Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-19-23

Welcome everybody here we go Happy Friday. It is that time again Matt Connton

Unleashed and we are live from these studios of w m 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 of your live streaming options, social media links, contact

info, show archives, etc. Etc. We have a great show for

you today coming up in just a couple of minutes. We're gonna be joined

via Skype all the way from the UK by our friend Ray Coates UH skyping

in about his project Oversoul Raised, but on the show two or three times

before. But he's gonna be joining us this week. He's got some new

music and it is UH International Mental Health Awareness Week. I think I have

the order of those correct. It's a long, long week for you know,

long name for a week U, but very important, very important.

And you know, mental health is something that so many of us struggle with,

sou and that's something that Ray is a bit of an activist for you

could say, and uses his music as a form of activism, and so

always always enjoy speaking with him, and I really love his music. So

he's gonna be uh, he's gonna be skyping in at four fifteen, and

actually in a couple of minutes we're gonna play one of the new tracks he

sent me from his project Oversoul called Not Over Saul Oversoul Phonics Matt called fish

Tank, and then we will hear the other single Flowers Die at the end

of our conversation. So we're really looking forward to speaking with Ray and then

coming up in the second hour. Today numerow Doos, as we do every

Friday, we have Eric Pilcher's classic film review and this week the subject is

the nineteen seventy eight release Superman starring Christopher Reeves. So so we got some

good stuff for you today. Also, of course, Friday is my long

day here at WMNH, and I do love it. So Friday is my

favorite day of the week because of course I do this show. I'm here

with you until six pm. And then of course we have granted State of

Mind hosted by the Great Rob as a Veto and Polly Stone, and then

I'm back tonight for eight to eleven PM Retro Spectrum Radio with Polyc the honor

and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show, So we

look forward to that. So that will be this evening. So our fridays

here are a lot of fun at WMNH. Let's see just a couple other

things for you to know about DJ Reckless. Of course we'll be I believe,

at the six oz three Bar and Grill tonight and tomorrow there's a big

event at the Hopknot right across the street, our amazing sponsor. Let's see

what they've got cooking tomorrow here. I want to it's a long post,

so I want to make sure I now, by the way, I will

preempt this by saying, Governor to Santasa, Florida, if you happen to

be in the state campaigning right now, and you happen to be listening to

this show, please plug your ears for a moment so this doesn't trigger you.

But this is what Kenny from the Hopknot posted. Y'all love our drag

shows, and y'all love our trivia, so we're you're gonna love drag trivia.

Next weekend. Oh, I'm sorry, this is next weekend. I

thought this was this weekend. Well, I'll go ahead and promote it anyway.

We'll start promoting it now. I don't know why. For some reason

I thought it was tomorrow, But we will be having a drag trivia fundraiser

next Saturday to help raise funds for an organization called New Leaders Council, New

Hampshire. Join hostesses Cheat Chee, Marvel and Glam Chouda from the House of

Marvel Entertainment Home for an afternoon of fund We will have prizes, raffles and

a few drag performers for you all to enjoy. The fundraiser benefits New Leaders

NH, a place based training organization focused on equipping local change makers with the

resources to be more impactful within their community. So that will be next Saturday,

the twenty seventh, from one to three pm at the Hopknot in the

Brady Sullivan at one thousand Elm Street. So that's actually next weekend. Again,

I know it's not for everybody, So if you're someone who you know,

if you grew up in the eighties and you saw the television sitcom Bosom

Buddies and you know, you saw the way Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari were

dressed on the show, and it freaked you out, and you still suffer

some leftover childhood trauma from that. Then you know, I understand events like

this or not for you, But you younguns won't have any idea what I'm

talking about. But that's okay. But you young uns are less likely to

be freaked out by something like this. Anyway, I think it's a very

positive thing. And by the way, looking at the graphic here, glam

Chowdah I believe is played by mister Kenny himself from the Hop Knots, So

there you go. He talked about that on the show. Actually the last

time he was on. He talked about what goes into his you know,

getting into character and so forth. So so that will be next Saturday at

the Opnot. But you know what is happening tomorrow at the Opknot. This

is definitely happening tomorrow at the Hop Knot this weekend, and I think that's

why I had it conflated in my mind. This weekend at top Not tomorrow

night, Jasmine Man will be performing live. They do live music now on

Saturdays. He used to be Friday now at Saturday nights from seven to nine

pm. And Jasmine Man, who has performed at the Hop Knot on many

occasions, she will be there tomorrow night. Very good, very good.

I do want to say hello everybody quickly on the Facebook live chat and then

we're gonna get to one of these tracks from Oversoul sent to us by the

great Ray Coats. He's going to be joining us from the UK via Skype

in just a couple of minutes. But I see Melanie Liberty in the Facebook

live chat from the Great State of Vermont. She says Happy Friday, Matt,

Happy Friday to you, mel Also, Jenny, of course is in

the chairman says shalom peeps. Jay Fed joins us, says good afternoon everyone.

Dave Wally is in the chat room, and Dave has some great new

music that he sent me and I think you're going to be hearing it on

the show very soon, very soon. Um. Also Crystal from the Great

State of Illinois in the chat room as well. Okay, here's what we're

gonna do. I'm gonna share this with you. This is uh brand new

track from Oh. Melanie says, I thought corporal Clinger from mash looked fabulous.

Yeah. I I never thought Clinger could quite pull it off, but

uh, but I supported him in his endeavors. Um, all right,

we're going to uh uh again, you know, with apologies to our governor.

To Santisis, if he's listening, I'm sure this is all very upsetting

to him to hear hear this us being so flippant about it and everything.

Anyway, Okay, I'm sorry, I'm not really but whatever, all right,

we move on. So, uh this is brand new from Ray Coats

and his project Oversoul. Give this a listen, and then when we come

back, Ray we'll be on Skype with us. This is called fish Tank.

Check this out, unique sound what what Ray does with Oversoul. It's

it's different, it's uh, it's a little a little trippy as uh.

I think the people say that trippy. All right, here we go.

Check this out, fish Tank Oversoul. I cannot see what they say.

I cannot see what they see. One side of the glass, whos on

the memories swimming in? I cannot begin to see what they see. Another

love sing in a dream, another live the bridge, change the scene,

looking out, Yeah, I look in them. One side of the glass

holes are my sanity diving in? My girls within? Can I see what

they see? Another world? Not seem in a dream? Another Locke.

Move the bridge, change the scene looking out and look at them my cout

Why can't I see? Listen? Another bloating in the dremn to the bridge.

Change the scene looking out now looking in one side of the glass.

Change chart one soul of the glass. Change the one soul of the glass.

There it is that is fish tank that is over soul? Ray Coates,

Are you there, sir? I am indeed now heyllo, hey,

welcome back, and uh listen. I want to say right up front,

um, the music that we received from you recently, I really feel and

I'm not This isn't something I'm saying to be nice or you know, this

is sincerely, You've taken it to another level in terms of um from when

from when Jenny and I first met you. I really like the direction that

you've gone a lot. I mean, that's just a cool song. There's

there's almost nothing more to say about it. I mean, I do want

to hear more about it, but it's just a really you can you can

say more of the same as your lie it's just no, it's it's it's

it's just so, it's just so cool. It's a it's just really cool

to listen to that. I listened to it and with headphones on for the

first time, and I was like, man, And by the way,

I would just advise anybody listen to it with headphones. Um, you know

it's called to you know, it's one thing to listen to it with your

computer speakers or whatever, or in your car. Listen to it with headphones

because you want to be able to signically absorb everything, consume everything that's going

on. No, really great stuff. Ray for real. That's impressive.

I think what you're saying that, I think you're so right. That's um.

You know, any music is far far better listen to when you fully

immerse yourself in it. And it's that's not meant to be a pun with

regard to fish Tank, but you know, you're you're diving in. You're

diving in. And I think all music, any music, whatever the John

More is, Um, it's an opportunity to enter into different realms of consciousness,

really, isn't it. That's as a writer, that's what I hope

to achieve for others, you know, for others to listen, to be

able to lose themselves, find themselves, and do any number of other things

at the same time. Yes, yeah, I like what you said about,

you know, being immersed in the music. I think that's why we

as humans, we like to hear music, music that we really like or

love, we like to hear it loud, you know. Now, obviously

there's a downside. There's a little bit of irony to this, and I

just kind of stumbled into it when I mentioned listening to it with headphones.

But I was talking on the show just recently, I think it was,

it might have been a few weeks ago. I was talking about how,

over time I actually got out of the habit of aside from when I'm doing

this show or whether I'm producing another show that I do from home, I

got myself out of the habit of listening with headphones only because and you probably

can guess where I'm going with this, only because you know what we know

about hearing damage. I have tonitis. Jenny does too. I'm fortunate in

that mine has. I feel like mine has not progressed really over the past

fifteen years or so. I think it was about probably fifteen years, maybe

a little less that I really noticed it, but I have a little bit

of a you know, a buzz and so now I'm I'm very protective of

my hearing and I don't have generally ray and I think this is probably true

of most people. I don't have the self discipline to not turn the volume

way up when I'm listening to something with headphones that I really love. Yeah,

yeah, it's it's a different experience, is not, I know,

funny enough. Mark Walker, the sound engineer that I work with, listens

to the tracks as we're mixing them, as we're working on them at different

levels of sound, and deliberately, yeah, deliberately, so at times he'll

turn it down because then you can hear things differently. So it kind of

works both ways in what you're saying as well, that I think the headphones

creates that it doesn't have to be loud. It's just that it's avoidance of

distraction. And you know, I'm not saying every song that I write is

you know, has to be kind of deep in meaning. Some of them

are very you know, joyful and just fun writing a lot of songs at

the moment that are just just fun. But I think it's the way I

write, particularly lyrically, is to evoke. Though I'm not a great fan

of the word provoke, because I think that tends to bring up connotations of

negativity. But I like to evoke emotion, and it's it's a little bit

like, isn't it what's coming to me now? In conversation with you?

And I love talking to your genuinely do because it makes me think. Is

when somebody says, can I have a word in your ear? Right?

It's quite a common phrase. I don't I don't know whether that's a particularly

British thing or it's true, isn't it? I suspect, So I don't

think i've heard that in America specifically, that you know, can I you

know, we say can I have a word with you? But a word

in your ear? I don't think. I don't think i've heard anyone here

say, by the way, I think we ray, I'm sorry, I

think we have a call. Somebody might have a question for you. He

was on the line, Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who is

this Matt? This is the racist calling? Oh? Hi, yeah,

how are you doing? This? Is not a recording. I just want

to set the record straight. The reason that the F bomb was thrown in

one of the recordings was because Billy, who is it's really not your friend,

because Billy admitted to my friend who does do the recordings, that it

was him, because obviously he thinks he has a relationship with my friend who

sends the recordings. It was Billy who admitted to my friend that he did

it on purpose to have me in badko hoots with you. Not that you

need any help from the outside world, but you know, for Billy to

do something like that, he's really not your friend man, to purposely sent

a recording with the F bomb in it, you know? Right now?

Do you do you have any questions or anything for our guest, Ray Coats?

Well, I like the way he talks. I respect Britain. I

wish that Britain would have won the war instead of America because maybe we would

have had a more civilized society the British rule. Oh well, that's very

nice. What do you what do you think, Ray, Ray, do

you ever find yourself wistful? For you know, you wish that, uh,

that Britain had won the war? I tell you what, my view

is very very simple. Humanity wins over everything in its truest form. Yes,

there are, you know, tragically, all of the time, there

are wars going on, whether it's you know, on a large scale,

or whether it's between people in friendships relationships. And I think the truth of

it really is, whilst we have differences, whilst we have diversity, essentially

we've got the same experience in life, and without being negative, we're heading

towards the same end result all of us. So therefore, I think my

only message on that is history can be very very interesting. We can learn

a lot from it. I'm not particularly a great fan of geographical boundaries.

And what I mean by that is the imposition of so called rulers and in

the UK ourselves. I mean, my goodness to me, it's well documented.

And believe you me, if the UK appears to be being politically led

well at the moment, then the media are doing their job ever so well,

because it isn't. It's an absolute farce. And you know that's it

really, The divide between the elite, those that have ridiculous and ordinate amounts

of money and the corruption that comes with that is nothing to do with everyday

people. That's where I come to and a lot of my creativity. I'm

working on a community project at the moment which is bringing people into an anthem

and some will have different views, and I don't you know, I wouldn't

ban people from singing the national anthem in this country of the UK, but

it doesn't have any meaning for the people. It'd be a little weird,

you know. I often say, you know, the phrase, God's as

it is now, God save our gracious King. You know. My simple

message on that is, you know, well, what about God's got other

plans, and one of those plans is not necessarily to save this one single

human beings. So that might be controversial, but that's you know, there

are people in places of power who bear no relation to those that they are

supposed to be serving. Yeah, that's all. So I know that was

a little bit of a sideways answer to our friend's question, but I think

come together. John Lennon, John Lennon, great respect for John Lennon.

That was a simple message he had. You know, it's about the people.

The people have the power, the people are the power. So that's

my message. I'm not really you know, interested in globalism or particular political

powers or even countries to that matter. I think, you know, focus

on what we share in common rather than the differences, and mindful immediately become

a lot better. Right right, Does that answer your question? Joe?

Absolutely, the mainest, brilliant and a matter of fact, it reminds me

of John Lennon every time I even thought I think John Lennon. Oh well,

that's very nice, that's very nice. Thank you. Well all right,

Joel, all right, thank you, Matt, have a good weekend.

Okay, you're welcome. All right, bye bye bye. That was

Hey, Ray, you just talked to a real New Yorker right there.

Oh well, I guess and I love and I left every second of it.

Well, it was it's it's it's uh yeah, it was a surprise,

Um, a surprise call anyway. Um no, but uh so let

me ask you about you mentioned. Of course, this is a national or

i'm sorry international rather. I want to make sure I get this right because

it's it's a long name, um International Week of Mental Health Awareness twenty twenty

three, um, which we I'm embarrassed to say, we haven't really talked

about on the show this week. And uh, and I wish we had

gotten to it more, but we can talk about it with you a little

bit now, because you know, mental health is something that's so important.

So many people around the globe have mental health issues. Depression in particular is

extraordinarily uh common, something I as, you know, something I struggle with.

Um, this time of year, it's a little easier when there's more

sunshine, a little easier than say the winter months. But um, but

how does that how does that correlate with what you're doing with your your music,

ray and why is it? Why is it so important to you to

make music that it sort of commemorates and promotes this week and mental health awareness?

Well, I think it is. It's an opportunity because it exists,

so like with you know, the fact it's an international week. Therefore people

will be aware of that because that gets a lot of promotion, a lot

of advertising. And I think for me, awareness is the step towards action,

you know. So it's all well and good talking about becoming aware of

things. There seems to be a lot of talk about awareness and being aware,

but really the truth of it is action. But of course awareness leads

to action. So I took a decision I can't remember how long ago.

Several months ago, I was aware this week was coming up to release one

song on the Monday, which was a song fish Tank, which you play

thank you so much for that? Yes, So that was released under over

soo on the Architects of Passion. And today Friday is the conclusion of I'm

getting it mixed up myself International Mental Health Awareness Week, and I've released a

second song under a different name, which is the Architects, and that's called

Flowers Die in Michael liders Scope Mind. And in reference to the conversation with

Joe, it's very very John Lennon inspired Flowers Die in Michael Lidoscope Mind.

So I looked at almost like yes, you could say, a mental health

awareness sandwich and bringing attention to my own experience. So fish Stank was written

as it came to me one day and I thought, you know, we

look at fish tanks. We look at fish and we think, oh,

they're beautiful, aren't that. It's lovely that those fish swimming around in that

environment with the bridges and everything that's in there. But what's it actually like

for the fish looking out? What's their perception like? And I think when

we look at each other. Of course we see at times even and this

is not lying, this is not being deceitful. We're all projecting all the

time, but internally what we're experienced is essentially what's going on inside the fish

tank. So that was it, really, and then I started I'm very

drawn to programs that touch on subjects of you know, losing a sense of

reality because reality is challenged all the time, you know, my sense of

reality. I find at times I can't, like I've already said, I

can't believe what's going on in the country of the UK. It feels very

surreal, as people might say, and I just think, you know phrases,

depression is a real thing. I've experienced it myself, my battle at

times with maybe not depression now, but mood swings at times and staying grounded.

So for me, I wanted to share song that had written previously that

touch on subjects like paranoia, touch on subjects like the negative by us of

our minds. You know, when we compliment each other sometimes it's a challenge.

It's a challenge for people to accept compliments. Yes, because we live

in a societal condition world that it's constant negativity and people want to tear people

down, and you just think, you know, we're all we're all warriors

and we're victors because every day we're endeavoring to show up in our own lives

and do whatever it is we're doing in spite of everything that's going on around

And then just a final thought I want to share is and again this has

come to me personally, so having experienced depression. There's a lot of talk

about depression. There's not a lot of talk about oppression, suppression, repression.

So really we have to look carefully and seriously about what belongs to us,

what do we own, what do we have responsibility for, and what

is the responsibility and accountability of others? And I include within that structures in

organized society because there's a heck of a lot of frustration that's pumped into the

world, you know, the news, political parties, as I've just touched

on. So I'm looking through music to create self empowerment for others, messages

of self sovereignty, realizing even when you feel weak, kind of going a

little bit scriptural now, but even when you're weak, that's when you're you're

most powerful. So the key is try and go through those waves as much

as you can, and remember the feelings at times as well. That's something

I've experience. So when I'm swinging, swimming against the tide, so to

speak, remember that I've done that before. I've experienced that before, right,

and I got through that feeling to the other side of that. M

Ray, we have a call Shannon. Shannon is on the line. Hi

Shannon, Good afternoon, Good afternoon, afternoon, Ray, Hi Shannon.

How are you. I'm doing okay, how are you sling? Yes,

I'm fine, Thank you. I believe I talked to you once before.

Yes, Yes, I remember, Shannon, Yes, I remember talking to

you. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. I was going to say, both

your guys' minds at ease. It's Mental Health Awareness month month, is it?

Oh? Thank you? So longer than a week? All right?

Thank you good it's one of those whole monthings. Okay, excellent. Oh,

I appreciate that. Thank you. Have you Have you got anything you

wanted to talk about? Shannon? That's so um have you have you have

you heard the song? I know that's a bit of a loaded question.

If you haven't, don't worry, I'll put I'll put the links in.

No, I did hear it the fish tank. Yes, yeah, isn't

that great? Yeah? I heard it. I couldn't understand other words,

but oh you don't have to. It's to me that song is more about

the vibe. You just trippy dippy. I call it hippy dippy. You

just kind of get lost in it. Yeah, yeah, you just kind

of get lost in it. Absolutely energetic. Fits with the lyrics. I

was just gonna say, I suffer from PTSD terribly, and yeah, depression

as well, and yeah, I just you know, and and how do

you manage that as much as you can? What do I do? Um?

Yes to thought about a cat or dog's garden, or I can just

hear a word in a book and it'll trigger something. Um. Yeah,

right, I try to either put it out of my mind or um acknowledge

it for a minute then let it go. Do you do you write at

all? Shalmon? I, what do you write? So? Do you

you? You know? Do you do? Um? Have you ever written

poetry or anything like that? You create? Write? Yes? Yeah,

I write poetry. Oh that's a good thing today, isn't it. Yes?

And and other little things that don't really um, I don't know what

they'd be called I do high coups too. That's a form of poetry,

right, hi coup. Yeah, but I don't know, like what a

sonnet is, I don't you know, and those type of things. I'm

the same. I think it's just be being creative. It doesn't have to

have an official attachment if you if you get me, it doesn't have to

be colder thing or you know, in the artistic world, there are people

who are a little bit purist. Um, you know, so you have

to do things in a particular way. And for me as a as a

writer, I'm a musician in the in the sense that I can play instruments,

but I can't read music or the same. So yeah, so I

tend to find it's just it's being in flow and creativity for all of us

in different ways. Um, it's such a wonderful thing. Is a wonderful

outlet, wonderful outlets. It's lovely to hear that you're right channel. Yeah,

maybe not enough, but you know, I just but it's a way,

it's a way of creating. And and I and I always say,

and ray you you I may have said this the last time you and I

talked on the show. I always say that if you can take negative things,

you know, whether it be a depression or dealing with PTSD or just

a problem that you're going through, whatever it is, anything negative that is

affecting you, if you can take that and create something positive with that,

then you're you're taking this negative thing and doing something positive with it. So

you're you're making use of it in a sense. So that here, here's

a suggestion. UM, I was just reading a Stephen king Um one of

his um novellas or whatever they're called, with the short stories in them.

Yeah, and he always starts the story with wouldn't it be funny? If

so, maybe that could be a thing, you know, when when you're

starting to get down and the thing is getting down about, well, wouldn't

wouldn't it be funny? If I like that? I like that, Shannon,

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm always looking for in perth um

for ideas of inspiration. So I think you've you've provided that for me.

Just there. Thank you, very nice, very nice. I'm great good.

I have one thing I say real quick, hopefully I won't screw it

up. I don't remember. A long time ago, Um, I would

take a ride on a steel horse fly alone, could ride a real horse

through a field of flowers and wild grasses. Well, the birds thrilled their

night song in a distant wood as the sun kisses mountainside a peach good night,

and the clouds hang their tapestry in the sky. Wow, Shannon,

you've been holding out on us. That's that's right to go. Oh,

that's that's that's really nice. I didn't know. I didn't know you could

ride like that. Yeah, that's I had that one in my head for

many years. I mainly wrote it down. Oh wow, I'll be damned.

Yeah. Oh wow. Well it's amazing, Shannon. Yeah, I

like it. Thank you. It kind of you know, if you listen

to it and your picture, you know, you can almost see you can

see the forest, and you hear the birds, and you know it evokes

it evokes all that imagery. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah. Oh, very

thank you for sharing that, Shannon. Yeah, thank you, Shannon.

Very nice. All right, you guys, sir, be good and I

have a nice weekend. And Matt said, how did DJ Stephen policy?

I will I will all right, Shannon, all right, thank you for

the call. See you, Shannon, bye bye, Thank you. All

right By bye. All right, very nice, nice here from Shannon.

That does open up a line for Oh, actually we have another call.

Ray. You're bringing in a lot of calls today. This is wonderful,

Hill, wonderful. All right, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this?

Hi mad? It's scary? Hey Gary? How you? And?

Um? Yeah? I was. I felt like I was at my therapist.

Yeah, is that a good thing? I loved. I love that

song. I had my small I had my usually listened to my big radio,

but I have my little small radio and I had to have the headphones.

The musician in me, I had to listen to the song. Yeah,

thank you for a little song kind of fit. You close your eyes

and you can feel that, well, I feel music. I'm weird like

that, but I can feel the music in me, being in the musician.

And uh, it was really good. It was really good. Yeah.

That's what I do. I write. I write my poetry. It's

been been three years since I tried to try to take my life, so

but things are great. Issue has been really good, good good. And

I wrote a grateful poem. Um a while ago, I had to write

some stuff I have I do um um, oh, I write my journal.

I have a journal that I write good days and bad days I have

to do, and I've already filled up one volume of it, but also

with little poems. And I wrote this little one if I could read it,

if I may, Yeah, please, okay, um, It's it's

just something I threw together one day I was sitting outside. So it's called

the Grateful Poem for life. It has taken me some time to come out

of the darkness and see the light, to have happiness come back in my

life. I choose not to be like a mushroom, but to be a

tall pine that can breathe the fresh air and see the warm sunshine. Wow.

Well, I want to respond to to you, Gary and Matt.

I've got something very strong coming to me. I'm working on a community anthem

project in my own local area at the current time, and I've even got

a symbol of that, which is a cap, so hence the acronym community

Anthem Project. And I've had a vision for a long time of people coming

together to create. So I'm not asking anybody to say yes at the moment,

but through the conduit of Matt, because I know myself and Matt I've

spoken in the past about joining together in creativity, and we can hold hands

across the pond, across the water, and we do have a connection,

if nothing else in language. Even though there are some differences in everyday language,

we share the language that we are understand And I want to say this

here and now, and I hadn't prepared for this. We've had two pieces

of poetry read, and I'm not taking over. I'm not taking control,

but I'd like to introduce the Conceptual Thought or a USA version of the Community

Anthem Project. So essentially, the idea is as many people as possible bringing

together words that create a song that is of the people, by the people,

for the people. So it's not a song that's written for us that

represents us. It does represent us because we've written it. So that's just

just something I just want to put in there, because your your words are

amazing, Gary and Shannon's poetry, and I'm sure there's many others as well.

So I'm not I couldn't believe it. I felt good. It felt

like I was riding a bike mourrisingle, you know, because had the iron

horse right wonderful and that got me. I'm not putting Matt on the spot

and saying, you know, Matt has to say yes now, but I

think it would be very very interesting to write a um a USA community anthem

um. And I'm happy to work with Matt and you know if that's something

that might be a possibility. No, I love it. I love it.

Yeah, absolutely, it's a great idea. Yeah, absolutely, all

right, wonderful. Well, yeah, Gary, thank you so much for

the call, my friend, and for sharing that poem. And all right,

we're very glad. We're very good. I'll unblock the phone. I

know I talked to No, it's all good, it's all good. But

uh no, we appreciate the call. Thank you so much. Gary,

I just wanted to express that. No, no, we're glad, we're

glad you didn't. Thank you. Lovely to hear you go. Yeah,

and I'll be listening listening to the rest of the show, and you know,

like I love you guys, and I love you and then Jenny,

but I said, I had to say that, you know, because I

heard it so well. Helps. Yeah, all right, thank you very

much for allowing me to read it, and you guys have a great day,

all right, Thanks Garry, Bye bye. All right, very nice

here from Gary. That doesn't open up the studio line six three two five

six seven six zo three two five six seven. We're talking with Ray Coates.

He is skyping in from the UK and uh we played uh oh,

actually we already have another call. Wow, you're you're really bringing him in

today, Ray, This is this is excellent. Our friend, Our friend

Ron is on the line. High Ron, Hi, guys, I really

wanted to listen because I'm very very much enjoying the topic. It's it's so

forth. But the reason I'm calling is earlier today, I was listening to

a country song that I've never and I don't know the artist, but it's

it's kind of amazing what words could be put into a song. And this

particular person that was singing he was losing his daughter, she was getting married,

and he said in the words of the song, he talked about how

I loved her first, I held her first, and things like that,

and I was like, wow, that's really cool. The powerful aren't my

room? You know, I can't repeat it and make it as powerful as

the actual words, but when I heard it, I only had to hear

her once to open my eyes and say wow. I mean, I hear

the guy's story. You know, that's his little baby getting take it off

to get married. I think I think I know the song. I think

it's called I Loved Her First. I forget the artist, but I think

I know the song that was it, because what else could it be?

That was it? I think? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Country artists

tend to go for the obvious song title. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've

heard the song. Oh, very good, Maybe it's you said later on,

I'll try to YouTube it, you know, try to catch it again,

because I guess I just really stuck with me just I said, wow,

you know those are how could you? How could a writer put together

such powerful words that are easy to understand? So that was my thing,

you know, Yeah, yeah, no, very good. It's one last

final thing and then and then I will go. Um, I bought you

a magazine that yesterday I was over in Hanaffits and it was fifty years of

kiss from the beginning to who they were before they were kissed, in their

names and all that. Yes, it was pretty cool. I started reading

it today and I was going to drop it off today, but I didn't

want to just do a drop in because I didn't know what your situation was

over there. Yeah, but I think you'll like it. And you know,

after you read it, if you get done with it, you don't

pass it on the Quali. Sure well, I appreciate that. Ron.

Thank you. All right, all right, Ron, thank you for the

call. Appreciate it. I have a good weekend. Bye bye. By

the way, Ray If if you're curious, Kiss happens to be my favorite

band. That's why. That's why Ron was wonderful excited to talk about that.

Um Hey, speaking of which, I know we've talked about it before,

but can you tell us a little bit about you know, you mentioned

John Lennon earlier. Can you tell us a little bit about influences. I'm

particularly curious to hear you talk about that again because, like I said,

I feel like the music that you're making with the I mean, it really

comes across me. With the two new tracks here and at the end of

our conversation we'll play the other song, Flowers Die. But I feel like

you've you've evolved a lot, and I'm curious can you kind of remind us

or tell us, you know, for the first time for newer listeners,

UM about some of your musical influences and maybe a little bit about your process

of writing. It sounded like a Ron in particular was interested in you know,

how does a songwriter uh come up with lyrics? And obviously you know

these lyrics. Are you talked about what FishTank is about? For example?

But yeah, can you tell us a little bit about influences and a little

bit about your process? Well, it's messages for me, so listen.

You know, it's listening to individuals who share things every day, you know,

within conversation, within reading, within even you know, watching something in

the television, or just being out and about with your own thoughts constantly.

I know Lennon that he essentially looked for messages and absolutely everything. I think

towards the conclusion tragic assassination end of his life, he would I would suggest

that the word that's coming to me had a calling, a calling of not

just being a writer, not just being a composer, not just being you

know, one of the beatles. I think labels are easy to give,

but I'm just I'm just drawn because of the simplicity of the message he was

sharing. You know, I've watched videos of him multiple times and when he

says, you know, I'm not saying we've got all of the answers.

All we're saying is give piece of chance. Yeah, So I think music

for me, you can you can have music that is pink and fluffy and

poppy, and you know, popcorn music essentially. That's okay. I'm not

I'm not against pop genre. Sure, at times I use it as a

vehicle for messages because you know, if you've got a really really killer hook,

you know, a very very catchy chorus and earworm as it's referred to

often, you know you've got something then that plants itself in people's consciousness.

That ultimate then can contribute towards an adjustment of thought. So whenever I write,

I'm not saying everything as kind of like deep dark, meaning there's a

very light material that I've written. I'm not against at times using expletives in

certain songs when it calls for it, but I won't necessarily do that in

every song. So I think the answer to the question really is that inspiration

exists everywhere, and I'm grateful for the opportunity to be a conduit to open

myself to receive and then to transmit, and above all, else. It's

with the point of view of bringing it down to the common denominator of all

of us, our humanity. How can we make life better together? I

do shout out at times against propaganda within the world, against governments, against

corruption within religion, human trafficking, child traffic. Not an easy subject,

but something that I've written about because these things need to be talked about.

And for me it's that, you know, I use the means of music

as a vehicle for conveying a wide variety of messages, and John Lennon has

to be one of the biggest influences. I don't think I've shared this with

you before, but I had a very profound dream in I think probably early

twenties, in my early twenties, and it was more than a dream,

and I imagined myself writing Imagine with John Lennon, really and I closed the

door on the thought. I genuinely did because of the belief system I had

at the time. I saw that as being a threat of an invasion of

some negative force, if you like, a demon type thing. I now

look at the reality of it that it doesn't surprise me that so many people

key into the song Imagine, you know, it doesn't matter what music genre

you have. You know, if you like heavy heavy rock, everyone has

a respect with a song because the message is so beautifully simple and it's something

that I don't think there are many people would disagree with the sentiments that John

Lennon wrote. So that's where I come from with writing. I'm looking for

messages of unity above anything else. Bowie Bowie, I've been influenced by him,

so the multiple genres and the multiple identities. So currently I'm releasing music

under the name Ray Coats, I'm releasing music under the name Oversold In the

Architects of Passion, I'm releasing music under the name Minstrel and Bart. I'm

working with a guitarist from Scotland, and I'm releasing music now under the name

The architect As You're going to play in a moment, And the reason for

that is it's like a lot of different aspects and elements of my view and

not just mine, but the view of others on life. And we live

in a very trapped world at times that tries to make us think we just

have to be one thing, when the truth is we're so many different things.

So therefore I'm drawn to Bowie, because Bowie could put on these alter

egos and be different people and have different energies. And I think that's actually

true of all of us, you know, because we're not just one thing,

you know, we have a number of different elements to all of us.

So I'm interested in people, I'm interested in others, and I'm interested

in absorbing as much energy from as many different places as I can to then

transmit that into a collective, connective, one consciousness sound. And I don't

think in my lifetime I'll ever achieved that. The feeling of It's like writing

a love song, isn't it. You know, nobody's ever written a perfect

love song. That's why people still keep writing. So for me, it's

the pursuit. It's the desire to connect with others and abroader view of creativity

that we can share together. Well, it's a great man one sang.

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. What's wrong with

that? I'd like to know. By the way, a nice compliment here,

Dave Wally, who's a very talented musician in his own right. I

said in the chat room, listening to this makes me feel like I need

to dig deeper than my pop Americana bs. Wow, we have a we

have a we have a call to Ray. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton

unleashed. Who's this hello? Oh it's the phantom. Okay, never mind,

there was somebody there, but it might have been might have pocket dialed

us. Um, Ray, we are we are approaching the top of the

hour. It goes so fast. You've been a very gener us with your

time as as always, and we appreciate it. I love talking to you,

love talking to you. I love what you're doing. Great stuff.

Um, before we begin to wrap up with you, And like I said,

once we conclude our conversation, we'll play the the other new song that

you sent. Um. But uh, please let everyone know who's listening,

where they can go to find you online, keep up with everything that you're

doing, projects, music, all of it. What should people know?

And uh and you know, and of course remind us to how you spell

your last name because I've seen Coats spelled a number of different ways over the

years. So we want to make sure people can find you. Well.

I'll definitely drop some links in the comments. Oh please yeah, great?

So R A Y C A T E S. So there's an E in

it, so c A T. Yes, that's probably the best place to

find me. So even on my personal page. In social media, I

share music. I've got a couple of websites. I think one of them

is might changed from but if you look for Raycoat's voice, so Raycoat's voice,

and there's a story buying that share and I've shared in the past oversold

truth music dot Com is one of the websites I'm using. But I'm across

social media everywhere very approachable. I'm looking to connect with people. I'm not

just looking to put music out and be some remote figure. I want to

be, you know, as much as I can with everybody. Thank you,

Jen, thank you for that. And yeah, that's it. Thank

you. I really appreciate your time, Matt, Thank you, Jen,

and thank you to everybody who's listened and called in as well. It's been

amazing as always, wonderful. Ray Thank you so much, my friend.

We're going to play this this Sign of Flowers. Dad, by the way,

just quickly, is there anything you wanted us to know specifically about this

track? It came to me in I think it's more sort of about negative

bias, you know, why, why is it? Why is it?

I imagine at times that every flower dies simply, you know, and it's

it's not actually a negative song. It's very positive. My mind moves now,

all our minds move. They don't stay in one place. They're like

a kaleidoscope. So they're they're moving all the time. These two songs are

out now, so you can find fish Tank over so on. The architects

of Passion and Flowers Die and Michaelidoscope mind the architects, they're everywhere. And

yeah, I'm so grateful for your time, for everybody's time, and the

years, but here the years that here, I'm very grateful for outstanding.

All right, Ray, we'll let you go so we can play the track.

Ray Coats, thank you again so much, my friend. It's wonderful

to speak with you. And let's do this again soon. Absolutely cheers.

Thank you so much, Matt, thank you. Bye. All right,

very nice. I always wonder to speak with Ray Coats. And let's play.

Here's what I'm actually gonna do. I'm gonna play Flowers Die, and

then for listeners just joining us as we begin to cross over into the second

hour, I'm gonna play Flowers Die, and then I'm gonna play fish Tank

again. So if you didn't hear it at the top of the show or

near the top of the show, you'll hear it now, just because I

want to hear it again. So we're gonna play Flowers Die, and we're

gonna play the other single that Ray sent us, that's brand new fish Tank

and uh. And then well we'll take our top of the hour break a

little late, but you know, I have that flexibility, so that's fine.

We'll show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then we're gonna go

from that right into this week's classic film review. This week Eric Pilcher our

friend from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He reviews the nineteen seventy eight release starring

Christopher Reeve, Superman and a film from my childhood that I enjoyed quite a

bit. So so that is all coming up. So here it is.

We're gonna play the new track that Ray was talking about, and then we'll

play fish Tank as well. I mean they're both new and uh. And

so there's plenty more to come in the as we cross into the second hour,

new Merrow dose of Matt Connerton Unleashed. Here it is this is flowers

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hell sun steep? Can you dry your days in the ridin things to the

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of every flower that ver die in my calif sto mind, lovest in my

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the glass. Hos are the memories swimming in? I cannot begin to see

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side of the glass. Ohs on my sanity, diving in my gol swithin?

Can I see what they see? Another world closing in a dream?

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the house. How Situs raised the word looting in the dream allowing to the

bridge changed the scene looking now that's looking on side of the glass changes.

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supported statements, and I tell you that we must evacuate this planet immediately.

Chell be reasonable. Once there was a civilization much like ours, but with

a greater intelligence, greater powers, and a greater capacity for good The one

tragic moment that world was destroyed, but there was one survivor could not be

all get up because the wisdom and compassion of jo l Because he knew the

human race had the capacity for goodness. He set us his only son.

His name is. He will call himself Clark Kent, but the world will

knew him. This year supermand brings you the gift of flight. The movie

superheroes have been a popular culture phenomenon since the early thirties, from radio shows,

weekly serials at local movie houses to today, whereupon release the latest film

from the Marvel Cinematic universe dominates the box office. Comic books have translated from

page to celluloid very well, but there was a time when this was not

the case. That was until the original Superhero made his big screen debut,

and it showed that comic book films can be blockbusters. It also made us

believe a man could fly. Directed by Richard Donner and released in nineteen seventy

eight, Superman the Movie stars Christopher Reeve in his career defining role as Clark

Kent slash Superman, who, shortly after arriving in Metropolis, is set to

battle the villainous Lex Luthor screen legend Gene Hackman, who is set to cause

nuclear armageddon for financial gain. Rounding out the ensemble cast is the late Margot

Kidder, who plays, in my opinion, the quintessential Lois Lane, Ned

Beatty, and a powerful cameo by screen icon Marlon Brando who plays Superman's father,

jorl. What is a great superhero movie without a love interest and a

villain? This film delivers both, and our next two clips are examples of

this. First, shortly after meeting, Lois and Clark encounter a mugger on

the streets of Metropolis. The role reversal is quite striking. Here Clark,

who shouldn't be timid, is and Lois, who should be timid, stands

up to the criminal and ends up chasing him away. And then is the

first scene where we encounter Lex Luthor. What is great about Lex Luthor in

this film and Hackman's performance is he encapsulates everything we associate with evil and villainy

into this role. He is loud, boisterous, ego, maniacal, callous,

and even has bumbling sidekicks and not he's a really nice guy. Jimmy

alfis Man, Hey, come come on, come on, come on,

come on, Clark. I think we better get out of here. I

think we better do what he says. Come on, come on getting here

quick. Don't don't do anything. We're coming, We're helping. Come on,

these are more to be sorry, sorry, okay, okay, hold

today, just a minute, vistor, just a minute. No. I

realized, of course that times are tough for some of these days. But

this isn't the answer. You can't solve the society's problems with a gun?

You know somebody? You're right, I'm gonna turn over a new leam.

Good for you, sir. That's the spirit. So he doesn't really want

to hurt anybody. Huh, right after ripple up this lady's burds, of

course, Now come on, lady, hand it over. I don't know,

I just think maybe better. What are you doing? Car? So

are you all right? Cark? I guess it must have shaanded? I'm

sorry? Well, oh really lost? Supposing that man has shot you?

Is it worth risking your life? Were ten dollars to credit cards? I

hardressional lipstick? How did you know that? Go? What? You just

described the exact contents to my first yeh um? Wild guess docs And now

introducing lex Luthor sick. Thank you're really sick? Sickness? That's my sick.

What I'm your days of Mexican in the crime tree? No no,

no, no, no, step away from that place. How do you

choose to congratulate the greatest criminal mind of our time? Huh? You tell

me that I'm brilliant? Oh no, no, no, that would be

too obvious. I grant you charismatic, fiendishly gifted try twisted, Oh get

away? Tell me something right? Why does so many people have to die

for the crime of the century. Why you ask? Why why does the

phone always ring when you're in the bathroom? Why it's the most brilliantly diabolical

leader of our time surrounding himself a total income. I wicked, mister Luthor.

Yes, I was just talking about you. We're followed again. It's

those cat like reflexes, mister Luthor. Mister Luthor, I'm sorry, Oh,

this is that the newspaper I ask you to give me? Yeah,

why am I not reading it? Because I hadn't given it to you yet?

Right last, it's official. Thanks for the generous help of the United

States government. We were about to be involved in the greatest real estate swindle

of all time. Let's what is this obsession with real estate? A lane

land land mists Baker. When I was six years old, my father said

to me get out before that. He said, some it's not to may

rise and fall, utilities and transportation systems may collapse. People are no damn

good, but they will always need land, and they'll pay through the nose

to get it. Where this film excels, is it Brandon's the Superman Comics

to life in a way the Batman film from nineteen sixty eight did, but

it does not do it in the or the top camp be way that the

Adam West led film did. It has a quote unquote dad joke esque one

liners and quips that we expect out of the Man of Steel. Our next

clip is an example of this. We will hear Superman with his witty comebacks,

capture criminals, and much like the early comics, at the end,

we will hear from the dumbfounded police at what they have seen from the Man

of Steel. Either nothing wrong with the elevator going down? Nah, officer

good evening, officer mooney. Well, they say, confession is good for

the soul. I'd listen to this man. Take them away, let the

rass come on, Come on, okay, let's go. Let's go ross

here with us. You show you be cool. You got bad vibrations,

Studge, you don't believe me. I swear plan with a big red tape

and bright red boots as well, because the week he was gone, whoop

in the here again he gives like a big blue bird, Like a big

blue bird, don't believe with bright red boots. Tell you want us to

take the night over back in a few minutes, and I'll meet you there,

my son. At the beginning of this review, I alluded to Marlon

Brando and his performance. Although his appearance is short, it would be near

criminal to not include him. His performance as Jorrell, even the short time

he is on screen is simply mesmerizing. Our final two clips are examples of

this. First, we hear Jorrell tell his son goodbye and send him hurling

through space towards Earth as the doomed planet Crypton is destroyed. Then he speaks

to his son on his eighteenth birthday after Clark uncovers the heralded Fortress of Solitude

and sets Clark on the path that will become his life's mission. You will

caple Fow, my little glow. We will never leave you, even in

the face of our death. The richness of our lives sill be yours.

All that I have, all that I've blearned, everything I feel old isn't

more. I I bequeath you, my son. He will carry me inside

you all the day to old life. You will make my strength your own,

seen my life through your eyes, as your life will be seen through

mine. The son comes to father, and the father the son. This

is all I all I can send you. Comel, and now the fortress

of solitude. By my son, you do not remember me. I am

Joel. I'm your father. By now you will have reached your eighteenth year,

as it is measured on Earth. By that reckoning, I will have

been dead for many thousands of your years. The knowledge that I have matters

physical history. I've given you fully on your voice, You'll move home.

These are important heads, to be sure, but still manners of mere fact.

There are questions to be asked, and it is time for you to

do so. Hearing us this fortress of solitude, we shall try to find

the answers together. So my son, speak Omar. My name is Cole.

You are the only survivor of the planet Crypton. Even though you've been

raised as a human being, you are not one of them. You have

great powers, only some of which you have as yet discover. Come with

me now, my son, as we break through the bottles of your earth

confinement, traveling from time and space, the sixth mons of your parts will

far exceed those of Multumn. It is forbidden for you to interfere with human

history, rather let your leadership stir others. Two. In this next year,

we shall examine the human heart. It is more fragile than the last

year. As we passed through the flaming term moral, which is the edge

of your own galaxy. We will enter the realm of the red cryptom Sun,

source of your strength and nourishment and cause of our eventual destruction, the

planet Crypto asan your heart as it was. This year, we shall examine

the various concepts of immortality and their basis and actual fact. The total accumulation

of all knowledge spanning the twenty eight non galaxies. Such is embedded in the

crystals which I have sent along with you. Study them well, my son.

Month we have reasoned that pological judgments every time we return gunfines of your

galaxy, twelve of your years will have passed. For this reason, among

others, I have chosen Beth for you. It is now time for you

to rejoin your new world and the service collective emity. Live as one of

them, color to discover why your strengthen your power leader, always holding your

heart the pride of your special heritage. They can be a great people collel

they wish to be. They only left the light to show their way.

For this reason, about all their capacity for good, I have sent the

mute I only. This film laid the blueprint for comic book films as we

know them. Start with a powerful origin story, have a compelling villain,

add intense and explosive action with the possible love story. It seems simple enough.

However, until this film, superheroes were mainly relegated to the small screen.

This film showed that superhero movies could not just make money, but make

it by the boatloads. It grows three hundred point five million dollars worldwide,

spawned three sequels, and without a doubt, laid the groundwork for television series

that followed, such as Smallville in Lois and Clark The New Adventures of Superman.

Even the performances in this film are seen in the modern day characters of

Clark Kent, Lois Lane in Lex Luthor. It caused a renewed interest in

the comic books, and to this day remains one of the truest and greatest

comic book adaptations to hit the big screen. It is a visual tree for

anyone to see. I hope you joined me next week when in honor of

Memorial Day, we will look at the heart wrenching Steven Spielberg film saving Private

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It's Matt Connerton unleashed as we cruise into our final segment today here on

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is Friday, May nineteen, two thousand twenty three. I want to remind

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So there you go. Six zho three two five six seven is a studio

line. If you would like to join us today six three two five six

Z 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 and looks like

our friend Ron is on the line. Hello Ron. Yeah, just one

more flash and final thing. Now, I haven't seen really Superman since nineteen

seventy eight and haven't listened to that, and haven't listened to vilin Brando.

Not only if he played a pot probably better than most people could. I

kind of hand it to the writers. How a month with such perfect um

know, a story, story plot. So that's all I wanted to say

on that. I was like, wow, that that really brought back memories.

What my other point was, Um, I don't know what the rest

of your day should be, or even the next couple of days, but

I wonder if you could touch upon the FBI whistleblowers. They've lost their job

because I've been following up on it a little bit on YouTube, and um,

you know, and it's horrific actually what's going on. But after all

this said and done, I really don't know what they did. So I'm

about weaponizing. And I know they got fired because you know, they thought

they were just short of disgracing the country or you know, or treason.

But I really don't know what they did. But the FBI, um no,

they scripped them of their credentials but took away their lives. Um,

these are people that served our country, and you know, they were outstanding

people and we really the FBI really squished them all like a cigarette. So

if you could, I'll lining up to get the answer off the year.

But I'd like to know if I could just what they did home. All

right, Ron, all right, very good, Well, thank you for

the call, appreciate it. Thank you all right, bye bye. Um.

So, actually, well, to answer Ron's question, I have a

bit of a non answer at the moment. We're not going to get into

that right now. We'll get into it next week. I need to look

at that a little more closely, and you know, there's a lot there.

I want to make sure I'm getting it right. And that, of

course is one of those stories, as is anything with the FBI these days.

It's it's so politicized, and both the left and the right kind of

put their own spins on it. Of course, so I want to Um,

that's not something Ron, with apologies, that's not something I want to

get into today, partly because I think it's it's probably going to take longer

than the time that we have left today on the program, but also I

want to take a closer look at it, so I will make you this

promise. However, I did not make a note of it and well into

a deeper on the show on Monday. So or if not, well,

I shouldn't even make that promise. We'll dive deeper into the show. We'll

dive deeper into the subject sometime on the show this week. We've got a

lot of great guests coming up and so forth, So I shouldn't just say,

oh, we'll do it Monday and then look at Monday's schedule and it's

like, oh, actually we got a lot going on Monday. But sometime

next week we will look into it further. Run because it is important,

so so very good, and I do appreciate the call. And that opens

up the phone line for you. Six zo three two five zero six zoo

seven six zo three two five zero six z seven. I do want to

say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat. Oh. Joe Friday in

the chat room says, uh, my house was searched by the FBI.

True story. Why would the FBI search the home of someone named Joe Friday?

I mean that that's a great U name. You know, you know

you don't anyway? Oh, And Joe Friday also says Heidi run. I

think its supposed to be Howdy run on or Hello run? When is the

party? I didn't know Ron was throwing a party. Well, we will

say hello everybody in the Facebook live chat quickly though. Melanie of course is

in there, along with Jenny, Jay Fed, Crystal, our friend from

Illinois, Dave Wally. There was some conversation in the chat while we were

talking to our friend Ray Coates from the UK, and thank you again,

Ray for joining us today. Really appreciate that. Let's see. Jay Fed

made a comment, you should do Shannon's poetry Friday. Yeah, Shannon called

the show shared some poetry that she'd written. I thought it was really beautiful.

She did that while we were talking with Ray Coates via Skype. Melanie

says in the chat room, I wrote a poem about a guy from Nantucket.

You know, I think I've actually heard that poem, Melanie, or

at least a variation of it. I'm not sure it's something that you know,

we could ever share with anyone on the air, but necessarily, let's

see. Melanie said, I love when Gary calls. Uh. Let's see.

Let's make sure we don't miss anybody in here. Miriam banish I saw

in the Facebook live chat, Hello, Miriam, Dave Wally really enjoying Ray

Coates's music. Very nice, very nice, and Jenny did drop some links

in there as well as Ray, so listeners on Facebook you can keep up

with everything he's doing. Ray says, immense gratitude tour to Matt Connerton and

Jen Coffee and all of your wonderful listeners. Thank you. Ray appreciate that

very much, and we appreciate you joining us today. Also, Crystal very

complimentary of Eric Pilcher's classic film review this week of Superman. Yes, Eric

does a great job with those, and I feel that he's gotten better and

better at them over time. I feel like the segment has really evolved.

Very popular segment on the program. Let's see. Oh. Dave Wally also

commented, Deray nice, you capture the essence of Bowie really well. Awesome.

Oh, that's a tremendous compliment. Very good, very good. All

right, we'll get into um. Oh, I have something kind of funny.

Well, I don't know if it's funny. I don't know if you'll

think it's I don't know if you'll all think it's funny. I thought it

was kind of amusing, but so I got this. I'm on the email

list for you know, our friend Dave Ridley who calls into the show from

time to time. He's a big proponent of the nh exit movement, which

is the secessionist movement. It's not just for say it's like Texas and Alaska.

For those of you who don't know, we have our own secessionist movement

here in New Hampshire, people who advocate for New Hampshire to secede from the

United States and become our own country. For the record, I do not

support that. I'm perfectly happy to talk with Dave Ridley about it, and

I'm I'm an open minded guy, but I do not support New Hampshire secession.

However, one of the things that I have said to Dave when he

when he calls into the show, I do say to Dave Ridley, you

know, uh, you could win me over on this. What if we

were to have, say, we secede from the United States and we become

our own country, would we have a nuclear weapon? Maybe just one,

just one nuke? Because I think that if we are going to do that,

we gotta do it right, we gotta go all the way with it,

and we need to make sure that we're in a position where we can

protect ourselves so the country that we seceded from the United States, uh,

doesn't decide to invade us and try to annex us back into the United States

like you know, like uh, you know, uh, Russian apologists put

an apologists will say that, well, you know, Ukraine used to be

a part of Russia. They just annexed it back. Uh. You know

what if the United States try to do that to us? So we need

to protect ourselves. And Dave Ridley seemed a little bit I don't want to

say ambivalent. Actually, he seemed entirely opposed to the idea, and I

tried to convince him. I said, look, Dave, let's have a

nuke. I'll tell you what, Just let me be in charge of it.

Dude, you can trust me. I promise you can trust me.

Ah. He seemed unconvinced. But I do think that if we are going

to be our own country, we should have some sort of military, should

we not. Well, so this email went out and I am on the

mailing list. I don't remember how I signed up on it or or how

I ended up on it. I should say, but I must have signed

up for it at some point. Perhaps I was experiencing a fugue of some

sort and decided to sign up for the mailing list for NHXIT. So I

received this email, and for a moment I was actually excited that perhaps I

had gotten through, Perhaps I had gotten my idea across for us to have

our own military. It says, actually, if we succeeded, couldn't we

just didn't occur to me until just now. Couldn't we just make the New

Hampshire National Guard, the New Hampshire Nation National Card or something. I don't

know anyway, whatever, it doesn't matter, it's never gonna happen. But

I thought perhaps when I saw this email, I was like, maybe someone's

been listening. The subject of the email is New Hampshire Secessionists to launch Air

Force Memorial Day weekend. I saw this and I said, there it is.

We're gonna have our own air force. Once we have our own air

force, you know, it's a done deal. We're going to seceed.

We're gonna have our own military. Maybe it will be great. Well,

I thought I had somehow, even though I don't even believe in the idea.

I thought I had somehow had an influence on this whole thing. I

was excited. I'm not gonna lie, you know. I got a little

bit of a big about over it. For a moment there, I was

like, oh boy, I'm pretty influential. Then I read the email and

immediately all of my hopes were dashed. It says here NHXIT, the group

that put New Hampshire independence legislation in front of the full State House last year,

will be taking to the skies the weekend of May twenty seven, but

instead of carrying a weapon suite, their one plane air wing will be towing

a pro independence banner around the state. That's it. And actually I seem

to remember Dave Ridley mentioning this on one of his calls. He called into

the show and mentioned there was going to be a plane flying around with a

banner. That'll bring him in. By the way, people are gonna see

that plane, They're gonna see that banner and they're gonna go, oh wow.

I'm thinking about this a whole new way. I'm sorry. I don't

mean to mock. I do genuinely like Dave Ridley, and I enjoy speaking

with him and I'm sure there's other people in the nhs AT movement who I

might find remotely tolerable. But uh, you know, I thought I saw,

you know, an air force. I thought, oh, maybe they'll

maybe they'll have maybe they'll be nuclear capable. You know, even if we

don't secede from the Union. I mean, we should be able to protect

ourselves. You know, you never know, Vermont, they might uh what

if? And again, I know we have listeners in the chat room from

Vermont, but with respect, you know, I don't know that. What

if you find yourselves running out of maple syrup or something, you know,

you might start looking at New Hampshire and say, hmm, I think I

think they have something we need and I think it's about time we go there

and take it, take it by force, and we must be able to

repel you. So I think the idea of having a nuclear capable New Hampshire

Air Force would be fantastic. And again, yes, put me in charge

of it. Yeah you can trust me. Listen, I'm very rational,

I'm very reasonable. I would not nuke anybody who didn't really deserve it,

and that is a fact. That is my promise and commitment to you.

You can trust me with a nuclear weapon. Somebody would have to make me

really mad, I mean really mad. I would have to be to actually

launch a nuclear attack. I would have to be and again, forgive,

forgive me if this is you know, harsh language. If you're listening with

your children, cover their ears, but you know it's a Friday afternoon,

we get a little loose. I'll just I'll just say it. I would

have to be significantly peeved before I would resort to launching a nuclear attack.

Okay, so it's not like, oh, oh, Matt says we can

trust him, but he I think he's got an itchy trigger finger. No

no, no, no no. I would be very very cautious and careful.

But apparently that's not what this email is about. It's about a It's

about a banner. Who I hope it's a big banner. You know,

a lot of times you see a plane. We've all experienced this, right,

You see a plane flying around, right, and you you're looking at

it and you realize it's got a banner on the back of it, attached

to it, and you're kind of like squinting, going, what does that

say? I can barely read it? It's so far away. Of course,

it's far away. It's up in the sky, like what what what?

What does that say? Like half the time you can't you know,

And I mean I can almost never read them, and I have great vision

I had Lasik, and I can't even read these banners being flown around.

I don't know what they say. And half the time you see that,

you don't even care what it says, really, because it's like, okay,

I'm looking at it. I can't read it from here. It's too

far away. But it's probably an advertisement for some business I don't care about

anyway, So whatever, and you end up not even put in any thought.

You end up bear even bothering to squint. But I'm sure, I'm

sure this will win people over. I should not be I should not be

snarky about it, even though I think my snark is part of what brings

people into the show. But let's see. But I am concerned that my

snark is at about a ten, and we might need it at an eight,

you know, because we want to as we move towards the end of

the show, we want to end positively. It says here, getting back

to this email, there's not much to it. In part this is a

reaction to federal ray Oh god, guys, I cannot. I cannot bring

down the snark. We're gonna have to keep the snark at a ten for

this, I'm sorry. In part this is a reaction to federal raids on

New Hampshire's bitcoin businesses. Besides running torture chambers abroad, Washington is the reason

we can't have nice things here. Okay, the torture chambers abroad. Actually,

all right, you know what, I will turn down the snark.

There is a process. There is something known as extraordinary rendition, which is

where we take American enemy combatants, I think, is how we designate them

and we send them to foreign places where they can be tortured and we just

kind of pretend, well, you know, we don't know what's going on

there. Really well we're the ones who sent them there. But now whatever,

and so the torture chambers thing that does happen, and that is a

legitimate concern. All right, I'm bringing the snark down to about a seven

and a half. There's a link and or you can contact Ian Freeman via

Shire Society dot com or free talk laugh dot com. So there you go.

And I like Ian by the way, just for the record, no

problem with Ian. Oh, I'll be damned. Dave Wally is on the

phone, Hey, Dave, Hey, I couldn't let the weekend without clearing

the air on Chip, without clearing the air on what Kiss? Oh?

Oh Kiss? Yes, thank you, but I'm I'm glad. Let's let's

clear the air on Kiss. It's been uh, it's been. It's been

decades now. And you were very dismissive, okay of my my taste in

music all those years ago at Conquered High School. I know, I know,

but let me tell you, Yes, years go by and we grow

right. Yes. And I saw Kiss Live and Oh nine when they were

reviving the Destroyer tour. Oh no kidding, Yeah, And uh I would

I wouldn't say, you know, they're definitely not at the top of my

list. Still. Yeah, but respect what they did, and I believe

firmly. Had I not grown up in the house I grew up in where

I was not allowed to own a Kiss record without the child, yeah,

they might have influenced me more. I can definitely see it. And I

definitely respect what they did for the industry. Wow, I really just couldn't

let it go without, you know, issuing a decades old apology for giving

you a hard time about your your love of a truly great American band.

Well, I appreciate that, Dave. And then no apology was needed.

I mean, hey, listen, man, I mean, I I believe

me. I've taken a lot of criticism from many people over over my life

for my love of Kiss and it's it's it's it's never never a problem.

And it didn't bother me in high school either. I was I was half

kidding, but but but it did stick with me. So maybe maybe something

ously it bothered me a little bit because I never did forget it. You

never let it go. Apparently, apparently it was still floating around in the

back of my mind. Uh no, I I appreciate it, Uh,

Dave, Again, no apology was necessary. But that's cool. It's cool

that you went and saw them live. That's awesome. Yeah, No,

it was, I mean it was apparently that tour was I think it was

thirty five years Oh. Apparently that tour was kind of the set, the

costumes, everything was aligned with that original Destroyer tour that pretty much launched him

because it wasn't that what Alive came out of? Well? There was?

Well no, so it was Alive. It was the Alive thirty five tour.

So Destroyer was that's what it was. Yeah, yeah, Destroyer was

the Destroyer was the studio album that came out after Alive. Um, okay,

but yeah it was the Alive thirty five tour. Yeah, yeah,

that was a good tour. And here's here's a really fun fact about Dave

Wally. Years years later, I was between bands here in Chicago, and

I auditioned for and got but didn't stick it out. I was going to

be Jane in a Kiss tribute band, no kidding, yep, Oh that's

wild. But I had too much swing? What do you mean? Um?

You know, I came in with a Fender p bass and you know

I can play the songs. But yeah, the guy, the the ace

in the band was just a stickler for everything, and he was like,

you're just swinging too much and there must be something with my playing where I

hang slightly behind the beat as a bass player, off and out of just

habit. Yeah, and we might be able to blame Kurt Extram for that,

but uh no, but you know, so there were some struggles,

and I started thinking, Man, do I want to invest the few thousand

dollars it's going to take me to get a u Oh gosh, I think

the it was a Gibson Ripper base that he was playing because they wanted to

do that version of kids would have had to be a Gibson Ripper, which

is an expensive thing to find these days. Yeah, and then the costumes

and the boots and the wigs. I was like, I don't know about

it, it's a commite eventually dropped it, but yeah, so so I

have much more respect for that band. Oh that's awesome years and years later.

So I didn't want you to think that I uh, you know,

I sat here in scott the heat. Still No, I appreciate it.

You know. What's what's interesting, Dave two, is over the course of

the decades, um, there's there's just been kind of a general like at

some point, I mean a lot of critics will never like them, but

but there seemed to be and I noticed it started really during the grunge era,

and it was sort of gradual and incremental, but a lot of people

who did scoff at them sort of maybe grew to have almost a grudging respect

for them in some ways, and they became sort of more just generally respected

within the industry, I think, than they had been previously. It's it's

interesting, you know. And then eventually they got into the Rock and Roll

Hall of Fame and all that. But yeah, I think if you hear

more musicians who are at that time during the grunge are young talk about their

influences, almost every single one of them is talking about sitting down and you

know, trying to learn Risks off of Kiss record. Yeah, Dave Grohl

talks about Kiss all the time. Oh yeah, so you get that,

you get I think the people that despised Kiss despised heavy metal when grunge was

taking off. I think that lightened up over time because you had more people

talking about you know, especially now where there's so much information out there and

so many interviews and people just saying, yeah, these were the this is

what got me got a guitar in my hands for the first place, you

know, in the first place, right right, Um, yeah, exactly,

Uh, Dave, we are we are almost out of time, my

friend. So but I am very glad you called. I appreciate it and

thank you for sending me that music, and uh we will be uh,

we'll be in touch. I'm gonna have uh, I'm gonna have Jenny reach

out to you. She does all the all the booking. I'd love to

schedule a you know, we'll do a phone interview or whatever we can do

and uh, we'll do the whole thing if you want, cool man,

Yeah, that'd be awesome. Yeah, yeah, we'll make it happen.

Um. So I'm really glad you reached out to me. And I'm really

this was a great conversation. I appreciate it, my friend. Thank you

so much. You're welcome and thank you. And I really am enjoying the

show now that I've found it. I'm probably gonna been listening every every day

to wrap up my day. Oh that's awesome. That's awesome. All right,

the great Dave Wally have a good one, all right, Dave,

thank you you too, man, take care bye bye, all right,

awesome. Yes, that was Dave Wally. Dave and I went to high

school together. And um, I mean i've seen Dave since high school because

he was in a I mentioned this the other day when he showed up in

the chat room. He was in a band called October Suns, and I

had booked them for at least one event back when I was working at Strawberries,

and I had seen actually i'd seen that band too at other venues.

So I've seen Dave since high school, but but not for a long time

actually since the October Suns days. And obviously he's living in Chicago now.

But that's that's very very cool. Oh the time though, time goes so

much faster than we realize. Time just flies by. But wonderful here from

him. He's a very talented musician and he did send me some music.

He's you know, he's always got something going so uh and we will will

make something happen with that. So but we are out of time. Thank

you everybody for joining me today. Thank you again to Ray Coates for a

wonderful conversation and we got to feature his new music. And thank you,

of course as always Eric Pilcher for the classic film review. Don't forget grand

A State of Mind if you're listening live on Friday. Grand A State of

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