Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-5-23

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We go Happy Thursday. It is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we are live from

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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 is Thursday October five, twenty twenty three,

so nice to have you all with me. By the way, open with

a couple of tracks today from the band d C Wolves, because Dan Cahill

from DC Wolves is going to be skyping in today at five pm Eastern time.

Of course for those of you listening from other places and really looking forward

to that, he's they are in Connecticut, So I think it's just from

the email. I think it's just Dan who's skyping in. He's the founder

of the band but we'll see if anyone else is with him. But I

love their sound. DC Wolves, great band they're going to be at.

This Year's a Swarmy Fest coming up? Is it November fourth? I believe,

so wow, just just about a month away. In fact, that

is why for those of you watching online, I'm wearying my Swarmy Fest from

last year, so I love this shirt and I'm sure I'll get one for

this year as well. Jenny and I will be there, we will be

participating, in fact, representing, and really looking forward to that. But

yeah, there's gonna be great bands there this year. Of course sepsis headlining

as always, and really looking forward to that. But DC Wolves, what

a cool sound I love. I love this band, so I'm really looking

forward to talking to Dan and whomever else might be with him today at five

pm. Also, today is the first Thursday of the month, which means

that today, immediately after this show, I will be jumping on the phone

and calling into the Doctor Kevin Show, as I do the first Thursday of

every month from six to seven pm. That streams online on the ome Times

Radio network oom as an omeome Times dot com you can find it and if

you don't get a chance to listen live. Of course it'll be in the

archive, but we do that the first Thursday of every month, and we

talk about news and current events and politics, and so there's always plenty to

discuss, that is for sure. And by the way, it is perfect

for those of you and you know who you are. If you get to

the end of this two hour block of time and you say to yourself,

oh my god, I need more Matt Connerton, well, as long as

you don't mind sharing me with Doctor Kevin, there's a way that you can

get an extra hour of me. And I do end up doing most of

the talking. It's probably the only person ever on the Doctor Kevin Show who

winds up doing most of the talking, but he does kind of seed the

floor to me somewhat because I'm more immersed in all things politics than he is

himself. But he enjoys having me on because he enjoys the discussion. And

I think, I think this might be our friend, easyg. How about

this? I think he's gonna do. He's gonna do an entertainment report perhaps

maybe how are you EASYG? Boy? I didn't know who was singing that

song, but boy, that was a long song. Well, there were

two songs. I played two songs from DC Wolves all right, and we're

gonna play more. I've never heard that band. They were pretty good the

other Oh, they're really good. Yeah, we're gonna play You have a

lot of uh he's like a lot of bands on the last whiles as I've

called up before us. Right, yeah, absolutely, Jenny's doing a great

job of political shaw. You do bring in bands typing, you live in

the studio, you see a lot of pictures, so that's great. Yeah.

Well, we've always had an element of music. It's a word to

get out there, the music, you know. That's right. Well,

we've always had an element of music with musical guests, but you know,

since the start of this year we've really tried to ramp that up, and

Jenny's doing a great job with the booking and uh Adam Ember's band. They

were and seeing them in the Frischman's Park a couple of years ago, and

they said, music is to be music is then to be heard. They

said, if you don't have any money for a CD, it's just coming

to booth there for the show and I'll give you a pre CD. Who

is that one Adam Ezra band. Is that Emers band? Yeah, yeah,

I've interviewed Adam Ezra a long time. He probably doesn't even remember it

was. It was over a decade ago, but uh I entered. Yeah,

they're really doing very well. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, great

band. No, And it was a little bit of a long intro today

because I was trying to finalize something else. I've got a hypnosis event.

I need to let Peter White know this. He might be listening, but

I should alert him. I haven't done this yet. On October twenty six

I will not be here live, so I'll have to prepare a new best

of for that day or something because I'm going to be in Providence for I'm

going to hypnotize a room full of real estate agents, so that'll be fun.

So I'm really looking forward to that. But yeah, October twenty sixth,

I will be I will be in Providence, Rhode Island for an event.

So those corporate events are Yeah. I get my volume all the way

up from my phone, so can you hear me better? I can hear

you fine, you sound great? Yeah, I get the volume all the

way up. I think that's the secret of hearing me better. In that

way, I can hear the intro to my report. That is the secret.

Just turn the volume all the way up, Turn it up to eleven.

Are you a spinal tap fan? Turn it up to eleven. These

go to it. I'm spinal tap fans. Have you not ever seen the

film? This is spinal tap? Is that what you're revealing to us?

I can't say. I have seen a lot of movies and not that one.

What kind of an infidel has not seen this is spinal tap? I

can't believe it. I can't believe it. I've seen thousands of movies,

but not that one. How could you have seen thousands of movies and not

one of those thousands of movies is not the Is this spinal Have you ever

seen Purple? Funny to say that I got I got a movie of the

week, I got a restaurant for the week, and I got a podcast

of the week. Have you seen Purple? Have you seen Purple ra?

Have you seen Purple Rain? Yes? I have? Okay, good,

very good movie. Yes. Well, I'm glad you've at least seen that.

This is a little bit inside. I hope poly Ce is listening anyway.

Yes, so yeah, yeah, it's been a while since we've had

in April Cushman, Katie Dobbins, and Mana McCarthy report from you. This

is exciting. Yeah, it's funny missing Aman mccaffee. She was in town

and I saw her on Sunday with Tom and I tell you that was Austin.

Oh, yes, so they actually I haven't seen them in two years,

so they actually so they actually went to the facility where you are currently

housed for hours, right, and then they were supposed to do a gig

in uh in Hudson, but it got canceled because of the football game,

which is probably gonna put the football game off and had them play but for

the end up in Massachusetts and it end up colds in the place that's the

band. I mean, the place was apparently going out. I don't remember

all the dd but the end of the Massachusetts and they had opportunity to sing

over there, and I guess the fire guys came up. There were two

people in the building and it was a big It was a big uh.

It was big and crazy, but that's the way they liked it. I

guess work. Well, that's good. So it was great seeing them.

Yeah, I put it all over my Facebook page. I put them on

my people, I text two and I put in my wallpaper. Why not

did you and Tom share an extremely awkward hug? Oh yeah, we did

a group hug after, so we did it at all. You had a

group hug with Amanda and Tom. Wow, look at you, Look at

you. I know. I bet that I saw wing too, my friend

who came in the door, so I want to see that ring. Wow,

very nice. Wow. Yeah, so's a bird woman. Now he's

up limits. Now that's all over. That's all. I didn't know it

had ever started. Easy, g What are you telling us that was running

gag over the years Tom wasn't around. You slide right in there, so

you know what. He's having a good chuckle. Huh, the gag at

the radio station. If if Tom wasn't around, I slide right in there.

All right. That's definitely furn sheath. It's easy, all right.

So you have you have an actual entertainment report for us. We wrote the

whole thing like a month ago. Wow, well, let me update a

little bit. So when you so, when you were in September, because

I haven't done this August probably right, right, we actually forgot it was

the thing. So you So you wrote the entertainment report a month ago,

but you've updated it since then, is what you're saying. Well, yeah,

I did. It'spend like a half an hour on it. Now what

made you decide to update it? Did you look at it and go,

hey, this is from a month ago. Yeah? Everything, it was

Stember September. I better update this stuff. I think that's wise. I

think you've made an excellent choice. Well, I'm on, I'm on pins

and needles. I think I might have a circulatory issue, but it also

might be I'm just very excited. Entertainment coming up five o'clock. We sure

do. I'm looking for your intro here? How come I can't be here?

File nine found? Oh? Here we go? All right, here

we go? He by good news, I hear it? Easy? You

want to know about stock market crashes? COVID nineteen, drive buys, celebrity

gossip. Easy, gee's gotcha? Entertainment reports? Wow, because they ain't

nothing but a jig bang. Are you ready for stock let's find out?

Ready, let's go. Hey, I can hear my my intro. It's

amazing what you put the bome all the way up. Anyways, the cover

fifth, I know you've done any the fourth this August. It's been a

long time. It's been a long time. Easy. We're going to dedicate

to a couple of different people here. Uh, I'll just a shout out

to this lady Mel Mel Robins. He has the podcast of giving her a

podcast of the week. You ever heard that lady who Mel Robins? Mel

Robbins? Yeah, lady, yup, she's a lady. She's a lady

whoa a lot of them the last month Donny Tom Jones and your entertainment report.

Mel Robbins actually is a familiar name, but I can't quite place her.

All right, I don't think you've heard this lady. You she's a

big entertainter England. You can Facebook are a few more and more information.

Hillary Clugg I'm not going to from England. Now, what's her name?

Hillary Clugged? Hillary clar Is that what you said? Clark? Hillary Plug?

Yeah? Like tap dances, he sings. He's really good. Well,

when you have a name like Plug, of course you're going to play

the fiddle and tap dance and check that off you like on Facebook? Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, boy, I'll tell you. Oh, no,

please, the floor is yours, sir. Let's would do you have any

more to tell us about this plug individual? He's a really good looking lady

by he's off limits. He's married. Oh reason, we got married too,

like a year ago. Everybody gets married ezg. Except you. You're

always the anybody married one. You're always never the bride. Yeah. I

also want to say the movie of the week, I have you ever heard?

This movie is called The Kissing Booths exclusively on Netflix where they found out

yes today that's there and when it prices up, I'm surprise and uh yeah,

one, two, and three, and they were probably gonna make a

couple more. It's a really good movie. But it's not a movie for

kids under fourteen. But doesn't mean they can't walk it right? Well,

that depends, easy g. Why is it not for kids under fourteen?

Well? Uh, seam in theirs. But hey, once stop kids were

walking unless the parents. If I put eye on them, hey, what

are you gonna do? And then they I got so many news. The

restaurant of the week I went to there about the Moth a couple weeks ago,

called the Old Fault. You heard that restaurant? It's from the beach

area. I don't know, but I'm worried that this computer is possessed because

we were talking about demonic possession yesterday. Listen to this EAZYG WHOA what is

that anyways? That sounded like a bad I had a big fish, had

a big lunch, and I mean big dinner. I had some lunch and

then I ordered to see this tells at dinner later. So what highly recommend

it? I enjoy a caesar salad. I think it's delicious, although I

have a suspicion that if I looked up caesar salad at Urban dictionary dot com,

I would find something truly horrifying. Yeah, and also at the end

of the report here we're gonna do a song of the week. Is it's

it's not really new now, it's when I like eight Night, probably eight

seventy weeks now. April Pushman another new songs. He's rolling the new songs

out called Borrow Time. How do you choose what goes into that easy G

When you make the decision too, when you choose a song of the week,

what is the criteria and what is your process for deciding on what would

be a suitable song of the week, it's one of the three ladies I

like, and I got it in there one of the three ladies. Well,

a lot of songs that April cut three out and incas a new one

out normal and Katie do a new o the news song Wild probably play next

week. That means it's pretty easy. Just place enough. Yeah, don't

I don't even I don't even have to get different mission anymore. Of the

three of the three ladies you like, would you please put them in order

for me? Uh from uh you like? And it's Katie then in April

gotcha man's up there too, Okay, all right, very good? All

right, Well, if you were looking to uh to get over to oh

yeah, they're going to go over the cream Land. Unfortunately they closed early,

probably due to none enough help. They're closed as the Chamber twenty first,

so you have to wait till next March. Oh wow, they they

closed really early. This You do see the cupcakes on Elm Street open the

year round. So yeah, yeah, so tasty. All right. We

got cricker treat coming up and I don't have an official date, but I

know it's October thirty fourth here in Manchester. I'm pretty sure. At six

date, but I'll have to confirm that because they don't have an especial date.

But if you're looking to have something fun, Tricker treet at the ballpark

from noon to two. It's a free event. A Cobra twenty eighth,

a family Themes doors place. They might check that out. Oh then my

church, first Church of five away Union Street here in Manchester, it's another

free event. It's a holly Berry fair cover twenty first and nine to two,

and they're gonna have all kinds of items for your for your Christmas and

beyond. Oh yeah, the plus of a lunch pounder. If you look

at it to get helpies of food, they got sandwich or something. You

know, how drinks available? What kind of sandwich? What kind of sandwich

do you recommend? Uh, they've probablys have finger sandwiches, you know the

ones you get. Finger sandwiches are inexpensive. That's another thing. If I

look at ways Joween, they're gonna have it. They're gonna have another Cober

twenty seven right here in downtown thanks to the Manches sturring cling. They have

it on their post. It's three to six thirty specticular downtown trick or treat

extravaganza, treat surprises, family friend of the family fund activity. I always

say it's free to come on down with a super fun you haven't had one

in a while because of the COVID unfortunately. By the way, Isaac Banks

in the chat room just said that, Uh, Jason Patterson is very good

doing his impression of the Finns. He as smart as ever he can be.

Do you do any impressions? EASYG, I really don't know you you

really don't know, don't I'm then this update in a while. The Snow

Arena, uh, you know a long times I go to this. But

you want to go Snow Arena. Pay Facebook page for ticket invation, or

you can call six ose three six four four five thousand, or you can

go SNeW Arena dot com. Uh huh. They have a band coming around

the corner. I think it's gonna beet Sellow. For the actual event,

it's covering pretty soon here cover twenty seven Guard Smack at seven thirty. Are

you a Godsmack fan? So here's the thing, EASYG. I have never

And by the way, for those who don't know God Smack, I mean

people around here know. But if you're listening in online from somewhere else you

might not know. God Smack is from here and originally. And I'm not

a fan of Sully's vocals other than that, I like the music, but

I've just never liked his vocals. However, I have been I was once

in a band that did play a god Smack cover. Well actually we played

well different Godsmack covers at different times, but so some of the songs are

fun to play, but not a fan of Sully's voice. All right,

well, okay, but then I'm going to list all these events coming up,

and because the tickets were all the sales for these events and we'll repeat

them every week. But remember fourth sus Marks is gonna be going to be

a fundraiser event day o'clock. I don't remember what all the all there all

their yeah, first charity events. You go on New Arena facebook page.

You can find all the informations. Oh good. And then November ten and

twelve, Jurassic Live World for the kids shows. They'll be doing seven six

shows for that. Uh huh. I means up being their kiddies down to

Stu Arena and then again another rock and roll band. I bet you're a

fan of this band November thirteenth, Tool. Do you like that music?

I like Tool, I never loved Tool. If you're a big fan,

that's gonna play at seven to fifteen casual weeks later November twenty fourth. I've

seen this band when not live, by just having to work there trans Severian

Orchestra at three pm and seven pm. They're really good. Yeah, this

show is they come here every year every uh for the cod obviously December ninth

a hollypop. This is a really big show anymore, but it's the Boston

Pop. And I always remember remember that time I worked there one time and

they said, hey, Texas and they call it bikes. I was saying,

not Texas. Mic They said, when you can do a job where

we need to clean up the tables and you know, put all the carries

away. But he said he needs to do much tonight. He just sat

down. He had a lot of food that people left behind. That story

never gets told. That story was fifteen and sixties. Professional bull riding is

coming unlease the beasts and they haven't least of times. Yep. But the

Me and Rocky went there a couple of years ago, believe it. And

when the new arena is basically opened when when the COVID back in twenty twenty

one in the fall, and then this show I've seen before, it's really

it's not as good's it used to be, but still fun for the family.

Hammond grows throughout a twenty twenty four world tour two pm and seven pm

December twenty eighth, and this is way far away. But you cant tickets

for all these fun shows, they said, Disney on ice again and they

canna be doing uh seven shows. And last year they had a big ruckus

because there was a big snowstorm. And around that time, people are all

keeeed off because they couldn't go through the arena. It's all, can we

think cancel the event? Blah blah uh. They offered to take us for

another show, So people wrote a lot of bad stuff on it on on

Facebook about that. What are you gonna do? Right? The fans,

the people already there, you know, it's hard to just reschedule all this

stuff. What are you gonna want to hear? You know? Sways in

January so it's always a crap too. With the weather, it's gonna be

good or it's gonna be disaster. Mm hm. Anyways, figure disasters.

I'm sure you've been following what's going on in the world. I think of

that too. Yeah, I can't believe that that guy Edge went to a

w What do you think of that move? Yes, but he's no longer

Edge. He is Adam Copeland his real name. Of course. I think

it's cool. It's used to be full time, but I'm not how it's

gonna work out. He's alost fifty years old, so he's in shape.

It doesn't matter. He is the same show. That's a big crew for

them, isn't it. That is a big coup and they get to use

because WWE, of course does not own the rights to that song metal English

medal I can't at metal ingis by alter Bridge. He gets to use his

regular theme music too. I think it's great. We got a lady from

eight. We got a lady from a W I never heard over because I

should have heard the names down. But he's seen him going back and forth.

I don't think it really matters anymore. They go back and forth all

the time now we know. I don't know. But anyways, I was

I was no mercy the other day. And if you haven't see that one

nx C. No, we're not pretty good. We have not watched that,

but I do enjoy an exca's events was pretty good too, because December

I don't know if I talked about that, but that's old fast Line is

coming up. I don't think it's really gonna be a good show. They

got that crazy John Seen is back in town, do you know why?

And the Rock was there the other day because see people making movies are on

the strike. Well they were. The strike is over, but uh yeah

they're gonna, but they're gonna, you know, tis just commitment. Come

on, No, his time is't up as time is now. You

can't see him as time is now. Another fun another fund stat Oh again,

December and nine they're going to have deadline for n XC and then a

four the oh yeah, going forward this store for interesting fact here eliminated the

chamber in the hustle February next year. But it's going to be in Australia.

That's way far away Australia. That's a whole other continent. But they're

trying to get then email you know, well they are. It's called WW

for reasons, you know that's right. Then a W tries the next year.

I'm think gonna try for it. They're probably gonna do it. They

want at pay review every month like that WW does. Yeah, we're gonna

try to do their platform like a they're trying to do a platform on Cinemax

Hour or something. Max. It used to be has Peacock, it's Max.

It used to be HBO Max. Now it's now they just call it

Max. Right, so they got a lot of money. They're not going

anywhere anytime too. And that's the store. That's right. That's time to

be a wrestling fan. If you like that stuff. I agree. Anyways,

moving on to April, pushman here it's done all you're gonna play us

on borrow time and finances August. But they went on and then uh,

oh yeah, you've got a couple of shows coming over here. Oh yeah,

we got the stuff coming up in the Florida and in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania

in Tennessee. But we don't talk about those shows like goo. Good for

her, and she's gonna have another sir coming right around the corner here.

September twenty fourth, Tickeret Star available still at indian rams dot com. It's

a big show. It's skate th eleven shows at noon. The background tribute

band Trailer Trash sounds kind of funny. Charles Live, Andy Bross. Well,

she's got a big show coming up in the Er four. The only

reason I say it now. You can get tickets Friday at seven thirty the

Breck Theater of all places, the Stand in Clark and the Sugar You canet

tickets at Pedal Theater dot org. When we go in to Facebook phase probably

find them there too. And then the Cob Race is playing the bambling Brook

Farm and Stoppling Leave Maine and that is a in bright dot com the ticket.

So even though she don't have a lot of local shows custos outside of

the New England, and that's great for her, get her name out there,

working hard. Shows it all to you, I say, I don't

know about that. And then Katie Domins got that new song Wild and that's

out on all the platforms. So we'll get to that that song next week

as they come out. And in December it was just right around the corner

it came out, and show's coming up too. She's really killing it out

there. She's killing it. Cob oh yeah, oh yeah, Here we

go Cober seventh. Yeah, the Warner's Fall fully as Festival Warner in Water

they probably, Oh, that's why they call it. That must be why

they call it the Warner Fall Fulliot's Festival. Yeah. And then she's playing

Cover six of the Beans Green North E I E R D A R T

N. I can't spell that one in Guildford at five pm. Okay,

and Cober he's playing at the busker Fest Conway Cober twenty he's playing the figures

are a needed seven o'clock. I got Songwriters in the round and Laurence math

COVID twenty seconds. He's playing at Guilbert and Busy designed by Fall Festival event

and that's a free event at four o'clock. And either I had a way

ahead of time, but she's still going to be doing it there obviously cover

Announce and remember three is a free event the Courier a gally at five pm.

They have it every Thursday career. And then she she's playing again in

November twenty ninth at two pm. I'm sorry. November twenty nine there covered

twenty five at seven pm. Tickets that are available at Songwriters around Up.

George Barber in Mariworth and I can't spell that word. I mean I can

sell if I can't say I I I A N C A L I P

A E A at seven pm? Where you going on Facebook page only Facebook,

Katie Dobbins. Then they wrap it up here there flip page there are

all right, But you know in a couple of weeks we're going to have

that news new song by a Fromman McCarthey and you can get on all platforms

called normal. And then Jasmine Man is going to be doing a show real

I'm going to real quick o Sober thirteenth of the Wild Rover. You might

have heard of that place up the street from them from Europe or Race seven

and nine, and that's a free event. But I always don't forget to

tip your waiters. Waiters and they're doing their good job. So you're gonna

go to the restaurant, well's a deposit a few bucks on the tip if

that they work hard for that money. They work hard for their money,

all right. And then I would always say always forget this far. I'm

forget this time, as I say in party interdropped on the ESPN, we

will try to do better the next time and that's all you can do.

Right. I've heard you say that on many occasions, EAZYG. I want

to forget it this time, I'm I guess I'll wrap it up. You

guys have a good rest of your show. All right, Thanks EAZYG.

Bye bye. Wow. Well that was something there we should have known by

now, easy don't all right? Well, let's he did request this,

and April Cushman, yes, very talented artist. We will play this was

Easyg's request, and then we'll come back with some more show. But this

is called borrowed time. From the great April Cushman, one of the three.

I guess there's four ladies now that EAZG likes to feature during his entertainment

report. But this is called borrowed time. I met a man named Steve

who could barely both leave. The eighty years had come and gone. He

raised your kids in diet with his leg wife Fallace, and now those kids

have babies over their old with a tear in his eye, gave me some

manvies. Well, he said, time flies by even when any races,

but they're alloyed that you can swam it on and die. Some raised your

babies like there's no too more love like you wrong worrow. He's lying on

his face, told a story all the people and places before war, and

he sare he remembered everyone, he said, chairs every mon because before you

know, today will become one a one. So what because time flies by

even when any'st expect they're a no that you can stop in on a time.

So raise your babies like there's no to moro love like you go time.

He's got me think hello if escapes bob blinking and how thirty years of

mine come in and go? Because time flies by even when you listic expect

they're a way the joke can stop it all time. So raizer babies like

there's no more two more love like you on borrow time, love like you

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options, social media links, contact infoshore, archives, et cetera, et

cetera. It is Thursday, October five, twenty twenty three. We just

had ezg's entertainment Report and we capped it off with Borrowed Time, a great

song from the great April Cushman. But coming up in just a few minutes,

we're gonna have Dan from the band d C Wolves skyping in from Connecticut.

Really looking forward to that. We played a couple of DC wolvestracks at

the beginning of the show today and we're going to play another one in just

a few minutes and then we'll have Dan on with us via Skype. Really

love their sound very much, looking forward to speaking with them. Should mention

too or with him. I'm not sure if Dan's gonna have any other band

members with him or if this is going to be Dan. It might just

be Dan. We shall see. But we should also mention because it is

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the hop Not tonight. I will remind you too if you're just joining us.

It is the first Thursday of the month, which means immediately after today's

show, I will be doing my monthly call into the Doctor Kevin Show,

which is on the Home Times Radio network, and we talk about politics and

current events from six to seven pm the first Thursday of the month. So

I look forward to calling into him into Doctor Kevin's show that airs on the

OLM Times Radio network omomomtimes dot com. By the way, Jenny has just

alerted me that John will be on the skype call too, so two members

of DC wolves, Dan and John will both be with us. So excellent,

excellent. We'll say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat quickly before

we do get to the top of the hour. Let's see who we have

in here. John c. Hopwood is in the chat and says, if

Donald Trump had a dog, even it would have turned on him, just

like Ivanka. Oh my goodness, is that true. Well, you know,

dogs have been in the news or a dog commander, the dog of

the Bidens. Apparently it keeps biting people, including secret Service agents, so

they're sending it somewhere to hopefully learn not to do that. I suppose Isaac

Banks is in the Facebook live chat. Isaac Banks, I believe from Greensboro,

North Carolina. Isaac says good afternoon. Matt Connorton EAZYG is in the

Facebook live chat. Of course. Jenny is in the chat and says shilloam

peeps. Isaac Banks says good afternoon. Katie Chesney hashtag, Meredith Graves hashtag,

Amber Carter, Justin Cox, Brandy Justice, and trip pocket. I

was wondering if you can pick me up from the Lindley Park Baptist Church in

Greensboro, North Carolina of the rehearsal. I'm in the Inner Rhythm choir at

eight pm until be over. Please I appreciate it. Hashtag everyone Okay,

So, if anyone anyone listening in the Greensboro, North Carolina area, be

you, any of these people or anyone else, Isaac Banks, if you

could pick him up from the Lindley Park Baptist Church after rehearsal tonight. He's

in the Inner Rhythm choir. So if any of these people are around,

if you wouldn't mind picking him up please. He's a very loyal listener.

We want to take care of him. Or if anyone you know anyone up

here who wants to make the drive down to Greensboro, North Carolina. I

don't know if he'll offer you gas money. I don't know. He might,

you know, let's see. Jenny was commenting earlier how much she loves

the music of DC Wolves. Yes, yes, yes. Isaac Banks also

says in the chat room, Matt Connerton, I was giving a shout to

hashtag Katie Chesney hashtag Meredith Graves, hashtag Amber Carter, hashtag Justin Cox,

hashtag Brandy Justice, and hashtag trip Pucket. Well, I certainly hope that

one of those people can give you a ride this evening. Isaac Banks,

let's see. JFED is in the chat, of course from the great state

of Vermont, says good afternoon everyone. Isaac Banks says, hello, JFED,

how are you doing? What's up? And JFED responds as the fawns

hey, and Isaac Banks says, j Fed, aka the fawns. My

man, if you can do is snap the fingers to get the ladies.

That's right, that's right, all right, We're going to uh, we

have a call. It's our friend Shannon is online. Hi Shannon. I'm

going to ask you to be quick because we do have an interview coming up.

But what's on your mind? Yeah? If easy, he can take

to a message and you commuted it off later, right, Huh, what

do you want me to do? I was just gonna I'm gonna try to

get queens easy some Queen City cupcakes. Oh, very nice. I just

wanted to know if you wanted any particular signd okay, so if you could

say, yeah, give me a cocoa or canoli or you know, that's

okay. And I had some excitement here. I said, I hated something

up with my microwave. Uh huh. And I was looking at the microwave

and it was all yell. It looked like the sun in there. Because

I let my fork on the place. It was kind of neat dangerous but

neat. Yes, Uh, well, I feel like the danger I suppose.

Well, well, good, I'm glad nothing exploded. No, no,

I opened the door right away. But yeah, after that happened,

that was weird. I've never seen that before. Yeah, that's that's not

supposed to do that. Oh, all right, have fun on a good

show, all right, Shannon, thank you for the call. Bye bye.

All right, all right, that was our friend, Shannon. I'm

glad. Uh, I'm glad no one's dead from the h from an exploding

microwave. Uh. Let's see. Uh. John c. Hopwood in the

chat room says new Exorcist movie is receiving egregious reviews. Uh oh. John

also said my internet connection has got Facebook in low res. I thought Matt

was wearing a brazier. H No, I've never worn a brazier, John,

But thank you. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook

live chat, another one of our great sponsors here at WM and H Queen

City Cabinetry. In the Historic Sunbeam Mall, Isaac Banks says Matt connorton J

FAD is very good doing this impression of the fonds. He as smart as

he can ever be. Yes, and Isaac Banks also says, I will

I would like to give a shout out to Victoria Piper from Greensboro, North

Carolina and lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Hashtag Victoria Piper. I was

wondering if you can give me a ride home from the rehearsal of Inner Rhythm

Choir at Lindley Park Baptist Church and pick me up there until be over at

eight pm. Please, if you be nice, you'll do this. Guys,

well, I hope so I listen. I always say if you can't

count on hashtag Victoria Piper, who can you count on? Let's see?

All right? Oh, and Isaac Banks also says Matt Connerton according to this,

my mom don't drive at nights for the evenings very much. I see.

So, really, Victoria Piper is your best option because your mom can't

pick you up. I understand. Carol's a Warwitz joins us in the Facebook

live chat and says good afternoon, Good afternoon, Carol. Also, Miriam

vanishes in the Facebook live chat, Hello Miriam. Isaac Banks also said tomorrow

evening, I will be performing for the fall dance Sunshine Club Saint Pius Catholic

Church is performing known as Aikman Breezy, and I will be singing and dancing.

Well very nice. Now, if I could make a suggestion, Isaac

Banks, assuming you're able to get Victoria I'm sorry hashtag Victoria Piper to give

you a ride this evening, I would also say just a suggestion that you

just kind of casually mentioned something about tomorrow night too. Maybe she'll offer to

give you a ride tomorrow night as well. I'm not saying you should take

advantage of her friendship, but I mean, you know you're gonna need a

ride both nights. I assume. Kevin Doherty is in the Facebook live chat

and says get easy his cupcakes. Yes, that's right, that's right,

cupcakes for eazyg. All right, here's what we're gonna do, because we

are almost at the top of the hour. So we're gonna take a break.

We're gonna play another great track from this spanned DC Wolves, and then

when we come back, Dan and John from the band should be on Skype

with us there, skyping in from the great state of Connecticut, the state

of my birth, and really looking forward to talking to them. I love

this band, I love this project, really really good stuff. So we're

gonna play this track. Oh. Paully C just joined us in the Facebook

live chat and says it's a known fact that Saint Pius hated dancing. I

didn't know that, Polly C. But it's wonderful that we can get these

theological insights. Polly C, of course host of retro Spectrum Radio with pouly

C, which you can hear Friday nights from eight to eleven pm Tomorrow night.

Friday is my favorite day of the week here at WMNH really look forward

to that. And Paul was at the NHAB Awards last night too with Peter

White, and I think Matt Juno and Kyle Clayton all went together, I

believe. So I always call it the I call it the Channel nine wg

IR Awards. But yes, I'm sure they had a wonderful time. All

right, let's do this. We're gonna get to this track and then we're

gonna have those guys on skype with us. This is called I am Atomic

from the band DC Wolves. Check this out. This is great stuff.

It's a side shooting the building. Swell well, I grew up at as

a show. But it's snow one fall of base fa fall the gang up

brain so that your base four and other day oh nin gets to the five

D cred go nouse like how the zomac ol b gets to the time may

crab gold nows, like how a zomba is a co at youth dreams.

What's fool? And once more you're twice called the game r. You'll go

the babe into the five cretical Mass. I am Masonic, into the five

cred mass. I have something, go mycredible mass. I am something us

five credical mass. Son My yeah, I am atomic. Oh that is

good stuff. That is DC Wolves, And I think we've got I think

we've got both guys on skype. Let's see. Dan are you there?

I am here? Can you hear me? I can excellent? Excellent?

And John are you there? Yep, I'm here as well. Perfect.

Perfect. You just never know what Skype with merging calls and everything. If

it's all gonna work out, there's a lot that can go wrong. So

I'm relieved. Welcome to the show, guys. It's great to Uh,

it's great to have you on. I love what you're doing. We've got

if you're just joining us. We have Dan and John from d C Wolves.

They are skiping in from Uh you're both in Connecticut, I assume.

Yeah that's correct. Yeah. Yeah, and uh, you're gonna be at

Swormy Fest this year coming up next month, right, we will. We're

very excited about that. Yeah, I'm looking forward to see I was just

gonna say, I'm looking forward to seeing you guys live. Yeah. Yeah.

So so it was kind of interesting because we followed Sepsis at least for

a while, because they have such an interesting online presence. You know,

they're doing podcasts, they're doing all kinds of stuff, and so when we

saw the announcement for it, we're like, oh, it would be kind

of neat to get on, and here we are. They pointed us to

you guys. Oh I'm glad, yeah, very glad. Yeah, they

do a lot they're very good, you know, like you said, with

their online presence, they're pretty advanced in that way, and it's wonderful to

see. It's wonderful to have that association with them. They've been on the

show a bunch of times, and we do feature a lot of their music.

And Jenny and I we were at last year's Swarmy Fest and we're looking

forward in fact, and we're on the shirt today and we're looking forward to

being involved this year as well. Now, So this this band, So

Dan, this started with you? Right? Did this kind of from what

I was reading online? Did this kind of grow out of a solo project

that you were doing initially? Right? So it started back in twenty eighteen.

I was playing in another band at the time, but I was getting

the itch to start writing on my own. I don't know, I just

wanted to kind of explore that a little more and it was more of like

a challenge to myself to see if I could do it. Yeah, and

you know, lo and behold, I was able to come up with,

you know, a full length version of other songs, and then you know,

slowly started putting the pieces of a band together, and you know,

that's how I got involved with John too. You know, he's helped me

realize the whole vision, which is great, excellent. So so John,

now what do you do in the band? Because obviously you know it started

with Dan and then he credits you with really helping him put this together.

So what's what's your role in DC Wolves, John? I play guitar.

I basically pick up all the parts that Dan wrote that that are too difficult

to play and sing at the same time. Yeah, so he hands over

all the heavier, uh, the more intricate riffs to me. But like

it's it's been really cool working with Dana. I'm my backgrounds, I've got

a metal background, so this was completely different from me and uh Dan.

Dan and I met up because I was working on a different project and that

project didn't work out. But Dan was looking for a guitar player for this

and I was like, you know what, this seems really cool. I

want to I want to see if this works. So I learned a couple

of songs, met up with the guys, and end up joining up and

really love it. Excellent. Yeah, is that the leads? Is that

all you are? You doing? All the leads, the solos, Dan,

Dan's like I live, I do, but I'm not on any of

the recordings. Dan did all the recordings himself. Oh I got you,

I gotcha, Yeah Dan, I love those solos. They're really melodic and

very very tasteful. I took a lot of David Gilmore inspiration because he's not

necessarily I mean, he's technically proficient, but not like you'd see like a

metal guitar player. But his lines tend to talk. You know, you

could go and you could sing a David Gilmore solo. True, And so

I took that as kind of how I wanted to do it. You know,

it's not too complex, but it's also something that you could hum along

to. Yeah, I forget who I heard say it, but there's somebody

I heard say once. I wish I could remember who it was. Oh,

maybe it was David Gilmore, but somebody said that. As a lead

player, part of what you should try to do is tell another part of

the story. You know, whatever the story is that the lyrics are telling.

When your solo comes up, you want that to be more of the

story and not something that's kind of because you know the way some guitarists approach

it they're not concerned with that, and it ends up being this whole other

thing that doesn't necessarily sound like it's part of the story, which is fine,

obviously it doesn't matter, but but it sounds like what you're doing it

really kind of fits with the verses in the way that you're continuing the story.

At least that's how my ears sort of sort of interpret it. And

maybe it was David Gilmore who had said that. I don't know, but

he's definitely he's definitely a master of capturing the mood of a song. Oh

yeah, oh yeah. I mean that's my favorite part of Pink Floyd because,

to be honest with you, I've never been a big Pink Floyd fan

only because a lot of those songs, I'm just only there for the solo,

you know, like a song like Comfortably Numb. I, to be

honest with you, it kind of bores me a little bit, except I'm

there for the solo, do you know what I mean? I know most

people love Pink Floyd. I just I just love I just love David Gilmore,

to be honest with you, you know what I mean? Or that's

a hard one for me because honestly, I'm there for the entire thing,

Like, yeah, they were La song as echoes, So take that what

you will mean? Yeah, yeah, well no, I mean I'm the

weird one. I know that because I'm probably I'm probably the only person who's

ever said that I'm just there for the solo. Is anybody else? You

know, they're there for the whole thing. But no, I mean,

I respect I respect Pink Floyd of course and all the members. But yeah,

but but yeah, I love a good I love a good Pink Floyd

solo. Can you tell me about Dan Did you write all these songs yourself?

Or did did John have a part in that? Or tell me about

the songwriting process. Sure? So in the songs that are out right now,

those were all just me. So I the only with the exception of

the drums, because I can write drums on a keyboard. I can play

some simple stuff. But ultimately in the recordings, I had somebody come in

and work with me. Now on future recordings, we're working on stuff as

a group. Now it's time, you know. I like the process of

working on my own, but there's something about collaborating with other people and sharing

ideas that's really exciting. And it's just great to be in a room with

people who are all excited about the same thing as you work on it.

In terms of songwriting process, I tend to start with the idea of what

I want to sound the song to sound like before I've even written anything.

So, you know, on an album like Predator, which is probably a

lot of the songs that you're going to be sharing tonight, you know,

I'll start with, Okay, I want something to start this section of the

album off with a bang, or okay, let's get a little introspective or

slower, or I want something with a better beat. So say, if

I want to have something with a beat, I'll start with the bass and

drums as opposed to guitar riffs, and then I kind of work off that

way, so if I get something really thumping, I can kind of build

the song from there, and also focusing on mood. Do I want it

to be slow? Do I want it to be do I wanted to be

upbeatn fun? You know, That's kind of where I come from. Yeah,

it's interesting to hear you explain it, because it sounds like a really

different approach than the way a lot of songwriters do it a lot of people

I talk to, you know, it's kind of like a melody occurs to

them, or some lyrics occur to them, and and it's they're they're kind

of and then they go from there. But but it sounds like you're really

kind of building it from the ground up in the sense that when you're writing

a song, you know, you're starting with things like you know what the

mood is or what the you know what the beat's going to be, and

you're kind of really just just starting at the very bottom and just kind of

building up. It's it's interesting, have you always approached it that way because

you've been You've been at this a while obviously with different projects before you really

started with DC Wolves. So has the process changed it all over the years.

It has. And I wasn't always a songwriter. For a long time.

I was the bass player in several bands, and so I think a

lot of my songwriter comes from that, where I'm starting with what rhythm is

going to work under what people are playing over the top of things, you

know, what are the guitar players doing, and what can I make that's

interesting to listen to but still kind of covers, you know, a rhythm

kind of guitar part because the way my previous band worked, we had me

as a bass player and the drummer kind of filling the rhythm section, and

our guitar player would would not solo, but he would use a lot of

effects and make kind of soundscapes. So I kind of started with that because

I would take whatever he was doing on guitar and try to make some kind

of mood out of that, and it just kind of evolved from there.

You know, I learned a lot about songwriting from the other people that I

worked with, and so eventually I started getting the itch on my own,

and you know, you go with what you know. I was never taught

formally, so you know, that's how I learned, and that's how I

continue to work. Yeah, I love these, Like I said, I

love all the tracks that you sent us. I played a couple of them

at the start of the show today and you're getting a great response to in

the Facebook live chat. How do you describe your sound to people who haven't

heard it, because it's you know, I can I can hear a mix

of influences, but I also I can't think of your vocals remind me of

somebody, but I can't quite place who it is. But but I but

I can't think of another band at least that I've heard recently that you really

sound quite like. I think there's I think there is a uniqueness to your

sound. So how do you describe it to people who've never heard you?

I guess I would kind of, you know, I'd stick to probably the

hard rock realm, because I have a lot of you know, when when

I was really catching on to music, that was like the new metal era,

right, yeah, so grunge had just happened, and then the Late

nighties and all of those bands do one temple pilots and that kind of stuff.

So it's kind of specific. But I would kind of describe it as

stoner rock a little bit because I tend to write or I tend to like

to write a lot of riffs, yeah, and I also like to have

the melody, so I can write some very you know, hard hitting riffs,

but also be singing over with as catchy as I can come up with

of a vocal line. So it's it's kind of balancing the line between rock

and metal folks, lind of somewhere in between, and that's kind of where

I like to go with it. What do you think, John, what

would you agree with me on that? Yeah, I would definitely. It's

it's definitely we're I don't know, I think the realm that we're in it's

it's like we're kind of a throwback to a lot of ninety stuff, but

we also have some like some parts that are definitely influenced by NERR bands as

well. So it definitely falls in the realm with like alternative rock, but

on the harder age. Yeah, and it doesn't sound you know, I

definitely hear the nineties influence, but it but it sounds uh, you know,

it sounds modern and contemporary. It doesn't sound like I guess what I'm

trying to say is, to me, it doesn't sound like something that you

would necessarily put to any particular era, you know what I mean, which

is and I mean that as a compliment. It's it's it doesn't sound like

it's from necessarily any one specific time. You know, if if you told

me that this came out in the nineties, I would have believed you.

But but I if I had no idea that it had been recent and you

told me, yeah, this came out recently. I would also believe you

does that make sense? Yeah, it does, it does, And I

think that makes a lot of sense because you know, the first one of

the first concerts I went to with my parents was Tom Petty. They brought

me to Moody Blues and like a bunch of those bands, and then start

getting into as I growing up the nineties, you know, I was a

little late on that, so kind of on the tail end of the nineties.

But also you know, Nirvana of course, and Pearl Jam is still

kicking and doing their thing. But then more modern bands, Queens of the

Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, you know, lots of untold metal bands.

Yeah, yeah, and I can I can hear I can hear the Queens

of the Stone Age influence certainly, just as one example. And by the

way, so this is now Predator is your your sophomore release right with this

project, So there's there was something before a Predator for this band, Yes,

there was. You've Been Careless was the first one that was my first

foray into that, and that was that was I think twenty I want to

say twenty nineteen, and then Pandemic happened kind of around the time I was

working on Nighthawk, which was just an EP that's about four tracks, and

then Predator was recorded while things were you know, everyone's masking up and all

that. So, yeah, it was an interesting time. It was very

creative, and I think that's partly because it was kind of a shitty.

Oh he's a bad time. Sorry, we're on a delay. I caught

it. Yeah, that's been It's been a consistent subject that comes up on

the show when talking with musicians is how, you know, the pandemic obviously

was terrible, but we have to find these silver linings where we can.

And one of the silver linings is it really a lot of creativity and a

lot of great work came out of that time period. And I always say,

too, you know, as bad as it was, we are fortunate

in a sense. It sounds strange to say it this way, but we're

fortunate in a sense that had happened when it did, because if it had

happened twenty years earlier, or even ten years earlier, before we had as

much technology as we have now, I think there it would have been much

more difficult for musicians and other creative people too to really produce a lot of

work, you know, yeah, without without doubt, ten years ago,

you didn't have any the capabilities you got now. Like technology is really springboard

in the last decade. Like most people have home recording studios now, you

didn't have that ten years ago. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, And

the ability to you know, easily just email tracks back and forth if you're

you know, working on a song remotely with people and or or get on

zoom. And you know, something we saw a lot at the height of

the lockdowns is uh, you know some of these classic bands, you know,

getting on Zoom together and doing live performances together from different remote locations just

just incredible the creativity that came out of it. So, like, like

I said, we have to find these silver linings where we can. But

yeah, so now, so are you already working on new material now that

it's now that you're working as a band and the two of you guys plus

the other guys in the band, are you have you already started recording new

material or are you still kind of promoting Predator? So we're at the point

where we're just about done with the demos. It's going to be another EP

and other four songs, and we are working on the scheduling piece. Okay,

so working out with the studio when we can get in there and make

it, make it happen. So we're very close to getting started with that.

Excellent, and this will be this will be all four of you on

the on the new EP. That's correct. Excellent, excellent. Yeah.

You know a lot of great bands, you know, start with UH with

one person and then you know, it starts out a solo project and then

it grows into into UH into something else. So it's it's cool to see.

I mean, you know, Food Fighters being the obvious example. So

was that Dan? Was that kind of the goal from the beginning with this?

When when you started this UH DC wolves as UH, when you started

doing this by yourself, was it always the idea in your mind that you

know, you would in somebody like John and bring in some other people and

then it would grow into a band. Did you know that from the beginning

or did it start out as you know, we're going to see where it

goes. I think it was more of a we'll see where it goes,

and as we kind of got more comfortable with each other, it just seemed

to make sense. And I really like and I really, like I indicated

before, I really missed the collaborative process of working with other people. And

then, you know, the way we're doing it right now is we're writing

a lot of parts on our own, you know, and sending them.

Yeah, as you said, you know, use used dropbox all the time,

you know, we have our whole project folders in there, and then

getting together when it's time for practice, and then we play it live in

a room and by then we've already constructed most of the song. And you

know, it's it's actually really exciting to write things that way because you all

get together and get to hear it firsthand the way you always imagined it in

your head, right, And did the two of you work together you you

might have mentioned this already, give me, but did the two of you

work together musically prior to DC Wolves? Is that how you knew each other?

And we actually, I mean that through a project that I was working

on. It was like a dual metal project and Dan came down, so

I try out for vocals and unfortunately, just the pairing of everybody together in

that project, it didn't. It petered out pretty quick after that. That's

like when I contacted Dan was like, hey, you know, I kind

of got the age to play live. It was like right after Lockdown started

getting lifted and everything, and I was and so I hit up Dan was

like, hey man, you're looking for the guitar player because I think I

can play this stuff. Cool. Cool, there you go. And then

how quick did it come together with the other guys? If I remember right,

and correct me if I'm wrong. John, the time, you were

the last piece of the puzzle that we needed. Yeah, oh yeah.

Joe the drummer and I had already been playing together or pre Pandemic a little

bit, and we had kind of constructed a band. We had done a

three piece for a short time, which was difficult. As John indicated,

it's tough to play all of the guitar parts and sing at the same time.

You really don't get any break when you're doing that. So Pandemic happened,

no band for a little while, got back together with Joe, and

then recruited Andy on bass, who is also contributing a lot of the background

vocals. Oh, John was the last piece of the puzzle. Excellent,

excellent, very good, And we have a call. I think easyg is

on the line. I think he has a question for you guys, and

I think I can guess what it might be. Easy is that you I

haven't called up. I haven't called up during one of your rock and roll

stuff, is there? I was just wondering that the band has ever played

in Canada. I knew that was going to be the question. You guys

ever play in Canada? Would love to play in Canada? I don't know

about John having a passport, but I do. I get one pretty quick.

Oh there you go, there you go? Does that answer your question?

Easy? Okay, that's the only question you guys? All right,

thank you? Yeah, cana does a big country. Where where would you

like us to play? That's part? Yeah. I've always heard Montreal is

a really good metal scene, but I don't know Montreal. Yeah, there

you go? You visited? What's that? What'd you say? It's a

great I used to work for a bunch of metal record labels and I've went

through Montreal a bunch of times on different tours, and it is a great

metal city. They love metal there. Yeah. Yeah, I've never been,

but that's what I've always heard. Oh so you've got so you've got

some other do you still do do you still work in the music industry,

John No, no, no, I actually work at a shop now.

Oh okay, oh wow, very good. Well that's that's cool. That's

you know, you get to do something something else that's also creative. Very

cool. How long did you you worked for late What did you do for

these labels? I worked. I worked as a merchandiser for a bunch of

bands I worked for. I worked for Central Media Records and Ah worked for

Candle Light Records for a handful of years in the early two thousands and kind

of got burnt out from it and then stopped doing music for a bunch of

years, and then met Dan kind of when I was trying to get my

foray back into it. So excellent, excellent working for Century Media that must

have been cool. It was awesome at the height that I was doing it.

They were they were They were just massive, and everybody that worked there

so much fun. Like they had a bunch of record labels under the same

roof, so you had the entire Central Media family, had Abacus Records,

Nuclear Class USA was under the same UH label as them, and then there

was three other subsidies I can't remember the name of, but and everybody worked

in the same building. It was really awesome. Oh wow, that's that's

fantastic. How long did you work for them? About four years? Four

years? Yeah, Yeah, it's interesting. I had We had a Conrad

where on the show who worked at what was the name? He was in

Boston. He worked at a big label in Boston and now the name escapes

me, but but he kind of he did what what you did? Uh?

And a merchandiser and uh, but he said the same It's so funny,

he said the same thing. He just got he loved it, but

he got to a point where he just got burnt out with it. But

yeah, the industry will do that to you. Oh. It was like

at that time, I had I had an apartment, I was running in

mass shows and apartment I was running in California, and I wasn't there for

like nine months out of the year in each each place. So I was

like, why am I spending all this money on these places? I need

to settle down and get my finances in order. And that was like part

of the burnout too. Being in the road's rough, man like it really

it kicks a crap outy after a while. Yeah, it's absolutely. It's

I have a little bit of experience with that, and it's it's not it's

not as glamorous as people think you're. You're not a lot of a lot

of legwork. Yeah, you're not flying around on a private jet and you

know, just having fun, that's for sure. That's for sure. A

lot of a lot of standing around, a lot of waiting around. Then

one's time ago, you got to go exactly exactly. So what's fast food

too? Oh, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, it's not not the

healthiest lifestyle. Yeah, yeah, living a gas station food. So so

what's kind of the long term Do you guys have a long term trajectory for

DC Wolves Do you have do you have any any specific goals? Are you

looking to go on tour or anything like that, or what's what's the plan

or is there a plan? Well, I think for next year, we're

looking to do some short tours and really get out there. I mean this

was more or less a building year. You know. We we spent time

getting the band together, the four of us gelling, and then you know,

played a bunch of shows this year and now as we're starting to write,

you know, once we actually have that EP to get other and ready

to release. You know, it's time to time to get out there and

and and actually show some people. So you know, I think New England,

Pennsylvania, New York, some of those areas are probably the make the

most sense to start with. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. Are all

Are all four of you guys in Connecticut? Are you all kind of kind

of close to each other geographically? Two of us in Connecticut and two of

us are in Massachusetts. So Joe is in Westfield and Andy is up in

the Worcester area. So he's got a bit of a haul. Yeah,

yeah, not worth it though, I like I said, I mean,

I love your sound. I love what you guys are doing. By the

way, it might be an odd question. I'm probably the only interviewer who

asks guests this question. But but there's a reason. So I really like

your website. Do you guys, does one of you do the website?

Or who does the website? So I actually work with a PR. I

don't want to call it a firm because it's a single person, but I

have a PR person that actually does a lot of the social media and website

design and that kind of stuff. And it's somebody I worked with that I

started working with when I was still doing it on my own because you know,

I was writing and producing all this music, but it was kind of

a lot for one person to then also be spending time online doing posts and

doing all this stuff. So I got connected with with with her and this

is Noisegate pr is what they're called, okay goes by. Her name is

NaIO, and she's done a great job. You know, we worked we

have regular meetings talking about Okay, here's our release plan, what's coming up,

what shows are coming up, you know, making sure that we're getting

all the flyers out there and the event invites. And she's always looking for

opportunities to you know, get on and shows like this for instance. And

we just work great together. So I can't take credit for the design of

the website. It's her, Like I help out with the info. But

that's about it. Yeah, No, that's great, and yeah, shout

out to her. The reason I part of why, well, there's really

two reasons I bring it up. One is so I'm a web designer myself,

so I look at and I analyze websites a lot. But number two

is I see a lot of artists who have websites that are not great.

So when I see a band with a website that I think is really good,

I just have to say, you know, well done, well done,

Neo. Yeah, this is a really good website. So I'm a

website nerd. What can I say. I appreciate it, and I think

it's a great tool to even if it's not the main page because a lot

of people find artists on Spotify or something like that. Yeah, but it's

a great tool to have that you can have all of your links to everything

you've got available, not to mention things like you know, uh say an

ePK. So so an ePK being a collection of information that you would send

out to a publisher or an interviewer or something like that that might have articles

about you or reviews and a collection of videos and those kinds of things.

So it's really like it ends up being a marketing hub in a way.

Oh absolutely, it's so it's so critical more than some people realize. And

the pictures are really good too. Now does she does she do your your

press photos too? Now, we worked with various various photographers, but I've

always liked to work with people in the area to kind of support different artists

in all kinds of different areas. So you know that some of the artwork

and stuff has been used by graphical designers that we know, or in some

cases even like companies like five or so photographers. We've used the various ones

in the area. We've tried different people for all kinds of different sets of

photos. And you know, it's great. You gotta you gotta, you

gotta support the scene. Yep, yep, absolutely, and it's and it's

worth doing not only to support the scene, but it helps your presentation online

as well. And this is really good. I'm very impressed. So I

just wanted to I just wanted to say that give you I wish I wish

every uh, everybody that I interviewed put as much time and and importance into

that part of it. So so excellent, excellent, We appreciate that.

Yeah, absolutely, guys, this has been wonderful. And I'm gonna let

you go. In a couple of minutes, I'm gonna play another one of

your great tracks, lie Down. This is another one that I absolutely love.

But but before we do that, so obviously we were just talking about

at DC wolves dot com all the links are there to all your social media

and Spotify and all of that. Anything else you want our listeners to know.

You got any shows coming up this weekend. Obviously you're gonna be at

Swarmy Fest that's next month, but really looking forward to that, But anything

coming up in the meantime too that you want our listeners to be away of.

Wormyfest is going to be the next one for us, and then after

that we're getting back to recording. We've got some personal stuff going on in

the meantime, so we do have to make time for our own live yeah,

of course, of course. Yeah. Well all of this, I

mean, this is more time consuming than people might realize, you know,

writing and recording music and playing shows and everything. It's funny people who have

never been a musician, I'm sure you encounter this don't realize how much work

that it really is. But kind of like what we were talking about earlier,

it's not all it's not all glitz and glamour. There's a lot that

goes into it. There's a lot that goes into it. So all right,

well we'll let you go. Dan and John thank you both so much

for joining us. It's been a pleasure talking to you. I am a

big fan. I can't wait to see you live at Swarmyfest next month.

That's going to be amazing. But I really love your sound and like I

said, I can't think of anybody who's doing it quite like you're doing it

right now. I can't think of anybody else out there who I think quite

has your sound. So, uh, that's that's cool too. It's it's

good to hear something, uh, you know, something that's unique. But

thank you guys so much. We'll let you go. I'm gonna play this

track lie Down, and I will see you next month at Swarmyfest. So

thanks guys. That great. All right, take care guys, thank you,

bye bye, thank you bye. All right, wonderful. That was

Dan and John from d C Wolves And let's play this track and then we'll

we'll come back with the balance of our show, our final segment coming up.

But listen to this. This is lie Down from DC Wolves here on

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is Thursday October five, twenty twenty three, so nice to have you all

with me. By the way, thank you again of course to Dan and

John from the band DC Wolves. We displayed another one of their tracks,

lie Down and I just I love that band. We are going to play

one more by the way to end today's program in just a little bit.

But great sound and really, like I said to them too, I can't

think of anybody currently who sounds quite like them. It's it's really really good.

So oh and Dan Patrick Cahill is in the Facebook live chat and says,

thank you so much for having us. My pleasure, My pleasure.

What a cool band. So really enjoy that a lot. I like their

music and I can't wait to see them at Swarmy Fest that is coming up.

That's just I think just under a month away, November fourth, I

believe at Jewel and Jenny and I will be there as we were last year.

But that's why I'm wearing the shirt today. For those of you watching

online, so sepsis of course headlining a lot of great bands are really looking

forward to that, so that is that is not far away now, so

so thanks again to those guys. Also want to remind you because it is

the first Thursday of the month, which means as soon as this show is

over, I will be grabbing my cell phone and calling into the Doctor Kevin

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seven. You know, we've been talking a lot lately on the show about

Bob Menendez, Senator of New Jersey, who's been in some trouble. Did

you know his wife killed somebody? Yeah, this happened back in twenty eighteen.

It was apparently a hit and run that didn't get a whole lot of

attention. Or maybe not. Uh, I'm gonna got some attention, but

maybe not sufficient attention from law enforcement. I mean, this Bob Menendez story,

it just there, just continues to be more and more wrinkles to it.

And what I'm actually gonna do is I'm gonna play you a little bit

of audio. This is from Lawrence O'Donnell's show on MSNBC last night. Uh.

He delivered a pretty scathing takedown of uh Menendez and his wife Nadine I

believe is her name. I mean, this is something we're learning about on

top of everything else, all the ethics struggle. Oh hello to glennar J

will Let the People's mayor by the way, who I see in the Facebook

laugh chat. But I mean I could read what he said, but I

think I think we should play This'll let you hear it in his own words.

This is how Laurence O'Donnell apparently opened his show last night on MSNBC.

The life of indicted New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez is much darker than we realized.

The breaking news of the day is that Robert Menendez's wife killed someone.

Senator, there's a report that your wife was potentially involved in a hit and

run back in twenty eighteen. Do you have any comment on that that was

a tragic accident, And obviously we think of the family. He's lying.

They don't think of the family. They have never communicated with the dead man's

family in any way. In December of twenty eighteen, Robert Menendez's girlfriend,

who was on her way to becoming his second wife, hit a pedestrian who

was crossing the street at seven thirty pm and killed him. His name was

Richard Coope. He was forty nine years old. The New York Times reports

today quote His body was thrown to the curb just steps from his home and

badly mangled. The police reports indicate she was never tested for drugs or alcohol

and was allowed to leave the scene not long before mister Coop was declared dead

at a nearby hospital. Richard Coope's sister told the New York Times quote,

the family really has had serious concerns over what we felt was a very sparse,

one sided investigation. We felt that the whole thing was very silently swept

under the rug. The only problem missus Menendez seemed to face after she killed

someone was how to replace the damaged car. According to federal prosecutors, Robert

Menendez and his wife took a bribe in the form of a sixty thousand dollars

Mercedes Benz C three hundred convertible to replace the damaged car. The indictment of

Robert Menendez and his wife contains a text message from her saying all is great

exclamation point. I'm so excited to get a car next week exclamation point.

The indictment says she told the man who was bribing them that she would quote

never forget this. So you've killed a man with a car, and you

are so excited to get a car next week, not even slightly traumatized about

driving, not in any way. And the thing you say you will never

forget is the bribe that got you the car, not the man you killed.

The indictment contains a text message that seemed creepy enough when all we knew

it was describing was an alleged bribe, But now that we know that it

is the reward missus Menanda's got after killing someone, it reads as sickeningly perverse.

She wrote to New Jersey's senior senator, Congratulations, Mona more de la

Ville. We are the proud owners of a twenty nineteen Mercedes. She got

that car only because she killed someone with her previous car, and she calls

herself a proud owner of the new car, the bribe car. And while

she's at it, she congratulates her future husband, the senator, for taking

what federal prosecutors call a bribe, for which they are now both criminal co

defendants who have pleaded not guilty. So there you have it. That is,

uh, that's the latest on Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine, who

you know, maybe on their way to prison, because you know, see,

sometimes that's what happens, is you you know, somebody's charged with something,

and you know, we can talk about other examples, but we don't

have a lot of time left on today's show. But sometimes you know,

someone's charged for something and investigated for something, and then you find out,

uh, you know, you start finding finding out all these other sort of

tangential details about things that they've done, and you realize that it's so much

worse than you might have thought. And part of why I say that is

as I reflect back on because when the when the story first broke about Bob

Menendez, Senator from New Jersey, about him being indicted and you know,

been being charged with various bribery schemes and so forth related to what he had

already been charged with back in twenty seventeen. And it was a hung jury,

so he was never convicted of anything. And I remember talking about that

on the show at the time. That was I think that was one of

the first subjects on the show since I had started here, started doing the

show here at WM ANDH. I even remembered we were in the old studio

upstairs, and so I remembered all of that vividly. And then Bob Menendez

he was again it was a hung jury, so you know, he wasn't

convicted of anything, but wasn't acquitted either. So so then that was the

end of that. And of course now it's all come back around and there's

new charges and so forth, most of it related to what he had been

charged with before, but not exactly of course. And uh, and now

we're we're learning all this other stuff. But that's that's what tends to happen

when you and that's why you know, you hear these expressions like where they

smoke this fire. Sometimes there's uh fires you didn't expect to find and then

you you know, yeah, what what I always tell people is that we

have to keep this in mind, is this is a great example. See,

we never would have known, we probably the general public, we never

would have known that any of that had happened had it not been for Bob

Menendez and his wife Nadine, because they are co defendants, co conspirators in

their their bribery, their partners in crime. As we say, you know,

we wouldn't know about this story had these other charges not happened. And

it sounds like from what I was reading earlier, because Laurence O'Donnell, he

doesn't get into all the details there that that was just the opening segment on

his show, but you know, it sounds like they, like the police

in that area, they did this is my impression from what I read.

We'll learn more in the coming days, i'm sure, but it sounds like

they kind of did the bare minimum of what they had to do to look

like they were sufficiently investigating this, you know, because you you want to

sort of placate the family of the dead person, mister Coop again from their

perspective, but so you know, and mollify them, but also and you

want the community to feel like you have sufficiently done your job, while at

the same time not actually doing anything to upset Senator Menendez and his future wife.

Because this is what I always say it is we have a system,

not on paper, not by the letter of the law, but we do

have a system implicitly, an unspoken sort of system in this country where the

wealthy, the powerful, the elite, uh, we try not to hold

them accountable. And when I say we, what I really mean is it's

just again I'm talking in a broad sense about the system we as individuals who

would be probably charged with manslaughter or something for you know, I mean,

I assume she didn't intentionally run the man over, but she did. She

killed him. That's an undisputed fact here, right, she killed him.

But the wealthy, the powerful, the elite largely are protected from being held

accountable for what they do. And this is just another example of it.

And it's something to just be aware of. We have there are certain elements

that allow for that to happen. Part of it is and this might sound

like a like a tangent, but it really isn't. Part of it is.

You know, I talk a lot about how and I have for all

the years I've been doing this show about my distaste for this binary two party

system that we have, because what happens is when it comes to accountability and

holding people accountable for what they do. And Bob Menendez is a professional politician,

obviously a Democratic senator from the state of New Jersey, in our system

when it comes to holding politicians accountable, with exceptions, and and Ndez is

turning out to be an exception. Right, So there are exceptions, but

generally, broadly speaking, Republicans only want to hold Democrats accountable, and Democrats

only want to hold Republicans accountable. And like I've always said, imagine if

you worked at a company, some sort of a corporation, and you were

in middle management, and maybe you don't have the ethics and morals required to

keep yourself from somehow being abusive or untoward or unprofessional with people in lower management,

people who work beneath you. But imagine what you could get away with

as a middle manager if you didn't have ethics and morals. Imagine what you

might be able to get away with if you knew for a fact that in

upper management only fifty percent of the people in upper management would actually ever be

interested in holding you accountable for your mouth feasance, because the other fifty percent

would be willing to look the other way or do whatever they have to do

to actually protect you. Right. Well, that's how it is in American

politic part of the reason why the wealthy, the elite, the powerful,

why they're able to get away with what they do, is very often again

i'm speaking in politics specifically, really only fifty percent of Americans, of those

who are paying attention to any of this, only fifty percent of them are

interested in old thing that individual accountable. The other fifty percent will use what

aboutism or excuses or justifications or rationalizations for that person's behavior or say, oh,

it's just fake news or whatever it is. Right. So that's only

I'm not saying that that's the whole reason why the elite are so well protected.

That's actually only a very small part of it. But it is a

part of it. It is a part of it. And so that's just

another example of why we have to break that sort of mental partisan logjam that

people love to be in so much, in their little ideological bubbles where they

think that everyone they don't like is a bad person in some way, but

everyone they do like walks on water when in reality there's a lot of evil

to go around. Okay, we are just about out of time. We

are going to close with one more track from this great band. Thank you

again to DC Wolves for joining me today. I really loved having them on.

And the only one we haven't played yet on this show of the tracks

that Dan sent me is night Hawk, So we will close with that,

another great track from DC Wolves. If you miss any part of today's show,

it'll be up in just a little bit at WM andhradio dot org and

on my website Matt Connerton dot com. And I'm going to wrap up here

and I'm gonna call Doctor Kevin do my monthly appearance on the Doctor Kevin Show

on the Home Times Radio Network, and that's going to do it for us

for now. I will talk at you all a little bit later to know

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