it's it's hard to know where mah running things. I've had it all to direver guy. The world is cruel sometimes the badst time to make running it. I came from nowhere, I disappeared, I found love again, I stayed clear. I'm still a lot, so many worlds and baby running fish. I'm leading home to rubbers the world. It's cool Sometimes May it's time to let and I'm running fish. It took a long to get. It takes to be free.

It takes long to get. It took to to be friend. Oh my god, guys, that is so good. Thank you. I absolutely love that. By the way, I'm not the only one we have. Emily Lennon in the Facebook live chat, she says, Hi, Jake, Trent, Mike, and John, it's Emily. She says, I'm their biggest fan. Thanks for listening, And she said I absolutely love this song. Yeah, that's so good. Okay, now who's singing? So Trent, you sing, but somebody else? Who's who else is singing with you on that? Jake? Okay? Yeah? Really, you guys, your voices together sound incredible.

That's definitely a big part of the magic of that song. And it just sounds so good. Where were these all recorded in the same place, in the same studio or where do you record these? These were all over the place? Really? Yeah? Yeah, so this one, this one. We started at a place called the Greenhouse in Guildford which has now moved to Poor Okay, with Sam MacArthur and uh we did a little bit of tracking at home, but yeah, for the most part recorded up there, mixed by a buddy in town. Okay, yeah, yeah, each one of the like these songs, have a totally different story on how they got recorded.

Yeah. Yeah, that's unusual because they they sound uh, you know, I listened to all four of them today, just in succession, and you know, they they sound cohesive, you know, they don't you know what I mean. It's not like you like you listen to them and you go, oh, these sound like they were recorded different places. Not that most listeners are going to figure that out anyway, but but but some people might or they might sense that there's something not together about these. But but no, they all sound really good.

So were these literally all done in four different places or yeah? Wow, I think they were over like, you know, different totally different spands of times too. Yeah. Yeah, And now when are these coming out? Are they all coming out at the same time because these are all none of these have been released yet, right, correct, So it's a little bit I mean I think I think the plan is to talk it over, which we're gonna get to is gonna probably be the next one to come out. Yeah, that, by the way, that's my favorite efore.

Yeah, probably sometime in the next you know month. Uh. Jake has a song that kind of goes with it that we recorded at the same time that actually tonight we're going to finish up at black Heart down the Road really excellent. Yeah, and so those are kind of our like, you know, one two, kind of the slim volume twenty twenty four, you know, yeah, new model, Yeah, coming out is the upgraded sound. Yeah. So yeah, release strategy is always something we've been playing with a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, Well there's so many different ways to do it.

Yeah, it's tricky because as we record new things, sometimes you hear the newest thing you've done and it sounds so good, yeah previously right, and it starts to make you, excuse me, second guess, like, Okay, do we even put that other stuff out at all? Or like do we wait, how what's the approach? So that's sort of what we're grappling with at this point. Yeah, it's a very good, good problem to have to feel like we're trying to catch up with stuff first. Definitely seeking it as it comes and deal with it absolutely, but yeah, it can be tricky if you you know, if you've been working on something for a long time and you've and so you've heard it a million times and then it so then it doesn't hit you quite the same way, and then you have to try to figure out, well, what about someone who's never heard it?

Are they how are they going to react to it? And because you know they haven't heard it a thousand times, so it'll be new to them, Well, they love it as much as the first time I heard it when I wrote it and played it, and you know what I mean. Well, the interesting thing about that is like, I don't know the last time I even listened to that, So listening listening to it right here kind of you know, gave me that feeling again. And that's something we were we were, Yeah, we were just talking about that a couple of weeks ago.

As a band is like I don't know, Jake, I think it was kind of your thought at the practice, but the concept that like if you know, if the song doesn't give you goose bumps, you know, why should you expect it to give anybody else goosebumps. And I think you know that song, like Mike was saying earlier, when when it was created, it just had a vibe. Yeah, it had a feeling to it, and then you know, you record it, listened to it a hundred times in a row, kind of go away. But yeah, yeah, I would say it stands up.

Yeah, No, it was cool. It was cool to listen to it. It's funny. I was thinking the same exact thing. I was like, I can't even remember last time I've listened to that tape, because like you know, once you're kind of done, you talk it away, you're just like, yeah, I don't know, just kind of leaves your mind for a little bit. So of here it's just kind of cool, like a fresh perspective on it. Yeah, months later it was nice. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And you mentioned, uh, Blackheart Studio. Now that's a name that I've heard a lot on this show.

Yep. Yeah, so that's Eric Solter. Oh yeah, yeah, that's a name I've heard a lot on the show too. Yeah. He's working with a lot of people, yeah, doing really good stuff. He's got a good setup over there. For sure. He's the man. Yeah, he's got a nothing. Then they both kind of like you know, split the duty on taking guys in recording them, mixing master and whatever. And it's always a very good experience working with those guys. Excellent. So they do the master in there too if you want, they'll do anything that you want them to do and stuff like that.

But yeah, oh that's excellent. That's excellent. Well let's let's listen to Uh. Yeah, this is like I said, this is my favorite of the four that you sent me. Talk it Over. Yeah, I really love this. Let's give this a listen. If you're just joining us, we have a Slim Volume is with us live in studio. We're talking and we're playing some of these These are new tracks that have not yet been heard. This is a world radio premiere, my friends, uh, which we which we love around here. We love sharing brand new stuff.

But this is really good. Check this out. This is talk it Over by Slim Volume.

You're the riddle I door, darling, dreaming and disguise. Tell me what you're feeling. I'll sure you. It's all right. Let's talking over, let's talking over, let's talking over a little mystery sweet Tart, the colors in the clouds every time I'll read I'm swimming through your eyes. Let's talk it over, Let's talk it over, let's talk at let's get it lay. But this kind of way my heart is being EXAs I need to get all way. Are we on the same thing. Let's talk to Let's talk to over. Let's talk to over.

Oh that is so good. Talk it over by Slim Volume. Man, we've got Trent, Mike, Jake, and John here with us live in studio. Yeah, that's my favorite, guys. That is absolutely amazing. And Katie in the chatroom says, loving this one. Megan Wilson says, go Johnny, slim volume rocks. And she said that in all caps, so you know she means it. And Emily Lennon said, I haven't heard this one recorded like this yet. It sounds awesome, very good to hear. Yeah, yeah, was there an earlier version of that? She says she hasn't heard this one recorded like this yet.

She just just heard it live take So, oh I got you many times? Yeah, I got youa you know what? Really sorry, I'm trying to get to you know what really makes the song? You guys will know exactly what I'm talking about when I say it, But for listeners who don't know, I'll just demonstrate I like analyzing songs. Okay, I'm excited to hear this. Yeah, you won't be surprised. You can probably predict what I'm gonna say. But right there, that the way it sets up the chorus. I mean, that's really little nuance is like that, you know, just completely make a song, you know, and you do it several times throughout the song, right like close to the beginning, and then you know, you do it again before each chorus.

But that's just that one thing. It just if you were to remove you know, it's like what is a jenga? I've never played it, I watched people do it. You know, you take one piece out and the whole thing could collapse if you If that wasn't in the song, you know, it'd still be a really good song, it still be really catchy, but that one nuance just makes it that d Yes, I feel like we ultimately end up really kind of focusing on like these these tiny motifs and songs they're kind of like really kind of blossom into making like yeah, like exactly what you're describing.

It's like that's always like something in the music that I've always totally appreciated. It's just like it's like this one tiny thing that really just sets it aside, and you just like like, I really hope everyone else is hearing that right now, because that's just like incredibly you know what I mean. So like to try and just like replicate that and try and just take an approach where it is like ooh, what is that? Here's something even an accident, you know what I mean. I feel like all the time I'll go back on like a recording that we did a practice and it'll just be a genuine, like, you know, mistake on my part if I'm listening to what I'm doing, and then like I'll be like, it'll just send my mind into a direction where I'm hearing something melodic and it always transforms into something yeah, really really cool.

So I do I do dig like kind of that approach on music. Yeah? Yeah, absolutely? Now where was that recorded? Was that done? A black Heart? Yeah? Okay, okay, very cool, very cool. When you play these, uh the four songs that were featuring today, have these all been played live or they all part of your yeat. Yeah, okay, so people have heard of them the live shows, but just not the not the studio versions before. Very good, very good. Yeah. I think something that could be interesting to kind of talk about a little bit is like the band the band origin story.

Yeah, yeah, from because last time we talked about it and it was only Jake and I here, so it was kind of from our perspective. Yeah, But I think what's interesting is from Mike's perspective, because Mike, we had no idea existed. He was a brand new soul in our lives. And that was the result of Jake and I going to the Strange Brew open mics. Oh okay. For a period of time actually, about exactly two years ago, between like September and November, we were going down there a lot. So yeah, yeah, so it was kind of funny.

I actually feel like for about a year and a half, kind of like a little bit like through like somewhat past the beginning of the pandemic until like towards the end, I was doing an open mic night with like an old like a good friend of mine named Howard. He's kind of like a blues legend down at Strange Brew's been doing like the blues jam there since like ninety eight or something crazy like that. Yeah. Yeah, but so you know I was doing that and I remember these guys just like coming in one time and then there was just a duo and uh I remember him playing it and just kind of like they just like crushed it, you know what I mean.

They just had like some some sweet, sweet covers and like they'll kind of add their own little twang on it, like uh doing a cover by the Strokes and like adding a harmony that's not there throughout the song. Just kind of cool little things like that where I was just like, wow, that's awesome. Yeah, And uh, you know I remember like my first impression was like damn, these dude sounds so good, kind of like you know, like screw them, like right right, yeah, because like I'm not playing with them. And then as as Trenton just mentioned like they had come back like you know, a couple of weeks in a row, so then like I don't know, had like the light bulb moment of just being like like maybe these du like guys need a guitar player.

Yeah, So like I went up to Trent and I was like I was like, hey man, like if you're ever trying a jam, you know, let you know. And that's like I feel like if anyone out there's like, you know, musicians listening, that's like the most generic thing you say to anyone like jam sometimes it really like it never ever happens. And so like me and him just looked at each other and we're just like, all right, like tomorrow night, like we jam and if like it doesn't happen, then like we never ever tried to get together again, like just kind of set that precedent because we both knew how it went, you know what I mean.

Yeah, and then uh, we got together and then like it's just like from there it was just like non stop like getting together and hanging out. And it's crazy how like organic all of us got together. And that's another aspect that I don't know if someone else wants to touch on that I think is really cool. Yeah, well, I'd like to introduce Johnny a little bit. So, so right at the time that we were meeting Mike, and it turned out that Mike lived just down the street from me up here, oh okay, up in the northern the northern end of Manchester.

But so that was just super convenient, and I met a girl. I started dating Madbury, and uh, she told me on our first date, she's like, yeah, my cousin, you know, we're talking about what we do. It's like, yeah, I playing a band whatever. She's like, oh, my cousin plays drums or like sort of used to play drums. And I was instantly like, oh, all right, Like if they goes well, maybe that could be something to explore down the road. And so, you know, it turned out that, you know, we we we hit it off and and kind of started, you know, egging on Johnny a little bit when I'd see him at their family stuff, be like you ready to like come jam with us, Like because I'm just gonna say this and Johnny can take it over.

But he had never played in a band before, he'd never played a show before, he didn't even own a drum kit a year ago. And the things he's done for us and and his development as a drummer in the last year has been remarkable. But thank you, Yeah, Johnny, say what you want on that. So yeah, I started out playing drums in like school bands, so that's like middle school, high school. And after I graduated, I kind of stopped and didn't really think I was gonna take it anywhere else. And then I met Trent for the first time, and he's asking me to play in the band and like come jam with the guys kind of thing.

And I was a little hesitant at first. I was kind of just practicing on eke Hit and that's all I had, really, yeah, just learning some covers and just kind of fooling around on it. But I decided to just go for it, and I kept going to practice every single week and after that, I mean it's been a year now, so yeah, yeah, I just kind of fell into place. Yeah, it feels like we've been playing forever though, Yeah, but like a great way, you know what I mean. Like, and especially to consider that he hadn't like really been playing like a kid or have like played a live live gig, I was just like, yeah, like damn you like nice.

I was ready to just jump and start playing live gigs. And even like a year ago, I didn't have the thought to like make my own original music and stuff like that. So it's yeah, it's been a blast of them, very cool, very cool. Yeah, no, you sound great on these songs. Thank you. What I've really enjoyed about playing with both Mike and Johnny is just how tasteful they are as players. And I'm sure you can hear that in the recording. Oh yeah yeah. But both are playing, at least to my ear, exactly what the songs need, not more, not less, and both are capable of really like incredible playing.

Mike, for ex sample, is capable of playing he's a really like a depth guitar player, and he'll dial it back just for exactly what the song requires. Yeah, yeah, And there's something to be said about go when you you could play something flashy but pulling back and playing something that's tasteful. And Johnny two, I don't know. I mean, I don't want to speak for you here, john but the h we use the comparison of Ringo all the time. We yeah, a lot of were Beatles fans. Yeah, and we we say, you know what, would Ringo play a lot of times in practice because Ringo is somebody who he's trying to blow you away with Phil's or with his technical ability.

But you listen to Beatles songs and all his parts are different, and they always some of them are really complex. He's just don't necessarily notice it unless you be really pay attention. Yes, because it's exactly what the song needs and it's not right distracting, right right? Yeah, exactly. So, uh, Brent, I think this is for you. Melanie is asking in the chat room, so how long were you forced to date her to get the drummer in play? I wasn't a force at all. Are you still together? Oh? Yeah? Oh good, good, very good.

All right. Well, so that that's a happy ending to that story on multiple friends, then that's that's excellent. I think you know it's a win win. Yes. Yeah. When someone said in the chat earlier, like oh, the drummer and the basis are the same, the same person, like, okay that it's kind of funny because we're just talking about this the other day. So some of like the balanced and opposite aspects of each other. It's like Jake and I a little bit older, Mike and Johnny a little bit younger. I think, you know, physically speaking, we we share a little bit of that, you know, Mike and I and Jake and Johnny, but also experience in music.

Mike, Mike and I have played in lots of bands for a long time. Jake and Johnny really before this, not much at all really, and it's just it kind of just goes on from there. It's just just interesting. We've we've really all kind of just fell into place as as friends. Yep, yeah, absolutely, oh absolutely yeah. I mean how you relate to each other as people is you know, part of part of what helps keep a band together, you know, not not just some music, but you know, if you genuinely like each other, it becomes like a family or a brotherhood.

In this case, I don't know about genuinely right people appearances for a radio thing like this, I understand. Yes, yes. Melanie also said in the chat room, they are so adorably respectful of each other. It's nice. It's nice to see. Let's see. And somebody else had made a comment too. I think about that the song we displayed, if I can find it, No, I probably won't be able to know. I'm not gonna be able to find it. Oh. Emily Lennon said, such a great drummers, so very nice, and Katie's oh yeah, here's the comment I was looking for.

And Katie said, Johnny has blossomed very nice, very nice. And I have a question too, john are you are you in any other bands or is this it? And the reason I ask that specifically is has been a trend on the show lately where every drummer who comes on the show is in like ten different bands, the only one, only one, yeah, all right, the only one he's telling us about. Right, I have a secret band that I'm not letting them know about. But yeah, well, drummers are hard to find, you know, they're in high demand.

I'm sure you've been approached. Actually there was one time where someone was talking about they did. But we're all learning this together in real time, So just say that they really like my playing and it would be cool to have someone that plays like me to play. But right, I think I'm sticking with that, which is another way of saying, come join our band. But yeah, I'm sticking with them. Yeah, yeah, no, that's good. Yeah, drummers are in such high demand. And my theory is, and regular listeners hear me say this all the time, is that when you're you know, when you're growing up and you get interested in playing a musical instrument, you have to go talk to your parents about, hey, I want to play you know, whatever it's going to be.

If you say drums, they're going to try to talk you out of it because nobody wants all that now, or maybe if it's a tuba. But so, I think that's why drummers are in such such high demand. But well, let's uh, let's see if we played two or we've we've only played two, right, Yeah, let's play. Should we go with Long Road? Yeah, let's play? We have Long Road? All right? So this is another great track. If you're just joining us, we have Slim Volume live in studio with us. The whole band is here. We're playing some brand new songs.

These have not been heard. You are hearing these, well, they've been heard live, but they have not been heard. These studio tracks have not been heard before today. So you are hearing these for the first time. Check this out. This is Long Road Slim Volume. Oh sorry for the delay. Here we go. I've been scared of my mind. I tried to disguise them. I tried getting in silence. Neither seemed effective. I took a look in,

I saw my future. My soul is eternal. It's all a great circle. It's all correct. If it's loud and it's clear high. In order to get in, you gotta get it away I've been dropping the baggage. I've been clearing the path space in my heart's feeling. Uh pacious is actually truths contagious? Six years you gotta, I've been taken, ave been smelling the flowers. I took a t I fell talking to you about and

study I've been taking. I didn't speak. That is Long Road by Slim Volume. You're hearing it here for the first time on Matt Connorton Unleashed, and we have the guys from Slim Volume here with us live in studio, and we are featuring some of these brand new tracks. Really really good. Now, where was that one? Where'd you guys record that one? I was done at a friend of ours? Yeah house. He's got a nice, really nice, like little home studio in the basement too. Yeah. Man, it's actually a really really nice I've got a bunch of like real nice microphones and such, and he's just a good dude to work with.

So yeah, we've gone over there and kind of dabbled and just kind of like trying trying some stuff out, some new songs and whatnot. So yeah, very cool, very cool. Now, who writes the brand? Do you write? Do you write all the Trent rather, I'm sorry, do you write? Do you write all the lyrics? Are? I mean not always that one I did? Yeah, that one, Yeah, that one was that was very much inspired by sort of like a like a spiritual awakening. I was kind of going through between like twenty eighteen and through twenty twenty one.

Yeah. I kind of remember exactly starting that song. O kidding, I was sick with COVID and twenty twenty one, and yeah, kind of I remember starting that one. But yeah, yeah, that one.

That one has roots in Florida. It's good. Well we were, isn't that like part of it? Like the riff? Yeah, Like Trent and I were on like a vacation in Florida and we heard like a Southern rock cover band tried to capture some of the essence of that vibe. I hear like when I hear that, I hear like some Almond Brothers type of That's what That's what I was singing Almond Brothers. That's exactly right. Was was that one more silver Dollar? But yeah, yeah, we were some dive bar in Florida and the guys were just ripping.

They were awesome. Yeah, whoever they were anonymous covers band. It's this little it's this little d shape that hammers on a sea a sea chord, and uh, it's got that southern rock sound, and yeah, it kind of lends itself to a more like philosophical, kind of like introspective lyric in my opinion, which is kind of what that song is all about. What what came first when you started writing it? That one. I remember writing the riff. I remember just being sick as a dog, laying on my back playing the guitar, trying to be productive and and just kind of playing that riff over and over again.

Yeah, yeah, huh. Mariam Bannis shows us in the Facebook live chat says, I'm enjoying this very good, very good, Mariam. Isaac Banks says, slim volume, I love this song. Emily Lennon says, such an incredible song. And Katie says, I love love this one so two loves, so she really loves it. We should mention for Katie that we will be playing her wedding as Oh no kidding, Yeah, next August. We got it marked down. Oh very cool. It's the plane. At least we're starting to learn some of the songs that she's requested yeah, like like what is she Don't Worry Baby by the Beach Boys.

Yeah, she had a very specific request though for Forever is another Ever. So oh, we'll discuss all Katie's wedding plans after the next song, right, I don't want to you know, interrupt or kind of jump ahead on that, right right. That's no, It's just last time we were on the listener from Vermont was kind of teasing us about like, oh, you guys play like birthdays and weddings, and we were like, yeah, actually we do, so it's evident. Yeah, Katie says, yes, my wedding band eight sixteen twenty four.

Wow. Yeah, Lessen from One Come Wow. Yeah. Tom Blanchard says that's my Favorite's that's that was his favorite of what we've played so far. Yeah, I think really good. I think another thing that's a little interesting about just like going back to like how writing music and like how all of us kind of do it is. What's really neat is you know Trent like for example, kind of like you know, i'd say he took more of the lead and bringing that song as a whole to every like the band, to bring it, bring it to life to what it is Now and stuff like that, and then there's other songs like Running Thing, which is like a collective band effort, and then there's ones like earlier Trent was mentioned that we're going to go over to Blackhart and finishing a tune that kind of goes hand in hand with a Talcoti over that we had done, and that is one that Jake had brought at the table, and then like another one that we grabbed at black Heart in this session, like is something that I had brought to the table.

So to have like three different guys bringing different riffs with like their own personal taste and just what they had grown up listening to, like everything that's been filled through through your brain as a musician, and like coming out and then like coming together and doing something. And I feel like even just in terms of what we played, you can kind of hear that from like the first Running Thing a little bit more country to Talk it Over, which I think lends itself to a true indie rock kind of sound, and then like this which is just kind of like, you know, more of a Southern rock kind of vibe some And I think that's personally why I love playing with these guys so much is just like the diversity.

Yeah, it's cool man, Yeah, no doubt, no doubt, dude. Do any of these songs change at all when you play them live? Because I can imagine, like a song like long Road, I could imagine if you wanted to, if when you're doing a live you could, if you want to, kind of stretch it out and totally Yeah, definitely. We love kind of like sometimes trying to find certain parts or even like how can we extend maybe the end of the song and like, you know, maybe I can take a song on trade off with Trent a little bit, and then how can we let cohesively go into like a cover or like then another one of our songs that could be like in the same key or something like that, or like some of the vibe trying to like make it a little bit of an experience like that.

Yeah, yeah, that must keep it interesting. I would say, not only do they change sometimes just for how we play them live, but sometimes the way we'll play it live one time will inform Okay, actually that's how that this song goes now, Yeah, that happens in practice or when we meet up and you know, we might have been working on a song and playing it the same way ten practices in a row, and then, like Mike said, before, a mistake happens or some little thing happens that you're like, actually that sounds good.

Yeah. And sometimes like when we go to Strange Brew for the open mic there, which is on Wednesdays, so people would go tonight actually if they want it, yeah, we'll you know, play a song and kind of workshop it there. That's where I feel like we really can test early on does this song work? Do we all know it right? Because if we're comfortable playing it here in front of you know, a crowd of people who know music and like it, yeah, then maybe it's ready to go. And sometimes we'll learn little new things about it.

At least I feel like I that experience happened to Crew has been an awesome resource to go test out songs. I mean it's where we all met. So we're kind of just forever grateful to Strange Brew. Yeah, And I feel like it's kind of like an old fashioned way of doing it, of going out to the open mic not only to meet people, but to test out your material and stuff. And it's it's really cool that they do a full band open mic there, so you know, I was great for Johnny to come in and get some live experience.

That was like a big thing. You know, that was a big milestone for us as a band. Was like, all right, we got to get Johnny ready, go play six songs live, you know what I mean. So that's been awesome and we continue to go down there and try out new stuff. Well, yeah, it reminds me just the open mic culture of it makes me think of comedians, like stand up comedians right right, the kind of practice of remaining in touch with a crowd of some kind and even if you know, like if they've I have five minutes on airline peanuts, you know whatever, but I'm gonna go try them out to the left the comedy Seller.

Yeah, like that fear of like this thing is like almost ready. I think it's close, and we're gonna just try it anyways and hope it doesn't bomb. And I don't know, I think that is really valuable because then when you know it's good and you have it finished, you're like, okay, well I remember we played the Strange berw last week and it went We're gonna crush it. Yeah, Yeah, there's something there is like an intangible quality to

playing a song live, even if in an open mic setting like that, that almost like graduates it and it somehow like locks in your brain more once you've performed it. Yeah, yeah, it makes sense. And I've heard a lot too about the Strange Ber over the years, people talking about the open mic there and meeting people, and uh, I've heard that from a lot of musicians on the show. Yeah, that's that's very cool. And you know, like you as we're saying too, it's a good way to you sort of workshop the workshop the material, which I guess is what stand up comedians say, but you know, to workshop the songs.

And are you guys playing out a lot? Do you do play a lot of live shows or have you been more focused on recording or I think we like we're pretty open just getting gigs when we can, you know what I mean, kind of kind of like falls into play sometimes and sometimes we go and seek it and stuff like that. But i'd say between now now and Christmas time, I think we have maybe five or six or something like that looking looking forward to and stuff like that. Yeah, and they always just kind of keep coming and stuff like that.

But I love playing gigs. It's like, you know, one of my favorite aspects of music and stuff like that. So I'm almost like the more the merrior. It's been very organic how we've we've gone through, just in the last year, periods where we've been playing a lot, in periods where we haven't played. So just literally in the last month we haven't played. I think our last gig was in September. So our next gig we got a cut. We got one in Keen, one in Portsmouth in a couple of weeks. We're doing a private event next week.

But speaking of strange, Brew will be there Thanksgiving Eve. Oh wow, opening set, Yeah, open the set for this. Uh my buddy Jay J McGuinness, he's got it's such an awesome band. They're just like, you know, real like funky. It's just groovy, just like Got the B three and stuff like that. So yeah, really kind of just like a fun atmosphere for for a night like that. So we're gonna hit a quick hour set with those guys and then we'll actually be back there again December second, with another local band split in the bill called Regals.

Another like you know, good good good group of friends of ours and stuff. Like that play a lot of gigs with them, so that'll be a good one. Cool. Ryan from Regals was on these very airwaves just last week. He was on the Morning show. Oh okay, yeah, oh cool, very cool. And who's who's the band you're opening? What's the name of the band that you're opening for? And thanks? You have a name? I think it's like kind of like a new project. So like he doesn't have quite a name. He's got like different bands, like yeah, but like I know, like my buddy, it's just Jaye McGinnis is like how I know him?

And then just like whatever falls into place that night falls into place. Yeah yeah. Well, by the way, Tom Blanchard likes your shirt. I think he said a cool shirt and chat room. I think he's I think he's referring to you, Mike. I think I think he means the tied I one. Probably, I'm just figured I should check. Yeah, well, let's before we run out of time, let's we'll play one more track here, this is we have. Can we set this one up for a second, because this one's this means yeah, this one's kind of an anomaly for the rest.

So this one when when we met Mike. This is before Johnny. We kind of just stumbled into this riff one day and it was one of those ones that happens, like you're practicing one song and you do something and then you're like, oh, like that's cool, it doesn't fit, so it's gonna be another song right right, which is a problem for us sometimes I got a whole lot of scraps of songs that we're trying to get back to, but and it just flourished into this really beautiful arrangement. And so one of the reasons this song is not released it is because we're a little unsure on if this recording is really doing it justice.

Okay, and this was a long time I mean to get a lyric that did the music justice. So like this song is kind of like a deep cut from like the archives has been there for a while. It's very deep. It's very different from kind of the other stuff we've heard. But okay, I think that's that's the tea up. All right, cool, all right, let's give this a listen. So this is if only by slim volume. Mm hmmm, I would have no

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I found last to call. I love the the bass solo at the end there. That's cool. That's that's really cool. That is if only a slim Volume. Yeah, that was kind of melancholy, but in a good way. And I love the I love the backing vocals there underneath, especially toward the end where you can really hear him. Yeah, that's a cool song. Yeah it is. It is a little different from the others, but I like it a lot. Guys, this has been wonderful. Slim Volume here with us live in studio. Trent, Mike, Jake, and John.

What do you guys have coming up? When is your next show so we can keep people updated. Next one is November ninth and keen with the band from Portsmouth called bird Friend, who's kind of like a folk they're a trio now, they're they're cool. We've been friends with them for a long time. So that's November ninth. November eleventh. We're in Portsmouth at the Button Factory. Stage, which is w s C, a radio in Portsmouth, which we've been dying to get in over there. I played there with my old band, that awesome spot.

We're playing with two Portsmouth bands that are very cool playing at Parlor and it's a band called Moon Snails. And then yeah, and then yeah, like I said, we got this private event next week, which I don't really know how much I'm allowed to say about it, but yeah, Then locally, locally, we got some cool ones coming up locally, so we have we have Thanksgiving Eve at Strange Brew, December at Strange Brew again, and then December sixteenth, four to seven pm, we're playing at two Share Brewery for their fifty year anniversary show, which two Shares a little bit like a home base for US home court.

We're really excited for that one because we just have a lot of fun there. We always drink a couple extra beers. It's just it's always a good time. It's closed for everyone. It's such a local gig, you know, I mean, very nice atmosphere. So yeah, and then and then we got like like we got talking over coming out soon. We'll get the track we're finishing up tonight coming out. We got some really cool songs coming out, yeah, over the winter. Yeah, so but talk talk it over as the next single official likely it'll either be that or Running Thin, but yeah, probably talk it over.

Okay. Yeah, yeah, like I said, that's that's my favorite. Katie in the chat room says she can't wait to go to go to another gig. Plus, you're going to be playing at her wedding. So we missed you, Katie. It's been a minute, I know. Oh, she also said. In the chat room, Tommy says, Hi, Hi, we love you guys. Yeah, yeah, good people. We love our fans for sure. Yeah. Absolutely, well, guys, thank you, thank you so much. We'll start to wrap up, and uh, hey everybody out there, if you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at w m n H Radio dot organ at my website Matt Connorton dot com.

And uh, I do want to remind you too, I will not be here tomorrow, so tomorrow will be a best of. I do have a brand new best of show for you tomorrow and I will be back live on Friday. And if you're listening live on Wednesday, I believe off the Mark Sports with the great Kyle Heavy is coming up next, and uh what else? I'll one other thing too. Where should people go online to keep up with everything you guys are doing at Slim Underscore Volume for the Instagram. And then if you want to check us out online, it's a Slim Volume band dot com.

Okay, everything you get links to the music, you can see pictures of us being all cute and stuff. You can check out the gigs posted on there. That's usually where I go to look for the gigs because like, I don't know one of those things. Got to keep checking out the gig dates and stuff like that. But yeah, so those are probably the two best boss to keep up with where we're at. All right, very good, very good. All right, guys, thank you so much. This has it's a great service you offer the local music.

Yeah, we appreciate it, man, thank you, thank you. Happy to do it, happy to do it. All right, that's going to do it for us for now. Best off tomorrow. I'll be back on Friday and I will talk to y'all a little bit later. Bye, everybody, audios Peast

Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-25-23

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