Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-20-23

This is Jerry of the Crazy Jerry Show video chronicles. I just gotta say I'm frustrated that people aren't tuning into my show of shows. I mean, sure, I have some dedicated subscribers like Matso Ratzo Fatso Covington, but I can't work for free because Crazy Jerry is important. Hello everybody, welcome, here we go. It is that time again, and yes, we are live on Tuesday, June twentieth, two twenty three. So sorry I was not here yesterday for Juneteenth. We had a bit of an emergency and so we had to let a best of edition play.

But here we are, Matt Connerton Unleashed. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven. If you're in Manchester and hello to Olive our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Yes, it is Tuesday, June twentieth, two thousand, twenty three.

Coming up on the show today. In the second hour, we are joined in studio by Ali Boudry. That is one of the first songs that I found online that I opened with sound like it was a live recording somewhere. But she's gonna be I believe she's gonna play live for us, which will be really cool. And I don't recall every meeting Alley. I always kind of hedge a little bit when I am about to say I've never met a certain person in the music scene, and then I always say I don't recall every meeting a certain person, because sometimes I'll I'll meet somebody and thinking I'm meeting them for the first time, and then I'm like, oh, wait a minute, we have met before.

Because there are many people with whom I have crossed path paths with whom I didn't necessarily remember until I run into them again. Oh that's right, because I've you know, I've been around a while. But yeah, so, but I do look forward to having her here. Of course, we've featured her music on the show before, but we've never had her live in studio, at least not on this program. She might have been on the Morning show. I'm not sure we'll have to ask her when she gets here. But so that'll be really cool.

And her name comes up a lot on you know, just in conversations with other musicians on the show, so so this will be very cool. So she will be joining us a live in studio in the second hour of the program today. If you'd like to join me in the first hour, you can, or even in the second hour if you have something for ali six zo three two five six z seven is the number six zo three two five zero 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 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, the other thing that I played at the top of the show, I played I couldn't play the full video because there's some language in it, but I just played a little clip of this gentleman is his name is Jerry Robinson and he's a YouTuber who is getting a rapid following.

I think he might be the next hour at Stern. I don't know, but he's got h He mentioned me in that video. So although he referred to me as it reminds me of how somebody else has referred to me in the past as uh ratso matso fatso or whatever it was that he said. But uh, yeah, if you're looking for him on YouTube, I very much suggests you subscribe to his channel, Jerry Robinson's video chronicles. And uh, I don't. I don't know Jerry personally, but he seems to know me and several of my friends and associates, and he mentions us in these videos along with some There's another character he mentions too, but not someone we really talk about.

But anyway, kind of kind of fun. So I played a little bit of that for you. Jenny is in the chatterman says almost choked on my Twizzler. Yes, I do like the way he says my name very Uh it's very colorful, don't you think. Uh let's see, let's take a moment to say hello. Everybody in the Facebook live chat looks like we got a lot of people in there. Uh. Fredo is in the chat room, or as I like to say his full name, Alfredo Enrique Benavitis. He was on the program recently with Axel Bagley from Dank Sinatra, and Fredo says he's playing tonight at the Shaft Skene Acoustic in the front of the bar.

Very good. So if you're in the area and you want to check out Fredo, very very talented gentleman in Uh. He's usually in multiple bands and sounds like he's doing a solo thing tonight, so very cool. If I'm taking that correctly, it's a solo thing. But yes, yes, let's see. Jenny I mentioned is in the chat and says, shalom peeps, and she really liked that song. Ali's song. There. Jay fed joins us from the great state of Vermont, of course and says good afternoon everyone. Also Eric and Nana Rone. If I'm saying his name correctly, I still don't know.

He says good afternoon, hello Eric. Nick Murdoch says, haha, Ratzo Fatso good times. Yes, Yes, it's strange though I don't I don't understand the Fatso thing because if you happen to be watching on video. You can see I'm actually granted, I do wear black. It's very slimming, but I think I'm quite spelt. I mean, I can't be more than one hundred and eighty pounds, maybe maybe one eighty five. I don't know, you know, and it's all rippling muscle. Let's see. Isaac Banks joins us in the Facebook live chat, of course from the Great State of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Isaac says, hello, hashtag Matt and hashtag Jenny. Good afternoon. Charmaine Davis Elliott joins us in the chat and says, good day everyone, Hello Charmaine, let's see. J Fett says, I don't really understand what ratso fats means. Yes, it's it's like, it's like Matso ratso fats. It's not terribly creative. It's just taking my name and rhyming things with it. It's uh, you know. But something about the way Jerry Robinson, there's something about the way Jerry Robinson does it that I just love it. He's a he's a very talented guy.

I think this Jerry Robinson guy. It says here on his YouTube, the home of the real rated R comedy star, the real savior of rock and roll. That's exciting, and I think he's going to Here's what I would say about Jerry Robinson. This guy has what it takes. He's got what it takes. He's gonna be very, very successful. Let's see. I saw somebody else. Oh, here's a new name in the Facebook live chat. I think Laura Jay Lynch says Hi, Jen Hi. Matt Connerton, Hello, Laura, welcome. Uh, let's see. Let me give the number again and then we'll get into into some some stuff.

Six three two five six seven six zho three two five six seven. Um. I kind of mentioned on social media earlier, and forgive me, I'm looking something up quickly that I meant to already have pulled up. So two big. Oh. Alex Whiteley, our friend from the UK, one of our friends from the UK, joins us in the chat. Ramillo, Hello Alex, nice to see you. Um. In terms of legal legal news, a couple of people with big legal news today who have been on the news in the news you might have h I suppose on or In works on or in in or On they both work.

Um, you might have heard of them. One of them, uh, Donald Trump. He's a forty fifth president of the United States, probably familiar to you. And the other one, of course, Hunter Biden. You hear a Hunter Biden's name quite a bit on Fox News and news Max. But but but you also you also do here. Uh do hear Hunter Biden's name quite a bit u both of them. Big news today Hunter Biden. I think we'll talk about him first, but the big news with Trump being and we'll circle back to it, circle back, as Jen Saki used to say when she was Press secretary.

I'm sure she still says it. A date has been set for the beginning of Trump's trial in the classified documents case for middle of August. We'll come back to that, but we'll look at Hunter Biden first. Ap News reports Hunter Biden will plead guilty in a deal that likely averts time behind bars in a tax and gun case. One of the things, of course, that is interesting but also painfully predictable, is the news breaks, and of course you know both the left and the right are going to spin it however however it suits their purposes.

The right, of course, is reacting like, wait a minute, he's getting a slap on the wrist and everyone knows is so so, so much much more here, and he's actual some sort of he's actually some sort of international crime lord and part of the Biden crime family and all this they they really, they really enjoy hyperbole on the right, on the right side of the aisle, if you haven't notice, and of course the left is spinning, that is spinning this as well. Look, this is proof that you know, this whole thing about Trump being treated unfairly, Republicans being treated unfairly, it's not true.

Look, hunter Biden. Uh, he was investigated, he's taken a plea deal. But you know, the justice, the Department of Justice, they did their job. And uh, and here you go. I'm not really interested in the spin coming from either side. I'd rather just kind of look at it for what it is and look at the facts of it. But I do have an observation, and uh, you know, this is a big moment in the sense that you know, we've never seen anything like this before where our president of the United States, it's a family member, or at least I don't think certainly not a president's someone from a president's immediate family, his son in this kind of legal trouble.

So this is a new thing. An interesting thing that I noticed about this today was that the Department of Justice said in their statement indicated that the investigation is ongoing, whereas Hunter Biden's legal team reacted is saying that this is it, this has been concluded, these issues have been resolved, and this is it. I suspect that. Well, So what I've learned about this is, for one thing, it's not unusual for the Department of Justice to say that in an instance such as this or something equivalent to this.

Again, we've never seen anything quite like when a president's son is in this kind of trouble, criminal trouble. Apparently the gun charges a felony anyway, the tax stuff is a misdemeanor. Misdemeanors. But it's not unusual for the Department of Justice to say that the investigation is ongoing. But but again Biden's Hunter Biden's legal team is saying it's done. But I wonder if there are additional things that, you know, maybe this part of it's over, but there might be additional things that the Department of Justice is investigating.

We shall see. But I do think that the president might have put himself in a little bit of a bind when he said, well, he doesn't believe that his son did anything wrong, which you would expect a father to say. Uh, but at least I would hope my dad would say that if I were ever accused of terrible things. No, but the point being Biden said that more than once it he doesn't believe his son did anything wrong, that he'll be exonerated, and then it's like oops. It is worth pointing out that it was a Trump appointed attorney at the DOJ who has been investigating Hunter Biden and when the Biden administration came in.

So typically what happens at the beginning of an administration is most, if not all, of the existing US attorneys working for the Department of Justice across the country, they all resign or are told to resign. Sometimes it's all of them, sometimes it's most of them. But there's usually a massive turnover. You can't have a complete turnover because you have active investigations going, right, but but there's usually quite a bit of turnover between when the election happens and the inauguration at the Department of Justice in terms of these US attorneys.

But President Biden kept three. Everyone else had to go, but he did keep three. One of them John Durham, And we might talk about him later today where later in the hour we have a musical guest coming in. We might talk about that him later in the hour if we get to it, if we have time. One of them was John Durham, One of them a US attorney in Chicago whose name escapes me. And the third was the and his name escapes me also. But the attorney investigating Hunter Biden, a Trump appointee. And I don't know that it's ever been addressed, but I think everyone operates under the assumption that the reason that was done was, you know, so that it would just look bad if that particular attorney were suddenly gone, right, So to to avoid the appearance of impropriety, and and uh a President Biden, you know, getting directly involved, that attorney was left to continue to do his job.

Um. But uh, well, we'll look at this, and then I do want to get to the uh uh with Trump. I want to talk about that Brett bare interview. Wow. But uh, Fredo in the chat room says, so the same people who want private gun sales to require no paperwork, records or background check now want Hunter Biden to be thrown in jail for lying about his drug use on his application to buy a gun. Yeah, that is a that is a valid point, Fredo Um. And apparently

that this is a little bit of a side street. But this has come up on the show before, that part of it about when you when you go to apply for a gun permit on the federal paperwork. Let me see if I it's been a long time since I've actually discussed this. There was a different show that I used to do that where this the subject came up a lot. But I believe on the federal paperwork you have to put that you do not use any type of federally illegal drug, which puts anybody using cannabis in an awkward position because you don't want to lie on a federal form.

But it's cannabis is not federally legal, and even if you are a cannabis patient, that is done by state. So if medical cannabis is legal in your state, as it is, and you know here in New Hampshire, of course you're you're legally using medical cannabis. But when you fill out that form, if you put that you don't use anything, that's because you know, federally, cannabis is still Schedule one, which is absurd. I know Biden at one point said while we're to have a committee look into that or something, which is another way of saying, yeah, we're not really going to do anything about it.

What what President Biden should do, what some president long ago should have done, is issue an executive order moving cannabis off of Schedule one. Because it's absurd. We won't get into all that right now, but we're already taking a little bit of a side street. But Um, but yes, so when you when you fill out that form,

even if you're a cannabis user of any kind for any reason, you're you know, technically you're you're not supposed to be able to have a gun. Um. Now, what that has to do with Hunter Biden, It's not about cannabis. Hunter Biden is a recovering addict, and so he really is not supposed to fill out that form and claim that he hasn't he isn't using anything elssit when he was. Um. There's also I believe, and I'm just kind of learning about some of this now, So forgive me if I don't have all the details exactly right.

And anyone feel free to fact check me in the chat room if you can, but some of you are very good at that doing a quick research. But um, I believe there's a separate law if I understand this correctly, that is rarely applied, but they they did use it in this case against Hunter Biden in this investigation when they were deciding what to charge him with. That says that if you are currently addicted to to anything any illicit substance, like if you're you know, if you're using heroin or doing cocaine or I don't remember all the you know, I've not paid enough attention to Hunter Biden to remember exactly what it is that he's used, but or if he's actually or if it's all been revealed even but there is a law that says you you can't have a gun if you are an active drug user.

Effectively, so that's some of what they've used against Hunter Biden. But Afraido reminded me of that with his comment there. His observation, Nick Murdock says, I don't get why having a medical card means I can't have a gun, But what do I know? Well, it's a thing, Nick, It shouldn't mean that it's it's silly. But until until something is done federally to legalize cannabis, it's this is just going to continue to be a weird issue. I mean, my assumption is

that there are plenty of gun owners who just fudge that part of the form. Now, I don't want to get myself in any trouble. I'm not suggesting anyone do that. I'm not made I'm just saying I I assume that goes on every day in America. I assume you know people who either who are using cannabis for medical use or recreational use, they just oh, yeah, yeah, whatever, and they just they just check the box that says nope, I don't do any of that. Then again, I'm sure there are people who do actual because I don't consider cannabis ay quote unquote, drug, but I'm sure there are people who, um, I mean, i'd call it medicine, I'd call it a plant.

I don't call it a drug. But I'm sure there's people who use actual, you know, hard drugs, who fill out that form and aren't necessarily honest on it. I don't know if anybody in the history of the country has actually been prosecuted for specifically for lying on that form. I kind of doubt it because how would you. I don't know how you would even prosecute that actually, because you know somebody could. What would what would be to stop somebody from filling out that form saying on the paperwork Nope, I don't do any of that, and then after they have their gun permit, they just decide, yeah, you know, maybe I'll maybe I will do some of that after they've already got the permit, because there's nothing that's as well.

If you're going to engage in this behavior, you have to surrender your gun. So it all seems a little pointless anyway. But Crystal says in the chat, Crystal, our friend from Illinois, says, speaking of potentially lying on a background chap background check, I keep seeing podcasts about some organizations submitting a FOYA, which is Freedom of Information Act request under RTK law. On Prince Harry's visa application of the USA. He heavily documented his drug usage in his self written biography.

I told I don't know. I haven't paid any attention. I don't pay any attention to the royal family. I have no idea that Crystal. I honestly, I couldn't. I couldn't care less about Prince Harry. And listen. The only reason I ever even I've ever, even in my life, given Megan Markle two thoughts is because I was a big fan of the television series Suits USA, air on the USA Network, and she played Rachel Zane on Suits and that's a great show. And that's coming from someone who doesn't watch a lot of television, but if you've never seen Suits, it's really good.

And she's one of the main characters on that show. Had I never seen that television program when she married Prince Harry, I would have been like, wait, Prince Mary Harry, Prince Harry married who. I don't even know who this woman is. Fredo says, this is America. We don't do monarchies. Yeah, that's right. I actually find it all creepy. Like somebody asked me if I had watched any of the coronation of King Charles, and no, I can't even look at that for real, Like I'm genuinely creeped out, Like I can't even look at images of him sitting on the throne and they're putting the crown on him and everything.

It's weird to me. It's it's actually creepy, like I get kind of the chills, just why I don't know something about it is genuinely unsettling to me. It's almost like I have a phobia, Like is there such a thing as what would you call it, monarcha phobia or something? Is that a thing? Maybe? I don't know. I fear royalty. It's upsetting to me. And I don't just mean that like, you know, patriotically, like there's America. We don't because we actually do have our own versions of royalty, you know, like for example, if you live in Massachusetts, the Kennedy's are royalty.

But I don't know, it's weird to me. I don't like it. Nick Murdock says, we only we only have oil barons and railroad tycoons. Well, we do have that, Yes, we do have those. Uh. Fredo says. They say it was the most televised event in history, but I like to think it was the cage match where McK foley jumped off the top of the cage. Ah, yes, you're talking about where, Well he didn't jump off. Undertaker threw him off. Fredo. It's very important to be precise about these things. Undertaker actually through I mean, you know, obviously it's wrestling mcfoley really through himself.

But Undertaker threw mcfoley off the top of the cage, where he then landed on a table. He had one of his teeth sticking out his nose. Quite gruesome if you ask me. But that's what makes mcfoley the hardcore legend that he is. At least I assume that's the incident you're referring to, Fredo. We'll look at this quickly, though. Again this is from the AP. President Joe Biden's son, Hunter will plead guilty to federal tax offenses but avoid a full prosecution on a separate gun charge in a deal with the DJ that likely spares him time behind bars.

Hunter Biden, age fifty three, will plead guilty to the mismeanor tax offenses that I'm gonna kind of skip down here because I honestly just don't even care about most of this, Okay, skipping down. While it requires Hunter Biden to admit guilt, the deal is narrowly focused on tax and weapons violations rather than anything broader or tied to the Democratic President. Nonetheless, former President Donald Trump and other Republicans continue to try to use the case to shine an unflattering spotlight on Joe Biden and to raise questions about the independence of the Biden Justice Department.

By the way, regarding that, I will just politely remind everybody this investigation has been going on for five years, which means to the math. I'm not good at math, but this is pretty easy math. This actually started under the Trump administration. This investigation, it actually started while Jeff Sessions was still the age and then William Barr. So so when people say, well, how come they don't have more by now, well, you know it's not only about the present Department of Justice, it's also the previous Department of Justice.

Why didn't they find more? If there is more to find? So I'm just you know, again, like I said before, everybody always wants to take a story like this, and a story like this is perfect for that. Everyone wants to give it their own partisans spin, and this is easily spinnable. But I'll just remind you if you're upset that there isn't more there, you know, it's not just about Merrick Garland. You also you also might want to have a conversation with Bill Barr or Jeff Sessions about it. Um,

it will be interesting. This is a long article. It will be interesting to see though, how this, if at all, does impact the campaign's going forward. Um oh, Crystal says in the chatrooms. Spotify CEO just called Harry and Megan Grifters and canceled their podcast Archetypes. That's interesting. Um, I am interested in learning more about that. Actually, much as I don't care about the monarchy, that's that's interesting to me because I am interested in what Spotify does. Charles Richardson joins us in the Facebook live chat and says, greetings everyone, Hello Charles, and by the way, Charles, thank you for reaching out yesterday.

But yes, everything is everything's fine, everything's fine. We just had a little situation we had to deal with. But Jennie and I, you know, we're we use teamwork and we problem solve and we got it done. So we are live today if you'd like to join us. Six three two five six seven six three two five six seven coming up in the second hour, we do have ali um Ali Boudre is going to be coming in Almosab said it wrong. Our friend EAZYG who is Also in the chat room, he always says uh or maybe that was a private message he sent me.

He always says Ali Ali Bowdrey, but I believe it is pronounced boudre. Um. Let's see, Oh, Crystal, I'll share that article. Thank you. We have a call um. Mike Doyle is on the line. Hey Mike, Hey, Amen, how's it going good? How are you very good? Thanks? Hey, Nice to know people, Nice to know people. And I play so a million and a half two years in a row. He didn't claim and in a gun charge and he gets he's gonna get probation on everything. Well, well, I've I've two thoughts about that. So the first, the first I would say, from what I understand, I have something a little bit in defense of him.

But then something that kind of cuts the other way. So the thing I will say sort of tepidly in defense of him. I mean, I don't particularly care about Hunter Biden one way or another, but I will say, from what I understand, that is kind of typical when it comes to tax offenses. Those are misdemeanors, they're not felonies. You tend to get a slap on the wrist, even if it's a lot of money. But the other thing is, and I'm not sure I even fully understand about the gun charge with this diversion thing.

But the other thing I would say, though, is, and this is something I talk about a lot on the show, we do have and some people have co opted this, uh phrasing for a different purpose, but we do have a two tiered criminal justice system in this country. Like you said, it's nice to know people, and yes, the wealthy, the powerful, the well connected, they do generally do much better in the criminal justice system than the rest of us. And that is that is frustrating when you have a lot of money and you're well connected, and of course when you're the son of a president, you can certainly afford the best legal representation you can find if you're a middle class person or well, if you're a middle class person, you know you'll get the lawyer you can afford.

And if you're a poor person, you'll get a public defender and who generally tend to be overworked and underpaid. So so I take you, I take your point. Let me let me clear up something for you too. The gun thing was helied on an application. I'm sure they scrutinize, right, the Vice president's son, who's already has his name up there being having troubles and the different stuff he's doing stills not an application. He says, no, I have nothing to do with drugs. A few months later, he does an interview on do you remember the interview he did with either NBC or ABC, And he's sitting at his kitchen table and he had been his end that he had a drug problem.

Yeah, yeah, so he kind of burnt. So he kind of burnt themselves. Yeah, well that's not exactly what I mean. Well that's the Yeah, that's not exactly a secret anyway. I mean, he's a recovering addict, and I do have compassion. Yeah, but I don't think they wanted to I don't think they wanted to do anything knowing that. And he just said no on his application. But then he goes on TV and he says, oh, yeah, I had a drug problem, you know. So now I'm sure the Republicans behind closed doors were saying, hey, somebody's got to speak up here.

You know, he's lying and you gotta you gotta helied on TV and he filled out of form just the opposite. So I'm sure that's how it all came about. But um so, and then the other thing, one last thing attached to that is in the laptop. There's a good story by Newsweek. In the laptop they found emails between him and his sister about the gun because or Hallie, which maybe it was his ex wife Hallie, whichever, when Hallie was threw the gun away that I think it was. I think it was his ex wife. That sounds familiar to me, Mike, Yeah, and he's she threw the gun away, and he emailed her, now you're gonna have I don't have the gun.

Now you're gonna they're gonna they're gonna start looking at me. And uh, you've brought attention to me on an in an email. Ye. And so all this stuff catches people's eyes. It's supposed to write, I mean, that's what they're supposed to do. But the bottom line is, no people in high place. Remember Massa Stewart, she was what five hundred grand or seven hundred grand in a in a stock deal or didn't didn't didn't you know? She spent thirty days in jail, you know, just a slap on the hands. I wouldn't even know people, I wouldn't even call it real jail.

It was club fed, you know. I mean that, I'm sure that's what which I think he would. He would go to it if they ever really wanted to do something. Oh, I'm sure it would go. But I'm sure. Yeah. Interesting. I don't think they're trying to make it out that this whole thing is over. But I think this is just the tip of the iceberg, a distraction. But we'll see. How do you know? Yeah, who knows? So the proof? You know? Yeah, absolutely absolutely, all right, let's talk to you man. All right, Mike, thanks for the call.

Bye bye. All right, that was our friend Mike Doyle. That does open up a line for you. Six zo three two five zero six zo seven six zo three two five zero six o seven. We do have a call. Let's see our friend ron is on the line. Hey, ron ikt Um. I heard him say something yesterday, and again I was always catching the tail ends of things, so I don't I don't have the whole shamille on it. But he said that Donald Trump isn't allowed to look at the evidence without the lawyers prison or without the feds prison or I don't know.

He's not allowed to look at all the boxes of stuff on the evidence on his own. Do you know anything about that? I think what you might be referring to is so there's as it's interesting, Actually we're learning a lot about this process. So apparently Trump's legal team they all have to get security clearances which they've already applied for and in order to actually be able to look at the evidence because because of the case, because of the nature of the case, the evidence is to a large degree, I mean it's not all the evidence, but much of the evidence is literally top secret classified information like nuclear secrets and stuff.

So part of the process is trying to figure out how, you know, how the judges can I mean, I'm sorry, not the judge, is how the lawyers on both sides. It's how they can have access to this and you know, getting them security clearances and so forth. Um, Judge Eileen Cannon will have to make rulings on what can be presented or how it can be presented to the jury because they'll have to see the evidence or heavily redacted versions of the evidence. How is that all going to work? So, um, there's yeah, yeah, So it's it's very very that part is very complicated, and it's going to be fascinating to see how they resolve all of that because you know, again, when your when your evidence is classified information that you and you or I are not supposed to be able to see.

But you know, the members of that jury, they're going to have to uh, you know, unless Judge Eileen Cannon just rules it inadmissible. Uh, not because it's irrelevant, but because it's classified and you can't be showing it to the jury. That could happen. She could do that, and think she could do that. I mean, I don't know if she will, but there is a concern that she might. So yeah, it's interesting, Ron, But yeah, when you're dealing with classified material, it gets awfully complicated with that particular type of evidence.

All right, that was my question, and I'm glad I asked it. Yeah, I'm glad you did too. Thanks for the call, Ron, I appreciate it, all right, By bye, all right, you got it, by bye? All right. Always nice here from our friend Ron. That does open up the line for you. Six zo three two five zero six z seven six three two five six zero seven. Fredo in the chat room says, how did Jared Kushner get two billion dollars from the Saudis. Mmm. I wonder Jared Kushner's new private equity firm got two billion dollars from Saudi Arabia because maybe that's how you can cash in when you're investing experience is slender.

But your father in law may wind up back in the White House. It's also possible that you can get billions for a firm with no track record because the White House did favors for the Saudies when you're father in law still occupied the Oval Office. Yes, yes, um I um, it's it's interesting, uh that And by the way, no one denies that. No one denies that Jared Kushner got that two billion dollars in and it is uh uh interesting that he would be entrusted with all of that that investment. Um. And like I said, no one's no one's denying that that happened.

No one's denying the facts of it. Um. By the way, and I don't think anyone's necessarily denying that Hunter Biden may have made deals kind of trading on on his father's name, you know, being a president's son. You can get a lot for that. Um. We can we can argue about the ethics of it. However, there is nothing actually illegal. So if Hunter Biden uh has gotten deals trading on his father's name, then it's um then it's not it's it's not illegal technically, and for Jared Kushner to do the same is also not illegal, but it might be worth investigation in the case of Kushner.

Fredo says, follow the money. Oh, Will Vegas is in the Facebook live chat. Will from Will's Auto Carey says, good day everyone. It's frustrating and disheartening as a parent when you try to teach your kids right from wrong and they constantly see the d bag wrongdoers always winning or just getting a slap on the wrist. Well, like I said, you know, we do have two tiers of justice in this country. You can if you're fortunate enough to be wealthy and well connected and or famous or whatever it is. I mean, really it's about the wealth.

Ultimately, how much money you have determines what kind of legal representation you can get. And that's why again, like I was saying to Mike Doyle, you know, the wealthy and powerful, the elite, they get away with some things that some things that you or I would simply not get away with Let's see, Crystal had said something too in the chat. I'm just kind of trying to get back to it. Okay, here, just Crystal said Hunter may have taken a deal because maybe, just maybe he traded intel on another matter that DJ may be pursuing that we may or may not know about.

Maybe it's a bigger fish. They can fry. Anything's possible. But that's I mean, that's conjecture. I mean, who knows, who knows. I'm skeptical of that. But oh policy joins us in the Facebook live chat policy from retro Spectrum Radio with Policy, which you can hear Friday nights from eight to eleven pm live here from the studios of wm H, and I have 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. By the way, if you missed this past Friday's show was fascinating demo versions of original songs of popular songs, I should say, and my favorite of the night, And for those of you who did listen, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

The original demo version of Girls on Film by Duran. Duran is so much cooler than what actually ended up being recorded in the studio unreleased. I love that was the highlight of the night for me, the demo version of Girls on Film, and everybody in the room agreed that was so cool. But this Friday Night is part two numero dose of demo versions of popular songs. Tom Blanchard says Trump is losing more and more support. I doubt he will be the front runner. I disagree, Tom, I would like to think that, but I still think there's a new poll the show he has lost.

Some report some support among Republicans that that Brett bare interview did not probably do him too many favors. Um but uh, if you didn't see that the interview on Fox. We might look at that if we have time. But um but uh no, I still be believe he's absolutely going to be the nominee. I have no doubt he will be the nominee. UM. Let's see so we did. Uh, let me give the studio line one more time six three two five six seven six three two five six seven. Um. Oh, Fredo is uh posting some uh Shakespeare in the chat room there, King Lear.

Um, by the way, I'll remind you because Fredo let us know earlier he's going to be performing tonight at the Shaft Skin right up the street. Um. I wanted to so the other big news. Oh actually, oh, Fredo is on the line. Hello. Actually, whoa, you gotta turn down your radio. There you go, Hey, Freda, what's going on? Hey, how's it going? Good? Good? It's on your mind. The conversation, I think brings up the bigger fact that it's not whether the guy wearing blue is doing something wrong or whether the guy in red is doing something wrong, but the wrong is being done.

And that some people can afford to do wrong. Oh yeah, absolutely, you know, And I think that's that's what King Lear says, right, he says, uh, you know, if you armor your sins with gold, then the lance of justice does not pierce but through the rags of the poor. That that that justice always pierces through. You know, So people with gold, you know, people like Trump, they why do they keep getting away with it? Why can they afford the lawyers? Have you ever have done anything wrong in your life? You know you need a lawyer.

They're not cheap. But I think that's the real problem is it's not it's it's it's it's that it's it's really about these people who run the country. They're part of a different class and there's different rules for them. Yeah, the system, the system protects themself. Ultimately those rules don't apply, right, I mean you know that look at the Look at the what's his name, he's like with the richest guy in Saudi Arabia, the Princess sat Arabia could have people murdered and get away with it and still be congratulated by the president.

Oh yeah, yeah, because you have oil, because you have money, so you can you can literally just kill people and like everyone has to just be okay with it. Yes, because that's what happened, exactly, exactly, Yeah, the murder of that's the real problem. It's not it's not um better blue or like whether you think one way about you know, how money should be distributed. It's the fact that none of us have money and we get in trouble. Other people who have money, they don't get in trouble. You can just you know, because if something is just illegal in terms of you pay a fine, that just means it it's it's legal.

For a fee, right. In other words, it's the cost of doing business at that level. It's just the cost of doing business. Yep. You know. It was alarming to me, and I don't I don't know if if if you saw it, But did you see that there was that group of like a show of force of neo Nazis you showed up to to a cafe and conquered yesterday? Did you see that? Oh? Jenny? Uh? Okay, so I haven't seen the story about Jenny mentioned that to me. Yeah, yeah, so this is absolutely wild. Uh. I don't know how to pronounce it.

If it's a key kee taller or tee ta taller, keetotaler right, like they're uh, you know, they had they had a nice rag creen story hour, which is you know, nothing wrong with that, but they had more than a dozen men clad in black chanting Nazi salutes and uh, you know they try to intimidate children. And they literally had a gigantic sign it was like like ten feet wide that said defend uh defend white communities. And it was like,

wow, happening here in New Hampshire where I thought we were like a yeah, you know, I don't know, man, it's rough to see that in your backyard. You know, it's rough to see that level of hate. It's one thing when people are you know, bickering or whatever in a bar, but you're you're you go to that extreme. If I'm gonna like meet up with people and we're gonna go intimidate some folks, it's it's really it's unsettling. And you know what's really crazy is that all these people were masked. Yeah, Jenny mentioned that too.

Yeah, you want to stand up for what you believe in, Go ahead, man, let's show your hateful face. Mary. You know what these people have shown. They don't want to get fired, they don't want to be ostracized from their families. They don't want their friends to know who they really are. And that's why they're they're showing up clad in masks because they don't have the cajones to show to show up then and show their faces and let the world know that you're you're standing against you're standing against love and pride, like you're you're here for shame and hate.

Like I don't, I don't get it. It's it was rough to see that it was happening, just like here in our backyard. Although yeah, no that wanted to make a comment on that. It is horrible. I'll tell you what though, Fredo, this is um and it's really not apropos of what's happening now. And I agree with you that is horrifying and it is especially jarring to see it in our backyard. UM. And I used to I used to live and conquered UM. But when I was a kid, my uncle showed me, uh, he had he had found this old newspaper article from like the nineteen fifties.

This was in Northampton, New Hampshire. And you know what it what it was? It was, um, a news clipping. Yeah, yeah, it was a news clipping of a KKK rally. Actually it was a procession walking down the street in Northampton, New Hampshire. And I remember my uncle telling me how shock he was to find this. I guess he was going through some old things in the house and he found this and he was like and he was kind of shocked by it. And partly because too, you just don't expect it, even even in the nineteen I mean, obviously that's pre civil rights era.

But it's like right, like Monol's looking at me, like, who were they even worried about this is such a white and especially back then, you know, New Hampshire a very right place, and and and he's looking at me like what was what were these guys even doing? This is something there was there was in nineteen fifty Was there like three black people in New Hampshire. I can't imagine all these guys getting together in a circle. What they're putting their hoods on. And they're like, guys, we gotta get Dug.

We're gonna run Doug out of time, gotta get first, We get Doug, then we get Travis. You like, I don't get it, man, it's so up again. I mean, you know, it's so around. I know that people, people who are born and raised and here in New Hampshire, they don't know that this is a very very very very very very homogenized community. And not that there's anything wrong with that is just the way it is. But you know, like, for example, you know, I grew up in uh, you know, in San Francisco, where there's like sixty percent um people who are not of European descent, you know, people from different parts of the world, and here it's literally I think ninety five the state as a state.

You know, you know that the discuse when you get to southern New Hampshire, you get towards the border, you get higher percentages. But yeah, overall it's pretty homogenized, and it is an excellent point to like, who were they they going after? Now? Coincidentally, from that story, the leader of that group yesterday who showed up the keetalert teetotaler to excuse me, I haven't been to that establishment yet, but it looks nice. Yeah, I think he's dead. I think he died. Oh really, Yeah, the leader of that group.

Are they what are they called NSC one thirty one or something like that. Yeah, I think Jenny said, Jenny said that too earlier, that yeah, he's dead. Now the dude died. Yeah, they don't. I don't think they know how or why. But that's well, he had a heart attack because he was like, his blood pressure was so crazy when he saw a person in drag that it just freaked him out and he had a heart attack and died. Oh I've well, I have no I have no doubt honestly that hate does rought you from the inside, and it does and it will damage your health.

I have I have no doubt in my mind that people who carry around a lot of hate and rage for people who are different from them probably have shorter lifespans and probably have significantly more health problems. I don't know if that's been studied, but I'm crazy. Yeah. Yeah, well the chain of events though, right, he like, Okay, here's this. Here's this group of guys who show up yesterday. They're called NSC one thirty one, right. They show up outside of this casfe where these people are literally having a reading from a book and having like tea and donuts.

Yeah, and they show up they unfurl this thing that has defend white communities and they're literally doing I was looking at pictures of this conquered monitor took some great pictures. Uh these dudes are these They're all dudes, and and they they're doing the Nazi salute like the sigig hyle. Yeah, they got their their their right hand up and it's weird to think that. Like right after that, the leader, the dude too, set that all up dead um, and I'm like, I want I wonder if he died slowly and pains.

Yes, yes, well if there is a hell well anyway, yeah, yeah, it's What's what's crazy is that also, like you know, they want to be able to protect their their themselves, their way to product to see, which is what you know, the laws that we're knocking down that are that are infringing upon Americans rights, are attacking privacy laws. And here are these guys showing up in public with their faces covered. I know they they want rights for themselves. Yeah, not for us, but not for yeah, not for this, not for the people who aren't white.

Well yeah, but you're talking about people who are literally just too stupid to understand the irony of that of what they're doing. You know, they'll never I mean, these are obviously individuals with very tiny brains and probably very tiny other things who this is how they feel powerful and strong in the world, and uh, you know, her harassing marginalized people. So they'll never they'll they'll never get it. I mean, you always have hope that, you know that that some of them will eventually someday get it.

But you know, you could hope. You can only hope, man. I you know, I'm sure there's some reformed AKK dudes out there Northampton looking at that two and they're like, man, what would that doing well there. Maybe that was just crazy. They're very well. Maybe yeah. Yeah. We never did find Doug or Travis. What a waste of time. And I I met Doug's family the other day and they were very nice. Now I feel bad, but well, very good, fred But thank you for taking my call and thanks for talking about about the stuff that's happening here in our backyard here.

Yeah, absolutely, man, thank you, thank you for the call. And before you go, please plug your show tonight. Oh yeah, I'm playing at the Chefs team tonight. I'm just me and my acoustic guitar. Might take a request. If you show up and ask her for a song, I might play it. So very nice time, very nice, nice, all right, Fredo, thank you so much, and I'm sure we'll talk soon. All right, all right, man, take care byebye. All right, very good, very good. Well, always nice to talk with Fredo. We are at the top of the hour, and I believe I've spotted Ali Bodi in the hallway.

So what we're gonna do is I'm going to play one of her studio tracks. There's a song that I like. She's got a song called why Ain't With You that I've played on the show before that I really really love, so I'm gonna play that and then we'll show some love to our amazing sponsors. And then when we come back, Ali Bodi will be here with us live in studio. Really looking forward to this, but yeah, check this out. This is called why Ain't with You? This is from her album Wicked Webbs we Weave and Ali Bodi will be with us in the second hour.

Don't go Away, plenty more to come. Sunrise feels war. It's a brand new day for me too. I'm capsizeds within all lower feeling of what's in starday. I am because things are looking out for me, and there's so much more than I want to see. The breeze about that air. It feels so new, and there's a person that I want to be. It's so much more than you'll ever see. And these are just a few words to make it true. Why I Ain't with you? Who you ain't? Why I ain't when you well? His eyes seemed bright. He could tell a story with one look.

And it's looking up for made. I don't know why I didn't feel this way before, but now my eyes are open wide and things looking up, falling and there's so much more that I want to see. The breeze about the air feels so new, and there's a person that I want to be, and it's so much more than you'll ever see it. And these are just a feel worse to make it true. Why with you? Why with ya? Well? Baby, we had a good time with this something else it's on my pie. It's just a fast for reasons that went. Why why with you?

Godson? Again? I fall me? And there's so much more that I want to see. Reason about the air lip, that's a person that I thought I've been. It's so much time and you'll ever seen. And these are just a few words to make it true. Why I ain't when you? Oh, yeah, why I ain't when you? Guys? Things are looking up, things are looking at the big back, things are looking at up. Oh

I'll play your ma, don't play Domino? Why I ain't last you in? Taxicate me with some mind lamelady that goes down smooth like bird that I ain't keep me on my toes and less fee it's bound to show when we turn down the lines. But you ain't bringing me nothing but trouble, And baby feels so good you ain't bringing me nothing but trouble around. You ain't bringing me nothing but trouble and baby feels so good. You ain't bringing me nothing but time to blame, to blame, to sing me sweet words, to start this storm and side keep me spinning around.

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You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Tuesday, June twentieth, two thousand and twenty three, and we have with us in studio and she's gonna play for us. Very excited about this. Ali Boudry is here. Hello Ali, Well, how's it going good? Good? Yeah? By the way, if you've been on WMNH before. Obviously you haven't been on this show before, but have you ever been on the Morning show?

Not the Morning Show, but a long time ago I was. We did some like live event, but that was like I can't even recall the year, to be honest, but yeah, but yeah, it's great to be in the room. We love obviously Wednesday morning. I love chuckling and laughing. Yes, yes, Gwen Bill does is trivia and all the fun things. Yeah, absolutely absolutely, Oh yeah, fine, no, thank you. This is wonderful. So Ali's gonna play some tunes for us and then we're gonna chat for a bit. So Alie, I will, I will turn it over to you, and awesome, whatever you want to do.

Yeah, So hopefully our levels are pretty good. I can hear me, so hopefully that makes back and hear me. Then we can hear all things. Yes, yes, yeah, I figured i'd play one of my newer songs that I was originally wrote and kind of conceptualized on the ukulele, but then transferred it over to my nord. When I came upon this magical instrument. Then yeah, it's just it seems to fit and flow to the space where I want it to be energy wise, emotion wise. Yeah, And it's one of my newer and it's hopefully the newest to be recorded too, So it's called still want You all right?

All right, there we go, another empty hotel room once we used to walk back through? Didn't the lights forget? Then I days passed wash the makeup from the show to feel the fist out of all seemed to know, searching for the girls, the color smell down, saying another city played, another street, lying crossed somehow on their own, never seemed to feel so lone. Another state of mind, Another dream deep Party's when you're married to the road and walks. Love you back,

but I soon you back? I hut John do some late last night stormies seemed to fit us right somehow, I some along to the words that I didn't know the things I wish I could have said, and don't just on the page, stuck in time and regret as a drama was once a menlandeed,

another city played, another shapel crossed somehow on the road never seemed to feed you so long? Oh? I A state of mind? Another dreamed deep party is when you're married to the road. You won't love you back? No, No, but I still want you. I still want you.

Oh, where do you go? Where do you go along the road? Where did you go? Where did you go along the road? Where do you go? Where do you go? Alom nod track, some Trace, a Ball, Emotions and Faceable printed in Mind Mind the City played, Another State line crossed somehow on the road. Never seemed to feel so alone?

But another state on my Hi another dream d Party's when you're married to the room. No, you won't love you back. Oh but I still want you. I still't want to you. I still want you. I'm still funny you. Ah, that is beautiful. That's a great song. Hey, that's a great song. You're getting some love in the chat room. Uh oh nice. Charmaine Davis Elliott says, wow, she's fantastic. Fredo says great voice. You probably know Fredo from the scene, right, Yeah, it's so funny. It's just like I love I love that we all are like intertwined.

Yes, yes, it's awesome. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, community match all the above. Now that that song is, you're going to be recording that for Yeah, I have like a full album that just needs to be laid down, so between late summer early fall. Yeah, there'll be a lot of new material some time I can breathe again. I have a little more time for myself to be rooted here in New Hampshire, and I'm so looking forward to just being present and yeah, with the community and enhancing it with music and yeah, all the things, all the hats let's say, yeah, yeah, well we'll have to We'll have to talk about some of that in a bit totally.

Do you want to play another song? Yeah? I would if you're cooled that while I'm here seeing you played it and you like it and you know it's something like I said, kind of just brush the cobwebs off a little bit. I would love to play like the new Thought on Why with you because I'm oh, yeah, yeah, just for you to hear the transition because clearly, like you know, when I think about that song twenty two, twenty three year old me writing it, perspective wise, it's such a different like shift here, yeah, in your thirties and then when you go to a range.

But I've always loved it. It's it's resonated with me no matter what I've done in life. I feel like the point in the path of the song certainly can be representative in whichever phase you're in, and it does feel very um like familiar, welcoming in that space. So yeah, I figured seeing you played it, I'm like, oh, would be kind of cool for them to hear where my brain is with it at the space definitely. So yeah, this is Why with You. This is off my first album that was Wicked Webs we Weave, and it's just a special song.

Um. I'll talk a little more about it afterwards, but let's just get into it. Sounds good. See where we're at with it? You. Yeah,

Sunrise feels warm. It's a brand new dagger for me too, capsized, been an overflowing feelings. It wasn't started day Oh yeah, who the guy stinks I looking up for me and then so much mund that I want to see. The breeze about the air feels so so new now and there's a person that I want to be and it's so much moud than you'll ever seen. And these are just a few words. You'll make it true. Why I ain't Why with you? You? Oh his eyes it seemed bright.

I could tell a story with one look. It's looking up for me, And I don't know why I didn't feel this way before, But now my eyes are open wide and things are looking up flumbing, and there's so much money that I want want to see. The reason about the air feels so so you, And there's a person that I want to be, and it's so much more than you'll ever see. These are just a few words to make it true. Why I ain't will you? Why I ain't a Oh well baby, we had a good time, but days something else on my mind justified the reasons always through Oh why why will you?

Oh? Thanks are looking up? Things are looking up, baby, things are looking things are looking now, things are looking of find me now so much more that I want want to see m And there's a person that I want to be and it's so much mine and you're ever seen. These are just a few words to make a choo, Well I ain't you you? Well? Oh why? Wow? I really like that version. Yeah that's that's really good. A little less like right, a little more spiritual and yeah yeah internal, yeah, yeah absolutely, did you want to do one or two more?

And then we'll talk swore, Yeah, I'll swop. I'll swop instruments that way we can change energy. So the fun story behind that song is that I, you know, had I wrote it in this like free space of I just graduated college and of course the love of my life. We decided to take a breather, take a break, and then all the songs come flotting out, and that one specifically, you know, I felt more about me and has always been more about me than anything else. Um, but you know now I'm I'm, I'm the what happened and wonderfully almost twelve years married to that specific man.

Good. So you know you have to have like the songs and the shift to then gain perspective. And now you know, Bill and I have such an epic life with our two beautiful girls, Alton and River. They might be listening, hey girlfriends. So yeah, it's just kind of funny how how thinks your perspective in life and things can shift over the years and the songs can still stay true in certain ways. Yeah, finding yourself or how it may resonate in someone else is always a cool thing. Yeah, to gain perspective on Yeah, no doubt absolutely, Oh yeah flock over in spop instruments okay moment, Yeah, yeah, absolutely So if you're just joining us.

Ali Boudrey is here with us live in studio today on Matt Connerton Unleashed. Of course, we are live from the studios of WMH ninety five point three FM and Glorious A downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. And Ali's going to move over to the couch there and yeah that Michael, just yeah, there you go. Alie is going to get situated it on the couch and grab the yuk the ukulele. So yeah, this will be cool. Actually, I think this will be the first time that we've ever heard a ukulele live on the show before, so this will be this will be something new.

Oh that's so awesome. Yeah, yeah, I think so. I don't think anybody else has brought one in. I'm trying, I'm trying to remember I had a lot of guests over the years, but yeah, I don't think anyone's brought a yuk before. So this will be this will be cool. Fun. Well, I never sit either. Sitting seems like so far to me. So I was kind of like when I saw my dear friend Kevin Horn, what up GiB Be on the show? Oh Hi, that's nice too. Um, I was like I want to sit on the couch and just chill. Yeah yeah, and strum my sweet little my sweet little instrument.

Yeah. See, how are we? Yeah we're there. This wicked inconsistent like crazy weather does not lend well to acoustic instruments. But I think I think we're are right. Okay, whatever, it's not good, yeah more or less? Yeah cool? Um, so yeah, let's let's see where where am I at? Oh? I know it'll play okay. So yeah. Obviously, UM, as we write and grow in life shifts, we certainly you know, are influenced by our surroundings. And um. Obviously, in the past seven years, UM, I have had the pleasure and gift of becoming a mother and having two beautiful, beautiful daughters that sing gorgeously and love to harmonize and are such just like the best little percussion section or whatever they might be.

Um, I can't wait to harmonize with them later in life. They already they already do it on their own, but just to see, like, you know, with without guidance, So it'll be really really cool to see like what that's like as we venture further into this life of music and and fun. Um. But yeah, I always wonder how much of that is influence and how much of it is just genetic you know, I know, I know. I always say, I'm like, well, they definitely no offense to my husband, but I'm like, they definitely got my vocal folds, which is which is awesome.

Yeah, and just to hear hear them and what they pick up on. We'll have like alternation on a lot in the car We're driving around and River can like have not heard the song, but start like coming and creating lines off of whatever. You know, Indie heavily synth, you know, like unique songs playing it's it's such a cool, cool thing. So I think, like ultimately for me to segue into the song is that motherhood really shifts everything and changes everything in the greatest way before you can even or even conscious of it.

Um. And then you gain perspective, and I I my friend, my friends, my musician friends will know that I like love to write in like flat keys and you know, all the black keys kind of thing. Um. And then when I wrote this song, I wrote it in like five minutes and I'm like, oh, key of a, Like that's so aggressive, there's so sharps, like it's just not, it wouldn't be like my go to key ever, like A flat or like B flat or D flat like those are nice. Um. But then it dawned on me that it's the key of A because it's the key of Alton, and I wrote this or Alton, So yeah, this is called I've waited another one that needs to be recorded.

So here we come enjoy well oh oh well, oh oh. Looking in your I see the hopes and dreams I wish for. It gave my life a new name and a new world to explore. And though it seems you have been here all along, our story has just begun. Well oh oh well oh,

because you got me wrapped around your non a finger, but I'm never letting go. No, I pladed. I played it on my life for you. I paid it. I wait on my life for you. Yeah yea,

So tell your daddy to pack our backs because you'll be moving mountains faster and then we can climb man. And though they're all baby, Rocky will stumble and life along the way. Because you got me right, I have to do let a finger, but I never no, no, I'm never running God, because I baiden, I've paid, I've waited on my life for you. I baiden, I waited on my life for you. But I'm a never lifekay the way that I noay that you. So I am waited waited on my life for you, my life for you, on my life, for my life, life for you, Oh my life.

It's beautiful. Thank you? How'd you learn a sing like that? Lots of years of practice? Yeah? Did you take voice lessons? Right down the street. From age five at Ted Herbert's I began my journey. My parents were incredible are my number one fans and have been the hugest support and at a young age, my family just heard it and knew it. And my daughter is Alton Lily named in the Lily is after my great aunt lilian Or. And she was the one that was like, do you like listen to her? And this was at like age three, you know, just floating around and I was like, oh, she sings all the time.

It's just NonStop. And she's like, no, wod you really listen to her? And she's like, well, yeah, I guess I should. And I met with Liz Beaton, who was a beautiful gift to the Manchester scene for quite some time at age five and I studied with her for over a decade down in the you know, which is which is now a restaurant, which is like crazy and wonderful. I love to see how things shift, but ted so it's obviously still going strong, so um. And then I studied for a long time with Janis Edwards on Hanover Street, which was kind of like my beginning shift of Okay, yes, you can do all these funky, crazy things with your voice.

Let's let's hone in on your technique. And then I studied from there. I did four years at Berkeley as a vocal performance major. Yeah, and then you know, just kind of found my sound, found my style, experimented a lot, and you just don't know. And it obviously we as we age and grow and shift, our voices changed so much too. So that's such a unique thing, you know, to constantly be morphing and experimenting, you know, as an artist and your sound. And I remember like the moment I found it was like my junior year at Berkeley.

I was like here I am, Okay, I found that. And then first I find my bandmates and then we record, you know, some of the first thoughts of who I am as Ali Boudry, which has always been a fun, fun journey. And it changes in your style, changes your your way you right obviously shifts as you grow. Um So yeah, very rooted, very much so rooted, rooted here in Manchester with my training and support. Richard Maynard of of West High was a huge, huge influence um in my life. And and you know I always see I always see him up in the clouds in the orange colored sky when I get to sing with fun swing bands, I'm like, there is right.

Um so yeah, you know, I just I was very lucky to be supported and surrounded by amazing musicians at a very young age that saw you know that that light and was were nothing but supportive you know of who I was. Thank you. We have a call. Hi, welcome to mat I'm Maddie. It's Gary. Hey Gary. Wow. Um, I'm sitting here having my tea hearing kind of getting a little emotional. Her music is fantastic. I think you got two you know, you got two baby girls there that much love. Listen to you sing them to sleep?

They do, they have their specific songs. It's really fun. That's cool. Thank you so much. Gary. Nice tea afternoon tea and you could they harmonize with you when they go to bed, you know, like, Okay, mommy, we're going to sing this song. It's so funny you sing this really specific um. Sarah Barella's song that was became like oh the hum um it's called the Kaleidoscope part, and it's actually when you hear the song on her record, it's it's like probably who knows how many overdubbed layers of her voice and harmonizations yea, um, but they love it.

I could sing a little bit of it for you because they they're they're on the radio or if they're listening there, they would sing along. It's really really beautiful. Um. So we've kind of internalized that and added on to it. So kind of give you a little snippet. Yeah, because I hear in your voice like I love madel and Peru. I love her, Yes, she's amazing. I love her range and her voice and how she she can handle a song and your vocal sound just like Madeleine Peru. Wow, thank you with that, you know who caring about what you sing and not just saying I'm singing a song.

You just have that very you know, that emotional that emotion and you're in you're singing, and it's it's really you know, it's it's it's amazing, you know. I like I like to hear things like that. And you know, being a musician, I ring and I like to hear because I I can't sing like that. I sing in school, but I can't sing like you know, really go out and do something like that. My I used to sing with my little nieces and you know they used to like that because and then they're like uncle Gary singing to one.

But yeah, you just have that, you have that soothing voice, you know, and if you if you're having a real crappy day, put something on from Allie and just it'll make you smile. And that's honest. That's no bs, that's for there you go. Really, I just appreciate your I appreciate your music. Thank you so much, very nice, very nice. All right, Gary, Well we appreciate the call. Yeah, well, Maddie knows I talked too much and he like cut me off, but now keep talking about me. Yeah that's just me because I love musicians and I'll have to hear their music and everything.

So really, and you know how much I love you Maddie, I know how much I love you, and I love you. I love Jenny, to love you. We love you Gary, and I love to Jenny absolutely I loved to Matten. So yeah, all right, thank you. Just Ali just keeps singing. I really enjoy it here. Thank you. Take care by Gary. Very nice. Thanks Gary. It's nice. Yes. Oh and by the way, I see Diane Boudrey in the Facebook live shot. I thought there might be a relationship. Mamma and Shane. Mallen is also in the chat room and says, yes, what's up.

Yeah, Shane's actually, Shane's gonna be coming back on soon. He was, uh, he was on the He's been on the show with us a couple of times. Awesome. Um, no, this is so fun. Oh I'm sorry you mentioned too. You were talking earlier about wearing different hats, the different things that you don Yeah, today I'm wearing this is well, my current hat that I'm wearing is actually if you can see it, this is this is a really cool new coffee shop that is on the West Side. Oh. Um, that just popped up. If you haven't gotten it's William and Sons and it's wonderfully the one of the best quarteta of my life.

And the owner is actually I think Carol did an amazing article about him Inkland, but he he roasts in Laconia, but his other coffee shop is actually in Brazil, so pretty amazing. Yeah, really cool human again seems to be all about the community. It's tucked tucked in um tucked in over on the west side off of Kelly Amory Street, which is really really cool. But I mean figuratively hats Yesterday I'm a mom and today I get to sing my original you know, songs of truth on the radio, which is which is awesome.

You know, it's nice. I mean not that I have seven gigs this week, so this is this is real. Yeah, it's it's a wild one. And the next week I'm like, oh, there's only five next week, so this is good. I can kind of like next week I feel like a breeze. But you know, wow, so you're busy. I'm busy. I'm grateful. Obviously, it's so wonderful to be able to be a working, living musician and gets dabble in a little bit of everything stylistically, so yeah, I do wear a lot of different hats, and obviously Bill and I own our own business together.

Yeah, that's crazy busy and that's has everything and nothing to do with music. Yeah. So the Man's Vegas brew Bus or oh the brew Bus as we will you know, continue our journey um as a kind of a shifting rebrand because we're going to be doing obviously we have ben but officially between craft per retours all over the stated ding Hampshire. Yeah, so we'll always be rooted here in Manchester, but shifting more to the thought of just being slated as brew Bus. Um. But the idea of the brew Bus kind of came to life, um while I was running late to my gig at Great North air Works.

I host it which just started back up, an original open mic night there. The ram says he saw you there once. Oh I love it. Yayd play Yeah. Yeah, it's awesome that they do music every Saturday, which is awesome, but so once a month um when they began, When we began, it was an original open mic night, which was awesome. So it's really grown to be this amazing place where if people have Friday night off, or if it was Thursday Friday enough, they would just come and kind of rehearse their set so it's built up to be this like amazing gathering, musical community space and the beer's delicious and wonderful.

So I was running late to my gig. I was teaching at Berkeley in Boston at the time, and I was, of course stuck in traffic trying to get back home. And Bill went set up on my gear and I pulled onto East Industrial and an Easter Seals bus pulled in front of me, and in my head, I was like, we need to buy a bus into craft brewery tours intertwined trivia and music and somehow do it. And yeah, a week later we were doing it, and you know we were our brain was we cheers to it at Great North. I gave him the idea.

Bill quit his job that he wasn't super thrilled about that Monday. Yeah, we became an LLC that Tuesday, and a month later we started running tours and where we just turned five. So life is good. Congratulations. Yeah. So you know always that it's funny how like a gig can lead you to your next life gig. Yeah. Um, so yeah, that is one of the many hats as being the you know, the co owner of a major craft bury Yeah. Yeah, to our business here in New Hampshire. So that's awesome. Yeah, we should mention too Bill of course.

Yeah, Trivia on the Morning Show every every Wednesday, every Wednesday Morning, The Morning Show with Peter White, and I know it's a very popular feature. And yeah, and he does various places. Um, he used to do the Hop not but I guess there was a scheduling conflict. Yeah, so that's Broadwick who does that now. But but Bill's but yeah, Broadwick Langy. But Bill's pretty pretty busy. He does a bunch of places, right, he's gigging. Last week it was Monday through Friday for Trivia's um once a month at six or three Bury, which is awesome.

They're super wonderful. That was just this past Friday. Um, we'll be doing upcoming next the Thursday, which is July sixth, Trivia Night Live, which is our live show. It's me Bill and excuse me, um all right, my bestie bass player Nick Fineff on upright. So what we do is kind of like a got you would love this. We do like a weight rate, Don't Tell Me, Pray Home Command companion kind of show where we arrange the audio round to be all live and funky and have a theme and then we play songs in between.

So we came up with this idea a few years back and did some shows at the Rex Theater and Jupiter Hall when that was around and thriving. Um and the Currier just like loved it and swooped it up. So every three months we do a Trivia live at the Courier. So that's a free event from five to eight on July sixth, and it's wild. It's so so very much fun. It's the art after work events that they do on Thursdays, which actually I am very grateful to be the booking coordinator for. Yeah. So yeah, there you go, another hut, another Hutum.

So I'm gonna be a Blincoln by the time our wonderful sponsor. I love Kenny, I love everything there. I'm actually going to be there next Saturday, the first very good I'm say. Yeah, life has just been so wild. I had just a big, huge life shift. Um. I kind of hanted at it, but I said, why, I was teaching at Berkeley. I just left teaching at Berkeley College of Music. Oh wow, and the Voice apart when I was there for like eleven plus years. So it's like it's just a wild thing to the end, a chapter that you feel really proud of and also so very ready to release and let go of and move forward.

So yeah, so yeah, I have all these venues that I've been booking and so grateful and actually started, you know, in twenty twenty, which was wild. You know, it was just like, well, yeah, let's let's get music back into spaces, let's do this. And so little did I know that I would become a booking coordinator in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, and it shifted turning into Wow, I get to see all of my amazing musician friends play their originals and beautiful covers and arrangements and tell their own stories at really amazing venues in the city that are responding and supporting.

So yeah, yeah, so I love I love the Hopknot. That's almost been three years now that we've been booking music there, which is really cool. So I love that. It's such a fun, amazing thing to be a part of and to grow with the scene and then you know, just hunt and harvest some new talent and then be like, hey, you'd be perfect for this room. Go go do it. Let's spread your wings, you know. So that's a huge thing for me too. It's just enhancing the community tenfold, I think in general when it comes to the artists and the venue and then the general population and community being like, oh I love that spot and now there's music and I can go see whomever play there, you know, it'd be a constant thing.

Is really awesome. So yeah, Shoppers on Sundays from one to three, which is really great, and Kafay Loren every North End every other Sunday, and then obviously the Courier which is which is really awesome too. So I'm really proud of that. It's again like been a whole other extension of myself that yeah I didn't know until I knew. Yeah, yeah, right, of those exactly exactly, very good. Yeah, it's getting late in the show. Did you want to play another song? Oh, let's do it? Well, yeah, totally, um sure, Yeah.

I always feel like this is such a good spiritual tune to lift and especially when we're in life's shift and transitions and just to know that like it's it's totally totally okay to let go and um, I've always been one that has listened to the Voice from within. That's what my last album was. It's just trusting your truths and knowing that you're put on this earth for a reason and for my For me, it is to use my voice as a vessel for whatever it might be, um, to send messages and to heal and to grow and um yeah, we'll talk a little more about that in different ways after this.

So this is called what if. Um, you can actually have a little more in my headphones? Um, if it's possible. Actually, yeah, you'll have to. Oh it's there, it's it's actually it's hanging off the side of the couch there. Yeah, yeah, there you go. It somehow, somehow it came on glued from Okay, let's see. Oh yeah, that's so much better. Okay, cool, perfect, No, it was fine before. Just you know, you get the more gig and more venues and years you play, you're like, oh wow, yeah, let's let's give yourself a little more love and in the ears.

Okay. So this is called what if. This is off the Voice I'm Within, which is on Spotify and all the all the streaming platforms and their CDs. If you have a CD player, that's cool. My super has one. And I'm pumped about it. So that's kind of a nice thing, um, you know, to give them a spin every once in a while, not be so not be so digital all the times. Right, So yeah, I feel like this one just always will be with me as my constant reminder. Lend my lash like feathers into flame. I'm naked underneath a smile and my name unearthed my soul.

Let my roots grow deep, even in wancha soil. It's not seem had thought hard, thought, pie up, pulling, twist turn. I'm not infinitely cal up in your gravity used to stand out me to love. But what if I let go spinning out of control? Earth is unstable, shaking mynner cold? Let my heart overtake my hand? What if A turn the dis to start over? And what if I m h what if a't here? So I'll hand down the cars and you will pick my hand. It's fortune too, but tool time to begin again. Open my heartings have agreen for you, one who's the seeds and thought heart tips a boat twisting time.

I'm not ethinic kind of benion. Gravity loss is telling me to learn a lot. If I let go spinning out of control, the Earth isn't stable shaking manner? Call let my heart overtake my head? What if you turn the tires to start over again and again and again? What ifive yeah, yeah, he What if I let go oh yeah, oh, let go spending and out of control that Earth is a stable shaking manner, Come let my heart out overtake mine? What if it turn the ties shut on bard again and again and again and again? Won if I yeah, yeah?

What if I like go hey?

Oh? What if fuck? Oh? What if I m yay my heart overtake my head? What if it turn tastes to start all over, start all over? Kay? Oh very nice, very nice, no resolution, Let it be open. Ali Boudrey is here with us in studio. By the way, Infinity Vein, a great band from Texas, is in the chat room. Says she has a very old soul vibe. Very nice and um also I see Chris h from the band Edgewise is in there as well. Hello and thank you so cool. Isaac Banks says, Ali, you got soul. You're getting a lot of love in there.

I love that. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I went I went to Berkeley thinking I was going to be well. I still you know not and that it's funny like perspectifies, it's like, oh yeah. Norah Jones was like everything. She came out right as I was going, you know, to Berkeley, and I was like, okay, there's someone that sounds like me that wants the same jazz. So I went there being like, oh, I'm going to be a jazz head and it was great and I loved it. And I still like it's in my roots and my bones, and I love when I can play, whether it's with the Friese Brothers big band, you know that immense energy, you know, with all the horns behind you, singing the standards or collaborating with other unique groups.

But yeah, it's so so fun, so you just never know. And then obviously when I was graduating Berkeley, that's when like Amy Winehouse hit and I was like, yeah, that's more like it, right. So stylistically, you know, I like to hang out in that zone and then shift to whichever, like I said, whichever hat we're putting on, whichever gig you're playing, you never know. Versatility is king. And another fun gig thing that I'm doing that we just started last week is music at Joppa Hill farm in Bedford. So and this is something I dabbled in, let's say a few years back, but really like sunk my teeth in in this past year was doing more Disney and children's music and bringing the ukulele.

And there's a beautiful place in Londonderry called the Nest Family Cafe and I was like, hey, I'd love to come and like put my Disney Princess voice on and bring my silks and parachutes and just see what happens. And we've been going strong. I was just there yesterday a big outdoor com outdoor summer concert series, which was awesome. So yeah, and then Joppa we started last Thursday and we had probably like twenty plus families from like three week olds to seven year olds singing you know, every Disney song, Mowanna.

We're making waves that we're doing all the things. So that's Thursday. You can you can purchase like a family blanket or family ticket via event right or right at the farm. Come right to the farm for ten am. And Okay, I literally got to like pat an alpaca before before I play. I'm like, my life has changed for her the better. This is the best gig of my life. So that's awesome. You just never know where you'll be gigs. Um well, Ali, we're about out of time, so before we have to go, I want to make we let listeners know where they should go online to keep up with everything that you're doing social media.

Any other shows this week you want to plug anything like that. But totally, Oh my goodness, I know there's a lot going on. Um yeah. So you can find me on Instagram and Facebook. Um. On Instagram, I'm Ali bowl I b e a u um on Facebook Ali Boudre and obviously aliboji dot com. But I need to update. There's lots of things to do. Um yeah. I get to play with my six piece rock band for the first time in like three years on Friday at Garrisons and Billbrico, which would be really fun. I played like fifteen years with them, from like twenty one to you know, thirties plus life shifting.

Our first gig was actually at the Shaskying together back when I was like my senior year at Berkeley, which was wild. So yeah, we've like you know, brushed off the dust and we're going to be jam and there Friday night, which will be really awesome. And learn for anyone that works at Fidelity that might be listening. Me and Nick Finiff will be doing some more of a corporate gig, but if you work there, you get to get Ali Bodi and Nick Finiff for lunch for the next two Wednesdays. So we're like super pumped about that.

I was like, you know what, there's nothing more fun than just like jam and during lunchtime. So honestly, gigs are everywhere. I'd say the Courier Trivia Night Live is going to be a really great show. That's July sixth, and I'll be at the hop Knot for all of those that can come out on a Saturday night from seven to nine on July first. And honestly, just look on my socials because I can't even remember all the things. There's too many. But it's great, it's wonderful. I'm so grateful. Yeah, you're having me.

It's so fun. Oh absolutely, yeah, you're keeping busy is oh wow. Yeah, we gotta go, Ali, thank you so much. This has been wonderful, the great Ali Boudru. We will have to do this again, fret sure. I love to you with the newest material because there's so many. Yeah, definitely, definitely, yeah, And if you miss any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit at WMNH radio dot org and on my website Matt Connerton dot com. And oh and if you're listening live on Tuesday, coming up next is Through the Stage Door hosted by Rob Dion, and then after that is the replay of Retrospectrum Radio from Friday night.

So that's gonna do it for us for now. I'll talk to y'all a little bit later. By everybody,

Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-20-23

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