Matt Connarton Unleashed 4-20-23

Hey, welcome everybody. Here we go. It's that time again, Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live. Excuse me. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, a social media links, contact info, show archives, etc. Etc. Today is Thursday, April twentieth, two thousand to twenty three.

Yes, it's four to twenty day. Okay, we've gotten that out of the way. I don't care. I don't care, doesn't it doesn't matter to me. But welcome everybody. I'm not does that? You know what it is? I don't like uh. I don't like numerical humor, probably because I don't like math. So I'm biased against jokes involving numbers, you know what I mean. I've always been like that anyway. So here we are welcome everyone on this beautiful Thursday afternoon. It's really nice outside. I think the next couple of days.

It is supposed to be absolutely gorgeous. So when I say glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, I mean that quite literally. My friends, it is glorious outside. We've got a glorious show for you, I dare say, coming up. I think in just a couple of minutes, our friend EASYG Eric Gagnon is going to be calling in for his entertainment report, and uh, also at four or forty five today we're gonna be joined. Uh I'm not sure if he's calling or skyping, but our friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he's going to join us for a few minutes to uh talk about the latest wrinkle in the Motley Crewe debacle, the ongoing car crash that is Molly Crue.

And then in the second hour, we've got some other things to get to, some more serious matters, but not that Easyg's entertainment report is not serious, mind you. I hope no one misunderstands me on that. But our friend Shannon is on the line. High Shannon, Hi, what's up. I'm glad did just start? Honestly you do. However, didn't you start off the show by saying this is a repeat. No, No, we were we were live, but the stream was not working properly. Something went wrong because I heard it's it's fine, Shannon, just a technical problem.

Don't worry about it. We're good, Okay, this's just weird. Stay okay, very good, move on anything anything. Yes, we're we're in the now, Shannon. We have technical uh issues occasionally. We're not gonna sit here and twell on it. Anything else? All right, you two, bye bye, all right, very good, Welcome everybody. Uh, Yes, things go wrong occasionally, we have gremlins, things go awry. It's fine, we go forward. I'm not going to sit here and uh discuss it. Mistakes happen. What can I tell you? Uh, let's live in the now, shall we.

The phone line is open six three two five six zero seven six three two five six z seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four to seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at Matt Connerton dot com. And of course you can interact endo Pine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that we can here and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call at six two five six zero seven. Melanie says in the chat room, Wow, Matt isn't fooling around today.

She used a different word, but uh, well, you know, I'm just not. Uh, that's just more that I have to edit out of the podcast because that won't make any what what that was about won't make any sense, uh to uh, you know, the people listening to the show in the archive who don't get a chance to listen live. So that's right, I'm not fooling around, uh, Melanie, or what you said, I like your word better, but I cannot say that here on FM terrestrial radio. But I think our friend EASYG is already on the line.

Hello, Hello, I guess we won't talk about the behind the scenes stuff. Wow. The Facebook post for wow? What? Well kind of wow? Okay, Well, I don't think get my post on on your show, I said the stream. Yeah it's okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, Yes, I understand there was a technical problem at the top of the show. Can we just do the show? Please call back Eric if you want to do an entertainment report. I'm not gonna sit here all day and just talk about how something was wrong at the top of the show.

Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this? It's easy, I guess A stupid cell phone there went off. I guess, I guess so reliable as you well know. Yeah, sir, you are ready to do your entertainment reports? Sir, I'm ready if you want to get right right that way. You want to know about stock market crashes, COVID nineteen drive bys, celebrity gossip. Easy gez got you entertainment reports stats? Wow, because zat nothing but a jig bank baby back. Are you ready for stock Let's find out? Ready, let's gold getting right in, getting right into it?

All right? Cool? Well, today's able twenty. I always forget that date, and I think we'll never getting these two people. Why why not? Zack Van Dyke. You might remember that guy that crazy show? Remember any years back on the way back in the day. I only saw the repeat. I was like, did he die ninety seven years old? He's still cooking? Oh you said you might remember him, like he was dead. I was afraid he was dead. No, he said at a TV shock he was back in the fifties and sixties. Fifties seventies, when was murder, when was not murders?

He wrote Diagnosis Murder eighties. I think he's been around a long time, Easygh doing today, but don't don't he's listening to the radio. Wait never right now. He is one of our biggest fans. How dare you? He emails me every day and says all right, But he does and says, I'm Dick Van Dyke, and please make sure that EASYG knows that I'm still alive. Yeah, well, I know I don't dedicated to this person before, but he's uh, you know, friends with a man of mccafee. This guy's good. I listen to what on a fifteen twenty songs on Spotify and Kristen beach so new song out Smoken Mirrors.

He never guess who wrote it MANA mccofey. Yes, and I am going to play that at the end of your entertainment report today, as you're reported. I try to find out Spotify, but I don't. A few were able to catch it. I found this.

I'm sorry. I found it on Spotify. I went to the search box on Spotify, I typed in his name and came right up. But not only not only written by Amanda McCarthy. But he is the one who produced my favorite Amanda McCarthy song, Sunset, that was produced by Christian Oh yeah, if I remember the story right there like besties apparently, yes, so we will if he's gonna be a friend with any that's what she does. You know, she has a lot of friends in the industry, and that's what she does. You know when I saw all the time in Manchesters other people at like Nick Ferraro and Johnny Friday.

Now listens, courseman listen. I'm sure there was other ones I didn't see, but that was already sty Why not come up and sing a couple of songs? If she sat down and get to take a break. A lot of musicians do know each other. Now, Polyc is in the chat room from Retrospectum Radio with police and he's asking, as he actually reported on any drive buys yet, do you have any drive by shootings you'd like to talk about? Easy? G know. A matter of fact, I'm trying to watch the little news these days. Those aren't really Yeah, those are typically a part of your entertainment report.

Actually drive by No, But a friend of money here said, do you hear about I'm not gonna repeat it with bad news. I said, well, I needn't. I didn't want to know and I don't need to know, right, all right, So I just wanted to watch less news overall. I mean it's trying to peep up on my phone. I said, well, I'm not clicking onto that, and I just move on to something else. You are, I get all the updates on my phone. You are proceeding through life on a need to know basis, is what you're saying. Right.

I think it's a good idea. I know about you, but less news is the best for me any news now, I don't wr whether it's it. I think you do a little bit of form. I think you do know about me, easyg because I host a show where we discuss these matters. So yes, I seeing you. But if you didn't help, if he didn't hold the show with you, I don't. I'm not gonna get into it. Yes, yes, I would. I like to remain about good of everything going on. Yes, all right, We're gonna move one to one of my favorite singers, April Qushman.

You might have heard of her. To get that new music smoke, it's funny the other one with smoking barras. That's kind of weird. That's not

that weird. Actually easygh the words smoke. I looked it up earlier. It appears in approximately point zero two seven percent of every song ever written has the word smoke in the title. I didn't really do any research, but yeah, I didn't. All righty, well, there's like a couple of dates are far away, but tickets are in sales, so let's mention it. The uh yeah, all the tickets are available, by the way at April Kushman dot com. And she's having a big show on lands go all the dates because he's short on time.

But May twentieth, they play in the country call Lansdown Boston Country pest Im that's right next to up Anyway Jars at ten am. And obviously it's a paid event. You can be ip tickets for one hundred dollars in thirty five dollars in general missions be like, I guess it was the all day show. I always you're looking to be something to do On Wednesday, she's gonna be Kellington Vermont at an event called or at six o'clock. It's always pointing to have Kellington Verver shop. If he doesn't, everyone stay until she doesn't do it.

I guess I'm right well that yes, that would be a logical conclusion as a Jokeman never get old. Maybe it doesn't get old. It's it's you got some others. I'm a big show to tell you. This girl it's not even really just far away that she's gonna be playing with a guy on Joan Nichols. You ever heard of that guy? I have heard of that guy. You always ask me if I've heard of him, and she's a teaming up with him. August eighteens. It's called the Range Masson. That's where you get tickets, or you can get Christman dot com.

You get four tickets per order at the limit, and they're on sale now. General mission is fifty three dollars. Fifty three dollars, or or you can get aside forty eight dollars plus a shipping handling fee, and or you can buy the day of the show it's fifty eight dollars. Oh and if you really want to spend some money and see the best feats of the house, five hundred dollars for four tickets and you get the wait staff and you're send in the skybox while you better get that five minute dollars. Wow. Uh, Paulcy is asking in the chat room.

Uh would he report on a drive by if the drive by was an upcoming event with a guest appearance by a man of McCarthy. No, no, no, that that's list And then September twenty four, throw as far away April question dot com or Indians dot com and he go, a couple of bands here at Zach Bound Tribute Band, the Trailer Trash Garth Alive in Annie Bruston and then we'll finish up. Oh yeah, I got a couple of interest events. Yeah, that's sure. At a moment, Melanie Liberty and the chat says, I'm so curious how long it will take for Easy to block me again.

It's like the licks to get you know. What happens is h I'd love to know. I don't know how it happened, but I might have been happening day. It's worn't a week ago. I lost all my face with friends, I'm on Facebook and all my all my post so I don't know if what happened to be with I get ding for an hour, but I've lost all my Facebook friends you lost. I try to get them back, but I ask a new one, so I don't know. It's like you don't sometimes to see easy to get back a Facebook friend, like like our good pal Jenny that knows you very well, but other people I don't know.

Uh. Rick Smith is in the chat and says, can you tell easy to add me easy? Would you please add Rick Smith? All right, I'll think about it. Anyways. The taco tour right around the corner, may Ford. It gets bigger every day and better. Four pm, dight, three dollars cash for a taco. I think they might change that a venture because most people, like you and me, they don't carry a lot of casts anymore. I rarely carry cash when I am approached on the street. Uh for cash, I say, go away please, I have none to give.

Yeah, I don't have any one. I still so anyways, you might have heard of this man, one of your favorites on a taco tour and may Fort donnerher Doctor one of your favorite bands. Yes, yes, I've been quite Peter White, Matt, you should call me Peter White, Matt. Is that what you said? I alwa said Peter White? Oh yeah, I know you liked on or I've seen it on don Um Downtown. Game is really good. I saw three songs and I loved with me. They didn't played a little one o'clock. They were, you know, the main act.

Yeah, just to clarifyer and nothing, I'm sorry, Peter Peter White is the host of the morning show, right, I know that I guess super super and nothing. A guy named Jeffrey Uh, Jeffrey Gray, Jeffrey Danes might be more sary. Somebody's thanks, Frankfarlle b RSI and not broken? How did you? And it's gonna be right here at Veteran's Park. Oh by the way, ninety two win five is a sponsor and it's gonna be rain or Shine. How did you say that a couple of years ago? And well that wasn't the best. So you could get a lot of tacos and nobody went down.

Who is playing that day? Amanda McCarthy of course odd figures Amanda McCarthy. And the weather wasn't the best. Yeah, you know, this is an event called Rain of Shine. Is where I met a lot of people of ninety five point three we Walk against Hunger. That is where we had twenty first round the corner on a Sunday at twelve neon rain or shine. You show up and you just walked today. I believe. Yeah, it's a fund raiser, and I believe if you raised some money, even if it's a dollar, you get a free short.

I think if I get free shorts everybody, I'm not quite sure about that. I think so after this food hot dogs, total pop, watermelon, chips, cookies, and I don't do it I did years ago. You can't just show up and grab the food. Is runners, I mean walkers only. Uh, this is a very important easyg our friend Crystal from the Great State of Illinois says in the chat room, Easy unfriended me within an hour last year. Apparently I am the weakest link, so he said goodbye. And I would just say to you, easyg how dare you unfriend someone from the Great state of Illinois.

Yeah, like I just told her, I got unfriendly from Facebook and there are Facebook friends what days ago? I bet, I bet you're the guy who who set up back in the day on my Space account and unfriended Tom on my Space. I did not. I did not having my Space account. I don't believe you. I think you unfriended Tom and he just wanted to be everywhere already. Well, I got a couple of Katy Dummins of incident and I'm gonna wrap it up busy show. Wow U Katie Dumins, you might have heard of her. I'll get twenty seven.

I'm sorry. May thirty first season's playing at six o'clock and the songwriters round up fifteen dollars per ticket. Tickets are on sale now, and Meredith and Dustin Colon and Holly, I don't know if he go. I don't know if you go, Katie. I think I think you might to go. Katie Doumbins dot com. I'll dumbletegment next week because I know on a man, oh my goodness, on April Qursman site you can get the tickets, but not everybody's space like friends at our stuff. You have to go on April Kursman. I'll find out next week.

And then May tenth, it's oh yea love living room service hosing balance believe that is oh boy? The Meredith too, okay, merenth these events are a marina and one more a book. Katie dollars a pope'clock after work. I meant at the at the Oh yeah, not the casino. Everyone gonna write it down. You know that place where you saw the show of the artwork. The gallery. Yeah, gallery, think not, that's not named the arto. I thought to write it down. Goodness, Oh my goodness, bigger. It's the big arena that I mean, the big place where you can look at all the artwork.

It's a gallery. Well, i'll get that next week. Thank you about to throw it down in my face, appreciate it. I'll get that next week. And obviously it's a pre event. But obviously it's a good idea to throw a couple of dolls in a donation jar. I'd rather place a couple of dollars. If I throw them, they might not make it into the jar and they could land on the floor and then somebody else picks it up. You shouldn't throw around. Oh yeah, I'll wrap it up a question. I mean if oh my god, we'll prod up on the man of McCarthey.

She's working on a new album now that her wedding is in the past and the past looking at yeah, wedding is over. Announced his new album music I can come out and then you can get hurt just released Spotify or you get Yeah, Kristen Beach, you can get that song on Spotify, Apple and all the platforms. I think it's pronounced until like fifty songs. That's no joke. Guys, this guy is awesome. A friend of man of McCarthey. You know you're gonna be pretty good too, I think, well, yeah, I bet he was pretty good before.

You better. You know, he's just a real deal. I mean, I never listen to this guy before. I think I heard his name, mentioned him a lot, but I never let's do his music. And I already told him, Oh yeah, I did get permission from the Oato Soto. He's had to get permission. He said, you're allowed to play his music on the radio. He never hurt. The ask right, what you asked someone? I asked him if he wants it's okay for a song on ninety five point three. Uh, what you should do is you should tell him where your song is going to be played on ninety five point three.

You don't have to ask. No musician is ever going to say no, you can't play that on the radio. Oh yeah, I got my face. I guess you're right. That would be crazy. I think if I should, I should get permission. I haven't done it yet, but if he wants me to Sarah posts, then I should get permission for that, because I've gotten hot water before for sharing a post no One off the artisses, songs and stuff you know on my Facebook page. I always ask, what do you ask them? Well, I'm allowed to share some of their posts and stuff.

I always like to ask permission. Why would you ask? Why do you ask permission? If if they if they make the post public, why wouldn't they want you to share it all? I guess another egg in my face. I guess. I mean, anyways, I'm going on to stuff that's I'm important, so I'll end it for potions. I know you got a very busy show, and uh yeah, we'll end it with that. Oh yeah, next week I'll find out where that places and Ranchester thank you. It's called the art gallery. Are you thinking of the Courier Gallery?

Yeah, that's a Curier girl. Yeah, oh my god, so thankfully you can clean up this. Oh my god, cure ag Gurley ever wrote the whole thing. But you think I know what I'm doing by now? You know what you do? The art gallery. Yeah, somebody looking fun to do on May the free event as it's May eighteen. You got the courier ar girley, I think you clean up my MESSI I'm gonna write that down right now, yes, and I'm gonna let you girl kind never gonna played that song. And you got a busy seal. So we'll see everybody next week.

God willing, all right, God Willy bye bye. All right, Well there you go. That's uh, that was our friend, easyg another wonderful entertainment report. You should have known by now Easy does so I am going to play now he did ask me, and I will honor this request. This gentleman, Christian Veach. I'm going to play his song. He's got a song called Smoking Mirrors, and uh, I'm gonna play that now. This song, as easyg mentioned, actually written by Amanda McCarthy, but Christian Beach also he works as not only is he a recording artist, but he is a producer and he is the one who produced Amanda McCarthy's song Sunset, which is my favorite Amana McCarthy song.

I love that song. So I'm actually gonna play them both. I'm gonna play the Christian Beach Song and I'm gonna play Sunset. They're both only three minutes. They're like, you know, which is the ideal length for radio, right, So they're short. So we're gonna play those, and we're gonna come back and coming up in just a little bit, we're gonna hear from our friend Eric Pilcher. Uh he's he's got something about something entertainment related to our favorite band, Motley Crewe, not not literally my favorite.

Well, they'd be in my top ten, and I think they're in Eric's top five probably, but uh yeah, Moley Crewe. It's the gift that keeps on giving, that that whole debacle. So let's check this out. This is uh oh, and Eric was careful to easyg was careful to get permission to play this the new single from Christian Beach. Uh here it is. Check it out. Plenty more to come, don't go anywhere.

I tiptoed around the truth. I've had to sugar coat sunlies, wondering what might set you buy because roses cover your man minds, seeingside and tendencies. But I'm too for friend armies, so you alway, I won't think twice. I don't be fine. I won't shut one tea, So go ahead and throw your bricks honey elid mountains from your stones and sticks and croming nun to where the harry is clearer rising from the ashes of your smokeing me,

and he says to in your ground, don't back down, don't take no slack. Bamma told me. Prove them wrong over. I don't time to take care of that. Your way down, think twice, I don't find me find I don't shed one dear, go ahead and throw your bricks honey elid mountains from your stone destis and crom nun to wear. The hair is fear coressing from the ashes of your smoke. Give me seeuside tendencies. But I'm too old for friend umies, so you won't go away. I won't mind, I won't think twice, I don't I'll be fine.

I won't shed one tea. Throw your friends honey on the mountains from your start and cities to win every squarer corassing from the ashes of your smokeing me hers and from the ashes after smoking bears, having out of fingers to candies. Song by song, hellose my eye have you been shines? Since you've been here. But I still see you and I still feel you singing be seen with your Melody's so sweet like Jerry on Sunday after Monday, a hods in my heart see the Frind. I know I gotta let the sunset on you now, suset on you down.

I know I can't let the sunset on you now, SI said now as the counting sheet, just to figure out,

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It is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM. I hear the sounds of summer outside, and by the sounds of summer, I mean a motorcycle. Also on Comcast ninety seven. If you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etc. Etc. On this beautiful it is very very nice outside.

I think it's supposed to be nice tomorrow too, and I have no idea after that, but this beautiful Thursday afternoon here in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, and I hope it is beautiful wherever you may be. By the way, we heard Sunset by Amanda McCarthy, and before that the Christian Veach single which was requested by easyg, our entertainment reporter. He wanted us to play that Smoke and Mirrors, and Christian Veach actually produced the song Sunset by Amanda McCarthy, WHI happens to be my favorite Amanda McCarthy song, so I feared I'll play that too, after honoring Easyg's request for the Christian Beach track.

By the way, we should mention tomorrow on the show, well, actually let me mention today first, our friend Eric Pilcher is going to be skyping in in a few minutes tomorrow. On the show, We've got very busy, actually a lot going on here, not only at the station, but in our little corner of the world here Fridays, of course, our busiest day or my busiest day here at WMNH do this show of course from four to six pm tomorrow. In the first hour we will have Eric's classic film review. This week the subject is Escape from New York.

And then in the second hour we'll be joined in studio by a musical guest. Andrea Paquin is going to come in and play for us. In fact, I'm gonna play one of her studio tracks at the top of the hour today, give you a little preview of that. But she's gonna be joining us live in studio and is going to play some tunes. Looking forward to that. And then of course from six to seven pm tomorrow we have granted State of Mind, hosted by Rob az Vito and Paul Stone, and this week should be their first week back at the Barn, or back at the Bonn as some say around here at Pembroke City Limits where during the warm weather they record the show.

There they've got the full bands. You come in with the full setup and playing ice and loud, and they do an interview and really great. I love those editions of the show. And then of course tomorrow night from eight to eleven pm, it's Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C and I have the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that program. So Fridays are very busy here and my favorite day of the week here at WMNH. Also a couple of things going on Tomorrow night as well right downtown that you should know about.

Across the street. Right across the street, at our amazing sponsor, the Hopknot, they've got live music Rebecca Turmel. We played some of her music the other day. She's gonna be performing live tomorrow night from seven to nine pm. They're mostly doing live music on Saturdays now, but they do have a booking for tomorrow night, so Rebecca Turmel will be there live, and then up the street at Disness Cafe. I think the address is eight sixty Elm Street from five to nine pm. Peter White, of course of the Morning Show with Peter White, He'll be appearing at Disness Cafe.

He is the celebrity restaurant tour for the evening, so I think they've got a special menu of things that he has selected, and he's working with Matt Kushine, also known on the Morning Show as Morning Show Jesus from the Hope NH program. So they're going to be raising money for that at and it sounds like a bunch of the Morning Show crew will be there with Peter. So that is tomorrow night at Disneys Cafe. That starts at five pm goes to nine pm. So if you can swing by there, enjoy some delicious food, say hello to Peter and everybody from the Morning Show.

And from what I'm told, Bob Friedas is going to be there with his famous or infamous squad dogs, so you can get one of the squad dogs. It's a hot dog. If you're wondering what I'm talking about. Why if you're going wait, wait, there's dogs at the restaurant. No, it's a hot dog. But they're gonna be uh, they're gonna be doing that. So so that will be tomorrow night from five to nine pm at at Disney's Cafe. But today, of course, you can give me a call right now at six ZO three two five six Z seven.

The studio line is open six ZO three two five O six ZO seven. You can text me at six one seven nine one seven four or four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton and h think this is our friend. Uh, thank god, what is going on our friend? I'm hearing an echo our friend. We've got some kind of shenanigans happening Eric, is that you

yep? I had the show on day Oh oh, you're like one of those people who calls the radio show from their car and then the host has to say, please turn down your radio, sir. You're kind of sassy today. I am. I'm sassy. You know, people like what I'm sassy. We've done here at WMNH. We've done extensive research which shows that seventy eight percent of WMNH listeners like me when I'm sassy. Did that come out in the ratings book? It did? Yes? Yes, Hi. Right now, now we don't have the kind of ratings that we used to have, of course, because we don't have anyone from New York or calling the show.

Uh not recently, but but that's why. So in order to compensate for that, Eric, I'm trying to bring up the sassy I'm hearing an echo. That's amazing. Oh sorry, hold on, is it better? Uh let's see. Let's see what happens when I say something. Okay, good, I'm not hearing an echo now? Perfect? All right? Good? So yeah yeah, well uh easy, Gee forgot a couple amazing stories in his entertainment report. Uh yes, well, you know he doesn't always. Uh. I'm not sure what his approach is exactly in terms of what to cover and what and what not to but yes, what did he what did he leave out?

Well? Tomorrow and missing out on a major marketing uh, major marketing ploy Doctor Dre will re release his album The Chronic Yes on vinyl for the first time ever. Oh no kidding. The Chronic was The Chronic was never available on vinyl originally widespread. Okay um. But an interesting side note to that is I didn't know this till I learned it yesterday. But death Row Records has a new owner. Oh I didn't know that either. Yes. Uh. The reason why all the Chronic is being rereleased in doggie style is being rereleased dog Food by the Dog Pound.

And uh the above the Rim soundtrack with the tupoc track Pain, which was only available on the cassette version of the soundtrack is Snoop Dog owns death Row Records. Oh no kidding. Yes, he has purchased death Row Oh wow recently, this just happened. Yes, Um. His cloth how I found out is his clothing brand, Crooks and Castles started restarted releasing clothing with the death Row logo on it and I'm like, okay. And then I was skimming through in music news and stumbled upon that, and it was like, now it makes sense.

Okay. So yes, Snoop Dog owns Death Row, which if you are a fan of nineties rap, you cannot get past the influenced death Row records. Ad Now, who did he Who did he buy it from? Suge Knight? Oh, Suge Knights still owned it all the time, Suge Knight owned he owns all of it. Now Suge Knight owned a little bit of it. The rest was owned by someone through bankruptcy court. Oh okay, I was gonna say, because I didn't think that Sugar Knights still owned the whole thing. Okay. So so someone, someone we don't know, probably someone who likes to remain not in the not in the foreground of things, that owned it through bankruptcy court.

Okay, Oh that makes sense. So so Snoop has acquired it. Oh that's cool. Yeah, not a bad thing at all. No, not a bad thing at all. And like I said, if you're a fan of nineties rap, you know who death Row is. I mean it provided one probably one of the biggest rivalries in music history. East Coast versus West Coast. So I know in my high school and now I look back at it and I'm like, we were just stupid. They banned clothing with the death Row Records logo in the Bad Boy Records logo. Really, I kid you.

Not in Cedar Rapids white boys would get into fistfights. Oh my god. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa in schools over were you East Coast or West Coast? Wow? Really? Yeah? Wow, that's crazy. That didn't happen here in New Hampshire. Nothing never got that serious here. Wow, that's shocking to me. Actually over, Like I want to say, I was really upset about it because I'd finally found a Death Row Records shirt here in Cedar Rapids. I bought it. I was gonna wear it to school, and like the day before I was going to wear it, they announced that Cedar Rapids Community school districts were no longer allowing just apparel that pictured that that specific group or its artists.

Wow. Um, well, I mean, you know, if kids are getting in fights over it, I can understand why. I guess, jeez, that's crazy. Looking back then, it was serious stuff, but now it's like men, were we stupid? What was it was it just fights or did it escalate beyond that? What did anyone ever show up at school with a gun or anything? Or no, no, no, no, no, no, nothing like that, nothing like that. No, it was just people got into fights over it. Yeah. This at my high school that I ended up going to, a kid was wearing a death Row records, sure, and a kid ran up and just sucker punched him and said, bad boy.

Baby is so bizarre. Wow. Scott Robinson says in the chat room in New Hampshire, we get in fights over who's better Roth or Hagar. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we roll hard here in Cedar Rapids. Apparently. Apparently. Crystal says in the chat room, Snoop Dogg is doing lots of stuff lately. He oddly enough, even cooks with Martha Stewart. They are funny together too. Well. The thing about Snoop Dogg is I cannot think of another example of a of a major celebrity who and and it's been this way for a long time.

This isn't a status that he's reached just recently either, It's been this way for a very long time. He simultaneously, you know, he's you know, he was part of the gangster rap movement, if you want to call it that, and and but but while simultaneously being also very sort of mainstream and family friendly. And he and he is able to maintain all of his credibility on both ends of that seamlessly. And I can't think of another example of of anybody who occupies the kind of space in pop culture that Snoop dog does where you know, you you don't you don't necessarily if you have kids, you don't necessarily want them listening to Snoop Dogg music.

But he is this mainstream, family friendly celebrity for the most part. And it's he's at least he's become that, and not recently either, Like I said, it's it's he's been that way for a long time, you know what I mean. It's it's kind of impressive how he's able to just just do that

right, And it's really, you're right, it is quite impressive. Um, I think it's really how do I say this? I think it's because he's authentic. I think there's a sense of authenticity with him. Yeah, that that you know, you don't get when other rappers try it, you know, I mean, ice Cube kind of got raked over the coals when he did the movie the Are We There Yet Films? Yeah, he lost his street cry and but Snoop, You're like, it's really hard to and I think a lot of it is is because of the struggles he had at the end of Death Row Records and when No Limit Records signed him, he was broke, he was dested, he had nothing.

Yeah. I remember reading at the time. I remember reading interviews like in Source magazine and magazines like that where he would talk about that like he was down to his last one. You know, people assume he was this super rich guy because he was famous and uh and so successful and he was down to his last He said he was down to his last twenty bucks when he signed with No Limits or No Limit? Is it no Limits or No Limit? I forget limit record, No Limit? Yeah, master P. Yeah, Now that's a group that has not aged well.

That that is music that has not aged well. There's only so many times you can hear a grown man grown make him say I will I will say this though. I have always very much respected master P for this reason. He's one of those people who just his work ethic is oh yeah, I don't know if he sleeps or not. But I remember reading about him. This might have been in source. Um he was. They were talking about how he's he's in the studio there recording an album and he's falling asleep, like he's desperately trying to stay awake.

But you know, he had been up since five am, you know, working on his his multimedia empire, and he just he had been pushing himself so hard that he's, you know, trying to stay awake. But he's he's he's having a hard time. And it wasn't because he was on drugs or anything like that or inebriated. He just he was he was exhausted because he just worked so hard. And again, I don't know if he's still like that today. Uh he may not. He may not be because he made his millions. But uh, but I all, I've always respected that about him.

That's a hard working dude, he is. Um b et did uh. They had a series called chronicles. They did one the first one was on No Limit Records, the second one was on the Rough Riders, and the third one was on Death Row. Yeah. Um, and I watched the No Limit one and yes, his work ethic and his drive

was amazing. Yeah. Um, so yeah. The other thing that EASYG missed out on is today, Season two of the Beavis and Butthead reboot premiered on air Amount Plus. Oh did it, Yes? It did. Um. I haven't seen any of the new Beavis and Butthead except for one clip that I happened to see recently. It showed up in my YouTube feed and I don't know why, but I watched it and it was really funny. It was Beavis. Beavis goes to apply for unemployment. You've seen the clip. I've seen the episode. Oh okay, I just saw that the clip.

He goes to apply for unemployment and he gets sent to uh, he gets uh, he gets a job as an aid like a home aid or something, and he the house. He shows up at his Butthead's house, and it's really I can't do it justice, but it's really really funny. Oh yeah. There was not a down moment of season one of the reboot. See. I didn't see any of it, but everything I heard about it was really good. Mike Judge has not lost his touch. If anything, he's gotten better, like his ability to take these characters in.

They have been on for decades now yea, and they're just they still stay relevant. So in the new show, is it they're they're grown up there they're adult men or does it does it move around in time or how does how does that work? That they It really helps if you watch the film Beavis and Butthead Do the Universe. Okay, that I forgot that movie existed. I remember Beavis and Butthead to America. In fact, I think you and I disagreed on that movie because you liked it, whereas I didn't think it was very funny.

Oh I love doing Beavis and Butthead Do America. Yeah, to release that on four K, let's go um uh, but yeah, it's Yeah. If you watch Do the Universe, it does a great job of actually explaining how they like they going back, going to current day and future Beavis and butt Head. And yes, so if you I would watch that film first, because you encounter smart Beavis and smart butt Head. Oh okay, because there's different timelines okay, both head introduce the episodes that have old Beavis and Old Butthead.

Okay, oh interesting, all right, I'm curious to see that. Then. Yes, it that is on Paramount Plus, as is the first season and the two episodes that aired. They also have been Tom Anderson his own uh Tom Anderson War Stories. Yes, uh it is. I can't do it justice. Just if you like Hank Kill or like Tommy Anderson, you gotta check it out because it is absolutely hilarious. Oh wow, Okay, but yeah, this interesting turn of events

with the train Wreck that used to be the world's most notorious band. Yeah, I think they're still the world's most notorious band, just for wrong reasons. Yeah, well now that they were ever necessarily the right reasons. But

so, of course we're for those who don't know, we're talking about Motley crue Um. Yes, so I sent you the article and in probably the most unmetal or unrock and roll move, apparently, Carmine a Piece, the drummer of Vanilla Fudge, well that's what he's most known for, received a cease and desist letter from Motley Cruz lawyers. Oh by the way, just a side note. I don't know if you know this area. I not to not to name drop or anything, but I know a guy who once interviewed the keyboard player for Vanilla Fudge, which is pretty pretty impressive.

Yeah, you might know him too. I forget his name, but but yeah, I actually it's like that whole six degrees of separation thing. Yeah, I think it's like, uh, I don't know, delusional Jenny or something. This is very inside I know. But yes, uh yes we we we know someone who interviewed the keyboard player, although for all we know, it might not have been the keyboard player. The person we're referring to who might have been catfished, who knows. But but but I but I digress. But yeah, So then I was because I knew I was calling in.

So while I was listening to Easyg's Amazing Entertainment Report, I was scrolling through and La Guns member Phil Lewis has now chimed in on Motley Crue and

what he says is bait is this and this is yeah, Phil said, as transcribed by blabbermouth dot net. And I am going to edit it because blabbermouth dot net does not. It's incorrigible, isn't it. It really is. It's such a swindle. It's probably a lot better. I mean, that'd probably sound like utter blank if they were live with the big stadium in the big lights and Vinced singing in the way that we've known to come in love. They in. He's speaking, of course, of the of the

allegations that we now know are probably accurate that Motley Crewe toured basically to a tape track. Yes. Um. Then he continues, they really are a bleeping atrocious band. They always have been, and the only good player, the only good one in the band, has been very unceremoniously dismissed. I never liked them. I never did. I never bought one of their records. I love the girls, girls girls. I hated all of it. Occasionally I caught the attention to Nikki, and he doesn't like me. I'm a sad little pumpkin as to what he thinks about me.

I just find him to be a big fraud. It's a punishment of luxury. Somebody that becomes a millionaire at such an early age and they never really develop social skills. It's like taking a bird out of a nest when it's not ready to fly. It won't develop. And I don't think really that any of them, the three of them, aren't very well socially developed. They're not very good and mix a different category entirely because he was so much older before success. Success can be a punishment quite often, and in their case it must be just so painful right now, having been idolized for so long and now to called out as frauds essentially a sorry, essentially as an instrument holding Milli Vanilli as a disgrace, They've got to be hurting real bad.

So that was Phil Lewis of LA Guns who said that, yes, okay, oh, by the way, oh there's another example by the way of six degrees of separation. So I'm wearing my Edgewise hat and Edgewise opened for La Guns here in Manchester. Really, yes, yeah, yeah, So Phil lewis not joining the Motley Crue fan club apparently not. Apparently not so so what is so the but this carbon a piece thing? This got legal? He gotta, He says he got a cease and desist letter from from Molly Crews lawyers. Yeah, he basically got a cease and desist letter.

Let me pull the article up. Yeah this this this is uh strange. Um. Yeah, I'm scrolling through because he did a very long interview. Yeah,

because this has been this is this has been going on for a little while, right, his tiff with Nikki six well, it's not a tiff. He's working with Mick on new music. Oh I didn't realize that, okay. And Mick basically how this all started is with Carmine a Piece. He told them to make guitar that they had basically been talking about his exit from Motley Crue and Mick just told them. And it sounds like it was just like in conversation, not that Mick was bashing them, but when I was on the stadium tour, I was not happy.

Basically everything was on tape, it was all planed out and ultimately a lot of crap. Okay, So he told that to Carmine a Piece and Carmine a Piece dropped it, and then NICKI went on Twitter and basically called Carmine a Piece a washed up drummer and said he should shut his mouth about Motley Crue business. I'm paraphrasing there, yeah, and then carmina Piece said, well, this washed up drummer actually knows how to play his instrument. How about we have a jam off? And then carmina Piece a couple of weeks later was hit with a cease and desist.

But what is the so Molly Cruz lawyers sent him a cease and desist. But what is it that they want him to not do? Well, like, yeah, go ahead, I'm pulling it up. I'm actually going to go into my messages with you because I sent to you the article here. Oh yes, yes, not throwing you under the bus. I just remembered I sent it to you. Yeah, yeah, scheduled this and I'm like, oh, yeah, be easier than just to go through my history and find it, because I can't imagine that he's I mean, you don't usually get lawyers involved just because somebody says, you know, well, you know this such and such band is using backing tracks.

I mean, that's you know. I mean, and and by the way, you know, as I explained on the show a couple of weeks ago, all the big bands with the big tours, at the very least, they do use a click track because you've got you've got all these stage effects that are timed to go off at certain points in the song so that so that the band doesn't get lost and you know, the wrong bit of Pyro detonates at the wrong time. You don't want that. So everybody plays to a click track that's in everybody's in ear monitors, so there's always there's always something and a lot of backing vocals.

By the way, I tell everyone this too. If you see a band live and you get to it's a song where there's a loud as many bands in this genre have, you get to the chorus and there's like a gang vocal where it sounds like it's a whole bunch of people singing at once, and you know, you only see were three of the guys on stage. You're singing into their mics and you're wondering, well, not that anyone ever wonders in the moment, but where are those other voices coming from? It's it's it's piped in. And that's another reason they used the click track, so that that all happens on schedule during the song.

But here's what's interesting, and I actually talked with Dirk Don about this today, Yeah, over the phone. It is how like I get that, Okay, nobody's perfect. Yeah, fine. It's everything else that ties into this. The video of Tommy Lee walking up to the drums and the drums playing um, how horrible Vince Neil sounds on that click track. Yeah, the fact that Vince Neil needed a teleprompter last year on the Stadium tour. I never I never hold that against anybody. I mean, Ozzie's had that for probably decades, and that I don't mind that.

I don't mind that any anybody can forget lyrics. I think that's fine, Okay. I mean if we're looking if we're looking at in the whole scheme of things, it's a needle in a haystack ideal that Vince needed a teleprompter. But this just adds to it, yea, and creates this. I mean, they are easily you said in my top five, and they are. Yeah. I was gonna go see him in Fargo in Fargo this year and I canceled. I'm not going. I can't go, Yeah, because I can't a condone what they're doing to mc mars. I think that's reprehensible what they're doing to him, and be like, I don't want and I've said this before in regards to this, I don't want to ruin the memory I have of seeing them live.

Yes, yes, that's something I can relate to. Actually, um, you know, I I like I can. I had somebody asked me if I was going to try to go to uh you know, the like, Kiss has their their final shows coming up in December, and it's like, uh, you know, first of all, it would be a huge hasshole to try to get tickets anyway, but uh, but you know, at this point it's like plus as a part of me too psychologically, I don't want to acknowledge that it's ending, the Kiss is actually ending, um, because it's it's that's hard for me, but um, but also too, it's like, you know, my favorite period of the band has already come and gone long long gone.

To me, the most exciting And I'm in the minority among Kiss fans when I say this, but to me, the most exciting period of Kiss was in the early nineties, you know, kind of the second or the last third of the the non makeup era of the band. So you know, it's like, those are the memories that I cherish the most of seeing them live and how to go see them now. And and you know, they use some backing tracks for some of Paul's vocals. Everybody knows that, and it's like, you know, I'm good. I mean, I'm not mad at him about that or anything else.

I mean, geez, they're in their seventies. Now. But uh, but I'm fine with not not seeing them one last time, you know what I mean. Yeah, and I'm in the same boat. Um, it's just so unfortunate because and I did get that article pulled up. Someone asked him basically, Carmine a piece. Uh basically. Uh. He was in a new interview with gold Mine, which I'm rock rock magazine, rock website, I would guess, and he said this, and this is a direct quote from him. Oh, it's about the reaction to this story. Oh, it's been unbelievable.

Did you see what came out since them between Nick and the rest of the band. I'm sure you did. It's also sad, but it vindicates my story, which I never thought would start an entire viral internet thing. The response that came out of it was amazing, and his NICKI Six's response of calling me a washed up drummer was pretty wild and pretty hurtful. But I got a great response from people through their comments, and a lot of people are behind me, so it's all good. That said, I did get a cease and desist letter from all these lawyers who worked for Motley Crue, so I can't go into too much detail, but I have to be careful with what I say.

But then again, we're not really talking about details. We're just talking about what happened. It was really surprising thing because we were friends, and after the fact, I challenged Nicki six to a jam off, but I got no response. I'm not surprised, as I could jam circles around all of them, I'm sure of that. But yeah, what he said was sad because we were friends, but I guess not anymore. I got texts from Derek sharon In saying, man, what the hell is wrong with Nikki? And Stephen Pearcy apparently said to NICKI, do what the hell are you doing here?

We're all friends. And then I started to see a ton of responses from other musicians who said that they don't like Nicki and the rest of those guys too much and that the fans have been getting on Motley a lot. I read that and I was like, oh my god. I didn't know that. I really didn't know about any of that stuff, so I had no way of knowing that this whole thing was going to get as big as it did. Close quote wow. So it kind of started with him,

Yeah, it really did, And you know, I do follow Motley Crue on a variety of social media channels. Um so yeah, uh, I do follow him and do follow them, and I can't say that fans have been up in arms about it. Yeah. I was like, when we talked about this last time, I observed that it seems like public sentiment is largely with Mick Mars, And uh, yeah it is because Mick Is. You said it, and I I kind of you know, I said, well, I think he I didn't agree with you, but I didn't disagree with you. I wish washed.

I was wishy washy on it. Yeah, um on you said that Nick Mars was the most talented of the group. Um, And I was like, yeah, okay, but um look, I'll just come out with it. I I I love Nicki six. And there's personal reasons why I love Nicki six. Yeah. NICKI, like myself, had a tough life growing up. NICKI, like myself, battled his demons, you know. So there's a lot of you know, similarities that I find in reading his story. Yeah. But I've also heard interviews with NICKI six and can honestly say Nicki six can be a d bag.

It's a giant. I told my friend Brandon. This the issue with Motley Crue is this, you have three egomaniacs that are different types of egomaniacs.

You have Vince, who's stuck on Vince for reasons that no one that I can understand. Um. You have Tommy, who is just uh, driven by adulation and gets an ego trip whenever it happens. And then you have NICKI, who thinks he's just this big time businessman, business minded guy. So they all have different vices that have led to their egos. And the least, the one with the least ego of them all is Mick mars right, that by proxy makes him the sacrificial one. Yeah, he's always come across as the most down to earth and um yeah, and then and I get it what you're saying about Nikki six.

How you kind of have you know, It's it's easy to I think. And part of it is just the nuance and the complexity of life, um, and and the nuance and complexity of humans. You know, we uh, we we often will have mixed feelings about people that we look up to, you know, like, um, listen, you know Kiss is my favorite band I love, Uh, you know, Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons are my my heroes. But I have to tell you when it comes to Gene Simmons, and you know, I look up to him in many ways, but but there have been moments over the years where I mean, have you ever seen the movie Never Too Young to Die?

You know, it's hard to see that and not have mixed feelings about Gene Simmons. You know, but that's probably a poor example in today's climate. But but the thing is, I've I've like he's he's said things that make me cringe. Like I remember years ago he was very enthusiastic about Rick Perry's candidacy for the presidency, and you know, it's like, really, Gene, you know, there there are there are things about Gene that bother me, but I still love him and I and I do think in many ways he is a very positive role model, you know, no drugs, no alcohol, um.

But then you know, but there's other things about him that make them not such a good role model necessarily. But U But but I think it's easy to have sort of a complicated relationship with your heroes, you know what I mean. So I get I get it, Yeah, I I yeah, so and that's I love that you said that about Jean, because I was a major fan of the show Jean Simmons Family Jewels. Yeah, I watched it every week, even though I have seen Kiss live once and I walked away pretty disappointed. Really. Yes, Uh, I went to their farewell tour in two thousand your rapids, So just to clarify for listeners who don't know, so, um, Yes, in two thousand, end of ninety nine into two thousand, Kiss did the farewell tour.

Now, the tour that they're on right now is the end of the road tour, but the farewell tour was the final tour of the original four members. Um and then they decided to go on without the original four, which is how we got to where we are now at the end of the road tour. But that's what the farewell tour was. So it was the last tour of the original four together. And that tour was rough because they were not all they were not getting along. There was there there are reasons why it had to be the end of the original lineup and uh and and Peter Chris was was not playing well, and Ace was unhappy and the whole band was unhappy.

That was a that was a rough tour. So I'm actually when when you said when you said you you walked away disappointed. I in my mind I'm thinking, I bet it was a farewell tour, and then you said it, I'm not surprised that was a rough tour. I remember I walked out of the concert and I'm sorry if I offend you. Man, No, don't worry about My friend Mikey was was with me, goes, what do you think? Can I go? You wanted the best, you got the best, my boy, Yeah, I get it. I get it. And then I absolutely read Gene Simmons's book Kiss and Makeup, Yes, when he talked about it in depth, and I did research and realized that I was probably pretty unfair because Ace Fraley was being a complete d bag.

Yeah, they had a lot of problems. The only really good shows apparently the shows they did internationally, because after after they finished up the American leg of that tour, Peter Chris didn't even finished the tour. So Eric Singer, who had been in the band before a few years earlier, at the end of the non makeup Eric came back and replaced Peter Chris and this shows like online, the shows of them playing in Japan, for example, with Eric Singer instead of Peter Chris, and those those are really good shows because Peter was so bad at the end, he was dragging the whole band down, and Eric Singer really just kind of revitalized the whole thing.

So it's it's unfortunate that you had to see them with Peter Chris. Yeah, I saw him with Peter Chris. Yeah, it wasn't as bad as nowhere near his bad is when we had people near rioting. When Marilyn Manson canceled his show thirty minutes in here in Cedar Rapids. Oh really, you were there. I wasn't. No, no, I was not allowed to go, but I had friends who were there. And yeah, I think I've told the story before. Basically it was right after Mechanical Animals came out, Yeah, and he was performing one of his earlier hits and a stage hand had put a smiley face over his swastika that was a stage prop.

Oh my god. He flipped doubt and just left. He had come back up out and perform. He had a wait, he had a swastika on stage or the SS lightning bolts it was a sign of keep in mind, this happened in ninety nine, so I'm forty now I'm old. My memories fuzzy. It was let's just say ss logo, okay, some kind that he had a smiley faced sticker on it. He got mad, stormed off the stage, refused to come back out, only performed for about thirty minutes. Wow. Uh, And I'm saying wow to multiple things about that story.

People lost, like, people were getting were mad, people were throwing stuff, people were kicking doors at the arena. It was bad. Like there was at least I want to say, thirty to forty squad cars that ended up having to go to downtown Cedar Rapids. Yeah, I'll tell you what, Eric, Cedar Rapids. I would not have expected you. You make it sound like a very exciting place between the you know, the the riot at a Manson show and the near riot near right near riot, and then then the kids in school fighting over death Row versus uh, you know, East Coast versus West Coast.

I mean that's the like I kind of want to visit Cedar Rapids. It sounds exciting. Uh, it has its momentum. The Death Row bad Boy that is called stupidity. Yeah, yeah, yeah, look that is dumb. But no, um, I mean yeah, we've had some crazy moments. You know, our entire city being washed away underwater basically in two thousand and eight. That was fun. Oh wow, yeah, did a dam break or something? No, the Cedar River, the levees broke, that's what I mean. Yeah, le damp under like thirty two feet of water.

Oh my god, I don't even remember that. Really. When was that two thousand and eight? They'll flood of two thousand and eight they evacuated both of our major hospitals here in Cedar Rapids. Oh wow, Yeah, I were, and during that time I worked for a new station that the station was literally twenty five feet away from where the floodwaters stopped coming up. See that's a problem with having the word rapids and the name of the city. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Yeah. We were running the news station for the for like three weeks after was running on a power generator.

Huh no kidding. We had to use porta potties because they shut off our water. Yeah, to help with water assumption. Oh my god. We had no street lights. We had the National Guard blocking our news station, protecting us. Like, if you wanted to use the porta potty, you had to go up show a National Guard member your badge. They walked you through the porta potty and stood outside while you did your business. Wow, that's incredible. That's incredible. You don't know who's gonna come up to you. It was completely pitch black.

Yeah, you worked about sixteen hour days. They gave us. They had cots at the new station and catered in food throughout it. We were walled wall coverage for over a week. Wow. Yeah. I was mad because I was a college I was in college at the time. Yeah, and I'm like, man, I'm earning all this overtime, but the bars are closed, the adult clubs are closed. There's no where to spend this extra money. Yeah. Wow boy. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that's a that's a uh. Maybe I don't want to go. I'm afraid of getting caught in a flood.

So uh. And then are twenty twenty we had a landborn hurricane hit really uh huh win us up to one hundred and fifty seven miles per hour in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Yep, look up dur Rachel, Wow, that's crazy. I didn't know that. Yeah. I was working from home and like it's one of those things that you're just like, oh, it's a bad storm, and you walk outside with your cousin and you're like, we're not in Kansas anymore. Toto, you sure it was a hurricane. It wasn't a tornado with some rain. It was a land born hurricane.

That's crazy. Wow. Yeah, I didn't know that was a thing. I honestly, I didn't know that was even a thing. I didn't know it was a thing until it happened. Yeah, it must be rare. Wow, well seen a rapid sounds like a frightening and dangerous place. I don't ever want to go there. I mean, I'm kidding, but uh my goodness, Yeah it must be rare. Well, yeah it is. It is quite rare that, uh, that it happens. Someone said, Eric, that's so cool. We say, no, no, it wasn't cool. Yeah, that's a I period. Plus Michael's law.

I think they're from Greensboro, North Carolina. I'm thinking you're right now. But yes, yes, that that it was not cool. I did not enjoy that experience. Well we are, uh, we're getting late in the show, I should get to a break. But any anything to add about the this current uh installment of the the Motley the Motley Crew Trained derailment. What's that? We kind of no pun intended, We kind of got off track there. Yes, yes, that's all right. I think it's you know, uh, they're in the studio recording John five in Bob Rock is producing it, who produced their quintessential albums Girls, Girls, Girls and Doctor Feel Good.

Yeah. So, um, it's gonna be interesting to see how this plays out because their contention and we went over this last time is well we're a turning band. That's why Mick is only entitled the five Percent, right, So yeah, yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Um, but I do think we are in the end of Motley Crue. Yeah, probably. I mean honestly, after their last tour when they signed the cessation a touring agreement, Yeah, that should have been it. That was a fitting end. Yeah, but of course it wasn't going to be.

I I've seen people on online complaining, you know, well, of course when they announced the stadium tour, which kept getting delayed because of COVID, you know, people were complaining. Oh, they said, they did this whole ceremonial thing where they signed a contract promising to be the one band that never comes back after they do their quote unquote farewell tour, and I just it's it's like, but why would anyone, why would anyone fall for that? Like how naive do you have to be to believe that? They're called it?

I called it when The Dirt premiered on Netflix, yes, and blew up and then and then their music on uh streaming services were number one for like two weeks. Yeah, I'm like, they're coming back. Yeah, yep. I'm like, and I go back to the ego part of it. Those egos will not allow this moment to pass, right, of course, Yeah, there was this there was too much money on the table, and but I think it would have happened even without that. It would have happened eventually. Anyway, everybody you know somebody, well, I remember, this goes back, this goes way back to the early nineties.

But when Ozzy Osbourne did his Farewell tour, it was called the No More Tours tour because you know, the song No More Tears was a big, big hit at the time, so he was doing the No More Tours tour, and he actually he I read this interview with him in one of the magazines at the time. I think it might have been Hit Parader or Metal Edge, and he actually comes right out and says in the interview that, well, I don't know if this is really going to be the last tour. You know, I might change my mind tomorrow, who knows.

I'm not even sure now, Like like before the before this farewell to or even starts, he just gives the game away and says that might not really be the end, who knows, And of course it wasn't. But uh but I always thought that was funny. He just came right out and said, yes, it's probably not really the end. It's like, okay, cool suckers for buying most tickets. Yeah, but yeah, you can you can never believe them. You can never believe them. Well, Eric, we'll we'll let you go in a moment, but before you go, please plug the film review for tomorrow.

Yes, it is the John Carpenter. It's such an amazing film. Because I say this a lot with the films I review, but it's really one of them that you you cannot say that it's this type of film, Okay, that's just so much. In Escape from New York, it's an amazing film. And I want to say I haven't done the research on this statement, but probably the last majorly successful independent release for John Carpenter.

Yeah, because I do say this in the review. It was made on a six million dollar budget, it and it raked in over twenty five million. Okay, but I think that this was it because then I think he did major studio releases like Starman and what ended his major studio run, Big Trouble in Little China, which we've already reviewed. Okay. Oh, Melanie says in the chat room, Snake is my hero. Snake Pliskin is the most underrated action hero in cinema history, played by um Kurt Russell. Yeah, I was blanking on his name.

Yeah, yeah, I mean in really star a string of great collaborations with John Carpenter, which I forgot to even add in there, because you have Escape from New York, then you have the Thing, and then you have Big Trouble in Little China, and then Escape from La Yes from New York, which only watch if you're a completist. Gotcha understood? Well, we look forward to that, Eric, and that will be of course tomorrow. Eric Pilcher's classic film review of Escape from New York and thank you for skyping in today.

I enjoyed the conversation as always, and Molly, Molly Crue the gift that keeps on giving. Yeah, much like the diseases they have caught from groupies. Well well that might be a discussion for the other show. But from what I was gonna say, I understand. All right, Eric, thank you so much, my friend. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure anytime. All right, take care, byebye. All right. That was our friend Eric Pilcher, all the way from the very exciting Seat Rapids, Iowa. So we're gonna take a quick break.

I'm gonna play a song. This is called reach Up. This is from Andrea Paquin and I'm featuring her music because she's gonna be here with us tomorrow in the second hour. She's gonna bring her acoustic guitar, gonna play a couple of songs for us, or a few songs, or a bunch of songs, or however many she wants to play. So just give you a little preview. This is one of her studio tracks, and I like this a lot. So we're gonna play this and we're gonna show some love to our amazing sponsors and then we'll be back with the balance of our show.

But this is really good. This is Andrea Paquin and the track is called Reach Up. I shan't turned easy healings around and two am I going to be close too? Now I thought I missed you, but now I know I just miss that something. Yes, I know I just miss that something because not the person I was back then, I'm not the person words. I know that I've been growing from this ground. I've been planned to give even the of the little water. I've been to gna you that little fire through the trees shining unsho me you that little fire light through the trees want you to me?

And I read shot. I shout to you, come to me, and I reach jo. I read jo to. I am not the person I was back then. I'm not the person I was. No, I am not the person I was back then. Told you tires me and I read I shout to you, come down to me, and I'm reach I shout to you, come down to me, and I'm going to reach I'm going shout to you.

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I don't know if it's one of the ones she's going to play tomorrow or not. We'll see, but she's gonna show up with her guitar and play for us, and really looking forward to that. Friday's, of course, are very busy here in this little corner of the universe here at WMNH, we have this program and then of course at six pm on Fridays we have granted State of Mind, hosted by the great rob as A Veto and Pauli Stone, and this week should be, I believe, their first show from back in the barn at Pembroke City Limits where they record the show during the warm weather.

Can't do it during the winter, but in the warm weather when it's nice, and I think I think the nice weather that we're having is hopefully going to hold for a while. They do the show there. They have the full band set up and they record the band live and do the interview and whatnot, so so that'll be cool. I always enjoy listening to those shows. And then of course tomorrow night from eight to eleven pm, I will be back for retros Spectrum Radio with Paul C. I have the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show, as well as DJ Steve, who I see in the chat room as well.

Hello Steve, And I think this week hopefully the return of our other co host, Mike from Queen's City Cabinetry. Queen Queen City Cabinetry of course also one of our great sponsors here at WMH ninety five point three in the historic sunb Mall. But Mike also became officially one of Paul's co hosts on Retro Spectrum Radio with POLC and then proceeded to injure himself, so he was made a co host and then got hurt and hasn't been on. But I think tomorrow night might be the night we see the re emergence of Mike from Queen City Cabinetry on Retrospectrum Radio, so we really look forward to that.

Mike's a great guy, so we'll have fun. It'll be a lot of fun. A couple other things going on tomorrow night too, related to WMNH. Right across the street at our amazing sponsor, the Hopknot Live Music tomorrow night from seven to nine pm, Rebecca Turmel will be performing live, and we played some of her music earlier in the week, but she will be there live at the Hopknot from seven to nine pm tomorrow night. And of course, and they've been talking about it a lot on The Morning Show. Right up the street at Disney's Cafe, Peter White is the celebrity restaurant Tour if I'm saying that word correctly, restaurant tour.

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You know it's funny. We had our friend Eric Pilcher on the line with us for a while on Skype. I forgot to ask him there was something specifically I was going to ask him about, but we'll save it for next time. But there was some breaking news I just happened to see coming on the air today that his boy Dan Bongino is leaving Fox News apparently, or has left Fox News, and I just I was thinking about that because I remember Eric wants saying that he was a fan of Dan Bongino. I'm myself not a fan of Dan Bongino, but I know that Eric is and uh apparently uh Bongino is moving on.

So I was gonna ask Eric about it, and I totally spaced it. But uh, let's I do want to say hello some folks in the Facebook live chat quickly because there were some comments in there regarding the conversation that Eric and I were having. Uh let's see him kind of going back here. Oh, DJ Steve says, Mark Stein is the name of the keyboard player for Vanilla Fudge. You know, we were talking about a piece who is the drummer in Vanilla Fudge. But yes, Mark Stein was the name of the keyboard player. Because I actually, guys, I know it's it's shocking six degrees of separation.

I know somebody who claims to have once interviewed the keyboard player from Vanilla Fudge. Can you believe it? It's I almost feel like just knowing that person who interviewed Mark Stein, I feel like I interviewed Mark Stein just by Osmosis. It's it's really incredible. Again, these are very inside references. But if you know, you know, and hopefully you're laughing. Scott Robinson had pointed out, you know, in New Hampshire we fight over who's better Roth or Hagar. I just just my personal opinion on that, of course, the great Van Halen debate.

I love them both for different reasons, love them both, respect and admire them both. But gone to my head, I gotta go with Hagar. He's got the pipes. I just love his voice. Fifty one fifty is my favorite Van Helen album. So love them both. But if I had to choose, I go with Sammy Hagar. Although if you're talking about solo material solo material, I would actually go with Roth because David Lee Roth on his solo albums, he takes some chances and there's some surprises, whereas the Sammy Hagar solo album it's great, it really is, but you know what you're getting.

There's no surprises. Roth will actually surprise you, let's see. But I do love them both. Crystal says Roth had the Justin Jiggielow and everywhere he goes people know the part he's playing advantage. That's true. Yes, a lot of car horns outside someone's a car alarm is going off. Ah, yes, the sounds of summer. Isaac Banks from Greensboro, North Carolina, joins us and says, good afternoon, Matt. How are you doing. I heard you had a guest yesterday. Matt, Well, we often have guests. Yeah, uh, that is that is true.

Oh, yes, yesterday I was us forgetting who we had for a second. Yesterday we had the court jesters skyping in in the second hour. Um. Isaac Banks also says, Matt Connerton, My favorite Motley Crue song is Smoking in the Boys Room. Yes, uh, not a favorite of mine. That is actually a cover by the way, Brownsville Station, I believe is the name of the band that did that originally, but never one of my favorites. My favorite Molly Crue song is Primal Scream. I love the bassline in the beginning, It really drives the whole song.

Love Primal Scream. And of course you know the entire Doctor Field Good album is great and uh and I also love as Eric and I had previously discussed the self titled album that they did, the one album that Vince Neil did not sing on but instead they had John Karabi. That is an under underappreciated gem. Misunderstood, for example, is a fantastic song, and that is from that album. So let's see. Oh, Steve Light says in the chat room too, dj C if that's funny because it's a cover from Brownsville Station.

Yes, yes, Isaac Bank says, Molly Crue song wild Side is my favorite eighties song from the movie Like Father, Like Son. I don't think I've seen the movie Like Father Like Son, but I do love that song. Wild Side is a great song.

Miriam banishes in the chat room, she said something interesting. You know, Eric was talking about how he's not really interested in seeing Molly Crewe at this point. He'd rather keep the great memories of when they were great, and I had said, I can kind of relate to that. I have no particular desire to see Kiss at this point, even though they're you know, they're down to their final shows on the end of the road tour. But I'm you know, I'm good, I'm all set, even though they're my favorite band.

And Miriam said, I totally get that feeling. People I know can't fathom why I don't want to see Elton John because I was a huge fan for many years. I love the music, but my memories are enough. Yeah, exactly, I completely get that. M Isaac Bank says I've seen VH one behind the music of Motley Crue. Matt Connerton, Yes, yes, Uh, let's see. DJ Steve says I loved Ozzie's Retirement Sucks tour a year after he retired. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we were talking about that Ozzie. You know, he did the No More Tourist tour where he said he was retiring, but then then he was back almost almost immediately.

Uh, let's see. Um. I plus Michael's Law says, uh, we say Vanilla Fudge of the band was in the sixties. They were on the Ed Sullivan Show. Yes, yes, well the person I'm thinking of who interviewed Mark Stein from Vanilla Fudge is about that age where he would he was probably uh he probably saw them live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Again, these are very insider references. I apologize, and we're almost out of show, but uh, just a couple things quickly. Well, we'll look at um, you know, dominion. We haven't really had a chance to get into it in depth this week.

But Dominion won there. Well, they want to settlement. They got their settlement out of Fox News. Uh, Dominion isn't the They're not the only ones on the hook. I'm sorry, Fox News isn't the only one on the hook. Rather Mike Lindell. You know Mike Lindell, the the My Pillow guy. Apparently, uh he he is being sued. He has been sued for you know, he puts out all this information about how this data that he has about the twenty twenty election, and uh, you know, people get a little bit suspicious that it might be malarkey what he's putting out there, because you know, it's Mike Lindell, and he seems insane.

And he did this five million dollar challenge. If you could prove him wrong, that his data was bogus, you could win five million dollars. A Trump supporter took the challenge. Someone who voted for Trump took the challenge and proved Mike Lindell wrong. And Mike Lindell has been refusing to pay. This is from CNN dot com and this is an update on the story. Just in the last few minutes. My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell ordered to follow through with five million dollars payment to expert who debunked his false election data.

Poor Mike Lindell says here my pillow. CEO Mike Lindell has been ordered to shell out five million dollars to an expert who debunked his data related to the twenty twenty election. According to a decision by the arbitration panel obtained by CNN, Lindell, a purveyor of election conspiracies, vowed to award the multimillion dollars sum to any cybersecurity expert who could disprove his data. An arbitration panel awarded Robert Zeideman, who has decades in software development experience, a five million dollar payout on oh yesterday he was This was ordered after he sued Lindell over the sum.

CNN has obtained arbitration documents and video depositions, including a deposition of Lindell, related to the dispute. The arbitration panel wrote in its decision, quote, based on the foregoing analysis mister Zideman performed under the contract, he proved the data Lindell LLC provided and represented reflected information from the November twenty twenty election unequivocally did not reflect November twenty twenty election day. To failure to pay mister Zeideman the five million dollar prize was a breach of contract, entitling him to recover unquote.

The decision marks yet another blow to the my Pillow CEO's credibility after he publicly touted unproven claims of widespread fraud in the twenty twenty presidential election. Lindell has also faced defamation suits related to his election claims. Brian Glasser, a founder of Bailey and Glasser LLLP, who represented Zideman, said, quote, the lawsuit and verdict marked another important moment in the ongoing proof that the twenty twenty election was legal and valid and the role of cybersecurity and ensuring that integrity.

Lindell's claim to have twenty twenty election data has been definitely disproved unquote. By the way, there's um I remember scene online video of Lindell had this big event where he was unveiling data and he had He's up on a stage and and they've got the big screen and some sort of PowerPoint presentation and it's like who watches anything like this? And thinks. I mean, it came off to me from what I saw it, just in the presentation alone, forget the substance or lack there of the presentation itself.

It came across to me about as credibly as watching Rudy Giuliani standing in front of four Seasons landscaping in lawncare with black goop dripping down his face, rambling about election fraud. It was. It was about that level of credibility. I would say, I understand, if you know, depending on who the audience is, you may you may want to believe the nonsense that they present, but but it is nonsense. All right. Anyway, there's more to this, but we don't have time, so we will begin to wrap up. Oh Crystal in the chat room, says Mike Lindell is an odd little man.

Yes, by the way, I do. I will say this, and I'm I don't. I don't say this sarcastically. I genuinely mean this. I do respect him for building this, this empire, this my pillow business, which is hugely successful. Um. You know, he overcame h, he overcame addiction, uh and uh and built a business empire, making millions and millions of dollars. Um. I, you know, I do genuinely respect that, but uh, but he also has played a role in the disinformation campaign regarding the twenty twenty election, and for that I disrespect him.

Crystal said in the chat, Matt, do you think Bongino leaving Fox had anything to do with the settlement Fox did with Dominion They claim contract dispute and articles, but timing is super suspicious. That's a great point, Crystal. I don't know, but perhaps we will learn more in the future. I would like to I am curious about that as well. All right, well, thank you all for joining me today. I appreciate you all, and I think we should

just for you know what, Actually, no, let's do this. I think we should end with because she's going to be here tomorrow, I think we should end today's program with another Andrea Paquin song. What do you think Andrea Paquin? Of course, if you're just joining us and did not hear me mention it earlier, she's gonna be oops. I typed Andre Paquin. That's not her name. Andrea Paquin is going to be our in studio guest tomorrow in the second hour. We've got a great show for you. Tomorrow we have a Eric's classic film review and this week the subject is Escaped from New York.

And then Andrea Paquin will be in to perform live on the program. But I think we should play another one of her songs to close out today's show. I don't think we'll get the whole thing in, but let's see. Um, I played my favorite, but here we'll play another one. Let's play a well, let's play a boxer. We'll end with this, all right, So we're gonna end with Boxer by Andrea Paquin. If you are listening live on Thursday. Coming up next year on WMH ninety five point three is through the Stage Store, hosted by the great Rob Dion.

And don't forget to be back brighton at lea seven am for the Morning Show with Peter White. And if you miss any part of this show, it will be up in just a little bit at WMNH radio dot org and in my website Matt Connerton dot com. And that's it for me for now. I will talk at y'all a little bit later. By everybody,

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