Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-31-23

Wellcome everybody, here we go. It's that time again. Matt Connerton unleashed

and we are live from the studios of wm n H ninety five point three

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Manchester. And of course hello to all of our online listeners across the nation

and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com

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archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Thursday, August thirty one, two

thousand twenty three, so nice to have you all with me. By the

way, that track we just heard that is the band ever Felt. That's

called Gave It Away. We opened the show with something from Norissett, who

joined me from the UK earlier in the week skyping in. But I also

wanted to play a track from ever Felt. We were supposed to have them

on recently that to reschedule, but they're gonna be joining us today. They're

gonna be skyping in, so really looking forward to speaking with them. And

I really love their sound. They've got a big rock sound that I think

is really cool. So we'll play another song of theirs this week, get

close to the top of the hour, and then then they'll be joining us

via skype at the top of the hour. So looking forward to that quite

a bit. So the band is ever Felt and Uh and they are our

musical guest today. In the meantime, the studio line is open for you

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hello everybody in the Facebook live chat before we get into some stuff. Isaac

Banks joins us I believe if I remember correctly, Isaac is from Greensboro,

North Carolina. Isaac Banks says hello, hashtag Matt good afternoon, Good afternoon,

hashtag Jen Coffee. J Fett, of course, from the great state

of Vermont joins this on says good afternoon everyone, Let's see. Isaac Banks

says good afternoon, hashtag Luchera Huntley. How are you doing? I am

watching live Facebook of Matt Connerton Unleashed Show on ninety five point five w mh

N. No, no, no, no, Isaac, Please, it's

not ninety five point five wmh N. That is incorrect, sir, it

is ninety five point three wm n H. But you're close. You are

close. I'll give you you get an A for effort. Isaac Banks also

says hashtag Luchera Huntley his show of Matt Connerton Unleashed Show is awesome. Well,

thank you. I appreciate that. Jenny, of course is in the

chatroom and says shalom peeps. Also, Mike from Queen's City Cabinetry joins us.

Queen City Cabinetry, of course, one of our great sponsors here at

WMH ninety five point three, and I get to hang out with Mike every

Friday night. Oh, Tomorrow's Friday, my favorite day of the week.

Here at WMNH for Retro Spectrum Radio with Pauly c As. Mike is one

of our co hosts on that show. Melanie Liberty is in the Facebook live

chat and says, hey, guys. Rona Ferverro from the Great State of

California says Callie in the house. Carol Zawarowitz joins us in the chat.

Hello, Carol, eazyg Eric Gagnan says, hi, big fan. Isaac

Banks says ever Felt is playing awesome hashtag Matt Connerton. Also a pop singing

group of a man band quartet is Eon Venom four. They will be watching

you now. Oh that's wonderful. I've always hoped that Eon Venom four would

be enjoying my program. They're pretty famous. Isaac Banks says, Yes,

you got it. Hashtag Matt Connerton. I'm from Greensboro, North Carolina.

How did I know? Isaac Banks says as Potsy, you know from happy

Days? Hashtag Mike Pellapeita thanks for the emoji thumbs up. Yes, as

Potsy, He said that Mike not as the funds sometimes Isaac Banks or some

others associated with him in the chat room, they'll say it'll say in parentheses

as the fauns whoa, but no he went for the potsy Potsy Weber from

Happy Days. Eric Street joins us in the Facebook Latchett and says, who

thinks of today as the last day of summer? Last day of August?

Yeah? I do hate, I hate, Yeah, I hate this day

actually, to be honest with you, the last day of August, because

yes, I do think of it as the last day of summer. Summer

is my favorite time of year. I love summer and I always hate to

see it go away. But yes, and while on the calendar the last

day of summer isn't until what is at September twentieth twenty first around there it

is meteorological summer, is they do it? I learned this from Al Caprillion,

actually, the great weather man from New Hampshire. If you're not a

if you're not from New Hampshire, if you're listening online from somewhere else,

you won't know the reference. Probably probably you won't. But Al Caprilli in

a very famous weatherman from New Hampshire. High pressure. I can't do an

impression of him. That's the best I can do. But you know,

if you're having trouble quite placing where you know the name from. He's the

high pressure guy, but he u. I heard him explain once that meteorological

summer is June, July, August, and meteor out meteorological fall, of

course, is September, October November, and so you get the idea.

But it's so it's it's simpler that way, but it does make me sad.

I always hate to see summer go away. Funny how the night moves

autumn closing in. Melanie says, yes, it's the last day of the

summer season. Oh, Isaac Banks says, I do impressions of podsy and

fawns. Oh, let's see your fawns impression. That would be amazing.

Ja Fed says, Oh my goodness, I don't think this is the real

Isaac Banks. He was hacked. Oh no, is that true? And

easyg says celebration. Why are you celebrating Isaac Banks, says Jason Feederson.

It is me Isaac Banks. I did not get act. Well, that's

a relief. Six zero three two five six z seven. The studio line

is open. Six zero three two five, six zero seven, and if

you're just joining us, of course we do have ever felt coming up at

the top of the hour, very cool band. I'm looking forward to speaking

with a couple of a couple of housekeeping things, and by that I just

mean things that we discussed earlier in the week that I want to go back

to briefly just kind of revisit. Actually a few things. One of them

is I did share out yesterday on social media the episode of the Michael Smerconish

radio show where Mark Halperin was talking about sources that he had that they are

telling him that Biden is reconsidering running for a second term. And so we

discussed that quite a bit. Was it yesterday or the day before? I

lose track? It's all a blur, there's so much. There's always so

much in the news. But so we talked about that at length, and

oh, yeah, it must have been yesterday, because I shared out the

link to the show yesterday and John Hopwood called in about it, and my

dad texted me he said, don't trust Mark Halpern but I realized, so

I shared it out and it's at the twelve minute mark in the show on

that day's show. Yesterday's show of Michael Smerconish, where Mark Halpern begins talking

about how, yeah, sources who say that Biden is considering not running,

I went back and I just as I was finding where it was in the

show, I re listened to it. When I initially heard halper And talking

about this on Smerconish's show, I was in the car, So it's not

like I, you know, when I was describing what I heard on the

radio and how I thought it was pretty significant. I was doing that all

from memory. But in actually going back and listening to it yesterday after the

show, as I was sharing it out, I realized that I undersold it

because halper And doesn't just say that sources are telling him high level sources close

to Biden are telling him that Biden is reconsidering and may not run after all.

Halper And what he actually said was the decision has already been made.

He told Michael Smerconish that actually Biden had decided that he's definitely not running and

now is trying to figure out what's the best way to proceed in terms of

making an announcement and when to do it. And on the one hand,

he doesn't want to look like he doesn't want it to be a sort of

a coronation as of Kamala Harris. She'll be the nominee now, you know,

don't want that because you have to have a process where people vote,

you have to have primaries in theory. But he also doesn't want done to

her what was done to him, because he actually had some resentment toward Obama

for telling him, Joe and you know for twenty sixteen, don't run.

It's Hillary Stern, even though you're the sitting vice president. There was a

lot there, a lot to it. I don't want to rehash the whole

thing, but I did undersell it. And I realized that afterward that when

I went back and listen, Halperin didn't say Biden was considering not running.

Halperin actually said that sources are telling and Biden is not running, and that

now it's a matter of figuring out next steps and how to present it and

how to manage this process. Because if that is true, if what Halperin

is saying is true, it's going to be fascinating to see how this plays

out. Now. It's going to be very very interesting. So I wanted

to mention that another thing we discussed at the beginning of the week that I

wanted to go back to. And we actually did two segments on this both

Monday and Tuesday, because we talked about it on Monday and then I had

some additional thoughts upon reflecting on it on Tuesday. But Jenny and I had

a conversation on Monday's show and I put the clip up on YouTube of that

specific segment. We were discussing the song and the backlash and all the controversy

around Oliver Anthony and his song rich Men North of Richmond, and I did

post a link up on YouTube. It Scott got over six hundred views.

People are really interested in what we had to say about it. Oh and

even more comments than the last I looked. Let me refresh this, but

I wanted to look at some of the comments because you know, we'll usually

get some comments, but people really had a lot to say about our conversation

on the show on Monday. We talked about the song itself. We played

the song and kind of analyze some of the lyrics and give our thoughts on

it, and also talked about some of the backlash now that Oliver Anthony is

receiving from some conservatives because they thought they thought he was one of them,

and now they're mad, and it's a whole. It's a whole to do.

Let's see. I want to make sure I can see all of these,

but I just thought it would be interesting to just kind of just kind

of go over these some of these comments. Wait, does that everything?

It says? Eight comments? Oh, it's weird. It's like it's hiding.

It's hiding something from me. So we'll just look at these quickly.

Metal Head twenty three twenty said, y'all don't get it. It's not shaming

fat people or people on welfare. It's shaming people using welfare funds for non

essentials. I work at a filling station and you wouldn't believe how many people

come in trying to buy snacks, energy, drinks, and overall junk food

with funds meant for life sustaining necessities. They're taking our tax money hours,

we work ourselves to death to earn it, and they give it to people

who don't need it, while there are thousands of people who really need it

and will never see a dime of it. We're fed up with it.

Part of why I want to go through these is the comments refle Like I

was saying on Tuesday, how you know, the song is art and you

can take these lyrics and interpret them however you want to, because that's how

art works. There is no right or wrong answer necessarily. I mean,

you can go to the source and ask Oliver Anthony what he meant, and

he's kind of explained it. But but again, ultimately it's up to you

as the listener. Okay. The next comment, Doug Anderson eight two one

nine said feminist did you hear the part putting men six feet under pain for

the five foot three glutton? You two live in an ivory tower, so

apparently this person is very upset with us. Jenny and I feels we live

in an ivory tower. I wouldn't want to live in an ivory tower,

you know, I mean unless it had, like I just imagine a lot

of stairs. Maybe if it had an elevator. But would the elevator itself

also be ivory? Or is it? I don't know, I've never been

to an ivory tower. How does that work exactly? Is it just the

exterior that's ivory? Is it ivory that's been hollowed out? I hope it's

not made from elephant tusks. That would be horrifying poor elephants. I shan't

live in an ivory tower unless it's rent controlled. Maybe. Let's see Marcy

pre Wit one eight three six says he is not welfare shaming. Karma two

point zero three four says the truth is uncomfortable. Deal with it, guess

because we call out many of the week whom are lazy, we're bad.

It's not fat shaming. Get over your feelings, dealing with it. That's

what's wrong with our country. Waste of time here. In no way was

this racial host like y'all are racist. I understood most of that by the

way waste is spelled here, w ai st. I didn't realize that there

was anything in our commentary and our analysis of the song that might cause someone

to think that we're racist. I don't quite understand that. Let's see John

Galt six five three three says fat shaming. Listen again, he's saying the

welfare is paying to kill people and they don't care. You are looking at

it the wrong way. You must live in a poor area. I'm sorry.

You must not live in a poor well. No, of course,

we've established we live in an ivory tower. You must not live in a

poorer area and watch someone buy a pile of junk food with benefit cards.

He's not fat shaming. He cares about the people who are obese and unhealthy.

It's about helping people and not slowly killing them. Listen to it again,

stop trying to make it political. And josh Wagner seven two four three

answered replied to that comment with amen, and Joshua Ledford x seven PC also

replied to that comment and said, oh yeah, brother, call it with

seven x lamation points. So there you go. There you go. But

we were just trying to have an open dialogue, an open and free dialogue

about it. That's what we do on the show. But it's interesting how

passionately people respond and react to that. So there you go. But it's

up on YouTube. If you just just do a search to sipend Matt Connerton

unleashed Oliver Anthony, it'll come right up. I hope that you give it

a listen. I haven't posted yet the follow up thoughts that tie that I

had on Tuesday. I haven't posted that clip yet on the YouTube, but

I suppose I will because it seems to be a subject that people are very

interested in. And yes, I have been learning about how the YouTube algorithm

works and how to use it to my benefit. Easy oh, easy G

in the chat room says summer is over. When Peter White's birthday on September

eighteen, l O L And sure enough Peter White is in the Facebook live

chat and Peter White says, shalom peeps. Peter White, of course,

host of the Morning Show with Peter White here at w m H, which

you can hear week days from seven to nine am, with a replay from

two to four pm. Right before this program. Let's see, so I

wanted to mention that the Oliver Anthony thing and one other thing that I wanted

to kind of put a bow on that we talked about very briefly this week.

That and then we'll get into and then we'll get into something new.

But we only mentioned it briefly, and I kind of feel like we gave

it short shrift, or I gave it short shrift because we just didn't have

a lot of time that day. I don't even remember what day it was,

but Joe the Plumber died. You know, you younger folks might not

remember Joe the Plumber, but he's the gentleman who approached Barack Obama during the

two thousand and eight campaign and had a question for him regarding his taxes and

so forth, And Joe the Plumber became this icon. The McCain Palin campaign

really kind of used him as a sort of he sort of became an avatar

before that term was really used for that for this particular purpose for their campaign

in many ways, and there was a lot of talk of Joe the Plumber

even during the debates. You know, during one of the debates with McCain

and versus Obama, they both took took points in the debate saying I'm talking

directly to you, Joe Plumber when I say this, And of course Sarah

Palin was all about Joe the Plumber, which must have been you know,

during her debate with Biden, which must have been a little confusing for her

at times, mentioning Joe the Plumber because you know, she's talking about Joe

the Plumber and there's Joe Biden standing with her on stage there, so there's

two jos. That must have been confusing for her, but she got through

it anyway. Sarah Palin. My god, she was a candidate for vice

president. If you if you all forgot, Oh yeah, Sarah Palin.

She was a heartbeat away. Could have been a heartbeat away had McCain been

elected from the residency, Sarah Palin. Anyway, the thing about Joe the

Plumber, and this is what I just wanted to mention is and it's not

an original thought. I heard somebody else point this out, so I'm kind

of regurgitating what I heard someone else say. But it was just such an

interesting observation to me, is that someone and I wish I knew the name

of the journalist. It was someone being interviewed on another show, so I

don't even know who it was I was hearing. I was listening to a

political talk show in the car, and I heard, I want to say,

his name is Joe de Bonus, but I kind of a funny name.

That's definitely a joke in there, but it would get me fired,

so we won't go there. But and he said the observation that he made

was that Joe the Plumber becoming the avatar that he did at the time really

marked a turning point in our politics in America because that was the beginning of

sort of people recording moments on their phones and then putting them online somewhere and

then things going viral of that nature, because we hadn't really seen that before

that, because that was a totally spontaneous thing. Joe the Plumber and forgive

me, I forget his actual given name, but he was known colloquially as

Joe the Plumber. Him walking over to Barack Obama at this campaign event,

and the question had something to do with I'm about to be purchasing a business

and your tax plan is going to tax me x amount of money and I

don't think it's fair in this and that, and initiating that conversation with Barack

Obama. That was completely unplanned. This wasn't some sort of stage managed thing.

It wasn't anything that the campaign had planned, that the McCain campaign had

planned. You know, we're gonna send this reman over to talk to Obama

and uh, sort of I don't want to say confront because it wasn't confrontationally,

just walked over and politely asked him a question and they started a conversation.

But but it was completely spontaneous, and Joe the Plumber he just I

think the story goes he was he hadn't even planned on going to the event,

and he wasn't an Obama supporter, but it was near where he happened

to live, and he's out front playing with his kids or something, and

and he decided to walk over and ask the question, and somebody caught it

on their phone and recorded it and uploaded it somewhere, and next thing,

you know, it's sort of going viral. Before that was even a term,

I don't know if we even called I don't know if we even used

that term. Then saying something went viral, this was, you know,

two thousand and eight, so hard to believe in some ways, but yeah,

two thousand and eight. But the observation that this journalist may aid was

that moment was a turning point because we hadn't seen anything like that up to

then. Social media was still relatively new. I mean, my Space had

been around for a while at that point, but in terms of social media

being used to record a political moment and then upload it and then having people

sharing it to the extent that it winds up being reported on and featured in

mainstream media and winds up on cable news you know, sort of jumping almost

like a virus, from social media to cable news to mainstream news. That

was really the first example of something like that happening in politics. And uh,

I mean, you know, don't get me wrong. Before that,

obviously there were instances where someone's caught on camera saying something or doing something and

then it winds up on the news, and it might not necessarily be something

flattering, but this was the beginning of you know, somebody just somebody sees

something happening, they pull out their phone, they record it, they upload

it to social media, and next thing you know, everyone's seeing it and

it becomes a viral thing. Looks like Isaac Banks is still fighting with Jason

Fetterson. In the chatroom, Isaac says, no hashtag Jason, I'm innocent.

I am on this Facebook now for me rockin berries sixty five at yahoo

dot com on Facebook of this one for now rockin Berries sixty five at yahoo

dot com. That's uh, what is that your email address, Isaac Banks?

Or is this a ruse to fool us? Peter White says in the

chat room, can't wait for tomorrow. I love Fridays. I love Fridays

to Fridays are my favorite day of the week here at WMNH. Why do

you love Friday's, Peter? I love Fridays because it's my long day here

at the station. I do this show and then I'm also here for Retrospectrum

Radio with poly C, so it's a lot of fun. Oh. I

know why Peter loves Fridays because it's love Advice on the morning show, and

that is a that is a fun segment. I'm particularly taken with when Maddie

Juno, uh, the way he reads the questions, it's it's just funny.

There's something about it that's that's just funny. Although I have to admit

though, occasionally there's been a few questions that I hear during the love Advice

section where I kind of find myself blushing a little bit. I'm like,

oh, that's a that's a very personal problem this particular individual uh is having.

And and then I think, oh, I hope I remembered to uh

hide my mask my email address when I sent this in. I'm kidding about

that part, of course. Isaac Banks says, yes, this is my

Facebook email of Rockin Berries sixty five at yahoo dot com. Well, feel

free to us send Isaac Banks an email if you'd like to at rockin Berries

sixty five at yahoo dot com. And Isaac is now telling Melanie Lie Liberty,

I did not get hacked. All right, well, very good,

very good. I do want to oh hello to Chris Rose from the Commonwealth

of Massachusetts, who has joined us in the Facebook lave chat. If you

would like to give us a call, the studio line is open six zo

three two five six six three two five ozho six zoh seven. And of

course if you're just joining us, we do have a great band coming up

at the top of the hour. Ever Felt is going to be skyping in

very very cool band, something that I wanted to get to this week and

we haven't gotten to it yet, but we will do this right now.

And this is something that I also heard, by the way, being discussed

on Michael Smerconish's show. People are going to start thinking I'm working for Smerconish.

I keep mentioning his show. But this actually knew about before I heard

this talked about on his show. But this is from media. Iight,

oh, Isaac Banks has ever Felt rocks? Yes, this is from media,

cable news shows and networks. Ranked for bias and accuracy. And I

did hear smirkanash talking about this. There's this whole you know what. Actually,

I'll I don't think I shared this out yet after the show, or

or at some point during the show if I can, I'll share this out

so everybody can see it. But this media company, actually they you know,

they don't rank opinion based shows obviously, but they rank the cable news

networks and individual hosts and so forth, and rank for biased and accuracy.

So bias that one's obvious, accuracy, they rank for are they reporting the

facts or are they giving you spin or leaving details out, etc. So

I thought this is pretty interesting, So we'll look at this. And this

went up a few days ago, but like I said, we're just getting

to it now. So but it is something that we talk about a lot

on the show. So it says her questions related to bias, objectivity,

and accuracy in news hangover every media outlet, journalist, and news consumer.

While nothing new to the news industry, understanding which news sources are reliable and

in which direction they lean has become an increasingly daunting task given the mass proliferation

of new outlets and the rise of info attainment. Furthermore, in a time

of bad actors, misinformation, and a political class blurring the lines between statesmen

and media figures members of Congress hosting cable news shows, for example, the

question of who to trust has never been more important than for the health of

our democracy. A Colorado startup called ad Fontes or fontests, meaning to the

sources in Latin. Oh, if it's in Latin, so that would mean

if it was more than one fontest, it would be fontie. All right,

Paul, that was a horrendous joke. I feel guilty and ashamed that

I went for it. Here, which recently raised four point two million dollars

in a first round of financing, believes it can help answer the question with

its media bias chart, which released a major data update earlier in the month.

Now, by the way, obviously this is radio. I cannot show

you the chart, but you can prose the chart online, of course,

but we'll go over some of the conclusions in this article. The chart rates

publications on two separate criteria, reliability and bias. On one axis. Reliability

is charted from zero to sixty four, with anything over forty coming in as

very reliable. So it's better to be higher. It's not like golf where

you want to have a low score. You want to have a highest score.

Publications that land somewhere between forty and thirty are still quite reliable, but

include much more analysis or opinion. Anything below twenty four is characterized as selective

or incomplete, story, unfair, persuasion, and propaganda the other access points,

the other access plots. Rather, how far away from zero publications veer,

with zero being purely balanced coverage coverage and negative forty two being most extreme

left and forty two positive forty two being most extreme right. Okay, so

let's get let's get into the important part here. When looking at the top

five cable news networks, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, Newsmax, and

News Nation, CNN and News Nation lead the pack in reliability with a thirty

nine point three and thirty nine point two rating, respectively. Now that's interesting.

I don't know much about News Nation. I've seen a little bit of

it. We don't have cable in our household, Jenny and I we cut

the court a long time ago. We don't have actual cable. But you

know, but I've seen some News Nation online and I know that's where Chris

Cuomo does his show now and who else has a show now on NewsNation?

Is that where Dan Abrams does his show? I mean, he has a

show on satellite radio, but I think he also I think he's also on

NewsNation, isn't he? I think? Anyway? So I've seen a little

bit of News Nation, but NewsNation is relatively new. I mean, I

think it's just within the last couple of years that that went on the air.

So many of you listening probably have never even heard of News Nation.

But according to this it ties basically with CNN in terms of reliability. MSNBC

comes in third with a three point one five reliability rating, while Fox has

a twenty six rating and Newsmax is in propaganda territory with an eighteen point seven

rating. That doesn't surprise me in terms of buy now. That was reliability.

Again, remember we have reliability and bias. Reliability being is what they

report, factual bias being you know, is it tilted left or right in

terms of spin and so forth. Okay, so in terms of bias,

News Nation lands in the middle with a two skewing it ever so slightly right.

Okay, that actually doesn't surprise me, Isaac Banks, says Matt Connerton,

I will call in your show. Oh my, well, you're welcome

to six OZ three two five zero six zero seven. So newstation comes in

into two so just ever so slightly right. CNN is next with a negative

ten, putting it in the skews left territory. That doesn't surprise me.

Well, MSNBC has strong left rating of six negative sixteen point eight. That

doesn't surprise me at all. And Fox News charts at strong right with a

seventeen point eight three, while Newsmax is in hyperpartisan right territory with a twenty

one point thirty three. That doesn't None of that surprises me. And I've

always said, you know, very often when I talk about cable news and

I'm talking about left and right, you know, I'll often give the examples

of you know, you've got MSNBC on the left, you've got Fox on

the right. So none of that surprises me, it says here. Notably,

Fox News and MSNBC have a wide range of reliability on the chart,

while CNN's programming remains between the thirty five to forty five area. So in

terms of reliability, I guess in terms of accuracy reporting facts. Both Fox

News and MSNBC do very well, So that's interesting. Ad Fontis founder Vanessa

o'tero explained her methodology in a recent op ed, writing quote, all our

articles and episodes have been rated by Okay, I don't want to get into

that. That's gonna take us too far into the weeds. We don't need

to know the process. You can look at the article on your own if

you want to know the process. But I don't want to run out of

time on this, Okay. So next thing, cable news shows. So

now we're talking about individual shows on these cable news networks. It says here

looking at different hours of cable news television shows the disparities within cable news networks

when it comes to reliability. The morning shows, for example, chart as

more reliable than the networks as a whole, while primetime comes in as less.

So foxes Fox and Friends chart at thirty point seven for reliability, higher

than Fox's overall twenty six. That surprises me a little bit. Oh,

but this part does not. Fox and Friends rates in hyperpartisan right territory for

bias, however, with a twenty one further right than the network overall.

Okay, that part does not surprise me. MSNBC's Morning Joe is the most

reliable of the top cable top three cable news morning news programs, with a

ray of thirty seven point eight. CNN This Morning is close behind with a

thirty six point eight reliability rating. Both land in strong left territory in terms

of bias. All right, so now we go to primetime At nine pm,

Fox's Hannity scored a reliability rating of only nineteen point eight, putting it

in propaganda territory. Rachel Mattow, who only hosts on Mondays, scored a

reliability rating of thirty six point seven, while Alex Wagner, who hosts the

rest of the week, charted a thirty one point two five. Matto landed

as more partisan than Wagner with a negative seventeen point seven and negative wait oh

okay, I'm sorry yeah. Mattow had a negative seventeen point seven and Wagner

a negative fifteen point seventy five. Hannity was further from the center with a

twenty four point six rating. CNN's nine PM programming, which only recently got

a permanent host and Caitlin Collins, was not charted. I guess it's because

it's two new Oh POLYC just joined us in the Facebook live chat and says

hello, big fan. Poll C, of course, host of retro Spectrum

Radio with Paul c Friday nights here on WMNH, says here at at five

pm, cable news is top rated show. The Five, charted at a

twenty five point twenty four for reliability and a strong right eighteen score for bias.

So strong right again, that doesn't surprise me if you've never seen The

Five. It's four conservatives and one liberal, so it's you know, of

course it tilts strong right. MSNBC's show Deadline White House was more skewed with

a negative nineteen, but more reliable at thirty three point three. CNN's The

Lead with Jake Tapper was the hour's most reliable show with a thirty six point

nine rating and charted at negative fifteen point two for bias. Overall of the

top three cable news networks, Brett Bear's Special Report landed as hmm, this

surprises me. Actually landed as the most reliable program with a forty four point

thirty three and charted as skews right with a nine CBS Evening News with Nora

O'Donnell, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, and ABC World News Tonight with

David Muir all rated just above Bear in that order as the most reliable news

broadcast in the US, And that doesn't surprise me that the network news shows,

the nightly network news shows are going to be less biased than something on

cable news. CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer wasn't far behind Bear,

with a reliable rating of forty two point zero four in a negative of eleven

point six skews left bias. Anderson Cooper landed with a thirty eight point ten

reliability rating and negative thirteen for bias. Maddow was MSNBC's most reliable show,

while Chris Hayes all in scored a wow scored a propaganda level of twenty one

point seven. Joy Reid fared a bit better with twenty three point seven reliability.

Read charted a negative twenty point seven for bias, while Hayes was at

eighteen point negative eighteen point four. Chris Cuomo, the former CNN host who

now helms the eight PM hour of News Nation, landed at negative five point

three nine for bias with a thirty point eighty eight reliability rating. Media eight

Founder and News Nations not okay, I was right. Dan Abrams is at

News Nation. Now dan Abrams lands smack dab in the middle on bias,

achieving a zero point two five with a thirty five point eighty nine reliability number.

That doesn't surprise me. Dan Abrams, I think is very balanced and

politically, I think he's probably he might be a left leaning centrist, but

I don't think he's I would not describe him as either liberal or conservative.

Certainly in this entire article, he's probably. Well, let's just say,

I'm not surprised that out of everyone in this article, he seems to be

the most reliable and the least biased. And then we're almost at the end

of this Fox's Jesse Waters Primetime, which I guess ostensibly is the replacement for

Tucker Carlson Right, charted at a low low sixteen point ninety one for reliability.

Below even Newsmax is Greg Kelly, who scored a nineteen point seven.

Laura Ingram charted a twenty five point seventy one for reliability, but was more

right word than Waters, scoring a twenty five point seven to his twenty three

point three four bias. So there you go. So basically everyone, the

conclusion that I would come to with this is, I mean, it's all

fairly predictable. But I would say the only one, the only one on

this entire list who would actually trust not to be biased in some way would

be Dan Abrams. And that's pretty much it. So there you go.

But I will share out I will share out the entire article for you if

you want to look at that, if you want to see the actual chart.

Oh and by the way, I went to that website, the ad

Fontis website, and it's interactive. You can put in a specific name and

look up their statistics if you want to do that, that's an option for

you. We've got a little bit of time left if you want to get

in with a quick call. We do have a guest coming up at the

top of the hour, and in a couple of minutes we're going to play

one of their songs the band has ever felt. There are a musical guest

today, but the studio line is open six zero three two five six seven

six zero three two five zero six zero seven. Speaking of we did mention

Fox News here is an example of perhaps some balance America the jerontocracy. Fox

News hosts tackled both McConnell's health and Joe Biden's decline. This is this is

a big topic right now, of course, because well so word circulating word

coming out of Mark Halpern on Michael Smerconish's show that Joe Biden is not running

for reelection after all. And then Mitch McConnell had another incident of freezing up,

which he's only one year older than Biden. And I finally heard somebody

else say it today, by the way, somebody on CNN said it.

I didn't catch who it was talking, but I've been saying, look,

all it's going to take for Joe Biden to lose this election, to have

just one incident like Mitch McConnell has had and it's over. But let's see

what's in this clip here. We've got audio of this. This is what

they were talking about on Fox's show Outnumbered, where they were discussing both McConnell

and Biden and what they call the jerontocracy of the US government where we have

and again I do so hate to be agist, but you know, we've

been talking about Biden and McConnell. We've been talking about yesterday when Mike Doyle

called, we were talking about Diane Feinstein. You know, we've talked in

the past about Nancy Pelosi. You know, we have these very old people.

And by the way, I've often complained about whenever there's a hearing in

Congress on technology and you have these people. You know, I've always said,

I don't particularly want ninety year old Chuck Grassley of Iowa to be voting

on things that are that involved modern technology that we all depend on and use.

Although Chuck Grassley is that guy. Apparently he runs, he jogs every

day, and he still seems pretty sharp mentally, so he might be an

exception. He's ninety years old, but he doesn't quite seem it. But

let's I'm curious here what they were saying on Outnumbered. Here, I'm going

to play the clip. The questions are about all senior elected officials, and

it's not just age, right, The whole point is the fitness, the

competency. These are real questions because the American people have seen real problems stemming

out of this act. And whatever the word is for ninety year old and

up, non engineering. Thank you so much for those those elected officials.

Got another word for you, jar intocracy America. The jarintocracy governed by the

elderly and the adult. Kari Jean Pierre was worse with Jake Tapper when she

said, when we travel abroad, it's hard for us to keep up with

this president. So you know that should tell you about the level of her

dishonesty when she's behind that podium every single day. And she also said watch

him, watch him. She giggled, well, we do watch him,

and it's not about his age. But it's not about that number. It's

about his faculties, his cognition, and the quite obvious decline and deterioration because

every American can watch him. Who is every American has ever taken care of

an elderly relative or parent who was adult and in decline, regardless of what

you want to call it. I've taken care of relatives who had dementia and

Alzheimer's disease. And you can see that this man at eighty six, at

the end of his second term would not be a self caring adult. Now

she got there's more to the clip. We probably won't have time for the

whole thing. I agree with most of what she said. Now I think

it's a little strong at the end when she says by the end of his

second term, he would not be a self caring adult. I don't know

that, but I do know, like I've been saying, seventy percent of

Democrats say they don't want him to run for a second term. And I

think the I think I saw a poll that said seventy seven percent. I

think it was in the high seventies. Seventy seven percent of Americans feel that

Biden is too old. But she is right what she said about Again,

I thought I thought it was a little strong at the end, and I

wouldn't presume that because, look, there are in some ways Biden does seem

I mean, he's certainly not overweight, and he does apparently he likes to

he does exercise, he works out, he rides a bike, he's you

know, he's physically active, and there is that mind body connection. The

better you take care of yourself physically, the better off you're going to be

as you age mentally. That's just I mean, I think that's pretty well

been been proven. So I don't I think she goes too far at the

end of that. But I also do think that Look, I mean again,

you know, we tried to have some fun with it, but although

a very in a very darkly humorous way, because it's circumstances around it are

so tragic. But his comments the other day and MAUI trying to be relatable

and saying, you know, I understand, you know how traumatizing it can

be when you have a fire and he goes into the thing he's mumbling about

the time lightning struck the pond where he has a house and he almost lost

his corvette and that whole thing, and it's so it's so cringe and you

know, I know that. And look, he and let's not to say

he doesn't have good moments. You know, the last State of the Union

address he had to give, he seemed pretty fired up. And I don't

know how that happens. I don't know. If they shoot him up with

vitamin B before he goes out there, I don't know. But other times

he just seems so tired and just it's it's not good. It doesn't it

does not instill confidence. And some people go further and they talk about dementia

and things like that. I don't. I don't agree with that. But

but cognitive decline, and people get it, people conflate the two. Cognitive

decline is not the same as a cognitive decline is just something that naturally happens

that's not necessarily dementia. I don't think there's any I mean, but I'm

not qualified to make any sort of a diagnosis obviously, and by the way,

even a doctor isn't qualified to do that unless they actually get to examine

him. So we should be careful with that. But but so I would

not leap to that conclusion as far as dementia or anything like that, certainly,

but cognitive decline, yeah, I think so. So we don't have

time for the whole clip. I gotta get to a song. But oh,

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Adam on the skype with us. I think can you hear me? Yes?

I can? Can you hear me? Good? Awesome? Yes,

Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show. How do you say your

last name? Is it Stegglitch? Exactly? Oh? Perfect, wonderful,

wonderful. So we have Adam Stegglitch here from the band ever Felt. And

is it just you y'all alone? Yeah, it's just me. I'm here

at work. Oh, I got you, I got you. Yeah,

I really. I became an instant fan when I heard when I heard these

tracks, really good stuff. You got a nice, big, big sound,

you know. I think it's really cool. I like it a lot.

Thank you very much for saying that. That means a lot to us.

And I was surprised you guys haven't been around for that long, right,

it's been about a year according to your bio. That's right, August

fourteenth. This past August fourteenth was our one year together. Wow. Congratulations,

thanks, Yeah, we are I'll be honest from Jump Street from day.

You know, we've all been playing music for a while, a long

time. Even Jacob, even though he's twenty three, our rhythm guitarist,

he's still been playing since he was like seven. So yeah, fifteen years

or more for each of us, you know. But but since the first

of the melting of all of us coming together, even before Jason was a

part, before we found our bass player, which he's awesome, but before

that happened, our first couple of practices were you know, the core of

this album, like like we were able. It just happened, and you

know, we allow the music. You know, we become you know,

instead of making the music cars, we are the musics. So we just

try to become the best channel for what all of us are influenced by and

what we love. So yeah, so it sounds like it comes easily,

then it does. I mean, we do put the work in. You

know, we're every week, we're we're hard at in the studio. But

but it it does as far as like the creation of the songs, like

we're we're actually up to like twenty originals, but you know, we're windling.

We keep Corey and Jacob you've coming to the to the table with new

music, and that's awesome. So but so we try to make you know,

at least leave about two or three hour two close to two hours working

on new material plus working on on our our album finishing. But uh,

but really what's happening is we're just allowed to, you know, not let

any one of us get in the way to dictate what comes next. And

and uh and this album, you know, most of the songs and the

themes of the of the content all philosophically driven, all has a purpose.

But at the same time, like when they were when we were writing the

music and I was I would just freestyle vocals. We would record everything we

did so I would take it home and listen to it. And most of

the themes or what the driving philosophy behind each song is came out during the

freestyle process. So it was it's really just been letting it happen to us

in a way. Now that's great. I mean, when you can be

in a situation where you're working with other musicians where it just kind of where

it gels and and it just kind of flows very naturally. When when it's

you know, I mean, I've been in bands, and I've been in

bands where some bands where it comes easy, in some bands where it's kind

of a chore. And when it's kind of a chore, it's you know,

then you start to wonder if you're in the right band, you know

what I mean. So that's true. Yeah, yeah, So this is

a bit left with that opportunity, you know, coming into the Jacob Crawford

or a rhythm guitarist. I was in a former band with him called Lomas

back in twenty nineteen, and then he was in a band with our drummer

before that, and so us three have been connected. But Corey our league

guitarist, when I met him, when I got reconnected with Stone or drummer,

I mean, I mean Jacob brought gave it away into the fire,

the long road, but the reach what you just played, Corey, you

know, was creating that at home, brought it, brought it. One

day We're sitting in the we got like a little conference room next to the

studio, and he's sitting there and he's playing on the acoustic to me,

just playing the different parts to me, and as he's doing it, I'm

coming and I just felt the concept of reach the desperation of all of us.

We all have that feeling, we've all experienced that, you know,

and uh, and we talked about it and literally we went right to the

next room and it just happened, and it was like wow, you know,

we obviously took the time to you know, build it and structure it,

but the core of each song, I mean, I get chills is

talking about it. It's really it really seems like it was this is the

way it's supposed to happen, and it's really You're right. It's a true

blessing to have the opportunity to work with musicians who are willing to just adapt

and become that blank page or that channel instead of trying to sometimes we get

in our own way. You know, oh, absolutely absolutely. You mentioned

the album and now is the album already out and available or is that coming

soon or what's the status soon? So we've been saying, uh, you

know on a few other interviews I've done. At first it was July,

and then it was August through and now we're coming into September. So we

are halfway done with the album as far as like mastering, mixing, So

we're finishing the last half of the album, the last five songs on it.

We've got four done. We're doing two nine song albums. The first

album is called Ascension. We don't know much about the second album yet except

we have some songs for it. But uh, but yeah, so we

are hoping to have it done before the end of this year. But but

we haven't officially released the album. We do have some as you as you

know, I sent you those tracks. We do have some that you know,

everything's commercially licensed and all that, but we haven't officially. We released

song stuff on distroc Kid to give people a taste of what we're doing.

We've done some live in the studio and if you look at our Facebook,

our YouTube, we every week try to post live con from where we're working

on new songs or or playing our set. Yeah, that's that's really cool

that you do that. I like that. What what goes into the decision

to to record uh, full albums? Because obviously we live in an era

where you've got a lot of different options in terms of how you do it.

You know, the old the old template of you know, make an

album, make a full album, then go on tour or make another album,

and you know, that's that's given way to Now there's there's as many

ways as people are inventive in terms of how you approach it. You know,

some some artists just release a lot of singles and then when they have

enough singles, they put them into an album. Or is there is there

a particular Is there a sense that's kind of what we're doing in a sense

because we released the lie gave it away reach, you know, as far

as like sending them out to radios and different places, so I want a

sense. And they're on District D, they're on Pandora, they're on all

the streaming platforms. So in a sense, we kind of have done it

that way. But we are also already he culminated knowing that the first albums,

these nine songs are going to be the album Ascension. So it's just

that work of art that that, you know, just so we can have

one central place where you can go and hear the Ascension album because we have

you know, we already have like the other album songs ready. We just

haven't you know, finished whittling down to what they're going to become. But

but some of them we have. But yeah, yeah, you're right,

I mean that that is the truth on that and that's why whenever I talk

about when it's going to be released and all of that, we've already officially

released some music. So those songs are going to be part of that album.

And we're doing everything VI I Y you know, and uh still learning

learning to be honest. And where do you record? Do you record in

that in that studio that we see in the YouTube videos or yes, sir?

Oh wow, so you're you're doing that all yourselves too? Yes?

Oh, excellent, excellent? Is it is it difficult to? I mean,

obviously the way that the songs uh come to the band is is uh

that that process is sounds like it's pretty organic. But what about recording?

Is it difficult to get the sound that you want recording the way that you're

doing it? Or does that part also come easy? Sometimes sometimes it is

because you know, it's a small room there. So one thing we've done

recently, which is what you hear with Gave It Away and the ones of

the tracks I sent you. One thing we've done is I've done my except

for Gave It Away. That's a live take master to mix. But the

lie and reach I actually got in the booth on the seven B microphone outside

of the music, you know, but as far as like recording the music

livel we really wanted to capture the live energy of the songs. Yeah,

you know. So what we've done is we've actually set me up for that

purpose. We've set me up in the other room with different with different speakers,

so they can hear me on the pa in there and lowered a little

bit, and I can really hear me from the other room. So I'll

be on that gave it away video you'll see, or I'll come from the

other room into their back back and forth. Yeah, that's us actually recording

the master cuts so at my vocals so that we can have the music set

to the level we need to have it set for for the recording, and

I can still be in the other room doing the vocals and hearing what I'm

doing, so I don't have to you know, push my vocals at all.

So that and then also that's how we get the music right. To

make sure we get it right, because you know, they follow a lot

of what I do, and I follow them, so it's going to keep

that organics. So then I'll go and get in the booth but I gave

it away. We literally that take was so good. We didn't have to

I didn't have to get in the booth on that one. Oh wow.

Yeah, I actually I opened the show today with that one. Uh yeah,

that's that's a great track, and well, you know, and then

I wanted to play Reach, and then at the end of our conversation,

I'm going to play the Lie. That's a that's a great track too.

Yeah. No, I really like your sound. It's big, It's kind

of my first thought was when I heard it, it's got a little bit

of a doom metal kind of vibe to it. But but I but I

can hear the other well, actually, somebody in the chat room was asking.

In fact, Ian Venom four was asking about influences. Can you can

you tell me about some of the influences. Oh yeah, definitely. So

interesting that you said that about about the doom metal because Nicole Bryce from Mixed

Alternative Magazines, she wrote a phenomenal article on us, and she said the

same thing, or like Southern sludge rock. I really like that, you

know, and yeah, I love she said. She said, Actually I'll

tell you exactly to give you a really good exp but I'm also going to

tell you some influences, but I actually I had the copy. I had

to put this on my clipboard because as many times as I've tried to describe

our music, she did a way better job than me, she said,

drawing inspiration from many genres and artists. Ever, Felt music is characterized by

its heavy guitars, emotional and powerful vocals, and introspective lyrics, with guitar

solos emanating like straight Southern sludge rock. The sound coming from these talented musicians

and is sure to resonate with many. One might even say they have created

the perfect soundtrack for the apocalypse, the hands of blues, metal, post

punk, goth and psychedelia. So yeah, I love that description. Some

of my influences as a vocalist and a writer is definitely you know Chris Cornell,

Lane Staley, Scott Wild and Maynard, Jonathan Davis, uh Ozzie,

you know, Jim Morrison, CCR, Juhn, Fogerty Uh. I named

a lot of those just without their bands because they're in multiple bands. But

as a vocalist, those are some of my greatest influence. Now, lead

guitarist Corey is more influenced by David Gilmour, uh Stevie Ray Slash Jacob two

on on on that take, and I know that Stone our drummer. He

loves Motorhead Lemmy, I personally, you know, think that we've really and

and Jason are bass player. He's more of a nineties baby, which I

am too. I'm I'm I'm huge on you know. STP. Alison changed

the whole nineties grunge movements important to us, important to all of us,

for sure. But when I try to put my finger on what we bring

to it's like a It's like a classic rock sound with a modern take.

Almost. We almost have like A But then you have songs like Reach and

Gave It Away, which really to me have like a corn and STP vibe.

Yeah both, you know. I really like the vocals I do on

Reach really reminds me of almost sometimes vold Beat a little bit too late.

Yeah, oh oh, somebody she said that we really remind her of,

but I can't remember. We we we we lost you for about brother for

we lost you for about seven or eight seconds there you mentioned Volbeat and then

I I you kind of dropped out there. I didn't hear what you said

after that Oh no, no, I was just trying to think of there

was a band that she had brought up when we were on the Girl Out

of Louisiana. I can't remember what she said. I had never heard of

him, but but when we I went and listened to him after she said

it, and I was like, oh, I mean, oh, okay,

since gotcha? Gotcha? But really I think we sound like ever felt,

you know, yeah, yeah, well, and I think there's something

timeless about this genre anyway. You know. Obviously you can hear a lot

of influences from the past, but but I think it also sounds uh you

know that again. I think when you've got a big sound it there's something

just timeless about it, partly because not everyone can pull that off, so

it doesn't so you can you can do something that doesn't sound like something like

there's not another band currently that I think you guys sound like so so you

So you're kind of filling that space, which is really cool because I think

the thing, especially like a great example at the end of Reach, the

way the way you know, the sustain on the guitar and the way it

ends with that in that long part with the sustain and just a little bit

of feedback. You know. That's just so cool. And I think that

there's something about that that's just sort of timeless, partly because you don't hear

it all the time, so when you do hear something like that, it

sounds fresh. You know. Wow, Man, that that that means a

lot to us. Man. I'm pretty sure the guys are listening in right

now, so good good, they're they're probably smiling as big as I am.

That really means a lot of brother, That's cool. I'm glad.

Well, now, where are you guys from southern Illinois? We're located in

Johnston City, Illinois, about five hours from Chicago and about two and a

half hours from Saint Louis, Missouri. Okay, yeah, I I spent

the summers growing up in Illinois. Moo. Yeah, Well, my mother

is from the Chicago area originally. So when I was a kid and my

parents split up, my mom moved back to Illinois and so I would go

and spend the summers out there with her. So yeah, it's uh,

but you're you're not. I assume you're not from Illinois originally, are you?

You don't you don't know, I'm not no, originally I was.

I was born in Clearwater, Florida. Okay, but I but I lived

all over the Eastern United States growing up, you know, I I you

know, I had a single mother and every type of use you can imagine,

the whole most dysfunctional childhood. Ever, like when I was eleven,

was putting an orphanage. So if that it was kind of crazy. But

I lived in like nine different states before I was eleven. So wow,

I say the Eastern United States seaboard. Yeah, yeah, but you know

all of us are from different places too, Like I know Stone is from

Illinois. I think that so was Corey Jacob. I think I can't remember,

you know, I wish they were here. I can't remember. I

know the two of us, the other two there's two of us that also

aren't from here. But but it's crazy. What brought me to the Illinois

area six years ago? I met my wife, Christina. I met her

online six years ago. I was living in Evansville, Indiana, and that

brought me to this area. And you know the name ever Felt, the

band ever Felt, the reason that it's called that. I had my best

friend, Charles linger Felt. We had a project called Anger Fell right before

he passed away from cancer in twenty twenty one, and so I changed the

name to ever Felt because I wanted him to be forever felt through the music.

And and then and then it became about all of us as a band,

wanting everyone to forever feel our music in their hearts and their minds and

and hopefully it's something that you you know, it gets stuck in your head.

We want we want you to never forget. Yeah. Yeah, no,

that's really cool. And I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Uh,

I think that's that's that's horrible. But were you did you play music

with him for a long time and in the other band, yeah, on

and off that project, particular Anger Felt. We were only we wrote that

album and did that project and then we went you know, he had Lukim.

He didn't tell me he had cancer. And then he told me we

had shows booked down in Miami with our new album and we were gonna go

down there and we had and none of that was true. We didn't end

up going down there and booking shows though, But he just wanted to play

music with me out there on tour one last time. And he and then

when we got back. I took him straight to the hospital and we got

back. He was telling me that it was something that he knew what it

was, but he was telling me he didn't know. A long story.

Sort a month later he passed away, and uh, oh wow. And

I have to say, you know when when that all happened. But we

played music together from the time I was nineteen. My first album called Clinch

that I ever my first original album was with Charlie when I was nineteen and

he was like twenty five. He had just came from Antioch, California,

played a seventh string. He's a real badass. And and the song River

actually was a song that came from Anger Felt. That's the only song I

brought over to this new with the new guys and everything. But but yeah,

thank you for asking about him then, and thank you for for your

candolences. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, it is. So is any

of that music from from anger Felt? Is any of that online somewhere?

The river, the song River is the song. The song River was about

coming back to the source. Now that is a song. Now you can

go, you can find. We do have a couple of songs that are

still up on Instagram with the anger felt they were really good. It's actually

live video from where we played our show together in Miami. Oh wow,

I can even send it to if you want to check it out. Yeah,

it's really good. Curious a couple of songs on there, and one

called Heaven's Side, another one called here I Am that we did and and

uh and yeah it was. They're really they're really good videos. But but

yeah, I would love to ill like some more of the music because I

still have that music, you know, I would love to bring it,

but really I ain't. I an't can't get him song in edgewise, Corey.

I'll tell you what, man, it's a true blessing that have so

much music to to to work with. You know, every single every single

practice is like it's the reason I sleep good at night. You know.

Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's great. That's great. So the

album, now, the album that you're working on, now, do you

have any kind of a I know we talked about it, I can't remember.

You said it kept getting pushed off, but I can't remember. Do

you have a current eta on when that might be out or is it kind

of up in the air. It's a little up in the air because only

because we've got another show coming up, and then we got a festival,

and then we got October November open right now, but we are looking to

try to book maybe one or two more shows before the end of the year.

So now I'm just saying we'll have it done before the end of the

year because that'll give us a little room to work with it. And we've

only got five songs left to do. But I don't want to, you

know, put any there's really no pressure. I mean, like you said,

not many people are releasing whole albums now anyway, so we're kind of

taking our time making sure we get it right. By the way, what's

the music scene like in your area? Are there a lot of places to

play? Are there a lot of bands around there? There there, there's

there's a few bands and there's some places to play. But for our hard

rock sound, we you know, we we've booked a festival, we booked

a couple of venues, but around here it's really a lot of rockabilly and

punk music. So we're kind of, you know, we're kind of the

new guys on the block, so we're booking shows around here, but really

we're we're looking to book festivals and fairs and anywhere where there's a big stage.

There's five of us. We bring our own production literally everything we have,

like every I mean we actually bring too much. I think we have

on RV trailer, the whole deal. So if anyone is looking to book

a live perform especially in the Midwest area, really we really want to play

our music. So as long as our gas covered and we got a place

to Parker RV, We're down. Yeah, Yeah, excellent, excellent,

Adam. What do you want to make sure people know about how to find

you online at well? I mean you do have a website, of course,

I'm on it right now. Everfelt dot Net. Anything else you want

us to know about social media and where people should go to keep up with

what you're doing. So the easiest way to make sure you're hearing our latest

videos or watching our latest videos is Facebook and YouTube. Instagram is going to

have more of our artistic type videos on there mostly, but all of our

social media sites, all of our links are on everfelt dot Net. Everything

you need to know about ever Felt, from our merchandise to our shows,

to our links to everything is gonna be at everfelt dot net. Yeah,

and it's a nice website. I'm I'm a website nerd, so I'm always

evaluating websites and uh, yeah, it's a nice site. Who do you

do that yourself too? Or yes, sir, yes, I created that

myself. Oh, well done, well done. Yeah, I like it,

thank you. I like it. Very cool. So in a moment,

Adam, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go ahead and play this track the

Lie Anything. This sounds like just from the even just from the title,

it sounds like there might be a story behind us anything we should know about

this before I play it. Yeah. So this song is you'll as you'll

know in the very guys, you'll hear in the very beginning, it's something

you've probably heard somewhere before. This song is about the lies that the people

in power, the globally elite, you know, telling all of us in

society, the divisions of the republican and the democrat, basically all of the

lies that are told to us on a daily basis to keep us in the

boxes, in the cages that they create for us. So it's really about

about that. Excellent, excellent, Well, it's the right show for it.

We talked about that kind of stuff here, so very good, very

good. I was I was a little hesitant. I was like, oh

no, no, too much. But yeah, now you don't have to

worry about that around here, trust me, okay. Awesome man, You've

been awesome brother. Oh, thank you, it's been wonderful to talk with

you. Adam Steglich from the band ever Felt. We'll let you, We'll

let you scoot and then I'm gonna play this song. But thank you.

Thank you so much for joining us today. This has been wonderful and I've

become a fast fan, so I really appreciate you being with us today.

Thank you so much, brother. And I'm a fan of ninety five three

as well. Oh wonderful. Great to hear that. All right, Adam,

thank you so much, and I'm sure we'll talk again in the future.

Movis definitely remember we'll come and play a show sitting near you. Very

good, all right, Adam, thanks man, take care, Thank you

brother, all right, bye bye bye, all right. Wonderful. That

was Adam from the band ever Felt. And as promise, I'm gonna play

this track another great song from these guys. And then after the song is

over, of course we'll come back with our final segment on today's program.

But check this out. This is called the Lie and the band is ever

felt the soul? And when lie? Why don't do that? To what's

on? That don't rule's true? I so reson to no with my nose,

I don't know, don't know my name to me? Told so too

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social media links, contact infol sharchives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Thursday

August to thirty one, twenty twenty three, as we cruise into our final

segment today on the program. And thank you again to Adams Steglich from the

band ever Felt for skyping in with us for a bit. If you missed

it, of course it'll be in the archive of the show that'll be posted

shortly after we wrap up today. But I really enjoyed talking with him and

I love the band, love their sound, really really good stuff I ever

Felt. And we have a call. Well, uh, we'll grab this.

Hi. Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Who's this Hey, it's Odds

Banks, ISAAC three Odds of Banks now. I'm on them on none there

on Facebook now, So that's why that's me and my friend Addy Sellers on

that photo. And you are and you are from Greensboro, North Carolina,

if I'm not mistaken, that's correct. Yes, yes, Now why does

uh why does Jay fed or Jason Feederson in the chat room? Why does

he think that you've been hacked? Well, I wasn't had. I didn't

know because that I wasn't not had at all because I didn't know what my

other my other EMO, I know, my pastor was on the other on

the other EMOI address. Yes, yes, okay, well, well that's

that's a big relief. Yeah, because it's true. So I'm staying on

my rockingberry at sixty five yahoo dot com on the Facebook for now. Yes,

well, I think that's I think that's wise. And by the way,

in the past you've posted about your brother Mike Banks. How are the

two of you getting along? Well, we we're cool now, you know,

because he's just trying to, you know, just trying to make make

things right for him for him, right right. I saw something in there

one day about he had h put the remote control for the television in a

strange place or something. It sounded like pandemonium. Yeah, basically is and

it's true because right now I am just you know, feel that we're good.

Now, we're cool. You know, he you know went, he

just you know, going, going the bathroom too so fast. So you

get to work from from his job. I worked on Amazon. Oh he

works at Amazon. Yeah, over all far away from Winston, North Carolina.

Ah. Yes, Amazon in Winston, North Carolina. That's uh,

how long have a commune? Is that? Well? You know? For

I think I don't know for sure. For first, for the first time

ever he works there ever since he left out Loads Foods. M I understand

because he quit that job at Lows Foods right right, Lows Foods. Yes,

why did Why did he? Why did he quit? Does he wanted

to know, find a decent job? You know, because I told I

told my brother that he needed a part time job. So right now my

mom is finding me a part time job. That's why she called it.

A community person who can help me find me a part time job? Ye

find a job working at Libby Hill at Ceper Restaurant at Carlswall Avenue. He

was out of business. I see two twenty came for the COVID came.

Oh, I understand, I understand, But your brother likes working at a

Mazon. I've heard Jeff Bezos is a difficult boss to work for. Yeah,

but he's I'm you know, doing his best, trying to you know,

you know, get get his paycheck. Yes, well that's that's important

anyway. So anyway, right now I'm coming. I'm going back to the

Sunshine Club tomorrow evening for me to go to. Will you be doing karaoke?

Well no, actually not karaoke for we we have we're having a cookout.

Oh very good, very good. Yeah. At Saint Pius Tended Catholic

Church in Greensboro, they're Cominda, I think I've seen it. I've seen

I've seen Saint Pieu's church mentioned in the Facebook live chat. I beg you

bye, I'm sorry. I think I've seen Saint Pie's church mentioned in the

chat room before. Yes, okay, yeah, yeah, So right now

I am doing another video coming up soon. You know, I might do

another song for the video. I'm gonna make myself, you know, for

the weekend. Oh good good, Yes, so I'll send I might have

a sense to you, send to you my email you on your chat message?

Yes, please do uh you know, we do we do like to

feature original music on the show. Absolutely, all right, great and keep

up with your show and I'll talk to you. I'll talk to you a

Nord time. All right, Isaac Banks, thank you so much. YouTube

peace out all right? YouTube Byeyee. All right. That was Isaac Banks

from Greensboro and North Carolina. Now Jay fed in the chat room. He's

always trying to make trouble with our friends in Greensboro, he says, I

think this is Mike Banks, not Isaac Banks. Now that would be can

you believe that? I can't believe that brothers would would try to make trouble

for each other, like like one calls the show pretending to be his brother.

Uh, that would just be That would be pandemonium. That would be

anarchy. That would be uh, that would be like Caine is Able type

stuff, a biblical reference. Because of course Isaac will be performing or oh

no, I'm sorry. He's going to a cookout at Saint Pius Church in

Greensboro, North Carolina. Melanie Liberty is asking if Mike, if Mike Pelapita

from Queen City Cabinetry is going to show up tomorrow night. He sure is

absent a lot. She says, I think he only missed one week in

fairness, but of course, before you know, there was a time when

he was absent for several months when he first joined the show, and then

wasn't able to be there. No, but I'm sure, I'm sure it

will be seeing him, I hope. So. I always enjoy getting to

hang out with Mike from Queen City Cabinetry on Friday nights for Retro Spectrum Radio

with Paul c every Friday night from eight to eleven pm right here at w

M and H. I should also mention two while we're mentioning things don't forget.

Tonight is Trivia Night at the Hopknot, and it is strongly recommended that

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Tonight Trivia at the Hop Knot is on per usual call ahead if you would

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that will begin at seven pm, so again, just make sure that you

call ahead reserve your spot. Let's see. Oh wow, it's already almost

quarter of I just saw something that I had not planned on talking about,

but this really jumped out of me. Here governor of Florida. You might

have heard of him, Ron De Santis, or as Trump likes to call

him, Ron to Sanctimonious, or round sanctus or my personal favorite, tiny

d Well. Apparently there's a new pole where Da Santis actually beats Trump in

his quest for the Republican nomination. Says here, This is from media to

Santa's beats Trump in Young Republicans twenty twenty four straw pole that immediately went nuclear

online. Oh my goodness, says here, Florida Governor Ron de Santa's beat

Republican front runner Donald Trump in a recent straw poll conducted by Young Republicans.

That's the song, isn't it, David Boy? They were the Young Republicans

Young Republicans Resulting in chaotic reactions from all over right wing social media. The

Young Republicans organization and that's the official name of the organization, The Young Republicans,

released the results of a straw poll taken from various members of their organization

showing to Santists narrowly beating the former president in the GOP primary. Most national

average polls, according to Real Clear Politics, shows Trump beating to Santists by

a double digit lead, including in key early voting states such as New Hampshire

and Iowa. And by the way, you know, if you're a regular

listener, you already know this. But I say all along, I refer

to Trump as the as the presumptive presumptive nominee, because I'm absolutely certain he

will be the Republican nominee. All these criminal indictments they certainly harm him as

a general election candidate, but they also virtually assure that he definitely will be

the Republican nominee. It says here, Okay. The organization tweeted this out

this afternoon. This is breaking news. This is what they tweeted. Straw

pole results are in Why ours Young Republicans Twitter only gives you so many characters

two hundred forty. So why rs across the country participated in a straw pole

at why r NC Dallas. I assume that's Young Republicans National Convention, and

it's clear that why rs are divided between two contenders. Ron de Santis comes

in with thirty six point six percent of the support, closely followed by Donald

Trump at thirty five point four percent. The organization tweeted, now that's I

mean, when you account for a margin of error, I would say that

is a statistical tie. But if that's any indication, it might be the

younger Republicans would like perhaps a younger nominee. I mean, Trump isn't as

old as Biden, but he's a few years He's only a few years.

Shy, what is Trump? Seventy seven? I think Ron de Santis is,

you know what is he? Forty five forty six. The negative backlash

to the tweet from MAGA activists was quick, as Trump supporters such as Laura

Lumer. Oh as a Trump supporter such as Laura Lumer, I don't know

why I always stumble on her name, tweeted this, this is Laura Lumer.

Future uniparty shills coming out strong for a failed candidate who was just rejected

by his own pack today for being too much of a rookie. Laura Lumer

taking this a little seriously apparently, Oh, there's a graphic here, It's

got, it's got. Uh, okay, here's here's uh. Let's go

through the numbers again. This is from the Young Republicans. Straw Pole,

so De Santis thirty six point six, Trump thirty five point four, Vek

Ramaswamy nine point one. See, if the Young Republicans were going to go

for a young Republican, they would go for Vvek what is he? Thirty

eight? But he got nine point one, Nikki Hayley seven point five,

Tim Scott five point five, someone else six percent? Yeah, Laura Lumer

very upset. Uh. Gavin Mario Wax At Gavin Wax. I don't know

who this person is, but I do think Wax is kind of a fun

last name. I've seeing about changing my name. I've seen about changing my

name to Matt Wax. It does have it's pretty good. Huh, Matt

Wax unleashed. Oh, I do like the sound of that. But the

only thing that stands between myself and doing that is for one thing, I'm

kind of used to my name as it is. And the other thing is

is probably paperwork involved in changing your name. I don't have time for that.

I had got time for that. Gavin Wax tweeted this no statement on

the politicized arrest of President Trump, but they had time to publish a pro

to Santa strap Pole with no sample size. Oh, mister Wax is taking

this very seriously. He's very upset. Oh. Roger Stone is very angry.

I can't even read what he tweeted. It's profane. This is so.

There's an organization called Washington DC Young Republicans, which appear currently a set

from a separate from the Young Republicans. Washington DC Young Republicans tweeted out,

this proves how out of touch the entire why r NF is. What is

y r NF Young Republicans National Frontier? I don't know. We proudly endorse

Donald J. Trump for president. Rhinos will weep. Yes, that's the

thing if you so, they're saying, if if you don't support Trump,

you're a rhino. But that's that's why I always say the Republican Party,

it's become such a cult of personality around Donald Trump. You could be.

I mean, I would argue that Ron de Santis is actually to the right

of Donald Trump. He's always trying to out conservative Trump. But if you

support to Santis, you're a Rhino, not because you don't support Republican policies,

because you support somebody other than Trump. Oh, let's see the rest

of these or any of these worth reading any I don't know if the ones

I even already read were Oh Summer, there's there's some supportive tweets two,

but I don't think they're really worth reading anyway. But that's the young Republicans

straw Pole and it. You know, obviously it doesn't mean much. But

let's see. Oh, one other I'll tell you what. We'll leave you

with, just one other quick thing because we are almost out of time.

But earlier in the show, I was trying to put a button on some

things that we discussed earlier in the week, or or just even expand on

them a little bit. And one thing that Jenny and I did talk about

two on Monday was when artists. This was in the discussion about Oliver how's

his name now? The Richmond North of Richmond guy can spacing on his last

name Anthony, Oliver Anthony, Sorry, it took me a second when we

were talking about that. We're also talking about the history of because Oliver Anthony

was upset about his song being used at the debate the other night, and

we briefly touched on there's a long history of songs being used for political purposes

where the artist objects to the song being used in that way, and in

some instances we'll even get a cease and assist letter sent to the individual using

the song or the campaign of the person using the song. And the latest

example of this Vake Ramaswamy. This is from media I Vake drops eminem lyric

to throw shade at Shady after lawyer's beef over wrapping candidate. If you didn't

see it, it's on YouTube, you can see it. It might be

cringe, depends on your point of view. During the Iowa State Fair where

the candidates go and try to pretend like they're regular normal humans by interacting with

actual regular normal humans. Vake actually rapped on stage barely wrapped in college,

and he says his videos of him somewhere rapping, but there is video of

him rapping recently. The song Lose Yourself by Eminem. He broke into a

rap and it's it is, it's something, but it says here. This

is from Media. Republican presidential candidate VAC Ramaswamy dropped an eminem lyric on The

Rapper in response to a legal move to prevent him from using the rappers music

on the campaign trail. Ramaswamy has made a karaoke style performance of eminem raps,

as he did when he broke into a live rendition of the hit Lose

Yourself at the Iowa State Fair, a well known part of his campaign persona.

But eminem licensor BMI let Ramaswamy know that they don't stand his performances by

sending a cease and desist letter on Monday that warned they would quote consider any

performance of the eminem works by the vague twenty twenty four campaign from the state

forward to be a material breach of the agreement for which BMI reserves all rights

and remedies with respect there too unquote. That did sound very loyally. On

Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, host Andrea Mitchell asked about the beef,

and Ramaswamy said he would abide by the rapper's wishes, but Ramaswamy used

an Eminem lyric to suggest the rapper was not being true to himself by opposing

the use of his music and posing himself as an early Eminem style renegade whom

Shady may someday come to agree with. So Andrea Mitchell said, well,

actually, is there a clip here? Oh, I'll play the audio of

it here. It's only it's brief, it's under a minute. Well,

sorry, it's my first day. Okay, about Eminem. They've sent you

now there's an echo. Hang on, Sorry, it's my first day.

Okay, it's still doing it. You're hearing my show through. Oh all

right, one more time. Here we go, Here we go, Here

we go. Ysk you finally about Eminem. They've sent you a cease and

assist through the music licensing company to stop using lose yourself on the trail.

Have you agreed to move on? Yeah? Look, I think that I'll

respect his wishes, but I would just say, well, the real slim

Shady please stand up. Eminem in his rise, used to be a guy

who actually stood up to the establishment and said the things that the establishment didn't

want him to. Say, I think the fact that my political viewpoints may

differ from his. I think people change over the course of their lives.

But I have hope for him that he will one day rediscover the renegade that

made him great, and I'm rooting for that success in his life. Well,

we're Vacu Ramaswami. Thank you for your time. Alrighty, well we'll

end with that. I've I don't know, you know, I think,

I think, and I think. Let me see if I can find the

radio at it quickly, I'd like to. I would like to close today's

show with Lose Yourself by Eminem in honor of the cease and assist letter.

Yeah, here we go, clean version and honor of the c sum assist

letter that was sent to vavak Ramaswamy. Oh. Rob Dion is in the

Facebook live chat. If you are listening live by the way on Thursday,

stick around because coming up next year on WMNH, of course, is Rob's

show Through the Stage Door, and that will be coming up. And if

you miss any part of today's show, of course, this show it will

be up in just a little bit at WMNH radio dot org and on my

website Matt Connerton dot com and uh so uh Rob Dian is up next,

and of course be back bright and early seven am for the Morning Show with

Peter White, and yeah we'll leave you with us. Oh no, forget

trivia tonight at the Hopknot, But here's a little M and M from the

N eight mile movie Lose Yourself to close out today's Matt Connerton Unleashed and uh

I will talk at y'all a little bit later. By everybody,

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