Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-16-23

Hello everybody, Welcome, Happy Wednesday. Here we go. It is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Also on Comcast ninety seven if you're in Manchester. Hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact in Folk show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Wednesday, August sixteen, twenty twenty three, so nice to have you all with me.

Just a few minutes. We'll be joined by our friend Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and we have much to discuss, of course, my favorite Conservative as we do every Wednesday. And by the way, that that first track that I played, that opening song, that was Freedom Wagon from the band Goose Spread and giving you a little a little bit of a preview of tomorrow. They're going to be our musical guest on tomorrow's show, skyping in from Ohio. Looking forward to talking to those guys. They have a really unique project that they're doing and how to make a quick radio edit of that song.

It had one bad word but I fixed it, so you know, but it comes with the territory. But really looking forward to having those guys on tomorrow. Also speaking of music, so Friday on the show,

in addition to of course Friday's we do Eric Pilcher's classic film review and this week the subject is the French Connection, but also I think I have that right. Also Friday, we have the world radio premiere of a brand new single from the band house Lights. Our friend Sam beechert he's been on the show before, so we are going to world radio premiere. It'll be the first time new single comes out Friday, but it will be the first time it's played on FM radio in the United States. On this show on Friday, and then on Monday, members of the band house Lights will be here with us live in studio in the second hour to perform and we'll do an interview too.

But also they will have an acoustic performance for us live in studio here in our number two on Monday. So really looking forward to that. So so lots of exciting things going on. We don't have a musical guests today. But that's good because sometimes Eric and I we get to talking and we get to the top of the hour and it's like, oh, we gotta go, and we're even though we're right in the middle of a discussion about something. So today we can kind of relax a little bit and if we if we go along, we go along, and it's not an issue.

So but yeah, so goose Bread tomorrow. Houselights World Radio premiere Friday with they will be here with us live in studio on Monday, also too. Just a little teaser for you, Jenny this morning was interviewed for a pretty big podcast and that's all I'm gonna say about that because it's it was recorded, it wasn't live, so when it comes out you'll you'll hear all about it. But stay tuned for that, so that will be that will be forthcoming. Uh. The studio line is open uh six OZ three two five six zero seven six ZO three two five zero six zero seven if you would like to join us.

We did have someone yesterday who was trying to call in at the same time that I had a guest on so oh I and the guest was Bob Henneley. If you missed yesterday's show, we talked to Bob Heneley from New York City. He's a real New Yorker and uh, that was fascinating. We've got to have him again. He was tight for time. He was only able to give us, well he give us actually more than he was expecting, a little more than thirty minutes. But a very very successful journalist, award winning journalist and successful broadcaster in New York City.

He's currently on w BAI ninety nine point five in New York, but he was on with us and just a fascinating discussion. I wish we had had more time with him, but we'll have him back in the future. But uh, but anyway, but anybody who was trying to get in while Bob was in, you know, feel free to call today. But you know, we've been trying to get Bob on for a while, and so I wasn't gonna, you know, I wasn't gonna hang up on him to take somebody else's call about you know, about nonsense. I wanted to talk to Bob about important things.

So but that was a great discussion. I enjoyed it a lot. And if you miss it, of course it is in the archive. And you can you can go go back and get it. And this is Eric. Hello, Hello, Matt, how are you good? Good? That was that was a little easier than usual to pick up. It looks like Skype has been updated and they've streamlined things. I didn't have to Uh, I didn't have to like double click or anything. It was easier for me to get on in. Actually, yeah, they must have Yeah, they must have updated something.

That's uh, that is excellent. Well, Eric Pilcher is here now. Eric is with us via Skype. So if you would like to call in, the studio line is open six zo three two five zero six zero seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at Matt Connerton dot com. And of course you can interact endo Pine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy you, Adulsa Tones, is to give us a call at six zero three two five six seven.

And actually looks like our friend Shannon is on the line. High Shannon, Yeah, I'm jumping on high I'm jumping on now so that I wouldn't bother you later. Hi Eric, Hi, Okay, Yeah, when you are indicted, don't you become a felon? No, only if you're convicted. Oh now can can the convicted felons that are out? Now? Can they vote? I think it depends on the state. Uh, different states, I have different laws. Yeah. Well, I was just curious because I totally had a brain bubble and didn't recall my John Grisham tough, So all right.

I was just worried because you know, these are the people that have rained and indicted. Don't aren't allowed to go run for stuff? You know? Right? Well, uh, you can. You can still run for office. Actually, there have been many people like what's his name, Ken Paxton, the former Attorney general in Texas. He was under indictment when he ran and won, uh the Attorney General's office in Texas. And yeah, so you can. You can still run, you just can't necessarily. It's funny, you can run, but you can't necessarily vote.

So you might be a candidate for office on a ballot but not be able to vote for yourself. Wasn't that the issue with mister crabs? Something like that. I don't even want to think about mister Krabs. But uh but yees concerns. At this point in time, I think mister Crabs is probably hopefully going to prison for a very long time. But uh anyway, oh mister Krabs. Uh but uh yeah, so uh we'll well, we'll have to see Shannon. Yeah. And now did the indictment come to trial? Correct? Oh? Yes, well okay, well not necessarily.

I mean you can always plead out, but uh, if you're talking about a particular individual who is under indictment currently, I don't think he'll be pleading out. No, no, no, I'd love to have MPR cover that trial. You know in or is your gag or to thing? No, cameras don't which which which which trial? We got four of them coming up, all of them. M well, there might be cameras in the courtroom in Georgia. Did you say him? Did you say him, Persia? No, I don't think in No, who did you say? I don't think they would allow They wouldn't allow cameras there.

No, I said in Georgia to see my heat. Oh gosh, oh Persia, all right, good gosh, golly,

take care, all right, Shannon, thank you for appreciate it. You two, and while that opens up the line for you six zero three two five zero six zero seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven. By the way, Eric, I did see you mentioned in the chat room. Uh, look like you were having a discussion and there was somebody. So well, well, let's take a look at that. I see our friend Mike is in the chatroom. Mike from of course, Queen City Cabinetry, one of our great sponsors here at w MH. And of course Mike joins us on Friday nights for retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C. Easyg is in the chatroom and says, good afternoon, you son of Birches.

I get it. Yeah, like the trees, I actually have human parents. Eric. Melanie Liberty is in the chat room, said, uh uh no swear teasing. Let's see Jay Fed of course, also in the Facebook live chat, both of them, obviously Melanie and Jay Fed from the great state of Vermont. Uh, let's see. Oh, Melanie says, happy Bennington battle Day. I the whole day off. Oh when Bennington, Vermont, they have a Bennington battle Day, that's exciting. Oh, this is the question. So Melanie said in the chat room, why are you going to review Porky's Revenge?

Eric, You promised I do, and I said, I do not recall saying I would review Porky's Revenge because I have never seen Porky's Revenge. Ah. I watched Porky's and I'm sorry to say it. I was very disappointed. I it was I think it was over hyped for I see, I see. Yes, I remember seeing one or two of those movies when I was a kid, but I don't really remember remember anything about them, to be honest with you, or very little. Let's see. Oh. Miriam Banisha joins us in the Facebook clatch at Hello, Miriam, Miriam says, I'm disappointed in mister Krabs.

Well, who who? Who wouldn't be Greg. Joseph is in the chat and says, great show. Greg. Of course, I'm another one of our great sponsors here at WMNH Clemento's Pizza. And actually Greg also a frequent contributor on the Morning Show with Peter White, and I was like hearing Greg on there, he's very good. Oh is that somebody's waving out in the hallway. I don't know if he's asking to come in. You can come in if you want.

Oh, oh, Greg, Hey, I guess, uh, Greg Joseph is going to join us. Yeah, Melanie said, what how can you be disappointed in Porkies? I just was. I had buddies that compared it to Animal House and and other movies of that time, or Fast Times at Ridgemond High, and I just didn't think it was as good as those two. I see, I see. Well we've been joined by for the first time in the history of this show. Actually Greg Joseph is here. Hey, Greg, thank you very much. Man I thank you, thank you, thank you for having me and uh, thank you Manchester.

And I want to just take a second to tell you that you are doing a really, really awesome job. Whatever you're doing here, it's great, man. We have a lot of people listening, and it's good too to be able to stop by and finally shake your hand. Yeah. I was gonna say, I don't think I've ever met you in person. So that's that's me, the one and only, the one and only wonderful to me. Yeah. We we we struggle. Some people struggle to understand that this is uh, this is really me. I walk around town and I check people staying.

I take photos with people, and that's OK. I'm a real person, yes, yes, but yeah, sometimes when you're when you're on the radio, because I hear you on the morning show sometimes and you know, people people don't you know, it's almost like they think everything's virtual reality or yeah yeah, yeah, and and and it's tough to actually also understand that a local business owner have time to you know, to to be around as well too, because most of the time they're not even around. They were either somewhere warm or they're somewhere hiding.

And then they have youth running the show. But I'm here with myself, my wife and my family making sure that everybody, you know, everybody. I'm here to give away some stuff too. So that's literally what I stopped by for. Oh you want to give something away. I want to make sure that tonight or today, either a couple that he's actually struggling or a family that's struggling, can today stop by Commenters of Manchester and I have dinner for free. Oh no, not free, just on the house, sure, sure, just on the house.

I personally legally can't give free stuff out, but I will take care of I will take care of them over there, a couple or a family struggling. So we'll cover dinner for for somebody today. Oh that's fantastic. That's it. That's it. That's literally at Oh you get somebody on the line. Oh yeah, Eric is on skype. What were we gonna say, Eric that I just said? That's amazing thing. Good work. Oh, thank you very much. Eric. It's a pleasure. I didn't even know you were here. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's that's what we're doing when we're staying focused and we're making sure that everybody have something in their belly before they go to bit today.

Oh that's fantastic. Thank you very much man, thank you for having me. Absolutely, I mean you're welcome with around. I don't know if you liked talking. No, I have to expect the way that I'm dressing right now as the way that I actually make food for people. So I am going straight back to the shop to make sure that my wife's over there. We have team over there. But it's good to be there to make sure that everybody's getting the great service. Yeah and absolutely, yeah. You have questions for me, police questions?

Well quick, one question, I have one question. Yes, yes, I'll answer one. Oh, you'll answer I'll answer one question. Okay, if you have a question, Oh, do I have a question? Policies on the line. He might have a question, you know, policee right. I know a lot of different guys. I probably don't know them in person, but I know a lot of a lot of them are on here. I think that Sam. Are you there, Paul? I'm here? Is that Greg? I hear in there? Hey, Polly, how are you by? Well? Quick to say hi and give him props for the work that he's the one.

Yeah, yeah, we love you man. I do the Retrospectrum radio with Statt on Friday night. Awesome. I'll stop by some other time. You guys just have to invite me, because I don't want to just swing in and you know, and take the shine from anybody else. Yeah. Sure, Well, I'm just wondering do you have any free food for struggling d days? You don't get paid to do a Friday night radio show. That's that you have to talk to Peter about that. Peter have some good numbers in his hands. They're just not sharing with other people, that's right.

That's all Peter White, Petal White have well I'll stop, I'll stop buying there with him, we'll both share and we'll pay for policy. Thank you man, thank you for calling. There you go all right, brother, see it all right, thanks Paul. You see what I just started. So let me let me repeat that one more time. Sorry, sorry, Matt. Any couples that are actually because a lot of time we we don't understand the fact that a couple struggles, they fight, they argue because the man probably not going to be able to provide at the sepharnal time or the wife as well to can struggle sometime.

Girlfriend. Uh you know, uh, you know, sometimes it's good to be able to leave the house and have somewhere to go and knowing that you can go somewhere and it's a family atmosphere. There's music, there's you know, the happiness there. I am inviting anybody today to stop by Clementos and we'll we'll just have a good time, to have a good time. Or any family that I actually is struggling and you can't feed your kids today, the place to be it's eighteen seventy five. Stop pool the street and just come on over and we'll take Are you outstanding?

That's that's amazing. We gotta do what we gotta do, because the thing is, I was out of sept of time, the one struggling. I was out of the sept of time, the one not being able to provide. So if now I could, I could see my kids with a smile on their face. I would love to attach copy and attach that on somebody as its face as Walter. That's all it is. Yeah, so what it is. Thank you very much for having me. Oh yeah, absolutely, You're always welcome. Greg. You don't have any polic questions for me before I leave, because I don't.

I don't usually do that. And what take questions? And I'm taking one question, you're taking one questions. Eric, Do you have a question for Greg? What's your favorite type of pizza to make? I have something really nice. I'm gonna tell you right now. The favorite type of pizza to make is the Caribbean Greg Special Pizza. We just took a couple of photos and then they will be featured in a national television very shortly, so I really yeah, no, I'm not supposed to talk about it. But that's why I can't tell you what TV exactly, But the Caribbean Greg special pizza.

It's it's just it's just to die for. I just posted on the condensal page so as well, so I had to take the photos today freshly made. I give the one the rest of it away. But it's it's it's it's a good thing. It's a it's a it's a really really really good pizza. Oh, very cool, solid, very cool, very good, excellent. Thank you guys, very much. Thank you. Watch this show. There's no other shows around at this time. All right, thank you, Greg, I appreciate it. All right. Wonderful, the great, the great Greg Joseph from Clementos.

Hey, man, it's so nice to meet you finally. Yeah, all right, Greg, take care, all right, very good. Well that was that was a wonderful surprise. It's funny, so I did see I did see Greg out in the hallway and but where he was standing. So sometimes people in the building they're looking they're actually looking for the television station on the fourth floor, but they come to the third floor and they see stuff and they think they're in the right place. I thought maybe it was somebody going to John Hopwood show or something, but it turned out to be Greg Joseph.

So very cool, and that's really cool. What he's uh, what he uh does and you know he's That's not the first time I've heard him offer to, you know, help somebody in the community. So that is amazing. All right, Well that opens up. The studio line is open, of course. Six three two five six Z seven six zo three two five ozho six zero seven. Eric Pilcher is here with us on Skype. And oh, I'm sorry, Melanie. I didn't Melanie wanted me to ask Greg about Porki's I should have asked him about pineapple on pizza.

You should have if he doesn't, because I could have asked an expert. You know. Yeah, I I tagged you in a photo Friday night. You did? And oh yes, yes, yes I remember now. Yes you left a very like

you left an angry emoji on it. Yes, yes I did. I don't understand this vitriol I'm getting, but if I may, before we get started, I would like to get on a soapbox for a brief moment. Man, I didn't warn you about this because I wanted it to be off the cop all right, I hope you're not going to describe some sort of horrible topping you like putting on pizza. No, okayod for serious? You know, you know what really upsets me? I don't know does it?

What is it? Cowardicism or cowardice in general? And you know there's one degree of cowardice. I don't know why this is just stuck in my craw recently. I could have been something that happened. I don't know, can't put a finger on it. The ultimate act of cowardice is challenging someone to something, knowing they are unable, unwilling, or just don't care to accept.

I could sit here and challenge Mike Tyson, do a fight, yes, and then turn around and say a week later, Mike Tyson never responded to me. I punked Mike Tyson out. You know what, that makes me one of the biggest cowards on God's Green Earth? Why because Mike Tyson isn't going to respond to Eric Pilcher. Mike Tyson doesn't care what Eric Pilcher has to say, let alone the fact that this guy from Cedar Rapids eyeoh what challenged him. So a note to everybody, if you're going to challenge someone one, make be a viable challenge to them.

Yes, this maybe this instance this person that challenged this other person is just so insignificant and so beneath them that they didn't even deserve a response. In two, if if you call someone a coward, please make sure you know how to spell coward. That's the other thing. Oh yeah, can't spell certain things? Shouldn't be able to call people those things. Well, some people have speech impediments. Let's just pull out a random word, nazis. If you can't spell nazis, you can't be one. You can't say someone is one.

That word is eliminated from your vocabulary. Yes, yes, I agree with you. So yeah, anyone that acts like that is just ignorant, in a total coward and not worth anyone's time. As a matter of fact, I'm disgusted. I've spent the amount of time addressing it that I have. Well, you had to get it off your chest. I understand. Yep and yep. And by the way, the studio line is open six zo three two five six zero seven six three two five six zoo seven. Oh yes, go ahead, Yeah, take your opportunity. I mean, you know, call speak with us.

By the way, Melanie in the chat room says, Shenanigans, it's pretty hard to spell too. I disagree, Melanie. I disagree because you might think a word like that, it's four syllables, it's not a word to use all the time. But it is one of those words that you can sound it out, and what you would expect it to be if you sounded out phonetically does end up being the spelling. So I disagree, Melanie. I think that word is very easy to spell. It's like the word anti disestablishmentarianism. You might think that's hard to spell.

It's I don't know if it still is. It's at times it's been referred to as the longest word in the English language, barring medical and legal terms, of course. But but if you just sound it out, it's actually not difficult to spell at all. I mean, you just break it down. I would have a different I would have difficulties spelling you. No, no, no, you wouldn't. I promise you you could do it. But our friend Ron is on the line iron. Hey, guys, hey, I just got a question for you. Yes, and it's kind of like silly, but it's I just had this conversation with my brother in law two days ago.

We were talking about Hawaii and all the problems, and his wife happens to say, yeah, everybody was hysterical, and then their husband said, no, hysterical, uh has to do with you know, laughter. And I thought about it and I said, well, I think it has two meanings, you know, laughter and so forth like that. But also, you know the word hysteria people that are in chaos. Is he right or you know, am I wrong? No, you're right. I mean you know, like like a lot of words, there are multiple meanings or connotations, and you know, depending on the context, however you use it in the sentence made the difference.

Yeah, I mean you could say something is hysterically funny, or you could say, yeah, people were hyst ercle and upset. Uh you know, yeahs close. She answered my question. Yeah, because I was getting ready to get our dictionary out and try to look up the definition. And since you guys with semi on the topic of spelling in this and that, I said, all right, I'll just take two minutes calling and get my question the answered. So you did, Hi, Eric, Hi, met, have a good show. I want to listen to the rest.

All right, thank you, Ron, appreciate the call, byye bye bye, all right, And that does open up the line for you six zo three two five six zero seven six zo three two five six zero seven. By the way, Scott Robinson says in the chat, super super califragilistic xpialidocious is hard to spell. Also, that one I agree with. I I've never attempted it, but yeah, that one is certainly on the list of things that is difficult to Yeah. I can't spell that one, even though there's a song dedicated to this, right, it's it's easier to sing it than it is to spell it.

Yes, very much. Also, I should alert you Eric, I don't know if you saw this. J fed Uh says I challenge Eric Pilcher to a leg wrestling competition. He he would win, I responded, he would win. Oh, okay, no meniscus in either knee, so he would win hands down. And uh, you know he does the ice bath, which I understand actually makes your legs stronger. It builds muscle in your legs. Yeah, he's he's already a tougher man than I am. I couldn't. I couldn't do a nice bath. I mean, I read that somewhere online, so I assume it's true.

And by the way, our friend DJ Steve is in the Facebook live chat. Of course. DJ Steve one of our co hosts on Retrospectrum Radio on Friday nights. He says, good afternoon, Matt. My favorite pizza is a meat lover's pizza. I do enjoy that quite much as well. Meat lovers is good, lots of protein lovers. Yeah. Absolutely, it covers all these parts of the food pyramid. Got the crust, which is the bread. He got the meat, protein, cheese, dairy, Uh, tomatoes, tomato sauce. So you got your vegetable mm hmmmmm.

I'm a modern day Jack Lelane. Yeah, yes, yes, absolutely, let's see. Oh. Jenny has joined us in the Facebook live chat and says, shalom, peeps, uh, shalom. I don't know if you heard earlier, Jenny. I did. I gave a little teaser that you you were you did an interview on a pretty pretty big podcast today, But I said no more than that. I figure, you know, we'll we'll wait till it comes out, obviously, But so well, let me give you the studio line one more time. Six zero three two five oh six o seven six zero three two five oh six ozoh seven.

If you're just joining us. Our friend Eric Pilter is here for our regular Wednesday segment. And uh so Eric, you had of course you are in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And uh did you attend the what do you what do you call it? Again? The is it the Iowa State Fair? Is that the state Fair? Yes? It is. No. I make it a point to not go to the Iowa State Fair one in two hours from me. Oh okay, So that it's just always so unbearably hot. I'm a baby when it comes to the heat. I do a whiny child. I get Frankie, I get just I'm unbearable to be around, more so than normal.

But yeah, I was really I mean, man, I was pretty shocked at the political turnout this year. Was it shocked in what way? Was it more than you expected? More people than you expected? How I guess how it was done? And I mean you had Ronda scientists growing pork chops for fair people. You had uh Ramish I hope I'm saying his name correctly. V Ramaswamy, Yes, Ramaswammy guarantee, Victory Andy rakipped, yes, he rapped, yes, and you know,

and then you had Donald Trump just I mean showing up not uninvited, but not a part of Governor Reynolds. Uh, she calls some fair side chats and political soap box. Yes, but he didn't show up for that. He just showed up. Yeah. It was a kind of a quick in and out right. He was there for what ninety minutes? Yeah, ninety minutes in and out? And yeah, I mean really he he has said some things in the last couple of weeks that aren't going to do him any favors in the state of Iowa. Yeah, I mean you mentioned that to me on the phone the other night.

But I have I have a thought about that. But go ahead and explain what you mean. Oh man, I'm actually really intrigued to hear your thought. Look, Iowans love our Governor Kim Reynolds, and I'm actually a big fan of Kim Reynolds. I don't agree with everything she says or everything she does, but but yeah, I am a big fan of Kim Reynolds. She a lot of people because she was lieutenant governor to Terry brand Stead for so many years, really are huge fans of hers because they love Terry Branstead, who I also told you I got I had the honor of having lunch with him once and he really is a great guy.

Again, not someone I I really agree with politically or I mean just personally. There's a couple things that skeletons in his closet that I don't agree with. Yeah, but overall was a great experience.

So yeah. He uh. But Iowan's really like Kim Reynolds. And one of the main reasons is Iowa's the only state in the United States operating at a surplus. We do not have a deficit, okid and no, and I mean there might be others now, but we're operating the surplus. Last I knew New Hampshire was as well, but that might have changed. Yeah, So there are very few states that we can say that that are operating at a surplus. Yeah. So yeah, Kim Reynolds is very well like turtle in the state of Iowa. And Donald Trump has targeted her because she refuses to declare her undying loyalty and kiss the rings of the Donald right.

She she refuses to endorse him. She's staying neutral for now. For now, yes, and there will come a time where, yes, she will have to endorse somewhat, but August is not that time. So yeah, he really that's a misstep in my opinion, that he is making by attacking Governor Reynolds. The thought that I had about that after we talked was is it really a misstep or doesn't matter? I mean, he's I don't think, because typically supporters of his will choose him over anybody. I mean they don't. I don't. I can't imagine that the average Trump supporter in Iowa is even cares.

I mean, you know, they might continue to love Kim Reynolds, but I don't think. I don't think that Trump criticizing Kim Reynolds is going to matter to the average Trump loving Iowan. That that's a fair point. But it depends on how much further he takes this, And that's that's that's my bigger point is how much how much further does he go? Once you've disgruntled the don it's it's almost never over. The man is great a holding grudges. Oh yes, very very I gotta I gotta give him credit. His ability to hold the grudge is unmatched.

He still has an issue with Megan Kelly, so yeah, and that was for nothing. So yeah, he can certainly hold the grudge. So it's gonna be dependent on how far he goes with this. And usually here in the state of Iowa, who the governor endorses. The Des Moines Register, which is our top newspaper in the state, falls in line with endorsing. Okay, they don't rock the bow. So at what point in the process, So historically does the governor usually typically make an endorsement there would say, I want to say, it's probably November, okay, right bow before the candidates really start hitting Iowa hard for about a month.

That's when she makes her endorsement, and she will go on campaigns stops with them to the bigger cities and some of the smaller ones as well, especially if it's an area that's a hotly contested area in the state des Moine generally, shockingly enough, isn't hotly contested. Usually they go with if they go with who the governor supports. Cedar rapids can be where you get a lot of the hotly contested areas within the state are the farming areas. Really they yeah, they get very divided and it can take quite some time for those results to roll in.

If you if you go to our caucus in a big city, is like it's pretty decided, But in the smaller cities there's a lot of posturing that goes on. Okay, and when is the caucus? Is it January? Yes, it's the first Tuesday into anywhary Okay, less at Paul saw a New Year's Day. Then it's the following Tuesday. Gotcha? So do you have any sense of so me from my uh, from where I sit. I mean, obviously you know Trump I'm absolutely certain will win New Hampshire. I'm just I'm operating under the assumption. Now tell me if I'm wrong, because obviously you're you're there in Iowa.

But my assumption is Trump will win Iowa. I realize he didn't in twenty sixteen, but it's you know, he's he's so so much more popular now with that core base of the Republican Party, that thirty five percent that's with him no matter what. So my assumption is that he will win Iowa and then win New Hampshire and then what's next. I think maybe Nevada and then South Carolina or anyway. I'm predicting that he's going to wrap this thing up pretty early and that he's going to easily win both Iowa and New Hampshire and then it's you know, but because I'm a I mean, he's going to be the nominee, do I would would you say I'm wrong about Iowa?

Is there any reason to think that there could be some sort of an upset there? To quote him at the fair this past weekend, he said, I'm fifty points up in Iowa. Five Oh, I'm not working right. It's August though, yeah, you know. Governor Reynolds said this and said it pretty eloquently that it's August. It is too early for us to kind of say it's over. I mean, there are things that can happen. I will say this. I have seen two different superpacks launch attack ads against him. Now we're up to two in Iowa this early in the game.

That's very, very bizarre to have for pack's launch attack ads on one person in particular, so that that could start an undercurrent within the Iowa Republican Party that causes this divisiveness even in the bigger cities, which if that happens, then you can kind of start to see a trend, possibly because the great thing about Iowa being the first one up first in the nation, sorry John Hopwood, is that is that really they can set we have a way of setting the trend, if that makes sense, mad Well, I think I think sometimes that that's true.

We sank Howard Dean. I mean, you talked about it last week. We were the Iowa was the Iceberg and Howard Dean was a Titanic. Yeah. True, It's absolutely true. I mean, and people misremember some details about that. People think, oh, it was the scream, but no, he let out that scream after losing the Iowa caucus. Because in the way I remember it is in the in the days, maybe the couple of weeks, but certainly in the in those days leading up to the caucus, all of a sudden, John Carry out of nowhere really just uh surged and wound up eating Howard Dean.

You know what John Carry did that year was actually a stroke of brilliant He did what Trump did in twenty sixteen. He hit the rural farming areas, and Howard Dean was hitting the big areas. He was hitting the Cedar Rapids, the des Moines, the Cedar Falls, the quad Cities. Here is John Carry. He's hitting Osciola, Iowa. He's hitting uh Masson City, He's hitting uh what's another one's spirit Lake, clear Lake. He's hitting the small towns oscar Loosa. He's going Ma and Chester, He's going hard on them.

And that really there's something to be said that you hit those densely populated rural areas late in the game, they can carry you to a victory. Yeah, it certainly worked. And uh yeah, So that year is an example of you know, because once once John Carey was able to win Iowa, then all of a sudden, he's viable. He went from from uh, you know, being an afterthought to being viable and then you know, on the Barack Obama in two thousand and eight, Yeah, he won Iowa. Yeah, everyone had, I mean a lot of pundits had Hilary winning Iowa.

Oh yes, some of them said it would be eight or nine points. Yeah, and I mean not necessarily a landslide by any stretch, but it was If Hillary wins Iowa, she's going to win New Hampshire. And not trying to diminish or insult you, mets, so please don't take it like this. He said Trump was going to win the nominee this year. Oh, he's gonna win Iowa. Then he wins New Hampshire. Then it's just a snowball effect. But that I mean it does in some ways. Iowa can set the tone. And I think these indictments and what ends up happening as we go down this road, they're going to play a big part in this.

Now, if I had to put odds on it of Trump being the presumptive nominee, I would say sixty percent,

maybe upwards of seventy percent. Again, it's going to be can Trump get the people that he shouldn't get? Can he get people to come over from the Rondas Santist camp, the Chris Christie camp, the Ramishwami camp, Nicky Hayley? Can he get those people once their candidates are out? And if he goes on just consulting these candidates, he's not He's gonna alienate a lot of those bases. See, I think he can. I think he can get those people because the people are supporting those candidates. They're supporting candidates who, well, you know, with the exception of Chris Christie, and I suppose too, with the exception of Asa Hutchinson and Will Hurd, both of whom have even less of a chance than Chris Christie.

You know, these these other candidates are very deferential to Trump, Ramaswamy saying, you know, Hill, pardon Trump. And I mean not that Ramaswamy has any chance, but but they're all tiptoeing around. Say anything if you don't if you have a snowball's chance in hell? Right, right, yeah, exactly, say no taxes, do that. Andrew Indrew Wang I think his name was Yang Andrew Yang? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it didn't he come up with something given everyone in two thousand dollars? Check, well, that universal basic income, which is which is my dad actually believe it or not told me he supports that concept, not necessarily Yang's approach to it, but that or that he or that he's open to it.

It's it's a very interesting subject, actually, universal basic income, which to a large degree would actually wind up replacing the current social safety net. But but but he yeah, I mean, but he never but again, you know, to your point, he never had any kind of chance at all, and say whatever, right, I mean, I mean, I could run for president on the platform that you will never pay taxes. Ever. Again, I mean, who's going to vote for me? I'm sure there'd be some whack jobs. That's like, yeah, that Pilcher guy, he's got he's got his head on straight, right, I'm sure i'd get the cleetest and Jim Bob vote.

But yeah, so yeah, I get it. You can say whatever you want, right, but I think, uh, I mean I would put the I would put the percentage much higher that Trump is going to be the nominee. I wouldn't say sixty to seventy. I would say eighty to ninety. I mean, I mean that you, I mean, what what make I'm just hopeful? What what? What could possibly take him out of it? I mean, if if you're running around with four indictments and you're still viable, and you're and it's actually strengthening you instead of weakening you, what could possibly take him out?

There's nothing, There's nothing they could take him out. I mean it depends again, it depends on what else comes out. I mean, look, you, I mean you just basically yeah, I don't know. It's bizarre. What is happening here? Strange strange times to say the least. I had. Let let me see if I can pull up her post. This is I read this and I I wasn't even going to comment on her post because it was just so factually in just factually inaccurate. It just was, by the way, while you look for that, Melanie.

Melanie said in the chat when we were talking about the caucus, she said, caucus always makes me chuckle with my humor of a twelve year old. Yeah, that word makes me Google too. Oh you found the outpost. Oh yeah, I'm not gonna say their name because yeah, it's irrelevant, but this showed up on my Facebook feed, and this is verbatim. All I can say is good luck to you, Fanny Willis on your indictments of Trump in the other eighteen because you will never succeed in getting convictions on them into Jack Smith.

You won't either, as you are walking with Satan and Trump in the eighteen others are walking with God. God will have the final say. And please no comments from any you Trump haters, as they will be deleted. Someone commented, and she said, they won't let this. I can't even say it without laughing. They will not let this strong, god fearing man alone. He is not perfect by any means, none of us are, but he did more good for our country than any president I know, and against all odds, God was with him.

And if God is for you, no one can take that away. God will have his way no matter who he picks. Oh boy, well you know, Eric, don't. I don't know if you ever heard me talk about the dream that I had where I went to heaven and I got to go into God. Have you ever heard the story? I have not

you. I feel free to tell it because my head hurts. I had this dream once that there was it was either a dream, it seemed very real. I might have had an out of body experience. But in my dream I went to I went to heaven and Uh, Saint Peter let me in. I was a little surprised, to be honest with you, and he said, you know, he told me to go have a seat in God's office and wait for him, and God would be with me in a few minutes. And I go into into the office, and of course, you know, there's a big golden desk there, and uh, hanging on the wall behind the big gold desk is a, of course, a giant portrait of Ronald Wilson Reagan, God's second favorite president.

And uh, and uh, of course there's a big American flag hanging uh to one side and to the other side of God's desk, there was this big life size one of those, uh standis one of those cardboard cutouts that you can stand up of Donald John Trump, uh, God's favorite president. And then I and then I woke up. But that was my dream and it seemed very real. That seems like more of a nightmare to me. It felt great. I mean, I just felt that peace while I was standing there gazing at the life size cardboard cutout of Donald John Trump in God's office.

My religious if the basis of my religion is that Donald Trump is the second Coming, I really have to question my faith. I don't think. Yeah, I mean I haven't heard anyone say that he's a second coming necessarily, but I think he's here. Is a lot of Messiah complex yeah, with its Well, like I've noticed, I often't ask myself because one of the oddities in American history that always like if there's a documentary on about it, I have to watch it. If there's a new book I want to read it. I can't explain it.

Maybe I should talk to my therapist about it. But Jean Town, Jim Jones just it's compelling to me. Yeah, And so that's but I always ask myself, how could this happen? And then I see Donald Trump followers and I'm like, bingo, well, I think I think eric And I want to be a little bit careful about how I say this, because I'm not people might take this as I don't mean this as as an insult. There's a genuine observation that I'm making here. But but I think that some people are are used to, let me put it this way, I think some people are used to turning on their televisions on Sunday morning and seeing a con man in a very expensive suit saying follow me.

It is send me money, follow me, I'm the way. And I think and because of that people, I think some people are just were preconditioned over decades to follow someone like Trump. Does that make sense? It makes perfect sense? Yes, yeah, uh satellite pulpits yeah, yep, totally makes sense because if you you know, if you hear I mean, anytime that that Trump has asked about his alleged faith, I mean he he trips all over himself so awkwardly. I'm sure you've seen it back in twenty sixteen, when I think it was John Heilman and uh, who's the other guy?

I forget the other guy's name, but they're they're interviewing Trump about religion, and they're they're asking him about his faith and they ask him, you know, is there a particular passage or a book in the Bible that really speaks to you? And he can't come up with anything. He's just like he's gonna bss his way through it. And then one of them asks him, well, are you a oh Mark Halpern that's the other guy was John Hilman and Mark Halperner's are sitting with him, and then one of them says, well, are you like a New Testament guy, or do you prefer the Old Testament?

And that's a layup, by the way, because even as a non religious person, I know the answer to that is will you say, well, the New Testament is the story of Jesus. You know that's an easy one, right. Trump couldn't even get that. He goes, well, you know, I think I like them both equally. You know, they're they're they're both good books. Like he just like the insincerity just drips from him, and yet millions of people believe that he's a man of God. He's like I would have been like so President Trump, Uh, are you more of a sodom and Gomorrah guy?

Or or are you more are you more book a joke? Well, well, you know I like them both. You know, they're both, they're they're both very important, you know. I mean he just doesn't even It's like it's like he barely even puts in the effort, you know, like like he almost like he knows he can just skate. He knows he can just say anything and people and people will buy in and it just doesn't even matter. Well, like I at the church I used to attend, I actually questioned this once and someone said, well, the only person who can judge President Trump is God.

And then no less than two minutes later, they just start ripping Joe Biden course of course, wait wait wait wait wait wait wait ah for like his parenting skills with Hunter Biden, and it's like, okay,

hold on a second. Yeah, the hypocrisy here is quite rich. Well that's my again, as as someone who's not religious, I mean, that's that's kind of my whole in a in a broader sense. You know, Trump is really just a microcosm of this, a symptom of this larger thing, this phenomenon is my my in a broader sense, my problem with Christianity is, uh, where's the Christ? You know, if nobody wants to put any Christ in their Christianity, then I don't know what y'all are doing,

you know what I mean? There's no Christ in any of it. Let me be let me be clear here. If this person were able to tie Hunter Biden's activities, the alleged activities, to Joe Biden, then might be like, Okay, now we're having a meaningful discussion, because if Joe Biden did what is in which what is in the Hunter Biden indictment, then yes, he is wrong unequivocally and he should be held accountable if that includes up to and including impeachment. But at the end of the day, it's just like this idea, It's like, okay, so where do you fall on grabbing a woman by the private parts?

Then? Like these are questions I have or saying that, or a father saying his daughter was hot and if she wasn't my daughter, I would date her. Where do you fall on that spectrum? Here? Like there are things he has said, in things that he has done. There is a photo of him holding a Bible upside down outside of a church that I agree with you wholeheartedly, Matt. It's just mind boggling to me that these people blindly believe he's this man of God when there have been so many instances where you're like, not, hold on, wait a second, I know so, I mean, then you have the whole Stormy Daniel situation.

The Bible states that a man is to love his wife as much as Jesus loves the church. He cheated on his pregnant wife with a porn star and then allegedly used campaign funds to pay her off. Money that you that these church people donated were used to pay off a porn star. I'm sorry to me, that sounds like that sounds like second hand prostitution. So I'm curious. Eric. I don't know how much you want to get into this, but so that's up to you. But I'll just kind of ask when you would when you were still at that church and you would have these conversations with people and you would question these things.

Did you encounter any instance where somebody was open to what you were saying or were you really kind of on an island there where you were the only one kind of putting your hand up and saying, hey, guys, I have some concerns. I was on an island. Wow. Nope, nope, on an island, completely on an island on that one, Yeah, I was. Some people would talk about me behind my back, say I'm a quote unquote liberal puke. Uh you know that I'm faking be faking being a Republican that I'm really I don't vote for God.

I vote for things that go against God. Uh So. Yeah. There was a lot of things that were said, like I get a post regarding like you nighting as a country after the election. Yeah, and how wrong. January sixth was shortly after it happened, and our pastor's daughter personally attacked me on an open form,

like in public. And then she's like, didn't you wear a hat to one night to our church that said Trump twenty twenty four, making liberals cry again, Yes, I did, so what Yeah, Like, what's that matter? It has nothing to do with anything. It's up there with if someone on the right, on the on the left decided to have a funny Joe Biden hat bashing Trump, if they had her, if they had a hat that said Biden twenty twenty four grabb him by the vote. I would chuckle, that's good. I should market that. But yeah, it's like, what's that matter?

And and the thing that that's that's so troubling is that this is all about this is all about one dude, This is all about it's all about Trump. And and because you're you know, I mean, your politics haven't changed, right, I mean, you're still a conservative. I assume you still generally support Republicans and Republican ideas and and but but it's but because you separated yourself from one guy named Donald Trump, they just they just turn against you. That's what's so scary about all of this to me.

And that's why, you know, and and and to see the way it's become such a cult of personality around one guy. Oh and by the way, I thought idolatry was supposed to be a sin, but but these people engage in a level of idolatry that for for Donald Trump, that is beyond anything I've seen in my lifetime. And they don't get it and they never will. Unfortunately. Let's go further down the rabbit hole, if you don't mind, Matt. Yeah, let's look. Donald Trump has made a lot of his money Trump casinos in hotels.

Gambling is supposed to be a sin. His money came from sin. I never even thought of that. What are we doing here? Like? And I will go on the record in anyone in this anyone listening to this, write this down, take a picture. I don't care. I will not, under any circumstances vote for Donald Trump in twenty twenty in the next to lack Sorry I lost my train of thought there, will not do it. I do not care. If he's the Republican nominee, I will vote libertarian. I will write in. And if if the Democrats run someone up that isn't named Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, I might be inclined to listen to him.

Sure, sure, I will not vote for that man at all. Not I supported him in uh twenty twenty, I'd be grudgingly voted for him in twenty sixteen. Won't do it again. Yeah, we'll not do it in twenty twenty four. This man is a threat to the very fabric of our country. If you need any more example anymore, I tell you open your eyes.

Just open your eyes and watch video of January sixth, wash All of your preconceived notions, await that. Oh well, some of them worrying Antifa and Black Lives Matter people that the Democrats brought in. Get that out of your head. Now, yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of excuses and justifications I hear from people, and it's uh yeah, that's one of the top ones I have heard. Oh yeah, yeah, get that out of your head. Because these people that have been arrested for this and rightfully convicted for this heinous act, they are not Black Lives Matter supporters.

If you look at their rap sheet and their Facebook profiles, you can see that they certainly aren't Antifa. Well, the thing I always say to Eric is if you, you know, even even if you take if you take everything out of it, everything else out of it, other than other than uh not even not even January sixth itself, not even the riot itself. But just if you take everything away, all the negative stuff about Trump, Let's say that every negative thing that I are, you, or anyone else about Trump has ever said not true.

He was actually a great president, great guy, man of God, whatever you want to think about him, all the great things, even if he's the sault of the earth. And even even if January sixth, let's say January sixth was you know, it was really Antifa trying to make Trump supporters look bad, or whatever other stuff we've heard, or was really the FBI coordinated it, or whatever the excuses are. Even if any of that is true, and even even if the election was stolen, even if that's true, which which we know it wasn't.

But even if that's true and Trump was right, there's one fundamental fact that is fact that no one can dispute, and it's this, take everything else away, there's this one fundamental fact. When our cap at all was under attack, the President of the United States, who swore an oath when he took the oath of office, he put his hand on a bible, and he swore an oath to protect under the Constitution, to protect our country from all enemies, foreign and domestic. And for two and a half hours he sat and declined to defend the capital.

At any moment he could have defended the capital, but he made a choice, a deliberate choice not to. So even if everything else, take away everything else, that one fundamental fact cannot be challenged, It cannot be disputed, and that to me, you know, that's the only that's the thing that matters the most out of anything. And there's nothing anyone can say to explain that a way that he said at there and watched it on television. He failed to protect the capitol, which means he failed to protect the country because he made a choice, a choice not to uphold his oath of office.

Yep. And you know some people, some people will sit there and they will say, well, he came out and said stop two and a half hours after it started. Yep. At that point, at that point, that's that's like the little kid that comes and brings a little water bucket to a house fire. Well, not only that he came out and said stop, but I would argue that he actually gave aid and comfort to the enemy in the process because he came out and said, please stop. But I love you. I understand why you're upset. You have a right to be upset.

I get it. I'm with you as a whatever else he said. So he came out and expressed his support. He said, but we have to have peace. You have to go home now. But I understand. Oh yeah, that's what he said to I understand. I'm upset too. I understand for a president of the United States to do that, to say things like that to people who are attacking our capital, and then for millions, millions of Americans to be perfectly fine with that. Dude, We're living in the twilight zone, man, These are very very bizarre times, very bizarre.

Yep, absolutely absolutely well, any so, any any thoughts on the indictments. It's been quite a week already. My thoughts haven't changed, if it in the indictments. I actually went through the Georgia one. I skimmed through it. I didn't read all of it, obviously, and I love it when people were like, I've read that in those indictments from cover to cover. You have not. Trump's lawyers haven't even read those darned things from cover to cover. You A majority of Trump's supporters are still probably stuck on hop on pop.

Well, you didn't read those indictments because there's no pictures. Oh my, you're going in Yeah, like you like, wait a minute, you probably have a hard time getting through an issue of guns and ammo, No, it's okay. I just want to say, I just want to say, for the record, I know people who support Trump who I think are very very intelligent people. I disagree with them, and I'm completely baffled by them. But I but I don't. I don't sorry. I should not. No, no, don't don't be sorry you ever. You You're free to express yourself.

That's what we do on this show. Eric, you don't. You don't have anything to be sorry about. I just want to be clear. I do not co sign those particular comments, right, please that the ones that have told me that, I'm like, Okay, you have a problem getting through an issue of guns and ammo. You did not sit there in read an indictment from cover to cover. Yeah. Stop, I didn't even read it from cover to cover. No, I haven't read it either, the Georgia indictment and looking at the key points, and I must say, yes, there are some things that it's like, really, what are we doing here?

He called a phone number and that's now criminal conspiracy. But there are other things that I'm like, Okay, that's a red flag. That's wrong. See, we lack open mindedness. Mark Meadows just trying to his lawyers are trying to get this kicked to the make it, make it federal, I mean, take it out of Georgia, which would be good for Trump in theory, because that's that's another thing that if he's convicted, he'll be able to pardon himself if he's if he's president. That's the that's the strategy, because let's be frank, the Democrats are not gonna usurp Joe Biden.

They're not gonna say, hey, you can't run, I know, and they should. Oh. By the way, Joe Friday and the chat room says, I only read or I only read Mad magazine from cover to cover. I I subscribe to Fangoria seventy dollars a year for four issues. Oh my god, yeah, it's Matt. Fangoria is now twenty dollars an issue off the news stand. Well, I hope you read that cover to cover for that kind of money. No, I actually don't. Oh my god, really yeah, nah uh yeah. But my point is this, So, yeah, anyone who says they've read the indictment cover to cover.

If ten people told me that, I would probably question nine of them. No you didn't, Yeah, yeah, no, it would be a lot. It would be a lot books I've owned for ten years that I haven't even read cover to cover. So yeah, No, that's ridiculous. You haven't read the entire indictment. I mean you couldn't read. You wouldn't people wouldn't read the entire indictment if they released it like a novel like they did the Star Report. Oh yeah, yeah, boy, those those were the days, simpler times. Yeah, when when a president got indicted it was like a tawdry romance novel.

Well, I believe that's where they put it too, and the supermarkets right by the Harlequinn romance novels. Yeah, for anyone who doesn't know when when Monica Lewinsky happened, they actually did. You could you could go and buy well, I'm sure you still could. You could go on Amazon and get it. They actually did make it into a book, The Kenneth Star Indictment. Yeah. Oh, by the way, you mentioned Joe Biden. Do you have any kind of a prediction in terms of you said See John Hopwood was saying, I thought John might stop in today he's in the building.

I'm surprised he didn't. But John thinks that Gavin Newsom is that they're going to somehow get Biden out and Gavin Newsom in. Or he thinks it's a possibility. I don't see it happening. I think Gavin Newsom is actually setting up a run for twenty twenty eight, is what he's doing. But uh No, I think it's gonna be Biden. I think we're stuck with Biden. I think I give a ten percent chance of what John Hopwood says happening. Really. I say that because this Hunter Biden stuff is kind of picking up some steam here and if if I have I have no reason to think this.

It's just a gut feeling I have, and I have a lot of gut that there's a red

that there's a red flag that hasn't been thrown yet. There's something here that it is going to set the world on fire. Oh, speaking of fire, Joe Friday says Matt mentioned cornhole at bonfire on Sunday, August twentieth, a fundraiser for Special Olympics for the Fire Police baseball game. So there you go, Hey, Joe Friday, message that to me on Facebook if you want. I'll mention it every day. I just need if you if you message it to me, it will it will remind me. I'll read it every day on the show.

That's a very very good cause. But yeah, I mean that might be why. You know a lot of people, you know, people who want to assume the worst regarding Biden, say, of course it Oh, they just elevated David Weisse to UH special prosecutor to you know, protect Bidens and those Biden adjacent from having to testify in front of Congress and this and that, because now they won't be able to testify because they can't reveal anything about the investigation. But I think that there's I think you're right, Eric, I think there's probably more a lot more to hunter Biden.

That's why this is, That's why this has happened. And I'm sorry to cut you off, matt A. You need to look at the senators that are calling for a full invet, a full investigation. Chuck Grassley from Iowa, who is well respected across the aisle. And there's another one too that are actually saying we have issues with David Weisse. Mitch McConnell is another one that's calling for this. So there are some heavy hitters within the Senate saying we need there, we need to really look into this, and I think that I think that might lead to why I feel like there's something that there's a bomb that hasn't been dropped yet, there could be, you know, Marrick Garland did not say.

He declined to comment, if I remember correctly, when asked if the president was one of the because as others being investigated, not just Biden, Hunter Biden, he declined to comment on whether the president was part of that in terms of the investigation. Sometimes silence can be so loud. Well, yeah, in politics, very often it's not what you say, it's what you don't say. But I you know, I've been saying for months and months and months that you know, Biden should not be seeking re election. He absolutely should.

I think he's selfish. Listen. I appreciate, you know, I supported him. I appreciate him getting us through the pandemic. I think we needed him for that. And I have some other you know, to me, it's a mixed bag. There are things about the Biden presidency that I very much like and appreciate, and some other things I would be critical of. But you know, he's he's one year younger than Mitch McConnell. And when Mitch McConnell had his little incident, which has still not been explained, I kept saying, and you've probably heard me say it on the show.

I kept I kept saying, you know, Joe Biden is only one Mitch McConnell incident away from losing his presidency. If can you imagine what will happen if Joe Biden has a moment where where he just freezes up for twenty three seconds. Stop talking, Matt, Matt, stop because if you keep talking, you can speak it into existence. That in my head, I'm going through the pecking order and it stops at one person, and we're better off with Biden than who the second person is. Well, I don't know. I don't share the uh.

I don't share the general antipathy people seem to have for Kamala Harris. But oh but uh, you know, the man is eighty years old. It's it's time, you know. Thank you and good night, mister president. I don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he should resign. I'm just saying that welcome. Just just he should not be running. He should he should not be seeking re election. It's it's absurd. It's absurd that we're in this position. It's absurd that in twenty twenty four we're getting a rematch of Trump versus Biden.

It's all unacceptable. It is, and he's like it goes back to a point I've made previously the uh the South Park episode bag of feminine hygiene product versus turd sandwich. Well, but that's well, but at least one is useful. But yeah, but useful totally one certain group of people, right, well, they're at the population. But but uh, but the point being, I mean, yeah, Biden's got got two major liabilities. One his age and the other is his son. And neither of those. I mean, look, usually when a political candidate of any kind, whether they be an incumbent president or anybody else, you know, you've got you've got liabilities you can you can work on, try to improve, and and you've got some things you just can't change.

And the two biggest liabilities that Biden has he can't change. He can't get younger, and he can't do anything about his kid. And I mean, you know, I'm sure there is some political friends he could call that could do quote unquote something about his kid. Uh. Oh my, but I mean, man, my goodness. I mean, I've never looked at the son of a president and been like malib the movie Malibu's Most Wanted needs to happen here. I look at Hunter Biden and I'm like, this might not be a bad idea. Change a kidnapping, get him out of the limelight, do something.

This kid's a train rapt too. It's too late for that. But it's much much too late for that. But yeah, it's it's it's such a that that's only going to get worse. See that's the thing too. These are liabilities that not only can they not be fixed, but they're only going to get worse. Joe Biden is only going to get older and right, and this investigation is only going to drag on. And

it's just I mean again, there are things about this president that I genuinely like. So I don't take any great joy in saying this, but the old man's gotta go. It's just the reality of it. He has had his moment in the sun. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean he's had look, yeah, Eric, fifty years of public service. If he just made this his last hurrah, he gets to go out on top. He gets to go out literally at the top. Doesn't everyone want to go out at the top of their career. He'll be going out as president.

I mean you you literally can't do any better than that. You know, he could do the Nixon salute without the federal indictments. Well, I don't think Nixon was ever indicted for anything. But no, he wasn't actually, I mean he would have been eventually, but Ford saw to that that didn't happen. But Nixon, he could do the Nixon salute without the public shame, yeah, exactly. Or or he could just give us one last come on man, you know, whatever he wants to do, and then he could just fly off into the sunset.

It'd be great, Yeah, simpler thinking. But he's uh, but he's he's selfish. I mean, I hate to say it, but he's I think he's very selfish and uh, you know, and it's better for the country. Again, I hate to be agist, but I think it's better for the country to have some younger energy in there. Because here here's the other thing. So when it comes to the general election, if you have somebody young who's energetic and and they've maybe they've even you know, God forbid, some new ideas or something, that's going to make Trump seem all the more sort of old.

And in the past, you know I'm talking about swing voters. You know, they're they're more likely to look at Trumps. Yeah, he's you know, let's leave him in the you know, he's yesterday. Let's just leave him in the rear view mirror. Let's vote for someone younger, with more ideas and more energy and all of that. And instead, you know, we're gonna have a guy who's even older than Trump. You know, I mean, he actually makes Trump seem yet because Trump, you know, as much as I don't like him, I will say this for him.

I don't see any signs of frailty. He never sounds like he's whispering his way through a speech, you know, I mean, you know, he doesn't seem like he's it. Don't get me wrong. I mean actually the irony of that being though, and physically, Biden is in better shape. You know, he's thin, so he's not overweight, he's physically active, he likes to ride his bike and what so he'll probably outlive Trump, even though, even though he's older, just because he has so much better health habits. But but Trump doesn't seem frail, and Biden does at times seem I mean, he's he does have the old man shuffle when he walks.

They try not to show that. The media tries to cover that a little bit. They try to cover that up. But if you see Biden walking, you know from a distance he's got he's got the old man shuffle going, and that's only going to get worse. Yeah, yep, So I got nothing to add. It's yeah, yeah, it's all. It's all very uh.

Now now I'm feeling depressed, but yuh. But we do live in in interesting times, so there's that. Well, Eric, we have You've been very generous with your time and we've kept you much longer than usual. But I always enjoy the discussion. But before we wrap up, we should talk about uh Friday's film review, and I know that you also wanted to talk about Stember. Yes. Friday's film review is The French Connection. In observance of William Friedkin's death, decided to do The French Connection this week.

Actually watched it this morning, and it is really an intense film. A few scenes I want to go back and rewatch just because of how like real it is, and just amazing performances by Gene hack By Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider in that film brilliant performances. Yeah, it makes me want to see it. I've never seen it. Just such such a great film. And you really kind of see that the new Holly, the tip of the new Hollywood Iceberg, even though this film really kind of jumped started with aiming more towards ultra realism in film.

All right, and then and you want to talk a little bit about September. Oh, yes, you know, I have been blessed and I'm very gracious to you Matt Wmnh and Peter allowing me for almost two years now to do classic film reviews. So I always have the idea of what's the next step, how can how can it evolve? What can what can I do to make it not Oh, it's just another review this week. What I've decided is twice a year. It won't be twice this year, but it'll start in September. I'm gonna do kind of like a lifetime Achievement award for a person in cinema, whether it be a director, an actor, actress, no matter what it could be, where for that month we cover their films as a tribute to them, and with September leading into the month of Halloween in October.

I think you're the first recipient of this has to be a director that I feel is vastly underrated and what his contributions are to the horror film genre are just understated and have never been given the full credit he is owed. And that man is director George A. Romero. So in the month of September, we will I will be covering the films of George A. Romero. We will start with his apocalyptic film The Crazies, then we will do then we will do creep show,

one of his rare non horror films, Night Riders, and then to wrap it up, the Landmark film Night of the Living Dead. And why we're closing with that film is because the first film in October for our horror film fest is going to be Dawn of the Dead, the sequel Tonight of the Living Dead. So for the first time in classic film reviews, we're going to cover the first film and then the next week the second film. Very good, by the way, I think we have a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton. Unleash. Who's this you know?

I really feel sorry for the people in New Hampshire to have to listen to this show. Unbelievable. I mean, hey, Joe, Joe, at least Matt can have a regular show. You haven't had one for like what eight months.

Don't worry about what I have, boy, because when Nimes get back on the year will happen. Okay, you're all finished. I send my YouTube videos and I meant it every word I said of it. Don't worry every one night. Come on, I'll come on when I'm good and ready. Just remember one thing when I'm on. It's all done. That's all I got. That. That's it. It's all done. You're all over. But I like to say one thing to mister Ratso if I may, uh huh, yes, I'm here, Uh, mister Ratso. Yes, somebody's calling me. I'm not going to answer.

Yes. You know, in nineteen soccer that was a secret war in Cambodia and Laos that the uh American public did not know about for a few years. And I feel with you you are conducting the same secret war against me. So you have to squeakily clean image. But I wonder if the people would know the last year or so. Shut up, Eric, I'm talking in the last year or so or maybe more. I don't know, but especially in the last six months, I've noticed a lot of activity on my channel, and I know you have directed your chanter and a few other people like Billy Painter and a few others two and some of your friends.

And the Jerry Robinson was a madle thing. He had to shut down his channel because he was stealing my material. And I wish your people would know the harassment. Not you per se put your homeboys out there. You do them favors, right Ratzo. You give them special treatment, you give them shows, or you give them appearances on your show or whatever on IPM, whatever on the name the harass. And I just want to know, Matt, are you not threatened by me? Like Eric said, I haven't done a show in so forth, but when I come on the air, it's all gonna be over.

It's gonna be over for all your misfits out there. Not you so much because you're established, but your misfits, it's gonna be all over for them, because all of the misfart. You know who I am, your radio how audience those who I am? So I want to I want to hear from you, and I want you to admit and be forthcoming in front of your audience that you are doing a secret war on me for the last six months or better, and you do favors for those people who do successful like the Susie Q thing that was all a hoax, the Jerry Robinson thing that was all a hoax.

There was something that was recently that was all a hoax, and constant emails about Brian something being your producer. I mean, Matt, it's it's harmless. It doesn't you know, gonna hurt me. It's just that. Why do you have to do things? If you if you're gonna problem with me, Matt, let's talk about it, or let's meet in person. Why do you have to have all these people to your dirty work? Go ahead, your your side. I'm going to uh so. I want to tell you this, Matt is not I don't want to talk to you Eric because I'm addressing Matt.

Okay, if Matt can't fight his own battles, then not just proves that he can't fight his own battles. Matt, you want to speak up for yourself. I don't care what you say after this. I want to hear from the boss himself, the godfather, the Godfather of dirtiness. Get ahead there, godfather of dirtiness. I'm going to I do have a statement. The truth is, and Eric doesn't even know this, this is going to blow his mind too. The truth is, it's all a part of my evil plan. Who cares? Well? You asked, no, I I oh so.

So basically, you're admitting that you're doing a Cambodia lous secret war like they did in nineteen sixty seven. You're doing it on me, all right, So you you admitted it. It's not gonna get you anywhere, Matt, because you're not gonna defeat a New Yorker. I'm stronger than you, I'm better than you, and I'm TAXI tested toughs. Ask your boyfriends out there. I gave it to them good and I made a couple of them leave the air. I put it ten seven, no fun, leave the air, Robin Slimmer coming back, Billy's still on the air, Jerry's still doing videos.

You haven't done anything, Joe, just like you're Jerry does not exist. Shut your mouth. You've never done nothing. We're better at life than you, Joe. You are a bunch of stupid, boring people. How can you sit there and defend yourselves when, Mike, when when people can't even stand it. Hey, I've directed people to the match show, okay, and you can listen to it for more than ten seconds, Joe, Well, people gonna listen to me. Eric. That's the reality of the situation, and not deep down inside knows that.

Matt. It's just messing with me, Okay.

The only person has a lot of fun. Matt, It's okay, you know. I mean, look at the people that work under you. I mean, these people are not whatever. Let's look at treat to society, some fat loser named Kevin. That's it. Everyone else has abandoned you because they realize you're a talentless, worthless piece of goody. Yes, shut your mouth, you're oh my god. If I could just talk to you the way I want to talk to you, I tell you a part in two seconds. Don't get your Nobody gave you from Iowa, a lose a state away from New York boy, a New Yorker.

I keep telling you that, Joe I would wash you away like New York sewer scum, because that's all you are. You're the philliest If you guys, such shut guts come to New York and took that crap to my face, and I'll set you you'd be running back to Iowa where you belong, Billy Like, I'm not a hard person to find, all right, I don't want I don't want threats of physical violence on the part. There's no physical violence. I understand that. Okay, good, all right, all right, sorry about that. Matt was my temper first, that this guy annoys me.

You know, he's living in a fantasy world. He doesn't understand that he has no talent. Whatever you show, you're given them for raidy movies that are a thousand years old. That's not talent. Okay. So Joe, guys like Dana White, Tino Ortiz, gayl Sayers, they all know nothing because I've interviewed all of them, so they know nothing. I don't even know who these people are. They buch of nobodies, not know who Dana White is the leader of the UFC. Now Eric. In Joe's defense, he did once interview the keyboard player from Vanilla Fudge.

Oh yeah, in the fake Amish guy. Yes, leap him too, mush guy who had over a million viewers on Discover Channel. Yes, wow, yeah, yeah, thank you. Man Or pimple trying to hate you, but I really can't. I know I'm lovable, even though I know, even though I mean because of that voice of yours that's so colorful and cheerful. But you are playing a secret against me, and you should be ashamed yourself. I'm like Henry Kissinger with the bombing of Cambodia. What is the purpose of the secret war against me?

Matt, I don't understand well. As you mentioned in one of your videos, I'm the godfather. I'm involved in organized crime and not for nothing. But you might wake up with a horse's head one day, just I mean, it could be desparageraing and demigrating things you said about his girlfriend Dan her ethnic heritage just against Let me tell you something that's between me and her has nothing to do with Matt. Oh. Okay, I could burst out my girlfriend and I wouldn't mind. That's between them. I know if I know if you said that about someone I cared about, I'd be pretty upset.

So just throw you to be upset just because you're upset. You know, you're an upsetable guy, and you like to fight. I noticed that you like to fight. But the thing is this is the wrong place in the wrong time. When you I get back my show, you idiots will know about it. And then you call up my studio line and boy, am I gonna tear you apart. I wouldn't waste my time calling indie yours. I'm gonna tear you apart because you're scared. You're a little boy is scared of the dark. No, well, no, you're a nobody.

Eric, You're listen, You're an example of a nobody. All right. I've interviewed big names. I've interviewed people from the Howard Sterns Show. So I got people that loved me, love my show, and they know what real talent is. If they hurt you, Eric, they'd be laughing. Eric, they be laughing at you, man, people from New York. So you're lucky you're in Iowa, and you're lucky you got a guy like Matt backing you because you've done him a lot of favors. Right, You've gone after me, Right, that's your claim to fame.

Right, Eric is also in the mafia. I'm sorry, Eric, ahead, Yes, you know what the difference between Joe and I is. I actually have a reliable show that airs consistently and has aired consistently for two years. So you have a reliable show, right, is that what you're saying? Yes, and air's every Friday on WMNH Joe And if you want, we can compare views on YouTube videos that Matson is a stronghold against the Crazy Joe Show and against New Yorkers and against everything I stand for because I'm on the right.

Well I'm not on the left, well, Joe, Okay, I had a New Yorker on the show yesterday, Bob Bob Henneley. He's a real New Yorker, So how can we be against New Yorkers? Well, and he's uh, some kind of broadcaster. I mean, yeah, I kind of I respect the guy. I don't know the guy. I thought he was kind of, you know whatever. He could be a New Yorker, he could still be boring. Oh I thought he was fascinating. Yeah, oh okay, Well maybe to you he was. I I wanted to talk to you, Matt, That's what it was, because I've been getting a lot of harassment on my YouTube channel and I just wanted to confront you with it.

You know, I mean, what is the purpose of this harassment? Legitimate question. This is legitimate, okay, like and I want you to answer calmly or as much as your brain will allow you to do. You think that maybe people get upset with you because of the racist things you say, the despre the racist and I'm proud of it, but but I have I listen. I grew up in New York City playing basketball with the black people on the playground. I went to the Rutger Tournament. I met NBA players, I had their order to grab.

You don't know what a racist is because liberals like you. That's what you use for a cop out when you can't get your weight, because you're like a spoil little child, and you expect me to be like you. I'm never gonna be like you. I'm a New Yorker. I know what racism is. I grew up with it. I know I'm a minority myself. So don't give me your crap about I'm a racist and all that crap, Because if I'm a racist, I'm a racist against the criminals, against the thugs who commit murder, who commit right they an't happen to be black.

So that's the only racism that I can tell you that I am as far as hating black people, I do not hate black people. I do not. But I want to ask Matt the question. Matt, you approve of all these immigrants coming across the border. I want to know what you have to say. This is the question I've been dying to ask you. You approve of this? You approve of these illegal alias coming here and over saturate in our country. You believe in that. Uh, well, there's a lot to your question. I believe that we need a comprehensive Actually, Eric and I have discussed this on the show.

I think we're in agreement on this that we need a comprehensive overhaul to our entire immigration system, and until we can do that in this country, nothing will ever be fixed. We do need immigrants though. There are a lot of employers who don't have enough workers to fill their positions, so we do need to bring in immigrants. I don't approve of people coming over the border illegally. No, and I think that we have a lot that we need to fix. I'm surprised it's a good answer you got, because I thought you were going to say no, no, no, it's okay, because you know you say you're a capitalist, or conservative whatever.

I still think you're a leptist because I don't say. I don't say the immigrants come here so they can vote for him, so every election, that's not true. But because they're gonna all Biden, because they're gonna give them the fifth foot. Why are they're giving them fifteen thousand dollars debit cards? Why are they flying them secretly at night and covert up in planes that look that belonged to the DA Why are they doing that? Why? It's the plan, It's the Democratic plan. The Democrats hate this country, just like Trump said, and I believe it.

They want the immigrants here so they could vote for them, and they want to give them, uh driver's licenses. I mean I earned my driver's license. I'm sure you did too, Matt. I don't think it's fair to give these people, you know, our driver's licenses, uh, practically like and they're practically making them citizens. They're not even making them go through the traditional whatever course it takes to be an American citizens. So what's going on here is totally inexcusable. Well, well, I think it's great.

Alex Jones decided to join the show today. Uh yeah, you said you said a lot there. That's that's not accurate show. I mean, we're not We're not in the same universe in terms of facts. Whatever I mean is what I heard? Well, I mean you're giving licenses there, they're pically they're practically made into a citizens already. It's not true, and it's just for the Democrat machine so they can get votes every single time as the presidential election. That's not true. That's true. Okay, this is one of those moments where I actually do question are you for real or are you playing a character?

This is what I heard from other people. That's not exactly my opinion. Okay, Big kef told him, Well, how is Big keV? I like him. Actually he's called the show a couple of times. He's always very nice. Yeah, well no he uh he tries it to him to you, Yeah, yeah, no, he's he's he's I mean, I have a conversation with you, but I am at Jim to talk to you about politics because I think, sure he would be your master. I mean, this guy is sharp, my master. Well, that's taking that you would be your master matter.

I'm not trying to tell you you're stupid or dam or unintelligent. You you are very intelligent. It's just that you know, you run things on your show and you talk about these politics things. If you talk to Big keV, I think he would put you in your place. Really wow. Yes, and I'll bet on it, and I'm not a betting man, and it would be a debate, and I think he would win, like taking candy from a baby. Because you know, Matt, you are in you know. Look, you you've earned your position as a radio host.

You are educated, but you don't know every damn thing. You're young. I love. I love when you tell me I'm young. That that's why I keep you around. Uh but aren't you in your forties? I think so? Yeah, I must be well, I look like it, but I have really good skin. I was. I was oil of La. It keeps my skin soft and supple. I think you're in your forties for real. I think you're no, no, no more than forty five. I think you're about between forty two and forty three, forty four. All right, yeah, I'll take it.

All right, Well, let's all right, Well, let's all right. You wanted to dismiss me as tokay, I got my thanks, thank you. I want to thank you. We're almost out of time. Joe Eric I don't know what to say about him. He annoys me. Well, I'm sorry, Joe, he's a hell of a guitar player. No he's not. That's all fake phony, and you make that up. And you got yourself a graphic artist to do the stuff because my friends found out, you know, I have friends, you know, in the technical field, and they said, you hired a graphic guy to make it all seem real.

About Robinson, he was taken from a you know, like a Google with pictures and uh, you know, if they used the pictures, they get paid. And then for tuning about a quarter of a second, two seconds, he caught the guy's real voice trying to imitate Jerry. So come on, you guys got caught, hey Joe by professionals. All right, why don't you admit it? I admit nothing quick. I would like to invite you to listen to IPM Nation October thirteenth, at about seven thirty I will be doing a live podcast from a theater here in Iowa the night the Exorcist sequel opens.

Why do you why are you inviting? Why aren't supposed to listen to you? And go to sleep. I mean it might be soothing for you. I really, what do you go? What are you playing?

Well, it's a live podcast at a movie theater. We're talking about the new film The Exorcist. Okay, all right, well probably one of the most horror scariest movies of all time. And I don't have to be a film critic to tell you that. With you all right, we are can I can I give my email address? Oh? Yes, quickly though, Wes from New Hampshire. Nice block people. We are We are almost out of time, Joe, but I do that quickly. Yes, and and and you know man Joe twenty eight at Yahoo if anybody wants to contact me radio man Joe twenty eight at Yahoo.

Uh, please contact me, please insult me, and then I'm gonna block you. Thank you very much, very good. I have a nice evening, Matt and Eric, you too, Thanks Joe. Oh all right, bye bye. Well that was a nice to end on a positive note. All right, we Eric, thank you so much. We'll let we'll let you bounce as well. It's uh it's actually ran way over. Yeah no, that's okay, and uh that was h well, you know that that was what it was, but Erica. Always wonderful to have you here, my friend, and we look forward to Friday's review.

Yes, absolutely, thanks Matt. All right, Eric, take care of bye bye bye. All right, that's our friend Derik Pilcher. We're very late. We're gonna hit these commercial spots really quick, and then I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna tell you about what we've got for tomorrow's show. But let's show some sponsors. Let's show our sponsors some love here real quick. Come on down to the Hop Knot at one thousand Elms Street, Manchester's premiere craft beer and gourmet pretzel bar tell us More at Trudy. We make our dough fresh every day.

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But thank you all for joining us today. And of course always wonderful to spend some time with my favorite conservative Eric Pilter, who skyped in from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And we had some surprises today. Of course, Greg Joseph from Clementos stopped in. That was Greg's first time on the show, So wonderful to see him, and please visit Clementos. It is a wonderful place in Greg, you know, very graciously offering to to help people with food if you know struggling family out there, head on over to Clemento's this evening.

And that's very cool. Greg's a great, great guy and actually you can hear him on the Morning Show two one or two times a week. He's on the Morning Show with Peter White h And we got another surprise at the at the end as well with crazy Joe. Hey, just really quickly, I'm just gonna say one thing I was kidding about the whole evil plan thing he has been uh, you know, he gets a lot of a lot of interaction from people, a lot of interest from people online. I'm not really He's been claiming that I'm behind it all.

I'm actually not. Full disclosure, I'm not behind any of it. I do still watch and listen to his videos to see what he's saying about me and saying about other people, but I'm not behind any of it. It's all independent of me. I've had no We don't talk about him on the show anymore except if he calls in like he did today, and you know, I've I've pretty much outside of still playing his videos, We've ignored him, really, so we don't have anything to do with the emails that he's getting or any of that.

Just full disclosure, just being honest with you. I was kidding before. I mean, you know, I have no reason to lie about it one way or the other. But Melanie and the chatman says, nice try Matt, no evil plan. Yeah right now, it is true, but but it is it's actually more fun to just kind of sit back and watch it all, to be honest with you. And Jerry Robinson's a real guy that is not me. I've got nothing to do with that. I honestly don't. That is true. We play that, we play his music, his band, Jerry and the Scumbags.

But I am not I didn't hire a graphic artist. I did not create any of that. That's uh, that is not me. Just for the record, I'm just putting that out there. But anyway, tomorrow on the show, we do have a great musical guest, Goosebread. We'll be skyping in from Ohio, so we look forward to that. And of course Friday we have Eric's classic film review, The French Connection, and we have the world radio premiere of the brand new single from the band house Lights, also on the show tomorrow and then on Monday.

House Lights are a couple of members anyway, Sam Beechard and I think he's bringing somebody else. They'll be here with us live in studio to play to play acoustics. So looking forward to that. So there's a lot going on, let's see. And if you are listening live on Wednesday, I believe a replay of Kyle Heavey's Off the Mark Sports is coming up next year on WMNH. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry says in the chat room, we believe you, Matt, thank you, thank you. I mean it really doesn't matter. But I don't know, I just felt like putting that out there.

I think we should end with a little lad Jerry and the scumbags. I'm the man, this great single. But other than that, if you miss any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit WMH radio dot org and my website Matt Connerton dot com. And that's it for me. Or now I'll talk to y'all a little bit later. By everybody all right, he's got Francisco and y scene and everyone wants we walk up about me? Why night run by the Lady's scream when you turning down with lads? Terry, you know I'm really or very handsome.

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