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Speaker 19: Here we go our number three New Marrow trace of Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm NH ninety five point three FM Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire. Today is a Saturday, December seven, twenty twenty four, and I am very excited. I've been really looking forward to this. We've got two of the guys from the band Regals here in studio and let me bring those mics up because these guys are all they're all set up, they're going to play live for us. Really looking forward to that.
Speaker 19: So let's see here. Oh, I'm glad you're playing. Yeah, I keep playing.
Speaker 20: What's up y'all?
Speaker 8: Oooh that sounds good.
Speaker 20: Doing.
Speaker 21: How are we doing out there, Manchester, New Hampshire radio listeners.
Speaker 8: Go ahead and introduce yourself, sir.
Speaker 20: My name is Ryan. My name is Ryan from the band Regals.
Speaker 19: All right, very good, and then let me get that other mic up here and then over here, sir.
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, how is everyone out there in radio land?
Speaker 22: Hello?
Speaker 4: My name is Lucas and I played the steel for Regals.
Speaker 19: I think I'm gonna let's see. I think I'm gonna pull down that mike and turn up this other mic. Go, go and talk a little more, Lucas. Hello, Oh that sounds nice. That sounds really nice.
Speaker 23: I had a surreal moment on my way to the studio today as I heard over the airwaves, big shout out.
Speaker 19: Absolutely, happy to do it, Happy to do it. I kind of want to get that other mic closer to you. I'm thinking about hang on a second, yeah, keep keep keep strumming.
Speaker 2: I want to get this way.
Speaker 21: Hey, world, what are we thinking about today?
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Speaker 8: That sounds really good?
Speaker 20: Live mixing on the radio.
Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, I think we're I think we're good.
Speaker 19: If you guys wanna, if you guys want to play something, and then we'll pull ch out for a bit.
Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, you.
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Speaker 8: M oh my god. That sounds so good.
Speaker 20: Thank you very much.
Speaker 19: Absolutely, if you're just joining us out we have Regals here with us alive.
Speaker 8: In the studio.
Speaker 20: Thanks for listening out there.
Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely. Where does the name come from? Regals?
Speaker 20: Yeah, interesting question, I guess so like it kind of I was like trying to create a character, I guess, like a while ago.
Speaker 8: Yeah, for like this.
Speaker 21: Project, you know, and it kind of you know, it's based off of my name in a way. Like my name is Ryan Rocky Egan. My middle name is rock By the way, It's not some corny like Instagram handle thing or anything.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 21: Yeah, I know, it's come It's a family thing. It's a great ancestor of ours was a priest and he had cancer and had a.
Speaker 20: Maggot treatment.
Speaker 21: Uh really yeah, like way way back in the day, like and uh bid out the cant they bid out the cancer and he lived for a long life after that and then considered it a miracle. Wow, and that became anamesake for my family. My dad has that middle name, and uh my brother also, so yeah, so I'm my middle name is rock and Ryan Egan Regal R E g A.
Speaker 20: It's close, but basically.
Speaker 21: Like you know, like I was like gonna try to do like a character named like Rocky Regal, like when I grew up. When I was growing up, everyone called me Rocky and uh, but then one day I was like, I want to be normal.
Speaker 20: I want to be Ryan.
Speaker 21: I don't know why I wanted to be normal, because I'm not normal person. So yeah, that's basically, and you know, and then Regals, it's kind of like an irony thing, you know, like we call ourselves regals, but we're you know, we're paycheck to paycheck types of guys, class work in warehouses, truck drivers.
Speaker 20: I'm recently trust funded. But you know that's another story.
Speaker 19: Okay, all right, Lucas, I'm gonna ask you, can you pick up that other that other mic there that I put on that table. And I'm gonna because I want to talk to you guys a little bit, but I want to have used that one, because that one's just too far away. I can't make it work. But that one there we go. Hello, I want to make sure we can hear you. Got your voice is familiar, but happy to be here, happy, happy to be here. Yes, it's a little inside. But if you know, you know, not that I told anybody, not that I told anybody, but uh no, you guys sound amazing.
Speaker 19: Lucas, can you tell us what you're playing for listeners who might be like, oh what what?
Speaker 23: What is that?
Speaker 8: That doesn't sound like a normal guitar.
Speaker 23: Nope, it's a little bit of a different kind of guitar. I've got sixty four Fender eight hundred pedal steel guitar. It's my favorite instrument that I've ever purchased. Yeah, I bought it about a year ago off a new friend I made on Craigslist. Okay, our friend Jason actually recorded all of our tracks that were playing. Most of the tracks were playing today, most of the songs Project sound down in Clinton, Mass is my friend that I purchased this. Yeah, I lose diner out. So it's a ten string, six pedal guitar.
Speaker 23: It stands like a table and uh you play it. Country Western styles.
Speaker 20: Yeah, people call it table guitar.
Speaker 23: Yeah, table top guitar.
Speaker 8: Really, I think, okay, i'll call it.
Speaker 23: That now we call it that makes But I've played guitar, normal six string guitar for a long time and tried to emulate a lot of the country Western stuff that I like. Yeah, And after simulating it for many, many years, I finally found a guitar that I could afford. Because boy are these things expensive and hard to find in New England. Yeah, they're tough to find in New England. There's plenty of country music around here, as far as ones that are ar to me. This is the first one I found. Yeah, I've got friends down in Virginia and down in North Carolina, and pedal steels are all over the place.
Speaker 8: I can imagine.
Speaker 23: Yeah, but up here they're very expensive. Our friend Trent from Slim Volume, which is selling one. You missed your chance, it's already sorry.
Speaker 22: Sorry.
Speaker 8: So what's it like going from playing just a regular six string guitar to playing that?
Speaker 19: I mean, is it a big It must have been. Obviously it's an adjustment, it's different. But like, how hard was it to learn to play that?
Speaker 23: I did tons of research beforehand. Yeah, YouTube is a good friend. Plenty of research. The Steel players forum dot com is the place for steel nerds, yeah, to go to go chat it's it's an old forum site that's still very much active, and you can go directly to the manufacturer a lot of the times and they can answer any sort of technical questions. But as far as playing it, yeah, it had a little bit of a learning curve. Like I said, I was trying to emulate this sort of sound, so I found a guitar that bends singular string when you play it, an old b bender telecaster really pull the arm inside guitar, and I was trying to emulate this sort of style.
Speaker 23: But getting on there, sitting in front of it is very different than just researching. So it's played almost in an open tuning, kind of like a blues slide guitar. They have ten strings, so you have intervals between the normal strings, where if you play it open it just doesn't sound great. So you have to find different groupings, and there's different strings that work together, so you do groups of three most of the time, and then you have your pedals down below, so a grouping of two, the two different strings are controlled by two different petals, so each one can raise it full step or half step.
Speaker 20: There's half step.
Speaker 23: But finding the different groupings and then learning to use your whole body is very different.
Speaker 8: I was just thinking about that when he said that. It's almost like playing the drums, where you're using.
Speaker 23: Very similar at the pus style. Yeah, limb, but this is an old school pedal steel that doesn't have any knee levers.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I have.
Speaker 23: I have one pedal here that can drop strings, but on a more contemporary style they have knee levers that can drop your string. Yeah, this one, I'm still learning. I've had it about a year and it's really fun. Yeah, it's really fun. Been very thankful playing shows with Ryan, some of his solo gigs, I've been able to sit in with a few other people. Yeah, so playing with other folks is a whole different experience too. I'm I'm getting used to playing with Ryan, we've been we've been buddies a long time.
Speaker 23: Yeah, but playing this thing with other pe people, uh, fake it till you make it right. Yeah.
Speaker 8: They sound great.
Speaker 19: Thank you, And like I said, you know, we when Jenny and I were at the Shaft Scheme that night to see her son Jesse play.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, you guys were playing and sounded incredible. I was like, jeez, we gotta get him on the show.
Speaker 19: You had been played on the show before when we had Mosaic Art Collective here and you guys had that show coming up at UH at Mosaic. But but yeah, it's it's great to have you in. Do you guys want to play another song? Sure, I'm dying here more and Lucas yeah you can. You can just put that on the on the chair if you don't mind.
Speaker 8: Sorry about that.
Speaker 19: We do a lot of improvising here. But no, you guys sound great in the headphone, so that's for sure. If you are just joining us uh regals here with us a live in studio you said you still call it regals when it's just the two of you or yeah, okay playing?
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, all right as well?
Speaker 20: Yeah, Lucas and Ryan here here you go rocking.
Speaker 24: Luke, you cut me home each and every time. I guess I won't in too much now catch me drowning every nine. I thought what we had was good, you even said it yourself, and we should. But now I'm past sins or floating locked in bodies from the depths of this river bed m and now you're gone, and that's fine. I hope the way you choose away your time now it's worth it.
Speaker 27: Dead Name.
Speaker 4: All the God love now.
Speaker 22: Is one picture.
Speaker 24: It helps me remember what you look like, because I'm forgetting most things these days. I'm blacking our crossing down Inch roadway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because they have. Derry heard me seeing.
Speaker 24: I swear you fell in love. He said I was gonna be fami. I said, I don't really care about that stuff.
Speaker 3: For laeve me when I say, I really hate the way you're talking about me.
Speaker 2: Why dore you do this? Study? Dead name, dore you to this.
Speaker 5: Stay the name.
Speaker 4: Dory to these studs.
Speaker 2: Dead name a Dori to this day. Don yah yah he Dori to this day. Don came. Oh my Dori to this day.
Speaker 8: H mm hmm. So good.
Speaker 19: Ryan and Lucas are here from read and these guys sound amazing. If you are just tuning in, what can you can you tell us more about the new the new album coming out, Lucas, feel free to to to grab that mic of course.
Speaker 21: So the new album it's called a Love Sick Purgatory. It's kind of a just a collection of songs that are just about mostly heartbreak and.
Speaker 20: Just love and junk like that. I just kind of find it easier to write songs about stuff like that. And yeah, you know, there's like a lot heavier things, but.
Speaker 21: Those are you know, way harder to write songs about. But you know, a love song, it's theme. Yeah, so you know, yeah, you know, I'm okay, guys, all right,
Speaker 21: it's all water under the bridge. But yeah, it's just a bunch of songs that, you know, definitely for people that are you know, feel in a certain type of way.
Speaker 8: Sure, sure, but uh, and that's that's coming out soon.
Speaker 20: Yeah, it's gonna be out around February, like late February.
Speaker 8: Excellent, excellent.
Speaker 21: Yeah, we're gonna do a little run of shows at the end of the month into March and uh, you know, like we're just kind of finishing up some loose ends and we'll be announcing.
Speaker 8: The tour very soon and excellent.
Speaker 21: Gonna have a lot of fun and you know, just play some shows and do the thing, yeah and thing for a little bit.
Speaker 19: You know, it must be nice for you to have a configuration where you can you can approach it different, like if you know, if you're doing something like just the two of you like this, or like you did at the Shaft skiing, or if it's the full band or you know, to have that flexibility like I used to play in it. I played in a bunch of bands, but I never played in anything where you know, you're really well I mean, I guess I did. Technically I played in a band where we could do an acoustic set, but nothing nothing like this where you know, you can sort of mix it up a little bit and it gives maybe maybe the songs have a different texture to depends I mean on what configuration of the band is playing them.
Speaker 8: And that must be kind of fun.
Speaker 21: Yeah, you know, it's it's nice for the people that I really want to focus on, you know, my voice and kind of like you know, with the band it gets a little noisier, but it's you know, I mean, our rhythm sections real tight. But yeah, you know, we keep we keep a real tight I feel, but uh you know, still, you know, it's nice to bring it down a couple of notches and.
Speaker 20: Just you know, just feel the raw motion of the songs.
Speaker 21: Yeah, you know, sometimes but yeah, you know, I love just playing with Lucas it's nice and fun.
Speaker 20: Yeah, we have a good time.
Speaker 23: You have a good time.
Speaker 21: Yeah, hit the road, play a couple of shows and little towns. We just played at Pembroke City Limit Limits.
Speaker 8: Excellent.
Speaker 20: Yeah, cool guy.
Speaker 19: Yeah right, you guys have been on Rob show, right, Grand State of Minds. Yeah, a little plug for that Friday nights at six pm here on w m n H. Yeah, that's great what he's doing at Pembroke City Limits.
Speaker 8: It's such a cool spot, absolutely spot.
Speaker 20: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Absolutely enjoyed a lot of great talent from the area that plays there.
Speaker 20: And then super attentive crowd. Yeah yeah, which was which is really nice.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 23: When our friend Trent shout outs to Trent again, Trent, I heard his interview with Rob and he was describing Pembroke City Limits as a listening room.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 23: I thought that was really cool. I thought that was really neat because it's not exactly a noisy bar, right, like a dive bar whatever. People are there to appreciate the music, right, So that was really neat. We went there without without sewing our drummer, so we had a very modified set. Yeah, and we missed him big time, but it sounded really cool.
Speaker 20: Yeah, good spot.
Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's yeah because a lot of bars, you know, it's like people are there to drink and the music becomes sort of secondary. But so, yeah, it is more of a listening room. You're right, that's that's really cool. We need more places like that. There aren't any places like that around. And then when you so when you go on tour, where do you know yet where you're going?
Speaker 8: Like, are you going? Are you getting out of New England?
Speaker 21: And we're playing while we're playing some shows in New England, we're going down Richmond, Ashville, Nashville excellent. Yeah, I'm gonna meet up with some friends down there and play some shows as well. And yeah, so I'm real stoked to kind of see what people think of our sound in that area because I feel like we're.
Speaker 20: Like a.
Speaker 21: Alt rock country hybrid type of group. So it's uh, you know, yeah, hopefully people like what we got to offer, you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 19: And in terms of radio format too, I feel like you kind of fit into that Americana genre on radio, like I could imagine.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you've been played on the River in Boston at all.
Speaker 20: No, I don't think we've been on the radio.
Speaker 8: But I can imagine you guys would fit into that playlist really well.
Speaker 20: Yeah we have.
Speaker 23: We have been featured on uh country one oh two point five.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's true, excellent every where.
Speaker 21: The local catch coming back in September from Carolyn Cruz.
Speaker 20: That was cool.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, oh that's very cool. Yeah, congratulations. Yeah, well do you guys, Uh yeah, we gotta tell you.
Speaker 20: That song if you want to do that. Yeah, all right, you want to do that if.
Speaker 19: You are just joining us regals here live in studio. We have Ryan and Lucas here sounding amazing and yeah, they're gonna play another one for us.
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Speaker 2: Oh I don't want to go out tonight. What a god a fresh back in my mind?
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Speaker 8: God would have great song. Well well done, guys, I love that. I love that.
Speaker 19: If you're just joining us Regals is here with us live in studio. Ryan, I'm curious about vocal influences.
Speaker 20: You've got to.
Speaker 19: You've got such a raw delivery, and I mean but I mean that in the best possible way, Like it's just awesome.
Speaker 8: It's you really emote when you sing, Like.
Speaker 19: Is is there anyone who really influenced you when you were learning to sing as far as as far as your style?
Speaker 21: Yeah, well, I mean growing up, my parents were really into Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, like really like emotional animated, you know, sixties seventies rock and roll. But yeah, you know, exploring music like early on, like I found some bands like Lucero and just kind of like you know, mostly Lucero and Ben Nichols is a huge influence on me. Yeah, and uh yeah, I just I've been trying to find that voice for a long time, kind of like I've always been really into this kind of like alt country like but kind of like gravelly like nasty, but like it can still be kind of pretty kind.
Speaker 20: Of sound that.
Speaker 21: Yeah, Now, it took me a while to find this voice. I've bounced along on different lines of genres. I used to be in hardcore punk bands, experimental indie like pixies like rock bands, and yeah, so I mean I got away from music for a little while, and over COVID, I really like went back to like what got me into music, Like Credence is a huge one too, Like I've always loved John Fogerty's voice, and I just wanted to find that voice like through my own filter, you know. And during COVID, I had like time to really like just sit down, and you know, I played a bunch of Creeden songs, Kinks, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood.
Speaker 27: Mac and.
Speaker 21: Then from there I just kind of started writing songs again.
Speaker 20: Yeah, and that's kind of how it happened. And then now we're here, I got Lucas with me.
Speaker 21: I always had Merkle, my counterpart who I've been playing in bands with since like you know, like late early twenties or early late teens. Yeah, and yeah, no, it's been a really fun little ride kind of like getting back into like feeling what it's like to be in a band again.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, so excellent, it's been cool.
Speaker 24: Yeah.
Speaker 19: Yeah, how about you, Lucas In terms of influence, like like who influence influences you as far as you're playing.
Speaker 23: Well, I've been into country western music. In my late teens, I got into more folk music.
Speaker 14: And some of the.
Speaker 23: Some of the stuff I was playing it was kind of folk rock. Been in a few bands around Manchester and it was a little more folky oriented. I was playing banjo and accordion along with like a solo acoustic a little more folk punk sort of stuff, fast and loud, but acoustic. But I didn't really care for country music. Yeah, I guess I wasn't very familiar. But I found a bunch of cassette tapes back in high school and that was I only had the cassette in the truck, and that just sort of snowballed. I think once I started playing with other bands and then really sunk my teeth into country music is when I started trying to hone it in.
Speaker 23: And there's so many steel players and you can go down a huge list, but Lord helped me. If I can remember all the names right, but George Jones, Hank Williams Senior, h everything from Buck Owens. Yeah, I like a lot of the classics. George and Hank are up there on top for me. I'm really into bluegrass too, so it's still playing banjo and things like that. So we have we have lots of different stuff that I think regals could explore. Tost in a little bit like that. But our bass player Mike is pretty good at banjo, so I think, yeah, surprising trying to Yeah, really good.
Speaker 23: He's got the he's got these hands that are just made for it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's really good.
Speaker 20: Really, I didn't know that about him.
Speaker 23: Yeah, he's really good.
Speaker 21: Also a fun fact is that, no shame at all. Morgan Wallen is both Lucas and I is number one Spotify.
Speaker 23: Real, Yeah, surprised both of us.
Speaker 20: But a lot of passive listening. It's just I mean, it's a great.
Speaker 4: It surprises me.
Speaker 8: Actually, yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 20: It's pretty good.
Speaker 23: As far as like contemporary country stuff, like mainstream country guys, it's awesome.
Speaker 8: I will say this.
Speaker 19: So I'm not a big I'm not a big mainstream country guy, but I have to say in terms of audio production, Nashville has it down.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, you know what I mean, Like, nobody does drums better.
Speaker 20: Songs into drugs is my opinion.
Speaker 22: Yeah they are.
Speaker 20: Yeah, they have an addictive quality to them.
Speaker 23: No, it's wild, It's really wild, and I love the history of Nashville. Yeah, and the recent uptick in interest in country music is really cool. Yeah, but it's some of it's like stadium rock really big.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah.
Speaker 23: And the Morgan Wallen stuff is like that too, just sonically it sounds so huge, and that's what really drew me in, really really drew me in. My my Spotify wrapped is Morgan Wallin. And then like the All Stars of Bluegrass, it's like Bill Monroe and Stanley Brothers. Yeah, pretty much it Yeah, drive By Truckers.
Speaker 20: Was all Yeah, I saw that. Yeah.
Speaker 21: I listened to a lot of this guy, Steven Wilson Junior this year, who I'm actually seeing tomorrow in Brighton, mass And he's really I'm not familiar with. And then I also listening to a lot of Third Eye Blind this year.
Speaker 20: Yeah that's good.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 20: Yeah, they were in the top five.
Speaker 19: Stephen Jenkins, I think is a great songwriter. I think he's really underrated. I think he's a very very good songwriter.
Speaker 21: And I'm actually seeing them at the end of seven or two ilind Yeah, I don't know even Foxwoods, Oh o.
Speaker 8: Kid, I didn't know they were touring. Yeah, I thought they were all done for some reason. Maybe one last one last yeah, less right.
Speaker 21: Yeah, if any friends are listening, let's go to Third Eye Blind and have a fun little time.
Speaker 22: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 19: Oh speaking of friends listening, by the way, I want to make sure I mentioned Derek Smith. Uh send me an instant message, Yeah, says hey, homies, I'm tuning in. Well, well, I think, oh tuning in. I read that as lol.
Speaker 19: I'm used to people sending me messages with loll and Yeah.
Speaker 8: Derek Smith. Yeah, Derek and I have known each other for a very long time.
Speaker 19: We used to do a lot of We still like promote a lot of concerts together, Like I'm talking like twenty years ago. And then when I saw him that night at Mosaic, it was like the first time I'd see and he looks the same.
Speaker 23: Like he has at Timeless.
Speaker 24: We call it.
Speaker 19: Yeah, dude hasn't changed. So yeah, I want to make sure our listeners know, especially for people just joining us. So the new album is February.
Speaker 20: Yeah, it's coming out around February.
Speaker 21: We'll make some more formal announcements online if you want to follow us at Underscore Regals, on Instagram, Facebook, wherever. But yeah, the album is called Love Sick Purgatory will be out late February, and uh we will be racing releasing a single for that on the summer twenty seventh called and the Wind. So okay, stay alert, very good attention, all right, yes, yes, appreciate it.
Speaker 8: And then, uh, and for shows you got, do you have anything this weekend?
Speaker 20: Not this weekend, this weekend, but working on the next show next we'll be there and you will too, right.
Speaker 8: M h, well that would just be the two of you are.
Speaker 20: Playing with a cool.
Speaker 21: Band from the Sea Coast called Coyote Smoke and some local friends of ours called Dead Time, And yeah, it'll be a nice eclectic bill with.
Speaker 20: You know, some bluesy country rock, some.
Speaker 21: Experimental psychedelic ish type of rock and roll indie stuff. Yeah, the Dead Time they just played last night at shaskiing with Cromax. Actually they Cromas.
Speaker 8: Oh very cool.
Speaker 20: That's cool.
Speaker 21: Yeah, they're cool guys. Yeah, it'll be a nice little time. Definitely come hang.
Speaker 23: And it's free. Yeah, it's also free all shasking.
Speaker 8: That's always a plus. That's that is that is always a plus. Do you guys want to We actually do have time. Do you want to play one?
Speaker 12: More.
Speaker 19: I'd love to play another song, all right, cool? Yeah, we we do have time. Yeah, that last one was short, so yeah we can. We can fit one more in and to take us to the end. But if you are just joining us, uh, we have Ryan and Lucas from Regals here with us, live and suit and it's Regals, not the Regals.
Speaker 4: A lot of people say the gonna say, A lot.
Speaker 8: Of people get it rung.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I'm not.
Speaker 21: But if you do want to be close friends with me, then you should start saying, yeah, we're not a punk band from like.
Speaker 23: Yeah or the the vocal group from South Carolina. Oh yeah, okay, it's different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there are all caps.
Speaker 21: There's also an artist from New York City called Ryan Eagan, and honestly, I'm cool with him.
Speaker 20: It's fine.
Speaker 23: Yeah that makes one of us.
Speaker 20: I definitely have a better middle name. But anyway, see this is a little song called exile.
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Speaker 19: Another great one, another great one. Regals Ryan and Lucas, thank you both so much. This has been wonderful to have you here.
Speaker 23: Thank you, Matt, and shout out to my lovely wife Adrian and the Troy bullfrogs out there, and uh, we're happy to be here.
Speaker 8: Thank you, yes, yes, and uh, thank you guys.
Speaker 19: And of course if you missed any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at w m n H radio dot org and at my website Matt Connorton dot com.
Speaker 8: And that's it for us for now. I'll talk to you a little bit later. Everybody, love you, you got it.
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