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Hello, everybody, Welcome. It's that time again, Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester. 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 infolsh archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Wednesday, July nineteen, twenty twenty three.
We have a very busy show for you, of course. Coming up in just a few minutes, my friend Eric Pilcher. We'll be skyping in all the way from Cedar Rapids, Iowa for our weekly segment with my favorite Conservative as we do every Wednesday. Coming up in the second hour, we have our musical guests today, the band Wired for Sound. We'll be joining us. And if that wasn't enough, we have a surprise and rocks up.
That's right, John hop with us here. It's the surprise you. Oh oh, you have a new hat. Yes, people's action. What does that mean? This is an organization that Jenny works with. She's been I don't know if you've been keeping up on her adventures and activism. She's been going to uh the targeting politicians now, she's been going to Washington, d C. To speak on behalf of getting healthcare for everyone in America Medicare for All and things like that. And she's been doing great work. And this is a fantastic organization that she's involved with.
Oh, I've never heard of them before. And I wear the hat proudly. People's Action. Yes, why is it skewed towards what would be It's not just it's justified on the right, but not on the left. I don't know. So it's if you get rid of the PA and it's just a box, says the Apples Action the Apples. That's something for conspiracies to think about. Oh I see, oh, oh, just like that woman who was next to the imaginary man on the plane. I mean, there was allegedly a human being there, but was he human or what Congress is ready to call term a non human intellivigce h I would explain a lot about Congress.
By the way, the imaginary man would be a great name for a band, wouldn't it, Yes, it would. Other great names would come from the sayings of Charles Manson's disciples. But I'm sure you've gone through all of those, obviously, the Devil's Business, stuff like that. And by the way, I notice you're wearing sunglasses. Did you put those on because you heard the song Guts from Wired for Sound and you wanted to look rock and roll? Actually these are air force glasses, but they don't they use the term rock and roll and the Tom Cruise movies.
But he's a navel I think so. Yes, that's right here. You can see my wit has been quite dulled. Some little squint man off from me and came here that judas I oh, yes, our friend Eric Pilcher, Yes, your friend Eric Pilcher. Well he'll be he'll be skyping in in a moment. And you can Eric Pilcher, who wants somebody to stitch your hair shirt for him, Perhaps you can, Perhaps you can rekindle it. By the way, aren't you supposed to be on your television show right now as we speak, Mary Heath is to be is interviewing a local political candidate.
Ah, I figured, because as I told, there's only I actually mentioned your name. There's only one human being that can out talk me in all of New Hampshure, and that's Jim O'Connell. It's best that she interviews the candidates. At least they get to say, right, that is true? That is true? Well, Eric will be joining us via Skype, which means the studio line will be open if anyone wants to uh interject in that manner, interact with that little squint Uh six O three two five six seven So three two five six seven.
You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at Matt Connerton dot com. Hell, you can even interact with our new AI chat botti chat of course. Of course I have to keep up with all this technology. Is she romancing you? Oh my god? Oh no, it's not that kind of chatbot. I Has Trump been arrested again? Uh no, not not yet, but he has a target letter and I believe Eric Pilcher is on the line. Hello sir, Hello Matt, Hello John.
How are you to Judas? Now? Why why would you say that? Must you betray me with your role? How is he betrayed you? I wouldn't call him kisses with a kiss off. Oh my, well, that's that's terrible. Eric, Do you have a response for that? This is uh. I feel that he has besmirched to you. As William Regal used to say, has anybody taken up your offer to stitch you a hair shirt? No? No, I still have no shirt, John, and I do not have my Eric Pilcher ice cream bars. Yes. Well, and it's too bad because summertime would be perfect for those.
Yeah. Yeah, it's in Iowa. It's very sad that this has not been done. Yes, if I know, I know the fine people that work on Ward thirteen would get it done for me. If I ask who is on Ward thirteen? That show doesn't exist anymore. It's hard because the machinations of mister Covington hard too hard to keep up because of me. Today's show it's called Meet the Candidates. Oh, by the way, uh, by the way, um I did uh. Now there's a certain individual and I'm not going to say who. But you know, one of the things that Eric and I discuss on our Wednesday segment, of course, is media once in a while, but goings on in media, and Eric, I know you probably have seen this, and John, you probably have not.
There's a certain individual who shall remain nameless, who I usually disagree with about pretty much everything, but he said something salient that I thought, Wow, he really he really nailed it there. Eric, you'll you'll, you'll figure it out pretty quickly. And like I said, you might have seen this. So a certain individual who also comments on media and the various goings on in mainstream media, was very upset with a particular program called The View, which I believe airs on ABC, and he made he made this stunning observation and I thought, you know, I never really that hadn't occurred to me.
He said, while complaining about The View, that centuries ago, a show like that would not exist. And I heard him say that, and I said, you know, I think he's right. Yes, he think that until possibly nineteen thirty six with the advent of mechanical television, but the first real broadcaster nineteen thirty nine, experimental broadcast that you know, you you couldn't have a show to see. He was, he was right, what's three years ago. Let's say you, Eric, do you agree with that a centuries ago, a show like the view simply couldn't exist, absolutely not.
Yeah. Yeah, see then again it could exist into the form didn't exist, I'll tell you even even a broken clock, am I right? I mean, and again we won't mention who the individual is I'm referring to. Said that, but I just thought, wow, that's uh, you know, I can't argue with that. It is said that those talk shows take the place of the village watering hole where and I know this isn't a correct term to use, but I haven't fully transitioned where women would gather in gossip about, you know, the goings on in the village.
Well yeah, if you want to use more modern parlance, you could simply say the water cooler. And that way you don't have to be a gender specific either. You could say the women or men or we were going back a couple of centuries and I didn't know you were transitioning. Congratulations, this is we're breaking all kinds of news today. There's lots of surprises. Wow, that's amazing.
Transition this Uh, well, I shouldn't be able to use the word woman right uh into a man with a man we can still use man because even in this woke world, everything the masculine defaults, right, like, we can't say actress anymore, it's actor, right, The male wins out again. No, you can still say actress because well you can't. It's an ah see, that's the thing. That's the thing. Yes, I have transitioned her to a you could be wearing American right right? Right? Oh, speaking of film, we should we should mention we won't say, we won't say too much about it yet.
We'll kind of offer a little lot teaser, Eric about this particular subject because it is several months away, but I know you're excited about it, so i'll let you you know what I'm referring to. Of course, i'll let you go ahead and announced. So, like I said, we won't say too much about it yet, but well, we'll kind of give people a teaser. Go ahead, sir. Well. In honor of Halloween, there is a film that I have been asked to review, and due to certain theological reasons, I shied away from it. Uh, those theological reasons no longer being a part of my life, I have decided I have decided to go ahead and review the film.
That film is William Friedkin's The Exorcist Warrior what was the problem with it? You're not a Catholic, Eric, No, I'm not. But there the church I was a part. I'll disagreed with it that it was a movie and watching movies or wickedness himself, I would imagine it's a little more nuanced than that, or because they're Protestants. The Catholic churches, you know, is anti Christ and you could you were threatened to lose your soul by watching a movie with a Catholic priest. Zero instantly, I agree with that, well you do.
I'm curious to your Eric's answer. However, I don't know how deep you want to get into that, Eric, But you know, however far you want to go, it's up to you. If people want to message me privately, oh okay, Oh that's no fun that that's best left for my personal preference. That's a private discussion, right, is it? Because William Friedkin's Jewish and he shouldn't be doing about the Catholic Church. No, I'm just wondering what. I just always found that a very funny film. When I thought I was a whole muchularity.
Really I started the driving with Gary Hammer and the honorable Gary Hammer, and yep, it's funny. Wow, so thou vomiting? So for me? The Exorcist, I've only seen it once. It is on a very short list of films that I think are absolutely amazing but I never want to watch again. What's the other ones? Requiem for a Dream as an example, that's a that's a I think an amazing film that I don't ever want to sit through again. I just felt the climax. I don't want to I don't want to know. I will never watch that film again.
Arm being cut off. Yeah, that's the sex party. Too much for me, the guy throwing up into the child, too much for me. We do have a we do. I'm sorry. Go ahead, Eric. But in partnership with Reviewing the Original Exorcist, October thirteenth, the reboot slash sequel to The Exorcist is being released in theaters, and in partnership with IPM Nation, myself and a couple others will be doing a live podcast from Cedar Rapids Opening from a Cedar Rapids Theater. Opening nine is the film and interview people seeing the film, and the hope is to get people that have actually seen the original in theaters and get their thoughts on it.
Yeah, is there some reason the Cedar Rapids is having the premiere of all well, I mean it's a worldwide premiere, yes, abuse in theaters October thirteenth, Yes, yes, well more we'll have more details about that as it gets closer. But no, I'm excited about this. We do have a call. We'll see who's on the line here. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton. Unleash who's this? It's Ridley And yeah, that's exactly what got me. Was a show where like a movie where the guy's arm disappears or whatnot. Blessed was just as Oh it was just so gross and I just didn't I couldn't watch anymore.
Yeah, then you miss missed the best part. Yes, yes, well, Dave, we're we're doing We're doing a weekly segment with Eric. But if you can be terse uh, please go ahead. We take bets on that. Well, I have I have an update for you on America's descent into fascism and as it affects me amsure. But if I should call on a different day, then I can do that. Oh, just give us a teaser, Yeah, give us a teaser. I like that idea. Just a teaser well, yet another, yet another relatively free and independent show is going off the air, not not quite not completely off the air, but dramatically reducing.
Oh I'm curious now who Free Talk Live and team free Talk Live is ending. Wow, that's the end of an era. Not quite ending, but they're they're they're getting rid of most of their weekday programs and mostly just going on weekend. And that's that's fascist. Well, well, he's that as part of artist descent into fascism. Yeah, this is why I think largely a result of the federal raid on them. You mean because of the bitcoin they were rated because some of the hosts have been, you know, allegedly selling bitcoin without the correct paperwork.
Okay, well you mean they were committing fraud. Yeah, well I'm not really. I don't even think that's the accusation. It was more like unlicensed money transmitting to them, isn't that? Isn't that fraud? No? What bounds like fraud? What's that? Eric? Or money laundering? Is money laundering? Or money laundering sounds even worse than frauds? Yeah, you're right, Eric. Well you see that's what we like having a guy from Iowa. He has good common sense that's true. Yes, the mid Midwestern is an elephants.
Well, Dave, I do want to hear more about this, but can you Yeah, can you give us a call tomorrow? There you go, Thursdays okay please, Yeah, I don't have any guest book tomorrow. And I do want to dive deeper into this because I'm fascinated by all things media and I do want to know no more about this, but not money laundering does fascinate you. Money laundering does not fascinate me necessarily. It's not something I've ever considered. But yeah, Dave, if you can give us a call tomorrow, Okay, that's the plan.
Okay, sounds good. We'll talk to you then, bye bye. Just think if we had followed through and created our own cryptocurrency, the witcoin, we'd probably be in jail now. Ah, that's true, except the lack of initiative to actually create it would probably give us a lack of initiative to do anything. But well, that's a that's a great point as well. Uh. The studio line is open six zo three two five o six z seven six zo three two five six seven. Eric Pilcher, my favorite conservative is here with us, as he is the first hour every Wednesday, and John Hopwood has joined us as well.
And uh, Eric, you had messaged me earlier about uh some folks. I just heard a loud click. Are you still there? Yeah, I'm here, okay, pulling up some information I have about the subject that I oh, okay, yeah, the in my headphones it sounded like a pop I thought i'd I thought we'd lost you. Yeah, he has a familiar a dog. H. Yes, they're going have a son in sam situation. Oh my goodness. Wow. That's uh, that sounds terrifying. Um, while you uh, while you pull that up, Eric, I do want to say hello everybody in the Facebook live chat Quickly.
Miriam Banish joins us in there, and Eric, I see you're in there. Oh uh and uh Rondo Favero of course from the West Coast and u oh, Melanie, uh, Liberty of course from the Great state of Romo runs on you. Melanie says, I can't wait to hear what what he says about the crucifix scene. Requiem for a Dream. That was a rough movie. Yeah, a brilliant film. But pa I liked it at the time. I thought it was quite laugh I thought it was quite good. Wow, you just laugh at everything. But Eric, you messaged me earlier about some of these media personalities like Tommy Loren and Ben Shapiro, who who's Tommy Loren?
Are getting a lot of hate. She kind of exists in both the online and the cable news media world, right right, Eric? She t O M M I E no t O M I. Oh so Tommy t O M I tom I pronounced it Tommy? Am I saying that? Right? Eric? I think it's Tommy Tommy. I like that Tommy. They they've had the temerity to to express skepticism about President Trump's former President Trump's uh uh chances, shall we say in the upcoming election. Yes, they have. And I actually found the clip a short time before air of Larn's comments, and it's one of those things that I think the hardcore megas supporter has the attention span of a fleet.
So they heard the first part of her statement and saw red and just went off. But if they heard the whole statement, they would have been like, oh, okay, I don't like Kart one, but parts two and three are okay, and probably would have calmed down. But apparently I follow her on Twitter and I went to access her tweets and you have to subscribe to her on Twitter. Now, yeah, that's like one of the new things, right, you can subscribe, but you have to pay money or something to hear her anyone's opinion, honestly.
Yeah, so I couldn't see. But on her Instagram she said that she had been called a dumb blonde bimbo mega supporters. And what she said on Fox Nation was she doubt and I'm going to paraphrase a little bit here, but the crux of it is she thought that Donald Trump would have a very difficult time winning the general election. I have stated the very same thing on your show for many months now, and I still believe it. Yes, but she said, if you think Donald Trump is going to go quietly into the night, then you don't know Donald Trump.
So I just want who's gonna stop Who's gonna stop Donald Trump? Because the way it looks not because I'm just I've been avoiding death surfing. He's going to be the next president United States. Well, he's certainly going to be the nominee. But I finally agree with you. But it's interesting that right opposition? Oh absolutely? But uh no, But what what Eric was talking about is that. Uh so she says this, and of course Maga world goes nuts and they're angry at her. And it sounds to me, like Eric, like she wasn't saying anything against Trump.
She was just offering a dispassionate political analysis. But uh, they're so they're so sensitive um about about their their great hero that they can't even the faintest criticism or or negative point of view about his chances from their own side. And they immediately just they they just lose their minds. And this is a great example of that. They start insulting her. I mean, she's a pretty solid supporter of his, consistently right but child of his. Yeah, throughout his presidency and his through his when he first ran his presidency and his reelection campaign, both her and Ben Shapiro, Mada Nation loved them.
And now they're they're in the crosshairs for disputing that the great Donald could win this election. Right. And Ben Shapiro's point, and I go back to this, because I still firmly agree with him, is the groups he was able to carry in twenty twenty he won't be able to carry again. On what groups are those he was able to carry the minority vote at higher levels than exit polls indicated, and the women vote at a higher at a higher rate than what pulls indicated. Ben Shapiro says he that those numbers are going to plummet for Trump.
So his theory is that what's going to end up happening is that Trump's gonna lose in a landslide because he won't have those numbers to make it close. And Ben Shapiro got attacked by Maga Nation and and just to be clear, Ben Shapiro, he's not saying anything against Trump, although he's he's one of the few people I will say this, he's one of the few conservatives who over over the course of the last several years, has gotten away with, you know, here and there sort of mildly criticizing Trump and and and sort of gotten away with it without the rest of conservative media trying to drown him for it.
Um. But I mean, you know, he's just offering a political analysis. But it's like, yeah, they everybody gets so they're so protective of their their hero, they can't stand even again a dispassionate political analysis. It just drives them them crazy. Um. I don't think it's gonna. I don't think it's gonna hurt him any in the long run. But Tony Laurent it it's disappointing that they're you know, calling her, calling her names and so forth. And this doesn't this isn't happening on Democrats, right because you give Biden a free pass.
If people talk about him being an old man orything, you don't think people pile up on them. I don't see how Biden is going to win a reelection. The man that is barely alive. Yeah, did you ever listen to the show John when you're not on it? Yes? Okay, because I talk about that a lot. You just said, ever hear it? Thought you just said, I give Biden a pass. I think you do. I know you just said I give Biden a pass and that and that you know people talk about him being being an old man. I'm channeling Mike not Oh, I see right right right the seconds right right, So you're doing the thing where you don't listen and then you say, oh, you never talk about this, even though right right now, I get what I got, understand the bit now, Okay.
The more exciting stuff is that I have to admit the Trump stuff yeah, well, of course, of course, where where's Mike Doyle when you need him? But there's uh, well now that now that you've mentioned Trump, he'll be calling any second now. But you two are piling up on Trump and where's Mike Doyle when you need No, we're not John you you're missing the point of the conversation. But I am. I am for a reason. We're having an I see. No, we're talking about how you know, on the right, if you even faintly criticize Trump, then you're in trouble.
Where are you sing on the same thing on the on the on the right, that's called the Democratic Party. On the left, if you criticize Biden, people say, uh yeah, you're right, he is too old. There's the left in the United States because Democratic Party is a center right. Well, that's a whole other discussion, is it. But yeah, I think it is. I think it is. But um so you're this segment of the show is just about media. We get an other things too, But I'm going to get my camera and get that that death that stare.
But you're analyzing the media. Yes, we do that quite a bit during this segment. Yes, yeah, at the death stair yes, yes, all right. Uh so, uh have you seen any other examples of this? Eric, Well, I mean I have been personally attacks since I, uh, since I've said that I'm going to caucus for uh for Christie, yes, Jesus christ No, no, no, it's pronounced Christie. That Christie. That that that professional look god, that the oh my god? You know so, uh John, I don't think John approves of your choice.
You ever seen that? The idiot? He was actually pretty vocal of it when I announced it on Facebook. Scumbag. My god, he said, he's a govern in New Jersey. That's enough to you know, that's enough to just that's all you need to know. I mean, this isn't the Woodrow Wilson. He was the government New Jersey too, but he had his own faults, right like disius racism, Well, but he was progressive. I don't Chris Christie hang going to the men's human hang myself and my well hawcus for that. He for a fat man.
He slid on his feet. I'll tell you that. That's about it. He reminds me of bad man Migelow in that sense. Jeez, he's definitely at a fun Yes, yes, I've been trying not to follow all this stuff because it's literally insanity.
It's so oh my god. You know, both parties are so insane.
Drawn mansion is here in Goff's town, right on the border of Manchester. It's like, no, I know, yeah, he's not one of my favorite people. It's it's like, holy smuck, go ahead, Erica, Eric, make you make your pitch for Chris Christie party. Right now, there isn't a lot of like it's a man that's gonna parted people involved in January six and facing major federal charges for keep for taking classified documents. A man that's going to try to bring us back to nineteen fifties America across the board or Chris Christie.
Hey, I was born in the nineteen fifties in America. I assume I assume with the nineteen fifties part you're referring to RN de Santis. Yeah, yeah, Hey, you can get a good deal at Disney World. Uh, nobody's going. My niece just went down there because they really slashed the raids. Well, I yes, I mean Florida. You know, there just isn't You're looking at it and you're like, man, oh man, decisions decisions, but it is. It's like when you're a college kid and he struck out with every woman at the bar and it's getting close to closing time.
Ever happened to me? As long as you have a bag with you, you know you were fine. Oh. By the way, Gonzo is in the chatroom and says, hey, guys, it's my birthday. Happy birthday, Gonzo. Happy birthday to you, mister Gonzo. And also our friend Cristel from the Great State of Illinois joins us. She says, I get attacked for being an independent and criticizing either party. I call it as I see it, and I think both parties have become corrupt af I think we would actually all agree on that large probably.
Oh, we can't say that, Yes, f bomb, you can say it. You have the dump button just well no, no, no, I'm not supposed to willfully because the problem is, I don't know. Well, it still goes out on online and so it's still it's frowned upon in this establishment. Oh and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us, are you f I'm literally getting indigestion. Granted eight two hot dogs, but they were kosher. There you were national and talking about Chris Christie as some alternative too. At least Trump is a world class psychotics, you know, talking about Chris Christie as an alternative.
So are you saying, wait, solely God, what do I women? This is why you know you put clips out now listen to them? Huh? So are you saying that highlights? Yeah, so Chris Chris Christie is not psychotic enough for you, is what you're saying, John, Chris Christie is my thing, this toilet film. Wow, No, buddy, he's a froze. It's clutterly corrup. You know, Trump isn't a whole different in class. Trump is just like evil. He's like an evil personified, but in a good way because he really didn't accomplish much in his evil.
Well, there's that the heck he's nothing. It's like, holy good, I can't believe I'm this age. I mean, I remember the Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan thinking, Holy christ talk about being between a hot rock and a hard place. Now it's it's like you couldn't even you'd have to use I didn't take trigonometry, you know, I just thought that algebra too. I don't know how to calculate the odds of going from that nineteen eighty to this what we're talking about now. It seems like it's impossible. Where I aren't these non human intelligence intervening or had they?
Because I've got to go soon, But I want you talk about media. But there's a meme that Ronald not Ronald Reagan, who's the idiot that was president last time? Said the idiot that was when I was twenty years old. Wait, what this idiot Trump? Trump is a reptilian alian cac He's a frog, He's an amphibian aliens. I thought it makes perfect sense. I thought he was Scottish explains his coloring. Oh oh it was, actually, yes it does. But you know, Congress, even Chuck Schumer, these aren't just nuts from the Republican Party, you know, stirring things up in the House.
They're talking about creating whistleblowers for these you know, they can call them UFOs anymore. UAP. Yes, I don't even know what it is, unidentified aerial phenomenaial anymore. It's called anomalous or something. That's right. That's right, they did change it and non human intelligences. They're going to come out that some of the politicians are indeed non human intelligences, which explained so much. What do you think about that, Eric, have you studied that at all? Uh? No, because you're a sci fi guys don't care about Iowa.
You don't see anybody getting snatched up there. It's always like Tennessee or New Hampshire, places like that, Right, that's rug rugged Stock. Yeah, that's true. I don't know how any famous Iowans who've been abducted, do you, Eric christ it's so flat. Well Tom Arnold, but no, that was he got abducted by Roseanne bar and you know we still more more than for him. I don't know if that you would call that an abduction or what, but that's probably career happened. Wait a minute, I just realized something.
Captain Kirkiss from Iowa. That's only in the reboot of the movie. No, in the original series he says he was from Iowa. I only remember that from the reboot of Actually that was in uh, that was in Star Trek four when that started. How dare you go a country? I am? I am all? I am almost certain that in the movie. In In an episode in the original series, someone asks him where or someone asks him what star he's from, and he says Earth. And someone asked him where on Earth and he says Iowa. He could have been facetious.
I could be wrong, though. I might be I might be having my own personal Mandela effect.
He's Eric's looking it up. I can hear the key stapping. That's not fair. We should just use our brain power while still yeah right, I'm supporting Chris Christy. What brain power do I have? Well, you know, maybe of a mush melon. Oh my goodness, that's not nice. Wow. Thanks, I'm much appreciated. You've gone down hill ever since you betrayed me and come on here to talk about media. No, he's he's betrayed Trump. Did you did you find it? Eric? Am I wrong? Yes? It? According to the Chicago Tribune, he said it in the nineteen eighty six movie Star Trek four ho I'll be dammed, I'll be damned.
Yeah, you know what I think Probably the scene I'm thinking if he says he's from Earth, but he never says Iowa. I don't know why. I thought in the original series they established that, But apparently I was ruined. Well, because every year riverside Iowa. The last weekend of June has a dirt and mud show U fair called Trek Fast Oh my oh, And they've had it since because the early Trekkies started in the seventies. And remember all the actors used to go to that, and that's one of the reasons they made the movie Star Trek the motion picture because of the intense interest of these that incredible fan base.
So is this one of the original events for the trek eas I believe it started in eighty nine we're talking about this. They haven't. They do have a statue of the enterprise accept it's called the USS Riverside, and they have an actual and they have a plaque that says, this is Captain James T. Kirk's birthplace and you can buy a veil, a little vial of Kirk dirt. Oh God, place of James T. Kirk. This shows you the complete decadence of America. Well, they'll take a great in the memory of a great American.
Um what next, you're gonna say, they're gonna they're probably selling parts of the True Cross. When Christ came to the Americas and was crucified yet again, you know, right, because he came over here. That's what the Mormons. Right, Well, I think Joseph Smith brought him. We're not. Yeah, that's because he was the first American Jesus for most foremost one Yes, good YEO filmed his show Invasion Iowa for Spike TV. That's where he filmed it at, was Riverside, Iowa. Invasion Iowa. Yeah, you don't say I've never heard of that, have you, mister Covington.
No, yes, it was on a Spike TV in two thousand and four. I believe. Oh he used my button. I didn't even know about it. Well, what he did was he went into Riverside and said, hey, I'm filming a science fiction movie. And it was a load of crap just to get the town the pffoons of themselves for six weeks. Oh okay at the end of it, Um, this is the absolute truth. My best friend, his aunt, was in the fake movie, and William Shatner asked her, why do you want to be a part of this movie, and she said, because I'm trying to adopt my grandson as my own son because he has troubled parents, and I'm going to use the money for lawyers and court fees.
William Shatner at the end of the show actually paid for the lawyers and court fees. Oh wow, well that's cool. So it's got that's got a positive? Is this something with Jesus a positive ending? What is this something with Jesus in America? Oh, you'd have to ask Erica he is the one who ghost to church? Or did Does this have something to do that movie with a guy that played Jesus and the Mel Gibson movie is Saving Kids in Colombia because there's a lot of controversy about that film, but I haven't figured it out yet.
Oh, that's why I came here today. That's a good point, John, What Jesus? Or about Jim Cal's vial? What do you call him? Yeah? Yeah? Is from the from the from the right, is that Hollywood upset because this film Samily defeated Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny in theaters is now trying too, is forcing theater employees to do things like shutting off the air in theaters that air this movie. They're shutting down the air conditioning or they're actually killing people. Yes, they're turning there.
That's something give give uh good old Tucker Carlson time. That's one he don't come up with yeah. Um, but yeah, there's a lot of accusations about how Hollywood is trying to just crush this movie because it's trying to end child trafficking and Hollywood is so big into this. Well, it's very interesting that the whole thing is the white savior system and they're doing the trafficking is in uh, you know, a foreign country, and that it's like so many films based on a true story, but it's really not based on any story and one of the people who involved them had nothing to do with South America.
That it actually does ignore, like you know, if there's any traffic in going on pedophilia going on in the United States, it's putting it out over here because you know, two of the most the most powerful man in the world, Bill Gates, was with the Epstein, Which that's true, that stuff actually happened. And I remember when that he was when the Bush administration allowed him now with a hand slap, and this allowed him to get away with practically everything. So you know, there's it's just all sorts of talk about that movie.
What is it up to from both the left and the right. Yeah, but that that allegedly is the reason Indiana Jones and the Diala Destiny f loot. The reason that the Indiana Jones out gross this movie. It's just that the movie Indiana Jones because two million dollars in this movie you didn't cost anything, is because in the Harrison Ford is eighty two years old, and who hell wants to go see Indiana Jones at eighty two. I didn't want to go see him after I saw the first one in nineteen seventeen. Over within that now it's the Rex Theater.
Oh and because it's ridiculous. Well, I saw Indiana Jones and the Dialog Destiny in theaters opening weekend. Did you like it? I thought it was amazing. I really enjoyed it. I wouldn't go see it if you threaten me with hot pinchers. But you don't go see it, I'm gonna force you to vote for Chris Christie. That's impossible. How can you force me to do that? Oh? That's uh? You know? How can you get me to Iowa? I've got some hot pinchers you do from that old B d SM kit? That's right, you had from the old show.
IM take it with me everywhere I go on Matt Connerton unsheathed. Oh yeah, that's it, that's true. It's awful good for an exorcism too, you know, yes, yes, but I would say that most of the stuff that comes out of Hollywood is absolute bs. You know, Melanie said in the chat room, I can't wait to see Indiana Jones and the Crystal Densher's. I saw that one with the with the alien theme. That one really sucked too. But what can you do. I really, there hasn't been an Indiana Jones film that I disliked.
That's because you're an Indiana Jones fan, and I find them to be pap. Well, I only saw I only saw two of them, the first one, which I thought was pap when I was twenty years old, and the second von I only watching because Cape Blanchet was in it. I've only seen I've only seen the first two actually, But you know, trendling this old fart out at that age, at least the great actors like Boguards, Bencer, Tracy and then they had the good sense to die before they got that old. You know, they died in their sixties.
Well, Bogie died at the mid fifties. I mean, you know, so he didn't have to see them humiliating themselves. Wow, I mean John Hopwood is a beacon of positivity. The only act he's very agus. The only actor that actually played an old man that was any good was Clint Eastwood, who surprised he was not a good actor. But when he got old with like Million Dollar Baby, he was excellent in that and some of the old fire roles he played h like the last what was it? The old when he was the drugs, the mule, he was real.
He was excellent. Not but you know who wants to see John Wayne at eighty? You know what's he gonna do? Gum people to death. Well they died at seventy one. I was gonna say he's dead. Yeah, but he retired about sixty five. But see Carry Grant retired when he was sixty years old. Right now, do you think that? Uh? No, I don't. I'm going with my negative team. Okay, so is Chris Christie. See how is your problem with Chris Christie that you think he's too young to be president? Because we have we have to have these Uh what about Graham news Gavin Newsom?
Yeah, I had I had a writing teacher who's a similar name from California, so I mix it up. Yes, yes, is he going to be the presidential candidate for the Democrats, because he's certainly running like he wants to be. I'm sure he will in uh twenty twenty eight, No, twenty Democratic nomination for twenty twenty four. That old fart cannot he can't hack it. It's happening. Yeah, well that's happen. That's like a constitutional collect or not. I mean, that's something we all, probably all three of us agree on.
I would think right that we need some younger. I think we need a young, fresh faced, sixty five year old whipper snapper to get in there. And uh, I know it's a little scary, you know, give it, you know, just handing the keys, so the White House over to the kids, the youth. But you nice sixty five to sixty seven year old, I say that, my I gotta go. My idea, it was put forward by Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse five, that you balkanize the United States and turn it into these petty little nations so they'll never threaten the peace of the world again.
Oh, Dave Ridley would go for that. Yes, that's why I want to hear about his fascism. Yes, fashion has come to corn Cob Connie, New Hampshire. Oh Fashioned excellent? Yes, well, Eric, you Trader is so and so I hope you enjoy this mishmash of talk about bad stevens. Steven Spielberg did not direct that movie, did he? I think he? No, he did not. I forget it. It's in my head, but I can't get the words out on who did. I'll tell you what. I watched The Fableman's And for a guy like that to get so long, you know, he's seventy five years old, and to be so shallow and making like his autobiography is well, I would expect it from him, you know.
Great technical director, but just welling soul. There's a Steven Spielberg film on Classic Film Reviews this week, John and what's up? No Close Encounters of the Third Time. That is a great movie. Yes, except I think it would have been better if if Gene Hackman had actually taken the role, because it's supposed to be Gene Hackman. Because the one thing watching it over and over is how irritating uh Richard Dreyfus is. Yeah, at the time, I liked him in it. But now, but of course it would be a different film with Gene Hackman.
Yes, it had been most serious. I was rooting for the Aliens anytime Richard Dreyfus was on the screen. Oh, I was afraid that his girdle, you know they call they call a male course, that a Richard dreyf Shelan Hollywood. I was always afraid that it might break. Because there's one thing you notice when you watch the classic Star Trek series. You can always tell Pickling the last two seasons where you are in the season by when when you start seeing uh, you know, Bill shat there, it starts like his chest starts puffing up because they're cinching in his waist with a corset.
Right right, Yeah, that is true that you you actually, you actually can tell that. Well, you know, it's sad to get hold of and fat. It happens a lot of us. It's weird when he wears the green dress shirt.
Oh yeah, yeah, I gotta go fucking you guys, all right, John Hopwood is leaving. But yeah, I'm sorry said that again, Eric, Oh, I just told John it was fun. Yes, yes, By the way, I have to stick up for Dave Ridley on something Scott Robinson just said on the Facebook live chat. I wish that Ridley guy would call in with Hopwood there. It's almost like he's afraid of him. But no, Actually Dave Ridley did call in, but it was about a subject that we're gonna we're gonna tackle on another day. I am curious to know about the h the apparent demise or partial demise of Free Talk Live.
That's a nationally syndicated show. Do you get that in Iowa? Eric Free Talk Live? Um, I don't. I've never heard of it. Honestly, this is the first I've heard. Yeah, Free Talk Live is Um, they're libertarians. They're very libertarian. And Ian Freeman one of the hosts and one of the founders of the show, he actually got into some legal trouble over bitcoin and it's it's very complicated. David Lee can explain it much better than I can. But but it sounds like they're they're changing the show or but they're pretty successful.
They're on Uh. Last I knew, they were on well over one hundred stations nationally at FM and AM stations. I know some Iowa Iowa and libertarians. I will certainly ask them if they've heard of it. And yeah, because it's it's interesting that something like bitcoin could have caused the show to end. That's compelling to me. Well, there was there was a raid the government raided. Uh the Uh it's both the home and if I have this right, both the home and where they broadcast from of Free Talk Live. Um, and uh, yeah, it's a whole thing.
Uh. They're called the Bitcoin Six. I think it's Ian and five other people. And I think Ian is the only one who did not choose to cooperate with the government and is probably going to be at some point going to prison for it. I mean he's out now and is able to do his show, but but I think he is going to end up in prison too bad. I mean, I always I've always liked I know Ian, I've always liked Ian. I mean I don't know him super well, but I always liked the guy. But uh, wow, that was It does fly by.
When John's here. I was trying to trying to kind of get him to go with the segment, but that can be a challenge. But we had fun. His reaction to Chris Christie was very funny. That that's the best of all on its all. Yes, And by the way, that's something that he and my dad can n actually agree on because my father are also very very shocked and disappointed with your choice of candidate. But uh, I'm this is this is the summer disappointment, so so many people, I'm disappointing. Yeah, well that's all right, you know, what can you do?
I mean, it's it's just part of as as you go through life and you you get older, and you know you're you're gonna meet people who you know, you change and you evolve, and uh, there's always gonna be somebody who's got a problem with it, or you know, doesn't like your your choices or your opinions or whatever it is. You know. Apparently apparently one of those at the top is Chris Christie. Yes, yes, well you know, I mean I have my own misgivings about him, but he's but as far as uh, you know, speaking up and speaking the truth about Trump, I mean, he's the only he's the only one doing it really or really consistently, you know, Asa Hutchinson to some extent.
But as far as the rest of the candidates, they're all sort of still you know, holding back. Yeah, you don't want to upset the Apple card is the mentality, and I think Chris Christie, out of all of them, has the least to lose in that regard because he he was the only one in twenty sixteen who really targeted Trump in the debates and everything. So they're you know, he's probably like, you know what, I would even if even if I were nice this go around, I wouldn't be asked for any cabinet position or anything like that.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and do what I think is best to win, right, Yeah, So, I mean Ran de santist I still say this that if it's down to him and Trump, and I still think Trump would negotiate like a I guess uh, a cabinet position for him for him to gracefully bow out. Oh yeah, I mean it's not going to It's going to be Trump's going to be the nominee. I still stand by that. It's it's De Santis has no threat to him. Um something we didn't we didn't get a chance to get into. And maybe next week we can talk about it.
But De Santis seems to finally be shifting his campaign in the sense that he's um maybe trying to be a little less antagonistic with mainstream media and trying to not play to the echo chamber quite so much. I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but apparently Jake Tapper interviewed him on CNN. Uh. DeSantis kind of came out, came out of the bubble, out of the echo chamber for an interview on CNN, and people are saying that m desantists can he actually can sort of connect on that level and not come off as quite so exclusionary.
So I'm gonna have to watch the interview just because I'm curious to see how he did. But because usually what you get from De Santists, no matter what the issue, whatever the subject is that you ask him about, ask him his opinion, ask him what his solutions are, it always immediately goes to wokeism and leftist ideology and all that instead of anything of substance. But apparently he did well in this interview with Jake Tapper, So I'm gonna have to check that out. Yeah, send me the link if you would, Matt, and I'll watch it as well.
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, all right, Eric, we should let you go because it's the top of the hour, and I see musicians in the hallway, so we have a great musical guest coming up. Wired for Sound is going to be joining us in the second hour. Do you want to give give this Friday's film review a plug before you go? Yeah, I already talked about it. It is steep in Spielberg's sci fi alien film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Yes, um, very just an amazing film. Does have some shortcomings which were briefly discussed, but very visually striking in landmark for its time and what it was able to do.
Yes, yes, absolutely, yeah, I remember watching that when I was a kid, and h yeah, great, great film. So we look forward to that. And all right, Eric, always a pleasure, Thank you my friend. We'll let you go and we'll talk soon. Thank you very much, Matt. Pleasure is always thanks for having me. All right, you got it? Bye bye, right all right, there he goes Eric Pilcher, my favorite conservative, and John Hopwood has left us as well. We're gonna take a quick break, show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then we're gonna play a track from the band Wired for Sound.
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Have you lost job? Just don't let at you. Tell me love, tell me now, tell me love, Tell me now, tell me love, tell me now, tell me love, Tell me now. Over the grass, It's to me, be ass. It's some me. Bring the ass. It's to me, bring the ass. That's to me in the ass. Oh that is good. That is tell me and uh. We're going to introduce the band Wired for Sound in just a moment. But this is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven.
If you're in Manchester. 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 Wednesday July nineteen, two thousand twenty three, and we have a great musical guest with us here Wired for Sound is in the studio. Welcome everybody. How you doing good? Good? Let's see we will start. Let's start with you at the news desk.
If you want to tell us who you are and what you do in the band. Him, my name's Jessica, and I play guitar and I'm a lead vocalist, all right. And on the couch, I'm Megan. I played bass guitar and I sing backup vocals. Okay, my name is Joe and I am the drummer. All right, no vocals for you. Nope, I used to, and then Megan joined the band, so now she took all my vocals away. Yeah, now I understand, by the way, the reason I chose that track, tell me that's I think that's my favorite. I really like all the songs, but I think that's my favorite.
Of what you said me, it's really good. I find myself kind of the drum part. I'm not a drummer, but I find myself tapping along really really good stuff. And I don't know if you all know this, but you've come up. Your name has come up on the show before, because um, it was a number of weeks ago. I had a Fredo and Axel from Dank Sinatra We're on the show. Yeah yeah, And and Axel on the show, he was wearing a Wired for Sound shirt. Somebody, you know, because the show's also on Facebook, somebody was asking, you know what what that was, and um, I was not aware of you guys yet, and uh so Fredo's like, that's Wired for Sound man, and Axel's like, yeah, yeah, wired for Sound.
So uh they told us about you, and so I think that's I think when Jenny booked you for for Today, I think that's where we first learned of you. Was was from those guys. Um so um great stuff. I mean, it's it's kind of punk, but it's also I think it's got a little bit of a grunge vibe. You know. The guitars are nice and heavy, which I like. You know, um, sometimes with a lot of punk bands, the guitars aren't, you know. I mean, I like loud guitars, you know, I like, uh, I like when when it's when the guitars are upfront.
But also you know, this kind of a little bit of a nineties grunge vibe too, and uh no, really really great. And Joe you were saying offer you were telling me that you record did everything that you sent? Was it all recorded in in your living room? Yeah? I do all the engineering and we do all the all the track recording in the living room, and then we send it off to a friend of ours, Corey Holiday, and he does the mix and master. Okay, have you've done it that way from the beginning with this band?
Not from the very beginning, but very close, you know. Only we only tried one album in a studio and it really didn't work out because the found in studios, the engineer in the studio wants to put his information in and because it's his studio, it's hard to say no. So we made our own studio. What do you mean, like the engineer was trying to Well, they have their opinions and they want to do like they pushed auto tune on Jess, and Jess does not want her voice auto tune. We said at the beginning no, And at the end of it he was like, oh, well, you know, you really should use auto tune.
It's a lot easier, and you know, basically wasn't giving us it, told us we had to use it, and it's it's something we're very against auto tuning. Jess's voice because she doesn't really need it, you know. Yeah. Yeah, well i'd be weird too anyway for what you're doing, you know it. That is why you cannot find that album online anywhere, because we erased it in CD form in their living room. But that's it. Yeah yeah, and I think you took the last copy, so it's basically non existent. Really yeah, did it?
Did it sound really strange? Yeah? It was horrible. I feel horrible that it was just one of those as soon as you hear the first part of the first song. You know, it's a local band, and you know, I like to have I don't like like that because it's not full enough, you know what I mean, Like I just I like little bund Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't want it to sound like a demo. You want it to sound exactly. Yeah. Um did did those songs? Do those songs live on from that album? Do you still or or did you end up just nope?
We don't play any of those songs any longer. Wow, yeah, we kind of It's like, um, it was like our freshman you know, we first formed with those songs, so it was very you know, um, it seemed uh not as we hadn't really found ourselves. Yeah, you know, it's a lot of experimentation. Yeah, yeah, so we kind of outgrew it. Yeah, you know, and our stuff now is a lot better. Okay, Yeah, what about it? I mean in terms of the vibe and the style of the music, did that did that also change or did the songs just get better?
The song's got better? Yeah, and you know, I different different instruments, um like types of equipment, you know, pedals, you know, as far as that sound, yeah, it changed. But also we grew um stronger together playing and rehearsing. Yeah. So yeah, just finding our you know, our own sound and style. So okay, has it always been the three of you? No, No, I'm pretty new. Actually I joined about a year and a half ago. Okay, okay, Um, were you in a band before? Yeah, I've been in a few bands, and that's actually how I first met Joe and Jess.
Okay, I think both the bands I was in at the time, I think would play with with you guys. So then I met them and I knew them casually, and then when their bassists left, they wanted they asked me if I would come jam okay, and uh, I said I would, and here we are. What band were you in before our bands? Because what went? It's funny when you walked in ire. Something familiar about you. I've I've seen you in some somewhere. Yeah. I was in the band Marvel Prone for about four years. Oh were wait? Were you here?
Did I interview you? No? Okay, okay, because I had Marvel Prone on the show, But okay, I might have, but I might have seen you online with them in a in a picture of something. Okay, yeah, them might be where I know you're from. Four years? Wow. Yeah, No, it was a really long time. It was about time. I was about twenty yeah, until I'm twenty five now and round a year ago, maybe a little under a year ago, so it was a long time. Yeah yeah. Wow. So what happened to the previous bass player? He quit?
Just quit? Yeah. Yeah. We had some health issues and oh you know that's that's not fun. Yeah. Yeah, it was sad to see him go. You know, he was with us for four years. Oh wow. Okay, So it was me and Jess. We met in another band, and um, we didn't like the direction that the band that we met and was going, so we branched off from that and made Wired for Sound. Oh okay, and then we picked up like six months later, we picked up Justin, who was our old Bassis. He had just quit his band and we'd seen him play a couple of times and we said, hey, you're a good Bassis.
It's a shame you're in another band. And he says, well, actually I'm not anymore. And so he started playing with us, and he was with us for four years. He booked all our shows, he did all our social media. Yeah, he was a big part of the band and um, and then it just got to the point where it just our our level of commitment wasn't for him anymore and um, and he said I'm done. Yeah yeah yeah, um wow. So now do you play out a lot every weekend? Yeah? Yeah, that's good. That's good. And it's probably with a three piece it's it's probably a little easier.
Like I've been in bands where you know, it's like four or five people, and sometimes it's hard when you're trying to play out a lot and you've got to work around everybody's schedule. But obviously a smaller band, you know, with just three of you, it's probably not not as difficult, I would imagine. So you're able to play out play out a lot. Yeah, Um, that's good. Um do you I mean busy summer, then I would assume some are some are the busiest time as far as live shows. Yeah, yeah, i'd say so for sure.
We've Yeah, we've been playing like almost every weekend. That's excellent. Yeah, we're booked straight through until September. Yeah. Wow, yeah, very cool. Are there other bands in the area that you kind of team up with? You know, sometimes bands find other bands that they play a lot of shows with, and um, we go through little spurts with certain bands, like we'll play like like I think we've got like two or three shows coming up with Thanks and Now. Yeah, we've played We've played with them a few other times too, so I think they definitely are one Thanks and Atra.
We're playing with Johnny Earthquake for a while. We had a lot of a pretty good stretch of shows where we were playing with him. Yep, twenty five cent Habit. Yeah, we played with them a few times. Um, Max foris we play with a lot. Yeah, they're out he's out of Boston. Okay, cool cool? Um do you have I mean how long a set do you do because obviously, you know, the band has been around for a while. I mean not you know, not necessarily this lineup, but the band's been around for a while. Do you have a lot of a lot of tunes?
We have like forty really wow. So we have two big pieces of post a board up on our wall and we have all our songs this dude, yeah, and some of them, like you know, the first ones we wrote we don't play anymore, but they're still up there. And um, you know it's like we play standard forty five minutes set on shows. Yeah, but it's never enough because we never get to play all the songs. Yeah, when we practice, we practice like a lot of our songs, but they don't always make They never all make the set ever, right, right.
It's a good problem to have in a way, though, to have so much music. You know. That's uh, that's really good. I would say confidently we could cover a three hour set, no kidding, yeah, wow, with with all originals. Oh yeah, that's that's really good. That's really good. Um. Yeah, I noticed too some of your songs, I mean some of them are at least a couple of them that we have here. Are are approaching five minutes, you know, between four and a half to five minutes, which is kind of unusual for a band in your genre.
You know, the songs tend to be shorter. I mean, have you always had songs that are are more than four minutes or it seems like that's our kind that's our time for yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's like not even on this. It was a surprise for me when we first started recording, Like I'm looking at the mixing board and our songs are this long. I mean it doesn't feel like it's that long. But yeah, when we started recording, we realized, like our songs are generally over four minutes. Yeah, like that. We have a few that are like three minutes, um, and it just seems like it's not long enough.
It's like, wow, that was fast. Yeah yeah, no, that's interesting. Um And like I said, for the genre that you're working in, it's unusual, which you know, it kind of helps you stand out in a way. So that's that's cool. Now, do you get out of m as far as shows, you get out of New Hampshire a lot. You you play in Boston or where we play in Boston quite often you're playing in Boston Saturday. Yeah, excellent. Oh no, I'm getting very cool. That's awesome. Yeah. We played in Maine a lot. Um yeah, so main Maine, New Hampshire and mass Yeah, generally where and we want to get outside of there, but you know, with our jobs in our lives, just trying to find two weeks where we can just go across the country and play different clubs.
It's coming coming. We'd like to go to the West Coast and see how we fare out there, see what they think about Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Well let's uh, let's play another track. Um uh, but I'll let you I'll let you pick what what what should uh? What should we play? What do you guys think? Well, off of Choke, this is our our album called our EP called Choke. Okay, these are all from that. We should play Wicked, Wicked Yeah all right, cool, Well we'll play that. Um and I think this is one of the longer ones too, if I remember correctly, so I think it is, yeah, which is cool.
Yeah, all right, very cool. So this is uh, this is Wicked. We have the band Wired for Sound with us live in studio. This is from their EP Choke. Check this out, and then we're gonna we're gonna chat for for a bit more. Here we go, pay Why don't you come over? You know, really like your team, don't think, just go with the feeling.
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You have to be scared. This doesn't have to be the just feeling in the mound. Man, This doesn't love me love? Hey, why don't you come closer? You know I really like your tastes. Don't they discord to feel like? Hell? I need to chant your laugh you take a broad bad you ain't my heart be fast? You don't have to be scared.
This doesn't have to be just feeling in the man, This doesn't have to be love. I love the ending of that. That's really well done with it. That's really cool. That is wicked. The band is wired for sound and we have Jess, Megan and Joe all hear it with us in studio and what a great track. And you know, listening to that, it's um it's I mean, you guys call yourselves as far as genre, you call yourselves punk, right, yeah, okay, because I feel like it's um yeah, it's it's pretty sophisticated. It's um.
You know, when you first listen to it, it sounds it sounds simple, It kind of sounds like it might be a three chord thing. But then you get into the song and you realize, I mean, especially during that solo, you know, your bassline really comes through because there's only you know, it's it's not like you've got multiple guitars going right, so you can really hear your bass, which is a really sophisticated bass line. Thank you, and and Jess, your solo is really good, so you know, obviously you can really play you know, it's not like it's not like musicians who are just kind of winging it, like you know, you know what, So there's a sophistication there.
And and the double bass you don't usually hear that in punk or grune, so that really elevates it too. That's unusual, and that gives it a little extra heavy and that's really good. And that ending with what you do at the end, at the ending of that song with the drums, it's just amazing. So it's really kind of um, it's uh, you know what, you know, if you want to call it punk or grunge or whatever it's it's yeah, that's where you'd put it, but but it's more sophisticated than that, and I think I think that's what makes it so good.
That's that's just my sort of my music critic. Well, thank you assessment of it. Yeah, no, really, I mean the songs are really good. Did you did you do double bass from the beginning in this band or is that something where you just kind of started to bring that in. No, I've always played the double kick pedal. Yeah. It was one of those things where it was like when I started playing with Jess, she wasn't real big fan at first, and I really double bass is part of me, and if you want me as your drummer, double bass will exist.
Yeah. Yeah, you know you had to be talked into it. Yes, yeah for sure. Um, I just I just was aiming toward more of the punk grunge. Yeah, and I'm not necessarily metal right right, So I mean wind first sound is like a sprinkle of each of our yeah tastes. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm more than nineties grunge type and Joe's more metal. Yeah, so I'm in between. Yeah. I'm big into metal, I always have been, but I'm also really big on nineties music. Yeah music, So yeah, it's like a nice happy medium. I feel like I've sort of like both yep, so like we just compromised, like said, yeah, all right, so maybe not through the whole song, right, let's not ruin it.
Well, it's true. I mean it's tasteful, you're you're restrained with it. It's not like you're yeah, you're not pounding the double bass the whole time. So it's yeah, yeah, yeah that works. That was part of the trick was getting it to be where it wasn't overwhelming the song, right. Yeah. So now I find myself saying double based would sound really good. So it's kind of become our thing. Yeah, yeah, that's cool. I'm sure, and I'm sure other people notice too, Like when you're playing shows with other bands.
I'm sure I'm sure people come up and say, wow, that's unusual that but it works. It works, It works really well. What about the songwriting do you all write together or it just does a lot? It just like gives us a show and then we we kind of we do our best at it. But most of the writing, that's really where it's at. Yeah, yeah, including lyrics. Did you write all the lyrics. Yeah, Is there any kind of a theme or are there are there certain common themes that come up a lot or what's your approach to the lyrics?
Um? I mostly write about um,
you know, personal experiences, UM, whatever I'm going through at the moment at that time. Yeah, you know, um, you know yeah, Yeah, I grew up a little rough, so did you. Yeah, so a lot of it has some of that in there too. Yeah. Yeah. Is I assume the band is a great way to, you know, if you had a rough upbringing um to kind of is it like therapy in a way, because because I always say, you know, anything that whether it's a rough childhood or whatever it is that you're going through in life, anything anything negative that's challenging, you know, the best way to deal with it is to do something positive with it by creating something.
And I think that's what draws most people to art, whatever kind of art it is, whether it's music or painting or whatever it is. You know, it's it's a way to to take things that you've experienced that might drag it down, but you don't let them drag you down. Instead, you create. Yes, Yeah, I mean a lot of you know, different problems I've had, you know, music has been my way of getting through it. Yeah, yeah, for sure, Yeah, no doubt. Um. And so that EP is called Choke. Yeah. Is this is this your first?
Um? Oh no, you did the the Well there's the original album right that that we don't Catharsis is also on um on iTunes and okay, Spotify and it's everywhere. It's wired for Sound New Hampshire. Is how you access it? Okay? Or wired for Sound an h, I'm sorry? And is that a full length or is that? Well? Okay, So Catharsis we did with justin our last bass player okay, yeah. Um. Originally that EP came about because we signed up for the RPM Challenge. Ah, yes, I've I've had a lot of guests on the show.
We've done that. Yeah yeah, we didn't actually complete it in time. So um, as a result of us writing so hard to try to do that, Catharsis was born. Oh no kidding, Oh that's cool. That's cool. Um. And why what goes into the decision to do EPs? Because you know, we live in a time where you've got so many different options because of the Internet. Like when I was growing up, it was. You know, most artists, you know, they release an album or an EP, but usually a full album. EPs were kind of rare, you know, release an album and then go on tour, and then release another album eventually and go on tour.
It now you've got because of the Internet, you've got all these different options. Uh. Some some artists just do singles, you know, or they'll even put out a series of singles that eventually become an EP or eventually become a full album. But but they're kind of feeding the machine as they go. Um at what goes into the decision for the three of you to release an EP. I feel like it is just attentions, ye, short attention attentions then in general, and it is people don't, you know, no one really listens to albums anymore.
And whether that that's a good or bad thing. I mean, I like albums personally, but I mean I don't think everyone necessarily should have to listen to a full album they didn't want to. Yeah, so it's almost like you get to do an album without having to do an album in a way, you know what I mean. In between Yeah, yeah, the first in the beginning, it was because we didn't have enough songs. Yeah, sure, sure we were. We could barely play a show in the beginning, like we had to do like a bunch of covers with it.
But yeah, and then from there it was just you know, attention spans, like nobody, nobody wants to put, you know, listen to a full length album anymore. It's just too too much for them. Yeah. I think some people probably do, but but the majority in dwindling numbers. Yeah, yeah, that's true. I mean we're we're kind of spoiled in that sense too. We live in an era where you can just listen to anything you want to at any time, and uh, you know, if you are listening to a full album, if you get tired of it and you want to listen to something else, you can and it's very easy to access whatever.
Yea, we're recording now, and we're kind of talking about possibly doing one at a time and then making it too, like an EP or something like that. Yeah, so we haven't really decided yet, but we're just gonna try to get through the recording first. Yeah. Yeah, if you already started it, you've already started. We got one song completed, yeah, and more than one, can't We got broken and just nothing. Oh yeah, right, yeah, okay, all right, technically we have three recorded okay, and same process I assume in the in the living room and yeah yeah yeah, well we just got recently got a vocal booth.
Oh cool. Yeah, we set it right up in there. It's really cool because it gives you privacy, you know, it's nice. Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Well, let's uh yeah, let's hear another track. I'll let I'll let you all pick again. Uh where should I play next? Um? Yes, well I like that one a lot too. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I like this a lot. Um. I have to ask Jess with a title like that is a lot of meaning to this one. Yeah, this one's uh, this one's a personal one. Okay, okay, gotcha. Um, let's give this a listen.
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But the best thing to do is to give us a call at six zo three two five zero six ZO seven six zo three two five zero six O seven. And by the way, so y'all were talking while the song was on about you've got a show coming up at the Shaft Skying. We should make sure people know about that. Yeah, we are playing the chef Skene August twenty six. We'll be playing with two Boston bands UM Andrew Queen and Gretchen Shay in the middle eight. Okay, okay, both there female fronted bands UM, and they are great, excellent, excellent.
UM. Now we were talking before the song about you're working on some some new music that you're recording. Do you have any kind of any eta on that. When when that's going to be out or probably probably a while, right, it's pretty early in the process, I would imagine. Yeah, I mean, if we had to shoot for a planet, would be probably by the end of winter. Okay, Okay, so it'll be a while. How long is um, how long has joke been out? Twenty twenty? I think it came out. No, it was not that it was it was twenty It was like twenty twenty two winter.
Yeah. Oh okay, Yeah, so that one's still fairly recent. Okay, Um, Joe, I wonder if you experience, uh, because you were off by two years, I wonder, I wonder, I wonder if you experienced that sort of COVID time distortion that I experienced and that a lot of people seem to experience, where it seems like like things seem like they were either longer ago than they actually were or not as long ago as they actually were. I feel like the pandemic just it like disrupted the whole h spacetime continuum.
Yeah, I mean everything just went on pause, you know. Yeah, it's crazy. So yeah, to mention, we had like we went through like two bass players during that recording and you know, yeah, it didn't come out till Megan was in the band. Yeah, yeah, that's true, that's true. Yeah, all right. Oh so you had two bass players before Megan. Well, I mean they weren't. They were like, oh, I got you, I got you. Um now what was so what was the audition process like or did was there an audition process or Megan did you just did you just join or did you have to audition or I mean it wasn't really formal like that.
I kind of just came over on the premise to like am yeah yeah, And they were like, so, yeah, would you want to like join the band if Sean I don't know, because at the time, I think it was still sort of up in the air about whether or not Sean was going to be like a full member quote unquote or just a fill in. Yeah. Yeah. So basically I kind of joined on the premise that like, when Sean couldn't do something, I would do it. Then they just liked me better. I mean, she's just awesome. She's a great bass player.
Yeah, you know, we just like her. She's awesome. Well, and she does backing vocals, right yeah, well yeah, yeah, and everybody says it who you know knows us and stuff like they're like just with Megan and the harmonies. It's just it kicks us up another notch. Yeah. Yeah, Um, are there any live performances online? Like? If I go on YouTube, do you have anything up there or any videos? Everybody's making videos? Yeah, you should go on Instagram for stuff like that. Okay, Facebook, I am just I don't keep up on YouTube as much, but I'm gonna work on it.
We do have a professionally done music video for No Way Out on YouTube. Oh okay, okay, yeah cool, it's funny. I was talking with somebody on the show recently, I forget who. It was, one of our musical guests, and we were talking about how some people have a misconception that nobody makes videos anymore because it's been so long since MTV really played videos, and and it's it's actually the opposite, like there's more music videos than ever because you've got you know, if you don't have a music video on YouTube, but it's almost like people look at you funny, like, what, you haven't made a video yet?
Well, to be fair, the means of making a video pretty much at everyone's disposal. All the time, now true. Yeah, yeah, So it's like it doesn't surprise me. I feel like content is you know, people talk about content and content generation and stuff like that. Like it makes total sense to me that there is a you know, a plethora of videos and other media available online just because I mean we all, you know, our phones can do most of it. Oh yeah, yeah, so yeah, I think it's it's kind of cool in a way.
I feel like it opens up a whole new realm of like possibility for you know, music and media and stuff like that. Oh. Absolutely absolutely. And what's so the video that you do have, it's what's the song No Way Out? Is that? What if I'm looking for it? Yeah? That yeah, No Way Out? It's it's the song off Catharsis. Okay, okay? Cool? Is that now? Is that something you you made with someone who's did you do it yourselves? Or was that because you said it was a professional lead one video or I mean it wasn't like super professional.
It's um mister Goodbar's studios. Yes, yes, know him, well, he's been on the show multiple times. Actually, friend Timothy um did it for us, Timothy Thorpe. Yeah, yeah, very cool, very cool. Yeah, he's Um. Oh, Shane Ballen was on recently and because mister Goodbars said produced, do you guys, do you know Shane Ballen, local singer songwriter. Y Yeah, yeah, he just he just played solo acoustic. But yeah, we really good, such a great voice. Um. But yeah, mister Goodbars, I produced at least one, maybe more, of some of the tracks of his that we've recently played on the show.
So it sounds like he's been doing a lot. Um used to be in sepsis. Of course, I don't think he still lives. Yeah, yeah, I don't know what happened there. They lost like most of them. Yeah yeah, yeah, well they they've reformed. They've got a whole new lineup now and actually they just released a video for their song Bleed Lines, which is really good. So yeah, they're they're doing a lot of stuff. But yeah, they really went through a whole quite a quite a change, Yeah for sure. Oh. Uh, Nate Pejari or Pajarry, I'm never sure if I'm saying that right From Dank Sinatra is in the chat room, Uh says, uh says, what's up?
Can't wait to have you guys at dank Fest. Yeah, yeah, what what is I see? I don't even know about dank Fast. Dank Fest is an area twenty three and conquered. Oh okay, that I know area it's twenty three. Well I've had Kirk McNeil on the show second one. Yeah, this is the second annual, right yeah, oh I said it right, I said his last name right the first time. Very cool? When is that? When is Dakfast September second? Okay, we're also playing with them before that though, on the twenty fifth of August, right yea and Dover.
Yes, yeah, we're playing with them with the strand it's a battle of the bands. I don't really want to battle, thanks, and because we're friends, but yeah, that's the way it's gotta be. Yeah, you going down. We could take the clubs off for a night. I didn't know that was still a thing. Battle of the band. It's every once in a while there there's one, you know, like, um, what was it last year? We got invited to a Battle of the bands and yeah in Portland it was all like it. I think they just wanted to see us play.
Oh wow. Yeah, it was like we were one rock band in a group of just kind of jam bands. And it was like we just did not fit and I was like, what were we doing here? Wowde It was extremely awkward. Yeah, it really was. Because the prize was a spot in a like a jam band festival. Yeah, you know, yeah, we didn't get it. We didn't get Well, it's nice nice to be invited though, I guess. Yeah. The venue was cool. The way they did the floor was like, um, it was all colorful and it was a it was a cool, cool floor and a nice venue.
Yeah. Yeah, it's fun to stand out though sometimes, right. Yeah, when when when you're in a situation like that, Nate says, wait, it's a battle of the bands. We didn't even know this. We didn't know until recently either prepare for battle. Um, how how far away of you guys toured in terms of playing out like you do? Get out of me Hampshire obviously, as we talked about earlier, you go to Boston, you go to Maine. Have you gone further than that or I think the first two one was Kingston, Mass Okay, Yeah, and then we've been pretty far up north and Maymi and JESSI play in Poland before, but that's you know, not any space.
We went up by bang or oh that's on there yeah. Oh and then form that Charlie Oo's world famous, we played out there? Oh wow yeah yeah. Um do you plan to do a lot of that going forward or getting out? And it's interesting because, um, there's a lot of bands who are actually kind of doing the opposite where they're sort of limiting how much they play out. And I think a lot of it just has to do with the cost. You know, gas is a lot more expensive than it used to be and whatnot. But um, but I also think too a pre pandemic, it was like everybody just wanted to play out as much as they could.
And the attitude's about that with a lot of musicians is kind of shifted. And again, I think part of it has to do with expense. It's even like like this major bands now that are saying, you know, we're not we're not touring as extensively because it's become cost prohibitive. But it's it's to me, it's just it's such a different world because like when I was active, I used to playing a lot of bands and I always wanted to just play like every weekend. I just wanted to play out as much. You know, I was at one point.
I was in three bands at one time, and I just wanted to because all I wanted to do was play. But and it sounds like that's that's kind of the approach that the three of you were taking. You know, just play as much as you can, school play whatever. It's definitely a labor of love. We'll just we'll play anywhere anytime. Yeah, yeah, it's awesome. I love it. You're doing any Um well you said, uh, you've got dank fest You do any outdoor festivals or have you or or oh yeah, cool, cool, those are fun. Yeah that live laugh love coming up that oh in
Lebanon, Lebanon, Maine and Charlie Sue. Oh okay, I know three day weekend. Oh that's very cool. Yeah yeah, excellent, excellent. Um you ever opened for any uh national acts coming through the area. Have you done that yet? Or one time at Club Jewel they were a national tour he was a national touring guy. I forget his name, but um, nobody, I mean nobody big that you would like recognize there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, anybody, Yeah, anybody on the list as kind of a goal that you've all talked about.
Anybody that you want to open for. I mean it would be cool to like open I think would fit good with like local h yeah you oh yeah you would. I've I've seen them live, yeah, really really good. Yeah? Do they are they still touring now? Though? Are they active? I mean because when I touring was Soul Asylum for a while where they yeah that the show. We had tickets to the show and it got canceled and a little while now. Oh okay, I saw them in Boston like ten years ago. Uh, they were really good. It wasn't the same drummer though, different drummer.
Yeah, they didn't have a different drummer when we saw them a few years ago. Yeah. Yeah, but really good. But yeah, you would fit really well. I really want to play with I really want to play with Scissor Fight, which is not They're not so much. They're more like Boston Big, you know, not really like world renowned. But I'd love Scissor Fight and Scissor but play with the y I'd love to play with the Deaf Tones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, Sissor Fight too. They only um, they only occasionally yeah reunite right, they don't really play out as much anymore.
Yeah, for sure, Like, yeah, I've only seen I've seen him like once or twice, not even that many times because they don't really play that much. Yeah. Yeah, but the bass player of Sissori Fight, my um my boyfriend is friends with and he lives in the same town as him. Yeah, like he kind of knows him, so then I kind of know them and I see them and they'll say hi, and I'm like, oh, yeah, hi, I do know you a little bit. Yeah. I like that song New Hampshire is all right if you like fight, ain't. I've played that on the show.
I had to make a radio edit of it because it's a bad word, but great stuff. I'd like to interview those guys, but yeah, they're not They're not around that much unfortunately anymore. But um we are. Oh yeah, we are rapidly running out of time, so so before we do it, we're gonna play one more song in a minute to wrap up the show. But I want to make sure our listeners know where they should go online to keep up with what you're doing and social media, anything you want us to know about and when your next show is and and anything you want to make sure our listeners are aware of all right.
Um, you can keep up with us on Instagram. Uh. We were there mostly at Wired for Sound n h okay. Um, we also have a TikTok account. It's Wired for Sound Underscore n h okay. And of course Facebook, Yeah yeah, Wired dot fs on Facebook. Uh yeah, and we're playing this weekend at O'Brien's Pub in Alston, mess And um yeah, just check us out online and we're always playing out. Yeah, we always a gig going. Element smans on Instagram and stuff, so that's usually the most reliable place to find you know what's next.
Yeah, excellent, we'll have some new music for you guys to Yeah, very cool, very cool. Well, I I appreciate the three of you joining us today. This has been fun. Yeah, thank you, thank you for having us shout out to our friends dank so this is awesome. Yeah yeah absolutely. Uh let's uh, we'll play one more track. What haven't we played that you would like me to play? Here? Here? I am here, I am well do that Okay, that's our short song. Oh okay, Well we might end up well if that's if that's all right, if if I end up having time for a second one, what should Uh, what should I play fun?
We haven't played fun? Right? Yeah? Yeah, you're fun. Actually, let's go with fun because it's long. Yeah, it's a little longer, right, yeah, let's go with that. And then if if we have time, I'll also play here. I am all right, all right, we'll see how it lines up. All right. Thank you, And if you miss any part of today's show it we'll be up in just a little bit at WMNH radio dot org and in my website Matt Connerton dot com. And thank you again, of course for Eric Pilcher joining us in the first hour as well as John Hopwood.
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