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As came at last, snapping on stress stands surviment a wheel, the sirn

like a welchourning up of the sea. The coasters deallyan desert slaves said we

made eating water, but not take to fly. Their actions will see their

own days. Kay, let you play, let me go, Kay call

shapen, rise in and chayy no letter wrong, you don't try to hide.

Life has change. Nothing seems as read lost sound hay oh all that

we cham can dram drim dram drim cha boka okay. And he said,

not a big war? What is it? Nat? And he said that

the mains are gonna be the first one in and ain't gonna last. That's

right. So if you don't sign up soon, we're gonna miss it.

I'm already seting. I'm going in really just like, uh, I'm not

waiting. I'm going in now. Come on, Rnnie, you're crazy.

Oh, you're crazy. Our dad's got to go to w W two.

This is our chance to do something, to be part of history. Guys.

Yeah, just like our dads. You should think about what you're doing.

You know, Ronnie, you be dangerous over there. You know you

could get yourself killed. Did you ever think about that? Or you're going

squirrel ahead? College? Well, I want to do something with my life.

Yeah, I can get a degree in business administration. And you don't

think you need to serve your country, don't get my naybody be yourself.

Huh better dead than red. And I got missiles point at us everywhere.

I seevms. They're coming in all around us, Cuban now ninety miles away,

Ronnie taking up. Look, what are we gonna stop them? Huh

nine? He ain't superman. You can't stop them away self theory. Communism

is moving in everywhere. Oh yeah, sure aware, Ronnie. I don't

see them. They're not right here in massive people. So I'm just gonna

take number one. Jimmy Stevie. Stevie, Stevie. It's okay because someone's

got to stay home with the women and children while the men go do the

fighting. Nuts And I'm getting out of you. All I'm saying is you

should just think about it, you know, just think about it. Running

Hey, Stevie, who are you taking on? Problem? Wendy Danil Wendy

dan Wendy Daniel? Were you taking Joey? These youths were many youths in

the early sixties that were on the cusp of adulthood. They were faced with

the decision to serve their country, go to college, or just simply work.

Many made the choice to enlist, and that led to them fighting in

one of the most controversial wars in American history, the Vietnam War. For

the man that is the subject of this week's film, it led him down

a path of despair, heroism, and ultimately renowned activist. Released in nineteen

eighty nine and based off the autobiography of the same name, Born on the

fourth of July, is the story of Ron Kovic, played by Tom Cruise,

a man that enlists in the Marines and serves two tours of duty in

Vietnam. It is during his second tour he is wounded and suffers a severed

spinal cord due to a gunshot. This causes him to be paralyzed and sets

him on an the eventual path of activism. Our next clip is from a

nineteen seventy seven interview with Kovic following the release of his autobiography. In this

clip, he speaks about his life growing up and why he chose to serve

and the wretched treatment he faced upon returning from Vietnam. Top it all off,

he was born on the fourth of July, so that every fourth of

July, when the country was celebrating his birthday, ron Kovac was celebrating his

birthday as well a country celebrating its birthday. Ron Kovak went to Vietnam and

served not one, but two tours of duty, and the second tour of

duty, as you may already know, he was shot twice, once in

the foot and the second time, I think through his back, shattered his

spinal cord, and he ron Kovac was paralyzed from the chest down. This

experience that he relates in his book called Born on the Fourth of July,

is one of the most painful and ugly experiences I've ever read about. And

I've wanted to have him here on midday to share some time with you for

a long time. So ron Kovac is with us. You may remember he

nominated Fritz Ephau at the Democratic National Convention here in New York last summer.

Last week he was arrested for the tenth time at Kent State protesting the controversy

there about a gymnasium. Ron You know how I feel about this I'm fine.

How are you good to see you? I want to share something Normally,

if you're one of my regular viewers, if you watch our show,

I'm essentially pretty relaxed during the interview. I am not going to say what

will happen to me doing this. I have found reading this book Born on

the fourth of July, which I finished about eight twenty this morning, to

be a real emotional experience for me. I could feel your pain as I

was reading this book. Let's not assume that everybody has read the book,

or let's not assume that everybody knows everything about you. Let's uh just find

out a little bit about your I was born on the fourth of July and

nineteen forty six, and I guess you could say I was an all American

boy. I love this country. I believe in what John Wayne said and

Howdy Doty, Rudy Kuzuti Sergeant York. I was a child of the fifties.

I can remember remember John F. Kennedy. Of course, that's not

what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your

country. I believe that Bill and I believed in America, and I believe

that what we were doing in Vietnam was right, and I went, like

millions of other young when did you first go on? What year did you?

In? The nineteen sixty four September? I joined, uh, the

United States Marine Corps because the add down at the post office said the Marine

Corps builds meant body minded spirit, And I wanted to be a man.

And I cause you're a pretty tough guy. I mean you were a very

so, you were an athlete, you were a star arrestler, you were

best at pole altered a mass peap of high school. I was. I

was a real good wrestler too. Yeah, I know that. So you

joined the Marines? And how did you feel about killing? I mean,

you had played with guns and toys when you were a kid, just like

I had, just like a lot of people. Well, the first person

that I killed built was an American and I didn't feel good about that at

all. And the second group of people that I killed were Vietnamese children,

and that made me feel worse. But I mean, going into it,

ron, I mean, you know the whole mentality, you know, I

believe that I believe that all of us grew up with John Wayne with whole

movie cinema image, the toy guns. The Madame tell submachine guns that we

got every Christmas. The whole generation was prepped and hyped and conditioned by our

culture, which is so violent and which is which so romanticized as war.

We were ready to go, We were ready to fight. We thought that

the war was going to be like the John Wayne movies, but it wasn't.

It was different. And when we came home and tried to tell the

American public about the reality of the Vietnam War, that it wasn't a war

to help people, but it was a crime against humanity and against the Vietnamese

people. And they didn't listen to us. They threw us in jail.

They called a trader. They spin my face. In the film, following

his injury, Covid is forced to stay at a veteran's hospital in the Bronx,

where the nursing staff abuses drugs. The conditions are horrible, with rats

crawling around, impatients, sleeping in their own feces in most cases, and

struggling to get even the littlest things such as a shower. This begins his

disillusionment with America and its government. The next clip we hear is that this

does run much deeper. Covic, while sitting with his childhood friend, reflects

on his injury. In this we can hear the despair in his voice and

the issues he has coming to terms with his permanent injury. When you when

you get hit me? Uh January twentieth, Yes, someplace of Jess I

don't even remember, and you're some river up in a DMC walked into hook

the battalion in the foot and I just got up, running around like I

was back in the woods again, you know, like I was jumping away

in something emptying the bag, screaming, come on, jolly slap crack above

my right ear. I just felt my body drop out from unt of me.

Classed. I thought I was dead for sure. It was the Yeah,

I was a hospital sucked, really, no, man, tell you

something runny. Sometimes at night I get these headaches, you know, feel

bad, and they just they just kind of come over me, you know,

and they just they just come, you know, like I'm going crazy

or something. And I don't feel I don't feel like me anymore, you

know. I I feel like when they come, I feel like somebody else.

You know, what can you do? What are you doing? Nothing?

The goddamn thing else. Well, mostly I do a lot of drugs.

The only thing you can you know, money, You get through it

anyway. You know how when I was in the hospital, I thought,

yeah, yeah, this makes sense. What makes sense? Does it failed

to me? What are you talking about? Because I because I killed someone

some people? It's terrible mistakes, Ronnie, Christ's sakes. We all made

mistakes. I mean, you had no choice. That's something I got.

Damn Pansy demonstrats. I never gonna understand. Ronnie. You don't even gott

to talk about it. I mean, we was insane over there was It

was crazy. Sometimes I wish, I wish I first time I got hit,

I was shot in the foot. I could have laid down, I

mean, paralyzed, castrated that day. Why so stupid, I think,

Tommy, I give everything, I believe in everything, I got, all

my values, just ad my wady back again, just to be home again.

I'm that whole. I never will be in us. Wait it is,

isn't it? For Christ's sake? Ronnie your birthday, You're alive.

You made it. Smile. What makes this film truly powerful is seeing the

evolution of COVID after the aforementioned deplorable conditions, his depression, drinking infrequent fits

a rage, causing a strainment from his family. He becomes an activist and

speaks against the war he strongly supported for so long, even a short time

after his injury. Our final two clips show this difference. First, at

a Fourth of July parade in his hometown, Ron speaks after turning home.

However, after a baby crying causes a flashback, he stops dead in his

tracks. Then, at the nineteen seventy two Democratic National Convention, Ron is

protesting and speaks out against his government and the war. Again. I want

you all to hear the difference in words, in tone in Kovak with these

two scenes. What God saw word decrees, it's five pro bac Lady,

if the gentlemen was born on what July nineteen forty six, Let's give a

big hand on his great buck. I just want to say for all the

guys in Vietnam and we're doing our best. It's not easy situation, but

the boys morale over there is real high, and you can feel confident that

we are we are going to win that war. I serve my country and

I don't want you to feel sorry for me. Do not shed a tear.

I have my hands, my eyes, my ears, I have my

heart, and I have what I feel. I have. What I feel

is an unquie unquenchable. And now Ron's protest. What money? It's not

COVID. I'm a Vietnam bitching money so public, I'm a Vietan bitch.

I'm here tonight to say that disc war is wrong. How to society lied

to me, lied to my brothers, say the chief. The people in

this country has it's tricked them into going thirteen thousand miles to fight a war

art against the poor peasant people who have a proud history of resistance, who

have been struggling for their own for their own independence for one thousand years,

the Vietnamese people. You know, I can't. I can't find the words

to express now. The leadership of this government sickens me. Right, people

say, people say, if you don't love America, then get the hell

out. I love America. We love the people of America very much.

But when it comes to the government, it stops right there. The government

is a bunch of corrupt thieves. They are racists and robbers, and we

are here to say you know we don't have to take it anymore. We

are here saying here, here you tell the truth. We are killing our

brothers and Peter like man pere to hear the truth tonight. We are here.

You don't know steal so they don't is this here and get serve this

when he gets sad, skid in the face. We're never right unless to

be We're not as right. Forget. You don't want to what you want

to hear it because it's here and you're not gonna super because you like the

way it's like some television side. This wheelchair, our wheelchairs, this steal,

our steel is your memorial game and reels. We are your young to

do to day to come home by you love to do the day's come home

some sort of snuffle or commotions working out on the floor of the convention.

Disabled veterans protesting the war and Vietnam. We're gonna try to get a microphone

down there. Busy inn when there is so much of a tendency they're run

domine those who have served an ad in the past, who served the day.

Let's give those who have served them the honor and the respect that they

deserve in that they heard a film this powerful and memorable defies awards nominated for

and won, it supersedes box office straw. But as is tradition with this

show, we shall quickly go over those details. The film was the tenth

highest grossing film of nineteen eighty nine. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards,

including Best Picture, Best Director for Oliver Stone, and Best Actor for

Tom Cruise, and this is the film that truly showed his range as a

performer. It won for Best Director, which was Stone's second award, and

Best Sound Editing. However, the greatest award was the one Covoc gave Cruise

as a birthday present and for his performance. Kovac gave Cruise his Bronze Star

because he said Cruz showed great bravery in his performance. Finally, some might

be asking why I chose this film for Memorial Day. I chose this film

because there are times that I feel we all have a skewed view of the

military. These young men and women choose to serve this country. They don't

choose where they are sent. They serve knowing that wherever they are sent that

could end up being the place where they take their final breaths. To me,

the Vietnam veterans are forgotten to a degree. They deserve the same respect

and honor any other veterans have, surviving or otherwise. The only choice they

made was to defend us our honor and freedoms. They didn't choose where they

did this, the conditions they were under, and that is something that we

all need to remember, not just on Memorial Day, not just on Veterans

Day, but every day of every year. I hope you will join me

next week when we will finally look at the nineteen eighty nine film Major League

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dude, WMNH rip the novels. Welcome back everybody. It is Matt Connorton

unleashed and we are well into our number three New Marrow Trace on the Saturday

morning, May twenty five, twenty twenty four, of course, Memorial Day

weekend. Jenny is here at the news table, present and accounted for.

Yes, yes, and we have joining us live in studio all the way

from from Texas. Nancy Manette is here. Hello. Nancy was with us

a number of weeks ago via Skype, and but she's on she's on tour

now. Let me pull that mic up there, and uh, you're doing

a bunch of tour dates up here up our way. I am, yes,

where you where are you gonna be? So you've got to show tomorrow

right and yes, the front room. Have you ever been up here before

to the I have? Yeah, yeah, okay, I've spent some time

vacationing and many times I've come over here. We lived in Madison for a

better part of twenty years and this region became the easy flight over from you

know, Madison Airport. So yeah, yeah, excellent. And you're gonna

play live for us? How many? How many songs? We are you

thinking about doing a couple of songs? Okay? Okay, you've got your

guitar and you've also, of course, we've got some studio tracks we can

play some of those two we featured last time, and we can we can

do that again as well. And I learned something. You have a book.

We should we should talk about that right at right at the top,

just briefly the book. Actually, if you want to the cameras on you,

if you want to hold one up. I didn't realize there's yeah,

we're on We're live on Facebook. Yes, yes, yes, yeah,

tell us about the book. So this is a children's book that is an

adaptation of a song I wrote for my daughter called My Expansion, And the

premise is I entered into the world myself as a very rigid conservative religious up

from that type of an upbringing to raising raising a child that sorry, we're

still kind of with the mic. Yeah, that's all right, Uh,

raising raising a child who really beat her own drum. And around five years

old, she just started asking, hey, Mom, why do you believe

what you believe? And I was like, I really don't know why I

believe what I believe. Yeah, think about it. And as we had

conversations throughout her lifetime, and she came out as queer, and she was

really nervous with how the family would receive her and I grew expanded and changed

everything of who I am because of that little girl coming into the world.

So I wrote a song about it, and then we adapted it for a

children's book because it's really written from the view of a child changing the parent.

Yeah, and what's so interesting about that? Yeah, don't worry about

the mike, Nancy. What we're gonna do is we're gonna play a studio

track in a moment, and we'll switch you to that middle seat. This

seat is twoth. I think I think the middle seat because it looks like

that mike is staying exactly in place, so I think we'll have better luck

over there. So we'll play We'll play a studio track and then we'll uh

and then we'll come back and have you played live. No. But what's

interesting, because we were talking off air about the book and you were saying,

how was it the publisher was saying, someone was telling you how unusual

it is, Yes, to have a book where where it's it's the child

who changed the parent and helped the parent to evolve. Yes, and especially

on any topics that are related to children, but children who who are lgbt

q i A, it's usually the parent is already very inclusive and very and

accepting and humans are humans and the end and versus a parent who really entered

the world with completely different view view and belief system, and that the child

coming into the world really changed the parent changed me. Okay, yeah,

yeah, interesting. Well let's play a studio track, and I want to

make sure that we play something that you're not going to play live. So

we're not, well, why don't we Why don't we start with my expansion?

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna play this check this out,

and then we'll we'll have we'll get you moved over. While the song is

on and Nancy Manette is here with us live in studio. She's gonna play

live for us. But check this out. This is called My expansion.

The Great Nancy Manette here on Matt Connerton, unleashed in and to the world.

Dam of the Cain. You never except status quod today blaze the trail

that was all your rown, even though being queer, it was not well

known. When on those are way hot shirts you are at too on under

your skirt be like that stam. Okay, you'll began to proceed in your

special way ha Harmie Hicks bad dr Harmby Hicks, by Sharp. You taught

me to think that the world was not as rigid as I show it to

be. You are in my eyes, there is so much more to consier

than all hes before. You don't believe exactly what I do. He has

engage the world. It's the authentic youth. Your path is your path,

it's not might judge. My job is to love you love from a book,

Harbor expert job harm I expand Jump. That is called my expansion.

That is the great Nancy Manete. I was saying her name wrong, uh

incorrectly earlier, so I apologize. Let me get we get that uh great

track, and of course we played that because we were just talking about that.

How do people get the book? By the way, my expansion,

it is available in a lot of bookstores, so it's Barnes and Nobles,

okay, it's available online at a large online where all of your finer books

are. And it's also available on my website. So okay, very good,

very good. You want to play something for us dying to hear you

play live? Okay, this is very cool, of course. Uh,

if you're just tuning in, we have Nancy Manet with us alive in studio,

and last time Nancy was with us it was via skype. But she's

on tour doing some dates in the Northeast, and so it's wonderful to have

you here. Thank you, I love I'm so excited. Yeah, be

here and do get to actually meet you too in person. Well, we're

very honored. We're very honored. Yeah, So whenever you're ready, if

you want to tell us, tell us about what you're going to play,

and then we'll we'll hear what you got. Okay, I'm going to play

a piano song on guitar. Okay. My joke is I'm a pianist plays

guitar. Okay, So I'm going to play Insecurities all right. And I

actually wrote this after a woman that I did not know targeted me for some

anger and and blame and I was even confused, and I actually cried a

little bit and it was like wait what, And I said, you know

what, I need to process this. So I sat down and wrote insecurities

all right, Oh yeah, insecurities, they are not mine. Bit.

Then I apologize. I will not be compared, let out up poll in

this world exactly as I am. It's not my fault that you yourself aren't

willie to expand. I have spent years working on myself be who I am

today. Our day said I just could not see. So I fell to

my knees and pray. If you don't like who you have, become side

and change your ways. Take some time looking inside. You might have some

to play. Poor in securities are not my affair. Then I will not

pologize. I will not be compared hollow, stop bothering worm exactly as I

am. It's not my bam that you do yourself are doing t t tear

down your wall and build a Gain't something else? Love yourself and who you

are. They don't excuse to see you f far, don't pay games,

who has the time? Take you're norris, You're not happy, Just walk

away, not your target. I'm not your praend. Don't alone for you

Tuesday in no Wood, you chosen to speak to me today. No,

it's not a love for you to Tuesday, no Wood. You will chosen

to speak to me today for your in secularity. Easy art my cross apparent.

When I not pall choice, you'll not You need a pair well job

following his phone exactly as I am. It's not my fault to yourself.

Are willing to expand. No, it's not my fault to you yourself,

are willing to expand. No, it's not to allow for you Tuesday the

Woods, you will chose them speak to me today. No, it's not

to allow. Oh beautiful. That was awesome. Yeah. I love your

voice, really really good to hear you live. Now. Remind us too

about the the album. How long is this? How long has this been

out? This is not yesterday, it's just oh yesterday okay, okay,

so right, so when we had you on before it was about to come

out, yes, okay, I had some singles that were coming out beforehand.

Yeah yeah, oh congratulations, So this is wow? So this is

brand new. That's fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. Are you playing and when

you when you play live, are you playing all the songs on your on

your tour? Are you playing everything from the album or I am and I'm

freaking lying in some things that are coming out later this year. Okay,

yeah, weave the story together. Yeah, as we were talking off air

about you've you're already working on on more stuff, right' I'm this we're going

back because in June I'm recording album three and four, okay, and album

two will come out in October. Okay, yeah, very good, very

good, similar themes or are you going to get into some other subjects?

Album three and four is completely different. I mean, it's still it's still

my style, right yeah, yeah, but there there's a you know,

your producer gives you challenges, you know, take this, and okay,

I'll try this, and hey, Nancy, you may not have to be

so heavy in your baseline, okay. Yeah. And uh, and so

I really had a lot of fun writing over the last six months, a

whole new set of twenty okay, the first set of seventeen nine are here,

and the remainder will come out as a larger work, okayber So,

is there something appealing about kind of working on new stuff and leaving I mean,

obviously you're not leaving this behind. The album just came out. But

at the same time, is it does it feel good to all ready be

working on other music that is not connected to the school project? Yes,

of course, because this, this project and even this nine song debut has

been a you know, lifetime in the making, not that I started writing

it a lifetime ago. I really only started writing bits and pieces in twenty

twenty and really dove into it twenty two to twenty three and then got into

the studio. But it's the story of trauma to hope, and it's really

the story that it's autobiographical, one hundred percent autobiographical of things I've experienced and

as I've come through them. I put it to song and in the hopes

that it would one identify and relate and then also encourage. Yeah, because

there's a lot of you know we talked the last time, there's just a

lot of destruction, a lot of abuse, a lot of pain that people

are suffering, and we can get through it. You absolutely can't. I

am living proof of that. We may have touched on this before, but

have you do you hear from anybody regarding the music itself? Like, do

you hear from from from any of the shall we say, the characters from

from this real life saga that that you've been through about these about these songs.

I'm going to take that as a yes. Okay, okay, so

a story, yeah, all right? At Christmas time, so I've written

a Christmas song and I thought, you know, I would like to go

share this song with my adoptive mother. Yeah. So you know this story.

I was a ward of the state of birth, yeah, and the

foster system, and then I was adopted, and then in that family structure

of that adoption, my dad died when I was twelve and I was left

in the hands of a borderline personality disorder. And so fast forward to this

time of life. There are some very strong boundaries that I have in place,

and even strong boundaries to access and so I but you know, she's

much older, and I thought, you know, I wrote this beautiful Christmas

song. My dad died on Christmas, and so I want to share it

with her. You know, there, people can heal, people love,

people grow, people change. And I went and visited her at her home

and my adoptive brother was there, meeting me in the driveway and said,

if you share this story, we'll sue you. I was like, wait,

I'm here to share about Christmas and generosity all year long and oh my

gosh. And I went in and said hello, and it was I was

it was like, wow, this this has not changed at all. And

I exited and I said okay, and I actually said, as I walked

out at the door. I said, if that's what you need to do,

you know, and I'm like a story, then you have to admit

that you're in That's my thought process. What I'm writing is like, then

you have to come forward and say you're one, right, yeah. Yeah.

And even even in this conversation I had with her, she's in a

relationship with, she still has a friendship with. My second ex husband is

the one that tried to kill me. And she said, well, he

he didn't intend. Oh yeah, so so mom, you agree that he

put a pillow over my head. He goes. She goes, well,

yeah, he said he did. But but he said it wasn't his intention

to kill you. He just wanted to get your attention. Wow, And

I resent who you tell me I can be friends with. And I'm like,

oh, merry Christmas and peace on her. Think that will towork man?

How is that the last conversation? That is, yeah, I got

you? And the album's coming out and the bit more work is coming out

and yeah, good on you for sharing it though, because it really needs

to. There's a lot of people out there, way more people than we

maybe want to admit in society. When they hear somebody like you, they

know I can survive this, I can get out of this, and we

don't have to because pre this coming out, I did not know if I

ever was going to sing in public again. Really yes, because this is

post Pillowman, and I was not certain because there was a long period of

time during the pandemic shutdown. I was stalked, My children were stoked.

I actually moved out of state so that I would not get stalked anymore,

but my daughter continued to get stalked. And so it's a real thing.

And for me to come public also means I run those risks. And I

thought, you know what, No, that's actually you know, I will

not be silenced, right, I've spent my whole life, you know,

within groups of people that have tried to silence. I'm like, it's no

more, will not be silenced. And this isn't about you know, I'm

not an angry person. This is really about it's a road of healing and

and we've talked about mental health. I joke that I have a PhD in

being therapy because it's a lot of therapy I've had to go back. And

why did I make that decision, right, and how did I end up

there? And what is this? And you know, I still believe in

love. I still believe in love is the answer. I still believe it

can solve the world's problems if we actually think about each other and listen,

do we all agree? You know? I mean you might like coffee with

cream and I like it black. You know, we don't all have the

same taste or agree. But boy, if we really leave with love and

the best interest of humans, right, And I think a lot of that

starts with the supporting of those who have been really wounded and hurt and marginalized

and instead of making them the enemy. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, you

want to play an other one, Yeah, if you're just joining us on.

Nancy Manet is here with us live in studio. She's currently on tour

in the Northeast, and we're very glad to have her here. Absolutely,

absolutely, Yeah, whenever you're ready, just go for it. If you

want to tell us about what you're going to play, I'm going to play

addiction and this is about the father of my kids. We were married for

eighteen years and we did not lose him to death, but we lost him

to the street. The codone, you know, highly narcotic, well,

highly addictive painkiller era. And we walked through that for about eight years with

him. Oh wow, and that ended that relationship. And so it was

the kids and I on our own. And later on in life, I

wrote this song and I realized, oh wow, if anybody has ever walked

through loving an addict, you just all you want to do is just love

them. Like I said, I just really believe love can solve a lot

of things. We also have to do our work right right exactly. It

kind of goes hand in hand exactly. My heart broke and I cannnot fear

out what I always do. That makes you a long shout? Why do

you say things that got me into the worm? It will turn to the

lands? All those be coll for My heart's desire is to love your kindness.

Nothing to do but whe I am trying yourself me? You calm out?

And why would I be based on that special cake? Why would be?

I'm just getting in the way? What is more portent? Pomp?

Why are you hide? How party you fall? What is more pork?

Can thank? You beat me about? Hello? What are you hide?

How far di di to fall? No d u hollo to my heart desire

he is love you your kindness, not day but when nigh Ass Drager's comedy

to come out bid and I we oh my aunt Dennis love you, but

the man you don't want me? You see nigh As it's stoping b com

house swing and I wait you come out bid and very nice. That was

excellent, very nice. Nancy manet here with us live in studio on this

Saturday morning and uh sounding great? Are is it unusual to be singing this

early? Yes? Yeah, A lot of a lot of a lot of

our musical guests they come on, they're like, oh, this is a

no. You sound great though, but I know it's uh probably probably pretty

unusual. We had a band on Saint Patrick's Day weekend. We had a

band and who was like, no, this is normal for us because there

they play a lot of shows on Saint Patrick's Day weekend and you know a

lot of those kinds of shows they start, uh they start very early.

But uh yeah, for for most of the guests we have on, it

is it is unusual. But uh so the show now, the show and

wister you're doing that all that's all acoustic, that's all unplugged. Yeah,

yeah again, I'm laughing. It's like I actually call the company and said,

cauld I get an acoustic piano, deliver it, No kidding, I

did, and they're unable to deliver it. But yeah, I thought,

okay, this is gonna be a lot of fun. I'll play my expansion

on the guitar. It works, it works great. It's going to be

at the front in worcestermorrow. Very good, very good. See and if

you go to Nancy Minette n A and c Y M A n e T

dot com you can find a lot of great information upcoming dates of her concerts,

as well as all of our music and bio information. So check it

out. Than you do you always? Is it always you solo? Or

do you ever play with the bandy? Well, right for now it's right

now on this leg it's solo. Yeah, we are working on our band.

Oh cool, start startup after Oh excellent, excellent, Good for you,

good for you. We need we need a strings department. Yeah as

well, that's that boy, hard enough to find a drummer, you need

a strings department? Good at least? Yeah, Yeah, well there you

go, there you go. We might have talked about this before. But

are you so the new material that you're working on, are you playing any

of that on the current tour or are you holding out until you actually you

know it's interesting, Well, the stuff that's coming out in October, Yes,

I am sprinkling some of that in. I have another song that's coming

out in a month from now. That's part of the that's all part of

this connecting story that starts with the debut album. But then even the stuff

that I've written for things that who knows what the release states will be,

I may or may not pull it out. It depends on on the time

frame. If I need an extra song and we've burned through the rock opera,

and I actually I love I'm a singer songwriter, so I love the

process and I love showing people that journey, and so even to share,

hey, here's a song and it's really raw form, but it'll be fun

to hear how it's finished. And even even okay, so this I just

played addiction that that is written on guitar the way pretty much I played it.

I may played a little bit more aggressively as a solo artist, but

for a band and in studio work, it's played you know, so it's

neat to see. Okay, here's how a solo version or a pre written

or pre recorded version, and then you get to hear you know what we

do in the studio. Yeah, yeah, I love that. How all

that works? Yeah yeah, fantastic, fantastic. We're gonna so we'll have

time for one more studio track. But before we before we do that,

where should people go? What should they know about? Where to find you

online? How to keep up with everything that you're doing? First and foremost

Facebook, Okay, it's my age group, So please find me at Nancy

Manet. You'll you'll see and and and send me a direct message that you

you know you heard us on the show. And you can also find me.

I'm newer to Instagram, but you can find me there. I I

personally respond to everyone, and so I really love connecting with people. Relationships

with one another is I think what makes it work? Positive ones? Yeah,

and so there and then also my website just mentioned Nancy Mine m A

n E T dot com. Very good, very good? And how many

dates you have left on this tour? We go home to thirty first?

Okay, oh okay, so you got you got some left yeah, so

you're in Where do you go after Worcester? What's your next one? Oh?

Me to tell you etiquette? Yeah, oh that's right. I think

after wester you go to New London, Connecticut areer for a radio interview.

Oh, very good at w C and I very good. I think it's

I And then we end up Virginia on the thirtieth, Atlanta, Georgia,

or in July twelfth, Oh yeah, July thirteenth, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Yeah, that one's a radio special. Yeah, excellent, excellent, Good

for you, good for you. Well we will what do you want to

play to end the you know, let's play something that we haven't played on

the air. Uh. It's it's called Fractured okay. And it's really the

conclusion of you know, when we're talking about Okay, you've done this project,

and then now we move on to new music and we're writing new things

about other topics and such. But this this actually concludes that, I would

say that era of trauma, and it kind of launches off in hope.

Okay, Oh, well, excellent, to the next book of life.

Well that's a that's a great way to uh, that's a great way to

end it very good. Nancy Manet, thank you so much, thank you

so much for having thank you for being here with us, and Jenny,

thank you. You want to plug your website here, welcome. You can

keep up to with my information at Gencoffee dot com. J E N N

C O F f e I dot com. There's some new stuff up there

and an upcoming webinar. Yes, yes, Jenny's got a lot going on.

And uh, of course my website Matt Connorton dot com. And we

will and thank you to everyone who joined us this week on the show.

And Nancy, thank you again. And we will end with this. This

is Nancy Manet. This is called fractured. All of us are fractured,

as we now vulgate this line our hurts, our pain, the brokingnesses.

Man. We so much strive as we ponder who we become. We said,

andraw our breand we real like this rature read. It's for some thing

grad y to shine in to Pea says it is part of U journey.

If wheel learn it will create a lineoscope. You'll see beauty that's created from

me. She's off our soul. What the last sun stage they'll make a hol

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