Matt Connarton Unleashed 7-10-23

0:42 My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over, which means our summer break is over and we're back. Hello, everybody, welcome, It's that time, Matt Connerton unleashed and yes we are live from the studios of w M n HM and Glorious, downtown Manchester, New hand Sure a little humid, but a little sticky, but glorious. 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, etcetera, etcetera.

1:16 Today is Monday, July ten, twenty twenty three, and I'm not alone. Best Darl Genny is here at the newsdesk, dam present. Yes, yes this moment, Yes absolutely so uh so, yes, we are we are live. We were off last week. Everybody here was off last week. It was reruns and best of Us but vacation. But we are we are back. So yes, our summer break is short. We just we took the one week off and it's it's going to be back because there's always plenty to talk about really. Oh yes, oh, I can't imagine what not always plenty by the way, yes, yes, we have somebody uh maybe coming in later so well we won't mention who in case in case they don't make it, we'll see what happens.

2:15 But but we do have something very special that is definitely happening at the top of the hour today at five pm, we have a World Radio premier our friend Jerry Robinson. He's got a band called called Jerry and the Scumbags, and the bass player in the band is named Mattso Covington. Yes, yes, something familiar about that name. That one's kind of sexy. But yes, uh, Jerry's band and his uh hit single, his hit single, I'm the Man sexy Man. Yeah, yeah, who him? Oh thank you? Yeah, well obviously the basis, yes, yes, Mattso Covington for Covington.

2:58 But that will that will be coming up today at five pm. And I have to tell you I'm really looking forward to uh you know, the song's already available via social media, but I'm really looking forward to playing it on the air today on the program the World Radio Premiere. It's so great. Jerry Robinson, what a talented man, very much so accomplished songwriter and recording artist and vocalist and uh and also too. I mean I have to say he's uh, he's the next Howard Stern, He's the next rated R comedy star.

3:28 If you ask me. The new channel with the band on YouTube just shock a full of good Man. Yes, yes, wait to see what gets put up on their YouTube channel again. I know it's uh, it is exciting, it's very exciting. So we're we're excited to bring that to you today. Jerry's up to That's right, That's right. But uh, phone lines are open six zo three two five h six O seven. If you'd like to join us today on the program six O three two five zero six Z seven you can all so text us at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six.

4:03 I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at Matt Connerton dot com, and of course you can interact endo Pine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call at six zo three two five six seven six zo three two five six seven. By the way, I should mention two. The song that we played to open the show today track from The Tricombs. We're going to be here with us live tomorrow in the second hour in studio for a live performance.

4:35 Yes, I'm super excited for us The Tricombs. Yes they are. I believe they're from the Seacoast area. I think so. Yes, So they're definitely doing some touring around. I've found some shows with them coming up, and they are touring with a band called the Hot Chuck Eats. Ah, they're doing a show with them. Okay, I just loved the name, so I looked them up and it's actually really great bands. I've invited them to come into Yeah, seeing them down in the future. Down in the future, down in the future expression I'm not familiar with.

5:05 But you have grim coming who's going to be skyping in on Wednesday of this week. Yes, he's from Texas. Yes, he sent us out things too. He sent us out a shirt that I'm gonna wear on, a very nice shirt that I'll wear on. He gave me a shirt Wednesday, your Thursday, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, and he gave me a shirt too. Yeah, sticker, So there will be a sticker to apply to the Wall, Yes, the Wall of Honor, Yes, yes, yes. And then on Friday, you have Satellite Union skyping in from Chicago. My friend, my friend Dave Wally went to high school with Dave.

5:44 Really great, great sound. Yeah, looking forward to So, Yes, we got a few different places coming in this week. I can't speak. I've completely lost it right there on that. Huhh, Yeah, yeah I did. So we have Chicago and Texas, and of course it's the great state of New Hampshire. Oh and we have a we have a call. We'll see who's on the line here. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Who's on the line, Oh, well, Matt, So this is Jerry Robinson. Oh yeah, Jerry Robinson. We were we were just talking about you.

6:16 We're gonna be uh, we're gonna be a world world radio premiere today at five pm Eastern time of your your new hit single. And we're very excited about it, Jerry. I am. I am also just super super excited that the entire world can hear h exactly what you and UH and Billy and Uh Alan Hampshire have been up too lately. Yes, yes, we're we're all excited to be a part of it. And uh and by the way, I'm glad that that technician that I dispatched was able to help you. Oh yes, you you you um. When you dispatched that technician to me, I thought, I thought, you know, this is just the best possible customer service I ever.

6:59 Yeah, me set up soon, I'm going to have a page where all of all of the future. Well, of course, the song that I just released, but I said unleased. I don't want you to assume me for definition of characters. But it's gonna be available where everybody can download the music for free because well, quite frankly, music makes the world go round, and I want everybody to have access to this beautiful music. Yes, yes, I love it. Where do your creative juices come from? Jerry just all comes to me. You know, I'm like eighty four years old.

7:35 I have tons of energy. I sit around all day. Uh not not in my apartment, of course, I do work and actually do stuff, but I just sit around and think, you know what, what what better way to create a song than be about me? Makes sense? The man exactly, I'm the man, and I have some really cool stuff coming up with that song as well. Basically, I'm paying somebody to do an animation video for it, so it'll be kind of like a little you know, look into Uh I guess who is the face of Jerry. Get you get the really cool little visual with that.

8:14 So I'm paying dozens and dozens of dollars to get that done. Oh that's fantastic. Oh but it's so worth it. It'll be a masterpiece. Absolutely, it'll be a masterpiece. And I'm so excited. And I'm going to formally announce the name of the album um that we're all working on. I know that you sending me your files match, so, but the name of the album, Jerry and the Scumbags, it will be called Scum of the Earth. Wow. I love it. I love how you say it too. I like that it brings really good scumbags come of the earth.

8:50 I mean, sometimes the brilliant finds me, which is why I'm the man that Yeah, you are the man, Jerry. And by the way, you look great for eighty four. And although I will say I don't think the expression is definition of character. Do you have a speech impediment by any chance? Uh, sir, Yeah, I have a I have a Yeah, sometimes I do have a speech impairment or impediment, however it is that it's said. But all in all, I mean it's it's okay. I still get around. You can still kind of somewhat understand the words that are coming out of my mouth.

9:23 Yes, yes, which is very important, very important, and let's make sure way So nope, I'm sorry. You go right ahead, Jerry. I apologize, Jenny. I can't tear you very well. I'm very old. You go right ahead. The floor is yours. Yes, go ahead, Jerry. Oh, I apologize, thank you very much. I just wanted to say I cannot wait for five pm. Yeah, I can't wait for the album to be finished. It's gonna be great, everybody. You of course a wm Andates is very own. Matt so Covington, Uh well, I can't say what is a formal title is but Billy Painter And of course, yes, it's gonna be great.

10:05 Jenny. I'm glad you're back from DC. Everybody. I hope you have a great rest of your day. Can't wait until five pm. All the best, Jerry. All right, Jerry absolutely just just applause, very nice. Yes, he is incredible, he is incredible. We need we need applause. Yes, and you can look up on YouTube Jerry and the Scumbags. Now it's the and symbol, so it's Jerry and the Scumbags. And you can hear the newest release on there as well, because I know you're gonna want to hear it again after we play it.

10:39 Yes, and by the way, we not to brag, but we should remind everybody that he did make me the the commander to Supreme Leader uh in Jerry's rock and roll Army, which is very exciting too. You know, I never saw myself as a military man, but to be the commander to the Supreme Leader, I mean that's something special. I'm kind of hold and ill some hope that maybe I'll get to be the T shirt girl. Mmmmmmm yeah yeah, well I can see that. Yeah, I can see that happening, throwing that out there. Yes, Yes, very exciting.

11:11 Wow, what a way to start out the new week. Here as we as we return from our break, if you would like to join us six zo three two five h six zero seven six three two five zero six O seven, we should say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat, and then we're gonna get caught up with what Jenny was doing. Our friend Jerry Robinson did allude to it Jenny's recent trip to Washington, DC sent me back, Yes, yes, so we'll we'll talk about all of that in a moment, but we'll say hello to everybody in the chat.

11:42 Here, we have our Ryan LeMay joins us and says, what's up, mister Connerton, Hello, Ryan. Ryan is a very talented musician. Um, I'd love to get him on the show. Uh. Fredo, of course is in the speaking of talented musicians. Uh. I like to say his full name, of course. Alfredo Enrique Benavitis joins us in the chat, of course from the band's Dank Sinatra and Cosmic Blossom, and sometimes he does a solo thing like at the chatskin. Fredo said, Oh, I saw his post about this earlier. Fredo said, let's talk about how over half the country can't read above a sixth grade level.

12:15 That's a real statistic, and how Trump is these people's champion, after all, he loves the poorly educated. Well, yeah, I don't know if we'll get to that today necessarily, but it's certainly a worthy subject. We could get to it. Hello to our friend Crystal from the Great State of Illinois. Crystal says, this is referring to the other song that I played Randy Rainbow, Donald's in the John with Boxes. A little Beatles parody there, Crystal says, Donald and the John with Boxes. You know, those classified documents make for interesting reading material while he does his biz.

12:49 Oh, I hate to even think of it for more than one reason. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the chat room and says, welcome back at Queen City Cabinetry. One of our great sponsors here at MNH, of course in the historic Sunbeam Mall, but also Mike is one of our co hosts on Friday nights for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul ec I love that show. Yes, yes, I do enjoy my Fridays here because after this show I get to come back for eight to eleven for to be one of Paul's co hosts on that show along with Mike and of course DJ Steve, so we have a great time.

13:22 Um, does you're the best a shock jock? Yeah? Who you me? Yeah? Well, I'm no Jerry Robinson, he's the best. No, he's not a shock he's the man, he's the next he's he's the next hour at Stern, He's the next he's the next rated our comedy star. Okay, you can be as number number one, right, well, I'll be the commander to the Supreme shock jock or something. Does that make you number two? We don't really use that term shockjock anymore. It's a bit uh, it's a bit uh antiquated. Yeah, Like the the young UN's listening are probably like, what was shockjock?

13:56 What is that? Um uh? But you know, listen, I got a little bit. I've got a little bit of that in me. But I think I've done I think I've done a good job over the years. I learned the hard way early on here at WMH, but I think I kind of I rained that in pretty well. I've done a nice snort laugh, I've got it under control. Crystal also said in the chat, hopefully DJ hoes them down with Lysaul or Clarox spray to kill ninety nine percent of any germs Texas. Mike joins us in the Chatterman says, so glad you guys are back.

14:26 Thank you, It's going to be back. Kyle Clayton of the Morning Show with Peter White joins us and says I missed your Dulca tones. It was nice hear you on the Morning Show today, Kyle of course. Uh. Yes, The Morning Show with Peter White weekdays from seven to nine am here at WMNH, with a replay from two to four pm. Right before this program, Dylan Reynolds, another very talented musician, joins us in the Facebook live chat and says, glad y'all are back, Thank you, thank you. We've got Dylan's going to be a guest on the show soon, I think, right, is it this month or next month?

14:55 He's he's gonna be coming up. Yeah, yeah, you don't have to look it up. I was just referring to we do have him booked. Do you believe in the in the near future. Yes, we look forward to that groups all day. My brain is a little bit yeah, scrambled on who's booked for when? Yes, For those who don't know, Jenny does all the booking, and she does. She does a fantastic job. Chris No, yeah. Chris Rose from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts says good afternoon, Hello, Chris, Jay fat of course. Uh. Also Melanie law Liberty, both from the Great State of vermonta say hello in the chat room, and DJ Steve says good afternoon to all.

15:30 Speaking of retro Spectrum Radio with Pauli c. There's DJ Steve in the chat room, so hello to all of you. So nice to see you in there, and I'll give the studio line again six zo three two five six seven six Z three two five zero six zero seven. Um, Jenny, Uh, what's you've been what's you've been up to in a lot? Actually, yeah, you haven't. U. You haven't been on the show since uh, since your most recent trip. Yeah, the second trip most you should the most recent trip. No, I haven't, and I did and it was amazing.

16:04 So, as our listeners know, I have been very open about what happens with my medical care, especially at the hands of United Healthcare Medicare disadvantage and the roadblocks and ridiculous requests and things you have to do just to get treatment. And in doing so, you listeners may remember that People's Action and Writes in Democracy New Hampshire took my story public and we had over four thousand signatures. The president of People's Action wrote directly to the CEO of United Healthcare. There was a lot of attention in United Healthcare in turned didn't like that attention and actually started talking to me and reluctantly approving things.

16:56 It took a bit of pushing with them, and I'll get to a more important point about that later. But one of the first things we got was a prior authorization for my infusion therapy, which we considered to be a humongous win for us. So People's Action brought me back to DC because they were hosting their annual gathering convention, which they haven't had one in a while, you know, because of course COVID nobody had anythings like that, so this was a big deal. They're nice their first real big convention back after COVID, and let me tell you, when they say big, they mean it.

17:30 There's over there's about forty organizations that are under the umbrella of People's Action, and the gist of the organization in this convention is to convey stories and convey what methods of being able to be organized and work with both local governments as well as federal governments. So in part I was there to share the story of the work that we had done and what we have achieved, like getting them Fatima compression pump, which if you don't remember. That was a feat in and of itself. My doctor said us the first time he's ever had a patient actually get one because of what the insurances do with their crappy prior authorizations on top of prior authorizations to get you approved for things.

18:19 So in part, I was out there to convey that message, but also to talk about what we do here all the time, which is about, you know, talking to each other about what's going on, but being able to listen to each other from wherever we're at, like whatever my perspective is, whatever your perspective is. One thing about the show has always been able to meet people where they're at and have that conversation. So it was really great to be amazing to be a part of that. But that's not all. I took a lot of rest times in my hotel room.

18:54 I did not attend like a lot of the social things. I had to really strategically plan out my body time because my body's pretty beat up in this moment in that it's I'm very much in need of an infusion. That said, they had rented a wheelchair for me, and they had oh twenty buses lined up for us on the last day of our convention, in which we converged on multiple places in Washington, DC to flash protest twenty buses. Nine hundred or so of my closest friends, and even the bus drivers didn't know where they were going until the very last moment, so there was no way any of the information would get out.

19:39 So we targeted places like the big time lobbyists that the lobby for these private insurance companies that keep us from being able to regulate them in a way. You went to K Street. Is that what it's called? Yeah? You know that, I see, I don't. I don't know. K Street. That's where the lobbyists are. Yeah. Well they have this one big, giant, expensive olding that's all the health the health insurance lobbyists yea, you know, the ones that have weaseled their way into our Medicare program and destroyed it.

20:09 UM. But I digress. We went to uh City Court, who is the biggest, like one of the biggest, compute the contributor to global climate destruction because they support fracking and they do a lot of you know, they invest a lot of money into that UM and there's a there's a lot more to it. But we went we protested for healthcare, we protested for tenants rights, we protested for the climate, we protested for um the end of the drug war. There were multiple targets with these buses, and I was there for the majority of them.

20:49 But then I had to peel off with my group because then we headed to the Capitol to lobby at the Capitol. Yeah, um, which I knew we were going to do. So all this was kind of strategically planned out. And like I said, I took a lot of rest periods in my room, and I had handlers and I had wheelchair, so I wasn't left to myself. I had a lot of good support. So when we went up to the Senate Office Building, we were able to meet this time. Do you remember last time I went to DC, I was able to meet with staff from Senator Shaheen and I was able to talk to somebody from Senator Hassan's office.

21:30 This time, when we went back, I was able to sit with a group of us. We had a private meetings with the staff from the Senate Finance Committee, which Senator Shaheen sits on. And this committee looks at not just like how our budget works, but how money folks things occur in the United States. So money being paid to these companies for Medicare advantage that are now denying those same services, Well, where is those dollars going? Well, we all know that United Healthcare bragged about eight billion dollars in profit for the first three months of this year.

22:07 So that's our money, that's our premiums and everything, and instead of us getting covered for care, we get denied. So we're trying to lobby them to hear about these denials, to hear about these prior authorization rules and regulations. We also lobbied the Help Committee, which I believe Senator has and sets on is help and help must be an acronym. It is an acronym, and the age his health, so they are they are acronyms. But this committee is considering holding hearings, but they need to hear from more of us, all of them do.

22:46 Really. We also lobbied Senator Marquis, so we were able to really do quite a bit of lobbying and share our story. So I was there to share my story. There's another person there, a woman whose name ironically was Jenny, and her husband had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I believe it was pancreatic. There was a treatment available at the time. The Medicare plan would I believe his Medicare advantage would not approve the medication. It was like this special form of chemo that has to be prior approved.

23:22 While for a month they had a fight with the insurance. I finally get approval at the end of the month, but now it's too late for him to get the drug because the cancer had metastasized and he died shortly thereafter. He was only I believe, forty three years of age and has a young child left behind, an eight year old child. And I'm listening to this woman teller story. There were other people there that were talking about the prophecies companies are making. And this is supposed to be a public's right.

23:51 It's supposed to be a cheaper version of Medicare that covers everything Medicare covers. But that's not reality. Anybody who has Medicare advantage will tell you that's not reality. Reality is denials. Reality is you need to write letters of you have to write a letter in order to appeal something, you know, instead of like actually speaking to a human in doing it, or you know, they want you to go through all of these steps because they know you're sick, they know they've worn you down, and we keep the dollars.

24:25 Crystal, or friend from Illinois said in the chat room. Insurance companies should be held accountable for the unnecessary stress they put onto chronically ill patients. They know, damn well stress triggers some of these diseases to flare up. They assume you'll get too sick to fight with them to advocate for yourself and health needs. Patients shouldn't have to fight with insurance companies for healthcare. Yeah, absolutely, And that's part of the I mean, that's that's really a big part of the big scam.

24:52 And that's a great segue. Actually for profit health insurance, they want you to die once once what they're paying out. I mean, people, I don't know if you're just not supposed to say this in polite company, but people don't like to be as I think, blunt enough about it. But let's call it what it really is and just be very blunt and brutally honest about it. The way the way the business model works is they're happy to cover you for as long as you are profitable for them to cover you so as long as your premiums are getting paid, but you're not costing too much money.

25:28 Once you start costing them more money than they're getting from you through the premiums, you go from being an asset to a liability. They would prefer. And this is a part that I guess you're not supposed to say, but it's true, So let's say it. They would prefer from you know, going by their business model, that you die once you start costing them money. They would rather you die. That literally is how it works. There's no way to sugarcoat it. I mean, people do, but let's not. They want you to die, and they will do whatever they can to get away with letting you die.

26:07 Yep, that's the scam. Let's add to that too. I want to add something to this because I think people get confused about what we're talking about. Sometimes. I've often hear people saying, I don't want to have to pay for somebody else's care. Why should I have to pay for your care? Well, if you've got health insurance, that's exactly what you're doing. Yeah, exactly the whole the way any insurance works, way your house insurance works, the way any insurance works is the company company collects their premiums and they expect you to be healthy, and they expect multiple people to be healthy in this pool.

26:40 That those dollars, instead of going back to those individuals who paid them, goes to pay for the people who are sicker. That's how it works. When you pay your house insurance. The reason your health insurance will go up is if they have to pay too many claims in your area, they'll jack the price on you. Right, you know why they didn't make a big enough profit, but too much of that got paid out and claims. They had to actually do their job. Well, that's what health insurance is supposed to do, is the job pay the bills.

27:07 Right in Medicare much much That's much how it works. There's area. I'm not saying Medicare is perfect, but it's it's certainly a great place to start when you talk about national healthcare. That the pool is. You know, it's not so much worrying about a pool because you're not wearing out a profit anymore. Now you're just wanting the government to pay the bill. The medical decisions belong to the people and their doctors. I'm getting a little ahead of myself and saying that, But it's important to understand that no matter what insurance you're paying for, you are paying for other people.

27:40 That's exactly how it works. Yeah, it's amazing how many people just don't understand that. They think that you're somehow taking it from their wallet and putting it in people's pockets that are too lazy to work. And that's not how it works. That's that's not how any of that works. Yeah, Fredo, And the chat Ram says healthcare, this model is based on profit, not caring for people, because caring for people is quote socialism or communism. Yeah. Yeah, that's what people will come back at you with.

28:09 Yeah, and Republicans will have you believe that if you allow the government to pay the bills, you're allowing them into your healthcare. How could you You don't want the death panels, They'll say, we already have death panels, and the only way we're gonna get rid of those is to get rid of these private insurance companies. They are the death panels, these insurance companies. They denied care to Jenny's husband, so he died. He could have been saved. There was an opportunity if they had given him the medicine the moment it happened.

28:36 This man could have stayed alive to see his child grow up, but that was too expensive. They didn't want to spend the money. They stalled it for four weeks the cancer metastasized. We can't give you the drug anymore. He's dead. They get to keep the money they made. They killed him. They killed him. So coming back to where I was at, so we did all. It was tremendous trip. I would do it all over again. I don't care what I'm feeling right now. It was one hundred percent worth it, and I'll do this all day, every day if that's what it's going to take, because that's how we're going to save lives, is to get our politicians to see the realities of living with these plans and undo the damage they created when they allowed private companies into the medicare system to sell these ridiculous advantage plans that cost more money for patients and have horrific outcomes because they deny most everything they really do.

29:34 So when I came home, though you know here, I came home excited that we had done some really great work. And I came home to find out that the insurance company had set me a prior authorization to cover my next infusion. But that wasn't the infusion. It was two codes that basically said you can have like an hour infusion, but it didn't include any of the necessities to actually, you know, do the treatment, and it didn't include enough time to actually run the drug. At the rate they were giving, I'd be dead, that's bottom line.

30:10 I would just simply die. So it's been this mad dash because my doctor's office has been trying for like a month to get these things preapproved and I didn't know it. When I came home and found that out, it was devastating. I mean just devastating because I really needed infusion, and yeah, I about fell apart in that moment that here's what I kept saying to everybody. I was afraid when nobody was looking, they were gonna get out of it, or they weren't gonna do things the right way. And I think that's exactly what they were trying to do.

30:44 In this moment, I couldn't get any kind of answers, and I decided to I've actually videoed my reaction to finding this out. I don't know what presence of mind I had in that moment. But I recorded it and we sat on it overnight and I talked to you, and I wasn't sure, so we decided to publish it along with an email, and I blind copied it to a number of legislators in federal legislators in Congress and as well as some advocates and some reporters that I knew, and I sent it to them saying, listen, look at what they're doing.

31:18 They basically gave me a bogus piece of paper that was worthless. Sure it said infusion, but it didn't say any of the rest, and you know, it's so, oh god, that's just cruelty. You know, it's straight cruelty to be oh, all excited. I remember the woman called me up all excited, We're going to cover your next infusion, and I was really really the excitement of it. But then to find out all of a sudden, oh no, we're not going to do that, because we're not going to cover the rest of the stuff to actually allow you to have the medicine.

31:50 So I was notified that I was going to basically have to still pick up the bulk of the bill, right, So in doing this message, I did make the decision to send it out to some of the people I had been talking to in DC already, and that included staff for Senator Sushiheen and Senator hass It. Senator Hasson's office actually stepped right in.

32:12 I believe it's Elsa in the Portsmouth office that took lead on it, and they set me paperwork to give permission for them to speak for me with United Healthcare and with my doctor's office where I have my infusions, so they could speak to both. And here I am sitting here Monday. Though this all happened the very tail end of last week, it was really quick. By Friday morning, Senator Hasson's office had already reached out to United Healthcare. And suddenly I've got people talking to me again. And the story changes every time they talk to me.

32:47 One minute, Oh, it's covered. The next minute, Oh, they have to submit that differently. The next minute, it's covered. The next minute. I gave them a special number that they can call. I'm not kidding you. That was today's call too. We gave them a special number, you know, and they're trying, they're trying to discourage you exactly exactly, because they don't want to give up any of the eight billion in profit they made in three months to pay the six hundred for my freaking infusion. It's a lousy six hundred dollars.

33:15 We're not breaking the bank here, but for me, it's my life. I'll tell you though. One of the most frustrating things in talking to these insurance people is a couple of them were like, oh, geez, miss Coffee, We're so sorry for this inconvenience, and I wanted to fall on the floor in that moment. Two of them said that to me, and I couldn't help it. It's like, please, don't ever say that to me again. Please don't ever say that to someone with a chronic illness who's forever sick. That's horrible. It's not an inconvenience.

33:44 You didn't forget to take the dog out. This is my life, right, These treatments are my life. It's not a joke. It's not an inconvenience. I just I couldn't. It's like you, these people who are in charge of saying yes and no to my care don't even know the extent or the severity of what they're saying. Yes and no to they have zero understanding. But yet they get to override my doctor and put up a roadblock on care. Yep, and that's what I came home to. But I will say Senator Hassin's office totally impressed.

34:21 I couldn't believe how quick they acted. I got a call from somebody in the insurance yesterday and it was a really bizarre call. I think she was trying to call Senator Hassin's office because she kept saying, Elsa, and we're from the Expedited I'm Ena from the United Healthcare Expedited Bills, and then I needed to let Elsa knows, like you're looking for me to go Elsa like. I was really confused by the call, and I honestly think that she called the wrong person because she immediately was like, oh well, oh no, never mind, never went I'm like, wa, wait a minute, wait a minute, Expedited Services.

35:00 Are you going to she so wanted me off the phone. Are you going to do this? So you know that happens. Yeah, And actually the insurance woman that called today was trying to pooh pooh and belittle me and trying to gaslight me, but saying, you know, well, these are things that you know, a patient calls in to do. This is what the provider is supposed to go and do it. Said, excuse me, My provider has been trying to do this for over a month, and I'm the person whose life is at risk here. You're dang right, I'm going to be the one to pick up the phone and call in and make sure things get done if you're not doing your job correctly.

35:41 Ye. You know, my doctor's office has been doing it for a month and a half, not getting anywhere. We're down to the wire now I'm getting infusion. So yeah, of course I stepped in, So they should They have no right. They should have never said that to me in the first place. It's absolutely inappropriate, absolutely absolutely inappropriate to tell me that I shouldn't be calling in, that I should leave it up for the No, this is my health, this is my life. Yeah. Absolutely, not only should I call in, you should be very receptive in helping me fix this problem.

36:10 If you're truly in the market to provide healthcare, but you're not. You're you're in the market to make prefets. Oh god, just wait till all these people are replaced by AI bots. How much worse, it's going to be well. Remember one of the times that we applied to get a tear reduction on the mess and on prescription. We sat, we did all the paperwork. We're on the phone with a lady doing the paperwork, and no sooner did she hit enter. It took over an hour to enter in all the reasons and diseases and whatnot.

36:42 No sooner did she hit entered. Did I immediately get an email that said that was denied? Yea or no it was? It was a phone Alart. It was a phone Alart denied And she was like and I'm like, wow, it said denied. She said, oh, I was afraid that was going to happen. It was the name of the medication. So a computer did at It was the name of the medication. Nobody with medical skill whatsoever actually read the file or had a clue. It was a computer that did it. And this is what we need hearings on. This would not be allowed to happen.

37:11 They should not be allowed to batch deny us or keyword deny us when it's supposed to be a medical personnel that looks at it. But then you look at these companies, they're allowed to I saw our thing. They put up a job posting, and the person said the job posting was for a denial nurse, like that's your job to deny things. Of course, it's not even the way health there's this is not how that's supposed to work. When I got off the plane, when I came home, though, we remember, I got a phone call right away and it was because the leaver had published an article about healthcare.

37:45 And that turned out to be one of the guys. Oh forgive me, his name is losing me. Michael is from an organization I think it's ppa they they have supporting traditional Medicare and they would like they one hundred percent supports being expanded to include everybody. Everybody get a Medicare card, you can go anywhere it's accepted. That organization is called Protect Traditional Public Medicare. And Michael Antwerp is the one that called and he asked me to talk to one of the ladies who was an EMT during nine to eleven.

38:25 Yeah, and apparently in in in New York City, they're the mayor and the heads of the unions are trying to force already retired first responders onto Medicare. Advantage plans, so trying to force them off of Medicare and onto Medicare advantage to save them money. These these are retired folks. This is a weird situation. These are union members are fighting against their union heads because they're they're getting screwed. They're getting totally screwed in this deal. These people will lose their doctors, they could lose the hospitals they've been going to.

39:06 They could lose all of their providers if they're not in network, whereas with Medicare they can go to all of what they've got right now. So they've been fighting. They actually just won a temporary restraining order that stopped them from going forward with it, and it was right down to the wire. It was down it was going to be the tenth that they were going to be all forced out or they'd have to sign away some of their retirement benefits. So these guys work for us, They will work for this. It's incredible.

39:32 Yeah, you have to sign away your benefit if you want to stay on traditional Medicare is what the force was going to be on this. So there's a lot more going on than even I could have even imagined. I had no idea that Medicare advantage could be used as a tool that way to destroy retirees and their healthcare. And by the way, Mayor Eric Adams of New York he's a former first responder himself, so he should know better. Frankly, well, I mean he's you know, he's he was a former, you know, a former. I don't remember what rank he got up to.

40:07 Was he was he the commissioner police. Honestly, I'm not sure, but I'm honestly not sure, you know. And he's a Democrat, but he certainly no progressive and a lot of people are Remember this is um off of topic in terms of healthcare, but it just reminds me of this was a while ago. Now this was many months ago. But do you remember Kendra when Kendra al Saunders, our friend, the author and of course from half Half Lucid Jewelry, you wear some of her things, she called in and was talking about how when she was still living in New York City, how the mayor had forced uh, they were forcing these these street vendors like Kendra who was selling her stuff in the park in New York, which was a normal thing in New York City, and all of a sudden, they were forcing everybody out and it was a directive from Mayor Adams.

40:52 You know, get these get these vendors out of here. It's like a very un New York thing to do. Yeah, it's it's really weird that they would go in that direction. But then again, they do tax a lot. Would you like to make their money? So there is that Fredo points out in the chat room. People in countries with universal healthcare live longer lives. That's a fact easily proven with publicly available data. Longer lives by delta of almost a decade. Yep. Absolutely. So there's another lady named Marianne Pizzola and she is a former um tie from nine to eleven that she's the one that's actually working on this with New York City.

41:36 Yeah, it's she's got like a crew of people together that I've been fighting them and they finally won this temporary restraining order, but they still have to keep fighting just to keep what they were promised tool. It's like, really, why is it always first responders that get slammed with that. It's like, really, you know, they didn't they didn't earn it really, because that's what I know what it feels like to it's like, oh, yeah, you didn't really earn this, so we can take it away from you. You're appreciated for as long as it's politically viable and advantageous for someone to appreciate you.

42:07 Yeah, the first fresh of us anymore afget Yeah, I mean that that really is. I mean that's old cold heart reality of that. You know, they appreciate you when it's politically advantageous. We're the only country that attaches our healthcare to working Yeah, and that's where a lot of this happens. There's another event coming up in July on the twenty fifth. They're celebrating the anniversary of Medicare. I believe it's fifty years. Okay, I think it's fifty years. There's an organization called Be a Hero that Marian's involved with that group too, as well as the traditional public Medicare group.

42:49 But this group called Be a Hero was started by Addie Barkins, and he's a gentleman that developed als and he's made it his mission before he dies to fight for people to have the healthcare they deserve to have access, but not only that, to also have good access to home care. To think the tools that people need to be able to stay in their homes. It's a lot harder than people think. So this organization has actually started an event that's going to be right in the DC. Mall right in front of the White House.

43:21 Oh sorry, it's the fifty seventh anniversary of Traditional Bettercare. Forgive me for misspeaking. So there's going to be an event help there. We're expecting press and so forth, and I may or may not be there, depending depending on how well the next couple of treatments go. So I may be heading back to DC, I may be speaking at this event. And we are all after the same thing. We are all after a healthcare system that makes sure that everybody has access no matter who they are, no matter where they are.

43:56 It's not attached to a price tag by the WA's what I could up to. Yes, yes, while you're doing great works absolutely good in tired Yeah, yeah, no doubt, but I know you're you're doing you're doing great stuff and um uh and you know and that that's got to feel really good. It's harder than I thought in that after the last three day one, especially saying the story over and over and over again, and then of course trial by Fire was released on YouTube. Just Charles Maddox film documentary about CRPS.

44:31 Oh yeah, Trial by Fire. He just put it on YouTube, so and I watched it. We've had him on the show. Yes, he's an amazing guy. He did another thing on diabetes as well. Yeah, but he's out there fighting the good fight for healthcare as well. His mom came down with CRPS and that's how he got involved in the you know, in with CRPS is also on Netflix. There is a documentary running right now. It's Take Care of Maya, and it's about a young girl who got CRPS and her parents were doing everything the best for her.

45:06 She saw she was a patient of like two of the leading experts in the country on CRPS, doctor Hannah and I forget the other doctor's names. They got involved in her case. Mom and dad had brought her to the hospital for treatment because she was having a massive flair. The hospital decided she didn't have CRPS. They reported her for a child abuse and accused the mother of having munchilds and by proxy. Now mom was an ICU nurse. She's very learned. Yeah, so she was insistent, of course on what her daughter should have for care.

45:42 They actually used that against her and used that as evidence to say, wow, that she was moon childs and by proxy, her daughter was going into three months of no treatments. They kept her in a psych word and they said it was all in her head. Even doctor Hannah and the other doctor got involved, contacted the hospital letters, nobody would listen to them that this child was diagnosed with this rare disease and was suffering. So, I mean, it's very real. In the documentary, Mom kate meticulous notes.

46:12 She also kept audios, so a lot of this is on audio. You hear it all firsthand. And I'm sorry to say that Mom hung herself in the garage of the home because and left quite the note because she felt it was the only way that her daughter would be getting any treatment would be if she was out of the picture, because they weren't accusing her husband, they were only accusing her. So after three months of seeing her daughter suffer from what little she could see and hear because of course they were restricted her, they accused her of everything under the sun.

46:45 Yeah, and you know what, it's a real crazy thing that I had no idea about. This documentary shows you the evidence the hospital was billing for care of s RPS the entire time, the entire time, and taking this child from her family, making her suffer in a psych ward for three months, held in this hospital against her will, war to the state.

47:19 Yeah, and they were billing for it. They were actually getting money. And this woman died and this family was destroyed by this hospital because they'd never seen a case, or they didn't have a clue, or they didn't want to listen. But what really baffle it's mind baffling. You know here, this woman is a nice U nurse. Okay, so obviously she knows more. You should. You should understand that. But to have two of the leading experts in the country sitting there, going this child is suffering from the most painful disease known to medicine.

47:55 She needs treatment, Yeah, you know a lot of it. Two comes back to prejudice because in CRPS, one of the main treatments to treat a flair is academy and infusion. What I'm going to have tomorrow? Yeah, what makes it able for me to function? I understand, I can only I can understand what it's like to go without one. I've gone as far as how many months was it six before being on LDN. It was Remember when the doctor's office closed up and we had a wait. Doctor No did everything he could to get the equipment as fast as he could to get me in for a treatment because the other office just closed up shop and left everybody without any treatments.

48:41 I remember, I can't imagine what this family went through. They were such an amazing type family to be destroyed in this way, and you can hear it and see it one hundred percent firsthand because Mom did all of these recordings and took all of these notes. This actual video, I mean, yeah, you should watch this. You should watch this. This is what happens. And again it's private companies utilizing medicine to destroy people's lives. And basically by denying them care, they give you a prior authorization that's worth lessing because it doesn't have everything inclusive.

49:20 Right. Yeah, it's disgusting these companies, especially in the medicare advantage world, to take advantage of the sickest of the sick, the elderly kiddos, people who have no choice and they're disabled, and you get sucked up by this thing and there's no way out. You can't get back to regular medicare because nobody will sell you a supplement policy. By the way, Crystal points out too. And then and then we do have to we are approaching the top of the hour. But Crystal points out too, this is important, She says, she has a lot of good insights on the subject.

49:55 She says, out of network insurance companies will bankrupt pay patients without of network denial of service. Most of my blood work taken every three months was sent out to labs and considered out of network. Often up to twelve miles of blood got taken each time. Yeah, that is another way they screw you. One of the cases that People's Action picked up was a gentleman who needed to have extensive lab work and the insurance it was a lab that was in the insurance. They denied the seven thousand dollar bill or thereabouts because the doctor who ordered the labs was not in network.

50:33 Yeah, so People's Action got involved to fight their case as well. Yeah. Which, if you're hearing this and you like, I got a case and I could use help, They'll take on more. Yeah, they'll take on more patients. It's not easy to go public in some reguards, but it can be empowering to at least feel like you're taking back control of some aspect of your life. Yeah. I'm not gonna say it's easy to repeat your story a zillion times, sure, but it's worth it. Absolutely the only way we're gonna win. It's the only way that the little guys are gonna get the same access to medical care that the rich CEOs and greedy corporations get.

51:08 Exactly. All right, well we are, we are at the top of the hour. So what we're gonna do is as promised. Oh by the way, hello to Scott Robinson in the Facebook live chat, who said hello guys, and uh Dylan Reynolds. I said, hello, Scott, are you related to Jerry Robinson? I think we have a guest coming in. Oh okay, excellent, excellent? All right, well we will we'll have our we'll have a guest in the second hour. But in the meantime, here it is the world radio premiere. We're gonna listen to this. Yes, we're gonna listen to this and then show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then we'll be back with our number two newmarrowdose of Matt Connerton unleashed.

51:45 But here's the world radio premiere. This is Jerry and the Scumbags the brand new single I'm the man, all right, he's scutts, said Francisco to a ys and everyone wants to talk about me when night run by the lady scream when you're coming out, lady Terry, you know I'm really outward, very hands too well. I've had some stupid cool you know what. Let me tell you why it is. I ain't I do what I want because I can't. I ain't the best. All of you lose us O jist, it's loaded full of cash. I'm the over or the best.

53:27 I'm a run star. You will see. I've got more money than ANTI need. I'm not very mean, silver Fox, I'm the scene. I lived with all the ladies scream, I ain't the man. I do what I want because I can't. I ain't the best. All of you says I just stop, bast what do you think a woman? I ain't no man. I do what I want to because I can't. Ain't the best, all of you losers, I just stop, bass, I ain't the man. Two wine wine sell the best. Arry, come on down to the hop Knot at one thousand elms. Street, Manchester's premiere craft beer and gourmet pretzel bar tell us More at Trudy.

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58:29 You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, Contact Infolk Show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Monday, July ten, two thousand twenty three. Jenny is at the news desk, president and accounted for and joining us on the couch. And of course you, even if you did not hear her most recent appearance on the program, which has been a while, you have heard her voice on the show quite a bit. Trudy is here.

58:59 Well then, moms introduction Trudy. Of course, she's the one who answers me when I say, tell us more, Trudy, you look great, Yeah, thank you. Yes, it was great. And by the way, before we catch up with Trudy, I do want to mention we did do the world radio premiere, of course, of the new the new hit single from Jerry and the Scumbags I'm the Man, and we got some feedback in the Facebook live chat, Caitlin Mitchell says, this is so much better than a song about New Orleans. Yes, isn't it? Yes, very much.

59:35 I love Jerry a little inside, but yes we do. We love Jerry Robinson. Ted Mitchell says, I love that song and uh right. Dylan Reynolds says, yeah, Louisiana town and uh Caitlyn Mitchell says, waving and waving my hand. That's a that's a reference to, of course, playing down in New Orleans. Oh the waving and wa in my hand. Yes, Okay. Ted Mitchell says, we love Jerry Jerry Robinson just incredible. Uh, truely. Are you familiar with Jerry Robinson. He's he's the next Howard Stern. You know, I am. Oh, you still have to introduce you know, he's just amazing.

1:00:14 He'll be such a quick fan. Okay, he's very very talented and and we're and sometimes he calls into the show. He called into the show earlier and uh, we just were very impressed by him. I had to help him. There is dulcet tones. He's an older gentleman, so so I had to I had to help him recently with h I'd get on the phone with him because he was trying to figure out how to attach a file to an email and he was kind of struggling with it. And you would think, like, you know, who can't figure that out?

1:00:37 But like I said, he's an older guy. He's a nice man, but he's so enormously talented. I I felt driven to assist him. So, you know, I very patiently did get on the phone with him and I helped him and uh, you know, I I whatever he needs, whatever Jerry needs, I'll such a go get up. How can you say no? I mean that's always putting in one hundred ten everywhere to two hundred maybe yeah, yeah, he's all in. Yeah, he'll say that sometimes, but he has a speech impediment, so he doesn't understand his numbers.

1:01:07 I guess something like that. Yeah, we love him, well, we love we love Jerry Robinson from here. No, I'll fill you in. Okay, you have chats after Yeah, he is not he is not from the area. But yes, Jenny, do wish he was? Yes? Yes, perhaps, Well when he goes on tour, you know, I'm sure we'll get to meet him. You have to come. We'll come here. I'm be t shirt girl and you're gonna still play you. That's weird. That's true too. I mean I am on the studio track as I'm trying to get him to move here. I'm credited as mattso Covington.

1:01:40 Yes, yes, he did remote basing, yes, yes, which you can do now. Uh yeah, well no, I don't cook basing. Oh I thought you said basting oh no, I was confused. I was like, whoa cooking but basing meeting? Yeah, ah, yes, yes, yeah, that's right. The studio line is open six zo three two five O six zo seven six zo three two five zero six zero seven. You can also text us at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at Matt Connerton dot com.

1:02:16 And of course you can interact end opine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call at six zo three two five six zo seven six zo three two five zero six zero seven. And uh, like we said, Trudy is here with us, and uh what have you got? Uh? What have you got coming up? Something? You got big duins? Yeah. So I volunteer with this group h Manchester Grows and we're trying to jump start a what do you call those market for the city okay and market farmers market?

1:02:54 Yes, thank you, and um over at Cheheim baskuill okay, and it's uh for Thursdays. We're gonna be starting this week Thursdays from four to seven, and I just wanted to come out share that because I know you have a really great audience. Usually when I come on the audience, you have great interaction, and throughout my passing throughout Manchester, I always bump into people who say, oh, I heard you ye on that contentiow. So I figured this would be a great way to reach out to other members of the community who might not be aware of what we're doing down there.

1:03:28 So what does where does the term farmers market come from? Where? Why do they call it a farmer's market? Wow, Matt, that's a really great question. I should have done my research. I don't know the origins of the word. Yeah, right, yeah, like all the farmers get together, it's a farmer's market. Okay, well right, like a central gathering right somewhere where people could trade there you can always prote nummies. Yeah. Well, we might not have pres this week, but we do have concession open so we sell Hamburgers, French fries and if we have any baked goods.

1:04:06 Good. Um. Empanadas Oh I love empanada. Yeah, and they're fresh maid I haven't had one in forever. Yeah. Yeah, I can't go Thursday, but maybe I can go next Thursday, all right, yeah, because all for the month of July over at ching Baskill four to seven pm and we get live music, so oh very cool. Do you know, do you know who you have coming up, who's going to be planned? Do you know any of the artists could have that information for you, but I do not. Look, we've had a few people that are from the area just come and play.

1:04:37 We had a DJ one night, yeah, and there was also a believe a lady who came and she played the acoustic guitar. Um. I get tons of people. Yeah. Oh, there's so much great talent around here. Yeah, for sure. And that's that's one of the reasons why we love that area as well, because they have the splash pad open and there's open green space so you can come down with the kids or your dogs and hang out as well. Yeah. Um, it's got great little vibes. You know, it's a part of the city that doesn't get as much coverage, right because it's not Elm Street.

1:05:09 Yeah yeah, any of the fancier parts of town. But you know, there's community down the taxpayers down there, and it's just a good time to get together, hang out outside yeah, enjoy the park, enjoy the space. Does this happen every year every July? It was, but then COVID Yeah, and then I think they right, there was a hiatus and it was taking place on that street over there. I forget what's the name of that, um oh at that park by the library. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I can never get that. I can never keep the names of the parks straight.

1:05:44 I know. I didn't realize how many parks we have in Manchester, which is great. Yeah, and there's multiple gardens around the city as well that Manchester Grows helps support with plants. But yeah, there's a lot of green space around you. You love going up there and helping with the plants, Yes, and we do have volunteer hours. But I will get that more information if you'd like to swing by on a Sunday. Yeah maybe maybe. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was gonna say you did that before. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's where I learned how to not handle peppers.

1:06:19 What do you mean they grow a lot of hot peppers, or they did when I was there. Yeah, there was a lot of help. Thankfully did not go blind. But these are the kind of things that you wear gloves and you wash your hands. I don't understand what you tight your eyes or your face or anything after you've touched hot pepper plants. Oh, you can blind yourself. It's got heart. It's gonna really hurt for real, for real temporarily. That's why I have this one plant on the porch that's completely wrapped in wide Yeah.

1:06:53 Oh I have, Yes, I have one plan out there because Jesse loves his hot peppers. So I was trying to grow some hot pepper so that one's kind of encased to remind me to not touch it like water from this distance. Beware spicy af Yeah, you could like blind yourself with the juices and stuff. Wow. Yeah, See this is why I don't do anything outdoorsy myself, you know, like I don't go out into the woods on the porch. Actually, what's that You barely sit on the porch and I get a whole garden going on out there.

1:07:26 Now I've been there, I mean i've been there, I've been on I've been on the porch there. I've been on the porch, Like I can kind of remember what it looks like. But yeah, it's just there's scary scary things outside, like stuff that you know, food that can make you go blind. I mean that's terrifying to me, you know, and you know, and there's deer ticks and and yeahs are really bad. You know. The blair Witch is out in the woods there. You know, there's all kinds of things. Yeah, I mean it's it's terrifying.

1:07:53 I'd like to be able to just stay indoors and teleport different places, you know, that would be really cool. Yes, maybe we're getting close to there, you know the hovercrafts now yeah, whatever I've seen in the yeah, yeah, so hopefully soon. Yes. Um. Do you know how many vendors are at the uh that's another thing. We are looking for vendors. So if anybody is looking to sell, whether you paint or sow or you know, you just have a product you want to share with the community, feel free to come down and check it out the space.

1:08:27 Yeah, we don't charge for you to table, so right now, it's just looking to get people down there and sharing and trading. Oh, very cool, very cool. If you make anything, maybe you like to make pottery, Yeah, it doesn't have to be so, it doesn't have to be food, no, no, no, it could be artwork, jewelry. Um, craftsmen. Sometimes people have like the wooden signs that they make or um window ornaments. I've seen people with anything from like tapestries to comforters. To get anything at all like that those that's hot.

1:09:04 That's all what you want to find in a farmer's market. Yeah, and if you have produce, you know, as long as you're within the specific guidelines, feel free like it's anybody, everybody, whatever you got. That's the great thing about a farmer's market is you can trade and hawk your wares right there. And you know, I like going because I get my honey locally, which is really good for you. I always get a local honey from one of the farmer's markets here. It's good for you to eat local honey. You get the it's it's got stuff in there that'll help you if you've got allergies.

1:09:35 That's local because you think about all the plants that they pollinate to get that honey. It's now in the honey. So it gives you some exposure to help you not get as bad with your The work is what I thank you, and honey I didn't, so I went to a grocery store to go buy some of the other day, thinking, oh, I'll just buy some local honey, but all the honey on the shelf was imported. Yeah, and that kind of um was disappointing. But I mean, I understand it. Up with my guy, he's awesome. I get honey from him, all yeah, along, I get giant bottles.

1:10:14 I'll get like a thirty dollar bottle because I use it a lot. I use honey. Honey is one of the main ingredients in the bread I make, in the Holla bread. Oh yeah, yeah, for that nice sweetness. Yeah. And the protein snacks. Look, you have honey in them. You ever had those? Um, They're like sessing me biscuits. It's just sessing me in honey, I believe. But they're crisp, thin, like like a wafer. Oh my god, they're no good. I used to get them at market Basket, but now I don't know where I could find them.

1:10:43 But they're really yummy with honey. I was just reading online. I don't know if this is true though. You can't believe everything you see on the internet. But something about if you if you touch a hot pepper and then you touch your eyes, you should flush your eyes with honey. Do you know if that's true. No, for real, That's what I read on wine, so I assumed it was true. I yeah, your eyes. I've never used honey in the emergency room. Now we flush both eyes with sailing, but not honey. Does anybody have mace on them right now?

1:11:17 We could try it. We just need some honey. Years ago, I had a family that had to come in. One of the kiddos had some all gotten a hold of bear spray and sprayed it inside. So the whole family got exposed and they all had to come in and everybody had to get helped clean up and flushing out eyes, and oh it was the poor family. I felt terrible for him. Did the kid grow up to be an insurrectionist? I doubt it. I don't think he was very apologetical. Okay, oh well, definitely not. I don't think he really got what he did.

1:11:51 He was kind of young, right, Okay, he's just like spray. Yeah, it takes two seconds something that you don't meet him to any part. I'll tell you, yes, two seconds, it's all it takes. Yep. Ye. Scott Robinson said, hot hot peppers and pineapple on pizza is awesome. Oh yeah, that sounds horrifying. Yea, the hot and sweet does go well to like what kind of hot pepper? Though? Is he talking jalapino? Because I can tolerate a jalapino. I'm not a very forget what it is. I'm growing it's not as hot as a ghost pepper, but it's definitely hotter than a cayenne.

1:12:27 I'll have to have an arrow. I'm not sure now. I have to look at that. I kept the packet so I can remember what kind of pepper it is in this moment, I honestly have no clue. There's a bunch I was just watching Master Chef Isn't Master Chef Gordon Ramsay and the episode was I think the elimination one of the challenges. It was just a bunch of different type of spicy peppers and there was they were rattling them off. I couldn't tell you. I just know like jalapino, banana, haben, narrow, oh, Hungarian.

1:13:02 I think a Hungarian pepper is spicy. That's a new one to me. Yeah. I used to love hot stuff, not so much anymore. It doesn't love me back. M Yeah, Scott says, yes, hallapeno pepper and the pizza on the pizza with extra pineapple, Yes, extra pineapple that sounds sweet and spicy, pepperoni on there, a little extra cheese, okay, now true to you might not know this because it's been a while since you've been here. About I, I personally feel, while I'm not myself a religious man, I feel that pineapple on pizza is a sin against God.

1:13:40 Really, Oh see pineapple where it's good to be me. I only like pineapple certain ways, like I like it grilled, and then I also like it on kizza, grilled pineapple. Oh yeah, ye oh my gosh, you can put anything on a grill. Grilled veggies are sticking on a kebab m hm, so good. I don't I don't believe in cooking vegetables. I like raw vegetables. You eat your carrots raw? Oh yeah, yeah, he won't eat No, he won't eat onions. I don't. I don't like Yeah, I don't like onions. But just generally, I don't know what the point is of cooking vegetables.

1:14:15 Like to me that like when they're raw, they have the most flavor, and then and they I think, especially carrots like cooked carrots baffle me. Like whose idea was it to take a delicious crispy carrot and say, you know what, not only do I want to remove all the nutrients from this carrot, but all the flavor as well. I need to take this delicious crispy carrot and make it into something where it's almost like you're eating water, where it has no flavor. And I just don't I don't understand it. You gotta put some butter and brown sugar in the pan with it, really, and then yeah, and then get a nice little I'd rather donage on it, and then it's like candy carrot candy.

1:14:55 Yeah. I've heard people say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, rosst I figure like you know, people who have sensitive teeth. Yeah, when you cook the veggies, oh yeah, that makes sense. I like a nice like a nice summer squash and zucchini steam, Yes, come on, after you throw it in the oven. What's really great? Um steamed? And Kenny got me hooked on it. Cauliflower, like you just steam ahead of cauliflower, And I don't know what it is about it. Yeah, I couldn't get that into him. So good. There's like a slight sweet net flower.

1:15:34 Our friend Ron is on the line he likes to put hot dogs in his belly button. Hi Ron, True, Yeah, Hi guys, Um Kenny, welcome back from your trip. You guys, welcome back from a long weekend. Thank you. And this is the first time I get to see job truly. I for the name bazilion manazillion times, but this is the inputs truly. So yeah, it's pretty cool. Thanks for calling in. Yes,

1:16:03 that's all. I'm just wanted to say hi and welcome back everybody. And all right, Ron, nice to meet you through the phone. Trudy, Yes you as well. Ron. Thanks man. All right, Ron, thank you for the calling. I appreciate it. Have a great night. See you Thursday. Very good, very good. By the way, our friend Miriam vanishes in the Facebook live chat, she says veggies are hard to digest for some of us. Oh okay, yeah. And by the way, Scott Robinson says, welcome back, Trudy and semper fi, semper fi. Thank you.

1:16:31 Yes, yes, you were in the Marines. Um, yeah we did. We did talk about that one time on the show. I know that was probably like two years ago. That it was a while ago. Yeah, yeah, you're even more yeah money, Yeah, you know what pre COVID, the COVID caused pre COVID, among among so many other things. This weird time distortion. Yeah, every everything seems like not as long ago as it actually was, right, Like I'm thinking in my mind maybe two years. But the reality, like you said, could be its pre Yeah yeah, oh my god, are on pre COVID.

1:17:13 But it doesn't seem it doesn't seem like it. It's very strange. H Tom Lanchard says cooked cabbage smells like flatulence. That's true. I agree, you know, yes, but it's so good with corned beef, potatoes and some red wine vinegar see corn beef. I I maintain as the food of Satan. Oh no, and I'm irish. I'm irish I should like it. I think corn beef. I think corn beef is so disgusting because it's like it's all stringy. It's like meat that's been pre chewed. Why would you want to eat with not yes, it looks like that though, it's why would you want to eat anything stringy and ball?

1:17:51 How would you do a pre showed food taste like? Because it's it's stringy, it's it's gross. Oh I want to see it if it's bringing it's let it fries down so nicely that it might be in a quiet fat. You got to pull off some of the fats. You don't have to use as much salt either. Well yeah, I'm cooking with enough in it. Yeah. You don't need to add any just just a smell of it. Oh so, and I should like it. I mean, you know a piece of cabbage to go with it in the cabbage. Yeah, and then with the cabbage, right if you boil it and then fry it down butter or oil, and then you get a nice brown on there and has a nice live on the air, which could be good for ratings.

1:18:39 Is it sweeps? Um? Your ratings will go through the roof through the roof, yes, yes, if you have come up in the wrong way, yes, yes. Well we do love the of course, the great food at the hopknot the pretzels and uh and all that and the um what I'm trying to remember what Dan got us one night for retro Spectrum radio. Yeah it was those. Yeah, those were those are really good. Yeah, I haven't had them in a long time. You hit them with the confection sugar on top, like depenments them. Nut Tella. Yep, yeah, every bit of that not good for me, wonderfulness but they but but you don't even look a for an oreo to me.

1:19:19 You don't even need the new Tella? Is it? Newtella is right? Because like like the maple's good too, like the night that that Dan brought them, like I didn't even like when I eat them, I don't even dip them. I just eat them like you don't even like they're so good you don't even need to dip. I try to eat them right when they're just when they come right out because you're so boist in the middle. Yeah, yeah, yep, it's like a nice see. Can we go break in and get us some teams? Right? That's right?

1:19:47 It's Monday, y'all. Yeah, they're closed on Monday, Yes, yes, yes, yes, uh. Six ozho three two five oh six O seven is a number if you'd like to join us. Six O three two five h six zero seven. The studio line is open. Genius here of course, and we have true to here on the couch. You've heard her many times in the commercial for you know, we could update it, but but but why yeah, you know, it's legendary. Why mess with the masterpiece. Do people, does anyone ever actually say to you, tell us more true to here?

1:20:20 Um? Easy, thank you? He was easy. He was the only one who did it. He caught me one time over at market Basket on South Willow. Yeah. Yeah, I'm walking one way and out of the I hear something and I turn around and he's like, tell me more. That's awesome. Yeah, Well, well there you go, there you go. Um. Are you uh keeping up with politics and everything or kind of sort of? I think I because right we're going to election season, so I know things are going to be crazy. What I do enjoy is listening to the radio because the radio ads, you know, they're fascinating how how much indoctrination and information can be passed in a thirty seconds.

1:21:12 And then when you repeat it, there's a cadence to each one, right, and it's just oh man, it's very powerful, fascinating but scary all at the same time. But yeah, I'm trying to kind of stay so I sound a little bit educated and I understand what's going on, but at the same time, I think I'm actively trying to keep a little bit distant because I know I can get a little carried away. That's why I love about the show too, though, is that. Um people, I feel like a lot of your listeners, all of us, have different political views, but we're also a group of people who enjoy talking about that, yeah, and hearing other people's views.

1:21:59 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we try to do that with the show, you know, I mean, I um I, I try to do something that's different than what because you know, most political talk radio is conservative, and most you know, conservatives really dominate political talk. There was a great podcast that touched upon the history of the evolution of conservative talk radio. Yeah, I will have to find the link. It was on nhpr H. It must have been like in March or April, and I cannot remembercall what the podcast was. Oh no, it might be the one that's on at two pm, the Spanish one.

1:22:37 But it was fascinating really the history and how popular it became and why it became so popular and then what it is now, which is you know, a really powerful political too. Oh yeah, yeah, there's a great book. The author's name escapes me right of the dial and uh, but that came out like twenty years ago at least. But but it but it also chronicles the rise of conservative talk radio, and a lot of people credit that with being what saved AM radio because you know, I've talked on the show about like I remember being a kid and hearing adults talking about how you know, OAM radios on its way out and you know, it's got that annoying whistle and then it's and it's you know, who listens to AM radio except for you know, baseball games and you know news, and you know FM is so much better, which it is, of course, but but then, uh so everyone assumed AM radio was going away, and then uh, conservative political talks, you know, shows like Rush Limbaugh and others, you know, um found a home on AM radio, and um and it kind of exploded it.

1:23:43 You know, it's still it hasn't ever been as big as FM, you know, but it really, uh it really kind of regained its prominence. And now it might be back on the ropes because um, these car manufacturers with their electric vehicles, they're they're not putting AM radios, or at least they plan to not put AM radios in the new cars, only FM and of course satellite. And uh wow, yeah that sounds so weird to me right now, because I'm so used to having access to AMM and FM, right, yeah, and then now we're moving into the new yeah technology.

1:24:21 But but it's not the first time we thought AM was going away, so maybe it's not. But then there's um I remember this is like maybe six months ago I saw online Sean Hannity on his show had done a segment with Mark Levin where they were complaining about how they think it's a conspiracy, you know, because if you're gonna buy an electric vehicle, then you're probably a liberal because while it's what do you want an electric vehicle? So it's probably you know, liberals trying to uh, trying to end conservative talk radio by just buying electric vehicles without without AM radio in them.

1:24:56 That is such a good conspiracy theory. Yes, what's about conspiracy theories is that you can like take it anywhere, right, but if you hits, if you somehow manage to make logic out of something so ridiculous, people will be like, oh, yeah, for sure, right right, the liberals are definitely taking over the world because they're buying electric vehicles, for sure. Yeah, well we'll see where it. Uh. Oh. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry says in the chat, I read an article not too long ago that they can't get rid of AM radio because if anything happens to satellites, AM is the only way they could broadcast emergency signals.

1:25:33 Yeah, that's true, And there's there's a bipartisan effort in Congress, I know, to keep AM one of them you mentioned earlier our Senator Ed Markey. Yes, he's part of that, and he's there's a I forget who the Republican is he's working with directly on that. But uh, but yeah, so there is an effort to keep AM radio. Yeah, but yeah, we'll see. But yeah, but the point being, you know, so we try to do something here that's different, and you know, I'm kind of center left myself, but but you know, we have Republicans on Yeah.

1:26:06 I think that's like we were talking about. We touched on that a little bit earlier, about being able to have those conversations from wherever somebody's at. Yeah, you know, and having that's that's been something I've actually enjoyed with what I'm doing with healthcare is because it is one of those topics that does cross lines, that isn't a Republican a Democrat issue. It is a human issue. Everybody's family's got a horror story about insurance companies denying care or incredibly horrible co pays.

1:26:35 Our medical system needs a massive you know, we start looking at it from a different lens, and those conversations, So where you start, You've got to know where people are at, what their concerns are, what's bothering them, and then work from there. And I honestly and truly believe that we could have a way better healthcare system. We can do a lot better in a lot of systems if we could get back to having those kind of conversations. If it feels like we don't have them anymore. Yeah, it's like it's hard to or to find a space that facilitates, right.

1:27:07 I feel like we're kind of unique in that regard because we do have people on from both sides, and we do give them a fair chance to teut their case, and you know, it's it's no gotcha thing going on here. But it seems like everything, a lot of what's out there is so divisive, especially like I'm sorry Fox News, there are everything's angry. I mean, I watch it. I want to know what everybody's saying right exactly, and that that's how you get a better view of, you know, what's going on in the kind I miss Ted Copple.

1:27:42 I miss reporters giving you the facts and laying it out and and not trying to to tew to fire. I feel like Fox is constantly trying to stoke fires and get people angry because they yell a lot and they use a lot of divisive language. I'm not you know, they didn't used to be quite that way. That used to be the fringe, and now that's the reality of everything on that particular station. Miriam said in the chat, I get so worn out from politics. But what I love about this show is the balance of opinions, even when some opinions aggravate me.

1:28:17 Yeah, we try. I mean, I enjoy talking to people with whom I disagree. I often refer to uh, my friend Eric Pilcher, who he does our classic film reviews for us on Fridays, but he also I do a weekly segment with him on Wednesday, and I always refer to him as my favorite conservative. And what I like about Eric is it's he's it's very easy to um. You know, our politics are very different, although we find common ground on some things too. But the things we find common ground on are usually we dislike a lot of the same people like some of the conservative personalities that you see online.

1:28:56 We he and I both dislike for the same reason, you know, because he's not afraid to call bs on people he thinks or dishonest or just bad people like Stephen Crowd or Canadas Owens or you know, he's not afraid to criticize them. But it's very easy to have a conversation with him even when we vehemently disagree on somethings, as we do on on some issues, because the way I approach it is I've always tried to kind of just take my ego out of it, because I think part of the problem with how people discuss politics and why people get worked up and they get angry and they kind of talk past each other they're not actually listening to each other is because they're egos are invested in it.

1:29:36 A lot of political discourse, it's not about it's not about um uh, me explaining to you why I think you're wrong. It's about I have to prove that you're wrong, or I have to m I have to convince myself of why you're wrong, or hit you with talking points, and I prefer, you know, to just kind of take my go out of it, and you know, let's just have a conversation about it and try to actually I'll try to actually empathize with the person I'm talking to, to try to understand, because I'm naturally curious about that anyway.

1:30:10 I'm always curious about not just what people think, but why they think that. Yeah, I have a natural curiosity with that, which I think most people lack because most people are just they're they're so invested in proving you wrong instead of not even not even being right, they just want to prove that you're wrong or that you're you're not at their level. Yeah, yeah, you know, and then that perception that because you're not at their level, you're it's not that you're lesser, but there's this it's this weird tone that you know, you're not as much as whatever.

1:30:48 Yeah, you know, and it becomes a contest, yes, you know, and it makes it very hard because then the emotions keep rising. Yeah, and that's something I know I have to work on because it's you know, especially with conservatives. Now, yes, I would probably consider myself a progressive and to a conservative. I'm probably like progressive then whatever the next level is right of extreme far left, but with conservatism. I've just noticed that there's certain patterns in the talking points that are brought up by conservatives.

1:31:23 And you know, once you pick up on these patterns, you're like, wait a minute, Okay, this is weird because now I'm seeing that it's more than just one person, right, you know, it's not necessarily some fringe opinion. This is really moving its way through a big circle of Americans. And I have to keep my emotions in check, so I remember that to listen, right right, find that commonality, because at the end of the day, the main commonality is that we're human beings. So you know, right there, we have at least one thing right exactly we can connect in but then keeping the space open so we can have conversations.

1:32:04 Yeah, you know, I think, yeah, people don't have patience for it anymore. Right, Well, you mentioned listening, and that's the thing too. People don't Rather than listening, I think most people, rather than listening to the other person, they're only half listening while the other half of their brain is formulating their next talking point that they're going to spit out. Right, Like, it's not they're not in the moment, right, Yeah, they're already they've already made up their mind what they are going to say, no matter what you say, and there's no way they're going to redirect.

1:32:34 They're not even hearing what you're saying. Yeah, they're just totally concentrating on what am I going to get you with? Yeah, this is what I'm coming out, you know, the gotcha comment or or something to prove you wrong. But it's it's not actually a real response, right, And that's so sad because it's missing out on so much. If we could just actually listen to each other, Yeah, I think that that would really the idea of connection, right, Like, we can connect on so many levels. Right, If people didn't know who we were, you know, you could say, oh, white, brown, But then you get to know us and you can see that there's more than that, right.

1:33:11 We connect through Um, we live in this general area. We hung out at the at the hopknot right, I've cooked you guys food before, You've patron places that my family owns, you know, Like, so there's so many more connections. I am a woman, you are a woman, you're a man. Protested together exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're a mom, I'm a mom. Like you have curly hair, I have curly hair. You know, Like there's so many things we can relate on, but it's like these just these talking points, you know, it's just talking points that kind of drive us away because we don't want we don't like when people challenge us.

1:33:50 Like you said, it's how ego, Yeah, yeah, challenging her. So when you talk about healthcare, somebody on the other side will be quick to say, I don't want to pay for somebody else's care or I don't think that. But when you actually sit down to have those conversations, real conversations about healthcare, they've got it in their family too, that a certain medication was denied because of the cost, or that they were forced to go to towns over for their PT because the local one wasn't in network. Like everybody's families have gone through these things that we have.

1:34:21 We're accepting the abnormal as normal. Yeah, and it kind of goes against right humanity. We couldn't have gotten to twenty twenty three without working with each other. I don't know,

1:34:36 but, like like you said, with the medical I just did this hike in support of Alzheimer's um caregivers. And wow, you know, as we're doing our hikes and going from town to town, we always bumped and started talking with one person who was like, yes, my father or my uncle, someone in their life they have been directly impacted by that disease, and so it's you know, it's there, there's connections. Yeah, we just got to keep our open heart, open mind, which sounds incredibly cheesy, but it's but it really is.

1:35:08 Yeah, it really is. And I see it as a sign of emotional growth in someone when they can hold space and actually hear the other side and then have a real conversation about it. Yeah, you know, we have a lot more in common than we have uncommon when we get down to just average day every Jay Joe's you know, we all get work, you get money, you get bills, you get kids. I mean, y'all go through healthcare problems, y'all go through car problems. We all have that. And these these walks on TV get everybody riled up.

1:35:42 And some of these other folks we could go through a list that rile people up with their ideals that really don't say anything. It's just some talking point that it's got no substance, it's just another reason to hate somebody else, and you get so wrapped up into that they don't actually get to the meat and potatoes that's really driving the issue, because if they did, they'd find themselves there because it's it's truth. It's the truth. It's us who pay our premiums that don't get the healthcare back, and we're also the ones delivering the healthcare mind you, Yeah, you know.

1:36:17 It's it's the mom who works three jobs trying to take care of our kids and get slammed by somebody who has a talking point, Oh because you're not married, or oh you know, you know, how could you how can you leave your child for that many hours, like well, I need to feed them, keep a roof of ruth shood. You know, it's those talking points that blind us to the reality of what life is really like. And when you really look at it, we're all the same, right. We all have cancers in our family, we all have mental health issues in our families, we have people have eyeglasses, whatever it is, we all have the same crap to deal with.

1:36:55 Yeah, everybody who's listening to me who has eyeglasses. How much did you have to spend be a last fair? You know, and the eyeglasses are expensive, right, Or when you want to get your car taken care of, they change a different law and you don't know. It's like, we all have the same annoyances, the same issues, and we used to listen to each other more. I think I think we used to pre Trump. I'll say it. Pre Trump. I think there was more discussion, less divisiveness. Now it's all about gotcha's and to show why I'm not you, oh I hate you, than it is about actually doing for the greater good, which was what we were supposedly electing these people to do.

1:37:33 Yeah, I would agree with you definitely on the pre Trump and then now because it's definitely the country has made shift. It's just it's yea Trump. Trump made it cool to be crass and yeah, or to questionab like to you know, it's one thing to be inquisitive and question and challenge, right. I think in a free country like we are in that we still need a lot of work. We should most definitely, if you are not challenging the status quo, like, then you're too comfy. Yeah, you know, And in order for us to progress, we have to push those lines and we have to create those boundaries.

1:38:13 And you know, I, even though I don't consider myself a conservative, right, the conservative movement, they're doing the same thing. They're pushing boundaries and they're pushing progress. It might not be in a direction that I like or appreciate or think is correct, right, but right, I still have to be right there and paying attention because that means I have to push my boundaries to progress as well, right, so that we don't lose this fight of darkness and lightness, which is kind of what it is.

1:38:41 I was watching Harry Potter the other Yeah, well yeah, and that perspective goes to all sides, right, Yeah. We each have our demons, on our our angels, if you will, of what we wish or hope would happen, and we beat each other up so much for not listening anymore. Like Reagan always talked about, Reagan was the was it to be a Reagan Republican? Was to be a good Republican back in the day. And Reagan had the third you know, the thirteenth Commandment that shall not speak ill of another Republican Like that was a no, no, you don't speak against somebody else.

1:39:15 You have those matters discussed in private, not in public. Use these bring come into the table and working things out. This was how government is supposed to exist, right, This is how it's supposed to what we elect you for. But that's not what we have today. We had it pre Trump, but there's a whole new breed of whatever Republican is now. And there's a whole lot of people just like me that left the party. Um, maybe not like me who got pushed. I've been a Democrat now registered Democrat for years now.

1:39:47 But we used to have those things that used to be the what we heard about, and now it's just I don't even know how to begin to get us back to that because it's so damaged now. It's it's it's cool to talk ill of another Republican or another It's like that's that you're on the good team if you're talking bad about somebody else in your own party. Now, like who can get the best burn on Twitter? Right? Yeah? Yeah, hashtag got you Major Taylor, Marjorie Taylor Green and um she is a celt mayor. No, oh my gosh.

1:40:24 Yeah. This video of them on the floor fighting and they're fighting over who gets to be the lead person to introduce articles of impeachment against Biden, and Green calls bobarn a little bee on the floor. Oh yeah, right on the floor, right on the floor. That's part of the reason why she got booted out of the Freedom Caucus was because she called Bobert a little bee right on the floor. Yeah. That didn't used to happen either, Like people didn't talk that way on the house floor. But you know, now if anything goes, let's just have a brawl.

1:40:58 Uh yeah, like get for him the Yeah, that's that. It's completely because Decora, I'm also meant being respectful and treating each other with respect. You respect another representative or another senator. You know, you give equal time and you listen to and new work things out. These guys just I mean, on the one other hand, they keep killing goods stuff that stinks because they can't pass it. So but then they're we can't get anywhere. It's like we're stuck in limbo with a bunch of people, schoolyard bullies beating on each other waiting to see who's going to come out on top.

1:41:33 That's what it feels like. And I was thinking the other day too, how right. So now I've seen a wave of the people running for the Republican candidacy. I've seen their commercials. Um, I don't. I haven't seen any from any Democratic candidates yet. And you will. I don't think you will. Yeah, that's what I found interesting too, because some of these new guy guys running for the ticket, Um, they're slick. They got really slick messaging, and now they know how to play both sides, right, So they know how to play the um center Democrat.

1:42:12 You know, they know exactly what buttons to push to get them to come to vote for them as a Republican. But they also know how to keep the voters that they have right now, right, So they throw in a little bit of progress, but not too much because they don't want to be too liberal. Right. But then they definitely just it's an onslaught of just you know, the negative Republican Party talking points that have permeated and fester for too long, and we're even even at this point. It's it's surprising that some of their talking points they bring up, Um, there's a lot of anti trans Yeah, the flavor of the day, we're going backwards in time.

1:42:52 Now they you know, now, now we're all about banning books, banning people. We banned An Frey, which Diary of a Month? Frank, you know why they banned it? I can only sexuality. You're talking about pornography Florida in Florida pornography, and Frank is pornography in Florida. I can't make wild. There's a lot of people that are starting to leave, and I think a lot more are going to because you if you live there and you're in the you're you're you're gay, or you're lesbian or your trans so safe for you anymore.

1:43:29 They're passing all these anti laws. And then when I think about it, I'm trying to think to myself, Okay, what by passing these laws? You know, they're not making the country bedder or stronger. They're literally and they're physically and legally trying to disenfranchise a group of people. Anybody who is right wing, question and it is, That's what it is. And to me, I don't I still cannot comprehend how American voters can vote in support of politicians who tout this kind of violence, because that's what it is.

1:44:11 It is violence against a very specific group of people, and historically we have seen this time and time again, and here we are in twenty twenty three and we're allowing it to happen again. Why because Trump said, oh, f this, F that, I'm this, I'm smart, I'm super smart. Like believe me. And now here we are. Although the interesting irony about that, and we got to wrap up in a minute, But the interesting irony about that is, I don't think I was trying to think, Actually it was earlier today. I was trying to think of when I've heard Trump get really anti LGBTQ, and I couldn't think of an instance.

1:44:48 I mean, I think he's you know, he's empowered a lot of the meanness. Yeah, but I think but I think the anti trans culture war stuff is being largely driven by to Santis, who seems like he's obsessed with it, and the right way Christian Conservative who wants to see their beliefs made into law. That's a huge push of this. That's why you've got Anne Frank being considered pornography. That's coming from the Christian right, the uber Christian right that's trying to ports push their agenda. And you know what's crazy.

1:45:18 I watched some YouTube videos recently from like nineteen sixty four, nineteen sixty five, and there were people talking about desegregation, the same language that you're going to hear today getting used to talk about people who are gay, are transgender. It's the same language. Not in our neighborhood, you know. We gotta by the way, hello to Dead Reckoning in the chat. Who says what's up? Hope Paul as well. We are still out here on tour killing it excellent, excellent, excellent, Dead Reckoning.

1:45:47 Yeah, they were on the show not too long ago. It was a lot of fun, Trudy before we run out of time. I wish we had more time. It's a great discussion, but I want to make sure please plug the farmers market. Yes, so Thursdays throughout the month of July from four to seven pm at Shaheen Basciol Park here in Manchester, we have a farmer's market and we're trying to build it up. So if you have anything that you would like to sell, you know, if you're an artist or you um, I can't even think off the top of my head, or you have produce, come on down.

1:46:20 You can table for free. We have the concession stand open. You know what's better than hamburger and French fries fried at a concession stand at a baseball park. And if you have kids, the splash pad is open, so you know, if it's hot out and it's not raining, that'll be going nice green space. We're gonna have some music, you know, come hang out, enjoy the weather, enjoy the park, enjoy manche Vegas. Yeah, and don't forget to enjoy the hop Knot as well. Yeah, And thank you so much to everybody who comes out and supports the Hop Knot and everybody who comes out and supports Manchester and anything that goes on in here at supporting local businesses.

1:47:00 Absolutely well, thank you, Thank you Trudy from me, Thank you guys. Absolutely, I love it, absolutely wonderful. You're always welcome. And Jenny, do you want to up plug your tabs on me at Gencoffee dot com j E n Ncofei dot com or you can follow me on Facebook if you like. I LB sharing my journey as we go. Looks like I might be heading back to d C. All right the power, Yes, and if you miss any part of today's show will be up in just a little bit at WMH radio dot org and on my website Matt Connerton dot com.

1:47:30 And that's it for us for now. Be back bright and early seven am for the morning show with Peter White, and uh we're out. I'll talk you'all a little bit later. By everybody, Bye bye, see it.