Matt Connarton Unleashed 4-21-23

Welcome everybody. Here we go Happy Friday. It is that time again.

Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H

ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. And it

is a glorious outside. It's really really nice. 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 your live streaming options, social media links, contact info,

show archives, etc. Etc. Today is Friday, April twenty one,

two thousand and twenty three. We have an exciting Friday show for you.

We have Eric Pilcher's classic film review coming up at about four or forty five,

and in the second hour we're gonna be joined by singer songwriter Andrea Paquin

in studio. She's gonna bringing her acoustic guitar and play some songs for us.

We've got Texas Mike at the newsdesk and we're coming in hot, my

friends. A rare appearance. Peter White of The Morning Show with Peter White

has joined us on the couch, Texas Mike at the desk Hunt that was

good. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that was good. I've but

I've I've learned over the years too. I gotta ride the fader when he

does that, because sometimes he's Sometimes he's very enthusiastic, shall we say,

you only have two ear drums, that's right. And the other times he'll

he'll be a bit underwhelming. He'll be like, yee huh, and it's

like, what's the matter, Texas Mike. You know, Oh, good

afternoon, guys, good afternoons for having me on. This is great.

Well, it's been a long time since you've been here. Well, I

mean it's been a long time, says been out of the show. I

mean not since you've been here. I'm well, yes, the couch is

now the couch isn't going right, that's we're leaving that behind finally. Well,

I'm not sure, didn't I I think I promised is is somebody?

Well I seem to propose it's going to be a wedding present for Kadie and

Tom. Well, well, perfect. I don't know if you remember this,

but this was years ago actually now by the time gets away from us.

But you were on my show one day and we were trying to auction

off the couch or sell the couch or something and uh no, no no

takers that day. Well, Mike Doyle was gonna try to get us a

couch and then he says, they've got a couch for you, and he

said it was floral like very you know, and I didn't want that.

I didn't want that. Yeah, Um, it's just I don't know.

It's so it was. We was a nay on that couch and we had

to keep this. But it is the legendary coach. Oh yeah, you

ever look at it with a black light? Yeah, I've heard of that.

I heard of that. I have none. Okay, I was going

to say, you're a braver man than I. Yeah, I mean I

wouldn't want to look. It's not really good to look. You know what's

funny about a black light? And I'll tell you a black light story of

mine yea In Manchester in nineteen ninety ninety two, there was a dance club

called Decadence and it was over here where the training station is on Elm Street.

It was a dance club and before that it was many other clubs and

blah blah, blah. But back in the nineties when acid washy, kind

of weird jeans were still around, if you use tide detergent, like I

think it was tied. And then on those jeans and you went under a

black light, there were spot splotches everywhere. Really, yeah, it was

a splotchy, splotchy jeans. If you use tied you could only see it

under the black light. But yeah, I think this thing it's fine.

I mean a lot of people have sat here. It's it's good for someone

or what are you about, six ten? It's good for a tall person

like you, yes, but for for for shorter people like DJ Steve for

example, right, you know hang, yeah, yeah, he looks like

you know, he looks like Emmanuel Lewis over there on the couch. Whatever

happened to Webster? He's still with us, right, I think so?

Gary Coleman died, right, yes, but Webster is still with us,

I believe, no doubt. Yes, yes, not doing too much though.

No, Well, he's got that uh what's the name of the Oh,

it's just called Webster, right, he's got that Webster money. Well,

you never know, you never know what kind of contract he had,

that's right, um, you've got a big you've got big doings. You

are a celebrity restaurant tour. I can't even say that, I really,

honestly, I say guest. I say a guest restaurant tour because I don't.

I don't feel like that anyway. But it is. It is a

great thing, and it had a chance to do it, and you know

it goes to uh, you know, ten percent of the proceeds off the

you know, my personal menu. We'll go to the Hope and h Matt's

organization helping kids right here in Manchester. Yeah, so Morning show Jesus it

is. Yeah, Morning Show Jesus. Verily is very envious of his hair.

That dude's got the hair. I'm the guy that says he's not gonna

have that forever's not gonna have that. I can't wait. I'm just gonna

be a time. Let's let's let's talking ten years. Yeah, let's talking

ten years. I'll see him ten years something. He's gonna have to do

something. Oh ten years. By by the time we get ten years from

now, they'll have a pillow you just take and it just it just grows

all your hair out. They're actually close to that now apparently. Really,

I think that's good, But then you get it just does it just go

up there? And does it go everywhere? It goes everywhere? And uh

yeah, yeah, it's just Harry and your your heart enlarges. So there

are side effects apparently. Yeah, but Mike, you don't do that.

Yeah, I don't do that, Mikey. I'm gonna I have now right

there. You know, I remember when you did have some some sweet hair

in high school. Yes, yeah, good looking kid. He was in

high school. Always with, always with, always with the lady. Oh,

I believe that, true. I believe many pictures I like when you

share those. Yes. Yeah, So we're going to well I'm going there

in just a little while. It's gonna be a good time. We have

Bob Freedis's squad dogs on the menu and squad dogs around here. You know

we're not going to be and I repeat if anyone was worried, we aren't

going to be putting any uh squad dogs in belly buttons or anything like that.

That was just a one time thing that time. Well, what if

Ron shows up and he decides to put it in his own belly button?

How are you gonna are you gonna be able to stop him? Is there

security there? Matt. There's a time to do things, and then that's

the time time not to do things. I feel like during those two hours

every morning, I think I feel like, okay, I could pretty much

do anything right, right, those those two hours are the time to do

things that you wouldn't necessarily doing in the evening at an important event to raise

I think I had went out to dinner that night and someone says, oh,

how was your day? And he said, well, you know I

penetrated at three people with squaw dogs on the show. Well I didn't actually

penetrate them, but a squaw dogs penetrated the belly button. Yes, yes,

I'm surprised you were able to eat that day. Yeah, Frank's no

food and there's no eating in here, right right, So I've heard so

Now, so you mentioned your your menu, So did you How does that

work? Do you get to pick certain things that you want for that menu

or well? I kind of described it like a you know, say,

someone in a celebrity that's going on Saturday Night Live for the week, right,

Okay, so they're with the cast all week. In the writing process,

the practicing process and all that. So yeah, I've been down there

all week with this. We've been going crazy trying to get all this going.

But it looks like it's ready to go, and it's ready to go

right now. Excellent, excellent. We have a call. Hi. Welcome

to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who is this? This is Scott Robinson? Matt

face God? How are you my friend? Good? How are you good?

Good? What's going on? Peter? I was just wondering are there

any fish or vegetarian options on the menu tonight? Mike, you pull up

the menu, could you please them? Sorry? Sorry, well you don't,

Peter. You don't strike me as a fish or vegetarian option. I

have to think of people like Scott true very you know a guy that cares

about that kind of thing. Ye, yes, scarlet, Scott, is

this for you? Are you sure? My my wife is a vegetarian?

Now? What is the little green? Right? Is there? There's no?

Is there any when we get to a cheese, Yeah, there's there's

something. The little green I think is the uh the maybe of the uh.

Yeah. Just tell her to eat that. The little green, Yeah,

tell her has avocado. It has avocado on it and some ah.

Yeah. Um, the Little Green has flat has pesto, Peter Grigio,

swiced avocado, palmjan cheese, Fats Montroo, and silantro. Yeah so you

and you could probably ask, you know, for no cheese if you didn't

want to go the cheese route. Because somebody got a vegan. Well,

I don't know. I don't know what religion she is, and I assume

all faith Sir, Welcome at Business Cafe. Yeah, I would there.

Anybody can go. Yeah, yeah, and I'll tell you what there are.

There are stuff on you know, their regular menu is also available tonight.

O excellent. Okay, yeah, so this is is very good.

I don't know if they'll be able to make it tonight, but I just

hope, good luck. If I can't make it, good luck Peter.

Hope everybody shows up and good luck with the Yeah. Yeah, and you

know what it's maybe you know that episode of The Brady Bunch when Peter Brady

is waiting for people to come to his party and then and then he runs

down the stairs, no one's there, and then the cars just keep driving

by. He goes to the door and opens the door and surprised, Yeah,

yeah, they did surprise him. But it was his family that found

bad for him. So that's fine, right, that's fine. But yeah,

Scott, thank you. Scot's an old friend of mine, by the

way. Oh, you guys have known each other a long time for you

know, forever there was you know, we didn't talk to each other for

you know, thirty years. But don't worry. It feels like yesterday.

Wow, yeah, it does, it really does, it really does.

Yeah. No, I know what you mean. I know people like that.

Scott. Are you on the clock right now? Oh? Actually,

yeah, Peter, go on your show. I'm out of work for the

medical issue for abottom month. Oh I'm sorry, Oh, sorry to hear

that. Come on in, Scott, why don't you shoot me a Facebook

message or whatever you want to call it? Okay, and let me know

that day is good? Yeah, I could be good in the trivia and

I'm good on the streets. Okay, Oh okay, all right, yeah

we we tackleable. Did you say you're good on the streets? Yeah,

what does that mean? Well? We do awardward game. We do we

do the famous Andy Silvia Award game. It's very fascinating, man's very it

must be you must get up after the fascinating a ward game apparently game.

I'm I'm missing a lot. I'm missing good on the streets and everything.

I'm missing all the excitement. Wow, yeah, Peter, shoot me a

Facebook message whatever. Alright, I don't do anything right now, so all

right, No, that'd be great. Are you up? Are you an

early riser? I can be all right, let's do it, all right.

I'd love to have you, all right, buddy. All right,

Scott, here are you guys? Good luck to night, Pete and thank

you Matt. All right, thank you, Scott, thank you for the

call. Yeah, old friend, Mike ye an old friend from Chandler's School.

Oh no kidding. Yeah, we were the last group of kids that

went through the entire school before closed, from kindergarten to sixth grade. Oh

really, okay, wow? Yeah. I ran into Scott last weekend,

sorry, downtown while I was I was downtown and I it's funny. I

was I went into Mo's to pick something up, and I'm coming out and

there was Scott and his wife, and I met his wife really nice and

Scott goes, careful where where your walking because right up the street at the

bookery. You know, they had the proud boys there on their masks trying

to trying to freak everybody out because they know how you should raise your kids

wear a mask first of all. I mean, aren't they the people that

said don't wear masks? Yes, yes, but but they wear masks and

yeah, there's just out there exercising their first amendment. But yes, I

told Scott, I said, no, I'm gonna go down the alley.

I don't. I don't need to be anyone mask the person and it's Scott

Robinson, I'd be so weird. Yeah, that's why I wore a mask.

I don't want anyone to know what was mean. And then he'd be

like, I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you pesky

kids. Yes, oh boy? So now how many how many items are

on the your your menu? And is it like a I assume you're exaggerating,

yes, And is it like a separate menu like they give you here?

Serious? Oh cool? Yeah, they'll be it's a special menu tonight.

But you, like I said, like, if you come on in,

you can order off my menu, or you can order off the business

menu will be available. Very nice. So's it's a great place. Uh,

Judy and Diz have done great. They you know, they opened the

restaurant in twenty twenty, and the grand opening was like a couple of weeks,

they think, right before everything shut down. Yeah, yeah, like

anybody, what are you gonna do? You're sitting on something, you're you're

like, it's uh. But they persevered and here they are today and I

think they're they're thriving. I think I'm bad. I'm pretty sure it's a

it's a it's delicious comfort food, you know, it's a. Yeah,

it's a very very family home atmosphere, cafe style, very Manchester cool.

Yeah, you know, I guess that's how I would explain it. Yes,

Mikey's Minkey's like a super regular there. Yeah, I was gonna say,

I always see him posting about going there. Yeah. Didn't you take

your your girlfriend there for a birthday? Um, that was before we bought

yeah, but but but yeah, but before we but yeah, last year

we went there from an we went there for a birthday. Okay, your

girlfriend's name is Reba. No no, no, no, we went there

before we went to the thing's going there? Good? Good, good.

I'd like to hear that. Yes, yes, Jeff Nyan is on the

line. Hi, Jeff, Hello, Matthew, Hello, Peter, Hello,

Michael. Hey, hey, hey, hey Jeff, what's going on?

Hey? Uh Pete. I can't. I can't make it there tonight.

And I apologize. I got some going but I wanted to. Uh

can is there a way we can donate? Uh so it gets accounted for

this event? Or good question? I think myself and other people would like

to know that. Yeah, I think Matt. Matt has a q art

code. Um, he's supposed to bring so I will take a picture of

it for you. Um, it's a cute. I think it's it's yeah.

Yeah, let me uh, let me when I get down there.

Yeah, when I get down there, I'll text you what I know.

Ye, don't text me, Peter, I would say, put it on

Stace, look on your page and the well okay, yeah, thanks Jeff,

Thanks everybody. Now what are you actually doing? What are you actually

doing instead of coming down to my great event which means so much to me.

Yeah, that's a good question, So believe it or not, I

thank you, Thank you everybody. My birthday weekend and my wife planned day

okay party this evening, so I would love to Um, I would love

to be there, but wow, that on the same night. Wow,

wow, wow. Yeah, I know it's it's quite Frankly, it's rude.

And I've talked to her. I've spoken to her about it, and

really, you know, I heard it's a party of the century. Uh

huh, yeah, well it must be. And let's really drill down for

a moment here if we could. Jeff, is today your actual birthday?

No, sir, it's oh next week. My birthday is Sunday, but

a lot of people are leaving for a vacation, vacation my birthday weekend.

Yeah, you're taking the day off. Did you take the day off today?

No, I'm working every day, Peter, Okay, that's right off

days for Jeff Nins. That's right, that's true, that's true. But

yeah, it's very excited about your event. And I urge everybody and uh,

thanks Jeff. You know, if they need a nice place to go

for dinner and support a great cause. I think what you're doing is wonderful.

And Matt I know, I had breakfast with Matt today and he appreciates

it greatly. What you're doing for the for the whole program. Great,

Um, yeah, no, I think it's great. Thank you, Jeff,

appreciate you. And we'll we'll talk soon. Yeah, we absolutely will,

and uh I'll see you guys later. All right. Thanks, all

right, Jeff, thanks for the call. And happy birthday, Happy birthday,

Happy birthday weekend. Yeah yeah, yeah, happy birthday. This is

birthday month. What do you want it is? This is a birthday month?

Yes, yes, Well he's been he's been kind of a semi regular

on your show. Right. Yeah, he's great. He's a fan favorite,

and you know, some fans can't stand him, really, are there

people? Is that true? I don't know. Yeah, it's going to

be a polarizing figure. It's great. He's great. He's great. He

knows. Uh, he's dabbled in radio a little bit. I know.

Oh yeah, oh I had no idea. Yeah, oh I told you

I met him, you know, I met him, really, I met

him one time at the Bridge Cafe. Yeah, and then you know,

met him, knew who he was, and hey, Jeff, you know,

and then uh, during COVID when everyone was sitting at home, you

know, his kids were probably driving him crazy, but he says, hey,

let's do something here. So they made signs saying thank you to all

the you know, healthcare workers and all that that were good that we're dealing

with all that, and made these signs and it made the news on Channel

nine and so here Jeff is, you know, um on TV like through

what's the one skyper, what's the other one? Zoom? Yeah, zoom.

He was zooming it with Channel nine. Yeah, and I'm like,

oh my god, that's Jeff. That's that's a cool thing that him and

the kids are doing. Yeah, and uh, yeah, that that's And

I think I sent him a Facebook message and then we chatted a little bit

and then he came on the show. And I mean, you know,

it's funny. It's always funny when he's on the show. Yeah. Yeah,

No, he's a very nice guy. Yeah. Scott was saying in

the chat with Scott Robinson that he met Jeff recently in really nice guy.

Oh and Scott also said, I know Easy loves Jeff. I think that

might be h Yeah. That was another controversy with Yadidi. Yeah, and

you know, yeah, I think he still owes you an apology for Yeah,

I didn't I didn't get to hear that. I didn't. He was

all worried about it, and then I'm like, whatever, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't guy though, you know, poor guy? Yeah?

Yeah, but we love him, easyg We may we may never see

him again. He's in Nashua and it looks like that's where he's staying.

You can only hope. Yeah, I mean we can see him on Facebook

of course, although apparently he deleted all his friends. Right. Yes,

but um so so to night. It's five to nine, five to nine

with the act. Yeah, and I'm gonna be I get to make a

playlist too. I get to like I made the playlist. Well, I

was curious, is there a DJ? Or how does that? Well?

You got it right here? Hello, Oh you're gonna be DJ? Well

not really, I made a playlist. I built it all week. Yeah,

okay, I built the show all week. Oh oh good. Well

that's a lot of it's it's a lot of work I did. It took

me all week to make this, uh this mix? Yes, and uh

it's like five hours. You know, it's even longer than the actual event.

See. I think that's smart because what if the event runs really like

every few nights, every night? Like whatever I was doing, whether preparing

for the show or whatever. I would listen to music if I heard something

boom. Yeah. So yeah, it took me. It took me about

a week because if you get to if you get to nine o'clock, you

don't want to be like and there's still people there. You don't want to

be like, oh sorry, everybody, you have to hear the same songs

again. Sorry, it's good to make it longer, right, So,

so they're just gonna play do they have a so what they just play over

their sound system? You're a playlist? Yeah? Yeah, oh yeah they

can. You know, it's like anything, you know, I don't know

how it works, the magic of Disney's Cafe. Yes, yes, you

know. I sent her the link to the playlist and so yeah, so

she can enjoy it on our on our free time. Okay, but it

is. It is gonna be fun, you know, it's gonna be a

lot of fun. Yeah. And then there's one, uh you know,

we just lost this Stephanie's dad about two months ago, right, been too,

it's been it's been a while. Yeah, And we just did the

last weekend, did the celebration of life oh um down at the Cape is

hometown of Onset and so I did it. I get to do drinks too

here. So I do have the stone Field Cosmo cosmo. Oh yeah,

Ed Stonefield could make the greatest cosmo in the world. Really, yeah,

in the world. And you've got you've got the recipe. Well you know

what, it's three ingredients. You just gotta get it the right way.

Okay, Okay, that's the magic these uh these things. And yeah,

it's amazing. So we're gonna do that. So I think hopefully people come

down, especially people that I know that know uh that know the stone Fields.

It's it's a really a tribute to him. Yeah. Yeah, oh

that's nice. Yeah, that's very nice. Yeah. I think it's gonna

be all right. Yeah yeah. Do you have anything you eyeing? Anything

on the menu, Mikey, most chicken tenders, mayonade and pineapple and brown

sugar. Oh. Now, see, this is the story within the story,

you know, all the you know, all the craziness with the chickens.

There's a lot of a lot of tenders talk lately. I have noticed

that, well, welcome the Tendertown next push nick La Valley calls attend.

I do like that better than mant Vegas to be honest with you and Tendertown,

USA. So what's gonna happen though, I'm it's tonight. Is their

debuting They've never had them before. They are debuting the chickens his chicken tenders.

Oh okay. Always puts his own spin on it too. Yeah,

always puts his own spin on it. Oh cool. Okay, how does

the um and how does the squad dogs? So Bob pray this is gonna

is he serving those Spain He'll be a guest? Oh okay everybody else?

Yeah, it's again in honor of what he did. Like, you know,

that's a that's a that's a tough, thankless job being a sometimes being

a police officer day in and day out. Yeah, you know. And

and what they did was on Fridays they would have these uh he got a

steamer and they would have on the way out the door or whatever. Uh.

And it was for everybody. It was for all departments and everyone got

to like congregate, have a hot dog. And yeah, it was a

I guess it was a you know, morale booster. Okay, you know

what, I believe it or not. I don't I've ever met Bob Okay.

Yeah, Um, he was part of though. He him and Bill

Berry right together they solved that. Uh there's kind of an infamous murder case,

right that they solved. Yeah, mister I buy and sell everything?

Oh right, yeah, yeah, him George the guy who he kind of

looks like John Hopwood in that picture, doesn't he? But uh a little

bit. I didn't say it, but yeah, but they solved that together,

right, Bob freedis And because I know Bill of course I know Bill

Berry, but I don't think I've ever met Bob. Yeah, yeah,

they did. They're you know, really great, you know, really great.

He's a reserve officer now. Fran Pete also you'll see him on like

some details or you know whatnot. But yeah, pretty awesome, pretty awesome

career when you know detective all that, you know, all that crazy stuff.

If you known him a long time. Um, I've known of him,

yeah, yeah, but got to know him through this, through this

you know radio like you know, I don't know, it's great. That's

one thing about you know, I got to leave here in a minute,

but yeah, it's it's one thing about doing this. How many people I've

met, yeah, and how many people I think connect with the you know,

so you know, not all funning games sometimes on the show, but

really is the way things connect is for I don't know, I don't know.

I didn't plan on it happening that way. It just seems to it

seems to happen. So I got to meet h I mean, he's a

good friend of mine, now, you know. I mean, it's it's

good stuff. He's he probably won't be there till after Judge Judge Judy is

off ten. He's an avid one. Sometimes he'll send me pictures of Judge.

Yeah. Well, well a picture of a picture of say, a

guy named Peter White that is a defendant on this shop. You know,

stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, stuff like that, whatever, something

funny. It's funny. But they're great. Freeduses are really really great,

cool cool. Well, yeah, I know, I know you gotta get

going, so we'll let you get out of here, but please, uh

one last big plug for I mean, I'll mention it too later. Well

tonight, Yeah, Disney's Cafe and uh so I wish I had the I

don't have any information with me, but it's like eight hundred eight. What

is the address? Like, can we find eight Street? I'm right next

to the Bookley. I thought it was eight sixty eight. All right,

thanks, good somewhere in between eighty find us at this is cafe. But

really looking forward to what you guys are welcome to come after you gonna.

I mean, I don't know how you do these Friday nights. You're here

till you'll be here till eleven o'clock. Oh, I love it, all

right. Friday is my favorite day of the week. I love it all

right. Yeah, all right, it's fun tonight, why not, right?

Yeah, yeah, no, I love being here. But yeah,

I was thinking between shows, I might I might walk down there and kind

of poke my head and see what's doing. So yeah, yeah, and

as Avido's not coming in here, so yeah, yeah he's off tonight.

Yeah he's doing Yeah, he's back to the barn, back to Pembroke City

limits recording the shows there, which is cool. I mean, you know,

don't get me wrong, I love seeing him on Fridays, but you

know, but not having to do that change over us is all right as

well. No, absolutely absolutely, so thanks for letting me plug the thing.

Good to see you guys always blank you you were just on the show

Monday, weren't you if that was okay, I thought you look familiar.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got a shave. Do you

see it? He looked a little different than he did on Monday. And

look at him. He's getting ready for a big night tomorrow night. He's

rocking the stash. Yeah, yeah, walking the staff um support a great

local business on the West Side called Get Faded. It's white on the corner

of South main Street in West handclock and I took a great locol Baba shop,

but I will that is my go to now, okay, good for

you. Very cool. Who do you think, Peter before you go?

Who do you think Tom Selleck, John Oates or Texas Mike? Who has

the best stash? I mean he's you know, he's he's a young guy.

He has a ways to go and it's still coming in. He left

no, no, did you say, hey, leave the leave the stash?

Yes, okay, yeah, good? Yeah. So that wasn't an

accident that happened, that was that was intentional? No, right, yeah,

the stash is back. I'm telling you bring it. Yeah, very

Freddie very Freddie Mercury of View. Yea, yeah, so another great mustache.

Yeah, there's a lot of them. Already around town. I'm noticing.

Yeah, it's kind of surprising in a way. Yeah, but the

stash really is back. I can't do it me either. What you have

one right now? Yeah? But I got the full I have a go

team. I would never have just the staff, not that there's anything wrong

with that, but I would never have just a stash. No, no,

never, Okay, but there's anything wrong. Oh, it's not.

It's coming back. It's coming. The stash is back. It's very fashion

like you keep that stash, don't listen to him? Yeah, yeah,

we'll do. Yeah, it's wonderful. We love we love the staff,

Mike. Would you think about making it go down like like see how Maths

goes right there before it turns into the salt and pepper and stuff. Maybe

maybe I'll think about it, right Yeah, Actually, that's what's the irony

is mine. And sometimes in some pictures, because it's it's gotten so gray

right in the middle, it looks like I didn't see I didn't see those.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what happens to me now though.

Too. It's like, look like Jean Cousto, do you well if you

grow your beard out? Yeah, it's like all White. Yeah, yeah,

I feel like I want to go. Yeah, go on exploring the

ocean. All right, Peter, we'll let you get going out. I

know you gotta get up the street. Thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you, good luck with the event tonight. And it's wonderful to

have you on the show. It's been a long time. It feels good.

I'm not nervous anymore in a long time, I know. Thank you.

Thanks to meet you. Yes, all right, thanks, everybody appreciated

the great Peter White. Thank you. Oh we have a call. Do

you want to hang out for just sucking in case? Because it's uh,

it's a certain someone who might have something to say to you. Hello,

easyg I want with my buddy Black. Yeah, it's this cafe now even

I can mix it up. A couple of days ago, Yeah, I

was one of them. Yeah did you go down there that? No?

I no, I did not. Okay, good you know it wasn't the

right now. Yeah, what are you doing tonight? You going down there?

Yeah? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know anyway. I

have a good night and yourself and all right, thanks, all right,

thanks. He did send me a message today or yesterday? I think that.

Yeah, it's a good I get him every weekend. Um, I

do get him every weekend. He's prolific. This one says, have a

busy beaver weekend. Oh yes, that busy beaver weekend with a beaver emoji.

Um okay, well that's uh. I know what he's doing to night.

He's probably hanging out with Jeff nine for his birthday. By the time

Ron gave him the Hustlers. Oh my god, I had forgotten about that.

Anyway, I gotta go. Oh yeah, all right, Peter,

all right, wonderful to see you, my friend. Good good luck tonight.

And uh, all right, everybody make sure funny. I had completely

forgotten about that. Peter White will be at Business Cafe from five to nine

pm, and uh, we're gonna take a little break. I'm gonna play

I'm gonna play a studio track from uh Andrea Paquin, who's our musical guests,

who's gonna be coming in in the second hour. This is a great

song. And then we'll be back with Texas Mike and this is called reach

Out. I like this a lot. Check this out. We should turn

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show archives, etc. Et cetera. Today is Friday, April twenty

first, two thousand, twenty three. Texas Mic is here at the newsdesk.

Hello. Hello, Yeah, there we go. You don't call you

Texas Mike for nothing, especially now that you've got that sweet stash. Yes,

yes, in just a moment, we're going to get to Eric Pilcher's

classic film review, and this week the subject is Escape from New York,

starring Kurt Russell, a film that I've never seen. Have you ever seen

that, Mikey, I have not. I've I remember back when I used

to work at the at the store there, I would see the DVD in

the in the bin, but I've never watched it. But one thing about

Eric's reviews always makes me want to want to watch whatever he's reviewing. If

you'd like to get in with a quick call before we go to that,

and then of course after Eric's review, we've got Andrea paquin is going to

be joining us and she's gonna play some songs. Really looking forward to that.

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a call at six three two five h six zero seven. I do want

to remind you it is Friday and Fridays as we were talking with Peter White

when he was here a few minutes ago, and it was great to have

him here. You know, It's it's rare that, uh that we get

to do that, we get to have him on the show. You know,

he's he's he's here in the morning, he's the morning guy, and

he's usually gone by the time I get here. But uh, you know,

every it's it's it's always this thing, Mikey every uh. On those

rare occasions when I walk in and Peter's still here, it's like, oh,

I wonder if I can talk him into stay in. Yeah, I

always try to get him to stay because it's it's fun and I know the

listeners really love hearing us together. So hopefully, hopefully we can do that

more often. It seems like we used to do that more, but um

uh lately I don't run into him nearly as much. So anyway, that

was a lot of fun. Of course, the giant cardboard Peter whitehead is

always in the corner. But we do, we do love the actual Peter

White. So that was a lot of fun to have him here. But

uh yeah, Friday is very busy in our little corner of the world here,

of course, here at WMNH, we're on until six pm and then

you have granted State of Mind hosted by the Great Rob as a Veto and

Paully Stone. And then I am back, of course eight to eleven pm

for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul ec. I have the honor and privilege of

being one of Paul's co hosts on that show along with DJ Steve, and

hopefully we'll see what happens. Hopefully our friend Mike from Queen City Cabinetry will

be back this week as well. I have not heard an official word on

that, but you hear anything on that, Mikey, You've always got your

ear to the ground. You always you always seem to. Oh, you

know, I don't know if I don't know if I know the theme.

Jenny was asking me earlier the theme, and I'm not sure if Paul he

might have told me, and I just don't remember. Oh here we go,

Yes, yes, that's right, I'd forgotten. But yeah, so

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Police page. So that will be tonight, so Friday. Of course,

as we were talking earlier, my long day here at WMNH and I love

it. I love my fridays here. Also just a couple of other things

outside of the station, in our little corner of the world. Here right

across the street at the Hopknot, our amazing sponsor, there is live music

tonight Rebecca Turmel. If I'm saying her name correct, if i've seen her

before, oh you have, Okay, you've seen her live? Yeah,

yeah, down at Movie Sat Boom oh season of Mathan. Oh, very

good, very good. So she'll be performing tonight at the Hopknot from seven

to nine pm. And of course, if you're just joining us, we

had Peter White here earlier. He will be down at Disney's Cafe at eight

sixty Elm Street, right up the street, from five to nine pm.

He is the Celebrity Restaurant Tour this evening and it's a great event. They're

raising money for Hope NH. Peter White teaming up of course with Matt Kushin

for that event. And there will be some some of the Morning Show crew

there as well. And I'll probably walk down between shows and just I won't

be able to stay long, but I'll kind of poke my head in see

what's doing. And Texas Mike, you're gonna be down there too. Yep,

yeah, probably gonna head down way. Half the show very good,

very good. So lots going on. But let's get to Eric's classic film

review and then we have a musical. Guess Andrew packwe is here. She's

gonna be joining us after that and looking forward to that. But here it

is. This is Eric's classic film review of Escape from New York, New

York, nineteen ninety seven. The entire city is a walled maximum security prisoner,

the breaches of mine, the river's a patrolled and the United States Police

Force has everything under control. I'm going in, John Commenters, Escaped from

New York, The high adventure of the future. One man must go in

where no man has ever gotten out. John Commenters, Escaped from New York,

The greatest escape of them all is about to blow the future apart.

For us in twenty twenty three, to view nineteen ninety seven as a post

apocalyptic wasteland is quite absurd. However, in the seventies and eighties, films

that took place in the future showed this ruined society where crime and scoundrels ruled

destitute areas. This week's film does this and brought us one of the most

underrated action heroes or anti heroes, depending on your view in cinema history.

Released in nineteen eighty one and directed by horror slash action film maestro John Carpenter,

Escape from New York introduces us to criminal Snake Pliskin played by Kurt Russell,

a prisoner that receives an offer to have his record washed away by police

Commissioner Ouk Western film veteran leaving Cleef. The task is a suicide mission to

go into the secured state of New York to rescue the kidnapped President of the

United States from a group a violent anti government insurgents and a tape the president

has that can bring world peace. The catches Snake only has twenty four hours

to do it or he dies. Our reduction was the trailer that sets the

stage for this film. Our next clip is How in Snake meeting for the

first time, when How gives Snake his proposal, even though we have no

evidence to lead us to this assumption. As viewers, the roles are clearly

defined in this interaction. Snake is the ultra cool anti hero and How is

this utolitarian man a law that just has this sneaky and swarmy vibe to him.

This is essentially because of the brilliant performance of Van Cleave. All right,

he's dangerous, sir, I know I'll be okay. I'm not a

full Blisken. Call me Snake sd Plisken American Lieutenant Special Forces Unit black Light

two Purple Hearts, Lenning Grad in Siberia, youngest men to be decorated by

the President. He robbed the Federal Reserve Depository, Life Sentence, New York

Maximum Security Penitentiary. I'm ready to kick your ass out of the World War

Hero. Who are you? Howk Police Commissioner Bob Hawk, Special Forces Unit

Texas Thunder. We heard of YouTube Blisken. Why are we talking? Have

a deal for you? He received full pardon for every criminal action who committed

in the United States. Was an accident about an hour ago. Small jet

went down inside New York City. The President was on board. President of

one. That's not funny. Please can you go in find the President bring

him out in twenty four hours and you're a freeman twenty four hours. I'm

making you an offer straight, just like I said, I'll think about it

no time. Give me an answer, get a new president. We're still

at war a pliskin. We need him alive. I don't give out your

war or your president. Is that your answer? I'm thinking about it.

Think hard. Why mean you flew the Gulf fire over Lennon Grid? You

know how to get in quiet? You're all up, gun. I guess

I go in one way or the other. You give me the paper when

you come in before I told you it wasn't a fool. Call me Snake.

No action film would be complete without sidekicks, and this film delivers those

in every way. First you have Brain played by the late Harry Dean Stanton,

a man that betrade Snake in his past. Brain's assistant Maggie played by

Adrian Barbow, and the lovable Cabby comedy legend Ernest Borgnine. Our next two

clips are the introduction two Snake sidekicks. First we meet Cabby. What is

great about him is he is so upbeat and jovial despite society crumbled around him

in everything being in disarray. And then Cabby takes Snake to Brain and Maggie.

What is great is how Snake just remains calm and cool despite wanting to

end Brain's life. For his past betrayal. A you're going, buddy,

that neighborhood snake. You don't want to be walking from the Barer to forty

second Street at night. I've been driving a cabin for thirty years, and

I'm telling you you don't walk around here at night. Yes, hit a

killon strip you in ten seconds. Plant. Usually I'm not done around him

myself, but I wanted to catch that show. This stuff is like gold

around here. You know, Hey, snake, when'd you get in?

I didn't even know they caught you. Oh, snake, blitz, get

at my cab? You way to like tell any Hey, hang on,

snake, Hey what were you doing back there? Snake? Looking for somebody?

Well? What didn't you ask me? Hell? I know everybody in

this town. Yes, Sarah, I've been driving his cap for thirty years,

this very same cap. I'm gonna ask you, now, where's the

president? The Duke got him? Everybody knows that Duke's got him. Or

you don't have to put a gun to my head. I'll tell you who's

the duke. The Duke, the Duke of New York, A number one,

the big man. That's who I want to meet, This Duke you

can't meet the duke, are you crazy? Nobody gets to meet the Duke.

You meet him once and then you're dead. And now Snake meets Brain

and Maggie. I brought somebody to see it. Harold Hellman, Snake,

Harold been Harold. It's a long time. You never tell me you need

Snake flisk and Brian's nuts. Great, Hey, pray not to do some

guests. We can express him les. You remember me, yeah, man

should remember his past. Kansas City four years ago. You ran out on

me. You left me sitting there. You were late. We were buddy

there Ald You, me and Fresno Bob. You know what they did to

Bob. You want to see him sprayed all over that map? Baby,

where's the president? I swear to god, Snake, I don't know why

you want to know. I want him working for the man. Now.

I'll just beat it out of your squeeze. He doesn't know exactly where he

is, and unless you know exactly precisely where he is, you'll never find

him. Listen, I'll take you out of here. Yeah, Jed Glider,

just a couple of blocks down the street, and all you gotta do

is get me to him. No kidding on the level. Hey, will

you take me too? We gotta deal somewhere else. No glider, We've

got the President and the Duke's taking everybody out of here. Never happened,

baby, You see I know something you and the Duke don't know. Oh

my god, so long before. Mister President doesn't mean a lot. You're

lying. Maybe he's not. I'm know him. Look at his face.

He's lying, right, Harold, I'm lying. So I might as well

have some fun and keep looking by myself. Rain. Talk to him,

baby, Rain, you'll kill us both. You always were smart, Harold.

Just one thing right now, don't call me Harold. So far in

this review, we have introduced the hero Orienti hero his sidekicks, and although

we have heard him referenced previously, we haven't talked about him. The villain,

the Duke, played by music legend Isaac Hayes, is a man that

oversees New York and has masterminded the kidnapping of the President. He also wants

to get a diagram that brain has drawn up that will secure the escape from

this city, with the President being used as a bartering chip. Our final

clip for this week's episode shows what makes him a villain. Here he calmly

and coldly shoots an assault weapon at and around the President while the president is

chained to the wall. All the hear him recite that the Duke is a

one in runs New York. Don't move snake, I want their dark round

brain. Um, that's at my place, Duke. But Duke that Pliskin

said something about a time limit for time limit on him. There's a lot

of crap up. What did I teach you? He do New New York.

You're hey number one. I can't hear you. You the Duke of

New York. You're a number one. Give me the diagram. Duke,

don't kill Pliskin. We need him. Get moving brain. Our previous John

Carpenter film, We Looked At Big Trouble in Little China, became a cold

classic. It wasn't successful upon release, but garnered love and appreciation as the

years went on, and much like many of his films, John Carpenter is

the quintessential independent filmmaker. He makes films that he wants to make without constraints

of a major studio. For the most part. Because of this, this

film was made on only a budget of six million dollars and was mainly financed

off the success of Carpenter's horror classic Halloween. It ended up breaking in twenty

five million and spawned a sequel in nineteen ninety six, Escape from la It

is very hard to put this film into one specific genre. Is it noir?

Is it sci fi? Is it action? Is it adventure? Is

it drama? My answer is simple, who cares? It is a film

that meets aspects of so many genres that it's unfair to pigeonhole it into just

one. With great performances, stellar action scenes in a vibrant, electronic based

soundtrack composed by Carpenter himself, this film is a great way for anyone to

spend one hundred minutes with a bowl of popcorn, or to just escape from

our world in view Carpenter's world and his post apocalyptic vision. I hope you

join me next week when we will dive into one of my favorite genres of

film, film noir, with the nineteen forty four noir crime thriller Double Indemnity

for WMNH and Matt Connerton Unleashed. This has been a classic film review with

Eric Pilcher very nice. Another great job from our friend Rik Pilcher with a

classic film review of Escape from New York. And we are live on Matt

Connerton Unleashed on this beautiful Friday afternoon. Here from the studios of wm n

H three FM, Texas. Mike is here at the newsdesk. Yeeha,

Texas, Mike, and we have a wonderful musical guest with us here,

Andrea Paquin. I've learned how to pronounce the last name correctly. How are

you welcome? Thanks? How are you very well? Very well? Uh

looking forward to this. So you're gonna play a few a few tunes for

us and then we're gonna we're gonna talk, get to know you a little

bit. So, um, this will be uh, this will be fine.

Oh, and I will say before we go any further. Hello to

Amy Bates, if one of my radio brethren, if she is listening,

which she probably I think she is. Yeah, I think I think she

most likely has I actually shared the uh I shared the Facebook feed to her

page, so good, good good, So she'll definitely she'll definitely see it.

Uh so uh, yeah, these are songs that are from your upcoming

album. Is that correct? Yeah, I'm doing it. I'm doing a

six song EP, and I'm gonna do a few songs off of that project

that I actually started the project today, so we can talk about that after

if you'd like, absolutely, yeah, very very curious to know more.

Are my friend? I'll let you go ahead and introduce the first song.

All right? This song is called if You were Mine? Take God.

I'm but I want you by my side whatever we do. I'm so happy

if you were hurre you thinking of? Oh what are you thinking of?

So much that was left behind? Sometimes on my mind the view of the

horizons, and I don't see an end insight. I don't see an end

insight. Would it be all right to say I think our stars are aligne?

I'd be at sure of man. Take if you were mine. I

know you've been down and out food, Open up your eyes and see that

blue sky, and it will be all that you ever need. It will

be all you never need. There is nothing I wouldn't do to see that

you with you. I know I've been there too. But there's a whole

living inside of me. There is a hope right here inside of me.

Would it be hard to say I think our stars are aligne? I'd be

a true O my tech. If you were mine, I'd be a true

mate. If you were mine, there is a feeling I am longing for.

So hold me close, sitting beside me now, shoulder to shoulder,

just you and me, just you, oh, just healing me. Would

it be hard to say? I think our stars are a line. I'd

be a true mate if you were mine, I'd be a true mate.

If you were mine, I'd be a true mate. If you mind.

Oh my god, I love your voice. Thank you, I really do.

Absolutely he were you gonna say, Mikey, looks you were about to

say something that that describes my got voice up right now. To be honest.

There you go. Yeah, you're getting a lot of love in the

chat room to Jenny is in there of course, uh n h women and

folk yeah group on Facebook. Ye, my ladies, they say bravo.

Anne Roy is in there and says she's awesome. And also uh Terry Waite,

oh yeah nice, says hello. Yeah that was my friends in Connecticut.

Yeah, oh very good, very good. Um well yeah, let's

keep going. What are you What are you gonna play next? About a

song I'm gonna do And this is a song I'm want to do a song

all recovery. Okay, this is also going to be on the new the

new EP. Very good, very good, all right, see boking home,

beat my feet, I'm in eyes, no hell to steer. My

blue sail was never really clear. And it forces me to a baggest ship.

No lens in view. The yay forces in me to a baggest ship.

Nos in you. These starts are killing me. Oh and the recovery.

These starts are killing me. Oh and the recovery found this their vote.

I flee ending of my enemies. I see I fight you stay.

Oh. The swells a longing four the sound of sir, And it leads

me to and I'm not sure how I swear I've been there before. Yeah,

in leads meet you and I'm not sure how I swear I've been there

before. He starts a killing me. Oh I need recovery. He starts

killing mm hm oh and recovery all that see m love it, love it.

That is awesome. That is awesome. Anne Roy in the chat room

says she exudes emotions definitely. Melanie Liberty our friend from the Great State of

Vermont. She says, she loves you, and uh, that was fantastic.

Um Miriam Banish says, great voice, thank you. Yeah, you're

getting a lot of love in there. Definitely, definitely. You want to

play one more and then we'll and then we'll talk. Sure, I'll do

one more, all right, excellent if you're just joining us. Andrea Paquin

is with us in studio. So I'm gonna do a song called this is

Us. Okay, there's a hole in the wall behind the picture frame that

I took down, like the gaps in our history, we often ignored for

far too long, and these dozens of hangings made us look so happy.

But we were just covering up, covering, eater, covering eater, covering

it up, covering. We're so settled in our ways. We don't know

what to say anymore. It's funny coming to me. Would I fail to

see every day waking up routine of the moundane we often ignore, and it

fell into our laps. We never woke up, No, we never woke

up. Yeah, we never woke up. We never woke up. Night

witch blindding? How did I not see that it's it's us? And night

witch ading? How did I not see that? Hits that's us? There's

a hole in the wall behind the picture frame that I took down like gaps

in our history we often ignored for far too long. And these dozens of

hangings made of us look so happy. But we were just covering it up,

covering meter, covering, covering it up, covering eter n W,

it's blinding. How did I not see? He its it's it's us night

W it's liding how dia and not see? Yes? Yes, yes,

wonderful. Andrea Paquin is here in studio with us. That was fantastic.

H n H. Women folk in the chat room says, what a great

way to start at the weekend. Thank you, Andrea, thank you.

And Jean Foudgate Oh yeah, I don't know if I'm saying that correctly.

Uh. She gave a big smiley face. Awesome, So you're getting a

lot of love in there. Jan Curtain Derosia. Oh nice, sounds great.

Andrea, thank you, and uh we have a call. This might

be might be a fan calling in. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed.

Who's us? I'm Maddie. It's scary. Hey Gary, what's up?

What a beautiful voice, what a powerful voice? Yeah? Thank you?

Or just and those songs are fantastic and I'm just sitting here and wow,

they're they're meaningful. Thank you, I got meetings. What she's singing,

there's there's meanings and they kind of hit they kind of hit home a

little so good. Well that's what music should do. Absolutely. Yeah,

she's amazing. She's amazing, just that just that powerfulness and her guitar playing

is fantastic. Yeah, well, thank you, very very good. I'm

I'm in love the love, the love with her voice. It's beautiful.

But yeah, I always love Jenny, but yeah, we know it.

Voice is fantastic. But yeah, what another what another great what another great

musician they had on ye and yeah it starts the week on it starts the

weekend up right, really cool. Absolutely, I just add my I just

had to add my two sets because you know, being a musician and just

she's really great. She's really really great. So I'll let you go untill

listen to more. Love you, Maddie, all right, Gary, love

you Jenny. And what a lovely day. Thank you, thank you for

the love, and thank you for a wonderful day, Maddie, and thank

you, thank you so much for her She's great. Lobbye. All right,

bye, Gary, thank you for the call. Appreciate it. All

right, that was our friend Gary, and uh, we're gonna take a

quick break. I'm actually gonna play a studio track here of Andrea's boxer.

This is another one of my favorites. Uh. That is on the website.

It's a nice website, by the way, Andrea Paquin dot com.

I'm a website nerd, so I notice nice websites. So let's give this

a listen. And then we're gonna show some love to our sponsors. And

then we'll be back and we're gonna talk and get to know Andrea Paquin is

here with us in studio. Don't go away, there is plenty more to

come. The day is long, in the rain is holding out like a

tire a boxer in the ring. I want to throw a punch, buddy

on you too much? Chat all this sun? No, for sure,

I am swearing up and I have losten up to take this gigantic fall.

I'n't one two three, I stapping up one to fee. The day is

long, and the sun it's finally calming out. It's hard than eesterday.

Let you down back now that ain't no surprise twenty one and at all.

But I bit myself back and keep on moving on. And this is where

I say, but in one to three, I'm stipping up. One to

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and on the couch. She just played a few wonderful songs for us.

Andrea Paquin is here. Welcome Andrea, Hi, how are you good?

Good? It is uh wow, thank you again for playing for us.

That was fantastic. Thanks for having me. And you're getting a lot of

love in the Facebook live chat and uh, if you're listening, then you'd

like to call in if you have any questions or anything at all for our

guest. Six zo three two five oh six O seven is a studio line

six two five six seven and um now you mentioned those are gonna be on

an upcoming album that you're recording. Now, yes, yeah, Actually today

was the first day that I went into the studio. It's the Greenhouse Studio

in Guildford, Okay, And so I recorded uh my master guitar tracks and

some scratch vocals for the production piece, and then I'll be finishing up the

actual production in Portland, Maine at a different studio. Oh Okay. Now

why I'm always uh kind of a geek for knowing about recording and why musicians

approach it the way they do, So why why at different studios doing different

parts of it. There's gonna be some more musicians in the Portland area that

are going to be able to join, and we're gonna waten to earlier on

the break that I'm going to have some pedal steel yeah on the record,

and I'm going to have this like little old country feel to it. So

yeah, and the Portland area is a lot of musicians that are accessible in

that actual studio. They have a lot of connections. So We're gonna just

wrap it up there, I think, and I'm gonna do allment my master

vocal tracks in Portland, Maine. What's the studio in Portland. I think

it's just the studio in Maine. The studio in Portland. Oh that's what

it's called. I'm pretty sure that's what it's called. Oh wow, yeah,

I think so, don't quote me up. I'm not sure yet.

That's cool. That's cool. Great music scene in Portland. Oh it's awesome.

Yeah. I always always been a lot of very talented musicians there,

so so that's gonna be uh yeah, you're also held me during the break

too, so it's gonna be kind of a different vibe than um than your

previous Yeah, I work it'll be it'll be a little similar, but it's

gonna be more of that alternative country feel, kind of like a like a

like a Jayhawks type sound. Oh cool. Yeah, so definitely, like,

you know, just kind of incorporating some new instruments just to just to

change it up a little bit. And um, I'm with uh. I

worked with New Hampshire Music Collective. They are a booking agency throughout New Hampshire

and so he they do a lot of my booking and they actually connected me

with this studio. So oh very good. Yeah, I worked out really

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It's it's interesting, um um, why the why the change and approach as

far as the music, and I don't know, I just I just feel

it. I just felt the different. You know, I'm listening to a

lot of different artists lately, and uh, I've just been kind of been

influenced with that sound. Yeah. Yeah, and you actually so you were

telling me earlier, So you live in Connecticut, but you come up here

to record and play shows. Yeah, so, I mean I do play

in Connecticut sometimes when I play in Maine, I do most of my shows

in New Hampshire through New Hampshire Music Collective. Okay, which is which is

a very large booking agency in New Hampshire. Okay, and you're you're from

here originally, I'm from Manchester, New Hampshire. Woh yeah, you grew

up here. Oh yeah, I was a Central High school. I went

to Oh I'll be doing okay, Okay, what you did you graduate?

I graduated in ninety seven? Oh? Okay. Do you know do you

know Peter White, our morning show host here? I know because he kind

of because he grew up. See, I grew up in conquered. I

didn't grow up in match, but Peter grew up here and he seems to

kind of know everybody. So um, yeah, so you so you so

you grew up here, you went to high school here, and then,

um, what what took you to Connecticut? Uh? Well, you know,

Connecticut was I moved in. I moved to Connecticut in two thousand and

six, okay, and then I ended up performing full time and I was

touring the Northeast. Connecticut was central to everything, you know, like you

know, Boston, New York, rod Ireland, mass everything was within two

hours for the most part. So that was a real great way to tour

that the Northeast. You know, that makes sense. Yeah, So I

did that for a few years, you know, full time. Um,

and then you know, the booking and the managing myself got pretty exhausting.

I didn't have a lot of help, so so I decided to back off

a little bit. And then I just got a job in the field where

I have my degree in human services, and so I've been doing that.

But I still do that now, but now music is back again at almost

full time. Oh yeah, I perform. I perform every weekend. Okay,

okay, good, good, Um, and how did you connect with

uh New Hampshire booking collective the name New Hampshire Music, New Ampshire Music.

Yeah, yeah, New Hampshire Music Collective. Yeah. So somebody had mentioned

to John MacArthur, who um is one of the owners for for that agency,

and then he reached out to me and then I reached back out to

him and then we connected and have a great relationship. Now yeah, excellent,

excellent. You know, honestly, he's made my career at what it

is right now. Without him, I wouldn't be playing as much. So

oh, no kidding, Yeah, they're they're phenomenal people. Yeah. So

are you literally up here every weekend or just about? No kidding, yeah

about just about. So I'll do Thursday Friday Saturday shows or Friday Saturday Sunday.

Yeah, and I'm playing three two to three nights a week. Okay,

yeah, okay, very good. Yeah that's pretty cool. Now do

you have any kind of an eta yet on when the new album will be

done? July? Early July? Okay, yeah, I'm gonna put I'm

gonna be posting my CD release dates on my website and my social media.

Yeah. Yeah, So I'll be letting everybody know when that's going to happen.

Oh, very good. Do you know how many songs are gonna be

on? Six songs? Okay, so it's just it's just an EPP.

Yeah yeah, um yeah, what what goes into the decision to do because

and this is something I ask everybody, I'm always curious about this. You

know, obviously we live in a time where, um, you've got a

lot of different options because of the Internet. You know, you could do

an EP, you could put out an album, you could just put out

singles, right. Um. I've met in the last few years especially,

I've met a lot of artists who they do the thing where they're just putting

out singles, but eventually they're going to take those singles and put them into

an EP or put them into an album. That's the plan. Is that

the plan? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. I actually was talking to John

about that today and we're talking about pushing the singles and then and then having

the EP come together. Yeah yeah, yeah. It's funny because you know,

when I was growing up, it was you know, artists would put

out an album and then go on tour and then eventually they put out so

different. But yeah, yeah, it's like night and day different, is

it? Oh? Yeah? Is it hard to make those those I mean,

on the one hand, it's nice to have all these options, right,

But at the same time, um, is it is it difficult for

you to make those choices? As far as we'll do I do an EP?

Do I do you know how many? How many songs am I going

to record for this project? Well? I mean, so you know,

I had plenty of songs to pick from I could have recorded. I want

to. I want to at some point we record some of the older stuff

that I recorded. Yeah, but these were six new songs or five new

songs that I had that I had written. So I just wanted to get

the five new ones out. Yeah. And I'm also covering John Denver's Country

Roads on the new EP. Oh ok. Yeah, yeah, I'm playing

that one forever and I just I finally I wanted to get it recorded.

Yeah. Yeah. Do you when you play out do you do mostly originals?

Do you mix in some covers? So there's like, you know,

original venues and there's cover venues, right? Yeah? So I mean like

listening rooms like I'm gonna I'm gonna give a shout out to the Tee Total

or and Conquered. Uh, that's a listening room. So when I play

Tee Total or, it's ninety five percent originals. But I play places like

um around you know, if I play places like Foster's Tavern, yeah,

or if I play over here at the Foundry, like, I'll do mostly

covers and I'll throw in a few originals here and there, just because that's

that's the kind of scene, you know. Yeah, But listening room events,

I will do all my originals. Yeah. So when you say it's

a list it's a listening room. So it's people are there to actually hear

the music, right, Yeah, they're there to listen and have it be

a non speaking event where they're they're focusing on the music, like let's say

a second concert hall kind of thing. Yeah yeah, okay yeah, Whereas

at a bar it's uh yeah, it's like it's like, yeah, you

play covers and you get a reaction to people, and then they start listening

in then you get a rapport and so then I throw on a few originals

at that point. Yeah. Yeah. Do you do any um, do

you do any covers that are kind of obscure I've met some artists who you

know, they'll they'll do a few covers that are are fairly you know,

they might be from well known artists, but maybe they're deep tracks or whatever.

And and sometimes, um, sometimes the audience doesn't necessarily know that they're

covers. Yeah, I know, I definitely do some songs like that.

I'm not quite sure Tom Petty all or nothing. Um, okay, I'm

not sure if you know that song, but I do that one. I'm

trying to. I probably know it, so I'm sure I have a catalog

somewhere in my brain. Yeah, it's a great it's a great song.

So I do a lot of Tom Petty, I do a lot of Credence,

I do Supretty, Carlisle, I do Tracy Chapman. Yeah, I

do uh, Paul Simon, Simony Garfunkle. I mean I cover plus I

do at Sharon. I mean big plethora of of songs I do here.

Yeah, so from what were back from the sixties all the way toil currents

is the songs that I cover. Do you have any idea how many songs

you know? Could you put a number on it? I have about almost

five hours of music I could play yeah, it's a lot of music.

Wow. Do you ever do you ever? Do you ever go back and

re learn something you might have might have forgotten? Yeah, I'll go back

and look. But you know, I so I'm old school. You know.

All these artists are out with their tablets and like, yeah, you

know, I just I still have the old book. Yeah. I have

had my old book on my stand and I flipped through and you know it's

about this big yeah. Yeah. But they're like, you're probably kind of

my friends. I you want to get a talblet. I was like,

I don't know, because I just I'm used to this this you know,

this book because it's full. It's my cover songs. I can't remember I

five five hours of cover songs, right right of course. But yeah,

that's my lifeline right there. Yeah. Yeah. Are there any other artists

that you play a lot of shows with? You know, sometimes people sort

of it happens almost by accident, people sort of team up and end up

just on the same bill a lot. Well, speaking of that, not

really, but I am with the New Hampshire women Folk Singers. Um,

there's four of us actually okay, and uh, there's gonna be a big

festival in September September sixteenth, up a way up north Um Sugar Shot Campground.

Uh. And there's the creator um of the festival, kind of found

the three of us to join in with her. Um. And it's just

a really amazing, amazing group. You have to if people are interested in

hearing this folk group, which I would highly suggest and recommend, it's New

Hampshire Women Folk. Okay, yeah, it's it's just amazing. It's going

to be a really great event. It's it's focusing on music and for it's

focusing on women's music. Yeah, and um, bringing in artists who you

know, are independent, who don't have a name yet for themselves, featuring

these people who are very talented who deserve the stage. Is this an annual

event? This is the first year. It's pretty amazing. So yeah yeah,

So Erica Cushing, Um, she's uh, she's the creator. Okay.

Yeah, she's a wonderful folk artist as well singer songwriter. She's great.

Okay. Is she the headliner at the uh, not the headliner,

but she's pretty much created the whole thing, gotcha. Yeah yeah, oh

that's cool. It's very cool. Yeah. Um yeah, it's Um it's

nice to see too, just a lot of live music happening in general,

because obviously with COVID uh, you know, everything really shut down for a

while there. I mean, what is did that because you had mentioned too

that you know, you would kind of you would really slow down with the

music career for a while. Um, did that play any kind of a

role in that, sort of just having that you know that the pandemic foisted

upon you. Yeah, at some point it did. So I had I

have my son, he's eight years old. So when I had Noel,

I was playing a little bit. But then I just kind of really maybe

four times a year, I was playing, yeah, very low key,

oh okay. And then over the past year is when I started getting back

into it. But the pandemic I didn't play out at all hardly. But

um, I am a program director for a nonprofit agency in Connecticut, and

I service we serviced people disabilities. Yeah, so I oversee programs where people

live there. So during that year of the initial pandemic year, they weren't

able to leave their houses, they weren't able to see family, they were

like literally secluded in their home. So what I did was I created a

Thursday night live music event called Together at Home. Yeah, so I would

go online every Thursday at six o'clock and all the group homes would join in

and they would be able to see live a live music. I did that

for an entire year every Thursday. Oh no kidding, Yeah, that was

pretty awesome. Oh that's cool. Um. Were you able to tell how

many uh while I was? Yeah? So well it started it's because it

was zoom, because you could see all the zoom people entering in. So

yeah, I started off at like five or six people and then it turned

out to be about thirty people. Thirty thirty individuals but several locations. So

yeah, it was a pretty It was great them because they were able to

have a community during pandemic. Yeah, yeah, um it did. Uh

did you write any Have you written any songs about about that that period?

No? Not really, um, because I was working in the group home

and yeah no, I really really didn't because it didn't it wasn't that different

for me because we went to work and I couldn't not go to work.

So yeah, yeah, my lifestyle didn't really change exactly. Yeah, no,

that makes sense. That makes sense. Um, do you so you're

you're up here every weekend playing. Are there also what's some music scene like

in Connecticut? Are you able to or do you even have time to engage

in the music scene much there because you're you're up here quite a bit.

Yeah, it's just different. It's it's weird, it's it's it's a different

kind of scene. Like New Hampshire loves music. Yeah, I feel like

New Hampshire is just like music driven on the weekends, like local music is

really you know, big here. Yeah, I think it's okay in Connecticut.

Yeah, it's uh, it's it's just a whole different it's a whole

different way to approach music in Connecticut. I think booking myself has been difficult

there really. Yeah, it's really weird. Yeah, there is there just

a lack of do you think there there's a lack of appreciation for local music.

They're just not Yeah, it's different, it's different. Yeah, I

would say I would I wouldn't know if I would say that, but it's

definitely a different feel. Yeah, yeah, it's not the same. When

I come here, it's like amazing. Yeah. Yeah, do you do

you ever? Do you do shows in Boston or so? I used to

play in a band called the Everyday Visuals and I was their bass player.

I remember the Everyday Visuals, Yeah I was. I was a bass player

for about ten years. Yeah, and then we played a lot in Boston

and a lot around here. But yeah, so I haven't been to Boston

in a while. But with Hampshire Music Collective, the goal is to get

more in mass So okay, yeah, yes, so ten years you were

in that band ten years all through high school, college and a little bit

after college. No kidding, Okay, what when when you left that?

I mean was the band ending or did you know even they kept going?

No? You know, I just wanted to pursue my solo career, you

know, I mean I love the music. I mean it was like four

part harmony, three part harmony, awesome band. I mean we were like

a independent rock band, you know, very very very awesome music. Yeah

yeah, but I just um parted ways. And you know all of my

projects that you hear were was were engineered by some of the guys in the

band. Oh yeah, so everything everything that's recorded was done by the guys.

Yeah. Yeah, do they still Does that band still exist in some

former yeah a little bit. So, Um, the lead singer, Christopher

Pappas he does his own thing. Um, Kyle Frederickson was the guitar player,

engineer type guy. He's doing his own thing. And then Joe Cider

is the drummer, is actually now the drummer for the New Pornographers. Oh

okay, yeah, that's pretty good. That's pretty cool. Good for him

for him, is right? Yeah? And then and there torn all the

time, and yeah, selling out places and yeah, that's wow. He's

I mean, all those guys in the Bad and I mean amazing musicians.

I mean Chris was the main song writer who wrote all the songs and yeah,

just very talented guys. Is everything that you're doing now is that all?

Is that all you in terms of the writing? Yeah? Yeah,

it's all me. Yeah. Do you ever have you ever considered collaborating with

anyone or do you want to keep your solo stuff? No? Well,

you know Erica I mentioned before her and I've been talking about doing some co

writes. Yeah. Um, it's really important, I think to co write

because it opens you up to different ways of songwriting. Sure, you know,

because you're kind of boxing in your own way, and then if you

cart somebody it's just like, oh, I never thought of that. And

then you start, you know, start opening up your writing style. Um,

and you mentioned you played bass and everyday visuals. What what was your

your first instrument was bass? You started on bass and yeah, I had

a four spring Washburn Okay, yeah, and then I then I upgraded to

a five spring Ernie Ball oh, which is a music man, which is

an amazing bass. It's a solid rock bass. Yeah. And then I

then I got my tailor, my tailor acoustic. See, I'm a player,

So as soon as somebody mentions more than four strings, I'm like super

impressed. I'm like, used to play a five strings. Oh man,

it's the best at Lowby? Is that the Lowby on that on that bass

can make so many different sounds And I'm sure, I'm sure it's awesome.

I can't. I've never I've never attempted it. See, I started on

bass because um and a bass players hate when I when I say this,

but it's just the truth. So when I was a kid, I took

guitar lessons and unfortunately I was one of those lazy kids who, Um,

if I wasn't good at it right away, I would get bored with it

so because you know, okay, I you know, I could continue to

learn these scales and chords, but I really like that video game and I'm

good at that. So it is that kind of thing, you know,

I would I, I mean, I took lessons, and but I I

plateaued because I just I didn't have the discipline I wish I had. But

anyway, so then in high school, I picked up a bass, you

know, just fooling around with some friends. Musically, I picked up a

bass, and I seem to have a feel for it, but I also

was keenly aware. I remember that this is the part that bass players hate

when I say this, But I remember thinking, two less strings, and

I don't have to know any chords. I think I found my instrument.

And then I went on to play bass and a bunch of bands. But

that's cool. Yeah, yeah, so so I and I, you know,

so I can play guitar a little bit, you know, just power

chord, like I could be in a punk band if I would write,

probably, but that's about the best I could do. But but so you

started on bass and then you went to guitar, Yeah, yep. And

then I usually play all the bass tracks on my records usually. Okay,

this one, I don't know if I'm going to or not. I haven't

played in several years, so i'm a little I'm a little dusty. So

um. And that guitar you have sounds fantastic. It's got a very rich,

full sound. Yeah, it's my tailor. It's it's it's only a

three fourteen or three fifteen. Um, and it's I bought it. That's

This guitar is twenty years old, no kidding? Yeah? Oh wow?

Yeah? Has the original um? Has the original Fishman pick up? Yeah,

in the in the tailor because the new tailors have a new a new

model okay, and people just love this old model much better. Oh wow.

Yeah. And that sounds amazing, Yeah it does. Is that the

only guitar you use? Yeah, for the most part. Yeah, I

don't blame you, no, really, it sounds it sounds really good.

It is a good one. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, And it's warmed

up over the years. You know, the wood ages and you get that

deeper tone because because Taylors tend to have a higher end sound to them.

Okay, but you know, once you played Taylor for twenty years, it's

it's a lot warmer because Taylors are very bright. I've heard people say that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Martins are warmer. Guilds are warmer,

Taylors are bright. Yeah. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, so I

assume that's that's the guitar you use on all the all the oh yeah,

in the studio. Yeah yeah. Oh very nice, Yeah, very nice.

It's pretty sweet. Yeah, that's my pal, you know. Yeah.

Um, do you have I know, I asked you how many songs

do you know? Do do you have any idea how many songs you've written?

Um? God, probably like I'll be eight hundred. Yeah, yeah,

I would say maybe like a hundred. Um. Do you still play

any anything that you know if you think back to early when you started writing

songs, do you still play anything that goes there's one there's one song,

so the very first, one of the very first songs I wrote. I

still do that one, no kidding, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's

a yeah, that's the only one really that I do. That's really old.

Oh that's cool. Has it changed over the years? Do you stay

faithful with the stage, faithful to the original arrangement? Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. Um. And when

did so the studio material that we've been featuring on the show. Obviously you

know you've got the new one that's coming out, and you said probably July,

Yes, early July. Um, when so the songs that are on

your website currently that we've been playing, when did those come out? Those

are twenty fifteen? I think twenty fourteen or twenty fifteen. Yeah, it's

it'still been a while since I've done anything. Yeah, yeah, and that's

what That's what I mean. So I was kind of I kind of laid

low, but now that I'm back in it, I'm like, glad,

I gotta get something new out there, right right, no doubt. Um,

that song reach Up? Do you do you play that live? Yes?

Yeah, oh yeah, and yeah plan to play Boxer. I do

a lot off that record still yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. No,

that's uh, that's really good stuff. Absolutely. Um. And what's uh,

what's kind of the the future trajectory? So you've got the new album

should be done in July, and then um, you have plans because you

you know, you said, you know, things were kind of low key

for a while and then started really ramping back up. So do you plan

to just just keep going, just keep touring. Yeah, I really would

love to do this full time and be able to leave my human service job.

Yeah, if you know, once and for all and then uh perform

music, you know, for four nights a week and have that be full

time and yep, um yeah, I mean with New Hamps Music Collective,

they're definitely helping me with that. Yeah, it sounds like you're on your

way. Yeah. Yeah, they're they're great, They've been amazing. Yeah.

Do they have uh are they a big Do they have a lot of

fun? They have a lot of artists. Yeah, yeah, they have

a lot of artists. I'll have to look them up. I'm curious.

I feel like I've heard of them, but I'm sure you have. I

mean, because they're they they book many venues in the state. Okay,

yeah, okay, they've been around a long time, I assume, yeah,

for a little while. Yeah, I don't think very long, but

long enough for they have a really they have a lot of venues. Yeah,

yeah, oh that's cool. Yeah. You do you ever open for

anybody, any national acts that come through or I've opened up for several in

the in when I was playing a while back. Yeah, I opened up

for Blissed Union of Souls. Oh yeah, yeah, I opened up for

Howie Day back in the day. Yeah, I opened up for a couple

independent like independent singer song was like Melissa Ferrik, Yeah, Garrison Star,

Edie Carey. Um. Yeah, that's that's what I've done so far.

And hopefully John Over at A Hampshire was a collective is going to hopefully start

getting me into those roles. Do you have a dream headliner you'd like to

open for? Yes, the Indigo Girls. For years, I've wanted to

do that. They m Yeah, they used to come. I don't know

if they still do. They still come around a lot. They used to

go to uh Brook every summer. Yeah. They're also with the Flying Monkey

now every every year. Oh no kidding, at least once or twice a

year. Yeah. Oh so that's so that's good. Well that's geographically,

that's uh. I'd say that the Tipsy Odds in your favorite Yeah, I

hope that would be awesome. Yeah, that would be great. It seems

like they've been around forever, around to the eighties. Wow, Yeah,

what's there? So they? Um, what I appreciate about artists like that

is they're they're an example of someone who's been able to build such a career

and a following, a loyal following, with very little support from radio,

you know, And and again that is true. I mean I think there

I think there might be one or two songs that yeah, and I'm sure

you know, it depends on the format you're listening to. But as far

as like mainstream radio really is there is there one song that was kind of

big that I've closer or fine, Oh yes, yes, yes, that

one. Yeah, that one was on the radio a lot. Yeah,

that one was kind of a hit. Yeah yeah, But but they've never

had a big presence on radio, and that just always impresses me. Um

completely different genre obviously, and not someone that I enjoy their their work personally,

but just another example that I happened to be discussing on the show the

other day with somebody insane clown posse. Yeah, I don't like them,

but you know, they've got this this empire that they've built with no support

from radio like at all. Ever, It's that's impressive. It is impressive.

In the same thing with Annie de Franco. Oh, I love her.

She is like very self made I've met her. Yeah, oh she's

she's amazing. She is amazing. Um. I think the last time I

saw her was in Providence. Um it was quite a while ago. I

haven't seen her in a long time. But yeah, but yeah, you're

right. She's another example. Yeah, someone who really you know, she

uh started I remember she started her own label. She probably still has it.

Oh yeah, definitely Righteous Baby Records, Yes, yes, and uh

yeah really just uh, I remember when she was first starting to really get

traction because at the time I was working obviously you remember Strawberries Tapes and I

was working at the One and Conquered and uh, that was where I first

really became aware of her. And um, people started coming in looking for

looking for her stuff, and at first we didn't have it because nobody,

it was like nobody that worked for the company was aware of her. But

somebody was aware of her because we kept having people coming in, you know,

asking for Annie de Franco. So finally we started getting her music in.

But uh, but yeah, you're you're right. She's another example of

because honestly, off the top of my head, I can't think of a

big radio hit. I'm sure there's something I'm forgetting I think possibly. Okay,

yeah, but but again, someone who's never had a big presence on

radio, but who's very successful. Oh my gosh, you knew this.

She sells out in a day. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.

Um. I always respected that about the Grateful Day too. Again,

I'm not not a big fan. Can take them, relieve them. But

you know, they other than a touch of gray, they didn't really have

No, you're right. I mean I think they had one other They had

a few, but nothing never dominant. But Ripple Ripple was pretty big.

Yeah, but they could you know, sell out anywhere in the world really,

Oh yeah, absolutely when Jerry Garcia was still alive. So um,

oh my god, we're almost out of time. All right. Well,

before we go, I just want to mention one thing, yea please,

I am performing tomorrow night here in the area. I'm going to be in

Bow, New Hampshire at chin Yang Lee. Okay, yeah, oh I

know that place. Yeah, So I'll be there and I seem to I

think it's going to be a full house. I have a lot of my

old and my Manchester Girls Softball League friends come in. Then I get a

lot of other friends coming so if you want to come for a good time

that Chin Yang Lee. I play at seven very good, very good?

Are you how long are you playing to? You know, seven to ten?

Seven to ten? Alright, And that's it's the Bow location. Excellent,

excellent. Oh there's another one. I think there is. Yep.

Oh, I didn't know that. Okay, bad food, I think,

oh, yeah, that's right. Oh you know what, Yes, I

did know that in the back of my mind, and I forgot yes,

yes, but I think I think of the Bow one because I grew up

and conquered. Oh okay, I forget, forget that. There's one in

Bedford. But very good and uh what should people know? Andrea as far

as h well, your web, you've got your website, Andrea pequin dot

com. Did you build out yourself? Yeah, that's just a dragon drop

from a squarespace. Yeah. It's like I said, I'm a website nerd.

It's a good site. It's not bad. Yeah, it's clear,

it's it's you know, it's it's easy to it's easy to maintains, easy

manage. And I'm then I use the bands in town. Yeah, to

keep my my tour listed on there? Yeah, yeah, no, I

like the layout. And I know I'm geeking out on your website. No,

I appreciate it, but I I like the layout. It is very

clean, um, easy to navigate, but but modern looking. That's that's

what that's what really matters. You know, it's got to look. And

you can also go to my link tree, so it's oh yeah, it's

it's link tree dot com, forward slash Andrew Pequin and my Instagram, Facebook,

you know, my my tip jarm, my newsletter. Everything is there.

Excellent, excellent, So all the links of the social media, yeah,

all of that fantastic. Oh and for for the spelling impaired, how

do you spell Paquin, it's p a q u I N very good.

I'm sure I'm sure everyone can figure out Andrea, but you never know with

Andrew, with an E and d r e A. There you go.

Um. Cool. So I'm gonna end with one more of your studio tracks

to close out the show. But while I while I pull that up,

I do want to remind everybody, of course, I will be back for

Retrospectrum Radio with Policy tonight from eight to eleven PM. And if you're listening

live on Friday, we've got grand a State of Mind coming up at six

pm. And don't forget Rebecca Termel is at the at the Hop Not tonight

from seven to nine pm. And of course Peter White is the celebrity restaurant

tour at Disneys Cafe that goes to nine pm. Popping over there if you

get a chance. It's for a great cause. And Texas Mike. You

might run into Texas Mic there. Yep, very good, very good.

And uh, Andrea, thank you again so much, thank you. I'll

let you pick what should I close with. I already played reach Up earlier

and I played a boxer. Okay, how about um can you hear me?

That's the title track for that my latest record, Perfect Perfect, So

we'll close with that. So Andrea Pequin, thank you again so much,

thank you. And this is can you hear me? To close out today's

Matt Connerton Unleashed And uh, I'll talk to you'all a little bit later.

By everybody I've told you in the letters up every day, day longer.

Yeah, I guess too many and spoke words scenes yes hard as I'm gonna

shouts. You're gonna start from the time, can you hear me? I'm

gonna shut you from this mountain. I'm gonna start from the time. Can

you hear me, Can you hear me? It's time to put this book

down and the lessons that we've got. Yeah, we have what we mean.

So it's time to close the plan now where everything is

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