Matt Connarton Unleashed 5-24-23

0:42 Well, come everybody, here we go on this Wednesday afternoon. I'm sad, of course about the passing of Tina Turner. If you haven't heard, she passed away at the age of eighty three. Apparently she had been dealing with some sort of illness that I hadn't heard anything about. So it's a it's a surprise, but uh, definitely one of the greats. But we go forward. On this Wednesday, it is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven.

1:14 If you're in Manchester, and hello to olive our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact and folk show archives, etcetera, etcetera. On this Wednesday afternoon, it is May twenty four or two twenty three, and I am not alone. If you haven't go problems out for bath for your son? I got ninety nine problems, but tag one DJ Reckless is here at the news desk. What's up? It's a surprise, I know, all right, yes, yes, and uh in a few minutes, about eleven or twelve minutes from now, we're also going to be joined by Eric Pilcher for our weekly media segment.

1:56 But reckless, you're about to go on another another or jount if you will another another. I don't even know if do we call it a tour? I don't really know if we do? Well, how many shows are you playing? Six? That's a tour? Why why would that not be a tour? It's a tour. Sure, we'll go with that. Call it a tour. It makes it sound big and excited. It's all in one city though. Oh, that's not a tour, um, But that's okay, but it's it is. Uh, it's exciting. Yeah, down down in Nashville. Yeah, it's a crazy beginning of the summer, that's for sure.

2:29 And it's not even summer yet. Yeah. Well that's good because if you're gonna go to the South, as it were, Uh, yeah, best to go when it's not summer. Uh. Does Amna McCarthy know that you'll be in the area. No, Oh, you should notify her. Uh, and then you can, uh, you can report back to easyg and you can say, hey, guess who I got to hang out with in Nashville. I should do that, you should do that. I should very good, very good. But yeah, I know Nashville. And then we're back now, Um, who are you performing with a bunch of other DJs?

3:08 Okay jays you've played with before? No, but I've known them for a while last time I came down and they trust me and they've seen what I've done up here too. Yeah, especially with New Hampshire. And they're like, yeah, that's so this will be your first time actually doing shows with these DJs. Yeah, all very cool, that's exciting. Um, yeah, I'm I'm sorry, I'm like tired. Yeah, I'm kind of also just coming to the terms with it all. Or I'm like, holy crap. Yeah, and it's like lash a year ago, there was no way this is possible, right right, Well, you've worked hard, You've worked very hard.

3:47 Yeah, you've got more events coming up here too, right, I keep seeing I'm hosting another party June twenty third. Yeah, it's been since what March since I since since since Saint Patrick's Day, actually, since I've done my own party. Oh and yeah, no, we're gonna I'm gonna be throwing one at Soho. Yeah, there's more details to be like. I'm gonna not more details Friday because I'm still finalizing a few things. DJ is everything like that. But yeah, no, I'm making my return to Soho. It's been since Halloween of last year since I've played there, Okay, but yeah, no, I'm glad to be back there.

4:28 Yeah. Yeah, it's a it's a cool place. It's a cool place I had. Obviously I follow out with the management there once, but maybe we never maybe we never forget that. Sorry, so sorry to anyone that witnessed that side of me. Oh I'm not. I'm actually not. Let's be honest here. I think God, that guy's not the owner no more. Oh wow. But yeah no, I'm excited to be there. It's a cool place. I'm excited to it's It's gonna be an interesting one though, because for the past year I built up my college following through like Manchester Manchester College students, yes, and they're not here, so it could be an interesting one.

5:05 It's totally free too, no tickets, oh, no cover at the door. Oh wow. A lot of alcohol specials that they run weekly there too. That's where they make the money. Yeah, that's why there's no cover. Yeah, it makes sense to but yeah, no, I'm I'm excited for it. Very good, very good. And then June seventeenth, I thought I'm playing the YMCA Rock the Block, and then I'm also that same day I'm doing I believe I'm doing pride fests. From what I'm hearing, Oh is it rainiing? It looked like it was going to when I was coming in, it looked like it was gonna pour it.

5:42 Yeah, I notice, sounds like it is. Well, I noticed it got very humid outside. I thought they can it's very It got very humid, and it's a bit it got a bit dark. It was bright and sunny earlier. So yes, actually, yes, I believe it is RAINI and that looks like a wet ground over there. Oh great, yeah, lovely. Did you do a pride fest last year? I did? I did. I did Pride Fest last year. I did the pride Fess after party. That was pretty cool. It was fun. That was that wasn't like unexpected turn out for that after party.

6:09 There was probably at about four hundred people an open bar. Yes, well, you know, enjoy doing those while you can, because from what I've been hearing, a part of run Governor Ron de Santas, Florida. Part of his announcement tonight is that if he is elected president on day one, he will sign an executive order outline pride nationally. Good look with that? Yeah, yeah, actually he's just being gay in general will be totally illegal. That. I mean, that's a rumor. I don't know if that'll actually be part of his announce Come on, we can't expect come on, come on, this man.

6:47 This man's gonna announce and then pulled out tomorrow. But there's no way he wins. No, no, Trump's going to be the nominee. Oh yeah, he's wasting his money and his time. By the way, I Melanie Liberty is in the Facebook live chat. She said, ah s, what's up, Christian. I hope your headphones match your drink. I didn't bring my headphone. You didn't bring you didn't expect to be on here, but yes, this is a this is a surprise. Yeah. I was like, why not, but no, I don't even have No, I do have my rock star I'm just not drinking one right now.

7:20 Melanie also said, uh, yeah, I've also been building my college following mostly frat boys. Frat boys don't like me, why not because their girlfriends do.

7:34 That's when I say this, That's why. That's why I'm laughing in a knowing way. You've heard the horrors. That's a knowing laugh. You've heard the horror story as a kid. I certainly have. My goodness, Mac, it's an earful at one am in the morning when I come home, start a rock star at adrenaline. That's right, A few drinks in my system. Yes, I've I've seen, I've I've lived vicariously through you, sir. I never when I was your age, I was well, I was never really a drinker, So I I don't know what that's you know.

8:11 I mean I played in bands and stuff, but I was always the sober one. Yeah, not me. You Yeah, you not so much. You know. I know I've found out you have. You have I give you credit since since everything I give you credit, I've I think last Friday was the first night in a while that I've gone that overboard. It wasn't even like it was more Saturday, Yeah it was. It was a little two day, two day drinking session, right right. Yeah, Our friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa is on the line. Hello, Eric, Good afternoon, Matt Good afternoon.

8:48 DJ Reckless Hello, Now are you disappointed that he's not touring out to Cedar Rapids, Iowa? I you know, I think I don't think there's any night life there actually is in our downtown area. Is it like big big or is it like just like small little dive bars? It's big. I mean I wouldn't call them dive bars. But Iowa City would be a better bat which is forty five minutes away. Yeah, because who plays? Isn't there a sports team out there? Oh? Uh? Well, Iowa City is where the University of Iowa. Yeah that too.

9:28 There is a college and I was gonna say there is there a sports team or college wherever there's a college. There isn't that life? Oh yeah, of course? Oh yeah, the pet mall and is um Yeah. Is Iowa City actually larger than Cedar Rapids, No, it's smaller. Cedar Rapids the second, I believe, the second largest city in the state. What's the largest Davenport de Moines? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. What's the capital? Is the capital de Mine? Yes? Is the state capital? Okay, gotcha, gotcha? Um yeah, Reckless is going to Nashville for how many six shows?

10:08 You said six shows? Well, some of those are little house parties too, right, right, so that counts, that counts. Yeah, yes, yes, I'm excited. I'm gonna do a lot of networking down there while I'm down there. Yeah, well of course, yeah, of course, this is what my This is my second time down there, yeah, second time. Yeah. When does he leave for Nashville? Tomorrow? My first gig is tomorrow. My first gig is tomorrow. You're good. My first gig is tomorrow at twelve. Wait in the afternoon, No, at night, ten to twelve.

10:47 I believe you're you're hitting the early bird crowd. Oh yeah, no, I'm solid. I'm not stepping footing a bar in Nashville before before nine pm. So, Erica, sounds like you didn't hear our earlier conversation. I was telling Reckless he should while he's down there, he should connect with Amanda McCarthy and then he can brag to EASYG when he gets back that he got to hang out with Amanda. Well, Easy G made Amanda McCarthy. Yes, that is true. He is responsible for at least probably seventy five to eighty percent of her success.

11:26 I would say he's responsible for most of my success in life. I think that's true. Now, Reckless, have you ever considered allowing Easy G to promote you? Because if you did, you'd probably already be super famous by now. I hear that like a million times a day. Yes, yes, No, it wouldn't be beats by Dre you would beats by Reckless. That's right. Listen, listen when I start dropping some of the tracks that I have helped produce or produced, like, everyone be scared. All I'm gonna say, some of these things are heaters.

12:01 Yeah, I'm dying to play some of this stuff. I know I want to do something. I am not disputing that at all. A lot of house statement as as diminishing your abilities, because that certainly wasn't the case. No, no, no, no, well we we were just trying to help. No. I'm excited though, because on the topic of producing, like this is the first, like the first time in a while, I'm playing a crowd over probably a thousand. Yeah, other than like the Sammy Adams Show, but that was just like literally walk in, walk out whatever.

12:36 Who cares, right, they didn't They didn't care that it was me that was performing. Yeah, but this is the first time where I'm able to like test a lot of my tracks that I've helped that I've made or helped produce or remixes. I think, and you really are the epitome of self made reckless Yeah, I mean you, I mean not to like started to interrupt, But this isn't like something that you had massive amounts of assistance with. You've really, like just in the short time I've known you pushed yourself on social media and Instagram and really gotten yourself out there.

13:18 Yeah, it's a lot of networking and promotionsired it should be inspiring for anyone that's an artist or a creator to see this and be like, hey, I can do this too. I just have to have the work ethic in the drive. Yeah, and that's not Unfortunately, that's not something you see a lot in DJs or a lot of creatives right now. And it's sad. They just want it handed to them, especially these hip hop acts out here in New Hampshire. They want their cake and they want to eat it too. But well, well, what you're part of the problem is as great as these shows can be.

13:59 They're all so a great detriment as well as like TikTok and Instagram and Facebook, because you have all these shows where these acts go on there, and even the ones that try out and fail sometimes end up getting record deals. Yeah, you have. You have a lot of one hit wonders right now that are that are doing that. But you also see a lot of people who are like, oh, I'm better than this person. I can do this, and then when it's fit and then they're just like, I'm just going to go out and do a few shows, see what I can do, and eventually someone will notice.

14:35 And it doesn't work like that. Life is in a fairy tale. No it's not. And you you have to push and you have to grind and you have to hustle. I will say this, you have to do. You have to get yourself out there. Yeah, I will say this about TikTok and Instagram and all those social medias. Now you're seeing a lot of artists now go independent because of Instagram and TikTok and all those social medias well. It's a fantastic distribution system for your music, you know, I mean it's it is if you're willing to work.

15:14 Yeah, yeah, I think that's DJ Reckless's point is, if you're just using it to try to make yourself famous, probably isn't gonna happen if you're not going to put the work behind it. There's an algorithm there. Even if your views are low on your videos on TikTok, right, look at your numbers on Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud. I guarantee those will go up because people will hear it and go check it out. But they're not just gonna follow, right, They're not just gonna go to your shows. I also, I mean, I don't know why I'm talking honestly, because if I get fifty views of one of my film reviews on YouTube, I'm happy.

16:01 So it's a start. It's a start. I'm like, yeah, we hit the five. Oh yeah, hey, it's a start for real. But um no, but Reckless has worked hard, and I dare say too, sir, You've had a lot of encouragement around you. And I don't just mean Jenny, and I mean, you know, like from the community, and yeah, you know this kind of uh you know, it's sort of an extended family, you know, like I think of WM ANDH is like an extended family, you know, and uh, everybody here's supportive and and you've and you've got a lot of support locally, you know, you've you're very good at networking of course, and yeah, and online that's really what it's done.

16:41 It for me. It is like this whole Nashville trip, this whole Nashville trip stems from tour last year. Yeah. If we hadn't made that stop in Nashville and my friends hadn't lived in Nashville and brought me out to network and meet other people, Yeah, I would not be going back down there a year later in doing this. Yeah, I wouldn't. Um Melanie's asking if you're using only fans as well, Oh yeah, totally coming up for the link and Crystal's asking that doesn't have any subscribers yet. That's where most of my income comes from.

17:19 That's how I pay rent. There you go, man, you're lucky. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what it is. I guess forty year old dad bots are out. Yeah, there's big things in there. I will not form means hold no, no, Now that's a discussion for Matt Connerton undersheathed. I think um Crystal is asking. By the way, reckless if you have any plans to do gigs in Memphis while you're in Tennessee. I don't think so. I might. I might make a trip down there, day trip. I don't know, apending how far it is. I don't know.

17:54 If you did ever come to a reckless I would find I would go to the shelf, I honestly would. I would have to drink a zoa because you know those are pretty late for me. Yeah, you'd have to like what what a zoa? With? What you'd have to drink? It's an energy drink? Oh? Is that a brand? Yep? Z o a? The rock created it? Oh? I didn't realize that. Okay, well, okay, yeah, z o a all right, I did not know that. U. What is it? Like? Uh? Is it is supposed to be all natural or something? It's probably one. This is what my cardiologists said last year when I had my heart issue.

18:44 Um, because he's like, you need to stop the energy drinks, and I'm like, bruh, I get up at I have to work at six am to two thirty pm. Yeah, nah, I need something. And he goes coffee and I'm like, it's disgusting. I'm with you, and he goes, well, he goes, uh, if you absolutely have to, he goes here some that he didn't say they were good for you, he said, but we're okay ish Yeah, and Zoah was on there, so I'm like, okay. So I tried it and it is to me the best tasting energy drink I've had. Really, I wonder if those are available around her fruit punch taste just like Hawaiian Hawaiian punch.

19:37 Okay, yeah, I don't know if i'd like that. I don't know. I might try one if I can find him around here. So the Rock created these, yep, now the one there is two different kinds. There's Zoah and Zoah Plot. Okay, uh, do not drink the plots, so you're unless you're going through the gym to work out. Zoah plus makes it sound like it comes with some sort of a subscription service. U it is. You definitely uh get an added bonus really uh yeah. I drank one one morning because I did. I was in a rush and just grabbed it from the gas station cooler and rang it up and I was drinking it and I walked into work in my hands were like shaky.

20:30 Oh that sounds like what im that's what I hate is and my body was like tinkling. I'm coming to the point now where when I drink these, I start getting really really shaky, really and drowsy unless I eat something. Because my doctor said that if it has that, I could be like I could have an allergic reaction to a certain BCAA that's in certain energy drink because Bang does the same thing to me. Um, So you get, you get shaky. I don't drink Bang. I can't drink I get shaky in my body like tinkles all over.

21:10 Oh that doesn't sound like a good thing. No it is not. I had Bang once and got like short of breath. Oh yeah, that sounds well, that sounds very Yeah, short of breath. That's very bad. So Christen you get Yeah, I'm my god, nah, but I'm out. You get, Christen, you get shaky and uh. And what I get not drowsy, but like nauseous in a way. And I feel like I'm gonna pass out because I haven't. So when I don't eat anything for like two hours, Okay, drink one, it's weird. So if you drink one on an empty stomach.

21:41 In other words, yep, unless I'm doing something like if I'm djang and that's the case, I don't even feel it because the adrenaline. Yeah, I feel it later. H Now, I I did try the rock star that has hemp seed in it. What totally counter doctive? Yeah, when I don't drink there's a rock star with him se Yes, Okay. I got it like a Saturday before college football and I drank it and I literally sat there and just stared at the TV for like an hour. So it made you it made you zone out, Yes, it did very much.

22:30 So wow. But it's supposed to be an energy drink. Yeah, yeah, that sounds I don't know if I'm like if it's just a reaction my body had, it's normal because it's I felt like I was in one of those situations where you feel like you're an idiot, so you tell somebody what happened to you. Yeah, it sounds like, oh yeah. I kind of kept that quiet and almost like maybe you got a bad batch where there was too much hemp seed and not enough toureine or whatever whatever else they put it, you know what I mean.

23:09 Maybe I don't know. I was just like, well, that was an experience, Yes, well that's uh, yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't drink that again if I were you, Well, unless you want, yeah, unless you want to relax, I guess. But but again, what what what's the point in that case? Um? Well, by the way, so uh, Reckless and I had touched on I think when you when you called, we might have just mentioned it. And it's one of the things I wanted to get your thoughts on. Uh. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is apparently making his big announcement tonight, officially getting into the ring, uh, into the race, and he's doing it via Twitter spaces and uh, which I've never used.

23:53 I mean, I'm on Twitter, but I've never used spaces. Reckless, if you ever used that on Twitter spaces, it's basically house Yeah, I don't know if you know a clubhouse was Yeah, but it's just audio, right, it's not even video, right, just audio. Yeah. Yeah, pretty pretty weird. What do you think, Eric, I I read that. I mean, it's obvious he was going to throw his hat into the ring. Oh yeah, Um, I mean I hope it works out for him doing it on Twitter spaces. I've I've seen it on my Twitter feed and I'm just like, yeah, I don't care.

24:32 I don't even use Twitter abs that I'm I just look at and I'm like, this doesn't protain to me. Yeah, well, a lot of people, like reckless just said, he doesn't even use Twitter, a lot of people don't even use Twitter. Like it. It seems really counterintuitive, uh, from my point of view, that he would choose to do it in a way unless there's an ulterior motive and I have a theory but I'll get to that, but that he would choose to do this in a way instead of doing it the traditional way, that he would choose to do it in a way where a lot of people are gonna be like, like, there's younger people who have already come and gone from Twitter.

25:08 There's older people who aren't even on social media to begin with, who want nothing to do with Twitter. Like it seems like there's this a very large audience that just isn't even going to have any idea how to find this announcement. That it won't be on television, it's not a big event. He's doing this via Twitter spaces. But I wondered something, Eric and I haven't heard anyone else make this observation, but I wondered, you know, it seems like at one time Elon Musk was kind of cozy with Trump, and of course before Trump got kicked off of Twitter and when started truth social you know Trump would do.

25:46 Trump was was very much very active on Twitter. Is the Santa's just doing this, just using Twitter and doing this with Elon Musk as a way of just kind of giving a big, big middle finger to Trump? Is that what part of this is? Do you think because he's been very passive, very well could be Yeah, Um, look if we thought the twenty twenty UH presidential debates and everything, we're petty. We have seen nothing yet. Yeah, between Ronda Santis and Donald Trump, it's coming and I would yeah, that level of pettiness would not shock me in the slightest.

26:40 Sanctimonious Scantis he calls him to sanctimonious round, sanctimonious, It wouldn't shock me. But interestingly enough, Ronda Santist pretty much got a very powerful UH endorsement. Late last week or early this week, Ben Shapiro posted a video saying he doesn't want Trump to even run. Yeah, I saw that, and he does bring in is much of an insufferable toeworm as Ben Shapiro is, he actually made some very good points. He does sometimes Yeah, yeah, unlike many uh political pundits that have a way they leave, he does make good points, and I do find him to be somewhat tolerable.

27:46 Does his voice works in small doses? I think I think he's very Uh, I think I think at times he's very dishonest, but I but I do think he is. But sometimes he'll construct an argument that I think is in soon I'll say that for him. Yes, yeah, And his argument on why Trump shouldn't run, I thought was very was pretty accurate. Um. So I think that you're we've kind of touched on this a few different times. How some of these guys that in twenty sixteen were so pro Trump are kind of pull him back now.

28:30 Yeah, And like is I don't know, And I have a feeling that's the right guys pull back. That it's good that the Republican ticket's going to be a little bit closer than people think. Um. Crystal made a good point in the chat room, she says our friend from Illinois. She says the media will report on it and write articles, though regardless of the platform seeing them do that on Parlor and truth social and lots of people don't use those platforms. Yeah, that's true. I mean, obviously the media will cover it, even though it'll be on Twitter spaces.

29:10 And I guess Elon Musk is actually doing the interview, so he's all in with De Santists. Something that I just thought of is that I think a lot of people already assumed Rond Saintists had already announced. Yeah, there probably are people who are only half paying attention who do think that. Yeah, it's I think seeing this, they're like, so is he announcing again? They're all king at it is the anti climactic in a way. Yeah, well yo, okay, Well, good on you. That's a good that's a good observation, Eric, because the media has been talking about him for actually at least a couple of months now, as though he was already in the race, even though he had an announced yet.

29:55 But everybody was so sure that he was getting in. And of course he is getting in. Um, But

30:03 yeah, I don't, I mean, I don't think he has any shot. I think it's uh, I think it's gonna be I certainly think it's going to be Trump and I think a lot of you know, this whole war with Disney is so bizarre to me that I think, uh, I mean, I keep I keep asking the question somewhat rhetorically on the show. I keep saying because RHND de Santis think that only Democrats like Disney, because he's he's got this this war, and it seems like Disney keeps out maneuvering him, and to take on such a beloved institution, he's gonna out maneuver him.

30:36 He's one person in Disney is well Disney. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I my theory, my theory is if de Santis had it to do over again, if he could go back in time, I don't think he ever would have picked that fight. No, because he every time it gets brought up, he just looks worse than worse. Yeah, it's it would be like if j if jfk redid the Bay of Pigs using the same exact strategy. Right, Okay, well it didn't work this, It didn't work the first time, but we're gonna go ahead and try this again. Crystal points out in the chat.

31:17 Trump has run attack ads against the Santists for months now, at least here anyhow. Oh, Yeah, there, there has been plenty of that. Yeah, Trump has been Yeah, he's been attacking to Santis all along. Well, Donald Trump has been the best mouthpiece for Ronda Santists. Yeah, Ronda Sciantists hasn't had to pay for any advertising whatsoever. That's true. Now, do you have is there a nickname that you know because Trump has several different nicknames for Desantists? I can't remember if I've asked you this before.

31:47 Personally, I'm a big fan of tiny D, But do you have a do you have a preferred nickname for Desantists? Because the problem I see with D sanctimonious is not only will people be making signs at Trump rallies and embarrassing themselves by horribly misspelling it when they try to put that on any sort of sign or banner, but also it really doesn't make sense if he's trying to call him sanctimonious, to call him D sanctimonious, that sounds like it would be the opposite of sanctimonious. I mean, granted, technically the opposite of sanctimonious would be unsanctimonious, but D sanctimonious also makes it sound like the opposite, So it's like he's in a way saying that DeSantis isn't sanctimonious at all.

32:29 So I don't think that one really works. I how about how about Disney de Santis, Disney de santism or Disney ron. I don't know. He's trying to put me on the spot here. Yeah, well, let me refresh your memory. So there's yeah, so there's round sanctimonious, there's round sanctus. I don't even know what that one's supposed to mean. There's tiny D, which it kind of makes him sound like a hip pop artist. Hey do you get the new tiny D album? Um? I don't think I would buy an album by an artist named tiny D. I don't think I would either, because I'd be worried about what I was getting into with that.

33:12 Certainly, there's also Yeah, there's also meat ball roun um, and I'm not sure how that's even an insult personally, Like I love a good meatball. So we're getting closer and closer to Matt Connerton unsheathed. That is true. Yes, that is true. I guess the meatball run. I heard somebody say it's because DeSantis is Italian, which I didn't think he was. I assumed I s I thought was Greek, but apparently DeSantis is of of close to a name Donald Trump would have heard on the Sopranos. Yeah yeah, yeah, So I don't know.

33:49 I'm trying to think if there were any others, but but it seems like he's going with the sanctimonious. I want I'm gonna roll with the sanctimonious just because of what you said. I want to hear the Trump but Trump supporters say it in a rally. Will they be able to chant that? Do you think? I don't know if they will, or they'll try. I'm sure there will be signs made. We'll see some glorious misspellings. Hilarious. Yeah, yeah, yeah, especially further down the Bible belt we go for these rallies. Tom Lanchard in the chat room, Uh oh, here's what I'd forgotten, run to sales tax because there was the Trump campaign put out and add something about run to sales tax.

34:37 Yeah. Yeah, it has something to do with sales tax in Florida that I don't really know what that's all about mine, but I guess they blame it on Ron de Santis, which seems strange. This is where we're at now, yes, yes, So that's the great thing about American politics is when you sit here and you say the common denominator, it didn't get any lower.

35:05 You're you're You're never let down because it always can get lower. Oh sure, oh absolutely. Um. I just saw this. Now Tucker Carlson also and and you know, and there's a bridge here, of course between the two because Tucker Carlson had announced at one point that he was going to be doing his show on Twitter, but I haven't seen anything more about that recently. Um, because apparently he's got I think he's got a no compete clause in his contract with Fox. But I just saw this, right, But so a lot of times they'll they'll have what's called a no compete clause where if they release you from your contract, you can't just go jump to another network right away and directly compete with your former employer.

35:56 Um. Yeah, But then that raises the question of, well, if he goes on social media and does a show, is that actual competition or I'd be curious to see the contract. But I saw this pop up on The Guardian. Tucker carlson home studio reportedly dismantled by Fox News workers, The Daily Mail report says construction workers took the set, all the equipment, everything from his studio network in Maine that was built for him. They must have built that for him during the pandemic so he could do his show from home or something.

36:30 Isn't that where his vacation home is? Probably? Yes, probably he probably vacations there. Yeah, he's very rich. Yeah, I think it's in Maine. So because I know, like I saw an article when I was doing research on him for something about like a column from Maine about how they thought that this was going to her tourism him no longer being on Fox News. Oh okay, Yeah, according to this article, I guess the fact that he has a vacation home in Maine. Where in Maine is it though, like a big boom for tourism.

37:19 Yeah, this article do you know where in Maine? This article doesn't say, Probably near the beach. I would imagine probably near the coast wherever it is. But he's he's so rich he can he can vacation anywhere he wants to. But yeah, according to this I guess the plan was, uh, he was just gonna go ahead and do his new show from his home studio there in Maine, and uh, these employees of Fox just came up and started, uh confiscating everything. Then he must not have been expecting that. He must have thought he got to keep it.

37:54 That's kind of funny. I mean whatever, the guy's got so much money, he can just hire someone to build them a new studio. It doesn't even matter. But I thought that was kind of interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm trying to find the article. Well anyway, boys, oh do you have to go? I have to jet all right. DJ Reckless has to leave us. It's good luck, DJ Reckless and I know you'll do well. Thank you. Do you want to before you go? Do you want to plug what you're what you're gonna be doing for in case we have anybody online listening from Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee Thursday to Sunday.

38:31 Thursday, I'll be at Alden's. Friday, I'm at Luke's, Saturday, I'm at Nudi's and Sunday I am at Dirty Little Secret for their Memorial Day party. And where can people go on social media to keep up with what you're doing? So that antient? No, I did not on Instagram at dj R E k LSS DJ Reckless very good. By the way, Isaac Banks is in the chat and says DJ reckles keep up the good work. Thanks all right, Reckless, thank you so much. All right, all right, DJ Reckless leaves us. Um, Crystal just made a comment in the chat room about Rick Levinthal spilled the t on Tucker.

39:15 So I'm trying to look that up. Um oh okay, yeah that was that was a little while ago, apparently. Um. Yeah, did we ever talk We talked about that text message? Right by the way, what was that? Did we talk about that text message? Eric, that text message about the white men don't fight like this and all that. Did we ever go over there? We did? We did? Okay, I remember talking about it on the show. I couldn't remember if you and I had talked about it. Um, what were you looking up? Oh? I was trying to see if I could find the article about the vacation home.

40:00 I cannot. Oh, okay, Um, I just uh oh, here we go. I don't know if you saw this. This just went up yesterday Insider dot com. You know, because one of the things we've been trying to figure out is why exactly was he fired? And Insider has a new story up. Tucker Carlson. Actually I'm sorry this one up. Two days ago, Tucker Carlson was fired before he could give a conspiracy theory fueled monologue alleging January sixth protester was actually an FBI informant. The biographer says, yeah, I did see that.

40:39 Yes, yes, yes, that's going to get that's ray. I'm going to guess and I'm going to go on a very short limb here. Yeah. That They probably gave him the option

40:58 like, hey, you cannot say that we just lost all this money. Yeah, yeah, he was he was gonna go for say this, and he was like, oh, I'm gonna say it. They're like, no, you're not, because yeah, you're fired. Is there already I forget now? Is there already a lawsuit? Is app's already suing? Um? I thought I think they're well they lost the one. Um. And it then it sounds like with that article, that and that news is that he was going to double down essentially yeah, yeah, and say something even more ridiculous and insidneary than what they had just gotten sued for.

41:50 Yeah, this is um. This is what it says here. It says again, this is from insider Fox News fire Tucker Carlson ahead of a planned monologue promoting a conspiracy theory that a pro Trump protester was actually an FBI informant who sparked the riot at the US Capital on January six, twenty twenty one. A conservative columnist writing a biography for the X host said the columnist, Yeah, go ahead, Eric, No, no, go ahead? Okay, Sorry, Oh that's okay, says the columnist. Chadwick Moore said in a video posted Monday on Twitter that he saw the monologue Carlson planned deliver the day Fox News took his show off the air.

42:30 More said, quote, the monologue dealt with, among other things, investigations around January six, and particularly Ray Epps, the only person captured on video inciting people to violence that day and allegedly an FBI informant who has still not been arrested and charged unquote. And of course ray Epps says it's all bs, and you know he's he was threatening to sue for defamation, I believe. Wait, so saying he was an FBI informant is defamation? Well, the problem is if you're if you if you associate, well, I mean, if you're going to jail.

43:15 People don't want to know you as an informant, certainly. Yeah. Well, also the people he associates with, certainly, uh won't take kindly to uh, you know, to him being an informant, if you know, if he's tagged as such. Uh he I mean, he denies. I think he's a Is he a member of the Proud Boys or something or one of these militia groups, But um, yeah, I would think so. Yeah, it says here. Carlson retweeted the video to a seven point six million Twitter followers. Epps is at the center of a conspiracy theory that alleges he was an anti Trump FBI plant who encouraged Trump supporters to storm the capital.

43:57 But Epps was a Trump supporter who said he took shoot with the twenty twenty election and attended Trump's stopped the Seal rally in Washington, d C. Though he headed toward the Capitol, he stopped after seeing riders attack police officers, police body camera footage shows, and did not enter the capitol. The FBI has denied that Epps ever worked for the bureau or was an informant. Epps told CBS News that the conspiracy theory has made him the subject of death threats from fellow Trump supporters, which have forced him to sell his home and live in an RV in an undisclosed location.

44:35 So, in other words, in other words, the witness protection programs went down him. Well, the thing is, I mean, yeah, I don't I don't think he's even been I mean, if he never entered entered the capitol, I don't think he's in any legal jeopardy. But but he's got a lot of other people mad at him. I mean that's basically this guy's life has been ruined. And that's that's what happened. When happens when these when these guys do this, it's like, uh, like when Trump talked about in Georgia, Ruby Freeman.

45:06 You know that story, Ruby Freeman and her mother election workers in Georgia, and Trump, in that call that that was released, publicly called Ruby Freeman something like a notorious vote hustler or something, and uh just completely made that up. There's no evidence to support that whatsoever. But it ruined that woman and her mother. It ruined their lives. You know, they had to watch their backs every second now in that community because uh, you know, because Trump said that about them, just recklessly just you know, making this claim, this wild claim with no evidence.

45:44 And you know, I mean it's one thing to say, you know, the election was stolen and all that, but but to go for him to go and mention specific people like that, you know, there's consequences when you do that to somebody. And it's the same thing with Tucker and ray Epps. You know, Tucker Carlson. Again, there's no evidence to support this, but he says this, and then he puts Rayapps's life in danger, you know, and now the guy's got to live in an RV, trying to brings new meaning to the Chris Farley sketch living in the bay and down by the river.

46:19 Yeah, except the character in the Chris Farley sketch doesn't have any what was his name, Matt something. I'm trying to Matt Foley. Yes, at least Matt Foley didn't have a bunch of militia dudes hunting him because they think he was an FBI in format. So there's that, Yeah, it says here. Carlson has nonetheless repeatedly promoted the conspiracy theory, as have Republican lawmakers, including Oh and the usual suspects Senators Ted Cruz. Senator Ted Cruz, Representatives Matt Gates, Thomas Massey, and Marjorie Taylor Green.

46:56 The US House Representatives committee that investigated the January attack interviewed Epps and found no links between him and the FBI. An attorney representing Epps did knocking, did not immediately respond for comment. Um, well, might not be getting a lot of good cell phone reception at the RV park. Yeah. Yeah, that's one of the most ridiculous endings to an article I've heard in a long time. Why would answer any phone calls about that? He's hiding out in an RV park?

47:37 Oh? Poor guy, I mean, oh, his life just ruined. Yeah, when these things happen, I always just like I brought my head because I'm sitting there and I'm just like why why? Well? Where is research? Where is where is looking into things? Where is fattiving? Do you not have any care or compassion towards someone's life after you say something stupid like this? Well, the problem is when you so, when you deal in conspiracy theories and I think you know, claiming somebody was an FBI informant,

48:32 you know it falls under that category. When you deal in conspiracy theories, you know, you get to That's why I don't like you know, I've had conspiracy theorists reach out to me like like even you know, flat earthers and people like that. Don't get me wrong, flat earthers I think are completely harmless actually, but you know, if a conspiracy theory wants to come on the show, I always say no because there's no point because they always have an advantage because they get to just make up whatever they want to.

49:00 They're you know, if you're dealing if if you're trying to deal in objective reality and facts and you're talking to a conspiracy theorists, they can just make up whatever and they get away with it because they know other conspiracy theorists will back them up, will believe whatever they want to say. Well, then help them spread whatever nonsense it is they're spreading. It's this, it's and unfortunately Tucker Carlson really got into that. It would seem in but that's also what drives ratings. Oh absolutely, that is it is.

49:34 It's I love I love making this analogy and I'm pretty sure I've made it on your show before. It's Howard's Stern syndrome in the movie private parts, when the executives are just shocked and amazed at the numbers he's doing. Yes, they're like, the average stern san sterna supporter listens for forty five minutes to an hour, and they're like and they're like, why do they listen for that long? To see what he'll say next? Right? And then they're like, what about the average stern hater. I'm paraphrasing a little bit here, and he goes, that's a shocking part.

50:19 The average stern hater listened for two and a half hours, right, And they're like why in he says, well, to see what he'll say next, right, right, Yeah, And that's where these guys like uh Tucker Carlson and uh uh Chris Matthews and uh Stephen Crowder, that's where they get their power from. There is no incentive for them to tell the truth, right and be in saint for Rachel Maddou, there's no incentive for the truth or no incentive for actual journalism. It's all theory in hypothesis And what can I say that's going to get these people to watch me tomorrow night?

51:19 Well, yeah, I mean that's unfortunately that's that seems to be the formula for successful cable news. And even now, um Tucker is taking the ground the how do I want to say this? Tucker is doing exactly what I said Stephen Crowder would do in Stephen Crowder ended up doing, playing this card of I'm the victim here. I'm for truth, this company is not. So I'm going to be with an organisation that allows me to share truth. That's why I'm going to be on Twitter. No, You're gonna be on Twitter because the person who owns Twitter really believes in the same asinine ideas that you believe in.

52:15 And Twitter believes you can should be able to say whatever you want, and that empowers and emboldens someone like a Tucker Carlton because that now he has no consequences, right right, Yeah, Elon Musk isn't going to kick him off Twitter so he can push these conspiracy theories and as long as he's careful about it. And I guarantee you he's learned from his Fox News firing and he has a PR team behind him telling him, Hey, this is how you have to warr this, This is how you have to say this if you want to say it.

52:58 So you can't get in rubble. Yeah, so he will be better prepared. Yeah, it's it's disgusting. So this ray, this ray app is, I guarantee you within three I will say, within within two to three weeks of Tucker Carlson being on Twitter, he will attack this individual verbally, oh le twice. Oh absolutely he will, yes, absolutely, And there will be no recourse for it because what what's what's this guy that's living in an RV part gonna do that? Tucker Carlson suin Well, okay, he does have he does have legal counsel already, and there is you know, if an attorney, an attorney will take that case, because that's you know, especially after after the dominion lawsuits missing that as an option.

53:59 Yeah, I'm saying, who's going to be in the fight longer Tucker Carlson's lawyers or the or eps's lawyers. True, and I'm gonna say Tucker Carlton. Yeah, te will wear down E's legal team to a knob where where it's a settlement and it's just a drop in the bucket. Yeah. People get continuations, they will get delays, they will get whatever. Yeah, Well, Tucker Carlson has the money to you know, just you know, keep keep fighting whatever. Yeah, that's true. I mean that's why. Yes, so I always say on the show, that's why the wealthy and powerful are so rarely held accountable for anything that they do.

54:44 It's like when Egan Carroll won that judgment against Trump, I said, you know, she's never gonna I don't think she's ever gonna actually see the money. Now she's got another suit going or that's been revived because Trump can't keep his mouth shut. But um, but you know, you know they'll keep appealing and it will go on. Um and did did you see this? Apparently Trump is uh, Trump is mad at Laura Ingram now on Fox. Oh, I mean Laura Ingram is an interesting Fox personality because there are times you expect her to tow the company line.

55:26 Yeah she doesn't. And then there are times that you expect her to be outspoken. He isn't. She's a complete conundrum. But she she never really seemed like she was someone that was on board with Donald Trump. I don't know as much as a majority of Fox wanted their people to be. She was just like a any time I see heard talk about Trump and this is just my opinion. Yeah it was. I'm just here for a paycheck, just just paying me. Yeah, I know what you mean. I don't mean yes, Donald Trump's great, Okay, sign the check.

56:16 No, I know what you mean. Yeah, yeah, media, it's reporting that I guess Trump posted on truth Social. There go her ratings. Trump lashes out at Laura Ingram after she airs poles showing him losing to Biden. And I did, I did watch the segment. So Laura Ingram had somebody on her show who showed a bunch of polling data that shows de Santis beating Biden, but Trump losing to Biden. And apparently this is completely infuriated Trump. Well, it's so probably the same polls that Ben Shapiro reference.

56:54 Yeah, yeah, I mean there is something to be said for optics in politics, right. Kicks are probably the biggest part for a party's supporters to be fully behind a candidate. Yes, they have to be a candidate that they feel can viably win. Well, yeah, then for those donors to spend to spend that money, you know, they don't want to put their money behind a loser because then they're just wasting their money. Right, And and people can say whatever they want, but I and this could be just blinded optimism on my part.

57:40 I do not honestly believe that a majority of Trump supporters think the twenty twenty election was stolen. I think at one point they did, but then when the facts presented themselves, I think a majority were like, boy, not wrong. Now they said that in the comfort of their own home or sitting on the crapper in the bathroom, but it was said nonetheless. Yeah, well, I know a majority, a majority of Republicans don't want Trump to run again. But there's the base that is so loyal. But the base can be loyal.

58:23 But I've always, ever since high school, and I've learned this in my high school government camp class, and I still believe it to this day. A base doesn't win you elections. Independence do right and if you cannot. And that's where I go back to the viability of winning aspect of it. Independence. Yes, they can pay attention and everything, but they're gonna vote for who they feel has the shot a win. And I'm sorry, Donald Trump does not win the independent optics to me as a candidate, right, he lost in twenty twenty to Biden, and his support that he has had amongst women has plummeted.

59:24 Yeah, so that's one major group. And I don't think he's going to be able to carry Hispanic areas in Florida like he did, especially railing on Ronda Santists like he has been. So all these great things that happened for him, even though he lost in twenty twenty, he is doing a very good job of getting rid of it because he did a very good job. His numbers were really good with women in twenty tw They were really good. Shot is shockingly enough, and people will probably say, Eric, you're wrong. No, check the numbers.

1:00:08 He did very well with Hispanic Americans. He did. That is true. Groups that you look at and you say, there's no way Donald Trump would do well with these people. You would be right with some of the things he said, but he did well with them. Yeah, the Hispanic vote, you know, Biden was actually people we were shocked at even just the very notion of it. But Biden was was actually somewhat competitive in Texas. But Hispanics broke big in you know, in certain counties, broke big for Trump in Texas, and and uh, that's part of what helped Trump hang on to Texas in twenty twenty and minorities as well.

1:00:57 He did very well with minority in general,

1:01:04 and I don't see him being able to do that again. And those are some very alarming statistics there. If for me as a Republican, if I'm looking at this like, okay, again, the viability to win, he have that, and I just I don't see a path. No, I don't either. I don't either. I don't see a path with the early polling numbers. And I don't see a way the groups that he was able to carry in twenty twenty him being able to carry them again. I'm gonna go on the record and say, if Donald Trump wins the nomination, he loses in a blowout, I think it's over by by the time California poll close.

1:02:01 No kidding, Yeah, I don't think it's close. Yeah. I think it's Clinton Dole numbers. No kidding here, wow wow, I think it's over by care Center bedtime. I would I would agree with you, except for one thing. Uh, the the incumbent is Joe Biden.

1:02:30 If the matter, if the incumbent were not Joe Biden, I would agree with you. I mean I don't, well, I do partially agree with you in the sense that I do agree that Trump loses. I think he's I think he'll definitely be the nominee, but I think he's turned himself into a horrendous general election candidate. But I think, um uh oh, but actually there's one way this all turns. But I think, um, but no, I do think it'll be close because I think, um, I listen, I voted for Biden in twenty twenty, and I you know, I'll do it again if I have to.

1:03:03 But I'm really disappointed with some things, which is the biggest thing being what this could all turn on. If if we go into default on the debt limit um, and the economic consequences are horrendous, which they will be. UM, then I believe Trump wins because what always happens historically is even though to me, there's plenty of blame to go around, Um, when the economy goes south, voters blame whoever is in the White House. What's up? Yep, yeah, so so yeah, So in that scenario, Trump wins. In fact, and that scenario, in that scenario, I think Trump actually wins decisively because everyone will not everyone like you know, but but the the average American.

1:03:55 They just they think. You know, John Hopwood calls it the big Man theory. You know, the idea that the president sits at the Oval Office, it sits in at the resolute desk in the Oval Office and sort of controls the various levers of the economy. So whatever is happening in the economy, they either credit and or blame who's ever at the top, even though you and I know it's far more complicated than that. But uh, yeah, so you know, no matter who's to blame, and like I said to me, there's plenty to go around, but no, they'll they'll blame Biden's the president.

1:04:27 If everything tanks, they'll blame him. And that's it. And that that's why I say the Republicans are in a no lose situation here. Uh they're gonna look great if they get some of the cuts they want, you know, to their constituents. And but but they're also, um, I don't know if they're gonna look great if we go into default, but they're gonna look better than Biden does. And Biden, to me, has just been completely incompetent on this issue. He's he's in way over his head. That's something you and I politically we probably fully agree on.

1:04:57 Yeah, I mean this is I think Biden just in general, is in over his head. And I really you know, I I love this. I love another comment I heard when Rush Limbaugh that I'm rooting for Obama to fail. One of my college instructors said, if you're rooting for the president to fail, that's like rooting for the driver of your That's like rooting for the pilot of your airplane to fly into the mountain, right just because you're on it, just because you don't like the pilot exactly. Yeah, right, And so yeah, I always love that statement because it's true.

1:05:46 When I realized, and I was working third ship that night that when the big Wisconsin dump happened and I started seeing Saint looking good, I relate. I've Then I said Donald Trump Watt, Yeah, now Trump supporter for have you been? That's four years when they have said something negative about Donald Trump's family. When Kathy Griffin held up Donald trump severed head, remember that? How upset were you about that? Now is our opportunity to be better? Now is our opportunity to take the high ground and say and say our president.

1:06:45 That morning, after I got off work, I went to bed, and I felt really good about myself. I felt I had taken a stand, and I'm like, you know what, if I reach one person, I've made a difference. I woke up Facebook and I didn't reach a damn person. I saw things Joe Biden, not my president, of course, Yeah, Joe Biden. Hey, Joe Biden, I'm moving to Canada, like, oh, I know, yeah yeah. So I mean that was my hope, is that we could be like, Okay, what's happened is happening. Let's move on and move on together.

1:07:33 Right. No one listened to Eric pitch for peace. I know, I know, my my. My feelings about the Biden presidency are are complicated because on the one hand, I'm very discouraged at his inability in my view, and I do believe he is in way over his head and he's been outmaneuvered by Kevin McCarthy spectacularly on the debt ceiling. On the other and I look at something like, um, the way I believe he's actually handled Ukraine very well, UM in terms of supporting Ukraine and giving them the weapons they need and so forth to try to fend off the Russians while walking that tight rope, and it really is a tight rope of you know, not getting us into a nuclear confrontation with the Russians.

1:08:21 I think on that, you know, and holding the coalition together, holding NATO together and everything, keeping everybody unified. On that, I actually give him an a. I think I think he's done an excellent job on that. Regarding strictly diplomacy, Yes, strictly diplomacy, Yeah, Joe Biden has done a serviceable job. I'm gonna say serviceable. Yeah, yeah, but the other things have the gross failures. Overshadow is all miss and to me, yeah, Joe Biden cannot win a second term. That's my mindset. Now, does that mean that I'm going to go against morals and values that I have that I feel a right?

1:09:22 Absolutely not right. But I just I look at Joe Biden and this I'm not attacking his past or attacking him personally. Yeah, I see a man that I seriously question if he can cognitively do this job for another term. Oh yeah, it's yeah. Sometimes that's very dangerous to me. Yeah, I mean sometimes he uh and I've said this on the show many times. You know, sometimes he seems like he's got it in him like the s to the Union. You know, he he you know, but other times I don't know what they do, if they shoot him up with Beach twelve or something.

1:10:05 But other times he just seems like he needs to to lie down or or the energy drink. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what they do. But um but as other times it's like, oh no, and and and he's been And I just I I think he's selfish. Uh. I don't think he should be seeking a second term. And again I give it. I give him high marks um on Ukraine, but he is in so far over his head on the debt limit. And I'm very concerned that he and McCarthy together are going to end up pushing the self destruct button on the global economy.

1:10:48 Um. I just I And I don't think he. I think he honestly thought one hundred days ago when he said, no, I'm not going to talk to Kevin McCarthy about this, they needed to pass a clean down limit. I think he actually was naive enough to think that that would work. And there's no excuse for being so naive. When you're president of the United States, you need to be able to see what's coming down the pike and he apparently couldn't see it. And now we're here, and that's a big problem. And McCarthy and the Republicans have all the cards, and Biden and the Democrats have only themselves to blame.

1:11:23 And it's I'm so disappointed, and I'm very I'm very disappointed with him. Yeah, I mean, the the debt management just with this. I mean, and we've been close. If I recalled, there was a couple of times during the Obama administration twenty eleven were yeah, we were close. I recalled once with Donald Trump we were closish. But this has kind of been an ongoing issue for the full four years. And we as a country, it is not sustainable for us to be on an economic roller coaster. It just isn't. And I really I'm disappointed in both parties at the inability to realize it that you're not just messing with a debt limit here, or they realize it, but they're using us, the American people, our lives as political pause.

1:12:30 Oh, it's like we're all we're all held hostage by this. I mean I don't even mean that hyperbolically, I mean are quite literally we are held hostage. It's incredible, and it's like, oh, well, you know, we need to have discussion. No, you need to get it done. I mean, well, like discussions when we go so far. Yeah, I mean I I well, I've said all I see to me. In principle, In principle, Biden's position was correct. I believe the debt limit should be clean. You deal with you deal with the budget itself during budget talks, during appropriations.

1:13:13 That's where he handled the budget. You don't mess with the debt limit itself. And by the way, that was Trump's position when he was president. Apparently now Trump is pro default, but he but that was Trump's position when he was president. He said, no, no, no, we don't mess with the debt sealing. Ever, it's much too dangerous. I think in principle Biden was correct. But in practice, you know, politics is the art of the possible. In practice, you got to deal with what's in front of you. And what's in front of Biden is Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker with the House FREEDOMCOC is calling the shots, and they're not gonna do what should have been done.

1:13:48 In principle, they and now we're just we're days away from I mean, I think Biden's going to half to at the end of the day invoked the fourteenth Amendment because there's there's not going to be times. I don't know. I we'll see when when I go to break, I'll see what you know, if they've concluded their talks yet today. I know the negotiators were meeting again today, but I haven't actually right by my MacBook, man, oh yeah, if you want to take a peek. I have not had this level of anxiety over this since twenty eleven.

1:14:21 But this is even worse. I mean, this is we are really down to the wire, and it would be nice if the fourteenth Amendment option would work, and then we can just do that and then everything's fine. But in reporting, Republicans in White House see progress in US get sealing taught. And that was six minutes ago. Okay, well, progress is good, although unfortunately it's kind of Party said negotiations had improved and would continue. In the evening. He predicted the two sides would reach an agreement, though several issues remain unresolved.

1:15:09 We've made some progress working down there, so that's very positive, McCarthy told reporters. I want to make sure that we get the right agreement. I can see that we're working towards that. White House folksperson Karen ge Pierre said talks remains fruitful. If it keeps going in good faith, we can get to an agreement here. She said in a briefing, Well, discussions were taking place. I hope so well that all sounds good, that all sounds good, But the clock is chicking. You know, they need they need seventy two hours for there's a seventy two hour rule for you know, the House to even review this before they vote on it.

1:15:47 So apparently McCarthy said he's not gonna budge on that. But I mean that, you know that sounds encouraging. Boy, I sure hope. So, I sure hope. So I'd rather not I mean, listen to the bill that the Republicans originally passed in the House. I mean, economists across the board say, uh, it's it's too those cuts are too deep and will actually run the risk of damaging the economy. But I would almost rather give in on everything just to save the just to raise a debt limit. It's like, you know, if somebody gave me a choice, if somebody said Matt.

1:16:20 You can either drive your car directly into a telephone pole, or you can drive it over a cliff. I'd rather drive it into the telephone pole. They're both terrible options, but you know, I'd like to take the one that's less bad. You know, I'm willing to cut some spending even if it does actually do more harm than good, as long as it doesn't completely collapse the global economy. You know what I mean? Yes, absolutely agree. Well, Eric, listen, my friend, We've we've kept you on for a very long time today.

1:16:52 You've been generous with your time. As always, we appreciate it. I I should sneak in a break, and but what do tell us about Friday's uh film? Oh is at the end of the segment music tell us about No? I like that? No? I actually uh my dog gets stepped on my Xbox Series X controller and turned it off. Okay, h no worries. What what do you have planned for Friday's film review? In honor of Memorial Day, we will be looking at the Steven Spielberg film Saving Private Ryan. Very good, very good? When did that go?

1:17:37 When did that come out? Ninety something? Right ninety nine nine, late nineties okay, yeah, okay, Yeah, Tom Hanks, Yeah that was a that was a very big movie for him, that's for sure. Yes, it really was, and probably one of the longest battlefront scenes I can recall in cinema for the first I think near half hour is all the beaches in Normandy. Oh okay, I've never seen, believe it or not, I've never seen Saving Private Ryan. I saw it in school when it was released on VHS.

1:18:23 Oh okay. Our history teacher showed it over like a week. Yeah it's a long film, right, it's not. It's not two hours, right, it's longer. It's a it's one hundred and sixty nine minutes. Wow, okay, two hours in fifty minutes. Well, yeah, nearly three hours. Yeah that's a long movie. Yeah, huh okay, very good. Well, so we look yes, we look forward to that. Yes, I will be uh writing the script tonight in recording tomorrow night. Outstanding, outstanding. I always look forward to your classic film reviews, and of course it is a very popular segment on the program.

1:19:03 I look forward to doing them. So win win, very good, very good, all right, Eric, Well, thank you, thank you for joining me today. Always a pleasure. Oh always a pleasure. Yes, well, we'll do this again next week, hopefully by the hopefully, by the next time we talk, we'll have a debt limit deal in place. Yes, hopefully. Um. And I called you Matt today, Yes, thank you, thank you. Yes, my name is Matt. Did John Hopwood make any attempt to poach you again this week? No? I uh lest I heard from mister Hopwood.

1:19:43 I sent him a picture of my Tom Tom Hanks book and he said, yawn, I don't think he's a Tom Hanks fan. I understand. All right, Well that's uh, that's too bad for him. He's missing he's missing out teach the al all right, Eric, Well we'll let you go, and thank you so much my friend, no problem, Thank you for having me. All Right, you got it, take care, bye bye bye. All right, that was our friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And uh, we yeah, we are. We're late for a break. I'm gonna play. Um, Tina Turner, if you didn't hear the news just passed away at the age of eighty three, I'm gonna play a little something.

1:20:27 Looks like this is actually a live clip. It's of her and Brian Adams, doing a song called It's Only Love, and I always really loved this song. I've never heard the live version. I don't think I'm gonna play this to uh as we uh as we observe the as we more in the passing of Tina Turner, one of the greats. And then we'll show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then we'll be back with the balance of our program. There is more, Matt Connerton Unleash to come, don't go anywhere. Who at Connerton Unleash does this?

1:21:00 Hey, Matt, this is actually you calling in. Thanks for taking my call. Wow, this is wonderful. I always dreamt of the day where I'd get to talk to myself. I'm curious if you remembered to pick up toilet paper or if you plan to do it on the way home. We need it to wipe our little bottom. Oh my goodness. Wow,

1:21:21 I did not know that we were out, but I'm really glad that you told or I'm really glad that I told me. Our little bottom can get a bit messy sometimes it feels like we use too much of that dang stuff toilet paper, I mean right right, toilet paper. I've remember actually called John Hopwood. Oh, John, I've always thought of him as a father figure, mostly because he always tries to spank my little bottom. I never let him, but he keeps asking, this must be an AI thing. Yes he does, he does. How did I know that?

1:21:53 I just mostly wanted to say that I am very nice and very much a sweet little boy, and even though my bottom gets a bit messy, I am a nice guy and someone that people love. That's very nice. Thank you. Oh and one more thing. Hopwood looks like an eighty six year old toddler and he makes us mush up bananas for him for lunch. Well, yes, yes that is uh. Goodbye, Matt be at home in the mirror, thank you. Yes, wow, very sun. I'll tell you what. That's a first for me. I've never gotten to speak to myself now.

1:22:24 Is it possible that someone puts something into my energy drink? Uh? And I just hallucinated all of that. I mean, I don't know. Somebody must have put something in my something too? There. Yeah, Wow, that was that was crazy. I felt like I spoke a little bit faster just now than I usually do on the phone. Well maybe not anyway. Wow, All right, Well, I'm glad you guys were here for that. Yeah, that was the first. Yeah, that was that was never a dull moment up up in here. That was fun. That was fun.

1:23:03 Welcome back, everybody. This is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Wednesday, May twenty four, two thousand and twenty three, as we cruise into our final segment today here on the program, and uh wow, it was such a nice day earlier.

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1:24:51 But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your Dulcet tones is to give us a call at six three two five six seven six h three two five O six Z seven. By the way, speaking of Dulca tones, Tomorrow on the program, Kevin Horn will be our guests. He's coming in in the second hour. Now you've probably if you're a regular listener, you've heard his name mentioned on the show before, because he does play frequently. I think every three or four weeks actually, or every five weeks or six weeks, I don't know time, who knows right, But he is a regular at the Hop Knot.

1:25:30 They do live music at the Hop Knot on Saturday nights from seven to nine pm, and he's got a show coming up there. But he's gonna be here whether it's tomorrow, live in studio, and we are really looking forward to that. I can't wait to hear him. He's bringing his guitar and he's gonna play live for us in the second hour. And we have a call. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this? I can provide you tones, but they may not be dulted. Oh close enough. What's up, Dave Ridley? Well, some stuff?

1:26:00 Actually, that's why I called some stuff? Well go ahead, Oh okay, Baa, please share your stuff. Oh it's good stuff. An a check that is back on the move. They have commissioned h they've got an air force. Now they're commissioning an airplane to fly around the Hampshire this weekend with an an check sign. Now I have to ask you, now, I did I am on the I did sign up for the newsletter. I do receive these communic as regarding that, So I did I did see that. Now I have a question though, Now is it gonna be a big sign?

1:26:39 Because sometimes what happens to me, Dave, is I'll see a plane and it's got a banner attached to it, and I'm looking at it and it's like I can't quite read what that says. I mean, is it gonna be a big banner? Or a big sign or is it gonna is it gonna light up? Is it gonna be one of those led signs? Zoo? That would be cool. But what kind of a sign is it? I haven't seen it and I don't know exactly what it says. I think it's going to fly around the May twenty seventh, you know, because it's been Moral Day weekend.

1:27:07 They'll be above I think conquered Nashville and Manchester, but I'm not sure about Keene okay, okay, And and it will be promoting NHXAD. And for listeners who don't know, this is the UH secessionist movement? Is it fair to call it that here in New Hampshire? Yes? All right, all right, very good. That's gonna be very expensive, I would think. Is that is that an expensive prime position? Yeah? Ian? I think Ian Freeman is finding most of it. I think what he's trying to do is just spend his money before the Fed send him, send him away and end his life, you know, or in his life or whatever.

1:27:43 Okay, um, is that what is expected to happen? Not to change the subject, but you did mention it, so I'm curious, I mean, are are you expecting even to go to prison. It's actually all very connected if you think about it. We have the strength of well, I mean, it's not a super strong independent movement, but it's as strong as it is, partly because the federal government crackdown on bitcoin ors like Ian you know, two years ago, and they rated all these big bitcoin businesses around the state. Yeah.

1:28:16 Uh, that's part of what created you know, our independent legislation. We only we only think we would have had that if it hadn't been for for this crackdown. I didn't really Dave thought. I thought NH said predated the raid or whatever you want to call it, and that happened in Keene. No, h, it does predate it. But the independence legislation really was more that that was triggered by the raid to the large extent. Okay, okay, I didn't realize. So independence it's like a gas tank, you know, in the federal government does something terrible, Well, you turn it into a gallant gas you put it in your gas tank and you run your independence engine.

1:28:57 Does that make sense? Yes? And I do like independence engine. Um that's a good phrase. So so for example, I'm sorry, go ahead, no, actually you go ahead, and then well we'll circle back to what I was going to ask you. You go out a day. So the central government of Canada behaves very cautiously in Quebec because they know if they go into Quebec and they do a Waco or something like that, the Quebec's just gonna walk away, right, that's going to push them right over the edge because they're already a kind of close to independent.

1:29:28 True, it has a positive It has a positive effect on the central government. Does that make sense? It does? It does? Yeah, that's why you do. Independence drives even if you don't have any hope of real independence. I understand. Um, Okay, No, what I wanted to circle back to though, is so what I mean, what happened to everybody else? I know we've talked about this before, Dave, but I just haven't kept up on it. Um, So what happened everybody else who was arrested? Did? Did they all? Are? They all out?

1:29:57 And they're all out? But I don't I don't know all the details on each case. They arrested six people. They rated a lot more machines and a lot more businesses than that, but on that day, but they arrested six people and all that Ian took plea deal because it's impossible to Actually, the federal government system is rigged so that they always win in court, right, if they're fighting against the people, they officially always win. It's it's it's actually so rare for an individual to prevail in these unfair courts that Ian's probation officer actually told him, Hey, guess what, Ian, did you hear that somebody won in federal court so other day That's the first time I've ever heard of that happening.

1:30:41 Um, wait, maybe I'm missing something here, Dave, So just if you can clarify this for me. So, everybody took a plea deal, but Ian didn't take a plea deal because somebody told him it was possible to win in court. Is that what you're saying. No, No, he knew he'd probably get beaten, but he just he always preaches the idea of making them fight in court. He just because it ties down the fence. There's much there's more time to spending going after him. The more difficult it's going to be for them to go after somebody else.

1:31:10 They have to actually, you know, information gets put out in court. He's practicing what he preaches yeah uh and being a little bit of a badass and that oil. Is I allowed to say that, yeah, are yeah, that's fine. Um but um but I don't think he had much hope that he would win. He might, you know, he thought he might. I don't know what he thought, but um uh but yeah, like Aria de Mezzo got her spinnings recently and that was eighteen months I think, And that's actually a lot more than I would have expected, considering she took the plea.

1:31:44 She was a secondary target. Um and um, so if she's getting eighteen months, I would assume that Ian will get quite a bit more than eighteen months. What did she plead to though, I don't remember. But again again, the charges were basically the most scary founding charge that they threw out was that they threw into the mix was money laundering. It's kind of like they're trying to make it a money laundering case. Yeah. Now, all these folks they had lawyers before the fans came after them, and they used the lawyers to try and navigate the byzantine federal regulations on telling bitcoin right uh in large amounts.

1:32:26 And they they at least claimed that they thought they were in compliance, and they had lawyers who were looking it over and telling them that they were in compliance. Right, right, So so why is Ian out right now? He's just he's out on his Is he out on his own recognizance until until the trial starts? Where is he in the process? Not quite, it's not quite that. It's more like a bailuh. And he's got an ankle bracelet or at least check. Oh no, kidding, Okay, I was going to say, because I'm sure they think he's a flight risk.

1:33:02 It's one of those things where he has to have permission to leave his house. Basically he's been like that for about two years. Um. And he's not allowed to use he's not allowed to use a computer. Correct, he can use a computer, but he can't access his own bitcoin. Oh okay, gotcha. So this money that he's throwing at this plane like they took, they really basically destroyed him financially when they did this trade before they ever charged him or convict him, um and um. And yet you know, just whatever scraps of money he has left he's throwing at this plane and other other things.

1:33:39 I think he's he or somebody I guess NH exit. I but that's him or someone someone else in NH has permissioned a new poll as well to try and get more information about where New Hampshire's stand on independence, and that this is the great This is the five hundred gorilla, five hundred pound gorilla in the room that no one talks about, is that of your hamster. It's already favor an independence referendum based on the Servey USA poll last year. Well then didn't you tell me, though I might have misunderstood, didn't you tell me you were a little bit skeptical of that pole, even though even though it's obviously a favorable poll, but you weren't sure.

1:34:18 That's well, yeah, I think that's why. That's probably why it's good to have another poll. I think this one's going to be done by you and AGE. So they're obviously this is an authoritarian organization. They're pro federal, they're not going to be if they come out with the same number, that's really going to give the number a great deal of credibility. Yeah. But but so you so, do you have any idea what kind of a sentence Ian is looking at? If if I would have guessed it, I guess it would. I would guess my projection would probably be four years.

1:34:48 Four years yeah wow, okay again, you know, they destroyed him financially. It just sounds like he just sounds like it sounds like he just was four years of his life. When he comes back, he doesn't have money, right, right, Yeah, he had money like he managed his finances well, you know before the Feds came after him, and he you know, he took the world that where the world where the economy was not functioning, and he made something work in New Hampshire. This is one of the things that was working in the world was bitcoin.

1:35:26 It was working very well in New Hampshire, better than anywhere else, according to some folks. And the Feds came in and burned down Cryptomecha as best they could. Yeah. Um hm is um. They're the reason. They're the reason we can't have nice things. But he has a Does he have a good lawyer? He did, He had Mark Sisty He's probably heard of. Oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, he's got a famous He represented Paam smart right.

1:35:58 I don't know about that. I thought he did Mark Sisty, Am I thinking of somebody else. I'm gonna google it really quickly. I could have sworn Mark Sisty represented Pamela smart I'm probably wrong, but I've definitely heard the name. But maybe I've just heard the name. Hell, maybe I've just heard the name because of because of this case. But uh yeah, no, I was right. Yep, Mark Sisty, Yep he represented Pamela smart Way. Interesting as a long time ago. Yes, yes, so he's he's been around a while. Well, so Ian's an attorney is kind of famous.

1:36:30 Um yeah, from Conquered I probably I'd probably even met him at some point when I lived and conquered. Um. Interesting. So uh yeah, Well, you know, I've always liked you and I'd hate to hate to see him go to prison. But um but yeah, he's got a he's got a reputable attorney. But like you said, yeah, it's hard to win in court against the government of course. And now when they you said, though they took all his did they seize his assets because of the like, did they seize all his bitcoin or did they do you know, if they did an actual civil asset forfeiture where they just grabbed everything,

1:37:09 well, they just told him not to access it, and claims that they couldn't get to it as themselves if he can never access it again, which they might. They might tell him that you can never access your own bitcoin again. Ever, they might say that to him, uh and um,

1:37:25 but they they did not try. I don't think they tried to access the uh you know, the bitcoin that he has, you know, out and out on the internet. They may have decided it was too much work and there's other ways that would get him And they're always are right, like, you don't have to have someone's password. If you have a hammer, you just hit him on the hand until you they give you the password, right if you're the bad guy that's not the fence behaved sort without the hammer. But did he have other assets that they seized?

1:37:52 Did Like, did he have other There was a lot of Yeah, there was a lot of stuff seized in the house, right right, He's like a hundred grand of cash that was in the house they sees or over one hundred grand. I think they sees. They seized a few casacious coins, which are physical bitcoins that had been in the house. They were in a safe and I think I think they've had you know, button the safe open or whatever. Um. Anyway, but you know, the place where Ian lives is just way too much of it was obviously at some point, you know, the drone strike was going to happen, Yes, on the heads of whoever was in that place, which is whack right not to spend a whole lot of time there.

1:38:30 Um, there are other people that lived there, they're all activists. One of the others was a target and was arrested. So it's just the place was a honeypot and they shouldn't have had so much stuff there that was of interest to the authorities. Um. But anyway that I don't know, you know, there's other details I'm forgetting probably, Yeah, No, I was just curious because, um, I know that the government often uses civil asset forfeiture to put you in a position and like what you were talking about, where you know, they seize your your assets and then you have to fight them in court, but it costs money to fight them in court, and with what they've already seized your assets, and the and what's even more insidious.

1:39:13 And I'm not telling you you don't anything you don't already know, Dave, But what some in the audience might not know is with civil asset forfeit or two. What's even more insidious with it is even if you so if you go to court and you fight and you win and you're acquitted, you don't automatically get everything back. You then have to I've read so many stories about this. You then have to effectively sue the government to get your stuff back that they seized before you were even you know, when they when they went to arrest you effectively and they already seized without due process, already took everything.

1:39:47 Then you have to sue them to get it back. But sue them with what Because you have nothing they've taken at all, You have nothing to hire a lawyer with, and then you're in a you know, unless the same lawyer who who may have been a public defender, because that's because you couldn't afford an actual uh I don't want to say a real lawyer, but you know what I mean. I mean, it's really, it really is rigged against you. And that's why a lot of people who have their assets seized, even if they're acquitted, they never get their stuff back because it's like, Okay, so I was found not guilty.

1:40:24 Now the government's supposed to give me back my stuff except good luck, you got to chase them for it, and that's gonna cost money, money you don't have because they took all your stuff and all your money. Yeah. Well again, that's why we want That's why we want the federal government. That's why we want the US out of New Hampshire. Now, our friend Scott Robinson says, in the new New Hampshire, Dave, you would be able to say whatever you want to on the radio if we secede. Well, there wouldn't be any FCC regulations I guess, right, right, so you would have no concern think about it.

1:41:00 I'm sorry, go ahead, I's gonna say so, you wouldn't have to be concerned about whether or not you could say that word that you said, which actually it was perfectly fine, but it wouldn't even be an issue. Yeah. The FCC actually did go through Keen some years ago and rated that some people were trying to broadcast you know, I guess it was Liberty Radio Network and it just provide some real competition to the authoritarian radio station that broadcasts locally. Yeah, And of course the federal government came in and went hunting for them, and they were on the street.

1:41:32 You know, trying to tell people not to film them, and that was caught on camera. And they eventually found the community radio station that wasn't licensed by them and shut it down because you know, you got to have the government's permission to criticize the government in the airwaves. A number of years ago, I it happened more than once. Somebody, somebody here in Manchester was was broadcasting some sort of a pie radio station because I heard, uh, I heard hip hop music in my car with one of the frequencies where there wasn't usually a radio station.

1:42:08 I heard hip hop music unedited. Uh. It had happened more than once, and but then it never happened. You know, it happened a couple of times within this span of a week, two or three times, and then I never heard it again. But somebody was doing something here in Manchester like that. But anyway, by the way, speaking of radio, which is still I mean, even the authoritarian radio stations are better than YouTube or CNN or something like that. At least you can call in and talk, right, But that's that's under threat now too.

1:42:39 You're under threat because apparently they're starting to issue they're starting to put out cars that have no AM radios. Well fortunately, yeah, we've talked about that on the show. Now fortunately we're in your FM, I guess, but yeah, we're we're an FM station here, but yeah, and I know that. Um so it was interesting. Uh yeah, this came up on the show a couple of months ago because Sean Hannity and what's the other guy, Mark Levin, They did a segment on Hannity's show about how you know, this is their theory that liberals are the type of people who buy electric vehicles, which is why electric vehicle manufacturers are not putting AM in cars now because liberals want to kill off conservative talk radio, which I think is an absurd conspiracy theory, as most of these, uh theories are.

1:43:31 I think it's really just a matter of um, you know, they just don't they think they think AM radio is a dying medium. But you know what's funny, Dave, I remember when I was a kid, people thought AM radio was on its way out because FM. You know, everybody said, I remember being a kid and hearing adults talking about it, how FM was so much better and it is obviously it's better quality and so forth, but that AM was on its way out but then it was the rise of conservative talk radio. And there's been books written about this, and uh, there's a book, a great book called Right of the Dial.

1:44:04 I can't remember who the author is, but it talks about this, about how conservative talk radio actually is what saved AM radio that and they figured out how to get rid of that annoying whistling sound and um, and then AM radio went through a couple decades of really thriving. But I guess now it's um. You know, with the Internet, it's kind of slipping away again. And these auto manufacturers are saying, yeah, maybe we just won't bother with AM. I hope it. I hope it sticks around, though I'd always rather have more choices than less.

1:44:36 And um, you know, if anything ever happens here, which I hope it, I hope it doesn't, But if anything ever happens here, I'd like more options as far as where I might land. But anyway, boost an important radio is an important disaster resource, you know, because when the grid goes down, you still have radio keeps working when almost everything else failed. Right, Yeah, AM radio specifically, that's one of the that's one of the reasons. Um. And there's a bipartisan effort in fact, to protect AM radio and to convince these autom manufacturers to continue to put AM in their cars for that very reason, for immunity emergency communications if there's a disaster of any kind.

1:45:19 Um, So that's a that's a good point, Dave. We are, we are almost out of show. But I appreciate the call, and uh, please feel free to plug again, h exit and the plane with the banner or anything else you want us to know about before you go. Oh yeah at us. Very good. I love the irony of the dot US. All right, Dave, all right, I appreciate the call, my friend, have a good night. All right, thanks Matt, all right, you got it. Bye bye. All right. That was Dave Ridley and we are just about out of time, So thank you everybody.

1:45:54 Fun show today. Thank you again to our friend Eric Pilcher for joining us. I always enjoy as we do every Wednesday, we talk about media and you know, then we end up varying into other things as as we do. But that's fun. I love talking to Eric and of course DJ Reckless joining us, who's about to tomorrow he's going to be flying down to Nashville for a series of shows there. We're very proud of him. Jenny and I are very proud of him, and he's doing great. He works hard, he really does put a lot of tremendous effort into his craft and it's really paying off for him, and it's wonderful to see.

1:46:27 Thank you, of course everybody in the Facebook live chat. Sorry I didn't it was a busy show. Didn't get to pay too much attention to the chat room. But we'll just look at this quickly. Just I did see our friend Mike from Queen City Cabinetry is in the chat. Mike says, one of our great sponsors here at WMNH. Mike says, good afternoon everyone. I received a surprise letter in the mail yesterday at the show room. Our friend Gary wrote a beautiful poem for my dad. We spoke for about an hour. He is truly a very kind man.

1:46:57 Oh yes, our friend Gary. We love Gary. And Gary did that for police also when when Paul's father passed away. Of course, policy from Retro Spectrum Radio with policy every Friday night from eight to eleven pm here at WMNH Isaac Banks of course in the chat room, Crystal, our friend from the Great State of Illinois, Melanie La Liberty from the Great state of Vermont. Uh, let's see, Melanie had a lot of funny comments in there. Isaac Banks, of course, from Greensboro, North Carolina. Oh. Scott Robinson said, Eric, if you're still listening, Scott wants to know if you've ever watched the film Affliction with Nick Nolty.

1:47:39 We can we can get that answer from Erica next time we talked to him. Um, I just want to make sure we don't miss anybody in here. I thought I saw somebody else pop in here. I think I did see policy in the chat room earlier. Um Crystal said, l ol Trump for blaming Laura Ingram for bad polling. Maybe he should sew his mouth shut if he wants better pulls. He is the cause of his own problems. Oh, I've said that many times. Trump is absolutely the cause of his own problems. That is for sure. Let's see all right, I think we got oh.

1:48:19 Tom Blanchard also in the Facebook live chat to oh, this is regarding our debt ceiling discussion. Tom said, ticks me off to see the news clip where everyone looks like they are all laughing and seems like it's a big joke. Yeah, some of the House Freedom Caucus Republicans are having a little too much fun with this whole debt limit fiasco. Yardbird Blue Sky joins us in the Facebook live chat. I strongly suspect that yard Blue Yardbird blue Sky is from Greensboro, North Carolina. Also, I see Sepsis is in the Facebook live chat.

1:48:52 Hello Sepsis. They will be on the show soon as a matter of fact, but we'll talk about that a little bit more tomorrow. They've got a big show coming up, let's see. I think we got everybody all right, very good. If you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at WMH radio dot org and on my website Matt Connerton dot com. Today is Wednesday, which means tonight is Industry Night at the hopnot our amazing sponsor across the street. And don't forget tomorrow night they have Trivia Night, as they do every Thursday.

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1:50:01 All Right, we gotta go. I will, I'll talk to y'all a little bit later