Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-13-23

Wellcome everybody, here we go. It is that time again, Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H 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, etc. Etc. Today is a Tuesday, June thirteen, two thousand twenty three, so nice to have you all with me.

We've got an exciting show for you today coming up at the five o'clock hour in the second hour numerow Dose, We're gonna be joined via Skype by a Texas band. In fact, one of the songs I played a few songs today to open the show. One of them was Sunset by Lady Chops and the g D Jam. Now, the actual name of the band is not It's not GD it's something else. I'm just cleaning it up for afternoon drive radio. Probably wouldn't be a big problem if I said the name exactly as it is. But I mean, that's not one of those FCC prohibited words or anything, but it's it's what I call a gray zone word, one of those words that it won't catch in any you know, won't catch you fined or anything, you know, occasionally heard in songs and whatnot on the radio.

But but you know, I don't know if I don't know if it's really appropriate for Afternoon Drive. If we were on in the evening, later in the evening, that would be different. But I don't know if you want your kids here in that. So, so Lady Chops and the g D Jam will be uh. That's the our radio edit version of their name. They're gonna be skyping in at five o'clock. Great band from Texas, and that track Sunset that I opened with is from their album Time, and we also have later after we talk to them at the end of the segment.

We're gonna close that segment with Funeral Clown, which is going to be the world radio premiere brand new song from that band. And we've got a couple other songs we're gonna be playing as well. Today. They sent me the whole thing, uh, and it's uh, even though all the songs aren't out yet. They sent me the whole album and it's just fantastic. I'm really looking forward to talking with them, really really good band. So if you like that song Sunset, that's who that was. Before that, I opened the show at the very top with when will He Ever Learn?

That is if you're looking for that. That is on YouTube. Parody Project is the account and they do some really fun political song parodies. And then I also played the Showers where secrets were stuffed by Trump by Rocky Mountain Mike, another YouTuber who does a lot of really fun song parodies. I was actually, I will confess to you, I was actually going to save that one for later. But then I saw Melanie's comment that Melanie made in the chat room and I said, oh. She said, uh, you are cracking me up with all of your folder boxes, posts and music, and I was like, oh, I gotta play this one now, and I love I think that's funny as hell.

It's only two minutes, it's short, so I was like, I'll go ahead and play it now. By the way, even if you're you know, even if you're full on maga, you have to admit that's pretty funny. That's a funny song. I thought that was brilliant, but not everyone will have a sense of humor about it. That is a fact. At some people get very upset if you make fun of their they're anointed one. They get very upset. No sense of humor about it. But that's okay. Uh. Six O three two five O six O seven is the studio line.

If you'd like to join us today six zo three two five O six Z seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at matt Connerton dot com, and of course you can interact endo Pine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call at six zoo three two five O six zo seven six zo three two five six zo seven. By the way, I want to say thank you to my friend Kyle Heavy.

He is a very important part of the w m H ninety five point three FM family here. He hosts his own show here called Off the Mark Sports on Sundays. But I happen to run into him. I we have a post office box, uh at the well, the post office right across the street. Where else would it be, right? Uh? So I, uh, sometimes I'll run over there time permitting before the show. And I ran over there to get the mail, and Kyle was there, and he said, you know, condolences on the loss of your friend if you missed yesterday's show.

Ben Brackett York, whom I used to playing a band with, passed away. So so we kind of did a tribute to him. And uh, but that was the first thing Kyle said to me when I when I saw him, he said, hey, condolences and and we had a nice conversation, a brief conversation because obviously I was in a hurry I had to grab the mail before the show. But h but I appreciated that very much. And thank you to everybody too for all of your your well wishes and and so forth. So yesterday was a challenging day in that regard, but I do appreciate all the support very much, so, so thank you all of you.

Um, and it was good to have Jenny here for that as well. Um, so you know she she usually comes in with me on Mondays anyway. But it was. It was good to have her here for that. I definitely, uh definitely needed it yesterday, so I appreciate it. Let's say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat and then we'll see I don't know, I don't know. It's probably been another slow newsday, but we'll take a look. I'm kidding. Of course, history was made today. No matter where you are on the matter or how you feel about it, one thing you cannot deny.

One thing we can all agree on. History was made. Melanie, I mentioned, is in the chat room, of course, from the great state of Vermont. Jenny, of course is in the chat room and says shalom peeps. J Fed also joins us from Vermont and says good afternoon everyone. Cristel, our friend from the Great state of Illinois, says hello everyone. Melanie says, I don't know what words you are talking about. I won't know how to find the group. Jay Fed speculating it's great Dane, not quite, not quite. I'll put it this way.

It's a way of taking the Lord's name in vain. We'll just leave it at that. Again, probably wouldn't be a big It probably wouldn't be a big deal because like I said, it's not one of the really bad words that you absolutely can't say on the radio. But I have to tell you, guys, I have a really really good streak going here of not getting not getting in trouble. I've got a really good streak going. I haven't been in trouble for anything in a long time here. I want to keep that up. I want to push that to the limit.

Let's see how long I can go without getting in trouble for anything. So I'm I'm airing on the side of caution. With that airing on the side of caution, Alex Wiley joins us from the UK and says, all right, you lovely people. Hello Alex, nice to see you, and they're welcome, Welcome to the show. Let's see. So what happened today, Well, today was oh j Fed says, I'm glad you won't say it, I know, right, So, yes, history made today former President Donald Trump arraigned in court. And this has been and

Melanie's daring me to say something in the Facebook live chat which I absolutely cannot say that would definitely get me fired. Melanie. Let's see, let's let's get the update from the Associated Press here. This has been unfolding this afternoon, Trump will be released. This was posted seventeen minutes ago. Trump will be released without having to pay a bond. I expected that he certainly is not a flight risk, former President Trump, because if he fled the country, then that would really complicate his campaign, his campaign efforts.

Let's see it says here, Trump will be released without having to pay a bond. He will not have to surrender his passport or restrict his personal travel. He will not have to Like I said, he's not a flight risk. Obviously. As the hearing continued after his not guilty plea was entered, Trump sat at the table, scowling with his arms crossed. Former President Trump is pleaded not guilty to federal charges alleging he hoarded classified documents detailing sensitive military secrets and schemed toothwart government efforts to get them back.

I'm going to stop there for a moment because I want to this. I've got an angle to play here that I haven't heard anyone else. Well, it's been alluded to here the use of the word hoard, but I haven't heard anyone else in the media really explore this. And one of the things that I do try to do with this show is explore angles and ideas on big news stories that maybe not anyone else or almost no one else is really talking about her exploring and try to bring a little bit of an unusual perspective, get a little outside the box.

You know, we talked yesterday on the show. Jenny is very she sounded very certain that it's really just all about ego with him, and that does seem to be in terms of why Trump did this, because you know, I want to know why. I want to know why. Jenny seemed to think it was. It's it's about ego and just being able to show off and say, you know, look what I have, and that that there seems to be a broad consensus around that idea. I think a lot of people think that. Um. But there is also, of course, the more sinister concern is, you know, was he trying to do something really nefarious with these documents?

Um? But there is another possibility, and again I haven't heard anyone, and I've heard it sort of vaguely alluded to, but I haven't heard anyone address this possibility directly. And when I say this, uh, many of you, maybe most of you, maybe all of you will think, Oh, I don't know about that, Matt. That's a little Really you think it's that. I'm not saying I think it's this. I'm just going to throw this out there again, the use of the word horde in that AP style, in that AP style apnews dot com website.

Um, but they report in the apiece. It's known in the business as the AP style of reporting. I completely made that up. Um. Is it possible that he does have a compulsion to hoard and that's why these because we've been led to believe that the hoard with an H Melanie, not with a W with an hum. We've been led to believe that things were collected, shall we say, in a rather hurried and haphazard fashion, as the Trump administration was vacating the White House at the end of his presidency, when he when it was time to go.

Um, is it possible that there was a mindset of let's just grab whatever we can because he maybe he never intended to do anything. I mean, yeah, part of it. I'm sure he liked showing things off and saying, hey, you know, I've got secret documents here. I'm sure that's part of it. But is part of it also just that psychological thing of wanting to have this stuff, not for any real purpose, but just to have it. And it kept getting moved around, of course, as is alleged in the indictment, which you know, they call it a speaking indictment or a talking indictment, where the indictment itself tells the story as it lays out the theory of the case within the indictment.

So, you know, it sounds like these things were moved around a lot. But how could he possibly I'll throw this out there, how could he possibly have had time to go through all all of these boxes and figure it out and figure out what he wanted to you know, keep or his show to people or not show to people or whatever. I mean, there's no way. I mean, you're talking about boxes and boxes of documents, you know. And and again the story is apparently he would go through things at times, he would look through things, but but he didn't want other people looking through his things.

And how would he ever have enough time to actually go through all this stuff. So let's put aside for a moment the idea that he might have been up to something nefarious, you know, other than obstruction of justice by trying to hide these from the government so he wouldn't have to give them back. I mean, aside from the obvious, right, but let's let's put aside the idea for a moment that he may have had any nefarious intent as far as what he was going to do with the documents themselves. You know, I've I've known people I think.

I think hoarding is more common than people might realize, and it is something I've seen clients for over the years. It's a very common problem and it takes different forms. And when I say see clients, you know, if you don't know, I'm a hypnoth therapist, and you know, I help people to do things like with smoking, lose weighted, et cetera using hypnotherapy. I've also had a couple of clients over the years who came to me because they had a hoarding issue and they knew it. A lot of people who have hoarding issues don't even know it, but they'll engage in compulsive behavior.

It takes different forms, like keeping things that you're never going to actually be able to do anything with, like maybe stacks and stacks and boxes and boxes of some sort of paperwork, or you know, a common one too, is people who have a lot of disposable income and they end up ordering a lot of things online or from the home shopping network or whatever it might be, and they order things that they'll they're never actually going to use, and they have boxes of unopened things just sitting in their homes, things that they ordered that they want to have in their home that they're never going to actually use for any purpose.

They just want to have them there. It's it's really pretty fascinating. I had a friend and this is what I was thinking of when I'm looking. I'm looking at a picture, looking at a picture right now on this monitor, the now famous bathroom photo where you see the boxes of documents in the bathroom, which again Kevin McCarthy says, it's perfectly fine because the bathroom does lock, so no problem there. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. That's apparently how seriously he takes a national security But I had a friend whom who his father.

This wasn't high school, and I won't say I won't say who who it is. I won't give away any names here. But I had a friend in high school who I went over to his house once, to his dad's house. I went with him to his father's house, and his father had in his living room and I think maybe in other rooms too. It was a long time ago, but I remember walking into the house and you know what, his father had just everywhere everywhere, very large stacks of newspapers. He just had everywhere you looked, just and not little piles either, big stacks of newspapers.

He must have been collecting them his entire life. I mean, just these enormous stacks of newspapers. For what reason? What was he keeping them for? Why was he saving them? Who knows. My friend didn't have any idea. I don't think his dad had any idea. It's not like I was gonna ask him. That'd be kind of rude. Hey, my friend's dad, why do you save all this? Why do you save all this? And it wasn't anything else. It wasn't like he had stacks of anything else but just newspapers, stacks of newspapers everywhere, and you know, the local newspaper, the local penny saver, you know, just whatever.

He clearly had a hoarding issue, not that I am, or was then, or you know, qualified to. I don't know what the actual clinical term for it is, but not that I would be qualified to diagnose him, but that's clearly what was going on there. Anyone with any common sense could see he's a hoarder, and in his case, it manifests itself in for some reason, whatever it is psychologically that causes us. He likes to have he likes to be surrounded by large stacks of old newspapers. And I remember my friend telling me too that his dad would sometimes he'd have like he'd go to the store, and this part's interesting.

He would buy like ten copies of the same newspaper. Like he'd buy ten copies of that day's newspaper and then bring them home, and you know, he'd leave one out to read, and then the rest of them into the stack they would go. I mean, it was almost I'm not kidding, it was almost hard to find a place to sit in his living room because he just had news is everywhere. And again for what purpose, who knows. So I'm just it's just interesting to me. And I'm just throwing this out there because again, when you think about the numbers of documents and the number of boxes here and again I can see in this picture that there was no way ever in his life he was going to have time to go through them all?

Was he hoarding them? And I don't mean hoarding them, you know, I don't mean that as a figure of speech. I mean literally hoarding them because there's something psychological there where he just has that compulsion to do it, just throwing it out there. I have no idea. Mike Doyle's on the line, high Mike, Hey, Matt, how's it going good? How are you? Big political news? Have big stuff going on. I feel for the country a little bit. I feel for the so much discourse in this country that we're now putting people in possession of spion charges where in some cases the penalty is death.

But but going along with your hoarding thing, Yeah, there was a strange There's these questions that I asked myself. I try to stay in the middle and ask these questions for myself. And you remember when the FBI rated Trump is considered a neat freak. Everybody who knows him knows he has to be clean, everything has to be neat and tidy. And he's always been known as a neat freak. So that and a little bit distorts your theory of the of the hoarding of documents I guess to be hoarded them and the in boxes.

Well, right, that's why I was going to say, I disagree. I don't. I don't think there's a conflict there because again, and I'm looking at the picture, for example, of the bathroom. I mean, the boxes are piled neatly, you know, so I don't. I don't think there's any And look, by the way, my theory is probably BS. I'm just throwing it out there, though I have to wonder. Just understand, I understand it's food for thought. I've met I've met enough hoarders where it's like, hmm, this is kind of interesting to me.

But that's kind of where my mind goes anyway. I like to I'm always fascinated by the psychology of it all, like why people do what they do and what might be an underlying cause. Part of it I think just comes from being a hypnotherapist. And part of it too, you know, I grew up with my dad who works in the mental health field, so you know he might have some thoughts on this in fact. But anyway, but but go ahead, Mike, but do you remember when there's there is the I just look for the things I can question, you know.

And here's here's the thing that remember when he picture he's a neat freak, right, and then yeah, now the FBI and goes in and raids Mara Lago. The next day, there's pictures on the Internet of documents, top secret documents strewn all over the floor in the holding area in Mara Lago. Oh, you ask yourself not to wait a minute, now, the neat freak? Would he ever? Would he ever do something like that? Number two, Mike, how did it go from How did it go from the FBI? Who was the one in there? How did it go from them to online?

And everybody can see? Wouldn't that be information? They wouldn't want anybody to see. Yeah, Mike, you're you're repeating some Fox News narratives that are not accurate. So no one ever claimed I mean people claimed that they claimed it because it's uh, you know, for a political narrative. No one claimed that the documents were found that way. The reason the documents were spread out that way was because the FBI was taking pictures of Look, we have to take pictures of what we have here. They never claimed that they were found strewn all over the floor.

No, that's not true. Pretty sure, believe you. I believe you're incorrect. I believe you're Yeah, I believe you are. Why would it go why would it be Why would it go all over the news all of a sudden? Why would they Why would the narrative for like a week was look at how the documents were left on the floor. Don't you remember that? It was all over the news And the FBI never stood up and said, oh, no, no that's not it wasn't him. That's what we did. No, they said that. No, the FBI did come forward and say that.

Now. I do think that you're probably correct that some people initially did report that the documents were found strewn all over the floor, but the FBI did come forward or the dj did come forward and correct that. Um. But if it's but certain, well of course not because certain news outlets aren't going to tell you that, because for certain news outlets, it's more uh, it better suits their narrative to not correct the record. You don't you don't watch I watched CNN all the time, man, So yeah, for you pinning me in the corner that I'm just a Fox News guy, I didn't all the time.

I didn't say that. I'm just saying, hey, look, they all do it. Everybody does it. You very rarely see anyone correct their narrative on anything. H if it if you know, if they want to continue to serve their audience the way that they do. So I'm not saying that, but I'm just saying I I specifically, where did I get it? Then? Where did why do I remember? Uh? It was either the FBI or somebody from the DJ coming forward and explaining that why where did I get that from? If no one ever corrected it? I mean I didn't imagine it, so obviously obviously the record was corrected on that.

Yeah, I didn't see that at all, And I slipped between those two channels pretty regularly. Maybe maybe you need to question I have who's in charge of the archives? Because how these documents getting strewn all over the place. Biden's got them, Trump's got them? How are they getting how are they getting out and not being recorded of exactly what's taken out? And to the to the letter, you know what I mean, to the t these are top secret documents. How is it that people have boxes and boxes of them and there's no there's no accountability for it.

It's like, oh, and I'm not saying this Trump, whatever you did. If they caught them with these boxes and they're saying that it's wrong, it's wrong. So don't say I'm jumping to Democrat that. All I'm saying is how did how did Biden have these documents for five years two nineteen or eighteen and they're all over there and it is you know, how how who was in charge of How did somebody not say to them, hey, listen, you've had them for two years, can you bring them back? Or you checked them out, you know, like a library.

He checked them out five years ago? What are you doing with him? And I just don't know who these people are that are in charge of these archives. We don't know exactly what top secret information was taken out, you know, box number forty four which has twenty seven documents in it, so that when they want it back, they're gonna get back box number forty four with twenty seven documents in it, you know. So that's that's just wonderment to me of how that can be, how that can be? And so anyways, it's just a thought, sure, all right, Mike, But yeah, so I don't know.

Yeah, I'm going to look up that thing that the did the FBI ever come back and because I don't remember seeing it at all, because I would have you know, that's the first thing I clamped onto when I heard he was a neat freak. I would suggest, I mean, everybody in his everybody in his universe, saying he would never throw documents on a floor like that. Right there, we'll see, right, okay, Mike, all right, well I appreciate the call. All right, good, all right, thanks bye bye. All right. Uh well, what I was trying to say, I couldn't really get back in there.

But what I was what I was gonna say to Mike is I mean, if you're just flipping back between Fox and CNN and that's that's it, then you know you might want to expand. I mean, I don't know if he's literally saying that's his entire media diet, but um, I mean I definitely recall uh that being explained about the documents. But again, but there was in right wing media, there was a narrative being spun that uh oh, look what the FBI did. They went in and they trash the place and they just threw this stuff all over the floor to make Trump look bad, and that was absolutely not, uh, not the case.

Um. I mean you can

pretty easily. H I'm just looking online for one of the Yeah, here it is on uh CNN dot com for example. Uh oh, that's not the article I was looking for. I was looking for something about the the way that you know they took those pictures. Yeah, I'll find it. I'll find it later at the break. But I mean that was definitely reported that, you know, uh in in mainstream media. So um. Anyway, um, and as far as uh, the National Archive to address that question, yeah, I mean, clearly there is something broken at the National Archive when somebody, whether it's Joe Biden or Mike Pence, you know, when they can take documents and for years and years they just have these documents and they never give them back and nobody comes looking for them.

But again, in the case of President Trump, there was so much that was missing because there's boxes and boxes and boxes. There was so much that was missing that there was no way the National Archive could not notice, and they did ask for them back, and they asked for them back again, and eventually it led to the FBI having to go there and you know, and then you've got the lawyer with the swarren f A David saying, oh, we gave you back everything, and no, no they did not, and h and all of it. So, I mean, if Trump had just complied with the initial requests, as we talked about yesterday on the show, none of this, uh, none of this would even be happening right now.

That would have been that would have been it. Six three two five O six O seven. If you'd like to join us six three two five six seven. By the way, if you're just joining us today on the show, coming up in the five o'clock hour, we're gonna have a Lady Chops and the g d Jam from Texas skyping in. I played one of their songs at the top of the show earlier sunset, and we're going to play

what's the new song again? Oh? The new song is Funeral Clown, brand new single today. We're gonna do the world radio premiere of that later after we talk to them at the top of the hour, So really looking forward to that. They sound so good again, if you're just joining us, you've got to hear this band. They are really really good, just

fantastic. I don't even want to describe them. I just want to play them for you. Let's see lots of Facebook live chat comments here, let's see, let's get caught up on these. Oh my goodness, Love, we've got a very busy chat room today. Let's see. Alex Whiteley says, we'll get house house arrest in his massive mansion, pistorious style assumer for an oscar pistorious. No, no, no, he won't get house arrest. He's not a he's not a flight risk of any kind. I mean, he's got a he's got a campaign going here.

Let's see. Um,

some of these I can't read on the air. Alex Whiteley says, so he really didn't think he was going to lose the election, so caught himself short? Could be Oh, I think referring to, you know, the haphazard way and these documents and the way these documents were collected on their way out the door. M j FT asks, Oh, referring to my career as hypnotherapist. J FT asks you hypnotize yourself? Yes, well, we all do in ways that we don't even realize. And if you've ever done any kind of meditation, that's also a form of self hypnosis when you meditate.

Chris from Edgewise joins us in the Facebook Life a High Chrism Fredo joins us or I'd like to say this full name, Alfredo Enrique Benavitas from the band Dank Sinatra and also Cosmic Blossom. Fredo says, I've seen hoarding turn into whole rooms in a house rendered unusable h due to being filled with junk. Yeah, absolutely absolutely. I mean again, I'm probably wrong. I'm just throwing it out there as a theory. But think about it. When was he ever going to have time to actually go through all of those You're talking about thousands and thousands of documents, you know.

Jay fed says, sounds like a fire hazard. Oh I think that's referring to my friend who had the dad who would save the newspapers. Oh yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Melanie says he was going through that. He wasn't going to go through them. He was going to sell that privilege to others. One could say he was going to hoard the documents out. Yes, you could say it that way. For just a cup of coffee a day. Crystal, our friend from Illinois, says they have a TV show about hoarding. Yeah, I'm aware of that show.

I've never watched it, but I am aware. There's a there's actually a television show called Hoarders, And like I said, it's a much more common thing than than people realize. But it manifests itself in different ways for different people, and and obviously to varying degrees. Melanie says regarding that show, some people get extreme with their hoarding to the point that their homes were condemned because the infestations envirominent, living

and dying in the mounds of stuff. Some hoarder homes have dirty dishes with rotted food. Gross. Oh yeah, it can be a real problem. It can be a real problem. Oh. Chris Poorrior, also known as Crispy Very Funny local comedian, joins us in the trat room. Chris says, Matt Trump's a treason trojan horse for putin from day one or so, it seems. Well, I'm not gonna go that far, you know, ay, listen, I mean I will remind everybody Trump is afforded under the Constitution the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.

So I will just remind every one of that. I mean, make your judgments. I'm not admonishing anybody. I'm just reminding everyone of that. Uh Let's see some of these I can't really read. Some of them have a profanity in them. Crystal thinks that, uh my sounds like the voice of Cliff Claven from Cheers. But today, yes, John Ratzenberger from Cheers. Yeah, well he's famous. So Mike should take that as a compliment. Melanie says, I think she's being sarcastic. Of course, clearly, you are just a cog in the liberal media machine.

Let's see, Dave wally Is in the chat room says, what if you can't stop buying guitars. I would not consider that hoarding, Dave, because guitars are actually of some use. Like if you're in the examples that we've already talked about, if you're just saving giant stacks of old newspapers, there's no reason to be doing that. Or if you're just buying junk off of you know, on Amazon or from the Home Shopping Network or whatever, and it just sits in a box in your home that you never even open, you know, there's no reason to do that other than to have it.

But a guitar, I mean, you know, come on, you can play it, or you can just look at it. I mean, even if you never pick it up and playing, if it just looks cool sitting there or on your wall or whatever, that's pretty awesome. So Dave says, my wife disagrees. Let's see. Alex Whiteley, our friend from the UK, says, quote, how did Biden? Unquote? It's called what about ism? And it's been one of the biggest problems of this era of politics, trying to point fingers in other directions rather than face the real issue.

You have to try better, dude, Well I will, so I'm gonna stick up for Mike on that, though I don't. I don't think that's what he was doing. That is what a lot of people are doing, of course, because unfortunately a lot of people that's the only way they can talk and think about politics. But when Mike brought up Biden, he was talking about, you know, the point that you know Biden, whether it's Biden or Pence, you know, they have these documents and the archive never notices they're missing, and that probably he does indicate an issue with the National Archive that something can go missing and they don't notice unless it's boxes and boxes and boxes of stuff and then they notice.

So so I think Mike brought up a valid point. Again, there is a ton of what about ISSM going on, of course, but I don't think that's what Mike was doing, at least not in this case. So I'll defend Mike on that. But I do agree with you, Alex, what about ism is out of control. You know, when somebody asks how speaker Kevin McCarthy about this, and you would hope that Kevin McCarthy would care about national security somewhat and he just says, you know, a reporter asked Kevin McCarthy, well, is it a good look to have all these stacks of boxes in the bathroom?

And then McCarthy immediately goes, well, I don't know. Is it a good look to have a document in a garage that opens and closes? Or that was the Biden reference. And then I think he worked in something about Hillary as well, because you know, even though it's twenty twenty three, we're still going to do the whole butter emails thing whenever it's convenient. So, even though these are different situations, very different in terms of the magnitude, enormously different, and also, in the case of Trump, two words intent and obstruction that we have to introduce into the discussion.

But yeah, I mean, what about ism is just incredible. The biggest problem with what about ism, aside from it not being a particularly sophisticated way to think about or a productive way to think about politics and speak about politics, the biggest problem I see with what about ism is that if you take that and you follow it all the way through to its logical conclusion, no one can ever be held accountable for anything under any circumstances, no matter what they do. Ever, you can't hold anyone accountable ever, why because somebody else might have also done that thing.

So therefore, if any time some one you like does something bad, and all you have to do is say, well what about when this other person I don't like did something bad? Then okay, Well, by that logic, no one can be accountable for anything. If you're going to employ what about ism, you might as well just go all the way with it and say, Okay, I guess politicians are above the law because most people, because they're only able to or only willing to think about and view politics through a partisan lens, most people are only interested in holding people they don't like accountable, But when somebody they do like is in trouble, they just go, well, what about when the person I don't like did something bad?

You know? So I guess you just can't ever hold anybody accountable for anything. That's the ultimate endpoint logically of what about is M It would be like to me An example I like to use is imagine you're sitting in a courtroom. You're on a jury, and you're in a courtroom on a murder trial, and the defense attorney gets up during closing arguments and says to the jury, listen, ladies and gentlemen of the jury. I know it looks bad for my defendant, and I know that it's your duty here to judge whether or not my defendant is guilty or not guilty.

But before you render judgment on my defendant, I'll just ask you this, what about all the other people who committed murder? I don't see you judging them? Oh no, you're just here to judge my defendant. You're here to judge my client. But I don't I don't hear any of you saying anything about all the other people who've committed murder. And some of them got away with it? What about them? So you just can't I guess you just don't hold anybody accountable for anything. Anything goes the wild West. That's the biggest problem to me with what about is m

you know, I mean, if your mindset is is all you have to do to you know, as if there's no such thing as scale, all you have to do to justify Trump is to say, you know, well, what about Biden? He had a document in his garage. It's like, really, so that makes it because the thing is, if even if there is, let's suppose let's let's go with the narrative that, let's go with the magat narrative for a minute. They say that there's a double standard. They say we have a two tiered criminal justice system.

They've coopted that whole talking point because it usually a two tiered criminal justice system means, you know, you've got one tier and one standard of justice for the wealthy and powerful and the elite, and another standard for everyone else. And the way those standards work is the wealthy and the powerful and the elite generally get away with things and are not held accountable for things that the middle class and the poor in this country are held accountable for and do not get away with. That's what we usually mean, but they've coopted that concept into well, now we have a two tiered criminal system of justice where I guess, you know you only Republicans are held accountable but Democrats aren't, which is bizarre in so many ways.

But but let's just suppose, for example, let's go with that for a minute. Let's suppose that there is a double standard. Does that mean that the only way to remedy that, the only way to address that there being a double standard, is we just shrug and throw our hands in the air and say, Okay, well, I guess there's just going to be no standard now, because that's what you're saying, those of you who do that, who think that way. If you say, well, there's a double standard, so therefore we have no right to hold Trump accountable, then you're saying, then we just can't have any standard ever, right, And I would also remind you, I mean that's what you're saying, Oh yeah, politicians, I guess they are above the law.

We just want to hold anybody accountable. That's what you're saying, whether you realize it or not. But the other thing too, I when Ryan people love because when people say I hear a lot of people say, well what about Biden.

I would just like to remind everybody because I think people keep forgetting there is an active d OJ Special Counsel investigation. Is not Jack Smith, he's assigned to Trump. Somebody else has assigned to Biden's. There's an ongoing investigation. They already close the investigation on Pence. They concluded, Okay, he made a mistake, he's screwed up, but probably no ill intent. Intent matters with this, maybe more than it should, in my opinion, I don't think, you know, just because you didn't intend to be sloppy with secret documents doesn't make it somehow Okay, So I think maybe intent should matter more than it does, to be honest with you.

Having said that,

they closed They already closed the case on Pence. They say, well, he clearly was not doing anything nefarious. This was an honest mistake. It's a bad mistake, but it's an honest mistake. He wasn't up to anything. So they closed that. The investigation into Biden and the you know, they found, for example, one secret document was in his garage. That is unacceptable. I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea and think I'm justifying that or blowing that off. Now, is that on the same scale as what we're talking about with Trump not even close a document in his garage is not you know, thousands of documents in boxes in a bathroom.

Okay, these are very different, but I'm not excusing that either. That's pretty careless, that document being left in his garage. And I understand the garage was locked, except unlike the bathroom, the garage isn't locked, you know, only when there's somebody in there. The garage is locked when there's nobody in there, So that's a little different. Someone should probably explain that to how speaker McCarthy. But uh, but that does m I mean, that does show just a carelessness that is not acceptable.

And I'd like to know, I do. I want to hold everybody accountable. I would like to know how that happened and why that happened, by the way, not and Biden wasn't even It's not like he had the power to declassify anything. That argument, you can't even put that in there because Biden was vice president when that happened. So why why was that left in his garage? I do want to know that, and I hope we do find that out eventually, and he should be held accountable for that. Absolutely. I don't want anyone to misunderstand.

But uh see, because if I really wanted to, I could do what about is them? I would just have to come at it from the opposite direction. I would use what about ism to defend Biden. I would say, well, uh, you know what, what what about? When it's only one document? You know, why is that a big deal? But I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying it is a big deal, Um, just not as big, but it's still concerning. That's pretty careless. Our friend Ron is on the line, Hey Ron,

Hey Matt, how you doing them good? Um? I've been following this and I've already got saturated. Now I just want to change the channel and find something that doesn't have news and see what happens when it's over. Sure how I can imagine this case is going to take a long time. But let me ask, is he if it sounds guilty, can he end up behind oz? Uh? Probably not, because my suspicion is, what will happen as long as Judge Eileen Cannon is provided is presiding over the case. Um, I think what what might very well happen is she's going to delay and delay and delay so that it doesn't even go to trial before the election.

Um. And even if, but even if at some point he's found guilty, whether it be in the near term or the long term, I mean, hell, even if even if he has found guilty by the jury, you know, she can just give him a suspended sentence or something. You know what I mean? Okay, uh, mister Trump, uh for the for the crime you've been convicted of espionage and obstruction of justice, and uh I hereby sentence you to uh eight to ten hours of community service, you know, I mean, there there are ways, there are escape hatches for for Trump on this regardless.

So I I do I believe that he's actually going to end up in prison. I am highly skeptical. I will believe that when I see that, And I don't think I'm going to see all right. Well, I'm glad glad to hear your opinion in your thoughts, but I'm a guy I can say I've already got saturated with this. I just wish you would end oh, I understand. I mean, I'm I'm fascinated by it, but you know I live for all this stuff. So but I but I hear you, Ron, I hear you. Okay, brother, all right, my friend, thank you so much for the call.

Good night, all right, bye bye. All right. That was our friend Ron, And we are going to as we as we approached the top of the hour, we're gonna take a quick break show so I love to our amazing sponsors, and then we're gonna play. We're gonna feature another great track from the band Lady Chops and the g D Jam not the actual name again, that's the radio edited name for Afternoon Drive. But we're gonna feature another one of their great songs. And then by the time, by the time that's done, we should have them with us on Skype.

They're skyping in from the great state of Texas. Looking forward to talking to them. And then after we talk with them, we're gonna do the world radio premiere of a brand new song from them called Funeral Clown. But we're gonna play We're gonna play one of their other songs in the meantime, but first we'll show some love to our sponsors and then we will be back. There is plenty more of Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from the studios of WMH ninety five point three FM. Don't go away, there is lots more still to come.

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any game. The little dame individual, You don't have to be poor? Don't you be more anymore? Nobody? But he's got the same money, easy the won't you help me help brother? Listens, he's easy, give a give a little and it will come right to you. Just trust me and give a little in my feel little truth? Who individual? You have to be poor? Don't you be poor? Gonna be poor and more? Bee f stop the same money now, won't you help me help my brother? Brother? Brother? Box ain't Oh that is so good? That has given a little from Lady Chops and the g d jam we're cleaning up the name a little for the afternoon Drive radio.

But I think we have at least one member of the band. Maybe. I think Bethany's there because that's the name I see. I'm Skype. Hello, are you there, Hi? Yes, it's actually me and Nick. Hi. Hello, welcome to both of you. Great stuff. I I love your band. Uh.

Let's listening to the music earlier preparing for the show, and you've got a great sound there. So I wank you so much. Yeah, I wanted to say that right off the top. I opened the show today with Sunset and uh and really good give a little as great and then of course when we conclude our conversation, we'll play a funeral clown. Uh. This will be a premiere but uh yeah, So it's wonderful to talk with you today. And by the way, you're getting some love in the Facebook live chat already my friend Dave Wally.

He says, this is a great tune. Love the way it breathes, use of space and dynamics. Love the cheeky guitar groove, very cool. Uh and the overdrive back to the groove. So that's some very specific compliments there from from a great compliment. Thank you so much. Thoughtful, very nice, very nice. So Bethany, you sang obviously, and Nick, what do you do in the band? I played drums? Okay, okay, very good, very good. And where where are you from? I know you're from Texas? But where in Texas are you?

We're in Austin, Texas. Ah, good music scene there, huh oh yeah definitely. So I'm I'm curious about about that. Now. We've had other guests on the show musical guests from Texas. But um, being in Austin, what is that like? Because I would think that in Austin specifically it's known for the music scene, it must be very competitive. I mean, is it is it hard to stand out in a music scene like Austin, Texas? I would say yes and no. The scene is very saturated and saturated, like in a really good way.

There's so many great artists and um, sometimes it's easy to get buried in some of the more hot acts. UM. But then sometimes you really get the great experience. I feel like there's a certain Austin experience that you can have and uh, it's it's a really great feeling when you can get to experience that. I mean, the people, the community and all. All of the musicians are really supportive of one another, so it's really a blessing to be a part of it. To be honest, are you both from there originally or did you move there?

We are from different cities. Well, Nick is from New York, Yeah, okay, from Yeah, he's from upstate and then and then I'm from Houston. Oh, okay, okay, Nick? What brought you from New York all the way to Austin? Specifically, Austin's music scene brought me here. I used to be in a different band before I moved here, and we did a tour from New York all the way down to Texas. Yeah, and we made our way to Austin, and I thought it was an awesome city. I saw the fact that it's the live music capital of the world, so there's a million and one venues you can play, Yeah, And compared to my hometown, it had so many more venues and so many more musicians and a lot more opportunities.

So I kind of quit my job and moved down here. And Bethany and I met pretty quickly after I moved down here, and now it's five years later and we've been making music ever since. Yeah, that's Um, it's interesting that, you know, because obviously New York is is people think of New York as really being especially you know, obviously New York City, uh specifically being uh you know, you've got so many bands and so many venues and uh. But yeah, Austin, really, I've I've definitely heard we had somebody else on the show.

I can't remember who it was, but um, there was somebody else on the show and another band who had a similar story to yours Nick. Where they they had moved from. I don't know if it was New York. I think it was somewhere in the northeast, and they had moved all the way down to uh, down to Austin, uh for for the same reason. So um and yeah, and I imagine obviously Austin, because of there being so much music there, it must be pretty eclectic, I would think, because people think of Texas when they think of Texas and kind of the macro sense they you know, they think of country music and and and some some metal.

You know, there's some some great metal bands that come out of there too. But Austin, obviously you probably have pretty much everything you could imagine in terms of genres and subgenres of music. I would guess, you know, I had that same preconception before moving down here. I thought, Oh, it's going to be a lot of country music, and it is, but there's a good rock scene down here. There's a lot of like soul, M, jazz, R and B, hip hop, folk music, like you said, heavy metal, pretty much any genre that you could think of has some sort of fan base here in Austin.

And the cool thing is that it's a it's a big city and it's growing, but it's not as large as a lot of other major music cities yet. Yeah, so it's not it's not the same size as your LA Chicago, Nashville, or New York City, And so you're you're able to like meet and network with people in a way that might be harder to do in some of those other bigger cities. And like Bethany mentioned, it's got a really good music community that's big and growing but still manages to be personable and very tight knit.

Okay, okay, very good, h Bethany. Did you so, I was reading a bio on the website, was was this kind of your did you kind of initiate the starting of this band and and and was meeting Nick kind of at the beginning of this.

Yes, um, so this is my brain child. It's it's just a bunch of songs that I've accumulated over the years. Um and yeah, Nick is my founding member, and we started the whole project together very good. Um. And I have to say too, I like, uh, you know your voice is um you you do a lot of you don't really hear that much of this where you kind of just effortlessly seem to go from you know, in and out of falsetto on a lot of these songs. And I'm sure I'm not the first one to point this out, but it's really remarkable.

How did you learn to sing? Did did you take formal Are you formally trained? I am not formally tum. I have just listened to a lot of music. And I was the annoying kid I grew up with in my grandma's house and constantly I was doing the um the cranberries thing with my voice. Uh. I'm going to give you an example, and I'm sorry to the listeners in advance, but it's like yeah, yeah, or I guess that's like sort of a Lantis But also yeah, yeah, yeah, so some weird voice things, and I think it was like the beginning of just like, um, you know, practicing and experimenting and just being a weirdo.

Honestly, that's that's the thing that leads artists to do what they do, right right, Yeah, no formal training, just just me and my ears. Yeah, yeah, all very cool. And can you tell me about the strategy with this album. So you've got a full album time, but you're you're releasing one song every month, correct, Yeah, so we're putting one song out every single month. The idea behind it is to sort of have like a like a release schedule for it. You know, there's all these debates in the industry about whether or not dropping an entire album is a good move or not.

A lot of people have moved to just continuously dropping singles, or they're putting out an eph some people put out two epsy or And we had debates about the best way to put this record out. We wanted to put out an album, but we didn't want to drop the whole thing and then you know, kind of get tired of promoting it. So we decided to do one song a month. That way, our listeners have something to be excited about every single month, and we can line up the album release, we can line up the single releases with like shows.

And it also just makes it a little bit easier to promote each song individually as its own thing, rather than having to take an entire album and pick a single and then put all the effort into one song and maybe it works, hopefully it does. But each of the songs are really special to us, so we wanted to make each one kind of like its own little vigner, you know, like a story with each one. Yeah,

very good. And so is there when will the full album be available? I guess I guess at the end of when you get to the end of the singles, right, Yeah, we're looking at probably it'll be out by September or October. Okay, okay, very cost Yeah yeah, and then so but how does this work in terms of your live set? Do you do you play songs that haven't been released yet as singles since you're you're doing it this way, or how does that work? Yeah? So the cool thing is a lot of our audience Austin already knows a lot of the tunes, so they're excited they're you know, they're they're wanting us to put these songs out um as as time goes on.

Yeah, but yeah, you know, a lot of our audience in Austin, they already know some of the lyrics and everything, so it's pretty cool. Yeah, we we have been experimenting with adding new songs to the set as well, because to be honest with you, we've been playing, um, this set of songs out live for something like two or three years now, um, and so now it's kind of a good opportunity to introduce songs that people haven't heard yet. And yeah, so during this time, we're starting to put new songs and kind of start working towards the next set of music that hopefully will release maybe next year or something.

Yeah. Yeah, And how often are you playing out? Do you play out? Do you play out a lot consistently or Because it's interesting how that there's been a change certainly around here, and I it seems to be even with artists that I talked to from other parts of the country, where there's less emphasis than there used to be on playing out all the time. Partly, I think it's just because it's expensive to go out on tours. And whatnot. But of course, in your case, in a city like Austin, you've got options to play, right there, plenty of them, it sounds like, but do you play out consistently or do you kind of space it out and pace ourselves?

Yeah? We play out pretty consistently, but less than we were before. So now we're picking up a couple of gigs per month. I think we'll have had three gigs this month. We have one at the end of this month, and then nothing else on the book so far. Yea, but yeah, we're trying to play a couple of shows a month basically. Okay, okay, very good. Now, this track that we're gonna do the premiere of a in a moment, a funeral Clown. With a name like that, I have to think there might be a story behind this.

Is there is there a story behind the song that we're going to be played? Yeah? Absolutely So. Funeral Clown is about my experience of letting negative self talk take over and convince me that my friends don't like me, which is not true. Yeah, and you know, negative self talk is something that I've battled with for a really long time, and music is sort of my way of working through that. So I think what's really special about this song is that even though it's mostly about this idea that people don't like me, that it's behind the veil is the truth of the matter, and there's the truth is that I'm loved and that that I'm cared about and important to people.

And um, the funeral clown aspect, that visual aspect is UM is supposed to kind of embody the foolish mindset, that the foolish like negative mindset, and UM, you know, it's just I feel like a clown when I come to to the light, you know, when I realize it's like, oh no, um. Like, for example, there's a line in this song UM about the very first pre chorus. It says, UM, there you go, pointing your finger at me, which is kind of like a negative view. It's like somebody pointing their finger at you. They can't be saying something good about you.

But then the next line turns around and says um saying she's my number one, she's she's the best yea. And then it goes into the chorus, which is saying, you know, I'm a fool and now I'm crying and I'm crying off all my makeup, you know, so that's kind of what it's all about. Okay, Oh, very cool, very cool, all right, Uh yeah, I love the song and I, like I said, I love all of them. This is really good what you're doing. And uh, I'm glad I got to talk to you today and we get to feature some of your music and h one thing too.

I want to make sure that our listeners know where to find you online, how to keep up with everything that you're doing u uh and keep up with the new music you know again, you know, since you're doing this, um you know, one song, one new song coming out per month, which which is great. You know, it's funny. Coincidentally, I just, um, last week I had on Holly Brewer and she does something like that too, except in her case, uh, it's not h one song that's ultimately going to be a complete album. She's just releasing.

It's it's just this endless run of singles that she's been doing since twenty nineteen where every single month she just releases a single. But she's but she's stuck to it. She hasn't missed one in uh four years, I think she said, so oh wow, that's yeah cool, yeah, yeah, she just does one one single a month and then it'll just be this endless collection of singles. But where where should people go online? And in terms of social media on your website and everything to keep up on what you're doing.

Sure, Um, the best way to keep up with what we're doing is, um, we're very active on Instagram, So that's Lady Chops forever and it's all spelled out. And then on Spotify you can look up Lady Chops in the g D Jam, but g D is all spelled out, if you know what I mean. Yes, So yeah, that's that's the best way to keep in touch. Oh I gotta ask you too, where does the name come from? Um? Okay, so, um, lady Chops is, um what It's a haircut that I gave myself actually, Um, so I can't grow mutton chops because I'm a girl.

Yeah, Um, so I cut my own. Um. And then the g D Jam it sort of was a joke at first. We were like playing playing our set together in the early stages obviously, um of our band and um, and I think I turned around and I said, this is the g D Jam and um, and I was like, you know what that's gonna end up being part of the name, you know. Yeah, it's a great name. Kind of stuck. Yeah. Yeah. People hear it and they're like, whoa, what step No, it's really it's really good. I love it. I love it. Okay, well listen, we're gonna we're gonna play that track, but I will let the both of you go and then I'm gonna play the song.

But Bethany and Nick, thank you so much for joining us today. Wonderful to speak with you. I love your music, and uh, we will have to do this again in the future. H And hey, you know, every month you've got a new song, uh hitting the airwaves, so we'll we'd love to be the first to play them as they come out. But uh, but so it's it's great to talk to you today. But thank you both so much for joining us. Thank you so much. Right, you got it. Thank you, bye bye bye. All right. Wonderful. So that was Bethany and Nick from Lady Chops and the g D Jam And uh, we're gonna play this.

Uh this is the newest single. We'll play this and then we'll we'll come back with the balance of our program today. But check this out. This is it's really good. I've already heard it, obviously, it's really really good. If you like the last song, you like this one even more. This is Funeral Clown the world radio premiere here on Matt Connerton Unleashed, So have a listen. I like your smile, I like you laughter. I stuck around in hope, so we's talk after. I could have sworn you'd remember my name.

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Their phone number is eight six six eight four one forty six hundred, or on the web at CGI Business Solutions dot com. WMNH rip the novels sign Welcome back everybody. This is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from these studios of w m n H Preem 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 your live streaming options, social media links, contact in Folk show archives, etcetera, etcetera.

Today is Tuesday, June thirteen, twenty twenty three, as we cruise into our final segment today of the program. And by the way, if you're just joining us, that song that you heard that was Funeral Clown from Lady Chops and the g D Jam And the actual name is not ged, but you know, cleaning it up just for afternoon drive radio in case the young ins are listening. You. If you're a parent, you probably don't want your kid going around saying the actual word. If we were on later in the day, it probably wouldn't even be a big deal.

But because you know, it's not like you know, you don't get an FCC fine for that, certainly, but but just to play it safe, just to play it safe. But such a great band, and boy, she's got a she's got an amazing voice, Dave Wally said in the chatroom while I was playing great lyricists love the writing so vulnerable. Yeah, and it was cool to hear her, you know, I listened to the song. That was the second time I had heard the song. I listened to it today before the show, and I was like, Wow, this is really good.

But then I enjoyed it even more hearing it the second time after hearing her explain during our conversation what the lyrics actually meant and where they came from, and then it really made sense, and yeah, great stuff. We will play one more of their songs, one of the singles that's already out when we get to the end of today's program. We have one more song to play of theirs today, but please check him out online. Lady Chops and the g D Jam. Great stuff, and thank you again so much to Bethany and Nick for joining us today on the program.

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Quick programming note. Tomorrow on the show, our musical guest is Aaron Bilido. He'll be with us in studio for the second hour. He the last time he was on the show, he was here with what what became kind of an infamous appearance from a musical. Yes, Hue the Gecko was here with us, and I think Hue brought out the pod awful crew.

Not all of you will know the reference, and that's fine, But but Aaron was here too because he works with Hue. But Eric, Aaron rather also has his own solo project, really good stuff. So he will be here tomorrow in the second hour, and of course in the first hour, we will have our friend Eric Pilcher with us for our weekly segment, and we talk about media mostly during that segment, but we get into some other stuff as well, and I have a feeling that there will be a particular news item that we will be distracted by.

But I'm sure we'll get into some of how the media is covering that particular news item that is thus far dominating the news cycle this week. But let's let's catch up with the Facebook live chat before we go back to that wonder Swede four I love these names. Wonders Swede four is in the Facebook live chat. By the way, I strongly suspect that wonders Swede four is from Greensboro, North Carolina, and says hello, hashtag Matt, good afternoon to you from us. We are reunited, are back together. We will say we have a Facebook like page.

Oh outstanding. I was hoping you'd say that. Jay Fed says, is that like wonder bread and wonder Swede four says, we say, who is the guest you are talking to hashtag Matt, And we say who's the artist? We said, well, that was Lady Chops and the g D Jam. Of course, Alex Whiteley was saying, you know how because the band we were talking to, of course, Bethany and Nick from the band, they have a specific strategy that they're using for there. There. It's like they have this album time, but they're releasing it in slow motion in a sense, because they're releasing one single per month until finally it's it's completed and the whole album is out.

And Alex said, you know, or another strategy would be to go crazy like Weezer and release an album for every season. That was insane, but really really good. Yes, Weezer did do that. I remember that. Wondrous Swede Fur says Weezer is a good band. We said hashtag Matt and Alex Whiteley corrects and says wrong, they're the best. Yeah, I know, I know. I know some people who really I like Weezer, but I know some people who really love Weezer.

Let's see. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook live chat. Queen City Cabinetry is one of our great sponsors here at WMH ninety five point three. Speaking of bread, Queen City Cabinetry is in the Historic Sunbeam Mall, named of course after it is historic because it's named after the vaunted General Sunbeam, the greatest military mind since sliced Bread. Mike is also, of course, one of our co hosts on Friday Night on retros Spectrum Radio with Pauly C hosted by Police, and I'm one of Paul's co hosts on that show along with Mike and DJ Steff.

I'm really excited about this Friday's Retro Spectrum Radio. In particular, I'm more excited about this one than I have been about probably any previous episodes in a long time. I always look forward to the show. But this Friday Night, it's going to be demo versions, the original demo versions of popular songs. This is going to be a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to this one. I think. I think Friday Friday Night's show is going to be fascinating. By the way, wondrous way for does confirm?

We are from Greensboro, North Carolina. How did I guess? How did I guess? Ronda ferverro joins us from the Great State of California. Hello, Ronda. Weird pull. Alex Whiteley talking about talking about the band that we featured. Alex says, a weird pull, but these guys remind me of Travis. She sounds like a female version of fran Healy. Good stuff, Let's see. Mike Pellapeta from Queen City Cabinetry also really enjoying the band Let's see, Alex also said, and a hint of catatonia. Alex also says, I was singing the Clementos ad in the kitchen the other day.

The wife was looking at me like I was a madman. Ha ha. Yeah, I find myself singing along to it. You know, it is catchy. You know Clemento's pizzeria. Blah blah blah. I don't know all of the words Clementos, but uh yeah, Greg Joseph by the way, shout outs to him, because, of course the owner of Clementos. He also has become a frequent contributor on the Morning Show with Peter White, which of course you can hear weekday mornings from seven to night. I am with a replay two to four pm, right before the show, and Greg sits in on the Morning show a lot, and he's very good on the air.

He's he's got kind of a sly, understated sense of humor that I really like. It's subtle, but he's very funny. Um. His interaction the other day with Louis Angelidas, I think that's how he says new last name uh or actually something he said after that that was particularly funny. That was kind of a it was it was interesting. But uh yeah, yeah, I like I like Greg. I don't think i've met him yet in person, but but i'd like to. He's he's very funny, all right. Six three two five six seven six three two five six seven.

Um. By the way, I saw this pop up on media I and uh, This is not from the Onion. This is how this headline is actually written. Trump now fundraising over possibility he'll die in prison. This just went up a few minutes ago. Uh, it says here. And by the way, the fundraising, of course, that's part of the deal. Every bad thing that happens to Trump legally, he uses it as a fundraising opportunity to get more money out of his followers. You know, I'm in more legal Trump will send me money. It's quite the business strategy and enormously successful.

Since the indictment was first announced, he's raised millions of dollars into the campaign coffers, some of which he uses to pay his attorneys. Apparently. I'm not saying that as a joke or to be to be what would be the word to be crass. That literally is true. Apparently, so he does sometimes pay his attorneys, not always from what we understand, but so it's been a pretty successful strategy so far. But this is how so assess here. Emails went out around the time Trump and his aid Walt Nada or Nada or I've heard his name pronounced three different ways, where scheduled to appear in Miami.

Under the heading so This is the email that went out apparently under the heading Trump Make America great Again in twenty twenty four. The email began This is the actual text of the email. Quote friend reports state that I could receive a maximum sentence of four hundred years in prison despite being a totally and completely innocent man. I honestly cannot believe I just typed those words to you. It sounds like something Stallin or Mao did to eliminate their opposition, but instead it's happening here in America.

Communism has finally come to our shores. Okay, this is more. But can I just say this is what you call a hard sell. This is a little over the top, isn't it? Even for him? Communism has finally come to our shores. Wow, you know, I have to tell you, honestly, I always knew this moment would come, you know, communism coming to our shores. I bet if I drove to the seacoast of New Hampshire right now, I would see, uh, I would see just communists just landing at Rye Beach in in their boats saying we're communists and we're we're arriving on your shores.

What are you gonna do about it. Nothing. You're gonna be You're all gonna be communists. Now,

sorry, I should treat this with the gravity that it deserves. Communism arriving on our shores and uh, you know, trumping the victim of the tactics of Stalin or mao. I mean, that's uh, this is serious business. I'm sorry. I don't mean to make light of it all. And then the next line is we are no longer living in the country of Washington and Lincoln. Oh my again, this is from the fundraising email. For the first time in American history, the federal government has used its prosecutorial powers to charge the leading opponent of the current regime.

While today is certainly grim and dark, do not lose faith. As I said once before, with a dark cloud over our beloved country or beloved you can pronounce it either way. I have no doubt, nevertheless, that we will make America great again.

So there's the that's the you know, grabs your attention. Right. Then comes this is where he makes the ask, the send me money part, the monetary ask quote, please make a contribution to peacefully stand with me and save the greatest country in history. For fifteen thousand percent impact unquote, what does that mean? I'm not good at math, but apparently if I'm understanding that sentence correctly, and I'm not sure that I am, because it's incoherently and poorly written, but it sounds like if you donate to his campaign right now, based on what that sentence says, it will have a fifteen thousand percent impact impact on what.

I'm not sure. It's not clear to me. I don't understand this part of the email. I don't understand what that means. Fifteen thousand percent impact. Not only do I not understand what it means, but I don't know how one would go about even measuring impact impact of what I don't know. Maybe if I knew what impact we were talking about, I could understand how one would measure it and the percentage of which that impact is or would be if you donate money. I don't know how this part works. Maybe it's just a fundraising thing that I don't understand.

I don't know the email it goes on. The article goes on. The email may have given a hint as to the Trump team's legal strategy against the thirty seven charges facing the former president, claiming that the federal government has used its prosecutorial powers to persecute President Joe Biden's leading political opponents seemed to be the talking point of the day. Earlier, Trump attorney Alina or Elina Haaba, who is not affiliated with this case, claimed a two tiered system of justice in the United States.

Haba or Habba spoke outside the federal courthouse saying Trump was being targeted for per prosecution by the federal government. Trump is the first former president in US history to face federal charges. Yeah. I'd never seen her before. I remember I was still home and we were watching on television, Jenny and I when she came out, and I was like, who's she never even seen her before? But she came out and she said some things and didn't really there was no there was no defense of Trump really and what he was what she was saying, just uh, you know that it's uh, it's a political prosecution or persecution or both.

Alex Whiteley says in the chat room, there was once a powerful voice who also used the influence of his followers to overcome the laws of a land, and he went on to murder millions of people across the world, and no I won't heed uh my words. Uh, this is eerily familiar. M I think I know where you're going with that, but I won't. We won't. You know, it's you know anyway, But I take your point. Uh six three two five six seven. If you'd like to get in with a call six zo three two five O six zero seven.

Um. By the way, Dan Abrams was on earlier. What show was he on? Um? He was talking about I won't play the whole segment. Oh, Mike Doyle is calling back. Maybe Mike knows what fifteen thousand percent impact means. Hey, Michael, I don't, and I'm really good with math. I know, I was hoping you would know. I think he's trying to make the I don't know. I think he's trying to say money wise, it could put me over the top, you know what I mean. I guess I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure they can drag this Uh, I'm sure they can drag this court proceeding out.

There's so many different disclosures and so many motions, right, so, oh yeah, I'm sure he can drag it out. And then if he gets the pity party, you know that type of thing. Yeah, But the reason Hey, the reason for my second call, and I hate calling twice, but I wanted to thank you for sticking up for me and in a micro cause him way. That just shows you how the internet or the social media can can distort things, or change things, or have people say things that are You and I had a nice discussion about how the hell are all these documents getting out of out of you know, hands of the people who are supposed to be watching them, and they don't know where they are and they don't know who, how many boxes and etc. And then this guy Alex who I don't know, but I'm assuming, well, I don't want to say it, but he started saying, you know, it's what about ism?

And it had nothing to do with what about ism? But see that's how that's how social media just slips slips things. And you know what I mean, I wasn't even say if I want to get on the water about him. You've got Sandy Berger, remember, and you've got Obama with three million to his Chicago library, and you've got tense just recently he was only a vice president. He really shouldn't have those how did he get those? And you've got Biden five different locations. You've got Trump all over his Marilago.

You know, it's everywhere, So I what about ism is kind of I know, i'd play. I was just wondering how or all these people getting these documents from a secure your location that the US government's supposed to be watching. I don't understand, right right though, that was that was simply my point. Yeah, I get it. Hey, And one last thing that the girl's voice on that last record you play. What a beautiful I'm a female voice, uh number one. I love female voices. Yeah yeah, And what a beautiful voice she has, changing those notes up and down a little bit softly.

Oh yeah. The way she goes in and out of falsetto is uh, it's just so she makes it sound easy. It just sounds so effortless the way she does it. It's incredible. Yeah yeah, what what is like falsetto? I'm not really I'm not. Oh when you sing high? When you when you you know, when you sing outside of your normal tone, like if you you know, like like the bags would just as an example, oh yeah, you know, but when they sing high like that, Yeah, I would, I would got you, got you, I would demonstrate it.

But I'll mess it up and embarrass myself. But yeah, yeah, yeah, no I don't want that. I need I need my ears. Yes, but yeah, just beautiful. She's she's those low she was going into those lower tones, but switching, switching the heights a little bit in there. It's just it's almost like angelic. Oh yeah, I was really surprised when she said she had no formal training. Uh that that really surprised me, because she sounds like she has you know, she sounds like she took took voice lessons to really fine tune that.

But no, she's just she's a natural. Apparently. It's a really impressive. What a what a beautiful God given talent? Absolutely absolutely yeah, look look them up online, Mike, if you haven't already, I mean all I did, I already did. Oh did you know what I was looking at their website. They don't show the pictures, is clear. I'd like to see the pictures of who they are. And it's a little it's a little morten and mixed. But but anyways, just very nice, that's all I wanted to say. Yeah, yeah, absolutely all right, Mike, thank you for all right, thanks for the call back.

All Right, that was our friend Mike Doyle calling back. We do have so that does open up the line for you if you'd like to get in with a quick call. We only have a few minutes left on today's show and we are going to fit in. I do want to make sure we get in one last song from the band today, of course, Lady Chops and the g D Jam from Austin, Texas just fantastic, and like Mike was saying, Bethany just has such an incredible voice, so good, so good. I just uh, this wondrous Swede four is talking about.

I don't know, okay, what's going on in there? Just just very very quickly. Dan Abrams was on television today and I'm not going to play this segment it's too long, but he was just kind of speaking about what about is him? Dan Abrams, this is from Media systematically debunks arguments Trump backers have used against his indictment. We'll just go through this quick. Media I founder Dan Abrams thoroughly dissected the most common arguments Trump and his political and media serrogus have used to defend the president's indictment for miss handling classified documents.

I'm going to kind of skip down here, because we're going to run out of time. Okay, So just quickly, Number one, why wasn't Hillary Clinton charged? Many Republicans responded to the indictment by equivocating Trump's actions with Hillary Clinton's email controversy and complaining that she was never charged. Abram's explained that Trump is accused of conspiracy to hide his classified documents from the FBI after receiving a subpoena, whereas the Clinton prosecutors quote determined that the evidence in facts showed a lack of intent to communicate classified information on unclassified systems, especially since none of the emails Clinton received were properly marked to inform her of the classified status of the information.

Abrams agreed it was wrong of Clinton to have the server, but he emphasized that prosecutors didn't believe they could prove the corrupt intent necessary to secure a convention conviction against the former Secretary of State. He went on with a longer explanation, but like of that, But like I said, we're going to run out of time, so I'm going to kind of speed through these. Number two, did Trump declassify? Abrams called out Trump's very weak claim to have declassified the documents in his possession, but he pointed out that quote It's irrelevant in the context of this case for two reasons.

First, the subpoena from May of twenty twenty two requested all documents with classified markings, not all documents currently classified. So whether it was still classified isn't the point unquote. Number three the Presidential Records Act. Since Trump and his defenders keep claiming he was allowed to possess the documents under the Presidential Records Act, Abrams argued that the Act is quote almost certainly not relevant to this case since the sensitive documents where government property, not personal documents that Trump prepared himself.

Yeah, we're okay. Number four, What about Biden? Again, I'm skipping over some information here, but I want to get these in Number four, What about Biden? Regarding Trump World's attempts to compare Trump's situation with the classified documents found in Joe Biden's home and offices, Abrams pointed out that quote, there is no evidence at this point that the President lied or intentionally tried to hide unquote the documents he had. As for Trump, he and his legal team refused to hand over everything they had despite receiving a subpoena.

Despite the thorough debunking of the apparently thin defenses, Abram's concluded that he still wasn't convinced that the charges should be brought. So Abram's fair to point out, even though he's debunking some of these claims, he's not himself convinced the charges should have been brought against Trump, So he's a skeptic on that. Here's what he said. Quote, I've said it before. Look, I think this indictment is bad for the country. It will end up further dividing us. But that doesn't necessarily mean you can't bring charges.

Look. I thought the New York case was weak and politicized, and I said it. This is different. This is based on the evidence. Even if it is bad for the country, there's nothing to indicate it's politicized. Unquote. I find his own logic a little bit inconsistent there, because he says the indictment is bad for the country, but then he also says there's nothing to indicate that it's politicized and that it's based on evidence. I don't know, maybe he's ambivalent. That's kind of how I take that. I mean, I look I think it's bad for the country.

It's terrible that we have to go through this, But that doesn't mean we don't have to go through it, because no one is above the law. That's my position. I think it's worse for the country to just what just shrug it off and say, okay, that's fine, you know that. That's my view of it. I think that would be even worse and more divisive. But it's interesting hearing his perspective. I also have we don't have time for it today, but I do have another Well, we'll get to it tomorrow. In the first hour, there's someone who has a dissenting opinion about Eileen Cannon, not a Trump defender, but you know, I, of course, and many others are expressing concern that Judge Eileen Cannon, who has shown some sympathy towards Trump in the fast might in the past, might keep her thumb on the scale in favor of Trump in this case.

But a former Watergate prosecutor actually has a lot of confidence in Eileen Cannon. Not that not that he's a Trump supporter or a defender, but he seems to think that Eileen Cannon actually is uniquely suited to this case. I do want to look at that tomorrow. So kind of a dissenting view on that that I think is interesting, but we don't have time to get to it today, so we'll save that for tomorrow. But I'll just tell you in case you want to look this up on your own ahead of that, I'll tell you the name of the gentleman who is saying this.

I just have to pull it up here, former Watergate prosecutor Nick Ackerman. He is defending Judge Eileen Cannon by arguing that she has an excellent background and it was strategically helpful to have a Trump appointed judge on the case. By the way, I think as far as having a Trump appointed judge on the case, that might be strategically helpful in terms of, you know, kind of hard to argue that she's against Trump, that she's going to be unfair to Trump because she was Trump appointed. But there are other concerns beyond that with Eileen Cannon.

But he pushes back on some of that, so which is interesting. So I mean, I know what I think, but I'm curious to learn more about what he thinks and share it with all of you. So we'll get to that tomorrow. Okay, we do have to go. We're out of time. If you miss any part of today's show it we'll be up in just a little bit at wmhradio dot org and in my website, Mat Connerton dot com. Thank you all. Thank you to Bethany and Nick from the band Lady Chops and the g V Jam. We're gonna finish out today's show with one of their songs.

Another one of their songs. This is called Bell Curve. We're gonna play that if you're listening live on Tuesday. Up next immediately after this show is Through the Stage Stour hosted by Rob Dyon, followed by a replay of Retrospectrum Radio with Police. So if you missed Friday's show, you can hear it tonight here on WMH and don't forget to be back bright and early for the morning show with Peter White seven to night am tomorrow morning. Thank you everybody, and we will leave you with this again.

This is Bell Curve from Lady Chops and the g D Jam to close out today's Matt Connerton Unleashed. Hi, everybody, it is stranger? Am I am endangered? Is this Holly eye? I feels I'm suddenly aware of fear that I'm breathing. I've seen this somewhere before, in the tree for short the grocery stores. Are you getting much clearer like my highest sight? And the fears are clear on all night, Curt Baby, It's just as time lest the less come on Baaday, It's just another show given. I keep run distances seventy two inches apart more under ground little now I'm feeling why second time.

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