Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-11-23

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

Happy Friday. Friday is my favorite day here at w m n H.

But it is Friday, August eleven, twenty twenty three, and we are

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live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera,

etcetera. And we've got an exciting show for you today. That song

you just heard, Party in the Storm, that is from the band Lynwood

Strange and band from Boston. They're gonna be actually joining us today. They're

our musical guest. They'll be joining us at the top of the hour.

They're gonna be calling in, calling in because you know, let's be honest,

if you're even though Boston is not that far, not far at all,

but on a Friday afternoon and rush hour traffic. No, I don't.

I don't blame them for wanting to call instead of coming up. So

jeez. We had a musical guest one time who actually ended up canceling on

their way here. This was a couple of years ago. Because she realized,

she texted me. She's like, Matt, I'm stuck in traffic and

there's just no way I'm going to get there in time. I gotta if

I ever get to an exit, I've got to get off and turn around.

But anyway, so they will be calling in. So lynnwood Strange is

the name of the band from Boston, and there are a musical guests today

and coming up. In the first hour and just a little bit, we

will hear this week's classic film review from our friend Eric Pilcher, and for

this week's review he has chosen Donnie Brasco. Her Donnie Brasco. I'm still

not sure as at Brasco or Brasco, but great film from nineteen ninety seven

starring al Pacino, who's definitely in my top five as far as all time

favorite actors, and Johnny Depp great in his own right, So that will

be coming up actually probably probably around four forty pm show, so about yeah,

about a half hour from now. We will get to that. Eric's

film reviews, of course, a very popular segment on the program on Friday's

also, of course, because it is Friday. And again I did mention,

Friday is my favorite day here at WMNH because it's my long day here.

I get to do double duty and I do love it. So in

addition to this program, I will be back tonight from eight to eleven pm

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one of our co hosts on retro Spectrum Radio. So we have a great

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This is regarding Monday's show. Jenny has booked Bob Henneley to join us in

the first hour. Bob was supposed to be on with us earlier this week,

but he I guess as a nursing strike going on a nurse's strike in

New York, so he was covering that. Bob is a very respected journalist

and he's also a fellow radio guy. He owes a show on w BAI

in New York City. That's right, he's a real New Yorker. So

he wasn't able to join us earlier this week because he got bogged down with

the cover ridge of the nurses strike. But He's gonna call in on Monday

in the first hour, so looking forward to that. Jenny and I are

really looking forward to speaking with him. And then in the second hour we

have a musical guest on Monday. I want to make sure I get the

name right because I said it wrong. I actually said it wrong the other

day and then I felt badly. But one of the people in the band

that we have Monday is also Jam Tomorrow. That's the name of the band.

I think I said it wrong the other day. Jam Tomorrow will be

our musical guest live in studio in the second hour on Monday. And Michael

helped Lee Pierce. One of the band members used to be in a band

with me. We were in the band Chemical Distance together for a couple of

years. So and Mike's a great guy and an entrepreneur, and I haven't

gotten to see him in quite some time. I don't think I've seen him

since before the pandemic, So it'll be really cool to have them here and

get to meet the new band. And I think they're gonna play live in

studio, so that will be on Monday. So we have a full show

Monday. Bob Henneley and then Jam tomorrow will be here with us live as

well. So lot's going on. Let's go ahead and say hello to everybody

in the Facebook lat chat and then we'll get into some stuff. Kind of

a big news day, of course, every day is a big news day

these days. Oh, Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, he knows Michael Halpleep

Heerson says Mike is a nice guy. Yes, absolutely, absolutely yeah.

Carol Zaroawitz, I'm always concerned I'm not saying that quite correctly, joins us

in the Facebook lap chat and says hello, Hello, Carol. Also Eric

Pilcher, of course, who does our classic film reviews. He is in

the chat room and says hello peeps. Jenny is also in the chat room

and says shalom, peeps. Also be Pinard or I'm not sure if it's

Pinard or Pinard. I'm gonna go with Pinard says good afternoon. All Ion

Venom four, who I strongly suspect is from Greensboro, North Carolina, says

hello hashtag Matt, we say to you, and good afternoon. Hello hashtag

Jen Coffee we say to you from us. Ion Venom four is also asking

we say what artists you played. Yes, that is the band Lynwood Strange

and they're going to be calling in today. At the top of the hour,

Miriam Bannish joins us in the Facebook latch at and says, well,

hello there, and Eric Pilcher said, Friday's favorite day because of the classic

film review. Well that too, of course a very popular feature on the

program. So big legal news today. Now there's actually, once again there

is legal news involving Trump, and we haven't really gotten into that this week

because I've been, as I've been saying all week, I've been suffering from

a little bit of TFS Trump fatigue syndrome. But there's some legal news there

and maybe we will touch on that today, but I have this terrible fever

from the TFS. But also, I would say even bigger news regarding Hunter

Biden, and this just kind of came out of nowhere. I was quite

surprised, and apparently not only was I surprised by this, but the White

House was surprised because I don't know if you know this, but Hunter Biden

happens to be related to our president, so apparently they didn't know anything about

this either. And you know, Merrick Garland of course tries to keep the

White House out of it, and President Biden tries to stay out of it.

But I did not see this coming. In fact, media is reporting

democrat on Fox, and the only Democrat currently on Fox I can think of

his Tarlov. Tarlove. I forget her first name from the five Democrat on

Fox, says Garland. Announcing Hunter Biden special counsel was a surprise to the

White House. It says here. Oh, okay, I'm sorry it was

not Carlo, it says here. A former Democratic state senator from New York

claimed that news of the special prosecutor appointed to investigate Hunter Biden blindsided the White

House. Former State Senator David Carlucci, Democrat of New York, appeared on

Fox News Today to defend the Justice Departments in partiality for naming David Weiss as

special counsel. When he made the claim, Carlucci said, quote, this

shows the independence the DOJ wants an independent case here. So that's why it

was a surprise to the White House. As we've learned that President Biden didn't

even know about this happening, and Garland went ahead with the special counsel for

Weiss to show that independence, and I think that's what we see here.

Unquote, why now, asked anchor Sandra Smith. Carlucci replied, quote,

whyever, right. I think this is something that originally Republicans did want.

They want Wise to be the special counsel. Now it's actually happening, So

I think it shows independence. I think it shows the movement away from the

White House, and this will not be a political witch hunt but an actual

trial. Unquote. Republican consultant Garrett Ventry claimed that Weiss's quote shredded his credibility

during this entire process. I think it's one thing to point out here Democrats

have been using to talk about talk about it assuming you will see this come

out, that he was a Trump appointee. But I think as a former

state judiciary aide who did confirmations, people need to understand that district court judges

and u S attorneys are handpicked by home state senators. So he's essentially handpicked

by two Democratic state senators from Delaware. Unquote. I don't know much about

the process that specifically that element of it, to be honest with you.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Weiss's appointment this afternoon to look into alleged criminal activity

by Hunter Biden. The DJ would not comment when asked if President Joe Biden

was also under investigation in Hunter's foreign business dealings. That's very interesting and Republicans

will certainly seize upon that. If you remember, it was only what was

it a couple of weeks ago now, I think it was July twenty six,

so yeah, two to three weeks ago when it was a pretty also

a pretty bad day for Hunter Biden on that day, to say the least,

when we found out that the plea deal that had been arranged had fallen

through. And I remember at the time, well, when we discussed this

a couple of weeks ago, when the plea deal fell through, I said,

you know, I reflected back to when the plea deal was originally announced

and I had pointed out how odd it was. I found that there were

two somewhat differing and conflicting statements put out, one by the Department of Justice

and one by Hunter Biden's lawyers. The statement from the Department of Justice included

a line about this investigation is ongoing, even though they had reached a plea

deal on what had been certain things that had been established, you know,

the tax charges and having a gun, you know, falsifying a form because

when you get a permit for a gun, you have to a test on

that form that you're not a drug user, effectively, And but the DOJ

and their statement left open prosecutors left open the possibility that there may be further

charges in the future, because this investigation was ongoing. Hunter Biden's attorneys.

Their public statement was something to the effect of Yep, Okay, here's the

deal, and that's it. We're done, and we're moving on and everything's

good. This is settled. And I remember wondering at the time and hearing

other people in media wonder, two, why is there a difference in their

statements. And there was some speculation that, well, the Department of Justice

sess this kind of a standard thing that they always put into their statements is

like to leave that window open a crack, But it doesn't necessarily mean anything.

It doesn't necessarily mean that something else is coming down the pike. But

I just remember thinking at the time, m I wonder if it's also possible

that Hunter Biden's attorneys just went with it, hoping taking the risk and just

hoping that nothing else was going to come up in the DJ's investigation and and

telling Hunter Biden, yeah, we you know, we we think we're good

here. And then it turned out no, we're not good here, as

we found out near the end of July. But this is now the situation

now though, with David Weiss being elevated to a special counsel. That brings

up all kinds of possibilities. And by the way, people will speculate or

people will speak fact Julie when they don't actually know all the facts of Obviously

a lot of people on the right say, oh, see, Joe Biden

is you know, they throw these phrases around like Biden crime family and whatnot.

It's uh, you know a lot of speculation and and and by the

way, there are some people on the right who don't buy into that.

Even on Fox News, for example, you know, Steve Doocy whenever they

have, say Jim Jordan or or James Comer on Fox and Friends to talk

about, you know, how President Biden is involved in all of Hunter Biden's

deals and it's a you know, they it's a criminal enterprise and all that.

You know, whenever they go through this exercise, you know, even

Steve Doocy on Fox says, by the way, guys, do you have

any evidence of this yet, where's the smoking gun? You've been promising us

for months now? Listen, Just to be clear, I'm not saying I

don't think there's something there. This is a significant event today where David Weiss

has now been elevated to a special counsel, apparently at his own request.

So there's something there, but we don't know what that is. And it

could be it might not have anything to do with President Biden. It might

simply be that Hunter Biden is in more trouble than we might have thought.

And you know, I want to wait and see how this plays out.

I think it's reckless any responsible where people leap to these wild conclusions. And

again, some of the personalities on Fox have really pushed back on that.

Even Sean Hannity has pushed back on that. I forget if it was Comber

or Jim Jordan. He had one of them on his show recently and he

said, you know, this has been going on for a while. Do

you have any actual Do you have anything beyond your speculation at this point,

because this is all you know, what you've given us is circumstantial so far.

So I'm not interested in doing that because I think it's I just think

it's foolish to do so. But I will acknowledge, certainly regardless of whether

or not President Joe Biden is involved in any of this. And again,

until I see something, they haven't given us anything. Until I see something

that really strongly suggests. And by the way, and I've addressed this on

the show before too, I do not count Hunter Biden telling somebody on the

phone who he's trying to get something from, well, you know, my

father is sitting here with me right now. I'm sorry. Just because Hunter

Biden said that to somebody doesn't mean that Joe Biden was actually sitting at that

table with him. As I've pointed out before, a drug addict will,

if he's trying to get something out of somebody, a drug addict will claim

that Elvis Presley is sitting at a sketching table with him if he thinks it's

going to help him get what he wants, and if he's trying to coerce

somebody to give him something, so you know, him just saying that doesn't

make it so. But again, what has happened today the events of today

are very significant and a big surprise, and I'll be very curious to see

where this goes. And just to get everyone caught up. NPR as a

pretty concise piece on this, if you're not, if you haven't seen the

news or heard the news. Garland names special counsel and Hunter Biden investigation.

So it says here Delaware US Attorney David Weiss, who has been investigating criminal

allegations against President Biden's surviving son, Hunter Biden, has been named a special

counsel. Attorney General Merrick Garland said today. Weiss made the request to be

special counsel to Garland on Tuesday of this week. Weiss, a Trump appointee

as US attorney who was retained during the Biden administration, has been investigating Hunter

Biden since nineteen. He reached a tentative plea deal with Hunter Biden, but

it collapsed amid scrutiny recently from a Delaware judge. So that's what I was

talking about before that we talked about recently on the show and the plea deal

which seemed like it was in place, but the judge said, no,

we've got some we've got a problem here, and today's events certainly don't don't

help anything. The order of appointment for Weiss was to serve I'm sorry.

The order of appointment for Weiss to serve as special counsel authorizes him to quote

conduct the ongoing investigation described above, as well as any matters that arose from

that investigation or may arise unquote. The order gives yse authority to quote prosecute

federal crimes in any federal judicial district arising from the investigation of these matters unquote.

And of course, you know the reason a special counsel in these the

reason they're giving so much power and authority and autonomy is so that they're not

in any way beholden or expected to reach some sort of a politically motivated conclusion

in their case, or to conduct their investigation of the case with any political

motivations or machinations going forward. Not that they're necessarily completely out of anyone's authority.

Certainly, Richard Nixon famously fired Archibald Cox in the Saturday Night massacre.

But but this does give David Weiss some pretty broad authority and as I said,

autonomy, which is really the key, and I think that's completely appropriate

Attorney General Garland said Weiss requested the special council status earlier this week after determining

that quote in his judgment, his investigation has reached a stage at which he

should continue his work as special counsel, and he asked to be so appointed.

Unquote. Now I assume, but again I'm speculating. I don't know,

we don't know, you don't know who knows. But I am assuming

that whatever this isn't necessarily the case. But whatever their justification was for leaving

that window open when they made the initial announcement about the plea agreement, whatever

the DJ's reason was for doing that might have something to do with why David

Weiss went to Garland and said, please make me special counsel because I've got

something here. Okay, again, this is from NPR. The scope of

the ongoing investigation is not clear, and under Justice Department guidelines, prosecute do

not spell out as yet uncharged allegations, but the appointment paperwork for Weiss references

two criminal matters against Hunter Biden and says he began probing Biden, among others,

several years ago, and by the way, the among others that might

include that Devin. What Hells's last name? Devin? I forget now that

guy who went and attended a closed door hearing and talked a lot about Hunter

Biden, but had not really anything to say of relevance about Hunter Biden's father,

Joe Biden. Although it's very strange. Well, I don't want to

get sidetracked. We'll leave that alone for now. Hunter Biden's counsel, Chris

Clark said in a statement, quote, this doesn't change our understanding of mister

Weiss's authority over the five year investigation into mister Biden. For years, both

mister or Weiss and the Department have assured us and the public that mister Weiss

had more authority than a special counsel and full authority to negotiate a resolution of

his investigation, which has been done, whether in Delaware, Washington, DC,

or anywhere else. We expect a fair resolution, not infected by politics,

and will do what is necessary on behalf of mister Biden to achieve that.

The development comes just weeks after the judge and the Hunter Biden case said

she wasn't ready to accept the plea deal struck between the president's son and the

DOJ and asked both parties to submit additional briefs and return to the court on

a future date. She demanded that the lawyers from both sides make clear that

the deal does not convey broad immunity offered a Biden from prosecution on his business

dealings. As a result, Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to two misdemeanor offenses

related to his filing of federal income taxes. Today, the prosecutor in the

case said the parts are at an impass on the plea deal and a trial

is an order according to a court filing. See, so this is more

than one thing going on here. I mean, it's all connected, obviously,

but there's more. There's more than one bit of bad news, somewhat

colossally for Hunter Biden because yeah, obviously the DOJ has has more they're investigating

with the elevation to Special Council status of David Weiss. But also it sounds

like there's no plea deal and this is going to trial. Actually, maybe

that'll work out for him, that they're going to trial part Maybe that'll work

out for him, But it doesn't seem like he has that kind of luck,

does it. Let's see, the DJ said in the filing, quote,

following additional negotiations after the hearing held on July six, twenty twenty three,

the parties are at an impass and are not in agreement on either a

plea agreement or a diversion agreement unquote. It said. Prosecutors requested Biden's position

on August nine, and asked for it by August eleven. Biden's lawyers said

they needed an extension until August fourteen, which the government declined. Biden has

not yet provided his position, the filing said. The filing said, quote,

as a result, the government respectfully requests that the court vacate its briefing

order since there is no longer a plea agreement or diversion agreement for the court

to consider unquote. US District Judge Mary Ellen Norika ordered Hunter Biden's lawyers to

respond by noon on Monday, August fourteen. Earlier this year, Hunter Biden

agreed to plead guilty to two mismeanor offenses related filing of federal income taxes.

Federal authorities also charged him with a felony firearm offense, which he agreed to

enter a pre trial diversion agreement that allows him to avoid prosecution. And again

just to clarify for anyone who's not aware. So when you go to when

you go to get a gun permit, one of the things that is on

that federal form is you know, you have to attest that you are not

a drug user. And Biden, of course, in filling out that form,

he attested that he is not a drug user, and he did that

while using drugs. It's something that people are very rarely prosecuted for because it

gets a little that gets dicey, because so for example, this is a

little bit of a side street, but this is something we used to discuss

a lot on a show that I used to do that I was a co

host on before coming to WM ANDH. How So, for example, if

you're in well, if you're in a state where it's fully legal, where

cannabis is fully legal, for example, but it's still federally illegal, you're

technically you're violating that federal law if you fill out that gun permit and you

attest on that form that you are not a drug user because it is still

federally illegal and in fact it is still Schedule one, which I think is

absurd. Of course, I'm for full legalization federally, I oppose the drug

war in a broader sense as well. That's my position. But it's but

if you're in a state where it's fully legal, not fully but on the

state level, right under the Tenth Amendment, state sovereignty, that gets tricky.

Now technically again, technically you are falsifying that form. It's federal form

if you say that you don't use anything illicit that's illegal. But I'm quite

certain that millions, literally millions of people in this country have filled out that

form who use cannabis, and you know, said maybe they said to themselves,

well, you know, I don't think it's it's a drug, or

I'm in a state where it's legal, so you know, I'm just gonna

you know, so it's not something that people are typically prosecuted for. But

that's what that is. Let's see. J Fed joins us in the chat

room, and also Melanie Liberty, both from the Great state of Vermont.

Of course, Dylan Reynolds joins us in the Facebook live chat high Dylan he

says, I work at an FFL. There is a yes no question dedicated

specifically to controlled substances. Yes. Roniferverro also joins us from California and says,

hello everyone. Yeah, that's the thing. It's well again, I

mean, we could do a whole show just on that subject. But just

to be clear about what that's about, what the federal firearms charge is about.

So, according to Weiss, the Trump appointed Delaware US attorney, Biden

did not pay federal income taxes for either twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen, despite

owing more than one hundred thousand dollars in taxes each year. Additionally, in

October twenty eighteen, Biden possessed a firearm despite knowing he was an unlawful user

of and addicted to a controlled substance. Weiss's office said Biden faced a maximum

penalty of twelve months in prison on each of the tax charges, and a

maximum penalty of ten years in prison on the firearm charge. See that's interesting

to me, by the way, too, We're talking about something that people

are rarely actually prosecuted for, but if they do happen to be prosecuted,

they're facing up to ten in prison. So that's pretty serious. It may

not be largely enforced, because it's not necessarily largely enforceable, but if they

choose to you know, that can come with up to ten years, it

says here, but Weiss's office noted that actual sentence is determined by judges are

typically less than the maximums well, of course, and that's true across the

board. A source familiar with the deal said that Justice Department had agreed to

recommend probation on the tax charges, but a judge would make the ultimate decision.

Republicans have said the Plea deal struck was an example of unfair treatment for

Biden. Soon after, former President Trump was arraigned on separate and unrelated federal

charges relating to his handling of classified documents. Trump was separately charged for his

role in the January sixth Capital riot. A Trump spokesperson said in a statement,

quote, if this special Council is truly independent, even though he failed

to bring proper charges after a four year investigation, and he appears to be

trying to move the case to a more Democrat friendly venue, he will quickly

conclude that Joe Biden, his troubled son Hunter, in their enablers, including

the media, which colluded with the fifty one intelligence officials who knowingly misled the

public about Hunter's laptop should face the required consequences unquote. Already Again, what

was I saying earlier about you know, I think some of the wild conclusions

that people jump to are a little bit irresponsible, But Okay. Responding to

the appointment of the Special Council, Representative James Comber, Republican of Kentucky,

who chairs the House Oversight Committee which is investigating the younger Biden said, quote,

Let's be clear what today's move is really about. The Biden Justice Department

is trying to stonewall Congressional oversight as we have presented evidence of the American people

about the Biden family corruption unquote. See that's the thing. So even if

you could argue, as some will, that this is a that this was

done as a political maneuver to try to sort of mollify Republicans who are who

have been very, you know, very critical of the d o J and

saying they've got their thumb on the scale for Hunter Biden and all of this,

there are some who I'm sure this somebody on a conservative program, Howe

Car is probably saying that right now. If you're not in the Northeast,

you might not know who how He Car is. But but I'm sure he's

saying that right now on a show something to that effect. But here's the

thing. It would be a pretty foolish move if this were a political move,

which I don't think it is, and I will not speculate on that

further unless we see some evidence that it is. But I I don't know

what the point would be because no matter what you do, James Comber and

Jim Jordan, and of course many others, but they seem to be the

ringleaders, they will spin it and can I mean, it's politically it's easy

to do, right. Oh see, they're just trying to make it look

like they're being honest, but really they're just doing this to try to stonewall

us in our investigation. I mean, that's already what they're saying, Comber

and Jordan, that's already what they're saying. Had this announcement not come today,

they would have continued to say what they were saying before. So it

really doesn't matter. They're going to spin it no matter what. So I

don't think there's a political motivation here. I don't see any evidence that there

is. So I will defend Merrick Garland in terms of anyone if anyone wants

to say that, you know, they think he's acting politically here, I

will say, well, I don't see any direct evidence of that. Where

I will not defend Merrick Garland. However, where I will not defend him

is if anyone wants to say, you know, I've been paying attention here

and I'm starting to get the vibe, especially when it comes to David Weiss,

that Merrick Garland may not necessarily have control over this process, and that

he's kind of let this get away from him a little bit, and we're

not sure that he's really up to the task here. If that's your perception,

you might be onto something, granted, But see, even that gets

into it this weird thing where we don't want him taking too much control.

We want the investigation to proceed to whatever conclusion it shall ultimately arrive at.

But but it kind of seems like this this has been a little bit disjointed

with David Weiss, and there seems to have been some conflicting information about over

the past weeks or even months over what the range of his authority was already

and did he ask for more authority or did he not? And I think

his own statements have been a little confusing at times, and so it kind

of seems like just in terms of a manager, right if if you want

to think of it that way, in terms of Merrick Garland's management style,

if you're starting to get the vibe that he's not as in control as maybe

he should be in terms of running the Department of Justice, you might be

right. Again, there's a lot we don't know here. There's a lot

we don't get to see. But I'm starting to wonder. So we'll see

where this goes, and maybe if we have time later in the show,

So we're gonna get to Eric Pilcher's classic film review, and then after that

we have a great musical guest coming up at five pm, and then if

we have time at the end of the show, we might There was also

some Trump legal news today, and even though I have been suffering from TFS

frump fatigue syndrome, it is pretty interesting. So we will try to get

to that. We'll save that for the end of the show. But I

wanted to get but this Hunter Biden stuff. This is it's a very very

bad day for him, I would suggest, And if it's a bad day

for him, it's also a bad day for President Biden, and this investigation

obviously isn't going anywhere, and it probably isn't. It's not gonna help Biden's

reelection prospects. All right, we have Ron on the line, but Ron,

we are tight for time. So I will just ask you to be

terse if you would please, Yes, sorry, Will, is President Biden

stayed clear of all of this or does he have some powers to kind of

help bids? You know, that's I guess that's it. That don't be

the whole question. Well, publicly he is he has stayed clear of it,

you know. Obviously, Uh, some Republicans like Comber and Jim Jordan

and others, you know, they'll argue that behind the scenes Biden is really

in control of everything. But again, there's no evidence of that and it

would be politically very dangerous for him to insert himself in it. So I

will, I will take him at his word on that that he's not interfering.

But regardless, I mean, it's a terrible drag on his presidency and

on his re election campaign, and I would say I would put that as

another log on the fire in terms of reasons that he should not seek reelection.

And should let somebody younger on the Democratic side get in there and go

for that nomination, because this is not helpful to him and his prospects for

a second term. Uh, all right, I'm doing my best to keep

up with tis my it's money boggling, but I mean I'm interested enough for

I'm trying to sort through it in any of it pays to answering my question.

I still want to listen. You've got a good show going on.

Thank you, and look forward to tonight. All right, Ron, thank

you so much for the call. I appreciate it. Thank you for my

god, you got it. By bye. All right. We always love

to hear from Ron, but we are on a little bit of a tight

schedule. Let's get to this. Up next, we have Eric Pilcher's classic

film review, a very popular segment on the program, and this week he

has chosen Donnie Brascoe, the nineteen ninety seven film starring Al Pacino and Johnny

Depp. Great movie, and let's give this a listen. And then we're

gonna go right from that into our segment with the band lynnwood Strange. They're

gonna be skyping in from Boston and looking forward to talking with those guys.

So busy Friday. Here but here it is. This is Eric Pilcher's classic

film review of Donnie Brascoe. When I introduce you, I'm gonna say this

is a friend of mine, that means you're a connected guy. If I

sentenced that this is a friend Owes, that would mean you have made guy

cap. When Lefty brought Donnie into his world, who's this game's Donnie in

front of mine? He took a risk on a kid he hardly knew.

And I'm gonna have to school you and my friend school men. What why

this guy never carries his money in the waters and always in a role bena

on our side. He gave him his trust. Try to get rid of

that mustache and give yourself a pair of parents just like me. He loved

him like a son. Nobody can touch you because I represent you. Gep

your nose clean, follow the rules, be a good Ny, and maybe

one day when they opened the books, you could come up whitse guy and

die with your Donny. But he never knew the truth. There's a war

going on in that mafia family and that's where Joe undercover. Oh nay o,

man, I want to know where my husband is. We don't know.

We're gonna freeze up. No, oh, the guy's freeze up.

He said it was gonna be three months. It's going on three years.

Who he's with and who he's close to and all the top dogs. Now

he's right in the line of fire. There was a rat and flower that.

Then you know what to do when you find that rat right left,

could be I found him a ruddy and our thing you get sent for.

You go in alive, you'll come out dead. And it's your best friend

that does it. We have got to pull him out. You think I'm

a rat? How many times I have you into my own house? If

you're a rat, then I'm the biggest month in the history at the mafia.

If I come out left, he dies, They're gonna kill him because

he vounched for me, because he stood up for me. That's the same

thing as if I put a bullying this and myself. Do you understand,

Oh my ike, i'm ana spoke on the wheel. I saw in you

they die. Yeah, let's take a walk. I'm your rust. Fright.

This goes without saying, especially if you are a longtime listener of this

program and Matt Connerton. Unleashed gangster films are some of my favorite all time

films. Watching The Godfather in nineteen ninety eight made me see film as art

and not just entertainment. It also led to me researching the Mafia or La

Cosa Nostra feverishly, something I still do to this day. One film that

stands out to me not just because it's a true story, but how it

is an in depth profile of those that lived the life. Released in nineteen

ninety seven, directed by Mike Newell and based off the real account of FBI

special agent Joe de Pistone, Donnie Brasco tells the tale of Pistone played by

Johnny Depp, a man that goes undercover into the Banano crime family as jewel

thief Donnie Brasco. What begins as a simple undercover task becomes much greater when

Brasco is befriended by lifetime wise guy Lefty left Guns Ruggerio played by Al Paccino,

and gets fast tracked on his way to becoming a member of the mafia.

Our first clip is Brasco being introduced to Ruggerio. This scene is important

because it shows how Brasco has no fear in telling this reputed wise guy that

is diamond is a fake, despite knowing Ruggerio's standing and that he could essentially

kill Brasco with no repercussions. Then the clip after that will show Ruggerio beginning

to school or teach Donnie on the ways of the mafia in the way people

are described while taking him to a family meeting with the boss of the Banana

family. You're down the jeweler. Yeah, it's some beautiful thing. How

don't you give it to your wife? My wife. I'm not gonna give

it to my wife. I ain't married. They're a girlfriend, Yeah,

I got a girlfriend. Yeah, some marryer. Hey, you're for real.

I'm asking you the middle a diamond for me. He Now all I

want from my end, there's eight thousand. I'm saying to youause you should

give it to somebody that don't know any better, because that's it for gazing.

All right, that's a for gazing. How do you know it's a

for gazing? You looked at for two seconds. It's a fake fa Yeah,

I know where the Foe Gays is take found. I want to see

something. I'm gonna show you something there you go, that's something. That's

a beautiful thing. Yeah, that's a beautiful thing. That's not my thing.

What about this? Well, let me just say, go ahead,

train and shut You wanna be a dun skirt, Give it a shot,

dun skin? You call him a dun skin. You know who you're talking

to, my friend, Come on, have a specer. You wanna go

and embarrass yourself with this thing? Em borrass myself with my family, my

children, my mother can hold our head up in any neighborhood in this city

where she walks down the block seat in all the five boroughs. I'm known

forget about it. I'm known all over the world. Anybody ask anybody about

Lefty from Mulberry Street and you wissing up the won't treat you know. I

didn't mean no disrespect. It's a misunderstanding, right you go? All right?

Then sit on, man, were you you gonna walk out on me?

You gonna walk out on me? I walk out on you. You

got a car, I got a car. Let's go get your car.

Come out the kid, And now Donnie's lessons in the Mafia begin. Okay,

when I introduce you, I'm gonna say this is a friend of mine.

That means you're connected. Guy. If I said it's that this is

a friend of ours, that would mean you a made guy like I peace

you? Yeah, friend of mine, a friend of ours. Look what

do I call you? A friend of ours? Or about me? I'll

say a doctor? The characters, you got a couple of us olds.

I got some uh, some things I gotta be yeah, yeah, yeah,

what do you want one hundred? Yeah? What are you doing?

What are you doing? Whyse guy don't carry his money in a wallet?

Hey? Whyse guy carries money in a role like this? I think NA

on the outside like that? Come that mustache? I gotta get rid of

a mustache, says against the room side. Get a pair of pants?

Have you saying a dress like I dress? This is my factor, more

even than my own fact? Is that right? I don't got a family.

You don't got a family. Now, I'm an orphan. I grew

up in an orphanage. I think the question about you know, even if

you had a family, if this is your family, I think this is

your family. You know what I'm saying. Yeah. What sets this film

aside from other films about the mafia is how in dapt The film allows these

characters to evolve. Each person has these mesmerizing character traits. However, Dapt

con pais this very well with his performance as Pistone. Our next clip shows

this. Following an argument with his wife over his assignment. Pistone breaks down

and explains the tough spoty is in. What makes this truly great is you

can actually hear the conflict between Pistone and Brasco, almost as if they are

two different people, even though they are one of the same. Did you

ever once ask yourself how I make it to my days. I pretend I'm

a widow with medals and scrapbooks and memories. I pretend you're dead. That's

in my life. Makes sense to me. Just go away, Stay away.

God, do you hate me? When I love you so much?

You think I hate you? I don't hate you. This job is eating

me alive. I can't breathe anymore. And if I come out this day

left he dies, They're gonna kill him because he vouched for me, because

he stood up for me. I live with that every day. That's the

same thing as if I put the bullet in this at myself. You understand

I spent all these years trying to be the good guy, you know,

the man and a what for? What for? Nother? I'm I'm coming

like that. I am known. It was alluded to in our previous clip

that Pistone is in monumental danger. That is made painfully obvious in our final

two clips of this review. First, Donnie is confronted by Capo or Captain

Sonny Black played by Michael Madsen. He is faced with the possibility of being

executed if he does not reveal the plans him and Lefty have for a club

in Miami, but then he could be disloyal, which is an unforgivable sin

in the mob. Then, in a desperation moment at a Japanese restaurant,

Donnie refuses to remove his boots, the reason being it is whereas recording devices.

Desperately, he comes out with a way to not have to remove his

shoes, albeit if horrible consequences for the innocent matre D. I want to

know what you're up to? What you mean yesterday last night? What were

you doing last night? Now I'm saying when yesterday? What time is?

Come here? I'll mess around with me yesterday afternoon? No, why is

Lefty got such a heart eye to sent me back to New York. I'll

come on, I mean, guys busting your paws down there. I wanna

know. I want to know what you got going on down here, understands,

and you want to know about if you have a skimmed on him out

to night. That's right. Look, I don't mean any disrespect. And

I know you're a skipper and I'm a nobody, but I can't do that

to Lefty. Listen to me. I'll eat your records. You understand me,

every fool of you. This is life and death and a fender.

She might say so and tell me can't do shoot? How about if I

fuck you? Write your now do what you have to do something? We

can't do that to men. And now Donnie gets desperate, said, how

many hold on this way? Mary says he's very injured. See I mean

she read about in the parade. Man's very very big man to the thie.

Take off Shootes goes off, don't remember anything? What kind of fish

I appreciate? Take off Shootes are kidding me? Thank you? I'm afraid

it's necessary. He's a Japanese tradition show. Is that right, don't forget

about it. I ain't doing I'm afraid he's necessary. Forget. I don't

take your shoes off? Hey, daddy, what when in roll? Nick?

Who? Okay? War? What? War? Oh? We did?

You want to fight it again? Take off your shoes. I ain't

gonna do it. Do take your shoes or take my shoes off? What

I want to eat sometime tonight? And take off your shoes. I'm gonna

chop off your fep sunner. What do you want me to do? Who

want to take all this? I had to grow up in an orphanage because

my own man was killed down there in Okinnow all right, I'm gonna take

my shoes off of this. No, I ain't doing that. I'm afraid

it is necessary. Listen, Uh, my friend's not gonna take off your

shoes there, and mister Moto, I'm afraid is necessary. Whither are the

rest of us? Okay? So why don't you just give us a table

before I smack you? You must take off your shoes. That's what makes

this film so compelling is the fact that it has been confirmed by former members

of the Banano crime family to be mostly accurate. This undercover FBI agent was

within one murder of becoming a member of the mafia. The work of Pistone

led to over two hundred indictments and over one hundred convictions of Mafia members.

It led to the Banano family being removed from the Feigned Commission and becoming outcasts

in the American Mafia. To this day, Joe de Pistone is viewed is

one of the top authorities on the Mafia. He has since written three books

after his best selling book Donnie Brasco that this film is based off of.

But this film has to be the ultimate testimony to his sacrifice and his hard

work. What makes this film truly special and stand in a class of its

own is it's a true look at this secret society. It's not glossy and

glamorous like Casino, Goodfellas, or even The Godfather. It is also not

as gritty and raw as mean streets. What it is and what makes it

timeless is it is unflinching and poorizing. It provides the deepest look into the

Mob done by a film. Couple that with the brilliant performances across the board

and a gripping story, it truly makes for one amazing and captivating film.

I hope you will join me next week when in observance of the recently passed

on director William Friedkin, we will look at his seminole classic film The French

Connection for W. M. N H and Matt Connerton Unleashed. This has

been a classic film review with Eric culture Ye Who's downs class? And why

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when you stroke out the cold clean man, be resting and turn up the

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up Friday half price, were going on Saturday? You will get out free

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This child Monday. That's good stuff. That is some nasty guitar work there,

that's great. That is Guillotine from the band Lynnwood Strange and we've got

a couple of the guys on with us via Skype. How are you guys?

Welcome? Hey, how are you hey? Hawaii? Doing well?

Doing well? Who do we have on with us? Go ahead and introduce

yourselves please. I'm Joe Dganaro, a guitarist and songwriter. Okay, Mike

Downing drums, Very good, very good? And uh now, how many

guys are in the band total? You're a four piece right? Correct?

Cool? And uh, you guys are from the Boston area, yeah,

White Andsville, Mass, Lost, Central Mass, Wooster in that area.

Okay, Okay, very good. I originally I originally was from Boston at

one point. Okay, And uh, I gotta ask you this. Usually

I saved this for later, but I'm just super curious. Uh, let

me ask you, now, where does the name come from? What is

Lynnwood Strange? So we were originally Audio Mirror and there's a amplifier company with

the same name. Oh no, I didn't want to have any problems.

Yeah, and somebody suggested Strange and I was like, well, you know,

there's gonna be a million bands names Strange. Why don't we build in

a little uh you know, safety net and call it Lynwood Strange since down

the bottom of the road here is the Linwood area of Northbridge. There you

go. No, I like it. And part of part of picking a

band name, too, is it it can be difficult because obviously you want

something that you know somebody else isn't already using, and you know I've the

process. Yeah, yeah, but Lynnwood Strange, I mean that that sounds

pretty safe. I assume you haven't running anyone else who's using that name.

There you go, there you go, And you guys are how long have

you been around? From what I saw online, looks like you've got you've

been around a bit. Yeah, since about October twenty twenty, I believe.

Oh okay, so actually not that long. No, it was a

lot of changes along the road. Yeah. We change singers, we change

many bass players. We had a second guitarist he left the band. Yeah,

but now the four that we have seemed to be the best option.

Good good, best drama. And you know, being in the band's like

being in a marriage. I mean you literally gotta kind of all get along

politically, and you know, it's it's it's it's it's hard, it really

is trying to find someone with your same goals and so forth. And as

I told Joe and we started this thing, he says, I mean,

hey, what's your plans? I said, well, I want to take

this as far as I can possibly take it. And here we are.

Yeah, I know, Joe's written quite a bit for this band. Some

of us contribute lyrics and so forth, but Joe's Joe's been the main staple

here. Yeah, I know what you mean though about it's it's hard.

I've been in a bunch of bands and and sometimes it's hard too when you

have Obviously having the right mix of personalities is a big part of it,

but also to just dealing with you know, because you mentioned wanting to take

it as far as you can. Sometimes you're dealing in a band with different

varying levels of ambition, varying levels of dedication and commitment, and that can

be really hard when you've got you know, if you've got four people or

five people or three people who aren't all willing to really push things. You

know, if you've got a band where maybe almost everybody is really ambitious,

except you've got that one person who is just kind of treating it more like

a hobby, and it's not that important to them. That can be really

difficult. So I understand what you're saying about kind of going through that process

of getting to a point where you've got four guys who are all on the

same page and moving together as one. We had a we had a bass

player. We'll just say his name was Ben and we'll leave it at that.

And he, you know, he playbos. I mean, he he

was extraordinary, had a great sense of music and everything. And then when

we booked Uh to play out, he just pulled back like a frightened turtle

and we have that let him go. It's stunk. But as you said,

just trying to get everybody on the same page dream wise is it's It's

It's hard, it really is. We're all professionals, most of us.

I mean, Joe's a paramedic, I'm I'm an instructor, Pad Locke who's

lead singers, Mike he does lock Smith, and Jimmy our bassis is a

I T. Professional. So we're all busy. Yeah, okay, but

like I said, we want to we want to push this as far as

we possibly can go with it, and we really appreciate Yeah, we really

appreciate you having us oh yeah, No, I like your sound. It's

it's uh, it's wonderful to have you here. Yeah, I I like

the I like that kind of raw, you know, it's sort of almost

got a garage rock vibe, you know, but you know, kind of

kind of heavy and straightforward. And Joe, your your guitar solos are nasty,

and I mean that in a in the best possible way. I love

your solos. I mean they're they're just have you always played that way?

You play with just a lot of attitude and aggression, and it's really good.

It's just what I play, what the song asked for. If that

makes any sense, Yeah, it does, it does. I try to

stay in the songs, try to I don't know, it's just the way

I've always done it. Yeah, yeah, I try to pay him compliments.

He's just he's a very humble man. He does not like it.

So then you'll throw it back in the ad. Yeah, you're a good

drumma, You're a great drama, are you the obviously Joe? So,

Joe has been here the whole time? Are you the newest member of the

band? No, no, no, no, no, you have that

back with Sir Mike was here the longest. I answered, Mike said,

Oh, I'm sorry, Okay, I misunderstood. I think it's because Mike

christer Mike. Yes, I've been with him for the most part through the

inception of this band. Yes, it's been the both of us. Oh,

I see, I see. Okay, So who's the who's the newest

member then, Amma, Yeah, that would be Jimmy Jimmy Hilton, Jimmy

Hammer Hilton. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. So now do you guys play

out a lot? Are you doing a lot of shows? We do about

one a month, maybe two, depending on what's going on. Yeah,

we have a private gig coming up at the end of the month, and

then the second where of September we're playing Polar Park, and then the sixteenth

of September we're playing Battle of the Band's Fair Time Recreation in Northbridge. Yeah

and yeah, like he said, it's a Battle of bands, three bands.

And then what's October fourteenth is the Midway in Boston, I know it

well. And then August, not August, October twenty seven will be the

last gig of the year, and that's gonna be at Huskies in Worcester.

That's gonna be pretty much our Halloween gig. Oh cool, anybody who comes,

feel free to come and costume. Ronda Ferverro from California. She's in

the chat room and she says, you guys have a seventies New York music

vibe. Wow, thank you. Yep. Somebody once said about our music

it's like kiss Black Sabbath and ACDC had a really ugly baby. Right well,

tell us whatever, tell us about influences. Who are you, guys

influenced? Spy? I can definitely I can see why someone said to you

what they said. I can hear all of that. But but in in

your own words, you guys, what who would you say? Your influences

are? Well, I mean I got started in Drummond because of John Bonham,

But I mean my my musical influences range from the Rolling Stone right up

to Radiohead. I was quite a bit of a YouTube fan back in the

day as well, just didn't care for the high hat jumble that Larry Mullens

used to do. But those are my influences anywhere, and I always I

always admired hot rock, ac DC, the who. But who's your influences?

Jo? So I I my might want to play guitars because of Matthias

Yabs of the Scorpions, No Kidding and the solo from Winds of Change.

It's probably the first video that I can remember, and watching him play that

solo in that video, it's what made me want to play. Huh.

Besides that, I mean Skinnered, Black Sabbath, A C d C.

Kiss, especially Kiss, but seventies Kiss, Jeez, Sabotage, Chris Leiva

was amazing. Randy Rhodes, Yeah, trying. I think that's pretty much

everybody. I mean, Oh, the skid Rowe Yeah, I know it

sounds weird, but not really. No, Yeah, one of my favorite

bands. Yeah yeah, no, me too. By the way, Kiss

is my favorite band. And I can definitely hear the Ace Frayley and you're

playing Yeah, yeah, I don't know why it just happens. No,

I love it. I love it. I mean yeah, I can definitely

hear it. And you know his his his approach on on some of the

uh do you well, okay, let's nerd out on this just for a

second. Do you have a favorite Ace Frelei solo love Gun No Kidding.

My favorite is Strange Ways You could cut Glass with his guitar tone on that

it's just uh, you know what I mean. But no, but the

way the way you approach your your solos that I can I can definitely hear

a lot of Ace Frelei and some of the some of the other guitar players

you mentioned too. Now, what about the other guys in the band similar

backgrounds I assume in terms of taste and music or does anybody have anything that's

really kind of unusual as far as something they like that you wouldn't expect.

The two of them are more punk, yeah, in aspects, especially Jimmy.

Jimmy's the fat punk. Jimmy's kind of rounded in in his his music.

Yeah, because you'll be talking to him about the craziest punk band and

then all of a sudden he'll pull up Sebatia Johan Sebastian Bach or something like

that. You're just like, where did this come from? Right? That's

good though, That's good. That's for Padlock. I know he the clash

Led Zeppelin. What are some of the others that he said? What's the

name of that that punk group that he's always talking about? Oh, I

don't know what what's his name name? I can't think of the sex pistols.

No, no, no, no, it's like some one from California.

He came from California originally Green Day and he he was out there with

a lot of those groups at that time period is a Green Day. They're

from California. No, no, older, older, m I'm the youngest

in the band. I'm forty four. Everybody above me is what fifty six?

I don't know. We don't have to go back, very eternal.

That's all it matter. That's right, that's right. Funny thing. We

were looking for a bass player and Jimmy, who's also a really good guitarist,

caused me up and he says, hey, I noticed I recognized your

ad on Craigslist. I'm like, are you looking for a bass player?

I'm like, uh yeah, And then it just dawned on me, Wait,

are you do you want to play bass for for for this band?

He's like, if you'll give me the shot, I'm like, oh,

hell yeah, Jimmy. Jimmy's a lot like us. I mean, it

would probably take pneumonia walking pneumonia to miss band practice. I mean, that's

how and that's why I love these guys. They are dedicated. They they

don't miss any days, unless, of course it's family emergencies or someone's in

their deathbed. Yeah. Yeah, So that Craigslist ad. We were unfortunately

trying to not tell our current bass player at the time we were separating ways.

So it was the most generic ad. There was nothing about the band.

There was. I just took to writing the ad as if it was

him. Yeah. Wow, Jimmy picked up on an instantly. Yeah yeah,

oh that's funny. So and it's one last thing. So this guy

Joe has somebody on the hook. I'm like, I don't think, so

let's just go with Jimmy. And if you don't work out, you don't

work out, then you can have that other guy. But I knew,

I knew. I just knew jim he was gonna work out. He like

I said, he very really misses rehearsal time. And and it's uh yeah,

beyond that, his personality fits perfectly for sure. For sure. Now,

So, so how was the process of replacing the other bass player,

because I mean, what was the old guy? Was was he upset or

was he just kind of because it doesn't sound like he was amicable. It

was amicable. He's in like three or four other bands. Oh okay,

I think everybody knew it was coming. Oh okay, including him, because

I got the duty of calling the bass player. Oh that's because you're the

band aid ripper. Yeah, the band aid ripper. And uh so I

call him up and I said, look, I'm just gonna get right to

it. It's not working out the way we thought you would work out.

And his response was okay. Yeah. I said, you know, anytime

you want to come by and get your stuff. I mean, I don't

want any hot feelings, but it's just it's my friend is just not working

out. And that was it. These guys all said, like, did

he say anything, did he say? I'm like he just as I said,

he was amakabolda, you know he. I guess he didn't think so.

I don't think he thought I was working out either. Yeahmself, Well

that that certainly helps. So Mike, why are you called the band aid

ripper? Remember how I said many bass players, yes, because none of

us like to do it, but Mike seems to love it. Oh no,

no, no, no, Well all right, he's the one able

to do it. He's always the one that's made the phone call. Hey,

listen, We're sorry this ain't working out. Yeah, well, well

the truth of it is, And don't take this the long way. I'm

just I'm a very very I had. It took a long time for me

to get to be this person, so I just want to be very straightforward,

truthful. It's not working out, and and that's that's it. I

mean, yeah, what else can I say? I love it. I'm

I'm I'm gonna very assertive person. Nothing to do with being to get off

my lawn kind of guy. See, he's going back to the age thing.

You see what he did there, Mike, he went back to the

age thing. You're in. You're you just made the list, buddies,

you just take the list. Oh I like the good Uh that's a that's

a deep cut, Chris Jericho there, Well, absolutely well well done,

well done. Yeah so you so. Now, so the current lineup,

it sounds like it's pretty solid and it's been has it been a couple of

years now with this lineup, it's been a while six months oh okay,

so relatively relatively new. But it sounds like it's very easy to fit in

because Jimmy just picks up. Yeah, you know, like I said,

he was playing guitar before this with Mike in a different band. Yeah,

and then so he for him to just come in and just kind of he

just knows. Yeah, that's good. That's very good, very good.

And now you guys have obviously you have a bunch of music online. Are

you working on anything new? Are you currently recording anything new or always?

Yeah? Yeah, yeah, always. It took us long to get that

part those two up there, the two albums, but yeah, we're always

working on new stuff. We probably have another, I would say at least

another ten or eleven that we have in process. Yeah, we need to

bring out and finish and get to where where we're at with the other ones,

but it's going to take time. Yeah, of course, of course.

Very good. And you guys have a show tomorrow night. Correct No,

oh no, okay, I don't know why I thought you did.

Do you have one coming up? You got one coming up soon though.

You must have one on the twenty six. But it's a private fundraiser for

uh, somebody I used to work with. Oh, no kidding, wow,

okay, okay, Yeah, a coup from Grafton, mass who him

and his spouse lost everything in a house fire. Oh, wow. Oh

that's terrible. No, that's great that you're you're doing a benefit for them

though. Excellent, excellent. Are you Are you a former police officer,

Joe? No, okay, not at all. Uh, firefighter in the

past. Oh yeah, paramedic now, but no, I have no need

want to be a coup ever, job is horrible. I did listen to

Yes you have that song uh you go we go? Uh I saw that

on on Spotify, and uh so I figured, you know, there must

be a firefighter or a former firefighter in the band. So when I was

younger, I wanted to be, you know, a firefighter completely. And

then I actually was on the fight upontment. It was me, both my

sisters, both my brother in laws, and one of my brother in laws

brothers, all in the same department. And but as time progressed, I

migrated right over to the ambulance. Yeah, no kidding. Wow, yeah,

very cool. I don't know medic since so five, so EMT since

two thousand, so about twenty two years give or take. Oh wow,

very cool. Now we love our first responders around here, that's for sure.

I don't know if it came up in your communication with Jenny when she

was booking you guys, probably probably not. But she she used to be

an EMT. Yeah, yeah, yep, absolutely. Unfortunately, you know,

when she had breast cancer and the and the aftermath of the surgery and

everything, it kind of took her career away from her. But yeah,

she used to be She used to be an EMT. So no, we

love our first responders absolutely, so so much much respect. We have two

I guess you'd call them first responders songs kind of by accident. Oh what's

the other one, uh, stretcher fetcher. Oh okay, yeah, I

saw that on Spotify too. Yeah, I'll have to I didn't get a

chance to listen to that one. I'll have to check that out. I've

got we're we are going to play Cadillac Jack at the end of our conversation

to book end the segment. That's that's a really cool song. I like

that one. I like that one tremendously. But that was a weird song

to come about, come about I don't know I get the bright idea to

write a song about drinks. Yeah, and that's what it ended up.

Ass. I like that song too, gotcha Cadillac Jack, because you know,

it's like, what it's uh whiskey seller. Yeah, and then I

have to look up the lyrics. I'm never usually sinking. I just yelled

Cadillac Jack. Yeah, I'm doing the vocals. Well. Very good,

Very good, guys. I really appreciate talking with you. Oh by the

way, our friend Joe Friday is in the chat room and says, uh,

God bless police fire and EMT EMT. My family is all police and

fire, but they all say EMTs are underrated and underpaid. Absolutely and uh

totally agree. And uh Ion Venom four in the chat room says hashtag Lynnwood

Strange. You guys rock very nice, very nice. Well we should see

yeah, yeah, we should mention. So where should people go online to

keep up with everything you guys are doing. Www dot reverb nation dot com,

slash linn It's strange, okay, or they can find us on Facebook

Lynwood Strange or you know, actually those are probably the two best ones.

And they can watch all our videos free of charge on on on YouTube if

they want. Oh yeah, this YouTube channel two yep, which you just

look for Lynwood Strange. It'll come up for those that have a few bucks

in their pockets. iTunes, you can go to Amazon and you go to

any of them. We're on something like eighteen different outlets or something. I

don't know. It was part of the package deal. Yeah, yeah,

And you guys are easy to find, you know, it can just google

you. You have a unique name, which is very important for you know,

so people can find you easily. So so that's excellent. All right,

guys, Well listen, Joe and Mike, this has been wonderful.

We'll cut you loose and then I'm gonna play this. Uh, I'm gonna

hit this track, Cadillac Jack. But thank you both for joining us today.

This has been great and h absolutely absolutely we will do this again in

the future for sure, but thank you so much. Guys. Take care,

all right, okay, okay, you got it. Bye bye,

all right, very nice. That is Lynnwood Strange, two of the guys

from the band, one half of Lynnwood Strange, and let's give this a

listen. This is called Cadillac Jack. We're gonna play this and then we're

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etcetera, etcetera. Today is Friday, August eleven, twenty twenty three,

so nice to have you all with me. Friday, of course my favorite

day here of the week at WMNH, because it is my long day here.

I get to do double duty and I do love it so so I

will be here, of course until six pm with this program, and then

I'm back tonight from eight to eleven PM for retros Spectrum Radio with policy of

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So that will be tonight from eight to eleven pm Eastern Time, of course,

because we have listeners all over the place right here on WMH ninety five

point three FM. Also a quick programming note regarding Monday's show. In the

first hour, we'll have journalists Bob Heney. Bob was supposed to join us

this week and then I couldn't make it because he was covering the nurses strike

apparently in New York City. So Bob is gonna join us this coming Monday

instead. Really looking forward to speaking with him. He is not only an

accomplished journalist, but he's a radio guy like me. He's on wb AI

in New York City, so really looking forward to talking with Bob. And

then in the second hour we have Jam Tomorrow band who's going to be coming

in and joining us live in the second hour and performing. And one of

the guys in the band, Jam Tomorrow, used to be in a band

with me, so that will be very cool to see Michael Helpley Pierce.

We used to be in a band together called Chemical Distance, but he's got

this project, Jam Tomorrow, and we're gonna be debuting their new single two

on the show. By the way, I've almost forgot to mention that very

very important. So Monday will be a lot of fun. If you've missed

any of today's show. Today has also been a lot of fun. Of

course. We had Eric Pilcher's classic film review and this week the subject being

Donnie Brass, and then we just talked with Joe and Mike from the band

Lynnwood Strange down in Massachusetts and played a couple of their songs. If you

miss any of that, of course, they will be in the archive at

WMNH radio dot org and on my website Matt Connerton dot com, so you'll

be able to get back to those later. Oh, I had forgotten about

this. H Scott Robinson says in the chat room, don't forget Texas Mike

will be singing on the show tonight. Ah, Yes, we love Texas

Mike. Maybe we can get him to sing his theme song. If you're

going to play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band,

which isn't literally true, it's just a song lyric. It confuses people,

but we've interviewed many Texas bands on the show who in fact do not have

a fiddle in the band. But yes, always speaking of Dalca tones,

always nice to hear the dalsa tones of Texas Mike. That will be fun.

I'll look forward to that. If you would like to join us,

we'd have a little bit of time left in today's show, but only a

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call at six oz three two five zero six zero seven six zho three two

five zero six zoo seven. Jay Fed in the chat room was suggesting purple

Rain. Perhaps we can get Texas Mike to sing that tonight. But looks

like our friend Shannon is on the line. High Shannon, Hello, Hello,

I just wanted to say I know what you're happy day? Yea was

a little screwed up. Yesterday was Friday yesterday. Yes, I'd say,

hey, I don't know exactly who the haters are and the bullies and the

hypocrites on Peter White's show that listen that don't like me, but I don't

think police is one of them, or Steve dj ST's. There are people

problem, I said, hi, and Mike pellapet, there's people on the

morning show who don't like you. What did you say? There's people on

the morning show who don't like you? Oh yeah, Peter said it this

morning. There's people who really don't like you. Oh my goodness, So

they can kiss my key, sir. Right, you guys like me,

the answer the phones and work there, and you know a few others.

That's all that matters to me. Well, Shannon, as Paul Stanley of

Kiss, one of my heroes, once said, you should be just as

proud of who doesn't like you as you are of who does like you.

Yeah. I don't know if that helps. Probably not, but I'm just

throwing that out there. I'll run it around him, be proud of be

equally proud of those who don't like me then as those who do. Yes,

Okay, it's good to have haters. But uh, yeah, I

don't call it anymore. Uh, you don't call the morning show respectrum because

he could never probably see you could never hear me. But I just wanted

to say tell the guys. I said hi, And uh, maybe when

Peter moved studios, he'll put Queen's City Cabin industreet opened by appointment only on

Saturdays. Huh A long time see, I remember that you guys go about

your day. You have your families to do. All this I listened for

a living basically, and a long time ago. Unless it was made up

for radio. Mike Bellapida said he was only open on Saturdays by appointment only

Oh, okay, I see so all right, Poor Peter keep saying for

Mike, Peter keep saying open tend to two. He probably wants to sleep

in and you know, I don't know, and Peter won't let him.

Wow huh and Peter won't let him. M I don't know what's what if

it's my phone of yours? But do you hear statuck on my end?

Yes? Uh, it's it's actually and I don't usually hear that sound,

but I am hearing it today. Yeah, yeah, it's strange. Well,

all right, Shannon, Well have fun tonight. All right, thank

you, Shannon, appreciate it, and I'm a nice weekend. Say hi

to Jennifer. Make you ever hug? I will okay, by bye.

All right. That was our friend, Shannon, And that does open up

the line for you if you'd like to get in with a quick call.

Six O three two five oh six zero seven six zero three two five zero

six zero seven. J Fed says, I send Shannon a hug, please

tell her, yes, of course, and Jenny also says, huggies.

Yes. No, we love we love Shannon on this program, and I

suspect they love for on the Morning show as well, but you know,

it's a little bit of a little bit of ball breaking that goes on around

here. Well, maybe that's not the right term. Who's you know,

Shannon's a female. But you know what I'm saying. I think it's all

done with love and affection. Uh, let's see, Oh something just quick,

a quick thing that I if I can find it. I thought this

was interesting. Politico has this story for the first time US government lets hackers

break into satellite in space. Hacker groups are on a military indorsed mission to

infiltrate and orbiting US satellite. This kind of thing fascinates me, so it

says here hackers in the desert in the Southwest are lobbying a barrage of cyber

attacks at a US government satellite today, and it's exactly what the Pentagon want

to tap in. The US Air Force and Space Force are hoping the effort,

the first ever attempt to use hackers to break into a live orbiting satellite,

will help them build more secure space systems and identify security gaps that could

be exploited by China and other adversaries. Five teams of hackers are competing at

the Defcon. Hey, that's a band remember Scumpy's band Defcon competing at the

Defcon cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, too remotely sees control of SpaceX satellite Moonlighter,

currently spinning in the Earth's low orbit. Along with trying to break in

and build a data link to the satellite, hackers are also trying to keep

enemy teams out of their own vulnerable system by using encryption and firewall protections.

The satellite is zooming around the Earth at about five miles per second. Air

Force and Space Force A staffers told reporters Monday the event, which comes with

a fifty thousand dollars prize for first place, may feel like a fun sci

fi thriller, but it also reflects the growing danger of America's enemies developing cyber

capabilities to infiltrate and block US defenses. Yeah, I mean, and that

is very serious and something that you know, is very potentially very dangerous to

the United States and of course dangerous to other countries too. Who you know,

we depend on this satellite technology. And if someone were to say,

for example, someone were to attack the United States and they were to successfully

take out our satellites, either destroy our satellites or infiltrate them and hack them

and find a way to render them useless, or however they were to go

about it, we'd be in real trouble. And again that applies to other

countries as well. So this is I'm glad they do this kind of thing,

because every time there's a story in the news where it's like, oh,

this government database got hacked, or you know, the Pentagon may have

been hacked or something, it's I don't know about any of you, but

I say, yikes, that's really bad, and we don't want that to

happen, it says here. China is developing capabilities to deny, exploit,

or hijack enemy satellites, according to a classified intelligence report among the dozens leaked

this spring by an Air guardsman and reviewed by The Financial Times. The US

military also uses data from satellites to guide a majority of their munitions, move

troops in positions, communicate and gather intelligence, and China has already been making

attempts. In twenty eighteen, hackers from China targeted and unidentified companies satellite communications

operator in what appeared to be a mission both to spy on and explore how

to gain control of the satellites. According to a report by cybersecurity research firm

Samana Tech. It's unclear if the attempt was successful, but the plan was

foiled. Russia has also been honing its satellite hacking capabilities in Ukraine. Just

after the Kremlin launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in February of twenty two,

it infiltrated the satellite network of US based telecommunications company of vias At.

It took the hackers about forty five minutes to deploy malware that knocked up to

forty five thousand modems offline, according to an analysis from Viasat and NSA leadership.

On Thursday of this week's earlier Vegas Cybersecurity conference, Black Hat, this

goes on, but you get the idea, so very interesting. I hadn't

planned on talking about that, but I saw that news story pop up.

There was there was some Trump news. Should we look at We'll look at

this just quickly. So if you if you didn't hear the first hour of

the show, we opened with we were talking about the Hunter Biden news today.

The legal news for Hunter Biden very bad. Another avalanche of bad news

for him. There's also Trump legal news and I figured we'd save this for

the end of the show, because you know what happened with Hunter Biden today.

That was a bit of a bombshell, whereas with Trump his legal news,

it's more of a just sort of a steady drip every day. So

I figured out, I will save this for the end because by Monday there

will be a bunch more Trump news, of course, but this is from

NPR. Judge delivers mixed ruling on protective order in Trump's jan sixth case.

The judge overseeing the former president Donald Trump's trial in the January sixth case sided

with Trump's lawyers and ruled that a protective order sought by prosecutors will will cover

only material the Justice Department designates as sensitive, not all the information to be

exchanged in the discovery process. But Judge Tanya Chutkin sided with the Justice Department

in designating witness interviews and recordings as sensitive and covered by the protective order.

She said, quote disclosure of any of those materials creates too great a risk

that witnesses may be intimidated unquote, or the jury pool be polluted. The

order is a partial win for both sides. Trump's lawyers had argued that a

more restrictive protective order would violate his First Amendment rights as he campaigns for president.

Prosecutors worried Trump would make the criminal discovery process and the details he learned

they're part of his political campaign. The judge said, quote, the existence

of a political campaign is not going to have any bearing on my decision.

I'm going to keep politics out of this unquote. By the way, so

that seems to be her position. More broadly speaking, too, is that

a political campaign will not interfere with this process, with this trial. So,

in other words, Trump doesn't get to say, according to what Judge

Schutkin has noted so far, Trump in his attorneys don't get to say,

well, you know, he's got a campaign event so at such and such

a place, or he's got a debate, not that he's planning to debate

on such and such day, so he can't be in court that day.

He's got you know, we make accommodations for you know, people have jobs,

have to earn a living, and this is his job, is running

for president. She is apparently having none of that, and that will not

interfere. She has made that clear that will not interfere in the trial and

the proceedings thereof. Other judges might allow for some of that. For example,

I assume that Judge Eileen Cannon might be more amenable to making accommodations,

but Judge Schutkins says, uh no, we won't be doing that. It

says here. Judge Schutkin noted that Trump is still governed by conditions of his

release that include not intimidating or harassing witnesses or interfering with the administration of justice.

If those kinds of statements are made, she said, quote, I

will be scrutinizing them very carefully unquote. And some of this, by the

way, is coming up because of you know that that post the other day,

for example, I think it was on truth Social you know, if

you come after us, We're coming after you, or something like that,

which some people thought was a threat to you know, the judges or Jack

Smith or But the thing is something like that is so broad. How do

you I mean, clearly he's threatening somebody. That's a threatening thing to say,

But who exactly is that intended for? You don't really know, So

it's a little bit hard to prove that that's a direct threat or that it's

a form of witness intimidation, which again may have been his intention, but

you can't prove it. It's a vague enough statement that you can't prove it.

You know, you might suspect, you might, there might be conjecture

in that vein, but you can't really be sure. So, you know,

and we are talking about his First Amendment rights. We do have to

keep that in mind. I suppose it says here and she rejected a proposal

by Trump's lawyers who allow a broad swath of people working with the defense team

to view the discovery materials. Chutkins said unindicted conspirators, her words, could

have access to these materials under the defense's broad definition, as well as volunteers

and consultants to the defense. She said, quote I live in Washington.

Anyone is a consultant unquote. Chutkins said the Justice Department bore the burden of

showing good cause for a protective order on such basis as on such basis as

witness protection, security, and protection of information vital to national security, but

she said she also needs to minimize the efforts of pre trial publicity. Under

precedent, Chutkins said, quote, mister Trump, like everyone else, has

a First Amendment right to free speech, but that right is not absolute unquote.

A protective order bars Trump and his attorneys from improperly using any evidence,

which may include sensitive and highly confidential information that prosecutors share with the defense team

before trial. Earlier this week, prosecutors proposed that Chutkin set a start date

of January second, twenty twenty four for the trial. The government lawyers estimate

their part of the case could last about four to six weeks. Trump's filing

on a trial date proposal is due next week. After hearing, the prosecutors

had a max a masked Oh my god, seriously, after hearing the prosecutors

had a masked eleven point six million documents or files. Is that possible?

Can that possibly be? Right after hearing the prosecutors at amount at a masked

eleven point six million documents or files they would start handing over to the defense

on Friday, the judge joked, quote, I can only imagine your pre

trial you're I'm sorry, I can only imagine your trial proposal now unquote,

to Trump's attorney John Lauro, A good one. She's a regular henny youngman.

That judge Chutkina, the former president who is the frontrunner for the GOP

nomination in twenty twenty four, has been suggesting he wants to delay the case,

perhaps until the next election. Well, of course, if he regains

the white outs, Trump could instruct his attorney general to drop the case or

even seek to pardon himself. Trumps pleaded not guilty to the federal charges.

Trump already has a busy legal calendar for twenty twenty four. He's set to

face trial in Manhattan on charges related to hush money payments to the adult film

stars Stormy Daniels in March twenty twenty four, and go to trial in Florida

in May twenty twenty four on charges that include willful retention of national defense information

and obstruction over classified papers. He's stored in a ballroom, bathroom, and

storage area at his Maralago resort. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg recently told the

Brian Larr Show on WNYC he would be amenable to moving the New York trial

so long as the judge there agrees. All right, well, we I

mean, how does he even have time to run for president? He's got

his dance card is there that mister Trump quite full? Oh here's the song

we haven't played in a while. We'll close with that. All right,

we gotta go. We are out of time. Please don't forget it is

Friday, which means I will be back tonight from eight to eleven pm for

Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul ec live here on WMH ninety five point three.

So please do join us tonight, don't forget Monday. On the show,

we have a journalist and radio host Bob Henily joining us from New York City.

He'll be calling in from New York in the first hour, and then

in the second hour we have Jam Tomorrow, great band with my friend Michael

help Ley Pierce. They will be here with us live in studio, and

I think they're planning to play live as well on the show, so that'll

be a lot of fun. If you miss any part of today's show,

it'll be up in just a little bit at WMH radio dot org and on

my website Matt Connerton dot com. Thank you to everyone who called, everybody

in the chat room, and thank you of course to Eric Pilter for another

great film review and the guys from Linwood Strange Great Boston Band. All right,

and uh we gotta go. I will talk to y'all a little bit

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