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Dark Rain is here. Hello, good morning, Hello, Hello, welcome everybody actually here. We'll we'll start with you if you can tell us who you are, what you do in the band. We'll kind of go around and then we'll and then we'll hear you play. My name is Kelly. Everybody calls me gh while I'm on stage, and I am the biggest diva out of the four of us at the moment. It's yeah, why do they call you g H? It's the way I spell my name, Kelly. It's k E L L E I g H. So they just call me for sure. I gotcha, Okay, okay.

And you, sir, Yeah, I'm Dudley. I play guitar and I'm the other singer in the band. I'll do a lot of the business end of stuff. Founding member. Yeah, very good, very good, all good stuff. And you, sir, and Brian. I play rhythm guitar, all right, and a little bit of backing vocals here and there. Very good, very good. And uh. And we also have are you the manager? Are you the Yeah? I do their road managing. My name is Echo. I go by Echo Ray the rock and Redhead. I do the stage managing and I also do merch sales and promotion, booking, that sort of stuff.

Excellent, excellent. How long have you worked with Dark Ray Dark Rain. I've been working with for just a few months now. We've we've been friends for half a lifetime. Oh yeah, very good, very good. We should mention too. That track that we played playing with fire and by the way, but you know, full disclosure, part of why I picked that is it's six minutes long, so it's good for the changeover when you all are getting set up. It's a good, good, long song. But that is because I think I heard you say that was your favorite.

It's one of my favorite, one of your favorite. I like that too. I like all the tracks, all the studio tracks you sent me. But yeah, that one, that that is a that is great. That is really really good. It punches in the face. Yeah, really good stuff. But we're dying to hear you play live if you want to. Oh, we should mention too. So you're missing somebody right your base. Our bass players home sick. We figured we wouldn't bring the disease down from me and appreciate. I appreciate it. He's recuperating for the show next week, gotcha go true?

Yeah, we have an amazing show next week, so we want him to be up and ready to go up and ready for that one. Where are you playing? We're playing at o'donna Hughes in Brunswick, Maine. It is a fundraiser that Echo has put on a letter tell you a little bit more about it, But we just wanted to do something for the survivors of that Lewiston mouse shooting. Yeah. We have a couple of friends in the music field with us that have lost close loved ones and it's just our way to hey, we're here for you. We got you six you know.

Okay, So very cool, very very cool. All right, Well, we're dying to hear you play. I'll kind of ride the faders as we go, all right, but we'll do we'll do a song off the off the CD, the American Dream, which is when we're currently promoting. This is a one of solo. Morecistically, it's called the Shades of August. All right, dark Rain live in studio. She left him with no choice. She gave of her time to other boys. What did they was going on because we all know that he did nothing wrong when I left down on your road,

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very nice, dark rain. Live in studio with us here on Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three f M on this Saturday morning. And uh, that that's I love that. That was awesome. The two of you singing together too, is really good. There's there's just something really uh you just you sound really good besties. Yeah, you guys really do. I mean that's the first thing that I noticed was your harmony together is really beautiful. Thank you so much. Almost sound like one voice.

It'll be a new song that makes it, if that makes sense. Do you do that on a lot of songs where you trade off on the vocals? Yeah, yeah, it's pretty much a duality. But it's like I call it, like the sweet and the melancholy. My voice is not a natural singer with Kelly's got this beautiful, awesome, powerful voice, but I think they blend well. Yeah, yeah, there's a contrast there that there really works. How long has Dark Rain been around? How long have you been a band? That question? So we started out Kelly and I and well, it's it's kind of where we we morphed from another band.

It was called Strictly Business. We morphed into Dark Rain. Brian had just stopped playing with us, and we it was myself, Kelly a drummer front of ours, guitarist and a bass player obviously, and we were around for like a couple of years. In ninety nine two thousand, did a lot of shows, got pretty busy and we played played down a mass a lot. We were doing getting kind of a good following and had a couple of record deals on the table, and then Kelly got pregnant, you know, had a baby. Yeah, so they could kind of full this off track and we're getting back.

Then we went through some lineup changes and stuff. In about twenty eleven or twelve, I decided to kind of put the band back together, so to speak, and all the original members came back except for the bass player, and we were working our stuff and we've been pretty much consistent since then. Brian came back. Our friend Ben Hursty who had been an original member. He'd been over overseas for a while and he'd come back and he joined up and eventually decided to leave again. And that's when Brian came back to us, and we h we've been pretty much continuing on since.

We put out two three albums. Three albums right now, ones out of print, but the two newer ones are there and We're working on an acoustic album to be released sometime this next year before we do our next big follow up. Yeah, and just keep pushing or playing your eye out for the thirteenth step. Yeah, that's okay, that's that's gonna be the name event. Okay, I'm horrible. I always steal the naming game, and I told Kelly she could have this one. She's been pushing the thirteenth step for a while.

So yeah, like everything has a twelve step program, and I like to go above and beyond, So I think the thirteenth step kind of fit for us. Yeah, I like it. I like it. Now, that's not that exact. Now. These studio tracks? Are these from a current album that you have out now? The ones? They center from the American Dream. It's our current CD. Okay, okay, yeah, the newest one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I really like Uh, I really like these. Where where did you record home? Yeah? In the the last last two c the last two CDs before that, great guy up in Thompson, me and Jerry Paron owns a music store and he owns music studio.

We recorded with him and it sounded great. It's just I really have been working hard to learn the whole crafting of recording and put myself together a studio at the house so's we had Dark Green Studios. Now we record other artists as well. Oh excellent, and we we've been slowly building that. And we did the whole CD from start to finish, except for the mastering I brought back to Jerry so I could have a fresh set of ears on it. Yeah, and I was pretty happy with the result. I thought it came up pretty decent for doing it at home.

Yeah, it's amazing. You know, the stuff they used to do back fifty years ago with like the Beatles and stuff, you can do it at your home studio now. So yeah, yeah, that's something that comes up a lot on the show. Is you know, you know, we've got all these different options as far as how you record, and you know, and there's there's still a ton of studios out there that you can go to, or you can learn to do it yourself, or you can learn to do it yourself at home and then bring another artists to record them.

Do have you recorded a lot of artists? I'm just starting. I've got a few and I'm still want to. I went back to going back to school again too, So getting some more knowledge under my belt, and I've taken a few in recently. I'm hoping to get more to come in once we get to do. We're doing some remodel on the studio too, so yeah, make it a little nicer. Yeah, excellent, excellent and uh all right, so how did Echo, how did you come into this in terms of working with the band?

Oh, I'm sorry, I'm having an issue with your mike. Okay, here we go. I think I got you. I was there, you are, so as I said, I've been really good friends with these guys for the better part of twenty years I think now, and just recently, over the spring and summer of this past year, I decided that I was going to take the leap and work professionally with musicians because nothing I love more than pushing local music. And you know, we wouldn't have national bands if they didn't start somewhere. So I go around and I scout out all these great bands and if they need help selling their merch or if they need help push their their name around or whatever, and then I'll step in and do what I girl.

Yeah, yeah, girl, yeah. So Dudley messaged me up like, we've got a bunch of gigs and we could really help use somebody to help us with merch And I don't think I've missed a gig since August. Everyone she's always ready to go. I'm like, do you want to get up tomorrow morning if you're ready to go by seven am and to go to the radio. She's like, sure, I work nights. I don't get out of work until almost two o'clock in the morning. For seven am is not my jam. Yeah, Well, I do you want to play another song?

I'd I'd love to hear another live song if you're just joining us. We have Dark Rain with us live in studio and they're going to play something for us. So this one's off the American Dream as well. It's called It's kind of Weird because we mostly a rock band. This is kind of a little bit of a country slash, i'd say hip hop flavor with Brian's guitar line. It's called stay with Me Tonight all right

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to Night. Well, the Dancings and Naked by the moon life. Hope you and my wealth is all right? Just ste just stay with me. Then you're dreading up blocking, Please, how's gonna read your bill? Who's gonna sell your mind? Go for you're stealing welcome ass and naked by the day. Hope you and I shall be a sorry st Just you have a thing an just stay away. You can answers and make a body only my examp, all right, you stay world, Just stay with the Oh that's awesome, awesome, Dark Dark Reign is with us live in studio.

I was thinking we could play another studio track you had mentioned. Well, the name of the album is American Dream, and of course this title track is is really great too. I was thinking maybe we could give this a listen and then we'll come back and talk some more. What are you thinking? Alright, all right, check this out. This is American Dream from the band Dark Bout my fears at the time, the way in side but now dead stand out around your barricane as what la or am about your domas what a bad boy right against the time?

So a barricane? That's good. That is American Dream and the band is a Dark Rain and we have them live in studio with us. How how long was the drive for you all? Where are you located it? Because about quarter two and a half hours? Oh my god, wow three and a half for me, I live an hour away from the guys. Wow. Well, we we really appreciate you being here today. That's that's a haul. It wasn't so bad. I didn't crash it last Yeah, I made it a little bit easier. Yeah, yeah, no, no, we appreciate you.

Uh, we appreciate you being here. Now. When when did the album come out? Has it been out for a while or digitally it dropped? Did I want to say digitally and physically dropped different times? But yeah, so like about a year now. We've been tour behind it. Yeah, and we just started we like, we just started releasing videos, like there's an official music video for the American Dream that you just heard on YouTube. For Playing with Fire lyrics for Playing With No official videos we have the one for American Dream, uh walking out of HG Double Hockey Sticks Part two and uh you can say hell oh hell yeah, and the song.

All three of those are released so far. We're still working on the other new one. It's their new My new Passion is doing the music videos, so oh cool. Creative wise, do you do those? Are you in charge of that? Yeah, I'm pretty much most of We're going to get some pointers. Yeah, that's another That's another thing too. You know, we were talking earlier about how we live in a time where you have all these different options for recording also for making music videos, you know, I mean you can you know, you can use an iPhone and record, or you can upscale from there.

But it's it's amazing. It's funny too because some people, people who don't know, some people have this idea that the music videos are dead, you know, because MTV doesn't doesn't do it anymore and whatnot and hasn't for decades actually now at this point, or VH one. But uh but actually, really there's more music videos than ever because of YouTube. I mean, some major artists who have you know, like a gazillion dollars will put out a video for I remember Beyonce did that at one point. Like maybe this might have been like ten years ago, but she released an album and when the album came out, a video for every single song.

Oh yeah, it came out at the same time. It was like, wow, that must have been very expensive. But yeah, I mean really, there's more music videos than ever. It's it's uh, the more choices awhere to watch, just like with your viewing chiv choices, more stuff out there. Yeah, more content than ever, but also yeah, you're you're competing with more. Yeah, it's not concentrated anywhere, right right. I feel like with a video too, you can get more context of where your artist is coming from. Everybody takes a song differently as to like how the original artist wrote it and then you read you watch the video or like, oh crap, that's what they were really talking about, but that's not how I related it to my life, right right, So, I mean it's kind of cool to do it that way, and that's kind of why I like doing the videos too.

It gives them, gives me a kind of a chance to add more to the interpretation of it. I'm good with people taking a song we write and making it their own and what it means to them, you know, Like playing with Fire is a good example. Like it's when we talk about a lot, it's you know, for us, it's about you know, kind of like you get two really really good friends, you know, do they take the step and cross the line to make it more than just a friendship. And do you mess that up? Do you play with because I can hurt you and you can hurt me too, But I'm kind of willing to take that chance with you because right, I like playing with fire.

That's the song, Like, like I tell people from stage, playing taking the chance and playing with fires better than being left out in the cold. Yeah. Yeah, if you don't take the step, you don't know, you can miss out on something good. Or maybe you're not. I mean I don't know, right, it could be crap. Only one way to find out, Yeah, one way to got to take that step and just go with it, right, right, do you want to play another live song for us? Sure? We do something off the next CD, well do you? This is called our public service announcement talking about the harmonies, and this is we always tell people to worry about the breast cancer.

My mother had breast cancer. I'm a very strong advocate for women making you know, get get your exam, get checked men too as well, but very very very adamant on you know, save the tatas. So that's my first and foremost uh public service announcement. And you mentioned men too. That's something Jenny talks about a lot of encouraging men to you know, I'm a breast cancer survivor. My mother's too, congratulations. And and and we know someone who had well, actually a couple of people had a couple of friends that are men who have had breast cancer.

Yeah, I mean they know, want to make friends. The stage four right now, I get checked, get checked it. It takes the pecks boys check the p I like that. Awesome. So that's our serious public service announcement obviously. Then, so Kelly and I have both like different recreational items. I personally like a good drink every once in a while, so I'll call Yeah. And I like to smoke because it's legal in our state, you know, not so legal here, I guess. So this is this is a little diddy about about about both of those items.

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who I love it? Dark Rain, Dark Rain Live in the studio with us this morning on Matt Connorton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester in New Hampshire. If you have any questions or anything feedback input for the band, the studio line is open six oh three two five oh six oh seven, six oh three two five oh six oh seven. We don't have our usual Facebook live feed because Facebook is being Facebook, but so we're we are strictly audio this morning, but uh, but you can stream the show of course at w m n H Radio dot orgon you can always go to my website Matt Connorton dot com.

For all your live streaming options and social media links and contact info and show archives, et cetera, et cetera. But we are very happy to have Dark Rain in studio with us. And do you guys, so, are you playing a lot of shows these days? Are you planning out a lot or yeah? We played almost every week month, every weekend. It's part of our part of our curse, we've been we've had a really hard time finding a steady drummer. Yeah, because we'll get We'll get somebody on board. We've gone through.

We had we had a study drummer for years and years and years, Chris Williams, the guy that was originally with us, great drummer, and uh, he eventually left, went to another band, and we got another guy and he lest a little while, and we get another guy. He lasted for We won't go into that discussion, I guess, but we is that the show we got a plastic one show I was talking about that shall be named. But that sounds like a good story. It's a lot of drama. But then we get another guy named Devin Mallard who was really good and he actually did the American Dream City with us, and he was good.

He just you start having some some physical issues and stuff. That's why he's not playing with us now. But so a lot of times we actually use a digital drummer, which is a little weird, which is really cool. Actually people like drummer and like, well, this is Scott Free, He's our drummer. It's actual, it's not like a drum machine. It's actual tracks that people have played and stuff and so, and sometimes we do like a different some shows we have live drummer. Totally depends what the situation is.

So we keep getting a drummer in, we'll work them. We had a guy last time when we worked up three months, rehearsed, rehearse, rehearsed, and yeah, totally into this. I love to play every week and I want to be out there. I want to be playing, you know. Gave him a list of of upcoming shows and he's, I can't do that. There's too many. Wow really yeah yeah. First he sitting there going, oh wow, I'm like, we told you this from day one. It happens pretty regularly. So up front, like if you're not one hundred percent and you don't want to do this, then don't waste our time, please, because but so we had a group of four of us that play out.

We have different rummers that sit in with us. Sonny Robinson from Twisted Roots, Yeah, we got from He's going to be doing tracks on the next CD for us as well. And Christ's in us pretty regularly off and on at least couple of times a year. Just yeah. We have good friends to do it, but we would love to find a permanent rummers. So somebody has to be able to play all willing to play all the time. We travel all over New England. Yeah, we've gone as far as New York, but like we're really like you in on Providence right now.

We're doing a lot of shows in Rhode Island. We were down there last week. We work with a guy named Justin mccott from Voltage. It's Voltage and he does he does a lot of the shows that used to be the booker for and the Vault and stuff down in Bedford. He's got us some good gigs and we're playing down there and you know, playing Rhode Island and mass in New Hampshire, and we played up here a little while ago. Excellent, yeah, excellent, love them oh yeah too, yeah, absolutely absolutely, yeah, drummers.

That's been a topic on the show quite a bit. It seems like for one thing, every drummer is in like ten bads. That's exactly. Yeah. And my theory, uh, you know, people have heard me say this a million times, but my theory about drummers is when you're a kid, when you're growing up and you first start getting interested in playing an instrument, you got to have the talk with your parents. I want to play drums. That's the first instrument they were going to try to talk you out of. They don't want to want all the boys, you know that or maybe the tuba would would they would try to talk you out of that too.

Probably I got his little one playing the drums. Oh really Yeah. He's hooked on music. Yeah, good, good, like even the oldies too, like not just like current music. Like kid likes Elvis, Yeah, like Buck Cherry. He likes Chuck Berry, Yeah,

like all of them. He's he's got an eclectic taste of music. He likes to sing kiss with us too. Nice. We have a barbecue every year and he'll get up there and he was singing, Oh god, who's like two up there singing kiss with Annie? You know, get the little Ones in there. Yeah, yeah, very good. My favorite band. Yeah really yeah, it's the Psycho Circuit Store with Kiss Yeah yeah, excellent, excellent, Well we should We'll play another studio track. Actually, the song Poison Inside I think is really good.

Should we play that one? That's a good one too. That has to do with that situation we're talking about with the drummer and the drama. Yea, yes, yeah. Is that the same drummer that didn't want to play any shows or is that no? No, the drummer named Oh god. It was such a rough It was a rough period for us. I literally had to beg my best day, like you are not leaving music over this. This is like how bad that situation was made play a show? It made him. I dragged his but oh, I can say, asked well all the way down where we're in New Hampshire, mask the Lazy Dog and did a podcast with Jeff Royd's Yeah, Dudley did not want to.

I'm like, dude, we're going down, you bringing your guitar. I'm not letting you get out. We're going to have a last and one day we lost like half the bands. One of those situations and it was a bad situation all together personally. So yeah, we got a lot of songs out of it. Though. Well there you go, probably a whole album worth of music that situation. Well that's good, you know, I always say, I mean, if you can take bad things and create something positive out of them, yeah, come on the other side of it better.

So yeah, exactly, let's give this a listen then, cool. So this is this is topical Poison Inside and the band is a Dark Rain. Check this out s second,

verybody can see happen. Then when did you like that? Chi I gather my boy, this thing that everything is there. The boy I never no Vodia. Let's say black I ever no Boia. Let's say all right, Poison Inside. The band is Dark Rain. They are here with us, live in studio. I just got a long fade out. I like it. That's kind of a lost art. You don't hear long fade outs as much as you used to, But no, I dig it Dark Rain live in studio with us. You all want to play one more acoustic song and then we'll, uh sure, and then we'll talk a little bit more.

Plug what you got coming up, and then we'll we'll end with We have one more studio track too that we'll play at the end. But so the song that we're actually going to do acoustically goes hand in hand with the one that you want to play that's recorded. So this is I am a domestic violence survivor, as I was telling you on that little break, and I decided to write a song about it and kind of make the story like like, don't keep it hidden, you know, like it the more that it's brought out there, the more will come for it and be like this is not socially acceptable.

So this is my domestic violence story in a song, This is never More. He came out of nowhere like an angel performer. He was a mystery, but the devil dingers guys like me like a miestro.

And I was locked inside my mind, perched like a ray van never mobly be mine, never more. Side of sack, beside this may he man Bede Jane s alive. I can see you right through you before the lies brull out your mouth. Beware of casting stones when you live in a glasshouse. Through all of your trauma, you blacken my tell tale heart. I never felt so well day. Wish we could go back to the store forget that never more side, sick inside, describe them snap by. If you haven't learned by then this is the point.

I'm blooding it. Broke can absolutely crawled out of that grave. I was dumbing mdam and love could not be saved. So I patched up my wings and I'm learning how to fly. They like Grave bad. I'm gonna pluck out the whole guy forever Mo sick inside this Bye bye bye hie ye. All right, that was awesome. Yeah, yeah, well done, well done. Dark Rain live in studio with us, and uh, I know that we should mention too, and Echo was reminding us about, uh, let me get that mic up there. We've got or you've got shows.

Well, there's there's a really big one we're talking about. Is that what you were referring to? Okay, This Friday, This upcoming Friday night, December the twenty second, we're having the Women of Rock support Lewiston Strong hashtag Lewiston Strong. I've pulled together for amazing bands with some rock and women in them. We have Dark Rain will be headlining the night. We're also going to have Diamond's Edge, which is actually a New Hampshire local Seattle new grunge band is. We're going to be having them that features Breezy from Signal to Noise and then she is Amazing.

We love Breezy and then we also have Drunken Public performing as well. There is a small five dollars cover charge, but all of the proceeds are going straight to the Lewis and Strong victims. So we're going to be doing some raffles as well. We want to put a shout out to Jerry Paron again. He's going to be donating a gift card and we'll also have a basket with some band merch in it so you can get your band merch on and support those local bands. Uh. Doors at seven, music starts at eight o'clock and it's gonna be a really good time.

Hughes in Brunswick, me O Donna Hughes and Brunswick, Miss Pleasant Street. If you guys have nothing better to do on what is it Friday night? Echo on a Friday night, take a drive they come see us. It's gonna be such a great night, it really is. Finish the Christmas shopping and come on down there you go, there you go, and uh, what should people know about where to find you online. People want to follow everything that you're doing. Get your music et ceara, dark rainband dot com. Okay, in Dark Rain dot us.

Oh, that's our YouTube channel. You can find us on YouTube obviously, Spotify, Apple Music, Google, Amazon Music. Yeah, yeah, pretty much anywhere, shiz am friend any of us. We like people, Yeah, excellent, excellent. Like the band page on Facebook. Yeah, Dark Echo Ray the Rock and Redhead on Facebook or just Echo Ray also on Facebook. Okay, very good, very good. Well, thank you so much. This has been wonderful. We're gonna play one more studio track to close out the seg and then Jenny and I will be back.

Of course, in the third hour. We have Eric Pilcher's classic film review coming up. And but this is another great song from Dark Rain. This is called Skit and this this relates to the song you just played, right it does. The chorus literally talks about you know, I'm tired of playing the games. This is not a role in my life that I want to play with you. Yeah. It's almost like the precursor to the other song, because this is when Kelly and I are both going through really bad parts of bad situations and I don't want to do this, but I want.

I'm still here, you know, stuck in that. How do I get out of it before it turns into you know, the Nevermore song? So okay, it started out with Skit and then went into Nevermore, So it was like a precursor. Okay, okay, very cool. Oh and thank you for the CDs. By the way, I should mention, yeah, we're not on Facebook today so I can't hold them up for everybody, but The American dream and The Long Road Home. This came out before The American Dreamer. Yeah, that's our last CD. That's seventeen tracks almost like yeah, yeah, you can buy them digitally, Like I said, you know any of the digital retailers Apple Music, Yeah, yeah, are always We always prefer that kind of stuff over Spotify.

Spotify is great to get known, but we actually make money off those if they buy him somewhere or at a local show. Yeah yeah, support to local musicians. Know, absolutely not as easy as everyone thinks it is. No, No, that's that's for sure. That's for sure. Dark Reign thank you all again so much. This has been Thank you for having us absolutely and this is called Skit the Bass. Sorry, like my back, my back, my back, I'll stop and I played a boy. I can't go Leven Shore playing my game. J Come on down to the Hop Knot at one thousand Elm Street, Manchester's premiere Kraft Beer and gourmet Pretzel bar.

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Imagine where you will be and a movie. So hold the Lord, stay with me. You find yourself alone, riding in green fields with a sun on your face. Do not be trouble. Oh you are an elysium and you're already died. Brothers, what were doing? Live? Echo's and autonogy epics have been as much of a constant in cinema as hot, fresh, buttered popcorn. These films are lengthy in nature, wide awe inspiring sets, fight scenes, and special effects, coupled with dynamite performances to tell a story that spans time and leaves an undeniable impact on the viewer.

As synonymous as popcorn is to film, one genre of film is synonymous with epics. That is the quote unquote sand in sandal films or films about ancient Rome in this week's film is one of the best ever released in two thousand. Directed by Ridley Scott, Gladiator introduces us to Roman General Maximus Deretus Meridius Russell Crowe in his breakthrough Academy Award winning performance, who is selected by Marcus Aurelius Western film legend Richard Harris in one of his final roles, to succeed him. However, those plans are thwarted by his son Comedists played by Joaquin Phoenix, who murders him and kills Maximus's family and sets Maximus through the path of slavery in being a colisseum Gladiator.

However, Maximus' popularity grows and it leads him with the chance to avenge the death of his family and emperor in a final climactic battle with Comedists. In our introductory clip, we hear the great General Maximus rally his troops before a battle shortly after the film begins. Our next clips show Marcus Aurelius with both men. First. With Maxim, we hear the tender care and honesty he has with Maximus. This hearkens to a father and son like relationship that two have. We will then see his interaction with his own son Comedists, where Marcus admits his failures as a father.

As he tells Commodists he is being bypassed as successor, is giving this role to Maximus. We hear the pain of regret. It was so fragile, and I fear that it will not survive the winter. Maximus, let us whisper. Now together, you and I. You have a son.

Tell me about your home. My house is in the hills above Tahila, very simple place. Pink stones are warm in the sun, kitchen garden smells of herbs in the day, jasmine in the evening. Through the gators, a giant poplar, figs, apples, pears, who soil Marcus black black like that my wife's here grapes on the south slopes alas on the north. While ponies plain him else they teach my son. He wants to be one of them. Remember the last time you were two years two hundred and sixty four days, and this morning I envy you, Maximus.

It was a good home worth fighting for. There is one more duty that I asked of you before you go home. What would you have me do, Susan.

I want you to become the protector of Rome. After I die, I will empower you to one end alone, to give power back to the people of Rome and end the corruption that has crippled it. You accept this great honor that I have offered you with all my heart. Now, Maximo, that is why it must be you. But surely a prefect, a senator, somebody who knows the city, who understands her politics. But you have not been corrupted by our politics. And Commoduce Commodus is not a moral man. You have known that since you were young.

Commodus cannot rule. He must not rule. You're the son that I should have had. Commodcell except my decision. He knows that you command the loyalty of the army.

I need some time, so by sunset I hope you will have agreed. Now embrace me as my son, and bring an old man another blanket.

And now, Marcus in Commondas, are you ready to do your duty for Rome? Yes, father, you will not be emperor, which why the old the man is to take my place. My pause will pass to Maximus

to hold in trust until the Senate is ready to rule once more. Rome is to be a republic again. Acts. Yes, my decision disappoints you.

He wrote to me once, listing the forty virtues wisdom, justice, fortitude, and temperance. As I read the list, I knew I had none of them, But I have other virtues for them. Ambition that can be a virtue when it drives us to excel, Resourceful, his courage,

perhaps not on the battlefield, but that are many forms of courage, devotion to my family, to you. But none of my virtues won your list.

Even then, it was as if you didn't want me for your son. Commonness, you go too far. That's the faces of the god for waste. Please, if you are to make you proud, one kind word, one fuck where you best mean your chest an help me tight? It would have been like the sun of my heart for thousand years. What is this gonna mean? You hate so much? All I have wanted was to the fty Caesar father, commodness. You are false as a son. Is my failure as a father? F I would put to the whole world to you, what don't Rea love me?

I mentioned at the beginning of this review that these epic films almost always have amazing performances, and this film is certainly not an exception. As a matter of fact, it could be viewed as the standard the aforementioned performance of pro Nonwithstanding, Joaquin Phoenix used his performance in this film to shoot into the upper tier of Hollywood actors, a spot he has not seeded since. Our next scene shows the bevy of emotions he brought into this role. Lost, jealousy, anger, pride, deception, deceit, greed, callousness, they're all here.

In the first part of the scene, Communist confronts his sister, who he has lusted over, and callously explains how he is taking her son Lucius away from her. Then, before his climactic fight with Maximus, he confronts him as he is tied to a post, and in a brief moment, we are teased with a possible love he may have for Maximus, but that changes as he coldly stabs him in the kidneys, debilitating him for their final battle, and demands that the wounds be covered by armor for their climactic showdown.

Thanks donephew. What if his mother? Should they share love us fate? Should that be messiful?

Commit us? The messful Lucius will stay with me now, and if your mother so much as looks at him and the manner that displeases me, you will die. She decides to be know and takes her owners, he will die. As for you. You will love me. That's I love to you. You will provide me with an air of pure blood, so that Commodus and this colty will prove hlosity. Am I not my sphone? I'm not hustlephone and a son I obey. Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear as they called for you.

The general who became a slave, the slave who became a gladiator, the gladiator defied and not striking story. Now that people want to know how the story ends,

only a famous death will do what could be more glorious than to challenge the Emperor himself in the Great Arena. You would fight me? Why not? Do you think I'm afraid? I think you've been afraid all your life, unlike Maximus the Invincible, who knows no fear, And you're a man who, once her death, smiles at us. All all a man can do is smile back. I wonder did your friend spire at his own death. You must know you're to your father. You loved my father. I know,

but so did I. That makes us by this, doesn't it?

Smile for me? Now? Stop on his arm Concealed Route. In two thousand, this film took Hollywood by storm. It was released on May fifth of two thousand, right around the time for summer blockbusters, but it not a normal time for films looking for Academy Awards or other year end awards. At the box office, it rked in seven point seven billion dollars worldwide. It re emphasized the importance of summer blockbusters, and many experts have stated it's say the fledgling DreamWorks studio at the time. After winning the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Drama, it was nominated twelve Academy Awards.

It won five, including Best Picture in a Major Upset and Best Actor again for Crow. It was nominated for others, including Best Director for Ridley Scott and Best Supporting Actor for Joaquin Phoenix. In regards to epics, this film checks all the boxes. Operatic esque soundtrack, on inspiring cinematography, mesmerizing performances, compelling story and why spanning shots that blow the viewer away. This film is one of the sand In Sandals epics that should be and must be joy by all. I hope you join me next week when for our final review appear, and in honor of Christmas, we will look at a young boy's quest to procure a red rider go in nineteen or film a Christmas story of reminding kind of ten.

This has been possibilm your you are listening to wumin you come in, don't get so greenly mad South. Welcome back everybody as we cruise into our final segment this week on Matt Connorton Unleashed, we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM, inglorious Downtown Manchester New I'm sure Jenny is here as well at the news desk presenton account of farm. Yes yes, and by the way, so today on the show, of course, first hour we had Tom Russo here, and then second hour into a little bit of the third hour we had a dark rain joining us live in studio, and then we had of course Eric Pilterri's classic film review.

Another great review this week of the the your two thousand film Gladiator starring Russell Crowe. If you are wondering if you saw on social media we were supposed to have another band coming in, Vices Inc. From Maine, about one of the band members is sick, so they had to stay behind. They will reschedule certainly. Although I was saying to Jenny off air, it kind of worked out in a way because I had no idea. We actually we talked about it on the way over, but I didn't realize just how far dark Rain traveled to get here.

So it was actually it worked out that, you know, I mean, sorry we to not be able to have Vices Inc. On the show today, but it did work out in one sense because what I realized, but I realized how far dark Rain had traveled to be here, you know, because we interview obviously, we interview a lot of artists from the area, but we also interview artists from far away, sometimes from other continents, but they usually skype in. So to have dark Rain travel all that way to get here, it worked out that we were able to at least spend a little bit more time with them, more fun to have in studio.

I look forward to them coming back. Yeah, yeah, really, really great. So I enjoyed that quite a bit.

I do want to mention And we talked about this a little bit last night too on Retrospectrum Radio with pol C, but I just wanted to acknowledge it again today here on this show. For longtime listeners, whether you're a regular listener of this program or the Morning Show with Peter White, you're probably familiar with Shannon Shannon die On from right here in Manchester. She was a very loyal listener. She called both shows on a regular basis. The other other show here at the station that really takes live calls is Off the Mark Sports with Kyle Heavy, But I don't think Shannon was a sports fan, so she probably didn't call that show.

But we found out, well, it was a couple of days ago, a few days ago now Shannon passed away. So I just wanted to say, you know, condolences to the family and you know, any loved ones that she had in the area. I don't I don't really know. I will miss hearing her voice, yeah, will Yeah, I don't really know much about uh, you know, who she had around here for for family and friends. But but yeah, the thing that the thing that I always appreciated about Shannon was her sense of humor. Was such that you know, she was willing to uh, you know, let's let's be honest.

Sometimes the calls could be a little strange, but my sense of humor being what it is, I tended to want to kind of lean into that and and make things even stranger. And we had some very strange conversations on the air, Shannon and I did. But you know, but I could kind of, you know, pick on her a little bit and and take it in different directions. And she was always willing to go for the ride, you know what I mean. She she loved me, so she did, yes, oh, absolutely, no, she had a but she had a really good sense of humor that way, you know, And and you know we we pick on her, never with malice, of course, always with affection, and uh, I think she understood that and and she she had a really good sense of humor about it.

So so uh, the obituary online just said a sudden illness. So don't don't really know any details beyond that, of course, but anyway, I just wanted to acknowledge that and the passing of our friend Shannon. She will be messed absolutely absolutely. We do have a little bit of time left on today's show not much, but the studio line is open six oh three two five oh sixho seven if you would like to join us six oh three two five six oh seven. I'm sorry we're not on Facebook today. Facebook is being glitchy.

As far as I can tell, It's not not anything internally here at the studio. Technology wise, it seems to be. I think it's an issue with Facebook because Facebook is being Facebook and Facebook does glitch on occasions, so we're not able to stream live on Facebook. But if you're of course, you can listen to us on ninety five point three FM locally in Manchester, and of course you can access us from anywhere in the world online. I hope that Eric's listening. I want to say thank you to your film review for last week for the Bronxtail.

Yes, I watched it and I really enjoyed it a lot, and I would not have done so if not for the film review. So that's right, big shout out thank you to Eric. Keep doing those reviews. We love them. And there's actually been a number of different movies along the way that I've watched only because of the review, absolutely being one of them. Bronxtail was definitely good. Yes, yes, we have a call. Hi. Welcome to Matt Connorton Unleashed. Who's this Hi Matt Gary. Hey Gary, you haven't heard from you in a while.

How are you doing? Yeah? I know life, Yeah, all right, Yeah, I'm doing good. I just you know, Hi, Jenny, my love, Hi sweetie. What are you doing today? I'm relaxing. I clean my house and everything and I'll go outside because it's beautiful and get some sun. Yeah it's yeah. I just want to Yeah, I just want to say my condolences too to Shannon's family. And you know, she was she was, she was fun to listen to. Yeah, she kind of became a character, you know, on the shows on both Oh yeah, she had a character on both in the morning shows and rest her soul.

Yeah, and you know, if it was things you know, we do. There are people out there to help you. And I think she just wanted to call in and have a friend. Yeah, yeah, absolutely so. But yeah, but no, things are going pretty good. I lost I lost ten more pounds, so oh, good for you. Excellent and just yeah, I hadn't been able to call for a while. I've been busy with other things. And and then Uh, yeah, I figured out Saturdays. I said, well, hey, i'll give Matt and Jenny Paul you know they'll be together.

Yeah, here we are. Ye. Yeah. Well, I just wanted to wish you guys. Uh, Jenny, I've belated happy honka. Oh, thank you, thank you very much. And yeah, and then just wish you guys happy holidays and have you know, have some some good times and uh, a brand new year next year with a new place to be at and everything. I drove by there out with a friend of mine and it looks really amazing with the big letters out there, and you know, and

looks like it's going to be really awesome there. Yeah, absolutely won't be a secret studio anymore. That's right, That's right. No, I just want to see how you guys are doing. And so yeah, I'm doing pretty good, good, awesome, and yeah, I just I miss you guys during the week, and but I get busy during the week now. I try to do a lot of things and get myself prepared for the winter because you know, we won't be able to do very much and just been around and everything on. I did I did lose a I did lose a friend Michelle to cancer this year, and it was kind of hard.

Yeah, she was my shoes. She was my neighbor from where I used to live, and she we were real good friends. And I loved that lady to death. She was so she was so great and sweet. But she's in a far better place and no more hurting. No more hurting. She h Yeah, she had. When I saw her, it ripped right through her pancreatic cancer. I just ripped right through her. And I didn't want to see I didn't want to see her the last day and I had called. I kept calling for her, and her and her son called got her phone number and said that she went into the hospital and but she died peacefully with her family around her.

And I said, well that was good. And then I went to a celebration of life for her and we sat around the table cried and said funny stories about her. So it was good. And they even brought her corn She she loved playing corn hole, so they brought her a cornhole. A lot accessories there and the and the kids would play and everybody was you know, so it was it was a great celebration of life, you know. And that's what I that's what I like you know, to do you know, you go to funerals and everybody sits there.

Oh yeah, blah blah blah, and you gotta wear the big suits and everything there. It was just totally awesome. It's just totally awesome and it was great. But yeah, so Jenny, how are you doing. I am good. I am doing very well, thank you. Feeling good? Yes, I am upright, which is always good. Oh yeah, I have Yeah, I have ups and downs. I have day he's your body just doesn't want to work, and you know, but a little icy hot, a little icy hot, and I'm on my way. All right, Gary, All right, Well, I know you just don't have a few minutes.

But I just wanted to call in and say, you know, I'm still here and you know, still listen to a lot of music stuff and I like to listen to the people you got on there, so but appreciate that. I just wanted to send my my condolences out to her her family, and you know, things things get you know, you're you just get overwhelmed and I can't understand sometimes but away from this stupid world and and all the things. So but both of you, you know how much I love you both, so a big, a big hug through the through the phone and I have a great have a great holidays.

Bye, thank you Gary, bye bye. All right, very nice. Yeah, we haven't heard from Gary in a long time, in a long time. If you'd like to get in with a quick call, we do have a few minutes left. Six O three two five six O seven is a studio line six O three two five six seven. We did attend an event yesterday at the Mosaic Art Collective above the Palace Theater about AI and very interesting a lot of it talking about using chat, GPT and UH, which which I'm a proponent of. You can do some cool things with it.

And now what was the part that they used to do pictures dot or dash. Oh there's Dolly three, Dolly three, I can hold on to that one. I was yeah, I was particularly well because you know, part of what a big part of what the presentation was about was using AAR and AI in art visual art, and I had used Dolly three recently uh on YouTube for when I when I posted the uh I posted on YouTube. UH. The segment that we did where we talked about the Daryl Hall versus John Oates lawsuit, and I had actually used Dolly three and it was I talked about this a little bit at the presentation when we were at the end and we were just kind of chatting, and I said that, you know, I had asked because there's there are some things you can ask it to do in terms of creating visual images that it won't do.

It'll it'll give you a hard time. And I talked about how I tried to get it to create an image of Daryl Hall versus John Oates in a boxing ring having a boxing match, and the presenter of his name escapes me. Do you remember his name? No, it was it was someone we hadn't met before. But he was talking about how it seems like it doesn't it it's resistant to creating images of celebrities and certain types of situations, like anything involving violence. Because I said, yeah, the best I could do with it, I couldn't get it to create an image of Hall and Oates boxing each other.

The best I could do was I got it to create an image of the two of them at a chess board staring angrily at each other over a game of chess. And that's that's really the best I could do, and that's the image if you look at the thumbnail on YouTube, that's that's the best I could do with it in terms of what I could get it to do. So you know, it does have certain limitations, but it was a very interesting presentation. Absolutely was actually if you go to the Mosaic Art Collective Facebook page, the presentation has been posted up there so you can take a look at it.

He did an excellent job of really breaking down the different components and having a really good conversation, Like we were talking about, you know, how far, what should it be used, what is okay? And is still art? What isn't okay? And do you consider it art if it's computer generated but it's your designs. Like one of the things he talked about was music, and that he fed the machine seventy seven songs that he had written and then asked it to write a song with certain parameters in his style, to which it did and he actually performed it for us and you can see that there on the video which is on the Mosaic Our Collective's Facebook page, which if you did didn't know that existed, I didn't either, Little alone secret and it's absolutely awesome to go up there.

They have incredible art pieces. There's always something showing there, and there are some artists workshops in there as well as that not workshops, they're studios, some artists have some studios. Is located at sixty six Hanover Street, Suite two one, right here in the Queen's City and you can see the Mosaic Artcollective dot com as well for more information on them. But they have a lot of incredible pieces and this presentation was definitely eye opening in that I don't know, It's like where, how far will it go?

And what is okay? What isn't okay? Is it okay for an artist to use a computer or not, whether it's an image or a writing, Yeah, it's questionable. And uh, they're going to be here on January sixth, which actually will be our last show in the studio before the big move. That's right for the big move. Yeah, Liz and my friend Derek Smith, who's been booking the music there, they're going to be coming in that day that which is awesome. I really I like going there and I'm looking forward. I know they're going to be having more stuff coming down the pike.

We've we've gotten to go there and see musicians, which was very enjoyable. It's like a small intimate

collective. It's like they call it collective. It's a small dress. One of the things we talked about, though, was when my like me as a writer, thinking, I don't want to have anything to do with this. I don't want to go in where near it. I don't want anybody to confuse it. You know, I want to do my own work. But then, oh, but it's a great editor, right, so should you use it for editing? Is it safe to put your work on there? These are the kind of questions that started running through my mind, or the other way around.

You ask it to write stuff for you, and then you edit it as a human. One of the podcasts that I listened to that's been talking a lot about this is I don't know, if you know, if you're familiar with Adam Conover. He's a podcaster. He's also a stand up comedian. He also is a Hollywood writer. He's done a lot of different things. But he was expressing the concern in an episode that I was listening to about how you know because he's as a writer, he's was part of that that whole strike and part of the concern among script writers is, you know, is there going to come a point where just all scripts are AI generated or and he's he didn't think that it'll come to that.

But what he is worried about, and what a lot of people are worried about, is there there comes a point where a script is AI generated and then a human a human writer takes that script and just punches it up and kind of humanizing it, but isn't responsible for creating it from scratch. And that will contribute to the devaluation of what writers are paid because you don't need to hire you know, say you're you're going to be uh, you know, you're developing a Hollywood film, you don't need to hire a writer to write a script for that film.

You just need to You can have chat GPT generate an entire script and then give it to a writer who just goes through, punches it up, kind of humanizes it. You know, probably would have to punch up some of the dialogue. But so there are a lot of concerns. What's interesting about Adam Conover's podcast though, to me too, is he and some of the guests that he has on their main concern is how does this affect art and people who make money with art. But on the other end, they're very dismissive of some of the other concerns because some of the concerns that people have about AI is, you know, and we were kind of half joking about it at the presentation yesterday about AI taking over and killing all the humans.

And there's another guy, there's a technology guy named Scott Galloway who works in this area and he's I've seen him on Conover's podcast and some others, and you know, because some people are sounding the alarm and some people like Galloway, his attitude about it is that's he thinks that's completely absurd. He says, you know, in terms of copyright and things like that, there are plenty of issues that need to be sorted out. But he says, you know, AI systems are not going to become sentient beings that decide to kill us all.

He thinks that that's science fiction stuff, and it's and it's crazy. But but there's a part of what's interesting as we learn more about this is not only seeing how AI continues to develop, but the range of opinions and what the concern like everybody has concerns about it, but the concerns vary wildly among the people who are studying this and and come to different conclusions about what the concerns should be. So that is, uh is fascinating to me. But I thought, well, yeah, I mean I worry about how do you tell the difference?

Right, how do you tell the difference between AI art and human art when it gets better and better? Right? Does it? Does it replace? Does it replace us? Right? I'm because when you look at AI. Now we're talking about AI, but AI in general has already been projected it's going to take over millions of jobs and you know in the future, and like, I forget what there was a number I saw that. I can't remember what it was. It was like what they thought was going to happen to like twenty twenty five or something.

But there's obviously going to be a lot of jobs that are going to AI. But there's so you put that there's like a category of things that could potentially or eventually be only done by computer. Yeah, is that all of our writers can they invoke the emotion? They can be pretty descriptive, right, I mean, we've played with it a little yeah, oh yeah, And I mean I can't say that it's not good because it is. Yeah, it is, But I worry about see for me, there's an integrity thing there too. It's like, I like the idea of being able to have an independent computer to edit my work and not have to wait for somebody else or anything like that.

But on the other hand, if I let it touch my work, is it still just mine? Right? Yeah, that's it. That's a natural concern to have. I think absolutely well we are. We are just about out of time. We gotta we got to wrap up. But another successful show, and of course I will be back next week, which will be our well our last show of the year twenty twenty three. So thank you all, and if you know, yes and if you missed any part of today's show it we'll be up in just a little bit at w m n hradio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot com.

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