Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-18-23

Welcome everybody. Here we go Happy Friday. It is that time again, Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm n H ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, got a little bit humid actually, but still glorious. Also now on Comcast Channel six if you're in man Chester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. Today It's Friday, August eighteen, twenty twenty three, and I am not alone. If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band.

That league guitar is hot, but not far Lousiana man both in love and that's sold names. If you're go and play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band. Yeeha, Texas. Mike is in the house. Yeh do you say in the house in Texas? Or do you say uh? In the uh? In the farm on the farm? Where? What? What do you what do you say down there in Texas? There? Texas, Mike in the house was just fine. Oh in the house. I don't know if maybe it was in the hacienda. I don't know. I don't know how these things work.

But it's nice to see you. It's been a long time since you've been on the show. Yes, has been. It's been like a four years or something. A couple of months maybe, Oh yeah, you know. I so I have a neurological condition, Mikey that I a couple of months seems like four years to me. That's uh. Other than that, I'm fine, but welcome. Yes, it's nice to see you and you look nice. Yeah, thank yes, Yes, and you'll be you're doing double duty today as well, aren't you. Yes, I am. You'll be back with us tonight for Retrospection Radio with Paul c.

Yes, I will be. Will you be performing on that program? Yes? I always see for me, I get the thing. Two songs karaoke style? Are you gonna sing? Uh? Are you gonna sing? If you're gonna play in Texas by Alabama? Maybe? Oh? Maybe? How perfect would that be? I know it's my theme, but I have always tructed one, and so thinking about second one? Oh okay, well what's the so what's the first one that you picked? Or is it supposed to be a surprise? This is a surprise, all right? Very good, while we look forward to that.

Yes, and I'm here for double duty as well. Of course, Friday my favorite day of the week here at wm ANDH. I do love it. So I do this program of course from four to six pm, and then I'm back tonight from eight to eleven pm. I've the honor and privilege of being one of Policy's co hosts on retro Spectrum Radio with Policy along with DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, who also one of our great sponsors here at WMH Queen City Cabinetry, And get to hang out with Mike for retro Spectrum Radio as well.

And of course tonight Texas Mike will be with us as well, So you'll be representing Texas obviously yea. And Mike from Queen City Cabinetry. I believe he'll be representing Rhode Island at least I think that's where he's from originally. But and I guess Policy will be representing Manchester as well. I although I'm not from here originally, do you know where I Do you know where I lived before Manchester? Right? Oh? You know you're Matt honorton Trivia. Very good, very good? Yes, that is that is true?

Where did I spend my summer's growing up? Do you know that? Chicago and Buffalo? Oh you should have stopped at the first one. You had it right Chicago? Yes, yes, very remember the train stories you were telling me. Yes, yeah, the trains stories. Yeah, the old AM track. I actual only did that once, only took the AM track once, but but it was fun, enjoyed it, enjoyed it. So we do have an exciting show for you today and then we'll give out the studio line and everything. But coming up today at five pm, we have the world radio premiere of the brand new track from house Lights.

I actually opened with the house Lights song. I opened with their first single, Love and Understanding, partly because you know, I wanted to promote what we're gonna be doing later, but also because I just love that song. But they're brand new single. Now. It's already available on iTunes and I'm sure the other streaming services, but this afternoon at five pm Eastern, it will be played for the first time on FM radio right here on WMNH. So that is no longer myself. The brand new single from house Lights coming up today at five pm.

And by the way, they're going to be here on Monday, joining us in the second hour for an acoustic performance. So they will be here with us live in studio on Monday. So our friend Sam Beechard and company. Sam's a great guy, He's been on the show before and like him very much. He's also he's got Always Forward. He's the name of his promotions company. He does a lot in the music scene here, so get to know him, you should. And so they'll be here on Monday. But coming up at five pm will have the world radio premiere of the new single No Longer Myself.

And then immediately after that we also have Eric Pilcher's a classic film review and this week the subject is the French Connection, and Eric chose that that was not what he was originally going with this week, but he decided to go with that because recently, I think a couple of weeks ago now, director William Friedkin passed away. He also he's probably best known for directing The Exorcist. But I did ask Eric's what's his second most famous film, and Eric said, probably The French Connection, And so he decided to review that for this week, and in honor of the passing of William Friedkin, so that will be coming up as well.

So we've got a lot, a lot going on today. If you'd like to be part of it, you can six zero three two five zero six zoo seven is the studio line six zho 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 your dulcet tones is give us a call at six zo three two five zero six z seven six zo three two five zero six zoo seven and we will say all out everybody in the Facebook live chat two in a moment.

But Mike, you have to ask you two any update on because recently, it was during Retrospectrum Radio you were in the Facebook live chat and I remember you publicly resigned as the manager of the singing group New New New Force of the Spark. Is that what they're called now? The name keeps changing. Yeah, yeah, I am no longer affiliated with that group, but any any of the groups that come into while we chat wound because I fear is it? I the distance was the main problem, but it wasn't really my forte to be honest.

Let me ask you this, Uh did you ever have an opportunity to actually hear any of their music? I did not. But but it's almost as though they don't have any Yeah, like like any of those group that comes into the chat woman, it's like hit it hit and miss, and it's like try and find stuff on them is very hard. They always have these shows coming up that they're promoting, but they don't seeven have any actual music. It's very strange emotionally karaoke groups or or perhaps it's just have you ever considered uh, I mean, I don't know how they what their recording process might be.

Perhaps it's only in very high frequencies that can be heard by dogs but not by humans, and that that could be a good niche, Yes, that could be a good niche think about that. Yes, it could be. Nah. See, so you're no longer managing or producing them? Correct? Okay, Now what happens if tonight suppose they show up in the Facebook live chat during retrospectrum radio, or they could show up here too, but whilst couple of weeks they seem to be more interested in Paul's show. What if they show up and they just make you an incredible offer, like like say, say one of them, like Isaac Banks is in the Facebook live chat and he says, I'd like to offer you a million dollars Texas Mike to come back and be our producer.

I say to you, hashtag Texas Mike. What if what if he made you an offer like that? I would say hashtag no, because I do not want to be affiliate with them due to some activity I found offline activity you found offline, and I found activity on a certain Facebook group that con stone me. And that's why I do know affiliate with Isaaca any of his group. Okay, what if they offered you a million and a half, don't know? Oh wow? I would say, hey, do what I would say, I'd say, show me the money. As soon as that was in my account, I'd be I'd be managing them, I'd be producing them, I'd be doing uh, I don't care if it's music only made for dogs at that point, you know what I'm saying.

But I'm a capitalist, Texas. Mike, I know you are all right. Well, I had to ask. I was very curious about that because there seemed to be some uh, some discord shall we say, in the Facebook live chat last week over that that subject. But very good, very good. Let's go ahead and say hello to everybody on the Facebook live chat, and then we'll get into some some news items. Melanie Liberty from the Great State of Vermont says, hey, guys, as well as Jay Fed, also in the Facebook live chat, Hello j F. Jay Fed was apparently kicked uh in the in the nether regions, shall we say, so hard by his dog that he thought he was going to vomit.

That's why I've always said, Now, Jenny and I have cats, but I've always said, if we ever get a dog, I will be wearing an athletic protector at all times, just for that very reason. A dog or a horse. Horses are known for doing that too. You just never know, Mikey, when you when you might uh, when you might take one in the groin from from a wild animal. I mean it can happen. Yes, let's see, Oh Texas, like I see here in the Facebook live chat. What is it? Sorry to hear that. I'm still getting over the death of Rosie from yesterday.

What's that about one of my families dogs got killed yesterday. Oh I didn't realize. Oh that's terrible. You said got killed. Was it hit by a car or something? Yeah? So, oh no, My my dad was vacuum backing a note out his cart. My mom's caught at kinda on Second Street. Yeah, and what was he went along for the wide and basically he tried to keep all the doors so when he was vacuum in. Yeah, so he got out once, came back and then second time died away way into Second Street. Oh no, that's horrible.

Yeah, oh, Mikey, I'm so sorry to hear that. Yeah. Oh that's that's terrible. Well, yeah, these things can happen. I had years ago, I had some friends who out in Dunbarton. They had this a beautiful black lab, just a beautiful dog, very friendly, and one day it was just this random thing. You know, they live out on a road where there's hardly ever any traffic, so you know, let the dog run free whatever. You know, it is a really well behaved dog. You know, he wasn't gonna go like running into the neighbor's yard and uh, you know, doing anything anyone would have to clean up or anything like that, like super well behaved.

But one day I wasn't there when it happened, but I went there after I got the call because

my friend was very upset. The dog just happened to see a hawk in the distance on the other side of the road, not too far away, and the dog decided to chase the hawk. And at the precise moment that the dog darted into the road, a car came through and I guess, you know, slammed on the brakes, couldn't stop in time, hit the dog, and the dog died instantly. And I don't think the other driver was eating or anything. It was just, you know, just bad timing. And there was never much traffic on that road, but it just happened at that precise moment the dog went for that went for that hawk, and uh and that was it.

So accidents will happen. But that's that's very sad. I'm sorry to hear that, Mikey. Thank you. Always hard losing a pet, that's for sure. Yes, you know, they become they become our family, parts of our family. Yes, we have a call Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Is this hello, Matt, it's me, it's you. It's poly C. Yes, Mikey very sorry about the lost man. I know it's hard to lose a pet. Yes, that sucks. But I also wanted to point out what you guys are you know, talking about? You know, as you know, I'm a huge fan of the Brady Bunch and Tiger.

They're dog Tiger, which all of a sudden after two seasons, stopped showing up on the show. The reason being in this is not a joke. The reason being is because during the second season, about halfway through, during a day that they were filming, the dog's owner, slash trainer, was taking him out for a walk outside the studio of Paramount and the dog got struck and killed by a car. Tiger. Wow, I'm surprised they didn't. I'm surprised they didn't replace the dog on the show. So they just they just the dog just disappeared from the show with no explanation in story.

But yeah, again exactly, there was no explanation about it. It's just the dogs all of a sudden gone, Which is funny because in the movie the Brady Bunch when they You know, did you see the Brady Bunch movie? I did. I do remember seeing it. I didn't think it was I didn't think it was great, but I did see it. Yeah, with Gary Cole and uh and Shelley Shelley Long. Yeah, yeah, I did see it. Yeah, yeah, Shelley Long as Missus Brady was. There was a scene where Tiger was brought up in conversation and jus Tiger, what the hell ever happened to that dog?

So there's a reference to it in the movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's probably the funniest line in the whole movie. Actually, Unfortunately, what about Fluffy the Cat? I also remember Fluffy the cat? But Fluffy also disappeared, right, yeah, Fluffy was only in the opening the pilot, the debut episode. Oh that, now that you mentioned it. Yes, I love cats so much. I guess that just stuck with me. So Fluffy, So we can assume Fluffy also died.

Fluffy was Melanie might be interested annoying this. Fluffy was put down when the Brady Girls moved in with the Brady guys after Mike and Carroll got married. They kept Tiger, but they decided to have Fluffy put the sleep right, right, and then Fluffy went to heaven with Chuck from a Happy Day is right exactly? Yep, Chuck from Happy Days. You know that there were three Chucks. I know are three different people who played that role, and that character just died away after the second season. Yes, you don't want to be Chuck on Happy Days, just like you don't want to be a Lieutenant red Shirt on Star Trek or apparently any of the pets on the Brady Bunch, right exactly.

The dies disappeared without notice. There are a bunch of other people too that that have just vanished from thin air from their shows anyway. All right, so we will see you guys tonight. We're doing seventies chill music, and Mikey's gonna sing at twenty five minutes past the second hour, and then twenty five minutes past the third hour. Excellent, excellent, And I understand it's a surprise what Mikey's going to be singing. Is that correct? It's a surprise. Yeah, it's such a surprise, Matt that I don't even know.

I told him to tell me when he gets there. Yep, very good. All right, Well we're all on pins and needles. I'm looking forward to it. I am too, absolutely. I love my fridays here. Very good, all right, and I will call back on Monday and tell you how the guy who drew Scooby Doo passed away. Okay, well we look forward to that as well. Maybe you can even share it tonight if the if the mood overtakes you, all right, Paul, very good, all right, have a good one. All right, we'll see in a bit by bye. All right.

That was our friend poll see from Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C of course every Friday night from eight to eleven pm. And if you are just joining us, we'll let you know that tonight. Not only will I be there, of course, along with j Stephen Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, but Texas Mike will be joining us as well, and he will be performing with his dulcet tones. So we look forward to that. Joe Friday just was reminding me on the Facebook live chat two. I want to mention this. It's a great cause, the cornhole tournament.

Something about saying that always makes me giggle. But but it is a legitimate sport. They might even start doing it in the Olympics Texas, Mike, I heard. I'm not even kidding. By the way, that's not a joke. But cornhole tournament. All proceeds benefit Special Olympics, New Hampshire. It's gonna be at the Bonfire on Sunday. So that's this weekend at nine fifty Elm Street. Starts at one pm on Sunday. It's twenty dollars per team. Teams of two. You can sign up now, you can. Oh, there's contact info here.

You can contact Nick Macris six zero three three nine one four oho nine nine. Uh, and he's on Instagram at Nick Macris ninety five or n Macris seventy three at gmail dot com. So that's gonna be this weekend. It's a great cost. And if you h oh, and there's h So it's gonna be uh firefighters versus police, I believe, right, yeah, yeah, So basically the battle bad does that Chad had, but now now Chad decided to drop it. So now Special one has oh okay, taken over baseball and maybe and maybe maybe the hockey as well.

Oh no kidding, yeah, oh okay, cool, cool, very cool. So that's this weekend and if you miss any of that information. We will plug it again later into in the show. Is that is a that is an excellent cause. Uh six oz three two five O six zero seven. If you'd like to join us six three two five H six zero seven, the studio line is open. Let's see, we'll uh, let's see. A couple more people pop into the Facebook live chat here. Charmaine Davis Elliott joins us in there. Hello, Jay Fed says, that's terrible regarding Rosie.

That's terrible, and I'm sorry about that. I've been devastated a couple of times with the loss of a pet and it is very difficult. Absolutely, let's see Paulie. See. Also in the Facebook live chat, he says, good afternoon, big fan. There's one at least one comment in there. I probably shouldn't read on the air, but that was funny or I could read it, but out of context it wouldn't even make sense. Very good, And we did mention Joe Fridays in there as well. Let's see. Oh, so some breaking news we've been talking on the show.

Well, there's been a lot of speculation about this first debate coming up, and I have something on that which, by the way, I have something handy, which tells us who's qualified for the debate next week? Jeez, it's what is it? Eight days away? Now? No? Less than that, No, it's like six days away. It's Wednesday. I believe next week the first Republican debate for president for twenty twenty four happening in Milwaukee, and we now know Trump will definitely absolutely not be there, which I assumed anyway.

And listen, you know, I'm not a Trump guy, as everyone knows, but I do think it's smart for him to skip the debate. If I were advising him in some capacity, if an alternate universe I worked for his campaign, I would say no, no, no, don't, don't go to any of these. I just don't see any reason for him too.

So he instead is going to do a sit down interview with X host X Fox host Tucker Carlson, and I don't know if this will be on Twitter. By the way, guys, I've decided I've made an editorial decision about that. I'm not calling it X. I'm just gonna call a Twitter. I don't like this whole I don't like the uncertainty around it. It's like, so if somebody tweets, do we still call it a tweet. Do we call it an x do we call it an xer or something? Do we call it an ex post? I don't know. I don't know what's going on with that.

I'm just gonna keep calling it Twitter. And by the way, I would implore all of you to keep calling it twitter. What do you say, Mikey, Let's start a movement. We are going to resist. This is the resistance. We will not bend to you, Elon Musk. We will call it twitter. You can call it x you can call it whatever you want to, but we are going to call it Twitter until we get tired of that and just decide to give in and call it whatever you want. But for now, we will continue calling it Twitter. I say we rise up, rise up, and call it twitter, yell it you know what.

In fact, I would ask all of you kind of like in the movie Network, you know when he says, you know, go to your window, put your window up, and yell out the window. I'm not gonna take it anymore. I want all of you right now. I'm gonna I'm gonna actually take one side of my headphones off so I can hear it. I want everybody oh no, it's raining. Yeah, oh man, what who cares if you get wet? I want everyone go to your windows, open your windows and yell out. I'm going to contin you to call it Twitter or at least for now or something like that.

Doesn't have to be those exact words. You can paraphrase it. But all right, I'm gonna let's just listen for a second here. Let me know if you hear anything. Mikey, Yeah, I got one side of my Oh oh wow, Mikey, I got something. Yeah, did you see that? So somebody in the office building across the street at one thousand Elm Street, somebody actually did just open their window and I could, I could just faintly hear it. Though it didn't sound though like they said the thing that I said. It sounded like they said it sounded like they said you suck, and they and they made a hand gesture at me.

So okay, maybe that didn't work out the way I wanted. But anyway, keep it in mind. But so, I guess that's what Trump's gonna be doing during the debate. He's not going to participate in debate. He's going to see I'm all worked up now. He's going to do this sit down interview with Tucker Carlson. Oh, Joe Friday did it? Friday says, just did it in the rain? Thank you, Joe Friday. Yes, And now what I'd like everyone to do, open your windows and yell out all at once. Thank you, Joe Friday. Let Joe Friday hear you?

Whom I kidding? They didn't do the first thing anyway? Well, I appreciate it, Joe Friday. Yes, it says here. Now this is from media I. Donald Trump plans to skip the first Republican debate hosted by Fox News on Wednesday and Milwaukee for an interview with x Fox host Tucker Carlson. According to The New York Times, Trump has reportedly told people close to him that he will skip the debate, despite urgings from top executives at Fox for him to attend. The Republican frontrunner has posted multiple messages via truth social in recent weeks speculating whether to attend the debate because of his large lead in the primary.

During campaign rallies and private meetings with aids, Trump has repeatedly asked whether he should attend the event. In many cases, Trumps indicated he may give a last minute s prize appearance to debate his Republican contenders in person. Actually, that could be interesting. What if. Now, I'm not saying I would advocate for this, and it might be a little violent for Fox News viewers, But what if you know, Mikey, of course you Texas Mike, you are a w w E Hall of Famer and a former tag team champion with black Jack Mulligan in the nineteen seventies.

What if Trump shows up? Because Trump himself has been at times a wrestling character and is in the WWE Hall of Fame in the celebrity wing. What if what if they get almost to the end of the debate and Chris Chrissy's in the middle of saying something bad about Trump, and all of a sudden Trump comes, I don't want to say running. Trump comes sort of waddling out, but he's holding a steel chair and he hits Chris Chrissy on the back with the steel chair. I mean, you know, it would make for great television, Yes, it would.

The good thing about these Republican debates is they will be great television no matter what. I always look forward to these debates. But I love debates anyway. I always watch all the debates, regardless of who's having them, whether it's the Republicans, whether it's Democrats. Obviously this cycle, a Democrat is the incumbent, so there won't be any debates on the Democratic side. But I just I love all the debates. But oh, by the way, Joe Friday says, I think I heard Peter White mentioned this too.

Thank you for to Disneys Cafe for the generous donation to Sunday's tournament. Yes, very nice, very nice, it says here earlier this month. Again this is from media. I Trump met with Fox News as president Jay Wallace and the networks CEO Suzanne Scott for dinner at his club in Bendminster. Oh, Suzanne Scott, that's who Tucker Carlson said very unkind things about things that I can't repeat here, but he said very unkind things about her. Prior to his ousting. The pair urged Trump not to skip the debate, and the former president into he was open to the idea.

However, that has all changed this week, as the former president plans to do a sit down interview with Carlson on August twenty four and affront to not only the RNC but Fox News as well. Fox fired Carlson in late April and has been publicly sparring with him since he remains under a non compete agreement, which he appears to be violating. It says here

now this is from the New York Times. This part. The timing of the interview with mister Carlson remains unclear, but if it goes ahead as currently planned, the debate night counterprogramming would serve as an act of open hostility. The chairwoman of the RNC, Rona McDaniel, or sometimes I hear her referred to as Rona McDaniel Romney, has privately urged mister Trump to attend the debate, even traveling to his private club in Bedminster, New Jersey last month to make her pitch in person, and Fox News has been drawn into a public battle not only with mister Trump, but with mister Carlson, who is still on contract and being paid by Fox despite having his show taken off the air.

Fox sent mister Carlson a season assist letter after he aired a series of videos on Twitter. It says, X but I'm being defiant. The Trump campaigns conversations with mister Carlson and the possibility of counterprogramming have previously been reported by multiple news organizations, so then back to media, it says. Recently, Trump has gone after the Conservative News network for giving airtime to his primary candidates such as rond To Sandison Chris Christy, but also broadcasting the views of his critics, including former Attorney General Bill Barr.

Earlier this week, Trump slammed Fox for giving Bar an interview, claiming on truth social quote, unless Fox News starts putting the right people on their ratings, will never recover. And of course ratings is capitalize because Trump is one of those folks. And I say it that way because I've known other people who do this as well, who capitalize random words for no apparent reason. A little bit of a pet peeve, that's okay, That's the only reason I bring it up now. This debate, though this will still be fascinating to see without Trump in the mix, This is not really this is not legitimately a debate of prospective candidates for the twenty twenty four presidential election.

However, it's anything but you could say for some folks who will be there, it's a debate, it's it's really a vice presidential twenty twenty four campaign debate, because you'll have some folks there who are vying to be Trump's vice president. Or you could say it's a debate for the twenty twenty eight presidential election, because I think some of the people there are actually what they're really doing is running for the president in twenty twenty eight, and this is kind of a test run, or you know, for some it might just be a glorified book tour.

There are many reasons to run for president, but aside from actually wanting to be president, all of the people there, no, they're not going to be president. That's just a fact. So it will be fascinating to see. Interestingly enough, we already know we already know Ron de Santis's strategy because apparently that was posted online and that was done intentionally. We talked about that yesterday on the show. But the superPAC that wants to communicate their thoughts and ideas to the governor, they can't do that privately because of campaign finance rules and so forth, so they had to do it publicly.

But that is so that is the plan for debate night on Wednesday. Mister Trump will definitely not be there, are you surprised by any of this, Mikey, No, I'm not. Why is that? Keep talking for a second. Yeah, Trump being fun and what he has with his legal challenges coming up, but he's pretty want to and it makes no sense for him to debate and put out more dirty wandry, right. I think that, and thank you for that. I had to, I had to grab something. I think that he is so far ahead. I mean, this is all gonna get wrapped up pretty quickly, you know, if if you take if you take Trump out of the equation.

I think that. See I was thinking about this earlier

and it kind of relates partly to a conversation that I was having with Eric Pilcher, my favorite conservative, on Wednesday, about evangelicals and how much they support Trump, and there's a lot of them in Iowa. I think as far as the Iowa caucus, which is the first contest in this cycle, I think that, you know, were it not for Trump, if you took him out of the equation, I actually think Mike Pence would be the front runner, at least in Iowa, not in New Hampshire, but in Iowa. But you know, they'll evangelicals will choose Trump over anybody.

But otherwise, you know, if Trump weren't there, I think Pence would be a very attractive candidate. But when I say take Trump out of the equation, I mean even Trump's, even the twenty twenty election, all of it, because many Republicans will never forgive Pence for not, you know, doing some sort of you know, voodoo thing and flipping the election. But no, but I think, you know, Trump will easily win Iowa, He'll easily win New Hampshire, then he'll go on to easily win South Carolina. He has nothing to gain by debating, and I think it is actually a smart strategy to just kind of remain above it all.

And I do remember Chris Christie said multiple times he thought that Trump would definitely be there, and he said that in multiple interviews. He said that Trump's ego would not allow him to not show up. But Trump has skipped debates before in the twenty sixteen cycle. I remember there was one. I don't remember what the reason is, and I don't remember where it was, but there was a debate during the twenty sixteen cycle, a primary debate that Trump did skip. I think that he just might have already had scheduled a rally that day or something that was some reason.

And then during the general election, he also declined to participate in one of the debates usually we get every four years. We usually get three presidential debates and one vice presidential debate. That's how it always works. But in twenty twenty, we only got two presidential debates. Trump did not want to do the second one, so he did the first and the third that were scheduled, and he declined to do the second one, and I think he just I think he just went and had a rally that night instead. There is reaction from Ron DeSantis.

Now DeSantis again that very long memo. Just to expand on that a little bit because we talked about it yesterday, but it was like right at the end of the show. So there's this memo that initially was presented as being a leaked memo from his superpack. They were giving him advice, even very specific lines, certain things he should say during the debate on Wednesday in Milwaukee, and it was like, Wow, somebody was really sloppy to leak this memo out. It turns out the superPAC did that intentionally because of campaign finance laws and it's complicated.

I don't know all the ins and outs, but apparently the superPAC cannot directly coordinate with the campaign itself. They're not allowed to do that. So in order to communicate this information to De Santis, they had to release it publicly, and I guess just kind of take the chance that somebody else wouldn't see it. I don't know. Pretty bizarre, Pretty bizarre. But my dad's on the phone. Hello, Hello, man, how are you good? Afternoon? Good afternoon. I know that you have a busy show, So I want to be brief and just just hit a couple of things, sure, and end on a very positive note.

Okay, Now there is a there is a always going to be a dynamic here. As you continue to grow and develop your broadcasting career, there's going to be a dynamic, and neither one of us are in denial about that are minimized and I don't believe. But between my philosophical thinking and yours. Sure, you know, I'm a constitutional conservative and a practicing Christian man, I don't lay that on I. You know, I've practiced sense of linked administration and clinical social work and drug and alcoholic counseling and family therapies, and I have never once used my faith in a proselytizing manner or context.

You follow me, Yes, I have used it privately and in the interior of my mind, heart, soul and spirit. Does that make sense because that would guide my compassion and empathy and skills that I learned in social work at school. So just a couple of things about I wanted to you know what I'm always staying away from. And you can bring anything up you want it. It's your show. You have an international audience now, which I'm impressed by, thank you, But I am not going to There are fundamental issues, some of which we're clearly in prominence.

I will say this much. In your dialogue with Eric on Wednesday, I texted you about some of that, and I mean that as a rolling dialogue, and I have some concerns, but I will never confront you or Eric, or Jenny or Chris Christie. Well maybe Chris christ as a little inside joke there. Do you know what, Matt, just a question, and I don't say this to put you on the spot. You probably know this, sure. What was the approval rate of the sociopath? I'm going to say it, Matt, you know Chris Christie when he left office.

Oh, I don't know what his approval rating was exactly, but I'm sure it was quite low. He it was very strange. After Bridgegate, things really changed, and that's why I'll never trust. I know Eric's endorsed him. I don't endorse candidates. To me, those things I do like about Chris Christie, there's also things I don't like and things that I don't trust. And I never trusted him after Bridgegate because I believe he knew. That's my opinion. I think he knew. But I also remember it got really weird because he You know, I talk on the show a lot about who are the most popular politicians in America.

Blue state Republican governors tend to have very high approval ratings as Chris and Chris Christie was no exception, at least during his first term, which is why he was able to so easily win reelection in a very blue state. But it got very weird after Bridgegate, especially toward the end. It was almost like like he wanted to just burn down his own governorship on his way out the door. It was very and I remembered find at the time just being kind of baffled by it all. I didn't understand and what he was doing.

Yeah, I can hear you on that. I think that's a good phenomenological approach, a good description description. I remember that picture, that provocative picture two after Bridgegate. I agree with you he knew. There's no way he didn't know about that. There's no way he didn't support it and orchestrated in part. But that's all stuff, you know. But but it's telling about his so called leadership skills, which I think are poor. He's not a conservative. This is where you know, I know Eric is your favorite conservative.

I could see a number of things about that, but I won't. But Chris Christie, as you pointed out, he's not a conservative, and you could argue that he is a liberal, Republican or a rhino. I'm not going to argue that with you. But my point is that after after that scandal, which was tremendous and very troubling and appreciably hurtful to so many people. Oh absolutely, guests from New York spoke about that, you know, yeah, Art so many people, But then he bans people from going to the beach. Remember this.

Now, this pales in comparison. I remember, I remember the pictures, but I remember the picture in fact, Yeah, the aerial photo of him and his family looking up at the camera. That's what I mean, that's that's that's the mental image I have when I think about him burning down his governorship on his way out the door. It didn't It was so strange. It was like he was willfully flipping the bird to his own state. It was odd. I don't know what the purpose was. I don't know why he acted that way. Maybe you're right, maybe he is a sociopath.

I don't know. I think he is. I think he's more than I mean. You you have accused and appropriately you have defined or described, analyzed, if you will, diagnosed Biden, for example, as extremely selfish. You know, yes, I have a couple of the things I would say about that. But but I think you're right. This guy is, and I'm the one who's saying this. He would lie about anything, and he distorts things. I mean, he loves to be on ms DNC and you know, hanging out with the Rachel Madcal folks. He's probably going to get a job with one of those corrupt corporate stations whom you may respect Matt, but I don't respect them at all.

You know, who's a couple of organizations that are pretty good that I would recommend to your international audience and your domestic audience. Also is just The News with John Solomon, a great objective, brilliant investigative journalist and reporter and writer. And the other one is so there's just the News, and there's I can't think of the other one, the one with Chris Christy, whom I don't like. No, not Chris Christie, Chris and nun No, no, not Chris No, Chris Komo. Do you know the one? I know, News Nations Nation.

Yeah, they knew pretty good. You know, I can't stand Fox News. I like some of the journalists. They're still people like Will Kine, for example, I like, but on the whole Dana Perino and those people, Oh my god. Yeah, they're just not good journalists. They're not objectives. They're all over the map, and it's very confusing and misleading and ultimately deceptive. So I just wanted to recommend a couple of books masks what is by for your audience? For you, of course, but that I've read recently, and one is by a former teacher and mentor of mine at the University Connecticut School of Social Work in the great town of West Hartford, Connecticut.

I love the never to make mistake. But you know why we couldn't live there? Now? Why taxes? That's tax are a pound for pound. I think the taxes are. They come in second with California. California's got the Gavin Newsom and the boys and the girls got the best one on that one. So but I love Connecticut, you know, And I have fond memories there. Someone I know I can't Maybe you could help me with this, Matt. I'm going to be brief and wrap up here. But somebody I know was born in Hartford, Connecticut, Texas.

I don't know who that is my memory? You know, Texas. I let me take a couple of tabs of Dinko Bolobo with my black espresso. Okay, Texas, Michael, I don't do you know, MIKEL Texas. Mike might know who was born in Hartford? Oh yeah, Texas, Mike is with you, isn't he? YEA, yes, I am who was born in Hartford. I don't remember. Oh oh oh you uh yeah, Okay. It was kind of a call that we're talking earlier anyway about Yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, I saw it. By the way, I was walking on the sea coast at Hampton Beach and I saw Texas Mike's former partner, black Jack Mulligan, and he said, if I did call to say hello to you guys, black Jack still is in great shape.

You know. I was a pretty good wrestler in high school, but at the good Old with a kind of high with a great coach, George Bossy. I think he's fast man. But a shout out to George Bossy and his family. He became famous at Springfield College ultimately. Anyway, So it's Seymour here we go. Yeah, Texas Mike, if you could take this down, it's Seymour Claven, one of my old teachers and mentors and advisors. And he has a new book out which I have read. It's called How to Save the West. You know, it's it's all about Annie Oakley and I don't want Earth.

No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. It's in West Western civilization. Then there's a book by Scott Powell. I've read twice now and I love it and it's so well written. It's called Rediscovering America. And finally this new book, which i've just I'm about a quarterway through, but I'm excited about it. I would recommend it categorically. It is entitled live not by Lives. That's from a famous poem by Alexander soul Jianitsen of Russia, who came, of course, ultimately to the United States and unfortunately but maybe inexorably settled in Vermont, because we know vermonts a communist state anyway.

So this is called live not by Lies by the great historian Rod Dryer. Rod dry and I wanted, Matt if so just two quick things. I wondered if you could ask sometime when Isaac Banks of the crew was calling from Greensboro, North Carolina, I wonder if you could ask them if they know much about the city of Charlotte, how far that is from them. I took a race car driving class in Charlotte many years ago. We'll go into that. But I love Charlotte. It's a great city, integrated, wonderful, unlike Norfolk, which which is a great city I love, but it wasn't so integrated.

I'll just say that. So, and that was a long time ago yea. In Charlotte there is the Losure Institute, which I can pull up. It's a think tank that's very good. And then there's also a large organization independent mental health organization and counseling organization in Charlotte called Helping Hands of Healing and Ellison Chigo. El's a daughter who has done great work in Ethiopia's home now thank oh wow, China's taken over Ethiopius. That's another story. But she is the CEO of that organization.

But I just wonder if they if they know about them or have any contact with them, if you wouldn't mind asking them, that would be great. Finally, uh, in final analysis, I'll get off the phone because I know you get death and everything coming up. The musical guests are terrific and I love Infinity Vane. Yes, yes, And that's that song Angel. It's absolutely metaphysical. You know, I always rate songs from one through four, you know, one being terrible, four been great, but the number five it's it's absolutely metaphysical.

Yeah, Okay, So I just want to end on a quick note. Matt. I was gonna mention I appreciate your dream. I have had a similar dream where you were in it. And at one point I remember a little Ryan was small, and he was with me in the dream, and we gave you this bottle of fresh New York apple juice. Now, none of us should drink too much fruit juice because there is a lot of fruit toast there, but a little bit and you can water it down. I'd drink a lot of water now, so and I take my coffee black. So jeez, I hope that's politically correct to stay all right.

It's a little bad joke there. So

in the dream you were sitting in this truck with this person because you were delivering packages, okay, and you gave us a couple of packages. We're going to deliver them, and then we were going to see you. Subsequently at mass at Saint Martin's one of my parishes in Summer's Worth in Hanshore, we have the Catholic war vetter and said headquarters are there, so anyway in the tree. So I I hand you this bottle and you have cups there, and I think you're gonna, you know, pour some into the cup. And what you do is you swig it.

Matt, So I say to you, oh my god, Okay, I love you, my son. But you weren't eating candy, were you. That's funny. Our dreams always said no, Dad, I wasn't even candy. So then Ryan and I leave you. We're gonna meet up with you later because you give us a couple of packages to deliver to the mayor of I think it's Dover or something's worth whoever that may be in a dream. But then I looked down at Ryan and guess who Ryan has turned into in the dream? You. I looked down and it's you, you know, So I say, Okay, come on, Mattie, We're gonna go to Saint Martin's.

Saint Paul used to say, I'm a follower of Christ. You know, I'm I'm with you through the grace of our Lord. But he's always say I'm in Christ, and that's what all all Christians should be doing. And that's not to get moralistic about it, but say I'm for me, I'm in Christ. I'm still a sinner, i still make mistakes, but I'm on the right track and I'm trying with the grace and mercy of God. So I'll stop on that note. But whenever you can play that song by I sometimes I want to say Exfinity, but Infinity Infinity Angel.

Yeah, that's that's a great song man. Yeah, I will right, I'll let you go. Piece of Love be well, all right dad, love you, Thank you for the call, Love you too. Take care bye bye bye bye. All right, very good. That was That was my father, Martin Connerton. I would play that song at the break actually, but we've got if you're just joining us, we have the world radio premiere of the new the new track from house Lights called No Longer Myself. That's gonna be coming up in just a couple of minutes. But maybe I'll play Angel at the end of the show today.

That is a great song. Yeah, Infinity Vane. That's a band that well. Actually, if you happen to be watching the show live online or on Channel six, you can see the where am I point and you can see the the autographed picture that they sent us. They put WMNH on it after after we interviewed them. I think we've had them on a couple of times now and yeah, really good band from Texas. But uh, let's see, Well, if you want to get in with a very quick call before we hit the top of the hour, you can six zero three two five zero six zero seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven.

By the way, our friend Miriam Banish in the chat room, she just went. You know, my dad mentioned North Carolina. She just went and visited there and just got back. Let's see, I'm actually backing up here. Oh, very busy chat room. Oh. Eric Street joins us in the Facebook live chat. Hello, Eric, I ran in Erica recently at the Hannerford in Bedford. And he's asking about what's on tonight? Oh, tonight on retro Spectrum Radio. Funny you should ask Texas Mike, is what's on tonight? Yes, we're doing well with some seventy two music and I'll be question food tune into my own.

Yes. Yes, and they are a surprise. We are not to know what they are yet. Let's see. Joe Friday in the chat room says, what is Mike going to sing in honor of Angela and Manchester Fire? He should sing you Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone. That would be lovely.

I had another one in mine for Angela. You have one in mind for Angela? Yes, I do, and it's not that one. And it's not that one. Oh, is it something mushy? Is it gonna make me blush when I hear it? Probably? Is it gonna make her blush when she hears it? Well, she'd be listening tonight hopefully see will be oh, very nice, very nice. Joe Friday also suggested Boys Club. Do you ever think about singing Boys Club? I have in the path, So you have thought about it or you've sung it. I've sung it for a multiple d Oh, that's right.

I forgot about that. You actually did? You did that on Paul's show. It's a great song, but I don't know it. Yeah, and it was great that you stepped up to the plate. You know, sometimes people agree to sing things and then they back out. But you, you would have a head and you would ahead and did it. Yeah, that was that was wonderful. Jay Fed suggested light my fire by the doors. Joe Friday says, I'm I am singing in the rain naked. I don't know if that's legal. Is that legal to sing in the rain and the nude?

Probably not? I mean what if there's what if there's lightning or something? I don't know. Uh, let's see, all right, let's do this. We are approaching the top of the hour. So we've got the world radio premiere of the brand new single from Houselights. It's called No Longer Myself. We're gonna hear that, and I will remind you those guys are gonna be here on Monday in studio in the second hour for an acoustic performance. Really looking forward to that. Sam Beechard has been on the show. Great guy and just a great band.

So we're gonna give this a listen, and then we're gonna show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then from there we're gonna go right into this week's film review, Eric Pilch's classic film review of The French Connection, and then after that we will be back with the balance of our show and we'll get into some more stuff. But check this out. The world radio premiere. The song is out today. It is available for streaming, but this is the first time you will hear it on FM radio here in the United States, right here on WMNH here.

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He hooked up and saw him smiling like a shining nime. Yah. I hope that he would stay in tail in rock, give us a little heavy if he had Who is it clar Jewish? Lucky? What about the last bit to Springers? You think you? Who are you? He spritting around? What the Russians are in Jersey? They said, we stick it, don't give him my tail. My friend's name is Boker Sounder to a broker Boca from downtown, they're pretty sure you pull off a contract on a guy named de Marco, and that's not a drop old, not a charge for your blooming nails.

Boca doesn't rest. And then on the whole, after working a whole day and night, we tell on the book and we said only but practically we who do we come up with the French Connection? A millionaire export? It would I record too clean to be true. And Doyle knows it, but he's been known to make mistakes. Your hunches are backfired before it though, this time you can't afford to be wrong.

Rust, I know the deal hasn't gone down. I know it hasn't. I can I can feel I'm dead certain last time you're dead. Certain we have a dead cop. I left hand him, got him. I don't, my love. Put your hands in the air. The steak out fresh see, I'll pay you off, Chase, I'm stop, if you're all right. French Connection. Hollywood, and of course the films that have been created there have went through many landmark metamorphosis. These are often defined by era, style, or even political landscape. This week's film brought forth a new style of filmmaking called the New Hollywood Way.

That brought forth a major change not just in how films were made, but in how actors and actresses performed in them, how writers wrote them, and how us the viewers, not just see them but remember them in the lasting impressions they make on us. Directed by the recently passed on William Friedkin, based on the nineteen sixty nine book of the same name. Nineteen seventy one's French Connection introduces us to New York narcotics detectives Jimmy Popeye Doyle and Buddy Cloudy Russo played by Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, respectively.

These men, early in the film find themselves in a heroin investigation that could become the biggest drug bust in American history. In our first clip, we are going to hear how this film really changed the image of police officers in cinema. Gone were the happy, go lucky men hunting criminals joyfully. Doyle and Russo harken back to the hard boiled detectives of the forties. This first scene is an example of this, is they try to shake down a low rent drug dealer. This scene is quite interesting because we hear the start of a possible good cop bad cop game between the two that quickly goes to the wayside.

And then, in our second clip, the duo crash a local bar and you again here the tough intensity of Doyle. But in this scene one cannot help but notice allusions to future hard nosed detectives in cinema. Yeah, come on, break please, come on, break your ass, Come on, come on, get out stole,

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I know there's a hundred twenty fifty man, I want the barber shop. What's side of the sweet north to south? To talk about? Man? I don't know then I knew what's saying? This threat? He lives on? Hey, what's life like? Your pick your feet? What's he talking about? I've gotta man. I for Keepsi wants to talk to you. You ever been a pokeeppi? H Have you ever been pokeepsie? Hey? Man, come on, give me a prey here. Let's talk about Hey, you sick? Come on? Have you ever been Poughkeepsie? You've been for Keepsi?

I mean I want to hear it. Come on sick. Yes, I've been there, all right. Yeah, you sat on the edge of the bed. Didn't you talk your shoes? Put your finger between your toes and pick your feet, can't you? I'm sad, just all right. You want to see on my partner? You know what that means? Good? All went wrong? I got let's do him gripe about his bowling scores. Now I'm gonna fust your ass for those three bags, and I'm gonna nail you're from picking your feet for keepsie. Next the bar, shake down, all right, put eyes here, get your hands on your heads, get off the bar and get on the wall.

Come on, move it's not sweetheart, move time, wake out, Come on, takes the window. Hey, call turn around there, tur around? Who come on, loop? Hands out of your pocket, turn around, turn around on your heart, come on, turn around? All right, come on, turn around and get on the wall. Get on a turn around? Hey, dropped that? Hook it up? Hands off? Pocket up? Come on, moved, What are you looking at? All right? Bring it hair, Get your hands out of your pockets. What's my name? Doyle? What mister Doyle?

Come on here, you pick your feet, get over, get your hands on your head. I told you people are coming back. We're gonna keep coming back here until you clean his barrow. Keep your eye on your neighbor. He dropped something in alongs to you. It is hostel here. Turn around. We got it here. It's belong to you. I stand up there, naughty, keep your hands on your head. Get in there if you want to take a ride there fat ma'am. Huh, hey, thank you. We're gonna ask questions later. Turning around. All right, shut up to him?

Shut up? Anybody want a milk jake? All right? Come over here, you and you, hey, whisper, come on who that's when I tell you you. What made this film such a discovery upon its release is that, despite being a somewhat fictional film, it views like a documentary. This was intentionally done by the masterful work of Freakin. He has stated he wanted the viewer to feel as if not even the camera knew what was going to happen next. The car chase scenes the foot pursuits in this film are evidence of this.

The best auditory example of this is our next clip. When the heroine finally enters the United States from France, it is tested for purity a scene such as this had not been conveyed on America cinema with such realism. So much so both law enforcement and those that were involved with drug dealing have complimented on its realism in both talking about the purity of the drug and the business side of it. Last Off one eight two hundred good Housekeeping Seale of approval to ten US Government certified two twenty lunar trajectory Junk of the Month club sirloin Steak two thirty create a poison, absolute dynamite, eighty nine percent pure junk, best I've ever seen.

If the rest is like this, you'll be dealing on this load for two years. So you taught me it's worth a half many how many kilos? Sixty si stick quilos eight big ones at quilo Right, this stuff take a seven to one hit on the street, and by the time it gets down the nickel bags will be at least thirty two million. Thank you, holler, take what stuff they with you and good night. Ah not that one, A little one. I guess we gotta deal. Uh well, we gotta hair cells A test A deal for half a million dollars maybe, baby, Come on, Joel, I don't know guy's an houry once the break wants you to go back to France.

This guy's not gonna hang around and play games. OK. He's one of the shrewdest casts I ever come across. One of my smoke what's the hurry? You can see a couple of shows. This is at the top of the Empire State Building. Don't jerk me, wine Stock. I spent a lot of time setting this one up. So what do you want to badge? This is your first major league game? Sell one thing I learned. Move calmly, move cautiously. You'll never be sorry. Look I've been damned careful up to now. This is why your phone lines are tapped in the physic call on Olivia like Fleeman.

Look, I'm telling you I'll take the deal somewhere else. So let him take of the sixty kilos of her with someplace else and find out how easy it is to put together. I have to let it a catch. It wouldn't find there any hurry to know this kind of business. The stuff is here. We can make the switching out, But why start. I'm telling you he'll split up. We don't move. This guy's got him like that. He's everything they say he is, What about you? So? Are you everything they say you are? In my opinion, the realism conveyed in this film is what sets it apart from any other cop film.

The intense and brilliant performances by Hackman and Scheider just put this film on another level. Couple that with the masterful direction of Freakin, who used his experience in filming documentaries to truly make this film unique upon its release, and it is allowed its influence to be felt to this day. This film is a favorite of so many directors, including Spike Lee and David Fincher. The late legendary director Akira Kirasawa called it his favorite film. Brad Pitt stated he took his acclaimed role in the film seven because of this movie.

Upon its release, it garnered mass critical acclaim. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning five. This includes Best Picture, Best Director. This is one of the few films to accomplish that feat and Best Actor for Hackman. Scheider was nominated for Best Supporting Actor but did not win the accolades. The acclaim the influence, along with breakthroughs previously stated, truly make this a legendary treasure. In the history a cinema and also is die cast ironclad proof of the directorial genius that was William Friedkin.

I hope you joined me next week, when with college football season starting, we will look at a film often called a football movie, but is it really will dissect that when we look at the nineteen seventy four classic The Longest Yard for WMNH and Matt Connerton Unleached. This has been a classic film review with Eric Pilcher. Welcome back everybody, as we cruising to our final segment today of Matt Connerton Unleashed, and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety Even if you're in Manchester and hello twel of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe.

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And of course, hello twelve of our online listeners. At Matt Connerton dot com slash Unleashed. Unleashed you can go for all your online listening options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Friday, August eighteen, two thousand twenty three. So now if yeah, have you all with me? And of course our Texas Mike is here with us at the news desk. Yeehah. Yeah, that was a good one there, Texas Mike. Yes, and uh, Mikey and I were doing we're both doing double duty today because not only are we on this program, but we will be back tonight for retros Spectrum Radio for PAULYC Friday nights from eight to eleven PM.

I have the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show along with DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, who also happens to be one of our sponsors here at WMNH. Queen City Cabinetry and Mike is one of our co hosts on retro Spectrum Radio, and tonight, Texas, Mike will be with us as well, and he will be performing two songs I believe, yes, yes, very good for five yes, yes, well we've got a whole schedule excellent, excellent, So so that will be tonight. And by the way, if you are listening online to that show, what we encourage people to do is please go to the retro Spectrum Radio Facebook page.

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But today was the world radio premiere, first time ever played on FM radio here in the United States. And want to remind you those guys will be here with us on Monday in the second hour for an in studio interview and an acoustic performance. So really looking forward to that. So Monday, house Lights here live in studio with us in the second hour. We also heard, by the way, if you missed it, Eric Pilter's classic film review, and this week the subject is William Friedkin's The French Connection, a film that I've not seen, but I'm very interested in seeing it now after hearing Eric's review.

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And of course you can interact end opine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is give us a call at six zero three two five zero six zero seven. By the way, Texas, Mike, are you looking at the chat room? I did see that. Yes, there is a It's funny, you know. I mentioned their name and they arrive New Force of the Spark formerly known as New Affirm of the Spark. By the way, who is responsible for their name change? Was that your idea? I can't remember.

I mean, I'm trying to just this is myself from that goop. I mean you were their manager at the time. Well, so, New Force of the Spark says hello hashtag Matt good evening, we say from us a pop singing group, and then your name is mentioned, Hello hashtag Michael Martineau aka Texas Mike. We say good afternoon from us, and sure you know you will be a good manager slash producer. You know, mikey if you ever, have you ever been in a relationship with somebody and you break up with the girl and they refuse to accept it.

Does that ever happened to you a stud like you. I'm sure, I'm sure it has, especially when you were a tag team champion with Blackjack Mulligan. I feel like New Force of the Spark is sort of behaving in a similar fashion. You have expressed that you no longer are interested in managing or producing a New Force of the Spark, and yet here they are once again in the Facebook live chat, just acting like everything's school, everything's normal. There was no split, You're still their manager and producer and uh and and everything's good.

How do you feel about that? I feel disguished about it because I've clearly stated that, and they won't back off and because because I believe that it is a pot page and they're just saying what the AI wants them to say. Now, have you considered getting an entertainment lawyer to send them a c send assist? I think I would deal with them personally. So, oh, you're gonna now that sounds threatening? Now, of course you are a former tag team champion Texas Mike with Blackjack Mulligan. When you say you'll be dealing with them personally, do you mean you'll be going to paying a little visit to Greensboro, North Carolina and perhaps bringing your cattle prod.

I won't go that pod. I just I just want to have a simple conversation and and what lack of nova, I'm no longer manage a producer, and I would I would like to have my name no longer mentioned in any of the post of pictures or whatnot. Try this, Texas Mike. Try this. You should. You should say something like new Force of the Spark. Look, I'm sorry it's not working out, but it's not you. It's me. That's a good way to let them down. Yes, let them down easy? Yeah, new Forces as fuck. I'm sorry, it's me, it's not you.

Guys, I have to I have to depot the group and and and delf have a business. Yes, yes, wait, other business? Oh my god, are you working with a rival pop singing group from from Greensboro, North Carolina? Hashtag I ask of you. No, oh, I don't know. That sounded awfully coy when you said you had to handle other business or however you put it. M and clearly your services are in demand. I mean, everyone knows, Mikey. Look, you're so modest. Everyone knows you're the one who engineered the brilliant move of changing their name from New Affirm of the Spark or New Affirm of the Sparks.

Policy likes to say to New Force of the Spark, which rolls off the tongue so much easier simply by removing one syllable. Everyone knows you are behind that change. I mean, I'm sure you've impressed many people the industry who are dying for you to manage and produce them, probably many in Greensboro, North Carolina. I say to you hashtag,

I plead my case. Okay, you plead your case. Yes, let's see. Well, oh oh, now this is nice New Force of the Sparks as well. We say that's okay. Hashtag Texas Mike, we say that you can root us on. Now that's nice. That's nice, very nice, a very good compromise, very nice. You can root them on from afar. Yes. Now I do have to ask you, though, now that they've shown that level of maturity, do you do you want to apologize for calling them aibots? I still fake they are to me, to be honest. That that that's my opinion about all all these bands that point of I know there are bands in Greenford, North Carolina, but the ones that occupy your page retrospectrum sometimes, Peter So I think the all one by the same person, and that's my Boyef.

But let me ask you this, Sexas Mike. Even if they are aibots, who's to say they don't have feelings? They do have, They do have, they do have feelings, they says sometimes I just get get the sick of the banter. Oh my god, is that the song you're singing tonight? Is that the surprise? Are you're singing feelings? No feelings, nothing more than feelings? Oh you should, Jed says, Sexis Mike. Do you think they are all Isaac Banks? Oh? Yes, I do, and that's why, Hey, I put the on that Isaac Banks, by the way, he has a lot of you ever noticed too, that guy.

He gets into a lot of trouble. He has a lot of drama with his brother Mike Banks. Like sometimes he doesn't know where Mike Banks left the remote control and if he left it on his grandmother's couch or under the seats or something. It's it's crazy what goes on down there in Greensboro, North Carolina. Wow. Well, I'm glad though, that you and New Force of the Spark or you know, as the diehards call them nfots. I'm glad that you've come to an agreement a day tante if you will. I think that's wonderful.

And they do say they will be performing soon at karaoke held at Center City Park, downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. J Fed says, and sometimes Mike Banks spends a lot of time in the bathroom. That's true. And Isaac Banks, he gets he gets very upset. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook live chat. Hello, Mike, looking forward to seeing you later. For retro Spectrum Radio. Let's see New Force says hashtag Texas Mike, we hope you post. We hope you post a message hashtag Jason, we are good friends with Isaac Banks.

Yes, Joe Friday says, I hope Easy calls in and explains the food situation at his residence. Oh, that reminds me. I never so easyg We're supposed to do it entertainment of what. Yes, he was supposed to do it. Well, he's supposed to do it thursdays. Then he said he couldn't do it yesterday because he had a doctor's appointment, and then he said he would do it today, and then he messaged me and said he wasn't feeling well and couldn't do it today. So that's why we leave him off the schedule and we let it be a surprise when it happens, it happens.

Y Jay fed said he had a piece of bread for dinner. Is that what they feed him at the assistant living facility? They just feed him bread? That's terrible. Yeah. The picture he posts is like, it's like, yes, sometimes that I guess what that what is? Meal is for dinner? On one for twelve a meal? What if he's not? Now that's interesting. It almost sounds like prison. Is it possible? I mean, I don't know. Has he ever revealed the name of the assisted living facility that he's in? What if it's a What if that's just a front?

What if he's actually under house arrest. I don't I don't think he would be. But what if EASYG is actually secretly an international crime lord and we just don't know? That would be something, wouldn't it. Oh? New Forest says hmmm, we say good foods omg hashtag Matt, Yes, yes, Well, if you'd like to get in with a call, we do have a little bit of show left. The studio line is open six zo three two five o six zero seven six three two five zero six zero seven. I did mentioned earlier. Of course, we were talking in the first hour about Twitter.

I've decided, and I hope you'll all join me in this rebellion. I'm going to continue to call it Twitter. He can call it x y ze whatever Elon Musk wants to call it. Well, there's a Apparently there are more changes coming media I posted this story. Here is Elon Musk's latest terrible idea to make Twitter even more of a hell escape than it already is, it says here. It's become a bit of a cliche to complain that Elon Musk is ruining Twitter, but the latest idea to slither out of the billionaire's drug adult brain.

This is an opinion piece, does pose an actual risk to the platform eliminating the block function, And then it says here parenthetically, one quick note, Yes, I'll acknowledge. Musk renamed his social media platform x, but just like Prince attempted to change his name into an unpronounceable symbol, for a few years, everyone is still referring to it as the platform formerly known as Twitter or just Twitter. Okay. On Friday, Musk replied to a tweet by the Tesla whoops, I scrolled up by the Tesla owner's Silicon Valley account that asks, quote, is there a reason to block versus mute someone by declaring that block is going to be deleted as a feature except for d MS, which is of course direct messages.

In subsequent tweets, Musk added that blocking makes no sense and advocated for the use of the mute function instead. So far, Musk is not clarified when or how the block function might be eliminated or if he might instead allow it to be verified be only for verified users as yet another attempt to nudge more people to pay for the service. He did get a word of support for using mute instead of block from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, who has launched his own rival social media platform, blue Sky, which does allow users to mute and block accounts.

Possibly related. Blue Sky was experiencing technical difficulties today, shortly after musks sweets started getting a reaction m although on Thursday evening, Dorsey tweeted that he had deleted his Instagram account, despite being one of the first accounts and first angel investors for that platform, in the aftermath of Mark Zuckerberg's Metal launching Instagram based Threads, yet another rival text based social media platform other than Dorsey. Though, Musk's declaration he wanted to end blocking met a broad range of critics across the political spectrum, including many who have previously defended his controversial tenure as chief twit.

Let's see, anyone who has ever engaged with a social media platform at any political topic whatsoever has experienced some level of spam, harassment, and unfortunately sometimes even doxing and threats. Besides the realms of research showing how online harassment and abuse can be detrimental to mental health, especially for young people. The sad reality of users who take it too far and respond to online opinions with real world aggression means there are potential real world consequences for allowing abuse to fester.

And taking away the ability to block an abusive user means Twitter is essentially enabling the abuse by making it impossible for the target to get away from the abuser without leaving the social media platform entirely. Although actually if you use now, I'm no expert on Twitter. I only I use it to promote the show, to share out links. That's about it. But I believe do you use Twitter, mikey used to not really aim? Want to be honest, I believe maybe you know, if you mute someone, you don't see their stuff, so you can't block them from seeing yours, but you don't see theirs, right, So just using mute instead of block would actually, you know, if you want to sort of protect your mental health from someone who's being abusive toward you, if muting would work, right?

Yeah? Yeah, because I think mute and just means you can't see the stuff aim or But it's like if you want it to, if you would want to search for them, if I say, you guys came to understand or whatnot, then you could mute them like block you mean like your game and like like if you block somebody on let's say Facebook, If you block somebody basically unless you're going to your settings and I block them, Like if you try to search for somebody's name, that profile or page won't show up. Yeah, it's like they don't exist.

Yeah yeah. Oh, by the way, new for as I says, we create our own Facebook like page, and that's true. We set hashtag man, let's see it says here, and taking away the ability to block an abusive user means Twitter is essentially oh up, sorry, I read that already. Let's see as Many of Musk's critics noted, the core functionality of mute and block are quite different, and while muting an account does mean you personally won't be annoyed by reading the person's tweets, they can still read your tweets and post replies that all of your followers can see.

Okay, so your followers are still going to see everything if you only mute but not block. Add in Musk's changes to the verified accounts, where those who pay the subscription fee to get a blue check get their tweets boosted to the top of the replies, and anyone intending to spread spam, troll in, harassment, or other abusive content is then more likely to get away with it if they're muted, because their target won't initially see the spam or abusive reply they posted. Blocking, on the other hand, means that the troll can never reply to one of your tweets again and shove their abuse into your timeline.

If your account is in private, they could always log out and screenshot at and tweet something about it, but that's on their timeline, not yours. By the way, New Force of the Spark says hashtag Texas Mike, we do forgive you, and you are a fan of us, we said, now, so New Force you would not need to at this point, you would not need to mute or block them on Twitter because they're being all lovey dovey now correct, You finally have come to an understanding. Yes, hopefully, though hopefully they don't show up in the Retrospectrum chatroom tonight being all like, yeah, so you're still our manager right there?

Texas Mike. Hopefully they stick to this. Yes, yes, yes, let's see. Removing the ability to block forces minorities to carry racial slurs in their timelines, right because you won't see it. You'll just but it'll be there. If if you've muted them, it'll still be there, you just won't see it. But other people will carry racial slurs in their timelines, women to carry rape threats and misogynistic insults, Jewish users to carry images photoshopped by anti Semitic trolls, and so on. None of these things promotes dialogue or increases free speech.

And while it's certainly true some Twitter users block people because they just don't want to have a discussion with them. So what again, The right to free speech does not include a right to force anyone to listen to you. It certainly does not include forcing anyone to promote your words. Let's see. This article goes on for a bit, but oh, there's an update here. As of three pm today, several people have argued that this specific language does not expressly say that users themselves must have the ability to block abusive users.

But as podcaster or Andy Levy pointed out, there are documented instances of app store rejection messages spelling out that exact requirement. Yeah. Twitter. By the way, Joe Friday was asking if you and Angela are going to the event on Sunday. Not not sure yet, not show up plans. Yeah. Well, the event that Joe Friday is talking about is, of course the Cornhole Tournament, the third annual. It's going to be happening at the Bonfire Country Bar at nine fifty Elm Street right here in Manchester on this Sunday, August twentieth.

Starts at one pm. You can sign up anytime between now and the event. It's twenty dollars a team, teams of two and uh this is uh, it's gonna be the firefighters versus the police for the Heroes Cup first first place, cash prize, thousands in raffles. It's going to be very cool. So and of course this is all proceeds benefit the Special Olympics New Hampshire. So very cool. So that's going to start Sunday at one pm. And for more information you can contact Nick Macris six three three nine one four nine nine.

He's on Instagram at Nick Macris ninety five, or you can email him and Macris seventy three at gmail dot com. And that is for an excellent cause. Oh hello to James Lewis Trabuki in the Facebook live chat. Nice to see you in there, sir. Let's see do we have time for one more quick thing? Oh, let's look at this. I did,

I did have this. I was going to spend more time on this, but we don't have time. But just this is a list. Actually I should refresh this in case has been any kind of a change. But Politico has a tracker of who is qualified and who is not yet qualified for the debate on the twenty third in Milwaukee, which by the way, starts at nine pm and it's going to be on Fox. The moderators are Brett Bear and Martha McCallum. Let's see, so the first debate, who's in it? Says? It says here, and it actually lists the qualifications, says The first abate in August will likely have the largest invite list with low barriers to entry.

Candidates qualify by getting forty thousand donors with two hundred unique donors in twenty different states, and by hitting a polling threshold that sees them clear one percent in a handful of polls. That's a pretty low bar. The upper and secondary tier of candidates one of much trouble getting into Milwaukee, but dark horses can be tripped up even by that low polling bar and the donor mark. What it doesn't mention here, though, is I believe you're also required, unless they've dropped the requirement because Trump wouldn't agree to it, I believe they also require you to sign something that states that a pledge that states that you will support the eventual nominee, regardless of who it is.

But so here's the list of who's qualified. So Trump has qualified, but he will not be there, as we discussed earlier in the ship, nor did I expect him to. Governor Ronda Santis has qualified. Vavak Ramaswamy, Mike Pence, Nicky Hayley, Tim Scott, Chris Christie, Doug Bergham, and Perry Johnson, who I don't even know who that is, but they have all qualified. I literally don't know who Perry Johnson is? Should I know? Should I know who Perry Johnson is? Mikey, do you know who Perry Johnson is? I do not.

I'm gonna look it up, thank you, because I have no idea. Let's see here who has Here is a list of those who have not qualified yet. Francis Suarez, who is the mayor of Miami, former Texas Congressman Will Hurd. They both have qualified in terms of money raised money goals, but they have not qualified in terms of polling. Then the rest of the list has not quality. Okay, well, Asa Hutchinson who former governor of Arkansas, who has not qualified in terms of money raised, but actually has qualified in terms of polling.

So he's got the poll numbers, but he doesn't have the money, so he has not qualified. Ryan Binkley another guy who I don't know who that is, although the name is familiar. He is not qualified and talk show host, conservative talk showst I believe from California. Yeah, because he ran for governor of California. Larry Elder. He is not qualified, but he is in the race. Also, Steve Laughey is not even on the list, but he is a Republican candidate. He has been on the show a couple of times, so we should mention him.

But that reminds me too, I should mention. We have Mary Ann Williamson next week on the twenty second. We'll be here Democratic candidate for the presidency challenging President Joe Biden. I mean, she has no chance, but I'm looking forward to meeting her and interviewing her. Now. So that's for the first debate. And by the way, so we already know about a little about the second debate. The second debate has already been scheduled, and that's going to be on September twenty seven, twenty twenty three, and Semi Valley, California.

And uh, that is gonna be on the Fox Business Channel. It looks like moderators are still be still to be decided. Looks like in terms of who is qualified and who has not, pretty similar list. So we'll see to find him. Mikey Perry Johnson. I've never heard of this person. It's but whoever they are, they've actually qualified for the debate. Let's say he has been several books on international quality control standardson certificate. He was a Republican canate for

governor of Michigan in twenty two two twenty two, but was disqualified due to quadrant about I think it shows hmm, okay, well he might be at the debate. We'll see, we'll see, all right, we are we are rapidly running out of time. Well, by the way, New Forest says, we will not be watching Facebook live of retro spectrum with police, and so we say, have a good weekend, Matt, and be kind and be safe, we said hashtag Texas Mike, be cool and keep up what you do. We said, between you and me, maybe New Forest won't be in there tonight, but somebody from Greensboro, North Carolina will be.

I'm quite sure. All right, we do need to begin to wrap up. If you miss any part of today's show it we'll be up in just a little bit at WMNH radio dot org and on my website Matt Connerton dot com. Of course, we did have Eric Pilcher's classic film review of The French Connection and the world radio premiere the new track from Houselights No Longer Myself. Don't forget. Those guys will be here on Monday for a an acoustic performance live in studio, and we're actually gonna play that track one more time, or at least as much of it as we have time for.

So if you miss it, but it is available on the streaming platforms as well, you can get it download it at your leisure great, great song and great band. Looking forward to seeing these guys on Monday. And of course our friend Siam Beechard, the front man for Houselights. All right, we gotta go Texas, Mike, thank you so much. Thank you to my dad for calling in, and of course Paul see and don't forget Retrospectrum Radio tonight eight to eleven PM. Oh and also don't forget tomorrow morning. Saturday mornings, I forget to plug this.

We've got a classic episode of the Morning Show from seven to nine am every Saturday morning, and a best of Matt Connerton Unleashed from nine to eleven AM. All right, that's it. We gotta get out of here. Here it is one more time, no longer Myself, the brand new single from the band Houselights, their Albums and Tongues coming out in on September one. But we'll talk to these guys. We'll learn more about that on Monday. All right, talking to'all a little bit later, by everybody, holding up. This hard to do when all these thoughts fall through your fingers.

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