Matt Connarton Unleashed 7-20-23

Hello, everybody, Welcome, here we go. It is that time again,

Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from the studios of double Do you

m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious 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 lengths, contact in folk show archives, etc. Etc. Today is

Thursday July twentieth, two thousand twenty three, so nice to have you all

with me. Ronda Faverro of course all the way on the West coast,

uh California, says howdy from hot southern California one hundred six degrees today.

Well, I just hope it's a dry heat, Ronda. You know,

I'll tell you today in Manchester, we got a little bit of a break.

Um. Well, it's it's kind of hot now actually, but um

not as humid, so a little bit a little bit easier today. But

um it's uh, it's hot. It's the hottest summer on record that happens

every year. Of course, every year it's the hottest year, hottest summer,

and that's uh. I fear not to be a downer, but it's

only gonna get worse anyway. Onward and upward we go. Though at least

we're in a nice air conditioned studio here and very appreciative of it. If

you would like to join us on the program today, the studio line is

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us a call at six zo three two five zo six z seven six zo

three two five oz six O seven. By the way, today's opening track

was faded by the band Heel's Throne or Haile's Thrown. I'm still not sure

I'm actually saying that quite correctly, but they are a great European band that

we had on the show from Germany. I think I remember correctly that we

had skyping in a few weeks ago, and I still I love that track,

such a great song that has faded. If you're looking for them online,

they spell it hel apostrophe s, so it's like it looks like at

first I thought it was Hell's Throne when I first saw the name, but

then I there's only one L because it's Heel's throne, and Heel has something

to do with Greek mythology or something. I don't really remember. I just

love the music and I really enjoyed interviewing them, So I was looking for

something to play it open today's show because we don't have a musical guest today,

and I thought, oh, you know what, I really love that

song. That's a good opener, great great track faded. I think at

the top of the hour today we're gonna play something from Satellite Union, my

friend Dave Wally, who joined us on the show last week his band out

of Chicago. That song like a War is very appropriate for the times we

live, and I think I think I'm gonna play that today at the top

of the show. Like I said, we don't have a musical guest now

something that we I'm gonna kind of tease this, but I don't like to

promise that we'll get to it. But in lieu of a musical guest,

we are going to do something musical if we have time, probably save it

for the second hour of the show today. But there's a lot of controversy

around this new Jason Aldean song. And if you don't know, he's a

country artist, he's got a song called try That in a Small Town.

I would like to play that on the show and kind of analyze why it's

got some people very upset. I have intentionally avoided listening to it. I

have not listened to it yet because I wanted to play it live on the

air on the show and just kind of give you my in the moment spontaneous

reaction to it and my thoughts on it. Some people are saying it's racist,

we'll see, we'll see, or that it celebrates a gun violence and

so forth. But I want to I want to judge for myself and hopefully

get some listener feedback on it too. So hopefully we'll get to that in

the second hour. I say hope fully, because if you're new to the

show. Um, you know, obviously it's we're live, and if there's

some big breaking news that happens in the realm of politics, Yeah, we

don't always get to the things I have planned. I always come in here

with a plan, and uh, you know, I might have five or

six things ideas of subjects that are in the news, especially politically, that

I might like to get to, and then sometimes we end up not getting

to any of it because while we're on the air, something else happened,

there's some breaking news and so forth, and then we end up getting derailed,

which is part of the adventure of it all. But whereas we don't

have any guests schedule today, we'll we'll have time to get into some things,

get caught up on some things also. Do want to look at them

A couple of irs whistleblowers who testified before Congress, and I have some thoughts

on that, and we'll we'll get into that a little bit today too.

That was a couple of days ago. Fox News carried it, CNBC,

CNN did not. Mike Doyle emailed me about it too, But yeah,

I did. I did intend to get to it this week, so we'll

probably do that Actually, that'll we'll do that in the first hour, I

think so. Uh, Like I said, today, we'll try to get

caught up on some things. Also, I'm hoping that our friend Dave Ridley

calls in today. If you heard yesterday show, you might have heard Dave

called in. But it was during our our segment. You know, I

call it my Favorite Conservative that's the official name of the segment now that we

do Wednesdays with my friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And John

Hopwood was here as well. So it really wasn't the best time to get

deep into the subject that Dave was calling about, our friend Dave Ridley from

The Ridley Report and NHXIT. But but essentially he did give us a little

bit. The radio talk show Free Talk Live is apparently not going away,

but they're they're really downscaling. And you know, I'm a radio nerd.

I love radio. I love talking about radio and of course other forms of

media cable news and so forth. And that show sort of going away is

a big deal in the world of political talk radio if you're not familiar with

Free Talk Live, because you know, political talk radio is largely dominated by

conservatives. You have a lot of conservative hosts with very successful nationally syndicated shows,

and then you have a few liberal shows too, but conservatives really dominate

that space. But you've got a few liberal shows that are very popular host

that are very successful, like Tom Hartman or Stephanie Miller, Arnie Arnison,

she's more regional, I think, but but there are some stations on the

West Coast at carry Arnie as well. But she's she's from New Hampshire.

But Free Talk Live is the only really sort of pure libertarian political talk show

that I can think of there on seven nights a week, seven to ten

pm or is it eight to eleven? I think it's seven to ten Eastern

on more than a hundred stations across the country. So them sort of leaving

the stage, if you will, of radio is kind of a big deal.

So if Dave, I did ask Dave to call back in today,

so if he's able to, if he calls back in today, we'll get

into that a little bit because I'm very interested in what's happening there, And

of course that relates to it sounds like it relates to um Ian Freeman,

who if you're not familiar with Free Talk Live. You might be familiar with

Ian Freeman. He's been in the news and we've talked about him on the

show because he was part of that that bust that happened in Keen over Bitcoin.

It's all a little bit complicated, and I'm not sure I completely understand

it myself, but Ian might very well be going to prison, So that

might also play a role in what is happening to that show Free Talk Live,

because that's really his baby. He started that with Mark Edgington or Mark

Edge as he's known, and I don't know, I don't know if Mark

is even still associated with the show at all. Full disclosure, I did

at one point have for a while a professional relationship with them. I was

never a part of that show, never involved in that program at all.

But UM, a streaming service that my my business operates, we used to

carry that show on there. UM we disengaged when during the pandemic, when

you know, we started hearing you know, a lot of the conspiracy theory

stuff UM and medical misinformation and so forth, which I get very frustrated by

UM as someone who has taken COVID nineteen very seriously and takes the pandemic and

public health in general very seriously. I didn't like, uh, I didn't

like being associated with that, you know, nothing personal against those guys,

and listen, I mean Ian. I like Ian personally and professionally. You

know. I always found him very, very nice to deal with, very

easy to deal with. UM. So I'm not I'm not saying anything against

the guy, just to be clear, but I was certainly uncomfortable, as

was Jenny, with some of the content that we were hearing coming out of

out of that program. So we distance ourselves from those guys. Unfortunately.

Libertarians, well, I remember making a comment on you know, and I

have some libertarian and me I have some libertarian views, but I remember making

a comment on social media, and I probably lost some friends over it.

But I during the pandemic and the throes of of the COVID nineteen pandemic,

I said, uh wow, I didn't realize how many how many people I

know who are really just uh, you know, these crazy conspiracy theorists.

And I think some people took that personally, and I probably indirectly damaged some

of those uh friendships and perhaps working relationships as well with that comment. But

if you know me at all, and of course, if you're a longtime

listener of the show, you know that I don't have a lot of patience

for nonsense when it comes to the pandemic and COVID nineteen. I don't you

know, I don't really allow that on the show. I mean, don't

get me wrong. I'm always open to having policy discussions about it, Like

if you want to talk on the program about whether or not you agree with

mask mandates and shutdowns and things like that, I'm always open to having a

policy discussion. But you know, if I have to hear about, you

know, just some of the wild theories, I don't even want to repeat

any of the things on air that I've been you know, because then I

can't put the show on YouTube. It'll violate their terms of service, which

brings me to something else too. I just want to mention briefly if you

if you are someone who enjoys the program on Facebook, you know we do,

of course obviously after the show, the podcast version is available online.

We put it online at WMNH Radio dot org, and of course you can

get a link to it on my website and so forth. But all the

shows are archived there and I put them on YouTube as well. I suggest

going to one of those places. If you're listening to the show after the

fact, If you're joining us live on Facebook, that's wonderful, and I

will say hello everybody on the Facebook live chat in a moment. If you're

listening to us live on Facebook, great, But if you're going back afterward

and getting us on Facebook. Facebook is really clamping down now on music being

played. It used to be we would occasionally get I would get a copyright

notification from Facebook and they would say, you know, if I played like

I used to play the radio edit of Fight the Power by Public Enemy a

lot, just as an example, and then I would get I would get

a notification from Facebook saying, hey, we've muted the audio. You have

five minutes of copyrighted audio that we've muted on your video because of a copyright

violation. Now, all of a sudden, they're getting and by the way,

I always appeal those when I get them, and I used to always

win the appeal all of us udon, even even local bands from the area

that I have on the show coming in doing live performances. Facebook is muting

all of that. They're basically muting all of the music during the show.

So if you are getting the show on Facebook after the fact, you're only

you're you're missing out on part of the show. Now, maybe you don't

care about the music part. Maybe you just want to hear the talk radio

part, and that's fine. But if you want to hear the music,

I suggest you just go to YouTube or listen to the podcast. For the

best audio quality, you should just listen to the podcasts. And that goes

up after we're live. Actually, because Facebook has being really aggressive about basically

they're just muting all the music now. So that's why on Friday nights when

we do retro Spectrum Radio with Police Friday nights from eight to eleven pm here

at WMNH, Paul mutes Facebook entirely only during his show. He just mutes

it. We have the Facebook live chat open during his show, and we

love talking with the listeners on Facebook while the show is on. But we

tell everybody just go to the website, go to WMH Radio dot org and

click listen live. It's better audio quality than Facebook anyway. You're getting much

better audio quality if you just stream it on the site. But you know,

because if Paul doesn't mute the show. Facebook just kicks us off like

five minutes into the show. So so yeah, they're they're clamping down.

Zuckerberg is clamping down. All right, let's do this. Well, let

me give the studio line again and then we'll say hello everybody in the Facebook

live chat, and then we're gonna get into some stuff. Six zo three

two five oz six zo seven is the studio line. Six zo three two

five oz six zoo seven. I do want to say hello everybody in the

Facebook lave chat. Looks like a busy chat room. J Fat of course

is in the chat from the great state of Vermont and says good afternoon everyone.

Rondo Faverro we mentioned in there. Oh, speaking of musicians. By

the way, my friend Ryan LeMay is in the Facebook lave chat says hey,

mister Connerton, stay cool. My brother, thank you, thank you.

And our friend Ron is on the line. Hi Ron, Hi did

um. I could either call you after the show on your own personal line

or just ask you a quick question right now? Would a follow up discussion?

Would have follow up with my sister in law be of any beneficial you

know, beneficial. I think she would like to try another session to see

if things what could work out. Oh sure, yeah, uh yeah,

I mean, okay, you can call me after the show if you want

her, or have her call me. She has my number. Obviously I

will do that. I will have her call you because there was success.

But I think since there was success, I'd like to go one step for

other. Oh okay, yeah, absolutely, yeah, we can. We

can do that. Thanks, look at forward to the show. All fuddy,

Thanks Ron, Bye bye? All right, very good. That was

our friend Ron. Just a point of clarification if people are completely baffled.

I am a hypnotherapist and I recently did a session with ron sister, so

he was he was calling to uh as she left a very nice review online,

which is wonderful. But that's that's what That's what Ron was referring to.

I just I thought I should clarify for people who are like, wait

a minute, you did us? What kind of a session did you do

with Ron's sister? What? What? What is he talking about? That's

that's what it is about. So but we'll we'll figure that out later.

Oh. Dave Wally is in the Facebook live chat. Dave, I mentioned

you earlier at the top of the show today. At the five o'clock hour.

I'm gonna play. I'm gonna play like a War from a little band

called Satellite Union that I'd become a very big fan of such a great song.

Let's see Mike from Queen City Cabinetry in the Facebook live chat. Mike,

of course, not only one of our great sponsors here at WMH,

but one of our oh hosts Friday nights on retro Spectrum Radio with paulc.

And we have a call. Oh Hi, welcome to Matt Connors and Unleashed

too. Is this yes? So? What are your rights the sport service?

No, sir, I'm afraid you have the raw number. And uh,

could you please be less creepy? Whoever you are? What is going

on? What? Hello? Oh? Okay? Hung up? Probably didn't

like that I called him creepy. That was very creepy. Um. I

recognize the caller ID, though, so I might have to uh that I

recognize the caller ID. I recognize the number on the caller ID. Bonics

Mattuh sorry, you'll have to forgive me. It's my first day, so

I might have to uh, you know, hear do you next time I

see that person? Uh? You were looking for an escort service. H

Uh, let's see. Dave Wally says, wait, what's he offering?

I think I think he was looking for something for me, actually, Dave.

Oh. Miriam Banish joins us in the Facebook chatt and says, Matt

is an amazing hypnotherapist. Thank you, Mariam, I appreciate that very much.

Appreciate that very much. Uh. DJ Steve, speaking of co hosts

on Retrospectrum Dios in the chat and says, good afternoon, Matt and everyone.

Hello to you, sir. Let's see. Oh, freeband Prince is

in the Facebook live chat, a very talented hip hop artist from the Great

State of Florida, joins us, or I don't know if I haven't talked

to him in a while. I don't know if you're still in Florida.

But if you are, I hope you're doing well. I mean, I

hope you're doing well regardless. But Florida is particularly hot and humid this time

of year, and there's a lot of other things wrong with Florida as well.

Hello to a new force of the spark, of course, from Greensboro,

North Carolina. Hello hashtag Matt, we said, and good afternoon.

Yes oh, Miriam Banish recommends listening to the show on Podbean. Yes,

indeed, we do upload the show to Podbean. Jenny, of course,

is in the Facebook live chat and says shalom. Peeps, New Force of

the Spark says, oh, no, sad news. We said, sad

news is Isaac Banks, friend from the Inner Rhythm Choir at Lindley Park Baptist

Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was a nice lady, June Rash

from Greensboro, North Carolina. She was a nice old lady and she passed

away on Tuesday morning. We said, well, if I may, now,

I did not know this person, June Rash, but I would just

like to extend my condolences, and I will just make an observation. I

think if my last name were Rash, I might change it. But because

you know, even just hearing the name of someone with the last name Rash,

there's a number of jokes that leap to mind, all of which would

be inappropriate in a moment like this, and a couple of which would potentially

even get me fired. So, but condolences to June Rash from Greensboro,

North Carolina. I from what I hear, according to new for us of

the Spark. She was a nice old lady. So moment of silence for

June Rash. Okay, that's the end of the moment of silence. It

was a very brief, kind of a nano second really, but that's because

it's radio. You can't really have dead air. Who was it? There

was somebody one time who wanted to uh, who wanted to have a suggested

I have a moment of silence for something. It might have been easyg and

and you know, and he wanted to be like a legitimate like sixty seconds

a minute of silence, And I'm like, dude, it's radio. We

can't just sit here in silence, even for sixty seconds. That's about fifty

five seconds too long. You know. We gotta move it along. You

gotta have silence. Paul sees in the Facebook live chat and says, greetings,

Matt big Fan. Oh, I'm sorry, greeting Matt big Fan.

We are a supergroup from Manchester, but we only do care ery OKI,

which totally makes sense. That's right. Also, Eric Street joins us in

the chat and says, no entertainment report this week. No now our friend

easyg Eric Gagnon he is our entertainment reporter. However, I have not heard

from him and he has not called as he has done in the past on

Thursdays. I don't know why. I don't know what's going on with him,

but I do know that he has a long history of disappearing and not

telling anyone that he's disappeared or disappearing. Although I guess if you're truly disappearing,

you wouldn't tell anyone. And there is in the Facebook live chat,

he says, I am back, ah, but is it really you?

Is it really you? Or has someone done something with EASYG and is pretending

to be you? Just because it says Eric Gagnon doesn't mean it's EASYG.

Eric Gagnon is a very common name. I would mention I went to grade

school with like seven or eight people named Eric Gagnon. They're everywhere. Melanie

law Liberty from the Great State of Vermont joins us and says, hey,

guys, well, if you really are EASYG. By the way the Eric

Agne and the Facebook live chat, I hope you're all right. I hope

nothing terrible is happening to you, and most importantly, I hope Bruce hasn't

done something horrible that keeps you from doing your entertainment report, or as I

like to call it. You're Amanda McCarthy, April Cushing, Katie Dobbins report,

a new force of the Sparks, says we say our manager producer hashtag

Michael Martineau aka Texas Mike. Yes, I'm not sure why you're mentioning Texas

Mike, but we love Texas Mike, so that's fine. Unless Texas Mike

was a good friend of June Rash. If you're just joining us, June

Rash of Greensboro, North Carolina has tragically passed away. Oh, he's doing

his entertainment report in the chat room. Easyg, says April Cushman on wmu

R chronicle at seven pm tonight. Oh very good, very good chronicle.

Yes, at Arizon Channel nine here in the Queen City. All right,

let me give the studio line again and then we'll get into some stuff.

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

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studio line six zo three two five six zoo seven. UM, I want

to look at the U. I do want to look at the hearing the

other day, but just a quick thing because it popped up and I said,

what um, media eight has. Uh. By the way, there's

a picture here of Senator Ted Cruise where he looks absolutely delightful. Uh,

Senator Ted Cruise of Texas. I'm not saying he's a delightful person body stretch,

but this picture of him here is absolutely delightful. He looks like like

some sort of comedian or something. If you've seen the picture, you know

what I'm talking about. If you haven't, you have no idea. But

if you go to media ie and you look up this story mediae dot com,

you will see the picture. I'm afraid to oh, Scott Robinson and

the chatran says, I need my entertainment report. Let's go, Eric Gagnon,

I don't know what the problem is. This is on media Senator Ted

Cruz's bizarre war on fictional characters moves to Barbie. It says here Texas Senator

and part time podcaster Ted Cruz is no stranger to starting beef with other people,

but he also has a history of going after fictional characters. By the

way, Ben Shapiro did that recently as well. A perfect example of this

has risen to the surface in the last few weeks with the highly anticipated film

Barbie. Although most people would view the movie as a harmless representation of one

of the most beloved children's toys in America, the Texas Republican is hell bent

on the theory the plastic blonde is a trojan horse for a Chinese Communist Party

propaganda. Mm let me guess the Barbie dolls are made in China. I

haven't pre read this, so I don't know the answer. That's just a

guess. Let's see. I like I said, I did not preread this.

I don't know where this is going, but I must tell you I

am intrigued, and I hope you are as well. Why does Ted Cruz

think that Barbies Chinese Communist Party propaganda? Maybe there's a TikTok video with some

Barbie dolls that he saw and he had some sort of objection. I don't

know. Let's learn together, says here. Cruise became perturbed when a preview

for the film showed a map drawn in crayon which included the nine dash line,

indicating that China owns the South China Sea. This line has largely been

disputed by the other countries that also claim to own the area, including Vietnam.

I'm still not convinced, but I continue to be intrigued. In an

interview with Fox News is Jesse Water's prime time Wednesday Night, Crews warned that

the film is trying to kiss up to the CCP in order to make more

money in the region on the film. Unfortunately, this is just one of

several wars Crews has waged back. In twenty twenty one, crew said his

crosshairs on Sesame Street and in particular Big Bird. Well, to be fair,

Big Bird, I do think is, as we say in the Northeast,

a wicked kami. I mean, you know, he's got all the

feathers and the beak, and I have no idea where I'm going with that.

In November twenty twenty one, Big Bird took to Twitter to share that

he had received a COVID vaccine. Oh right, that's why. Yes,

Because Big Bird is pro vaccine, and you know, all of us who

are pro vaccine, as I myself am, we're all really just communists.

We want to force everyone to get vaccinated and programmed to be a communists.

I'm gonna have to edit this part out for the YouTube version of the show

because even though I'm being sarcastic, YouTube will flag it as medical misinformation because

it is medical misinformation. I'm not saying I'm not a communist. I mean,

I don't think I am, but others would think I am. I

mean, you know, I advocate for national healthcare. My goodness, I

mean health Look at my hat, people's action. What's more communists than that?

But no, I'm kidding, but this is what This is the tweet

from Big Bird at Big Bird if you want to follow Big Bird on Twitter

or tweeter because it's big Bird. Ey see what I did there tweeter.

Instead of that's why I'm an afternoon drive, Big Bird tweeted I got the

COVID nineteen vaccine today. My wing is feeling a little sore, but I'll

give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy. Miss

at Erica our Hill even said I've been getting vaccines since I was a little

bird. I had no idea Cruise immediately criticize the animal for promoting government propaganda.

Well, big Bird's not actually an animal, he's a Would you call

Big Bird a muppet? What do you? Big Bird is not part of

the Muppets. But it's the same, It's it's still Jim Henson right,

because it's the Sesame Street and the Muppet Show. It's all. I don't

know. I might be wrong about that. Ted Cruz retweeted Big Bird's tweet

and said, government propaganda for your five year old Yes, yes, Actually,

there is a history of conservatives getting angry when the government encourages people to

be healthy. I remember, and I'm not. If you think I'm making

this up, I promise you I'm not. Look it up. Google it.

You'll find it immediately. During the Obama administration, and part of why

I got to see this up close was, you know, for five years,

I was a co host on a conservative talk show called Rock Paper hand

Grenades, hosted by my good friend Gary s Hopper. God rest his soul.

He passed away within the last year of cancer and Gary love Gary,

great great friend. Even though we were very different politically obviously, but sitting

on that show and trying to be sort of the fly in the ointment because

I was constantly surrounded by a conservatives on that show, and I'm obviously not

a conservative, but I remember I was on that show during the Obama administration.

When Michelle Obama rolled out her campaign for encouraging healthy eating. Oh my

god, conservatives were furious, saying, Michelle Obama wants to control what your

children eat, thus proving that she's a communist and a terrorist and just the

worst person ever except for her husband. And oh conservatives were so angry.

There's this thing to encourage kid Steed healthy. That's all it was. But

John Hopwood is in the Facebook live chat and says, I thought Barbie was

a trojan horse for the transagenda. Big Bird is a fictitious character. Officially,

yes, yes to both. Scott Robinson says, don't forget about Fraggle

Rock, Matt, that's also Jim Henson. Oh yeah, I like Fragile

Rock when I was a kid. That was on HBO. That wasn't on

regular TV. It was on HBO so they could get a little risk and

it was okay because it was on a pay channel. I'm kidding, Fraggle

Rock was never risk. That's a joke. Let's see. In two thousand

and two, Cruise gained word that another Sesame Street star and literal puppet,

Elmo, had received the vaccine as well. It didn't take long for Cruise

to blast the childlike fictional character for providing zero scientific data on COVID vaccines and

the commercial. Here's what Cruz tweeted, quote, thanks at Sesame Street for

saying parents are allowed to have questions. You then have at Elmo aggressively advocate

for vaccinating children under five, but you cite zero scientific evidence for this.

Learn more? Okay. In April twenty twenty two, Crews joined fellow Republican

Ron de Santis in bashing Disney for speaking out against Florida's Don't Say Gay bill.

He don't say gay d quotes so no one gets upset. He warned

parents that soon the entertainment Giant would portray micke him out. Okay, I'm

not even gonna read that. That's actually never mind. Okay, I don't

want to ruin anyone's childhood with what they talked about. Yeah, it goes

on. Wow, Ted Cruz really as a fixation with this stuff. I'm

skipping some of this. In recent weeks, Cruise has expanded his outrage whe

allows to include inanimate objects. He took to the Senate floor earlier this month

with the dire warning that you're air fryar could be spying on you. Cruce

proposed a bill that would mandate the companies disclose if everyday household products and appliances

have cameras and microphones installed. Cruce said, quote, I don't think the

American people want their air fryer spine on them, and at a minimum,

they have a right to know if their air fryar is spine on them.

Unquote. Okay, I'm gonna tell you all something, and Jenny knows this.

I'm gonna share something. I'm suddenly a little bit alarmed and this had

never occurred to me before. We have an air fryar in our home.

We have someone who lives with us, Jenny and I do. His name

is DJ Reckless, also known as Christian Lacosse, but professionally is known as

DJ Reckless. He did purchase an air fryar, and he does use the

air fryar. So, Jenny, if you don't mind if at some point

before I get home home, could you please check the air fryer that Christian

brought and make sure there is not a camera in it. I am deeply

concerned about the air fryar. Look, sometimes crazy people turn out to be

right. I'm trying to think of of an example, and nothing leaps to

mind. But I'm sure there's an example of somebody saying something so insane and

irrational, irrational almost at irrationale. I think that's how you say it in

French irrationale, and then it turns out to be true. But Jenny says,

I'm on it, thank you, thank you. I don't want to

be spied on by appliances. What if the senator, I mean, look,

they keep reelecting him in Texas, so he must know something. He

must know something about appliances at least. Oh you know how they're folks of

his ilk are very upset about this. Information about gas stoves aren't necessarily good

for you, And so of course Lea jumped to, oh, they're coming

for our gas stoves. What if it turns out now, wouldn't this put

them in an ideological bind? What if it turned out that gas stoves are

spying on us? How do they then explain their love of gas stoves?

All right, so that's Ted Cruise. I have wondered, and I can't

be the only one who wonders. Is it possible? Is it at all

possible that Ted Cruise that this whole thing is just performance art, and that

he actually knows exactly what he's doing and he's not really doesn't really have these

fixations on inanimate objects and fictional muppet characters and so forth. Is it possible?

We all have to wonder, don't we? Because I have to tell

you if one day, if the day ever comes where Ted Cruise finally just

comes out and says, hey, I fooled you all, and I've been

playing the Sack character, I would actually really respe back to that if it

was if it turned out to be some sort of Andy Kaufman thing where he's

not really this guy, Because there's been moments that I've wondered. I don't

know why, I don't know what it is, but sometimes I mean,

look, they're all performative to some degree. Right, I forget who it

was. It might have been Eric's swallow. Well, somebody said they were

sitting on a committee with Ted Cruz. A Democrat said they were sitting on

a committee with Ted Cruise, and they were they were new. They were

either new on the committee or they had recently been elected, so they were

new there. And during a bathroom break, you know, they had gotten

to some sort of a heated discussion or discourse with Ted Cruz. During a

bathroom break, this guy goes to the men's room and Ted Cruise walks in.

He also had to use a press room, obviously, and after Ted

Cruise washes well, they both washed their hands and Ted Cruise actually reaches over

and gives them a fist bump, gives this Democrat a fist bump and says,

you're doing a great job out there, and it's like it's it's things

like that that make you go, well, is this is all of this

even more performative than perhaps we even think it is. DJ Steve says,

I'll be checking my electric stove for cameras and Mike's let me know, because

let me tell you something, if it turns out that your electric stove is

spying on you, you will want to Now, obviously, I would suggest

you notify our congressional delegation here in New Hampshire. You know, perhaps reach

out to Senator Hassant, but I would suggest actually going directly to Ted Cruz.

I don't mean literally travel to Texas, but I would contact Ted Cruz

and let him know. And next thing you know, you might be testifying

in front of the Senator on a committee about electric stoves and microphones and you'll

be famous. It'll be great. John Hopwood posted this from Wikipedia the Hard

to Believe Department. Crews then attended Harvard Law School, where he was a

John m Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. He was a primary editor of

the Harvard Law Review. And it goes on and on. It's very very

impressive. See it's things like that that make me wonder is he really I

mean, this absurdism that he projects, is it genuine or is he playing

some sort of a character or is it a mix of both. I mean,

I do think there are people who get into politics and probably other forms

of quote unquote entertainment who maybe they sort of they start out as themselves,

but then they start to play up certain aspects of their personalities and then eventually

they become the person who they've been pretending to be, and you know it's

who knows, who knows? All right, we will move on from that

because I do want to get to I have something here. Um. This

is regarding the hearing the other day with these IRS whistleblowers. I do want

to get to this. This is from the Hill dot com. Five takeaways

from Hunter Biden IRS whistleblower hearing. Before we do that, let me give

the studio line again six zo three two five six seven six zo three two

five six z seven. You might have thoughts on this. You might have

thoughts on microphones in appliances, or you might have thoughts on big bird,

whatever you would like to interject with. But so this is from this is

from the other day. We haven't had a chance to get to it yet

this week, but Republicans and Democrats sparred over the significance of the tax crimes

investigation into Hunter Biden at a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday that featured two IRS

whistleblowers, with the GOP arguing the president's son was spared from true justice,

while Democrats argued he was thorough investigated by a team formed under the former president

and led by a Trump appointed attorney and that that's an important detail. There's

there's a lot of things to remember here, that this was a this prosecutor

was appointed under Trump. And let me just say too, before we get

deeper into this. You know, I'm I'm all for I mean, you

might think that I would say that. Some of you might expect me to

say that, you know, I don't think hearings like this should go on

and whatnot. No, I would never say that. I'm actually a big

fan of oversight and a big fan of transparency and investigating, getting things out

in the open and so forth. Now, unfortunately, these types of things

very often wind up not being particularly productive because what these really are and both

both Democrats and Republicans do this, what these hearings really are about, if

we're being honest about it, And again this applies to both the left and

the right. These public hearings usually not much actual information has learned from them,

not much comes out, but it is an opportunity for everyone participating in

the hearing, even the witnesses really, but especially those senators or those congressmen

depending on which House of Congresses conducting the hearing, for them to raise their

profiles, for them to get some national TV time on the news channels,

to be talked about in media. It's an opportunity for them to boost their

public images because they all get to and some of them really And again that's

why it's probably good that I talked about Ted Cruz and my speculation about how

performative what he does and says is, because it kind of leads in it's

a good segue into this subject because very often that's what these hearings are.

The hearings aren't about getting to the truth necessarily necessarily. Now that doesn't mean

that we don't get that some of that from these hearings. So I'm not

saying the hearings are useless and are only performative. But what I am saying

is there's a high degree of performance are to these hearings, to these kinds

of hearings, whether it's this, whether it's you know, the Democrats impeaching

Trump. Not that I don't have my own issues with Trump, as you

know, if you're a regular listener, I don't like Trump at all.

But when you see those you know, or the January sixth Committee, which

I supported. By the way I supported the January sixth Committee, I thought

that was a worthwhile thing to do. But let's be honest, everyone's sitting

well, with the exception of maybe Liz Shaney and Adam Kinsinger. But but

I think they did themselves more harm than good in a sense. But you

know, when you've got it's a chance to get TV time, right,

it's a chance to raise your public profile, which will help you in your

political career down the road. Or if nothing else, you know, a

clip of you ranting about something might work well in a campaign ad when you're

running for reelection. So but anyway, So I just I kind of view

this from a little bit of a cynical mind. But that doesn't mean it's

without value. Again, no matter who it is, no matter what party.

I'm a big fan of oversight. I'm a big fan of getting things

out in the open. And if you think you have something on somebody that

the public needs to know about, let's hear it. Let's let's get it

out there and listen. People can make their own judgments. Now, Unfortunately,

people will tend to make their own judgments most people through a strictly partisan

lens, you know, So if you're a Republican, you're probably going to

look at these hearings and say, wow, look they really they proved that

Hunter Biden is Satan and should be putting price and for the rest of his

life. And if you're again I'm being hyperbolic, I know, but if

you're a Democrat, you're likely to look at this and say, this was

a colossal waste of time and these whistle blowers are full of it, and

and that's it, and this is all a pointless and useless Again, that

just tends to be. You know, people pick their sides and they go

into looking at something like this through a purely partisan lens. But again,

I would like to look at this, you know, take a step back

and look at it from a broader view. I am a fan of oversight,

congressional oversight, but I also do look at it through a bit of

a jaundice, with a bit of a jaundiced eye, shall we say,

although I've never actually had jaundice. Oh. Also from media, I John

posted this in the chat room. Cruise was I'm sorry, not from media,

I from Wikipedia. Rather, Cruz was introduced to smoking cannabis after joining

the Senate by fellow Republican Lindsey Graham. Those criminals, okay, new force

of the Sparks says, we say good speech hashtag Matt, thank you.

I'm not actually making a speech. If it comes across that way, I

don't mean it to, but I do rant and pontificate. Okay, says

here Irs Special Agent Joseph Ziegler and his supervisor Gary Shapleigh or Shapley probably Shapley,

who investigated Biden, expressed frustration Hunter Biden. I think right is what

they were investigating specifically. Let me back up here. Okay, yeah,

Hunter Biden expressed frustration over how US Attorney for Delaware, David Weiss, and

other prosecutors handled the investigation, alleging authorities slow walked the case and showed preferredial

treatment to the President's son. That House Ways and Means Committee had previously interviewed

the two whistleblowers privately, and we released transcripts just days after prosecutors reached an

agreement for Biden to plead guilty to two charges of willful failure to pay taxes.

The nearly six hour hearing relayed little information not already covered in the nearly

four hundred pages of testimony from the two men, with the whistleblowers saying they

could not answer questions outside the scope of that testimony, but the hearing was

revelatory about how both sides of the aisle could use that testimony. Here are

five takeaways from the hearing. Okay, and we'll try to We might hit

that break a few minutes late. I do want to get through this,

but okay, first one again, this is from the Hill dot Com.

Democrats say testimony shows common disagreements. Democrats largely sought to cast the whistleblowers complaints

as common disagreements between investigative staff and prosecutors, who often have reservations about scoring

convictions on evidence discovered by staff. Ranking member Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland,

said the testimony showed a quote traditional tug of war unquote between investigators and

prosecutors, using as an example the recent indictment of former President Trump on charges

of misshandling classified documents, where prosecutors focused on a small number of alleged crimes,

even though investigators said they found more violations. Shapley, though, pushed

back on that assertion, saying that assistant US attorneys and attorneys in the Department

of Justice Tax Division had agreed with a number of recommended charges, but not

all were ultimately pursued. So it sounds like Raskin in other words, what

Raskin is saying. The way I understand that is, you know, there

are disagreements within law enforcement about do we investigate this, is this worth going

after, should we pursue this charge or not, should we emphasize this or

be more focused on that in terms of this investigation and so forth. So

he's arguing that this is just a natural manifestation of that. But then Shapley

pushed back on that and said, no, that's not what it is.

Representative Dan Goldman, a Democrat of New York, similarly argued that investigators and

attorneys often view a case differently. Goldman said, referencing his work as a

prosecutor, quote, I never met an agent who didn't want to charge every

possible case. But what I noticed in five hours of testimony today is that

neither of you has ever mentioned a portion of the case. It may not

be so strong, or maybe suspect or may have a defense, And that's

because that's what the prosecutor has to think about before charging a case. Unte

Ziegler testified that Weiss offered a rationale for not pursuing charges for some tax years

where the testimony about Biden's personal life at that time could sour the changes.

I think that's a typo. It's supposed to be chances of conviction. Democrats

also argued that, contrary to the whistleblower's assertion, it sounded like Biden's tax

history was subject to a rigorous review by investigators and prosecutors. Quote. It

sounds like Hunter biden saxes were subject to a great deal of scrutiny and rigorous

review by a large team of expert investigators who had experience work in complex cases.

The time, personnel, and all the resources devoted to this investigation make

it abundantly clear that this investigation was taken seriously by both the IRS and DJ

unquote, said Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat of DC. She also said,

quote, while our witnesses here today may disagree with US attorney's decisions,

it is undeniable that Hunter Biden was subject to a thorough and rigorous investigation.

Unquote. Okay, takeaway number two Jordan accuses wife of changing his story.

Now, by the way, Jim Jordan is he's an example of someone who

really uses these opportunities to perform, and if seeing his work over the years,

he never misses an opportunity. He's very consistent in that. Okay,

it says here. Republican's recent interests in impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland centers on

a key detail from Shapley's testimony. Weiss, he said, sought and was

denied special counsel status as he attempted to bring charges outside Delaware, with US

attorneys and other jurisdictions allegedly being a post and bringing charges on their turf.

Weiss has said he never asked for special counsel status and says he was assured

he would be granted special attorney status through another statute if he wished to file

charges outside his district. Weiss has outlined in both a June seventh letter and

a July ten letter that he has quote never been denied the authority to bring

charges in any jurisdiction unquote, but asked. Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, Republican

of Ohio, who also sits on the Oversight Committee, mischaracterized the letters,

arguing that Weiss changed his story. Jordan said, of the letters, quote,

what happened in between those two events, your testimony went public. He

goes, Oh my goodness, I got to change my story because now the

truth is coming out. Unte Weiss's second letter includes more detail about his zealings

with DJ leaders, saying he was assured he would be granted special attorney status

if needed well in advance of the meeting, where Shapley asserts he said otherwise,

Raskin said, quote, when you look at the letters he actually sent,

he didn't change as soon at all. He said the exact same thing

every time, and he even expanded the answer to be perfectly clear. Unquote.

Yeah, I mean clarifying his story and giving more detail and so forth

is not the same thing. It's changing his story. Whether Weiss had interest

in either of the two statuses is largely of interest to Republicans as a way

to forward a potential impeachment inquiry into Garland, as he assured lawmaker that Weiss

had quote full authority to bring cases in other districts if he needs to do

that. Unquote. John HOPWOODA says in the chat room, why would anyone

trust the US attorney appointed by the Trump administration. There's also John's also commenting

on something else here that we might get to in the second hour. Shapley

also undercut another key factor fueling the GOP's interest in impeaching Garland, saying he

has no evidence a Garland intentionally misled Congress about Weiss's authority. Shapley said,

quote, let me be clear, although these facts contradict the Attorney general testimony

and raise serious questions for you to investigate. I have never claimed evidence that

Attorney General Garland knowingly lied to Congress. This for others to investigate and determine

whether those letters contain knowingly false statements. I don't claim to be privy to

United States Attorney Weiss's or Attorney General Garland's communications unquote. Democrats suggested that the

whistleblowers may have been confused over two statuses. Prosecutors can attain appointment as a

special counsel versus the special attorney's status. Weiss was assured he could receive if

desired. Ziegler and his testimony asserted he still believes a more independent status is

needed by those hand handling the investigation. Okay, third takeaway, Here we

go, Here we go, Yes, Marjorie Taylor Green, she never fails

to disappoint Now she is someone, by the way, just to be clear,

and I'm curious to know what you all think, but I don't believe

that she is in any way playing a character. I do not have any

theory at all similar about her, at all, similar to the theory that

I have about possibly Ted Cruz. I think Marjorie Taylor Green is as real

as it gets. And that's enough said about that specifically. But let's look

at her part in the hearing, because again she did not disappoint Green overshadows

hearing with parental discretion advised moment. I might even have to self edit some

of this as I read this on the air. Perhaps the biggest surprise in

the hearing came when Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, Republican of Georgia, brought sexually

explicit but censored posters of Hunter Biden to make her point. By the way,

if if you didn't know anything about these hearings, an I or anyone

said to you, explain to you what happened with this part and said and

explained it about the sexually explicit Hunter Biden posters, someone brought these to the

hearing. If I just told you that I left all the names out of

it except Hunter Biden, of course. And I said, guess who was

responsible for this particular stunt. You would immediately know it was MTG. You

would know, you would know, You wouldn't have to think about it.

You wouldn't hesitate for a second. You would say Marjorie Taylor Green, and

I would say, yes, look who won the pony? An expression I've

never used in my life until now, but I like it. I might

use it again. I might use it. I might use it again tomorrow.

At some point. I won't use it again today, though I will.

I have a very strict rule. If I introduce an expression that I've

never used before into my own vernacular, I never use it twice in the

same day. You have to wade into these things. A year from now,

I might be saying, at every other sentence, we have a call,

and there's nobody there. We don't have a call. Okay. So

Green said this quote before we begin, I would like to let the committee

and everyone watching at home that parental discretion is advised. Unquote. Green's questioning

included her holding up small posters featuring graphic sexual photos from the laptop hard drive

that purportedly belonged to Hunter Biden sensored with black boxes. That's good, that's

the tasteful way to do it. The faces of others involved in the sex

acts were censored with black boxes, but Biden's face is visible in the photos.

Her focus on the explicit and salacious history of Biden, who has been

public about his struggles with addiction, stands in contrast to Oversight Committee Chairman James

Comer, Republican of Kentucky. James Comer's past indications that the focus of the

committee's investigation of the Biden families business dealings would not focus on his personal actions.

By the way, side, note where did these pictures come from?

Is it possible that Hunter Biden at that time had an appliance that was spying

on him and taking these scandalous pictures. Representative Aliandrea Ocasio Cortez, Democrat of

New York said Green's moved to show quote pornographic images marked a new low for

the committee. Frankly, I don't care who you are in this country.

No one deserves that. It is abuse. It is abusive. Unquote.

Um hey, listen, I will say this. I mean, I agree

with aoc but she did make sure to censor everything with those black boxes.

I mean, you know, at least there was an effort there, you

know, some standard of good taste. All right, this is the fourth

takeaway. We'll get through these last two and then we'll get to break.

Democrats argue GOP distracts from injustice for black and brown individuals. Several black lawmakers

directly challenged Republican claims that the Biden plea deal shows a two tiered system of

justice, saying the argument minimizes the experiences of black and brown Americans system proportionally

impacted by the justice system. Representative Summer Lee, a Democrat of Pennsylvania,

said, quote, I'd like to address the way my Republican colleagues are attempting

to co opt the phrase two tiered justice system to make it sound like Trump

and his cronies are somehow the victims here. The reality is that the term

two tiered system of justice is meant to refer to the very real system that

exists in the United States and which affects black and brown folks, not powerful

former presidents and their political allies. Unquote. By the way, that is

similar to something I've said, you know, the first time I heard Mike

Pensil was the first one I ever heard say, you know, Americans are

tired of a two tiered criminal justice system. They did co opt that phrase.

You see that a lot in politics. One side will co opt something

from the other. The only thing is, when I've talked about that,

I haven't framed it the same way that she does Representative Summer Lee of Pennsylvania.

I've framed it as I guess more broadly. You know, yes,

you have two tiers in that you have one tier for the wealthy, the

powerful, the elite, etc. And then another tier for everyone else,

the middle class and the poor. You could even argue we have a three

tiered criminal justice system, one for the wealthy, the powerful, the elite,

one for the middle class, and one for the for the poor,

because the poor do even worse in the criminal justice system than the middle class.

If you're wealthy, you can hire you can afford to hire great legal

counsel, and the system tends to protect itself anyway. The elite protect the

elite, et cetera. It's very much a closed circuit if you will no

pun intended. If you're in the middle class, you can hopefully afford to

hire a lawyer, but you won't get the same level of representation that you

would if you were wealthy. And if you're poor, you're going to get

stuck with a public defender in any sort of criminal entanglement. No offense to

public defenders, but they tend to be overworked and underpaid. And by the

way, that I believe is intentional. Again, the system is designed so

that the poor will get the least possible defense because they're simply not valued as

much within the system. Thus system more broadly, not just the criminal justice

system, but speaking in broader terms, the system. So that's why you

know when you hear well wire public defenders so overworked and underpaid, Well,

they're overworked because they don't hire additional public defenders to help, and they're underpaid

so that they either aren't as into their jobs or they don't stick around long.

That's all in my view. I can't prove it. It's a theory,

it's a good theory. I think I'm right. That's all intentional.

That's it may not be entirely conscious, but it is intentional in my view.

Let's see Representative Shan Tell Brown, Democrat of Ohio listed off a number

of statistics on disparities in the criminal justice system, including within irs, asserting

that black taxpayers are audited at least three times more often than other taxpayers.

Representative Maxwell Frost, Democrat of Florida, also said Republicans were using the term

improperly. He said before listening off a number of recent and historical examples.

Quote Republicans and Trump complain about a two tier justice system, co opting the

language of the decades long civil rights movement for blacks, for Black Lives and

Black freedom, a movement that they actually are actively looking to eliminate. It's

black, brown, and poor people versus everyone else. And I won't accept

when Republican politicians look to appropriate the language of the movement for black lives and

civil rights to fit a political agenda to defend Donald Trump. Unquote, I

do all five. I thought that was the fourth one. No, I

guess there were five. I might have I did. I did get all

five of them. I might have subconsciously forgotten about the Marjorie Taylor Green one.

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advertising too, but I'm gonna wait on that. But um let's see.

Oh, John Hopwood just uh shared something in the Facebook live chat that will

look at here. Yeah, from the spoon dot Tech, Gormia is putting

a camera on a connected air friar. Uh huh wait a minute. I

think this is the brand that DJ Reckless brought home the International Home and House

where show starts this weekend. We know we're going to see lots of announcements

around the smart kitchen. Gormia is one of the first announcing this week.

They've added a camera to the brand's line of connected air fryers. Oh my

god, Ted Cruise was right. This is very distressing. I hope that

that's now. The good news is our kitchen at home is not smart.

It's not a smart kitchen. It's uh, I'm kidding, no, it's

I don't know. I guess a smart kitchen would be what what's a smart

kitchen? Like when you go into the kitchen and you just uh say stuff

and uh, you know, like you've got the replicator from Star Trek,

it just instantly makes your food. That would be a smart kitchen, I

hope. Wouldn't it be great if we get to a point where AI becomes

advanced enough where you can just tell your smart kitchen to make you lasagna or

something and then it appears. That'd be great. But one thing about that,

when your food appears, I would want there to be some sort of

sound effect like on Star Trek and the replicator would create food. There would

be a It's not like the food would just appear like magic or just get

beamed there. There would be some sort of a sound you would hear,

and I would want that too. I would be deeply disappointed. I would

actually be suspicious. If the food just appeared and there was no sound effect

with it, I would think this was probably like the impossible burger, where

it's not real meat, and I'd be very wary of consuming that. Oh

Hue the geckos in the Facebook live chat and said, would ai lasagna be

as good as Moms? I don't know. Now I have a solution for

that though. What you would do is you would say to Ai, you

would tell the chat GPT or whatever, or the cook GPT, however that

works. You would say, make lasagna like mom. But then the chat

GPT would be like, who's Mom? And then you know, I would

say my mom, and then the chat GPT, if it has a sense

of humor, might say something insulting to me about my mom, and then

and then I would lose my appetite, So it could be very self defeating.

Jenny says, our kitchen is circa nineteen fifties. Yes, that is

true, so our kitchen is definitely not a smart kitchen. Mike from Queen

City Cabinetry, Oh, he should know something about this. Queen City Cabinetry

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to life. Wait a minute, Oh my god. Now this never occurred

to me before, it says in the ad. It says it right there

in the ad. This is taking on a whole new meaning as we're talking

about smart appliances. Bring your kitchen to life, Bring your kitchen to life.

That's what Peter White says in the ad for Queen City Cabinetry, Bring

your kitchen to life, Bring your kitchen to life. I'm starting to wonder,

what are you putting into these kitchens, Mike. Are you putting some

sort of artificial intelligence spy camera type things that are ultimately going to spy on

us and poison us with our food or something and then take over the planet.

I'm just asking. I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm just asking.

And Mike even said in the chat room, you're starting to connect the

dots. Matt. I hope that doesn't mean you're going to have to kill

me. I always thought this was a little ominous. Bring your kitchen to

life, Bring your kitchen to life. And the way Peter says that it

sounds so nice, bring your kitchen to life, It almost sounds too nice.

Is Peter in on this with you? What's going on around here?

Are there smart things in this room? I don't know about am I being

spied on? Am I on camera right now? And don't even wait a

second, what's that? I never noticed that there before? Wow, this

is a frightening day. John Hopwood says a smart kitchen should be woke to

eliminate culinary racism. Uh. And then there's actually a link. Wait,

what is this a joke? Let's see dw dot com culinary ignorance can breed

racism. Um, well, this might explain. Now didn't run to santis?

Uh? When he went to uh college, didn't he take some culinary

courses? This might explain his uh antipathy toward racism. He's uh all right,

Wow, yeah, this gets into a whole thing. Indian food is

not even Indian. I don't my stomach. I can't handle all this.

I mean, I have my you know, I'm a left leaning guy,

but I have my Uh, I have my limits with wokeness. If it's

going to begin to affect my palette in some way, I certainly don't want

to think I'm eating racist food. That would be quite terrible. Uh.

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thank you. John Hopwood says thy are investigating whom ter Biden. He wrote

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Nahoon Turbiden. But they are claiming that Barisma paid Hunter five million dollars,

which is legal, and Joe Biden his father five million, which is a

bribe. But this is unverified. The bribe comes from a human source unverified.

That is correct, The source is unverified. Hughie the Gecko says,

speaking of food for thought, did you hear the new Jason Aldean's song.

Actually, we're gonna get to that. I don't know if you were listening

earlier, but I have not heard it yet, but I have it qued

up. I'm gonna play it on the show so I can give you my

on the spot in the moment, unvarnished thoughts and get all of yours as

well. Because it is controversial. Apparently, let's see new Force of the

Sparks as we say. He that is consequences. Trump is up to something

we said, and we say we ain't gonna like it. Dave Wally says,

thanks again. Matt Cornton unleash, Yes, said a song I played

that was like a war from Satellite Union. Satellite Union. Sorry, Dave's

great band from the Great City of Chicago. A New Force of the spark

says, we are have a spaghetti for dinner. We said, check it

for check those pots and pans for cameras. Mike says. From Queen City

Cabinetry, they are coming out with countertops that repair themselves if you scratch them.

Okay, that is frightening. How could something, How could something repair

itself unless it's alive and self aware? Bring your ene Yes, you would

have to bring your kitchen to life, quite literally if in order for it

to repair itself. In my opinion, I'm very this is skynet. This

is terminator stuff. Mike says nanotechnology. Yeah, well don't. I don't

even know what that is, but it sounds a futuristic and sci fi.

I think nanotechnology, you know it. Maybe it repairs itself, but maybe

it also kills us all. I don't know what's going on here. See,

this is why I never learned to cook, because obviously, not only

would I burn myself because I'm very much a klutz and I'm exactly the type

of person who would accidentally dump a pot of boiling water on myself and scald

myself and have a third degree burns, but also nanotechnology this is above my

pay grade. I'm sorry. Oh, dj C says, hey, Matt,

I think there's an S bomb in the lyrics somewhere. Heads up,

really, but it's a country song. They're not supposed to swear. I'll

have to see if I've a radio at it. Miriam Bannish says, my

husband is a nanotech scientist. Really, Miriam, so your husband knows something

about this, does he? M? I have some questions for him.

I'm very concerned. New Force of the Sparks says, we say, thanks

Matthew Saviano for the emoji. He were the gecko, of course. M

h. Melanie says, Ted Cruz was right. Well, I for one

am happy people in Hell will be able to drink ice water. That's like

the Hell freeze is over. That's like a whole new spin on it.

I like that. I like that. New Force of the Sparks says,

we love the George Foreman grill. Ah, Yes, I remember those ads,

seeing those commercials on late night television for the George Foreman grill. Didn't

he Nay doesn't have like five kids and they're all named George, which I

think is strange. But I don't have any children. What do I know?

New Force says, we say, that is our favorite grill of the

George Foreman grill. Are you New Force? Are you a social media influencer

working for the George Foreman grill? Okay, let me look at this.

So DJ Steve said, there's an S bomb in the Jason Aldean song.

So let me see if there's a radio at it. There probably is,

you would think there would be. If not, if I can't find one,

oh, radio version, there we go. That'll work. I was

gonna say, if I can't find one, we'll have to save this for

tomorrow. But all right, so the name of the song is try that

in a small town. I have the radio version here, so there shouldn't

be any bad words. And again, this is stirred up quite a bit

of controversy, so I'm going to uh. I think what I'll do is

I'll play the whole thing all the way through. It's only three minutes.

It's a short song in radio. You know you should be under three and

a half minutes anyway for a single. So three minutes is short. And

by the way, a lot of the New Country tends to be short,

short songs. I think I'll play it once all the way through, and

then if I think it merits it, I might play it a second time,

but stop at certain points and give my thoughts. Now, again,

the song is stirring some controversy and people are saying it's racist. I have

not heard it yet. If you're just joining us. I did talk about

this a little bit in the first hour. I have intentionally avoided listening to

the song because I wanted to play it live on the air, and I

wanted to hear it for the first time while live on the air, so

then I can give my thoughts and get your thoughts and so forth. So

here we go. This is the new Jason Aldean single that's stirring up a

lot of controversy. This is called try that in a small town. I

apologize in advanced by the way, to those watching on Facebook. If Facebook

might knock us off for me playing this song, because obviously it's someone very

famous. But if they do, I will reconnect, But hopefully not.

Lately they haven't been interrupting the live feed Facebook. They just get I get

a notice later saying we muted this part of the video. All right,

here we go. Here it is you Better Money buddy, whistle one.

All right. I should clarify, I don't know why that's at the beginning.

Uh, this is not whistle one hundred. This is WMH ninety five

point three. I don't know why. I don't know why that's at the

beginning. If that's part of the song, or somebody just uploaded it that

way. That's weird, okay, whatever fu somebody on the sidewalk car jacking

the old lady at a red lad who got on the on the liquor store.

You think it's cool. Let the fool cuts out, cups, spend

in this face, snow vone the flag and light it up. I think

it's a try that is a small sound. See five and make it down

round here. We take care of own cross that land. It won't take

LOLd for you to find that I reckon when you don't try that in a

SMA town. Got a gun that my granddad diad me. Do you see

one day? That goes around all that my flying to see the good look

and try that in a small town. See it fre make it down the

room round here. We take care of you Cross. It won't take blold

for you to find that I reckon when you don't try that. His home

town goods based up right. If you try that sounds wrong town taking.

I read the und to Whistle one hundred, the new songs, the fresh

sound. I don't know why that's there again. This is not Whistle one

hundred, This is WM ninety five point three FM. UM Dave Wally says,

so basically, this is the country music version of f around and find

Out. Not a fan. I do like the guitar player, UM,

I like the production. I'm an audio production nerd, and I do like

the production. I like the way a lot of new country sounds sonically.

I'm not a big country fan. But um, the guitars. You know,

at a certain point, UM, and I've talked about this on the

show. UM, a lot of a lot of heavy rock, the guitars

started sounding smaller and smaller over time, and yet for some reason this new

country, especially in the last ten years, the guitars actually got louder and

heavier. It's it's interesting. UM okay maas Essement and UM. Knowing my

audience as I do, I might get some argument on this, which is

good. I welcome that. Actually, UM, I do not think the

song is racist. UM. However, I UM and and I will go

further and say, if if you think that song is racist, I think

you're you're really reaching Um. However, I will say this. I can

understand h I can see where people how should I say this? It's one

of those things where I don't think it's racist, But I think that people

who are racist probably really like that song. Does that make sense? In

other words, I don't think the song is racist, but you could ease

a you could easily project certain things on it based on the imagery of the

song, at least the imagery of the song that has evoked in my mind.

You could project things on it from either direction. In other words,

if you are racist, you can hear that song and probably think, yeah,

good old boys, Yeah that's right, and h and and all that

goes with that. But if you but also from the other direction, you

could be, you know, sensitive to racism, and for the same reason

you could you could you could say, well, there's racist imagery in that

song. I don't think the imagery in that song, at least what comes

to mind when I listen to those lyrics is racist. But again I can

see how someone would project that onto it. So I think it's a matter

of art is art, and it's what you project onto it. I have

a little bit more to say about that, but we do have a call.

Hi. Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Who is this, Hey,

Matt, This is Dylan Reynolds. Dylan Reynolds. How are you, my

friend. I'm doing good, man. I just I was listening and I

heard where you were talking about how you know, a lot of older recording,

especially hard rock, you know, the guitars always sound bigger. And

the little bit of knowledge I have on that is the early days of mixing.

You know, when you had manual eqs, cassette tapes, vinyls,

etc. You were able to boost the bass so and the actual studio mixes

bass is very very hidden, which guitar sound big, huge beef and with

the advent of the modern digital age of chords are able to get proper eques

and unfortunately that kind of cuts it from a guitar. Yeah, that makes

sense, you know, I haven't thought of it that way, but that

does make sense obviously too. On older recordings you generally have a warmer production

and way with analog then you do digital. But yeah, I feel like,

um, I feel like a lot of modern country though for some reason,

you know, a lot of it sounds the guitarist to me, sound

like what rock used to sound like. It's it's um very interesting and a

lot of it. Actually I don't quite agree with this, but somebody on

social media said one day, and I thought it was an interesting observation.

I don't agree entirely, but somebody said that hair metal grew up and became

new country, and I do see the I do see the influence of sort

of eighties bands, eighties rock bands in the country that we have now country

music, Yeah, a lot of it. I think both kind of the

styling, you know, a lot of countries is very to be obscured,

and you can sometimes really tell, you can sometimes it's very very hidden,

but it's very blues oriented, which is exactly like what eighties hard you know,

bands like Doc and Rats, you know, all these big guitar kind

of sounding bands are all blues oriented. So especially the modern aid of country

music that you hear now, it's a lot more poppy kind of sounding,

and it takes a lot of that blues referencing. So you could easily take

virtually any etern day country song reoring a little bit and you have what would

have been considered an eighties rock kids. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly,

absolutely, Dylan. I think we have you, We have you scheduled

to be on the show soon, don't we um. I reached out to

Jenny but you know, I don't. I live in North Carolina, so

I don't know if I could get in, but I think she said mentioned

something of her skype. But I would love to. Uh. Oh yeah,

I would absolutely love to be on the show and hang out with you

guys. Yeah, yeah, no, that that that's what I meant.

I think. Uh, I think I'm looking at my calendar here. I'm

trying to figure out. I thought you guys had settled on a date already

for you to skype in. But maybe maybe I'm wrong. We we had

tried to, but those were days that I was working and I just couldn't

you know, I couldn't get around around that time. But I'm going to

reach back out to Jenius see if I can get up on that. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, Well I'm working on a lot of really cool stuff,

so if you're really cool to talk about it, yeah, definitely,

definitely. I look forward to that. Absolutely. Well you should. Well

yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead, buddy. Oh, I was just

gonna say you should give a plug anything you want to plug as far as

your music website or social media. Yeah, you can find me on Apple

Music. My my name is Dylan Reynolds. V I L l O N

or E y n O LVS and I'll leave a comment that way y'all can

see how it's spelled. I do a lot of hard rock eighties stuff.

I'm in a Judice Priest tribute band called Unleased because I love singing eighty stuff

and Rob Halford is one of my biggest vocal um influences and I love doing

stuff like that. So yeah, I'm also working on a soundtrack for a

movie. A good local friend of mine who's a author, he said,

hey, man, do you want to write some music to this movie I'm

working on? And I said absolutely, So you know I'll be able to

do like a press release on that. But yeah, I'm talking about it

too much. Yeah, yeah, I understood. I understood. All right,

my friend wall I appreciate the call, Thank you so much and look

forward to talking to you again soon. Absolutely, Matt, you have n

stay buddy, all right, Dylan YouTube bye bye, all right, the

great Dylan Reynolds. Yes, very talented musician. Uh oh. Miriam Bannish

says, Hi, Dylan Reynolds, I have lots of family in North Carolina.

Well, you know, we have a lot of friends in North Carolina

in rhat room from Greensboro, North Carolina. By the way, Greensboro,

North Carolina, where the home of if you're just joining us, Uh,

someone named June Rash I just passed away and uh Greensboro, North Carolina.

Apparently she's a lovely woman. Although boy, can you imagine having Rash for

a last name? That would be a pretty awful Oh yeah, Jenny says,

please do send me some dates. Um so uh oh, actually we

have another call. Ron is calling us back. Hey, Ron, Ron,

are you there? Yeah, I'm not. Um hey sincet in on

you alatriendship on the subject of music, and I grew up on all kinds

of music, old country, new country and all of that. And one

of my one musical instruments it's outstanding to me is, for instance, like

Vince Gill, he plays a an electric katar, you know the ones that

you don't carry it or you don't wear it. It's just you know,

strapped over your legs or on a stand. I love the sound of an

electric qatar. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. And one more thing before I

let you go, I was YouTube in yesterday and I happened to I've seen

Russia a couple of times and never paid too much attention to it. I

was younger, and yesterday I happened to be listening to the genius of Russia's

drummer Holy Moley Cow. And if you've ever seen his drum set, it's

three hundred and sixty degrees of drums. I mean, he must have had

twenty five rooms. So I gave I gave Rush a real second chance.

And now all of a sudden, I'm thinking to myself, Wow, I

do like Rush. All all three members of that band incredible musicians. As

a bass player, you know, I love Getty Lee. But I'll be

honest with you, it's interesting that you mentioned the drums run because when I

listened to a Rush song, and I'm not I wouldn't put them in my

top ten of favorite bands, but I certainly respect them. I think I'm

kind of sick of them growing up, because you know, you hear the

same songs over and over on classic rock radio. But when I listen to

Rush, I tend to listen to the drums because Neil Peart's drum drum lines

were just very intricate, very but but he wouldn't overplay it was tasteful but

very complex. And uh, you know, if you listen to a song

like Limelight, I get I totally focus on the drums, you know,

Getty Lee's voice, I never really like that much. Incredible bass player,

and of course Alex Lifeson as an incredible guitar player. But but Neil Pierrett

one of absolutely one of the best. Even though I wouldn't put Rush in

my top ten of favorite bands, if I made a list, I would

put Neil peartt easily and probably my top five of drummers. Just an incredible

drummer. Yeah, and we and we lost him unfortunately. He died of

cancer a number of years ago and went through a lot of tragedy too.

But what a talented guy. Absolutely, Okay, buddy, that was it

and I'm still listening. Good show, all right, Ron, thank you.

I appreciate it, my friend, Thank you, all right, bye

bye? All right. That was our friend, Ron, And that does

open up the line for you. Six zo three two five O six z

seven six three two five zero six zero seven. Um. Yes, sounds

like Melanie law Liberty from the Great State of Vermont. She agreed with me

about the Jason Aldeen song. She said, I was totally thinking that I

think racist people will hear it that way. Yeah. Yeah, Like I

said, I don't think. I don't think there's anything racist about the song

itself. Um, but I but I think that you can, um,

you can certainly, uh you know, like any art, you can project

onto it whatever you want to. And again, so I guess my my

verdict is not guilty on the racism. But uh, if you do happen

to be racist, you probably really like that song. I don't know how

else to say it. Um uh, but you know it's it's catchy enough.

Jason Aldeen he's been around for a long time. Uh, Like he's

not super old, but he's not a young guy either. It seems like

he's been around a long time. Um. And by the way, thank

you again for to DJ Steve for the heads up on the uh the bad

word. So I had to find a radio version of that clean edit,

which was easy enough to do. But boy, that I'll tell you what

those country artists getting edgy in twenty twenty three. Um, so that's what

I think. Um yeah, yeah, the line about the about good old

boys, a bunch of good old boys, Um, that might be the

closest thing in the song that I can think of in terms of sort of

mate, what might cause someone to perceive in a certain way, shall we

say? To put it that way? But I don't. I don't agree

with all the uh you know, I know, Cheryl Crowe, she tweets.

Oh. The other thing too, is um, the other thing people

are criticizing it for is saying that it celebrates violence, it promotes violence because

there's a line in there, something about taking my gun, you know,

try to take my gun. You know. I mean, I'm a pro

Second Amendment guy myself, So I mean here in New Hampshire were armed to

the teeth, but we're also very safe here. Um. You know,

again, I don't, but I don't take that as promoting violence. I

take that as uh, you know, one not wanting to give up his

gun. Again. You can project onto it what you wish. It's art,

you know, it's open to individual interpretation. But I don't. I

don't take it as I don't. I don't find it offensive at all.

And you know, I'm pretty uh, you know, I'm pretty sensitive to

those things. But I don't. I don't have any problem with it.

That's my verdict. Dylan Reynolds. He's also in the chat room, he

says, Rush drummer Neil Pierre. He is phenomenal. Yes. Oh,

John Hopwood says, did Dave Ridley Collin? No, he did not,

And I actually was hoping he would call today because I wanted to talk to

him about Free Talk Live and that story. So maybe he'll join us tomorrow.

We don't have a I don't think we have a guest tomorrow either.

Hue the Gecko says. Johnny Earthquake Band plays the flat slide seal guitar and

gives lessons on how it works to all ages. Great educational performance at Rocks

Top, New Hampshire. Musician Yeah, Johnny Earthquake Johnny Earthquake Band, Yes.

New Force of the Spark says we listened to an eighties band, the

Cars hashtag Matt good news hashtag Mat. They are reunited as a pop singing

group. Quartet is BP and T book beat and true No already, Hue

the Gecko says, love your review of that, Matt extremely non biased?

Well, I try, I try to give you my and that's why I

intentionally didn't listen to it until I could do so live on the show.

Now, just quickly on the subject. Let's see. Because I am open

minded, I want to just look up. I should have done this already,

but I was really focused in on those lyrics. I didn't want to

miss anything. I'm looking up Jason Aldeen's song controversy because I just want to

take a closer look at what some of the people who do have a problem

with it, what they're saying. So we'll look at this article on NPR.

This was just posted three hours ago. How Jason Alden's try that in

a Small Town became a political controversy. Says here Country Music Television says it

will no long Oh interesting, Now the video. I need to watch the

video. I will watch the video after the show today and we will circle

back to this conversation tomorrow, because apparently the problem that some people have is

the video. And I would have watched the video while we played the song,

but Steve DJ Steve gave us the heads up that the song has a

bad word in it, and I assume the version they use in the video.

I mean, obviously the one they play on Country music television is censored,

but the one on YouTube may not be. So I didn't want to

risk it, but apparently some people have a problem with the video, so

I will have to look at that because there might be a whole other dimension

of this. But so according to NPR, CMT says it will no longer

air the try That in a Small Town by Jason Aldeen after critics of the

video said it contained lyrics that glorified gun violence and conveyed traditionally racist ideas.

Now again, I already told you what I think of the lyrics, but

I don't know if the video has some imagery that's more striking. Hue the

Gecko says video not pro piece violence. Definitely the issue here, not race.

Interesting. I'm gonna watch that right after the show because I'm really curious

now. A CMT spokesperson confirmed the move to NPR on Thursday, but offered

no comment on the reasoning. Since the video's release on Friday, it's emerged

as a familiar kind of political litmus test, with interpretations of its message often

falling along voting divides, which is really what I was saying. Here's an

overview of the situation. Aldin, a forty six year old country singer from

Macon, Georgia, first released a song in May, but it wasn't until

the release of the video on July fourteen, as promotion for his eleventh upcoming

album that the discourse ratcheted up. In a statement released alongside the video,

Aldan said the song represents an unspoken rule for those raised in small towns.

Quote we all have each other's backs, and we all look out for each

other unquote. The singer is not credited as a writer for the song,

as has been the case for most of his twenty seven hit singles. Threats

to outsiders and the implication those outsiders are from cities are present throughout the song's

lyrics, which begin with a list of crimes that might happen in urban settings

sucker punch, somebody on a sidewalk, carjack, and old lady at a

red light, then crescendo into the chorus quote, well try that in a

small town. See how far you make it down the road. Around here,

we take care of our own. You cross that line, it won't

take long for you to find out. I recommend you don't. Aldine ups

the vigilante anti by bridging the second chorus with reference to gun right, singing

quote, oh here's where the s word is I've got a gun that my

granddad gave me. They say one day they're gonna round up. While that

blank might fly in the city, good luck try that in a small town.

I have to admit, just for while we were talking about nanotechnology,

just for a nano second, when I read that line, that line about

they say one day they're gonna round up, that hit me a little different

reading it than it did listening to it. Listening to it, I knew

round up the guns. For some reason, when I read it, it

hit me a little different, just for a nano second. Then I was

like, yeah, yeah, round up the guns. In other words,

they say they're gonna come grab your guns. By the way, nobody's coming

to grab your guns. Just to be clear, I don't care what the

NRA tells you. No one's coming for your guns. But okay, So

now this part seems to get to the videos specifically, why is the video

so divisive? Interspersed between shots of alding singing or clips of vandalizing riots and

police encounters, much of which is evocative is evocative of racial injustice protests.

Interesting some of the scenes bear a Fox News chiron, but others as some

TikTok sleuths have pointed out appear to be stock footage in some cases of gatherings

from other countries, but much of the criticism around the video has less to

do with these clips than its setting, the Morey County Courthouse building in Columbia,

Tennessee, which serves as an American flag draped backdrop for Alldan and his

band. Oh. Okay, here is where it gets interesting. The landmark

was the site of race riots in nineteen forty six, as well as in

nineteen twenty seven lynching, in which a white mob pulled an eighteen year old

black man, Henry, from jail and dragged him through the city by car.

According to several media reports, including one detailed account from the Washington Post,

Choate had allegedly confessed to attacking a sixteen year old white girl quote to

protect his life unquote, even though the girl quote could not positively identify him

as the assailant unquote. The Post reported, Okay, I did not know

this about the video and the historical significance of the location, that's interesting.

That may not be intentional, but it is certainly offering the benefit of the

doubt, perhaps charitably, if that is just a mistake or a coincidence.

That is insensitive of someone not to realize that and to put this out because

you have to know that people are going to figure that out. What is

al Dean saying. On Tuesday, al Dean pushed back hard against accusations he

was pro lynching, saying such an interpretation ghost too far and is dangerous.

He wrote on Twitter, quote, there's not a single lyric in the song

that references racer points to it. Try that in a small town. For

me, refers to the feeling of a community that I had growing up,

where we took care of our neighbors regardless of differences of background or belief.

No one, including me, wants to continue to see senseless headlines or families

ripped apart. Unquote. Well again, you know, I guess we have

to separate the song from the video. I'm gonna have to watch the video,

Miriam says in the chat. I had to go watch the video.

The production company behind the video, tackle Box, also defended the video's location

as a popular filming spot, telling Entertainment Tonight that any alternative narrative about the

reasons it was chosen were false. Let me stop there. Now, that's

entirely possible. It's entirely possible that they didn't know, and that is a

popular filming spot and not everyone has the cultural sensitivity to think about we should

see if there's any problem here, if there's any history to this spot.

So that's entirely possible. I'm not excusing it, though, because we live

in a time when people should kind of know better, right, So assuming

they didn't know, and assuming it is a coincidence, that is a pretty

damn unfortunate coincidence. It you know, that it happens to have been there

with the history of that location, So that's not good. Miriam says.

There's a lot of footage of protests in the video Let's see. Aldine has

received five Grammy nominations, including two for Best Country Album, for his decades

of music depicting rural, blue collar life, and throughout that success, he's

rarely shied away from sharing his right leaning political views. His wife, Brittany

Alden, and his sister Casey Rosa Wis launched a conservative clothing line dedicated to

trolling liberals. All Deane defended dressing his children in anti Joe Biden attire and

himself for wearing what and himself for wearing black face as part of a twenty

fifteen Halloween costume. Dude, No, twenty fifteen, that's only eight years

ago. No, you should know better, man. No, you don't

do that the rest of it. Fine, you're a conservative, you want

to troll liberals? Fine, but blackface in twenty fifteen, dudeho, come

on, man wow. He was spotted golfing alongside Donald Trump and delivered an

impromptu performance at the former president's Marlago resort, But at other times, the

singer has tried to walk more nuanced line toward politics, perhaps most memorably after

surviving the twenty seventeen mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival. Aldine was

performing on stage as an ice closing act when the shooting began. Six months

later, he tiptoed through the refreshed gun control debate, saying in an interview

that tragedies shouldn't be used as fodder for political arguments, but ultimately agreed that

it was quote too easy to get guns unquote in the US. That is

a nuanced position. I mean he is saying he agreed that it was too

easy to get guns that's interesting. So he's capable of approaching these things from

a nuanced and and seeing these things as complex. So that's that's good.

Let's see. Yeah, we're out of time. There's more to this,

but that's okay. We'll circle back to this tomorrow though. Yeah, Miriam

says in the chat, Oh my god, crossed a line with the black

face. Yeah, that's uh wow, I didn't expect that. Jeez.

All right, Well that's that's really unfortunate. That's a that's a pretty stunning

lack of judgment, you know, I mean it's and and we you know,

we've seen political figures get into some pretty uh scandalous positions, shall we

say, when you know, they have to answer for, you know,

something they did in college or something, or a picture of them in blackface

for Halloween and they have to apologize and say, well it was I was

young. I didn't realize how insensitive that was and the history of that and

whatnot, and I know better now and this and that. But this guy

in twenty fifteen, twenty fifteen, Uh wow, I guess you can try

that in a small town and get away with it, see what I did

there, But uh, that's really and there isn't anything in the article about

him ever apologizing for it. Yikes. All right, well, we are

out of time. 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. Don't forget tonight Trivia Night at the hopnot but do

call ahead and reserve your spot. Those spots do fill up quickly, of

course, Trivia hosted by the great Broderick Lang. And we will be back

tomorrow. Oh Hue, the gecko says, always sunny in Philadelphia. Mac,

I'm never sure how to say that name. Elhenny did Blackface December twenty

twenty one air date with the full support of FX. Wow. Well,

of course, the character is on that show are depicted as being sort of

horrible, so kind of like kind of like Seinfeld in that sense. Obviously

that was done in character. But I am surprised though that FX allowed that

December twenty twenty one. Wow, that's our yses me. Okay, yeah,

don't do that. No black face kids, y'all ought to know better.

And if, by the way, if anyone wants to say, oh,

Matt's being woke. Yeah, fine, that's just fine. Call me,

call me whatever you want, Call me a woke liberal, call me

whatever. I don't think anyone should be wearing black face. Okay you can,

you know, call me, ah, I don't know, call me

a call me that's I'm just wow. I'm having a hard time getting past

that little detail. All right. Well we'll end with we'll end with a

little bit more. Well a time to play the whole song. But this

track mixtape by Satellite Union. Our friend Dave Wally is in the chat room

with us. There's another great song, and then uh, that's it for

us for I'll talk to you a little bit later by everybody. That's that's

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