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

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live chat. But the best thing to do so that we can hear and

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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

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Popeyes, here, your hand on your heads, Get off the barn,

get on the wall. What's my name? Popeyed Doyle? If he

doesn't like you, he'll take you a pot. And it's all perfectly legal

because Doyle fights thirty. You want take a ride here, fat man and

plays rough. Everybody want to milk Jay Doyle is bad news, but he's

a good cop. We're going there online. How many times have I been

down hard? 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,

come give me, come on, let me. I mean I want to

fush you. I want to push. Let me talk to it. You've

got a friend. You got a friend. You're gonna tell us me your

married? The last time you fie? Will? Who's your connection? Willy?

What's his name? Hey? John? No? No, man,

no, Joe bar the barber right? Now's who it isn't it? I

don't go said it? What's joe last name? I don't know, man,

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

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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,

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I did it again, didn't I? Mikey, Yeah, I'm old habits,

old habits die hard. It's not it's not channel ninety seven anymore,

it's Channel six. Uh. Here's the pattern I've fallen into recently. There,

Texas, Mike, I get it right at the top of the show.

Yeah, but then when when we come back from the break, I

screw it up, old habits. We are not on Comcast channel ninety seven.

If you're in Manchester, we are on channel six, which is awesome.

That's quite an upgrade actually, so that's very cool and I continue to

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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.

You can hang out with us in the chat room on Facebook, but open

a second browser tab and go to wm and Radio dot org and click listen

live and listen through the website while you chat with us on Facebook. The

reason for that is Paul mutes the show on Facebook because Paul is playing a

lot of copyrighted music and clips and so forth, and if he doesn't mute

the show, then the Facebook feed gets interrupted because Facebook gets all or you

can't do that, and it's a big hassle. So Paul mutes Facebook.

Open a second browser tab go to WMH radio dot org and click listen live

and you can hear the show in all of its stereo glory. So that

will be tonight from eight to eleven pm. Speaking of stereo glory, by

the way, at the top of the hour today or at the well at

the end of the first hour, top of the second hour, we gave

you the world radio premiere of the brand new track from Houselights called No Longer

Myself that just came out today. It's already on the streaming services so you

can get the single. 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. So if you miss any of that,

of course it'll be in the archive after the show at WMNH Radio dot

org and on my website Matt Connerton dot com. And of course it's you

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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

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