Matt Connarton Unleashed 7-11-23

All the best, Jarry, Welcome everybody. Here we go. It is

that time again, Matt Connerton unleashed and we're live from the studios of w

m n H ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire.

Also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester, and hello to all

of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go

to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social

media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is

Tuesday, July eleven, two thousand twenty three, and I am not alone.

It's been a long time. But at the newsdesk, Kyle Clayton is

here. How are you good? How are you? I missed this desk

so much. Oh. Speaking of dulcet tones, you know, I'm very

envious of your voice. I appreciate that you got that deep voice. Someone

recently compared me to Kermit the Frog. It was very hurtful. Yeah,

I disagree. This is a smoking and depression that's what this is my voice.

Oh see, that's where I miss I have the I struggle with depression,

but I never took up smoking. Maybe maybe I made a terrible mistake.

Maybe I should have. You know, I'm started smoking, yeah,

with a leather jacket. I thought it looked cool at the time. But

well, yeah, while it does mean, let's be honest, I mean,

you're kind of not supposed to say that, but the truth is,

it does look pretty cool if you're wearing a leather jacket while smoking. And

I mean anything with a leather jacket really, but yes, yes, just

about a little too hot for lear jackets today. But see, I actually

help people quit smoking. I'm a hypnotherapist, and that's the number one thing

that people come to me for. But uh, but I don't use my

Kermit the frog like a voice, as someone recently told me. For that.

I sat in my tone, and I tell you that you might be

feeling very deeply relaxed and very comfortable and very calm, and soon you will

be a permanent, committed non smoker. You know I talk like that.

I'm already better. See, I just I just secured you. I fixed

you up. I needed good fix things. Yes, yes, I envy

your voice, and I envy your hair. You've got great hair. I

appreciate that. I was I was. It's not that it reminded me of

you specifically, but I was looking. It showed up in my Facebook feed.

There was a gentleman here in Manchester who I don't even remember his name.

He committed some sort of crime or something, and uh, young guy

I think, I think probably early twenties. But but he got he got

caught, he got arrested for something. And I'm looking at his mugshot and

the dude had the most incredible hair, and I'm thinking, how could somebody

with hair like that enter a life of crime. I just appreciate that the

early twenties compliment, so thank you for that. Yeah, yeah, well

no, I but what I'm saying is, no, I get Yeah,

if you have the hair you've got that, you've got you you've got quite

the main. But the guy I saw in the picture, man he had

he had like soap opera star hair. What was this crime? Do you

remember? I don't even remember. I think he might have killed somebody or

something. I don't know, who knows, But the point is the dude

had the hair like if you have hair like this guy had, I wonder

if if anyone listening and even knows might have also seen this on Facebook.

It was just I think yesterday. I think it was just yesterday, might

have been the day before and and and just like to have the kind of

hair that this man had, it's like a superpower. It's like, how

could you, how could you enter a life of crime when you when you

have hair like that? There's too many opportunities for you to, yeah,

go down the dark road this this, but there's too many great things you

can do with that kind of hair, you know. And and uh,

you know, and I would imagine with hair like that too, it'll be

very popular in prison. So uh so there is that. So see,

that's where entering a life of crime not only completely unnecessary when you have hair

like that, but also a detriment once you end up in the Who's Cow?

And you get it? Yeah you don't you know? You whoscow?

Yes? And it's a double untnge. I believe it's you don't want the

Who's Scout and the Who's Cow? I don't know who scow is, but

yeah, it's another term for jail or prison. I don't even remember where

I've heard it, but I think it's a great word. And uh,

I only hear it used. Maybe once every five or six years, I'll

hear someone use it, and I always go, we need more of that,

We need more of that word. If he didn't like perfected the hair

flip, you really don't have to work a day in your life. Oh

yeah yeah uh. And he probably he had probably never thought to try that,

because if he had done the hair flip, then he would have realized,

I don't need I don't need all this crim in. That's like I

don't like an NFL player, like all the talent in the world, and

they have a domestic violence or something waste of talent, you know, yeah,

yeah, exactly exactly, or they like the uh the guy who won

the lottery and then he shoved his head into a wood chipper. You know,

it's like that. Just throw it away. Yeah, I give us

someone who can use it properly. Yeah yeah, google that. By the

way, if you don't believe me, just google a lottery winner would chipper?

Oh I was gonna google sexy hair criminal but yeah, yeah, you

could google that too. But I think it was it was on. I

think it was on. Yeah, I'm tempted to try to find it.

I think it was on Manchester Information on Facebook. This was a local guy

and uh or at least oh jeez, I came right up. I type

in Manchester information, it came right up. Um. Yeah. Arrest made

after road rage shooting incident. Jason Talbot is his name, and Jason is

bell j A. Y S O. N. Jason Talbot has been charged

with first degree assault with a firearm and reckless conduct with a deadly weapon.

And for those of you watching online, I will I will hold up the

uh uh if you can see it. There's no way to zoom in.

But I'm I'm holding my phone up. Did you see it? Do you

see him? I'm no, I don't have I'm just on Facebook. You

know what I can actually share? Okay, I'm gonna share this out to

I went straight to Google. But now I'm so intrigued. It's not letting

me share it. Jason, what are you doing? Did you find it?

I'm working mad, I used all my data. I'm not gonna it's

a little slower, but yeah, well a Facebook is being super glitchy for

me. It's not letting me share it, right Manchester. Yeah, I'll

figure it out. Yeah, I believe you. I feel like you're for

a hair talent. Oh wait a minute, here we go. I'm gonna

send it to you in messenger, Kyle Clayton. There we go, boom.

I'd share it to the Unleashed Facebook page, but I don't think it'll

let me because Facebook has been very difficult. Let me try one more time.

Did you get it? Incredibly? It's like a lions made That dude's

got the hair right, and he's got like this little sixty pound going on.

I know, I know, he's got like the facial features. He

looks like he reminds me of somebody. He reminds me of an actor.

I also just shared it to the Matt Connerton Unleashed Facebook page. Uh yeah,

oh yeah, people are finding it. Mike from Queen City Cabitr.

He says, beautiful hair, although he might be talking about you. And

Alex Whiteley says looks like a young Carl Urban. If he was in Seattle

in the nineties, he would have crushed the grunge seat. Oh totally yeah,

yeah, Actually he kind of looks like if Eddie Vedder And um,

the Soundgarden guy who's dead, Um, what the hell is his name?

The guy from Soundgarden Anyway, if those two guys had a baby, it

would be him. That's a good looking baby. Yeah, I know,

right. Can you imagine having hair like that and those facial features and saying,

I'm going to wreck my life with crime and the worst kind of crime.

I mean top five for sure, but yeah, that's uh yeah,

I mean that's like a low tier. I would um if I see,

if I were going to do crime, I would do like uh, I

would want to be like an international crime lord, but I'd keep my identity

secret. And while doing crime, I would wear a black leather body suit

guster because I'd want to be like, no, like a skin tight black

leather because I'd want to be like a super villain that if it's worth doing,

it's worth doing, right, you're gonna do it exactly. But yeah,

yeah, you know what I am. I'll take the duster and I

think I'll just go embezzlement, tax fraud probably sure. I don't know how

to do taxes, so that's probably why, right, right, Yes,

Well but you did it right, Well, no, I didn't do it,

but that was a hypothetical. I don't want to give up too much

to my hypothetical plans. Dj C says Chris Cornell, thank you. I

don't know what I was liking on his name. Yeah, Chris Cornell.

Yeah, if Chris Cornell and Eddie Vetter had a baby, it would be

that guy in that picture, that Jason Talbot guy. Check out his hair.

You know. I almost want to help him. I almost want to

do a fundraiser for him, which would involve hiring him a good attorney and

a and like a life coach. Honestly, I think his punchman should be

instead of the death sentence, you just you put him in the chair and

you donate his hair to somebody who deserves that. Oh, I said,

so that would be so you would? You would. That's how you could

punish him. You'd give it to somebod who wants it, deserves it.

Right, it's a it's a waste of talent, right right. I'm not

saying murder the man, but right, yeah, hair deserves to be on

a better scalp. Yeah yeah, I agree. But he could just grow

it back too. Yeah, but he's got that pout too. He's it's

the it's the whole nine yards. Oh yeah, yeah, he's got it

all. He's got it all. I'll tell you. Oh well, Jason

Talbot, figure it out, buddy, figure it out. We're here for

you, man. I mean, you know, i'd be will have him

on the show if he wants to come on. We can kind of do

an intervention with him, try to give him some life advice. Not love

advice that's on the Morning show of course on Fridays, but some life advice.

Well, of course the love advice does include life advice, and uh

and maybe some hair advice too. You know, I think we would get

the hair advice because I get well, yeah, that's true. He could

give us hair advice. We could give him advice about how to benefit from

his hair. I don't think he does anything. I think that's how he

wakes up. Maybe I did another hair flipping here, he's ready for the

day. You know, there's there's nothing better for your hair than its natural

oils anyway, so he probably doesn't do anything to it. Um you really

like I've known people who've grown dreadlocks. Who who's we'll see who's coming in

later, Yeah yeah, yeah, who say that? You know, basically

you have to not wash your hair ever, and but that's actually good for

your hair. I do twice a week. I mean I always rinse it

out, but yeah yeah with the chemicals that all natural what I put in

there. Yeah yeah, yeah, I wash mine every other day. I

don't wash it every day. You should not wash your hair every day.

It'll dry it out with that that te thing. I forget the company.

But oh t gel, I mean it smells like minty te. I know

what you're talking about. Oh h oh yeah, yeah yeah, I truly

can't remember right now. I do know what you're talking about though. A

lot of volume though. Is a trussome? That sounds right? Yeah?

Yeah it does, doesn't it? I could, I can picture of the

bottle actually yeah yeah, trusame pretty expensive, but h yeah, I mean

it's an investment. There was a time I had hair like all the way

down to my lower back. Oh I saw, I've seen your your band

pictures. They're incredible. Oh yeah, thank you. Yeah. But I

like in high school, I let it get really long. I just will,

and I don't remember when I actually cut it, but yeah, I

was down to almost my hip. Yeah, but that's it's too much to

maintain. It's a it's a real commitment. Yeah, yeah, you've got

almost almost a mullet thing going, but now it's loose. Yeah. Yeah,

the headphones don't help. But yeah, I was going for a mullet,

the lace, classy mullet you could get. I just one of people

that just shake their head when they saw me, right, I don't know.

It was a good idea at the time. Well, we should mention

you alluded to it. We've got the try Combs coming in in the second

hour. And you know those guys, I've seen them a couple of times.

Yes, my best good Friendy and he actually adopted me in high school.

I his son. Oh um, he is the bass player. He

was the first I was in the band, the first band I was ever

in with him, So I'm very safe to be with. That was punk

and now they're They're honestly one of the most original bands I've heard in a

long time. So yeah, we played something of theirs yesterday and I've got

um, I've got a couple of songs skewed up for today for you know,

when they come in at the top of the hour, because they're gonna

be playing live in studio for us, so they might need a few minutes

to set up. So I had a couple of songs skewed up for the

break and uh really looking forward to hearing them live. Um, I'm intrigued

in the studio at least. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they bring the

heat. Ooh, it's already a hot day, but this room is somewhat

air conditioned. It's actually beautiful. And are compared outside? Oh compared outside,

yeah, I got got got very humid, very weak, very humid.

Um. Oh yeah, well it could be worse like in Vermont.

Like I see Melanie Law Liberty from Vermont is in the chat room and uh

boy, they're having it like mon peeler. Have you seen that the flooding

Well just by her page alone, it's yeah, it's bananas. Oh yeah,

like small creeks are rivers down. I got nervous. I don't know.

You might have heard me talk about it on the air, but I

got it wasn't last week because we weren't here, so it must have been

the week before. There was a day that it started raining really really hard

here and by the way, the loudest thunder I've ever heard in my life.

And I'm getting ready to leave the house to come do the show,

and I do the bulk of my show prep at home, so but I

try to get here no later than three thirty. Here it was like I

was running in here, in here, like ten minutes of four. But

but it started just the sky opened up and it was pouring in the thunder,

and I'm standing on the porch waiting for it to let up a little

bit so I can get to the car. I don't care if I get

wet, but I bring my own computer with me, which I bring in

that bag, which is not exactly waterproof. So I'm standing on the porch

and it's raining so hard. I'm like, oh my god, it's got

to let up a little bit. I just needed to let up a little

bit. I want to make sure I don't get the computer wet. And

the mistake that I made was I kept waiting and waiting and waiting, thinking

it was going to let up, and it wasn't letting up. And then

finally I'm looking at the time, I'm like, I gotta go. I

gotta go now, I can't wait anymore. And then as soon as I

get out onto the street, I'm like, um, there is an unusual

amount of water on the road. And I go up a big hill to

get, you know, and then I go down a big hill and there's

even going even at the top of the hill, like the water is pooling

on the street, basically surfing you. Yeah, And then I get to

I get to the bottom of m I'll never learn the street names. Is

that Kelly Street where the right eight is, you know, the right ad

on the west side? Yeah, I also don't know. I know exactly

what you're talking about. I'm not a good street I know landmarks, so

yet the yeah, the same with me. Yeah, I have like a

mental block with street names. I get to the but I get to the

bottom of that hill to come to that big intersection there where you know,

I go through the intersect, get on the bridge to come over to this

side of the city, and uh. I get to that intersection and and

I'm coming down that hill and I'm like, oh no, there's a lot

of I mean, it was it looked like it might get up to the

top of the tires. That's yeah, and that's your And I was already

approaching the intersection. I was already committed. I had no it was too

late to find an alternate route to get here. You're in hypothetical God's hands.

At that point, I was I was in hypothetical God's hands. Would

you would you drive if you don't ask? Yeah, it's it's a low

kind of low to the ground. It's a Nissan Versa. I used to

have a Jeep and in that moment I wished I'd still had it. But

uh, yeah, the Versa, it's kind of low. Um, great

car, really good on gas mileage. But that's good, yea in this

situation. But in this situation, it was a little scary and getting over

you know. So I got through the intersection okay, but um, and

then it was a little better on the bridge, and then Elm Street was

okay. I mean, you know, the water was pooling a little bit,

but it wasn't bad and I was able to get to the parking garage

no problem. But that was the scariest part of it. But it was

like, jeez, I think, uh, you know, I may have

narrowly escaped a flash flood. And then like right after I got here it

finally stopped raining. But no, it was it was a trerenchial downport.

Oh yeah, yeah, what you said about the loudest thunder, it's especially

in Elm Street because it just bounces off all the buildings. It's yeah,

especially loud. Well, this was like when I was still at home,

when I was while I was on the porch waiting for the rain to let

up. It was like I never in my life heard thunder that loud.

So just incredible. And I actually love a good storm. I actually it's

calming when you're inside. Well, yeah, I like being inside for it.

Yeah, yeah, just enjoying. Yeah, enjoying what other people are

not enjoying. But not when I'm on a porch waiting to get off of

the porch with your not water proof back and your computer. It's terrible.

Yes, yes, it was a little dicey, A little dicey. Now

are you um, I've been hearing you again on the morning show. Are

you were working your way back in? Are you doing like one or two

days a week or what? Are you know? What are you doing?

I never left. I just i'd work at the back room, and it's

it's been full swing with the graduation, m Father's Day, it was a

whole I like to sleep that I'm not gonna lie. Yeah, seven am

stuff. Yeah, and other Matt is he's always punctual, so yeah,

he's always holding down the ford. But I am still there full time as

much as I can be. Yeah. Yeah, Um, I would imagine

at the back room because it seems like nobody has enough help, so I

would imagine it's pretty pretty hectic there. We are just any warm body,

which is not ideal. But yes, it's very hectic. We've lost one

guy, no, one guy this week, two guys in the last two

weeks. Oh, no kidding. I just can't handle it. Yeah,

I mean I would like free money too, but you gotta right. Yeah,

and it's a great company to work for. But it's a very high

volume. So yeah, see you got a hustle while you're there. I

can't need to chess. But yeah, this I mean as lucrative as the

wh I gotta have a second job, unfortunately. Yes, yes, now

I understand. Well, there's not much money in radio. Howard Stern took

it all. Yeah, he's none left over. I was if I was

born. How old is he now? He's up there right, Howard is

pushing seven day If I was born his time, Yeah, maybe I would

have capitalized. But damage is done. Speaking of great hair, huh,

not incredible hair. He's not lost a lock. Well don't, don't.

I'm thinking of like fifties Howard at this point. Oh yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, of course, yeah, no, he Yeah, in

his fifties he's still had great I mean, you know, he's got great

hair now for a man his age. But I he claims it's real,

I'm gonna I'm not gonna argue. I'd like to like to believe. I

have a lot of things to believe it at this point, So I like

to believe that Howard Stern's hair is genuine. Yes, yes, Well,

we have to believe in something exactly, we might as well believe in Howard's

sterns Sarah, if you'd like to join us today. Kyle Clayton is here

with us on the show, and we've got the try Combs coming up in

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O six zo seven and I need a puff of mine, Hiller. Can

you hear that I'm wheezing my allergies. I've had the worst allergy season of

my life. I think it's yeah, the rain and stuff gets kicking everything

up. Oh, you do have the nihiler on deck, good man,

I have to. This is the asthma. Now I feel bad and I'm

just I'm self induced wheezing from the I'm a smoker, weird. Now,

how much how much do you smoke? I would say a half a pack

a day. It's not too bad. I okay, that's yeah. That's

a lot less than a lot of people. Yeah yeah. I mean if

you just twenty in a back twenty four hours in a day, and I

try not to, I mean one every two hours, that's I don't know.

And they have those new vape things and stuff that helps too. But

that's how Jenny had quit vaping, and then and then eventually she's a squid

vaping. Well, it's a problem for me. Is they have a blue

raspberry. I don't know if you know, but blue raspberry is the best

flavor for anything. Popsicles. I don't like popsicles. That's a that's a

wild, wild take, but des throne. Even when I was a kid,

I didn't like popsicles. They get like they get your hands all sticky

and they melt freeze pops there they are contained in the plastic true jelly rancher

blue raspberry. All right, man, Well it means it's it's it's it's

not for you, it's yeah, yeah, I understand. Yeah, I'm

not trying to justify it, but yeah, it does help me cut down

substantially. So how old were you when you started smoking ums my family?

Fourteen? I think, Yeah, that seems to be believe it or not.

Just from clients I talked to you, that seems to be about average

cool. Most most people seem to that's when they starts when they're they're kids.

I really didn't even want I just wanted the bad boy image and I

didn't Yeah, I didn't even want that. I didn't even know what the

results were. Yeah, like the benefits which are small and slim. But

see, I actually tried smoking once in high school. I was hanging out

with my friend Sean Kemp, who I might might even be listening hi,

And um, I don't remember where it was. We were in the McDonald's

parking lot on South Main Street and conquered after school one day. I think

might have been on a weekend. But I was curious because he was a

smoker, and I, um, I was. I didn't want to take

it up as a habit because I knew it was bad for you, but

I was curious, what is it about it that's so great that when someone

starts smoking, they want to keep smoking. So I said, Sean,

can I just try a cigarette? I figured if I just tried it,

I'm not gonna get hooked on at just trying it. But I just I

had this curiosity. So he gave me one, and um, He's like,

you gott to inhale it, because I'm like, you know, he

lit it up for me and everything, and then he hands it to me

and I'm like, just like trying to puff on it and I don't even

know what I'm doing. He's like, you got to inhale it and then

blow it out. And when I did that, um, honestly, I

found the taste of it so revolting. I felt, I felt as though

I had just put a spoonful of dirt in my mouth and I and I

so to this day, I don't get it like I was, and I

never did it again. I was like, this is so gross. You're

not wrong. I mean, I guess, yeah, I paid well,

it was also substantially cheaper, but yeah, I paid a lot of money

for dirt in my mouth at this point. Yeah, yeah, it's it's

not ideal, but I don't know. I thought I was actually the opposite

you. I thought I wouldn't I couldn't get addicted. I was better than

that. Oh jokes on me. It's super addicting, yes, yes,

but it is more psychological than physical. Yeah, it's an oral fixation,

yeah for me. But yeah, but people don't like to hear that that.

But I mean, don't get me wrong. It is chemically addictive.

It is, uh, you do get physically addicted to it. But it's

yeah, like like if I get in a cart when I did drive before

I lost the card in the divorce, I need a cigarette. If I,

I don't know, leave work then need a cigarette. There's certain triggers

that, yeah, perpetuate that. But yeah, I wouldn't recommend it.

Yeah, it's not financially savvy. No, it's very expensive. It's expensive

in many ways. But yeah, when people tell me what they're paying for

cigarettes too, it's like wow, not not when I started. It's it's

almost doubled. But I mean, if you're in New York, it's like

almost twenty bucks a packets and that's not for a cart, like a big

cart, and that's for a pack That's incredible. Wow, what a world.

I think. Our friend Fredo is on the line, or as I

like to call him his full name, Alfredo Enrique Benavitis. Hello, Hey,

good afternoon. How are you guys? Good? How are you good?

You know you just you guys are talking, and it really reminded me

of when I was a kid in the eighties. We had candy cigarettes.

I remember those. I remember those, yea, and like you know,

you give them the kids, and kids would pretend that it would be like

this sugar powder and you could like you would blow out instead of blow in.

But it would make us like a like a fake candy smoke. Yep,

you know what I'm talking about? Yes, oh absolutely, yeah.

I think like there's this other component, right, it's not just physically addictive

or psychologically addictive in the terms of an oral fixation, but it's also socially.

It's cool. People look cool when they smoke cigarettes. It's always thought

it looked cool. I used to have a cigarette hanging out of my mouth

and I play my guitar, and right, it looked cool. Man,

Ye smoke disigarette, you know, like you know, these guys in movies

and adds, they made it. They made it look like it was cool.

Oh yeah, Joe Cammell was was the coolest. He was a camel

with a letter jacket again. Yeah, and and they had to cancel him

because the kids thought he was too cool. Oh yeah, yeah, totally.

Fortunately, a lot of that's a lot of that's gone away over the

years, and it has been replaced by somewhat of a stigma and and rates

of There's actually fewer people smoking now, I think, than than in the

last several decades. So it's it's slowly that whole cool factor has has slowly

dissipated. Yeah. Cool. Europe's got it right with anti actual pictures of

the damage that's done. Oh yeah, that's that's a that's a smart move.

Yes, not a cool camel in a leather jacket. That's not cool

exactly. Well, you know, like they probably remember what they eliminated,

Smokey the care Bear. Smokey the care Bear. I don't remember that.

It okay, I couldn't tell you. You got me, you got me.

They're afraid of guy. But you know, George Lucas, George Lucas

had to digitally remove all the smoking ewalks. They they've gone to great length

destroy the tobacco lobby. That's what I'm saying. Yes, yes they have.

It's not fair. They've made us, they've made society less cool.

We used to die and accept it in their coolness. Bury me in the

leather jacket and stuff. You know, No, not anymore, not anymore,

probably because they all died. Yeah, it's not cool, but that's

almost like it's society starts to value people over profiting from from from from death.

That's crazy. Well it started, but we're still a long way from

that being the norm, unfortunately. Actually I remember now though, even like

even when I was a kid, I remember there there's an episode of Happy

Days where the Funds, who, of course the epitome of cool, was

very upset. Was very upset when he found out that Janie had started smoking

cigarettes. That was a very special happy day. Yes, so happy,

and he jumped to Sharks like he knows what cool exactly. M But I

think it's it's been gone from I mean, it's it's gone from from everywhere.

It's been removed from from from TV, from movies. Um. I

think you know, like there there was even like kind of government money that

was going out to like if you could qualify to say that, you know,

you were anti tobacco, you'd get a certain amount of money or whatever.

You know, if you you can make a going pains plot about how

you know the cigarettes were bad or whatever. You know. I don't know,

like there's there's been a big push to to to make it on.

I mean it's been pretty successful. Also. I think people nowadays they'll cross

that social barrier of just telling a perfect stranger, hey, you know,

they'll kill you. You know, like like that would have been rude back

in the day. Just didn't do it. Yeah, you just let kind

of let people alone. I grew up there were smoking sections in restaurants,

yes, which didn't really help at all. It was like it was it

was there was there a barrier. Was there another room, No, it

was just you know, table five through seven at Denny's that was the smoking

section. And I think you know, the the you know, service people,

service people, you know had taken enough abuse. It was bad enough

that they're underpaid, but now they got to smell your smoke, and and

they know they lobbied and now it's illegal to have smoking doors. You got

to go outside. Well, i'll tell you, Uh, my friend Dave

Wally is in the chat room. And Dave I'm sure remembers because he and

I went to high school together. Um, when we were in high school,

they actually had a smoking section at the high school. It was outside,

but there was this area where the smokers would hang out. Uh,

and it was it was a designated area specifically for that. I think that

as the years went on, they saw the actual damage that was being done.

Oh yeah, not okay, And I I was not trying to glamorize

it. I know, leather jackets and says are cool, but yeah,

yeah for how long? And then being dead is less cool? Exactly.

Yeah, that's really when it comes down too. Although if you're buried in

a leather jacket, that's pretty cool, that's right. Yeah, yeah,

dead dead people can't smoke either, that is true. I'm just I'm sorry,

I'm being an ass. I always like to just be that. I

don't know, but I want to call it because I remember that. I

remember that the candy cigarettes. So this one, oh yeah, the third

victory right that there's a social pressure too it victory is that the brand of

the candy cigarette victory? I don't remember. I don't remember the brand name,

do you, Fredo? I just remember the cigarettes themselves. I just

remember eating. I don't know if I remember them. What did you guys

when you first started smoking? What was your brand? Um? I started

with with my Bread's. I'm I'm a camel filter man. Now cowboy killer

yeah, and I'm not a cowboys so yeah. Oh and the camels,

yeah, don't do the unfiltered camels. Turkish goals. Oh, they were

fifty cents off and that was the I'm a frugal man. You know what.

I've always been fascinated by though, because as someone who's who's a non

smoker, I've always been fascinated by that there's so many different brands of cigarettes,

and different those brands have different types and and and and so it's this

whole big section behind the counter of every convenience store, and people when they're

buying their cigarettes, they're like, no, no, no, I want

that one. No, no, that brand over there with that label.

And I've always wondered, like, do they really all do they actually all

taste so different than can you do the PEPSI challenge? Yes? Can I

tell the difference between PEPs? That's pretty much what it is. Yeah.

Yeah, Well, I've always wondered, like do different brands give you different

types of cancer? Or what's like I want the best cancer right right?

You know, if you're gonna have cancer, you're gonna want the best tasting

right right and the most relaxing, right. You got to you gotta remember

that flavor country as many states in county of little parts of it, there's

no there's no one part of flavor Country that's like any other part of flavor

country. It's a big country to explore. Yes, lots of flavors.

I'm sorry, dad, like this conversation. No your field. Oh,

on Sundays when we have the the old time radio shows here at WMNH,

Yeah, you'll hear ads for chester Fields during those old time radio shows and

they're marketed, and they were marketed as the cigarettes the doctors felt were actually

good for You can't argue with the doctors, I guess not like four out

of five doctors say you should smoke, just your fields. If I don't

go to the doctor, I'm not sick. I just right. It's all

open to interpretation. But you're the doctor, and they diagnosed it. Yeah

you're sick. Yeah, so especially the smoking ones that recommend it. Cool

doctors though, yeah, they are. I like the I like being diagnosed

with things about a doctor smoking a cigarette wearing a black leather jacket. Yeah,

just an open heart surgery with Ashy Scott. I also, you know

you said that there was like fourteen was like the regular age. I started

at thirteen. Yeah. I think I quit when my daughter was born.

When when I was twenty seven, When my daughter was born, and I

got a divorce when I was like thirty four, and I got I started

smoking again, and then I quit again, and then I quit again last

year. It's been over a year. Oh okay, good good. How

did you quit? Uh? How did you quit each time that you quit?

What did you just quit or did you use a particular method. Oh

I I switched to straight dope marijuana all day, every day. Uh huh,

fair enough, smoke every day? Switch to Uh, I switched to

the vitamin snoop uh huh uh huh Yeah, and uh, I just obviously

like I enjoy smoking. I enjoyed the I think if I was really drunk

and my girlfriend wasn't around, I would have a cigarette. Yeah, But

I don't think I'll ever be addicted to it the way I was. I've

never I don't know. I'm at a place now where it's I smell cigarette

smoke and and it's it's disgusting to me, Like the smell of it is

just repulsive. That's good. Yeah, I'd have to be really drunk to

want to have one. Yea, though, you you did it, You're

out. You're in the clear, don't Yeah. Yeah, I feel I

feel like I'm in the clear, you know. Um. And I don't

know how I did it. I think I just kind of got tired of

like not being able to breathe and like packing up brown stuff every morning.

I'll do it just you know, having a hard time. It was like,

Yeah, I think it was just a strong, strong desire to to

to want to change, you know, not to say that there aren't you

know, people people who are addicted. That's the real thing, you know.

They And I think the definition of addiction is that you want to stop

but you can't. Absolutely, but I think the kid helps. Obviously any

kind of motivation will definitely benefit Yeah, oh yeah, of course absolutely.

About yeah, having a kid, it was like whoa, you know,

I don't want to had a bad example, and I'd like to be here

for my daughter. Yeah, and so that was a big motivation. When

I got a divorce, you know, that was very rough for me,

and I immediately I was not a good coping mechanism. It was a bad

coping mechanism. And so I found better ways to cope. And I will

say that, you know, right around the time that I quit smoking,

was around the time that I started, uh you know, seeing a therapist

for for you know, for life and also just kind of like changing.

I think as I was getting older, the reality of mortality kind of steps

in when you started getting around that fourth decade and uh and so yeah,

those things together, but you're absolutely rights something that whatever is going to give

you the motivation because you need that motivation to overcome the addiction. You know,

it makes you feel better. My dad always says the second marriage is

the best, so don't don't worry about the first advice. Nice, Yeah,

thanks thanks to dad. Like two Christmases though, Yeah, advice from

pop. I smoked those me. Hey, your dad's a Kiss fan,

so he must know some huge kids fan absolutely and a firefighters and a firefighter.

That's right, well, very good. I love Kiss was like when

Rock and Roll meant wrestling it that's what Kiss is like, pro wrestling with

Rock and Roll together. I remember thought of it quite that way, even

though I'm a big wrestling fan. But there was one actually, it's kind

of a blemish on Kiss his career in my view, when they did get

involved in wc W and they had that Kiss character, the demon who would

come out and wrestle, and that was actually really pretty bad. I didn't

like that. That was kind of awful. Fight that. Hey, Leather,

you know it is, Yes, No, I can't help it,

man TV TV seventies eighties Rock and Roll. I'm a sucker for it.

Mantroit Rock City, I I I put my piss man I rock out to

that stuff. Oh yeah, m hmm. And part of it is that

it was my dad's favorite band, So like there's that, you know,

kind of like I associate it with my father. You know, Kiss was

my dad's like number one favorite band, and um, so there's definitely some

of that, like a nostalgia to it because it's before a lot of it

was before my time. You know, they're there air kisses hey Day.

You know, I wasn't born till a three. Hey Day was like,

really the seventies you were born? You were born the year what what?

What? What? Very important Kiss album came out the year of your birth.

Do you know I'm gonna say hotter than hell? No? No,

I would have been your seventy I don't know, man. I was made

for loving you. No. Lick It Up. Lick It Up came out

in eighty three. That's for me. It took off the that's when we

took off with makeup, their first album without makeup. Yes, very a

very important moment, a pivotal moment in history. Very appropriate tongue for that

album. I like that. I think it hit dude, lick it Up

as it is definitely like a good sing along. Oh yeah, they have

good good choruses. I mean, Ace really was my favorite. I I

you know, that's probably like like the reason why I really respected their early

stuff. I just love those guitar risks. Yeah, Keene Simmons, like

I do. It's kind of a horrible person. And also his bass playing

and I'm saying this as a bassist. Dude, dude's bass playing are mid

But oh, I just Chris Peter, Chris is a great drummer. And

and you know, however, you feel about Paul, like the dude can

sing, you know what I mean. Yeah, they wrote great, great

hook for the record. I disagree with you about Gene Simmons. I think

he's very underrated as a bassist. You think so, I think so.

I think so if you listen to UM, especially on some of the early

stuff like Going Blind. You know that song, I love that song.

Bassline, His bassline on that song incredible, I think. Yeah, the

lyrics are weird, very odd lyrics. Actually, don't worry about that.

From that band from that song is I'm ninety three in year sixteen. Yeah,

the lyrics are odd, but I think I'm going blind. But that

bassline is incredible and you can really hear the Paul McCartney influence in that and

uh, that is I will give you that, sir, that song.

Yeah, yeah, if you've ever heard the Melvin Crush a cover of that,

yes, I have heard that. They do an amazing cover. Yes,

I do love that song that is from Hotter than Hell? That that

that song. Yes, Dave Wally and the Chat Room says, didn't Carol

Ka play a lot of those bass lines? I think in the uh in

the eighties when Gene wasn't around much because he was making movies. Actually a

number of people played, uh filed in for Gene on those albums, but

but in the in the original for a lot of people and the yeah,

in the original makeup air that was that was all Gene. Um, you

know, she gave him lessons. And I don't know if she was on

any records though, Yeah, I don't I don't know. I um,

I'm not sure now. It's hard to keep it all straight because there was

that period in the most recorded bassis ever. Oh yeah, I don't think.

I don't know. I know she gave him lessons for sure, like

yeah, no doubts about that. I don't know if she made it onto

a record though, because there was there was that weird period in the eighties.

I don't think Jean would want to split the money. Well, there

was that period in the eighties where there were a lot of ghost bass players

because Gene was off making movement. Yeah, because Jean was off making movies

instead of being in the studio. So he'd come in and sing on the

songs he was gonna sing on. But a lot of the time the bass

at the bass parts ended up being played by somebody else, either somebody else

in the band or somebody outside. Um. And that's I think that's where

Dave is getting that. But but I'm not sure. I'm not sure if

Carol, if any of that was Carol Kay either. But I know there

are a couple of people who came in and played Yeah, you just blew

my mind. I didn't know Gean Simmons was in movies? Are you serious?

Are you kid? Yeah? No, obviously, I'm like, I

you learned something every day. What was he in? It was like GIDGETT

does Gean? What was he was? No, he was in I think

probably his best film. Uh. He just said, like B movies.

But he was in a movie with Tom Selleck called Runaway, and I think

and I think that's generally regarded as his best film in terms of um yeah,

he's he's really he plays a terrorist and he's he's very good. He's

very good. He's very good in that film. He's also in a movie

called Never Too Young to Die, where he plays a I don't know if

we can even use this term anymore, but it's it's what they say in

the movie, is a hermaphrodite. Um yeah, that's that's what's that?

Is that not the right? I thought I think it was. Maybe I'm

wrong. I don't. I don't think that you were born with both,

right? I I think so. But he's um, yeah, he's.

That's a very frightening film in that it's just hard to watch. But if

you're curious, it also stars John Stamos. Now it also has John Stamos.

And we were talking about great hair earlier, and Stamos of course has

great hair, uncle Jesse hair. He was in Scooby Doo and Kids.

Rible hair uncle. Actually, Fredo, Yeah, you have great hair.

Well, thanks man. We should since we're shouting out hair, we should

mention your hair. Nice hair. Button. I appreciate that so much yes,

I wouldn't normally bring it up, but what the hell, it's been

a hair day. I was afraid to grow it out because I had this

like corporate job, and it was like the best part of quitting my corporate

job was bringing my hair grow up. Don't let the man hold you down,

dude, let it ride. That's right, that's right, that's right.

We don't work for the man. No more, dude. Rock and

roll. Baby, we saw the light and left that left that train at

the other station. Yes, all right, well very good. Well,

uh, Fredo, we're gonna let you go because I saw say I actually

I see some musicians, uh in the hallway, so I think the try

combs are here, So we're gonna get to our boys. Yeah, I'm

really looking forward. So yeah, so we'll let you. We'll let you

go, my friend. But always wonderful there from you. Oh, actually,

before you go, before you hang up, do you want to plug?

You got any shows coming up this week? You want to plug?

No? No, no, I got nothing until I will. Oh you

know what. Actually, we're gonna be at Top Shelf Tattoo on the twenty

seventh, and then in August we'll be at thank Sinatra will be at the

Strand in Dover the very next two gigs. Oh very good, very good,

all right, outstanding to in the Strand. Thank you so much.

Matt Hey anytime, Fredo always nice here from you, and we'll talk to

you soon. All right, all right, man, byebye, all right.

That was our friend Alfredo Enrique Benavitas. And uh, yes, Kyle

has actually gone out into the hallway to get the band, so we will

go to uh, we'll take a break. I'm going to um. Ron

is on the line. Actually here. We always have time for Ron.

Just quickly though, Hey Ron, what's up? Ron? Are you there?

Yeah, I'll make a fast um good show, like would like the

content? What's going on? Yeah? And when you start up talking about

kiss, I couldn't help. But remember what did you think of that magazine?

Oh? Yeah, I love it. I still haven't read the whole

thing, but it's great. Okay, that was then can answer my question.

Still haven't read the whole thing. That's cool. Yeah, yeah,

all right, Ron, all right, thanks for the call. Bye bye,

all right, byebye, all right, very good was our friend Ron.

And here's where we're gonna do. We're gonna take a break We're going

to show some love to our amazing sponsors and play a song. And then

when we come back in the second hour, Newmerodos the Tricoms will be here

with us live in studio. Really looking forward to this, so we have

plenty more to come. Don't go away. Wmnh rip the novels. That's

nice. Welcome back everybody. It's Matt Connerton Unleashed. We are live from

the studios of Wmnheve point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire.

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 of your live streaming options, social

media links, contact info, show archives at set etc. It is Tuesday,

July eleven, twenty twenty three, and uh we are an our number

two numrrow dose And I am not alone at the news desk. Mister Kyle

Clayton is here. I really do miss this desk. Yes, yes,

so inviting. Yes, you like the desk, well, it's very prestigious,

the news desk. Yeah, you get you gotta earn it, you

know, that's right, that's right. And of course you might know Kyle

from the morning show and he drops in here occasionally as well. So I

missed you. Wonderful to see you, sir. Well, I've missed you

as well. And we've got a great, great band and studio with us,

and I'm going to let you because you know these guys, I'm just

meeting them for the first time. But I'm gonna let you introduce the band.

Um. Yeah, there's honest like a bunch of homeless people outside.

We just let him in there, okay. Honestly one of the most original

bands you'll see in the New England area, the Trike Hombs not ten on

ten would recommend. I don't know your names in him, just do the

song. We were never given names. Yeah, well, well, well

well we'll get we'll get to know we'll get to know your names of course

after the after the sac when we well, we'll get to know you a

little bit. We're talk yeah, we'll we'll die. Yes, yes,

Um, can you hit those drums a little bit. I just want to

make sure I got you in the Oh yeah, that's sounding doing that cool?

Okay, And I know I'll be able to hear everybody else. So

um, it's gonna be oh yes, and uh that happens. No,

this is the Blue Songs. This is the perfect intro, perfect perfect,

and just so you know, it's some at some point, because it happens

every single show, every day, at some point there will be sirens.

So one of your songs is likely to end up with sirens. And today

for that too, very good, very good. Well I'm dying to hear

you guys play, so I'll let you get to it. So, ladies

and gentlemen, the try combs. What you gonna do, You're gonna do,

what you gonna say, what you gonna say, what you gonna do,

News grown to your way, you have the right rain, salace anything

you say, you will be youths in a gorda blaw you be call o

black cord of blow in the card and love and the beam of the phone.

You do your lap just like a don't give you a deal, lickor

you are feeling all right, do the dap body down dollar that night.

Go where you're gonna get that cares you're gonna have to steal. Then said,

where you're gonna get that cash. You're gonna have to steal. Then

what you gonna We're gonna what you won't say, what you're gonna say,

what you want to do? Bring your way now, wish will a first?

Maybe the Mega under corner, maybe Mama about you know you're not gonna

dourn it out about I say, call in the cop So you have done

and they coming to freak out. You're gone. I tell you one more

time, my son. What you gonna do, what you gonna do,

what you say, what you gonna say, what you want to do?

Come your to do, what you gonna do, what you gonna do,

what you gonna say, what you gonna say, what you're gonna do and

do? Coming you? You gotta sound amazing if you're just joining us.

The try combs are here with us live in studio on Matt Connerton Unleashed and

you gotta sound great. Thanks? Yeah, absolutely, absolutely an old tune.

We threw that one back. I don't know, Shane, I've been

playing that song for like ten years, man, yes, but we've adapted

it to this band to make it, you know, to its prime,

So we red to play it on acoustic today. Very very man. I

like it. I think I like it. Yeah. Yeah. Mike from

Queen City Cabinetry is in the chat room. He's from one of our great

sponsors here at w m H. He says, that was really really good.

Thanks, that's two really is yes, Yes, he's if you say

really more than once? Man, man, he's not lying. My heart

just got bigger. There you go, there you go, all right,

guys, Well, I'd love to hear some more. All right, yeah

song it's called McMansion. You grow up, you're gonna get a dog fighting

the soup, getting the carl. I can hear that living in you match

your neighborhood. When I Jasonle and the Dories getting all we got to break

the ball. We gotta break the more we gotta break, the more we

gotta break the home home. Yeah, you gotta break them all. I

say, slow it down, the big u un and not yell when no,

no silly let ring but do your hair but it day oh, put

down on the sting thing that because he doted din you roke up ya going

buying begin the car will I can tell that the card living in your big

men neighborhood. When I'm chasing and I'm doing getting all We got to break

the all. We gotta break the more, we gotta break the more.

You gotta break them all. We gotta break the more. M h why

And he once told me what you say say you can't trust nobody, but

we all take a price for the state. I don't think you have a

day. Can't. You've been a lying, You're crying, you're cheating,

never sleeping. Helon around you, we can I'll see air. Yeah,

you're ready to go and you're lying, You're crying, you're cheating, never

stating every moment around you, we get all see it. Yeah, you're

ready to blow. Got gonna get a doll, get you. I can't

have to be little god. Even then you're making match your neighborhood. When

I chasing ever Loring getting home. We got to wreak the more we gotta

break, the more, we gotta break the more. Yeah, we gotta

break them. We gotta break them M good, good, good stuff.

I love it. What's that called McMansions, McMansion, that's like our number

one hit. Yeah, if you like big trucks, you'll love McMahon.

There you go. If you're just joining us, the try Combs are here

with us live in studio and uh, all right, guys, I'm ready

to hear some more. All right, yeah, right, like any water

like a plant, Oh, there you go, it's got it's got the

big water there. Yeah, baby, third bea gets drying here with the

air conditioning running. That's for sure better than being out in the sun.

I can tell you that absolutely all the humidity. The humidity is a killer.

There's no place that'd rather be than right here at this desk. Nice.

Well, it is the news desk, after all, it's very prestigious.

It's not you guys, it's just I just want the desk. That's

fair. That is a nice check. The same thing about this chair.

It's like all right yeah yeah, the chairs okay, but the desks,

the news desk is the best. The desk is the best. I would

sleep on my desk, yeah, I'd sleep under that desk. What happens

where Kyle goes under the desk? What song we're playing right way? Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, this is the song my brother wrote. Check out

his band Sonny Rude. Uh for you, bro m it's going to black

time. I'm gonna talk about the so shine today. We gonna do away

the black blines scream at the Nasky. I'm telling me, you know my

mom way going back home the town. The w moment put the home crowd

kicking it like back in the days, lady sold just my mama, live

loud in away in, live in way right now. Got a top on

downtown to keep up to connected at BA. No, we can do clock

out, come up on a compus out at anybod meting day. But did

you know me wa like that because you love read. You're screaming means the

blue in the face saying I'm leading us all out just to hear my Bible

shout happen, happen. It's the purpose situation. I'm a woman in vacation

to leave my mind go water in the space. It's these little aggravation and

then its theses that me want to give up the day that I'm leading it

all. What I'm needing it No, I know so stumb coat about through

it all. Change so we eat the right time. You soak up the

sunshine today, you're gonna do it away away away along livelights. Hello,

You're gonna scream at the night sky when you know what I'm being like shot

down hand all my problems away away away. Oh yeah, we back at

hometime, mom beneath a crowd. Yeah, we kicking it like back in

the day, and the ladies all out just to hear my mom shout live

allowing the right way I'm living, moving away, I'm living right, m

hmm. The try Combs are here everybody, if you're just joining us on

Matt Connerton unleashed. We are live, of course, from the studios of

w MNH Dank Sinatra in the chat room. Of course, I helmed by

our friend, Fredo says we here at Dank Sinatra fully approve of this try

Coombs transmission. Yes, yes, uh, Nate Pajari says tell Ian.

Nate says, what's up? All right? So these guys have everybody's uh

playing different playing different instruments. Now, very cool. Well I'm not everybody,

not everybody, but to two people, very good. So you guys

got what do you have? One more? Yeah? All right, So

these guys are gonna play one more and then we're gonna we're gonna talk for

a bit. But uh, guy, all right, whenever, whenever you

guys are ready cowboys struck. It's not cowboys, all right. I just

got into town. Tip my horse, it's time to get down. Saloon

door swinging as I hold over brown collianos, and I don't hear the sound

this chair of boxing. You know why you got no business with him?

Tell me it's sin spin the way I do win those man in my man.

Guess I'm a cowboy and I'm dancing across the wild wild West, and

I'm dancing. I could be wearing dan soul the dress. Guess I'm a

cowboy and I'm dancing across the wild wild West. When I'm dancing, I

could be hearing and so dressed. I'm sharing thing. I sand up against

the dancing man, and I'm shared of those things eyes arounderstands because I'm a

shararing fan. I stand up buckings of dancing. I'm scared of those things.

I don't undershame the sharing freelood or into these crazy dancing Collis Ward,

I don't know from the line. You know, Wheel, I saw the

seals muscreen stuff the time, but he doesn't take the deal. I'm a

cowboy and I'm dancing across the wild wild West. When I'm dancing, I

could be wearing and so dressed because I'm a cowboy and I'm dancing across the

wild wildless. When I'm dancing, I could be wearing us I'm a cowboy

and I'm dancing across the wild wild winds. When I'm dancing, I to

be wearing dance drinks. Yes, I'm a cowboying. I'm dancing across the

wild wild wins and I'm dancing. I could be wearing so dras. Yeah,

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h Hey, welcome back everybody. This is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are

live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and

Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Are also on Comcast ninety seven. If

you're in Manchester. Hello to all of our online listeners across your and around

the globe. You can go to my website Matt connorton dot com for all

of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives,

etcetera, etcetera. Kyle Clayton of the Morning Show us here at the

newsdesk, the very prestigious newsdesk. You're welcome. You look very at home

there at the newsdesk. So happy. Yes, yes, it's it's the

power position, right Do I look powerful? Yes? Of course you do,

yes, yes, And of course we have with us in studio the

Tricombs, who just did a killer set for us and really appreciate it.

Guys. You sound amazing, Thank you, fun absolutely absolutely. Now let's

let's start with you, sir. Can you each tell us your names and

what you do in the band. I'm Stefan. I'm the frontman. I

guess I'm that guy. But I played a guitar and sing, and then

Shane and I will switch and I'll play drums, and then I'll take Ian's

bass sometimes just for a song. Yeah, yeah, that's what I do.

You know, it's it's a good time. We like it. Okay,

all right, and you, sir, I'm I. I played bass

and synthesizer. Okay. Stefan also like books all of our shows. He

forgot to mention that he's great and records all of our songs as well.

Yeah he does every cool. Cool, that's good, that's good. I

do that. I didn't want to talk myself up too much. I understand,

very very humble. Nothing wrong with that. You show the death dude

to come here, come and take the desk, you know, sure,

sure, sure, I thought we were there. But all right, and

you, my name is Eric Sobzinski, and I play guitar in the band.

Is that it? Because everybody else does like a million different things.

You just played guitar and sing sing. I've been trying out on other instruments

so slowly Betrore. Yes, yeah, I don't have me on other things.

At some point we gotta can you can you pull that mic up closer?

Yeah, just having a little trouble. Uh, I'm oh there we

go. Yeah. And finally you, sir, I'm Shane. I'm predominantly

drumming, but the rest of the time singing playing guitar. Very good,

very good. Yeah, that was a surprise to see you guys switch instruments.

But that's uh, that's cool. Um, how long have you guys

been around? How long has uh the try Combs been a band? Comes

as a band has existed since twenty fourteen. Um, so we're almost hitting

the ten year mark. But this crew of of homies has been about three

is shears? Yeah, yeah, we're missing one our keyboardist. He's uh

he teaches piano. Oh okay, he had to teach piano, you know.

Yeah, yeah, his job, you know, than being in the

band, right right, Yeah, he does come to the gigs. That's

that's what matters. That's good. Yeah, that's the important thing. Um,

where does the name come from, the try Combs? What does that

mean? It's the hairs on plants? Oh okay, if you look up

try combs, you'll see a bunch of weed, but you'll also see that

in Latin it means hairs. So I was actually like touching a tomato plant.

I was like, hmm, that smells good. Why is that?

Technically it's slowing down transpirations, so when air is going over the plant,

it is releasing less losing less of its water to the air through its leaves,

and it helps it stay hydrated. Oh, it's all like science and

stuff hydrated with tunes. We did cool with that, and I mean,

I mean we grow CBD. So if anybody needs any check out New Hampshire

hamp COO. Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty cool. So you have an

actual company, Yeah, that company. Yeah, we're kidding, license to

the state and everything. A CBD flower and tinctures. Yeah, we sell

it out our gigs. Wow. Wow, are you guys all all of

you do do that together? Or Eric does his own thing with with the

real stuff. But you know where it's legal, right? Yeah? Yeah?

Is that? Um, how much of a hassle is it to set

something like that up in the state? Is a is a difficult It's not

terribly difficult other than just doing like a background check and now you're supposed to

stay. It's super difficult. Nobody else we're one of the only definitely not

many there. There's thirteen licenses out or something. But oh wow, it's

it's not profitable. I wouldn't I wouldn't tell you anybody should do it.

Really there you go. It's smart, but it's cool. No musician just

plays music like they got some side hustles right right, gigs every day.

It's like, yeah, man, I'll just be on the side of the

street, be really hot right now. When you guys um when you play

out, do the songs change because it seems like the way the way your

music is, you know, it kind of lends itself to that you can

kind of experiment and improvise. I would think is there a lot of that

with the with your songs. The structure stays mostly the same, but we

definitely don't play the same like solos or jam sections. Yeah, And sometimes

we'll add like different teases of different songs, different covers or something in there.

Funny little things. Sometimes we'll take a song and it in half and

then take two songs with them together. Yeah, and then we'll play them

at completely different parts. So then all a sudden, you're like, wait,

is it that song again? You know right, it was like every

show is not the same, because otherwise we'd be boring, you know,

yeah, yeah, I get bored. Yeah, we have to play the

song, so we have to continue to trying to make new music and add

new parts of the performance every time. You know. Yeah, that makes

sense. Um, so you guys must be able to like do you do

full nights, Like do you do like three hour shows at places? There's

some of that, but like a lot of the time it's festivals. So

we're just yeah, they'll be like, hey, come play this festival,

and then the next weekend they're like, hey, we have another festival.

And then eventually after the past like five years has gone by, we're like

literally playing every festival that happens. Yeah, yeah, Northeast allast You know

what, do we have like eight weeks in a row for the next couple

Yeah, we're not wow, weekend off for a while. But you know

it could be worse. Yeah, I could have to work at my real

job. Right, Yeah, there you go, there you go. Um,

so when you're not obviously the more time there's a lot of festivals,

what about the rest of the year. Do you guys stay pretty busy or

do you ever have points in the year where you're not as busy. It's

like the winners kind of like, let's record, so like you have a

home studio, we have more time we take down to record or right on

tour, you know, so we'll tour for usually a month, try to

get somewhere warm. Yeah. Booking is honestly hard in the winter in New

England because it could snow at any point. Yeah, all of sudden,

you're about to play a gig and you really canceled, yeah, or you

have band practice since canceled, it's snow, right, So yeah, we

take the winner to be creative and go south. Yeah, and there's just

less venues around here. You know, there are a handful of bars and

stuff you can play, but you know, summers just nice. You can

play outdoors anywhere, or you can play indoors anywhere. So yeah, is

um do you guys do any covers or or do you have or do you

stick to originals? So we do like a handful of covers. It's because

like sometimes you show up to a new city and nobody's seen you guys.

Yes, yeah, try to grab so check it out. You like this

song, you know, so now you like this song? Our song predominantly

originals for the most part. Yeah, yeah, and we definitely like change

our covers up from what they were originally. Yeah then like ours, Yeah,

yeah, definitely put our flavor into it. Do do you ever do

covers where somebody doesn't know it's a cover and then they come up to you

and they're like, yeah, I really like that song, and yeah,

a lot of them. We've definitely done some pretty obscure covers to like the

theme song to the show Dug and stuff like that. Things like that into

turtles, Like, yeah, we do themes for every show, so we'll

be oh, the theme for this is this, so we'll like really yeah,

well we'll try to think of songs that have to do with that,

you know, as a intro or something like that. Yeah. Like we're

supposed to play Cisco Brewery last summer, so we learned Cisco kidka war.

Yeah, like, oh right, Cisco Cisco Brewals. We're like Tisco Kid,

you know, We're like, I'll bring us an what the actual words

are? You know? We want to we like to make people laugh and

dance. Yeah, that's usually our goal. Yeah. Um, how does

the songwriting process work with you guys? You all write together or is there

some spontaneity to it where you just kind of jam? We're like, hey,

man, it's your turn to write, Like you have a song,

right, like we all have one on the back burner, and I'm like,

yeah, man, I got like eight riffs and twenty core regressions,

and then we just kind of take that and just cut out the fat and

make it into something good. It takes a while. Yeah, Usually one

guy comes with an idea and then everyone else helps finish him and put his

thoughts together type of deal, right, because we'll just one of us will

be like not that doesn't sound good, screw that, you know, yeah?

Or that sounds great well. Usually like in a practice we could have

a new song. So it just takes you know, wow, the criticism

of each other and also just thinking of like how are we going to take

the segue from this part to this part? Yeah? Basically like oh,

that's a really cruel riff. If we did it slower and heavier, it'd

be a really cool breakdown, right Yeah. Yeah, and we do we

have a buddy who will like he'll come over and like just drink some beers

and whiskey and be like, oh yeah, man, I got some lyrics

flore you like the cow boy song. We wrote all those like We've got

I've Got drunk. That night, I was wondering we were like buying the

lyrics like no women, that's so funny, like just like going like such

an authentic, pure song. Because of that's like you can feel like how

funny and great of a time? Yeah, you know, just remember that

evening? Yeah, and Kyle, how do you know these guys? Um?

I was my first band I was ever in was with ian Um and

I said I could play the bass, but I lied. Yeah, yeah,

yeah, that's why I played bass. Now it's funny. I think

I did my best, but yeah, he's obviously substantially better. Um.

Also, how long am I known you? Twenty? I don't don't.

I don't think, I don't know. We've met in elementary school. I

think, Oh wow, I got grounded and so I wasn't allowed to hang

out with my friends, but I could hang out with my sisters friends and

Kyle was the coolest one of my sisters. Ye hear that ain't but yeah,

it's UM's but it's way too long. But yeah, in finding my

first party, he'd introduced me of all the cool stuff. Yeah shouts and

he's not punk anymore, but I still love his w was the last time

you went? I got a job? Bro? Grow up? You know

it's funny. We were talking about dreadlocks earlier. Remember I told you as

they wait till the hair comes. Yeah, yeah, you go anywhere,

and they're just like, so you guys with the band, You're like,

how did you know? Right? What was the band you guys were in

together? What was it called Battle Royal? Yeah? I think yeah?

And externally was it external? Use only? And then and fake scotch tape

before that? I think no, that was you in Nate and that's right,

it's right, Um, it doesn't matter external you so only that's a

cool name, like yeah, yeah, you should be a sixteen and play

at Millie's. They really love you there. It's anymore never mind, Yeah,

no, not anymore. I can go back there now. Yeah.

Some controversial children's songs written by children's it's fine, right, right? Exactly?

Is any of that stuff online? I hope not. I don't think

so. If not, No, it's I think I've asked you. It's

my space, you know, gonna find it? Yeah, and if it's

on my Space, it is still there because you can't. You can't get

things removed from my Space. I have. I can't remember your password.

No, no, but somehow I figured it out and and uh I did

I have gotten in Yeah to my like within the last couple of years.

I think I did remember it and then but I've had people have told me

that you can't, like, if you want to remove your profile from my

Space, you can't. No, it's uh MySpace dot com backslash banitree left

because I misspelled bananas. So if you want to look me up two thousand

and four Kyle Super Sad and Depress. Really, yeah, you can't get

rid of it. Yeah, tune still on there, like you know how

you would have like the songs that you really like. Oh yeah, and

I have a top top six. I was elite. I didn't know a

top eight. I cut very exclusive. Well, because you knew that someday

you would be at the news desk. Now I have that six right here.

It's perfect, that's right. I'm including myself without my Space. You

wouldn't be here. I would be nothing, that's right. Without Without Tom,

you wouldn't be here. Where's that dude? Dude? You know Tom?

Well? Yeah, I mean like I know that Elon Musk and the

other guy are fighting, Like Facebook guy, he's going to be the referee

for their match. Yeah, I'd be like w W E and he just

comes in with a chair. I would pay top dollars for that. Honestly.

We have a we have a call. Our friend Shannon is on the

line. High Shannon, Hello, good afternoon. Hello, and that you

guys sound great. You sound like you're having a blast. Thank you,

very nice, Shannon. Steven can't hear you. He doesn't have headphones,

but we'll relay that to him. It's nice to hear Clayton in the afternoon.

Yes, Leon, Yes, Shanne. Yes, I did meet Shannon

today, by the way, Oh you met Shannon. I went to her

to her place and I gave her a hug. Did she wanted a hug?

Oh? Very nice? It was lovely. Wow. Was it good

for you? Shannon? Yeah, good hug? Yes, it was wow.

Well that's very sweet, all right, Shannon. Okay, Well we

appreciate the call. I'll call you all right, all right, bye Shannon,

I'll be listening. Okay, bye bye, very good And uh,

if you're just joining us, the try combs are here with us in studio,

and if you have a question or anything for the band, the studio

line is open. We have a few minutes left, so getting quick six

three two five six seven six three two five o seven. By the way,

Joe Friday is in the chat room and says hello peeps, Kyle flipping

tenders tonight, love me tenders. I wish I could do both? Aw

yes, yes, um, so what do you guys? Uh, what

do you guys have coming up? Are you? Um? You have you

got to have a gig coming up? Okay, we're gonna have free hot

dogs. It's July fifteenth at the Shaking This Friday. Is this Friday,

fourteen fifty Oh my god, it is the fourteenth, fourteenth, fourteenth.

We're playing with our buddies. It's a pre party for the Homie Collective camp

Out Festival. It's like it's second public here, but it's been a festival

for quite some time. Okay, it's gonna slap super hard. Yeah,

that's gonna be a good time. What what time do you guys go on?

We're going on. Yeats played at nine okay and they got they got

their set, and then we play at ten thirty. Um, yeah at

the Shasky and we're gonna do some raffles and stuff like that for ticket giveaways

for the Homy Collective camp out. So cool, cool, very good,

very good. Um where should people go online? Where? What should people

uh know to find you guys online? And how to keep up with all

your shows and everything. Tricombs Music dot com, Tricombs music dot com remember

that forever and then like we have a Facebook and an Instagram, We're on

Spotify, Apple Music, everywhere. Okay, Yeah, you guys are easy

to find. But yeah, if you just do a Google search, you

gotta search Tricomes band because otherwise there's gonna be a bunch of pictures Combs music.

Yeah, there's no I think the Tricombs was already stolen, so I

had to do tri Coombs Music. Oh I got you. Yeah, And

then we have a new album coming out, so stay tuned early fall September

is yeah, Okay, we'll be doing a little like some touring at that

time too, so it'll be a good time. To catch us do some

more festivals or playing Wormtown trout Stock trout Stock is that? Yeah? Augusto

hard, next week hard as the next weekend after it's up in Harmony,

Maine. Okay, July twenty first, that one's gonna be fun. It's

like an EDM festival and we're the only band and Ian's playing with that band

too. Oh wow. So like we're like, we're the we're the band

people at the at the DJ festivals, so it should be pretty fun.

Yeah. Yeah, people are like, whoa this is people playing instruments?

Where do you guys record? By the way, because the studio stuff sounds

really good, thanks man. Um So most of it we did, like

Jazz Capastoire was all at Mojo Studio. Other than Spooky Lady, I recorded

that at my house. Um. I recorded a lot of the new album,

like Intermission to Another Dimension Danny Danko, all that stuff has been recorded

at our house. Yeah. I call it a SOS studio, so Snake

Oil Studios because I've recorded Snake Oil at our house too. Oh okay,

but that's been the like common theme now. It's like I just worked at

Guitar Center for a while. It's bought everything. Yeah, thanks Guitar Center.

Yeah, I quit after working one day a week for like a year.

But if you think about it, I gave them way more money than

I made, so they made out right right, And I'm not selling it.

We just recorded our albums or up coming one with it. So yeah.

Yeah, and Ian's girlfriend Brook did the fiance Brook did the art for

it for the back half and it's looking awesome. Half did it. She's

still working on it. She should be drawing right now. I hope she

is half engaged. Oh my, well, very good. By the way,

you guys worry from the Sea Coast ye in the league are okay?

Lead over a lot of good bands that way. Yeah, there's a lot

of good bands up. But isn't another band stopped Tito Collective? Oh okay.

And then we have like our friends like Harror Shamadillo. Those guys are

really good. Clandestine is awesome. They were having a sax player actually he's

playing with We're having a sax player this Friday too. Oh no kidding.

Yeah, he's just not here because we were hanging out with him at Galactic.

But you know, he's probably playing sacks right now. So he has

to practice, is uh for first time? Is his first time playing with

you? Guys are probably like five four or five usually joins us for festivals,

but like we're kind of like yo, man, you're in the band.

Yeah, so now we're like kind of just all the game to come

every time. Yeah, yeah, he's gonna be working. We make sure

every time feels like the first time. Yeah, that's good. Girls would

definitely like you. Man, there's certain things he doesn't like to do.

Though. If you're like, hey man, go go play like as the

sexy sacks man the crowd, he won't have it. No, He'll be

like you know, but yeah, if you as long as you play Super

Smash Bros With him, like once a week, he'll stay with the band.

Like he let's call you up at like midnight, be like hey man,

you want to like play some Super Smash Bros. Like all right,

yeah, come nice, nice, very good, very good. Well I'm

really glad you guys am in today and you sound phenomenal time. Yeah,

absolutely, thank you for coming in and Kyle Clayton, wonderful to see you.

I was wonderful to see all of you. I'm happy to do a

double header today. Yes, yes, you were on the morning show and

then back for more and then are you working a night No, no,

I'm not even tired though. I mix it up. Go the Wild Rover

Pub, Yeah, down the Yeah, it's it's new. It just came

out. So um, come bind me a drink please. I'm not musically

inclined, but just right right, that's that's my pitch. Are you on

the morning show again this week? I am still on the morning show.

Yeah. I slept in a couple of times, dude, I'm not proud

of it, but now I got the feel of the desk again. Yeah,

baby, all right, good, good, full time every day.

Um, yep, good, yep, excellent. It's happy to be here,

excellent, excellent. That's good. That's good. Well you've I know

you've been missed. I missed you, and thank you for letting me on

again. And well you're always welcome, and you know, uh you probably

also too. It's nice you kind of get a double dose of Peter White

because in the afternoons we have the giant cardboard Peter whitehead in the corner.

He it's like the moda least I can't break eye contact of it. Yeah,

yeah, well, the eyes follow you. I'm sure you've noticed that

this is wearing sunglasses. No, those are those are his piercing black eyes.

Those are his regular glasses. Yeah yeah, but he watches over everything.

It's nice. I trust that's right. He's listening to be cool.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, very good. Well guys,

thank you again, the try Combs. Wonderful to have you in And if

you are listening live on Tuesday, let's see tonight immediately after this show on

w m H, We've got through the U Yeah, through the Stage Store

with Rob Dion, followed by a replay of Retro Spectrum Radio new episode this

Friday, of course, and if you miss any part of today's show,

it we'll be up in just a little bit at WMH radio dot org and

in my website Matt Connerton dot com, and uh check it out if you

if you did miss anything, you definitely want to hear these guys at the

try Homes and check them out online. And that's going to do it for

us for now. And Kyle, thank you again, and uh we'll talk

at y'all a little bit later. By everybody,

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