Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-22-23

0:41 Well, come everybody, here we go on this Thursday afternoon. It is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, and it is a glorious day outside. Also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etc. Etc. It is a Thursday, June twenty two, two thousand twenty three, so welcome everybody.

1:17 We've got an exciting show for you today. I believe in just a little bit our friend EASYG will be calling in for his vaunted entertainment report. I know everyone is on pins and needles about that, and then coming up in the second hour today, our musical guest is Ricky Mapleton. He's been on the show with us before. He's going to be making his grand return today. Really looking forward to that. We had a lot of fun the last time he was on and so looking forward to seeing him today in our number two Numero doos, so lots going on.

1:49 Of course, also it being Thursday, that means tonight is Trivia Night at the Hopnot our amazing sponsor right across the street and the Brady Sullivan at one thousand Elm Street. But I do recommend, strongly, strongly recommend that if you're going to participate in trivia and I'd hosted by the amazing Broderick Lang, that you call ahead. You can, even I believe it's an option to you know, you can contact the Hop Knot on social media and reserve a spot that way, but the best thing to do is call because those spots fill up quickly.

2:21 Trivia Knight is a very popular feature there. It starts at seven pm and those spots fill up fast. So just you know, I mean, even if you don't, you know, if you're just gonna go there and enjoy some delicious scourmet pretzels, you have that option as well. And of course the ever burgeoning assortment of draft beer. But if you want to participate or craft beer rather did I say draft, I mean craft, I don't. I'm not a beer guy, I gotta be honest with you, but but they have quite a selection there so that you can do at any point, but make sure you reserve a spot for trivia.

2:52 Also tomorrow night at the hop knot you know it is Pride Month tomorrow night. This is on social media Big Gay Bingo, So there you go. What is this? Is from Kenny post of this. What is big gay Bingo? You ask by the way he'd explained it to me before, and I didn't really fully comprehend. Then again, I've never played bingo? Then I'm not gay? But what is Big Gay Bingo? It's just like bingo, but instead of numbers and letters, the cards will be filled with lingo and slang from LGBTQ plus culture. The lighthearted game is meant to be fun as well as educational.

3:32 We'll get going at nine pm, so be there early to grab a good seat. The game is free to play, but we'd love it if you made a five dollar donation to at MVAPNH, a local organization that helps people living with HIV AIDS maintain a high quality of life through education, support and empowerment. So yeah, proceeds go to a very good cause hosted by Onyx Reins and glam Chowda. And we all know who glam chowder is yes, yes, And that might become apparent to you if you go on social media and you see a picture of glam chowder, you might say, I recognize that guy, but uh so yeah, so it is.

4:13 It is for a very good cause. So that is tomorrow night. I'm gonna say at one more time because I think it's fun, Big Gay Bingo. I'm gonna see if I can get Easy G to say it tomorrow night at the hop Knot starting at nine pm. And uh speaking of EASYG, he is on the phone line, Hello, EASYG. Hello, Hey, thinking about trivia now. A couple years are going When Jenny used to have a trivia team and I showed up and they say, what's the nickname? Oh yeah, what's the name of it? Is the nickname with smoke?

4:43 What was the guy's name? And I went said, oh yeah, Tony Stewart And that was the only so I got right the whole night. Cool story. Bro, What do you think about Big Gay Bingo? I don't know. I've never played it before. I'm sorry, what have you never played that game? How does it work? What's it? What's it called? I already forgot what what is it called? The bingo. What kind of bingo? Yeah, what's the name. What's it called? If you do a gay bingo? Fign, it's big gay bingo. Say it with me, ZG. Big game, a big gay bingo.

5:21 Now I can't say it big game bingo. No big gay gay, big gay bingo. It's pride gao. There you go, there you go. I never played that before, but I bet it will be interesting. Yes, yes, And it is raising money for a very good cause, for to tell people living on a serious note, to tell people living with HIV and AIDS very very important. So yeah, you know, just just because the fundraiser, I hope that's like a lot of money. People need to be reminded about that on a on a just to get serious for a moment.

5:51 People do need to be reminded about that from time to time. Just because you don't hear about it much anymore, it doesn't mean that it went away. Um, it's still a problem, of course. Uh. Now we live in an era again thanks to medical science where uh you know, the medications and it's an entire cocktail of medications that I believe people living with this have to take every day to just stay healthy. But with medication. You know, you can hopefully, if all goes well, you can live out a full lifespan even if you are HIV positive.

6:19 Um So, that's the good thing. But because of that, again, it's not something people really talk about that much anymore. You don't hear about it that much, but it's it's still out there and it's still a problem. So um so it's uh, it's a great cause to raise money to help people who are living with that terrible illness. You might have heard that guy Matthew Johnson, he has the he has Yeah, he has HIV. He's still he's still cooking that guy absolutely absolutely, Yeah, later, Yeah, thanks to medical science, you know you can, you can still live a full life.

6:55 And I know there have been two a couple of instances, I think a couple so far. I'd have to look it up, but I think where they've they've actually managed to um seemingly, I don't know if cure is exactly the right word, but a couple of instances where they seem to have gotten it to a point where it's not detected at all in a in a couple of people who had been HIV positive. So there's been some really just in the last few years, there's been some pretty incredible breakthroughs UH in the UH in the research and treatment and potential cure.

7:28 Right now, there is no cure, but but there may be one coming down the line nineties and he's oh yeah, he's still going absolutely absolutely. It's interesting too, different people, uh, for whatever reason. And some people and Magic Johnson is an example. And I'm sure it doesn't hurt that he, you know, was always very healthy, a super athlete that that certainly I'm sure helps. But um, some people UH seem to from what I understand, they can carry it and live with it, um and and just you very well, whereas other people, UH have much much worse outcomes, which is why it's so important to make sure.

8:07 You know, we talk about healthcare a lot on the show and the importance of making sure that everyone has access to uh to the healthcare that they need. Um. This is just another example of where it's so important to make sure that every American who is living with this illness has access to what they need to prolong and hopefully live a long and healthy life. So yeah, because imagine Johnson, I most sports. Now, if you have a situation where you're bleeding for any reason of the year on your body, they take you out of the game.

8:37 Oh yeah, that they cleaned you all up. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely do that before Magae Johnson has just go out there and play, you know, if you're on Yeah, well, there's other reasons to do that too. I mean there's you know, there's there's other things that can be spread hepatitis. Focus on a situation, but yeah, yeah, yeah, oh absolutely, yeah. That became that became a source of controversy for a while in the NBA.

9:03 Um you, Oh, how do you deal with that? Because didn't yea. Oh, it's coming back to me now. See I've never been a sports fan, so I'm a little fuzzy on this, but I seem to remember. Now, Magic Johnson, he announced he had HIV. He retired, but then he unretired. He came back, and there were some players in the NBA who didn't want to play with him because they were they were nervous about it, right, And he was on that dream team in the Olympics where they crushed everybody with Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Parkley and all those guys.

9:31 Mom Michael Jordan. Oh, by the way. Fredo was in the chatroom and says, the real amazing part of the Magic Johnson story is that his wife stayed with him through infidelity and HIV. Hell of a woman. Yeah. Absolutely, Oh yeah, that is impressive. That is very impressive, very impressive. Yeah, like I said, it happened in the nineties. I remember a friend of mine, Todd, he called me up at camera and he said, Hey, you're not gonna believe this. That's what's going on. Mind Johnson told everybody at h I said, oh my god.

10:01 Yeah, if anything, that never moved up that stuff and the uh you know, sky in the shadows. But when he made the star like him an announced he had had it. I came into the forefront and, like I said, it probably a little bit gone away now because of other problems. No, you uh, you know you brought up. That's a good insight, Eric, that you know, uh Magic Johnson. Yeah, when Magic Johnson announced he was HIV positive, it kind of I think you're right. I think it kind of helped people rethink it and and sort of step back and say, wow, if Magic Johnson can get HIV h then you know, anyone is vulnerable, even you know somebody like Magic Johnson or another.

10:43 This must have been after but uh yeah it had to be. But another athlete who who who got HIV was at kind of in that time period was the tennis player Arthur Ashe and um, you know what, of course, now they have Arthur a swimming guy too. I think, oh, yes, Doug lu ganis yep, you're right, good memory, Yep, yep, Doug lu ganis a swimmer. Yep. Yeah. So when these athletes started getting it, I think that it kind of made people say, well, you know, nobody's nobody's impervious to this. If these people who are very healthy and in such great shape can get it, then you know it's something to um, it's something to really take seriously.

11:24 Um. Melanie made a fascinating Melanie made a fascinating observation in the chat room that I absolutely cannot read on the air, but point taken, no no pun intended. Uh, let's see. Oh Fredo got it too? Yes, Greg lu ganis uh well easyg uh do you have do you have an entertainment report for us? I do? I do? Yes, I do? Oh go on whoa okay, well here let me make then nobody wants to talk about what's this talk about this stuff coming up? I was going I was gonna say, they're all in the they're all in the future, right, Yeah, it wouldn't make sense to do an entertainment Ah, that's way in the future.

12:10 Let's hang on in the summer while we have it. It's it's so early in summer, and it is my favorite time of year. All right, I'm gonna hit your I'm gonna hit your music. Here we go. What's that easy? You want to know about stock market crashes? If you're nineteen, if you drive, buys, celebrity gossip easy, gee's gotcha entertainment reports stats? Wow? Because think nothing but a jeep bank baby back? Are you ready for stock Let's find out? Ready we're in. I don't hear the MusiCure, Wow, no kidding.

12:50 Hey, I don't know if this is into your some nice Carol doesn't hear the music. Sometimes we're talking weird, very weird. Oh by the way, hey, shout outs to I meant to mention this yesterday, but shout outs to Carol Robido of Manchester inclink. Uh I saw her or actually she saw me. Uh the other day. It was yesterday That's why I meant to mention it yesterday, and then I forgot. I was in Goffstown. I was about to go into a store, and Uh, I hear somebody yell, hey, is that Matt Connerton. I hear somebody yelling this from their car and I and I turned and and she Uh.

13:25 Most people, I give Carol credit for this, because most people are oblivious in this uh scenario. They don't realize that if you yell my name and I turn to look at you, you're far enough away that I might not realize it's you. But Carol knew. Carol knew that because she goes it's it's Carol Robido. She's waving to me. I said, oh hi, Carol. Um. Of course easy for her to spot me because I had my one of my Matt Connerton unleashed shirts on and uh those shirts Eric, as you know, they have my giant face on the back of them, so so she was able to I don't even I was having a supper hero in the listening to the podcast and Shorely like to make out shout out to Ali Bodger was a great hour.

14:12 That was. Oh she's incredible. Um. I think the first millions of times. I think the first uh, when when,

14:22 yes, when we started talking, and I think the first real sort of interview question that I asked her was where did you learn to sing like that? I mean, she's just incredible and she makes it sound easy, the way she's able to hit those notes and just incredible, incredible range and I'll have to practice. Seems to be doing it for Oh. Yeah, teaches at Berkeley. That's one of the used to teach her. Now, she attended Berkeley and then she singing colleges in the in the world. Yep, she attended as a student, and then she went back and taught at Berkeley for eleven years.

14:53 Yeah, just uh, just amazing. By the way, Fredo in the chat room, I don't know if this is already in your entertainment report, easyg. But Fredo says, Cosmic Blossom is playing tomorrow night at mcguirk's in Hampton Beach. No, No, not where that show. I don't know who they are. Oh, so that wasn't in your entertainment report. Fredo was in Fredo was in that band, Cosmic Blossom. No, I've never heard of him. Oh anyways, you never well, you've heard of people, but I don't think I've dedicated the show for the It's kind of weird though, but I'll tell a quick story then dedicated the Pope Francis and Pope Benetic, Pope Benedict and usually you usually die and you know, I see in your your Pope obviously, but he decided to retire a couple of years ago for health reasons.

15:41 Yeah, he became pope to do that two hundred years Pope and Francis his health is not the best.

15:48 Yeah, eighty six years old and he just had a major surgery. I think he recovered though, right, he recovered and he's uh, I forget what the surgery was, but uh, yeah, he's still going. Yeah, it would be a kind of weird. Obviously he's gonna die someday and then takes up a new pope in the next year or two. If Paul Benedict is still retired, why is that funny? Well, because he's the most most pope never retire. Oh you're right, good play. So Paul Francis, you know, after he's gonna go someday, and if he goes, well, Paul Benedict is still around.

16:24 He thought, wow, what would be really I'm sorry, quite a story. I don't mean to seem I don't mean to seehim a little out of sorts all of a sudden. It's just this whole conversation is reminding me of Father Bruno. Remember when Father Bruno used to call it heard him in a long time. I never hear from him anymore, and I'm miss him. Used to call any he would talk about to the Pope and how much of the Pope liked to Donald the trumpa Father Bruno all the way from Rome. Wow. Yeah, it's a quick wrestling report.

16:53 I was going to I couldn't watch it with my channel it was frozen, so I watched it the next day and undertay that c him Punk is the biggest AW wrestler. Do you believe that the biggest in terms of draw and ratings name name, Yes, I absolutely believe that,

17:14 even over m JF. Yes. CM Punk is the reason apparently that AW now has that show Collision that ariz on Saturday nights because Warner Brothers Discovery wanted them to add they wanted Cempunk back on the programming. So that's how that whole show can dynamite last night too. Now he's gonna fight. They're gonna have a three way triple tag team with three other guys at the collision. It wasn't that impressed me, honest. By the way, Melanie is very excited. She's in the chat room. She's very excited.

17:48 She's probably all a quiver because she loves the Wrestling Report. She loves it. Yeah, it's on. It gives a great time to be a wresting fan. It's on almost every day of the week. Speak speaking of wrestling, They're gonna have a big match on July third, Money in the bank and it's gonna be a three pm special start times, you know, to stay up all night and the biggest match. I think it's gonna be a head of the table of Roman rains. It is partner there giving his name right now, but against the USO.

18:16 They call him the drunks and they call it civil War boy. But you know why they're doing an attack team for Roman. When you say keep his belt longer, can I just say, I mean, I think it's gonna keep along anyways, But can I just say when Jay, I don't think're gonna lose. I don't think I Roman wins to lose again because he lost the last pay per view. Now they won't have him losing. I tell he's gonna lose again. He never loses, as you well know. That's right now. I just want to say when Jay Usso turned and kicked Roman Reins in the face, that was a great moment.

18:49 That was one of the greatest moments in wrestling history. Definitely, it's a great storyline over perfectly perfectly. The whole bloodline storyline is remarkable and and it and it bears out. It bears out in the ratings and the attendants WWE right now. I don't know if you realize this, Eric, they're doing the best numbers they've done in twenty years, and it's good timing because their TV rights deals are coming up, so they're doing phenomenal numbers. Yeah, yep, it's the hottest it's been a w's got TV.

19:17 They're gonna have They're gonna have their TV ratings, I mean TV time up too. They're gonna have to renew it. Melanie says in the chat room, whoa slow down. I'm trying to write all this down. It but all their pay per views that are on Saturday used to be Sunday for some reason they switched it on the way a W's on Sunday, we've had something to do with it. Well, so when AW started, they were doing their pay per views on Saturday instead of Sunday. And yes, now WWE also seems to have switched to Saturday.

19:51 I think that might have something to do with, um, the influence of UFC, because UFC has always done Saturdays, and of course now w W zone by endeavor, so it's all the same. So uh yeah, I think and I think it makes more sense.

20:08 All right, Saturday night's all right for fighting. Well, I forgot to mention this last week, so I don't want to do it again this week. That the Jasmine Man is going to be this Friday, but of course I think we'll be recorded and of course shown in the radio, shown being the radio six three, I says the clock one. Anyways, grant state of mind with jas A Man's gonna be one the guests, and uh yeah, it's gonna be called the John Prune Event tribute must be a guy named John Brune. I guess at two fifty Pembroke Street in Pembroke City limits.

20:41 Do you know Roberts View the Coolest cat in town. Do you know easyg I've never written, I've never written. Sorry, I was distracted by h Fredo's comment there, I've never eaten a prune in my life. Yeah, I can't say I have either. Now we have a very very important question in the Facebook live chat from our friend, uh Scott Robinson, who I do believe, by the way, Scott Robinson probably probably one of your biggest fans, and he always uh, he always likes to ask a highly relevant wrestling question.

21:15 He says, I'm a little out of touch on the wrestling. When is the hulksters next match? Of course, the Great Hulk Coogan hopefully never, hopefully never. Oh okay, I don't think ww's going to prove any match with it. Almost seventy year old guy with a kind of back third three. Yes, he's had something like uh, it's well into the double digits. I know the number of back surgeries that he's had. Oh yeah, yeah, I think he's all done being in the run. Coun still run his mouth. I guess they want. I don't think that's gonna happen anither uh Stephen Light also known as DJ Steve.

21:51 He says, you mean John Prine, not John Prune. Oh whoof oh John? Try, yes, John Prine. But that doesn't change event then to now. But that does not change the fundamental reality. ZG. I stand by what I said. I've never in my life eaten a prune. Yes, to have you all about prune juice? I would know now. I would assume though at the assisted living facility they must have prunes and prune juice available to you. Oh yeah, all right, let's move on. Yes please? The venue probably not be headay, I've got the July third Independence Day fireworks on Saturday right here in downtown.

22:39 Man took their arms park and at thirty ninth Army vand which I think they've played at event thirty nine times probably, And then that range is going to be un July fifth, And obviously it's a free event, so anybody can show up as a family event. I'm feeling you're not a big firework guy. I like fireworks. I like fireworks, dubtending. I like fireworks on the fourth of July. You know why, because I am a real American and I fight for the rights of every man and woman and whoever throve yes, I haven't been down the fireworks.

23:14 Fire works I like watching the fourth fireworks on the TV. We're doing the PBF FRIENDVC one those time channels. Uh. Scott Robinson says he has another RECTU. I say, why did they throw the fireworks on the third? It's always been that way from many many years. I don't I don't know a man why it is. Scott Robinson says he has another question, why did you block him on Facebook? I don't think I did. Well, remember it, Scott, though, I have lost all my Facebook friends when I I don't know why I lost Facebook.

23:47 I had to get back on and then I lost all my friends I lost on my post. So yeah, so if you sent me a Facebook post, I will say accept and hold. Yeah you should, because Scott Robinson is what we like to call a real American. Yeah. I don't know why that happened on Facebook, but it's Facebook, you know, veryl sketchy sometimes, Yeah, it's all sketchy. Uh. He's also asking these are yeah go ahead? Sorry, yeah, no, no, you you know what? You go ahead? All right? Well you go ahead? Oh yeah. A lot of things going on, I mean MacCarthy and of course he has a lot of dates down in Pennsylvania.

24:23 It's really nobody cares about. So she's working on a new album and it's gonna be coming up soon soon because maybe summertime. So it is summertime. So you so you don't know when, you just know, you just know soon. You sound like you're ruined, right, that's what she says. You sound like you're like a big news. Oh on, Katie DOLMASI yesterday see this one the best Silver Music Awards for the Lakes Regions. So that was very nice, the best ever music Award for the Lakes Regions. So she's she has produced the best music ever.

24:56 That is very exciting. I'll tell you why. If I were in that position and I were nominated for Best Music Ever, I would even just it would be an honor just to be nominated, but to actually win that. Now, how do you feel about that? Though? Easyg Do you feel that the music that Katie Dobbins has produced is in fact the best music ever? Yeah? I think it should be a gold medal, but hey, uh huh and voting. I always assumed that you would have thought that Amanda McCarthy had produced the best music ever, but you're saying it's actually Katie Dobbins she's pretty darn good.

25:33 Yeah, pretty darn good. So what do you think of that song? Last movie we've played when seasons changed it you'll like it. I did very nice. She has a beautiful voice. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, buying a lot, a lot of days coming up. These are the ones my dad went and saw her alive. Yes, June twenty eighth, which is right around the corner six o'clock runs around up on seventy two Main Street, and Mary's called the Herman Woods Winery, Herman Woods, Jackie's at hermitt was Winery Jackie Hermitt Woody and of course the great Ali Badrey.

26:11 Is it Herman or Hermit? Is it hermitt Woods Winery? Yes? Is it? Is it? Is it? So? It's Hermit not Hermann. It could be Hermann's Hermit Woods were Herman Hermit's Woods, But regardless, it's a winery which Hermit Hermit Woods Winery. Huh suppose he's playing there? Oh yeah, this was yesterday, so we don't care about yesterday's Fredo, yesterday's event. Fredo. You know, he likes to help. He made an observation in the shower room. He says, it's not easy. G's Entertainment report unless he lets us know what the same six or seven people he always updates us on are or are doing this week.

26:55 You do have a niche with that. One more event coming up Niche report our July eight at one thirty at the Albert's House when we've vineyard in Brookline at twenty one April Street. It's a free event, live music. Stummer's areas are calling you. So this is Albert's vineyard, not to be confused with Herman's vineyard. Right. One more event come up here in July twelve at four o'clock a Cannoby Farmers Market on Nines Center Center Road. That's not a free event. That's not a free eventment or in the future.

27:26 So we want to talk about it coming up. We don't want in July, August, September, so we'll forget about those now. We don't want to talk about this. We canna only play this next week because the it's coming out tomorrow on all platforms. April of Coorsemen called more than this truck, so we'll play. Talking about more music coming up, you got to obviously smoke and that's available on all platforms. She also got a lot of gigs coming up in the summertime, yes, which she will announced what time? Oh yeah, coming up?

27:57 So, oh it's coming up next months and he's gonna be on train on nine on Chronicle. She didn't announce what dat is. I'm assuming when it gets closer to announce it. That's always a good way to get your name out there on tran online. Yes, I know somebody else who's going to balk at the Golden Manchester at June twenty six. In July thirty. Yeah, me and McCarthy in the game we're on Drunk in two thou twenty. I'm sorry, who did you say? Someone's going to be performing with a goat on the twenty six?

28:23 Oh no, they're playing at the Manchester in the restaurant, right, I'm sorry. You know I misunderstand things.

28:32 It's a restaurant right down this reef here the goat, yes, yes, but they don't actually have goats. Oh yeah too if you're looking for a future event. Only reason I say that because oh, this is a future events eight seven PM show, parking open to four thirty doors or six and they have taken information six h three two nine three four seven zeroes Row Bank in the New Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion jelly Row Backyard Baptism two thousand twenty three tour and the end is somebody too josh Adam Myers is going to be still struggled Jennings in oh l a King.

29:06 I was in a course on hazy little stage. So you go there, big show. So you go there to get baptized, and then they hand you a jelly roll. I don't know. It's a weird name for a weird name for an event. It is very confusing. And by the way, EZYG, what is it that distinguishes when you're doing your report? How do you determine whether something is simply an event or a future event? Because I noticed some of these you designate as future events. I don't know. You're right, I'm saying in the future. I was curious, yes, because obviously we wouldn't want past events.

29:41 By the way, do you know what a pet peeve of mine? Is? Easyg. Whenever I hear someone use the phrase past experience, you can just say experience. I assume the experience you're referring to is past, unless you're some sort of time traveler. Doesn't that bug you? Bugs me? Past experience. What are you talking about? Just say experience really doesn't really bug me. I know. On June twenty seconds right here in downtown should playing at the Founding Restaurant A fifty Commercial Street at six o'clock.

30:08 That's the free event. And then June thirtieth at the library on Friday night, Oh, Friday night the Library snipe at uh seven thirty fifty eight Main Street with Brad mirk Rick and the thickets of twenty dollars. I'm sorry, is it is it? Is it trio Brad Mike and Rick? Is that what you said? Is Brad m y r I c k Brad Oh, Brad Mick Rick. Yes, he's uh, he's he's actually you ever heard of that guy? Yeah, he's part of the family that founded uh McDonald's. Brad mick Yeah, yeah, yep, wow, I know that if you ever, if you go to The only reason I mentioned the events even though the produc on the road is the tickets are on sale ninety Old Turnpike Road and Joe Nichols for took information.

31:03 You can buy tickets to four ticket Element at range manson dot com. This is kind of a pricey event. General mission forty eight dollars by shipping Handley or fifty five alls the day of the show. Where you really want to spend some money, it's five hundred dollars to the VIP and at for your table. Plus I'm assuming you get the waiters and waitresses. And it's gonna be in the skybox, so you have to you'll be able to see everything. And then September twenty four, so who's playing at Indian Ranch at Gates through eleven shows at noon?

31:30 Za Brown Tribute Band, Trailer, Trash Garth Live and Andy Broston. That's a two hundred gore road building a one reption Massachusetts and tickets are available at indian rants dot com Indian Ranch Doti tickets. That seems like a he seemed like some big shows. One more show July Summers at six pm, full band event to the Bonnet Shores Beat Club and Naren Grants Nara Ricks, Rhode Island, and that's a free event one seventy five point road. I like the way you said it better? How did you say it? Um?

32:06 By the way Rhode Island. Now I want to let you in on a little secret by the way, and this is important. I try to mention this, mention this before, but I don't think you heard me. If you go to McDonald's, so they have a secret item. They have secret items. If you go to McDonald's, you won't see it on the menu, but you can actually order something called a mc rick and it's really good.

32:27 Oh I never heard of that before. Yeah, well it's a secret secret menu item. I'm assuming when the August rolls around that you will have the day who I don't even know who we're talking chronicle and don't even know what Y don't even watch, don't even know who we're talking about at this point, she knows what data. I don't know why you didn't talk about it, but were we talking about Chronicle April in August? But she doesn't listen dating, so maybe they haven't told her what day it's gonna be on.

33:00 Maybe they haven't. I know somebody else who's gonna be on Chronicle. But I can't say anything because I was sold this off the year and I don't know if it's been revealed yet. But I will offer a hint. One of those situations where where you know the information but you have to keep it under the table, I'll offer a hint it was a recent guest on the show. And that's all I'm saying. Oh, I've already said too much. I shouldn't have even told you about the mc rick at McDonald's that was supposed to be a secret.

33:31 Oh my god, I learned about that at the time, that that one time that I went to McDonald's in Rhode Island.

33:42 Yeah. So to wrap up the report, I'm gonna oh you already gets oh yeah, get the information on your messenger there. I'm gonna play that old song, but a goodie song, I believe not that video was made seven years ago. And watch the video and uh, I think they just said recently met tom My boy. He was he was all smiles. You look at that video. You don't if you saw the video, but what video? Sorry? I was distracted by Fredo's comments bad news, I said to you on the messenger. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Fredo says in the chati good time.

34:13 It's like a four minute video and he said, I tell him, looking at Amando with a big smile. Fredo said in the chat room they're now serving deep fried grim Espress sandwiches for a limited time along with the mc ribb that sounds quite delicious. By the way, isn't it remarkable that our former president Donald Trump can eat that food and still be alive at his age? Oh yeah, when the teams come win the championship, they'll go to Hell's any Freedom Hamburgers hot dogs? Yes, great American food, he said.

34:45 And what's a little yes, hilarious,

34:51 well he went again, he can start some more of a Hamburger's hot dogs.

34:58 That's the thing I want to happen, right, yes, all right, so forward with that great song bad News. Yes, we're going to play Bad News by Amanda McCarthy. We love to honor your requests, of course, easy g and Amanda is great and uh so we will do that in a morn we'll let you go. Yeah. Well, who wait, who I thought you said? Katie Dobbins is the best? Now, who's the best? Definitely a man McCarthy. Okay, Katie Dobbins and uh uh, April Cushman and Katy Dobbins are just a little under season A plus in there an A how's that right?

35:32 I think I understand what you're saying. That's a man's an too. Oh good? Oh yeahak, speaking of her, So you've got you've got more gigs in July, so we coming down to play that. Your laugh becomes more mischievous every time you use it. All right, Easy, g We'll let you go. Alrighty, all right byeye, looking forward to hearing that song, we'll talk to you, Yeah, okay, bye bye. He always says that, looking forward to hearing that song. I think he's afraid I'll forget what you should have known by now.

36:03 Easy? All right, as was Easy's request, we will play that song. You're great, Amanda McCarthy. It's called bad News. We have played this on the show before, but it is a really great track. And then we will uh oh, actually I think we have a call. We might have to delay that. Hey, our friend Ron is on the line. We always have time for Ron. Hey, Ron, but does Ron have time for us? Ron? Are you there? Yeah? Hi? Ron? Are you doing? Are you doing? Easy? I? Um, I don't. I don't like to report bad news, but that's I'm about to play what you know?

36:37 If you were aware of it or not? What's that? Ron? You were cutting in and out the the cold Scott, I hate to skip bad news? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But the Coco said they found a debris field for that submarine and missing the sub Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're I've I've just been operating under the assumption that they're they're they're probably uh, they're probably dead. Unfortunately. But although the more we learn about that submersible, it's like they were really taking their lives into their hands even getting into that thing.

37:07 My god. Well, in the news m an engineer that worked for that company was fired because he complained that not enough testing was done. Ye the owner of the company said, why should I hire an experienced submarine or operator because I can hire someone but that's twenty five years old that knows how to operate a joystick. And the joystick in that submarine was a forty dollars joystick bought on Amazon. And one of the people that worked for that company that every time they put it in the water there was a problem.

37:48 I believe it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's all, you know, shame shame U. And you know, I was outside more on my lawn a little while ago, and I was thinking to myself, four people billion is probably sup thought to himself, just get me out of this mess, and I'll keep up every penny I got, you know, uh, yeah, I don't know. I don't, I don't. I don't even like thinking about what it must be like to be trapped in ah in that. I honestly don't like it. It gives me anxiety even just thinking about it. What a terrible way to die.

38:24 Yeah, well, anyways, let's let's see that Amanda McCarthy and what you got going on? And Hi easy and that's all I well, you know, I guess I just wanted to put in two sense cases, but those besides yourself that having that out fall on it. Um, you know, if the news is ILP, you know, yes, yes, absolutely, all right, Ron, Well we appreciate the call. Good night, all right, bye bye, all right, very good. That was our friend. Ron. What I think we're going to do is we're gonna hold off. I am gonna play easy g if you're still listening, and I'm gonna play your song bad News by Amanda McCarthy.

38:57 But I want to look at some of these Facebook chat comments, and then we'll hold the song because we're going to include it in our five o'clock break, which we'll actually go to a little bit early. We're gonna play that and a couple other things and show some love to our amazing sponsors. Ricky Mapleton, our guest is already in the building, so we're gonna bring him in shortly. But I do want to look at some of these Facebook live chat comments, and if anyone wants to get in with a very quick call, you can at six o three two five six seven six three two five six seven.

39:24 But Fredo I mentioned. Fredo is in the chat. He said wrestling as an all time high because writers are on strike and there's nothing else to watch. Oh that's not the reason, sir, How dare you? Melanie, of course I mentioned is in the chat room, as well as DJ Steve, who says happy Hi everyone, Happy Thursday, Happy thirsty Thursday. I don't know why I can't say that. Fredo says wrestling doesn't need writers and neither does reality TV, and we'll continue to have more of those things until the writer's strike is resolved.

39:56 Scott Robinson I mentioned is in the chat. Our friend Crystal from the Great State of Illinois joined us in the chat and says, true, I've heard to expect a bunch of new reality shows in the fall because they don't need writers. Yeah, that happens up well, But the irony being reality shows actually do have writers. But you know it's uh, I mean, there's a lot of scripting that goes with those shows, that's for sure. Let's see, Fredo said. Whole Comania is the code name for the AARPP group on discount.

40:29 Let's see. Oh, Melanie says, it's four thirty guests who has two thumbs and is officially on vacation. Hint, it's me. Congratulations, Melody. That is excellent. Crystal said, not sure. We are having fireworks here in Illinois because we are in a bad drought and the risk of fire is high. That's not good. That's not good. Let's see. Fredo says, you know how to really get your name out there be a girl playing a guitar and make sure EASYG knows about it. That's how you get exposure. Well, it certainly doesn't hurt.

41:07 Certainly doesn't hurt. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook live chat. Queen City Cabinetry, of course one of our great sponsors here at wm A Whiney five point three FM, and of course one of our co hosts on retro Spectrum Radio with Paul ec By the way really looking forward tomorrow night. Tomorrow night on retro Spectrum Radio, Part two of Demos Demo Songs the original demos of popular songs. Had a really great time with that last week, fascinating one of my favorite retro Spectrum Radio shows ever.

41:37 So I'm really looking forward tomorrow night for part two of that. I love that kind of thing hearing those old demos again. My favorite from last Friday was the Girls on Film, the original demo of Girls on Film by Duran. Duran had a lot of guitar in it that is not in the actual studio version that was released, and it just sounded I think everybody in the room agreed. That was so cool. But so really looking forward to that along with well, obviously it's Police's show. I'm one of his co hosts along with DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry.

42:07 New Force of the Sparka joins us in the Facebook live chat and says hello hashtag Matt, we say good afternoon. We are good friends with Isaac Banks. Let's see people in their love the jelly rolls. Crystal says, jelly donuts are good, sometimes a little messy though, that's way too much sugar for me. Yikes, yikes, oh, Fredo said, I was talking about how I don't like when I hear the phrase past experience. I don't like redundancies. They annoy me. Just say experience. I assume it's in the past. Fredo said, future experience.

42:45 It sounds like the sequel to Time cop Yes, time cop too. Future experience. It does, doesn't it. Fredo had some questions for Zyg. I didn't get a chance to ask him. He says, if I was into rock, rap, metal, reggae, or anything besides folk, can easy G point us in that direction. I'm going to answer that on Easyg's behalf and say unlikely. Um,

43:15 let's see. Crystal says in the chat Ri IP, the people aboard the titan submersible they found debris sixteen hundred feet away from the Titanic's bow. They believe the submersible imploded due to a catastrophic, catastrophic event. Yeah, and uh, you know there's so much pressure there that far below, well, all the way down at the bottom of the ocean, right, there's so much pressure water pressure that you know it just you know, it crushes you. Um. Yeah, you wouldn't get me in one of those things.

43:46 I even get anxiety just watching a submarine movie, although I have watched some submarine movies, like The Hunt for Red October, for example, with Sean Connery. Actually, I don't think I've ever seen a add some marine movie, but um, yeah, I I cannot imagine getting in one of those. And uh, like I said, what a terrible way to die, um Fredo says, ask easyg where we can hear some dance music.

44:19 Melanie uh wrote another comment, I cannot read on the air, but that's funny and you're probably right. Jenny is in the chat and says shalom peeps. Um. Melanie was wondering if Assume, referring to Ron, was he mowing the lawn and Daisy dukes um Fredo said, it's sad and horrifying, but it's hard to empathize for foolish BILLI billionaires pulling crazy stunts to brag about a story point taken. Yes, I do take your point, Fredo, and I understand that. Um, a lot of people are are. It's been a interesting to see how social media is reacted to this, because people are you know, some people are on social media are joking about it.

45:08 Some people are criticizing the people who are joking about it. I've seen, you know, a lot of that. I mean, personally, it's it's not something I would joke about because I just I just keep thinking about what a horrible way to die. But I'm not mad at the people who are either, because you know, I take Fredo's point. I mean, listen, I feel I feel sadness and empathy for those people, regardless of you know, whether they were billionaires or even if they were terrible people. That just sounds everything about that sounds horrifying to me.

45:39 But at the same time, I'm not clutching my pearls over people joking about it either. I mean, you know, it's a dark humor is still humor. Again, It's not something I would joke about. But I'm not mad at anybody who else does. But it's interesting to see that dynamic play out. You've got. You know, really, you could kind of it's a simplific oversimplification, but you could kind of divide everybody into two groups. You got the people joking about it and the people who are angry at the people who were joking about it.

46:06 We're gonna take this call, but we're gonna have to make it quick. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this? I think it's not such a bad way to die? Really? Why is that? Dave Ridley? Well, first of all, it's fast? Uh huh? Is that? I think? I mean if it happened, if it happened at three hundred feet, it wouldn't be fast. But if it happened, you know, halfway to the Titanic, it's going to be really quick. Death depends on how they died. But it may have been a sudden implosion. If yeah, if it's if it's the implosion as they think, right, you're right, if it was something slower, but you know, if it was some kind of If it was something slower, they would have had, I think time to get a message out.

46:49 Oh, I don't know. I don't know if it's that simple, But I don't. I don't know. I don't even like thinking about it. To be honest with you, I hope for their sake that it was fast. I'll say that. Yeah, I do too, and I don't. I don't begrudge them at all. They're billionaires. That's fine, as long as they didn't steal to get their money or something is yeah, yeah, that's It's what a wonderful world we live in. If that's the way people die, that's so much better than being you know, uh, beaten to death with an antler bone over a over an antler, or over over over a you know, over a piece of meat.

47:28 That's the way people have died for the previous two million years, since people were created. I had a nightmare once that that's how I died. Any when that happened. Uh, Dave, we're a little tight on we're a little tight on time. What do you have for us? Well? What the main thing is that there's no active aggression here that I didn't know of just too I have in the submarine and looking around again, no aggression, no grievance. So there's nothing to be angry about with these people, or I don't see a reason laugh at them.

48:00 But if you're laughing at them, that's also not an active aggression, right, I agree. I am curious though. What I'm curious though, what virtual Dave Ridley has to say about it? Still? Are you're still on about that? I just have to pull him up out of the bowels of your computer and see what he says, well, he just appeared on the screen.

48:22 No one seems to be very excited. Yeah, I can't control him. It's virtual, Dave Ridley. Can you even hear him? I cannot hear him. You cannot hear him? Oh okay, Well, but anyway, I did speaking of active aggressions that I did want to correct something that I had called about yesterday. Yeah. I talked about how we were talking about Drag Queen Story Hours and how it's not an active aggression to sit down in the wrong clothes and read a story with children in the room, right, that's not an active aggression.

48:49 Right. However, I guess actually, something I missed is that some of these are taking places at public libraries, so taxpayers are forced to under writes them. And that's the point I was kind of missing moment to mention it, but I didn't get around to it. So that would be the legitimate grievance, is it you're forced to underwrite it? Does that make sense? I see, yes, I mean I you know, in a broader sense. I see that a bit differently, But I take your point. But most of these are happening like these drags Drag Queen Story Hours, drag time story hours whatever they call them.

49:22 At a lot of private businesses are doing them, uh you know, and then they're they're being harassed by these uh, these guys who show up with the masks and the Nazi uh propaganda and so forth. But but but, but I understand what you're saying, though, I do understand. Um. Oh, dave one other thing, and I don't mean to rush you, but we're coming up at the top of the hour, and we have a musical guest coming in. But do you happen to know that were you able to find out the name of the individual who uh caused the problem about that subject that we talked about.

49:53 I think it was yesterday we talked about that, right, Well, I'm trying to find out if it's someone deemed I guess Marge or something like that. I'll give you a chance to search it. Uh. I don't have an answer for that question that you can catch yourself or you can ask the internet. Is Marge the person who's who's going to be speaking and who was objecting to the the drag queen story out Marsh? Yeah, I don't know who that would be. Yeah, huh okay, oh oh, interesting all right, Dave. Uh, we got a scoot.

50:24 Unless you have anything else to add, that's super quick. Yep, all right, Dave. Uh. You want to plug Porkfest or whatever whatever you want to pork dot com, porkfest dot com. There'll be time to get there for the big weekend is that this weekend, well, the end of it is this weekend, and that's when it climaxes on you know, Saturday, gotcha, gotcha? It ends on Sunday. Okay, very good. All right, Dave, thank you for the call, appreciate it, and we'll talk to you soon. I'm sure welcome for the call.

50:55 Okay, bye, bye bye, all right, that was Dave Ridley. Oh I think oh virtual virtual Dave Ridley also wanted to say goodbye. Okay, bye, Yes, there you go. Sorry, I didn't mean to neglect uh, okay whatever, yes, yes, virtual Dave. Really, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to to neglect you. So anyway, let's do this. So we're gonna go to uh, we're gonna take a break, we're gonna play we're gonna honor Easyg's request the song bad News by the Great Amanda McCarthy, and then we'll show some love to our amazing sponsors, might play one other song.

51:30 Actually we'll seek something else in there too, But when we come back, we're gonna have our great guests with us. Ricky Mapleton is here. He is in the building. I saw him out in the hallway, so I know he's definitely here. So there is plenty more Matt Connerton unleashed to come. Don't go anywhere. Welcome back, everybody. We are in our number two numerodos of Matt Connerton Unleashed. By the way, the artist who did that particular version of my theme song, I'm going to introduce you in just a moment because he is here in studio with us.

51:57 But welcome everybody. We are live from the studio of w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven. If you're in Manchester, certain Hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Thursday June twenty two, two thousand, twenty three, and we're gonna grab this call real quick.

52:28 Well he was on the line. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton. Unleash. Who's this, hey, retcho, it's me on Live Live. Oh my god, Jerry, Jerry Robinson is calling me two days in a row. This is amazing. Oh yeah, yeah, Well I can't be shut this off. Hold on a second, what is going on? Wow? This is terrible? Hold on, Matt, Yeah, this is please. I want to shut I want to put this on a roof. I can't. I gotta put this phone in another room. What a calamity this is? This is a remarkable Wait old, go second, I'm gonna lock up the phone.

53:02 Yes, yes, go ahead, jail right now, the phone is going to jail. The phone is wow. This is uh, this is incredible. But I couldn't shut it off in time. I see. Yes, so, uh what's happening? Well, I'm sitting here with I'll go ahead and introduce him Ricky Mapleton. Is that the news to ask? Hi? Ricky? Hello? Hello? Uh? And uh this is uh gentleman, Now, this is not this is Joe. This is not Jerry Robinson on the phone. Oh you know he's been calling your show for two days in a row. Well, I don't really care.

53:39 You know nothing for nothing, Matt. But I don't understand what is the purpose of these people trying to make a name for themselves. Why can't they make a name for themselves on their own? Why do they need me for them to make a name for themselves? Are you talking about you feel Ricky Mapelton is trying to make a name off of you. That's not true, is it, Ricky? You don't even know this guy. No, I have no idea who you are. Yeah, see, I don't know what Ricky. Oh yeah, Jerry Robinson, you mentioned that called two Days in a Row in your studio line.

54:12 Right. Oh, he's incredible, that guy, I'll tell you. I mean, if you listen to him, he's like the next uh rated R comedy. Sorry, he's the next Howard Stern. Right. Nadi here, Yeah, it's true, he's amazing. Nadi here, Come on, Who's he's incredible? My manager heard his show and said it was completely boring and uninteresting. Oh, I don't know. You know that I'm the real deal. Why do you think you play a bit on me the other day? I think he's got the real deal. I think now for a long time. I think he's got something.

54:45 I really do. But you know, hey, different strokes for different folks, you know what I mean. Yeah, but that's I don't have an argument with that man. But my argument is, yeah, why is this guy harassing me on my YouTube videos? Which is, um, I don't know, can you say it? Uh? If you're not sure if you can say it, probably shouldn't. All right, No, no, I could say the channel. It's the Oh I thought you were the channel. I thought you can you can say that, right. I thought you were trying to figure out if you could say a bad word.

55:14 No, no, no, no bad words. I don't need bad words. The Crazy Joe what the hell isten the Crazy Choe Show? Yeah, Crazy Joe Show on YouTube? Yeah, I got one hundred seven subscribers. I got three thousand. But you know what it is, Matt, I'm on the wrong side of the fence. Yeah. I'm not on the left. I'm on the right. Yeah, I see yeah, yeah, you know, look at political talk radio it's all lefties. Wait that's not true though. Anyway. I feel for you. I feel for you. Yeah, and I and uh listen, I uh, like I said, you know these guys that come out of the woodwork harass me on my channel.

55:53 H you know, like uh Eric and Billy Painter and all these guys. I guess they have no careers. They have to harass me to get a career because like nobody really cares about the wellboy, damn, I'm sorry. I'm sorry you feel that way, Joe, I'm sorry you feel that way. Well, do you have any questions? Why? Why are you sorry? Yeah? I just I'm sorry you feel that way. Do you have any questions for our guests? We have Ricky Mapleton here in the in studio. Yes, that's him. You know. That's a really great song.

56:31 And I have to get my own theme song. And who knows, maybe this guy will write for me one day. Wow, I doubt it because you know, you'll you'll probably tell him on the side, you know, sidebar. Listen, this guy is no good Trump supporter. Oh my goodness. Well, you know you'll probably tell him that. I don't want to ask him if you want to write a song for it. I don't, crazy, Joe, I don't. I don't tell anyone what to do. Uh, you sit down in the air, put on the side, world we'll have to see. We'll have to see what happens.

57:04 I love you to play. Thank you very much, Matt. I haven't talked to you a long time. I really glad that you did a bit on me the other day. That makes me feel important in your world. Uh huh, I didn't do a bit on you. That's an old video that you're talking about. Yeah, with the therapist. Yeah, that's old. That's from two years ago, I know. But in your world of New Hampshire with the people kind of boring over there, that's kind of like you. Oh okay, all right, right, so it's kind of you, and it's kind of reverent.

57:36 Probably got a slight speech Impedimenterstand. Hey, I ain't even make fun of myself. Man, you do let alone people of New Hampshire. That's right, that's right. Well I do feel like coming to the studio one time and making myself at home over there. Well, come, you should come by tomorrow. They've got big gay bingo tomorrow night at the Hopknot. You'll love it. Oh my god, do you know that rainbow flag was originally Now you know a lot about rock and roll? Right, magic? Hello? Can I can? I? Can I here for a second, Ricky has something to say.

58:12 Yes, yes, yes, um, would it be no? Just no disrespect? Hello? Hello, no disrespect, no disrespect to the original hippie movement of the sixties. That's our flag and we should see them for one hundred billion dollars. Excuse me our flag without any authorization. Now what now? Am I right? Excuse me? Flag? Excuse me back in the day? No? Hello, Hello? Could I get a word in please? Yes, Ricky, I brought a whole bunch of stuff with me today that I would love to uh for you to listen to. Could you give me a little space so I can start some of the things that I brought in.

58:50 I really appreciate it. Well, this was the last thing I was going to ask me. No, but I really I'm running out of time. Oh careful, now this is a real New Yorker you're talking to. You know, No, just I just don't disrespect. I just want to play some stuff that I brought. Okay, all right, listen, guys, have a good day. Matt Uh you got to answer that question for me. Yes, yes, yes, I think you should sue the uh gay people for all their money. Yes, absolutely, whatever you say. Good day. All right, Joe, all right, byebye, all right, but I check out Jerry Robinson.

59:21 He's amazing. All right, very good, very good. Well, Ricky, that was uh you got to experience a rare thing just now. Um yeah, I guess I hope you can appreciate that. I need to appreciate what just happened. But I kind of don't. Uh. I see we have a call, all a call coming in now. This is uh boy, there's probably somebody uh who know you know, we had all kinds of strange characters around here. Matt and Ricky made Welton. It's him again on a show together. Matt, thank you so much. This is now. I am the president of the Ricky Mableton Fan Club.

1:00:04 Me and Ricky Mableton have gone back for many, many years. And I'll say at the community, the McClinton Joe and the Ricky Mableton Joe are on twenty four seven. We never take it off. We love you guys so much and I'm thrilled to be on now now, Ricky, m I heard rumors that you had a barbecue and English she English, she was invited, don't you totally no regard for the community here who love you well, you have a lot of explaining to do, Ricky, let me tell you that right now. But my god, I am thrilled that you have some new music out and we hear at the community who are a little bit indigestive problem sometimes and we love this song called Rice from the Rest to Be Songs.

1:01:00 So, um, I'm gonna try to calm down, uh and let me let me just say it's great to be on this show. Thank you. Could we uh wow, everybody who's calling today, this is very uh strange uh and very intense ways of speaking. But you could all calm down and listen to that Rice song, should we? Now? This is about rice. The concept of this is musical project Matt is a recipe songs a minute, thirty minute, that's it. Quick. Oh you want to know how to make some food? Bom you listen to it, no pot, no video, it's just bum bum bum and under a minute.

1:01:37 Wow. All right, Well Jenny would love me to learn how to cook so fifty choices at well? All right, well let's check this. Uh, this is about cooking rice. Yes, all right, important, let's have a listen here. It's got to load it up. It's funny how shorter songs, take longer to load it. Sometimes, Uh, it's coming, I think, well here here it is in parts water, one part rice. Little bit of bottle will make get also right. Bring it to a boil. Cover it real vast load. Attempt to one four fifteen minutes.

1:02:13 But don't lift the lid. Don't lift the cover. Don't lift the lid or the cover. Don't lift that lid for fifteen minutes. Don't do it, no matter what the voice he head say. After fifteen minutes, take get off the heat for another fifteen minutes. Just let it be bud. Don't lift the cover. Don't lift the cover. Never, never, never lever lift the cover. Then your rice be so fine because it's two parts water, one part rice, two parts water, one part rice. Little bit of butter will make it also right now, two parts water, one part rice.

1:02:59 Lit a bit of butter will make it all right. Bring it to a boil. Cover it real fast load of temperature to one of our fifteen minutes. After fifteen minutes they get up, they eat for another the fifteen minutes. Just don't lift the cover. Don't lift the cover. Don't lift the cover. Don't lift the cover. Two parts water, one part rice, A little bit of butter will make it also, right, Okay, Now I have a question, um, because and again free of my ignorance, I don't I don't cook. But and this is the this is the songs for you.

1:03:40 Yeah, well apparently, but you seem to really emphasize in that not lifting the cover. I mean what happens if you lift the covers you have, then all the steam will escape. Yeah, and its steam what's actually cooking the rice. Okay, so if you take the water, bring it to a boil with the rice in it, yeah, and then trap that steam in lower the temperature. Yeah. All that steam is what the rice is absorbing. So if you release that steam more than like it's going to become crunchy. It's not going to inflate if you would it almost h It's very simple technique.

1:04:17 It's like four steps and it's it's economical. Rice is fantastic. Oh easy to do? Is this sound like a steam engine works on a train and you've got the rice on the butter and that makes the engine go? Um? I mean I'm ignorant to these matters. It's it's um. I don't never compare it to a steam engine before and how do you know, Well, don't they serve that like not on a steam engine, but like on the trolley cars rice Erny they serve that as San Francisco tree? Yeah? Yeah? Is that why? Because the steam makes the makes it go?

1:04:51 I don't know. And you gotta trap that steam in and then you lower the temperature for fifteen minutes because at some point you've got to lift the cover right when you're done. But how do you know when you're done? Because it's been thirty minutes fifteen fifteen to a couple of minutes to the boil cover it turn it down to one for fifteen minutes. Oh I see. Now that's another thing though, that's confusing to me. There seems to be math involved. Well I'm not very good in math either. Math, but let me tell you two parts to one part.

1:05:22 That's all you need to know. Fifteen fifteen two parts to one part. That sounds like perhaps you might have to listen to that song a few more. What is this algebra? No? No, no, no, no, no, no, hard It could be cooking in It's very difficult to me. Now what if it's um? Isn't there like something you can cook like minute rice, where you don't. That's called pard boil. You can't overcook it or undercook it. Because I thought the oud said because it's never boiled, it's par boiled. What does that mean?

1:05:47 That means it's already been buying the factory. They kind of already cooked it a little bit for you. I thought par was like a golf thing. No, oh, no, I don't know anything about it. We have any other callers? Well, ye, six three two five h six O seven. The studio line is open if you would like to call six three two five. Oh, actually, uh, we do have somebody on the line, all right, number I don't recogge. This is English. She English wanted the honor it is to be on your show. Match And I cannot believe that you have a Rickey Mapleton with you today.

1:06:23 Neither you two are quite stunned, as I must say. Why I called, because I am prim and proba. I called to tell Agones to please just calm down. The reason I was at Ricky's house for the barbecue. I just happened to be a friend of her sister, I mean, excuse me, of his sister, and that he was having a small get together small get together and I just happened to be there. How you found out about it is beyond me awing, And really I think we just all need to be friends and you need to calm down. Who who okay?

1:07:06 Who make it easy? Um? Matt, could you possibly play honey glazed him? I'm delicious, delicious, delicious food that I love and I cannot believe it is on your new musical project called Recipe Songes Darling. Well, maybe someday you could come over you and man, oh oh oh oh, before I get myself into trouble, have a great day. Oh this is English sheet, What what does she matter you about? You invited? You didn't invite her to barbecue or something? And then you want when Agnes the first our first call or knows English?

1:07:56 Knows English? Yeah, they've kind of a longed known each other back and forth, uh for a good couple of years now. And what happened was I invited English she over. I didn't know that English she uh was coming over? Yeah, and um there's always been a little back and forth between them two about who is the UH. I don't know the uh executor of the Ricky Makerton fan Club. I guess you could. I guess you could say. Yeah, yeah, So she's upset that English she came over and English. He's trying to calm um, trying to call she's trying to call Agnes down.

1:08:32 Oh I thought she was selling you to calm down because you think we all doing a little better right now. Oh that's good that the show started a little bit interesting and proudly. But yes, well, I guess we can. We can play the song. What song? Want to the honey glaze? Tim? Now? Now, matth do you know how to make honey glaize him? I don't even eat honey. I don't like ham, and I don't really like things glazed with honey. I have to be honest with you. It sounds the sky saying, but maybe the song will change my mind.

1:09:01 Well, well, on the on these fifty songs that was just put out, there are many other options for you. Okay, you a better cook in a short period of time. Well, well, good, good, Well I'll keep an open mind. We'll play the song. I'll listen with an open mind and an open heart. God bless you, sir, thank you, thank you. Here we go, honey clothes, ham steak, rest up, beat song. Get yourself two pounds at ham steak. Three fourth it's just stick. One fourth cup on honey, one table spoon prepared spicy mustard, one teaspoon grated lemon rhyme, one fourth teaspoon round clothes.

1:09:51 You're meece and blast. You're ready to go. Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. White ham steak, clean with the baker ty woo. Place it in a shallow baking dish in a small ball but your honey and mustarde, lemon, and clothes spread over the ham steak baked four three hundred and fifty degrees for twenty five minutes. You want to stop in baste it every once in a while, but careful not to burn yourself. Honey glaze heampsteak. Oh yeah, honey glazed hamsteak. Honey glazed hamsteak. Enjoy your honey I lazed hamst math.

1:10:51 Did you get anything out of that? Yeah? I mean, even though I would never in my life eat honey glazed ham that song did make uh cooking, Uh, that particular item kind of sound kind of sexy. That's uh, it's the baseline, I think. Yeah, that's that Fender precision that we talked about. Oh, yes, I do this one. It was mostly all Fender Precision and drums. We're pretty much I had. I had a couple of my friends come over and uh did some acoustic stuff. Okay, that's on the album as well, but the ones that I kind of picked out, those first couple was all about the Fender.

1:11:29 Oh wow, So I know a lot of what you record you do all yourself. But yeah, yeah, it's a struggle. But you had you had some help on on this album. Yes, yeah, I had some help doing the some acoustic songs. I think there's a couple on on bat maybe or do you want to if you want to talk to uh Tom tom Uelson? Oh yeah, you Why do he want us to call in? I can't believe that though. That's lit up so much. Oh actually I think this is probably him Tom. Hello, Tom, Hello, Hi Thomas is Tom tom Uelson? Hi? How you doing?

1:12:03 Voice of Reasons? Very very fantastic situation that has arisen on Matt Show. Matt long time listener, first time getting involved. I see that Ricky Mapleton is here. I am a member of the Ricky Mapleton fan club, and I am proud to say, Matt that you are getting a free membership lifetime membership to the Ricky Mapleton Fan Club because I am the unofficial accountant and presidents no matter what English or Agnes might say this. Now, well, we have quite a history altogether, and this is a great honor to be on your show.

1:12:49 Thank you, thank you. It is a great honor of mine too. If I could request an all American USA song from the new Ricky Mapleton album Recipe Songs American Chop, Suee

1:13:11 would be fantastic that I like. Okay, wow, Matt, we have your at tension on that one though. All right, Okay, before we go to the song, could you tell me what you think is in American you know how you make it? Uh? Well how you make it? I have no idea. I just someone else makes it. It appears in front of me and then I eat. Okay, I really think I need to work on you and get you into the kitchen a little bit. Well it's uh, you know, like I said, well, you know, the glaist ham sounded interesting, although it made me blush a little bit, but uh but uh yeah, I don't know.

1:13:45 I mean there's like, uh, what what's what's in a this uh, got your album. Let's just play the song. Let's just play this yeah, yeah, because I'll explain it right, yeah, well hopefully oh okay, all right, hopefully yeah. I like I like the idea of this one. All right, we'll take a list. Here comes American Chop. Suey Arresser, being chop, suey Arresser. Be all right, now, ground down some hamburger, little bit of onions in there, Cook until it's really brown. Then strain that grease, put it back on the skillet.

1:14:29 Keep it warm. That's the mail it. Now, boil some water in a stark pot, get it, boil your land and drop some macroni in there. Stirred around, stirred around, not that sticky, but I'm Dante or firm to the bike. Then strain that elbows off. Added to the hamburger. You're getting close to it, you know what time it is. Add some tomatoes, add some sauce, add some Italian season. Hey you made American shop sue it. American shop sue it my favorite? Wow? Yeah? That uh, that song is delicious. Yes, I dare say, can I share a memory?

1:15:39 Oh please? Every time I see talk about eat American Chop stor. He brings me back to when I went to kindergarten over at the Greek Church in Manchester, you know, the one that it's kind of rounded. Yeah, it was a place next door called Kittie Club across the street from that. Yeah, and that was the high light. That's all that sticks out to me. Dana, really nice side and American chop and that just oh yeah, yeah, So if you could pull that off, what's up make that American chops? Do it? No, it sounded confusing to me.

1:16:15 I heard in the lyrics a bunch of different ingredients and there's like an order to it. And I'll tell you, I mean to be honest with you, and I hope you'll take this as a compliment. When I'm when I'm sometimes when I'm hearing these lyrics, especially with that song, I'm so focused on just imagining the food itself and I'm thinking about I'm thinking about eating it. It just sounds so good that I'm not thinking about making it. I'm just thinking about eating it, you know what I mean. Well, that's um, that's part of the idea.

1:16:45 Yes, part of the concept of this was don't have to go on YouTube and listen to somebody talk right twenty minute boom boom boom right minute minute fifty right bang bang boom. Ye. Time to cook that that's amazing. Oh, by the way, we have a call. Oh it's not back out, Willie Man. This Oh, Ricky Mapleton. I had a together a while back. Remember I've known you for years, Ricky, and now I went through some hard times again. But I want to tell you, after listening to your new recipe songs, I have seen the light.

1:17:33 I am eating better, I'm feeling better, and I'm a partly much like you and Matt. I am looking better. Yeah. I came out what I'm saying all right, Willie? What got me through? What was listening to you? A bonus cot from your new musical project, Recipe Socks. This song is called open Backyard, Open Mind. I listened to that song, yeah, and I went Ricky mabeledon once again has pulled me out of the indulgiums. Wow, maa, rick thank you. Oh that's it your anna, I plead as okay. Wow. I've noticed this about your your fans who are calling today, They're all very enthusiastic.

1:18:31 Well, thank you. I'm I try to be a caring nurturer to my call was much like you. Yes, and I think I have an eclectic um audience. I'll call in a regular basis much like yeah. Yeah. Now, Willie lives up in Vermont and he has gone through some very difficult times. It's a very successful times. Okay. Um, right now, it seems like he may have how do you say, relapsed maybe or but over the years, um, he's got himself together, got himself a job. When I first started talking to him, he was very down, and it looks like he's back on.

1:19:09 I'm I'm super happy to hear that, Willie. Yeah, super happy to hear that. We're here for you always, um, and I'm glad you're liking the new stuff. Well, we can play that. What was that song called that? He was Empty Backyard, Empty Mind. Well that's interesting. So is that a food item? No? No, on this we have two bonus tracks, oh, one called twenty five Years and three Affairs, oh and empty Backyard, Empty Mind. Okay, So this has an acoustic on it. Okay, it just has an acoustic guitar um brought in by with one of my friends.

1:19:46 And you could fade it out whenever you want. But It's basically saying that if you have a cluttered backyard, or a cluttered front yard or a cluttered house, your your mind is cluttered. In recently recent I got, I said enough is enough, and I got my backyard. I threw out all the old patio furniture, couch I got three years ago from the side of the road that smelled like mildew uh, and it feels great. I feel want to go out there now, empty backyard, empty mind. All right, well, let's let's say a listen.

1:20:25 I got a full backyard in a closed mind. I don't know Rachel, mister patio furniture for his emper mind, I can damn up the past few years. Now I sit here and say, oh my dear, I got a full backyard and a closed line. Made an appointment to get me. I trembled. Took a few weeks, but now it's gone. Now I'm sitting here in my backyard. I got it ade backyard, and it opened mind mine. I got it Adie backyard opened mine and adnine. I got it Adie backyard and at open mine. Well, time went on. I got a few faints, a port, sweet, a share, a couch, and bad I looked around and said, oh no, I got a full backyard in a closed mind.

1:22:06 Gonna be well enough. A live got rid of it again, won't be the means to it. Because I got out open heart and a lean backyard. I got it open backyard, and it opened in mind.

1:22:34 I got it open back yard, got it open back yard. Baby. Along with it comes that open alway that open. Along with it, come that open bit. I got it a big man my back yard, sod my back yard that I got y d. I got it back yard and it wow, very nice. Now, who's that singing with you? That's called DJ Cole His name he goes under DJ Okay and UM known him for a long time. It was a beautiful acoustic um. He actually wrote on the other bonus track on here called twenty five years and three of five? Is that maybe we can get too?

1:24:00 How are we doing on time? My friend? We got about who's sixteen seventeen minute? Okay? Could we could he move forward down? Some more of our cars? I hate to leave them out looks like Matt Farley's online five legendary Matt Farley. Wow, he's legendary. You don't even know. He's an amazing man. Oh hello, my name is Matt Farley, a mojourn Media. I'm a huge Ricky Mapleton face, and it's really cool to hear him on the Matt Cottison Show, Very Cool Things. You're getting a little tense there, and I'm glad it's calmed down because Ricky's music.

1:24:35 He's all about positivity and bringing people together, and no better way to do that than by listening to a rickommunicating. So could I request the Hummus songs? All right? A quick background on him. I want to give him his plug. He was on. I just was in a movie. He writes movies. This is a movie called um Hurt You Got Murdered, the follow up to Hurt You Got Married. And I went down to the Marriott where he premiered it, and there was over two hundred people there. He's built up such a fan base.

1:25:06 He's kind of like my mentor. I think I've talked about him before, yes, last time. And he has twenty five thousand songs out. Oh my god, I get five thousand songs out where Ricky Mapleton now was getting close to a thousand songs. He has twenty five thousands. Are those films available online, by the way stream Absolutely yup. Yeah, I've been doing. I get a little short, short, little cameos if you would to maybe some lines with a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah, a lot of fun. Um. Let's check out his Hamas song.

1:25:35 Yeah. Jenny likes Thomas, She'll losh. Okay, good, good Jenny. This is for you, for you, there you go. I hope I make it the waymis rest up. One fourteen ounce can of gorbonzo beans, one fourth cup tahini, two tablespoons of flax seed, one fourth or couple of lemon juice, two garland clothes chopped, one for teaspoon, ground cuman one for teaspoon, a sea song, one eight tea spoon, a pepper fu put a moll toginder in a fruit process on. Blend it up, blend it up, blend it up until smooth. If you don't got one of those, mash it with the fork or a mash your wood worth Because y'are making hummis muff buff making, hummus making hummus made muff making, hummus making hummus muff muff making hummus, make get hummis.

1:26:36 It's good for you. Uh, I like my hummed song cracket is I mean some put it on bread. Yeah, some put it as a male and a ramp or snap snap snap. Because you're making hummis, make my hummus. Making hummis good for you, Making hum is mum magan ummous less expensive. You can make it from scratch hum miss mum mummm making nummius hum miss mum mum mum huh miss making us good for you. Mariam banished and the chat Ram says she also loves hummas. Who you know hummus? I think very a lot of people get it. I think it's very misunderstood still at this time as far as in in.

1:27:32 I mean, I know it's a big sellar billions of dollars, But do you think hummus? Why couldn't they Chris call it chickpeas mashed chickpeas? Wow? Well, you know, economy of language, Thomas is only two syllables mashed chick pieces three kind of like co slaw. You know who wants shredded shredded cabbage and mayonnaise right right at the coslaw. I guess marketing is the whole thing. Hey, somebody is calling, and uh, I think this is someone who called earlier, though oh numbers on the caller ideas familiar.

1:28:01 Hi, welcome. This is Agnes Ran from the community on coming back. I'm me and Gildahan and the rest of the community would just like to apologize if we came over a little abrupt during our first phone call. We'd love you, guys, I love all of you, Okay. Well, I hope we can all live in peace and enjoy the joy that artists like Ricky Mandleton bring to the table. Matt, you're a lovely human being. Well, thank you, And I'd just like to say if you could possibly play Shepherd's Pie resumee because shepherds are about togetherness and working in unity and love.

1:28:43 Okay, this is Aggness and Gildan and the rest of the community. Wow, hey you now you didn't know you's such a big fan base. Uh well, I mean big, even bigger than you. While you're at you know, you're bringing the calls. Although some of these people sound it's not crazy Joe. I call it the kind of sound like crazy Joe a little bit. I'm sorry. I wonder kinda they might be related. Starting to wonder if you're working with him secretly or something possibly possibly are very intuitive? A very intuitive?

1:29:11 What what what did you want to play? We play a little bit of the next Shepherd's pie? Oh no, okay, Matt, what's what's what's the three ingredients of Shepherd's pie? For fifty points? I don't know. I haven't had shepherd's pie since I was probably a Well, it's very unto to say. Yes, you could say it's also used to be known as Chinese pie. Really not was shepherd's pie. I don't know what's politically correct anymore. But let's listen. It's delicious and you could do it, hopefully, so you could do this, You could do this one?

1:29:39 All right? Well, well we'll see shepherd's pie like that. It's easy as one, two, three. Brow down some hamburger about pound and I have strain it out. Strain it out, put it on the bottom of a deep pan or dish. Get yourself some corn, spread it over the meat, make yourself some mashed potatoes. Make it smooth. Make it smooth. You can find how to make mashed potatoes if you listen to another one of my grooves. Then put the corn on top of the hamburger. Then take the mashed potatoes that goes on the top, put it into and preheating of it at about three fifty for about forty five millionuts or the mashed potatoes start getting a little golden brown of crispie.

1:30:44 Shepherds pie, Shepherd's pie resser bee, now Shepherd's pie, Shepherd's pie, Shepherd's pie resser bee, Shepherd's pie, shepherds pie. It's a classic sippers pie, shepherds pie. What's that? What's that line? From a risky business? There was a preponderance of basse um. I love it though, by the way, so uh, Miriam Banish in the chat room says, shepherd's pie has lamb. If it's beef, it's called cottage pie. But what that reminds me of? So when I was a kid, I'd forgotten about this until I and then I remembered hearing the song.

1:31:42 When I was a kid, my mother would make it, but she she called it cow pie cow pie because of the beef. Yes, because because it wasn't with lamb. But yes, interesting. Thank you for thanks for responding online. Yes, yes, absolutely, well, very good, very good. Um oh actually hang on, we got another call here. Oh wow, thank you everybody for calling it. Yeah, very very busy shell. Let's see who this is. Oh, hello, you're on the A Matt. Yeah, my name is Kobe Browerk. I live in Manchester. I've been a big fan of Ricky Mapleton's and I'm so glad you've got him in the studio there.

1:32:17 That guy is so cool and his music is so much fun. And

1:32:23 I know he's got some recipe songs out there. I'm a big pancake lover me too. Yeah, boy, he's got a song about making pancakes. If you could play that, I think everybody would love it. All right, glare glad here got him on, and I hope we can hear more of his music. All right, Toby, Well, thank you for the call. All right. Well, well, I love pancakes. Jenny makes really good pancakes. But I suppose with this song we'll learn how you make them standard recipe? Is it standard standard? The world of pancakes?

1:32:53 All right, Well, let's have a listen here here we go. Well, we'll see it. We'll see what the song says. Pancake recipe song. Come along and sing along, Come and make some pancakes with me. This is high in two and gather up one egg three forest cups of milk, one tablespoonup oil and set it aside. In a separate mixing bowl, get one cup of flour, one TABLESPOONUS sugar, hafty spooner salt, and a TABLESPOONU baking powder. Make some and set that aside. Hey hey, hey, now beat the eggs until fluffy. Add milk, oil, and beat again until they're fluffy.

1:33:43 Old. Now, in a separate mixing bowl, SIPs the flour, sugar, bacon, powder, and salt. Add the wet ingredients and mix makes makes I'm saying, life's like a pancake. One two three Life, It's like a pancake. Can't you see? Make up those ingredients not that much. A little lumpy is okay, but stirred up, stirred up, stirred up, stirred up. Yeah, all right, now, grease a pan, put it over medium heat. Pour about three tea spoons of batter on it. Cooking still the edges start to brown and bubble start on top.

1:34:27 Then flip them over to the other side. Optional dash of sitting the man an oh meal, wheat, germ, chips are fruit. You know what I'm saying. The life is like a pancake, but one, two, three, I was like, I can't. Can't you see what am? I think I had a little fund. Your pancakes will be number one. I'm saying, your pancakes. Your pancakes will be

1:35:05 I love my pancakes, baby, eat them up. Yeah, I mean

1:35:17 congratulations, enjoy your pancakes. Oh that's nice. Wow, very good. Well, so there's more would come with pancakes on well in the batter? Yeah, I think it's just waste space. Oh well, very nice. Miriam Banish and the chat room says these would work really well for kids songs. I work with fifth and sixth graders, and I think some might love it. Yes, very good, use them, use them away, yes, yes, very good, very good. We are rapidly running out of time, Ricky, do you want to we could? Probably you want to fit one more in here?

1:35:58 We've got we got the mashed Potato song or twenty five years in three affairs. Why don't we play the mashed Potato song and then we'll well, we'll come back and tell everybody where to find these, and then we'll end with twenty five years and three affairs. That's a down or anything in that song? Well, maybe not, is it? Maybe not? Maybe not, might not be able to fit the whole song in Actually we mash, but why don't we do a little bit of the mash. All right, let's let's listen to this. Mashed potatoes must be pretty easy.

1:36:30 I would think, Ah, well, we'll find out what's gonna one. Two. This is how you make mashed potatoes. This is how you make mashed potatoes. Get of water to a boil. Cut your potatoes off in a little baby cubes. Put them in the water until the tender. Take them out and put them in the strainer. Put them in the blender or a mash up. If you don't have it, you can use a fork. Mash them up. Mash them up. Mash up those mashed potatoes. Mash them up, mash them up. Done, mashed potatoes. Some people like to eat them clean or salt and pepper, maybe fian Some put some butter in them.

1:37:27 Some some some tash some sour cream till the end. I like mine with baking bits. I like mine with a little bit of chives and bits, some basil, some other things. But this is all you have to do is put them in some boiling water,

1:37:51 make them tender, like very cool. I'm gonna pull it down, Ricky, just because we're about to run out of time. I don't I don't want to. I want to thank you super much for having me on Matt Always always a rot, so much fun, my pleasure. And I'll play that the song that we didn't get to. I'll open with it tomorrow on the show. So will you leave people with a little bit of a teaser, We'll we'll play that one. I'll open that one tomorrow. But Ricky, where can people go online to find this? Facebook's my home.

1:38:19 Okay, Ricky Mapleton, right on Facebook. Um, please contact me, okay, um yeah, six three, seven eighty five, two five nine, I'm old school. Please give me a call. And these are all on YouTube. These are all on YouTube, Spotify and all your major digital platforms. Yes, yes. Oh by the way, Jenny and the chat room says, that is so cool of you to say she can use the songs for the kiddos. You're an awesome dude. Wow, thank you, Tella, thank you, thank you, and thank you absolutely absolutely, Ricky.

1:38:51 This has been wonderful and uh learned a lot, learned a lot and um, if you miss any part of today's show. Of course, it'll be up in just a little bit of WMH radio dot org and on my website Matt Connerton dot com. But uh yes, and um oh, and you probably don't know this, but I opened the show today with one of your songs too, the one about do you have any led Zeppelin albums? I love that. Oh yes, yes, I still play that one. So oh, thank you, thank you. Yeah, that's all based on semi fact, semi no that is.

1:39:21 That is really great stuff. All right, So Ricky Mapleton, thank you. And of course, if you're listening live on Thursday, coming up next is Through the Stage Door with the great Rob die On and don't forget to be back bright and early tomorrow morning, seven am for the Morning Show with Peter White. And uh Friday, of course, not only am I on, but I'll do double duty on Friday Tomorrow night Retrospectrum Radio with PAULI c And it will be part two of our show on original demo recordings of popular songs, So be sure to check in with us for that.

1:39:53 All right, that's gonna do it. We got to get out of here. We are out of time. Thanks again, Ricky, thank you, thank you, everyone who called everybody