Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-4-23

0:00 You are listening to w M and H. Command God, don't get sorely madself. Welcome everybody, Here we go. It is Wednesday, Matt Connorton Unleashed, and we are live from the studios of w M n H ninety five point three F M and Glorious. And it is a glorious day outside. My God, this weather is nice. Mid I like it. It's you know, it's October, but doesn't feel like October. Feels more like summer. I prefer summer. I'm a summer guy. I'm not a fall guy. Leaves, you know, they're they're nice to look at and everything the foliage until they all fall off the trees and then you got a bunch of dead leaves.

1:16 And winter's coming in h. So if we can hold onto summer a little bit longer, that's fine with me. Anyway, I digress. It is a glorious day outside in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, here from the studios of WM and H. We're also of course 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 infos, show archives, et cetera, et cetera.

1:45 By the way, yes, Miriam, Miriam vanishes in the Facebook cloud chat and she loves Puddles pity party. Actually she she went Jenny went with her wants to see Puddles live and conquered. And yeah, that was a song parody of Royals devoted to the ouster of Kevin McCarthy that I just found online, so I thought i'd play that. Of course. I opened the show with Strangers by Fox and the Flamingos, who were here last week and just such an amazing band. And yeah, I've played that song a bunch of times now.

2:17 That song, I don't even know if it's available yet on the streaming services. It might be by now. When we debuted on the show, it hadn't even been it wasn't available anywhere yet. We were the first to have it, and I'm just it's one of those songs, you know, I've got there's a short list of songs of guests who have been on the show that just gets stuck in my head all the time, and that's one of them. I can't get enough of that. Such a great song, what a great band Box and the Flamingos. We've had a lot of great musical guests.

2:47 We do not have a musical guest today. However, what we're doing now with Wednesdays is we are resuming our segment with my favorite conservative, Eric Pilcher. But because scheduling on his end has been a challenge, he's now joining us in the second hour on Wednesdays, a new Marrow dose. So I really look forward to that. So he'll be joining us. It's been a couple of weeks since we've been able to do that segment, so he will be joining us today in the second hour, and uh really uh really enjoy that.

3:14 It's a popular feature on the show. And of course we have Eric Pilcher's classic film reviews on Fridays, and we'll talk about that too. Uh the Exorcist. It's it's almost time, yes, yes, uh, let's see, So that will be coming up today. If you'd like to join us, the studio line is open six oh three two five oh six oh seven, six oh three two five oh six oh seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connorton. You can email me Matt at mattconnorton dot com, and of course you can interact endo Pine in the Facebook live chat.

3:48 But the best thing to do so that we can here and enjoy your Dulca tones is to give us a call at six oh three two five oh six oh seven. Uh, let's say hello to every buddy in the Facebook live chat. Jenny is in there, of course and says shill oam peeps easy g Eric Gagnan joins us and says, Happy Prince Spaghetti Day. Let's see Maria vanish I mentioned is in the chat room. John Oh, John Oppwood has some very exciting news in the chat room. He says, I have been selected as the new Speaker of the House according to a text on my phone.

4:24 Now, I have to tell you, John, that does surprise me, and I don't know if there's a way that you can verify that to make sure you know, there are a lot of scammers out there. The other thing that surprises me about that is you know you're you're not a Republican, and I wouldn't have thought you would even be on their radar. Frankly, I mean, if Matt Gates won't can't get along with Kevin McCarthy, I don't know how he's going to get it, but that actually that would be something, right. I just have an eye.

4:49 I has had a great idea for a reality show where John Hopwood and Matt Gates, Congressman Matt Gates of Florida, are roommates. I think that would be fantastic. You could also make it into a sitcom, but I think reality show would be better, and I think it would be very, very entertaining. I'm not a big reality TV guy, but I would watch that. No, I don't know. Well, congratulations if it's true. John, Now that's amazing. You know a lot of people don't know this, but the Speaker of the House does not have to be a sitting member of the House of Representatives.

5:27 You do not have to be one of our elected lawgivers and overlords, as I like to call him, also known as congress people. You do not have to be one of them. You do not have to be an elected member of that body to be Speaker of the House. I don't think in our history we've ever had a Speaker of the House who is not an elected member of the House at that time. I don't think we have the idea of it has been floated, in fact that some people who think that a certain former President Donald John Trump would make a great Beaker of the House.

6:00 Seems to me he's a little busy. He's running for president, and he's got some legal stuff he's dealing with, so I think he might be a little tied up. But that idea is out there. B Pinard joins us in the Facebook live chat and says, good afternoon, Hello, b Let's see. Miriam says, is that really John Hopwood or did he get hacked? Yes, because John is also sharing somebody's only fans page in the Facebook live chat. That's really for the other show John, of course, Matt Connerton unsheathed. We can explore those matters further.

6:37 But let's see. Oh, Miriam said, Okay, now I know it's you lol. I'm afraid to click on it. Yeah, me too. Melanie Liberty from the Great State of Vermont joins us in the Facebook live chat. John says the only fans member for whom he has shared the link in the chat room, says, John says, she has forty two and student debt. So she's working it out as a working girl online parallel to the nurse in Virginia running as the Democratic nominee for the House of Reps, except she was doing it for extra loot and fun.

7:15 Well, Melanie says, I always knew you would be House speaker one day. Matt owes me ten dollars. I don't remember making that bet. We need to confirm this too. Look, I'm a cheap soob. If you want ten bucks out of me, we need a This is what I need. I need a certified letter from somebody official, perhaps Patrick McHenry. McHenry, Yeah, mckenry. I guess he's the he's the acting speaker. Now, I'm a little confused about how this works, you know, other than I mean it's a circus. I'm not confused about that part.

7:54 I hope they don't start bringing out elephants. I mean, I mean literally elephants, not Republicans, because that's you know, we don't do that anymore. Remember when Ringling Brothers they got rid of the elephants, and I think it basically put the circus out of business. But it's just as well, because it's uh, you should not abuse those those amazing creatures. Again, I'm talking about literal elephants. I'm not talking about Republicans. You shouldn't abuse anybody, though, you should not do anything that violates the Geneva Convention.

8:25 Well, then again, I mean Matt Gates might be the exception. I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Don't anyone get upset with me. I'm not suggesting Matt Gates should be tortured. I don't know if Kevin McCarthy himself would necessarily say no to that. But let's see. John Hopwood said, Wait a minute. The teacher made a salary of forty two K, but eight K a month from posting naughty content on only Fans. Well, her husband is very supportive of her sex work career. I think that's that's remarkable. Roni Faverro from the Great State of California joins us in the Facebook live chat.

9:11 Oh, John Hoppwito says, I'm talking about the new Hampshire House of Raps. Oh, so you're not so you haven't been chosen to be the new speaker of the House. See, I just figured I guess I shouldn't have assumed. I shouldn't have assumed but you know why I assumed, because there happens to be an opening in the United States House of Representatives for a speaker. If you haven't noticed, the job has opened up. I wonder if it's something you can apply for on indeed, okay, let's see Jfed joins us in the Facebook live chat.

9:45 Hello Jfed, Nice to see you in there. Sir Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook laf chat. Queen City Cabinetry, of course, one of our great sponsors here at WM and H ninety five point three FM. You can bring your kitchen to life at Queen City Cabinetry in the historic Sunbeam Mall, named of course for the vaunted General Sunbeam, who would have General Sunbeam would have made a great Speaker of the House or president, but instead he settled on a career of making bread in his retirement, of course, after he was done in the military.

10:16 A lot of people think General Sunbeam was killed in battle. That's actually not true. It makes for a better story, and regardless of how General Sunbeam was killed, we should honor him. However, in the interests of truth, he was in fact killed in a terrible bread making accident. Apparently, some hooligans broke into the kitchen one night while he was making some bread and started throwing bread around all over the place, and next thing you know, General Sunbeam was smothered to death by several loaves of bread falling on his face all at once.

10:56 He couldn't breathe, and the hooligans left there with us several loaves of freshly baked bread. I might add, I'm sure they enjoyed some delicious sandwiches later as they reflected on their I mean it's manslaughter, I would say, of the great General Sunbeam. But we honor him regardless, so that's very important. Let's see. J Fed says, John's not young enough for Matt, Oh, for Matt Gates. I didn't know what you meant there for a second. I was like, what do you mean? It took me a second. You mean Matt Gates?

11:34 Yes, yes, yes, Jenny says, it's one hundred and twenty five dollars to be the new Hampshire House speaker. You get the big bucks. Yes. Joe Friday joins us in the Facebook left chat and says, hello peeps, Aloha, Hello, Hello Joe Friday. John Hopwood says the yeast exploded, referring to General Sunbeam. There is evidence to suggest there may have been an explosion when the hooligans were throwing the bread around and roughing up General Sunbeam. You know, he was an older man at that point, the General.

12:05 You know, it's not like he could just fight off the hooligans. Now, listen, when General Sunbeam was a much younger man, and when he was still in the military, you could have ten, twelve, fifteen hooligans all running into a kitchen all at once, trying to mess with him, and he just fight him all off. But as an older man, it was more difficult, you know, and you know, you need a lot of the bread himself, and you know, you know it's he might have been a little bit mobile trying to fight off the hooligans.

12:37 But we still love him. The point is General Sunbeam, we love him. We honor him, not just on the day that we commemorate his passing or his birthday, or every day every day. And that's why. I don't know if it's true, but I remember Mike from Green City Cabinetry once say that every single day before he leaves Queen City Cabinetry, he goes down to the basement in the Sunbeam mall and he lights a candle for General Sunbeam. And I said to Mike once, I said, Uh, aren't you worried about the uh leaving a lit candle like that in the basement, Uh when you leave for the day?

13:18 And he said, Uh, I didn't. Uh, that hadn't occurred to me. Uh. We have a call. Hi, welcome to Matt Connorton, unleashed. Who's this? It's General Sunbeam, This is in General Sunbeam. Now, how dare you? This is clearly John Hopwood, you're not fooling me. Now, had you said that you were the ghost of General Sunbeam, you might have fooled me. But you're clearly not General Sunbeam. General Sunbeam is dead. I'm transitioning. Ah, No, I don't think. I don't think that's a thing in this case, John, I'm not fooled.

13:58 I can't transition in the general rumby. I don't believe so. I mean, I support your choices, but no, I don't think so. Isn't that part of my civil rights? Well here's the thing. When when General Sunbeam was still alive, a lot of that hadn't been settled yet. But that's all right. Listen, you can be I'll tell you what this is America. You can be whoever you want to be. How's that I would like women to see me as like six foot two? Oh am? I going to accomplish that without the court order. Platform shoes, flatform shoes,

14:41 Yeah, they have to be ten inches tall. So what people can walk on stilts? It's something you can learn to do. And you could probably look at kiss they wear those big boots on stage. You could do that. I have a bad back and a bumnee, So how much can all be worked around? Much? You know, General Sunbeam died to get us to fourteenth Amendment. I'd much rather go to court and follow a lawsuit and force the women to recognize me as six foot two. Okay, maybe maybe, and you know, maybe I want to Some days, I might just want to be even six feet Some days I might want to be six seven six, six ft six seven.

15:29 Then I really look down on Peter White, you know, one of the days that you know, one of his shorter days. That's true. He is an enormously tall man. He's a giant. Yes, he is a giant in so many ways, the giant of Manchester Public Radio. Actually that leave you Actually tonight is the nha B Awards. Uh, and Peter is going to be at that representing WM and H with a few other personalities. I was invited to go, but the problem is I'd have to get there late because it starts at like five point thirty in the afternoon.

16:09 It's like zah, they kind of getting there late kind of sucks. So I told Peter, I said, if somebody else from the station wants my ticket. So I think Paul took my ticket. I said, if somebody else from the station wants my ticket, who can actually get there on time and enjoy the evening? By all means, I'd rather somebody else get to do that than me, you know, stumbling in two hours into the event, you know what I mean? Holy? You know what I just my windows falling out? You should see a doctor. Wait did you was that a metaphor?

16:41 Or do you mean literally a window in your home? Hey, let's forget about that. I'm having a drink now. I'm having a drink of cheap scotch. Uh huh, that's the best kind I'm celebrating. What are you celebrating, sir? I am celebrating because as we've had the national alert, which I just read it. I mistook that for my elevation the Speaker of the House. It's actually an alert from the National something or other system, which simultaneously yesterday in Russia they had their event practicing a nuclear alert alert like my sisters used to go through in the nineteen fifties, in the early sixties.

17:30 I was born nineteen fifty nine, so I don't remember. We didn't. They didn't make us crawl on the desk. Oh, they didn't. Okay, now that was over by that. But according to the bulls of the atomic scientists, I guess we're closer to nuclear war than ever. So I'm celebrating. I have thought, you know, I've been very depressed they thinking of that my life was miss meant. But let's just say, you know, we're closer to nuclear war than ever. There are these reports that you really can't substantiate, but people love to post them anyways of the media.

18:15 That not too but three platforms. The United States has three aerial platforms command platforms for the nuclear you know, warfare command control system. And I only thought there were two, so you know, but what a line know I've been out of the business for quite a long time. China is allegedly on some type of high nuclear alert too. So here I am, oh, incredibly depressed. You know, I had this big fight with some person we won't talk about. Let's not get into that. And you know I was depressing.

18:56 Then you're thinking about your life. You know, I'm starting to climb the ladder in years, you know, my birth dates coming up, and it's got quite one of those landmarks. But it's getting too close for comfort. And I'm saying, you know, I've been waiting since I was twenty two to make a decision and do something in my life. And it looks like my life already made the decisions for me, you know. And here I am what would you call it in German, I'm on the drek clas drec cloth. What is it? Let's just say, you know, you're on your heinie and effluvia or whatever.

19:35 And now I'm realizing how if I had had that successful career as a lawyer in that it could all be over in just minutes. Right kids, grandkids, big fat bank accounts and investments that from years of hard work. Right, Hey, I'm gonna I've gone it in my hand. I'm gonna done it now. Jay's the half of cheap, cheap, cheap scotch. At least if I had done all what I should have done, i'd have a better bottle of scotch here to celebrate. J Fed is asking, are you almost eighty? Not quite? Because I will go my back, and sometimes my niece says otherwise, because I've heard that our President Joseph Robin at Biden actually has a coffee mug on the resolute desk in the Oval Office that says life begins at eighty.

20:39 So you're just getting started, as far as I can tell. So the sixty is the new what the forty sixty is the new fifty nine? I believe, Hey, there you go, But eighty is the new seventy seven. As you know, I was fifty nine for two years, literally true either that are road fifty eighth for two years and suddenly was like, hey, I'm sixty. What happened to be you? What happened to like fifty nine? I had just forgotten about it. Well, I think you have plenty of time left. I think that you just probably need to take some vitamins and you're going to have a long we have life, long, healthy life, Mac, Mac, Do we have any time left?

21:25 I'm glad that your father on Friday brought up Saints an Sell the Accountant and the theory of a just war to a reincinerated over Ukraine. At least we know we're going someplace good, Right, it's not going to happen. John, It's not gonna happen. Oh you never know, Well, you never know, but that it's not gonna happen. Hey, Look, I mean, the wolf is always at the door regardless. As we've discussed on the show, we've had some very close calls over the years because of misunderstandings and accidents and so forth, Operation able arch or things like that, and uh, and those are just the ones we know about.

22:07 So the wolf is always at the door. So to just go along assuming that we're about to be devoured, Uh, I don't know that we're anymore about to be devoured than at any other point in history. So I know of three times where we got there, other than Cuba, that we were very close to nuclear war. Sure, Well that's what I'm saying. That's my point. So you know, there's always the threat is always there. That's That's all I'm saying. I always always look on the bright side of life. Right well, it's not really looking on the bright, but it's just well it's no, it's not that, it's just recognizing that the danger is always there.

22:48 So it's not like we should be, uh, particularly freaked out about anything right now. I mean, look, if if I turn on the news one day and I see that they're actually beginning to move around that Russia is beginning to move around some of their news, and how would you how would you know that since all of that it is classified. I'm just saying, if I turn on the news one day and I see that, then then I'm going just went on then I'm then I'm going to worry. Then I'll worry, But until then, I'm really not.

23:22 Uh. I got most of my worrying about that out of the way growing up. Growing up, I was very obsessed is probably too strong of a word, but my dad knows, you know, he listens to the show. He knows I was very preoccupied would probably be the word. With the threat of nuclear war, and then you know, we had the post Cold War sort of complacency that everyone fell into, and I guess now we're supposed to be back to being worried about it. But I got my worrying about it out of the way, so I think it's going to be fine.

23:49 I'm not worrying about it, man, I'm celebrating it. Well, I'm not going to celebrate anything like that either, but I just, uh, I think it's going to be fine. SA cure for death is secure for anything that ails you. The use there is the songs from the thirties that love, love is secure for anything that ails you. But I've never seen the love last that long, you know, or as effective as Penis Villain. And indeed love can make you well have to get a shot at Penis zellin Oh God, Death, Death is a cure for all things.

24:32 Speaking of which, as I'm calling you here, you know, I'm calling you at four the four to five hour Wednesday because you poached my permanent guests, which doubtles my show, he said, somewhat facetiously. And now he's not even he's not even here on the hour. No, no, because of his schedule being what it is, He's now joining me in the second hour on Wednesdays. Eric is not able to get uh, get to me in the first hour, which means uh that, Uh, no, I did not poach your guest. You did poach my guests, but yeah, he's not available in the first hour, which is when your show is on.

25:15 If I had if I, if I had nuclear weapons, it's like, you know, if I was a souzarain of my own Sozoraanty, we'd have been, uh you know, jockeying for position. I'm not saying I would have won. I would have wouldn't would have backed on right, because as you've noticed, my enthusiasm for doing my show has a sharp shactly decreased. Yeah, it did. Uh, it did occur to me. Uh. Actually that you're supposed to be, aren't you supposed to be on the air doing your show right now? Nice? But you know, I remember when I wound up with that, when I moved from seven at night, uh to four on a Wednesday, you laughed at me.

25:58 H you'd already you know, had made transition to the radio and it's given up your public actress show. Little did I know that at four o'clock in the afternoon, it's like a you know, well, it's kind of like a depth swaw my TV. Yeah, necessarily that radio, but TV. And I was rereading a novel by Norman Maaylor where his main character had as a psychologist who had a public TV sho It was at for that fourth It's like, oh my god, Yeah, but I didn't. Yeah, just because four in the afternoon worked for Oprah doesn't mean it's going to work for everybody.

26:38 Yeah, So you know, I just don't like doing shows alone. I never know what I might say or do. M all right, I might act up or a miliate myself or my family or assorted group of assorted groups of people and my other a regular guest whose names, at least one of them, we can't talk about. They just disappeared. I don't know what happened to them. I think might have to ask Rocky Hubert what happened to them? They might have who knows, They might have been kidnapped by an intelligent gas from Venus or something.

27:16 Right, Well, that's as good as that. There's a lot of that going wrong. M somebody's trying to call me, it says Concord, New Hampshire. I think I think my boat's come in that. Oh good, good, well, yeah, whatever's left over from one hundred and twenty five dollars. After I buy my license plate and my Speaker of the House name tag, we'll have a big party over at the over at the pop Nott. Well, well, good as we should. Yes, there should be about ten or twelve dollars left over. Okay, well, very all right, Matt, keep the your flag flying.

28:04 Yes, you know, nuclear terror is uh is very debilitating. Uh huh I've overcome it with a very positive attitude that it's a good thing. And uh, yes, yes it is. Now you take care all right, I'm gonna go count my money, that all that money I piled up in my sixty some odd years. Wow, it might take me all of about two and a half minutes. Wow, I got a lot of change I have to go through. Yes, yes, we're waking the quarters dimes. Okay, all right, John, thank you for the call. Bye bye. All right. That was the great John Hopwood.

28:47 Yeah he should be doing a television show right now. Actually, but but no, well that does open up the studio line for you. Six O three two five oh six oh seven six o three two five oh six oh seven. Uh could have done without all the death talk. To be honest with you, After the weekend I had. But I do love John. I do love John. Melanie in the chat room says, you support Hopwood's choices. Wow, that's a risky move. Charles Richardson joins us in the Facebook laugh chat and says, it's happy hour. Hello, Charles, let's see.

29:22 Charles says, you haven't a drink. I think you have had many drinks so far. No, I don't. I doubt it. I doubt it. Melanie says is it me or as Hopwood saying nuclear weird? No, I think John. I believe John always pronounces it correctly. There are a lot of people who mispronounce nuclear, though. Some people pronounce it nuculear, which is almost like a dyslexic way of saying it because you're you have to literally rearrange some of the letters to pronounce it that way nuculear. But but no, it's it is nuclear, and I I think John does say it correctly.

30:03 Scott Robinson says, when is Hopwood going to be on the show for a full day? We need John he has sorely missed. Yeah, John hasn't been on for a while. You know, he comes and goes, comes and goes. You know, sometimes there will be a stretch where he'll be on. You know, he'll pop in like once a week, and then I won't see him for like months. Joe Friday says, there is a oh fire versus Police on October fourteenth, Fire versus Police baseball at Fishercat Stadium. All proceeds go to the Special Olympics.

30:34 The game was postponed from August due to weather. Oh yeah, it rained a lot in August. Please support only donation excepted of Okay, very good. So that is on the that is on October fourteenth, coming up soon, very good, excellent proceeds go to the Special Olympics. That's a great cause. Very good, Thank you, Joe Friday. Crystal in the chatroom says, hello everyone from of course a great state of Illinois. Let's see uh. John Hopwood said in the shower room, John Hopwood died, I am John Hopwood.

31:17 Oh boy, all right, six O three two five six seven six O three two five six seven. And if you're just joining us, we do have in the coming up today in the second hour, we'll be joined by my favorite, my favorite conservative as I call him, Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In the meantime should we Oh you know what, Actually there's all the fallout from uh from Kevin McCarthy's ouster, but something else, uh that is directly related to the the Granite State where we are here in New Hampshire that Jenny just sent me.

31:53 This is from wmu R, who I'm sure will clean up tonight at the New Hampshire Association of Brocasters Awards because as I uh not like to go. You know, we had somebody on the show the other day from WJYY one O five point five and conquered, and he was in one of the bands that I had on the show. He's in Pointless Culture, the drummer there Harrison. Tonight he asked me off air about the awards and I joked with him that around here we refer to it as the wmu R wgi R Awards. Anyway, Uh, this is this is from WMUR dot com.

32:27 Juliani. Uh, around here we call him Rudy. Juliani sues Biden in New Hampshire for comments made during Nashville debate. UH. New Hampshire attorney says law allows for defamation claims because the debate aired in the state. Okay, I don't know what this is about. Let's see, we'll learn together. If you don't know the story already. And this was just updated a little bit ago, says here. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has filed a defamation lawsuit in New Hampshire against President Joe Biden for comments made in a twenty twenty debate in Nashville.

33:04 Hey, by the way, how does Juliani this is? This is probably an obvious question. I can't be the only one wondering this. How does Juliani even have any money to be filing a lawsuit like this? He can't even pay his existing legal bills, but he's got money to file a lawsuit against President Biden over this defamation suit. Is somebody doing this for him as a favor? Maybe he's representing himself, I don't know, says here. Juliani a close associate of former President Donald Trump. Yes, actually not only a close associate.

33:39 They tried to They tried to overturn an election together. I don't know if you all know that. I don't know if if you pay attention to that kind of thing, some of you are probably aware. Anyway, Yes, Julianni a close associate of former President Donald Trump, was joined by New Hampshire attorney William O'Brien. Oh, it's amazing how things go full circle. Speaking of a Speaker of the House, I mean, I assume it's the same Bill O'Brien, although that's probably an extremely common name, so maybe it's not, but I assume it is.

34:08 Bill O'Brien used to be the Speaker of the House here in New Hampshire. I've met Bill O'Brien. Actually, I hung out with him a little bit. He's at an event that I went to. We talked for a while. Nice guy. I'd probably never vote for him, but nice guy anyway. So Bill O'Brien and New York attorney Lewis Diamond in making the announcement. They joined Juliani in making the announcement. In the lawsuit, Giuliani is accusing Biden of making defamatory and false statements during the debate, including saying that Giuliani was quote being used as a Russian pawn.

34:49 What he did to me is intolerable. He called me a Russian operative. That's a lie, that is false unquote right, Well, it's calling him a Russian pawn. The same as calling him a Russian operative, because to me, that's not the same thing. Am I am I getting to anto the weeds. I mean, maybe I'm overthinking it, but to me, if someone's a pawn, When I hear the word pawn, I think if someone being used by someone. You know, if you're somebody's pawn, they're using you for something. Whereas an operative, if he were a Russian operative, that would mean he would be doing things on behalf of the Russians.

35:37 But a pawn is like another way of saying a useful idiot, like someone who's being used, but they don't necessarily know that they're being used. So to me, that's not even the same thing. If Biden, literally, if Biden called him a Russian pawn, that's not the same thing as calling him a Russian operative. That's like calling him a dupe who's being used by the Russians. Is that? I mean, this is going to be a difficult case to prove, I think. And by the way, it's politics. I mean, I understand, you know, you have to be careful.

36:14 You can't go around to faming people, right you get sued for defamation. But it's politics. People say horrible things about each other all the time. It's one politician saying something bad about another. You can sue somebody for that. Like somebody makes an offhand comment in a debate calling Rudy Giuliani a Russian pond really says here O'Brien said that because the debate aired on television in New Hampshire, a statute allows him to recover damages in the Granite State. Hmm, we have a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connors and unleashed too.

37:01 I figured Colin twice today to irritate the haters. Okay, the hate be so real, Matt. And as somebody who has been sued for defamation, I was thinking about that. That's Matt pawn is a you know, just as you said it. He could have called him a cat's paw or something, you know, or it's it's furthermore, it's an opinion. You know, he's not saying this is a Russian agent. Right. This seems pretty frivolous, does it not. Agent agent is opposed to an officer like James Bond would be an officer. An agent is somebody you know that has a like somebody that's connected to the mob.

37:58 Right. But but he's Yeah, but he's in Manchester. He's in New Hampshire that Giuliani made this statement. Did you catch that? Well, yeah, yeah, he's he's he was in New Hampshire to announce us. Yes, in New Hampshire to announced this. Uh, because the debate, because he's working with Bill O'Brien and this other attorney, and the debate aired, and I guess the debate must have taken place in New Hampshire. It aired on New Hampshire television. So it really is Bill O'Brien who was the Speaker of the House, and I remember interviewing him.

38:38 Yeah, and then I interviewed Johnson Unhu, the patriarch to the new Plan. They just liked each other, but I won't share the things they said. Yeah. One of the things about defamation in New Hampshire, it's one of the states with a loose a looser definition of defamation, so it's a place that people can use, like Giuliani's doing now to sue. That's what I was told by out of state lawyer that New Hampshire it has less stringent law. Yeah, that's not to say that he has any chance of winning. No, this is extremely frivolous and how does he have the money to even do this.

39:27 He's selling his apartment in New York City because he can't afford to pay his life. He's actually Rudy Giuliani right now is actually being sued by one of his own lawyers, who he owes a ton of money to. That lawyer is now suing him to try to get his money, and apparently they're lifelong friends. So how does he even have the money to file a lawsuit like this, which is probably why he's picked New Hampshire as the venue because Bill O'Brien is probably doing it for nothing or not a very nominal fee.

39:57 Ah, whereas a file in a state with a higher bar of the proof for defamation, and you know, there's very few people that win defamation suits. I always had a defamation suit file against me for writing a petition for someone about something we're not going to talk about because it's local politics, and it was thrown off with the judge all but calling the person that sued me a politician that we don't talk about, a liar. Yeah, you know, it's it's a process that goes on for months, Yeah, yeah, Bill, Bill, Bill O'Brien's probably just doing it because he's he's practically irrelevant.

40:43 Now do we have any idea who does he have a candidate in the New Hampshire primary, the Republican primary. I don't know. I mean, I haven't even noticed Bill O'Brien in a long time. I thought he was I thought he was pretty much out of politics at this although I know he's been out of it before and he's come back. But I thought he was. I thought he was done. I thought he was just, you know, practicing a lot at this point. I didn't, so I don't know. Maybe he's trying to get back in. I don't know what's going on here, but I find it very odd for people that aren't from New Hampshire.

41:15 Jenny, who knows, you know, having been here in the House and in the leadership New Hampshire. A speaker House doesn't last very long. We've got plenty unlike you know how it's supposed to be in the United States. But it just might be Rudy Giuliani. This is my opinion. I don't want to wind up being super defamation teams narcissistic, which is probably one of the reasons he bonded with Trump and he just needed a hit of you know, an ego adrenaline. So this is a place for two hundred and seventy one dollars he can file us you know.

41:59 Oh so yeah, but it's ridiculous. It's an opinion. The word pawn, I mean pawn is and the pawn being the weakest part of a chess board. That's like you're less than a cats par you're less in a stalking horse. All stuff that really doesn't you know, They're just metaphors that don't really mean anything. It's like right now they're saying Bobby Kennedy Junior gonna always meant to run as an independent and now mediate me. Is it how you pronounce it? Media? Hete yes, it's it's like Mediaite is saying the sources say he's intending.

42:37 Sources inside his campaign close to him say he's been intending to do this third party uh run to help Biden, so which would be a stalking horse. But you know, how do you prove stuff like that? But when you use words like that, you know, but if you said, yes, somebody is a Russian agent, you know it's it's it's a asthetic. Last gas from a pathetic person who He's not bleeding hair dye anymore. He's just bleeding the last vestiges of his self respect. Trump's all right, man, Trump, Trump, give him the haters something to hate.

43:18 I'm going to hang up and wait till five o'clock, till that traitor is Eric comes on the show. Yeah, he might be a Maybe Eric's a Russian pawn. I don't know if he's a Russian pawn. But now that he is doing a review of the Exorcist, well there is the Catholic doctrine, which you know, I had something that I wrote about a long time ago, but which William Peter Bladdie who wrote The Exorcist, which is a real great pot boiler. I mean, you just picked the book up. You can't put it down. Yeah, based on if you think of the devil, you've invited the devil, and to think about you invited into your lives.

44:00 That's why you have to be so wary about stuff like the Ouiji boards. That's in the novel and it's in the movie too. So I just feel sad about Eric. You know, he is the Protestant I believe, and so the bar of letting the devil in might be higher, you know, higher with Catholics. It's like the state of New Hampshire in defamation. If you're a Catholic, you know, all that guilt and stuff. You know, the devil can get right in very easily, you know, just to you know, that's not good. I don't know. I don't really think about the devil, you know.

44:38 Apparently you shouldn't think about the devil, because then the devil might be thinking about you. So I think we've learned something today, right, that's right, that's right, And now I'm going to have my second shot of Scotch Charles Richardson, because it doesn't take any substances to screw me up. I'm already screwed up. Okay, John, thanks for the call. Buy bye. All right, if you'd like to get anyone with a quick call before the top of the hour, the studio line is opened, it'll just have to be I would ask you to be terse but six h three two five six seven six oh three two five six seven.

45:13 Just to finish up on this, O'Brien said that because the debate aired on television in New Hampshire, a statute allows him to recover damages in the Granite State. By the way, how do you even prove damages on something like that. O'Brien also said, quote, we have a rule in New Hampshire called the single publication rule, and what that rule means is that when you can establish that a defamation occurred within the jurisdiction within New Hampshire, the plaintiff can recover for each instance it occurred elsewhere.

45:42 Unquote. Okay, So if the debate aired here in New Hampshire, but it was also shown elsewhere, I guess Juliani is requesting a jury trial and is asking the judge to order Biden to publicly acknowledge the allegations and pay him damages. Alrighty. Then Christal said in the chat room, maybe Giuliani has the money, but his accounts are frozen until his legal issues are resolved. I don't know. I don't know. The last I heard was he was selling his New York apartment for like six million dollars because you know, he's having difficulty paying his legal bills.

46:21 Oh, and Trump recently had a fundraiser. Why what a guy? Huh? Trump recently had a fundraiser for his h his friend Rudy Giuliani to try to help him. Oh, Chris Rose from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts joins us in the chat. Hello, Chris, John Hopwood says, to get damages, you have to have a reputation that is damaged. He has no reputation anymore. Apparently Bill O'Brien's still Bill. Bill O'Brien must think Giuliani has a reputation because he's willing to associate his name with him. I don't know who he would do that.

46:57 Anyway, we are close to the top of the hour, so let's go ahead and do this. We'll play a little music, we'll show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then we'll be back with our number two New Marrow dose. I think our friend Eric Piltree is gonna be joining us at'll maybe ten past the hour, quarter past the hour. He's going to try to get to us as soon as he can. I know that, and always enjoy speaking with Eric and look forward to hearing his looking forward to hearing him speak about the speaker, getting his thoughts on that.

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59:17 Welcome everybody as we enter our number two numerowedos of Matt Connorton unleashed and we are live from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM Inglorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven. If you're in Manchester and hello to Oliver our online listeners accross 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 infos, show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Did I say Channel six or channel ninety seven?

59:46 I feel like I might have accidentally said ninety seven again living in the past. Channel six comcasts today, of course is Wednesday, October fourth, two thy twenty three, and I believe our friend Eric Pilcher is on the line. Eric, Is that you, Yes, it is Matt. Sorry, I have to call in and that skype in because I'm on the go right now. That's okay. Yes. John Hopwood was lamenting earlier that that I had stolen you away from him, and I said, how's that even possible? Eric joins me now during the second hour.

1:00:22 Well, here's the thing is, I'm not trying to put anyone on the spot or anything, but John Hopwood has not contacted me to take part in his show. Yes, yes, so I would love to be back on his show again because I do love conversing with John Hopwood. Yes. Well, but with your current schedule it wouldn't be possible anyway. He's on Wednesdays at four on John twenty three. I mean we could always pre record something for her options, and I would be willing to hear what those options are. Ah. Yes, what flexibility is the key with me?

1:01:03 Yeah, and you're very flexible with me. That's why this is a great working relationship. By the way, John in the chat room in all caps says, that is a small technicality, Eric Pilchard, He's I'm not saying your name correctly. Now, Well there's someone there's someone else who doesn't say my name correctly. There are a few variations, and of course your stage name and Jerry and the Scumbags is Eric Pincher. Yes, you know, we you know. I'm very proud of my work with Jerry and the Scumbags. I can't wait to get my r i AA platinum recording album.

1:01:41 I know, right, that's gonna be sweet. That's not an easy thing to get in the streaming era, but as it continues to streak up the chart, so I'm confident that that day will come soon. Yes, I mean, just something else I can add to my resume. You know that you have filled out amazingly that. Oh I do appreciate that. Yes, well, happy to happy to it to help of course we have should we uh? Should we talk about uh? I mean we can remind everyone later, but should we talk about The Exorcist? Uh? You went to h?

1:02:21 Yeah? Go ahead? Yes, I saw it again in theaters this Sunday, Yes, Sunday night, and it is still to me the scariest film ever made. M h. I just I don't think anything he touches it and any it's like any film that deals with possession. Tries to copy it and you can't copy it. Well, I can't even think, Eric, what what other films are are there other because I can't think of anything offhand. I mean, obviously I know there are others, but is there another film or are there other films that try to really kind of do do something similar to The Exorcism that way, the one that uh, there's a new one called the Pope Sexorcist or the Pope Sexorism.

1:03:14 It's like any time you deal with devil possession, they try to take elements from the Exorcists, and it just comes off as unauthentic, fake in phony because here's my belief and you caught me on a team get and I'm sorry, man, oh sorry. Is to make a truly great film, one that stands the test of time. It's fifty years later and people still are in aw the Exorcist, you have to have the perfect blend, great writer, great director, great cast, a little bit of controversy. Exorcist had all of that. You look at some of the people in that film, it's their greatest performance.

1:04:06 Ellen Burston her greatest performance, Jason Miller her graded his gradest. Linda Blair are arguably her gradest, so William Friedkin. Other than the French Connection, probably his greatest go as a director, although To Live and Die in La I think is very underrated as a film,

1:04:36 and and I think the Wang Chung Song is also very underrated. Well, there's nothing about Wang Chung that is underrated. They are very fairly trashed in dash. Oh no, I have to disagree with you there. I love wag Chung, but I digress. You know, the only thing I think when I think of Wang Chung I think of the line from Austin Powers when he's like, we will call it the Alan Parsons Project, and Scott Evil goes, how about you call it Operation wang Chung? Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I mean I'm not overly familiar with their works.

1:05:20 I just

1:05:23 yeah, so uh. But but so there are others. So you mentioned you mentioned one other other film. I feel like it's a subject that probably I mean it is, uh, it's probably considered a little bit taboo in this both what was that? It's probably sorry? Who was that? A very very piece of piece of junk car that needs a tune up? Very bad? Okay, See in Cedar Rapids, we don't emission cat star vicck holes. Yeah to make them road worthy? Yeah, we probably should. What we don't. I understand. I understand. So a lot of people have horrible VHIC holes.

1:06:14 I see, yes, So what uh I mean? I mean it's probably considered a somewhat uh taboo subject, right, because it's because the thing about exorcism is, you know, I mean, you know, you can in the if you want to put that in the horror movie genre, which I don't know where else you would put it. Really, you know, it's one thing to make a film about were wolves or zombies or whatever. But when you deal with something like exorcism, you're dealing with something that a lot of people think is real. And and maybe you do.

1:06:49 I don't know, maybe I do. I mean I've I've known a couple of people who have told me some some personal stories of experiences they've had where I go, wow, that's really a but but but you know what I mean, it's like you're you're dealing with something that that a lot of people are open. And I think that's what makes the Exorcist so frightening. It's like, are we sure that this is just a horror movie or does this actually happen? You know what I mean? Right, here's here's my take, and I I want to preface this by saying, I would appreciate you don't have to agree with my beliefs, but I would appreciate respect for my belief Sure, sure, as I have shown everyone respect for their belief thoughts and opinion.

1:07:41 Yeah, I do believe baptism of the Holy Spirit is a very real thing. M speaking in tongues and all of that, I believe is real. So conversely, I believe you can you cannot have good without evil, can't have It goes back to the whole Star Trek analogy. When the good Kirk and the evil Kirk they were separated, neither of them could survive. Oh yeah, Yeah, that's one of my favorite episodes, one of mine too, very underrated episode and very early in the show's run. I do believe people can be possessed by the devil.

1:08:29 And I think that's why The Exorcist is so scary and heroly, because we're taking something innocent as a young child and doubled down on that a young female, yeah, and interjecting pure, unadulterated evil into her. And I think that's why it is so powerful, so scary, trite me to this gay Yeah, you know what have you ever had anyone, you ever have anyone tell you a story, and for whatever reason, the particular story that this person is telling you, it's you can. You can. Some people are just really good storytellers.

1:09:19 But you know where, But has anyone ever told you a story where, even though you're just hearing them talk about it, you can really kind of something about the story or maybe the way that they're telling it, You can really get a clear picture of what they're explaining to you.

1:09:35 Yes, I had so. So I mean, as far as the reason I say that, I say that to preface what I'm about to and I don't think I've ever repeated this before what I'm about to say, but well, the part I have repeated, of course, is you know, I'm not a religious person myself, and I'm I'm pretty skeptical about all of this, and so naturally I'm not I'm not predisposed to believing in in things like possession and things like that. But I'll tell you something that has always stuck with me. Eric. When I was in junior high school, I had an English teacher named mister Phelps, and mister Phelps told a lot of stories.

1:10:12 He was a great guy. He was one of my favorite teachers. He was one of everybody's favorite teacher. Everybody loved mister Phelps, and he told a story one day that just something about this story has always stuck with I was like in eighth grade when I heard this story, but it's always I'm sorry. I was in ninth grade. He was at public school, but it's always stuck with me. For some reason, I've never forgotten this. He had a friend in college who was a mountain climber, and his friend, the mountain climber, had some sort of an accident where he ended up in a full body cast and he was either he was in a coma or he was not in a coma, but it was difficult for him to maintain consciousness for long periods of time.

1:10:56 So he goes to visit his friend in the hospital who's in this full body cast in terrible shape, and he's sitting there with his friend and his friend is sort of in and out of consciousness, so he knew that mister Phelps was there. But then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, his friend's eyes just pop open, like wide open, and he reaches over and he grabs mister Phelps's hand and starts squeezing it really hard and starts grunting at him, and mister Phelps is looking him in the eyes, and this always stuck with me.

1:11:35 It only lasted a few seconds, but mister Phelps said, during those few seconds, it was the most terrifying moment of his life. And he said, as he's looking in his friend's eyes, his friend was not there, like somebody else was in there for those few seconds. And mister Phelps, he said, he said, look, you know, I don't really believe in any of that stuff, but but I've never forgotten that because for those few seconds, somebody else was there and it was really frightening. And mister Phelps telling that story that has always stuck with me.

1:12:12 Whenever the subject comes up, I think about that story and it says, weird, how that story. Mister Phelps sold a lot of stories. I don't remember any of them, except that one has always kind of haunted me a little bit. Does that make sense? Yet it does. The reason why it does is because any story that has any you look at some of the scariest or memorable tales, they all have a high degree of realism about that. Oh yeah, and I think that that's something that we always forget when we see when we hear spooky stories or scary stories or horror films and things like that.

1:12:59 You hear these things and we just we really forget why it scares us or why it sticks with us. And it sticks with us because it is so frightened, it is so scary, because it is so real. And that's my belief.

1:13:23 Yeah, because I can't think of anything else in the horror genre that fits that other than stories about exorcism. Right, Like I said, anything else. You know, zombies, you know, wear wolves, whatever, Right, you know that's not real. But exorcism is the one thing. I mean, unless unless there is something else I'm not thinking of. Maybe there is something else, I guess Aliens, but that's not really horror movie, that's sci fi. Well, I'm going to disagree with you, Matt. Aliens is one of the top ten horror films for me all time.

1:13:56 Alien not Aliens. Alien is yeah, yeah, just it is terrified because people forget. You don't see this Zin, the Xenophope, the Denomorphe until near the very end, and it's this build up to the Queen Alien that makes it so so terrified. You know, I've never actually, you know, I've never actually seen that movie. I never wanted to. Something something about it uh turned me off. I don't know exactly what it was, but I never I've never wanted to see that movie. Is it Tom Scarett? I doubt it. I don't know what it is.

1:14:40 I have no problem with Tom Scarett. I don't know what it is about it, but something about it never just never appealed to me. I can't quite explain it. It certainly is a different movie. Yeah, yeah, well, what is that uh music? Sorry, it's okay. Scott Robinson in the Shot Room says zombies can be real mad. They can be real. Oh, they can be real mad. I think he's using voice to text. I don't think zombies can be real. I mean, I've I've certainly seen some people who uh sort of behave like zombies, but I just assume they're either on something or they're very tired.

1:15:22 Yeah, I mean there are some that behave like zombies currently in our Senate. That's right, that's right. Scott also says the Shining always gets me. I can never finish it. It spooks the heck out of Shining is another one. But my issue with The Shining is that it really isn't I'm always torn on The Shining as a film. It's easily up there in regards to r being a great horror film. But if you read the book and then watch the movie, you're gonna get one of two emotions that to disappointment or you're gonna hate Stanley Kubrick really for what he did, because they're vastly different the book in the movie.

1:16:22 Stephen King after that was never gonna have one of his books adapt it into a film again. Yes, because of the liberties Stanley Kubrick took. Oh interesting.

1:16:38 Yeah, the mini series with Stephen Webber from the TV show Wings. It's truer to the novel than the movie. I've never I've never seen the TV series. I read the book when I was a kid, and I've seen the movie. I like the movie, but that's mainly because of Jack Nicholson. It's just incredible. I watched. I need the stake of watching the movie first and then reading the book. Yeah, and I regretted that really, Yeah, Scott, Yes, I regretted that move. Scott says in the chat room as an avid reader myself.

1:17:19 If you read a book and then watch the movie, ninety nine point nine percent out of one hundred, you will be disappointed in the movie. Well, the book usually is better. I mean that's just a general and I don't just mean with Stephen King. I just mean in general, the book is usually better, not always, but usually Yeah, yeah, but usually. Yeah, that's fair. But I was saying the liberties Kubrick took. Yeah, yeah, greatly change the story. I don't even remember it's been that's unfortunate. It's been so long, Like I cause, yeah, of course I bring this up and lose the frame of reference because there are that were done that I can reference and be like, Okay, this is what I'm talking about.

1:18:04 But it's been so long that I can't even But I do know there are major, major differences. Yeah, yeah, are that are just crazy to think about. Jay fed in the chat room says, we stayed at the hotel the shining is based on we stayed in a haunted room but didn't see anything. Hmmm, that's advertising. That's right, That's right, I do. I would be very upset. Yeah, I do believe in uh in the you know, ghosts and stuff. I mean, I I do believe in that too. I approach everything skeptically, but I've also had some experiences that cannot easily be explained.

1:18:52 I think I I think I got into all of it on the show one one time, a long time ago, and probably a lot of the audience thinks I'm crazy. But that's okay. We should, uh, we should talk about you know, we'll we'll circle back to the Exorcist in a bit, because I do want to remind people about what's what's coming up. But you told me on the phone earlier about something that just happened in Cedar Rapids. Yeah, we had a very unfortunate situation transpire here in Peter Rapids. Basically, uh, Sunday sometimes Sunday, there was an individual that created a TikTok video UH used voice voice disguising and board out his

1:19:41 image and basically threatened to shoot up from school to schools in particular, and had a list with a picture of a gun, had a list with a gun sitting beside it, and and very bizarrely, UH, the individual said

1:20:08 twice in in the TikTok video that he was not white. He wanted to make that very clear that he was not white. He was he was wouldn't say what race he was, but he just kept he said twice I am not white, because he threatened to shoot anyone who was of African American descent. My issue is school district solution to this was cancel classes on Monday, but have him go to school on Tuesday when he said he was going to do it, so he's and Monday nights they sent they sent an email to parents basically putting the bonus on the parents to do the right thing and teach your kids.

1:20:57 So he uh so he'sly So this just to be clear. This individual he said in the video that he was going to do this on Tuesday, but they but he posted the video on Monday, so they canceled school on Monday. But then but then he posted the video on Sunday on Sunday, so they canceled school on Monday, but had school, but had school on Tuesday. But they emailed the parents on Monday, YEP, to basically say, hey, this is what you can do to protect your kids. Yeah, we're sending them to school anyway. And and the email was pretty ridiculous, like just like if you see anyone who could be construed as suspicious.

1:21:49 Point out to your kid, like what these individuals look like, and it's like, well, no, it doesn't work like that. You know, Now, how does how does TikTok deal with that? When when when a video like that is posted? Do they what do they do?

1:22:12 I I would assume they remove it pretty quickly. Yeah, if I had to guess, I do know that the FBI is involved, which to accelerate getting information from TikTok, the FBI would be would have to be involved. Yeah, so I do. I do know that is going on. But for me, it's just disturbing that if if the pandemics taught us anything, it's you can teach kids virtually if he be to me, this is the perfect situation to do that. It's we will cancel school if there's two inches of smell on the ground. Yes, but you know, uh, possible active shooter situation.

1:23:03 We're going to cancel the day the day after the threats made, but the day he actually said he was gonna do it, And I'm saying he and I shouldn't because we don't know right day he's gonna actually do it. Some of the kids, it's disturbing because you think in your head that what they're doing is really it's like they're baiting him to try something

1:23:33 in a way like, oh, the kids you're here, Come on, mister whoever you are, or missus whoever you are, right, come and do what you're gonna do. It's it's kind of a it's just it's kind of an impossible situation though, because anybody at any time can make a video making a threat. They may or may not be serious, and you're you're kind of at their mercy, right, especially in the social media era where because you know, I mean anybody, anybody can make a threat like that, and and what do you do. I mean, if you if you call off school, people are gonna have a problem with that, well, you know, because you're you're reacting to every little threat.

1:24:21 But at the same time, what if what if the threat turns out to be legitimate and they really are going to do something and you've sent the kids to school anyway? I mean, it's really kind of a no win situation. I and I get that, but I think I think to send them on the day the person said they were going to do it. Yeah, that's weird. Yeah, that that is just completely insane to me. Yeah. Yeah, it just really bothers me that, you know, we approve it. What you can do virtually, it's been proven. Why wouldn't we do this?

1:25:06 Although in terms of that, I mean there are during the pandemic when when the school districts were doing that. It went well, some places not so well others. I mean, results will vary. It went it went well, and see the rapids, now I don't. I mean, keep in mind there was the ability to do a full roll out and put back up planes in place and whatever. Yeah, but in this situation, it's like, oh, we're all zoom tomorrow. I get that. But it's like the saving grace of this email was we have lockdown procedures.

1:25:51 So the procedure is, wack o person comes into a school to shoot it up, We're going to lock all the doors and trap them in the school with this individual. Yeah yeah, do uh do schools there have an officer on uh on campus? Some do? Yeah, some do? And I guess you bring up a very good point, Matt. One of the schools that was targeted does have an office there on duty. Yeah, I mean I think they all should, but uh, yeah, that's so they haven't they haven't found the person who posted the video, I assume no, Okay no.

1:26:38 And the thing is is the person it's suspected is a minor, so there might not be a lot of details when they do find out. I mean, YESBI is involved, so they will find out, right. Interesting, Well, I'm glad that I'm glad that it hasn't uh, that shooting hasn't come to fruition. That's good. Yeah, I think I think it's I do think that it's odd that they would send the kids to school on the day that the the shooting was supposed to happen according to this video. But but it is. But but I do have some sympathy though for the school district too.

1:27:19 It's like, because, I mean, we're in an era where anybody at any time could post anything, any kind of a threat, and you don't want to be you don't want to be at the whim or the mercy of of just people who want to make trouble or people who actually want to kill somebody. You know. It's it's that's that's really tricky, I think, and I get that it makes a lot of sense. Keep in mind, I live in Cedar Rapids till my heart is really kind of hardened on sympathy towards the Cedar Rapids Community School.

1:27:54 Right, They've done a lot over the years where I'm just like, really, you know that type deal. Sure, but it's good you have it. You can carry that torch for both of us. There you go, there you go. Oh we should too. The time goes so quick. We should talk about the big news this week and the speaker, the speaker, why has been vacated? And I guess my point of view wanting is I don't like Matt Gates is the world's biggest idiot in my opinion, And I have no problem saying that Kevin McCarthy did what he felt was best to avoid a government shutdown.

1:28:53 When we are faced with the shutdown, my opinion is this, we have to be by part of it. We have to work together to avoid this. We can't sit here and say, oh, well, don't don't accept this deal because it has this in it. You know, we have to find some common ground for the good of the American people. So to sit there and out Kevin McCarthy. And I'm not a Kevin McCarthy defender in any stretch of the imagination. Yeah, I mean I would say, under normal circumstances,

1:29:30 do you awesome get rid of him? Guy's an imbecile. Good work, But like in this situation, he did what was right for the people of this country and you and Matt Gates is counting a personal vendetta to get what he wanted. So I think it's I think I've always said this on your show. We as the American people, should not be used as paused in a game of chats, right, and neat Gates used us as pawned in a game of chats. He got the checkmates work, but that can't be ignored. Yeah, my biggest concern is that this really plunges us into some chaos that is very bad for the country.

1:30:30 I mean, it's like I've been saying on the show. You know, I think as a political junkie, it's fascinating to watch all of this happening, but it's very bad for the country. You know, We've only got I think forty two days now until this continuing resolution is up. I don't know what they're going to do. The House is effectively paralyzed until they find a new speaker. I don't know who can get to too many arguments about that on who should be the speaker. Yeah, yeah, let's put that at the crust of this here if we can that no one's that there's arguments on that.

1:31:09 So I'm not going to sit here and act like that everything kunky dory. Now that now that uh, now that uh McCarthy's gone, as some conservatives are that just once again have this have this major league messiah complex with anyone that's a Republican, and we we've got to get away from that because there are some Republicans that are very dangerous for this country. Yeah, and Matt Gates is one of them. Mm hmm, yep. Absolutely, I have no qualms saying that. No, no, And and by the way, I'm sure my most House Republicans feel the same way.

1:32:01 Matt Gates is probably the most despised individual in the United States House of Representatives right now by by his own by his own party, you know, aside from, of course, the other seven who voted with him. I'm sure the rest of him despise Matt Gates. Uh. And I'm sure probably all I would like to know the reason why they sided with him. Oh, I think I think there's that contingent that just uh, they're not They're not in it for the good of the country or even for the good of their party. Uh, they're they're in it for the fame.

1:32:39 You know, Matt Gates is in it for the fame. He that that guy's clearly. Look I'm not qualified to diagnose him, and certainly not from a distance, but I'm pretty sure he's associopath. And uh, he's in it for the fame and then the notoriety and the glory, and he wants to I mean, he's a he's a city. We're talking about a guy who is a sitting member of the House of Representatives who also sometimes I's guest hosts a show on Newsmax. I've never seen that before where a sitting member of the House actually not not as a guest, but will actually go and host a show on Actually I'm wrong, Bob Dornan used to do it.

1:33:14 I forgot about Bob Dornan, but that goes that goes back a couple decades. But anyway, give us time, we might have a president that ends up doing it. Well yeah, yeah, uh we may very well. I actually was hoping, and I understand why they didn't you actually still have hope right now, I do, hanging by a thread. But I well, I actually was hoping that the Democrats would save McCarthy. I understand why they didn't. I understand all the reasons why they felt no obligation to help, but honestly, just putting politics aside and just looking at it pragmatically, I wish they had.

1:33:58 I understand why they don't trust him, and they're right. There's not a single reason the Democrats could give for not doing it that I can argue with directly on the merits, except for in a broader sense to say, for the good of the country, I wish they had saved him, because now we're and I don't mean to be alarmist, but now we're in real trouble here. They can say, well, it's a Republican problem and we're not under any obligation to help. And I get it. I understand that impulse. And you know, I have no I have no love for McCarthy myself, certainly I have an enormous criticize but but for the good of for you know, looking at it, looking at the bigger picture, pragmatically, for the country.

1:34:48 You know, they don't like him, of course, and they don't trust him. But it's the devil. And this this kind of brings it full circle because we're talking about the exorcistter it's the devil. You know that they should have saved the devil. They knew. Let's be real here, I couldn't. I might be wrong in my belief, but it's my belief. Kevin McCarthy is too stupid to be shrewd. He isn't like like his own stupidity and gullibility put him in this. In my opinion, he forgot he was a politician and got just steamrolled.

1:35:35 He he is like it. Kevin McCarthy is the opposite of House of Cards in Frank Underwood. Like. That's the thing is, Matt Gates did a power play on little Jimmy, who was held back in third grade twice because he can't spell cat. Hmmm. It's interesting. See I'm a different I'm a different perspective on uh on McCarthy, which is kind of funny because, uh, you you would think just just because what was that? Oh sorry, there's when I'm outside right now. I apologize, that's okay. Just making sure, yeah, just making sure you were in swept it's been a beautiful day just until I stepped outside.

1:36:40 Oh that's funny, Okay, No, I I I think that. Uh. I think McCarthy, look he he actually believe it or not as much as there are many things about him that I find absolutely despicable. But I also he did win a little bit of grudging respect for me from me when, for example, I really thought we were going to hit the debt ceiling and go over the fiscal cliff and that Biden was going to have to attempt to invoke the fourteenth Amendment, and McCarthy said, all along, we'll get it done. We'll get it done.

1:37:13 We'll get it done. And it was. It was right at the wire, but he came through. And same with this government shutdown. I didn't think he'd be able to avoid it, and he figured it out and he made it work and he avoided it. So I don't think he's I don't think he's stupid, but I think he may have been stupid. Is too strong of a statement. Yeah, I think he. I think he was so gullible he trusted his party too much to have his back. I'm that cost. I'm with you. I will give him credit for putting these people ahead of party politics.

1:37:57 That is something that this country to do a lot more of. Yes, yes, And that's what the Speaker of the House should do. Yeah, we sit here in the we say well, no, no, no, no. The Speaker of the House should be The Speaker of the House should be that No, the Speaker of the House should put the country first, unequivocally. And that's what he's done in those two occasions. And Matt Gates just showed what And I love the word sociopath he used to describe him, because it is sociopathy. Yeah, that he puts his own need for attention ahead of the American people need you.

1:38:53 The listeners like that can't be ignored. And I know there are some conservatives that are sitting there cheering like this is a football game, Like, oh, Matt Gates stuck it to him, Good job, Gates. Really really, do you see the chaos that this is going to cause? Yeah, but in the end, we showed them you're either with us or against us. Trump twenty twenty four, whoa nute Gingrich is saying and I and I was saying the other day on the show, how it's it's a rare moment that I would agree with Nute Gingrich, but Gingrich is saying that they should figure out a way to expel Matt Gates from the conference.

1:39:39 Uh, because he can't, you know, he can't just be allowed to get away with this. I'd sign off on it. Yeah, I'm sign up on it multiple times. Yeah, yeah, anytime. To me, Look, there are things you can do and and me, as a quasi political pundit, will say, you know, that was scummy, but you're forgiven using the American people as pawns. No, that's unforgivable. Yeah, I agree, And that is the one thing that I look at and I'm like, you know what, Matt Gates, congratulations, you are a piece of garbage human being.

1:40:33 Yeah. Well, it's funny. I saw Jake Tapper was interviewing him the other day on I think it was on one of the Sunday shows, and I thought Jake Tapper went a little bit overboard with what he did. But he's kind of confronted Matt Gates and said, you know, I think you're just in this for clicks and likes and social media engagement, not governing. And you know, but but Gates, he doesn't The criticism doesn't seem to bother him. I think he thrives on it. I think he just loves being on TV, and I think he I think show he uses it like Trump does.

1:41:14 Yeah, oh, definitely, he uses it like Trump does. It is martyrdom. And he can then turn around and say, oh, he's targeting me. They're targeting me because they because I'm protecting him from you. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry. That's exactly what he's what he does and what he will continue to do. Yeah. Uh, yeah, it's frustrating. It's it's it's disturbing that all these sociopathic conservatives do this and people rally to them when they do it. Well, like I said, I mean, there are a lot of there are a lot of reasonable and uh and even a few although I think most of the moderate moderate Republicans you tend to see more in the Senate.

1:42:10 But but I think there's there's more reasonable, shall we say, and more establishment Republicans in the House who, like I said, I mean, I'm sure Matt Gates's public enemy number one to them right now. You know, they know he's gonna he's gonna cost them. He's definitely going to cost Republicans the House in twenty twenty four. I have no doubt about that, because he's made them look like they can't govern. And I'm sure they would love for him to go away. And and these these other enablers too, I'm sure you know, like like Lauren Groepert and as I like to call her, and some of these other clowns.

1:42:43 I'm sure they would love for them to go away. If she if she keeps that campaign promise that you posted in the after show group, she got my vote, right, Lauren's twenty twenty four, twenty twenty eight. You've got Eric Tilcher's backing, let's go. You're gonna go all the way to Colorado just for that.

1:43:08 Maybe, if that's how, if that's what she's gonna do for her supporters, I'll carry her to the White House. Maybe she'll maybe, maybe, maybe she'll take you to see Beetlejuice with her. I'm not a Beetlejuice fan, but she can pick the movies. Sure, sure, I'm a gentleman. I'll pay very good, very good, Eric, we are we are almost Lauren, Well there from what I from what I've from what I've read about her in a previous career. Uh, well, we won't go any further with that. That's for the US for Matt Connorton unsheathed.

1:43:48 Uh. But what I was about to say, I thought I was keeping it very delicate what I'm saying. But what well, what I was about to say about the previous career though, isn't making a joke that I have read that about her? Anyway? But before I jo I know, I know now before we uh, before we go, Eric, we should remind people about your film review and of course got the Exorcists coming up and all that, So I'll give the floor to you for that. Yes, this Friday, we will you will have the review of the Exorcist.

1:44:22 We're going to keep with the same formula we've been doing. We're going to have some clips from interviews that have been done with the late William Freakin where he's talking about making the Exorcist and everything like that. I mean, because the big thing is is the clips that you would want to show you really can't Yeah, any form of of any form of broadcast media that's done for PU that's done to the wide public about ely editing it. So but no, it's I'm really really excited for this review it's a it's a big personal deal to mean to be able to review this, Matt, and you know why.

1:45:14 Yep, I'm really excited. And I'm also excited to do the Exorcist Retrospective podcast as well. Yeah, if you go to I'm very excited for that. Yeah, and I would just tell listeners too. Right now, if you go to Matt connorton dot com slash Exorcist, you can see the graphic about that, and that's gonna be really cool. I'm looking forward to that here, looking forward to hearing that. That is. I've been talking with the two guys who are going to join me. One of my best friends, Luke cag Biden, is going to join me in Brandon Bush, a guy that loves film, loves cinema, loves whrror, And tomorrow night we're seeing Exorcist Believer and that will include our thoughts on that film as well.

1:46:06 Oh yes, so the tickets were actually bought today. Uh, it's going to be I'm excited to see it. Usually sequels, I'm indifferent, but I've seen the trailer multiple times and I'm very excited for this. I really think it We're finally going to get an Exorcist sequel that does the original justice. Oh very cool. By the way, I don't know if this is true, but I just read online that the demon is Uh is Uh being played by Matt Gates. I'm already petrified. I'm already scared going into it. I might have to sleep with the lights on tomorrow nighting.

1:46:50 That's right, all right, Eric, Well, we gotta we gotta wrap up, my friend. But I always enjoy getting to talk to my favorite conservative as we do on Wednesdays. Yes, go ahead, I enjoy it as well. Man. It's great to have these discussions because my pot is it should provide a touch of hope that, you know, independence conservatives moderates that as long as we have an open mind, we can have these discussions about things are about things our country could do to be better. Yeah. Oh absolutely, That's a big part of why I do the show.

1:47:28 I love you know, open and uh uh you know open dialogue. So absolutely absolutely, my friend. All right, Eric, we will we will let you go, be careful in all that wind. And I look forward to Friday's review. Yes, I look forward to delivering it. Thanks, all right, Thanks Eric, take care bye bye bye, all right, always nice to talk to Eric Pilcher, and we are out of time, so if you missed any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at Wmnhradio dot org and at my website Matt Coonnorton dot com, and of course Matt connorton dot com slash Exorcist, you can find out about that special podcast that Eric is working on.

1:48:09 All right, we got to get out of here. That's gonna do it for us for now. I will talk at y'all a little bit later. Bye, everybody.