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is the clockwork Man. The band is Warhog. This is Matt Connorton unleashed,

and we have Warhog with us via Skype. Hey, guys, hey

going on, Hey, welcome back. I was looking. It's been over

a year since the last time we talked, but you guys have been You

guys have been doing some some great I love the new songs. I especially

love uh the Cybertooth one Uh Hunt of the Cybertooth, which is what we're

gonna play later. What a great song. But I really like all three

of these tracks that you sent us. And uh, well done, well

done, gentlemen, thank you, thanks absolutely really good, really good.

Now you guys are for people who aren't familiar. You are from is it

Dallas, Texas? Yes, that's correct, very good. And when you

were on with us last time. I think you had how many albums did

you have it at that point? Did you just have the one or did

you just have the singles? Like I forget now it's been a while.

I think we just had the one. We might have had a live album

too, but we definitely just had the one, the one, our first

studio album. Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, definitely, you've definitely

this is this is great stuff. By the way. Now, so,

so who do we have with us? Is the full band with us?

Uh? Via Skyper? Who do we have? Yeah, we've got her,

Scott's here, Eric I play guitar, Robert drums, and Justin on

bass. All right, it's great, great to have you all here.

Are you? Uh? Is it early? There? Are you an hour

behind us? You're not the same time zone, right, so you're yeah,

So I'm really I'm really driving Justin crazy because I'm a I'm a morning

person and he's not. And I've had two mimosas and he is barely waking

up. So he's he's cut the coffee and I'm still like irritated. He's

ready to he's ready to kill me, right right. I'm glad you guys

are all able to able to join us today. So how now are these

songs, these tracks that you sent us here, these already out and available.

One of them is the Clockwork Man that you just played is out and

has been out and and that song has kind of a funny story. We

we we put that together. I guess at the very end of twenty twenty

two. I've got some friends that do YouTube content on a channel of theirs,

and they had written that song the Clockwork Man as a sea shanty for

like a an episode that they do of their of their they do Star Wars

parodies. It's I could go down this whole rabbit hole, but I won't

because I want to. I want to make sure we talk about us.

But yes, yes, I I collaborate with them on a lot of stuff.

I sang on this sea shanty about called the Clockwork Man, and when

they sent me the lyrics, I looked at him and I was just like,

man, this reads and in my head sounds just like an Iron Maiden

song. And so before I even did my vocals for the pirate version,

this shanty version, I sent the guys back basically the fully baked version of

Clockwork man with me doing all the midi drums and everything. Wow. And

it turned out so good that they used it in the episode Oh Wows that

as the credits music. And then Eric kind of was like, well,

let's just do it as a whole band thing, and we started playing it

live and people really liked it, so we recorded it properly and got the

live drums and everything, and so that the version you just heard is the

Clockwork is the version that we released of our version of the Clockwork Band.

So it's a little bit of a cover, but all that music is original

to us, and it doesn't the real the real version doesn't sound anything like

that. Really. Yeah, literally, it's a it's it's four part alcapella.

It's ridiculous. Just send this to me. I need to hear this.

Yeah, yeah, I'll send it to you. What what's what's their

YouTube channel we can give them? Are called the r notts A you r

a l n a u t S. They've been around for years. They

do a lot of really funny parody stuff and sound editing things. They're great

and I love those guys. I'm good friends with them, and they they

brought me in on a lot of their stuff and really kind of expanded our

visibility. But I love them and so anytime I get to work with them

is a real treat. Yeah, yeah, very cool. By the way,

what does that mean? What is a clockwork man? What does that

mean? Yeah? So basically in their version, what they do is they

take existing media, like a Star Wars movie, and they strip everything away

but the video, and then they redo all the audio. So they redo

the dialogue and the music and the sound effects and they edit it up into

something entirely different. And in their version of the Star Wars saga, yeah,

C three Po is this kind of deranged, bloodthirsty, murderous monster.

And because they started with the first with phantom menace where he doesn't have an

outer covering, he's obsessed with getting skin and being human. And yeah,

I will send you some stuff. It really is a rabbit hole that you

have to go down. But if anybody is listening that thinks that this sounds

at all remotely funny, it is. It's worth your time. I'll send

you some stuff. But yeah, CEE three p O in their version of

Star Wars is the clock. He is a mythical monster that people sing songs

about. The song is kind of like an urban legend song. Yeah,

kind of like Bloody Mary. Yeah, you be careful, don't don't talk

about the clockwork Man because he'll come and take your skin. Yeah. Yeah,

it's great, that's great. Yeah, I've gotta I've gotta see that.

Yeah. So anyway, that's the clockwork Man. That's awesome. And

what is uh, we're gonna we're gonna play it later. But Hunt of

the cyber Tooth what what? What? What is that? What does that

mean? What is that about? I love I love the song by the

way, it's very you can you can sing along to it. It's it's

so it's so good. But what is what is the meaning behind that?

So that was my idea. So, you know, when we're you know,

we have our first album, Call of Voyager is essentially a barbarian quest

type song, and we said, let's let's go the opposite direction and like

do a bunch of dystopian and futuristic like eighties theme songs. And I literally

came up with this idea of a future kind of like the Purge, but

everybody goes into their house at night and they hide because the government has built

a cybernetic tigers, criminals at night, and if you're out on the streets

and you have any kind of like criminal history, he's basically gonna kill you.

Yeah. Okay, Okay, so now we I think we talked about

this so when we talked the last time. You know, because of the

way Eric and I write, we have so much material kind of just in

the hopper waiting. I think this song was actually written the last time we

were on the radio with you guys. Oh. But Eric explained it to

me just like that. He like messaged me one day and he was like,

Hey, I'm writing the song. It's it's called the Hunt for the

Cyber Tooth. And I was like, that's the dumbest title, and I

think it's I think it might be the greatest thing you've ever written. Yeah,

And he explained it just like that, and I was like, without

even hearing it or seeing lyrics, I can't wait to see what this is,

yeah, because it's it's amazing. And yeah, and the song turned

out great, which is hilarious that it's like, it's a pretty fun song

to play, but yeah, it's it's one of those ridiculous things we just

pushed hard into you know, just fantasy at one time live and the reception

on it was everybody was like, you have to play that every show?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, our friend Melanie from the

Great State of her Mind, she's in the chat room. She says,

nice Government Cybernetic Tigers are fantastic. Yeah, yes, yeah, we're excited

about it. Yeah. And by the way, you sent us another track

to a self titled that track called Warhog and uh and and I like that

too. We might actually end up playing uh both that and UH Hunt of

the Cyber Tooth if we have time, but any any particular meaning behind that.

It's always a bold move when a band uh puts out a song with

the same title as the band it's it's it's been done, but rarely has

it been done. Well, A lot of the bands that I like to

listen to do exactly that. Iron Maiden has Iron Maiden true, Black Sabbath

has Black Sabbath right like there, Hammerfall has Hammerfall right, like a lot

of the power metal and like old eighties kind of big arena metal bands do

that. And I just said the same thing to Eric one day. I

was like, there's actually a Halloween who has their own song. Yeah,

true, And I said, I told Eric, I was like, we

we should do a song that has our name in the title, like all

the cool eighties bands to and Eric was like okay, And then literally just

the next day was like, here it is. That's awesome. Part we

played this one. And I have I have a lot of friends and family

that come and support us that don't like metal, and everyone that I've showed

this song to is like, I love this song and I hate metal.

Yeah that's really cool. Well you've convinced me we're gonna we're gonna play both

of those today. Absolutely absolutely that that song features all of us on vocals

in the middle. So that's that was a fun thing to do. Yeah,

awesome, awesome. You guys, do you play out a lot?

Are you playing a lot of shows these days or what's the live situation?

Yeah? We so we started this year kind of strong. We played a

metal showcase in Dallas at a at a venue called Trees, which is a

big, kind of really well known venue definitely in town, but like lots

of bands have played there in their earlier days, like Nirvana played their tool

played there. It's a it's a big national yeah, and we played a

metal show show case there with a bunch of our friends bands that we knew,

and had a really good turnout. So if our friends are listening and

they came to that show, thank you so much. Because that show got

us a gig in front of a band called Crypta, who was a metal

band from Brazil. They were coming through three weeks later, and so we

played that show on a set. We played our show on a Saturday and

Monday, I think I had an email from the owner of the venue that

said, Hey, we've got a band coming in from Brazil. Would you

like to open? Can you open? Are you available? And we're like

yes. Now, keep in mind Robert joined the band like that the week

before we played that show. Wow, because because Ben had to quit our

original drummer, Ben, you know, we he made the decision to leave

the band in the summer of twenty three and so going into Christmas time,

we were contacting other drum looking for you know, getting auditions started. We

had talked to Robert and you know, we said like after the new year,

let's learn some songs and get you in the in the room and see

how it goes. And then the the gig showed up for this showcase and

we were like, well, instead of three songs, can you learn six?

And he jumped he jumped in and a working audition yeah wow, And

and it went so well, I mean, it was going really well that

we were like, this is the guy. We don't need to audition anybody

else. And then the next big show at the same venue happens. We

played twice at Trees back to back, like less than three weeks apart,

and we did that, and then we immediately were like, all right,

this is good Robertson, Let's get in the studio and start recording stuff because

we've got all these yeah, like cyber Tooth are ready to record, Warhog

is ready to record. We've got a bunch of stuff we've got. We've

got three EP's that are all written and essentially produced minus the drums. Oh

okay, yeah yeah, And these three epi's, essentially when we released them

through this year, will become on one album. Okay, just because of

how the current state of music is, people want like instant gratification. So

we're not going to do one album and make everybody wait a year where we

decide to piece meal it through through the year and put a single here,

an EP there, that kind of thing, and then wrap it up in

a nice package at the end of the year. Yeah. Yeah, very

cool. Yeah, that does seem you know, we live in an era

where you've got so many different options. And we may have even talked about

this the last time you were on with us, but I have noticed,

especially in the last couple of years, that seems to be what a lot

of the artists that we talked to on the show are doing now, is

they'll release, you know, they might release a series of singles that eventually

become an album. It's it's kind of the inverse of how it used to

be, you know, growing up, you know, a band puts out

an album and there's a several singles or maybe one or two singles, depending

on how it you know, how it's selling, and and and now it's

kind of it's it's kind of been flipped flipped around. So but it's nice

to have those options. Yeah, it is. And I think also to

your point, you know, you used to get an album and there might

be three good songs on it and then six of them are okay. Yeah,

and I feel like now the pressure is like every song has to be

a banger, you know. That's that's an interesting comment. I never thought

of it that way, but you're right, that's a really good point.

Yeah, yeah, I mean even I think you could go all the way

back, right, like Black Sabbath's Paranoid was was I mean? And Tony

Iomi's own words like that was supposed to be a filler song. They just

needed two and a half minutes of something to fill the other side of the

record. Yeah, and so he he like farted out Paranoid, right,

and that's a classic, like of all time heavy metal song. Rights,

But to art on our end, then every song needs to be a paranoid,

right, that can stand on its own and work without the rest of

what's going on. So it's funny. I didn't know that. I didn't

know the story behind Paranoid, But that's interesting because that kind of explains why.

You know, because bill Ward on that song, you know, he's

it's such a basic drum pattern for him compared to everything else he does.

You know, Paranoid is so simple. Yeah, Tony I saw an interview

at Tony Oman was like they were at lunch, and I sat down and

wrote that riff and just put words to it and they came back and we

just recorded it like that song was never intended to be really anything more than

the song between two other ones. You know, yeah, that's interesting.

Yeah. I didn't know that I was in a band that we actually covered

Paranoid, and the reason because we wanted to do a Black Sabbath song,

but none of us were, you know, we didn't quite have the chops

to tackle something really complex, or at least our drummer didn't because the drums.

You know, Bill Ward is such an interesting drummer, and but Paranoid

it's like so easy. I mean, it's just easy. I played,

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you guys influenced by you know,

you mentioned iron Maid of course? Are what what are some of the

other artists that you guys are influenced by? Is it? Is it a

lot of sort of sort of power metal stuff or Scott is definitely the power

metal guy, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, that kind of stuff. I don't

want to speak for one too much. I like, I'm kind of all

over the spectrum. I grew up loving death metal, I love Pantera.

Being from Texas. Uh, I like Mastadon I mean, I tried so.

I when I write songs, I try to take influence from everybody.

But at the end of the day, I love Iron Maiden and stuff just

as much as Scott does. Yeah, I wouldn't say justice is Yeah.

We all grew up in the nineties, so you know the zeitgeist of metals.

You know, Metallica, Mega Death, Pantera, Ozzy, all those

bands end up in the mix somehow, and then you know, as we've

grown older, just certain things sink in a little bit more. Yeah,

it's all there, right, Like I think, well, you know in

cyber to that and we'll play it and you'll hear it. That last chorus

is like I totally did Sound Garden. I totally was like, oh,

I should do a Chris Cornell vocal here at the end of people won't be

expecting grunge at the end of Cybertooth. Yes, really good. Yeah,

you know, so like it's it's it's all in there, right, it's

awesome. Yeah, No, you're right, I did. I didn't think

of it quite that way, that the Chris Cornell thing, but you're right,

yeah, and yeah it does it. It totally works for the song

Are These is what you do in the studio. Is any of that difficult

to replicate live? You know, because you've got a lot of like these

these big vocals and whatnot. Is any of that a challenge or or do

you even worry? Maybe you don't even worry about it. Maybe maybe you

know, if it's a little bit raw live, that's okay. I don't

know. I mean, how do you approach that? Which, well,

that's I mean, I I can pretty much pull off all the stuff that

I'm doing on the record live. Yeah. And then to that point,

the boys, Eric and Justin have gotten really good about stepping up to the

plate and the microphone. Yeah, and Cyber we played it live and me

and Justin did a lot of the backing vocals, and I thought that went

really well. I mean, the crowd reacted to it, especially at the

end. Yeah, and we're hope doing it. And then Scott comes in

with that Chris Cornell part. Yeah. Yeah, they're they're, they're they're

doing really good with with jumping up and sharing some of the vocals. And

I think it's it's fun for me to have them doing it as well.

But I think from the audience perspective, when you have the three guys across

the top, all on microphones shouting stuff at the audience at once. Like

it's a powerful kind of experience and interaction. You'll hear it in Warhawk,

like you'll know what part it is that we all yeah, and people react

to it. So we're we're working really hard to kind of pull some of

that stuff in as much as we can. Yeah, Yeah, Where do

you guys record? So I'm the engineer and producer, and honestly, a

lot of the stuff that we do, thanks to technology, we do from

the comfort over our own home, So I mean you can, like I

don't even capture live amps anymore. I use amp sims exclusively, So we

literally plug into a computer and record our parts. Scott records literally right where

we're sitting right now. His vocals, he has a little vocal dampening feel

he puts around him and belts out files. We usually use Dropbox to exchange

stuff. The only thing that we really have to do in any kind of

like special setting is the drums, and we do have, you know,

a rehearsal space, and honestly it's soundproofed and it's the perfect size to record

drums in. So right now, Robert's kid is there all miked up,

and when we do practice, we're very careful to not knock any mics over.

But I mean that's pretty much our how we do it. And I

take it and put on my headphones and start mixing and mastering in what you

what you hear is essentially what I what I get. Yeah, yeah,

it is. It is remarkable. You know, we live in a time

where you can do it that way, you know. I mean, I'm

old enough to remember when there was no such thing as drop box and file

tasking. Maybe, I mean, Scott Scott and I joke all the time

that our eighteen year old selves would just be blown away with what we can

do now. Where we used to use a tape recorder to like overdub guitars

and stuff, you know, to boom boxes sit next to each other so

I could do like a playback and then play over it, yeah, exactly,

singing in the shower, yeah yeah, yeah. Yeah. Poor Robert

though, I mean, he's, like I said, he's new to the

band and we're really putting him through the grinder, because as seems, we

played those shows, it was like, all right, let's pack up the

rehearsal stuff and get the the kit in here and to start recording. And

he's been just learning songs and recording them like every couple of weeks. It's

just a cycle of like learn practice record, learn, practice record. So

yeah, having you having fun with that, Oh, it's a blast.

I look forward to recording love it. I have been a good luck turn

for us too, because we were all of a sudden he shows up in

the band and we get two shows immediately at Trees. And I know we

were talking about live stuff earlier. You didn't mention going down to Austin.

Yeah, we're going to Austin and we're going to San Marcos, Texas.

There were Yeah, so we got some shows on the road, and and

then we're actually this summer we're coming when we when we play the summer,

we're opening for Drowning Pool. Nice. Yeah, So we have a lot

of really cool stuff going on on top of releasing all the music that we're

releasing. Yeah yeah, yeah, oh very cool. Yeah, you guys

got a lot going on. But by the way, do you have any

videos, because your your songs certainly would lead themselves to some sort of fastical

video. Do you have any So, we actually just had a lyric video

made for Warhog and we literally before we got on your show this morning,

approved the final product. I use an artist on Fiver that does a lot

of videos for like Century Media, Nuclear Blasts, a bunch of other labels,

and uh, it's it's spectacular. Really. We're working with the PR

firm right now and I think we're set next week probably to release it.

And uh once once we do, we'll sing all the link. It's we

we all giggled with how how it came out. It's pretty awesome. It's

pretty good. Oh cool, cool, Yeah, I look forward to uh

look forward to seeing that very nice, very nice. Well, guys,

Uh, the time does go so fast. We want to get those songs

in and then, of course, for those of you listening live, we

have Eric Pilter's classic film review coming up, and then in uh then in

the third hour, we're joined by another great band, dot Conduit. We're

gonna be here with us live in studio. But uh, but before we

uh, before we let you guys go, and we're gonna I'm dying to

share share the song Hunt of the Cyber Tooth with everybody because I love it.

So much, and we're gonna play Warhog too. But what should people

know in terms of, you know, because we have a lot of listeners

locally here, but also you know, just all over the place. What

should people know about where to find you online to keep up with everything that

you're doing and uh, and and find your music and the video when it's

out and all of that. What should people know about where to find you

guys? Facebook and Instagram. We are Warhog DFW. We've got a website,

warhog band dot com. We've got band camp which is warhog dot com,

bandcamp dot warhog dot com. But yeah, we're we're really active on

Facebook, We're really active on Instagram. So follow us there and keep up

with all the stuff that we've got going on and putting out and releasing and

sharing. So that's the best way to keep up with us. Yeah,

and we we're on every streaming platform that's right. Uh. And then if

you want to buy physical media like anything from shirts, mugs, whatever,

we have that on our website. And then we have the availability to buy

and download MP threes as well. Yeah. Very cool. Oh, by

the way, Melanie said in the chat room, I bet the next band

doesn't have a government made cybernetic tigers. I would not think if they do,

we might we might have to talk. It's a real it's a real

niche kind of song topic. Yes, we we wanted to corner fast and

earlier. Yes, yes, good god, Yeah, you're you're ahead of

the curve. That's if anybody in Dallas comes out with any animal themed cybernetic

monsters in the next twelve months, we're gonna be pissed, absolutely all right.

Warhok gentlemen, thank you all so much for joining us this morning.

We appreciate you. We will do this again in the future, especially as

you continue to release new music, great great stuff, and so I'm gonna

I'm gonna hit this track. But guys, thank you so much. War

Hug, Thank you, Thanks Jen. We appreciate you. Guys. All

right, thank you, take care, bye bye. All right, without

further ado, here it is. This is We're gonna play both of them.

We're gonna play this, and then we're gonna play uh the Warhog,

the song Warhog by the band Warhog, and then we're gonna get to Eric's

film review. But here I love this. Check this out. This is

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American legend, is the origin of the Cane fortune. How to boarding housekeeper

Mary Kane, by a defaulting border in eighteen sixty eight, was left a

supposedly worthless deed to an abandoned mindshaft, the coloradolone. Fifty seven years later,

before a congressional investigation, Walter P. Thatcher, grand old man of

Wall Street, four year's chief target of Caine Paper's attacks on trusts, recalls

a journey he made as a youth fain come and been appointed us tea by

missus Kine for a large fortune which he recently acquired. It was how wish

that I should take charge of this boy, this Charles Foster Kane. Is

it not a Johnson that all lister case dunce that boy Charles Foster Kane personally

attacked you after striking you in the stomach with the slaves, musham. And

I shall read to the Committee of Revents statements which I have brought with me,

And I shall then refuse to answer any further questions. Mister Charles Foster

Kane, in every essence of his social beliefs, and by the dangerous manner

in which has persistently attacked the American traditions of private property, initiative and opportunity

for advancement, is in fact nothing more or less than a communist. That

same month in Union Square, in the words Charles Foster Kane, anus,

do every working man in the slave he is today what he has always been

and always will be? Attachiest and still another opinion, and urged his country's

entry into one war appaus participation in another swung. The election to one American

president at lease spoke for millions of Americans, was hated by as many more

for forty years appeared in Kane your sprint no public issue on which Caine papers

took no stand. No public man whom Kane himself didnot support or denounce,

often support then denounce. Wee married vice divorce, first to a president's niece,

Emily Dawton, who left him in nineteen sixteen died nineteen eighteen in a

motor accident with their son, sixteen years after his first marriage. Two weeks

after his first divorce, Kane married Susan Alexander Singer at the town Hall in

Trenton, New Jersey, a wife to one time opera singing Susan Alexander Caine

built Chicago's municipal opera house cost three million dollars and see for Susan Alexander Kane

have finished before she divorced him. The still unfinished Sanadu cost no man,

can say. Caine, holder of mass opinion, though he was in all

his life, was never granted elective office by the voters of his country.

But caine tapers were once strong, indeed, and once the prize seemed almost

his. In nineteen sixteen as independent candidate for governor, the best elements of

the state behind him. The White House seemingly the next easy step in a

lightning political career. Then suddenly less than one week before election. Defeat,

shameful, ignominious. He heat that set back for twenty years the cause of

reform in the US, or ever canceled political chances for Charles Foster Kane.

The first year of the Great Depression, Okaine paper closes Ocaine in four short

years collapse, eleven can papers merged, more sold, scrapped. Is that

correct? Don't believe everything you hear on the radio. Read the inquirer.

How did you find business conditions in Europe? How did I find business conditions

in Europe? Mister bones, with great difficulty. I'm glad to be back,

Decay. I'm always glad to be back, young man. I'm an

American. I always been an American. Anything else, and I was a

reporter. We asked them quicker than that. Come on, young fellas well,

what do you think of the chances for war in Europe? I've talked

with the responsible leaders the great powers England, French, Germany and Italy.

They're too intelligent to embark on a project which would mean the end of civilization

as we now know it. You can take my word for it. There

be no war. Kin helped to change the world. What Kine's world now

is history, and the great Yellow Journalist himself lived to be history, outlived

his power to make it alone, and is never finished Already Decaine Pleasure Palace,

aloof seldom visited, never photographed, an emperor of newsprint, continued to

direct his failing empire, vainly attempted to sway as he once did, the

destinies of a nation that had ceased to listen to him, ceased to trust

him. Then, last week, as it must to all men, death

came to Charles Foster Kane. No, the words you just heard are the

words that bring us into the world of Charles Foster Kane. It is a

part of the opening scene from Citizen kan At nearly ten minutes and it's long.

It attempts to encapsulate the life of a media titan, mogul, failed

politician, and a man that had everything but in reality had nothing that was

real. Last week we looked at the making of Citizen Kane in the controversy

in pitfalls that surrounded it. This film was released in nineteen forty one and

tells the story of Charles Foster Kine, played by director Orson Wells, a

man that as a young child inherits a fortune and then amass his wealth,

fame, prestige, and notoriety as a national media mogul, but is missing

love and is emotionally broken. Our next two clips show what makes Kin such

a compelling character in cinema. First, in a conversation with his conservator,

mister Thatcher, we hear the new newspaper man Kin explain his view on running

a newspaper. Then, in our second clip, a middle aged Caine,

while running for governor, shows his over the top delivery and extreme self confidence.

These scenes are important because they establish what makes Caine so endearing and charming.

Also, notice the commanding presence Caine carries off jersey. He's that very

good idea how to run a newspaper. I don't know how to run a

newspaper, mister Thatcher. I just try everything I can think of you.

Oh perfectly. Well, there's not the slight this proof of this. I'm

mad's off the jersey. I'd like you to meet mister Thatcher. I'll just

cleland. Mister Thatcher, my ex guardian. We have no secrets from our

readers, mister Burnstein, mister Thatcher is one of my most devoted readers.

He knows what's wrong with every copy of the Mployer since I took over read

the cable girls delightful in Cuba. Stop could send you prose poems about scenery.

But don't feel right, Fenny, your money stopped. There is no

war in Cuba, signed Wheeler, any air, Yes, deal Wheeler.

You'll provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war. That's fine, mister

Cares. I rather like myself away. I came to see you about this

campaign of Jaws. He's in crade campaign against the Public Cleansit Company. Mister

Thatcher, Do you know anything we could use against them? Still the college

boy on too, No, mister Thatcher. I was expelled from college a

lot of colleges, you remember, I remember, Charles. I think I

should remind you of the fact that you seem to have forgotten. Yes,

that's why yourself one of the largest in the JOSS in the Public Clensed Company.

Trouble is, you don't realize you're talking to two people as Charles Foster

Kane, who owns eighty two thousand, three hundred and sixty four shares of

Public Transit Preferred. You see, I do have a general idea of my

holdings. I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundreul His paper

should be run out of towner committee should formed to boycott him. You may,

if you can form such a committee, put me down for contribution of

one thousand dollars my time. On the other hand, I am the establisher

of the Inquirer. As such, it's my duty, and I'll let you

in on a little secret. It's also my pleasure see to you at the

decent, hardworking people in this community aren't robbed blind by a pack of moneymad

pirates because having anybody to look after their interests. I'll let you in on

another little secret, mister Thatcher. I think I'm the man to do it.

You see, I have money and property. If I don't look after

the interests of the underprivileged, maybe somebody else will, maybe somebody without any

money of property. Yes, well, I happened to see your financial statement

today, Charles, how did you now tell me? Honestly, my boy,

don't you think it's rather unwise to continue this philanthropic enterprise, this empire

that's costing you a million dollars a year? You're right, mister Thatcher.

I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million

dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You

know, mister Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year,

I'll have to close this place in sixty years. And now, Kine's campaign

speech. Now a complete control of the government of the state. I made

no campaign promises because until a few weeks ago, I had no hope of

being elected. Now, however, I have something more than a hope.

Jim Jim Gettys has something less than a chance. Every struggled, every independent

poll shows that I'll be elected. Now I can afford to make some promises

the working man, the working man, and the slung child. No,

they can expect my best efforts in their interests. The decent ordinary citizens know

that I'll do everything in my power to protect the underprivileged, the underpaid,

the under fed. Mother is pop government not yet well, I'd make my

promises now if I weren't too busy arranging to keep them. You have one

promise I'll make, and Boss Jim get His knows I'll keep it. My

first official act is Governor of the state, will lead to appoint a special

district Attorney to arrange for the indictment, prosecution and conviction. Boss Jim W

get his The main theme throughout this film is not Cain in his life,

the power, fortune in fame that he carries. It is that this man

is emotionally bankrupt. His quest for control and love has disastrous consequences. That

is because he is emotionally unavailable and unwilling to commit to anyone emotionally outside of

just token things in gifts and money. In one of the most heartbreaking scenes

of this film, Cain confronts longtime friend, supporter and reporter Jedediah Leland played

by Joseph Cotton, for writing a poor review of his current wife's opra.

In this scene, Leland explains what love is too Charles Foster Kane, and

how it is unlike what anyone else in the world would view as love.

What you are unable to see in this scene due to audio only is the

way Orson Wells and Greg Toland shot the scene to make Cain appear as a

giant. To do this, they cut a hole in the floor of the

scene setting to lower the camera all the way down and shoot it upright for

a larger view of Cain. Well, thank you God drought to it.

Talk to me about mis Alexander, don't, father, I'm not interested.

I've set back the sacred cause of perform Is that it all right? That's

the way they wanted the people who have made that choice. It's obvious the

people preferred to Jim get his to me. You talk about the people as

though you own them, so they belonged to you. Goodness, As long

as I can remember, you've talked about giving the people their rights, as

if you can make them a present of liberty as a reward for services rendered.

Remember the working man, I'll get drunk too, Jedediah, don't do

any good. I won't do any good. Besides, you never get drunk.

You used to write an awful lot about the working man. Or go

on turning into something called organized labor. You're not gonna like that one little

bit when you find out it means that you're a working man expects something as

his right, not as your gift. Charlie, when you're precious, underprivileged,

you really get together. Oh boy, that's gonna addup to something bigger

than your privilege. And I don't know what you'll do. Sail away to

a desert island probably and lord it over the monkeys. I wouldn't worry about

it too much. Jet I'll probably be a few of them there to let

me know when I do something wrong. You may not always be so lucky.

Yeah, very drunk, it's wrong. What do you care? You

don't care about anything except you. You just want to persuade people that you

love them so much that they ought to love you back. Only you want

love on your own terms. I promised it would be divulged if the influence

of William Randolph Hurst hindered this film. Sadly it did. Radio City Music

Hall refused to take part in the premiere. Many cinemas, fearing that Hurst

would sue them for defamation or refuse to advertise their theaters just outright refused to

show it. Hearst papers, radio stations, and magazines would not advertise the

film. This led to the film losing an astounding one hundred and sixty thousand

dollars following its initial release. It nearly bankrupted RKO Pictures and led to Wells

being labeled as troublesome in never wielding the power he had on this film creatively

for the rest of his career. Despite this, the film did receive critical

acclaim. The Washington Post called it the single most important film ever made.

It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Wells was nominated

for Best Actor and Best Director. The film only won one award for Best

Original Screenplay for Herman Mankowitz and Wells. When the Oscars aired on Hurstoned radio

stations, the award was edited out of the broadcast. However, in the

sixties, this film began to have a major resurgence. This allowed the film

to gain the widespread appreciation it did not get upon release. That appreciation carries

through to today. It is widely considered to be the greatest film ever made,

and in my opinion, it is. On a personal note, this

film led me to have an admiration for Wells and his works. It also

led me to seek a film minor while I was in college. I'm such

a fan of Wells that one of my most prized possessions is an autograph from

Orson well That is why I have chosen to honor Wells this month. My

birthday month, because without him in this marvelous, beautiful, heartbreaking, compelling

film, it's safe to say there would not be classic film reviews with Eric

Pilcher. I hope you join me next week, when our month long tribute

to Urson Wells continues with one of his most heralded performances ever in Carol Mann's

nineteen forty nine film The Third Man. To close this review for WMNH and

Matt Connorton Unleashed, this has been a classic film review