Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-2-23

Well, come everybody, here we go. It is that time again, Happy Friday. It is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w M HIM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven. If you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across A NASA 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. And I am not alone, my friends.

If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band. That league guitar is hot but not far Louisiana man both by love and then soul dance. If you're gone playing in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band. Yeeha. Texas Mike is here. Yeeha. How are you, Texas, Mike? Doing good? Been busy? I haven't been here. Yeah, we don't see you as much as we used to. Yeah have you been What have you been busy with? Um? Just working? I had a vacation, vacation in Pennsylvania last mom. So yes, yep, and just enjoying life.

How are things with your lady? Awesome? She's on he's on vacation right now, So to go ahead and que weekend for me? What? Wait, Well, you're not You're not supposed to say it that way. I know she's not listening, so you're not supposed to bikey, is this the longest relationship you've been in, by the way, Because if it is, I think I might know why. Let me give you a pro tip, my friend, Because you are you are young man. Even though you're a former a WA tag team champion, you're you are young man.

You're not supposed to say uh in a with a cheerful voice and a great big smile on your face. My girlfriend's around vacation, so I have a girlfriend free weekend. You're supposed to Um, you're supposed to be a little more somber than that.

But she's she's she's walking out and Owen Eppen this weekend at the drag Less So yeah, because of a job so drag races. I don't think Governor DeSantis would approve of that. Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood. You know. It's it's Pride month and we're celebrating pride. I get very uh, I get very confused. You know, I don't mean to seem defensive. I mean as a sunch LGBTQ plus ally, I don't mean to Uh. Yes, I'm sorry. Drag races, that's something different, is very good, very good. Well, they do have uh I think it was last weekend, they did have a big drag show at our our wonderful sponsor, the hop Knot.

I think there's one tomorrow night, right, is there one tomorrow night? Yeah? They they're they're doing so much. This is obviously a very busy month for the hop Knot, our amazing sponsor. By the way, I suggest you get over there enjoy some delicious scourmet pretzels, have an assortment of craft beer, and they do have a lot of events going on. And uh Kenny, of course, as he has explained on the show, when he participates in the drag shows, his character is glam chowdah yep, so he has a lot of fun with that.

But yeah, the hop Knot, they've got Matt Litzinger is going to be playing there tomorrow night. They have live music every Saturday night, and they've got a lot going on, and of course Juneteenth is this month as well, so I'm sure there will be another big celebration for that. So lots going on. But Kenny and his family are wonderful, So please visit our wonderful sponsor, the hop knot speaking of wonderful, by the way, the song that I played a couple of songs today to open the show. I played a Love and Understanding from the band house Lights.

We had. We had Sam Beechard on the show a couple of months ago, and I got to hang out with Sam a bit today, actually virtually not in person, but so that was nice. On the zoom, I think that's what the kids call it. They don't call it zoom. They call it it does zoom and thank you. Yes, I was just making sure, but yes, so that was very nice. But I thought that I thought that's a great song for even though it's not about that specifically necessarily, I thought it's a good it's a good song for Pride month.

Uh, Love and Understanding by um by house Lights. And then I played a little Randy Rainbow as well. I thought, also very appropriate for a Pride month. Uh. That song is simply called gay and it's us it was something he created in response to uh back when that's not a new one, that's an older one. Back when Governor Ronda Santis signed into law in Florida the so called uh don't say gay bill. I'd say so called because it's not literally called they don't say gay bill, but without well there's a lot of controversy around that obviously, so and uh, he's been here campaigning.

And but I don't think, interestingly enough Texas Mike, when Governor de Santis has been in New Hampshire campaigning, I don't think he has made a stop at the hopnot. I know yesterday he was at Manchester Community College. I know that because I know and Andie Sylvie Andy Sylvia from Manchester in klint covered it? Oh he did? Okay? Yeah, uh do you remember what he uh? Did he cover it? Obviously? He covered it in Manchester inklink. Did he also because he calls into the morning show? Did he also talk about it on the morning show?

Do you know? Very very briefly? Oh, okay, okay. I was just curious what he had to say about it. Him and Cale do the news two different ways. So it's like, yeah, you're trying to draw attension to the website, which I totally understand. Yeah. So it's like when when Kale Wibdel cold in on Tuesday Wednesday, he gets more in depth into the stories and talks about it while like, wow, Andy like just says like the head and wine, and then you weird about it. Man. I know, I know we're trying and draw traffic to a website, but it's yeah, yeah, sometimes for the news you want to get a little bit more in depth depth on it.

Uh huh uh huh. Yeah, so you think that so you'd like to replace it sounds like you're angling replace at Manchester in Clint. It sounds like you're angling for a job there. No, no, I'm I'm I'm all shut. I'm just providing my critiques. I understand. Yes, yes, critiques well, very good, very good, And that is your right as an American. You have a First Amendment right to speak your mind and to critique. Uh well, speaking of which, by the way, critiquing and uh we do have. Of course. It is Friday, which means today coming up at the top of the hour, we have Eric Pilcher's classic film review and uh this week Eric has chosen a film that I have not seen I've always I feel like I've been hearing about it and heard dialogue quoted from it my whole life, but I've never actually seen the movie.

I need to see it. Uh and uh it is Rebel without a Cause. Sorrying James Dean and I remember too growing up, my dad would talk about the film too. He's a big James Dean fan. James Dean one of those guys who you know, there are two people who actually predicted their own untimely demise at a young age. They just kind of knew. It's very weird. James Zane was one of them. Now, granted he lived kind of a dangerous life, you know, live fast, die young, as they say, so I guess it's not all that surprising.

But yeah, James Zane, he remember my dad telling me this about him, that he had always predicted that he would die young. And the other one is and I always forget. I always get it mixed up. Which one's Ronnie and which one's Johnny. I think I think Johnny was the original one, the singer of Leonard skinnerd who, of course they went down in that plane crash and most of the band perished in that plane crash. But van Zandt, according to his father, Van Zant always said that he knew two things. He would never see thirty and he would die with his boots on.

He just knew

and uh, and sure enough that's exactly what happened to him. Very very odd. But but who knows, I mean, as his dad might be. You know, he might have kind of embellished something too, just to you know, perpetuate the legend. But now it's it's interesting. But but yeah, James Dean died young and uh. But so you know, I had he stuck around, he probably would have had an expansive film career because people always rave about him in Rebel without a Cause. And of course, as is often the case, hearing Eric's review does make me want to see the film sou so that will be coming up today at around five pm.

As we cross into the second hour, numerow dose of Matt Connerton unleashed, very popular weekly segment on the show and a great segment for Friday afternoon here on the on the program. Friday is, of course, by the way, my favorite day here at WMNH, as you know, Mikey, because what's my long day here but I love it because not only do I do this show, and then of course at six pm, we're followed by a granted State of Mind hosted by Rob as a Veto and Police Stone. But then I'm back tonight at eight pm for retro Spectrum Radio with Paul ec.

I have the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show, along with our friends DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry is also one of our official co hosts and one of our sponsors as well. Queen City Cabinetry one of the great sponsors here at WMNH, and so I always look forward to Friday. It's it's a lot of fun here. I've no idea what the theme is tonight for retro Spectrum Radio because Paul sometimes he promotes it very early, but sometimes he likes to surprise us. He likes to keep us in suspense.

Now I do have to ask you, though, Mikey, because you, over the years have shown you've always got your ear to the ground. I mean you you just somehow know things others people don't know. So I will ask you, do you know the theme for tonight? I have no idea, and I did ask, oh, yeah this week, did you no? No, no, not about the theme, because I know we tried it. We Paul and I try to um schedule my appearances on his so ahead of time. So yes, and he said, um um he was working when I texted him. And it's like he'll he'll let me know when he wants me back on because I try try king like, yes, I want to be on the way, not all the time, but I try to try and keep it not really a set schedule, but it's like whenever people like, I know, I can basically come on you r so anytime more and so us I know I can usually come on on one one on my day off and then went respective way.

It's whenever posts he wants me. So it's right, yeah, right, but yeah, and you don't want to oversaturate either. You know, it's very important, Mike. You always want to leave the people wanting more. You want them to want more of you. Yes, yes, very good, well so, and who knows. Sometimes Paul will sometimes he'll wait and surprise us. Sometimes he'll call during the show and uh and reveal it live on the air. So we'll see, we'll see if we are from him, but but I do look forward to that. So let's see if you'd like to join us today on the program six ZO three two five O six ZO seven.

The studio line is open six ZO three two five O six zoo 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 and opine in the Facebook live chat and we'll say hello to everybody in there in a moment. But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is give us a call at six ZO three two five zero six zoo seven. Jay Fat is in the chat room and says, good afternoon everyone.

Here's somebody new in the chat room. Charmaine Davis Elliott says, first time here for me. Welcome, I plus Michael's law who I have a very strong suspicion is from Greensboro, North Carolina, which reminds me and you are mentioned in this comment, by the way, how is it going? Of course, you were recently hired. For those who don't know Texas. Mike was recently hired to be the manager and producer of New Affirm of the Spark or New Affirm of the Spark as UH policy believes it is pronounced. So how is that going?

It's going good. I'm fascinated that they hired you because correct me if I'm wrong, and if I look, I haven't seen your resume. Uh, I'm not aware of you having any artist management or music production experience. I do know that, but it's it's wolf of tied to twice stuff sometimes and help up with people in

established a queers and um, yeah, I just watched my chinel. No, I think I know what you're what you're going for, though, it's good to be diversified stuff all the time, and yes, and helping helping new artists in the world promote sellers and making popula. Yes, yes, how is that going? Because I just wonder, you know, it's I feel like you've got a lot to live up to because inevitably people are going to compare you to other people who've been in your position, like say EASYG for example. I think everyone knows you know, Amanda McCarthy has found great success and I mean who could who could argue with the notion that EASYG is sing really single handedly responsible for all of her success.

Uh do you feel that you'll be able to live up to that same standard with your work with a New Affirm of the Spark. I try to main humble in my walk and yes, justify walk in the autists best interest. Yes. Wow, very good, very exciting. Uh let's see. Yes, I plus Michael's loss as in the chat room. Hello, hashtag Matt, good afternoon, we said, how are you doing high? Hashtag Texas Mike? Is that you? We said? And we heard you managing the singing group of New Force of the Spark or not New Affirm of the Spark?

No more, we say to you hashtag Texas Mike, we say hashtag Matt uh oh, and then I lost, like, oh, here we go, uh, happy Friday afternoon now by the way, Okay, so I apologize. So the new name is uh, what's the new name? New Forces? New Force of the Spark now? Which is which is news to me? Actually? Oh okay. I was going to ask you if that was your suggestion, if you had made that decision, made that advanta completely news to me because that would have been the first thing I would have said if I if I were there, manager, I would have said, listen, guys, uh new affirm of the spark.

It's a little long, it's a lot to spit out. It's a mouthful. Can we lose a syllable somewhere and maybe we change a firm to uh to uh force and become new force of the spark. But uh, well, it's good, you know. I mean, I'm sorry that you had to find out this way, but it's good that you know that now. Yes, yes, um. I plus Michael's law also said we say heehaw that is a country song hashtag matt while Heha actually is a television series, which, of course you Texas micro familiar with being from Texas.

Yes, uh yeah, I mean I'm sure somewhere there's a song called heha. But uh Jay fed uh uh says in the chat room, the Morning Show will be performing a hot oven on Texas Mike for his birthday. Oh when's your birthday? Unto end of joy, Okay, so you've got some time? Yes, all right, very good. We'll actually be on my birthday, so we'll see about that. Okay, all right, I plus Michael's lass as hashtag Texas Mike, we say congrats to you from us I plus Michael's law. Wow. Very nice. Now what is this j F jay Fed says in the chat room.

Did I hear Texas Mike is getting married? Not yet? Jay Fed? Are we

myself and Android are just hi abrated? Six months? Six months to give us? So? Okay? So and when I posted I said anniversary, it's anniversary of a state. And it's not like, oh no yet. Marriage isn't the plans but not for a while. Oh but it isn't the plans hopefully. Oh interesting? Now does she know you feel that way? Does she know that you're interested in eventually engaging in nuptials? Yes? He does. Okay, well, very good, very good. So you gotta hang onto this one to make that happen, yes, because sometimes it doesn't seem to work out.

I mean, you know, a man of your stature, you know you've got you've got options, sir. I'm not trying to remind you of that, because I'm concerned that you're you know, you don't want to rush into anything exactly. And you know, I'm just saying a big star like you. J Fed is asking do they have a steak and cheese pretzel. You might know that better than I would text us Mike. I'm embarrassed to say I'm not sure, because you know they are a sponsor, of course, but I'm very picky about the pretzels that I eat.

They do not. But that would be a great suggestion for Petrol Sandwich. Yes, and it wouldn't surprise me if they do that in the future, because they're always adding to the menu. In addition to the list of craft beers. They're always adding to the menu. Crystal, our friend from the Great state of Illinois, joins us and says, hello everyone. I plus Michaels Law says, we say hashtag Matt this singing group and Saturn will be performing on June fourth, twenty twenty three, on Sunday at Center City Park downtown Greensboro.

Is karaoke for them? Hashtag Matt. We said it is for them of nd Saturn, all right, And I plus Michael Law also says we are watching you from Greensboro, North Carolina. Well, I think we assumed that. Let's see, and I see you're in the chat room. Of course, Jenny is in the Chatmoman says Shalom peeps. By the way, if you missed it, we did talk about it yesterday of a Jenny as a brand new article published in The Mighty at the Mighty dot com, So please give that a perusal um. Crystal says she likes Jafed's suggestion.

She says a Philly cheese steak pretzel might be good also as a variation on your idea. Yes, yes, what's the thing with pretzels? I mean you can really make up a pretzel out of just about any anything. I like the pizza pretzel because pizza is my favorite food, So pizza pretzel. I mean, how can you go wrong? Yep? I had I had the spinach pretzel or the spin That's that's how you can go wrong spinach. But it's good for you, so you should eat it. But the spinach is cooked right, Yeah, yeah, it's it's basically yeah, spinach the yep I like.

I like rass spinach, but I don't like it. I don't know what the point is of cooking vegetables to me. When you cook a vegetable, you not only do you remove it's vitamins and nutrients from it, so you don't get all the nutrition that you would get if it were raw, But you also take a lot of the flavor out too, like uh like. The most egregious example to me is carrots, you know, like, like who looks at a carrot and says, you know that that's a that's a crispy, delicious carrot right there, nice and crunchy when you bite it into it.

It's great. I need to take that carrot and uh, not only remove all the nutrients from it, but all the flavor as well, so that I'm actually it's almost as though I'm biting into water when I eat it. That to me is what a cooked carrot is. I need to take this delicious, crispy a vegetable and turn it into something soft and mushy and completely devoid of any flavor. I don't understand the point, but I I'm sorry, I'm on a I get on a soapbox about that. To me, there's nothing better than rove vegetables.

Like Jenny makes these wonderful salads and it's great. I mean, she can put all the spinish she wants to in the salad as long as it's not cooked. Yeah yeah, yeah, spinish and salad jo gleat. Oh yeah, yeah, yes, I plus Michael's Law also says, we say, by the way, a pop singing group of Archer Flight will be watching on retro Spectrum Radio with Polyc on Facebook live hashtag Matt we said, Michael Martineau, we say new Force of the Spark will be performing for the karaoke at Center City Park, downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.

Wow, very good, very good. Will you be there for that? I mean you are their manager. I'm walking our double shift on Sunday, so I cannot make it. You're up here there down there. I assume there's a lot of zoom meetings. Yes, yeah, yes. J Fed says, I like to saw take carrots and a stir fry type dish. But why just eat the carrot. Just enjoy the crunch, the delicious rock crunch. There's something better than just biting into a delicious rock harrot. I mean, you can wash it off first, you know, sometimes sometimes they're kind of dirty.

You know, you pull the carrot out of the bag. You're like, oh, I'm gonna run this under some water. I think you can do that. But then just eat the carrot, enjoy the carrot. Good for your eyes, good source of carotene. I believe that's what it's called, right, carotene. Yes, Ja Fed says, we have a ton of spinach growing good. Good. I hope you don't cook it. I hope you just eat it raw. Here's what you should do. This is what I would suggest. You take a rock harrot. I know I shouldn't be giving culinary advice.

I don't even cook. But you take a rock harrot, right, and wrap it in some raw spinache. So then it's like, what'd you call that a spinach drop? Yeah? Yeah, and then you just eat that. It'll be great. I'm kind of hungry for that now. I want to try that. I want to take some raw spinage, wrap it, wrap it around a carrot, and just eat that. I think that would be wonderful and nice and crispy, crunchy, you know, be wonderful. I have all kinds of wonderful ideas. I'm going to suggest that to the hop Knot, I'm gonna make a suggestion.

I'm going to suggest that they have a raw spinach and carrot pretzel. What do you think do you think that would work? Do you think that would fly? Probably? Not? Okay, So you don't like my idea. All right, I guess I won't suggest it. I don't want to look foolish. I'velost Michael's loss. As we say, it's okay, Michael Martineau, they will let you know from them. Is new for ors, the spark almost at new affirm I'm stuck in the past. Six three two five six seven is a studio line if you'd like to get in six zo three two five six seven.

By the way, I've been in a I think that I, as well as many Americans, have breathed in not only Americans, but people in other countries as well, frankly, have breathed a collective sigh of relief because apparently, I don't know if you've been following this, Mikey, but apparently we will not be going off the cliff into a pit of economic global oblivion, which is a big relief, I must say. And uh, we might talk about that today a bit, but we have a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed? Is this I managed?

Gary? Hey, Harry? What's up? Um? When you eat carriage, you know you can blanch them. You don't have to cook them till they get rubber. I don't even know what that means. When you say blanche, I think you in hot water for a second. Yeah, the same with the same with spinach. I'm learning to eat spinach now. Yeah, my my my new diet a spinach to do it. So yeah and yeah so you can, yeah you can. You can blanch them a little, they'll stay nice and tight. Though I didn't even know what that meant. When I hear blanch, I think of blanch from the Girls.

Well you do, you do the same thing when you when you when you do? Uh? Green beans, Jenny, Jenny would know that. Jenny's a great cook. Another another another thing that should not be cooked. I love raw green beans. When you cook them, you just ruin them. In my opinion, why do that? Why? Why ruined food? I just enjoy it and it's natural state, I know. But uh, yeah, today, I just wanted to promote my friend's band tonight. He's over at the show skiing Nostalgia Lane at nine o'clock. Oh okay, yeah, I think I'm a because I know some of the members.

Tyler Viggerio, he used to be one of my neighbors, and uh, he's with this band. They played, they played covers and you're really really good. Um Rob Rob had him on his his report uh Thursday for bands around. Yeah, they're playing tonight at nine o'clock at Shafskin. They're really really good. They play at the Goat sometimes too. But I'm just promoting. I'm kind of like they're promoting them. They're really really good. And Tyler. Tyler doesn't stuck a little too. He's been on with Rob as a veto a couple of times.

So okay, okay, do they have do they I just want to prote the city. Go go see him at the Shakin and they're they're really good. They're they're a tight band. They play really well. So yes, uh yeah and uh yeah. So uh I had a I had to do a u a thing at my with my trainer yesterday and uh uh I lost six more pounds and uh wow, five inches off my off my waist. Oh congratulations, that's excellent, Garry. So I yeah, and my my blood pressure was going down. Yeah, so I was doing really well. So I just wanted to Yeah, but I just wanted to shut out the band Nostage Layne.

I was supposed to go, but unfortunately I have muscle spass, which from working out yesterday and my my shoulder. Oh really I started, uh yeah, I started doing um weightlifting, um just you know, doing bicep curls, and I thought I'd be smart and jack it up a little a little more weight. So yeah, so I gotta like muscle spasms. Let you get old. Things happen like that. You know you don't know that, Maddie. You're very young, you know, spry Man, thank you? Yes, um, yeah, I mean well, I mean truth be told.

I mean, anyone can have muscle spasms if you haven't uh you know, if you're if you're working out, if you if you haven't lifted weights. Some people haven't lifted weights ever and they tried for the first time and they have with uh when I played hockey. So ah, but maybe maybe I should take an ice bath like Jet does. That would be really good. I think what you should do is you should head up to Vermont and get into the ice bath with Jay. That would be excellent. But I don't Yeah, I don't have transportation.

So yeah, I could eat some of the spinach, that's right, That's right. Maybe you can sit in the ice bath together and enjoy some delicious raw bath and Spinach would be excellent. Ice bath and Spinach would be a great name for a great name for a band. I'm gonna start a band called that. Hey, yes, then you'll be in it with me, right from right from Vermont. That's right, yeah, I spec yeah, yeah, I spat spinach. Yes, that's gonna be great. We're gonna we're all gonna be ye. That could be a blue grass band.

It could be it could be all kinds of things. Really, I mean, when you've got to oh yeah, all right, well I'll let you go have her wonderful weekend, all right, Karen. Today it's been really awesome, like I said, and things are going really well mindfully and good good so but as you wish, will send Jenny my love and say hie, Tom Melanie have a good weekend with Jay fed and you know, all right, but you too, Matt, you have a great weekend, all right? How much I love you. We love you, Gary, We appreciate it, Thank you, my friend.

Right you take care right, all right, you too? Bye bye? All right, there we go always nice here from Gary and uh yeah, it sounds like he's doing great both mentally and physically, doing much better, which is awesome. Jenny in the chat room says, way to go, Gary, and Jay Fed says, great job. Gary. Yeah, he's lost quite a bit of weight and uh, you know, and and obviously too, I mean that helps him with you know, he's he's talked about talked about mental health issues too, which so many of us struggle with, including myself, and he's he's talked about how uh, you know, the it kind of becomes a it can become a very positive cycle if you you know, because the more you exercise and the more you're committed to your physical health, the better you'll tend to feel mentally, And of course the better you feel mentally, the more you're motivated to exercise, and it becomes, uh, you know, you can really get into a into a good, a good cycle there.

So, and of course the inverse is also true. You can also get into a very bad cycle if you're not careful so or if you just haven't figured out the correct if you don't have the skill set yet, haven't developed the skill set to to deal with that. And believe me, I understand that. Um so, but Gary sounds like he's gotten into a very positive cycle with that, both mentally and physically, which is very important. And I daresay we're all proud of him, even you Texas smile. Yes, yes, yes, it's hard to impress you, after all, you're a former AWA tag team champion with black Jack Mulligan.

Yes, if you'd like to get in with a call, the studio line is open six zo three two five h six O seven six zho three two five oz six O seven. Uh, let's see, We've got a few more Facebook Live comments and then we're going to uh, we'll get into some stuff. But I thought I saw j Fed said something about putting putting carrots. Oh he said, I put rack carrots on pizza because I only put delicious ingredients. Um, yeah, that actually doesn't sound terrible rock carrots on a pizza. I mean, I wouldn't like sick a whole carrot on there, but bits of carrot on the pizza.

I don't know that that might be all right, That might be all right.

I think he was expecting me to say, what, why would you do that? But no, that might be all right. You know my rule Texas, Mike would because because people ask me all the time, I don't know. It's like they think. I think people just assume I'm an authority on this just because pizza happens to be my favorite food. But what I always telling people is, if you're trying to figure out what toppings are appropriate for a pizza, here's all you have to remember. If you want your pizza to remain delin you should only put delicious toppings on the pizza.

Avoid any toppings that are disgusting. Because if you put disgusting toppings on the pizza, your pizza will become disgusting. And that's that's really all you need to uh, all you need to remember. And we have a call. Hi. Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Who is this? Good afternoon, Matt, Well, good afternoon to you. Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Very hot Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It's hot here too, I think it. I think it got up to ninety six degrees today. You know what would help cool off the heat.

I can't even imagine opening up a fire hydrant and running past it. Eric Tilchure, ice cream bars? Oh yeah, you still want your ice cream bars? Yeah? Well, the you know I Texas. Mike doesn't know it yet. But in addition to managing and producing new Force of the Spark. I've also put him in charge of merchandising. He's the new merchandising director here on Matt Connerton Unleashed. So I'll let you guys hash that out. Mikey uh. Now that you know about your new position, what can you tell us about Eric's ice cream bars?

Are those forthcoming? Yes, yes, I'll be I'll be working on park design tonight and oh fantastic, so and what on some concept got Oh that's a big relief. That's a big relief. I'm glad I was able to kind of push him off onto you. I mean, I'm glad I was able to U you were able to that I was able to delegate him. Well, what I meant to say is I'm sorry. What I meant to say is I was trying to you know, now that he has this new position, I'm trying to delegate responsibility. I need to be better at delegating.

And you know he is the merchandising manager now or merchandising director or something. He's the merchandise guy. Be oh okay, well, ye know, today is your lucky day. It appears that one of my offers is no longer valid? What does that mean? What do you mean?

Last time I called in, I said I could go elsewhere, And it appears that one of those outlets is no longer an option for me. What outlet it was? That it was with a certain jealous one in New York. Oh right, that door is closed. Yeah. I woke up this morning to a YouTube video that basically would lead me to believe anyway, and I could be a bit presumptuous here that there is absolutely no interest. Are you sure? Because I thought I thought there was a guy named Eric Pincher who has been blackballed, And that's not your name.

Maybe I don't, I don't know. But it said the title was Eric, I Hope you die. Yeah. Yeah, so that sounds like, yeah, that title. I do know the YouTube video you're referring to. I did listen to it. I say listen because I don't think there was any picture. But yes, yeah, that was very bizarre to have a video with no video. Yes, yes, and listen. I have my share of haters, but as far as I know, no one's ever actually wished death upon me, at least I certainly hope not so. But it does sound like that individual is no longer interested in working with you.

Now, let me ask you this. Have you ever considered, and not that I want to lose your services here on the show, but have you ever considered approaching the Daily Wire get one of those fat fifty million dollar contracts? You know? I here's an ideal with that. Yes, the Ben Shapiro creeps me out?

Does he? The guy gives me the hebgbs? Does he really for real? Yes? He really does. He looks like a real life Bond villain. He talks like one too. You know what's interesting about you know, it's interesting about Ben Shapiro. People always talk about how he speaks very fast. But if you I'm I'm fascinated by linguistics, I notice something so, but it's kind of an illusion if you really pay attention to him. Yeah, it's not that he speaks fast. He actually I think he communicates the same the same number of words as as anyone else does within a certain time period.

But he'll he'll he'll speak a sentence very quickly, but then he'll pause before he speaks the next sentence. So he might say something like this, and it sounds like he's speaking very quickly, but then there's a pause and the and the and the pause before the next sentence, which he will also say at a very fast speed. If you factor in the pause, it kind of evens out to where, No, he actually doesn't speak faster than than the average person. He just he creates the illusion of that by speaking individual sentences very quickly.

And and uh hopes you don't notice that he actually sometimes takes a very long pause between those very quickly spoken sentences. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, it's it's bizarre and really creepy. Yes, well, I personally, I've never been freaked out right right, Well, you wouldn't necessarily have to work directly with him, you know, Jeremy Boring would be the guy who would be offering you the contract, I assume. And uh, but you'd probably have to meet Ben Shapiro at some point. Yeah, I don't think I'm about that life.

You know, one else is weird about Ben Shapiro. But it's not really weird about him, but it's it's everyone else's perceptions of him. Everyone talks about him like he's a little guy, but if you see him standing next to other people, he's like almost six feet tall. But people always talk about him like he's short, and I don't know what that is or what that's about or where that started. But I saw a picture of him one standing next to Joe Rogan, and of course Joe Rogan is a little guy, but Shapiro just towered over him.

Towered. Yeah. Ben's a complex character, and I don't want to deal with that, right, right, I understand.

Yeah, So, if there's going to be a transition, I wanted to be as seamless as possible. Well, there are some movies that I don't think the Daily Wire would allow me to review. I think I'm quite sure that's true. Yes, that would be a problem, I'm sure because they wouldn't have allowed me to do the Manchurian candidate. Um, well, they might have allowed you to, as long as you worked to have like a democratic spin on it, right, right, I would have had to infer things that, right, I'm not comfortable inferring here.

What they would have wanted you to do is to I can actually predict what they would have wanted you to do, and this is based on a book that was given to me by my dad years ago. They would have wanted you to say something about how the Manchurian candidate was the inspiration for Barack Obama's entire campaign and persona. That's what they would want you to do. I'm not even kidding. That's that's literally what they would want you to do, because that's what they always used to say about Obama, that he was the Manchurian candidate.

Oh yeah, I can't do that. Yeah, yeah, that would be strange. But yeah, so no, And wait a minute, since Texas Mike is the director of merchandising, Yes, I don't know if you realize this or not, but ranked in like the five thousands is the hashtag get Erica T shirt. Ah, yes, Texas Mike, that's that's your responsibility. Now, sir Eric needs a shirt. Um, I'll get one to you asap. Oh asap? Very nice? Wow? Look at that, Like I would like a WMNH T shirt. Who and depending on the cut, I can wear XCEL or two XL.

You'll have to check with me. Uh oh, I'll walk on over the weekend and get back to you. Wow, look at it. Now, This is why I look at this. This, This is why I like Texas Mike. This is why I made him go get her. He's a action I know. This is why I have made him a part of my organization and why he is now the official merchandising director for the show. This is why he takes the bull by the horns and he knows how to do that because he's from Texas. They have a lot of bulls and a former and a former a WA Tech Team champion.

Yes, yes, he has all the credentials one could need. Absolutely yes, So yeah, I'm very pleased with how this is what I am too, because now it's somebody else's problem. I mean, now that that came out wrong, now it's now I have some help in that department, specifically merchandising. You know what, I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that, right, right, Well, just pretend you heard the second part but not the first. It's like you should have pretended that I didn't call you John well, yes, well I was very hurt by that.

I was. I mean, I just felt like, are far worse people I could call you, well, Sean, Like I could have called you Baltazar right right, or I could have called you Pebbles. Or this is gonna pain my heart to even put you in with this piece of day, gridated pond scum. I could have called you the jealous one. That would be very that would have been very, very hurtful, and I appreciate you not doing that. That's that's true. That's true. I'm sorry if I overreacted. I was just in the moment. I was so stunned.

I was just I was just stunned. Well, I'm sorry you were stunned. I mean, imagine how stunned I was when I'm scrolling through Facebook and I'm like, oh, Texas, Mike, Cat's the best job. I told you you're on the list. I'm behind Melanie's dirty limericks. Yeah, yeah, you're like number twenty two on the list of best of us. I'm going to be a thirteen two days ago. I know, I know, and I'm sorry. But what happened is, so I was on the you know, I have the I have a list in my notebook. Here, Mike, work on this, get this figured out, get me into at least the top ten here.

Well, it's not merchandising, but I so, I I have my list in my notebook, but then I was looking at a separate list that I have on my computer. Uh, in Google docs and I was like, oh no, I never took some of those and wrote them on the list in my notebook, so I had to add those. So that knocked you down a bit on the list. So I apologize. You know, I'm making Texas Mike a direct a person in my organization. He's my director of publicity. Texas Mike, get this figured out? Go top ten. Wow. Uh, I don't know if he has time for all these jobs.

I mean, he's talking about getting married soon. He's got he's got a lot on his plate. Don't get married, Texas Mike, so grossly overrated? Oh my goodness. Wow. Well all right, Uh no, no, no, no marriage for you, Texas Mike. That's all right. It's just as well. That's just my advice. You've got a lot of work to do. Saying there's an old saying don't buy the cow. No. Oh no, oh god, no, that's you don't want to You really don't want to say that to a Texan because you know they'll they'll have flashbacks.

I'm just letting you know, Texas Mike, marriage grossly overrated. Wow. Then through once tried it, didn't like it. Marriage is an institution every man should try at least twice. Well wait a minute, how many times have you been married once? Then? Why? But if if it's something every man should try at least twice, then it sounds like you're open and getting married again. There's always like the way I see it is, there's someone for everybody. So if I find that person who you know, can deal with me, which is which is the easiest task you could do in life?

Honestly it would be their privilege. Oh oh my wow. Okay, I mean I'm a rising star. Well, that is true, that is undeniable. Dare I say I might be bigger than Howard? Well, it takes a certain level of delusion to believe that. But you could be. You could be, you could be the next Howard Stern. I mean, not a not as slimy in uh potty mouse in more knowledgeable, but certainly well I'm as a fan of Howard, I would not use those adjectives myself, but uh, that's all right. But yes, he was a fan and then things just kind of turned for me.

No, well, yeah, a lot of people feel that way. A lot of people feel that way. Um, but you know, but he's he's changed over the years. I mean, he's you know, he's almost seventy years old. The show's not going to be what it was ten years ago. Uh but uh but but someday he will retire and perhaps you shall be the one to fill that vacuum. You know. Uh serious XM Satellite Radio. They do have a problem in that he is going to retire someday and I don't know, and in all like, in all seriousness, like I'm not even kidding, they are going to have to figure out what to do.

And they're already having to compete with the Internet, and which I don't know if they saw that coming back when satellite radio was still being developed, but um, you know, with streaming and podcasting and so forth. But um, they they are going to need they're going to need a big star to fill that void left by Howard some day when he does, in fact decide to go and uh retire. Yeah, it's gonna be very interesting because I would say they're next if I had to guess, I don't have the information in front of me, their next highest ratings person would probably be Chris mad Dog Russo.

I think you're probably right. Yeah, So in Chris Russo is being featured more heavily on ESPN. Now, yeah, they could be in I mean, I don't know of too many media organizations that can survive losing their two biggest stars, and that's something that could be happening. Dax m Yeah, yeah, I mean from what I read online, from what I've read online over the years, you know, because I love you know, I love keeping up with media just in general. As you know, they it doesn't sound like they have a plan.

I mean they've been buying up you know, they bought Stitcher and they bought Pandora, so they've they've expanded the company that way and into other avenues. But um, but if if the big draw is still Howard, and I get, I don't know who would be the bigger draw than Howard. I mean Andy Cohen. I mean he's kind of a big deal, but I don't I don't think he's a draw. Find a way to this would never happen because based on what I know about the person, he's very anti conformist.

Would be Joe Rogan. Yeah, but he doesn't need them, right, but I mean money talks. Yeah, but Joe Rogan's pretty set in that department. Yeah, I mean they they Yeah, he had stock in the UFC when they were sold to Endeavor. Yeah, but uh, you know, but they when he um, when he went to Spotify, I mean they backed to bring struck up to his front door. I mean, he he doesn't need, he doesn't need to be anywhere else. No, that would be the only one that I think could probably take that mantle. I mean if instead of buying Pandora and Stitcher, if if serious XM had bought Spotify and they were all under the same roof, then then I could see it.

But otherwise, no, I don't know. I don't think there is. I don't think there is, you know. And of course Opie and Anthony has long gone and has been for over a decade now, so right, yeah, I don't know. The Other thing to keep in mind about Joe Rogan is he is under contract with Endeavor, so anything he does has to in a way they have a say. Now, whether he listens or not, I don't know the language, but he is a contracted media personality with Endeavor. Yeah, true, because he does do USC commentary.

Yeah, um, I don't know for how much longer. There's major issues there right now, but but yeah, Joe being outspoken might end his time with the UFC. I doubt it. I I think that, uh, I mean, Dana, they've already started scaling him back. Yeah, but I my impression is that's that's has more to do with his busy schedule because he's got a crank out content for Spotify. I mean I can't imagine. I mean, do you think and by Eric, you might have seen something online that I didn't, So maybe maybe you know something I don't.

But I mean I can't imagine that company. If it were a different company, maybe, but but that company, I can't imagine them having any issues with any of Rogan's content on Spotify. I mean, if it's not his content, it's things he has said about other individuals that he's made. Some when he had to do an event with Stephen A. Smith from ESPN, he had some pretty inflammatory things to say about it. Um. When Dana White had his domestic issue, he had some pretty pointed things to say about Dana Um. He has been appearing on Arielhwani show, which that is oh yeah, that's like USC public enemy numeral Uno.

Yeah, obviously Dana White hates Ariel Hilwani um which I didn't he to be fair, he has a very valid reason for hating Ariel Hiwani. Well, I guess, Ariel, Ariel, that was unprofessional, very unprofessional. You I mean to take an announcement that was supposed to be for a major event and put it out on your Twitter feed for clicks. Yeah, well there's I mean, there's two sides to that story. And uh, I've heard Ariels and I'm not convinced. I mean, part of it might be some there might be some bias on my part just because I've been like Ariel Helwani, I just I like it.

I did, yeah, until he just went full Charter Earth against the USC And it's like you cust the millions with that, Oh you think so? Oh yeah, oh yeah, Like you had people that were buying the pay per view just to see who this major star that was returning was going to be, and Ariels, five hours before for air says, oh, it's gonna be brock lessner. Um. Yeah, So what was actually tagged? A source within the UFC that told him, Oh I didn't know that. I thought the source was was not never revealed. No, he

he did tag a source. The person said they didn't tell him. Oh I see Okay, it's kind of like, really, but what what's Eric? I guess if I were in a room alone with Dana, Yi, I would probably I probably would play stupid as well. Yeah, well of course, but what Eric, I actually have interviewed Dana before you. Yeah. Yeah, he's very intimidating. Yeah. I was gonna say, he seems like an intense dude. I've never seen an interview with him where he didn't seem like just just really intense. First thing he said to me before we started is he said, I say the F word a lot.

You don't have a bleeping problem with that, do you? He's he's classy.

Well why what's that? Oh? I thought? Yeah? He And I'm like, well, I can edit it out, and he's like, I can deal with that. I guess yea um, and I'm like, huh, okay, well what's what's uh? What's the stephen A. Smith thing? I don't know anything about that. Well, it happened a few years back, and it's it's actually precluded stephen A. Smith from doing commentary on UFC event oh, because stephen A was very hurt by what was said. Oh yeah, this this all totally got past me. I don't know anything about this.

He basically Joe Rogan said that he didn't like being paid with a nia fight who knew nothing about the sport for three hours. Oh this actually is is this is beginning to sound familiar. Okay, I think I do remember so stephen A went on his show first take and said, i may not be a UFC expert, but I've covered combat sports for over twenty years. I'm respected within the sports community to have a podcast or come at me. Yeah, step down son, Oh wow, Okay, And ever since then, they've kind of kept stephen A away from UFC, which until they got until they signed the Monday Night Football extension, UFC was their biggest deal they had on the table.

Yeah. So you have your biggest personality on your network that cannot be on the biggest programming you can offer. You'd think, I mean with that when when there's so much money involved, you would think people would, uh would be able to kind of Smith's book. Yeah, and he's an intense guy, proud individual. Yeah. Yeah, I haven't read his book, but his his interview on Howard was U was fascinating and he's yeah, he's an intense guy. Yeah, he's a very proud proud man. Yes, any as well as he should be.

I mean his accomplishment definitely. Yeah, stephen A do you, buddy, You're amazing. I love stephen A. Smith. I don't even as you know, I'm not a sports guy, but occasionally I'll just see something pop up in my YouTube feed or on media at that website that I love, you know, that he went off on something, and I'll stop and watch it. I might not know what he's talking about, but I just but he's one of those people. I just love hearing him talk, and I just love watching him and get watching him get worked up about something.

It's it's he's a very engaging broadcaster. He is he really really is, and he knows his stuff. Yeah you can tell. Yeah, I mean you There's a reason why First Take is the number one rated sports talk show across all a cable. Oh and it's not because people are like, oh all they do is yeah. If that were the case, then how many countless shows would be number one and there are respective time slots right. No, it's because people look to him for an opinion and they value what he has to say. Yeah. So yeah, I have nothing but love for Stephen A. Smith.

Yeah, it's it's too bad though, when there's when there's that much, you know, when there's so much money involved. I guess I kind of look at it like this way. You would think when there's so much money involved and much potential, that you would think that people could could kind of put their egos aside and figure out how to And sometimes they do. Obviously. Sometimes you see in big media you see people working together who you thought would never would but but it's but it's always a little bit baffling to me when it's like, how how do these people not see past?

You know, especially if it's something that happened years ago? How do how do people not find a way to work together when they could be doing something really really great? Yeah? If I and this is just me seculating, Yeah, if I had to guess, it's Joe Rogan never apologized,

and he didn't he doubled down on it. Oh did he? Yeah? He basically said, well, maybe you should take the time knowing the sport instead of plugging, you're plugging your shell that doesn't need it. Oh god, yeah, that's not good. Yeah. Where did he was, like, well, did he say that on his show? Baby. So where did where did Rogan say that? Was it in an interview or did he actually just say it? I say it was on his podcast. Okay, I think it's he was with Brandon's Shaw because Brandon's Shab has an ax to grind, a major ax to grind with the USC, and he's like, I would have much rather done commentary with you than who I had to deal with m M. And it's like, I mean, okay, Joe, I guess that's the route you can go down, Brendan Shab, that guy.

I would still rather listen to stephen A. Smith than the fighters they have on there that their brains are so turned into mush they're incomprehensible. Yeah, I know, I know, Well Eric listen, Yeah, yeah, go ahead, I know we're over on the top of the hour. Yeah yeah, yeah. We gotta get to your your film review. I'm very very very good. I feel that that you you continue to evolve with these so I always look forward to sharing them with everybody. Yes, yeah, a very popular segment on the program. So we will get to that.

I see my dad's in the chat room. I know he's dying to hear it because he as he was commenting on you. You know, I really it really puts a lot of pressure on me when there are people that are like, I really love this movie. Yeah, and it's good. Right before I like start writing it or recording or even before I start watching it. Yeah, it's like, oh, don't do this to me. Why

that's good though. It's a good problem to have, that's for sure. It is. But until you mess up their favorite film and you hear about it. Yeah, that's all right, all right, well very good. Well we're gonna get to that. So thank you, thank you for the call, and I'll make sure to remind the merchandising manager over there, Texas, Mike, about your director of marketing. Director of marketing, gotta get those ice cream bars. Yep, I'll walk on it and my T shirt Texas Mike o'h wok on that as well. Yeah, he's he's he's on it.

He's right on top of things. Yeehaw, Texas, Mike. Good work, yep, very good, very good. You know what, Thank you guys. You know what, mikey, if you come through with those ice cream bars, I might have to double your salary and that a zero all right. I'll even give you an ice cream bar for free? Wow? How about that? How about that he's living large already and he's just new on the job. All right, Eric, thank you for the call, No problem. Thanks Matt by Texas. Mike Buck, all right, very good. That's friend Derik Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

And we are a little bit past the top of the hour, so we're gonna get to uh, we're gonna get to his film review. Scott did say in the Scott Robinson, by the way, as in the chat room, he said, uh, you know, we were talking about who might ultimately replace or succeed Howard Stern when he eventually retires from Serious XM. Scott said, don't forget about David Lee Roth. He's still out there. Yeah. That's for people who don't know or who maybe and some of you may just be too young. You remember, but when Howard initially left terrestrial radio and went to satellite radio Infinity Broadcasting, who I think is part of CBS Radio.

I think they they replaced him on their stations. They actually did this creative thing where on the East coast they replaced him with David Lee Roth, and on the West coast they replaced him with Adam Carolla. So instead of having one host replaced Howard on all their stations, they kind of split it up and they had a third hosts in the Midwest and I can't remember who it was, but on the East Coast, so you know, stations in this part of the country, we had David Lee Roth and that didn't last long, which is too bad.

I thought Roth had a lot of potential. Actually, Oh, Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook live chat. Hello Mike. Mike of course, one of our co hosts on Retrospectrum Radio with paolc and I did see before we get to the film review. Police is in the Facebook live chat and he has revealed what the theme is for tonight's show. I'm just trying to get back to it here, trying to scroll through and find it. Now, where did it go?

Where did you go? Police? I know I saw it. I don't think oh, here we go. I found it. This is what Paul posted in the chat. Tonight on Retrospectrum Radio will be chilling out with a very cool evening of acoustic cover songs, classic tunes we all know and love covered by some excellent independent artists Retrospectrum Radio Unplugged, kick Back and kick Back and Oh kick back with I'm Sorry your favorite icy cold beverage and join us for an evening of some awesome tunes name that nine at nine and lots of fun and laughs.

The fun starts at eight pm, and of course you can listen from anywhere. Go to WMNH radio dot org and chat with us on Facebook and we would love that very much. Oh Mike from Queen City Cabinetry says, I've been looking looking all day to see what tonight's show is about. Yeah, this will be fun. So that will be tonight from eight to eleven pm. I look forward to that. Here's what we're gonna do right now, though, We're gonna take a quick break, show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then from there we will go right into this week's classic film review.

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They serve all your business needs including employee benefits, planning, corporate design and business administration, investments and wealth management and customize business insurance solutions. Their phone number is eight six six eight four one forty six hundred or on the web at CGI Business Solutions dot com. W m n H rip the novels Please love Me. If I'm gonna hit some about it, I'm gonna do something I don't try. The disk go ahead? Is that where you're moved the last time? Because you're in trouble.

They think then they can protect me by moving around all the time. You had a good start in the wrong direction back there. Why'd you do it? What do you mean? Miss? That kid up? Yeah, called me chicken and your Roopes didn't understand. I never do they think that I can make friends if we moved, since just move, everything will be roses and sunshine. But you don't think that's the right solution. She eats him alive, and he takes things pretty rough for you at home, at the zoo, at a zoo. I mean, he always wants to be my power.

You know, how can I give him anything if he's I mean, I love him and all that type of stuff. At night, I mean, I don't want to hurt him, but then I don't. I don't know what to do anymore except maybe die on. I mean, if if he had guts to knock mom cold ones, then maybe she'd be happy, and then she'd stopped picking on him. Does they make mush out of him? You know, just mush. No. I'll tell you one thing. I don't ever want to be like him, chicken, but just teenage jangs is a condition that is old as time.

It has been depicted in film many times over, even to the point where the stories in films have somehow become blurred together. However, one film, despite being released nearly sixty eight years ago, is still as transcendent, emotional and powerful now as it was then. It also features one of the most landmark career defining performances in cinema history. Shrouded in Tragedy released in nineteen fifty five, directed by Nicholas Ray, Rebel Without a Cause shows troubled teens in an effluent California suburb.

The three key teens are Jim, James Dean and his landmark generational role Judy the late Natalie Wood in Plato, Salmonino, all troubled in their own way, facing problems at home that have far reached in consequences when they act out. Our opening clip was Jim after being arrested for public drunkenness as a miner. He is released to his parents. The heart to heart we heard is what he has with the police chief. In our next two clips show the pain both Judy and Jim have in regards to the turmoil and issues in their home.

Who's arguing and overreaching has caused this emotional turmoil within Jim, And then we meet Judy, who is just wanting her father's attention and is acting out to get it, including staying out past curfew. Well, I don't see what's so bad about taking a little drink. You don't know. I definitely he's a minor missus dark and it looks to me like he had more than a little drink. It was pretty good in my day too. Oh really, Frank, when was that? Can'tuwait till we get home? Got anything to say for yourself?

Not interested enough? Can't you answer? What's the matter with you? Anyhow? He's just loaded? Honey? I was talking to Jim. Well, I'd like to just explain. You. See, we just moved here, you understand, and the kid hasn't got any friends moved into it. Will you hold a gem? Tell him? Man? While we moved here, will you hold it? You can't protect me? Do you mind? If I try? You do you have to slam the door in my face? I try to get to him. What happens? Don't I buy everything you want? A bicycle? You get a bicycle, a car?

You buy me many things? No? No, well not just buy? Will we give you love and affection? Don't we? Well? Then what is it? Was it because we went to that party? Well, you know what kind of drunken brawls. Those kind of parties turn into start a place for kids. A minute ago, you said you didn't care if he drinks. He said, a little drink. You're tearing me apart. What you say one thing, he says another, and everybody changes back again, like a fine way to behave. You know who he takes after and now Judy, he needs me.

It makes you think he hates you, Judy, I don't think. I know. He looks at me like I was ugliest thing in the world. He doesn't like my friends. He doesn't like one thing about me. He called me. He called me a dirty trip my own father.

Do you think your father really means that? Yes, no, I don't know. I mean, maybe he doesn't mean it, but he acts like he does. We were all together, we were going to celebrate Eastern We catch a double bill, big deal. So I put on my new dress and I came out in grab my face. He started rubbing off a little lipstick. If I didn't rub up my lip and I read out of that house. Is that why you were wandering around at one o'clock in the morning. Weren't looking for a company? Were you? People? Don't even know why I do it.

Maybe you think you can get back at your dad that way. I mean, if you're not as close to him as you'd like to be. Maybe this is one way of making him pay attention. Did you ever think of that, I'll never get close to anybody. Would you like to go home, Jurty, or we can arrange it.

What's your number? Duty realize you're dead to come down and pick you up unless you really don't want to go home? Would you rather stay here? As I mentioned at the beginning of this review, this film is really known for delving into the human condition of teenage angst. One of those symptoms of that condition is disagreeing with your parents, clashing with your parents, fighting for control it within your life from your parents. While the writing and direction of this film help convey all of this, the performances are really what gets the viewer into the inner crisis these young people are facing.

While there are many scenes throughout this film that depict this, our next clip is the one that, in my opinion, is the best exam ample. Following a game of chicken that has a tragic ending, Jim wants to turn himself in, much to his parents' dismay. This is when I believe the full emotional range of James Dean is on display. I'm going to the police, and I want to tell him iolved in this thing? Did anyone see you there? Did anyone see your license? But I don't know it. Do you think I'll go to the police.

It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. Why what? Why are you going to preach? Do we have to listen to a sermon when I'm only trying to tell him what you mean? You can't be idealistic all your life, Jim, Nobody, nobody getting to yourself. Wait a minute, you don't want me to go No, no, I don't want you to go to the police. There were other people. Why should you be the only one involved? But I am involved. We are all involved. Mom, A boy, a kid was killed tonight. I don't see how I can get out of that by tendering that it didn't happen.

Well, you know that you did the wrong thing. That's the main thing. Is this nothing? That is absolutely nothing? Dad, you told me, you said you want me to tell the truth. Now, didn't you say that you can't turn it off? But he's not saying that. He's saying, just don't volunteer. Just tell a little white buy you learn when you're older, Jim, Well, I don't think if I want to learn that way. But it doesn't matter anyway because we're moving.

I'm not telling me loose again. Well, this is news to me. Just why are we moving? Do I have to spell? I'm not going to use me as an excuse again. I don't. Every time you can't face yourself, you'll blame it on me. That is not true. But you say it's because of me. You say it's because of the neighborhood. Now you use every other funny excuse. Mom, I just once I want to do something right and I don't want you to away from me again.

That this is all going too fast for Lenners giving me something. You better give me something fast. Jimmy, you're very young. A fullish decision not could wreck your whole life in ten years. You'll never know this even had that answer her, tell her ten years that let me hear you answer her. Yeah, that stand up for me? Stand you want to kill your own father. While this film is wrought with emotion and difficult scenery, it does feature a heartwarming romance between Jim and Judy. Our final two clips show this first after a glancing pass at the police station, Jim tries to be friendly towards Judy and is rudely rebuffed.

Then, in our final clip, Judy apologizes to Jim and beautifully confesses her love. Hi. Hi, Wait a minute, Hi, I see't before him? Well, stop the world to be unfriendly. Well, now that's true, but life is crushing in on me. Life can be beautiful. I know where it was? Where? What was where I first saw you? Everything going? Okay? Now you live here? Don't you? Who lives? Hey? Where's Dawson High? At university? In tenth? Thanks? You want to carry my books? I got my car. You want to go with me? I go with the kids.

Yeah, yeah, all right, you know. I bet you're a real yong yo. I love you too. Oh that's a new disease, A friend of yours. I'm glad they left you out.

They always live. I'm living Which way university work? Which? Which way? Is it the university? And tenth? Is that way? That way? Don't worry. Finally, Judy's confession of love. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry that I treated you mean today. You shouldn't believe what I say. When I'm with the rest of the kids. Nobody nobody acts in here.

M h Why did you do that? What's so like it? Ellipsy song? Where you going? I don't know. We can't stay here.

I know one thing, I'm not going back in that too. I'm never going back. Listen, I know a place. Let told me before. It's on desertn't mentioned up for the planetarium. Want we're doing you can trust me Judy. Upon release, many critics admonished this film. They felt it was violent and disturbing. Those that praised it raved about the performances of the three stars, the direction by Ray, the realism that the film depicted and didn't dare shy away from. Filmgoers sided with the ladder. The film generated over seven million dollars theatrically, making it the second highest grossing film for Warner Brothers that year.

It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Actress, Would and Best Supporting Actor for Menino's Trail of plato Inexcusably, James Dean did not receive a nomination, and the film did not win any Oscars. Sadly, that is not the most tragic aspect of this film. Neither are the tragedies depicted in scenes within it. It has to be the tragic end of the three stars of the film would died by questionable drowning that to this day has never been solved. Menino was stabbed fatally by a mugger who didn't even know who he was.

And finally James Dean, who would die in a car accident one month prior to this film's release. He never was able to relish in the acclaim in praise that his performance garners to this day. Everyone should view this film not just out of appreciation to cinema, but to a once in a lifetime talent that we never will know the heights he could have climbed. I hope you join me next week when we will dive into the sinister Minister with tattooed hands with the nineteen fifty five suspense noir film Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum.

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So I don't know what they've got in store for this week's show, but I always look forward to hearing it. And Tony Petrello says, oh yeah, hey there, Matt, and uh and then of course I'm back. I'm back at eight pm for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul E. C and the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show along with DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry. And Mike happens to be not only one of our co hosts, but as sponsor of WMNH as well Queen City Cabinetry and the historic Sunbeam mall named of course for the vaunted General Sunbeam.

So he's in the cementa there and you can go there and light a candle or something while actually with fire codes that might not be allowed. I think you can maybe turn on an electric lantern. We'll have to ask Mike about that, but uh yeah. So Fridays are a lot of fun here. By the way, don't forget our amazing sponsor, the Hopknot right across this three to one thousand elm Stree. They have live music tomorrow night. They have Matt Litzinger as they have live music every every Friday night, and they've got a lot of events coming up for Pride Month and so forth.

Tomorrow night, Jenny and I will be at the Rex Theater of course for a stand up audio. Really looking forward to that. They were on the show. Um I almost said yesterday, No, the day before. The days blur together. It's been a very busy week in good ways, good things happening. But it's been a very busy week and it's not over yet. But but we're looking forward to that tomorrow night, going to see Now you've you've been to the Rex Theater many times, right Texas Mike, Yes, I have. I haven't been in that building in a very long time, but I feel like I've seen you posting things from recent events there.

Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I usually try you go to a Friday night comy so he so oh yes and been Um I've been to other shows as well, so yeah yeah, Um, how's the sound in there for live bands? Sound good? Good. I've been there a couple of times for when Bob Advito did tribute Choake Ben I was on on I got to say, got to sit on the side stage. So it was awesome. Yeah, that's right, that's right, Yeah, very cool. Yeah. So uh, tomorrow night it's an evening with stand up audio. There's no open or nothing, it's just them, So that'll be up.

That'll be fun. Really looking forward to that. And they've got a great sound. I'll probably close the show today with one of their songs. Um. Oh, I see Ricky Mapleton. I joined us in the Facebook live chat. Hello, sir. Ricky has been on the show and he's gonna be coming back soon. Jenny of course has been doing all the booking and doing a great job. And lots of great guests, uh, both political and musical, so that's been wonderful. And um, lots of great feedback on the increase in musical guests.

You know, for the longest time, we would have two or three musical guests per month, and now it's more like two or three a week, and it's it's really good. Um, it's definitely better for me. I there's there's just something rejuvenating about talking to creative people about creating their art, their music or other kinds of art as well. So and it's not just doing the local artists just like explaining it to you worldwide audience. Yes, yes, well you know we do have some Texas musicians and uh that's uh, that's so that you don't get upset with us.

It's to play kate you because I know that you know. Of course, for those who don't know Texas, Mike is a former a WA tag team champion with black Jack Mullian and I'm always afraid one of these days you're gonna lose your temper and outcomes the cattle prod. I would never I would never do that to you man or the Brandy and Iron or or or worst case scenario, all of a sudden, I'm taking a steel chair to the head. I mean that would be uh so you know, so we try to keep you happy, sir, Thank you, and I would never would do that to you.

Thank you. I appreciate that. That's exactly what Blackjack Mulligan told me once as well. Next thing I know, well, we won't get into it. Ricky says, hello, looking forward to seeing you soon. New album coming out called Recipe Songs Love the Show. Yes, well, we look forward to having you back on sir. That was a great time the last time, and uh we we look forward to that. Uh, let's see well again, as as we do only have a little bit of time left. Uh, it's been I've been in a pretty good mood today because we are not stepping into the abyss into a global economic armageddon.

And that's a good thing. They did. The Senate last night did pass the debt ceiling bill. And um, it's funny Jenny had turned it on the live feed from uh, I guess from c Span, but online we don't have actual cable. We cut the chord a long time ago. But but you know, you can get all this stuff online now. So um, Enny had turned on the live feed from the Senate and I hear, you know they're they're voting on the amendments. They had eleven different amendments. And I posted something on the Matt Connerton Unleashed Facebook page regarding these amendments, something rather profane words.

I I said, I used a word I am not able to use on the air, but certainly I did do it on the Facebook, expressing how I felt about all these amendments that these senators were trying to attach. Because if if they had succeeded, if any of these senators had succeeded in getting an amendment attached to that bill. It would then have to go back to the House to be voted on again the amended version, and just no time for it. No time for it. You know, we were going to be defaulting as soon as June fifth if this didn't get done.

But so Jenny turns on the feed on the computer and I hear, you know, they're they're voting on the amendments, and they're trying to get through it. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is trying to get through it, and I hear his voice saying they just finished voting on one one that had failed. They all failed, all eleven amendments failed, thank god. But I hear Schumer saying, Okay, that was ten and a half minutes on that one. Let's let's get the next one down to ten minutes. Let's keep this going.

Let's keep this going. You know, he was trying to, you know, wanted to get it done, get that bill passed so they could get it to Biden's desk. And apparently Biden is going to sign it tonight, and I guess he's he's going to address the nation. I think it's seven o'clock. So actually I will be able to see it because we don't go, you know, because it'll be between shows. This show finishes at six and Retrospection Radio doesn't start until eight. But I don't I don't know if it's worth I was a little surprised by that.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure why he's going to address the nation about it. If we were going into default, if the worst had happened, as I'm at one point predicted that it would, I was feeling pretty pessimistic. And by the way, I'm sorry if I brought anyone down with my pessimism. I I usually like to be optimistic. I mean, I'm cynical. I'm always cynical about politics, but aren't we all to some degree. But I don't usually get that negative. But I was really worried. My anxiety level over the debt ceiling was even higher than it was in twenty eleven, which was the first time I ever got really freaked out thinking that we might actually default, that the United States for the first time in our history, might actually default on our full faith and credit, and the global economic collapse that could come from that if that were to ever actually be allowed to happen.

Hello to Chris Rose from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who joins us in the chat. So I was very pleased that that got passed. And Biden is, I guess, signing it this evening and he's going to speak to the nation about it. Okay, just a couple of quick thoughts. So, so, first of all, I really don't want to go through this again in two years. Part of the deal is a two year lift suspension of the debt limit. I hope that every single one, whether it's a Biden or every other Democrat. You're not gonna hear Republicans talk about it, although Mitch McConnell in the past the one Republican who has talked about this in the past, but not recently.

But I hope that they do begin to take a serious look at just getting rid of the debt limit permanently so we don't have to keep doing this stance. And I mean, it doesn't sound like the fourteenth Amendment. Well, it depends on who you ask, but it sounds like there's a lot of potential pitfalls with trying to invoke the fourteenth Amendment to avoid a default. But if you just get rid of the debt limit. Then we don't have to do this again. I don't want to have to do this again in two years. I don't want to have to do this again.

Ever, you know, we came perilously close, and I'm telling you, all it would have taken last night was for one of those just one of those eleven amendments to get enough support that it got attached to that bill, and then they'd be having to send it back to the House. And it's like I said on Facebook, and again I was a little bit profane about what I said online, but I was really feeling it. I was angry and surprised a little bit, because you know, I thought the real difficulty would be getting this through the House, and then it would sail through the Senate.

And then it got through the House pretty well, more than three hundred votes, and then I thought, Okay, well, the Senate's just a formality. And then last night I was starting to wonder. I remember Jenny and I having a conversation, as she said, I think I'd ask sir because she'd been she'd been watching it online. I said, how many amendments are there? And she said eleven? And I was like, oh, my god. I mean, I don't have a big problem with some people voting against it because they're upset about something in it, because they know they can vote against it and say I voted against it because of X, Y or Z, because that's how I feel about it.

But I knew that I wasn't voting for default because we weren't going to default because enough people would still vote for it. I don't have a big problem with that, But I did have a big problem with people attaching amendments and taking that that is much too risky for me. We do have a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who is this? This is Jackson? Oh my god, Jackson from what stade are you from? I forget Georgia, Georgia Jackson? How are you, sir? Haven't heard from you in a long time.

I've been pretty good. I've been running my own station that we're here in um Dakota and um we're working up the big Eighties Stravaganza tomorrow. So it's a it's a big thing. What is it, uh, an extravaganza. It's the eighties. It's a it's a Saturday show. It's called it The eighties extravaganza, but all eighties hitting from three to seven. Oh, I gotcha? Okay, and what is the radio station again? It's uh, well, we we changed in a while back. So it's called the Shark Radio dot Com. The Shark as in with fins and everything.

Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna check that out after So it's the Shark Radio dot Com. Gotcha, yes, gotcha. But usually during the week and stuff, we still play Top forty. So we played in the light Drake and all that. Yeah. Um, and we still do Top forty. But we're we threw so this weekend and kind and if we threw in some eighties music to spice up the mood to the station. Oh that's cool now if I remember, um, let me think here. So, as I was seeing, um, the candidate race for the twenty twenty four presidential I saw a commercial on Twitter as I posted it on Twitter under my account, I'm verified on Twitter overall, Um, the Santas has this like funny looking commercial.

It's like a it's like, oh McDonald had a farm commercial. Um yeah, yeah, but that's I thought it was the Trump campaign that had that commercial about the Santis isn't that a Trump CAMPI it it was through um the gop um the gop um Twitter page. All right, I might be thinking of a different commercial then. No, it was like, oh McDonald, I have a farmer. Ron Santas wouldn't cut your tax like says I'm tax thing like that? Okay, he actually, Um, recently he kicked a lady out of um of a rally because um, this lady asked, you can you help me find my son?

He kicked him out and was totally rude. Santism. This lady, Rhonda Santist did that correct? So why was so she was asking who was who was she asking to help her find her son? That that was Rohndey Santez and she and she he kicked her out. Wow, Twitter, I haven't I've not seen that. I'll have to check that out. Well, you know they say he's not the warmest guy. No, but if if he could beat Trump out of office, I'm pretty happy with that. Oh, I find to overall extent, I think it's gonna be. I do think Trump will corupted this country overall?

I do you think Trump will be the nominee? I don't think it's going to be De Sante or probably beat or probably beat out Biden out of the prisidential rate because that guy's during nineties. He look I don't know, he's uh, he's he's eighty. I think he looks good for eighty, but I suspect he may have had some botox. I'm not sure. But Trump is just a few years behind him. But DeSantis is young. De Santis I think is like forty five, forty six years old, So, um, I think that, Uh. I mean, my feeling about it is, I don't think either DeSantis or Trump are strong general election candidates at this point, but I do think, uh, DeSantis, well, they come to think of it, there's polling data that chose this.

Uh, DeSantis probably has a much better chance of beating Biden than Trump does because I think age plays a really big role. If if De Santis is the nominee literally almost you know, half Biden's age, that's gonna make Biden seem that much older and that is going to matter to swing voters. Trump is only a few years younger than Biden, so age isn't really a factor there. But De Santis is a young man, and um, I don't think he's going to be the nominee. But if he is, if something happens to Trump, you know it, well we'll see.

I think he has a shot if he gets to the general election. So as I was thinking of with um, with Biden in the race, with everything, with everything, Biden probably screwed up our half our nation were really think our debt is screwed up because of Biden pretty much. Well, that's uh, quite quite reductive, Jackson. Every every we we we accumulate massive debt under every president, including Trump by the way. Um, So I to just blame that on Biden, I think is a bit a bit of a hyper simplification. I would say, but uh not, well, I know, not really Well yeah, but that's okay, that's your opinion, and you are welcome to it, sir.

But Jackson, I I don't know if you realize it, but we're actually almost out of time on today's program. Um, but it is nice, but it is it is nice to hear from you. It's it's been a long time, but we do have to begin to wrap up. But go ahead and plug your radio station one more time before you go. The radio station is called the Shark Radio dot Com okay, yeah, I will. I will check that out. You said it's a new it's a new site, correct, Okay, yeah, I'll check it out as soon as I get off the air. I look forward to that.

And Jackson, I appreciate the call us. Nice hear from you, all right, man, bye bye, all right, Yes, Jackson Harris all the way from all the way from Georgia. Yeah, it's been it's been at least six months since he used to he used to call right now and then it's been at least six months. But we do need to begin to wrap up, of course, don't forget, of course, Uh coming up granted State of Mind with Rob as Vito and poly Stone and I will be back tonight from eight to eleven pm for Retro Spectrum Radio with paulc.

Tomorrow night at the Hopknot. They've got Matt Litzinger is going to be playing live. Oh, Brooklyn, Mike is on the phone. We always have time for Brooklyn. Mike. We had a we had a sneak him in Brooklyn. Mike, how are you hey? Matt? Good? You know it's time to end the show. When you hear Michael, yeah, yeah, you do. You do tend to sneak in under the wire. But that's okay, we don't mind. Thanks. I hope I'm not putting you on the spot, but I was just wondering, did you find stakers for those tickets or stand up audio?

Uh? Yet? Well we so we did not during the live show, but they did find someone to take those tickets. So the bank problem, Yeah, yeah, I mean you might. You might aways going to meet you there. I would meet you that otherwise, but that's fine, no problem. Oh yeah, that would have been cool. But yeah, they they told us today somebody else already took him. So well you're calling right, Oh yeah, Jenny and I will be there. Yes, Well you know what, maybe maybe my wife and I just buy a couple of tickets and we'll see there anyway, give the fans some support.

That would be wonderful. Yeah, and it would be great to see you, all right, man, Well look for me. Yeah, I'll talk to you later. All right, sounds good? All right? Thanks, Mike, I right, Matt, bye bye, alright bye bye. All right. That was our friend Brooklyn Mike, And yeah, that would be wonderful. He's he's a great man. And but we do have to go Texas, Mike, you have anything to plug? Um, gotcha out my house tomorrow sixteen chous and a seven to two seven am to two pm. Well having a yard hill Oh okay, was before you mentioned the yard sale part.

I was a little bit confused. I didn't know why you were telling people to go to your house.

That's funny. All right, so you're having a yard sale, gotcha? Gotcha? Okay, very good, very good. All right, So there you go. I don't think anyone's ever plugged a yard sale before on the show. That was awesome. All right, Yeah, we are out of time. I am going to uh we'll close out with We'll close out with a stand up audio song. These guys are playing tomorrow night at the Rex Theater. Uh yeah, if you can get tickets, please do so. Jenny and I will be there and uh, well this is the single that we've been playing.

Doesn't have to have this way great song and uh I'll talk to you all tonight for Retrospectrum Radio with Police. If you're listening live granted, State of Mind is up next, and if you miss any partner for today's so It, we'll be up in just a little bit at WMAH radio dot org and on my website Matt Connerton dot com. Thank you again, Eric Pilcher for the wonderful film review. Thank you Texas Mike, and uh, thank you everybody. Thank you Jenny for booking all the great guests this week. It's been a it's been a full week and it's been really good.

And everybody in the chat room and I will talk to you all a little bit later. Here's some stand up audio for you.

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