Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-12-23

To welcome everybody. Here we go. 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 and Glorious A downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on

Comcast ninety seven. If you're in Manchester Stern, Hello to Olive 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 a Friday,

Happy Friday, May twelve, twenty twenty three. So uh, and it

is. It's pretty warm out. It was like eighty degrees when I came

in. I like it. I like the heat. I like it hot.

You know, some like it hot in some sweat when the heat is

on. But no, it's uh, this is my time of year.

Um, and I'm a little more um. I like it better when it's

eighty degrees in the middle of May than I do when it's ninety degrees in

the middle of April. Something about ninety degrees in the middle of April.

If you remember, we had a couple of days like that in April.

That's a little alarming. Eighty degrees in the middle of May just seems more

like a normal early ish summer. Uh So that's uh, that's fine,

that's fine, I'll take it. And then you know, by June,

if it gets to be ninety, that's fine, that's all on schedule.

But when it's ninety in the middle of April, I'm going, yeah,

that's not supposed to happen, and yet it seems to happen more and more.

But I don't want to get sidetracked. It is, of course Friday

here, it's my long day at WMNH, and I do love it,

so it's my favorite day of the week. I do this show. Of

course, I'm here four to six, and then from six to seven we

have granted State of Mind hosted by the Great rob as A Veto and Pauly

Stone, and then I am back at eight pm eight to eleven PM for

Retro Spectrum Radio with Pauly C. I have the honor and privilege of being

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

from Queen City Cabinetry, who I believe is making us triumphant return this week.

Hopefully he's had a lot to deal with, that's for sure. So

you know, if he's not there for any reason, obviously everyone will understand.

But but hopefully I get to see him tonight Queen City Cabinetry, of

course in the historic Sunbeam. Mall and Mike our friend from Queen City Cabinetry

not only a sponsor here at WMH ninety five point three, but like I

said, he's our newest co host on retro Spectrum Radio with Paulic, so

we look forward to that. Speaking of Friday, you know I love Fridays.

Joe Friday is in the chat room and says it's Joe Friday here.

Yes, Yes, Friday abounds. Remember that song Friday what was her name,

Rebecca something? Friday, Friday, No, no Friday. I thought

about playing that on the show. If I were to do so, of

course, it would not be out of a legitimate enjoyment of the song,

because the song is horrible. It would be more ironically the problem with that

is that song and all the the attention that it got that had to be

at least ten years ago, at least maybe maybe twelve years ago. So

to do so ironically in the year twenty twenty three wouldn't really work. I'm

afraid the irony would be lost. So we shan't we shan't bother. But

but we can think about it and we can all hum it. We can

hum it together. I don't I don't know the words other than Friday,

Friday, Friday. Uh. Let's see so today on the show, so

are we did have a guest schedule, but apparently he's still not feeling well,

Chris Connor, so we'll have him on soon. I'm sure I'm looking

forward to uh speaking with him, so I hope he feels better. Jenny's

gonna be calling in at any moment. She's going to fill us in on

what she's got going on next week. Tuesday of next week, Jenny is

going to Washington, d C. And uh she's going to be uh speaking

on a panel and with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont about healthcare. I'll let

her explain it, and she'll be here in studio Monday to talk more about

it too. But she's gonna be calling it. And then, of course

later in the show, because it is Friday, in the five o'clock hour,

we will have Eric Pilcher's classic film review, a very popular segment here

on the program. Eric does a great job with those, and this week

the subject is the two thousand and one film starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawk,

Training Day, which is a personal favorite of mine. So I love

that movie, and I really enjoyed Eric's review. Obviously I listen to them

ahead of time, and so I will be sharing that with you today at

five pm. But Jenny is on the line, Hello and bow fine Friday.

Yes, yes, I went to bed and I woke up in summer.

Yeah, yeah, I think it's yeah, go ahead. Uh no,

I just gonna It's supposed to say this way throughout the weekend, isn't

it. I think so. I think I thought a possibility of like ninety

this weekend. Oh that's right, Yes, yes, I think on Sunday.

Wow, excellent, not looking forward with I like seventy. Yeah,

well seven seventy is like the perfect temp. Yes, so yeah, tell

everybody what you're going to be doing. Yeah, so I was going to

sell Matt on the market. No wait, that's the other day. That's

illegal. I cannot be sold like a like a piece of meat. How

dare you? All right? I feel like I've been objectively. Yeah,

I'm super excited about this. It's a heck of an opportunity. And when

I was asked if I would do it, I was absolutely on board.

As you guys all know, everybody knows, I'm always on air talking for

years now about healthcare and healthcare we should have versus what we get, especially

because of these insurance companies and what they do to interfere. So there is

a bill being introduced in Congress in the Senate by Senator Sanders. It is

Medicare for All, and what it would do is literally get rid of insurance

companies. Let our doctors do what doctors do and what they order, and

what you need you get and we can start with the Medicare system. Because

you knows already there and have a national healthcare Why in the world do we

accept the way that we live. I mean, it's kind of mind boggling

when you think about it. These bureaucrats have Cadillac insurance policies. They never

look at something getting turned down, you know, and these insurance companies could

care less about us. I mean recently, well recently, as you guys

know, I've had a national campaign going I've had help from organizations like People's

Action and New Hampshire Rights in Democracy and we've gone to bat and they've really

fought for me to get more coverage that I should have to my insurance company,

Like you know my infusions that are six hundred dollars a month. You

guys all know about the infusions, and you know the insurance company wouldn't cover

it, wouldn't cover it. On and on and on we do this national

campaign and you know what my next infusion, which is scheduled for July is

as of right now, prior authorization has been approved for that infusion thanks to

these people. Yeah, these same people, of course, are backing this

effort to have a national healthcare policy that allows everybody, no matter who you

are, where you come from, if you need something medical, you get

it. We should we should shout out you mentioned Rights and Democracy. Heather

Stockwell, who's been on the show a few times now. She's the one

who helped with this initially, right and got you involved in all of this

this applican literally yeah, literally, she's she's literally person zero that started this

entire thing. And it's actually because our sponsor, the hop Knot was having

an event about healthcare, and they've supported my efforts and always you know,

they support the show, they support the station, they've always supported my efforts

in my advocacy for better patient care. And he called Kenny Message doing and

said, jeez, you know this lady's coming in at Heather and she's doing

this thing. It's about healthcare and access to healthcare. Would you be willing

to come in? I think that you could add to it? So it's

true. So I stewed up and Heather was absolutely phenomenal, and there was

Ryan as from people's action was there. I think he's originally I think he

lives in like Minnesota. He had come into New Hampshire for this special event.

And you know, one of the things that came out of the conversations

with them was that it's hard to get anybody to be that guinea pig,

to be the person that's willing to be open about their medical and let other

people publicly help them try and basically shame these insurance companies into doing what they're

supposed to do. I mean, let me, I want to share this

with you through this process. One of the other things we were looking for

was assistance with one of my medications that I take in a pill form,

and they put in I'm talking to this girl to put in this appeal to

try and get them to drop the medication tier down just one, right,

just one, because this drug is eighty five dollars through them. If I

use GoodRx at a grocery store, I can get it down to forty eight

dollars. But the insurance actually admonished me, you know, about using good

RX because that money doesn't count towards your deductible, which frankly is disgusting.

Right, So what I'm asking these people to do is literally give me permission

that they drop the drug from a tier four to a tier three, would

make it forty seven dollars, and I would get it through the planed pharmacy

and my money would count towards my deductible. I can show you so many

denials for this. They won't do it. They won't do it for any

reason. I have tried and tried and tried. You put in a request

to try and get them to do something, and I'm on the phone with

the woman helping me. No sooner did she hit enter. Did I immediately

get an email of denial? So somebody human looked at that computer, thought

from keyword and denied, and she's like, oh, I knew that was

going to happen, So then she's trying to find a way to get to

a human being. This is disgusting and what the heck are they doing for

my benefit? You know what really grossed me out is, you know,

here we are, we talked about this stuff all the time on the show.

We talked about all the We've talked about our friend who has trouble getting

her insulin, you know, and all these troubles that we've had health wise.

It's Oh, my gosh, I'm sorry. My brain just went um,

my brain just just got a moment. Oh gosh, I'm sorry,

Matt. That's okay. I'm having one of those foggy head moments. This

is a part of what's wrong with me. It's which is kind of sucky.

You know, I'm in a good place and trying to tell you guys

something, and yeah, that happens. They refused to drop the tier on

that drug, so I'm stuck paying the forty eight dollars with the good RX

that they admonished me for using. Or I hate cow I cow tailed to

what they're saying, and I start paying eighty five dollars because that's what they're

asking me to do. Right, right, of course you should use good

RX. Well, what I wanted to say that I slipped my brain and

has just come back, is that it really grossed me out because they announced

just a few weeks ago they're forced quarter profits, and they made eight point

one billion dollars with a B in three months. Three months. I thought

it was a year when I heard that number. Oh no, that's three

months. And now they made that profit. They made that profit off to

the dead and dying and denying care and denying services, you know, and

like, if I wasn't doing all the things that I do to stay alive,

I wouldn't be I would be gone by now, or I wouldn't be

in some kind of facility unable to have any kind of quality of life.

I go without treatment, and within months I'm bedbound, and probably within a

year I'm now stuck permanently being rolled around by somebody else, probably because I

wouldn't be able to do anything, or i'd be dead, I mean quite

frankly, but it's just it's horrendous, and the only we were going to

stop this nightmare is to get rid of them. There's just nothing else you

can do. I thought there was some way of fixing it at one point

in my life, but it's not. Just got to get rid of them.

We should be able to have a national healthcare system. You got a

USA Healthcare Card, and you decide on where you go based on how they

treat you. You're not picking a provider by price. You're picking a provider

by their quality of their care, the politeness of their staff, their bedside

manner. You're making that kind of a healthcare choice. So our healthcare system

is actually incentivized to be even better. We should be investing in the fact

that we don't. We need more doctors, we need more nurses, we

need more medical people, and we should be doing more education wise in order

to get those positions filled. Because I got news for you. You know,

when you and I are into our eighties or so, we're gonna be

hard pressed to find a neurologist. We're gonna be hard pressed to find a

lot of these specialists as cardiologists, some of the cardiology specialists, because there's

not enough of them going into the field to take the place. So we

better start investing if we invest in our own country, and we have a

healthcare system that says you have the right to walk into a hospital and get

care with this USA Health card, and we use the Medicare system that we

already have in place, and I believe we can do a lot to it

to make it way better. And then that's who pays the bills. That's

how that works. You pay one yeah, yeah, Well, you know,

as we've talked about on the show many times, it took me a

while to finally get to a position of saying I think we should have socialized

medicine. It took me a long time to get there. I've always felt

that every American should have access to adequate or preferably better than adequate healthcare.

And there's no excuse in the as I like to say, in the most

successful, most innovative, and most prosperous country in the history of the world,

that so many people fall through the cracks. It doesn't make any sense.

But I think I finally figured out psychologically what happens and sort of a

I'm speaking in a macro sense, the mass psychology of it. Why Americans

accept it the way that it is. It's because I I think back to

my own experience, you know, knock on wood. I've always been pretty

healthy and uh but when I you know, before I was self employed,

when I had a regular job where my health insurance was provided for by the

company that I worked for, you know, it was you don't you don't

you kind of take it for granted. It's like Elizabeth Warren. I don't

give her credit for a lot, but I remember something she said during one

of the twenty twenty debates. She said, you know, everyone says,

but I like my health, my healthcare. I like my health insurance the

way it is. I don't want to change it. I like it the

way it is. And she said everyone likes their health insurance until they actually

have to use it, you know, and then when something, you know,

when something catastrophic happens, and you start getting these denials, and you

realize that the insurance company would actually rather you die because now you're costing them

money instead of contributing money. Uh. You know, then then all of

a sudden, you're health insurance that you thought you loved so much doesn't seem

so great. But I think I finally figured out the mass psychology of this

and why people accept it the way that it is, because I used to

think it was just because, well, you know, we're a capitalist,

you know, and hey, I'm a capitalist, you know, I'm a

free market capitalist. But obviously with certain exceptions, health healthcare being one of

them at this point. But but I used to think that was the reason.

But then I realized, no, I think what it is is when

you're young and you're working for a company that gives you a health insurance.

I mean, well, they don't give it to you. It's taken out

of your paycheck effectively. But but but where that health insurance is provided for

you? And I think back to my time when I was in that position,

and if I did have to go to the doctor, you know,

I was generally pretty healthy. But if I did have to go to the

doctor, you know, I would go to the doctor. I would pay

the co pay, usually not much, ten fifteen twenty bucks at most,

right, and that was it. I'd never even see a bill. I

just I'd cover the co pay and that was in And then you don't forget

about it. So you kind of get lulled into that, into into you

get used to the idea that that's just how it is. You have health

insurance, you just go, you deal with the copay, you never see

a bill, it's easy whatever. And then, uh, you don't realize

that. You know, first of all, as you get older, more

things are gonna go wrong. That's just how it works. And yeah,

and then you're gonna you're gonna have to actually start using your health insurance in

ways that you didn't have to before. And I remembered something recently. I

didn't tell you this, but it was just a memory that I had from

back when I worked for that company and I had that great health insurance.

I was having a conversation with another employee, a manager from another location,

and we were talking about the health insurance that we had through the company,

and uh, I was. I had said something about, yeah, I'm

glad we have really good insurance here, and uh my friend uh said to

me, well, actually, you know, I used to think so too,

but his wife was on his policy and she said, uh, I'm

sorry, he said. My wife, Laurie and I were fighting with the

insurance company, you know, because she had surgery recently and it was it

was not elective. It had to be done and now they're trying to weazzle

out of pain for it, and they're coming up with excuses not to pay

for the insurance, not to pay for the surgery, so that we get

stuck with the bill. And I filed that away somewhere in the back of

my mind because that specific memory, it didn't even occur to me until just

recently, but I was thinking about it. I was like, yeah,

that's interesting. So back then, there I am, you know, young,

healthy, you know, if I had to go to the doctor,

I paid the co pay whatever, and that's it. But here's here's my

friend who also works for the company, whose wife just had jury, and

they're having a fight with the same insurance company that I think is so great.

And when I when I finally access that memory, when it occurred to

me the other day, I was like, oh, I didn't even know

at the time. You know, hindsight is twenty twenty. But I was

catching a glimpse of of it how it really works. But when you're young

and you have a regular job that you know, you just sign up for

the insurance and then you don't really have to think about it much. I

think as a society, we all get conditioned to just thinking that's how it

works, that's how it's always going to be, until the day comes that

the reality of how it really works in this country comes and slaps you in

the face. Well, you know what I say, you're one cancer diagnosis

away from being me. Yeah, and I mean that. I mean I

was fully functioning EMT. I ran an ambulance, I worked in an er,

I ran, I could physically run. Know, my doctor didn't like

my coffee intake and wanted me to be better about my vitamins. That was

the worst thing that right, And then one day you've got cancer, and

then cancer surgery didn't go right, and now you lost your job, and

now you lost your healthcare, you know, And it's it's it is exactly

that you are one hundred percent correct. And she was one hundred percent correct

when she said it. It's great until you need it, you know.

And now here I am, and I'm stuck with a meticare disadvantage plan,

and it's awful. There's so much they won't cover, Like they won't cover

compression socks unless you have an all Star. They won't let you wear them

to prevent one. But they'll cover it if you get one, and that's

basically to cover the bandage, not because you should have proper compression so you

have better blood flow so you don't have problems to begin with. You know,

it's it's disgusting how much they nickel and dime every one of us,

scream every single penny they can squeeze out of us, and when it comes

time to give it back to us, what we've paid in, what we

you know what we've purchased this insurance we've purchased. Oh no, you know

what my insurance company, United Health likes to do is they'll say, not

approved by the FDA for the treatment of CRPS, complex regional pain syndrome.

But here's the kicker. The disease was discovered over two hundred years ago and

the FDA has yet to improve as single treatment for CRPS, so they get

to use that as an excuse. Wow, you know, it's not approved

by the FDA, so we're not going to cover it. Nobody's been,

They've never approved anything. If I'm waiting for these guys to get off of

their butts, I'm going to be old dead and turned into dust before they

get around to approving anything for CRPS. We need this bill to happen.

We need we as Americans need to dislike tell the politicians, I don't give

a care of what. Let us after your name. I'm done with you

people. We need a national healthcare system and you're going to be the first

people on it. Yeah, and it would it would actually, uh,

it'd be good for the be good for the country. You know, the

country as a whole would be better if the people living in it are are

just generally healthier. And as far as cost, you know, uh,

people get wrapped up in well, won't you have to raise taxes and our

taxes we'll have to pay for it. Well, I'll tell you what.

If you're if your employer doesn't have to shell out the money for health insurance

anymore, then you're either going to have a whole lot more money in your

paycheck or you know, or maybe less, but you know, they're not

having to pay for it anymore. Um. And don't don't forget though,

if the premium goes up a little bit, So what you're getting rid of

all the co pays? Yeah, you're getting rid of the forty all is

every time I walk into my doctor's office, forty dollars every time I,

you know, need a prescription filled whatever it is. If I need to,

oh, I'm in my coinsurance part, so I get to pay two

hundred dollars of this MRI. You know, you don't get hit with that

anymore. My mom is stuck in Massachusetts with Romney Care, and she got

handed the entire MRI bill because the way their insurance works is you have to

satisfy the full deductible first, so you get all of the bill, all

up front, all when you're in the middle of trying to not lose your

job and get your care that you need. And yeah, and that's what

you're facing. And that's what you're facing, though any increase in premium will

be worth it. When I was in the Netherlands, these guys pay one

premium and I know one of my friends, I think it was like one

hundred and fifty bucks or something like that. Granted their country is a little

smaller, so even if it's two hundred whatever, it was all of your

medical, all of your dental, and third party insurance. Because over there

everybody rides a bicycle. You have to have personal insurance, so if you

run into somebody, you can get you're responsible for the damage, so you

make a one payment and that's your insurance all around. That is your full

coverage, and they require everybody to have it, including when you come into

the country. You're not supposed to be traveling in there unless you have travelers

insurance, which you should be doing anyway. I mean I always did,

but you're required under their law if you're going to travel to their country legally,

you have to come in with full coverage insurance. Yeah. Ah,

I don't know. That sounds like communism. I watch my buddy. My

buddy has stage four breast cancer. He's a male breast cancer patient, one

out of every hundred breast cancers or male. He lives in the Netherlands.

The doctor has come to his house many times. Wow. They had to

put in a drain into his lung. They had people coming to the house

morning and night to help him do everything. He needed something, they got

it. They doctor wanted him on cannabis. He ordered a cannabis infused water

for him. Like every medication he needed, it's ordered from the pharmacy.

The pharmacy delivers that. You are not having to mucket up, you're not

having a warry it, you know it, Oh geez, how much is

it gonna be for this frigging mad you know. I mean I've walked in

and gotten sick of shock, and you know, you get up to the

counter and it's like, oh, this med's two hundred and fifty dollars now

part of your deductible. That happened to me once. I just I walked

out of the pharmacy crying. I was like, I can't believe I just

had to spend that. But I'd never a choice. It was, there

was no choice. What are you gonna do? You can't say no,

you need, you need what you need in order to live. We should

I'm tired of it. Every how, many people in America are medically poor,

Like they'd be fine if they didn't have such incredibly high medical bills,

right, but they're poor because the medical So you know, if anybody in

America should be, we should be. I mean, we have the best,

We have some of the arguably best medical care in the world. People

come from other countries to get care here because we have some of the best.

But the American who's living next door to the house next to CMC is

gonna die. That could have lived or could have had a better life if

they'd only been given access to the medications sitting on the shelf inside of CMC.

Yeah yeah, I know. So we either take it back for ourselves

and get rid of these bringing insurance companies, or we let them keep making

profits off of us. So let's let's let's circle back to what you're doing

Tuesday, U And is that going to be Is that going to be on

C space in or is this going to be required this panel or I mean,

I would assume I think it might be live on Senator Sanders YouTube.

I'm not sure where else, but that's a good question, and I will

inquire about that. I know it will be recorded. So on Tuesday night,

I'm attending town hall with Senator Sanders and Representative j Ball and a number

of physicians. I'm actually honored to be the patient on this panel, and

we're going to talk about Medicare for all and what it would mean for us,

you know, and what would change, what could happen, and what

we're living with right now. You know, this is an opportunity for these

people that are elected to actually hear us to actually I'm going to actually say

I'm a patient. I'm not getting the care I should be getting. I

can't get the care I helped give when I was in medicine, you know.

And I'm just one voice, but at least it's a voice, and

that's what all of us need to be doing. We all need to be

in our representatives and senators ears about this. It's time to do away with

the stupid insurance companies that literally bring nothing good to tell me one I would

like one person to give me one example of something the insurance does for me

that makes my care easier or better or more access because I can't think of

a dang thing nothing, you know, So we get rid of them.

So this panel is going to be talking about all of that, and we

aren't. There'll be I'm doing opening We're all doing opening remarks, There'll be

a question and answer period and so forth. And then on Wednesday, the

bill will be officially introduced in Congress, and after shortly thereafter, there will

be a press conference which I will be attending talking about the launch of this

bill. I'm really hoping to maybe get a chance to see Senator Shaheen or

maybe Congressman Papist. I'd like to see them get involved in this, you

know, and be our voice, you know, and co sponsor this legislation

and work towards making sure that every American gets a USA American Health Card and

gets taking care of No child goes without they're antibiotic, and no elderly person

like the people we know and love are rationing their insulin. Because even at

thirty five dollars a bottle, if you need seven, that's a lot of

puts a lot of money if you haven't even eaten yet, And how many

of us our rents have gone up. Everything's insane. We don't have enough

money left. You're making choices between medication and food. You know that nobody

should have to be able to do that in America. This is America.

Why do we accept that we're better than this? We should be and it

would be a great We could do it, and we could do it.

We totally could do it, especially if Americans in general just basically tell powers

that be poundstand. I don't care what side of the aisle you're on.

You need to get behind keeping me healthy and having a wonderful life like I

deserve, I deserve dignity, I deserve compassionate care, all of us do

There are children with my disease that don't get access to the care that I

am paying for out the nose, and I'm barely holding onto it. And

there are people that could absolutely benefit by so much if we just get rid

of it. Damn insurance companies, they deny things without even talking. I

mean, they have computers now that look for keywords and then batch denial,

just denial it. No human being even looked at who you are. They

don't know you, that they care about you. It's just a computer reading

your number, reading a keyword, reading the wrong code. Like wouldn't it

be amazing if we had a medical system that if the wrong code was used,

one department calls the other depart artment and they fix it instead of denying

it and sending it back to you and stressing you. I mean, I

can remember walking in on my grandma, just in tears, with all these

medical bills, all these horrible medical bills, and the way that people would

talk to her on the phone, demanding her payments and getting on payment plans.

And you know, I can remember years ago, in my twenties,

living in Kentucky, I had got brought in emergently. I had passed out

and I ended up needing it bluecoath and I had this huge bill because I

didn't have any healthcare. Those healthcare in Kentucky's really bad. And I ended

up getting put in collections. And I can remember being on the payphone because

I didn't have a phone, being on the payphone calling about this bill I

got. And I know lie to you. I swear the person literally said

to me, if you couldn't afford the bill, you shouldn't have made it.

Literally said that. Yea literally said that. And this is the system

that's still in play today, and it's never going to get any better until

we say enough, we have to demand it. Not going to happen unless

we start demanding it. And we could have it, We could have it.

It would be something so monumental, amazing for this country. There would

be so much more. We saved, such a healthier economy just for the

simple fact that people wouldn't be medically poor anymore. Right, Oh yeah,

yeah, the whole country would be doing better in that regard. Absolutely,

absolutely, absolutely gonna get the profits out of medicine and get medicine to where

it belongs. About medicine, about people. It's a human issue. It's

not a democratic issue, it's our republican issue, breaking human being, decency

issue. All right, Jennie, Well, thank you for thank you for

calling in. I wanted wanted to make sure everyone knew what you were doing.

And you know, we'll talk more about it on Monday, of course.

But yeah, absolutely, this is a great opportunity, so proud of

you. Absolutely, do my best. Thank you. I'm gonna do my

best, all right. I got a lot of hope that I've not held

in a long time, so I know, I know there's where we're going.

Yes, yes, all right, you have good shows. I will

be listening. I'm looking forward to retro later on this evening too. Yes,

me too. I will see you in the chat room. Okay,

thank you, bye bye bye, all right, Jenny leaves us. That

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Eric Pilter's classic film review and this week the subject is the movie Training Day

with Denzel Washington and and Ethan Hawk, which came out in two thousand and

one. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago, but yeah,

it really was. It really was. So but uh, yeah, Jenny's

very excited about her trip to DC on Tuesday. Uh it's um, yeah,

it's she she didn't she didn't see that particular opportunity coming, you know,

getting involved with um rights and democracy Heather Stockwell her organization there or she's

part of it. I don't know if she if she runs a whole thingers

she's just a part of it. But um, but she Jenny did not

expect that that is where this would lead. Where you know, she'd be

going to Washington, d C. To sit on a panel and uh talk

to Bernie Sanders and it's uh, it's a big deal, so very exciting

and uh and hopefully it uh you know, she can be a part of

some change that we definitely need. Here. Um, let's see, let's

uh say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat. It looks like a

busy, busy chat room. Jenny of course is in the chat room and

says shalom peeps. Also, Mariam Banish joins us and says, uh drag

ron Yes a song from Rocky Mountain Mike, there's one of the songs I

opened with today. The video has a picture of him and his white his

white boots that he wore, and there was a flooding. Let's see,

our friend Shannon is on the line. High Shannon, So good afternoon,

afternoon. What's up sunshine? Yeah, we never got the crowding up this

afternoon? Did we never got what I think I believe they said, possible

send this to him later this afternoon. They could still be coming. But

oh yeah, I don't know. I didn't pay any attention to that.

It was pretty clear skies this morning. But anyway, one thing I wanted

to mention, well, first of all, I'm proud of Jenny two yes,

and happy Mother's Day to her as well. I wanted to say that

before Sunday. Yes, uh, but like medicare and medicates what I have,

they won't cover hearing it. Yeah, it's incredible. I mean it's

um. And you have to get on the doctor, not the doctor,

but the office whoever does the job to call in for prior authorizations. You

know, you have to get on them because I mean I had a mirageous

ones that one woman's job. Her job was to call insurance companies for prior

authanizations. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's the whole tangled web.

Yeah, shouldn't be. But if you didn't hear the Morning Show, just

listen to it another time. But um, John Hopwood said he had maculate

degeneration, and I just want to I want to give a heads up to

any person of a certain age older than sixty seventy that gets a diagnosis of

age related macular degeneration. You might start seeing things. And if you tell

your family or whatever, hey, I'm seeing not not cousin Bob from the

past, but two shapes or colors or two different things. If you're not,

I'm afraid that a lot of people of the baby bloom or generation and

a little bit of mine are going to be put either not believed or just

not listen to too because if if they're parents or whatever, says I was

looking over here and then all of a sudden, I see this and this

and this. Yeah, don't jump to the conclusion she's she's going up to

be then we've got to get her into a home or whatever. It is

a syndrome called Charles Bonnet syndrome. When you are actively losing your sight,

you may or may not start to see things, what kind of your eyes

open with your eyes close, just like you know, because I don't know

how optimologists or traumatrists handle that when when they give a diagnosis for rmb UM,

I don't think they that. You know, by the way, if

you start seeing things, don't panic. But it's called Charles Bonet syndrome.

It's in the book. It's the christ chapter in the book Hallucinations by doctor

Oliver Sax Shannon. What if you see something and the thing that you see

begins well, no, I hope not. I'd better not see that guy.

Ever, what happens if you do see something and the thing you see

begins speaking to you and it says, come with us, Shannon, Come,

come with us, where are we going? Really? Wow? You're

easy? No, no, no, I it's very strange. When I

go from my three am walks in the dark m the lights on the houses

and the street lights illuminate stuff enough to where when I get home, I

can still see houses and cars and street lights. And it's kind of is

that's meat? That part is meat for me? It is it's I don't

know, I'm alone and only child. It's entertainment, yes, you know,

But what do you think is going on in those houses with the lights

that you seem hopefully something strange is going on in those houses? Shannon's the

strangers going on this house? I I and this is this is well?

Never mind, just ne min. Why are you going out for walks at

three am? Shannon? Because the sun hurts the chatteract part of the program.

I see, I have two types. So do you carry a taser

or a pepper spray? All right? Just my cane and cigarettes? All

right? And I keep my ears. I walk in the middle of the

road because there's no cards about. I don't walk on main street. Yes,

okay, good, I don't walk on main streets. I did,

yeah, I mean I the last time I went for a walk, I

thought I'd missed a turn because there wasn't a street light on, and it

was just dark for a while. But no, it's it's just interesting because

my neighbor happened to have a RMB and she was telling me. You know,

I came out here into her living room and I was downstairs talking to

her. She says, all of a sudden, I see these these shapes

and colors, and I said, don't worry about it. That's that's Charles

Bonnet syndrome. Okay, So just you know, yeah, yeah, because

I would assume him. If I'm an older person and I start seeing stuff,

I'm going a panic. Right, Well, what's the syndrome? Did

you say? If you start seeing Charles Barkley everywhere? Is that what you

said? Yes, Oh it's Charles Barkley, M Bruce Springsteen, everybody.

Okay, all right, Well it's good to know in case that ever happens

to me. So John Hopwood probably see Charles Barkley everywhere. Well, that's

that's what made me think of it, because you know, someday he might

say, you know, close his eyes and see some weird things. What

the heck is that? Well, that's what it is. Joe Friday wants

to know if you have a life alert. Joe Friday is very concerned about

you walking around at three am. Oh no, I could just take all

the bridge that boils up every week that I have to deal with just on

my own understand somewhere. Well, that's that's good, okay, all right,

Well I believe you be good outcome, but I'll give my best.

That's what counts. To listen for footsteps? Yeah, fine, because it's

very quiet also at three am, that's true. Have you ever heard footsteps

and then turned and there's no one there? It's fruitless to me for me

to turn, because if there was someone six feet behind me, I would

see right. So or so you think, No, I just uh,

guys, I don't know. I just keep talking. It's what's really neat

is when you when you start um lucking east, if you keep going east,

yeah, beast. Do you hear what ge the mocking birds starting up

all of these different families. It's neat to hear them start to go from

east to west. Have you ever determined if they chirp in any sort of

a pattern, Shannon, A pattern that might be trying to communicate something something

about. Yes, the favorite one is the curler do they do that because

they're alerting you to an alien invasion of sorts? No, they're they're alerting

me that they're the angels for me, Shannon, What if there's an alien

race of Charles Barclay's waiting to pounce and this is all part of their plan.

I realized nothing I'm saying makes any sense. But what if? What

if that is what it is? Shannon? I missed part of Trump Berkley

book. It doesn't matter, Shannon. It was a really lame joke that

I made and I already regret it. But what if, Shannon, what

if? Hey, it's a good country sun. What if Shannon, the

name of the name of the sun is what if it's good m hmm.

Well, all right, Shannon. Now, strange things are happening, and

strange things are happening, that's for sure, and I promise I'm not going

to bring it up at the time. But the thing is that I said

it on the Morning Show, that's not enough flying people out and about.

It's not that there's not enough flying people. This is not enough that are

that are out in public right and people don't just use common sense. I

was ignorance, stupidity, beyond belief. I mean just just I don't know.

So you want you want blind people? You want there to be more

blind people out and about. It would be nice. Yeah. Um,

do you ever just uh, do you ever just walk into a place and

go where all the blind people at? No? Okay, I was wondering.

No, I know that I've come across. It wasn't two the three.

Um I saw one or two Jmax that I was on his way to

a guide dog school. Let's get some new cloth. Yes, I was

at the bank of years later and I had my guide dog and I saw

another guy something with a dog because he said, what school did you go

to? So I knew what he was talking. I knew what he was

saying, and I knew he was talking to me. But anyway, Shannon,

how do you know how do you know that the dog? How do

you know that the How do you know that the dog was not actually a

shape shifting Charles Barkley? It very well could have been. After all,

his name is Charles Barkley. See what I did there? Yes, I

did. That's why I'm an afternoon drive. Yeah, we're approaching the top

of the hour, Shannon. But I've enjoyed our conversation here today, and

uh, let's let's get more blind people out there. No, it's oh

sorry, A lot of them just stay home. Yes, you know,

I don't know, but there's not enough people of importance of you know,

high power that are visually impaired. So you want you so you're ad I

like where you're going, Shannon. So you're advocating for the elite, the

one, the one percent, if you will, in the sky country,

the ruling class to go blind. I like it. I'm with you,

power, power of the people. I wish everybody would be struck blind for

a day, maybe a week in in they I pray for this. Where

does it sound, Shannon, strike everybody blind and make them speak? All

right, Shannon, listen, I'm not I'm not a religious man myself,

but and I haven't been, to the chagrin of my dad, I haven't

been to church in a very long time. But I will tell you this.

I will tell you this. I did learn a few things going to

Catholic school from grade two to grade eight growing up. And uh, I

I could be wrong about this, but I don't think that the I don't

think theologically it is necessarily a sound idea to be to be praying for people

to go blind. I don't think you're supposed to pray for any day to

go blind day and English that way, there would be no problem with race,

because you wouldn't know. I don't know if you're even supposed to to

pray for people to go temporarily blind. I just don't know if that's a

thing you're supposed to pray for. But I don't know. I don't know

that because you no one would be able to do much of anything. Everything

is a mhm hm. Anybody to get into an accident today and be blinded

for the rest of your life if the accident happens to a certain way and

you bust structimitable. You know what if what if everyone were blind and they

were given a bust and they were told not everyone will get the joke,

and they were told that it was a bust of Lionel Ritchie from the Hello

video, but it turned out to actually be a bust of the face of

Charles Barkley. As long as it's a fun bus part of us, it's

not a bus, it's a bust, oh bust. See my hearing.

I don't Shannon, Shannon, is it possible that you're having difficulty hearing because

somebody somewhere prayed that everyone would be deaf for a day? Everything about that?

No, see see see that. It's not so much fun, is

it when people pray for bad things for other people. I hope you've Shannon,

I hope you've learned an important lesson here today. But I want hopefully.

I know you're joking and stuff, but you do understand my point,

right I do. I don't say please Jesus, I beg of you loose

No, but if that did happen for a day, people might have to

communicate with each other and tough instead of texting and whatever, and they wouldn't

be able to step away from this person because you know, I don't know,

Shannon, I'm going to confess something you here on the air and to

the audience, of course. Uh. And I'm not I'm not proud of

this. But remember remember what was it? Maybe? Uh, if I

don't know, maybe five six months ago there was the news story that Vladimir

Putin had had had fallen down and soiled himself. Yes, because he didn't

get it in the suitcase quick enough. I'm going to Uh, I'm gonna

admit something. Uh. And again, I'm not proud of this. I

h I prayed for that to happen to him. Yeah, you probably probably

didn't, but he loved it when he did. Don't judge me. Only

God can judge me. Couldn't happen to big guy. Well, it could

happen to a few of those, but all right, Shannon, all right,

you have a nice show, and thank you that that book also talks

about Parkinson's and all the other In other words, the people who all these

diseases are named after Alzheimer's. Yes, you know, Charles Barkley disease,

Charles Barkley disease. Yeah, yeah, TBD, TBD, Charles Barkley disease.

I thought you so, oh CBD sorry, yes, yes, yes,

all right, Shannon, Well, thank you for the call. All

right, and get Jenny's a nice pretty flowers for Mother's Day. Well perhaps

I shall, all right, all right, Shannon, thank you, bye

bye. All right, that was our friend Shannon, and we are at

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wmnh rip the normos. I grabbed that menu off that window. Get in

it's unlocked. Just throw it at the blog box. This car is not

from the motor poole. Sexy do so where's the office? Back at division?

In the office, baby, there's a training day. Off the toy

show you around. Give your take to the business. You know. I

got thirty eight cases spending trial, sixty three in active investigation, another two

hundred and fifty on the log I can't clear. I supervised five officers.

That's five different personalities, five sets of problems. You could be number six

if you act right. But I ain't holding no hands, you understand,

I ain't babysitting. You got today and today owned to show me who and

what you made of You don't like narcotics, Get back to the office.

Get a nice big desk job, you know, chasing bad checks or something

to him out here? Okay, you want to be an art. I

want to serve my community by ridding it of dangerous drugs, right? Correct?

Or? Why you want to be an art? I want to make

detective. Here you go. You can do it. Stick with me,

you can do it. Un learned that book they teach you at the academy.

No, don't bring down in, get you killed out in. I

will do anything you want me to do. Roll your window down, start

there. So you gotta hear this stream. You gotta smell it. You

know you gotta taste feeling right as Espanol. Learn that your brother, learn

that get you killed. He got a plot and all kinds behind your back.

Denzel Washington, that name alone draws such reverence from film fans. His

performances are legendary, and time and time again, he is wowed filmgoers with

his wide range of abilities. Before two one, there were questions if Washington

could be one character that was the quote unquote bad guy or villain. This

week's film answered that with one of his greatest performances. Directed by Antoine Fuqua

and released in two thousand and one, Training Day gives us the story of

idealistic cop Jake hoy ethan Hawk in his resurgent role, who is wanting to

become a narcotics detective or a narc He is selected by officer Alonzo Harris Washington

to go through a training day to try and make his squad. As the

day evolves, we see Harris's facade as a decorated, well respected in feared

cop fall apart in the ruins of corruption, greed, and lawlessness. Our

first clip sets the stage for this day. Our next clip is the first

meeting between hoy and Smith in a coffee shop. We hear the coldness that

Harris has in the eagerness of hoy This is important because as this film progresses,

the Harris coldness evolves into ruthlessness and Hoyt's eagerness turns into helpless despair.

I'm trying to read my paper. Please shut up the last you would mind

not roasting a hot black and white Olson. Tell me a story like my

story. No, not your story. A story. Since you can't keep

your mouth shut long enough for me to read my paper, tell me a

story. I don't think I know any stories. You don't know any stories,

all right, I'll tell you a story. This is a newspaper,

right, there's ninet. But it's entertaining. That's why I read it.

Because it entertains me. You won't let me read it, so you entertain

me with your boy tell me a story right now, go Well, it

was a DUI stop, a dui stop. Let me load up my gun.

Uh oh, listen, all right, it's kidding. We were on

to watch. Oh, me and Debbie. Who's Debbie? I'm sorry,

Debbie Maxwell, my training officer had a female training lasser, yes, sir,

okay, all right, so what would you black White's wife? It's

pretty good, pretty good, Debbie made watch? Go right? All right?

Well, so it was a real quiet boom. You never know,

that's the point. Go all right, Well it was. It was quiet

night. We're rolling on vand when I'm driving this accurate just a beautiful car

comes out of side street all over the media in excess. I lighted up.

Hit the whaler. Guy drives on like I'm invisible for ten blocks before

he pulls over. All right, he plays run clean, and so I

feel tasked and arrest and I'm I'm belting him in our unit, and Debbie's

tossing his car. She calls me over to the vehicle and shows me slump

thirty eight and two shotguns, fully loaded and mocked. So she calls her

supervisor, and I keep searching. I find five hundred grams of meth in

the dash. Turns out this duy is unbailed for distribution on his way to

smoke his ex partner before trial were prevented the murder you got him. It's

amazing. It is that you could be out there or the final for a

year and the most entertaining story that you can come up with to tell me

is a drunk stop. But I don't believe you. You tapped that,

you know you tapped that, you put in the backseat. Bam, cold

X man. I got a wife. You gotta do you do have?

Yes? Okay? It lines up straight like that. Right to the right

of it and to the left of it a pockets right in those pockets of

money looking one of them made a bill. With most cop films, there

is corruption either right in front of our eyes or it is heavily implied.

What makes this film different is it is not over the top. It is

painfully real and drives this story. Our next two clips are examples of this.

First, Alonso has to meet a group of officers that call themselves the

Wise Men because of their ability to use corruption to get whatever they want.

In this meeting, we hear the trouble Alonzo is in after a disturbing and

disgusting story. Then, after Alonso kills someone to take millions hiding in his

own home, his relationship with Hoyt begins to unravel, but not until Alonso

makes one more attempt to convince Jake that what they are doing is acceptable.

Let you see you, John, it's my new guy who works on my

squad, Jake hooy Captain Luke Jacobs. You ever need to talk to the

Fed, you talk to him first, good man, and can take it

back for you. Stan gerd Skill over here, he runs the DA shooting

team. You think about him before you pull the trigger, because you're wrong.

He'll snap nuts out. Use him for dice, detect him. Doug

Rozelli right here, and it was high dollar deft cases for the French poodle

crowd. You know if you lose a Picasso, he'll find it for your

diet. Fine, he's a good man. Please meet you, good man

boom shoot. Get yourself a baseball steak or something. Yes, I don't

know why I'm meeting you. I don't talk to dead man. Ain't that

Jackie quite a long faced? Doug huh Bet sees your house or something told

him the story. Come on, tell the story. You think it's so

funny. You're talking no, no story, you tell it all right,

all right, this is cereal burglar, tracing him for twelve months and real

slicks that gave up nothing. Captain's riding my ass the entire time. Sensing

was today Judge's female, that's right Landers, Yeah, I know Lander's shop

lady. So before the hearing, guy gets hold of some peanut butter packs

and he's standing tall before the bench and he's waiting to give a statement.

So he shoves his hand down his pants, comes out with a gob a

extra chunky chief. Payliffs won't come near. Now. He's looking to judge

right in the eyes, licks his fingers way. So Judge says, uh,

oh, this poor man's insane. He can't go to prison, orders

him the psychiatrict he fell for. Yeah, that's because he's smart. Yeah.

Times she found out it was sandwich spared. The order was signed that

God had been transferred, proceedings closed, got freckled. Six months in the

puzzle factory. Then they'll call him normal and let him lose ever do a

day in prison, Yeah, give him credit though, work the system deserves

his freedom. Yeah so or not. I'll tell you what. I'm gonna

find this guy on the straight and I'm gonna do him. You better take

his bullets from him, staying, Lonzo, he had an expensive weekend in

Vegas? How did you ever screw up so bad? Nothing? It's nothing,

forget it. You know, I didn't know. It's not my town.

I'm not a mission. But Russians don't care. If you have that

hatch whack you You're to hYP jet out of here? Why? It's an

easy fix. It's cash in an account. Oh yeah, yeah, who's

one of my old ones? My first one. It's not a problem.

Look, the guy's a high security risk anyway, I'm not around. Who's

gonna keep him off the radar? Are you? I'm just taxing? That's

okay, that's your call. I do not want you to I do not

want to see you on the front page like those others. Yeah, I

understand. Who's driving me Mercedes? Okay? And now hoit? Questions Alonzo

later? It wos you're not the Browns justified brown side the line? It

to be okay, now what happened? What happened was the murder and armor

robber. Oh, we had badges, so it's different. Son, kill

for your eyes? Can't you see that man was your friend and you killed

him. Come my friend because he knows my first name. Sudden, this

is the game. I'm playing his ass. That's my job. That's your

job. Rogers sold though to kids. The world is a better place without

him. Hey, this man was the biggest major violator in Los Angeles.

I watched that Tucker operate with impunity for over ten years, and now I

got it the ship. Yes, it ain't check us. What do you

think we're gonna do? Roll up in a black and white huh? Slap

the cups on them. You're under arrest. That's a high roller. Dog.

Take the money, you know, Harry told you I'm not gonna take

this. Take. I'm not gonna take that. You don't just burn it

barbecue with fish fried. I don't give it. But the boys don't feel

better, but their feelings, Jake, you're not making them feel like you're

part of the team. It's a team. You guys are insane. All

right, I'll go back to the valley. I'll cut parking tickets. You

know he can't be like this. It is this way. Man, I'm

sorry I expose you to it, but it is. It's ugly, but

it's necessary. I became a cop to put away drug dealers, the poisoners,

the criminals, not to be one. It sounds just like man and

I bought what you're going through. I know what you're feeling. You're scared.

I'm not scared as you want to terrified. Everybody goes through that.

The first time I went through him the sona. You can match us in

your head. That's what's going on in the real world. The better you're

gonna feel in this business, you're gonna have a little gut on you for

anybody to trust you. I'm gonna all this is behind you. There's gonna

be a hoomb on the world that opens up for you. I walk a

hiad and past sun. I can give you the keys to hold the doors.

But it's talking. My guys are pretty good. But then I leave

this inn. Clowns. You're lead and you want my job, You've got

it. I'm una lock up poisonous. This is the best place to do

it. But you gotta just you don't take your time. You may detective

and play the game and grow wise and then you can change things, but

you gotta change him from the inside. So let's go down down to the

station. You talk to my guys staying and it will walk keep through what

you gotta say to the da guys. Okay. This film has many great

performances and cameos from the aforementioned Hawk, Tom Barringer, Doctor Dre Macy,

Gray, Snoop Dogg, and Eva Mendez. But no mistake, the performance

that is not just the top in this film, but one of the greatest

ever, is that of Washington. In our final clip, the unraveling of

Alonso is complete when men that Alonso allows to illegally operate in a local neighborhood

do not take Jake out when he commands them too. He loses all control

and gives a speech that many, myself included, feel is one of the

most memorable in cinema history. Oh you mother, okay, all right,

I'm putting cases on all are you? Huh? You think you can do

this? Jay? You think you can do this to me? You'll mother

will be playing basketball in Pelican Bay when I get finished with you. Shoot

program twenty three hour Lockdown. I'm the man up in his You'll never see

the light of dude. Though you think you I'm the police, I've you'll

just live in Yeah, that's right, you better walk away. Gone walk

away, because I'm gonna burn this down. King cong Ain't got on me.

This film marked a major turning point for Washington. As I stated before,

it proved he could play the villain and do it well. It gave

him an added dynamic to his already awe inspiring range, so much so he

has went on to play other unscrupulous individuals in their films. While they are

great performances, they do not match the verocity and powerhouse performance he gives in

this film. This film was a hit. It was the second highest October

opening in cinema history, at twenty four point two million its opening weekend.

The only reason it opened in October is following the September eleven attacks, the

film was delayed by a month. It finished with one hundred and four point

nine million grossed worldwide. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Supporting

Actor for Hawk and Best Actor for Denzel Washington. Rightfully and Deservingly Washington one

for Best Actor. It has spawned a since canceled television series and a prequel

of the film is currently in production. It is timeless and its realness,

rawness and unabashed power. I would recommends Filmed to anyone, no matter what

films they like. With my highest recommendation, I hope you will join me

next week when we will look up to the sky and answer is it a

bird? Is it a plane? Well? Maybe, but one thing is

for sure. It is the first comic book film blockbuster. We will look

at Christopher Reeves in the nineteen seventy eight film Superman. The movie for WMNH

and Matt Connerton Unleashed. This has been a classic film review with Erik Pilcher

still snow yes, who's blacking? Still show out a jam to our phones

block can't keep it home a lot. It's my frequentess bust that I've known

the rock to get a base from the home the block to ladies faint Hammi,

but hate to say ray for love fouls. My last album was The

Running. They want to know if he's still got it? They say,

rap the Change. They want to know how I feel nobody laying out.

Doctor Dray is the name? How my head of my game? Still puffing

my leaf, still with the beats. Still not love the police, Still

rock my cackies with a cup in the creases. Still got love for the

streets. Rapping two one three, still defeats fans. Still doing my things

since I left. Ain't too much change. A representation for the gangsters all

across the water. Still hitting him counterss in the lovelows. Still taking my

time to perfect the beat, and I still got love for the streets.

It's the see Yard League for the gangsters on across the water, still getting

encountress in the lowlos. I'm still taking my time to perfect a bit,

and I still got love of the streets. It's the see Yar's the last

time I heard from me. I lost some friends, well me and Snoopy

dipping again. I kept my head to the streets, signed him in him

Trump flats and doing fifty a week. Still I stay close to the heat.

And even when I was close to defeat, I wrote somebody My Life's

like a sound track. I wrote to the beach street wrapped like you,

like I'm until I sleep, Wick up in the air, composed of beat,

I'm bringing the fighting too, your soaf and egging seat. It's not

a fluke it's but tried. I'm the shoots just turned off the light from

the world class racking up still clastic after mathematics and the whole sisithematics, why

snels you getting bad traffic? Got this root, then I kids get this

dr for the ansters on across the world, still hitting him countless in the

lumblows because I'm still taking my time to perfect the beat and I'm still gots

up of the streets. It's the dr for the gangsters across the water,

still hitting him countless in the moods, kind of still taking my time to

perfect a bit, and I still got love for the streets. It's the

dyr e. It ain't nothing but mohachi. Another classic seadep for y'all to

vibe with. Whether you're cooling on the corner with your flock laid back in

the shack, play this track of represent for the gangsters all across the walls.

Hitt him countless in the lumblows because I'm raking neck landing it. Put

your face in your lap, trying to be the king or aces by bang

doctor drape the name, still running the game, Still got it wrapped like

a mummy. Still ain't ripping love to see young black skiing money, spend

time by the hood, take their mom's out of the hood, hit my

boys on the jobs. No more living hard army us every day, dripping

fancy cars. Still gonna get mob becard. Sitting for the anster thrown across

the ball, still hitting him countless in them low luds, because still taking

my time to perfect the beat, and I still got love of the streets.

It's the gyr on the ginsters on across the ball, still hitting the

countless in the blows. I'm still taking my time to perfect a bit,

and i still got a love of the streets. It's the dyring the ginsters

don't across the wall, still hitting the countless in the mod still taking my

time to perfect a beat, and I still got love of the streets.

It's the gyr e like that right back up, beating nine five plus four

pennies, and it's dumb dr he right back up. One type of face

wams so much you dug low stress skin swamps somebody. It's put it into

a welcome back everybody. As we cruise into our final segment today of Matt

Connton Unleashed, and we are live from the studios of wm n H ninety

five point three FM, Inglorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast

ninety seven if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners

across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt

Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact

in folk show archives, etc. Etc. Today is a Friday, May

twelve, two thousand twenty three, so nice to have you all with me.

By the way, so thank you to our friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar

Rapids, Iowa for another great classic film review this week. The subject was

training Day and I don't always let the song that he plays at the places

at the end play out, but I had to let that one go.

I love that. You can't go wrong with dre and Snoop. By the

way, so while that was happening, so that was probably the quickest thunderstorm

I've ever seen in my life. I'm not kidding, So I'm sitting here.

It was about when the song was coming on and all of a sudden

I can hear it outside. The wind is just you know, on Elm

Street. It becomes kind of a wind tunnel anyway. I can hear the

wind just whooshing. I look over out the windows and I can see,

you know, the traffic lights here at the intersection. I can see the

traffic lights moving, so I know the wind is blowing really hard. And

then it's and then the rain comes and it's just and then I swear like

it was it was a severe thunderstorm outside for maybe two three minutes at most,

probably about two minutes. For about two minutes, it looked like just

torrential outside, and then it just and then the sun came back out.

That was probably the quickest storm I've ever seen in my life. And now

it's bright and sunny and right back to being a beautiful day. Although I

do enjoy a good storm is as long as i'm you know, somewhere,

I don't like being stuck like dry having in it. That's terrible. You're

out driving and all of a sudden, the sky opens up and it just

starts pouring and you can't see where you're going. But no, as long

as I'm indoors or in under some sort of shelter, I love a good

uh. I love a good thunder storm, But that was quick. That

was a very very quick storm. Six h three two five six Z seven

is a number if you'd like to join us today on the program six ZO

three two five h six OZ seven. You can also text me at six

one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at

Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at Matt Connerton dot com. You

can interact in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do,

of course, oh and you can. I forgot something I mentioned the email.

Sometimes on Friday, you know, you get to the end of the

week and it's like, um, I remember in everything, Friday is a

busy day. So I got a lot going on in my head because Friday

is my long day here at the station. Because after this show, well

after this show, we have Grant State of Mind hosted by Rob as a

Veto and Polyc I mean no poly Stone. See we have too many Pauls

pauly Stone. But they now now that we're in the summertime weather. They

actually record the show every week at Pembroke City Limits and then they send the

show to Peter and he plays it from six to seven. But then I'm

back from eight to eleven pm for retro Spectrum Radio with Pauly c and I'll

tell you what we've got tonight on the show. This is what Paul put

on social media. Friday Night on retro Spectrum Radio will be presenting an evening

of dance and dubstep versions of classic rock tunes by the original artists. Some

of them had dance versions upon their original release that were rarely, if ever,

heard outside of a nightclub, and others will be classic original rock tunes

that have been reworked into modern day dubstep and low five beats. This is

something you don't want to miss and do join us tonight on Spectrum Radio.

And of course, like I said, I'm one of Paul's co hosts on

that show along with DJ Steve and I believe this week we are expecting the

triumphant return of Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, where you can bring your kitchen

to life at Queen City Cabinetry, of course, in the historic Sunbeam Mall.

Mike is not only one of our great sponsors here at WMH ninety five

point three, but one of our co hosts on Retrospectrum Radio as well.

He became our official co host, and then he he was here for a

couple of episodes, and then he got injured. He suffered a terrible injury,

and then but he's I think he's supposed to be back tonight. We'll

see, but it'll be great to see him. But six three two five

six seven, if you'd like to edit one with the call before this show

concludes four of the week six two five six seven. I do want to

say hello everybody in the Facebook live chat. We didn't get to any everybody

yet. Um, let's see Joe Friday is in there. Hello. Joe

Friday was expressing some concerner earlier about Shannon walking around at three am. U

Joe Friday said, I will go walk with her. Makes me nervous for

her. Uh. Jay Feted, of course is in the Facebook live chat

from the great state of Vermont. Isaac Banks joins us and now Isaac Banks

I believe, I believe is from Greensboro, North Carolina. Isaac had a

question for Shannon. Unfortunately I didn't see this. While Shannon was still on

the line, Isaac said, Shannon, what's your favorite the outfield song?

I can tell you my favorite outfield song. Is well, they're big hit

that. I don't want to what is it? I don't want to lose

your love. Tonight. When I was a kid and I took guitar lessons,

this is true. That was the first song I ever learned on the

guitar. I learned how to palm, mute and do that. I could

probably I could probably still play that today. Let's see, Isaac Banks says

Shannon, what's your favorite pizza? I wish I had seen these earlier.

Let's see Jay Fed's trying to arrange a three way ice bath. I'm sorry,

Joe Friday's trying to arrange a three way ice bath. Jay Fed points

out blind people can't see other blind people. If you don't know what these

are referring to, you'll have to go back and listen to the first hour

of the show. Let's see, Isaac Banks says hashtag Matt Connerton. Yesterday,

I was watching my favorite eighties karate movie of all time is No Retreat,

No Surrender. I can't say that I've ever seen that film, Joe

Friday, says Jay Fed for president. Jay Fed says, sometimes I feel

like I'm going blind. It's probably Shannon's curse. Yes, Joe Friday said

mel would be the first lady, first l at the bar. Melanie Lie

Liberty is in the Facebook live chat, of course, Hello mel of course

from the great state of Vermont. Let's see. I'm gonna skip some of

these. A lot of these refer to just the the Shenanigans. During the

first hour Shenanigans, Isaac Banks says, hashtag Matt Connerton, check out of

my Facebook like page? Is Isaac Eichman Banks? Oh? Or old friend

Rocky Hubert is in the Facebook live chat. I haven't seen Rocky in the

chatwoman, while he says, Hi, long time listener, first time in

the chat? What goes in here? What goes in here? Melanie said,

What is up with Eric picking out a movie with such naughty language?

I'm so offended. Well, there's no need to be offended, Melanie.

All the bad words, all the naughty bits, if you will, are

bleeped out for terrestrial radio of course FCC compliant. Rocky says, is that

Alex Jones guys still talking about his ice baths in Vermont? Isaac Bank says,

hello, hashtag Eric, how are you? And good afternoon? Oh,

Let's see Melanie said there there are more bleeps than actual words. That's

not true. That's not true. Jay Fed says, I didn't use clips

with such foul language in my review. I have a feeling Matt didn't get

it. No, I did not get I did not receive your version of

the review, Jay Fed. We could have done a side by side comparison,

but I did not. I did not receive it. Shannon is back

on the line. High Shannon, Melanie's right that one part that he played

that there were more bleeps and words. Well, you know, uh,

some people just have potty mouths. What can you do? But that's what

makes the movie good too. Well, it's realistic people talk. Yeah,

yeah, but yeah, anybody wants to take it for your am walk great,

if you're roping awake, there you go. If you're up at if

you're up in awake, go find Shannon. She'll be good. She'll be

the one walking rock. Okay. Nobody knows my luck. But with my

luck, if I've got a candid spray base, i'd spray myself. Well

that wouldn't be good, you know, or I wouldn't really at least I

remember to check the wind, the luss where the women's going before I sprayed

it though, Yes, very important. So okay, I've heard my name

a couple of times, so I heard that he'd go for a walk with

me, right, yeah, Joe Friday says. Joe Friday is up and

awake, so apparently m the visor peaceful time of the day. M hmm.

I said, it's a peaceful time of the day. Oh, yes,

yes, absolutely, all right, right, all right Shannon and j

Steve. Yes, you got it all right, Shannon, thanks, Michael

be able to get there hopefully, Yes, that'll be wonderful, all right,

right, Oh yeah, a couple times, a few times. Yeah,

all right, have a good all right, Shannon, you too,

Bye bye, hope. Joe Friday says, yes, three am. Well,

if you're driving around out there and you're happen to see a woman walking

in the middle of the road, that's probably Shannon. Isaac Banks says Training

Day is a good movie. Um, Isaac says, oh lord, he

is a good actor. Is Denzel Washington? Superman? Awesome? Yes?

Next week Eric Pilcher will be uh reviewing Superman. Jenny says, three AM.

Good band three AM, I can't think of who that is? The

band six am Isaac Bank says R I P Tony Lewis and John Spinks.

Uh rit, uh, let's see. I guess we're about caught up in

Oh. Jenny says, oops, that was an album. Yeah, there's

a band six Am, which is of course the other band that Nikki six

has is a side project from Motley Crue. Oh. Also, I see

Karen Cubit is in the chat. I haven't heard from Karen in a long

time, so nice to see you in there. If you're still in there.

Six three two five six seven is the studio line if you would like

to join us on the program six two five six seven. Um. Obviously

there was a lot going on this week, but we might have to just

uh, let's look at this. Well, we'll end. Uh, this

will probably take up the rest of the show. We'll see. But um.

Yeah, So there's more debt ceiling news as we as we continue to

barrel toward economic calamity. There was supposed to be another meeting today, I

believe, with the White House and Kevin McCarthy, and that got scrapped.

But it might actually be a good thing because people from both sides who are

not President Biden or Speaker McCarthy are apparently sitting down and working on working on

working out some sort of a compromise here. Oh, Joe Friday says,

by the way, r I p two Snickers, my tenants cat of eighteen

years. Robbie O sang a nice or Robbio sorry, rob Dion sang a

nice attribute to snickers, attribute song to Snickers. Okay, that must have

been on the Morning show yesterday. Oh, sorry to hear about that.

Yeah, Jenny and I lost a cat a couple of years ago, Molly,

who passed away. And it's hard, you know, they're they're part

of the family. So this is from the Hill dot Com. Here are

the top four areas of debt ceiling compromise that the GOP is eyeing. I

want to I want to look at this, and I didn't really get a

chance to preread this, but I'll look at this and I'll kind of give

my thoughts on these, and if you'd like to chime in and give your

thoughts on the ease, you can in the little time we have left today.

But it says here. With negotiations in the White House underway this week,

House Republicans are getting more candid about what compromises they consider most feasible,

and a debt ceiling deal. Representative Garrett Graves, Republican of Louisiana, a

deputy to Speaker Kevin McCarthy. He is Garrett Grave. I don't I don't

even I don't know anything about this Garrett Graves. I can't even picture the

guy. But apparently he's important. He's a deputy to the Speaker McCarthy.

Wow. I don't know how he got by me. I know nothing about

Garrett Graves, but it says he was central to outlining the House GEO P

debt limit bill. Told reporters in a lengthy pen and pad discussion Thursday that

the lowest hanging fruits for agreement with Democrats are permitting or permitting reform work requirements

for public assistance programs, spending caps, and resending unspent COVID nineteen funds.

Graves said, quote, if I were the person that we're trying to lead

a successful negotiation, I would grab those four and start with those. Other

House Republicans echoed those expectations, but some in the conference will likely expect more

in the final agreement, and they point out that Democrats have not yet outlined

any alternative to their own plan. McCarthy also said yesterday the talks between the

White House and Republicans have not been productive so far. McCarthy said, quote,

the President does not want a deal on this. He just wants to

have default. Unquote, I certainly hope not. House Republicans debt Bill,

which was intended to be a starting point for negotiations, paired a one point

five trillion dollar debt ceiling increase with about four point eight trillion in spending cuts

and policy reforms. But they knew that much of that was a non starter

for the Democrats. And by the way, that is obviously how you That

is obviously how you start a negotiation. You know, you start on opposite

ends and you work toward some sort of a mutually beneficial agreement. In addition

to capping spending at fiscal twenty twenty two levels, climb back unused COVID nineteen

funds, blocking President Biden's student loan forgiveness program, and rescinding a boost in

IRS funding past last year, the legislation included the entirety of Republicans HR one

energy bill that would boost production of fossil fuels. Here are where Republicans are

optimistic about reaching a deal. Okay, So there's four points here, So

we'll look at these, and again we don't have a lot of time left,

but I'll give you my quick thoughts, and like I said, feel

free to chime in. Efforts to streamline regulations and procedures for building new energy

projects have been a priority in both parties, though they have disagreed on the

details. Graves highlighted comments from White House Clean Energy Advisor John Podesta about the

need for permitting reform permitting, it's not permitting, it's permitting. I need

to I need to put the amphosis on the correct salable or it completely changes

the meaning permitting reform at the Bipartisan Policy Center this week, Permitting another word,

the act of issuing a permit, not permitting, which would be allowing

something. Okay, and the White House is supporting Senator Joe Mansion's recently reintroduced

permitting reform bill. Graves said, quote, I think that Dems need permitting

reform more than Republicans do. Unquote. Graves thinks it's doable to strike a

deal. Quote we could perhaps do some permitting reform now and come back even

in months and do some of these other things that need to be done.

Unquote, even House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffreys, Democrat of New York, did

not rule out the possibility of supporting permitting reform when asked about it at a

press briefing Thursday. Okay, that sounds promising. Can I do just a

quick side note though, that's something people don't realize, and I didn't realize

this for a very long time. You know, when we talk about permitting

in terms of oil, really it's about in this case that we're talking about

fossil fuels, it's about drilling for oil, you know. And like my

dad likes to say, drill baby, built a drill baby, drill and

all that. Although personally I don't like to ever quote anything that came from

Sarah Palin of all people. But there's something people don't seem to realize.

It doesn't have nearly as much to do with how much oil we drill.

A big part of the problem is refinery capacity. We don't build new refineries.

Now there's reasons, and I don't want to get too sidetracked with all

of that, but you have to you know, you can drill for more

oil but you have to have somewhere to put it. If you don't have

anywhere to put it, then you're stuck. We don't have refinery capacity to

put the new oil that's being drilled. That's really a huge part of the

problem. Then nobody bothers to talk about. But people who actually know something

about it will tell you. I heard someone who actually knows something about it

explain it, and then I said, oh, okay, so that's where

the issue is it. It's not nearly as much about you know, people

just there's there's this, uh, this mass misunderstanding about this. It's not.

The problem is not that we're not drilling for enough oil. We don't

have the refinery capacity to put it. We have to build more refineries if

you want more oil, not necessarily drill for more oil, or build the

refineries and then drill. So anyway, a little bit of just a side

note about that. But people don't people don't know this. I didn't know

that for a long time. Okay, Next thing, Number two, work

requirements. House Republicans Debt Increase bill beefed up work requirements to twenty hours per

week for recipients of supplemental nutrition Assistance program often referred to by the acronym SNAP,

which is also a food stamps. It's the same same as food stamps.

That's what we used to call it, but between fifty and fifty six

years old, there were also changes proposed to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

program, we're often referred to by the acronym TANT. In an outline for

work requirements for Medicaid, quote the lowest hanging fruit are those areas where common

sense Democrats in the past have had robust support, and work requirements are certainly

among them, said Representative Dusty Johnson, Republican of South Dakota, the chair

of the Republican Main Street Caucus, who has spent a lot of time on

crafting work requirements. Johnson said, quote, we don't live in a world

with unlimited resources, and so for those who want to increase SNAP benefits for

the most needy Americans, I would say, work requirements are one way that

we can make sure that we prioritize resources for people who need it most.

Unquote Okay, I mean they should be able to find some agreement there.

I would think, Okay, next one, this is where I think it

might get dicey, but we'll see. So this is the third thing.

Spending caps, a centerpiece of the GOP's debt limit bill, was putting a

cap on discretionary spending at fiscal twenty twenty two levels while allowing for one percent

annual growth for ten years. Graves said that the White House is quote certainly

pushing for a shorter window unquote on a spending caps agreement. Cutting spending has

been central to the Republican wish list for the debt limit and was a major

issue in McCarthy's drawn out speaker election. Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma,

chair of the House Rules Committee, said, quote, my guess is

the president would have to spend less than he likes. We would have to

spend a little more than we like unquote. Biden said following his meeting with

McCarthy and other top leaders at the White House on Thursday, that quote,

I'm sorry that not quote, but that rescinding noun spent COVID nineteen relief funds

is on the table, giving Republicans reason to believe that a compromise there is

possible. Um Johnson said, quote the fact that within twenty four hours at

the end of the meeting, they've they're already stepping forward. Acknowledging Republicans strengthen

those areas is exceedingly good news. Unquote. Okay, oh, I skipped

something. I'm sorry that that last thing about Yeah, that was the fourth

thing. I'm sorry. I forgot to clarify that as I was enumerating these

that was the fourth thing, rescinding unspent COVID nineteen relief funds. Yeah.

That seems like that. That seems like the easiest one. Um, okay,

so maybe maybe I've been overly pessimistic. We'll see. Now, Look,

they can find they can find common ground on these things, and they

can hammer out a deal. But that doesn't mean that House Republicans that you're

going to have enough House Republicans voting for a bill that includes these compromises.

So whatever agreement they come to, Kevin McCarthy then has to take it to

you know, again, we call them the House Freedom Caucus. They used

to be the the used to be the Tea Partiers back in the day,

back in twenty twenty thirteen, when I first became really aware, hyper aware

of the debt limit and how it works, and my concern over the issue

and the stance that we go through every time it comes up. But you

know, they can come to an agreement, but McCarthy then has to sell

it to the House Freedom Caucus members. And listen, let's be clear.

There are some House Republicans who are going to vote no on raising the debt

limit. Hopefully it's a small group. I'm not sure, but there are

some who have said they will vote no on any debt limit increase, who

would actually like to default. That apparently is Trump's position again the CNN town

hall the other night, he said, and this is something in the past

I had given him credit for, he used to have the correct position on

it. When he was president. His position was, no, we don't

risk default. We don't use the debt limit as a negotiation wedge. We

don't do any of that. It's too dangerous, it's too risky. Now

his position, apparently from what he was saying at the town hall, was,

you know, he doesn't think a default will happen necessarily because he thinks

Democrats will cave. But if it happens, great, let's get it done.

Let's go ahead and default. We're in a default eventually, Anyway,

let's do it now. It'll be bad for a day or maybe a week,

and then it will probably be fine, which is insane, but apparently

that's his position. And again I would argue no offense. If you agree

with that, you're probably insane. Seems pretty nuts to intentionally destroy the American

economy. I mean, I guess it's an option. But um oh,

Joe Friday says, thanks, Jenny, enjoy your time in Washington. Yes,

yes, yeah, if you missed it, Jenny called us in the

first hour and talked about what she's going to be doing in Washington, DC

next week on Tuesday, she's gonna be flying down and but she'll be here

on the show Monday too and we'll we'll talk about it more. But yes,

very exciting. Um all right, one word, just quick thing because

because we're out of time, so we gotta do something not quick. Our

Governor Chris Sinunu was asked about out speaking of Trump's town hall. Our Governor

Chris Sinunu was asked what he thought about people in the audience there who were

laughing and applauding some of Trump's comments about Egan Carroll and uh, you know,

Snu seems to be opposed to Trump, probably because Sinunu is considering running

himself. But yeah, he had he said something interesting though here. So

we'll just do this quickly because we're almost out of time. This is from

media. New Hampshire's GOP governor rips his own voters who cheered Trump laughing at

sexual abuse victim on CNN. So it says here Governor Sinunu tore into pro

Trump audience at CNN's town hall event with the former president and leading twenty twenty

four GOP presidential candidate on Wednesday night. Sinunu is considering challenging Donald Trump for

the nomination, and he spoke with MSNBC's Jen Saki for a lengthy interview which

will air on Sunday. Saki, President Joe Biden's former press secretary, previewed

part of the interview on MSNBC Friday morning. So she asked, well,

actually, you know what, I can just play it. I'll play I'll

play the clip you spoke with New Hampshire Governor Chris Sunu after former President Trump's

town hall in his home state. Let's take a look at a clip from

that. One of the things that struck me was the laughter in the audience,

particularly when Trump was talking about aging Carroll Simon and Jerry says he's sexually

abused a famed and now has to pay her fifty five million dollars. Now,

you were not involved in making up the audience, but these are these

are people in the audience from New Hampshire, Republicans in New Hampshire, undeclared

voters in that room. I was curious just what your reaction was. But

laughing right now, I can understand at the camera pan through that audience,

I knew pretty much everybody in that they're all Trump supporters, right, So

the audience was absolutely filled with Trump supporters. So I wasn't surprised to hear

the support. But when you're talking about a serious issue like that and laughter

and mocking and all that, that's it's completely inappropriate, without a doubt,

and it doesn't shine a positive light on the Hampshire. But again, understand

what the audience makeup was large percentage of Trump supporters. Oh, I would

say almost all of them. Yeah, I think I have to go back

and look. But to Caitlin's credit, I think should say this is so

and so, and this person voted for you in sixteen and twenty or whatever.

Maybe they're undeclared voter, but I believe every single one of them had

voted for Trump at some point. So I don't know, I mean,

I don't know who they how they determined that and set that up. But

obviously was a room full of Trump supporters. So nope, I thought it

was interesting. He said, you know, when he saw the camera pan

across the crowd, that he recognized a lot of the you know, he

knew most of the people who were there, and so based on knowing them,

he was not necessarily surprised. I guess that they would applaud Trump's mocking

and his his jokes and whatnot about Eegene Carol. And part of why that

struck me that way is because when I heard him say that, I thought,

and Jenny might have thought this as well. Uh yeah, we would

probably say the same thing. If we looked at a shot of the crowd,

we would probably say, oh, yeah, yeah, these these of

course, these are people who think that that kind of thing is hilarious and

they're gonna laugh at Trump mocking and joking about Eegene Carol. Of course,

you know those are trust me. Uh, those are people we would know

as well. Um oh uh. Fredo, also known as I like to

say his full name Alfredo and Rique Benavitis, is in the chat room and

says shameless plug. Dank Sinatra is next on Granted State of Mind. I

did not realize that wonderful. So tonight on Granted State of Mind, which

of course follows us on Fridays at six pm here at WMH ninety five point

three, the guest is Dank Sinatra and Fredo. I assume you guys played

live at Pembroke City Limits for this show, so that is coming up next.

Excellent. I'm really glad I didn't know you were the guests this week

on that show. I'm glad. I'm glad you chimed in. Fredo also

said, also Trump is now a convicted sex offender, just saying, I

don't think that's how it works, Fredo, because it was a civil case

and he was not. Yeah, I don't think that. I don't think

it works that way. I think if it were a criminal case you could

say that, whereas it was a civil case, I don't think that's technically

legally accurate. Fredo says, love your brother always listening. Thank you,

my friend. I appreciate that. We need to we need to get you

back on the show soon. Isaac Banks Us says, by the way,

hashtag Matt Connerton. My friend Luca Huntley is from Atlanta, Georgia. Now

she lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Oh wonderful. All right, let's

just hear the rest of what our governor had to say in this clip.

No one should have been surprised to hear the support. But again on that

issue, it was I would call it embarrassing. So Jane Governor Sun,

all right, yeah, that's it. Yeah, I agree, I agree,

And apparently now I'm not surprising, of course, but yeah, embarrassing.

And now I guess Eegene Carroll is already talking about suing Trump again because

she successfully sued him for one of the things was, of course, uh,

defamation, and then he goes on national television and continues to defame her

colin, her a job, and this and that. So she's she's actually

threatening to sue him again. It's like, dude, what are you doing?

All right, we should wrap up. We are about out of time,

but thank you all. Of course, Friday is very busy around here.

If you are listening live on Friday, coming up next at six pm

here on WMH ninety five point three FM, it is Grandst State of Mind

hosted by the Great Rob as a Veto and Polly Stone and they're featured artist

this week is Dank Sinatra, so check that out. Great band and I'm

sure it'll be a great show. And then I will be back tonight eight

to eleven pm for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul c along with DJ Steve and

Mike from Queen City Cabinetry if he's able to make it, and really looking

forward to that. If you miss any part of today's show it we'll be

up in just a little bit at WMNH radio dot org and in my website

Matt Connerton dot com. And um, that's gonna do it for us for

now. Oh, I remember the other thing I wanted to mention, don't

forget Kevin Horren will be playing live at the Hopknot tomorrow night from seven to

nine pm. So Olfredo says in the chat he literally tried defaming her the

night after he was already convicted of defamation. Yes, he he simply doesn't

He's incapable of learning or evolving or growing as a person. Or Hey,

but at least, if you, at least if you're voting for him in

the near future, you know exactly what you're getting. You're gonna get exactly

what you what you always got. No one's no one's gonna be voting for

him blindly, that's for sure. Right he is consistent Old dj T.

All right, we gotta go. I'll talk to y'all a little bit later.

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