Matt Connarton Unleashed 11-18-23 part one

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1:12 archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is a Saturday, November eighteen,

1:19 twenty twenty three. Got to get used to saying that Saturday, and

1:23 I am not alone Jo best friend Jenny is here, darling. Good morning.

1:38 It is a fine morning. Yes, yes, so if you are

1:42 just joining us, because I know previously we had the best of Matt Connorton

1:47 Unleashed in this time slot, but now we are every Saturday morning from nine

1:51 am to noon live here from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM

1:57 and for our first Saturday show. We've got We've got a stacked show for

2:01 you today. We've got members of Sepsis who are gonna be joining us in

2:05 just a moment. And coming up in the second hour, we have Kevin

2:08 Horn, a great singer songwriter who's been on the show. He's gonna bring

2:12 his guitar and he's gonna come in and play for us. And on the

2:14 third hour, we've got Aaron Billodo who will be joined by Huey the Gecko

2:17 live in studio and they're gonna play some tunes. We also opened the show

2:21 today with a brand new track from Boston band Bees Deluxe, who could not

2:27 be with us here today because they're on tour, but they sent us a

2:30 couple of new tunes that they wanted to give us the world radio premiere for

2:34 those. Such a great band. So we've had Conrad War on the show

2:37 before and we will have We will have them back soon, I'm sure.

2:40 And of course, excuse me, this is earlier in the day that I'm

2:46 used to doing this, and you gonna bring out that sexy voice. I

2:50 don't know about that. But and we also have, of course Eric Pilcher's

2:55 a classic film review and we're gonna run that around a little bit at before

3:00 eleven am today and this week the subject is Ferris Bueller's day Off from nineteen

3:06 eighty six. So we've got uh, we've got a great show for you

3:08 today. And the studio line is open. So if you have any questions

3:12 or comments or feedback for our guests, Uh, six O three two five

3:15 O six O seven is the studio line. Six O three two five O

3:19 six O seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one

3:22 seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You

3:25 can email me Matt at Matt connorton dot com. And of course you can

3:29 interact end opine in the Facebook live chat. Very busy chat room this morning.

3:35 So happy to see that. But uh, without further ado, let

3:38 me bring these mics up and uh, we've got Stepsis in the house.

3:45 Everything sounds so good. I don't I don't know if are you using the

3:46 headphone as sure I am? Are you using the headphones? Yeah? What's

3:52 up guys? Hi? Well, if you don't use the headphones and somebody

3:54 calls in, y'all, oh, that's okay. He will have to try

4:00 to suck it out of the microphone into your brain and I have to use

4:05 my new England telepathy. Yes, I didn't know that was the thing.

4:12 That's where it Yeah yeah, fled by. So so so everyone, I'll

4:19 let I'll let you introduce ourselves. And because you're you're not only not only

4:25 do you have the band, but you've got some of us, You've got

4:27 the podcast and you always have a lot going on. Yeah, so this

4:30 is this is some of the band. This is getting confusing. This is

4:35 getting confusing because, uh, stage left is Lexi Swarm, Who's who's actually

4:44 our merch girl. So it's getting confusing because our merch girl also performs in

4:49 the band with us. I love that. I watched your videos for months.

4:54 Oh yeah, she's got music coming out with the band. Wasn't really

5:00 now that that I didn't realize. Very cool. Her and Melissa have a

5:04 song coming out called Bathwater sounds exciting. It's coming up. It's in the

5:12 future. But but people have been watching her develop her scream for for a

5:17 couple of years now. She's been developing. She has her own like scream

5:21 thing going on. She can tell you about that later. But she's the

5:24 merch girl and she does some screaming and percussion of sorts. She does she's

5:30 been doing all kinds of tell about that. And then there's then there's Zachie

5:34 B, who plays bass. I'd like to say that he's new to the

5:40 lineup, but nobody's new anymore. There's no more new and the newness is

5:46 gone. But uh, I tell you, he has so many different departments

5:50 and different roles here. Do you want to introduce some of yourself some of

5:56 yourself. I've already introduced Lexi so that I figured. Uh so, I'm

6:04 Zackie B. I played bass. I've been with Stepsis now for god like

6:11 I know what seven months. Yeah, yeah, we can't let him go.

6:15 Nope, you guys, that's not a pun letting go, that's not

6:20 a pun. Zach's another babe. Zachly has been like fifteen other bands everybody.

6:26 Everywhere I go will be somewhere in line and people will go and I'll

6:30 think they noticed him because of Sepsis, you know, yeah, yeah,

6:32 well, bass players are in high demand, right absolutely. That's how I

6:36 got into playing bass was because everybody wanted to play. That's how I got

6:40 into Sepsis. Yeah, yep, that's by playing the bass well, very

6:45 good. I worked out well as opposed to the viola. Yeah, although,

6:50 but but that, I mean, that's kind of what the conversation is.

6:53 But he does so much more and I wasn't. I wasn't being starcastic.

6:57 These guys do all kinds of other stuff. But that's why I brought

6:59 him. Yeah. Absolutely, I've been loving all the videos I've been seeing

7:02 with you guys, and the images and the pictures. Guys, you look,

7:06 you look so awesome. You want to know why you really come together

7:11 in this like really cool package. You see what she's doing. What's she

7:15 doing smiling? Yeah, we're happy. We're happy. We're a happy band

7:20 again, and we're happy human beings. That's why. That's why she's She's

7:25 also wearing a great shirt. By the way, I know, I wasn't

7:29 show where she got that. Not unable to visualize us on contest or Facebook

7:35 or wherever. She's wearing a very sexy Macconaton unleashed. Nobody ever visualized is

7:42 the people of ever we don't ever get visualized. But by the way,

7:47 we could do that now. Ronda Faverro from California's in the chat room.

7:51 She says, I, so dig this spand right before you introduced him,

7:57 Isaac was in there going is that steps no way? Yeah, some of

8:03 us and but this is the this is so this. I brought the podcasters

8:07 with me because nobody else in the band wakes up until at least ten I'm

8:15 not even sure how many band members do you think are awake right now?

8:20 None tell you. Our our drummer, our drummer salvator, Robert Pan is

8:26 awake right now. Yes, and all of the whole band's busted up.

8:31 Lexi's got a broken toe, Robert's got a broken arm. Robert has been

8:35 playing on the drums for the last two months, would have broken arm.

8:41 Really yes, So if any of them, any of the videos that you've

8:43 seen, any of the live stuff that we would do it. We just

8:46 played swarming fast everything we're doing. He's been playing with his hand wrapped up,

8:50 busted up, broken up, and we're talking about different different departments and

8:54 like all the different stuff we do here, and that's why it gets confusing

8:58 at times. So this is the podcast, asked and Roberts the drummer,

9:01 and he probably is up because he's going he's on his way to Brooklyn because

9:05 he plays in the punk band Rags the Stitches. Oh that's a cool name.

9:09 But he's off to New York right now with his broken arm to go

9:15 play more rock and roll. Does he do that? I mean, I

9:18 don't know, does I mean does he does he kind of do a Rick

9:20 Allen thing where he doesn't really use that arm he uses he's been using the

9:26 broken arm. I assume as doctor disapproves, this has been an ongoing thing

9:31 in the company. We get there, we have we have meetings, you

9:33 know, and we talk about his arm where we talk about everybody's limbs.

9:37 It's kind of like what we do at band practice now, we just talk

9:39 about body parts. So you can't play any music without dependencies. Need to

9:48 put up a fundraiser for to buy a bubble wrap. This fundraiser would be

9:54 a good gimmick. Rap absolutely tile and all we have an em I could

10:03 have been your own empty well. I'll tell you there is a just an

10:05 open position in steps right now for security drivers in pain Reducer. You know,

10:13 it's funny too, like we need a chiropractor too. And this is

10:18 why our budget, this is why it's hard for us to play out because

10:20 all the chiropractors and bubble wrap. Well, you know you mentioned to your

10:26 drummer on his way to play in another band. That's been a big subject

10:30 on the show recently. It seems like every band we have on their their

10:31 drummer is in like multiple bands because there's just not enough drummers. Drummers aren't

10:37 even higher demand than bass players. Well that's why most bands have laptop on

10:39 drums. You see a lot of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

10:43 they go, hey, this is Zach you be on bass, this is

10:46 Lexi on tambourine, and this is mac book on the drum return copy paste.

10:54 No, I don't see that that often though. Well, that's the

11:01 thing, you don't see it right, right, No, people, normally

11:05 you see somebody doing this, right, there's nobody doing it. My theory

11:07 about and Jenny's heard me say this a lot, My theory about that with

11:11 the drummers is that you know, when you're growing up and you first get

11:13 interested in playing a musical instrument, and you go to your parents and you

11:16 have to have the conversation, well, I want to play drums, and

11:18 that's the one thing that and maybe the tuba are the two things that they're

11:24 going to try to talk you out of like, do you want to make

11:26 noise? No? Yeah, they're gonna try to talk you out of that

11:31 one. So no, no, we can't go further into this conversation without

11:35 going Yeah, Sepsis Metal Band of the Year. Oh yes, yes,

11:41 I saw the most amazing images. I saw you guys holding the award and

11:46 all the Oh. I was so happy for you guys. I was jumping

11:50 through the screen. That was congratulations, hard one, hard work. I

11:54 tried to I tried to capture the moment on my phone. Uh, but

12:01 I was so wound up. You know, you couldn't. You know,

12:07 these phones now have image stability and artificial intelligence and all that. I mean

12:13 with all the lenses. I got like five lenses on this thing, and

12:16 I'm trying to capture the moment, you know, and I just noticed I'm

12:22 useless. I was. You know, they're did doing the names and everything,

12:26 and you know, everybody deserved to be there, you know, everybody

12:28 works so hard to be there. Congratulations to all the nominees that we're there.

12:35 But you know, anytime we've never we've never won anything other than being

12:41 Sepsis. You know, right, this is like you know for some people,

12:46 like some people have bands and it like their hob their hobbyists. Yeah,

12:50 yeah, level, this is our life. This is our life though

12:56 for us you know what I mean, some people to it's a weekend thing,

12:58 the thing they do with your riends or whatever. This is This is

13:01 me and Melissa's life. Oh yeah, right right, absolutely all day,

13:05 every day, inside and out. I know because I am a swarmy absolutely

13:13 share everything. I love following you guys. I love watching what you're doing.

13:16 One of the things I love that you bring to the table is you

13:18 talk about the industry in ways that other people don't hold hold that thought because

13:22 I do. I do want to get into that. But we have a

13:24 call. We have our first ever Saturday morning call, and I think I

13:28 know who this is. ECG. Is that you? Yeah, it's me.

13:31 Welcome back out, Welcome back everybody, Thank you, it's gocution.

13:35 You talk about a road trip to drummer there. It's funny if you guys

13:39 ever made a road trip to play in Canada. That's that's Ezg's standard question.

13:46 Yes, so I have yeah, wow, Hey here you go easy.

13:50 Yeah. I have a meeting this Monday about about a Canada trip two

13:56 shows excellent, excellent. Wow, that's great the rest of the show,

14:00 and you guys have I appreciate you man, thank you all right, EZG

14:03 thank you. Yes, Yes, love to get to Canada because that's where

14:07 my family's from. Oh, Canada. Yeah, we're very Canadian. I

14:13 would like to go to Canada because we have a lot of fans there and

14:18 I think if we went there and it was well planned, we would probably

14:22 have a good turnout if everyone prepared. Yeah, I feel absolutely, yeah,

14:28 absolutely, no, absolutely. If you have a question for the band

14:31 six oh three or about the podcast six o three two five oh six oh

14:35 seven six oh three two five oh six o seven. But yeah, Jenny

14:37 mentioned you know you talk about the music industry and and and the uh it's

14:41 uh what is the name of the podcast? So confusion is expanding because I

14:50 feel like it changed at one point, right, okay, so it didn't.

14:54 I love it. I feel like the name changed. No, okay,

14:58 so we have so we have so Lexi has, uh bear with me.

15:05 Lexi has a podcast called the Metal Honeys Podcast. Okay, okay,

15:11 and that and that's that's the one you do with Melissa, right, No,

15:13 no, no, so so so so we have a whole network.

15:18 So we write there's a whole, So there's a whole, there's a high,

15:22 there is there is and and if I had to explain all the lore

15:26 someday they'd be like a big family tree. But the the Metal Honey Pop

15:33 The Metal Honeys podcast is Lexi in her world of Honeys, and they talk

15:37 about the music industry on your own and it's and and that is like her

15:43 generation and and like a view from like I say, just because I'm feeling

15:48 old, but but it's it's it's young people's perspective on rock and roll today,

15:52 modern technology and entertainment uh industry as a whole. And then you have

16:00 Swarm TV. And Swarm TV is not a podcast, it's a live stream.

16:06 So Melissa is a streamer and streamers are a little bit different than podcasters.

16:11 Podcasting is more like what we're doing here, I could do this.

16:15 Live streaming is when you talk to the fans, you kind of do a

16:19 little bit of a hybrid thing because you're reading on your live stream right now

16:25 as well as broadcasting. I can't do it. I can't. I don't

16:30 have the faculties it's tricky. It's tricky. So Melissa is great at it,

16:34 and she does twitch in live streaming, and she the raids and the

16:40 multi stream. I can't like it. She does the multi so she can

16:45 put her brain in several pieces of the room and spread. It's a talent

16:51 that women tend to have. I'm serious. And she wears many hats during

16:55 this thing, and she can kind of bookmark and keep up the conversations with

17:00 Is on the podcast. And that's why I brought these guys with me.

17:03 The Honeycomb Hideout. Oh okay, right, right, is every midweek.

17:10 It's hump Day Wednesday. Let me Wednesday. Let me So it's every Wednesday

17:15 at seven pm and it's seven and nine and it's live. But it's not

17:22 so much of a podcast as it is a show about a podcast. So

17:29 it's really a live stream of us podcasting. Right, it's not really a

17:34 podcast. It's not the podcast where you listen to it on Apple Music podcast

17:41 or something. I kind of see it as a round table and ask the

17:44 person as the visitor coming in to watch, I get a seat at the

17:48 table when I'm in your stream, and I can say something or whatever if

17:52 I'm on your YouTube or if I'm on your Facebook stream or what have you,

17:55 I can say something, they pop up on the screen. You guys

17:57 respond to it, and I love it. But it is more of a

18:00 conversation that you are getting to participate in as the viewer. That's that's my

18:04 take on the Honeycomb. Yes, that's very good. It's it's it's it's

18:10 live, it's interactive, educational. Somebody could slip on a banana peel,

18:15 somebody could say I mean, I mean, and that's the excitement behind it.

18:19 The other thing I want to point out, though it's not people might

18:26 watch a twenty second reel of it and and go all these guys are like

18:30 our educators or but it is it is perspective. It I think a lot

18:38 of people might imagine us as coming on and presenting like facts or but it's

18:45 more experience. It's education through the experience in the point of view, through

18:53 the conversational piece of the participants and the people on the table. Meaning I

18:59 might say some thing, we might have a conversation about backtracks or something,

19:03 and there could be several different frequencies and opinions about that. Where it's so

19:10 there's not a band narrative. There's not an overall voice that speaks for the

19:15 band or the podcast. Everybody kind of participates, and we salt and pepper

19:21 to taste, you know, and you know, and and everybody kind of

19:23 just respects the space. But you know, it's it's it's not fact nor

19:30 fiction. It's it's human beings with a human take on it. And and

19:33 every band is different, in every entertainment department is different. We we we

19:40 realize that for us, we're an independent band and we talk about a lot

19:45 of topics from the perspective of independence. So if you're somebody that's in and

19:49 we're saying it all the time, if you're somebody that's in pursuit of a

19:53 music industry, then then we can be easily misunderstood in twenty seconds of film,

20:00 right twenty seconds of real because where it's not fact based, this it

20:06 really is the experience of the band that we're narrating. So if you're if

20:11 you're a band and you're coming on and you're looking for solutions, the honeycomb

20:18 IIDO might not be the greatest conduit to the industry because independent musicians looking to

20:26 keep their independence shouldn't go through the music industry. Expand on that if you

20:32 will. That's there are no the tools are different, Matt. So like

20:41 the tools that you need to hone and the acquisitional responsibilities and relationships that you

20:51 would need as an independent are useless in the music industry and vice versa.

20:59 Like you wouldn't you wouldn't take on a path of investing yourself and putting yourself

21:07 in the nucleus of the industry in pursuit of Grammys and do the kind of

21:12 stuff that we're doing. You wouldn't want to pursue. We've been on the

21:15 charts before. You wouldn't want to pursue charts because you're you're the time that

21:21 you're doing to pursue a professional music industry or the products or the acquisitional tools

21:29 and features of a music industry. You wouldn't be independent with the goal of

21:34 getting into the music industry to then unlock your independence. Right if if you're

21:41 planning on being independent, and you'll see this a lot of times, people

21:45 just say what are you doing? They say, well, we're independent.

21:48 They say, well why are you independent? Not what? Why? What

21:51 are the goals behind being independent? Also, I can get into the music

21:55 industry. Then then what are you going to do when you get there.

21:57 I'm going to be independent. So you're gonna work your way to get to

22:02 all of these you know, rely, you're gonna because you're gonna have to

22:06 rely on these relationships and tools. So you're gonna make You're gonna acquire independent

22:11 tools. You're gonna acquire independent relationships, You're gonna build your resume in independence,

22:17 You're gonna be able to show your work in independence, and then you're

22:19 gonna you guys gotta understand that the music industry is an industry that is designed

22:25 for artists to need them. Oh of course, absolutely so if you don't

22:30 need that. So the issue is if there's nothing that they can take away

22:33 from you, if there's nothing that they could give to you. We get

22:37 left out a lot of times of the products and features of the music industry

22:41 because they can't take them away. M hm yeah, I feel like we're

22:47 not invited. We have seen examples of like Taylor Swift sort of trying to

22:53 when you when you mentioned unlocking your independence once you're in. I mean,

22:56 obviously you know who's more in the music industry Van Taylor Swist, no one,

23:00 but now she's trying to like like she uh, because she was upset

23:04 about her catalog being bought out from her. I don't know all the intricacies

23:07 of it, but yeah, so she she went and re recorded everything and

23:11 is and is re releasing it separate from the previous deal that she was in

23:15 because she's trying to reclaim her independence. Or I'm reminded of what Prince did

23:19 you know? This goes back to the what was that late nineties when he

23:23 you know, when he decided he didn't want to be a part of the

23:26 system anymore, or he he called it a matrix and he he said,

23:29 you know, I don't want to be with Warner Brothers anymore. Yes,

23:30 we've done this all before. Yeah, just forgotten. Yeah, yeah,

23:34 so you do see you see examples of of people trying to kind of who

23:40 are who are? So it seems to be the ones who are in deepest

23:44 in the in the music perfect for example. Yeah, we go on on

23:49 the part of the podcast, is you know, us making fun of ourselves?

23:55 Matt. A lot of times that people go, yeah, you know,

23:57 how did you know? How are you able to talk about this?

24:00 What qualifies you guys to talk about how silly it is to get a record

24:06 deal. Well, it's because we had a record deal. Well, how

24:10 can we talk about pay to play? It's because we've done it. Yeah,

24:12 how can we tell about How can we talk about being scammed? I

24:15 mean, it's one thing to be an alcoholic and go to school for it.

24:18 You don't mean to talk about alcoholism and read it out of a book,

24:21 you know. But it's another thing to or read about homelessness or go

24:25 to school for homelessness. But it's another thing to live on the street.

24:30 Uh So, in terms of education and experience, what we talk about on

24:33 the podcast isn't just some like uh like narrow like one sided yeah, or

24:38 one dimensional experience. A lot of what we talk about on a podcast is

24:45 because, you know, like like alcoholism, not only have we read books

24:49 on it and studied it and lived through it and we have family members and

24:52 people that have been affected by it. Yeah, but we've also tasted alcohol,

24:56 you know, not not just that we we've we've we're reporting on pay

25:00 to play, We're reporting on Spotify or reporting on onfairness like Taylor Swift,

25:06 your taste buds changed, you get hit. I mean, people recruit people

25:11 to fight wars before their brains developed. And the same thing with the music

25:15 industry. They recruit, They recruit before your brains developed, before you know

25:21 how to use the tools, before you know how to make use of the

25:23 responsibilities. The most responsible people in the room, Matt get to make the

25:27 rules, okay, and before they before you learn, before you learn what

25:33 the responsibilities are. They want to make sure that you've paid your dues,

25:38 you know, and and then nobody wants to talk about it, you know,

25:44 so you know, you pay your dues, and then you're not popular

25:47 if you talk about it, because in the industry it's not popular to talk

25:51 about unfairness. So Taylor's Taylor's grown up. Taylor Swift has grown up,

25:57 and Soili Sepsis, you know, you get in you start this stuff,

26:00 you get into music. And for a lot of us, we all got

26:04 into music and a time where we were shaping our identities okay, when we

26:11 were kids. So for a lot of us, we got into this in

26:15 a time when we were trying to shape who we were and who we are,

26:18 right, and that changes as your brain develops, of course, yeah,

26:23 I mean the human brain really until you're you're twenty five, it hasn't

26:26 really fully developed that sometimes into sometimes into for late bloomers, into your thirties.

26:32 Sure so, clinically speaking, biologically speaking, like human beings, we

26:40 stay kids longer than other creatures. You know, kittens and grasshoppers don't stay.

26:47 They don't they don't remain in near youth, you know, as long

26:49 as human beings do. Yeah, So we're infactuated with our youth. Our

26:55 creature is we're infatuated with, you know, immortality, living forever, and

27:00 we're infactuated with with all, you know, having all and subscribing to all,

27:07 and living forever in the fountain of youth. So believe me, the

27:12 record companies believe me, the generals and the presidents, and the believe me.

27:18 That's that's who the pushers find, right, you know, that's who

27:22 the chicken hawks go after, is the young and impressionable kids that want to

27:26 be rock stars. And by the time you're old enough to learn the game,

27:29 they don't change the technology on you. It's the full mats different.

27:34 As soon as you learn radio, they changed it to cassettes. Then you

27:37 learn cassettes, then they tended to CD, and then the CD then you

27:41 rip it all off the web. But when you were a kid, all

27:41 you wanted to do is be on MTV. Is no MTV anymore? Yeah,

27:45 there hasn't been a TV for a long time. There hasn't been anything.

27:48 No, but there hasn't been anything. There hasn't been anything for a

27:53 long time. Not even dinosaurs. They never came back. That's true.

28:00 Things come and they go. And that same thing with NP three, same

28:03 thing with Blue Blue Tooth, Blu ray laser discs. Everything will come and

28:07 everything will go. Can you actually let me give the studio line? Uh?

28:12 And then I have a question six O three two five six seven if

28:15 anyone wants to chime in six O three two five six seven. By the

28:18 way, our second hour guest can't make it, he's gonna have to reschedule.

28:22 So I don't know. Can you all say longer than what we had

28:26 planned? Or I don't know if you're on a time not on the time

28:29 that we'll stay a little bit. I don't see why? Not cool?

28:30 Cool? Thank you? Can you talk about some of the things, I

28:36 mean, William you mentioned like some of the things you've been through, like

28:40 pay to play and a bad record deal and all that. I mean can

28:41 you expand on some of that? You know? And I'm a music industry

28:44 nerd, so this is I mean, particularly in band past the time you're

28:48 scheduled here, But these guys might want to expand a little bit. I'll

28:52 never stop expanding. That's kind of my bad, as was right on that

28:56 same alliance. What's the most frequent thing that you see with younger bands getting

29:00 pulled into or is it the pay to play? What is the one you

29:03 see the most frequently that you think being being told they have to sell tickets

29:08 to be on the bill, Like you have to sell the minimum fifty tickets,

29:11 and each ticket is like twenty five bucks, and if you don't sell

29:15 all of them, we kick you off. That's a popular and you got

29:18 and the band takes nothing, nothing, they're not even allowed to perform.

29:21 Yeah. Many times, many times those bands don't don't get paid. That's

29:23 just for the like opening slot on the parking lot stage outside the venue.

29:27 A lot of times we find this is gonna bother a lot of people.

29:32 A lot of times we find that we're the only band it's getting paid.

29:34 Yeah, did you experience it that yourself when you were first starting? Where

29:40 did you end up doing this. You know, I'll tell you the ticket

29:41 sales. I sure did. I played. Oh yeah, And we did

29:45 a lot of our our me and Melissa did in the beginning. We did

29:49 a lot of paying our dues. But I need to make it clear that,

29:56 oh man, I'm foot in mouth here. But you know, we're

29:59 really we've been really lucky people. We've been really taking care of We've been

30:03 we're a really privileged, like privileged band. A lot of people come,

30:07 a lot of people go with us, but like me and Melissa, we've

30:11 been doing this since twenty ten. We've been really we've been really lucky and

30:15 really blessed to have had people on our side and kind of guiding us along

30:22 the way. And you know, we've we've made a whole lot of mistakes,

30:26 but you know that's part, that's part of the ride. But yeah,

30:32 yeah, but I just want to say, like, yes, we've

30:34 paid our dues, but we haven't been held hostage to it because we're not

30:40 stupid and we know what what unfair looks like. And me and Melissa,

30:45 a big feature of this band being in it was standing up for ourselves,

30:51 you know, so we also come from the street. You know what I

30:53 mean. We're not a little privileged band that comes from you know, a

31:00 garage it's all decked out with Mommy bought you and amplify you. We didn't,

31:03 you know what I'm saying. Meaningless don't come from that. Yeah.

31:07 Uh, Stepsis doesn't come from that. Oh I respect, you know what

31:11 I mean. So like, so for us, you know, we're not

31:15 We're not making music for riches or fame. And a lot of these kids

31:18 they're in it for the wrong reasons. So that's why they're easy to take.

31:22 So that's why the Chicken Hawks, it's easy to drop drop a line

31:26 in the pond. So but for us, you know, we come from

31:30 court backgrounds, law backgrounds, you know, the street, prison, jail.

31:36 I was in boys homes and juvenile halls growing up, you know,

31:38 I was. I'm I'm also adopted. I didn't. I didn't grow up

31:45 with any family. Uh So I grew up in the family court system.

31:48 So I had lawyers my whole life. I was also a childhood rapper,

31:51 a DJ. All this is so I had managers growing up. I was.

31:56 I had I had pressed background, interest, some broadcasting background. I

32:00 yeah, I got some of my first I have my broadcasting background at WHGB.

32:05 I lived in Portsmouth, me being a Portsmouth resident, street performer,

32:08 dancer, the theaters, repertory theaters. So I grew up in the environment.

32:13 So I was like, you grew up in the environment, you know,

32:15 you know, you know about manages. You know, especially during the

32:20 eighties and nineties, it was real sleazy. You know what I'm saying.

32:22 Everybody had the kids on the take, and that's that's who the talent scouts

32:25 were after, was the kids. So I was, I was posed.

32:28 I was in modeling agencies. As a kid. I did a lot of

32:30 performing. I used to perform for pro Portsmouth. I was in the newspaper

32:35 all the time, Market Square Day. So we were hip to you know

32:38 it really by the way, Legion of Solace is in the chat and says

32:43 we are we are proud to call ourselves partner and affiliate with the Sepsist family

32:47 for the last two or three years now, very nice. How many years

32:52 we've been around. I love when our partners can't tell how many years they've

32:55 been around, because it feels like they're just part of it. Right prepare

33:00 you know what you're saying? I don't know like in the record industry,

33:02 they have these little box that says perpetual. Yeah right they you know they

33:09 got you something. Oh yeah, yeah, you have a gift, a

33:15 gift, wonderful gift. Exactly know about this. Very nice. Actually,

33:25 actually, will you move this way a little bit so the camera can see

33:30 and just just back a little bit? No, no, no, no,

33:35 right there for for those watching online. Very nice support local metal.

33:39 Yes, I love it. There you go, there you go. Oh

33:44 wow, my name, that's that's awesome. That is so wow, that

33:52 is that is wonderful. Thank you. Make you feel bad? Frame it?

33:59 Everybody? Wow, I mean you'll feel bad, but only temporarily.

34:04 So everybody, you know. Swarmy Fest was an absolute success. No,

34:09 I know, I know, and I'm not gonna twist a knife, I

34:12 really not. But everybody, I'll have you know, everybody looked for you,

34:15 guys, really they did. Yeah, but that should make you feel

34:17 good though, Well there's nothing you could have done. We'll be at the

34:21 next one period. I assume it's going to be annual. Oh yeah,

34:23 no, so Swarms three it's November. Excellent, you've already got that locked

34:30 down at jewel Yeah, it's that Jeweled November second next year. If you're

34:32 a man, you want to play, excellent, excellent, come now email

34:37 Richie downs little little little New Hampshire there email n H Booking if you like

34:46 to play Swormy Fest excellent, want to? I know it is two stages,

34:52 it's great. Yeah, tell us about it? What was it like

34:57 me? How did it go? Okay? Well? I I was nervous

35:00 the whole time, total honesty. Yeah, yeah, because I never did

35:06 We never did two stages at Jewel. I've played Jewel a bunch of times

35:08 and and what I was nervous is about is the sound is so good on

35:14 this on the front stage. I didn't want anybody to have less. I

35:19 was really especially we had some really good bands in the other room, you

35:23 know, and there wasn't anybody up there that wasn't absolutely qualified to play the

35:34 main stage, you know what I mean, Like all those other bands were

35:37 perfect for the main stage. I don't like to even use that English,

35:42 you know, because that everybody everybody was dressed great. The added to I

35:46 love. I love when a show comes together and everyone's participating. The I

35:54 mean when you talk about how do we how what's the blueprint? Or the

35:59 template for independence coming together and having a great show. This is it.

36:05 Swarmy Fest is it. And the purpose of swarming Fest is to prove unequivocally

36:12 that local talent can get together at high quality. There's no buyons, there's

36:19 no pay to play, there's opportunity forever. People that stay to the end

36:25 can get some gas money. People that you're everyone's encouraged to participate. Of

36:34 course, Matt Connerton is involved opening the doors, letting all the bands come

36:37 down here to get some press and some airtime. I love getting the vands

36:42 in like that, a lineup like Solace coming and being a part of that.

36:51 They made a huge weekend coming down supporting bands all the way up the

36:53 coast, culminating in Swarmy Fest, visiting with their partners, and it wound

37:00 up being this huge frequency of people from all over the area. They're coming

37:08 and sell, you know, to celebrate traditional neighborhood, you know, homegrown

37:15 music. And there's no there's no crazy egos, fist fights flying around.

37:20 Nobody owes anybody money. There's no celebrities, there's no rock stars, there's

37:24 no nobody's a headliner or a co headliner. Nobody went over set times.

37:30 Nobody backed for encores. No, nothing came up missing. This is what

37:37 I love about FEST. The quality network is right an community bringing it all

37:43 together. It was really strong. It was and the purpose to show that

37:50 neighborhood bands are top quality and they fucking draw. I forgot about that.

38:00 Sorry, I'm always saying the F word on the podcast. Try about that

38:04 and they draw? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they draw and that and

38:07 that's that's the big purpose. We want to try to teach everybody as much

38:10 as we possibly can. The bands that we're working with, we want to

38:14 try to teach and encourage them to draw. We have a call. We'll

38:19 see who's on the line here. Hi, welcome to Matt Connordton unleased.

38:22 Who's this? This is Malcolm from Leads in the Solid Hey, welcome,

38:28 Welcome, how you doing, Welcome to the show. Thank you for having

38:31 me. I just wanted to call in and say I had an amazing time

38:37 from my first trip from Lynchburg, Virginia, all the way up there steps

38:40 and stood on the swarming. FEST was the ship. A few language was

38:45 the means uh. And I want to say, Matt, it would have

38:50 been an honor to guy to meet you guys. But yeah, yeah,

38:54 I just wanted to call in and say thank you for doing what you're doing.

38:59 Also because it's amazing. I run a radio show. I know what

39:02 you're doing and it's amazing. Oh, thank you, lov I love everything

39:06 and all you guys are doing. I'm glad to know every last one of

39:08 you. Thank you, mal Thank you so much, Malcolm, thank you

39:12 very much. I love you very much. No problem, guys, and

39:15 you all keep it up, man, and I can't wait to see you

39:16 next year. Swarm me beast because I already ridden on my calendar. Yes,

39:22 yes, that's so exciting. That's awesome. I'm gonna get back to

39:29 watching you guys. I just wanted to call in real quick. I really

39:31 appreciate it. Thank you for waking up in the morning, all right,

39:36 Malco, thank you so much for the call. Thank you to anybody that

39:37 woke up this morning. Bye bye. It's a question for everybody's favorite March

39:44 girl. Did you sell out of the Swarmy Fest T shirts? I was

39:46 so close? You still have some? I still have a couple. Oh

39:52 we need to talk. Yeah, we can hook you up for sure.

39:57 I don't I can't believe I missed that, but Malcolm said something that was

40:01 so important. It's like we were talking about like it's not about like what

40:07 you earlier, like what you're doing, Like okay, the what is like

40:10 you're having the show and what the bands are moving the gear back and forth

40:15 and they're tuning the guitar strings, but like why and it like Malcolm really

40:22 just pointed it out and your ability to you know, slash in zap swear

40:29 words. I don't know if anybody got this, but the friendship, man,

40:34 the friendship, the humanity, you know, just no hocus pocus.

40:42 This was a magical moment of communities and people from all over the region,

40:46 all over the country coming together. I mean we got people who bust in

40:51 and people that flew in, wives, girlfriends, I mean families. This

40:54 is a family affair. It's a family event and it and it does no

41:00 big math, there's no arithmetic. It's people that that love home grown rock

41:06 and roll. It proves that people love drums and guitars and screaming and dancing.

41:13 And uh, it's that simple, you know, it's that simple.

41:16 There's no rule in the world, there's no It's something that we've always loved

41:22 to do you know we're proven that people still love to do it. Who

41:25 was the furthest away band who came and played? Who do you do you

41:29 know? Off? And who? Like, I'm curious, who was our

41:31 guitar player so hot sauce our guitar player? She she drives, she's up

41:39 there, She's way up there. But I think she's up there with Dark

41:45 Rain. Dark Rain is up there? What does she say? I didn't

42:00 know there was I didn't either. Road is not a band. That's a

42:05 band to trot? Which tro? Which trot? We have them on the

42:12 show. I told you I know all the bands. No, we played,

42:19 we've seen them play. I think at the Hill which trot Charlie Hill?

42:23 That's right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're

42:27 really good. Salvatore is in the chat room, by the way, he

42:30 says, I am there in spirit. No, he's right now. He's

42:34 loading in his drum kit in Brooklyn. That's what he's doing with his broken

42:37 arm. Meet this guy, yeah, really, you've never met sal I

42:45 don't think i've ever met in person. I don't think we have. Okay,

42:49 so me and are both libras. But he's definitely more balanced. This

42:54 guy is that is the most balanced guy in the band. He's got to

42:59 be drummer. He's so chill. Him and Melissa I think it the most

43:01 chilli really because we need them the most. Of course, Malcolm Wood and

43:07 the Chats has almost had our car towed away for this. I forgot about

43:12 that. I don't know about that. It is quite that. It was

43:19 quite the theater. You know, of course, everybody's pulling in and and

43:24 there was no places to park. And if these guys are partners though,

43:28 and we always park in the same place, and we get out there and

43:31 there's just I mean, there's a circle, there's a kerfuffle. There was

43:38 a kerfuffle, and and and not. You know, it's Manchester, so

43:43 I'm used to kerfuffles, but I'm not. I was very disappointed to see

43:49 that. It was the it was the solace. It was everybody for and

43:53 me just auto pilot. You know, there's no way to park. People

43:59 say, why do you park in Manchester nowhere? Right? Well, it's

44:05 weird. Usually like there's a lot of lots nearby, but the lot directly

44:09 next door to jewel is like super uptight, so like they have like I

44:15 think, just lurking around. I think their money is they sit near Jewel,

44:20 Oh yeah, and it's such a fine line between where the Jewel parking

44:24 lot is and where the neighbors parking lot is. So they parked in that

44:30 one spot that happened to be on the other person's and to these two tow

44:36 truck drivers get out, I think they had a total of three teeth.

44:39 They get out, and they had this They had this car on. I

44:44 mean they had it loaded up faster than you could say black light invasion.

44:49 I mean, this thing was it was. Yeah, it was a standoff

44:52 out there. It was the Legion versus the tow truck people. Really,

44:58 and then I already told you the tow truck people only have three more teeth.

45:00 They had no more teeth to lose. And if they were outnumbered,

45:06 and the guy is crazy, it might have been ninety pounds and he's screaming

45:10 and yelling, banging on his chest, and I was like, can we

45:14 please de escalate? Oh wow, can we please de escalate? Because usually

45:17 once once they've got your car hooked up, that's it. Like you got

45:21 to pay yeah, oh no, they charged a fee to drop it.

45:24 I think it was like two money. Yeah, maybe next to your like

45:32 one of those police tape things, not police tape, but you know tape.

45:36 Don't pock past here. Well we thought, yeah, we had tases

45:38 and peppers, right, we thought, but that they already had. But

45:40 they already had the once they got it done. Yeah, Malcolm says in

45:45 the chat, we paid one hundred and seventy five. Mind. Yeah,

45:50 and this guy's this guy's like yelling and Malcolm is this huge guy, and

45:55 this tiny little guy's yelling at Malcolm. I'm going this is not good for

45:59 the little guy. Malcolm is this big guy, you know, and there's

46:04 this little guy with the tow truck. But the problem is the little guy

46:07 has all He's got the car, he's got the car hooked up, he's

46:12 got the power, right yep. But at one point this must be like

46:15 a trained operation, because if they had it up as quickly as he said,

46:20 this is a trained operation. These guys with secret cameras, what yeah,

46:27 I think that. Yeah, I think they had drones out there waiting

46:30 for us to park, cameras watching watching people pack. No packing sign right

46:35 there, no packing and the tow truck drivers. Okay, so we were

46:39 talking out before you know, it. We were talking earlier about the music

46:44 industry and about the podcast and how we're always reporting about gatekeepers, and it's

46:50 the same thing with whiffle ball bats and shoehorns and parking. It's every industry

46:54 that you can find. People think we're always talking about the music industry.

46:58 No, no, no, no, no, no, We're talking about

46:59 life. Yeah, when the stuff we're we're reporting on isn't really about paying

47:02 your dues in the music industry. When we talk about scams and schemes in

47:07 the music industry, anybody that watches our podcast to start thinking about the industry

47:10 that they're currently working in. Sure, Sure the landscaping industry. So you

47:15 don't have to be a fan of rock and roll to like the hard rock

47:20 and heavy metal reset. You don't have to be into sepsis to love the

47:23 Honeycomb hide out or to learn something about your own industry, because what we're

47:28 reporting about is happening in every industry everywhere. Glowball, Yeah, he says

47:35 in the chat, we had enough time to carry the T shirts inside,

47:37 to set up our merch table and run back out to stop our car from

47:40 being stolen. Uh they didn't know. Uh, they didn't know that they

47:45 was about to get a Lynchburg, Virginia butt kicking. Yeah. Like these

47:51 guys Virginia, they don't care those new tow trucks will they just back up

47:53 to you. It's it was, it was, it just they don't have

47:59 to do nothing. They I was speaking with the guys, you know,

48:02 after we had had a version of de escalation, which is like not screaming,

48:09 you know, I was pointing out, these guys are loading in for

48:13 a job, Like it's not that they were parked. Yeah, we were

48:17 getting the equipment out of the car. It wasn't like we were settled in

48:22 and that. I mean, these guys drove up across country and pulled the

48:27 t shirts out of the car, turned around and then had this surprise.

48:31 I love them guys, man. They did such a great job though they

48:35 did, like we had so much fun that we can like I want to

48:39 say, they really made it comfortable and fun to have, you know,

48:45 out of state sponsors come. We don't usually have sponsors from out of state

48:53 come. We usually just have people coming as like guests at that rate,

48:59 but rousing everybody really like insisted and we had I mean, we had these

49:02 guys were so great. They had a formal pre production meeting with us about

49:07 coming down. I mean, if if I, if I could say anything,

49:14 making friends and solidifying those relationships with those people was some of the most

49:22 memorable moments of the weekend. It was awesome, no hocus pocus, It

49:28 really was. It was magical despite it made all the things we can't control

49:36 and made it really valuable because like when you have a big production like that

49:42 and there's two stages and people coming in and you had friends and family and

49:45 guests, and you're hoping everybody doesn't get sick or call out or cancel.

49:49 The only thing you could really do when it's go time. You know,

49:52 you drove out there a thousand miles and you got all your gear out there,

49:57 and you're in a different state. The only the only thing you tr

50:00 have control over at any time is your attitude towards any circumstance. Right you

50:05 know, the show's gone, the show must go on, just like you

50:08 know, with the events and circumstances to happen with you guys, you know,

50:13 and you know, if you'd have had a terrible attitude about it,

50:16 that had been the only thing you could control m you know, because things

50:20 are gonna happen in your life. There's gonna be things that pop up and

50:22 events and circumstances that there's nothing you could physically put your hands on. And

50:28 the only thing you're gonna be able to grasp or grip is your sense of

50:32 your sense of self control and that and that's through the attitude that you're gonna

50:37 have a great attitude, a positive attitude about something, or you're gonna you

50:42 know, you're gonna have a bad attitude. You know, everyone's gonna get

50:44 a painful tooth, you're gonna I'm gonna bump your toe, or you're gonna

50:49 get a flat tire. But and you can't control all of that. You

50:52 can't control when it's gonna rain. You really can't control your you know,

50:57 every record sale and everybody's where about every every insight and metric and every follow

51:04 and everywhere in that time in life where everyone's cutting every nucleus and examining it

51:08 and measuring it and cutting that and then giving a name to it and a

51:14 sub label and a category. And we're this is time when we're kind of

51:19 like hyper focused on these micro transactions and everything, and it's just cool to

51:25 zoom out every now and then and be like, you know what, I

51:30 don't really control any of this stuff, but I'm just gonna have a good

51:32 attitude about it. Yeah. By the way, Hans is in the cha

51:37 room, Hans Smith And hello, And I don't know. I don't know

51:42 this person, but I love the name Gideon Eckhart. I love the name

51:45 Gideon says love to you all, Hello, much love and what so what

51:53 what is next for sepsis? What are you? What do you have coming

51:57 up? You're going to give me an anxiety attack? Oh no, I'm

52:00 just kidding, d kidd So no, I only say that rhetorically because I

52:06 know everybody has anxiety and does all that we all do. But I say

52:08 that like people say, oh c D. People just use and they throw

52:12 around these words, you know, like we like we're all doctors or something

52:15 like we went to school. You're gonna give me heartburn saying I'm gonna start

52:22 web MD and my blood pressure because we all have the ability to look up

52:28 all these fancy words. We all forget that, like people go to school

52:31 for this stuff, Like you can't just be a brain surgeon because you read

52:35 a website to be fair, I'm on medication for a lot of the stuff,

52:37 Like, like, that's a broadcaster. If you can't wake up and

52:40 have a Facebook page and say I'm a broadcaster and actually be a broadcaster,

52:45 that's true. I'm tired of it. I was so the medical what's next?

52:52 For what's next for us? Lex just so much and and and really,

52:57 like I say, anxiety, but it is a good anxiety. Like

53:02 we started a conversation off with me saying how like how happy we are to

53:08 be a band and a company and be working with people that are excited and

53:17 it's great for me and wlissim' speaking for myself now, it's good for us

53:22 to be working with people that are grateful and that are behaving consistently and sharing

53:31 an energy with us to focus and prioritize our fans and our goals. Yeah,

53:37 okay, Like we need to be like we need to be comprehensive in

53:40 tandem speaking the same language. And it's good to be working with an entire

53:45 room of people that can kind of speak the same language and we can all

53:47 go this is the band we're in. We're all going in this direction.

53:50 We all want to record, we all want to go to Detroit or whatever

53:53 we're going to do. We can talk about that. Now we can share

53:57 those ideas openly. You can all write them down, and everyone kind of

54:01 respects each other's space, and we're all, you know, grateful and participating

54:07 mutually for the investment of the goals of the band. That's comprehensive, You

54:13 know that, it seems that's really what a band is at first, is

54:16 like the actual physical and intellectual reality that there actually is a band. So

54:24 everyone around has got to like be in the band and agree that they're actually

54:28 in it to have it. Like that's the cool part about having a band

54:32 is actually having it, and we have it. But that's also one of

54:38 the hardest parts, right, I mean, I just the hardest part of

54:40 having a band is getting in getting in the same room every week, right

54:45 because because if you can't get in the same room every week, then you

54:47 can't learn the tunes. If you can't learn the tunes and you don't learn

54:51 them well enough, nobody can really see the true value of the tunes.

54:54 No one can get the tunes good enough where they go, oh wow,

54:59 this might actually work, and then no one can audition these tunes in front

55:01 of people, and then no one can audition them to the point where they

55:06 adjust them and get them good in front of people, where everybody can get

55:09 back in the room and agree that that that's what success is called, right,

55:15 you know what I mean? So what we're really happy about is we've

55:22 checked off all the boxes for twenty twenty three. We don't know how other

55:25 bands do it, but just how we do it. We set goals for

55:29 each year. We all sit down as individuals. We all write down on

55:31 pieces of paper. He writes down five things, she writes down five.

55:35 Even our staff members do it everybody. It's a rule. We all sit

55:38 there. We have rules in the band, and one of the rules is

55:40 we got to know what you want. How do you want to participate?

55:44 We don't write nobody. You're not allowed to be in the club unless you

55:46 unless you tell us what you want, because there's no reason of being here

55:50 unless we can help you get what you want. Because we know people won't

55:52 do something for long unless they get what they want so long, you know

56:00 what I mean? And this is like I said, this isn't something we

56:02 don't just tune the guitars. We read about this stuff. We're in an

56:06 evolving industry. That that that in modern day era, with the with the

56:10 internet and information traveling at light speed, so does the music industry, so

56:15 that the industry is evolving over weeks and days. Whereas the years ago you

56:21 might need you might have the time with a particular technology like CDs or something

56:25 or radio. We had radio around for fifty years, we had, but

56:30 now we have something for weeks and until it becomes something else or evolved with

56:37 something else. So like for us, when you think about who we are,

56:42 we are a modern rock We're not. We're not rock from nineteen seventies,

56:45 So we're not we're not We're not hunting radio, we're not hunting outdated

56:51 ideas. We're not hunting outdated technology. We're not hunting a rock and roll

56:55 that our grandfathers were in. As much as unless we borrow from that,

57:00 lets we learned from that, and we've inherited skills from that. We can

57:02 and we can sample and and and marinate in those conversations and and and dip

57:08 into that toolbox as special features as for conversational pieces. Whatever. Uh,

57:15 But we're a modern band, and we are and and and and for us,

57:21 it's our goal we are constantly hunting what others are not doing, what

57:29 other whatever. We know She's right. What's what we do is we're always

57:38 hunting for that one to five percent of what other bands and our competitors aren't

57:43 doing. That's the research if so. And the cool part is if you're

57:47 a band in New Hampshire or in the world, we're following you. M

57:52 don't ever think that we're because you know, either think that it's Ozzy Osbourne

57:57 follow me or does this band like I mean, follows you. Yeah,

58:00 we follow everybody. Even if we don't follow you and hit the button,

58:04 we're following you. We're watching all of you and we're listening to your music.

58:07 We'll listen to your music too, whether you're doing karaoke, whether you're

58:12 doing beatboxing or rapping, we're watching you, all right. I was gonna

58:16 say, Robert pan Is in the Chatterman says hey, Matt, Robert pan

58:21 from Second Street Sonoco, my son, my son is the drummer for Sepsis

58:28 is my favorite. Well, apparently I'll have to stop it at the Second

58:32 Street Snoko sometime to meet him. Bob has been in our lives, so

58:38 people don't notice about about so Salvator Pan is a returning member and in an

58:46 original drummer. Very cool. Good so yeah, so so he left temporarily

58:52 and started Rags to Stitches. Okay, and now he's back. Wow,

58:57 excellent, excellent, is't that cool? Cool? Great Joseph is in the

59:00 chat. He's from Clemento is one of our great sponsors here at w M

59:04 and H. And he says they are marvelous. Thank you guys. Oh

59:07 we love Clemento's, very nice, great pizza. Yeah yeah, Greg,

59:10 Greg, Joseph is the owner. So they have like a stage in this

59:15 who's complimenting you? Yeah? I just got some beautiful faces. I don't

59:22 think I have, I know, I know. So I've been in Clemento's

59:28 because one of my one of my very close childhood friends, Ricky, he

59:34 was having a an anniversary with his wife and he's like, isn't from Manchester.

59:40 I'm like yeah, He's like, you gotta you gotta pop down to

59:44 Clementos. They got guitars down here, I said again the guitars at the

59:47 pizza said yeah, he got guitars and drums and ship that is Are you

59:52 serious? Did I get one? Yeah? I got it. I need

59:55 one of those see language. We're on a second delay, so everybody else

1:00:04 identification for everybody out there, I've only it'll be to curse words the entire

1:00:13 time. This is great. This is why the podcast That is why I

1:00:16 got to keep my podcasting. Melissa is the one that zaps us. She's

1:00:22 behind the camera. She's she could zap us, but we don't get sapped.

1:00:25 Oh but anyways, that's vision of that table. We're about to change

1:00:34 the look over there. We got Yeah, we're about to. Yeah.

1:00:37 We wanted to be more like pee Wee's playhouse, like into a hideout.

1:00:43 Yeah. We want like trapdoors to come out explosions. What about the fe

1:00:47 and the playground? Ye, we want like plants that are in the bag.

1:00:52 We want we want this to be you know, like maybe like a

1:00:58 like a jombi or something not gen baking. She wants to play her drum.

1:01:05 That's what I thought, too, because I've heard that word pronounced a

1:01:07 thousand different ways. I thought that's what you were saying. You know,

1:01:08 you remember you remember mecha laka high makaheiny ho. That's not a bad word.

1:01:14 No, that's not a bad word. Everybody's like manappen anyway, shout

1:01:25 out to Clementos. They got great pizza and Nicole, I'm not gonna say

1:01:32 this correctly, I'm sure Budage Sandborn Yeah says they are an amazing music.

1:01:37 Oh, they are an amazing band musically and personally, each and every member

1:01:43 very nice. Man. We need as much people to say that as possible.

1:01:47 So again, Nicole said that we're personally charming and we are personally satisfying

1:01:54 for the records. Amazing. She didn't say charming or satisfying, but she

1:02:00 did say but she did say amazing. Yes, but she used the word

1:02:05 personal. See that, Zach, personal as opposed to personable. Yes.

1:02:10 Yeah, Well, me and Zach have this ongoing joke of people that watch

1:02:16 us on the internet and review our personalities. I said, come on,

1:02:22 you only see the twenty second clip of me. You don't know what happened

1:02:25 before the clip or after. What do you think you're reviewing? Our personality

1:02:30 is in review right now? Right has ever occurred that this might be my

1:02:35 public personality and that could you know? Oh, we had a question to

1:02:43 j Fed. One of our friends from Vermont had a question for Zach about

1:02:46 let's ask Zach questions about the length of your beard. Yeah, I didn't

1:02:53 know where that was going. Yes, it moved quickly. This isn't a

1:03:00 problem yet obviously, but if you if you were to grow it out.

1:03:02 He was asking about growing it out, and would you be concerned about it

1:03:06 getting caught in your bass strings? You know, it's funny. I actually

1:03:10 just shaved recently. It was a lot longer. Okay, too long?

1:03:14 Is that why you shaved it? Because it was gonna get in the way

1:03:17 I played bass and didn't get stuck in the string. That's true, that's

1:03:22 true. Well, you know he's very into beards and ice baths. Yes,

1:03:27 if you go to Vermont, he will invite you into a real ice

1:03:30 bath, a real like he breaks the ice and gets in it. The

1:03:35 older it is, the happier he is. That's incredible. There are those

1:03:40 of us who think, no, no, not so much hypothermia fan.

1:03:45 He does have a fan base. Yeah, it's really actually, you know,

1:03:49 in the summer, that actually sounds amazing because I'm a very sweaty person.

1:03:53 This is not about summer. Oh no, no, no, like

1:03:59 tread out there in the snow, take a sledgehammer to the ice. It

1:04:05 for as long as you whatever can stay. I think it's insane. I

1:04:10 personally don't have any desire to do so. Is it like the longer you

1:04:14 stay in you get a prize or something like if you can break the rest?

1:04:17 I try that. I think it's only in his mind the price he

1:04:21 gets. Yeah, it's supposed to do something healthy for you, but I

1:04:25 don't know. Yeah, I don't know why. I won't knock it till

1:04:28 I try. Yeah, yeah, I'm not. I would. I could

1:04:31 see this, Yes, right, we should, we should. Uh So,

1:04:35 you've all been very generous with your time and we appreciate it. We'll

1:04:39 we'll let you, We'll let you bounce in a minute. But I do

1:04:42 want to make sure everybody knows where to find you online, the band,

1:04:45 the podcasts, everything. What what should our listeners know in terms of well,

1:04:50 you should know that if you don't follow us, it'll be impossible to

1:04:54 ignore us because has talent of being everywhere online. I was just gonna say

1:05:02 that they're like me, they're everywhere. We have this twenty twenty four will

1:05:10 be the most productive year we've ever had. I'm and and that's a terrifying

1:05:19 prospect because that means I have a lot of work to do. No,

1:05:26 but we I mean, I don't quote me on this and nail me to

1:05:30 the cross. But Virginia, we'll be back in Pennsylvania this year. It

1:05:39 looks like North Carolina. We'll be returning to the Chicago area. I got

1:05:45 some huge news coming up for fans in the Midwest. I can't even get

1:05:51 on that right now. Upstate New York, Ohio Swarmy Fest uh and so

1:06:01 much more. We got the We got new music coming out, maybe some

1:06:05 acoustic songs. Of course, we got Take the World by Swarm, our

1:06:13 second album, I Love Take the World by Swarm. The Amazing our engineer

1:06:23 and producer, the the amazing Glenn Robinson. As you know his work has

1:06:29 been nominated for Grammys before. Our producer Glenn Robinson from of Course Jason Newstead

1:06:36 gwore Queen's right. If you don't know about our producer, go check them

1:06:41 out. He's worked on everything from guitar hero uh to even remastering work with

1:06:51 YouTube on HBO. So go if you didn't know the I would say Glenn

1:06:58 Robinson is definitely the seven member of Sepsis. So he'll be back with us

1:07:02 on the second record. Of course, our friends and partners and stations do

1:07:09 have Romance and Reality. Romance and Reality is not released for streaming yet,

1:07:15 but all of our friends have it, so I believe you can pre order

1:07:18 it on Distro Kid and it's going to be released December twenty first. Yeah,

1:07:24 excellent. But we're also going to hear it. At the end of

1:07:26 the segment, I was going to say, you might be able to hear

1:07:28 it. If you guys tune in, you get to hear And I think

1:07:31 that's the That's the thing that a cool thing to me and Melissa have been

1:07:33 doing is letting our fans and partners in radio stations get our music first before

1:07:43 the industry gets it. Yeah. A lot of artists will go out and

1:07:45 they give all their music to the industry. We're doing something different. We're

1:07:48 giving it to our friends and to our curators and to our partners first and

1:07:54 then the industry gets it later. Yeah. And then also we're playing in

1:07:58 Connecticut on January. How could I forget? Yeah. So we love Blizzard

1:08:06 Bird, We love Dead by Wednesday, and I used to book them here

1:08:13 in Manchester. I booked a shows for them when they would come up years

1:08:16 ago, years ago. I mean there'll be a lot of people who probably

1:08:25 will be funky about my next statement. But I think I think Dead by

1:08:30 Wednesday is the perfect example of a poster band of success for New England bands.

1:08:44 I think, when you when, when, when you want to if

1:08:45 you want to go, what what is the definition of making it? Because

1:08:56 I you know, once you you know, if you truly make it,

1:08:58 then maybe you'd be done. And I guess, but this is like if

1:09:00 you want if what what is the definition of moving forward towards the direction of

1:09:05 making it? Yeah? I feel like Dead by Wednesday is one of those

1:09:11 bands, And there are others, but I will say stiff competition. I

1:09:17 would say Dead by Wednesday is by far the perfect example of New England bands

1:09:27 making it and being successful. They are the entire package of what it would

1:09:32 I think definably clearly represents successful bands in New England. Legion of Solace in

1:09:41 the chat says also the birthday bash in January will be a reunion for the

1:09:45 original sixth lineup for Dead by Wednesday. No, I didn't need that's why.

1:09:50 Oh wow, that's wow, that's incredible. I'm blown away. Wow,

1:10:00 I'm not whoa, I'm blown away I'm now I want it to be

1:10:03 the Blizzard Bash. Can it be tomorrow? Oh? We have to get

1:10:09 this into Anna Randall in the chat room says, I personally think that Sepsis

1:10:13 is amazing on many levels. I'm not being biased, just stating the truth.

1:10:17 Very nice, she's famous, very cool, very cool. What's it

1:10:24 now? What's the uh? So where should people go? Should people go

1:10:27 to your main website for everything? Can they find everything there? All the

1:10:30 all the shows and yes, podcasts, one stop shop, steps dot com.

1:10:35 Yeah, we're doing every like if anything I can. And this is

1:10:39 a great advice for artists too. I know we've done a lot to rely

1:10:44 and to count and its great tools social media and all these third party apps

1:10:49 and the subscription lifestyle as I'd like to call it. But uh, this

1:10:56 year me and Lexi have gone over so many bands that just don't have sites.

1:11:00 Yeah, oh my gosh. You know in an address. You know,

1:11:02 if you're filling out a job application for Wendy's, you'd have an address,

1:11:06 right, If you'd have a phone, you have a phone number,

1:11:09 right and an address? Bands? Yeah, please please it please? You

1:11:13 want to be taken seriously? Yeah, you need a dog something else that

1:11:16 we kind of re recognized too, because we've actually given some folks some highlights

1:11:23 on some of the websites we have. For sure, you guys love what

1:11:26 you guys guys. Yeah, it's it's hard for some to get that first

1:11:30 website up. Fill out your bio, have a phone that somebody can reach

1:11:35 you at, a professional email, and a website. Please have a home

1:11:43 for your band. There was a weird period. This goes way, This

1:11:47 goes back almost twenty years. But I remember when my Space got really big,

1:11:51 there was this because I've been at there. Yeah, didn't we learn

1:11:55 then not to put that We should have learned that then. But the thing

1:11:58 is, so I've also been a web designer for a long time, and

1:12:00 I remember I would run into this a lot where bands would tell me,

1:12:04 now, we don't we don't need a website. We have we have MySpace.

1:12:08 We're on my Space and that became a thing. And that's the thing

1:12:14 now with with artists. Find us on Instagram or check out my Spotify.

1:12:19 This is the one website band Doozle and bands in Town and Bandemonium. What's

1:12:27 the other one? Band band camp and band Town, band Bandtacker. They

1:12:33 got to pack it up and start the buses we need. We can't find

1:12:38 anybody websites an app forevery I mean? And how many subscriptions are you going

1:12:43 to have? Twitter is up for sended to doing subscriptions that Twitter everywhere everyone's

1:12:46 going. So you have a subscription to be yourself, to be described,

1:12:54 subscribing to your last name if it's not nailed down, security department. Right,

1:13:00 I'm start a subscription. Let me get out of here. I don't

1:13:04 love you, No, you're you're right though. Yeah, So, so

1:13:10 Sepsis is a SS. We're doing everything from sepsist dot com and we should.

1:13:15 For people who don't know, it's S E P. S I S.

1:13:17 You can find us on all the snapper Google poppers. We're all on

1:13:20 all the stuff. You're very google bable, yes, but it's important on

1:13:27 many of these thirds, right, we're on all of that stuff. Yeah,

1:13:30 but we do we do at our home. And you know what,

1:13:32 here's the other thing bands are always talking about. You know, you can

1:13:35 do all this virtual stuff and spend all kinds of money to support Stepsist.

1:13:40 You don't have to like spend any money all the time. You know,

1:13:42 it could just be something simple as like leaving us a Google review or signing

1:13:45 our guestbook on our dot com. Those are things that you can do to

1:13:48 help out really any band. It don't cost a lot of money. And

1:13:51 you know what, get off the internet, go see a show. If

1:13:55 not it's not our show, a show a show. If you don't come

1:14:00 and see Sepsis, go see the band in your neighborhood. People are always

1:14:04 asking me. You see these things online, who's the most underrated band?

1:14:10 And then you'll see people say their favorite celebrity bands, the most underrated,

1:14:15 underdeveloped, underappreciated, underpaid band that is super talented is your neighbor Yeah,

1:14:21 seriously, that's it. Hell yeah, not even kidding. If there's anything

1:14:27 I've learned this year from the process that we've done and how we've been changing

1:14:30 the format all year, more and more I get into music. It's like

1:14:33 I always tell them, it's unbelievable how much talent we have in just in

1:14:39 New England, just in our town, just in our city. I just

1:14:43 I'm always floored by how many new and amazing artists come up I get to

1:14:47 see. I mean, it really does surprise me. You think that it's

1:14:53 the only there's there's a whole lot of diamonds out there. Oh definitely,

1:14:57 yeah, yeah, absolutely, well, so we'll y'all go. Thank you

1:15:00 again, by the way for the wonderful shirts. Thank thank you three Bruce

1:15:05 and Malcolm and everybody in the solid definitely going to be having you guys back

1:15:09 in, and I know, I definitely want to have you guys come back

1:15:12 in and talk about some of the stuff that's going on in the industry about

1:15:15 we can bring back more people. So like we could completely switch everybody out.

1:15:19 It could be like strangers. Next time. Nice would just send you

1:15:25 know, Salvatore and hot sauce and it would be like having complete strangers.

1:15:29 You'll walk in and you guys be like, who are you? I will

1:15:31 recognize them right, thank you. If you're a swarmy, thank you?

1:15:36 How dare you? So? If you if you didn't know? So there

1:15:41 are there are levels to this now. So there's like they're like, you

1:15:44 know, there's like fans and and and and of course people like what is

1:15:46 the swarmy. Swarmies are the closest thing that you can be to being in

1:15:50 the band. Oh okay, people don't know that. So so there's like

1:15:56 fans and there's like super fans, and then there's like swarmies, and swarmies

1:15:59 are almost like staff members, but the elite green beret of the swarmy it's

1:16:04 called the yellow jackets. Oh so if you're a yellow jacket. So,

1:16:09 a swarmy is like a prestigious fan. A swarmy is an ultimate stepsist fan,

1:16:15 but is a public fan because like some fans would be your fan,

1:16:17 but they're not publicly, like I'm your fans conveniently when you're doing stuff that

1:16:26 I like, right right, I didn't like that, I'm not sharing it.

1:16:30 I agree with you, then I'm your fan. Okay, But if

1:16:34 it's two percent off, nope, right, celebrating differences, nope, so

1:16:41 but that so, but yellow jackets are the fans that celebrate us publicly,

1:16:45 regardless of our differences, regardless of our humanity, regardless of what makes us

1:16:49 special and unique. Yellow Jackets are the the the I would say, the

1:16:57 elite swarmy. Oh yeah, excellent, thank you, thank you so much.

1:17:02 And as promised, uh, we're going to play romance and reality.

1:17:08 This is not yet available on the streaming services, but we've got it here

1:17:12 for you to close uh close out this segment, and we have plenty more.

1:17:15 Matt Connorton unleashed to come, don't go away, socation, but so

1:18:14 amazing story said, like the ray from the place me about I can't like

1:19:03 la. Well, you know a very aga your mists, trapper Jack.

1:19:31 The chapter bicks the magic, the very that W. M n H gripped

1:20:33 the novels in the sky. Farris got scores, Tom, what's the matter?

1:20:46 What's Ferris? What's wrong? What's wrong? For Christ's sake? Look

1:20:49 at him, honey, Farris. It doesn't have a favor, but he

1:20:58 says his stomach hurts, and he seems what's the matter? Farrius, Papa

1:21:03 honey peeling his hands. They're cold and clammy. I'm fine, I get

1:21:14 it. No, no, no, I have a test to it.

1:21:16 No, I have to take it. I want to go to a good

1:21:23 college so I can have a fruitful life. Annie, you're not going to

1:21:26 school like this now? Oh fine? What's this? What's his problem?

1:21:30 He doesn't feel well? You're right, dry that one out. You can

1:21:34 fertilize the lawn, Geenie, is that you, Geenie? I can't see

1:21:41 that far Geenie, Jeanie, I bite the big ones junior. Thank you,

1:21:50 Jeanie, you get to school. Wait, you're letting him stay home.

1:21:55 I can't believe this. If I was bleeding out my eyes, you

1:21:57 guys would make me go to school. This is so unfair. Geenie,

1:22:00 Please don't be upset with me. You have your health. Be thankful.

1:22:06 Oh that's it. I went out of this family. I'm okay, I'll

1:22:15 just sleep. Maybe I have an aspen around noon. I'm showing some houses

1:22:23 to that family from Vermont today, so I'll be in the area now.

1:22:26 My office will know just where I am if you need me. Okay,

1:22:29 okay, I'll check on your two bells. It's nice to know that I

1:22:34 have such love and caring parents. You're both very special people. You get

1:22:45 bitter Bumpkin. I'll be home at six sharp if you need anything. I

1:22:53 mean, I love your sweet and me. What all if he needs?

1:23:13 They bought it? Skip day playing hooky, no matter what you call it

1:23:19 is one of the greatest joys anyone can have. To have a free day

1:23:25 to do whatever you want is something as adults we strive for, in as

1:23:30 kids we yearned for. There are many films that depict this, but one

1:23:38 shows a young man that truly takes advantage of his day off, all in

1:23:44 one of the greatest metropolitan areas in the United States. Directed by teen pilm

1:23:50 Maestro John Hewes, Ferris Buehler's Day Off was released in nineteen eighty six and

1:23:57 stars Matthew Broderick as the titular character, Ferris Bueller, a crafty high school

1:24:03 senior that wants a day off to enjoy with his girlfriend Sloan played by Mia

1:24:09 Sarah and neurotic friend Cameron Frye Alan Ruck before graduation. While enjoying everything downtown

1:24:18 Chicago has to offer, such as the Chicago Institute of Art, a Cubs

1:24:24 game at Wrigley Field. In even a parade, the threesome must stay ahead

1:24:30 of Ferris's parents and their high school principal, the Swarmy at Rooney. The

1:24:38 introductory clip sets the stage for this film. What makes the character Ferris so

1:24:45 endearing is his breaking the fourth wall, that is, him looking at the

1:24:49 camera and talking to us the audience. This tactic has been used in teen

1:24:56 movies and television shows since, most notably Saved by the Bell. Our next

1:25:02 clip is an example of this. Ferris explains his rules for faking sick in

1:25:10 how to get your parents to fall for it. This scene also shows us

1:25:15 Ferris's unique worldview and his art of getting out of school incredible. One of

1:25:26 the worst performances of my career, and they never doubted it for a second.

1:25:34 How could I possibly be expected to handle school in a day like this?

1:25:48 This is my ninth sick day semester. It's getting paid tough, coming

1:25:51 up with new illnesses. If I go for ten, I'm probably gonna have

1:25:56 to barth up a lung. So I better make this one count. The

1:26:01 key to faking out the parents is the clammy hands. It's a good nonspecific

1:26:05 symptom. I'm a big believer in it. A lot of people will tell

1:26:10 you that a good phony fever is a deadlock. But you get a nervous

1:26:14 mother, you could wind up in a doctor's office. That's worse than school.

1:26:19 You fake a stomach cramp, and when you're bent over, moaning and

1:26:24 wailing, you lick your proms. It's a little childish and stupid, but

1:26:29 then so is high school. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop

1:26:36 and look around once in a while, you could miss it. I do

1:26:42 have a test today that wasn't full. It's on European socialism. I mean,

1:26:46 really, what's the point. I'm not European. I don't plan on

1:26:49 being European. So who gives a crap of their socialists? They can be

1:26:54 fascist anarchists. It still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car.

1:27:00 I recall Central park Yawyer. What a mess I canna fess it's not

1:27:15 that I can don't fascism or any reason for that matter. Isms, in

1:27:20 my opinion, are not good. The person should not believe in it is

1:27:24 he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, I don't believe in

1:27:28 Beatles. I just believe in me. A good point there, After all,

1:27:31 he was the Walris. I could be the Walris. I'd still have

1:27:35 to boom Ryan's up from people. So many times on this program I have

1:27:43 said a film needs a good villain, and comedies are no different. This

1:27:47 film's villain is Edward Rooney, the dean of students that makes it his mission

1:27:54 to make an example out of the lovable slacker that is Ferres. In our

1:27:59 next clip, we hear Rooney describe what Ferris could do to the student body

1:28:05 to his dim witted secretary played by Edie mcclurk. She tells him exactly what

1:28:12 he is up against, and it's easy to see that even she loves Ferris

1:28:18 in a way. I don't trust this kid any further than I can throw

1:28:25 him. Well, with your bad need, you shouldn't throw anybody, That's

1:28:31 true. What is so dangerous about a character like Ferris Bueller is he gives

1:28:35 good kids bad ideas. Uh huh. Last thing I need at this point

1:28:40 in my career is fifteen hundred Ferris Bueller disciples running around these halls. He

1:28:45 jeopardizes my ability to effectively govern this student body. Well, makes you look

1:28:49 like an ass is what he does. Ed Thank you, Grace. I

1:28:54 think you're wrong. Oh well, he's very popular at the esportos and motor

1:28:59 hits, sluts, bloods, wasteoids. Do we be? They all adored.

1:29:04 They think he's a righteous dude. That is why I have got to

1:29:11 catch him this time, to show these kids that the example he sets is

1:29:15 a first class ticket to nowhere. Oh Dad, you sounded like dirty Harry

1:29:20 just then? Really, Uh huh. I mentioned in the opening of this

1:29:30 review that Ferris has a neurotic friend Cameron Fry to me. Cameron is one

1:29:38 of the most memorable characters in any teen movie. In this film, it

1:29:43 becomes obvious that Ferris does really care for him and wants to see him break

1:29:49 the chains of his neurosis in negative worldview. Our final two clips of this

1:29:56 review show their relationship. First, Ferris calls Cameron, who is legitimately sick,

1:30:04 to come and enjoy the day with him, and then Ferris calls him

1:30:10 again. In the middle of the second call, Ferris is checked on by

1:30:15 his father on the other line. We then hear Ferris's shrewdness in keeping up

1:30:20 the guise of his being sick. Hello, carababe, what's happening? Very

1:30:34 little? How do you feel shredded? Is your mother in the room?

1:30:42 She's indicator? Unfortunately she's not staying. Where are you? I'm taking a

1:30:47 day off and I get dressed and come on over. You can't sc that's

1:30:54 all in your head. Come on over. I feel like complete Harris.

1:30:58 I can't go anywhere. Ready to hear that? Now, come on over

1:31:01 here and pick me up. You're not dying. You just can't think of

1:31:19 anything good to do. If anybody needs a day off, it's Cameron.

1:31:28 He has a lot of things to sort out before he graduates. Can't be

1:31:31 wound up this titan go to college his room, it'll kill him. When

1:31:34 Cameron was in Egypt's land, let my Cameron go. Pardon my French.

1:31:45 But Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his

1:31:49 in two weeks you have a diamond. And now Farris's second call. I'm

1:31:57 serious, man, this is ridiculous making me wait around the house for you.

1:32:00 Why can't you let me rot in peace? Cameron? This is my

1:32:02 ninth sick day. If I get caught, I won't graduate. I'm not

1:32:06 doing this for me, I'm doing it for you. Do you know what

1:32:09 my diostolic is? Be a man, take some pepto bisms, get dressed,

1:32:13 and come on over here. I'm tired of this stuff. Shut up,

1:32:16 hold your water for a second. I got another call. Hello Barrett.

1:32:24 Hi, you sound terrible, really darn I thought it was improving.

1:32:29 Were you sleeping? Dad? Can you hang on for a second? Sure?

1:32:32 Repeal? Hang on, Cameron, it's my dad. Oh great,

1:32:38 keep me out of it. If you're not over here in fifteen minutes,

1:32:41 you can find a new best friend. You've been saying that since the fifth

1:32:45 grade. Dad. Now, all this talking has made me kind of light

1:32:50 headed. I think I had to lie down, take a hot bath,

1:32:55 and then wrap a hot towel around your head, wrap a hot towel around

1:32:58 my head, and then make you sell some soup, get a nap.

1:33:01 Okay, okay, hey firs, Yeah, I love you, pal,

1:33:05 I love you too. I'm so disappointed in Cameron twenty Bucks says he's sitting

1:33:14 in his car debating about whether or not he should go out. You'll keep

1:33:20 calling me. You'll keep calling me until I come on. You'll make me

1:33:24 feel guilty. This is this is ridiculous. Okay, I'll go, I'll

1:33:29 go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go with I'll go. God,

1:33:40 damn it, forget it. That's it. M This film is one

1:34:11 of the most highly regarded teen comedies of all time. Roger Ebert gave it

1:34:15 three out of four stars. It is Richard Roper's favorite film, so much

1:34:23 so the license played on his car is sv F E R I S or

1:34:32 say ferris, a homage to what was on the water tower in the film.

1:34:38 The reason is because this film isn't raunchy means spirited or insulting. It

1:34:45 is a good, clean, heartwarming comedy. Filmgoers agreed with critics. It

1:34:50 was the tenth highest grossing film of nineteen eighty six, generating over seventy million

1:34:57 dollars in ticket sales. It spawned on a short lived, way less heralded

1:35:02 NBCTV series that featured Jennifer Aniston. It was canceled after thirteen episodes among very

1:35:12 low ratings. Despite this, the film is one of the most beloved comedies

1:35:17 in cinema history. Everything I just listed about the good natured humor of this

1:35:24 film, coupled with excellent performances, great direction by John Hughes, immemorable cameos

1:35:31 from Ben Stein and Charlie Sheen make this a true comedy classic and one that

1:35:40 is a must see. No matter who you are, no matter where you're

1:35:45 at, I guarantee you you will find a smile on your face after viewing

1:35:51 this film. I hope you join me next week when, in honor of

1:35:57 Veteran's Day, we look at Oliver Stone biopic of Vietnam War Veteran turned back

1:36:02 to this ron Kovic in the film form on the fourth of July or W

1:36:09 M. And h and Matt Connor Connumination and this has been a classic film.

1:36:26 Come on down to the