Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-2-26 hour 2

0:02 Speaker 1: You're listening to Macconterton unleashed on to MNAH ninety five

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0:27 Speaker 2: I'm cooking a machine. I feel it, never feeling complete.

0:35 Speaker 3: There's so much you can do, living life as controlled

0:41 Speaker 3: on a violence, never having control.

0:46 Speaker 2: But inside your DNA is always thinking back as you

0:49 Speaker 2: feel so defeated. It's just the hope that you lack

0:52 Speaker 2: that's repeating. Stay the course, now, stay the course slips

1:02 Speaker 2: daily war. Slip is daily war. You'll find um some

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1:28 Speaker 2: From the ground, from the ground of I know life

1:36 Speaker 2: can betrayed.

1:39 Speaker 3: Oh you don't wait, that don't mean a thing when

1:44 Speaker 3: times of Brendan, I are keeping up with the jones is.

1:49 Speaker 2: To get the wish. We don't need to try to

1:51 Speaker 2: cure lonely. Stay the course, now, stay the course.

2:01 Speaker 4: You'll buy yours some mom sir, and they don't stop.

2:07 Speaker 2: And thing because you still don't ever hear you rebel

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2:29 Speaker 5: From. No.

2:31 Speaker 6: No, you'll find you.

2:35 Speaker 4: Some moms and don't stophing because you never so don't.

2:44 Speaker 7: Not hear that.

2:45 Speaker 4: Because I'm getting anything you rebuild your set round the rock.

2:54 Speaker 4: You rebuild your sack from the grounds.

3:04 Speaker 8: That's you think you else tells God.

3:11 Speaker 2: Going me well meo sound.

3:17 Speaker 9: The thing was a coast.

3:21 Speaker 2: Used to build cure no wellbell.

3:32 Speaker 9: By some.

3:37 Speaker 2: You don't sell the thing because.

3:42 Speaker 10: So don't have.

3:44 Speaker 7: The game.

3:47 Speaker 8: Rebel yes, s probably.

3:50 Speaker 2: Rap rebel yourself.

4:00 Speaker 7: From from the ground up.

4:35 Speaker 11: There it is from the ground up by the band

4:38 Speaker 11: Blue Light Effect. And we're gonna be talking with one

4:41 Speaker 11: of the guys from the band in just a moment.

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5:03 Speaker 11: Today is Saturday May second, twenty twenty six, and we

5:08 Speaker 11: have joining us via WhatsApp Craig Siegel Bomb from the

5:12 Speaker 11: band Blue Light Effect.

5:13 Speaker 12: Hello Craig, Hey, Matt, how are you? Can you hear me?

5:16 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, you sound great. Thank you for joining us.

5:18 Speaker 11: I really like this project a lot, and thank you absolutely.

5:22 Speaker 11: I like the positivity too of songs like that and

5:25 Speaker 11: Wreckage is another another really great song. You guys got

5:29 Speaker 11: a bunch of great tunes. But so I obviously will

5:33 Speaker 11: we'll cut right to the really interesting thing about this

5:36 Speaker 11: project that that kind of hooked. I know Jenny made

5:39 Speaker 11: a comment to when she saw the email because she

5:41 Speaker 11: she's a former EMT, so she really likes first Responders.

5:45 Speaker 11: This band has made up are all four of you

5:47 Speaker 11: guys first responders.

5:50 Speaker 12: I'm a former first respond I recently retired.

5:52 Speaker 11: Okay.

5:53 Speaker 12: The singer Vinnie is a nurse, and our bass player

5:58 Speaker 12: Justin and our drummer Joe are both teachers.

6:00 Speaker 11: Oh wow, okay, excellent, Yeah, excellent. So how did this

6:04 Speaker 11: band start? Because I was reading something about it it

6:08 Speaker 11: kind of the pandemic sort of sparked this project.

6:12 Speaker 7: Yeah.

6:12 Speaker 12: So Vinnie and I I've been trying to work together

6:15 Speaker 12: on and off for years, and for whatever reason, it

6:18 Speaker 12: just didn't didn't work out. And finally I was working

6:21 Speaker 12: on some music and getting reached out to various singers,

6:26 Speaker 12: and I sent some track to Vinnie and immediately he

6:31 Speaker 12: had he had, you know, lyrics and melodies worked out

6:35 Speaker 12: for the songs, and he connected with them immediately. So

6:38 Speaker 12: we started this project, like like you said, during the pandemic,

6:43 Speaker 12: and we finally we did a record. It came out

6:47 Speaker 12: at the end of twenty twenty two, so it took

6:48 Speaker 12: us a year and a half to two years to

6:51 Speaker 12: do it, between Vinnie and I and Gina Catillo, who

6:55 Speaker 12: was a singer songwriter, she helped us with some writing

6:58 Speaker 12: and producing, okay, And so the three of us wrote

7:01 Speaker 12: the record and we released it in twenty twenty two,

7:05 Speaker 12: and uh yeah, and it's just it's it's been great.

7:09 Speaker 12: We just we haven't stopped since we've We've have so

7:13 Speaker 12: many ideas. We have enough material for another record, but

7:18 Speaker 12: we just wanted to get a song out that it's

7:19 Speaker 12: been so long. We just put from the ground up

7:22 Speaker 12: out back in March and the March okay. So it

7:25 Speaker 12: was a good, It was a good. It was a

7:26 Speaker 12: long while since we released something, so yeah, but we

7:28 Speaker 12: have we have a ton more stuff coming. So we're

7:32 Speaker 12: just gonna probably do some singles, you know, every couple

7:35 Speaker 12: of months and put out.

7:35 Speaker 11: Singles excellent, excellent, and you guys are all Are you

7:38 Speaker 11: guys all from the New York area.

7:40 Speaker 12: Yeah, we're all we're all Long Island based.

7:42 Speaker 11: Yeah, okay, okay, some real New Yorkers here and you've

7:45 Speaker 11: got I was noticing too, So is this uh is

7:49 Speaker 11: this accurate? Your song Wreckage Uh did really well in Australia?

7:54 Speaker 12: Yeah, actually from the ground up is doing well there too.

7:56 Speaker 13: Good.

7:57 Speaker 12: But does it does a show there in Australia that

8:00 Speaker 12: that's really back in the band and I've been playing

8:02 Speaker 12: us Yeah, it was went to number one on one

8:04 Speaker 12: of the shows there.

8:05 Speaker 11: Oh excellent.

8:06 Speaker 12: Yeah, and records just went to number five last week there.

8:09 Speaker 11: So oh congratulations, thank you.

8:11 Speaker 12: Yeah. So it's been going really well, and you know,

8:14 Speaker 12: we're trying to get some shows. But we're playing actually

8:17 Speaker 12: our first show in about two and a half years.

8:19 Speaker 12: We haven't that's how long its been since we played.

8:21 Speaker 12: We're playing out in Montalk on May fifteenth. We're doing

8:24 Speaker 12: the Montalk Music Festival. We're doing two shows and one night,

8:27 Speaker 12: oh no kidding, two different venues, so it's going to

8:30 Speaker 12: be an adventure, but we're looking forward to it.

8:31 Speaker 11: That's great that you're doing a festival though, because something

8:33 Speaker 11: I always tell I say this to everybody. Festivals are

8:36 Speaker 11: such a tremendous opportunity because not only does it get

8:39 Speaker 11: you in front of an audience that might not otherwise

8:41 Speaker 11: see you and might not be familiar with you, and

8:43 Speaker 11: you have a chance to really exponentially and very quickly

8:46 Speaker 11: build that fan base up, but also to just the

8:49 Speaker 11: people you meet, you know, the industry people that you'll

8:52 Speaker 11: you'll meet, and the new connections that you can make

8:55 Speaker 11: and exactly, yeah, there's there's nothing better than a festival.

8:59 Speaker 11: But it sounds like you've already been working with a

9:01 Speaker 11: heavy hitter, like you mentioned Gina Catillo. Am I saying

9:04 Speaker 11: her name correctly? Now she's h how did you come

9:08 Speaker 11: to work with her?

9:09 Speaker 12: Well, she's actually my wife.

9:11 Speaker 11: Oh I'll be okay, Well that's easy then.

9:14 Speaker 7: Yeah.

9:15 Speaker 12: No, she actually she heard Vinnie and I working on

9:17 Speaker 12: the songs when we started the project and she's like, oh,

9:21 Speaker 12: what's going on here? And as we're working in my

9:24 Speaker 12: studio when she heard us, and she's just like, I

9:26 Speaker 12: want to get involved in this, and she did like

9:28 Speaker 12: and it just went from there.

9:31 Speaker 11: Oh fantastic. So so was she also part of what? Well?

9:37 Speaker 11: I guess let me ask the question this way. If

9:39 Speaker 11: she wasn't your wife, do you think you'd be doing

9:41 Speaker 11: this because I get the impression. I mean, she's probably obviously,

9:45 Speaker 11: she's very encouraging, you know, she got involved in the

9:47 Speaker 11: project with writing and producing and so forth. But I mean,

9:50 Speaker 11: if it were it not for her, do you think

9:52 Speaker 11: you would have pursued this.

9:54 Speaker 12: Oh yeah, Vinie and I were definitely going to do

9:57 Speaker 12: this either way, but yeah, but think her involvement brought

10:01 Speaker 12: it to another level.

10:02 Speaker 11: Yeah. Oh that's fantastic.

10:04 Speaker 12: Yeah yeah.

10:06 Speaker 11: And then uh, do you guys, I mean, this is

10:09 Speaker 11: probably this would be a challenging to do, but do

10:12 Speaker 11: you have any plans to travel to Australia to do

10:14 Speaker 11: any touring?

10:17 Speaker 12: It would, like you said, it would be it would

10:19 Speaker 12: take a lot, It be a lot, Yeah, it would,

10:22 Speaker 12: it would it would? I mean we would love to

10:24 Speaker 12: do it obviously, but would it would? You know, if

10:26 Speaker 12: everything worked worked out right, we would definitely definitely want

10:29 Speaker 12: to do it.

10:30 Speaker 11: Yeah. Traveling is a little expensive these days.

10:33 Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean that goes for anywhere, I mean even anywhere,

10:35 Speaker 12: even in the States, anywhere, you know, oh yeah, anywhere,

10:38 Speaker 12: as long as it's worthwhile for us to do it,

10:39 Speaker 12: you know, what I mean.

10:40 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And in terms of the songs I've noticed,

10:45 Speaker 11: I mean, there's definitely I use this word a lot,

10:48 Speaker 11: uh in my you know, I'm hypnotherapist and when I'm

10:51 Speaker 11: working with clients, I use this word a lot. But

10:53 Speaker 11: I also find this, this word applies to your music.

10:55 Speaker 11: There's a sense of empowerment. Whether whether it's a song

10:58 Speaker 11: like from the Ground Up or wreck, there's there's really, uh,

11:01 Speaker 11: a very empowering message. And I mean, is that important

11:05 Speaker 11: to you?

11:06 Speaker 5: Is that?

11:06 Speaker 6: Is that?

11:07 Speaker 5: Uh?

11:08 Speaker 11: I mean obviously not every song is is like that necessarily? Right, Well,

11:12 Speaker 11: none of it's I mean not nothing that I listened

11:13 Speaker 11: to is negative. But you know, but there's a song, actually,

11:16 Speaker 11: I think there's a duet that you do with Gina

11:17 Speaker 11: if I'm not mistaken, where it's kind of.

11:19 Speaker 12: Yeah, there's two on the record, save Us for Another

11:22 Speaker 12: Life and Tempered Yeah.

11:23 Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, But but but the overarching theme seems to

11:27 Speaker 11: be one of positivity and empowerment.

11:30 Speaker 12: Yeah, that's definitely that's I mean that Viny writes all

11:32 Speaker 12: his lyrics, but he's yeah, that's that's definitely a conscious thing. Yeah,

11:38 Speaker 12: Because there's a lot of you know, hard rock and

11:42 Speaker 12: having metal music out there, that's a lot of negative stuff.

11:45 Speaker 12: And I mean we we definitely feel that stuff obviously

11:47 Speaker 12: sometimes sure, we're just trying to go about it a

11:50 Speaker 12: different way. And you know, I think it's it's connecting

11:53 Speaker 12: with people.

11:54 Speaker 11: How do you think, Uh, I mean, did your job

11:58 Speaker 11: I mean obviously you know you mentioned you're retired now,

12:00 Speaker 11: But I mean, how does how does your experience professionally

12:03 Speaker 11: influence your music? Do you think? Because it must in

12:06 Speaker 11: some way, right.

12:09 Speaker 12: Yeah, I guess so, I mean I not consciously, but

12:12 Speaker 12: I guess. Yeah, you know, when I was when I

12:15 Speaker 12: was on the job, I was the police officer. I

12:16 Speaker 12: don't know if I had mentioned that, but I was

12:17 Speaker 12: a police officer. Yeah for uh, but it definitely you know,

12:21 Speaker 12: like I'd have my days and I would and I

12:24 Speaker 12: don't write lyrics anymore. I just write music. So yeah,

12:26 Speaker 12: if I had a rough day, you know, it would

12:29 Speaker 12: take it out of my you know, would write some

12:30 Speaker 12: aggressive music, you know what I mean, or sure or

12:33 Speaker 12: you know, or the other way around. You know, something

12:35 Speaker 12: good happens and I'll write something pretty and and nice.

12:38 Speaker 12: So right, I guess, you know, I guess it's not

12:40 Speaker 12: it's not a conscious thing. But I guess yeah, now

12:42 Speaker 12: that you're saying that it probably did.

12:45 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, because I feel like, you know, what we

12:47 Speaker 11: do professionally, you know, in a quote unquote day job.

12:51 Speaker 11: You know, ultimately it shapes so much of who we are,

12:54 Speaker 11: which then of course shapes the music that we make

12:57 Speaker 11: and and you know, and that's why again I think

13:01 Speaker 11: it's it's great you know that you're the music of

13:04 Speaker 11: the band. Blue light effect is so is so positive.

13:07 Speaker 11: So where does the name come from? I mean, I

13:09 Speaker 11: I assume you know the the but I could be wrong.

13:12 Speaker 11: So you know, my assumption is that blue light has

13:14 Speaker 11: to do with with police, but but maybe not.

13:18 Speaker 12: That's it has a lot of meaning to us. Okay,

13:21 Speaker 12: the first the first responder part of it obviously, Yeah,

13:24 Speaker 12: but also the effects of blue light like on your phones. Yes,

13:28 Speaker 12: that's what it does to your mind. I don't know

13:30 Speaker 12: if you're aware of that, if you've reached research that

13:31 Speaker 12: at all, but do do a search on what blue

13:34 Speaker 12: light effect can do to your your mind just from

13:36 Speaker 12: your electronic devices and that and when I when I

13:43 Speaker 12: was on my previous job, I worked for the I

13:49 Speaker 12: worked for a railroad police department, so they would have

13:54 Speaker 12: they still have longan Road has blue lights on the

13:57 Speaker 12: platforms and the station platform Oh okay, and it's supposed

14:02 Speaker 12: to prevent somebody's thinking about committing suicide from doing it,

14:08 Speaker 12: Like it does something to your mind. Really, Yeah, that's

14:11 Speaker 12: that's I don't know, it's it's just there's a lot

14:13 Speaker 12: of if you look into blue it's it's a very

14:15 Speaker 12: interesting thing. So I we just we just thought that'd

14:18 Speaker 12: be a cool name for the band.

14:19 Speaker 8: Yeah.

14:20 Speaker 12: I like that.

14:20 Speaker 11: No, that's very interesting. I'm gonna have to look that up.

14:22 Speaker 11: I've heard over the years, I've heard things about that

14:25 Speaker 11: about you know, the blue light and the effect that

14:27 Speaker 11: it has on the brain, but I've never really, I've

14:29 Speaker 11: never really read up on it. But you've got me, Uh,

14:32 Speaker 11: I'm gonna have to do that because you've got me

14:33 Speaker 11: very very curious about that now.

14:37 Speaker 12: Very interesting.

14:37 Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely absolutely So you so you're gonna be you

14:42 Speaker 11: think for now you're just gonna release release more singles.

14:45 Speaker 11: What will those eventually coalesce into an album? Perhaps?

14:49 Speaker 7: Or maybe?

14:50 Speaker 11: Yeah?

14:50 Speaker 12: Maybe, because it just it takes us so long to

14:54 Speaker 12: do stuff. If we did a record right now, we'd

14:56 Speaker 12: be looking at another at least another year. Okay before

14:59 Speaker 12: it came out. So we just want to put good

15:00 Speaker 12: stuff out there because it's been so long. Yeah, it

15:03 Speaker 12: seems like the way the businesses these days singles. Unfortunately,

15:07 Speaker 12: I love the album format, but yeah, the business doesn't

15:10 Speaker 12: seem to anymore.

15:12 Speaker 11: Yeah, there's so many different ways to do it now too,

15:14 Speaker 11: you know, a lot of because when I was growing up,

15:17 Speaker 11: it was, you know, a band's released albums, maybe occasionally

15:20 Speaker 11: an EP, but mostly albums, and you know, first single

15:23 Speaker 11: would go to radio six to eight weeks before the

15:25 Speaker 11: album comes out. Then the album comes out, and then

15:28 Speaker 11: if if all goes well, maybe there's a second single.

15:31 Speaker 11: But now there's so many different ways to do it.

15:33 Speaker 11: And I've noticed in the last couple of years to

15:36 Speaker 11: a lot of the guests that we have on the show,

15:37 Speaker 11: you know, they they've kind of inverted it where they'll

15:39 Speaker 11: they'll release a series of singles that eventually become an album,

15:43 Speaker 11: but but they want to you know, feed that algorithm

15:46 Speaker 11: and and you know, stay relevant on social media and

15:49 Speaker 11: all the streaming platforms. And it's it's a challenge, but

15:52 Speaker 11: it is. But the flip side of that is amazing.

15:57 Speaker 11: Things can happen like you could have a lot of

15:59 Speaker 11: success on the Racedo in Australia, you know, so exactly exactly,

16:04 Speaker 11: So it's it's a remarkable times that we live in

16:06 Speaker 11: in that sense. And then is is everything? Is everything

16:11 Speaker 11: that this band has? Are you the you said you

16:14 Speaker 11: don't write lyrics anymore? But you write all the music.

16:16 Speaker 12: I write the music and Vinie writes his lyrics, and

16:18 Speaker 12: then you know, Gino come in and throw her two

16:21 Speaker 12: cents in. Yeah, and then uh, that's pretty much it.

16:25 Speaker 12: You know the other guys that have involved in it too. Yeah,

16:29 Speaker 12: but it's for the most part, it's it's Vinnie and

16:31 Speaker 12: I are the foundation. I'll send him my ideas and

16:33 Speaker 12: then he and then we take it from there.

16:35 Speaker 11: Okay, okay, no, that makes sense. And then what's the

16:38 Speaker 11: live situation, like you guys playing a lot of shows

16:41 Speaker 11: or how's that going on?

16:42 Speaker 12: Like like I said, we haven't played a show. This

16:46 Speaker 12: motook gig is going to be cool because it's we're

16:49 Speaker 12: doing two shows and who knows, it could be our

16:51 Speaker 12: only two shows of the year. Just unfortunately, I don't

16:54 Speaker 12: know how it is by you, but our our original

16:56 Speaker 12: music scene here is not very good.

16:58 Speaker 11: Okay, so this is.

16:59 Speaker 12: Now many places. It's a lot of cover bands, which

17:02 Speaker 12: nothing against those guys. I have a lot of friends

17:04 Speaker 12: in those bands, but yeah, it's just it's just infiltrated

17:07 Speaker 12: with cover bands here. There's not a lot of original

17:10 Speaker 12: bands that are able to to play shows. There's no event.

17:13 Speaker 12: It's not really the bands, it's the venues, honestly.

17:15 Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, of course, Yeah that could be a

17:17 Speaker 11: challenge anywhere. I can tell you that where I am

17:19 Speaker 11: in Manchester, New Hampshire, it seems to uh, there seems

17:24 Speaker 11: to be a cycle. You know, they'll they'll be a

17:25 Speaker 11: period where it seems like there's a lot of great

17:28 Speaker 11: places to play for original music, and then it kind

17:31 Speaker 11: of shifts and you know, the originals kind of get

17:33 Speaker 11: locked out a little bit by all the cover bands,

17:35 Speaker 11: but then it kind of comes around again, and it

17:37 Speaker 11: just it's just kind of this endless cycle. I feel

17:41 Speaker 11: like right now there's a lot of places here that

17:43 Speaker 11: are very friendly to uh hosting original music. But you know,

17:46 Speaker 11: but it can change at any moment as as the business, uh,

17:50 Speaker 11: exactly as the business often does. But yeah, so uh

17:54 Speaker 11: listeners that you know, obviously we have a lot of

17:55 Speaker 11: listeners locally, but a lot of people online who and

17:58 Speaker 11: we do have listeners in New York. So I hope

17:59 Speaker 11: that anyone listening who hears this, I hope they come

18:02 Speaker 11: see you.

18:03 Speaker 12: Now.

18:03 Speaker 11: When when is that again? When is that festival?

18:05 Speaker 12: It's it's a whole. It starts May fourteenth and it

18:08 Speaker 12: goes through the seventeenth. We're gonna be playing on the fifteenth.

18:11 Speaker 12: We're doing two shows. We're playing the mont Talk Project

18:16 Speaker 12: at seven o'clock that the same of the venue, okay,

18:18 Speaker 12: and then and then the other venue is at nine o'clock.

18:21 Speaker 12: It's called Talk t a UK. So we're gonna have

18:24 Speaker 12: to hustle from we're doing the one show at seven,

18:27 Speaker 12: head over to the other place at nine, bring all

18:29 Speaker 12: of stuff. So that's gonna be interesting. But we're looking

18:31 Speaker 12: forward to it.

18:32 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I find situations like that to be exciting,

18:35 Speaker 11: you know, when it's like you've got to, like you said,

18:37 Speaker 11: you're gonna have to hustle, you know, but it's but

18:40 Speaker 11: it's all gonna be worth it. So that's that's fantastic.

18:42 Speaker 11: Good Good for you you guys. Are you guys are

18:44 Speaker 11: gonna be working hard that night? That's great? Yeah, absolutely,

18:47 Speaker 11: absolutely so. Craig Any idea on when the next single

18:51 Speaker 11: will be.

18:53 Speaker 12: Well, we know what it's gonna be, and it's it's

18:56 Speaker 12: almost fully tracked. Okay, a few more things I would say,

19:03 Speaker 12: hopefully hopefully by the summer. Okay, oh great, Yeah, and

19:09 Speaker 12: then we have like we we record, I record everything

19:11 Speaker 12: in my studio and then we have our wonderful mixer,

19:15 Speaker 12: David Cagiano mixes everything, does an amazing job, Okay, and uh,

19:20 Speaker 12: and then we'll get it out as soon as we can.

19:22 Speaker 12: But you know, right, we just we're right now, we've

19:24 Speaker 12: been focusing on this gig, so yeah, rehearsing. So once

19:28 Speaker 12: the once the show is done, we're gonna finish up

19:30 Speaker 12: the song and then hopefully have that ready for early

19:33 Speaker 12: summer release.

19:34 Speaker 11: Oh fantastic. Well, when it's ready to go, you know,

19:36 Speaker 11: we'd love to we'd love to feature it here and

19:38 Speaker 11: it'll give us an excuse to have you back on

19:40 Speaker 11: and talk about it. So yeah, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, Uh Craig.

19:44 Speaker 11: Where should people go online? Where's the best place for

19:46 Speaker 11: people to go online to keep up with everything that

19:48 Speaker 11: you guys are doing? Blue light Effect.

19:51 Speaker 12: Everything, pretty much everything, blue light Effect YouTube, blue light Effects, Facebook, Instagram,

19:57 Speaker 12: TikTok all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, all the usual places

20:02 Speaker 12: app you know, Apple Music, Spotify.

20:05 Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, yeah. You guys have got it covered, which

20:07 Speaker 11: is uh, which is good. That's what you need to do,

20:09 Speaker 11: that's for sure.

20:10 Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly.

20:11 Speaker 11: I'd like to I will close our conversation with another

20:14 Speaker 11: one of your tracks. I want to play Wreckage again.

20:16 Speaker 11: I really love this song. Anything we should know about

20:18 Speaker 11: this about this track.

20:22 Speaker 12: Like you said, it's it has a positive message. I

20:24 Speaker 12: just I like people that just interpret things the way

20:28 Speaker 12: that they want to. Yes, get you know, get what

20:31 Speaker 12: they want out of it and without giving away too much.

20:33 Speaker 12: And I want to say, like from the ground up

20:34 Speaker 12: is to me, is part two of Wreckage. This is

20:37 Speaker 12: it's like a two part song in my opinion, that

20:41 Speaker 12: makes sense.

20:42 Speaker 11: Yeah, no, no, that that that makes a lot of

20:44 Speaker 11: sense to me. And I'll just say that absolutely absolutely well.

20:47 Speaker 11: Craig Siegelbauma of course, Blue Light Effect, thank you so

20:50 Speaker 11: much for joining us this morning. We will do it

20:52 Speaker 11: again in the future when you've got the when you've

20:54 Speaker 11: got the next single. We'd love to have you back on.

20:56 Speaker 11: I'm gonna go ahead and hit this track, so we'll

20:58 Speaker 11: let you go for now. But but again, thank you

21:00 Speaker 11: so much and I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

21:03 Speaker 12: Thanks Matte.

21:04 Speaker 11: All right, you got it man, Bye bye. All right.

21:06 Speaker 11: That was Craig's eagle bomb from of Course a blue

21:09 Speaker 11: light Effect, and we will close out this segment with

21:13 Speaker 11: another great track from the band. I really like these

21:15 Speaker 11: guys a lot, and again I do like the positivity.

21:17 Speaker 11: This is called wreckage. Check this out. This is really good.

21:39 Speaker 3: The wreckage inside my mind is the only piece that's

21:44 Speaker 3: been lappy, and.

21:46 Speaker 2: The weed is bearing down hold on me for what

21:50 Speaker 2: seems like call it.

21:52 Speaker 3: Turn it day, But I still seek surity, just the

21:59 Speaker 3: chance did.

22:06 Speaker 2: Joust chan love the wreckage in my eyes?

22:14 Speaker 4: He keeps me powastic, trying to fix you up inside.

22:22 Speaker 2: So now I mean a pointance. I don't know what

22:28 Speaker 2: to believe.

22:30 Speaker 3: Despite the truth, needing clarity, area.

22:35 Speaker 2: Love their uncertainty, Prince right from what has been.

22:40 Speaker 3: Done to me, But you still seek sur real Lady

22:46 Speaker 3: Chols a chance he.

22:54 Speaker 2: Jous the cha.

22:58 Speaker 9: Who love the rackage en nye, he's me rob say.

23:06 Speaker 2: He's trying to fix you all this.

23:10 Speaker 8: To know my nat point.

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23:18 Speaker 4: body something me so him, I don't want me to

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23:26 Speaker 2: I feel I need to make.

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24:02 Speaker 8: Well.

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24:10 Speaker 7: Trying to face it at the time, somehow.

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25:11 Speaker 2: You are listening to w.

25:12 Speaker 7: E n H.

25:15 Speaker 10: World premiere.

25:18 Speaker 11: We Got It, the new single from Chasing the Devil Wired.

25:31 Speaker 2: Keep Me Love about the neatingstone, reaching for something that's nothing,

25:38 Speaker 2: a hole. It's not so easy feeling sweet Hello Now

25:46 Speaker 2: it's so alone.

25:49 Speaker 12: Deep in these.

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26:21 Speaker 2: be so down, before.

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26:33 Speaker 4: no sound.

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26:42 Speaker 8: I'm spin no spring, no crowd.

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28:17 Speaker 12: So this.

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28:47 Speaker 1: You're listening to Matt Connerton Unleashed on w m n

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28:53 Speaker 11: Five point three right now, the exclusive world radio premiere

28:58 Speaker 11: of the new single from The Deep Out, coming out

29:01 Speaker 11: May eighth.

29:01 Speaker 13: These are my streets, he walks.

29:21 Speaker 2: Alone, taken in he was born, the wind, the.

29:31 Speaker 3: Rain, the streets, the glass, the storm, the bavens crack

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29:50 Speaker 2: a ghost united in the value too. He's not alone.

30:01 Speaker 2: These are mass seats where hes meets.

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33:09 Speaker 11: Another exclusive world radio premiere coming out May eighth. The

33:13 Speaker 11: Azorescens with Dance into the Night.

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37:01 Speaker 8: Stay block and as.

37:09 Speaker 11: That is the azeresesins if I'm saying it correctly. Dancing

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38:17 Speaker 11: Some a quick music news before we get to the

38:20 Speaker 11: rest of the show, because for those of you listening live.

38:23 Speaker 11: Coming up in the third hour, we have Ian Pickering,

38:27 Speaker 11: formerly of the Sneaker Pimps or he might still be

38:30 Speaker 11: with the Sneaker Pimps, a great band from the late

38:33 Speaker 11: nineties early two thousands. But he's got a new project

38:36 Speaker 11: called The Noise Who Runs and it is really good.

38:39 Speaker 11: I cannot wait to talk to Ian Pickering. Am I

38:42 Speaker 11: listened to the whole album and I'm just fascinated by it.

38:45 Speaker 11: It's just really good. So I cannot wait to speak

38:48 Speaker 11: with him. That will be coming up in the third hour.

38:50 Speaker 11: For those of you listening live, it is a Saturday,

38:53 Speaker 11: May second, twenty twenty six here and again, thanks again

38:56 Speaker 11: to Turbocats for joining us in the first hour. Love

38:59 Speaker 11: talk with them, great guys, love their music, really enjoy

39:02 Speaker 11: having them on. And of course in the second hour

39:06 Speaker 11: we had Craig siegal Bomb from the band Blue Light Effect.

39:10 Speaker 11: I'm not sure if it's segal Bomb, She's seagle Baum,

39:12 Speaker 11: how you say it, but I really enjoyed speaking with

39:14 Speaker 11: Craig as well. Right now, a little bit of music news,

39:17 Speaker 11: just a couple of things that caught my attention. This

39:20 Speaker 11: is from Digital musicnews dot Com. One of my favorite

39:22 Speaker 11: music industry websites if you are interested in music industry news.

39:25 Speaker 11: This is one of my go to sites that I

39:27 Speaker 11: recommend Buster Rhymes in the news. And I don't know

39:30 Speaker 11: if Buster Rhymes has released anything in a while. I remember, jeez,

39:34 Speaker 11: when did he use early two thousands, right when he

39:37 Speaker 11: first really broke through. Maybe it was the late nineties

39:39 Speaker 11: early two thousands. Wo ha Remember that song Wooha got

39:42 Speaker 11: You All in Check? That was his first big hit.

39:45 Speaker 11: But anyway, this I had not heard anything about this.

39:49 Speaker 11: I was surprised to see this. Busta Rhymes settles Horrible

39:53 Speaker 11: Boss lawsuit after allegedly punching his assistant. So apparently Buster

39:59 Speaker 11: Rhymes had a person assistant. You know, people think that

40:01 Speaker 11: these music industry jobs they're so glamorous. Uh you know,

40:06 Speaker 11: they're they're you're you're You're just surrounded by by all

40:09 Speaker 11: this uh money and uh notoriety, and it's just so

40:12 Speaker 11: much fun.

40:13 Speaker 12: You know.

40:13 Speaker 11: To be a personal assistant to somebody like Buster Rhymes,

40:16 Speaker 11: that's you know, I'm sure for for many aspiring uh

40:20 Speaker 11: music industry person, that's just uh, you know, growing up,

40:23 Speaker 11: that was just something I want to be. I want

40:24 Speaker 11: to be the personal assistant to bust A Rhymes. That

40:27 Speaker 11: would just be so much fun. But apparently if you

40:29 Speaker 11: upset and me punches you in the face, which is

40:32 Speaker 11: different than most jobs. And again that's why I say

40:34 Speaker 11: it's not everything is as glamorous as it sounds, you know.

40:37 Speaker 11: I mean, you might be working at an Amazon warehouse

40:40 Speaker 11: and you might think it's terrible, and people who work

40:42 Speaker 11: at Amazon warehouses often complain about the conditions. But hey,

40:45 Speaker 11: at least if you uh, at least at least if

40:47 Speaker 11: you make a mistake, Jeff Bezos doesn't show up and

40:49 Speaker 11: punch you in the face. But uh, Jeff uh uh.

40:52 Speaker 11: Buster Rhymes apparently will punch you in the face if

40:54 Speaker 11: he's upset. So I don't know if, like if you

40:58 Speaker 11: go to glassdoor dot com and you look up what's

41:01 Speaker 11: it like working for Buster Rhymes. I don't know if

41:03 Speaker 11: there's any information on there, but just be aware you

41:06 Speaker 11: might get punched in the face. According to alleged by

41:10 Speaker 11: his now former assistant, maybe that's his idea of a

41:14 Speaker 11: performance review. You know, if you get punched in the face,

41:16 Speaker 11: it means, uh, you know, you gotta you gotta tighten

41:19 Speaker 11: your game up a little bit on some things. I

41:21 Speaker 11: don't know. I don't know. Let's see what this says.

41:23 Speaker 11: And again, this is from Digital Musicnews dot com. Busser

41:26 Speaker 11: Rhymes settles a lawsuit filed by his former personal assistant

41:30 Speaker 11: who claimed the rapper attacked and punched him in the face.

41:33 Speaker 11: Buster Rhymes has settled. I wonder if well he's punching you,

41:36 Speaker 11: he says whoa. Buster Rhymes has settled the legal battle

41:40 Speaker 11: with his former personal assistant Dashiel or Dashiel Gable. I'm

41:44 Speaker 11: just gonna call I'm just gonna call him dash. I

41:47 Speaker 11: don't know how to pronounce this. Is it Dashiel? Is

41:48 Speaker 11: it Deshiel? Is it dash Eel? I don't know. I'm

41:52 Speaker 11: just gonna call him dash Dash is a cool name.

41:54 Speaker 11: That's probably what people call him. Okay, So he settled

41:57 Speaker 11: a long legal battle with his former personal listsant, Dash Gables.

42:01 Speaker 11: That sounds kind of cool, Dash Gables, I hope he

42:03 Speaker 11: does use that, who alleged that the rapper attacked and

42:07 Speaker 11: punched him in the face in a work related dispute.

42:09 Speaker 11: Rhymes had denied the allegations, filing a defamation countersuit in

42:14 Speaker 11: response that claimed Gables was extorting him. The terms of

42:18 Speaker 11: the settlement were not disclosed, as the matter was settled

42:21 Speaker 11: via private mediation. Let's see. Attorneys for both parties wrote

42:26 Speaker 11: in a letter to the judge filed this week. Quote,

42:30 Speaker 11: the parties are finalizing the settlement documentation and anticipate that

42:35 Speaker 11: it will be completed within ten days. Unquote. Ah, teamwork,

42:38 Speaker 11: all right, both sides coming together. You know that's good.

42:42 Speaker 11: The judge ordered them to file a formal motion for

42:45 Speaker 11: settlement by June one. According to Gables' original filing, in August,

42:50 Speaker 11: Busta Rhymes became enraged and assaulted him over a delayed

42:55 Speaker 11: meal and a phone call Gables took from his young

42:58 Speaker 11: daughter while on the job. Oh oh, the horror. The

43:01 Speaker 11: fifty three year old rapper, whose real name is Trevor

43:03 Speaker 11: Smith Junior, was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor. Gables

43:07 Speaker 11: filed an assault and battery lawsuit in federal court, invoking

43:11 Speaker 11: the Federal Fair Labor Standers Act and claiming that he

43:16 Speaker 11: was subjected to workplace abuses. Yeah, there probably is.

43:19 Speaker 5: Now.

43:19 Speaker 11: I have not, personally, by the way, read the Federal

43:22 Speaker 11: Fair Labor Standards Act, but I assume there is something

43:26 Speaker 11: in there about you're not allowed to punch your employees

43:28 Speaker 11: in the face, so let's see it says here. He

43:32 Speaker 11: also claimed that he had been blackballed from the hip

43:35 Speaker 11: hop industry after the alleged incident. Unfortunately, that doesn't surprise me,

43:44 Speaker 11: it says here. Smith vehemently denied Gables's smith being. Buster

43:48 Speaker 11: Rhymes denied Gables's allegations and filed a countersuit for defamation

43:53 Speaker 11: in October. His suit asserted that Gables' claims damaged his reputation,

43:58 Speaker 11: which cost him business opportunities and income. That's a thing.

44:02 Speaker 11: Do you want to do business with someone who might

44:04 Speaker 11: punch you in the face if they're upset with you? Meanwhile,

44:07 Speaker 11: Buster Rhymes was recently announced as a headliner for Hudson

44:10 Speaker 11: Yards Annual Free Outdoor Concert Series live concerts at the

44:16 Speaker 11: Wells Fargo Stage in New York City. Hey, look, whatever

44:21 Speaker 11: damage might have been done to the reputation of Buster Rhymes,

44:26 Speaker 11: it can't be that bad. Clearly, it's not that bad.

44:29 Speaker 11: The man has been announced as a headliner, not an

44:33 Speaker 11: opening act, not a nostalgia act, a headliner for the

44:39 Speaker 11: Hudson Yards Annual Free Outdoor Concert Series Live concerts at

44:43 Speaker 11: the Wells Fargo Stage. I mean, come on, how damaged

44:48 Speaker 11: could he be? The series kicks off on Wednesday, May thirteen,

44:53 Speaker 11: with shows taking place every Wednesday through June third from

44:56 Speaker 11: six to eight pm, with doors opening at five pm. Nah,

45:00 Speaker 11: he's he's doing great. Us are rhymes? All right? So

45:07 Speaker 11: that's it for that story. That's not much to it,

45:10 Speaker 11: but I just thought it was interesting. Let's see another

45:13 Speaker 11: quick thing. This is from This is from Music Business

45:17 Speaker 11: Worldwide dot Com. Again, this is another great website. If

45:20 Speaker 11: you like music industry news as I do. This is

45:23 Speaker 11: uh this involves Spotify and of course AI music. We

45:27 Speaker 11: talk about this a lot on the show. This comes

45:29 Speaker 11: up all the time AI generated music. I'm guilty of

45:33 Speaker 11: it too. I used Souno to make things I haven't recently.

45:37 Speaker 11: But it is interesting. It's a lot of it's really good,

45:42 Speaker 11: shockingly really good stuff. But anyway, but this is an

45:45 Speaker 11: ongoing issue. These AI platforms that are able to create

45:50 Speaker 11: generate very realistic sounding like it was realistic, as in

45:54 Speaker 11: sounds like it was made by humans. Music. So this

45:57 Speaker 11: article is titled sorry AI artists. Spotify is not letting

46:00 Speaker 11: you become verified on its platform. So it says here

46:04 Speaker 11: Spotify is introducing a new verification badge for artist profiles.

46:08 Speaker 11: It goes beyond simply confirming whether a profile is claimed

46:12 Speaker 11: and instead attempts to signal something the streaming platform says

46:16 Speaker 11: has become harder to establish in the age of generative AI,

46:21 Speaker 11: the authenticity of the artists behind the music. The new

46:25 Speaker 11: Verified by Spotify badge, announced on Thursday, April thirtieth, will

46:30 Speaker 11: appear on artist profiles and next to artist names and

46:34 Speaker 11: search marked by a light green check mark icon. Spotify

46:38 Speaker 11: said in a blog post published today that quote at launch,

46:43 Speaker 11: profiles that appear to primarily represent AI generated or AI

46:46 Speaker 11: persona artists are not eligible for verification in today's music landscape.

46:51 Speaker 11: The concept of artist authenticity is complex and quickly evolving,

46:55 Speaker 11: and will continue to develop our approach over time. Unquote. Now,

47:01 Speaker 11: the reason that's interesting to me is it's Spotify has

47:06 Speaker 11: made a big deal recently about getting AI music AI

47:13 Speaker 11: generated music, AI persona artists, because there are you know,

47:18 Speaker 11: it's not just people uploading songs that they make with

47:20 Speaker 11: one of these platforms like Suno or Udeo. It's it's

47:24 Speaker 11: entire artists have been created with entire catalogs of music,

47:31 Speaker 11: and they're not real people. They're all they're just AI generated.

47:34 Speaker 11: Spotify has been trying to get rid of they call

47:36 Speaker 11: it AI slop. They've been trying to get that off

47:38 Speaker 11: of their platform. But now this almost feels like on

47:42 Speaker 11: some level, and this is not meant as a criticism,

47:45 Speaker 11: I have criticisms of Spotify, this isn't one of them.

47:47 Speaker 11: I'm actually somewhat sympathetic to the problem here. This almost

47:50 Speaker 11: seems like giving into that a little bit and saying,

47:53 Speaker 11: we can't possibly filter out all this AI generated music

47:57 Speaker 11: and all these AI generated personas creating this music, sort

48:01 Speaker 11: of however you want to frame that. So what we're

48:05 Speaker 11: going to do now is we're going to have this

48:08 Speaker 11: verification system where an artist who has been verified as

48:12 Speaker 11: being real with real music, they will have an icon

48:16 Speaker 11: next to their name, and artists that don't might be

48:19 Speaker 11: AI generated. So there you go. And I'm assuming that

48:24 Speaker 11: part of that. I mean, maybe I'm making too many

48:26 Speaker 11: assumptions here, but I have to think that some of

48:29 Speaker 11: that is they just can't there's just no way to

48:32 Speaker 11: make sure that they're getting all of the AI generated

48:35 Speaker 11: music off of their platforms. I know some people will

48:37 Speaker 11: tell me the software, the bots that they're using to

48:40 Speaker 11: detect AI generated music is so sophisticated, but it's still

48:44 Speaker 11: going to make mistakes. Some AI music is going to

48:47 Speaker 11: get mixed. I is going to get missed. Other music

48:50 Speaker 11: that is not AI generated is going to get swept

48:52 Speaker 11: up in the net. Because none of this is ever

48:55 Speaker 11: going to be perfect. Let's see, there's a little bit

48:58 Speaker 11: more here, It says. The move follows Spotify's launch last

49:02 Speaker 11: month of the Artist Profile Protection feature in beta, which

49:07 Speaker 11: less lets artists review and approve releases before they go

49:11 Speaker 11: live on their profiles, and arrives just days after the

49:16 Speaker 11: streaming platform reported two hundred and ninety three million premium subscribers,

49:20 Speaker 11: So they're doing really well with subscribers. Why is this

49:23 Speaker 11: important though, If you haven't heard about this, the Artist

49:25 Speaker 11: Profile Protection feature, Why does this matter? What does this

49:28 Speaker 11: do well? There's a problem not just on Spotify. It

49:32 Speaker 11: happens on YouTube. We talked about it on the show.

49:35 Speaker 11: One of the first really major examples of this was

49:37 Speaker 11: somebody pretending to be Selene Deon and releasing a religious

49:41 Speaker 11: song on YouTube where this fake Selene Deon and the

49:46 Speaker 11: lyrics of the song is asking God to help her

49:48 Speaker 11: with her her What does she have a stiff person syndrome,

49:51 Speaker 11: stiff person disease. She's got a terrible, terrible illness. I

49:55 Speaker 11: feel horrible for her. But someone pretending to be her

49:59 Speaker 11: release a song under the name Celene Deon and uh,

50:02 Speaker 11: you know, people believed it because it's this AI generated

50:05 Speaker 11: track sounded like Celene Deon. So this this seems like

50:11 Speaker 11: common sense. The artist's profile protection features, so so somebody

50:16 Speaker 11: can't just say, Okay, I'm going to release a song,

50:18 Speaker 11: but I'm gonna pretend it's Taylor Swift and I'm gonna

50:20 Speaker 11: put it on Spotify as Taylor Swift. Well, someone from

50:24 Speaker 11: the label that Swift is on or management her management

50:27 Speaker 11: is going to get contacted. Is this legitimate? Is this

50:31 Speaker 11: an actual release? Obviously they're going to say no, and

50:34 Speaker 11: then it's never going to make it onto the platform

50:35 Speaker 11: to begin with, which is smart that I fully support.

50:39 Speaker 11: In January, again, this is from Music Business Worldwide dot Com.

50:42 Speaker 11: In January, Spotify had already retired its long standing verified

50:47 Speaker 11: Artist blue check mark, which simply indicated that an artist

50:50 Speaker 11: had claimed their profile and replaced it with a registered

50:53 Speaker 11: artist label. At the time, Spotify said that quote. Over time,

50:57 Speaker 11: the term verified came to suggest more than the check

51:00 Speaker 11: mark was designed to represent unquote. The new verified by

51:05 Speaker 11: Spotify badge now reclaims that language, but applies it to

51:08 Speaker 11: a different, more selective standard. Uh Spotify said in a

51:12 Speaker 11: blog post quote in the AI era, it's more important

51:15 Speaker 11: than ever to be able to trust the authenticity of

51:18 Speaker 11: the music you listen to. Our focus is providing you

51:21 Speaker 11: with more context about artists and their music, so you

51:24 Speaker 11: can build more meaningful connections with them unquote. To receive

51:28 Speaker 11: the badge, artists must demonstrate consistent listener activity and engagement

51:32 Speaker 11: over time, maintain good standing with Spotify's platform policies, and

51:37 Speaker 11: show signals of a real artist's presence both on and

51:41 Speaker 11: off the platform, such as concert dates, merchandise, and linked

51:44 Speaker 11: social accounts. Spotify said it will pair these criteria with

51:48 Speaker 11: quote human review and judgment to identify real artists behaving

51:51 Speaker 11: in good faith, not just filtering out bad actors unquote.

51:55 Speaker 11: In the blog posts, Spotify claimed that at launch, quote,

51:58 Speaker 11: more than ninety nine percent of the artists Spotify listeners

52:01 Speaker 11: actively search for will be verified, representing hundreds of thousands

52:05 Speaker 11: of artists, the majority independent, spanning genres, career stages, and

52:09 Speaker 11: geographies unquote. The blog post added that the company is

52:11 Speaker 11: prioritizing quote artists with active fan interest or who have

52:15 Speaker 11: made important contributions to music culture and history, rather than

52:18 Speaker 11: functional music creators and content farms whose content is primarily

52:22 Speaker 11: designed for passive or background listening. Unquote. Approvals will be rolling,

52:27 Speaker 11: and the absence of a badge on an artist profile

52:29 Speaker 11: does not mean the artists will not receive it in

52:31 Speaker 11: the future. According to Spotify, this goes on in some

52:36 Speaker 11: more detail if you want to read the full article,

52:39 Speaker 11: because we don't have time to get to the whole thing,

52:41 Speaker 11: but it is up at Music Business Worldwide dot com

52:44 Speaker 11: again a great resource for music industry news, and we

52:48 Speaker 11: are going to take a break and show some love

52:49 Speaker 11: to our amazing sponsors. If you are listening live on Saturday, though,

52:52 Speaker 11: please stick around. We've got Ian Pickering. He's going to

52:55 Speaker 11: be joining us from the UK via Microsoft Teams to

52:58 Speaker 11: talk about his new problem. It's called The Noise Who

53:01 Speaker 11: runs It is really good. I can't wait to play

53:05 Speaker 11: the new single for you. It's called Commercial Road and

53:07 Speaker 11: I cannot wait to talk to Ian Pickering. This is

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