Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-5-23

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1:12 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.

1:46 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.

2:13 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

2:34 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.

3:05 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.

3:38 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.

4:10 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.

4:43 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.

5:09 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.

5:37 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?

6:08 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?

6:39 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.

7:30 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?

8:06 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.

8:47 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.

9:21 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?

9:54 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.

10:38 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.

11:12 You can Facebook are a few more and more information. Hillary Clugg I'm not going to from England. Now, what's her name?

11:24 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.

12:02 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?

12:35 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.

13:05 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.

13:44 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.

14:19 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.

14:55 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.

15:24 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.

15:55 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.

16:32 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.

17:03 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.

17:48 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.

18:20 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.

18:55 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.

19:25 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.

19:56 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.

20:23 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.

20:48 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.

21:18 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.

21:42 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.

22:14 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.

22:46 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.

23:18 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.

23:46 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.

24:20 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.

24:57 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.

25:27 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

26:03 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.

26:37 They work hard for their money,

26:40 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.

27:10 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.

28:18 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.

29:56 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

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33:04 Hey everybody, this is Matt Connorton Unleashed and we're live from the studios of WM and H ninety five point three FM and downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six. If you're in Manchester and Hello to our online listeners, Acrastination and around the globe. You can go to Matt connorton dot com for all your live streaming 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.

33:38 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.

34:04 It might just be Dan. We shall see. But we should also mention because it is Thursday, of course Trivia Night at our amazing sponsor, the Hopknot at one thousand Elm Street, Trivia Night hosted by the great Broderick Lang, and I do recommend that you call ahead to reserve a spot. And actually here's what Kenny put up on social media today. Spooky season is upon us and trivia is back on tonight at the Hopknot in Manchester, New Hampshire. Per usual,

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35:27 Trivia Night is a very popular feature at the Hopknot, especially this time of year, so you will want to call ahead to reserve your spot. It starts at seven pm sharp, So there you go. That is what is going on at 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.

35:59 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.

36:31 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.

37:03 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.

37:46 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.

38:28 Well, I certainly hope that one of those people can give you a ride this evening. Isaac Banks,

38:35 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.

39:07 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.

39:44 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.

40:16 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.

40:57 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?

41:36 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.

42:16 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.

42:47 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.

43:13 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.

43:47 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.

45:00 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

45:34 D cred go nouse like how the zomac ol b gets to the time may

45:43 crab gold nows, like how a zomba is a co at youth dreams.

45:54 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.

48:36 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.

49:04 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.

49:35 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?

50:02 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.

50:41 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.

51:15 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?

51:44 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.

52:22 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.

53:07 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?

53:43 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.

54:13 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.

54:53 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.

55:12 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.

55:56 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.

56:39 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.

57:33 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.

58:06 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.

58:38 So how do you describe it to people who've never heard you?

58:45 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.

59:26 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.

1:00:00 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.

1:00:32 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.

1:01:00 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.

1:01:59 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.

1:02:33 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.

1:03:08 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

1:03:42 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

1:03:49 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.

1:04:20 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?

1:04:50 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.

1:05:24 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?

1:06:03 Is that how you knew each other?

1:06:09 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.

1:06:41 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.

1:07:14 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?

1:07:44 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.

1:08:20 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.

1:08:51 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.

1:09:22 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.

1:09:50 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.

1:10:21 But

1:10:23 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.

1:10:51 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.

1:11:26 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.

1:12:00 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,

1:12:09 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.

1:12:43 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.

1:13:29 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.

1:14:04 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.

1:14:38 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.

1:15:15 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.

1:15:56 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.

1:16:27 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.

1:16:52 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.

1:17:23 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.

1:17:49 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.

1:18:18 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 Matt Connerton unleashed and it's fine. In the heat of the moment, late night with the curtains drawn, body weight didn't sink of a little up maid in restriction bail toush grace session takes pride and I'll take my time. Here A comes run, rivers red, take a good load, bury your head and che black light and the game is on.

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1:25:00 It's Matt Connorton Unleashed as we cruise into our final segment today on the program here from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM, Inglorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six. If you are 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 your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etc. Etc. Today is Thursday October five, twenty twenty three, so nice to have you all with me.

1:25:48 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.

1:26:20 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 Show, as I do the first Thursday of every month.

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1:29:07 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.

1:29:50 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.

1:30:27 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.

1:31:20 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.

1:31:58 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.

1:32:40 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.

1:33:33 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.

1:34:19 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.

1:35:06 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.

1:35:41 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.

1:36:17 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.

1:36:56 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.

1:38:00 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.

1:38:48 She killed him. That's an undisputed fact here, right, she killed him.

1:38:58 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.

1:39:47 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

1:40:24 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.

1:40:56 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.

1:41:36 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.

1:42:13 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.

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