Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-17-23

Hello, everybody, Welcome, Here we go Happy Thursday. 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 now on

Comcast Channel six. If you are in Manchester here in Hello to all of

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

website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media

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

August seventeen, twenty twenty three, so nice to have you all with

me. By the way, we have a great musical guest coming up later

in the show. At the top of the hour at five pm Eastern,

we will be joined by Goose Spread, great and fascinating acoustic duo from Ohio.

They've got a concept album. It's a little dark, little dark,

but I had to make a couple of radio edits. In fact, that's

how dark it is to play on the show. But we'll we'll feature some

of their music later and then those guys are going to be skyping in at

five pm and really looking forward to speaking with them. Goose spread coming up

today on the program. It is Thursday, by the way, but no

entertainment report, although I do see him in the Facebook live chat EASYG.

He did message me and wanted to know if he could do an entertainment report

on Friday this week because he has an aim. I said that is fine,

But speaking of Friday, So some programming notes about tomorrow's show. That

song that you just heard, Love and Understanding, that is the first single

from Houselights. Their third single, No Longer Myself, drops tonight at midnight,

and we're going to do a world radio premiere for that song tomorrow,

so it'll be available tonight. I know it's going to iTunes tonight at midnight,

you'll be able to get it. But if you want to hear it

for the first time on FM radio here in the United States, tune into

this show tomorrow. It will be the world radio premiere of the new single

from Houselights and our very talented friend Sam Beechard, who's also a local promoter.

Sam does a lot of stuff, great guy and very very talented.

So we're going to give that the world radio premiere tomorrow on the program and

then on Monday. Those guys are going to be here to perform live for

US Acoustic in the second hour, so so we're kind of making it a

two day event. But yeah, their album actually not just a new single,

but their entire album is is out coming out on September first, What

It Means to Feel. But that song we played was the first single from

it, Love and Understanding, a great, great track, and they've had

a second single as well. No Longer Myself will be the third single,

so that hits tonight at midnight, and then we'll be playing that tomorrow.

So also, of course tomorrow we have Eric Pilcher's classic film review and this

week the subject is The French Connection, so lots going on. William Friedkin,

of course just passed away recently, also the director of the Exorcist,

which is what he's most well known for, but Eric decided you might as

well. I guess is. I think in the conversation that we had about

William Friedkin recently, not this week. He was on with me yesterday,

but I think we talked about William Friedkin the previous week. He had said

that The French Connection was probably his Friedkin's second most famous film so so that

will be the film review for tomorrow. So lots going on, but we

will have Goose spread with us at the top of the hour, skyping in

from Ohio. And I just got an alert on my phone because I forgot

to mute my phone, which is very unusual. I'm usually pretty good about

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Hop Knot. Let's say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat and then

we'll get into some stuff. I see Miriam Bannish joins us in the chat

and says good afternoon from Pine, North Carolina. Or should I say good

afternoon. Hashtag Matt Connerton. I say to you, is that a North

Carolina thing? I think that's just a I think that's only if you're in

Greensboro, Miriam. If you're in Greensboro, North Carolina, you speak that

way, I believe. Miriam also says our trip has not been quite as

we hoped thanks to COVID. I blame anti vaxers and COVID deniers. It's

been ten days and we probably are not contagious, but we also don't want

to take chances with medically fragile family members, so it's visits through windows.

Yeah, I don't blame you, Miriam. Better to air on the side

of caution. It's going to be, you know, as I've said on

the show many times, COVID Unfortunately, I think it's going to be with

us for the rest of our lives. And obviously it's you know, we're

past the pandemic phase of it, so you know, it's it's at a

manageable level. And as I heard one epidemiologists say, not long ago.

At this point, with the treatments and therapeutics that are available like packs Slovid

for example, and some other things, no one at this point, even

with underlying conditions, no one should be dying from COVID, but hospitalizations are

up, and it's they're talking about this winter it's going to be you know,

a triple threat COVID, RSV and the flu. So you know,

get vaccinated for you know, get vaccinated. That's my that's my message,

and if you're a regular, longtime listener, you know that's always been my

message. Medical science is your friend. Uh. Weird conspiracy theory websites or

YouTube videos by people who just make stuff up. Uh, information you get

from that is not your friend. Actual medical science is your friend. You

know, listen to epidemiologists and virologists and immunologists if you want to know what's

going on. And that's what they're warning about this winter. You know,

take take care of your selves. Uh, don't listen to Uh. I

don't know some of the people Joe Rogan has hat on. They don't listen

to our fk Uh. He's uh, he's a little out there with the

things that he says about it. So that's that's my advice. So I

join you in that, Miriam. In terms of whom you blame, I

do not disagree Tom Blanchard joins us in the Facebook live chat and says,

bonjour. Uh we uh Tom, it's about all the French, I know,

we we EASYG says, use some of Birch's. Yes, we do

have trees. Certainly, that's New Hampshire. Oh. Easyg's putting together his

report tonight. Oh that's great. Easy G. By the way, if

I could just since you're in the Facebook live chat and you can't hear us

as you're putting together your report, if I could just make a request.

I feel that your entertainment report, I think it needs a little bit more

April Cushman, Amanda McCarthy and Katie Dobbins. I feel like those are three

entertainers who get left out. I think I think you should include more of

them in your report. Let's see. Tom Blanchard says, they're still saying

COVID. They're still saying COVID is the fifth largest killer. Yeah, I

believe that. You know, there's still a lot of people who've just refused

to take it seriously. And again, you know, obviously the pandemic is

over, certainly, but you should still take it seriously and protect yourself and

protect others. In the process, Jenny says, shalom, peeps. She

is in the chat room as well as Rona Ferverro of course, from the

great state of California. All Right, six O three two five six Z

seven six ZO three two five six Z seven is the studio line A media

item that I wanted to Oh, I see. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry

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City Cabinetry, of course, one of our great sponsors here at WMH ninety

five point three, and Mike is also one of our co hosts on Friday

Nights. Oh, Tomorrow's Friday, my favorite day of the week here at

WMNH Friday Nights for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul c Oh. I'm speaking of

sponsors. Yesterday I got to meet for the first time. Hard to believe

I hadn't met him yet in person. Greg Joseph popped in from Clementos,

another one of our great sponsors here at w MH. Clemento's Pizzeria. Blah

blah blah. I don't know all of the words clement but I know the

Clemento's Pizzeria parts. See that's the hook, you know, when you're writing

a song, that's the hook. Chris Rose from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in

the chatroom, Micris a media item that because that's usually what we talked about

with our friend Derik Pilcher, my favorite conservative on Wednesdays we talk about things

in the media. But yesterday we got into did kind of a deep dive

on you know, he's in Iowa. He's in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,

so he's at you know, he's on the ground as they say, for

the Iowa Caucus, which is the first in the nation, U first in

the nation event in the twenty twenty four election. Oh hello to Chris from

Edgewise who joins us in the Facebook lap chat as well. High Chris,

great band from the area. And by the way, Chris, I do

know I have a message from you. I will get back to you.

I promise, and I'm sorry for the delay. There's there's reasons, but

I will get back to you, sir, And yes, I do want

to work with you on that. Okay, yesterday, yeah, we didn't

get to it, but we were talking about the Iowa Caucus and oh they

just had the Iowa State Fair which is where the candidates show up. And

even Trump showed up, not that he needed to. Again, he's going

to be the nominee, that is inevitable. But we talked about that quite

a bit, and we got into some other things, and so we never

got to this. But you know, I'm always interested when regardless of who

it is, regardless of whether I like them or not, regardless of whether

I'm a fan of their content or not, or I agree politically or don't,

I'm always fascinated by things going on in media, particularly d platforming,

which is a term that really hasn't been with us for that long, less

than a decade. I think. If we've been talking about d platforming,

where people are restricted from certain platforms in terms of disseminating their message and their

content. And you know, I've talked about my own struggles with YouTube,

even though I'm not ideologically controversial in that sense, I certainly don't violate any

of their terms of service, and yet I've been I've been flagged on occasions

in an unfair way, I feel. But this just happened. So apparently

Glenn Beck is the latest to experience something. But this is very strange,

actually, so Deadline is reporting Apple Podcasts removes nineteen hundred Glenn Beck episodes the

platform and then restores them nineteen hundred. Now, the last time I heard

about somebody having a lot of their episodes removed was well, actually, when

Joe Rogan first went to Spotify. Spotify started, but they didn't wipe out

I don't think Spotify wiped out a lot of his catalog at once, but

they sort of, you know, picked as they went along. Okay,

this episode's a little controversial, this episode's too much or editing certain episodes.

But apparently Glenn Beck had nineteen hundred of his episodes removed, but then they

reappeared, it says here a conservative mediamogled Glenn Beck has had his Apple podcast

account restored after seeing his entire nineteen hundred episode trove deleted. Apple Podcasts removed

his show from the platform without any warning or reason earlier in the day,

he claimed, And by the way, that's something I can relate to even

people who aren't content creators. If you're on Facebook, for example, if

you've ever been in Facebook jail, you know, and you get something that

restricts you even either you're restricted from posting or you're not restricted from posting necessarily,

but you're restricted from doing certain things on Facebook, whatever it may be.

And you're going, well, what did I do? I don't know

what I did? And sometimes they tell you, sometimes they let you twist

in the wind. Oh, Paul sees in the Facebook Clatchett and says,

greetings, big fan, seventies shill tomorrow night on Retrospectrum Radio, eightpm Eastern.

Excellent, excellent. But yeah, so apparently, according to Glenn Beck,

they just removed nineteen hundred episodes his whole catalog and didn't tell him why.

In a video posted to x formerly Twitter on Wednesday, Beck said that

is the Glenn Beck Program vanished without explanation. He posted, quote all of

my podcasts have been removed from Apple iTunes with no explanation unquote. Apple sent

a message that said, quote, we found an issue with your show,

The Glenn Beck Program, which must be resolved before it's available on Apple podcasts.

Your show has been removed from Apple podcasts unquote. Now what one thing

that does surprise me a little bit about that? And I don't know.

I have not ever run a foul of Apple podcasts, so you know,

I don't know. I would think though that somebody like Glenn Beck, who

obviously is very famous is and has an enormous audience, I would I would

have assumed that he would get more from them than just hey, we found

an issue with your show, and until it's resolved, we can't put your

stuff back up. Because I know, for example, if you're a content

creator on YouTube, for example, and you run a foul of something on

YouTube and they strike your channel. I don't mean strike it as in strike

it like it goes away. I just mean they put a strike on your

channel and then you maybe you can't upload any thing for a couple of weeks,

or they suspend your channel, or they wipe it out completely if they

if they do that, and I know people to whom this has happened,

if you are famous enough, if you have a large enough audience on YouTube,

you do get a certain degree of access that someone like me, for

example, does not get. You know, when I've run a foul of

something on YouTube and I get a strike, and then I do the appeal

the strike, I assume the strike is always unfair. Now, of course

I'm going to say that I'm biased. I'm talking about me and my content.

But the strike is always unfair. I get strikes for things that I

wasn't actually doing, but a bot picked up on something. I assume it's

a bot. I assume there's not an actual human being sitting there listening and

everything. A bot picks up on something and says, oh, we don't

like this and flags it, and then I get a strike, And then

I appeal the strike, hoping that at least the appeal will be reviewed by

an actual human But that doesn't happen either. Apparently it's just another bot.

I mean, it's so bad. I know, boy talk about first world

problems, right, But I actually I talked about this on the show.

Some of you might remember a number of months ago. I talked about how

I had just gotten a YouTube strike for misinformation about the twenty twenty election,

which, by the way, they've since changed that policy. Now they don't

care what you say about the twenty twenty election, But for a long time

they had strict rules about you could not say that the election was rigged,

which I never said anyway, I always refute all that nonsense, but I

got a strike for it. But listen to this, So I got a

strike for spreading before they had changed the policy. I got a strike for

actually spreading misinformation about the twenty twenty election on a video that was posted in

twenty seventeen. And I was sure, okay, this appeal I should win,

and I wrote the appeal and I just said, you know, I

know, keep it terse. I did win one appeal once usually I lose.

I did win one, but it wasn't this one. This one should

have been a layup. Hey, guys, I couldn't have even spoken about

the twenty twenty election at all, aside from perhaps making predictions because it was

twenty seventeen and I'm not a time traveler. I didn't put the time traveler

apart in the appeal. You'd never want to be sarcastic. I want to

be polite and professional. They denied the appeal, So that strike is,

you know, say it on my account. But if you're famous, you

know, usually you get some sort of direct access and you can work stuff

out. You gets talked to an actual human Can you imagine? Can you

imagine being so famous he gets to talk to an actual human being? Huh?

Anyway, So, but Apple, I guess Glenn Beck isn't famous enough

for Apple to care more than to send him that simple message. So according

to this again this is from Deadline dot com. Beck added that Apple quote

sent us a link and said for more details, go to the link.

And then the link only says your show has been removed from Apple Podcasts.

Well, we got that one dummy unquote that claimed he never received a strike

quote. I cannot imagine what they are basing this on. One. This

is crazy crazy, There's nothing that we have said that would warrant any removal.

And then the Deadline story is incomplete because it says right in the headline

of the story that the podcast was restored, but the rest of the story

is not there. So let's see what this says. We'll go over to

media. I now this is a little different media. It says they'd platformed

me. Glen Beck goes off on Apple for temporarily pulling his podcast catalog Bash's

company, chalking it up to a trademark dispute. Does he talk about it

here? We have a we have some audio. I'm curious what he said

about this. Let's see get the audio here. Apple restored the episodes to

their platform yesterday. In case you haven't heard Apple totally de platformed me yesterday.

At about noon, they removed every last episode from Apple Podcasts. It

was removed with no explanation why, for several hours. By the way,

Glenn Beck has one of those voices that I'm very jealous of he does.

He's got one of those. He's got a fantastic radio voice. I don't

agree with him politically, you know, I'm not a conservative, but but

I've always been very envious of his voice. That's why he actually started out

in morning radio, and you know, and then it became a political commentator.

I don't know his entire career trajectory, but I've always been very jealous

of his voice. He's got a great voice. You know. I've always

been very I mean, I think I'm pretty objective to the extent that it's

possible to be about my own voice. You know, people tell me,

you know, Matt, you have a great voice. No, I don't.

I have a good radio voice, but I know the difference. I

have a good radio voice. Glenn Back has a great radio voice. As

soon as I heard the news, I posted a video to Twitter or x

or whatever. I asked you to join me in demanding answers from Apple.

Well, thankfully, a lot of people came out in force. Yeah,

we were trending on x all day with people on both the left and the

right calling Apple out. I was I was so happy to see so many

people on the left who would food post. I totally disagree with him.

Paul's asking in the chatter and Paul, see how's mine. You've got a

great radio voice, Paul, because your voice is deep. You and Peter

White. If we were talking about w M and H radio personalities, you

and Peter White, I think both have great voices. Peter White's got like

a perfect morning show voice. You've got a great voice, Paul. Kyle

Heavy, I would put him in the same category as me. We have

good we don't have great voices, but we have good voices. Rob as

a veto, I would put in the same category. He's got a very

you know, he's got a very New England affectation. But he's but I

would say he's got a good he's got a good radio voice. Rob die

On. Rob die On might be great. Actually he's got a really good

No, Okay, I'm gonna say Rob die On I think has a very

good radio voice. I put him above myself, but I wouldn't call it

great. But trying to think him, Am I missing anybody? I think

that's everybody. Right. When Ben Dyeon still did a show here, I

would say he had a good radio voice. But but no, Paul you

and Peter White you have you have great radio voices. I mean, like

like Glenn Back level. Well maybe not Glenn Back level, I mean Glenn

Back's radio voices perfect, perfect, This is wrong. Yes, thank you,

thank you for that. So thank you if you did any of it,

because after six hours of you raising all kinds of ruckus online, Apple

restored my show to their platform. Well one nine hundred and fifteen episodes of

three thousand plus catalogue. M So they removed at least a decade worth of

content yesterday without explanation, at least until we started making noise about it.

Today, I read an article in Variety that said the podcast was removed because

of a trademark dispute and quote it has since been resolved. Really really a

trademark Wow, over three thousand episodes all over trademark issue. That is weird.

By the way. I have a theory, but I'll wait till the

end of his comments on it before I tell you what it is. Oh,

hello to j Fat in the Facebook live chat from the Great State of

Vermont. I'm gonna get into the weeds over this. But there was a

trademark dispute on one episode they let us know on I think June twenty ninth.

It was resolved within hours. Like not really, now, if that

is the reason, that's one episode, we resolved it with them within hours.

Why would you Why would you remove over three thousand episodes for a dispute

with one The great question? All right, I'm just gonna go ahead and

tell you now my theory. My theory is there was no reason and that

it literally was a glitch. I mean, it was just a glitch.

Not the most satisfying answer. I'm surprised though now maybe I shouldn't be,

but I am surprised that Glenn Beck is not gone. Maybe it's still coming.

There's still a couple of minutes left in this clip. I'm surprised that

he hasn't gone with the Apple's gone woke and they don't like us anymore.

And then they they just caved to public pressure to put those episodes back.

But they've gone woke and they're against us, and that's why they did this

to us. But the public outcry made them reverse course. But he hasn't

done that. But maybe that's yet, Maybe that's yet coming, maybe it's

not. I don't know. I think it was a glitch. I'll see

explain it. I mean, it does happen. Things just go wrong sometimes,

unless you were the one filing to dispute saying someone's using my name,

there's no real reason to pull don't pull those Yeah, no, of course

not. It doesn't explain why they would remove the entire catalog, at least

to me, it doesn't. Apple still has not responded to that. Yesterday

is a prime example where I learned first hand why the Blaze is so important.

I learned the power of these middlemen. If you're a conservative, the

threat of deep platforming is always there, even in the background, like a

like the Sword of dami damlick Les is how you say his name, demickle.

You remember the guy who's holding the sword over the head. This is

why the Sword of Damocles we built the blade the Blaze. I'm not gonna

have a sword over my head. Not gonna do it. Companies like Apple

and Google and Meta can down your speech, our speech literally with a key

stroke. So yeah, he is sort of going is he took the long

way around, but he is sort of going that way right saying, you

know, playing the I'm a victim of of having my First Amendment violated.

But again, as I always say on the show, see when I talk

about my own problems, the only platform I've ever had an issue with multiple

times as YouTube and having content removed and for reasons that I felt were unfair.

But what have you never heard me say? As much as I might

complain about YouTube, and there are arbitrary policies and the enforcement of them in

a very odd and unfair way at times, what have you never heard me

say? You've never once heard me say YouTube is violated my First Amendment because

they have not. Have they censored me in some way, sure, but

they haven't violated my First Amendment. I still have a First Amendment right to

say whatever I want to. YouTube has a First Amendment right, or Apple

podcasts or any other platform. They have a right to make decisions about what

can and cannot go on their platforms, and they have a right to make

whatever rules they like. So it's not you know, and and it's not.

Look, I'm not a conservative, but again I've had my content censored.

It's not it's not about censoring conservatives, not from my vantage point.

It just so happens that the things, you know, we live in a

time when some of what you hear in conservative content, whether it be the

anti you know, the anti vax or COVID deny or stuff that Miriam was

referring to that she's you know, having to deal with on this trip,

or misinformation about the twenty twenty election. Uh, you know, there are

some things that have certain consequences. Now. YouTube, interestingly enough, and

I refer to this a few minutes ago, YouTube actually reversed their position on

twenty twenty misinformation. And I heard, Oh, I forget what show it

was. I heard them talking about it. Oh yes, yes, yes,

I remember now. It was the PbD podcast Patrick Bett David his show

and his guest was jenk Huger from the Young Turks, and they were talking

about this reversal in position, and they they both had theories on y YouTube

reverse that position. So now you can go on YouTube and talk about the

twenty twenty election and say that you agree that it was stolen. You can

do that now, whereas before you could not. Patrick Bett David's and he's

a he's a conservative or he's an independent, but he's a right leaning guy,

although I think he's I think on some social issues he's kind of left,

so he might yeah, he might be. I guess he's kind of

center right. But on economic issues, he's definitely a conservative, and he

buys into some right wing conspiracy theories two on FO fortunately. But so I've

I've mixed feelings about him. Some some of what I think he repeats is

actually genuinely dangerous, Okay. But his theory was just telling you if you

don't know who he is, although his podcast is getting really, really big,

so if you haven't heard of him and you pay attention online media,

you will hear of him. But his theory was that, you know,

YouTube was just caving to pressure from conservatives who we've spoke up and said this

wasn't right, you're censoring us. But Jak Huger's position was that, well,

not not really that different a theory, but basically that well, you

know, this has become the mainstream Republican position, and if you're if you

look at polling data there is I think his theory is valid that, you

know, if that's the mainstream Republican position, if something like I saw a

poll recently, I think seventy percent of Republicans actually do believe the election was

stolen. If that's the mainstream position, and you're gonna strike everybody off off

of your platform, who says that you're not going to have any You're not

going to have any Republicans left? And then he also mentioned rumble. How

a lot of people Okay, now I'm getting I'm not sure now I'm trying

to remember which one of them one of them said, well what about rumble?

Oh? I think it was Patrick Bett David who said, what about

rumble? You've got all these people leaving YouTube and going to rumble for that

reason. And then Jank replied something like, well, yeah, but Rumble's

a non factor. Rumble is only one eighth if that much is the size

of YouTube, and it's never going to catch up, so Rumble's not really

a factor. My theory about it is they just ran into a problem where

people like me who talk about the twenty twenty election but actually refute what I

feel is a completely you know, not evidenced, base, not evidence based

idea that the election was stolen. So people who speak against that, but

who get caught up by the bots. You know, if I if I

quote something that Rudy Giuliani said, and then a bot at YouTube, here's

that in my content, and then the bots says, oh, he's saying

the election was stolen, we got a flag him. I think that that

was causing problems for YouTube. That's my theory because it couldn't have just been

me. And again, if you're if you're famous and you're on YouTube,

you can you can do what I just described because you're gonna get a pass

no matter what, and you're gonna have actual humans reviewing your content and saying,

oh, okay. You know, if somebody like the Young Turks,

who are like the biggest YouTubers of all time. I don't know if that's

still the case now. It may not be, but you know, ten

fifteen years ago, the Young Turks was the largest most viewed YouTube channel in

history. That may have held up. I don't know, but you know,

if you're if you're famous, you can do whatever and you'll get an

actual human reviewing your content. But I think the system that they have in

place with bots reviewing things. You know, too many people were probably getting

caught up in that. You know, they're talking about the twenty twenty election.

They're not making false claims, but the bot doesn't know that. The

bot. Here's you quoting something somebody else said, like Rudy Julianni or Steve

Bannon or something, and in the bot says, oh, we got a

problem. Here got a flag. This that's my theory. But it's not

a violation of anyone's First Amendment rights. And you know, you you take

the risk in terms of the content you put out there. All right,

there's a little bit. There's a little bit more to this, Glenn Beck

talking about his The elites have always wanted to control what you see and what

you hear. Now big tech is giving them the means to do it.

They have done this. Oh he's doing the Stephen Crowder routine now to several

of us. Since the Republicans have had Congress, they've been a little more

shy. But I will tell you yesterday would have been a loss of about

three million views if you're not getting the podcast. But see now he's contradicting

himself though isn't he, Because wasn't he saying? He was saying before,

this is why the Blaze is so important, you know, his platform,

This is why the Blaze is so important because I'm not going to have the

sort of damocles or how did he pronounce it as a sort of damn laklees

or something. I'm not going to have the sort of damocles over my head.

So that's why I have the Blaze, so I don't have to worry

about being de platformed. But then he's saying that there was a serious consequence

between being de platformed, which again he really wasn't it was. Again,

I still think it was a glitch. But see he's going, he's going

with that spin. All the elites are trying to censor us, The elites

are trying to silence us, when in reality, if that were true,

Glenbeck, wouldn't Apple just kick you off? Who's silencing you? How are

they silencing you? Nineteen hundred of your episodes disappeared, but then they were

restored, and they're too embarrassed to admit they made a mistake. Probably Yeah,

who knows if an actual human being even got involved in the process at

any point it could have all just been AI. But but you know,

he's given his audience what they want to hear from Apple. If that's where

you normally go, there's about three million people that do that every day.

Uh, that's a problem. That's a real problem if we lose touch with

three million people. Yeah, but if they care about your content that much,

won't they won't they just find it someplace else like the Blaze. I

don't know, just wondering. All right, we'll move on from that.

But six zero three two five six seven six zero three two five six seven

is a studio line if you would like to join us. Melanie Liberty has

joined us in the chat room and says, Hey, guys, who knows

that Glenn Beck isn't a robot? That's true, Glenn Beck could be.

He could be a cybernetic organism of some kind. We should look at this

is something kind of a big subject. We might have to We have a

musical guest joining us at the top of the hour, so we might have

to start this and then finish it in the second hour, because there's a

lot to this. But yeah, actually we'll come back to this. I'm

gonna hit this in the second hour. I think after our probably in the

last half hour, after we talked to our musical guests, there's something going

on in New York where you've got Eric Adams, the Mayor of New York

is fighting with the governor, Kathy Hokel. And it reminds me of there's

a little bit of a a little bit of history repeating because when Mayor Deblasio,

Bill Deblasio was Mayor of New York, he was fighting, you know,

a Democrat, he was fighting with the Democratic governor at the time,

Andrew Cuomo. Actually, let's go ahead and dive into this now, I

don't want to wait. And this has to do with migrants, you know,

migrants being put on busses and sent to New York City and other cities

as well. But apparently so you've got these this is something that they never

expected to be dealing with. But you've got the mayor, Eric Adams,

fighting with Kathy Hokel, the governor, over this and the latest in this.

If you haven't been following this story, and I was listening in the

car earlier, I heard Dan Abrams talking about this on satellite radio, and

his take on it was really interesting. But Politico reports. HOCl alleges lack

of coordination by Adams as state defends New York City migrant response. A twelve

page letter from Hokel's attorney is a governor's response to request said Adam's formerly formally

rather made a week earlier for more state intervention. By the way policy says

in the chatroom, I just made fresh taco meat and poured it all over

a pile of Fredo's. Now I'm going to eat like I'm getting the electric

chair in an hour. That doesn't sound healthy. Paul, I hope you're

still alive tomorrow night for retrospectrum radio with police after you consume that. I'm

not entirely certain that you will be, but I hope that you are,

it says here. Governor Kathy Hokel's attorney is alleging a lack of coordination and

communication from New York City Mayor Eric Adams over handling of the city's influx of

migrants, and is defending the state's efforts the latest riff among Democrats over how

to address the crisis. In a letter late Tuesday to a judge overseeing a

court case to ensure homeless people have shelter, Hokel's office outlined an array of

steps it has taken or to offer the city to deal with the surge and

asylum seekers, but also rebuked the city's push that the state needs to do

more so. The state's new council Faith Gray, in a document on Wednesday,

said, quote, in particular, the city chose to send migrants to

counties and localities outside of the city with little or no notice to or coordination

with the state or those counties and localities. Unquote. That stands out to

me because if that is true, that would make New York City Mayor Eric

Adams a bit of a hypocrite, because if you remember when De Santis in

Florida and Abbot in Texas, when they started putting migrants, putting asylum seekers

on buses and shipping them, which again I vehemently oppose because I've seen it

as a cheap political stunt and you're using human beings and as pawns, and

I disagree with it. But when they started doing that, one of the

things that Eric Adams and mayors of other cities too. But I remember Eric

Adams of New York he said specifically, he said, look, we don't

mind you sending people here. They're welcome here, but you have to tell

us. You have to give us a heads up, tell us these people

are coming, so that we know that they're coming, we know how many

people are coming, and so that we have services ready for them when they

get here. That was his statement at the time, and she said this

has been going on for what more than a year at least, right,

so, at least in the beginning, that was his statement. I think

now his statement is please stop. But he said, you know, let

us know that they're coming, don't just send them without telling us. But

if what the state is saying, if with Faith Gray, I'm sorry,

Faith Gay, who's the counsel for the state of what she's saying is true,

what she's saying about Mayor Eric Adams, and he's doing the same thing

that he said, don't do to us, says here. Deputy Mayor Fabian

Levy said the Adams administration is reviewing the State's letter. He added, quote,

but because this is such a significant crisis, we need more, including

more space around the state and a statewide order that bars localities from passing ordinances

that prevent asylum seekers from being relocated to other parts of New York State unquote.

Adams meanwhile said the city and state would continue to work together, refraining

from criticizing Hucal's efforts. Adams later told reporters yesterday, quote, we are

really pleased with the relationship we have with this governor, unlike some of the

tension with other administrations. We the governor and I have constantly talked about our

coordination. So if our observation is that here's some things that you can do

differently, we're all in unquote. I don't know. It doesn't sound like

they're on the same page to me. If the governor's office is making statements

saying that the city isn't isn't holding up their end here, Gay and her

private law firm replaced Attorney General Tis James and representing the state after James took

the unusual step to not defend the state, citing a philosophical difference over the

state's contention that a right to shelter regulation that requires housing for the homeless in

the city doesn't apply statewide. The twelve page letter is Hokeel's response to requests

that Adams formally made a week earlier for more state intervention in a letter obtained

by Politico. The court fight is the first evidence of what appears to be

a behind the scenes tussle between the city and state over how to handle the

issue. Adams and Hokel have stressed publicly that they are working collegially collegiately to

address the problem as a city faces an overrun of its shelter system, and

as Adams has shipped to other parts of New York, often to the disapproval

of local leaders. Well, he is in a tough spot. Yeah,

you know, I have sympathy for him. He's in a tough spot.

But at the same time, you got to at least I mean, are

there not other localities in the state of New York who are willing to cooperate?

Is there something that is there something that the State of New York can

be doing? Maybe Eric Adams is right, maybe the state's not doing enough.

Is there something the state can be doing to help maybe incentivize some of

these localities to want to take these people who Eric Adams ascending from New York.

The document detailing state funding and resources for support of migrants comes as pressure

intensifies on the local administration to do more for Adams's team. The city's shelters

and emergency housing system has buckled under the weight of the nearly one hundred thousand

migrants who have arrived since last spring, so less than a year, one

hundred thousand migrants. Elected officials, community advocates, and business groups have joined

us. I'm sorry, I've joined in a course of demands for more federal

and state aid to the city, though the calls for President Joe Biden expedite

work authorization are by far the loudest. And that's something too that Mayor Eric

Adams has set so actually, Eric Adams not only has I mean he denies

that there's fighting, but not only does he have an issue with the state's

response, but he also has an issue with the federal response because he also

has said the Biden administration isn't doing enough to get you know, things like

work visas approved for these migrants. So these at odds with the Biden administration

as well. And I don't know, I mean, look, it's like

I said to somebody yesterday on the phone who called the show, we need

migrants, We employers need more workers in this country. So but we have

to figure we have to get all this figured out and obviously we need comprehensive

immigration reform, a huge overhaul, which we're probably never going to have for

all kinds of political reasons that are too numerous to get into right now because

it's already almost top the hour. But I do wonder, I mean,

is there more that the Biden administration can be doing as far as work authorizations?

You know, is there something Biden can do by executive order? In

the state letter Tuesday, Gay also wrote, quote moreover, the city's failure

to inform the state of critical incidents that have occurred in shelters outside of the

city has compounded these difficulties unquote. The bulk of the state's response was concentrated

on what Albany is granted to city Hall to shelter and care for newcomers from

the US Mexico border. The newest state run and state funded emergency housing complex

on the parking lot of the creed More Psychiatric Center in Queens opened to migrant

men Tuesday afternoon. The letter also stressed an argument Hocal made has made verbally

that the state doesn't believe the law requiring shelter for those who need it applies

beyond the five boroughs. Yeah, that's an interesting disagreement that I wasn't aware

of. I knew that the city had a right to shelter law, but

again I thought it was for the city, the public defenders and housing advocates

who want an emergency hearing on the right to shelter law. After migrants were

forced to sleep on the streets earlier this month in Midtown Manhattan urged the sides

to come together. Members of the Legal Aid Society and Coalition for the Homeless

set in a statement, quote, at this consequential time, we need both

the state and the city, along with assistance from the Biden administration, to

work together constructively and in good faith. Unquote Well that's obvious because they're currently

failing at this and they need to get it together. And again there's any

blame to go around, And just to be clear, I don't want to

be misunderstood. I still I maintain my position that I don't agree with again

without telling the migrants where they're going, and without telling the people who are

going to have to take care of them when they get there that they're coming.

I don't agree with taking people for what I believe is a cheap political

stunt and putting them on busses and sending them away or sending them to you

know, dumping them off in front of Vice President Kamala Harris's home, things

like that. I don't agree with any of that. I'm very disturbed by

it, actually, but I will say they do need to get their act

together in New York, regardless of how the problem is created, regardless of

what the causes are. This isn't a good look. And Mayor Eric Adams

and Governor Kathy Hokel and President Joe Biden. I think they should all get

in a room together and figure something out here. And you know they can

just they can just continue to blame the governors who are sending the people,

but just blaming them. And I'm not saying they're not to blame, but

it's it's more complex than that. There's a lot of there's a lot of

blame to go around amongst both parties. We need comprehensive immigration reform in this

country, for one thing, I mean really comprehensive. We need a complete

overhaul. And like I said, well never we've never really gotten it,

we never really will probably, And there's plenty of blame to go around for

that. Hey, welcome back everybody. Let's see Yeah, not sure,

so that was we just played the song Freedom Wagon by our guests, Goose

Spread. They did confirm actually for today that they were going to be on,

but they're not here. They're skyping in. So when that happens,

it's usually because there's some sort of a skype issue. We know that they

know that they're supposed to be on because they did confirm with Jenny, so

hopefully they get that figured out or maybe they can call in instead. So

if that doesn't happen today, that's fine. We've got plenty to talk about.

But our guest goose Spread at the moment is m i A unless you

know now they are from Ohio, and Melanie did make a comment in the

Facebook live chat and say, I don't know Kennas state Jim Jordan lives in

be considered great. Now. Maybe they saw that and were offended, Melanie,

you thought that you were putting down their great state of Ohio. I

don't know I've been through Ohio, because Ohio it's the kind of state you

can say, yeah, I've driven through there, and or at least I

can say that, and you know, it seemed lovely enough. But anyway,

so we'll see if they make it. They do, if they if

they're having a technical issue, we might have to reschedule them. And that's

fine, Melanie says. I'm not taking it back, nor should you,

Melanie, I I understand. Uh. I also find Jim Jordan to be

quite despicable, so I will join you in that. But you know,

but we have to separate. We have to be able to separate politics and

music. So anyway, but yeah, that song is uh, that is

a freedom wagon from the acoustic duo Goosebread. So we'll see if they make

it. If not, you know, we can always resk Edule. But

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I just did it again. Did I say Comcast channel ninety seven instead of

channel six? I think I did it's channel six now, which is great.

That's a big upgrade. Yes, not if I said ninety seven.

Just forget that I said that. That's the old I'm living in the past.

No, the time is now channel six on Comcast here in Manchester.

Miriam Banish says in the chat room, what's high in the middle and round

on the ends? It's Ohio. I get it. I think high in

the middle of oh Yes, I get it. Miriam says, I got

that from Devo, who are from Ohio. I didn't know Devo was from

Ohio. Well, now Ohio has been redeemed. So what do you think

of that? Melanie Devo is from Ohio. Great band and they wore those

funny hats six three two five six z seven six three two six zero seven,

My friends, might come as a tremendous shock to you, but I

do love a good leaked memo. And apparently this is from the Hill dot

com and this hasn't interesting twists though. A leaked memo urges Governor Ron de

Santisa, Florida to take a sledgehammer to Ramaswamy at the debate. Yes what

debate, you may ask, Well, just because Trump isn't going to be

there, doesn't mean it doesn't count there. There's a debate coming up next

week on Wednesday, I believe, less than a week away now in Milwaukee,

which is odd in a sense you would think it would be in Iowa.

Iowa was the first in the nation contest, right, the first caucus.

But no, it will be in Milwaukee. There is still some speculation

over whether Donald Trump will be there, the former president, forty fifth president.

You might be familiar with him, He's been in the news a bit.

There is some speculation about that, but I am sticking to my prediction

that he absolutely will not be there, and he has no reason to be

there. He's going to be the nominee no matter what. These indictments for

indictments. By the way, there might be a fifth coming, believe it

or not, Arizona, but we'll see. But you know, all these

indictments, of course, they help him, help him to easily cruise to

the nomination. They won't help him in the general election, but they'll certainly

help him in the nomination. He has no reason to be there. There's

no reason for him to show up. He's going to win Iowa. He's

going to win New Hampshire. He'll then win South Carolina and he'll have this

this whole thing locked up pretty quick as far as the nomination. But let's

look at this leaked memo here. This is fun. I like this kind

of stuff. This is from the Hill dot Com. A leaked debate memo

drafted by the heads of the pro ran De Santis Superpack Never back Down,

details how they think the Florida governor should attack businessman Vavac Ramaswami. And by

the way, it is Vvake. I know that because I saw him interviewed

on another show where the host actually pronounced it vvake, not Vvek Vvac,

and Vvek thanked him for pronouncing his name correctly, calling for De Santis to

quote take a sledgehammer to his GOP rival. Now upon first hearing this,

first of all, I don't appreciate the violent imagery of that, but I

do appreciate the song Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel. But I don't understand why why

bother who cares vvec is not a threat to anybody. He's not going to

be the nominee. But none of these people are going to be the nominee.

I mean, that's a funny thing, right, and none of these

people are going to be the nominee. It's going to be Trump. I

don't That's not an opinion, that's not a that's not a theory, that's

not speculation. It's a fact. It is a fact Trump will be the

nominee. That's why I refer to him as the presumptive presumptive nominee. But

why, why is this? Why is there advice to De Santists he has

to go after, specifically after Vivek Ramaswamy. I don't understand the memo urged

De Santists to take a sledgehammer to Ramaswamy by calling him fake vevake or vake

the fake. It's like doctor SEUs, I'm not By the way, this

is not something, this is not satire. Just so we're all clear,

this is real, This is happening. This is actual advice. This is

somebody got paid to give Ron De Santis this kind of advice. Oh yeah,

people get paid to come up with ideas like this. This is how

you should attack the vake, call him fake v vake or the vac the

fake. Why would you even tell Ron De Santis does do Santis have a

history of giving people nicknames. There's only one person I can think of in

the current field of Republican candidates who has a history of giving people nicknames,

and that's mister Trump. Who. While I'm not a fan of mister Trump,

as many of you know, or probably all of you know, if

you've even listened to five minutes of the show, I will say this,

he's got a few redeeming qualities. One of them as he comes up with

some pretty good nicknames. I liked when he called Ron De Santis tiny d.

You know, he also calls him Ron Rond sanctimonious, which is a

little cumbersome. He calls him ron to Sanctis for short. It's a little

weird. But tiny D, I think is a great nickname. Unfortunately,

that's not the one that seems to have caught on, tiny d. But

although I bet it's the one that hurts the most anyway. But why why

are they Why is this the advice that they're giving De Santis to go after

the Veke. All of a sudden, I stutter when I say his name.

Did you hear that? Just now? The vec? You know what

it is. It's I'm not used to saying vavak. You know, you

grow up in a state like New Hampshire, you're not used to names like

vac It's an unusual name. Most people don't even say it correctly. But

see I go the extra mile I say it correctly. It's not vavek anyway.

Additionally, the memo called on the governor to defend former President Trump.

Should former governor New Jersey Governor Chris Christy attack Trump? Yes, make sure

you okay. So we have two pieces of advice here that we now know

that the Desantist campaign actually spent money on. One is to come up with

dom nicknames for the Vakee Ramaswamy, and two to defend Trump. You don't

have to tell Ron de Santists to defend Trump. You don't have to tell

any of these people to defend Trump, with the exception of if you really

wanted Chris Christi or Asa Hutchinson or Will Hurd to defend Trump, you might

have to tell them because they're the only ones who are predisposed to actually criticizing

him. Ron de Santis, you don't have to tell Ron to Santis to

defend Trump. He will do it. He'll just do it on his own.

It's like telling someone, hey, make sure you breathe. You know,

he can't help himself. The memo, Oh, we have actual verbiage

from the memo. The memo reads, according to the an article in The

New York Times, quote defend Trump when Chris Christy attacks him. Unquote,

Oh, I know what it is that'll help De Santis really distinguish himself from

the rest of the field, right, okay. The memo also reportedly includes

a suggested line for De Santis to use on Christy. Quote Trump isn't here,

so let's just leave him alone. He's too weak to defend himself here.

We're all running against him. I don't think we want to join forces

with someone on the stage who's auditioning for a show on MSNBC. Governor,

we have this great idea. This is how you can really put Chris Christie

in his place. We want you to defend Trump, but we also want

you to call him weak. But we want you to say, here's here's

exactly what we want you to say. And the great and by the way,

the great thing about you, Governor De Santa says, you'll be able

to say this. You'll be able to pull this off without its sounding the

slightest spit rehearsed. It'll just roll off your tongue. Let me repeat the

whole thing. Trump isn't here, so let's just leave him alone. He's

too weak to defend himself here. We're all running against him. I don't

think we want to join forces with someone on the stage who's auditioning for a

show on MSNBC. Oh my god, yeah, that'll that'll work. The

Hill reached out to never back down and the DeSantis campaign for comment. South

Carolina Senator Tim Scott is also referenced numerous times in the documents, which would

suggest the superpack is zeroed in on the threat of Ramaswamy, Scott, and

Christy gaining momentum. By the way, before we go any further with this,

can we just, i mean really kind of take this in for a

minute. This is all what is what is even the point of any of

this? If you think about it again, said, honestly, call off

the primary. It's going to be Trump. You're all just it's like that

line from the song Nowhere Fast by Meat Loaf. They're all fighting for the

chance to be last. You know, none of this matters. It's all

it's all for nothing. I mean, why are these people even running.

DeSantis isn't running for he knows he's not going to be the nominee. DeSantis

isn't running for twenty twenty four. He's actually running for twenty twenty eight.

Tim Scott, he's running for vice president. Vague, he's running for vice

president. Nicki Haley, she's running for president in twenty twenty eight. This

is a test run anyway, Okay, okay, So Tim Scott is also

referenced. One Republican strategist told The Hill quote, they have to worry about

the rest of the field catching up, preparing for the long haul in case

something happens to Trump, And the memo for the debate basically makes this point.

Unquote. So I guess the idea from the superpack. Their idea is,

Okay, we just got to have somebody ready. Somebody's gonna have to

be ready in case Trump falters, and that somebody will be DeSantis, because

this superpack, this is the superpack working with DeSantis. The problem is the

other problem is it's not going to be to Santis. If something does happen

to Trump, it's not going to be to Santis. I think it's going

to be Tim Scott personally, that's my I mean, whoever it will,

whoever it is, will have to be Trump light. So it's not gonna

be Chris Christy, A Sachinson or Will Hurd. It's gonna be one of

them. It's gonna have to be somebody that can appeal to that Trump base,

somebody who's been very nice to Trump and has avoided criticizing him. And

I think Tim Scott could be the guy, all right. Internal polling that

was also posted in the same trove of documents reportedly shows Ramaswamy surging in New

Hampshire. Is that true? I haven't looked at polls here. Public pooling

also suggests Ramaswamy has been creeping up in the polls. According to the Real

Clear Politics polling average, to Santis comes in second place at fourteen point eight

percent, and Ramaswamy clocks in at third at six point nine percent. Ramaswamy

responded to news of the leaked memo on Thursday Today in a tweet referring to

De Santis as robot ron boy. The catchy nicknames are just flying around,

aren't they Ramaswamy tweeted this, I'm still gonna say tweet. I don't care

that it's X. Now, I'm so I'm gonna say tweeted what am I

ram am? I gonna say X? He posted an X another boring establishment

attack from Superpack creation robot Ron, who is literally taking lame, pre programmed

attack lines against me for next week next week's debate. Hammer Ramaswammy unquote he's

given now he's given himself a nickname, Hammer Ramaswamy. Oh no, he's

see that's a paraphrase of what the what the advice was? Uh. Meanwhile,

the pro Christie Superpack Tell It Like it Is appeared to trol news of

the league to memo by releasing their memo that read, quote be yourself and

tell it like it is unquote. By the way, the beat yourself might

be a reference to Apparently, and again, I don't have a lot of

positive of things to say about the former president Donald Trump, but I will

say this, I appreciated this. Apparently in Iowa during the state Fair,

they trolled De Santis by flying a plane with a banner that said be likable

Ron, and I thought that was funny. Okay, It is not unusual

for packs to telegraph strategy and memos, given that they are legally not allowed

to coordinate directly with political campaigns. However, it is unusual that the troph

of documents was publicly posted to the firm working for the pack. The development

is yet another negative headline for Desantists, who has been in the midst of

a campaign reset. The campaign has seen two rounds of layoffs and a new

campaign manager in recent weeks, and polling continues to look less favorable for the

Florida governor. A Quinnipiac University poll released yesterday showed the Florida governor's support and

the GOP primary poll slipping to its lowest level this year. Okay, so

that's the story on the leaked memo from the Hill. And then I just

saw this pop up on media. I oh, Melanie said in the chat

room. Stop saying regarding Trump and the inevitability of him. Melanie said,

stop saying that maybe everywhere everyone will suddenly come to their senses and not vote

for that asset. No, that's not going to happen, Melany. I

appreciate your optimism. Let's see. So then I see this show up on

media. I Trump booster Elise Stephanic uses Desanti's debate memo to pressure the Florida

governor to drop out of the presidential race. It says, you're a representative

Elise Stephonic, Republican of New York. And the last time we really heard

about her a lot in the news was, of course, when she replaced

Liz Chaney and leadership. Even though Stefanic historically and going by her voting record,

more much more moderate than Liz Chaney. But but she is a Trump

supporters, so Stephanik is. So they got to Liz Chaney out and they

got Stefanik in. Okay, at least Staponic the House GOP conference Share reacted

to the news today of a memo from the Prota Santis pack appearing online that

advised the Florida governor to defend Trump during the upcoming primary debate. Stefanick wrote,

while sharing the story from The New York Times, quote, as a

former debate prepper, the first and most obvious rule of debate prep is don't

leak the debate prep memo unquote seems up. That does seem obvious. I

wouldn't think that would even need to be an obvious rule shouldn't be a rule

at all, It should just be obvious. Notably, the memo was not

leaked. I see, by the way, in reading that quote, because

I didn't preread this, I thought she was going to say. I thought

where she was going with that was the most obvious. The first rule is

in debate prep, don't defend or compliment your opponents. You know, don't

In other words, don't defend you know you're If you're a Trump's political opponent,

you should not be defending him. But DeSantis, I mean, you

know, DeSantis will occasionally faintly criticize Trump, but it's usually only in response

to something Trump says about DeSantis. But for the most part, you know,

he sticks up for him. Okay. Notably, the memo was not

leaked, but posted online by a website affiliated with the Never Backdown Packs chief

strategist. Packs are not allowed to directly coordinate with their candidate, and sometimes

will post information publicly online as an indirect way of getting it to the campaign.

Uh Stephanic said quote this is absolute malpractice. And as I have said

from the very beginning, President Trump is going to steamroll the entire field there

is no real primary, and we need to focus on defeating Joe Biden to

save America. Quote heavily suggesting RHND de Santis and other GOP presidential candidates should

clear the field for Trump. Well, that that will solve itself. Don't

worry. Uh. The Times reported today that the documents included four basic must

dues for de Santis, who is referred to in the memo as GRD at

the debate, Why is he GRD? Oh, Governor RHN de Santis.

I see GRD in all caps, and I thought it was like some sort

of disease or something like. You know this, Uh, this winter,

we gotta worry about COVID, the flu RSV and GRD, which is really

bad. A lot of people in Florida end up with GRD. It's very

uncomfortable. Okay, So here are the four basic must dues. Oh,

this ought to be good. Must do Number one, attack Joe Beaden.

Joe Beaden, attack Joe Biden and the media three to five times. Okay.

Now, by the way, it might sound odd that there's a precise

range of numbers three to five times, but remember in these debates, when

you've got a whole stage full of candidates, and we don't know how many

candidates are going to actually qualify. There's a minimum number of signatures you have

to have. I think there's a minimum donations amount you have to have,

and you have to sign the pledge. You have to sign the pledge that

you will support the eventual nominee, no matter who it is. By the

way, Trump apparently refuses to sign the pledge. So if the RNC sticks

to their rules, Trump can't be there anyway because he refuses to sign the

pledge. But because you have so many people on the stage, the amount

of time that everyone gets to talk is actually very limited. If you remember

in twenty sixteen, they had so many candidates in the field on the Republican

side, they actually had to split the debates. So they had they had

like a main stage and an opening act, or they had I think of

it this way, they had the adults table and the kid's table. You

know, the adults table would usually be in prime time and the kid's table

would be like before that, but on the same day. So you had

the less likely candidates, you know, to actually get anywhere that the ones

that are you know, sitting at one percent in the polls. During the

kids table debate, and then at the adults table you had Trump and Christy

and Rubio and who else, lots of people. They had so many candidates.

Miriam says, Beaden made me l ol. I greatly prefer him over

Trump, but won't be able to not think of him as beaten. I'm

sorry if I've ruined him for you, and now you'll think of him as

beaten always, Miriam. But Miriam says she thought uh GRD was gastro uh

espeg saf eagle the esophagus and you'r esophagus esophage esophageal gastroesophageal reflex disease. Well,

that would be gurd But yeah, that's what I thought it was when

I first looked at it. Though one I saw GRD. Okay, so

number one, attack Joe Biden and the media three to five times and the

media, yes, make sure you you get in something about the liberal media

with their woke agenda. UH must do Number two according to the memo state

GRD's positive vision two to three times. Does he have a positive vision?

What is his vision? I guess stomping out wokeness and this all the Santa's

ever talks about number three hammer the vague Ramaswami in a response and number four

defend Donald Trump in absentia in response to Chris Christie's attack. So those are

the four must dues. The memo even goes so far as to offer to

Santists some specific lines and the big line we already h that was already in

the other article. But yeah, so at least Stephonic is using this to

try to pressure the Santists to get out. So I thought that was pretty

interesting. But that will be uh yeah, so that's uh, that's coming

right up. Can you believe it? We're already less than a week away.

We're already less than a week away from the first Republican debate of the

twenty twenty four cycle. Uh, let's see, I should take a moment

before we go on to the next thing, just remind you about tomorrow's show.

So we've got a great show planned for you tomorrow if you're just tuning

in. Of course, this is Matt Connerton Unleashed live from the studios of

wm H ninety five point three FM in downtown Manchester, Manchester, New Hampshire.

So tomorrow on the show. So we've got a couple of things going

on. Of course, we have Eric Pilcher's classic film review, as we

do every Friday, and this week the subject is The French Connection, which

was directed by William Friedkin who passed away recently. He also directed The Exorcist.

And we will also have the world radio premiere of the new single from

the band house Lights. Actually the full album comes out September first, but

they've got a new they've got a new single tomorrow, and then on Monday

they're going to come in and actually perform live in studio in the second hour,

come in and perform acoustics, So that will be a lot of fun.

So that's all happening tomorrow. And then on Monday, of course we

will have we will have Yeah, So on Monday they'll they'll be here.

But tomorrow we'll have the world radio premiere of the of the newest single from

them, and the film review, and I believe tomorrow also our friend easyg

is going to be with us and via phone for a an entertainment report as

well. So we are going to have a very very busy show tomorrow.

I think we should probably touch on in Georgia. What has happened with the

grand jury? Members of the grand jury who voted to indict Trump their information,

they've been dosed, and apparently it's legal, and that their names their

names being published. Yeah, this is We have something about this here from

The Independent, so it's interesting. I am a big fan generally of transparency,

which is the purpose of this law. The law in Georgia is that

the names of the grand jurors be released, and I'm generally a kind of

a transparency hawk. I like a lot of transparency. However, in this

particular instance, these people's lives may have been put in danger, so I

don't think that this law, this particular law, is a good one.

Sorry for the awkward pause. I just realized my computer is not plugged in

and I need it to for this story. I've pulled up here from the

Independent. But what is happening in Georgia now since this grand grand jury indictment

was handed up is all the names and obviously we're not going to say any

of them here, but all the names of the people on that grand jury

have been released publicly. And that's the law. It's not even an option.

Legally, it is required and what is happening now is their lives are

being threatened. The Independent has a story of truth social users are doxing grand

jury. I'm sorry, grand jurors who indicted Trump in Georgia. A plethora

of truth social users came to Trump's defense following his fourth indictment. Actually,

somebody else had an updated story. I think it was NBC News. But

you know, we've got all kinds of you know, the judges like Judge

Chutkin is getting death threats. It's it's not good, and I'm not sure

exactly what the solution is other than everyone has to have more security. But

we've really, I mean, we're living in times. Oh, here we

go. We'll go with the media eight story. We're living in times that

we've never seen in my lifetime with all that's going on now. You know,

judge is getting death threats, and other people in the who work in

the criminal justice system getting death threats. That is not, in and of

itself something new, certainly, but I don't think we've ever seen it like

this, and it's really it's scary and it's pretty upsetting. We'll go with

this. Trump supporters are doxing Georgia. Grand juries online. This is from

media. MSNBC reported yesterday the supporters of Donald Trump are doxing the grand jurors

who indicted him and eighteen co conspirators on charges they tried to overturn the twenty

twenty presidential election. Katie tur anchor on MSNBC said, quote, let's talk

about what's happening in Fulton County. We just got word that there are Trump

supporters posting the grand jurors addresses online. Security has already been ramped up there.

It's been ramped up from the DA. How is this likely to affect

things? Senior legal correspondent Laura Jarrett said, quote, certainly, it's something

that Fannie Willis has been concerned about. She has put everybody on notice in

sort of an unusual way, sort of telegraphing when this indictment, if any

was going to come down, because she was so worried about security. You

know, a lot of times we never know grand jurs names, but Georgia

law is different. It was trying to be more transparent, perhaps not appreciating

that in a case like this, this is what happens. And so now

that their names are out there and people are calling on dosing their houses and

harassing them. It's certainly an unfortunate occurrence, but the court can do anything

about that, and anyone who makes threats or does something criminal can be prosecuted

for that unquote. Yeah, I mean there is such a thing as criminal

threatening. So this is a serious offense if you'd do this. But they

had to have known this, They had to have seen this coming though,

So I wonder if there is something that could have an exception that could have

been made somehow. NBC News reported that the names and addresses were posted on

a fringe quote fringe website that often features violent rhetoric, adding MSNBC News is

choosing not to name the website to avoid further spreading the information unquote. The

information was first spotted by nonpartisan research group Advanced Democracy, Inc. NBC News

reported on Monday, Willis began presenting her case to the grand jury, which

only meets on Mondays and Tuesdays. Okay, so we know about that already,

but that is a little bit Oh, what's this something new regard Bill

Barr. I will have to look at this, but uh, you know,

that's something we'll have to keep an eye on. But you know,

remember in Georgia. Uh uh what are their names? Their names escaping now?

Oh, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shamus. Uh. You know they

testified before Congress about the danger that they were put in, you know,

just by having their names put out there and being labeled as quote unquote vote

scammers. So you know, these these things have consequences. This is uh,

this just popped up on media. I Trump warrens Fox News to start

quote putting the right people on air or else they will never recover unquote in

Bill Barr rage post, I this just showed up. I don't know what

this is about, but I'm awfully curious, says you're a former president.

Donald Trump went after Fox News in a Thursday rant on truth social for giving

airtime to his former Attorney General Bill Barr, who indicated recently he would be

willing to testify against Trump. Barr routinely criticized as a former president over his

actions to overturn the twenty twenty presidential election. Moreover, Barr noted that he

would be willing to testify against his former boss if called by prosecutors, and

Trump's criminal trails in DC and Georgia as a typo, I think they meant

trials. The four time indicted Republican frontrunner turned his attention towards Fox News for

giving so much airtime to former ag Now critic. Trump wrote on truth Social

quote, why does Fox News constantly put on slow thinking and lethargic Bill Barr,

who didn't have the courage or stamina to fight the radical left lunatics while

he was a g and who even more importantly refused to fight election fraud.

He knew what was going on us look at his past remarks. Unless Fox

News starts putting the right people on their ratings, will never recover. And

of course the word ratings is capitalized for no apparent reason. He later added,

quote, his bravado changed rapidly because he didn't want to be impeached.

Republicans have to be much tougher and smarter, or you won't have a party

or a country. Left Barr didn't have the courage or stamina to fight,

but he knew what was happening. I canned him and felt really good about

it. Now he goes all over the place, especially Fox, pretending to

be a tough guy. Unquote all right, so there you go. Trump

very very unhappy with Bill Barr, all right, we should talk about we

should talk about Arkansas, because boy, how often in your life do you

ever say that we should talk about Arkansas? Huh. Well, there's a

story that connects to something that we discussed earlier in the week, which led

to a pretty contentious moment on the show. So we'll look at this as

we approach the end of the show, though, But let me just give

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ahead to reserve a spot. It's a very popular feature there and that does

fill up quickly. All right, Arkansas, what's going on there? Well,

the Hill dot Com is reporting Arkansas joins Florida in nixing AP African American

Studies. There is a trend here my friends in school systems in certain states

where they seem to be I guess it's part of that whole anti woke movement.

But I don't know what else could be the reason for doing this.

But the current governor of Arkansas, of course, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, not

the first Huckabee, of course, to be the governor of Arkansas. Her

father, of course, one of the more famous former governors of Arkansas,

Mike Huckabee, and of course another famous former governor of Arkansas and also a

former president, William Jefferson Clinton. So they've, you know, they've had

a couple of other notable governors. But here's what's going on. Arkansas is

joining Florida in nixing the Advanced Placement AP African American Studies course from its schools.

The state announced right before classes began for the twenty twenty three twenty twenty

four school year that AP African American Studies would not count for credit toward high

school graduation. The College Board that the organization that administers the AP program said,

quote, on this first day of school, we share in the surprise,

confusion, and disappointment at this new guidance that the course won't count toward

graduation credits or awaited the same as other AP courses offered in the state.

Unquote. The news of the course getting dropped by the state was first reported

by The Arkansas Times over the weekend. The Arkansas Department of Education release a

statement Monday saying the course is still in the pilot stage and cannot be accepted

until revisions are finalized. Oh revisions. I wonder what those revisions might be.

Probably something like they did in Florida. You know, got to include

something. If you're going to teach about slavery, I want to mention some

of the perks that go along with it. Right, is that what's going

on here? That's my theory. Let's see. The department said in a

statement to Education week quote, the AP African American Studies Pilot course is not

a history course and is a pilot that is still undergoing major revisions. Arkansas

law contains provisions regarding prohibited topics. Without clarity, we cannot approve a pilot

that may unintentionally put a teacher at risk of violating Arkansas law unquote. What

is going on here? Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders ordered curriculum to be reviewed

at the beginning of this year after the state band critical race theory, an

academic framework evaluating US history through the lens of racism that has become a political

catch all buzzword for any race related teaching, including a review of AP African

American studies that was in two school districts in the state last year. The

College Board said in a statement, quote, more than two hundred colleges and

universities nationally have already signed on to provide college credit, including the University of

Arkansas Fayetteville, the flagship institution of the University of Arkansas system. Early credit

support for the pilot course has surpassed expectations, and it is our strong expectation

that many more colleges will provide credit with an official review when an official review

is completed in the spring unquote. The College Board underwent a similar battle over

AP African American Studies with that Da Dada Florida earlier this year that ended with

Florida banning the course and the company apologizing for changes it made to the class

after Florida's initial complaints. Advocacy groups are all ready to cry in Arkansas's move

to ban the course and double ACP President and CEO Dereck Johnson said, quote

another day in America and another extremist state government has waged war on Black America

while attempting to rewrite history. It is abhorrent that any so called leader would

attempt to strip high school students of an opportunity to get a jump start on

their college degree. Let's be clear, the continued state level attacks on black

history are undemocratic and regressive. The sad reality is that these politicians are determined

to neglect our nation's youth, youth and service of their own political agendas unquote.

So that, my friends, this is what's going on this week in

Arkansas, and I don't know that that will be that will be the end.

Let's see. Oh, we still have a little bit of show left

if you'd like to get in with a call. Six zero three two five

zero six seven six three two five zero six O seven. Another media story

that I would have liked to have gotten gotten. Eric's thoughts on yesterday during

our segment, but we didn't get to it. And this happened a number

of days ago, and I've been wanting to get to it on the show.

But a Kansas, Kansas police and a small newspaper are at the center

of a First Amendment fight after a newsroom raid. And this will be the

second time on the show today that the First Amendment has come up in conversation.

My favorite amendment. I don't know about you. This is from the

AP Associated Press if you haven't heard this story, and it's gotten some media

play, but it's this is important. A small newspaper and a police department

in Kansas are at the center of a dispute over freedom of speech, as

the newspaper struggled Monday to publish its next edition days after police raided its office

and the home of its owner and publisher. Officials with the Marian Police Department

confiscated computers and cell phones from the publisher and staff of the Marion County Record

in Friday's raid. On Monday, Kansas state authorities confirmed they are also involved

in a criminal probe of the newspaper over allegations that it illegally obtained and used

personal information about a local business owner. Friday's rays have been widely condemned by

press freedom watchdogs as a blatant violation of the US Constitution's protection for a free

press. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly called the raids concerning an attorney for the newspaper,

deemed the searches and seizures illegal, and said the police department's action quote

offends the constitutional protections the founding fathers gave the free press. Unquote. The

Society of Professional Journalists pledged twenty thousand dollars toward the newspaper's legal defense, but

some Marian residents hold a different view, accusing the newspaper of aggressive news coverage

that has driven out businesses and painted a negative picture of the town of about

nineteen hundred people. By the way, apropos of nothing having to do with

the substance of the story. Not only is that the second time in today's

show that the First Amendment has come up, That's the second time in today's

show, this is weird. That's the second time in today's show that the

number nineteen hundred has come up? What are the odds of that? For

real? If you remember one of the other well, actually, the other

media story that I talked about in the first hour today was Glenn Beck having

nineteen hundred episodes of his show suddenly removed without explanation from Apple Podcasts. Nineteen

hundred episodes, nineteen hundred people in this town of Marion campus. That's weird.

I mean, if I were a numerologist and I believed in that stuff,

I'd be like, Oh, Matt, that's the universe sending you a

sign about nineteen hundred something. Somebody's about to venmo you nineteen hundred dollars or

something, you know, but which would be nice. If anyone wants to

venmo me nineteen hundred dollars, you certainly can. But no, I uh,

that that is weird, though, isn't it. What are the odds

of that number specifically? You know, it's not like it's it's a number

that you expect to run into, like oh, the number ten that showed

up earlier in the show, and its shown up up again if you if

you didn't hear earlier in the show. The first story, the first news

story that I talked about today, at the number nineteen hundred in it,

that is actually very bizarre. Should we end on something fun or should we

end on Oh no, we'll have to save that. We'll save that.

That's a Ryan grimm as a story in the intercept called Eleaked Cable and what

it reveals about the Biden administration's foreign policy. But that's too much to get

into now because we're almost out of time. All right, let's do something

quick and fun. You know Mike Lindell, the my pillow guy. You

might have heard of him, excuse me, Media Eyed as a story up,

no, no, no, Watch Mike Lindell scramble to recover after tech

snapho derails the start of his Election Crime Bureau summit. Yes, that was

his newest event, Election Crime Bureau Summit. Oh yes, you know.

Trump on Monday, by the way, is going to be giving a big

presentation apparently, I'm sure as lawyers are all just ready to walk off a

cliff moving proving that the election was stolen in Georgia. Well, Mike Lindell

also still added with this Election Crime Bureau summit, and apparently he freaked out

during a tech snafoo, which we have I think we have the audio of

it actually, but Ron is on the line, so let's grab this call

from Ron. Hi, Ron, how are you doing it? Quick and

funny? By the way, good show today. I really appreciate it.

Thank you. Did you catch that woman? I can't think she was from

Massachusetts. She was called for jury duty and she tried to get out of

it, she said, and she gave every reason why she couldn't get it

go go. She had three triplets, all like under like two year old

plus, you know, somewhere around that age, and she brought him the

quote with her. I don't know if you caught that in the nose.

It was. It was pretty cool, and the cameras just ate it up,

you know, the kids, which is living an up happening a blast.

So that wasn't yesterday's news because I don't know if she happened to see

it. I did not see that. I assume she got out of jury

duty. Yeah. Well, she showed up the court and things were going,

and the judge at that point she said, okay, I understand and

dismissed it. But you know, she showed she put the kids in the

cop, brought him the court, brought him inside the little strollers and sat

them all down and the kids were just raising Kane huh oh, very cool.

Well I will have to look that up. That's cute. You know

you said short, fast, funny. It was cute if he had seen

it, it's real cute. Yeah yeah, all right, well very good,

Well, thank you, Ron, I appreciate the call. Okay,

one more thing, real fast, and I mean really really fast. Yeah,

I thought you when the crazy one were on good terms. What happened

yesterday? It seemed like he was in the attack vote. Oh yeah,

well we don't really talk about him on the show anymore unless he happens to

call in. But yeah, you know, it's just it's just a good

old fashioned rivalry. Yeah all right, well you know, you know those

New Yorkers are with that being said. All Right, good nights, and

you know we'll talk again. All right, Ron, thank you for the

call. I appreciate it. All right, bye bye, all right,

always nice here from our friend Ron. All right, let's play this audio

a lot quickly. This is uh, this is from I'm not pre listened

to this, but it's Mike Lindall. I'm sure there's no bad words in

it. Let's see, this historical election summit is so important that it's being

broadcast around the world in eighty five languages on frank speech dot com. Oh

yeah, Frank Speech, that's his h thing. This election summit is not

gonna be about more evidence. We have enough evidence. Evidence has been the

easy part. This summit is all about hope and the plan to secure our

elections. Immediately. I want you, I want you to watch this video

and see if y'all remember this attacking his power. No, no, no,

this is the wrong one. This is the wrong one. Hold on,

well that's coming the Rose Garden speech. Okay, yeah, that that

wasn't that great? Boy? I thought that was gonna be a lot funnier.

So what what What they started to show was the time that Mike Lindell

was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. Yeah all right, well sorry, hey,

they can't all be winners. Yeah, that one wasn't nearly as entertaining

as I thought. Although if I can find uh, you know, we

could I still have hope that we might be able to snag him as a

snag my pillow, if you know, if he gets desperate enough as a

sponsor for the show. Do you have that? Oh that's not the one

I was thinking of. There's an ad on Facebook. Oh yeah, here

it is. Well, yeah, this is the ad. If if we

ever do get my pillow to be a sponsor, here's the ad we're hopefully

gonna use. Have you not been wearing a mask or social distancing? Did

you recently attend a Trump rally? Then you or someone close to you is

probably laying down. I I'm Mike Lindell and Venter and CEO of My Pillow.

No one should underestimate the value of a good rest, and I should

know. When I was addicted to crack passed out on a deserted street during

a vendor in Mexico, I realized this curb's doing zero favorites for my knack.

Then, after talking directly to God and not myself, my pillow was

born. Years later, after a settlement for deceptive ads and enough from the

Better Business Bureau, I'm a multimillionaire. How America, there's no problem that

a pillow can't solve freebasing in an alley. You're gonna want my pillow.

A woman wants to choose what she can do with her own body. Chat's

gonna need a pillow. Wife left you in an ugly divorce. Us about

eight pillows and if you vote Trump come November, you can get two of

my pillows. For the price of two of my pillows, call my new

new number. Now. Actually, I suppose if we do ever get him

as a sponsor, we'll need to update the ad. But that's you know

anyway, all right, well, very good. We are about out of

time, so I don't know our guests never made it on, but that's

okay. We will see about rescheduling. But don't forget tomorrow. We have

a big show planned. Not only do we have Eric Pilter's classic film review

and this week the subject is The French Connection, directed by William Friedkin,

but we also have the world radio premiere of the new single from the band

House Lights. And Friday is my favorite day here at w M ANDH.

Not only do I do this show, but then I'm back later for retro

Spectrum Radio with Paul ec And so that will be a lot of fun if

you're listening live on Thursday. Of course, immediately following this show on wm

NHS through the Stage Store hosted by the great Rob die On, and don't

forget to be back bright and early tomorrow morning for the Morning show with Peter

White. And on Friday's they do the love Advice, which is a very

popular end entertaining the segment on the show. Oh Mike from Queen City Cabinetry

says end mine as well. Friday is his favorite day of the week as

well, because we get to hang out with Mike and DJ Stephen of course

Polyc on Retrospectrum Radio with Polyc. And it is Thursday, which means,

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