Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-27-23

Hey, everybody, welcome, here we go. It is that time again,

Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n

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Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links,

contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Tuesday, June

twenty seven, twenty twenty three, so nice to have you all with me.

By the way, that track that I opened with that is a song

faded from a German band called Heel's Throne, who were on the program with

us recently skyping in of course, but I love that track so much.

Actually played that at the end of yesterday's show and didn't get you know,

didn't have time to play the whole thing, but that's my favorite song from

them, and I just love that. That's one of those songs that just

gets stuck in my head. So I was like, you know what,

I didn't get to play the whole thing yesterday. I'm gonna open with it

today. So I've got some political song parodies I could play, but you

know, or sometimes we feature music from upcoming guests, but I just I

had to play that today. So I love that song so much that has

faded. Heel's Throne. It's h E l apostrophe s and and throne,

so it's like Hell's Throne but with only one e. So there you go.

Great great German band. Look him up online. All their stuff is

really really good. But that's my personal favorite. And speaking of music,

coming up today on the show, in the second hour, we have a

great in studio guest, Alex Cormier. I don't know if he's of any

relation to PAULI Ce Paul Cormier or Paul Cormier is I like to call him,

but I think Cormier is a pretty common name around here actually, so

probably probably no relation. We'll see, but he's gonna be coming in in

the second hour. He did appear on the Morning Show not too long ago

and just very very impressive, so we invited him to join us on this

program. He'll be here in the second hour Numerodos today, so we're really

looking forward to that. He's gonna come in, Like I said, he's

gonna bring his guitar. He's gonna play for us and we'll chat a little

bit, get to know him and so forth. So that's coming up in

the second hour. We have some other things to get to in the first

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Um, I do want to well, let's do this next. We'll say

hello everybody in the Facebook live chat. See we have in here so far.

Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us of course, Uh, Queen City

Cabinetry, one of our great sponsors here at WMH and the historic Sunbeam Mall.

But Mike also is one of our co hosts on retro Spectrum Radio every

Friday night retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C Fridays from eight to eleven PM.

Of the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show,

along with TJ, Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry. By the

way, if you missed last Friday's show, check it out in the archive

at WMH radio dot org. We were also joined by Kyle Heavy, host

of Off the Mark Sports here at WMNH, so it was a lot of

fun, fun fun times. Mariam Bandis joins us in the chattons this good

afternoon. Hello. Also, Mary Lamay joins us in the chat room.

Hello Mary Crystal, our friend from the great state of Illinois joins us.

Alex Whiteley, one of our friends from the UK, says, what up

all you beautiful people? Alex beautiful British name, Yes, yes, of

course, Alex Cormier joining us in the second hour. I didn't know it

was a British name specifically that had that had not occurred to me, sir,

But but I I will defer to you on that. Um. I

think, well, actually, couple things. This isn't there's a there's a

big story that I want to talk about, and it's not necessarily the one

that you're thinking of, but something local sort of it has to do with

national politics. But this is on newsweek dot com and if you're locally here

in New Hampshire, this story is all over the place, but national media

also covering it. I don't know if how much of how many of you

are aware of this, but in the Republican race for the nomination, there

is not only Donald John Trump, former president, the front runner, the

prohibitive favorite, and as I refer to him, the presumptive presumptive Republican nominee,

because I'm sure he's going to be the nominee. But there's this other

guy from the great State of Florida, governor there run To Santist. You

might have heard of him, or you might have heard him referred to as

run D Santists. Apparently you can say his name either way. He says

his name either way, just like the word either you can say it either

or either you can say it either way, either way, either way I

usually say either. I don't know why I chose to say either. Once

in a while I like to mix it up, as EAZYG would say.

But this is from newsweek dot com. Ron de Santis or de Santis reprimanded

by Republican women in key primary state. And guess what primary state that happens

to be New Hampshire And why is it key? Because we're first in the

nation no matter what Biden and the Democrats try to do. Our Governor Chris

and Nunu insists that we will be first no matter what. But apparently today,

right now as we speak, both Governor Ron de Santis of Florida and

the former President Trump are in New Hampshire with competing events. But this does

not sit well with everyone, it says here Ron de Santis was called out

by a Republican women's group in early voting New Hampshire. By the way,

I have noticed this now because the DNC keeps talking talking about South Carolina now

going first. Some media outlets are no longer referring to New Hampshire as first

in the nation, but now, as they do here in this Newsweek article,

they refer to New Hampshire as quote early voting, and I object to

that. We are not early voting. We are first voting, well unless

you count Iowa. But that's a caucus, so who cares. I mean,

no disrespect, of course my favorite conservative Eric Pilcher, but seriously,

it's a caucus. Doesn't matter. But we are We are not early voting.

We are first voting in the primaries. And I understand that there are

forces trying to take that away from us. But as I always say,

and I paraphrase Charlton Heston when I say this, you will have to pry

the first in the nation status of the New Hampshire primary from our cold dead

hands, and or you just you know, or South Carolina just goes first

and there's nothing we can do about it. I don't know anyway, just

happen to notice that in this article I keep seeing that now referring to New

Hampshire's one of the early states instead of the first. It bothers me.

I'm taking it very personally, my friends, and I think we all should

be I think we should be united in this. Okay, let me reset

here. I got I got worked up, I'm unleashed. I got worked

up. Okay, so Rohnda Sandis was called out by you know what,

I am going to self edit this as I read this. Check this out.

This is why I'm an afternoon drive. Watch this. Ronda Santis was

called out by a Republican women's group in first in the nation primary state New

Hampshire after scheduling an event on the same day and time as a major fundraiser

for the group headlined by his chief political rival, at Donald Trump, and

the decision has driven the group apart. In a statement Thursday, the New

Hampshire Iteration of Republican Women or an HFRW. By the way, I didn't

know this organization. I'm embarrassed to say this. I should know that of

a New Hampshire. I didn't know this organization existed. No offense. Ladies

criticized the Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful for an alleged attempt to pull focus

from the group's annual Lilac luncheon and conquered later this month. By the way,

again, I'm embarrassed to say I didn't know about the Lilac luncheon.

Sounds great, although maybe not for someone like me with allergies. I don't

know if i'd want to be around a bunch of lilacs. They're pretty to

look at, but they might make me sneeze. The event, they said,

was a significant fundraiser for the organization and a key stop for candidates seeking

to court Republicans favor ahead of the state's critical First in the Nation primary.

Oh my goodness, Okay, they've redeemed themselves. In the second paragraph,

they do use the phrase that was me editing this time. They actually used

the phrase First in the Nation primary. Thank you, Newsweek, thank you.

Earlier this week, the group announced it had officially sold out of tickets

for the June twenty seven event, in what the organization described as the largest

Lilac Luncheon crowd in the organizations near eighty year history. This has been going

on for eighty years. It was a thing. Again. I'm very embarrassed

by that. I won't forget next time. I'll remember the Lilac Luncheon.

I'm going to put it in my calendar so I don't forget again. Several

days later, however, Fox News reported to Santa's plan to hold an event

in nearby Hollis at the exact same date and time as the luncheon bucking,

and that was bucking with a bee. I like to be very clear and

concise so I don't get into trouble. A long standing tradition in New Hampshire

politics not to overshadow events put on by in state organizations oop see NHFRW leadership

was quick to reprimand de Santis for the decision. Elizabeth Gerard, the group's

president, said in a statement, quote, the Lilac Luncheon is the pre

eminent fundraiser of the largest grassroots Republican women's organization in the state, and funds

go directly to electing, educating and empowering granted state Republican women running for state

and local offices unquote. Oh but there's more. Quote. This attempt to

pull focus from our Lilac Luncheon only diminishes the efforts of the Republican Women in

New Hampshire who are volunteers working hard to provide opportunities for our membership to have

access to all the candidates unquote. Other members of the group put their grievances

with the governor in more direct terms. Events director Christine Peters said in a

statement quote, to have a candidate come in and distract from the most special

event NHFR holds in the year is unprecedented unquote. Oh, there's a whole

there's a whole statement here. Well, how long is this? Because you

know what I'm thinking? And if you're a longtime listener, you know you

already know what I'm thinking. Right, I could read the statement. I

could read the entire statement, but I could do it in the form of

a dramatic reading. Let's see how long is this? So if it's if

it's like multi pages, I'm not going to do it. Can I just

download this and open it? This is a pain. I don't know if

I'll be able to I don't know if I'll even be able to do this.

I might have to save it for another day. Wait, let me

try, sorry, guys, let me try this really quickly. Here,

I'm just trying to see if I can make this big so I can actually

read it. Oh, here we go. How long is this? Okay,

I'm doing it. I'm doing it. Here we go. Y'all ready

for this? Make it seem like a big deal. Probably nobody even actually

cares. Probably everyone's rolling their eyes, going, oh god, Matt's gonna

do one of his dramatic readings. He's the only one who actually enjoys this.

I know that's not true. People have told me they think it's fun,

even John Hopwood, and he's not very free with the compliments. Okay,

So this is the statement from the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women for

immediate release. Here we go, ready, all right here, it is

a dramatic reading. I haven't done one of these in a long time actually,

And by the way, the title is nhf r W disappointed in De

Santis campaign decision to host town hall during the Historica luncheon date line Conquered New

Hampshire. For those of you out of towners listening online, that's our state

capitol if you didn't know. Okay, here we go. The New Hampshire

Federation of Republican Women released the following statement to express their disappointment with the Desantist

campaign for scheduling a town hall meeting in Hollis in opposition to their historic Lilac

luncheon featuring President Donald J. Trump, forty fifth President of the United States,

scheduled for Tuesday, June twenty seven, two twenty three in Conquered President

Elizabeth Gerard states, quote, the Lilac Luncheon is the pre eminent fundraiser of

the largest grassroots women's Republican organization in the state, and funds raised go directly

to electing, educating, and empowering granted state Republican women running for state and

local offices. This attempt to pull focus from our Lilac Luncheon only diminishes the

efforts of the Republican Women in New Hampshire who are volunteers working hard to provide

opportunities for our membership to have access to all of the candidates. Other Republican

presidential candidates coming to the state next week recognize the longstanding tradition of this special

event and if graciously scheduled around it, allowing NHFRW and its members the opportunity

to showcase all that we are doing for Republican women in the first in the

nation primary process, notes Secretary Emily Tamassi quote. In twenty five years of

running Republican events in New Hampshire, including many Lilac Luncheons, it has always

been a New Hampshire hallmark to be considerate when scheduling events to have a candidate

come in and distract from the most special event, the most special only the

most special event NHFRW holds in the year is unprecedented, remarked Events Director Christine

Peters. In keeping with our by laws, the New Hampshire Federation of Republican

Women is neutral in the Republican primary and we look forward to hosting all the

major Republican primary candidates over the course of this primary season. We would kindly

ask the de Santis campaign reschedule their town hall to not directly conflict with the

Lilac luncheon and respect the efforts of our organization. And seen, there you

go. That's the full statement. That's my dramatic reading, my interpretation of

the full statement. Wow, that was exhausting. So I haven't done one

of those in a while anyway, Rhna Santis, boy, I'll tell you

that guy. What more can you say? Really, that guy, I

could say a lot more, say a lot more about Rhonda Santis. Actually

some of it wouldn't be appropriate for the air, unfortunately, our friend Crystal

from the Great Set of Illinois. As in the chat room, I think

first in the Nation should be voted upon and not the Democrats dictating the change

to benefit themselves because Biden did well there in twenty twenty, referring to South

Carolina, and they assume they will again. Popularity pulls for Biden have been

consistently low, so how he can assume anything is illusional on his part.

Uh, we have a call. Looks like our friend Ron is on the

line. Hi, Ron, Hey man. Yeah, it's just a nonsense

call. I was gonna say path again, but do it your smooth jazz

voice. Oh I could, Uh that's uh, that would be I don't

know. That might be a little too sexy for afternoon drive. That would

be wanted to say, Hey, that's all all right, Ron. We

appreciate the call. Thank you, my friend. Bye bye, all right,

bye bye. I don't know I could. I could do it.

I'm almost tempted, but I of other things I want to get to too.

We might do We might do that though, before the week is out.

Maybe maybe for the Friday show, do something fun um Oh, our

friend Chris Rose from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts joins us in the chat and says

good afternoon, Hello Chris. Also, Isaac Banks, of course, from

Greensboro, North Carolina, says give afternoon. Hashtag Matt Connerton. Well,

give afternoon to you two Isaac Banks. Uh, let's see the studio line

is open six zo three two five six seven six three two five six seven.

I can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four

seven six m the I want to make sure we get this in the big

story that I wanted to talk about today. And no, it's not.

When I say the big story, some of you might be assuming that I'm

referring to the audio that was released of Trump alleged showing a secret document to

some folks and having a good chuckle about it and so forth. But no,

we I mean, we may get to that this week. But it

is interesting to listen to, certainly, and not particularly surprising. But uh

no, not that something else. This is actually have a very positive story

and it involves the Supreme Court. And you know, if you're if you're

a consistent listener, you might have heard my segment last week where I was

talking about the Supreme Court and it was pretty negative. I was being a

bit pessimistic and cynical, shall we say, regarding the Supreme Court and some

of the ethics concerns that have arisen. I had a lot to say about

it. But today we've got a very positive story regarding the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court decided in a six three decision to effectively reject what is called

the state legislature. What's the actual the independent state legislature theory or doctrine if

you don't know, If you don't know what that is. Oh, the

independent state legislature theory is what they seem to be calling it in the media,

but I've also heard it referred to as the independent state legislature doctrine.

Now, what what that is? Just briefly, and then we'll i mean,

it's if you don't know, I'll give you the quick summation of what

that actually is and what it's supposed to do, and then we'll get into

we'll get into the actual story. And I'm really glad this is again a

very positive story. This is a positive thing. I'm very much happy that

the Supreme Court voted the way that they did, six to three, three

conservative justices voting with the liberals, including Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote

wrote the opinion. The majority opinion, also Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Justice

Brett Kavanaugh, the other two conservatives that also voted to reject the independent state

legislature theory. So what what this is? This theory is independent state legislature

theory and the reason it's come up, and it's been around for a while.

Actually it's not new. The idea of the concept isn't new, but

in the wake of the twenty twenty election, and this has to do with

the case coming out of North Carolina. But the reason this has been pushed

and why some in the Republican Party have tried to push this going forward is,

according to this theory, state legislatures should have they would argue the power

to make whatever rules and laws they want to about their elections. But what

this would actually be used for in practical terms is and by the way,

state legislatures do have the power to do that, but not an unchecked power.

So in other words, individual states can make rules and laws regarding their

elections that can be struck down by the by state courts within their state,

their state supreme court, you know, if they find something violates the constitution,

including their their state constitution obviously, so there's kind of a check on

that. Independent state legislature theory says there should be no check on it these

independent state legislatures should be able to do whatever they want, make whatever rules

they want. But in practical terms, the reason this has become such a

hot issue recently is because those who are proponents of this concept, what they

want to do in terms of these state legislatures having full control is they want

to be able to reject the vote of the people in a presidential election if

the people in their state don't vote the way that these legislatures want them to.

So say, for example, it's the year of twenty twenty four and

the state of Georgia once again votes for Joe Biden, and so those Electoral

College votes would go to Biden, those delegates would go to Biden. But

Georgia under the independent state legislature theory, if there is no check on that

power they have. They have the power to control the election, and there's

no check on it. The state Supreme Court isn't allowed to get involved.

The if the I assume it's Republicans who are in control in Georgia in the

state legislature, they could say, well, no, we don't agree with

this vote tally, and so we're going to reject that and we're going to

vote the state legislature is going to vote on who we're sending for delegates and

who they will vote for, because you know, the delegates go and they

vote on behalf of us in the electoral college system. So they could say,

okay, well, the people voted for Biden, we don't like it,

so now we're going to vote here in the state legislature, and it

being Republican controlled, Republican majority, the state legislature would then vote for whoever

I assume it'll be Trump, whoever the Republican nominee is. And then Georgia,

even though the people of Georgia may have voted for Biden, as they

did in twenty twenty, the Republicans state legislature would have the power to say

no, actually, we're going for Trump and that's it, and those delegate

delegates would go to Trump. So that is the problem with independent state legislature

theory. It would allow for any state with a Republican controlled state legislature to

reject if the state goes for the Democrat and a presidential election. And by

the way, the inverse would also be true under independent state legislature theory.

If you say you have a state where the Democrats control the legislature, but

a Republican wins that state in a presidential election the democrats under independent state legislature

theory, if again, there is no check by that state supreme court,

the Democrats could say, well, you know, we don't like it that

our state went for the Republican, so we're going to vote. We're democratically

controlled, We're going to vote and give it to whoever the Democratic candidate is.

So you know, it can work both ways. But the reason this

has become such a concern is, and this is why it is good that

the Supreme Court struck this down, is in theory. Under that theory,

any state legislature could at any point just reject the will of the people in

a presidential election and say, all right, well we don't agree with that,

so now or find an excuse, right, well, we think there

might have been voter fraud. There's no proof, there's no evidence, but

we think there might have been, so we're just gonna go ahead and vote

ourselves and take care of it that way. Right. That's a hell of

a lot of power and quite a lot of disenfranchisement. So this is a

good ruling and good for those conservatives who voted with the liberals on this.

I'm relieved about this, frankly, because I've been concerned about it. Oh

hello to Chris from Edgewise, who joins us in the chat room. So

again, this is from Politico. This will explain it a little deeper.

I hope I explain it well as I understand it. Again, I'm not

a legal expert, but that's basically my understanding of the case. So Supreme

Court denies state legislatures the unchecked power to set election rules. In a six

to three ruling, the Justice has affirmed the power of state courts to review

state laws governing federal elections, a decision that rejects a once fringe legal theory

pushed by Republicans. By the way, that doesn't mean I mean, look,

you could have a state where the legislature says, well, we want

the power to reject the vote of the people and vote on this ourselves,

and you could have a state Supreme Court that decides to affirm that instead of

knocking that down. But that would probably only happen in states that are very

read to begin with, where it wouldn't even come up where you know,

the Republican is going to carry that state regardless in a presidential election, you

know what I mean, Like in Louisiana, you wouldn't even worry about it

to begin with, Or Arkansas or Alabama, you just wouldn't. It wouldn't

even matter. Actually, but let's look at this. So, the Supreme

Court today rebuffed a legal theory that argued that state legislatures have the authority to

set election rules with little oversight from state courts, a major decision that turns

away a conservative push to empower state legislatures. By a six to three vote,

the Court rejected the independent state legislature theory in a case about North Carolina's

congressional map. The once fringe legal theory broadly argued that state courts have little

or no authority to question state legislatures on election laws for federal contests. The

Court's decision in More versus Harper closes the path to what could have been a

radical overhaul of America's election laws. A particularly robust reading of the theory,

which the Court turned aside, would have empowered state legislatures to make decisions on

all aspects of elections, from congressional lines to how people register to vote.

And cast a ballot without any opportunity for challengers to contest those decisions and state

courts under state law US or constitutions. Opponents of the theory argued that it

could have led to unchecked partisan jerrymandering and laws that would make it harder for

people to vote. So that's important to understand too. This isn't just about

state legislature is being able to override the will of the people in a federal

election like president of the United States. It's not just about that, but

that is what has driven that concern, is what has driven this issue and

the desire among some people to use this theory to subvert our elections in the

future. That is what has driven this. But there are many other things

involved here. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the Court's opinion, joined by the

three liberal justices Sonya Sotomayor, Alana Kagan, and Katangi Brown Jackson, along

with two conservatives, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Justices Clarence Thomas,

Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsich dissented into so the nation's top court maintained the

power of state courts to review election laws under state constitutions, while urging federal

courts to quote not abandon their duty to exercise judicial review unquote. Conservative legal

activists, backed by some GOP operatives, that urged the High Court to broaden

the power of state legislatures, often under Republican control in recent years. A

Supreme Court decision adopting the theory would have upended congressional elections and potentially the presidential

election heading into twenty twenty four. Yeah so again too, not just the

presidential election, but say say you've got a congressional seat up for reelection in

a particular state, and a candidate wins, but the state legislature doesn't want

that candidate to win, so they say, well, you know what,

we're just gonna Yeah, we don't like that outcome. We're we know better,

effectively, we're going to vote on this, on this ourselves. We're

going to take control of this. We're going to choose our candidate. It

says here. But the Supreme Court concluded that the US Constitution allows state courts

to continue to interpret state constitutions to put limits on lawmaker's powers. Roberts wrote,

referring to the provision of the federal Constitution that formed the basis for the

independent state legislature theory. Quote. The elections clause does not insulate state legislature

legislatures from the ordinary exercise of state judicial review unquote. Roberts's majority opinion does

not give state courts free reign to impose any sort of limits on legislature's action.

The Chief Justice offered a warning of sorts to state judges not to run

wild, but the decision issued today left open the question of when such a

state court ruling would go too far. Roberts wrote, quote, the questions

presented in this area are complex and context specific. We hold only that state

courts may not trust transgress the ordinary bounds of judicial review, such as they

arrogate to themselves the power vested in these state legislatures to regulate federal elections unquote.

Despite that caveat, the opinion represents a major defeat for proponents of the

state legislature theory. I'm sorry the independent state legislature theory in part because Roberts

won a sixth justice majority for his opinion and effectively sidelined three of the courts

most conservative justices on the issue. The Court's decision to issue a definitive opinion

came as a surprise to some court watchers. The roots and like I said,

I was concerned about this. The roots of the case were GOP legislatures

challenging a decision issued by the North Carolina State Supreme Court which ruled that legislatively

drawn lines amounted to an illegal partisan jerrymander. We have a call, We'll

grab this sounds like someone's uh standing in some wind. Hi. Welcome to

MATC. Connerton unleashed. Here's this. This is uh your shadow me and

my Oh, don't be racist. We don't like that here. No,

not not on the air. Oh, thank you. Yeah, we can

have a discussion. By the way, I just want to say that,

you know, I do like you and it's just something very special about you

the like. But I do disagree with all your politics. But I'm not

a politic man. Right by the way, with your permission at I'm only

going to be here, you know, because I don't want to waste your

time. But I want your fans from New Hampshire to um, you know,

go to my YouTube page and u you know, whatever they want to

do. They want to say nice things or they want to harass me.

It's okay. I'm a man, I could take it. I thought you

wanted everyone to leave your YouTube page because you're upset with them for not supporting

your show. Now you know what happened. I think I got a little

too sensitive from my own bridge. Yeah yeah, maybe yeah. And you

know, when you're in the public guy like you and I are, Yes,

we have to take shots, you know. It's part of the routine.

It is. Well, you know, I've come a long way since

meeting you. You've really grown. It's amazing. I think so m you

know, and I'm looking forward to doing my show on the internet. And

look, I'm not in competition with you, you know. I think you

will accomplish a lot of things. You know, you're you know you're on

terrestrial radio. You know you're on the FBM band. I mean all those

things I said, you know, to squash them, you know, sure

that you are a public XO and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah,

you know what I mean. I want to squash that. Wow. But

I will still have arguments with you and disagreements with you. I don't want

anybody to think that, you know, I'm like kissing up to you or

anything. Right, you have a believer or not have helped me in my

radio career. I've been doing on the internet, but this time it's gonna

be all out Wow, the greatest show ever. And I want your people

in New Hampshire too, well, you know, whatever they want to do,

I could take it. I'm a man. Wow, you're a man.

Right, you're a man. You can take it. That's right.

I'm a tough New Yorker. Wow tested tough. Wow, taxi tested?

Is how he said? You said? Did you say taxi tested? That's

right. I have a question. How come for the longest time you you

tried to hide the fact that that was your former profession. But now I'll

all of a sudden, you're embracing it again. Well, it's not that

I'm exactly embracing it. It's just that a lot of people don't have respect

for cab drivers. Oh and I didn't want to get courted that in that

scenario. I was very proud of what I did for a long time.

And uh, it's one of the most dangerous jobs in the top ten.

Not even cops of the city would do it. And I dealt with a

lot of cops of the city that we're art dispatchers and worked for our radio

group. Oh I see, I see. Yeah. I didn't know if

it was because because Jerry I noticed Jerry Robinson. He keeps bringing it up

in his YouTube. Jerry Robinson doesn't mean anything to me, you know,

you know, I'll be cordial, respectful to you and everything. But I

don't need to be respectful and cordial to Jerry. He just came out of

the woodwork and he's upset that I kicked him off my facecraft page. Well,

I think he's got finding like a little girl. I think he's upset

because you invited him to be a part. He was the first recruit into

your rock and roll army, and then all of a sudden, uh,

you deposed him, And I think he's upset. I think in this kind

of business, uh matt Um. You know you you you meet a lot

of people, as you know, and then all of a sudden, you

you know, you you you, you welcome into your circle and then uh

you know, for whatever reasons you have, uh, you just throw them.

I think that's a normal part of radio, being a radio the broadcaster,

like like you and me. So you're saying we meet people, Yes,

they don't you know, they don't jive with us and then we disown

them. So Jerry Robin, Jerry Robinson did not jive with you, is

what you're saying. I don't remember the reason, Matt, I really wish

on you. But there were a lot of people throw up with face crap.

I think my list is like five hundred many Yeah, that I had

disagreements with. Yeah, and that's part of well, maybe with you,

I don't know, Like, let me ask you a questions. I hate

people, have you throwing off your social media page? Oh I I almost

never block. It's very rare that I ever block anyone I like. Uh.

I don't have a lot of haters, but I appreciate the ones I

have. It's it's actually good. I think it's fun to have haters.

Uh. So I hate you, Yeah, thank you? Yes so?

Uh And I know that makes you happy, So it does happy, Thank

you. I hate you. Your hate fuels me and guess me going in

the morning. Thank you. But uh no, So I don't. I

don't block anybody. I don't unfriend anybody. It's very very rare, very

rare. Well, I think you're in the position of mister friendly and that

could be your new name for that one. I don't know. You know,

you sounds creepy hostilities like I do. I'm very hostile guy. Yeah,

No, I'm a lot of anger. Yeah that's true. I mean

I I have anger, but I usually get angry about political matters and so

forth. I don't I'm not angry at like I don't get angry at people

who I don't have much of a temper. And I you know, and

I don't mind. Well, I'm lucky because you and I have gone at

it, and uh, you know, and I'm so glad that you know

I can call you up because you know, Matt and I don't care if

Jerry's listening or Billy or any of those enemies of mine. I happen to

like you for some reason. You got that friendly voice, you know,

like that Rush song waked up the spirit of the radio. I think that

should be your song, because everybody wakes up to a friendly voice. And

there's just something about you that I dig. Even though I had my things

with you, I I don't know what it is. You're just you know,

you're you're young, hip guy. Of course you're not of my generation,

but I know you appreciate my generation. Well, without your generation,

my generation wouldn't exist. So there's that. Um all right, So wow,

so you're going to you're going to embrace your haters going forward? Does

that mean that you embrace I want to embrace them. Okay, I want

to welcome them, and let's just have it out, you know what I

mean? Like, Uh, you know I want that to happen. What

do you think? Yeah, well I think that makes sense because I think

that probably the single greatest flaw in your marketing efforts so far have been to

drive people away when they take an interest in you, if they don't take

an interest in you and exactly the way that you would like them too.

And I think that's a mistake. Well, I have very high standus man.

Uh. You know, I'm from that old generation. I have a

lot of anger. I don't like people's attitudes today. I don't like the

way they behave. They're very selfish, self absorbed, self centered. I

could sit here for maybe half hour, twenty minutes and tell you what I

find fool about people. It's not in my world, Matt. You know,

they're not cool. There used to be this wrestler, right Carl,

though, because I know you followed wrestling. Yea, I speak in the

face of people or no fool, right right, that's all right. The

Carlito, you know, you gotta be cool with me. If you're not

cool, then you know, like the guy in the furniture store, he

hurt my feelings. The one that's your sponsor, Oh, Mike from Queen

City Cabinetry, he hurt my feelings. He was a phony. Oh no,

no, I understanding those business with you. Love good. But I

tried to get him against you and he wouldn't go for it. Right,

Well, I think, yes, well, I thought he's he's he's a

good friend. He's very loyal, by the way. He speaking of good

friends. Dave Wally in the chat room says, uh wait, did you

just get called a young hip guy? Well, everything's relative, Dave,

everything's relative. Um now, well, very good. Well, okay,

so you're going to embrace your haters. That's I think that's good. I

like to start now with your permission. Embrace it. I give you permission

to embrace your haters. Yes right, No, I want the haters to

come to my YouTube channel, The Crazy Joe Show. Uh huh uh huh

Okay, I want them to come there immediately after this broadcast or later on

tonight. H subscribe to my channel, so you know, you can tell

me how racist I am. And you know I'm a Trump supporter and uh

but you know what I decided, man, maybe this is part of my

growing process that I want to be in the middle. I don't want to

embrace the left or the right. Okay, good, I think that's good.

H Are you conservatives too like that in the middle? Are you just

left? No? Well? I uh so, I'm an independent. I

have enormous problems with both the left and the right, but I would probably

but I would probably just my politics. I finally figured out a way to

describe where people seem to agree with me. Yeah, Matt, that seems

to sum you up. I say, I'm center left, but with a

healthy dose of libertarian thrown in. Yeah. So you know. Oh,

by the way, if Charles riches in this listening, I want to wave

the hand to him. He was one of the first contributors to my go

fund me page. Okay, Charles from Florida. Yes, well, so,

Matt, Yes, I think you and I are going to be friends

from now on. And I'm just gonna be a lot of haters out there.

I know Billy's gonna call in and and Eric picture and they're gonna say,

hey, Matt, why do you talk to that guy? For he's

our enemy. He's no good you know what he's all about? What what

would you say to them about that? If they did call you and protested

about ore you found understanding for each other? Uh? Newfound understanding? Wow?

Uh? Well, I think that I don't think they would judge me

having a conversation with you. I've had many conversations with you over the years.

Uh uh yeah, so you know, I don't think there's uh.

I mean, we don't make judgments about each other. We just do what

we do. So in other words, they're not going to pull you today.

And I know Eric, he gets like all messed up in his head.

You know, he has like a nervous breakdown. This guy. I

think this guy needs some anxiety pills or something. Um oh, I don't

think so, wouldn't you wouldn't like he would say too, I want to

talking to him, Matt. He's not our kind of people. You know

that, Matt, he's poison Well nobody, uh nobody, No, he

doesn't that's that's not that's not how Eric is at all. But no,

no one would uh say that. And uh, you know, I I've

tried to Uh, I've tried to give you advice over the years, try

to point you in a more positive I like you. I don't care what

anybody says. From this day forward, I want to proclaim my likeness from

mister Matt and give him the proper respect that he deserves. And I might

call your rats so fat so once in a while, but you know,

it's only to make you laugh, it's not to offend you. Yes,

well, Jerry Robinson calls me something similar. Oh h like what I think

he I think he calls me mattso ratso or something. Yeah. Oh yeah,

well UM made me Jerry goes. Look, I'm not closing the door

on Jerry. I really want to know what his problem is. So we'll

talk, probably on the email. So that's a radio man Joe twenty eight

at Yahoo. That's my email. I'm gonna give it out on the air,

radio man Joe twenty eight at Yahoo. And uh, I've gotten a

lot of comments on that, mostly negative, but um, it's a it's

a good thing. I'm starting to find out it's a good thing, so

that the more attention I get, the better I feel about myself. And

what that said. I know you have a busy show, yes, and

I thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak to you, mister Matt.

You know you're very handsome man. Well, I know, thank you,

And well I hope if, if, if, if I've helped influence

you to go in a more positive direction with things. I think that's uh,

I think that's good. Um, well, we'll see if it lasts.

Well, I don't know, Matt. I'm not going to give any

promises because it makes me a hypocrite. Right. I am a mean guy.

You know. My mo motto is the more I spend you, the

better I feel about myself. Right. I am the next Howard And I

got a lot of things to say, you know, which I'm not going

to say here, of course, yea, I will say it on my

show. Yeah, but I am open minded to things that people convince me

that I should be open minded. That's it. Well, that's good,

Okay, that's good. You know. I mean I've never been a stubborn

guy, really, just that when I first met you and Jenny and everybody.

You know, you guys gave me a hard time, and we actually

think that was terrible. You should both of you should be ashamed yourself.

We actually try to give you a lot of advice, a lot of good

advice. Well can you give advice to a guy in his sixties? I

mean, I've lived in New York City my whole life. I'm you know,

I survived a job that was in the top ten of most dangerous.

How can you give me advice when everybody's kind of screwed me over, betrayed

me, betrayed my friendship, stolen from me. Women especially, didn't treat

me very well. How could you give me advice and you wanted me to

be like you? No, I just, uh, you know my position

there. There are certain aspects of what you do, what you say.

I should say that I think hold you down and actually sabotage you and do

far more do you, far more harm than good. That's all I mean.

I can't be like you, Matt. I mean then I don't want

to be a clone. Yeah, I want to be I want to be

controversial. I want to be over the top. Yeah, you know my

shows are rated. You know I'm Today's shop jock, rated R comedy star

and savior of real rock and roll music. And you know the rapper crappers

they took away from my beloved rock was It wasn't just them. I don't

agree your bosses, and we're not going to say who their bosses are,

all right, No, I don't, Yeah, I don't. I don't

agree with any of that. But but that's okay. How do you think

they made it? Then? They had to have there's this, I mean,

not capable of it themselves. There's there's room for everybody, Joe,

there is room for everybody. Well that's true, Matt. But you gotta

understand they took our beloved rock nobody. I mean, all the crap that's

out there, this is no good. I mean there are great bands,

don't get me wrong. Great the band called Monster Truck. You ever heard

of them? No? But I have great I have great rock bands on

the show all the time. There's plenty of great bands out there. My

my, my, say. So my seventy something year old father, uh

listens to college radio and he and he hears all kinds of great new rock

bands and he loves it. And he says, we're in a golden age

of music, because there's more music out there online than there's ever been before,

of all genres, including rock music. There's so much out there,

you know. I'm into Sappi, Zeppelin, Yeah, the Black Crows,

the Stones, Yeah, you know, and that stuff will never die,

right, It's like a fine wine. It just gets better with age.

Treats. No, I don't, I don't, but he's that kind of

stuff, you know, Rush, the old Rush that was like Zeppelin.

I know you like that stuff, Matt, because that's why I like you,

because I know you like it well. I like but I like a

lot of different kinds of I do love all that stuff. I also like

a lot of hip hop or rap, whatever term you want to use.

I like a lot of different kinds of music. I got in one thing

about rap, So I know this is going to shock you, Okay.

I definitely heard a rap song and it was out of this world. Yeah,

and I wish I knew who the artists worth. I'm going to admit

that. And it's okay, you know what I mean. I love it?

Wow, Okay, all right, it was the greatest song I've heard

a long time, and that okay, good good. You know, they

played in the stores, and they'll play in the name of the music,

so I can very upset about that. What I do, what I do?

If I want to know what I mean, there's apps you can put

on your phone that you know what. We'll tell you what the song is

about. What I've always heard. What I've always done too, though,

is like if I'm in the car or something, I can't get to my

phone, you know, at least not without risking a ticket. Um,

if I hear something I don't know who it is, I just try to

make a mental note of some of the lyrics and try to try to catch

the lyrics in the chorus, and then as soon as I have an opportunity,

I'll just google those lyrics and I can usually find the song pretty quick.

Have you ever heard of r Arty? One more last thing? Have

you heard already? Gone? Three? Did I say his name right?

You mean Arlo Guthrie? Yeah, yeah, of course. Well I discovered

the song. He was kept repeating it. The lyrics a motorcycle and it's

called the Motorcycle Song. It's one of the best songs I've heard. I'm

gonna play that on the show, Okay, Arlo Gthrie the Motorcycle anging very

good. I think you should play that right now after I get up the

air, because I think it's an amazing song. I mean, he's the

one that played in Woodstock, right, I think Arlo Gathrie was there.

Yeah, I think so, right. I think, well, um,

why don't you come to New York and hang out with me? You when

your girlfriend and get my girlfriend and we'll go out to dinner. Well,

I was, I was. I was thinking, we'll get Jerry Robinson to

hang out with us. How's that like? Jerry Robinson? Don't you ever

have a session with him? I do like him. I am obsessed with

him. I dream about him. He's a great man. To the point

that you give m a nice, big, sloppy wood kiss. I don't

know. Maybe maybe all right, Matt, look, I'm gonna shut it

down. Gave me a lot of time. I want to switch on the

air to hear you and see what the comments were. I'm sure there's plenty

in the chat room. But I am crazy, Joe, I am nationwide

worldwide. I am the man, and you wait till you buy my show

officially gets on, Matt. I'll if it's okay with you. I'd like

to announce it and have all your fans listen to my show. I think

they'll love it. I think they'll really love it. They may not love

it. Who cares. At this point, you know, I'm to savior

Rocket Roll. That's all that matters. Like the I like the positivity.

I reinvented myself, Matt. Wow, I'm a renaissance man. I didn't

do the show right all these years. I made a mistake, and I

realized what my mistake was, and it's I'm sitting on the gold mine right

now. In this area where I live. These people have no access to

good music except that they go on the internet or they listen to you.

Right, Yes, there you go, there you go, all right,

Well speak you man? Yes, yes, are you very handsome? Thank

you? Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you? All

right, thank you? All right, all right, by bye bye bye

bye. Yes. Thank I think I mean I'm certainly not ugly. I

don't know. I think I'm average average looks anyway. All right, Well

interesting, uh crazy Joe there with a lot of positivity. I have to

say, though, we've seen that movie before, so let's see. Well,

we'll see if it holds. But uh oh hughey, the gecko,

by the way, is in the chat room. He's gonna be with us

on Friday on the show. Really looking forward to that. He said,

Uh, Matt Connerton is not a ratzo or a fat so. He is

a great on air personality, pro at handling the conversation. Glad you found

a newfound understanding. I don't know about that, and he said, Amen.

Matt Connerton's is a great supporter of local indie music, especially rock.

The caller likes mainstream music, but to support music, you have to support

local artists. Yes, yes, yes, um. Scott Robinson said that

ending was starting to turn into a three stooges bit um. All right,

we've we've got to get to a break. We're gonna play a little something

and we're gonna bring in our guest. We have Alex Cormier joining us and

he's gonna play live for us in studio. Speaking of great live music.

But while we do that, let's we haven't played this in a while.

This is a great band or actually it's a solo artist, but he's doing

kind of doing the band thing. Ian's encoded from conquered us. Speaking of

great local music. This great track called Reconnection, and this always gets a

lot of positive feedback whenever I play it on the show, and we'll get

we'll get Alex in here. We'll show some love to our sponsors, and

we have plenty more to come. Don't go away, Matt Connerton Unleashed.

We are live from WMH ninety five point three FM WMHPS the normls All right,

welcome back everybody. We are an our number two numerow dose of Matt

Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm n H ninety five

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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 Tuesday, June twenty

seven, two thousand and twenty three, and we have with us. We've

got a musical guest joining us here on the couch. Alex Cormier is here.

Hello, sir, Hello, welcome to the show. You've actually been

here on WMNH before. Of course, you are on the Morning Show with

Peter White. I think a few weeks ago, or a couple of months

ago, or say about a three weeks ago. Yeah, oh okay,

yeah, pretty recent. Yeah. Yeah, Jenny saw you on there and

she was very impressed. And uh, and so we're excited to have you

here. And you're manager. Sean is here also at the news desk.

Hello, how are you doing today? Good? Good? Now? What

do you What do you do do for Alex? I mean as far as

managing him, you kind of just kind of help him with everything in terms

of his career. Well, he went a production company and I've been a

musician for over twenty five years, So all of my contacts that I have

I'm passing along to him. Oh outstanding. So he's able to play places

at other people. I would have to say had to earn maybe a little

bit more of a time spent on the job site to be allowed to do

what he is able to do. Yeah, right out of the gate,

was such an amazing talent. I think that he deserves to be right up

there with the seasoned veterans and they accept him just like family. So very

really well for the music community. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hue the Gecko is in the chat room. He's going to be here

on Friday, and he says, oh sweet Alex Cormier. By the way,

Alex, any relation to uh, we've got a guy here who does

a show at WMH Paul Cormier. Any relation? Um? I don't think

so, yeah, I Cormier is a common name around here, I think.

But uh, well, listen, I'm dying to hear something if you

want to play for us, and then we'll h and then we can chat

for a bit and uh, well we'll have plenty of time to hear a

bunch of songs and uh and get to know you a little bit in between.

But whatever you want to uh, whatever you'd like to open with.

Oh and I'll open up that other mic too. So we got get your

guitar in there, and there we got woo that sounds nice. Oh yeah,

this is a very nice guitar. Yeah all right. This song is

called Wake Me Up. Feeling my way through dardness guided by beating hard.

I can't tell where my journey was, but I know where star. They

tell me I'm too young to understand. They say, I'm caught a bit

of dream. Will I food past me if I don't be up my eyelas,

And that's fine by me. So it be up when it's allow.

When I'm miser and I'm molder, And all this time I was finding myself.

Na I didn't know. I I tried carrying the weight of the world.

But I only have to hand hope I get the chance to travel because

I don't have any plan. I wish that I could stay forever for this

yard. I'm not afraid to close my eye. LIFs of game made for

every one, and love be surprised. So weake me up when me it's

all over, when I'm wiser and a murder. No, this time now

was funding myself. No, I didn't know I was lost, So we

were up when it's all over, when I'm mys and know this time I

was finding myself and na I didn't even know I was lost. I didn't

know. I was like, I didn't know. I didn't look like.

Wow, dude, you had to kill her voice. He sound incredible.

How did you learn? How'd you learn? A singer? You self taught

or did you take lessons or so? Um? Mostly self taught? I

did. Uh. I did choir in school for a couple of years while

moving around. Um, I finally kind of fell into my senior year of

high school doing some jazz. Um. I did a a what do they

call it? A Battle of the bands in high school. I was only

there for about three weeks, and then the music teacher brought me to the

side after I actually ended up winning it. Um, no one knew who

I was, so it was kind of it was really nice. I knew

I had something then, but I was able to really just kind of bring

it together and and really hone my skills with with that music teacher. Yeah

yeah, Um did you did you start singing at a young age on your

own? Or okay, yeah, because you've got you've got a deep voice.

Um, but of course you're able to when you're singing, you know,

you can go high with it pretty easily, you know. Yeah,

you make it sound easy, which is cool. But um yeah, and

I noticed too that are you not using a pick when you play? No,

sir, do you do? You never use a pick? You always

fingerpick. Um. I took a guitar class, and I stopped using it

about like three fourths of the way through that. No kidding, Um,

why do you just does it just seem easier? Is it just easier for

you without a pick? Or is there is there a reason? Were you

able to play better without it? Or I like the sound of it and

I enjoy being able to kind of play multiple notes at once. I mean,

yeah, you can do that with a pick. There's different styles,

different ways to learn how to do that. I just I like the feel

of it, you know. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's interesting that

so that you played with a pick for so long and then stopped, that's

unusual. Is there anything that you Is there anything that you could do with

a pick that you couldn't do fingerpicking or um? No, definitely not.

Now I would have to actually like sit down and really practice and get my

my chops. It's a whole different muscle group and everything. Yeah, yeah,

no doubt, no doubt. Now, how did how did you guys

connect? How did how Sean? How did you and how did you an

Alex connect? Well? Alex I became friends when he was younger. I

was friends with his mom actually way back in the day. So I actually

first time I saw him perform was at that high school performance he just talked

to you about Oh no kidding, and uh. Ever since then, I

call it the shine. That's what I call it. When somebody just has

something that you don't know where they got it from. It just seems so

so so easy. Just like you said, Yeah, I call it the

shine. And the first time I saw him saying, he had the shine.

And as time goes on, you know, and he turned into a

guy that I could hang out and have a beer with at the bar and

was still doing music. We joined forces together. I bring his talent to

the table and the table feeds us all. That's very nice. Yeah,

that's excellent. That's excellent. Well, Alex, I'm dying to hear more.

If you want to play another one, yeah, let's do it.

Do you do you do mostly covers or do you do original s too?

Or you can play whatever you want? But I do I do like to

meddle around with the originalists. When I do stuff like that, it's it's

most mostly just off the top of my head. I don't really write music.

I enjoy doing the arrangements and whatnot as well. It's really where your

craft falls inward. I would have to say, right, Yeah, I

definitely change up the covers a lot, and I'm just trying to. Once

I get that general sound, it's all going to come out there, I'll

be able to really release a lot at once. Yeah, yeah, cool.

Two days is gonna be the day that the never throwing back to you

a buying out should is somehow realize what you've got to do. I don't

believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now a backbeat. The

word is on the street that the fight you in your heart desire. I'm

sure you heard it all before, but you never really had to die.

No, I don't believe it anybody feels the way I do about you.

Night and all the most leader stay one day and all the lights lie the

way a blinding, And there are many things that I would like to say

to you, but I don't know how I send. Maybe you're gonna be

the one I say, Sam and after your mo wonder to day is gonna

be the day that they never throw it back to you. Know, I'm

suird it all before, but you never really know what to do through.

I don't believe that anybody feats where I do about you now, and all

the roles to lead the stairs wine, and all the lies lied away a

blinding and there are many things that I lie save you, but I don't

know. I send, maybe you're gonna be the one I see me.

Then I your mo wonder. Oh, I said, maybe you gonna be

the one that sees me. And after wrong you go my wonder. I

said, maybe you're gonna be the gonna sees me. You're gonna changees me.

Oh my god, that is so good. That is so Wonderwall is

one of my all time favorite, like probably be in my top ten of

all time favorite songs. And I love the way you do it. Um

you kind of change it a little bit. And when you when you take

a song like that and you give it some some subtle changes, does that

is that something that you think about or does that just kind of come naturally

in terms of how it comes out of you. So I'd say a little

bit of both, and that That's kind of what I was talking about before

I played That's that song is That's really what I've been trying to concentrate on,

is when when I'm getting the feeling, when I'm feeling inspiration and I

just kind of let it out. I I memorize it. Yeah, I

record it now, and I really like dive deep into why I'm feeling that,

what the lyrics mean to me, and try to just get the emotion

out into the music as much as possible. Yeah, yeah, I mean

it just you know, I've heard that song one hundred thousand times, but

it just sounded like the way you played it, it was like it it

just uh, it was like hearing it for the first time again, because

you know, like you make it just different enough that it's like, oh,

it's it's it's almost like a new song, but it's not. I

just I'm just really amazed what you did with it and and the you know,

and the time changes. That's a that's a really nice touch. Yeah,

you definitely made it your own. That's what he does. Oh yeah,

totally, totally. Absolutely. Um, how many did you have any

idea? How many songs? You know? I mean probably a lot,

I would yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now when you play out, do

you do? Um? You I assume you do long sets when you when

you play out live three hours usually that's a long set. Yeah. See,

wow, so you've got enough stuff to do three Is that kind of

the normal? I mean, do you ever do shorter sets? Do you

ever, uh, you know, share the stage with other people where you're

you're not playing as long? Or do you always or usually do a three

hour set? So I've been doing when I played by myself, I'm I'm

usually always doing the three hour set. Yeah, but lately I've actually been

able to start playing with a couple of bands. Yeah, one of them

just to yesterday, two days ago, uh, Sunday, we did a

thing down in Gloucester which was fantastic. Yeah, the Saint Peter's Fiesta.

Well okay, yeah, the band over the Bridge, the number one reggae

band actually right now, oh nice, Yeah, they're called Over the Bridge,

Over the Bridge over from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Actually he had the honor

to share the stage with those guys. That was quite incredible. Oh,

very cool, very fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. Um. Now do you

ever do you always just through the solo acoustic thing? Do you ever play

with anybody else? Or you ever playing a band or anything? Or um?

I've definitely practiced with bands, but no, I definitely want to start

playing with bands. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard in the sense that,

you know, when you're used to doing the solo thing, because obviously,

with solo, you know, you just have to rely on yourself. And

then with a band there's a lot that goes with it in terms of,

you know, schedules and compromising and everything. But yeah, but what you're

doing obviously is working for you. So I guess you know, no rush

in terms of playing playing in a band. But do you play other instruments

or do you strictly guitar? Um? I do know how to play the

piano. Yeah, I've I've worked on percussion pretty good amount as well with

the guitar. That's another reason why I enjoyed fingerpicking is because it kind of

allows me to be a little bit more percussive with it. Oh that makes

sense, That makes sense. Yeah, Um, jeez, do you want

to I'm dying to hear more. I love dude. I love your voice,

man, you got it. You get an incredible voice. By the

way, Sean, you what what do you? What do you do?

Uh? Because you've got quite the speaking voice. Like you said, you

ever work in radio? Because you sound like a radio guy. I've been

asked to do voiceovers before, but I've never never actually done that. I

was actually a DJ at our local New Hampshire Gentleman's club for thirteen years.

Oh no kidding. So I kind of got the role in the in the

in the in the voice. Uh that would call the wild to the stage

if you would, Oh okay, I got chuckles to the main stage.

Yeah that's interesting. Yeah, absolutely, So I think we've met. I

think we have met. Yeah, yeah, you look very familiar, but

you know, probably in this world and in short bursts, if you know

what I mean, I might have seen you, you know, in this

limelight before. So I always say too when when I'm not sure if I've

met someone before, like I always say, um, I don't. Like

I never say I've never met somebody, just because you know, the music

scene being the way to like I always say, I always say I'm not

sure I've ever met somebody. Sure, but I never say I definitely haven't

met somebody because it's happened to me. I'm sure it's happening to you.

Where I'll realize, you know, like somebody will be vaguely familiar to me,

and then I'll realize later like I'll probably remember, like a month from

now, I'll be like, oh, I know where I know Sean Frump.

You know what I mean? That happens, That happens to me quite

a bit. Well, I'm very blessed to be part of a whole bunch

of different things which which help with his career as well. I am.

I am a production coordinator at the Bank New Hampshire Pavilion, which was just

awarded actually the best outdoor venue received award yesterday, So I'm really proud to

be part of the Bank New Hampshire family. Congratulations. I worked for K

Productions, which is in charge of all the production there. I also own

a company called three AM Productions and I support all the local musicians in the

area and go on tour with the national bands and bring him on stage with

those guys as well. Very cool. And I also am part of a

video project with Dark Tower Entertainment and I have Eric Hanson and Jordan Paul that

work with me and we are the videographers for Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame.

We're inducting George Foreman in the Boxing Hall of Fame this year. And

we also have a movie that was just accepted for international distribution called The Sixteenth

Minute So everybody's got fifteen minutes of fame, says Andy Warhol. But that's

the same minute what's going on. And we've got that captured on film,

and we have a documentary coming out featuring Aaron Carter and lamar odom iced Tea

and a whole bunch of other great names. So that's a little bit of

my background, as you asked to help, you know, support such a

great talent right here that I want to share, you know, to everybody

you know that comes into a live atmosphere and then today on the radio for

all others to hear that aren't able to actually catch a show of Alex.

Yeah, but it plays all over town here, So if anybody wants to

come see him locally, you know, definitely look him up on Facebook.

He posts where he's playing all the time, and come out and cool beer

and hang out with this guy. He's pretty cool. And that's why I

support him too. He's the only artist that I actually support in my busy

schedule of doing all the other crazy stuff. But he's a good guy and

he and he brings a lot of joy to a lot of people, and

that's what it's all about, you know. By the way Hue the Gecko

said in the chat room, I saw Sean do sound for Idlewild at the

LaBelle and Dairy. He's a great audio engineer and a pro in the biz.

All right, well, thank you very much. First nice, very

nice, and uh well, Alex uh, let's uh whatever. Oh,

by the way, I see Jordan paul Is in the Facebook Live chapter,

because yeah, he's my partner in crime. He holds the other camera.

Excellent videographer, a great personality for all the all the stars. We had

to get you guys on to talk about that. We will, that would

be that would be amazing. Well, we'd love to. Dark Tower has

a lot to talk about. And that's a whole different entity from this.

Yeah. Yeah, we still all keep it in the family. We all

share our love with all each other and uh that's what makes it work.

That's why, that's why we all support each other. Yeah, absolutely,

that's what it takes. And again I appreciate you having both of us.

Oh yeah, yeah, that's very nice. Thank you. Glad to do

it. Absolutely all right, Alex Uh, let's let's hear another one,

man, I'm dying to hear some more. I do have one thing to

say, which is really cool. Yeah, his partners in crime. I've

known pretty much my whole entire license i've been born, so it's pretty cool.

Yeah, it's a pretty tight family. Alex has actually known my my

friend Eric Hanson for all of his life. Really okay, ba back,

going over over twenty five years. Oh okay, Yeah, I've been a

family friend too. So oh again, I'm really keeping a tighten the family.

Yeah that's good. And thank you for bringing us into yours. Oh

yeah, yeah, thank you, thank you absolutely so. This is a

version of Chris Isaac's Wicked Game that I kind of changed up a little bit

from another version that this artist Philip Phillips did for American Idol. The world

was on fire you and no one could save me but you. It streams

child desire. You will make foolish people do. No one never thought thee

I would love someone like you. No one never thought thee I would lose

someone like you. No, whit's don't on a fall in love, No,

whit's all hollo far the love this wold will break you up. Nobody's

filing in love. What a wicked thing to say to let me feel this

way? What a wicked thing to do to let me dream of you.

What a wicked thing to say, Hey you never felt this way? What

a wicked thing to do to let me dream of Let me dream? No,

I don't want a fall he love. No, I don't far in

love. This will will break your heart. Nobody's falling in love. Nobody's

falling in love. Nobody's falling in love. Nobody's fall in love love love.

Oh, nobody's gone the far he in love. En. If the

vote was on fight you run, no one could save me but you,

the strange child decide. You will make foolish people do Oh. No,

one never for thought deed I would love someone like you. No, I

never forethought deed I would lose someone Hi you no wits far he love,

no whitch all far in love? This moe will break you up. Nobody's

falling in love? Who well go break you? Uh uh, that's fantastic

If you're just joining us. We have Alex SCormier here on the couch,

playing guitar and singing and just sounding amazing. He is our our musical guest,

and and we've got his manager, shot Sean. What's her last time

again O'Brian. They called me actually so ob so oh okay, what was

Oh I get Sean O'Brien, So it took me a second. Sean is

Alex's manager, as well as many other things as well, and uh got

a lot going on and uh no, it's really cool that you're able to

take all of your experience and knowledge and help Alex. And it's so amazing.

He's he's amazing. Yeah. The only thing I said to him,

I said, the only thing I can't give you is tenure and and and

that stage time, but I can give it to you now. I'll give

you a lot now to make up of the time that you didn't have it

before. Yeah, I means, so it really works well. He's he's

been in front of some really great audiences. Uh. We did a gig

last year and uh he was the the filler in between the band while they

were taken a break. And at the end of the night, the audience

screamed an encore and the other band started another song and they're like, no,

no, no, no no, we want Alex Beck up for our

encore and the other guys were like whoa, oh wow holy And then then

those what twenty five bikers and their girlfriends ended up at his next gig in

Common Deer the whole the whole next venue and they had a blast. So

he's making friends even and it was at a Rundel, Maine. I think

that was that was irontails. I believe that that was over one hundred miles

away. He's got his fan base going on, you know. Oh,

very cool, very cool. Uh yeah, getting some love in the chat

room. Uh Hue the Gecko says, great control. Loved that Wicked games.

I believe it. I dig it. The Naruto is it? How

do you say that? Naruto? I got you? And um also,

Dave Wally says, what a spectacular voice, start writing, amazing voice,

feel arrangements. Very cool. And our friend Shanno, I'm sorry. I

thought we had a call. It looked like Shannon was on the line,

but we lost her. UM, very nice. Do you want to you

want to play another one? I kind of I kind of just want to

keep going and hear more. Oh, actually, hang on a second,

we do have a call. Sweet Shannon is on the line. Hi Shannon,

Hello, I just wanted to say hi to Alex and I talked to

you on The Morn Show. You have a beautiful voice. I'd love to

sing to you sometime. That would be fantastic. I do remember you from

you think it's about a month ago now, yeah, the Data White Morning

Show. Yes day. Yeah, I was asleep and by the grace of

God, I woke up in time because I have my ear piece in and

listen to the Well, I was asleep, but I was listening. But

I woke up to in time to hear you. So oh very good.

You have a gift. Yes, he does, he certainly does. Absolutely.

All right, look and thank you Sean, and thank you mad for

having him. Thank you absolutely, thank you. Shannon. Yeah, all

right, bye bye, all right, very nice, always nice. Hear

from Shannon. By the way, the studio line is open, so if

you have any questions or feedback or anything at all for Alex six three two

five six seven six three two five six seven, just gotta get in between

songs, however, because we're making him work because I'm really enjoying this.

So Alex, if if you'd like to do another one, I'd love to

hear it. Yeah, I can do that, all right, And if

you're just joining us, Alex Cormier is here with us live in studio.

M So this next song I kind of I do pretty often. It's definitely

in my top three favorite songs to play. You know, I'm not one

too made promises. I don't want to hurt you, but I need to

be you know I'm not and enough fay, but I need sometime for a

little belief. Oh which ways right? Whichways? Born? I do?

I say that I needed to move on you know where, had accept you,

and and feels like I have just too close to love you. And

there's something that I can mainly say. I can't lie no more like I

can't I normal to be too to myself. And it feels like I am

just too cool used to love you. And I'll be on my way.

You have me, You're my will. We'll have given you more than I

can't read. You get this so so much that you deserve Oh nothing any

right, nothing, any wrong of nothing he gave. I must leave without

you, you know any sappy? And it feels like I an't trust to

close to love you, and there's nothing that I can really say. Yeah,

I can't, I know more, I can't I no more, got

to be too to myself and it feels like I am just to close to

love you. So I'll be on my way. Oh, I'll be on

my way. And it feels like I am just too close to love you.

Oh, and there's something that I can't read this. I can't I

no more, I can't I no more. I gotta be too to myself

and it feels I can't jo as you posty happy on out who happy?

Oh my fantastic. If you're just joining us, we have Alexcormier here in

studio live performing on Matt Connerton Unleashed here on WMH ninety five point three FM,

and Sean O'Brien is here with us as well, and h let me

give the studio line again if you have any questions or anything at all for

Alex six three two five six seven six three two five oh six oh seven.

Mariam Banish joins us in the Chatwoman says I love his voice. I've

been listening the whole time, but making dinner as well, so providing some

some dinner music there for Miriam. That's always nice to cook too. Yeah,

yeah, there you go, there you go. Now? How often

how often do you play out, Alex? Are you doing shows every week?

Or so right now about two three times a week excellent, sometimes more

than that, sometimes less. Yeah. Yeah, busy summer ahead or I

guess we're in it now, but busy summer yep. After this weekend,

next month, in the one after that, I'm going to be getting a

lot more than the last couple of months. And I'm getting more every week.

So yeah, yeah, every phone call, every email gets something I

get to enjoy. That's fantastic. Now, Sean, do you do all

the booking? Do you? We do it together. I have venues that

I can place him in. He uh is. By example, He'll be

playing a place and someone walk up to him and say, hey, how

can I have you in my bar? Yeah, He'll either take their information

or forward it to me, and we just we just get it done.

Well. It's all the team effort here. And we also joined us stages

with other great musicians in town to help support other events as well. Yeah,

so we work with you know, Nate comp, Dmitri, Papa Nicolae

of Not So Costly Productions, Paul Costly, all those guys. We work

with all those guys too, and they love us. And Dmitri books him

all over New England, So some of your guests will be able to see

him, you know, outside of the Manchester area if they if they watch

him on Facebook or whatnot. Excellent, excellent? Is Paul Costly? Is

he still he's still going Paul Costly is still going strong. He has sold

his production company or sold his booking company. Excuse me, that's what I

heard. That's what I wanted to Dmitri, which has been a family friend

of mine for over twenty years as well. So oh, perfect, and

keep it in the family. That's what we do, you know. It's

yeah, it's great and uh, you know he's got all the same great

venues in more and he's uh he's very active in the music scene as well

with his Decomp trio and not as well. Yeah, yeah, you know,

we hang out with with the guys that are busy and successful, and

guess what, we automatically become busy and successful. It's amazing guy that rubs

off. Yes, that's yeah, for any for any line of work,

for any absolutely, for any profession. I always tell Apps, we're just

gonna have to put you in that room and then you're gonna own that room.

Yeah, we put him in the room and he owns the room.

Yeah, there you go. So there you go, Alex. You ever

get do you ever get nervous at all? You have any stage fright?

Or you seem pretty? You seem pretty even. But he used to be

wicked bad Yeah? Really yeah yeah, um pretty much like almost unmanageable uh

tea, drinking uh water and just keeping myself nice and level. I have

to. I have to really get myself situated before that, beforehand. Yeah.

And even even today, I got a little nervous, no kidding.

Yeah, we always supposed to get nervous. That's what. It's kind of

fun getting nervous. You're not nervous anymore. It's not it's not the same,

you know. I love that, uh that unknown every time we enter

a new room. I think it's great because you see the jaws drop on

a lot of people, going wow, yeah, god actual the room feeds

him and then he forgets how nervous he is. It's all good. Yeah,

yeah, cool, Well you want to she's before I run out of

time. I gotta hear one more. You want to play one more?

Yeah? I got one more? All right, sweet Alex, score me

your ladies and gentlemen. This is my version of no Diggity, inspired by

shut Baker Show, Do you get down, good love baby, some pull

over town, strictly busy, don't play a ground, she covered most grounds,

got game by the pound to play. I use my forte. You

need to go day with a bigger play away. But I can't get that

color of my mind. But I think about that girl all the time.

Yeah, east side through the west side, pushing fat rins and no surprise

she got tricks. It's that she's sacking her cash. She fast when it

comes to Dicky has by no means our face and she's on when she got

the happy baby, you're a perfect time. I like the war your burkey

and no dickd I got the baggage up. I'd like to wake your burkey,

No dicke d, I got the baggage up. I like to wake

you burkay, No dicke d, I got the baggage off. Like the

where you working? Nah nah nah nah? She sky classics time and street

knowledge by the time. Who you never act while she keep it low key

on the profile with a catching feelings is no will you know how he goes?

I say hers the worst pause the verb he loves ain't free, so

freequ you you ain't from men? I girl look good you you you.

She's got classics style A wo man, I could look good you you.

I like the way you're working low dig indeed, I got the baggie lack

the way you worky. I got to bagging of Duda doo way you working

to dig in d I got to bagging off I lack the way you worky.

That's my favorite version of that song that I've ever heard. I love

it. I love it, thank you and the last one and the last

one. Yeah, he does it different every time. He gives me the

pills every time too, so I don't know what to expect. Sometimes it's

really great, right, I'll say it with a song and he'll marry it

and uh and then all of a sudden, Nick has a new life.

The next time I heard it's beautiful. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.

Uh. So before we do run out of time, I want to make

sure that everyone knows Alex where to find you online or Sean, maybe you

want to take that, but I want to make sure that people know where

to find Alex as far as and everything you got coming up. Sure,

Alex Cormier can be found on Alex Comier Acoustic on Facebook and his personal count

Alex Cormier c O R M I E R and obviously Alex A L e

X for Alex. But he posts all of his shows and past shows there

and you'll see that he's got thousands and thousands of views and a lot of

his videos that we've that we posted over the last even year that we've been

really going strong here. It's getting big quick, Yeah, it really is.

So I can't give him tenure, but I'm gonna give him all the

stages that everybody else has earned because I think he earned it. I really

do. Yeah, it sounds like it anyway. Yeah, absolutely, that's

that's fantastic. And what's the next show? Like, you got anything this

week coming up that you want to plug specifically or so I believe this Saturday

coming up, we'll be playing at Blue Aqua on Elm Street. Oh,

very nice. Yeah, We'll be over at Casey's Rip Chack tonight. We're

gonna try to throw a few songs in there. Over at the Paul Costle.

You opened mic there with Nayton d Oh very cool. Yeah, so

we're hitting over there. I think after I got some good food and go

here's some good tunes with Alex. I think it seems like it seems like

he probably fits in kind of anywhere, right, like like you've got a

lot of opportunities where you can kind of slide them in. Yeah, yeah,

absolutely, that's that's good. And if I'm not playing music, I'm

learning the other side of it too, so excellent. Yeah, yeah,

that's true. It's been great on my roadcrew when we do bigger shows and

whatnot. He's been coming along with man, he's learning the ropes and he's

been a great help there too. So and that's a great political side for

him because he gets to know everybody because they're they're, oh my god,

this guy totally helped me out. And then like you play too, and

then the embracing is just a lot deeper, you know. Yeah. Yeah,

so that's fantastic. That's fantastic. Well, thank you both, Sean

and Alex Cormier. Thank you so much, my friend, you sound incredible.

We're just bad out of time. We got to go, but if

you miss any part of today's show, Uh, it will be up in

just a little bit at WMH Radio Dot Organ and my website Matt Connerton dot

com. And UH, if you did miss anything, please you gotta go

back, and you got to go back and listen to this guy. UM,

just incredible. UM. And of course if are listening live on Tuesday,

coming up next is on wmnh's Through the Stage Stour with the Great Rob

die On and uh, followed by a replay of Friday night's retro Spectrum Radio

and don't forget to be back bright and early seven am for the Morning Show

with Peter White. And you can also go back in the archive and find

uh Alex's performance on the Morning Show with Peter White, because I assume you

did some different songs on that show. So so if you want even more

Alexcormi, you're here on WMNH. You can find find the show that he

was on with Peter as well. So a gentlemen, thank you again both

so much, absolutely absolutely my pleasure. And we are out of time,

and oh, don't forget tomorrow. Jeez, I can't remember now who we

have on the show tomorrow. I know we've got Hue the Gecko on Friday

tomorrow. We've oh yes, the Jaritones will be our musical guest. Tomorrow

on the show, so looking forward to that a lot as well. And

all right, we're out of here. I'll talk to y'all a little bit

later. By everybody, thank you.

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