Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-15-23

0:00 Okay, bring it on, girl. No, hello, everybody, welcome, Here we go Happy Monday. It is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n HIM Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Also on Comcast ninety seven. If you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Monday, May fifteen, twenty twenty three, and I'm not alone.

1:25 Jenny is here at the news desk. I am present, yes, yes for today, Yes, that's right. I shall not be present tomorrow, that's right. Yes, Well we'll talk about that. By the way. That song that we opened with, Welcome to De Santis, that is the new Randy Rainbow song. He love Randy Rainbow. And what I also love is when you know, I have to um when I when he has a new song that I don't. I don't play all of them that he releases because sometimes, you know, the videos that go with them are really really cool, but sometimes it's almost so much more of a visual experience that it's like without the video.

2:02 Sometimes the song doesn't quite work, but in this case it did. But the video is great too. But but what I particularly loved about this one was I only had to bleep a couple of things when I make a radio edit of it so I can play it on the air. Yeah, because I usually realized at the last minute, as we're about to go on the air that, oh, there's a new Randy Rainbow song. But yeah, I only had to put a couple and actually in both instances they were they were things that I probably could have let slip through and wouldn't have been a problem.

2:29 There there were sort of in the gray zone of of of bad words. Um, there's some that are obvious and then there's some that are kind of in the gray zone. But uh, you know, I I it is afternoon drive. Of course, it's not like we're on in the evening, so it's like, yeah, better to play it safe. But uh, but that that was a quick, easy edit. That one was funny. You know that one was really funny. Yes, Yes, I enjoyed that tremendously. Coming up in the second hour. Today, we have a Frankie Boy and the Blues Express to have the name correct, a long name.

3:01 They're gonna be coming in studio, they're gonna play, They're gonna play live for us in the second hours, So do a live really looking forward to that. Yes, so this is a week for you. Yes, Yes, it's very busy. We've got a lot going on. Tomorrow we have Oberon am I saying the name correctly up, Yes, banned from Italy skyping in. I was playing some of their music earlier. Might play something of theirs at the break today actually because we don't have any studio tracks from Frankie Boy because they're gonna come in and play live for us.

3:29 But I do have a studio tracks for Oberon. I really like them. Um. And then on the second hour we have Frank Laffey. Is that his name? Yes? Now where is he from? I forget? Yeah, but he's okay, that's all right. But he is a he is a candidate of sorts. He is a candidate for presidents. He's running for president. He's a Republican right former mayor of Cranston Well, Rhode Island, Rhode Island. Yes, that's the last office he held. Was mayor of Cranston. He served as mayor of Cranston from two thousand and three to two thousand and seven.

4:04 So he's doing a Mayor Pete. He's trying to go right from mayor to president. I think so, except he's a Republican, so he probably is. Uh that's probably the only thing he has in common with Mayor Pete. But a graduate of Harvard Business. But he is, so he is in the in the race. So I must remember when I mentioned some of Trump's competitors, if you will, like ron To de Santis and Tim Scott, Nikki Haley potentially Mike Pence. H Well, the Santis is technically still potential. I should also mention this gentleman's name, Frank Laffey.

4:38 Yes, or we will see. We will see after our easy to be a candidate New Hampshire. We'll see after our discussion tomorrow if he is worthy of me mentioning him in the conversation. After that, we'll see what is going on. Oh sorry, what there was some extraneous audio there that started that I did not anticipate. But no, I look forward to meeting him. Uh. You know the last time I talked to a Republican presidential candidate who was challenging Trump for the nomination was of course, Uh tells his name, now, the kookie guy there, boot on the head, No, no, that's Vermin Supreme.

5:25 No. Um uh, he's a senior with the secret documents, the guy with the secrecy. He a weird guy that walked in like the live broadcasting. Yeah, he had a history of doing that. Yeah, Stephen Comley Senior. Oh, Stephen Comley Senior, this guy in that category, Well, who knows. I mean we you know, I might meet him tomorrow and who knows. But no, from what you showed me of him online, he seems more conventional, shall we say. But yeah, Stephen Colmley Senior, Now he was in the secret documents before we even knew that this was a thing.

5:56 Uh. And newer listeners won't know the history. But Stephen Comley Senior, you scum on the show You've been on a number of times. Actually like the guy personally. But but he came in with an envelope, actually two envelopes of secret documents pertaining to the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. One envelope was for myself, which, as you know, to this day, I sleep with under the pillow to protect the secret documents. Of course I do. And uh, you never know, he might be listening. I don't want him to send somebody after me if he thinks that the secret documents have been you know, dispersed.

6:28 And of course, the other the other envelope of secret documents was for Peter White, of course, was the Morning Show with Peter White. He put them in the circular Well. Yes, from what I understand, he filed them promptly somewhere no one will ever go looking for them. So perhaps he was the wiser of the two of us. And I believe e zg is on the line. Hello, sir, Yes, hello, I remember the story deposit in the circular file. Yes, Now do you now what about your friend Bruce? Do you trust him with secret documents?

7:00 Because I absolutely wouldn't. I don't know. I don't know about that one. I have a feeling that you deposited them in the circle of the file, two of them, Matt, No, I actually did not. That was years ago. Come on, Okay, I don't really sleep with him under my pillow, but I do think they might be. I do think they might be in my office somewhere. But I'm embarrassed, abmit that I voted for dummy because I was gonna vote for a little dummy. No he's he's in the Hawaii but I changed my my voting and you can't do it at the polling place.

7:31 He's an I said, well, who can I vote for it? So for that guy, he's a nice man. That was dumb. He's a nice man. He's just a little confused. I should have vote with somebody else. I could have vote for Donald Duck. I do have a great memory of him, though it was it really had more to do with Peter than with him, because it was that when we did the primary coverage, when U so that it was Peter, myself and some other people, and when it was time for the twenty twenty New Hampshire primary, and Stephen Conley Senior comes and sits down with us, and Peter was was doing something.

8:05 He was trying to fix something technical, uh, for for almost the entire time that Stephen Conley was there, And so I'm sitting there with the guy talking to him, and the entire time I'm like watching Peter out of the corner of my eye because I'm trying to figure out if there was if he was legitimately legitimately trying to fix something or if he was just avoiding having to interact with mister Connley because he didn't he I don't. I don't think Peter found him as uh as engaging as I did. But I turned down.

8:35 Yeah he was the last time. Last time he called the show, he said, well, kind of doing my show right now because you called me back, and it's like, yeah, I don't think he was a big fan of that, that guy. Yeah. Fortunately, Yeah, it turned out I don't want to think for Peter or anything. But no, No, Well, because I asked Peter afterward, and in fact, I think I asked him right on the air. I said, were you were you really trying to fix that that old time? Were you just avoiding him? And no, it turned out he actually was legitimately trying to fix something.

9:02 He wasn't. Uh he was, he was not avoiding mister Conley. Uh. Had he intentionally avoided mister Conley, he might have missed out on that Manila envelope of secret documents. Yeah. Yeah, I think I'm more pressing us is um. Well, the thing about the debt limit, that's a that's a little more important than Stephen Conway. Oh my god, that is extraordinarily together here. You know, yes, yes, I think they'reventually they will, but until they do, while a little never wrecking. Um yeah, I hope. So there's only like four working days left where both the House and Senate are in session.

9:45 Um yeah, this is pretty nuts, I think. Uh, I don't know. I'm trying to be optimists. Four days at the end of the month, four working days we're both the I believe we're both House and Senate are in session unless they do something. God, now, they could do a last so they're not going to out. They could do uh, they could do a last minute temporary suspension of the debt ceiling. They've done that before. Um as like a last minute thing. They could also you know, I was telling Jenny on the way here.

10:18 Sam Seeder of the Majority Report is absolutely convinced that this is all a non issue. Not that not that it wouldn't be catastrophic to default, it absolutely would, But he's convinced that Biden can invoke the fourteenth Amendment. Apparently, Lawrence Stribe wrote a column talking about that, saying that that there would be absolutely no so the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. It addresses a number of things, but one of them is that the United States. Well, unfortunately it doesn't say this quite clearly.

10:46 It's a little murky, but it seems to imply. This is why it would be a constitutional crisis. It seems to imply that the that the United States government cannot default. So if that's true, then, uh, then the deat ceiling is unconstitutional and therefore it can be ignored. If Biden chooses to go that route. The only problem is it would likely be challenged in court. But but Sam Seater says, it's uh that that's nonsense. But I hope we don't have to find out. Oh I know, I'll be good. Obviously that would be very very bad.

11:25 Obviously, uh, probably be the end of the American economy as we know it. And I don't I wish, I know, yeah, I need eventually can figure out what couldn't they pass on kind of law that they don't have to do this anymore, always play this game, they will deparm maybe we won't saying, you know, even happen anymore. Even Mitch McConnell has in the past suggested that just get rid of the yes it would, They would be very wise. It's it's worried about other problems, so we don't have to have this artificially created crisis every couple of year years.

12:00 Yes, that would be the wise, right, you said. When Donald Trump was prisent, he tried to fix it. Right. Then, he tried to fix that method with the debt limit. It's not that he tried to fix it. When Trump was president, the debt limit was raised three times and Trump was to his credit at the time, Trump was very clear and consistent on this that we do not use the debt limit as a negotiating wedge. Ever, it's reckless and stupid and much too dangerous, and we don't do it. Unfortunately. Uh. During his town hall on CNN, he announced his new position, which is, yeah, default probably won't happen because the Democrats will cave.

12:36 But if it does, that's fine. Probably better to just go ahead and default it. It'll be bad for a day or a week, and then who knows, it's probably fine. It's all psychological anyway. Um, that's his new position, which is that's very bad. I don't that that might be a bigger disqualifier than January sixth in terms of his being elected president, of his fitness for the presidency. In my view, it's like it's like a new nuclear war, you know, the process sense one here, we send one dare and it's like that's not good either, because that's pretty much the end of the end of time.

13:11 Yes, well we're we're uh, we're on the verge of an economic army gaddon of sorts. Yes, very exciting. Can't wait? Oh yeah, certainly not good. If that was to happen, and what under Bride his watch, he wouldn't uh, he'd be a lot of trouble. Well, let's look at it this way. You know, we had a good round, a good couple hundred years of America. You know, we'll just uh yeah, Rome has to fall at some point. We'll just go ahead and uh uh drive the car off the cliff like Russia there with the war. Now they've destroyed their economy, that's for sure.

13:41 There's a lot of mixed reporting on that. Oh really, all right, Well this de fall wouldn't help anybody anywhere, correct, correct, Yes, I don't think it's gonna happen, by the way, but the

13:54 making it very uh making everybody, are you nervous? For nothing. Really. Oh, Melanie Liberty in the chat room is asking if they tried throwing a virgin into a volcano to fix the budget, just saying it's worth a try. Uh, that would be I will say this, that would be very patriotic for said virgin to make such a sacrifice as that to save the economy of the country. I would applaud that. Yeah, so let's let's hope for the best. And uh, do we have a vol around together? Only four days left and working the rest of the month out together, because, like I said, that would be worse.

14:33 Is there a volcano?

14:37 Definitely? And it would have to be an active volcano? Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, well, I think eventually every goal, but they probably wait till last minute, like they're doing all this crazy, crazy world of politics. Jesus got them. Yeah, I think it would have to be an American volcano. Oh all right, you asked my two cents. We'll talk to you guys later. We'll throw Bruce in, all right, thanks, easyg. I guess something to say about the I think the debt. Bruce is a virgin. I'm sorry. Yes, you are horrible, Bruce.

15:05 You're just an evil dude. Bruce is an insell. No one wants to say it, but there it is. I'm sorry, yes, go ahead, Oh my god, an in cell. I must be heading out with Stephen Crowder and I wanted to see. What I wanted to say about the debt limit is that. What I wanted to say about the debt limit is that I'm really sick and tired of listening to Republicans. I'd like them to actually walk the walk that they're talking about, because you know, they love to constantly say, we're not going to vote in favor of the debt limit until we see some spending cuts.

15:38 Well, why in the heck did they never come from them? Right? Why am I not hearing Congress go, gee, we need to make sure that nobody's so security checks don't get out, and I'm military don't get out, So we'll cut our salary. Or how about cutting their Cadillac health insurance? Right? How about cutting matt They never offer up themselves to make a cut. You're all about cutting the budget, buddies, Well let's cut the budget. Let's start with you. Well, there's a lot of blame to go around too, because um, you know, I was I was thinking about I don't remember if I said this specifically on the show, but I think I think I got into it a little bit.

16:16 But um, on the as far as the Democrats go, you know, they they passed all this new spending, and um, some of it I think is important. You know, it's hard to argue against infrastructure and things like that, and some of it maybe not so much because you know, this this pork in there there always is. But um, for them to pass all all this news spending that they've passed under under bid and like the Inflation Reduction Act and so forth, to do all this there's there and not even try when they had control to do something about the debt limit.

16:48 I don't even mean get rid of it. They could have raised it then ahead of time. Um, you know I understand, Uh, you know they don't. I guess Democrats can't see around corners very well. I have no idea what their issue is because you know, I mean, jeeus with the Dabb's decision, like we knew way in advance because of that draft document that leaked out of the Supreme Court, but did But you know, they can't be bothered to actually do anything until reality shows up on their doorsteps. So with this, it's like they pass all this spending and I guess it doesn't occur to anybody.

17:24 Maybe we should raise the debt limit now, because if the Republicans are in control, all this new spending we passed is either going to have to get pulled in order for them to pay the debt, for them to raise a debt limit, or we're gonna have a problem. There's there's no excuse for the Democrats not to have seen all of this coming, and they should have addressed it. And I understand, you know, they're probably going, oh, well, then we have to convince h Kirsten Cinema and Joe Mansion and that's really hard.

17:51 But there's this is just as much their fault. They should not have allowed any of this to come to pass. But we do have a call. Hi, welcome to Matt Connor and unleash. Who's this? Hello? Is this match? Pizza? I know? Uh for it to be mad like one large pepperoni pizza, extra pepperoni and extra cheese. Please. Well that does sound good. I'd like that too. I kind of like I could get a pizza for us tonight, pizza for dinner. Yeah? Good? How much. How much it depends. You get a cheap one and this doctor it up.

18:28 I think they're like two dollars at little Little Caesar's. That's really cheap. How we get Hawaiian too, one large Hawaiian extra the pineapple, the uh, we'll throw it in the volcano with the virgin No I love and the pepperoni. But we we're talking about okay, well, very nice, and now we have Now I want pizza. No, I'm all hungry. Pepperoni and pineapple pizza. No, no, no, disgusting. How dare you? How dare you? I'll have to get some pineapple when you got a gusty start to go out to pizza. What I always say is this, if you're going to have a pizza, you should only have delicious toppings.

19:10 You should not put any disgusting toppings on it. If you put disgusting toppings on the pizza, it makes the pizza disgusting. If you want the pizza to me delicious, you have to stick with delicious toppings. That's I mean, what do I know? I mean, I'm not I don't cook, as you know, but I think I heard Jeff Gordon Ramsey say that once the pizza should only have delicious toppings. Never put anything disgusting on your pizza, which is why pepperoni belongs there now right, it does belong there? Yes, yeah, on pizza, yes, yes,

19:41 So back to what we were talking about though, in seriousness, in all seriousness, yeah, are congressional critters. There are budgets up the wazoo for these people. They got staff up the wazoo. Cut your staff. We've got little health club pool things, whatever the heck they got cut that. Cut things like that that don't actually save a life, or don't put food on the table, you know, let's cut that. Why do they never offer up anything like that? The minute they talk about cuts, What do they want to cut Social Security?

20:09 What do they want to cut veterans affairs? You know, because that's the money that gets hung up. That's the money that gets cut. If they want to cut wick, which which helps pregnant women who they claim to support, actually have healthy food. It only covers specific foods they want to cut that, right, And that's like eggs, milk, butter, not butter, it's but it's all healthy food. You can have carrots, things like that, and then after the baby's born, you can keep eating healthy if you're breastfeeding, or if you're gonna go to formula, it switches over and stets covering formula.

20:47 So this is a basic food item for the baby that they want. Brought every baby into this world, no matter what, even if it's a cell dividing, they want it into this world. But they don't want to feed it. They don't want to feed it. They don't want to give them medical care because we get to cut that too. I mean, I can remember seeing arguments up and conquered on how the state was cutting the local hospitals. Yeah, on the money that they get to help pay for the uninsured. You know, the cuts never come from places that don't hurt the average American.

21:25 It never comes from them. Well, there are there are things, uh, And I don't want to spend too much time on this because I want to talk about what you're doing tomorrow before before we run out of time, because we do have a guest coming in second hour by um. But it's important. But but there are I mean, you know, as far as climbing back some unspent COVID money and things like that, I think that's perfectly reasonable. Um. I'm just worried that. UM the budget, the initial budget, and I understand it's part of a negotiating.

21:54 It's it's it's part of negotiating. You know, you ask for more than you're than you know you're going to get. UM. The initial budget that the Republicans passed in the House. Moody's Analytics, hardly a liberal operation by any stretch, said that that budget would would cost UH just an enormous I can't even remember the numbers, but I'm not going to remember in specific numbers, but what it would do significant damage to the economy. UM. You know, austerity in and of itself is not the answer necessarily.

22:26 So UM, I wonder how many people were like me and or don't exactly get it because I didn't exactly. Polling data shows there's a lot of people who don't get it. We talk, well, we're talking about this, We're talking about funding the paychecks of our military soldiers, We're talking about Social Security checks. This is the funding we're talking about to raise the debt limit. The debt is the debt ode to the American people that were contracted to the American people. You pay in these taxes and then you get this back well, part of the part of the reason, and I know I mentioned I'd said this on the on the show recently too, is part of the reason why polling data shows most Americans don't get it, they have no idea.

23:10 But part of that I believe, I firmly believe this is because Americans have become desensitized. They because you know, unless unless you're really paying attention to the issue and learn about it, people think that, you know, they hear about this stuff, and they if they're only half paying attention, they think it's just you know, we're gonna have another government shutdown, and government shutdowns actually take a terrible toll on the economy too. But when there's a government shutdown because they can't agree on a budget, you know, it's temporary.

23:37 Everyone knows it's temporary. It might be a day, it might be a week, it might be a month, but you know it will end eventually, and the you know, the parks will open back the state parks will open back up again, and you know this and that. So um so I think that the average American who's only half paid attention, they're hearing all this and they're like, oh, there's going to be another government shutdown now whatever, it doesn't really affect me. They have no idea that this is something different because they've become desensitized to this because we've been through so many government shutdowns.

24:05 They don't know that the debt limit is actually a separate issue and it's far far more serious. They think that we're borrowing money in order to fund specific programs. Or you want to build a new playground, they think we're borrowing money to do that, or borrowing They don't realize that when we talk about it, we're actually talking about basically paychecks of Americans, well, but paying for money that's already been spent too, And when you say that, it means for bills that have already been right.

24:35 We know how many people are on Social Security. We estimate how much it's going to be next year. We know that the number of people on Social Security disability have increased because people are living longer. People don't die at forty anymore. People are living to be a centurion isn't unheard of at all anymore. I remember when it was weird to hear somebody living to be one hundred. Now it's normal. Now it's weird if you hear somebody that's one hundred and fifteen or one hundred and sixteen. I think eventually we'll probably elect a hundred year old president.

25:02 It might be Biden at this rate. Well, no, he's not that old. I don't want him to run. Must we amend the concert. I don't want either one of them nor run. I want new people, fresh blood, new ideas. No, No, that's that ship has sailed. We're just going to keep electing older and older people. It's gonna be great. I just want to cry in this moment. That's all I'm gonna say. Someday we're going to have a president who they're gonna be given the State of the Union address while wearing a bib. Stop it.

25:34 It's gonna be great. Stop it. That's where we're at it. That's what's It's gonna be wonderful. You know, after we've defaulted on it, after we've defaulted on our debt and uh, nobody gets a check next month. America mamma doesn't have any food. America's in ruins, and people on disability or we'll have a getting kicked out of their apartment. We'll have a one hundred year old president presiding over everything. It'll be great. Yeah, we'll I'll be homeless anyway. Well, yes, let's talk about let's talking about something positive.

26:05 Let's tell us, tell us again about what you're doing tomorrow. I'm going to DC,

26:10 Yes, yes, by invitation. Actually, as a lot of our listeners know and maybe some people out there who don't know, we have been waging a war, a campaign against United Healthcare my health insurance, to try and get them to cover life in life saving life important things that I have to have, medications, treatments, things that they just never ever seemed to pay. And you can talk to him, Hugh Blue in the face, but you don't always get anyway. So I have People's Action, which is a national organization encompasses about forty or so organizations themselves, and New Hampshire Rights and Democracy took up my case and have been fighting for me, and we have had some wins.

26:49 But in doing all of this, there's been some attention brought on to what we're doing, and I've been invited to come out to DC and go to Senator m Bernie Sanders town hall on Medicare for All, which is something that I have one percent, wholeheartedly believe in now, but it took me a bit to learn more, to get more information. But what I'd know for a fact, and I think most Americans would probably agree, as the American healthcare system is in dire straits and needs some serious changing, serious changing.

27:22 I'm personally sick and tired of insurance companies getting in the way of people getting appropriate care. I'm tired of seeing people with CRPS commits suicide because they can't get access to life saving treatments. I'm done with us. When I was younger, I used to think that we could fix our system, you know, maybe we could fix the insurances, have a compact, maybe you could buy healthcareans across the state line or something. Can't do that anymore. Medicare for All is really the only way that we're going to have true medical freedom.

27:51 And the reason I say that is because right now between you and your doctor is your health insurance company, your private insurance company, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, United Healthcare, signa, Etna, whatever, this tons of them out there, and their sole job is to make profit for themselves, profit for their stockholders. My company, United Healthcare celebrated eight point one billion dollars in first quarter profits this year. That means three months. First quarter profits means three months January February March.

28:25 They made eight point one billion with a B dollars. Meanwhile, people like me have their their treatments turned down, not covered. I mean, it's disgusting. Medical freedom means that my doctors, my providers, and myself and my family are making the choices for me. What needs to be done gets done, no questions asked. You need this medication, you get that medication. You got a kid that's good type one diabetes, he's got land sets, he's got a test kid, he's got all the insulin, and no rationing, because even at thirty five dollars it's not enough.

29:06 People are still rationing, still rationing. This is it's disgusting. We live in the country that has arguably some of the best healthcare in the world. People come from everywhere to come here because we have the best medical care you can buy. But as an American sitting, if you can afford it, if you can afford it right, pick any hospital you want, cmc Elliott whatever, I guarantee you. There are people living in the houses next door to those buildings that are suffering, that are bedbound, that are dying and the medications or the treatments that could save their lives give them quality a life are right in that building, locked behind a key that you can't open unless you've got enough money to do it.

29:52 And that's disgusting. In this we should be able to do the same thing they do in other countries they have it. I saw it first in in the Netherlands and it played a big part of showing me a lot of what can happen with a national healthcare system that means nobody gets turned away. I don't care who you are, you show up, you need care, you get the care. You get the best care that American medicine can provide. And we invest our dollars in education, so we have more doctors, more nurses because we're heading into a shortage.

30:24 Yeah, that's something that's not getting a lot of attention. That should, especially with nurses. From what I was reading recently. You know, my entire career, I have heard of the nursing shortage and every year he gets worse. Every year there's not enough nurses. I've watched it happen. I mean, we don't have enough nursing schools for one thing. Biggs of gotten better since the pandemic. There are some more schools. You know, it used to be every hospital pretty much had a nursing program. All of those things shut down.

30:51 Then there were only certain colleges that have it. So there's only so many places. I mean, I remember when I tried to go to nursing school. I was one of a thousand applicants and only a people made it in and I didn't make the cut. I only scored an I think it was an eighty seven on my entrance exam. Nobody that got in that has less than a ninety four percent unless they fell into a special category. Yeah, you know, we have that looming over our heads. What makes a difference between a hospital's level of trauma care is a number of the kind of doctors they have available.

31:20 You're trauma center if you have the right doctors available. But what we lack neurosurgeons. That's a big one that keeps hospitals from being able to be trauma level is neurosurgeons. We don't have the education system set up to fill us with the right providers. But we also have a system that's made for profit. It's made for the profit of these private insurance companies. You know, let me share this with you. I have on a medication that I have to use good Arts in order to afford. I have five different pharmacies I've used to get my medications as inexpensively as I can so I can afford them all.

31:57 You know, this one medication I get using good RX at a pharmacy in a grocery store is forty eight dollars. If I want to use my health insurance, it's eighty five dollars. I asked my insurance company more than once. I asked for a prior off. I asked them if they would please change the tier of my medication down one, just one, from A three to two, and that would make the medication through the insurance company forty seven dollars and my money will count towards my deductible. Now, this same insurance company admonished me for using good Rx.

32:33 Well, your money doesn't acount for your deductible. But when I asked them to make this adjustment so I can do this, they said no, They'll only let me use it at the eighty five dollars marker, and then it'll count towards my deductible. This is about their profits. You know, we get big pharma out there. There's a medication that is making amazing differences for people with rare neurological diseases, people with MS seeing amazing effects LDN Lotosneltrocson. It's amazing what it's doing for these diseases.

33:06 But they will not cover it, and they say it's because it's on exclusionary list, or they'll tell you it's not approved for your disease. In my case, there's not a single treatment approved for my disease. My insurance company uses as an excuse this treatment hasn't been approved by the FDA for the treatment of CRPS or small fiber neuropathy. Well, nothing has been approved for the treatment of CRPS, complex regional pain syndrome, nothing. Nothing. I'm going to get to go to I know I'm rattling on and I shouldn't.

33:37 I'm going to get to go to DC and I'm going to get to sit on a panel with Senator Standards, with Representative J. Paul, and with doctors, and we're going to talk about Medicare for All, a system that would actually be real medical freedom. There wouldn't be anybody making decisions for you. One of the prior ops we put in. I'm on the phone with the girl from the insurance make doing it, and she's like, we're filling out this form together. She goes okay, and then she's going, right, so now I'll send it over and then you'll get a response.

34:10 She no, sooner hit enter. I was still on the phone with her. Did I not immediately get a denial notice? Yeah, because they pulled up the computer, saw the name of the medication and denied it. No human being made that decision, right, No, nobody saw that. We spent an hour or so working on this thing, and in two seconds the computer kicked it out and said, now I'm tired of computers and bureaucrats who know nothing about I have had more conversations that have been frustrating with these people because they don't even know what they're talking about.

34:44 I'm asking about lymphidima treatment, I'm asking about compression garments, and there's offering me stuff that is sold, you know, at a regular store. It's not even medical grade. It's not even the right thing. It's like, I don't want that, I don't need that. I need what my doctor wants to have. Well, this is what we have, Well, this is what we have doesn't treat me, and this is what people are going through. I watched recently there was a story on the news yesterday the day before a man got emergently ill.

35:12 Turned out he had a brain aneurysm that had not ruptured. They were taking him in for surgery, and the insurance company refused to approve it because they said the neurosurgeon was out of network, and the cancer and the surgery got canceled. Dud's walking around with a tick and time bomb in his head. It had. It took a public outcry to get them to reverse the decision in the week. I saw later they finally did the surgery and the guy's okay, but they didn't know if he was gonna be okay, and the hospital wasn't doing the surgery without payment.

35:47 Right, we shouldn't have that happen. Somebody emergently enters, they need surgery, It should get done. It shouldn't be a how much is in your wallet? Now? Is this going to be on c SPAN or it's going to be broadcast. I know it's going to be on Senator Sanders Facebook page. I'm sure it'll go up on his YouTube page. I know it's going to be broadcast by People's Action as well. Yeah. I called my mom for Mother's Day and she was asking how to watch it. I told her I'd have to let her know send her a link afterward.

36:18 But yeah, yeah, the Senator Sanders official at Bernie Sanders Official Facebook page would be the best place to go. The event's going to start about seven thirty tomorrow night, and then I am staying because I will be going up to the Capitol on Wednesday. The Medicare for All bill is going to be introduced and there will be a press conference after it as well. You know, and I this shouldn't be a Democrat or a Republican issue at all. This is a human issue. You know, think of yourselves, they give your loved ones.

36:49 If they need emergent surgery, they should be able to have it without question. You know, people shouldn't be going medically bankrupt. How many of us are living in poverty because of medication of senses. The number one reason for bankruptcies in the United States is medical bankruptcy. It's the number one reason. We have a call. Hi, welcome to Matt Connor to unleash who's this why would you want the government to pay for Medicare. It's not the government paying. It's not the government paying in that regard.

37:22 What well, let me let me rephrase this. Let me let me put it to you this way right now. The way things work is your doctor says you need X, your insurance has to approve it, and then the hospital would do it. If they don't approve it, you don't get it under a national healthcare system, under a Medicare for all system. If we use Medicare as a as our starting point, and we develop this USA Medicare or USA medical Care, and everybody has a card that guarantees them care, you and I get to make our choices by who provides the care that we like the most or as better service for us instead of shopping for the cheapest.

38:02 And yes, the money's coming through the Medicare system, it's coming through our taxes. It's absolutely coming from our taxes. But in the line socialist, it's medalist system. Then I don't think it's socialist. I really don't. But if you want to call it that, go right ahead. I want every American to be able to have guaranteed medical care. I don't want Anybody going without medication because of the car is not England. America, is not Canada America country. It's not about social What you have right now is private health insurance companies running healthcare.

38:37 And how great of a bang up job are they doing for you? How many people do you know who have suffering with other stuff? Now? It doesn't want to handle the healthcare. I want to get the bureaucracy out of healthcare. I want the healthcare be decided by the doctors. It's not about paying. It's not about approval anymore. There's no more approval, there's no more middleman. Your doctor says you need this, you get it, and it's paid for and a discussion. But that's coming out of somebody else's pocket instead of you paying two hundred, three hundred dollars eight and my mom's paying eight hundred dollars a month at a premium, instead of you having five six seven thousand dollars.

39:14 Why should I pay for your care? Why that's that's ridiculous. You don't think you're doing that? Now? Do you pay a premium? Who do you think you're paying? Who do you think you're paying? You? You're paying for anybody's care. You pay that premium, but you're paying a premium. You're paying for a premium. No, you pay for everybody else's. You're paying a premium, you're paying a deductible, you're paying a co pay. You add all of that up and you are paying a fortune then, and you would pay a fraction of the cost.

39:40 He's going to take it some challenge and shift it over to the government, and you get rid of the insurance companies altogether. You allow medical providers to what. I don't think you really understand what you're talking about, and I think it's too socialists for America. I'm sorry you feel that way, but you know you can hang up all you like. The truth is this, medical decisions should be made by our providers, ourselves, and our families. Nobody else should have their nose involved in your medical care.

40:07 If we're all paying, like my buddy lives in the Netherlands, they all pay one payment for their insurance. But it's everything. It's their health insurance, it's their third party insurance, it's their dental insurance, it's their mental health insurance. He's paying one hundred and fifty dollars a month. He's had to have drains put into his long stage four breast cancer metastatic to the long, huge tumor. He didn't get ignored, he didn't get told he couldn't have the medication. The medication was delivered to his door.

40:36 The doctor ordered it. It came to his door. The doctor came to his door. He gets He's never been turned down for a dang thing. He gets all the care he needs. And that's how it should be in this country. You should get all the care you need, decided by medical professionals, not bureaucrats. You get rid of insurance companies and watch the price of medicine go down. Yeah, I mean, you gotta get haters, but I'm done with private insurance companies saying whether or not you can get chemo. Well, a big something that really really shifted my thinking was, Um, you know, I I it was a few years ago now on the show, and I got I got pretty animated about it.

41:21 People people talked about it for a while after after this happened. But it was, Um, it was a Monday, and I had just remember because it was over the weekend. I'd read something online about how um I'd read this article really in depth about people who started go fund me accounts, you know, go fund me campaigns and UH to pay for UM to pay for medical treatment people who had been diagnosed with cancer and they were and they were trying to raise money online to pay for medical treatment. And UM what I was which shouldn't again, shouldn't happen in America, shouldn't happen anywhere, shouldn't have to be that way.

42:00 But then what I was really horrified to learn, and I didn't realize and I was completely naive to this, is that a very large percentage of the people who do that, it's not that they don't have health insurance, you know, they're uninsured and they happen to get diagnosed. It's in many cases it's they do have health insurance and they had what they at least what they thought was full coverage. But then UM insurance companies find ways, they find excuses to deny certain treatments, and so people end up dying unnecessarily.

42:31 The other thing I would just say to to to address the callers, UM, it's very no offense to the caller. I appreciate the call I appreciate everyone who calls, whether they agree, disagree, or whatever. But I find um when people throw the words socialism around. Again, I say this respectfully, it's probably the most intellectually lazy way to try to argue about this stuff. I mean, you know, we can have conversations and we do about you know, what the government should and should not be involved in and how much the government should or should not be involved in things, and those are important conversations to have.

43:12 But unfortunately, somewhere I feel like it's it's probably coming up on a decade now. Americans like to think of politics, and I'm sure it's not unique to America. I'm sure it's like this everywhere. Probably it's probably just part of the human condition. But people like to think politics in a very hyper simplified and reductive way. So when people talk about this kind of stuff, they get into this argument of well, we can either have capitalism or we can have socialism, and it's really pretty again, it's reductive, and it's it's just a lazy way of thinking about it, because the truth is we have both, We've always had both, we always will have both.

44:01 We live in a country that has a great deal of Look, I'm I consider myself a free market capitalist, um, but we also have social programs. Uh, the most popular social program in the history of the United States has it right in the name social security. So for anyone who wants to argue, well, you know, we can't have any socialism, well do you want to get rid of social security? Um? And by the way, there are people who who do. There are people who are so sociopath I can care so little about other human beings that they'd be fine with letting people who who depend on it just starved to death and be homeless and whatnot.

44:38 And I understand that. I think it's too bad, but I understand that that's the reality of it. I'm not saying that about the caller. I kind of suspect that that's probably the caller's attitude just given the callers you know, limited what what what was what was presented during that call, I imagine that that the caller probably is fine with uh, poor, it was interesting about that suffering and dying. But but but I just want to make the point though when somebody says, well, that sounds like socialism to me, Well, number one, we do have a lot of socialism.

45:09 We also have a lot of capitalism. And in the United States, I would argue we have far more capitalism than we do socialism. But but there is. If you're going to have any degree of government, you know, you're going to have social programs to help people. And I happen to think that that's a good thing. But but you know, when people dismiss it as well, that sounds like socialism. Let me tell you something. The government is already. If your if your argument is just to add to that, if your argument is, well, I don't want the government involved in healthcare, the government's already very much involved in healthcare.

45:40 The government is already very much involved in regulating in many different ways healthcare and what medications are approved, and this and that. The government's you know, and of course we have programs like Medicare and Medicaid. The government is and you know the VA uh, you know, to take care of veterans. So the government's already very much involved. But but the one underlying principle that I have, that I've always had, is this. We live in the most successful, most innovative, most prosperous country in the history of the world.

46:15 There is no reason why in this country anyone should have to fall through the cracks. There is no reason and to allow people to fall through the cracks. I know some people think, well, that's just you know, that's just freedom, and that's liberty, and no, to allow people to fall through the cracks is immoral and unethical. And and you know, I'm all for freedom and liberty and small government. I'm a small government guy, believe it or not. And many of you will not believe this. In some ways, I'm actually a small government conservative.

46:45 But you know, I take a moral stand on this. There's no one should have to fall through the cracks or worry about not getting the care that they need. One thing, Um, I'm sorry, but you're one cancer diagnosis away from being me. You pay your premium now and you have what you consider good healthcare. But the minute you become a cancer patient and you lose your job and you lose that health insurance, your whole world changes because now you can't access anything, nothing for one thing for another thing.

47:16 Right now, I've got too much government in medicine because there's so much going on with the insurance companies and how this is supposed to work and that's supposed to work, and how approval this and approval that. Well, we get rid of that and I get government out of my exam room, and my exam room now has my doctor, me and my family, and we make the choices for my care. We gave veterans a card to allow them to be able to go anywhere for care, which is how it should be, and it's working, and they get to choose and they don't have to go to one specific place anymore or get moved like that's used to get moved constantly.

47:52 Wouldn't it be nice to have a national healthcare system where you have a card where you don't have five thousand dollars co pays or you have to shop to try and find an MRI, or you're paying damn near a thousand dollars in premium and you still got a thirty five dollars co pay on that drug and one hundred and fifty on this drug and you can't afford it. So you know, like our buddy, our friend who has diabetes and only buy six vials of vincelin instead of seven because they can't afford it, so they rash in it.

48:23 We wouldn't be rash in healthcare like we do now, because that's what we do now. We ration it, Melanie said in the chat, so poor people deserve to die. I think that was in response to the collar and well, there are people who think that. I mean again, there are oh yeah, there are people I don't want to pay for you. Like the guy said, there are there are people who just well, in a broader sense too, there are people who just genuinely hate poor people. I mean it's because they never see that they can be there.

48:49 When I got cancer, I had five and a half acres of land. Yeah, I d it quite a large house. So you know, I was working as a full time EMT and a first respond to volunteering in my town. I worked in a hospital full time. I had multiple jobs, and I was the person that came to a due when you called nine one one till I got cancer, till it took me out, till I lost my job, I lost my house, I lost my land. I sold everything I did go fund means to avoid treatment. Yeah, we've been there, We've done that. And if you want to learn more about this kind of stuff, I'll tell you.

49:24 I want to make sure I get this in because I promised hither I would This Wednesday, at May seventeenth, at six pm at the Red River Theater and Concord. There's going to be a film showned American Hospitals, Healing a Broken System. It's a film screening. There'll be a piano discussion. It starts at six pm at the Red River Theater. Come talk about these things, Come talk about healthcare. And this is free. This event is free. There's gonna be refreshments being served. All you gonna do is register.

49:52 I'm going to drop the link into our check group. The link will be available on our I'll put it on Matt Carton Unleashed of course. You know if you want and you can go. You can sign up, you can go to this. It's free. Go listen, you have an honest discussion, ask some questions and start looking into what's going on a bit more. I'm tired of seeing people get denied care and treatment, aren't you. Well, let's uh what We are nearing the top of the hour and I see that there are musicians and they're pudding heads there.

50:24 There are musicians out out there. So we've got Frankie Boy and the Blues Express. Yeah, they're gonna be coming in and playing live in studio for us in just a few minutes. And we'll we'll talk to them, we'll get to know them a bit. So there's plenty more to come. And I think going into the break, I'm gonna play the song from this band, Oberon. They are from Italy and they are going to be joining us skyping in tomorrow, so I'll play I'll play one of their studio tracks from them. They've got a song called Time to Sleep that I really like.

50:54 It's instrumental, it's pretty cool, good stuff. Um oh, And speaking of musicians, really quick too, I just want to give a shout out to Brooklyn Mike, who was on the morning show this morning, The Morning Show with Peter White, and he came in and he played live and it was really good. I was loving at this morning. I was like, Oh, I don't want to show to end. Yeah, it sounds. Oh yeah, you gotta come in again, you gotta you gotta come see us. I really want to see it. Come play with us, please absolutely.

51:21 But here's something from Oberon. We're gonna play this. We're gonna show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then when we come back, we will have Frankie Boy and the Blues Express with us live on Matt Connerton Unleashed WMNH rips the novels. Welcome back, everybody. We are well in our number two numerowdose of Matt Connerton Unleashed, and we are live from the studios of WMNH ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe.

52:36 You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Monday, May fifteen, twenty twenty three. Jenny is here as well at the news desk, present in accounted for and we have a band here with us. Really looking forward to these guys playing. Uh, they're gonna play and then we're gonna talk afterward. And we've got Frank Boy and the Blues Express here. How are you guys doing great? Quite all right, we'll do a kind of a we had to do a mic check here on the fly.

53:08 So Frankie you're there in the corner. Yes, yes, oh good, I can hear you. Go ahead and strum something if you wouldn't mind. Sounds good?

53:19 That sounds good. And we have Mickey on bass. How are you, sir? Hello? Hello, doing good? Let's see here go and play something if you wouldn't mind. Yeah, that's that sounds nice. I'm a bass player, so I I dig it. And uh, let's see. We have Harrison on the the drum set there with the brushes. I like the brushes. Let's see. I got to figure out how to Okay, um, what do you what do you have over there? I say that again? Oh, here we go, brushes, all that kind of stuff. Yeah. Sorry, I'm just playing with the mic here all right, and I think that'll I think that'll work.

54:06 Okay, all right, cool cool. Um. So what we'll do is if you guys, uh, we'll look forward looking forward to hearing your play. If you want to play, play some tunes for us, and then afterward we'll we'll chit chat a bit, get to know you guys. And but I'm really looking forward to hearing your play. So let's do it. It's like a plan. Well, we got to play one for our friend, our mentor miss to get Tide Junior. This is a new song that you will find on our upcoming album, an album that's going to be called young Man's Blue.

54:36 So we like to present to you a song we wrote called get Tide. Junior,

55:20 Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to tell you a story. I bought a blues man from back in the day. Started in Mississippi, but's Chicago, papers way. He said, Mommy, you Bobby and get tired. I promise I'd take care of you. He left hold and he was sixteen years old. He went on down to Chicago to play the blues man. Get tied, Get tired, Junior, Get tired, Junior. We're playing the blue for you. How, Lady German, this is a song in memory of my good friend, mister lucor gin Tied Junior Johns. And although his body has left his world, I promise you his experience are alive as well.

57:06 How he bought that in man, he bought it, get out to He got with mother Waters, then he got with you. Time went on and I will do Then a guy would feed me, he said, Frankie, I want you to say I got to sweet one with your man.

58:22 Oh my god, you guys sound incredible. Thank you very much, fantastic fantastic if you're just joining us. We have a Frankie and the uh I'm sorry, Frankie, Frankie Boy and the Blues Express. Yeah, I forgot the where does where does the name come from? Frankie Boy? Well, I started going out to the blues jams when I was sixteen years old, and when you're the only sixteen year old in the room, they call you boy. Okay, okay, I got the name. Johnny B. Savoni used to host the jam I went to at the Roma in Harold, Massachusetts.

58:58 Yeah, and he said thank you boy, and he just kept saying it and saying it, and everybody started calling me Frankie Boy, and it stuck. And then I added Blues at the end of it. So my stage name is technically Frankie Boy Blues. Oh okay, So that way, because there's a lot of Frankie Boys in the world, I gotta be a little different, right, gotcha, gotcha? You know, But Frankie Boy Blues and the Blues Express would be a little much, right, So, you know, a little much. Frankie's a little much. Now, you guys sound great?

59:30 Yeah, if you want to play another one for us, I would love it. I'd love to. Let's do one in honor of another friend, a man by the name but David D. And I got to go to Saint Louis when I was on tour with Eliza Niels, and I got to meet this gentleman down at the International Blues Museum, and he taught me how to play this little thing called going Fishing. It happens to be original song by David D. So let's play a little tribute to David who passed away now too long ago as well. She said, I'm born fishing.

1:00:25 Babe said I'm gonna fishing Bathe here said I'm gonna fishing, babe. There she said, I'm gonna fishing, Babe. There she said, I'm gonna fishing blab to relieve difference on my mind. You know what I said, I've been kind of busy. He hasn't had much time. I need something to do to occupy my mind. I've got what I need, baby, she said, I know just what you do. Said I had to be fishing, ainty, but I believe my books to you. Good said I'm gonna fishing by here said I'm gonna fishing. Bear said, I'm gonna kissing Bear said, I'm gonna fishing here, said I'm gonna fishing, babe.

1:01:30 Believe this ers on my mind. You know me' real early and I can't be late. I gotta get on down there. The fishing gonna week. I donna know where she's gonna fishing people. I don't know what's gonna make She's gonna use. She had a pretty little red dress, Tima and a brand new bearers you. She said, Oh, mussy, Babe said I'm onna kissing Bare said I'm gonna fishing baby there saying I'm on vising here said I'm gonna kissing me here. Don't believe this frien on my mind? How? She said, I know you've been kind of busy.

1:03:10 You haven't had much time. I need something to do. I'm gonna get by in my mind. I've got what I need. Baby, she said, I do kiss what you do? She said, I can getch me another fiss bringing same way I told you. She said, I'm born missing baby said I'm gonna missing bar said I'm gonna missing baby, saying I'm gonna missing be saying I'm gonna miss baby. To relieve this all my mind? How very nice, very nice, Frankie Boy and the Blues expresses with us here on Matt Connerton Unleashed and you guys are getting a lot of love in the Facebook live chat.

1:04:12 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody. Everybody's digging it. Our friend Melanie was asking Mickey, what does your shirt say? Oh, my shirt says Daniel and the Coal Is that a band? I didn't know they could see us too? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Daniel on the Coal Band. Daniel the Coole is, in my opinion one of the best artists in this country right now, are one of my favorites. Where are they from? Saint Louis? Oh okay, yeah, I'm not familiar with them. What need to check them out? Yeah? What do they sound like?

1:04:41 Blues? Original, original, like blu Yeah there, yeah, blues, soul, kind of funky okay yeah. If you ever heard of um Um Trampled Underfoot, Yes, it's she's the bass player. Oh okay, yeah, oh cool, So that was their family band. Oh this is her own original project, gotcha, gotcha. One of the best singers I've ever heard of, absolutely wow in bass players, very nice. Check her out. Well, you guys, you guys want to play another one? I'm dying to hear more of course, of course, all right, I didn't know they could see me.

1:05:18 Yeah, everyone right now, I got a great face for radio. But yeah, that it's funny melody. The way she worded the question in the chat room, she said, what does the beard man on the couch's shirt say? Hi, I'm now beard man? There you go. Well, the only problem is everyone has beards now, so it's like everyone's beard man except for Harrison over there. I'm twelve. There you go. You have plenty of hair on top though. Yeah, it's definitely it's coming there you go. All right, Yeah, what do you guys?

1:05:56 Uh? Yeah, go ahead, whatever you want to play. I'm just I'm just dying to here alright. Alright, Uh, I guess you brought up kind of my name where I got it from? So I used to go to the Roma and Harel, Massachusetts, and around that time, sixteen years old, I also got to go see Buddy Guy play at Hampton Beach Casino Man and that NIGHTTI sang a song called Who's Gonna Fill Those Shoes? So sixteen year old me went home wrote a song called young Man's Blues, which will be the title track of our upcoming album young Man's Blues.

1:06:25 So I like to squeeze that one out for you real quick. All right, I'm a young man, you know I got my sher of the blues, said, I'm a young man. You know I got my saim the blues. I felt it up and he hates you, him and the shir gonna give me the blues where you don't, mister buddy, gut go. It's talking about who's gonna feel the whole shoes here, he said, mister Bundy guy, here

1:07:54 going talking about who's gonna feel the old shoes is when you know, miss a buddy guy. You know, we came down here to swap some on with you. How play the blues, y'all? How I'm a young man,

1:08:47 you know, get tired you your talk man? How to play the blues? Said, I'm a young man here. You know, Luke to get Tai Junior Johnson taught me how to play the blues, he said, just like Muddy Waters taught me how to do it. Son, I want to teach out how to do it too. You got your excuse you WHI school he's won for Junia sit. I'm a young man, you know I paid some dudes to play the blues, say it, I'm a y'all thing,

1:10:03 you know, how PIDs to do to play the blues and hate yam and it shall gonna give me the blues? How beautiful, beautiful Frankie boy in the blues express um out you guys, thank you? Do you guys want to play one more? And then we'll h and then we'll have a little bit of time after to talk. Of course, that sounds good. Cool you want to flip and flop him? Sure? Why not? Mhmm. We're doing an awful lot of talking about Luther Gatad Junior Johnson. For anybody out there who doesn't know who he is, you'll need to look him up.

1:10:55 I highly recommend you look him up. Anyway. He was in the Blues Brothers movie, played the Muddy Waters for eight years. Who's one of my best friends on earth. Taught me a lot in twenty four years to Yeah, incredible musician, even more incredible human, super spiritual. So we got some major influence by him. Without him, certainly wouldn't be doing what we're doing here. Okay, true, Well, I'm gonna do a little luthor guitar Junior Johnson's song, and then it turns into a little bit of Frankie Boys song.

1:11:26 So yeah cool version won't two, won't two three?

1:11:46 Luck beach out in the scene. I'm luck beach out in the scene. I ain't gonna do about it this whole round over me. When walking on walking on nappy mood, when walking along, walking on nappy bold, I can't buy my mind. I'll be walking alone. I'm flip live black luck pinch out in the sea. I'm flipping little blah luck a pinch out in the sea. I ain't got no man in this whole round world with me. That's not true. I got Harrison, m m m. I'm flipping blah black fish out in the sea. I'm flipping the blah black bitch out in the sea.

1:13:22 I ain't got now abounding the whole round world with me. Come here, baby, and sit down on my knee. Sit right here, baby, Sit down on my knee. Got something down the bugging the head of me. I'm flipping them blah black fish out in the sea. I'm flipping them blah black fish out in the sea. I ain't got no about in this whole round world with me. How about you, breaking, I got a woman and she's don't be to me. Said I got a woman and she sold me to me. You mayn't spile the baby because you're all to get warn me.

1:14:42 When I was driving around town is about fifty five year you want a us little thing out of him? Didn't need tonight. I don't at you, my baby. Good law you're gonna do is fire? Girl said I got a woman and she told me to me, saying I got a woman and she sold me to me. The truth, y'all. He ben't buy nothing because you only get one of me. Girl, When you put me in the door, what I don't know? I can't do the bottom molding a brand new video. You don't stitch. You want to eat me? But she gotta no baby, who no?

1:15:28 When I got a woman and she's sold me to me, saying I got a woman and she's sold me to me. Ben's buying nothing, baby, You only get one of me. I don't. Can I add a little note onto that? Yes, if anybody out there listening, can you find yourself in a bad relationship? Wellhether, it's at home, it's at work, it's amongst your friends, it's amongst whoever. As far as near as I can tell this, life's about being happy, all right. You find yourself in a bad relationship, fix it, fix it. It's good advice.

1:16:14 Good advice. Yeah, yeah, unsolicited, but I believe. Well, um, now do you got you you have a CD? Do you have you have one with you? I can pop in, well, so I can. We'll play a studio track and we'll get you guys resituated, so we can we can chat for a few minutes. Let's see here. Do you guys play out a lot? Yeah? This is a radio first. By the way, I've never used this CD player in the SiO and it's never been played on a radio. It's not it's not out yet. It's not out yet. So this is this is what we like to call a world radio premiere.

1:16:49 I love it. I love it. Let's see. Okay, now this should pull out. It works nice, it sounds good. So we'll we'll let's play for a minute. Then we'll come back and we'll talk with these guys. Don't go away. People don't want to tell you a little story. Boy, the blues man from back in the day started in mississipp but Chicago paved his way. Said Mama, you buy me a get tied, and I'll take care of you. Left home when he was sixteen years old to sweet Home, Chicago to play the blues.

1:17:48 Get tied, Junior, Get tied, Junior, get tired, Junior, We play the blues for you, ladies and gentlemen. This is a song in memory of our good friend, mister Luther get tied Junior Johnson. Although his body has left this world, I promise you his spirits are alive and well. We gotta get tired of the studio right now, and to be singing, boy, you man, We got Luc's getting tied him too.

1:19:05 He bought that a man, he bought that getting tied to He caught with money waters. Then he got with you, time went on, that's time will do. Then he got with me people, he said, Frankie, I want you to play blue How oh that is so good guitar Junior, Frankie Boy and the Blues Express. And we've got the guys from the band here in studio with us. And that that is a world radio premiere of that song, so that that's never been heard. This is brand new. HM, very nice. Well, we are honored, we are honored.

1:20:57 So we've got the guys here, Frankie Boy Blues and uh, Mickey and Harrison. And how long have you guys been together as a band, because you you sound I assume it's been a while. Three years maybe, yeah, I think it's been with me. I think it's been two two years by two? Okay, all right, um, yeah, you guys sound great if you just if you miss it, by the way, if you're just joining us, these guys played live in studio for us and it was just amazing, So make sure you go back and listen to the h the podcast if you miss the live performance.

1:21:31 And uh, we have a call. I think I think one of your new fans might be on the line. Hi, welcome to the show. Who's this? Yeah, it's Ridley. Oh, Dave Ridley. Oh, I didn't recognize the number. Dave. Are you calling? Do you have a question for the band? No? I don't have internet access right now, so I'm sorry I'm calling. It's the wrong time. I'll call him some other time. Okay, all right, sounds good Dave, Bye, bye bye, guys. That was our friend Dave Ridley anyway, but yeah, if you miss it, these guys, these guys sound phenomenal, and the CD sounds great too.

1:22:13 You know, we we listen to that one song, but you've got thirteen songs on here. Now, when when is this going to be coming out officially? Hopefully a few weeks? A few weeks, Okay, that's the plan. We need it done by June. And June's not many weeks away right now? Why by June? Why? Why the deadline? We got a lot going on. Yeah, things pick up, you know, yeah, Yeah, you're playing out a lot. You're gonna be playing a lot this summer. Lots. We are yeah, cool over the place? Cool cool? Um? Have you have you always been very busy as a touring act?

1:22:44 Have you always played a lot of shows? Or we haven't really toured yet the beginning. We're growing, we're spreading our wings. Cool cool, Okay, all right, we play out once or twice a week excellent, and then some weeks the summer, we got seven days in a row. Sweet, like we're going to wake the lake this weekend Laconia. Oh cool, Tower Hill Tavern on the weirs, wake the Lake. We're there Friday night, Tower Hill Tavern upstairs and Saturday outside. Very cool, yeah, very cool? Um? How many Um, now, how many originals do you guys have as far as are these all originals on the album or some of these covers?

1:23:27 I didn't there's no, there's some covers on there. Um, I'd say it's a mix of covers and originals. Yeah. Um, definitely some original arrangement arrangements to songs that have been done before. Okay you will find on that record. Okay, okay, cool. Yeah, nothing on there sounds like in original, like the original if it's a cover. Yeah. Yeah. Is that something in terms of approaching songs like that where you where you take a song and you kind of, I don't know, reverse engineer it or I heard that term recently, or make it your own?

1:23:58 Is that something you do kind just when you when you're approaching it, or does it just kind of happen organically? Oh, I'd go with the organically side of things. Um. Two of the songs on there, in particular, one of them was a I just a riff. I came up playing by myself in the room, played it with these guys a few times live. By the third or fourth time we played it, they said, when are you going to sing over that thing? And I went to a gig following week and started singing some Luther guitar Junior Johnson lyrics over it.

1:24:27 Okay, you know what I mean? Yeah, another song on there. Um, we were playing a gig with a friend of ours named Dominic Cole, fifteen year old drum phenomenon. He's amazing and it was our first gig we did with them, so he was getting new to the blue stuff that we do. So Mickey looks at me and says, I'll play starting rock and he's real good at the rock stuff. So I just kicked into these kind of Jimmie Hendricks chords. I knew, I knew he'd sound good. Yeah, And a few weeks later I was I was singing Engine number nine over the same chords, you know.

1:24:57 Yeah, yeah, So they just they just happened, right right. Um. Yeah, It's it's funny, uh you know it it seems like with with this genre and and not just blues, but I think, you know, this is probably true with jam bands and some other things too. But you know, you can really you can really take things and kind of change them and make them your own, um in a way that's um, you know that you can't necessarily do with other genres of music. Um, when you play live, does that happen where maybe? Um, are some of these songs who they sound very different from one show to the next.

1:25:35 Is there a lot of sort of improvisation that goes on. Well, we've never had a band rehearsal really, so every song that we play we learned together on stage in front of people, every single one of them. That's why we're gonna start rehearsing sometime soon when we're ready, but we haven't yet. It doesn't seem like you need to, like it seems like it's working pretty well. Blues is a language, yep. Yeah, it's a language. If you learn the language, you can play with anybody. It's like speaking a different language.

1:26:07 Yeah, if you speak Spanish, you don't have to ask somebody if they speak Spanish, you just start a conversation, right right. This is the same thing. Yeah, yeah, same thing. Um, And I think Mickey you had made the comment offer I think that that you guys, this is your first time doing this acoustic. Is that is that correct? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've never done an acoustic show or an acoustic set. Yeah. Is it much of an adjustment or in terms of your your approach to plan or no, I mean you seem you seem comfortable with it, so yeah, yeah, definitely definitely for me.

1:26:41 I'm like, I normally have probably at least two extra symbols and then two tom's, so I got like pretty bare bones right here with just this high hat, snare and bass drum. But yeah, I love doing that kind of stuff because one of my favorite drummers of all time is Nate Smith and he plays for a Fearless Flyers and a bunch of different groups. He has his own soul ax and whatnot, but he does this exact setup for Fearless Flyers. It's literally just bass drum, snare, drum, high hat, and it really challenges you as a drummer to just like focus on pocket or get creative with what you got because you've gotten literally the the beef and the bones, like you know, the whole peanut butter sandwich right here.

1:27:22 That's all right, you know if you're talking about food and you know, bring food into this, but um yeah, yeah, actually yeah, but um yeah, it's so I like playing on this kind of this kind of setup. So hopefully we'll get a chance to do more of stuff like this, so I definitely, I definitely enjoy it. Yeah. Is it a challenge to um as how did you put it? Exactly? Uh uh, to be more creative with with lesser Yeah, exactly, because you're it's like you're being more can You're you're confined to a smaller box.

1:27:56 But it's it's fun to work within a box because it's like you know it, it gives you like an area to work within, and and it forces you to be creative with what you got. So I end up like doing things that I've never done before on a set like this, which is super fun because it's like that's kind of the same thing that we do when we when we play live, Like when we play songs, it's like we'll play certain songs and certain things will come out at times when we're like when the hell did we start playing it like that?

1:28:23 And it's like, and that's what's super fun about the shows with Frankie. It's like, it you show up to show, you could go to a like all of our shows that bike week this year, and you would you would get something different each night. Yeah, so and and and that's that's what's really enjoyable about it. So I'm getting that right here in the studio with this little kid. So yeah, I just I love the improv. Yeah, so very cool, very cool. Um, do you guys play really long? I mean I assume you can probably do like a three hour set, right do the wholes no kid ain't?

1:28:56 Yeah? Does that ever get exhausting or probably just kind of flies by? Right? I would imagine four yeah? Yeah, yeah. We often have been pushing two or two and a half hours before we take a break, no kidding. And you know what, when the music's right, playing with these guys and music's always right, yeah, two and a half hours goes by like twenty minute. When it feels good, you don't you don't want to stop right right, and then you look at your phone and you go, wow, we've been at this two and a half hours.

1:29:22 Let's take a break. You know. Do you make any kind of a set list or do you not bother? I haven't done that yet, I don't plan on doing it. Yeah. Um, I just just feel the room. Yeah, you know, if if the whole room staring at you, you just gotta go and you gotta give it, catch their attention, and if you can get it, you know, hold one. Yeah, Now there are there other bands in the area. Is there anybody else in the area who's doing what you're doing and approaching it this way? Because it seems like, you know, we have a lot of musical guests on the show, but I don't think we've had anybody quite like you guys on the show.

1:29:59 That's good to hear. Yeah, yeah, most from what I know, I know tons of musicians. There's a ton of incredible musicians in New England and New Hampshire specifically. Yeah. Most bands have rehearsals all the time and have setlists and do whatever. Yeah. We're blues trained, Yeah, blues trained by some really really serious mentors, really serious mentors right here in Manchester. Howard Randall, who's been around the Strange Group game for twenty four years. Jerry the Reverend, Podcat Can Too blues band, that's my godfather, talk about him, Montoring wo Luther guitar Junior Johnson of course.

1:30:41 Yeah. Like if if anybody's ever played blues and they've gotten the look before, when you get a look means you're doing something wrong. Fix it right now. Willie J. Laws one of my dear mentors. When you're mentored in blues like it's it. I had a conversation Frankie mentioned Dominic. Dominic just played a gig with us over this weekend, and Dominic started sitting in with us at seven years old. Incredible, incredible drummer. He just turned fifteen years old. He's full time gigging right now in the Bob Pratt band.

1:31:14 Wow. And what I explained to him about blues is you can sit home and practice all day long. You can practice to blue stuff all day long. You're not learning the real stuff unless you're playing it out on stage with blues players, because it's all about what it feels, not how you rehearsed it at home, not how the record sounds. It's about how it feels right now. Yeah, that's it. That makes sense now if any of you guys played in other other genres or other bands that maybe did something little you have Harrison, Yeah, yeah, I have another project right now called River Saying Wild, which is more of an alternative indie rock band.

1:31:52 Yeah, and we play pretty much the same area as as Frankie does, like the New England's just in general regional basically regional band, not a touring act yet, but working on that kind of thing, so and um yeah, it's just yeah, So I I like dipping into that. But I've I've liked playing all kinds of stuff. Um. I feel like with Frankie, I'm a bit more. I kind of cascade through more because it's like funk, soul, blues, swing, like all kinds of stuff. So sometimes we can get like anything from like Engine Number nine when we play a song like that that's more on like the rock, like heavy in your face kind of side, and then like we'll and then we'll have something that's like yeah to Bob Marley to yeah Franks, which which challenges me because it's like I have to know like how to set the mood in my head, like when I'm playing, like all right, how am I gonna approach this, you know, and it's like you're and I'm being given so many colors to work with that it's it's really it's really fun to do that.

1:32:56 Um So I'd say like yeah, but it's even when we do the swing stuff or even like a reggae tune or like or something that's like really funky. I feel like, um my approach in general as I like to have more of that rock and roll energy brought into it, no matter what it is, because to me, I just like that bold in your face, like bombastic, borderline annoying and and I think that's like any drummer really, but that's that's how I like to kind of approach stuff. And I feel like when we when we play, it's like it doesn't matter if we're playing a waltz or like or something that's like Engine number nine or something in your face more rock or Jimmy Hendricks like, um, it's always gonna be rock and roll energy brought to it.

1:33:42 In my head, that's how I interpret it. But it's yeah, it's so yeah, yeah, yeah, very cool. Well we are. We're actually almost out of time, so I want to make sure before we run out of time, and I want to get this um the song and Mickey you had asked me to play this track something about you. You know what if they've both mentioned engine number nine a few times, how about we give them engine number nine. We'll do that, Okay, okay, cool? Track eight, I think, yeah, yeah, track eight yeah, all right, yeah, well we'll play that when we wrap up in a moment.

1:34:11 But um, but before we before we wrap up, I want to make sure that that our listeners know where to find you guys online, where they should go to keep up with everything that you're doing, and how they can get the CD when it comes out, where they should go, any anything they should know. Well, tonight we're going to Lisa Guyers Monday Mews right down the street, London, Derry. Okay, so people can go see us for real. Oh, very cool, very cool. Frankie Boy in the Blues Express Facebook. Yeah, we're on Facebook right now.

1:34:40 Frankie Boy Blues is on Instagram. You can find us on YouTube. Our website is almost done, so when the website is officially released Frankie Boy Blues dot com excellent, you can't mess it up. Excellent and um and everything's following that as well. Where you you're, like I said, you're seeing the beginnings of whatever we're gonna turn this into. And we hope world touring enterpres We want to bring it all around the world, you know, and pay tribute to our friend Guitar Junior for teaching us how to do this.

1:35:08 Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well, guys, thank you so much. This has been wonderful. You guys, you sound amazing and it's wonderful to meet you and have you in studios, so thank appreciate it. In a moment stuff in a moment, we will we will end with that track engine number nine. But Jenny, thank you of course. And tomorrow you'll be in Washington, d C. I shall and you can check me out on Gencoffee dot com. J E n n C O f e y dot com and I will come back and give you all a full report. Very good. Now, UH, as we conclude, I just have because I've never used a CD player before today, I have to figure out how to get to UH.

1:35:45 I have to figure out how to get to our track number eighth. Let's see, he's gotta figure out which button the push. I think I owned it. I think I found it, all right, I figured it out. I figured it out all right, very cool. I saw a red light. I thought, I don't know. We're in trouble. Oh, except we're in trouble. No, I got it, I got it. We're good, all right, guys, Thank you again so much, thank you, thank you for having us absolutely and if you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at WMNH Radio dot org and at my website Matt Connerton dot com and don't forget to be back bright and early tomorrow seven am for the Morning Show with Peter White.

1:36:28 And if you get a chance, check out today's Morning Show with Peter White. It is in the archive. And our friend Brooklyn Mike was on speaking of musicians, and he did an amazing job. He performed live on the Morning Show. So lots of music around here, which is a wonderful, wonderful thing. But we will end with this. This is Engine number nine from Frankie Blue and the Blues Express to close out today's Matt Connerton Unleashed. That's not it here, So here we go loozy camera and didn't listen Doline on loyal downline, keep the stake on the lapstad well down the track.

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