Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-4-23

0:41 Hello, everybody, Welcome, here we go. It is that time again,

0:44 Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m N

0:50 hinem and Glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Although it looks like it's about

0:56 to storm out there, but it is nonetheless glorious. Also on Comcast ninety

1:00 seven if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across

1:03 the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton

1:06 dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info,

1:10 show archives, etc. Etc. Today is Friday, August four,

1:14 two thousand and twenty three, so nice to have you all with me.

1:18 We do not, as we normally do on Friday, we do not have

1:22 a classic film review from our friend Eric Pilcher this week. He's got a

1:25 lot going on this week, so he wasn't able to join us for our

1:26 Wednesday segment and he does not have a film review for us either, but

1:32 he will hopefully be back in action next week. I think he might be

1:36 staging a what they call in Hollywood a sick out, which is where you

1:41 you know you're sick because well in Eric's case, he just really wants a

1:45 T shirt. Actually no, I think he just has a lot going on.

1:48 But no, we support him and he'll be back next week hopefully so.

1:53 But we do have coming up at the top of the hour a great

1:56 musical guest joining us a via skype, all the way from Tech These Texas

2:00 metal bands. I tell you it's gonna get heavy Past the Ammunition. And

2:05 by the way, with a name like that, what other state could they

2:07 be from? Of course they're from Texas. Now, this really good power

2:12 metal trio. I shouldn't say power metal. That's a specific genre. They're

2:15 a power trio, but they play metal, but it's definitely not power metal.

2:19 It's much more aggressive. Forgive me the faux pa. They are a

2:23 power trio and they play metal, and they're called Pass the Ammunition. And

2:29 they're gonna be skyping in at five pm today, So really really good stuff.

2:31 So looking forward to talking with them, and who knows, maybe also

2:37 later in the show, we'll give another spin of the newest single from Jerry

2:40 and the Scumbags, the new track Hipster Dipster. Yesterday was the world radio

2:45 premiere of Hipster Dipster, and the response has already been truly remarkable, lots

2:51 of positive feedback. Everyone loves it. I think it is going to be

2:55 number one with a bullet, as they say again of a passing reference to

3:01 our musical guests coming up later today, pass the ammunition anyway. But yeah,

3:06 so lots going on. Let me tell you what, by the way,

3:09 and then we'll I want to get this out of the way, and

3:13 then we'll give the contact info for the show and we'll say hello everybody on

3:15 the Facebook, CLIFTA and so on. I have some some subjects today.

3:20 Obviously we do have a musical guest later, but I also have some specific

3:23 subjects to discuss on the show, and none of them directly relate to Donald

3:30 Trump. Now, obviously it's uh, he's been in the news quite a

3:34 bit lately if you haven't noticed. And yesterday we spent almost the entire show

3:39 except for you know, the world radio premiere of Hipster Dipster. We spent

3:45 the rest of the show talking about Trump's arrangement. Yesterday is third one.

3:47 It's you know, it's a big deal. First time in history we've ever

3:52 seen anything like this playing out. But um, I have to tell you

3:55 guys, I'm starting to feel a little bit of TFS Trump fatigue syndrome.

4:03 So I kind of had this idea that I think today, because we spent

4:08 almost the entire show on it yesterday as it was happening in real time.

4:11 His arraignment was at four pm, the same time that this show goes on

4:14 the air, I think i'd like to I'd like to just get into some

4:18 other things today. We live, for better or worse, we live into

4:21 a fascinating world where there are always many interesting things going on, and so

4:27 there's plenty of things to talk about and some other things that I wanted to

4:30 get to earlier in the week that we just didn't get to, some serious

4:34 and some more frivolous and so forth. So since we don't have Eric's film

4:38 review today, maybe we'll get into some of those. But I'm already feeling

4:43 that Trump fatigue syndrome setting in, and we've got a long way to go

4:47 with all the Trump stuff now, So I just I just I'd like to

4:53 take a little bit of a break from that now. I do have a

4:57 couple of caveats to that one, in that I do like to defer to

5:02 the listeners as much as possible as much as it is feasible to do so

5:08 sometimes you can't, but when you can, I like to. So if

5:11 anyone listening, if anyone in the audience has something that about regarding the happenings,

5:15 the goings on legally with Trump, that you would like to discuss,

5:18 I'm certainly open to it. So I'm not saying it's a no Trump zone

5:21 today. I'm just saying I'm not looking for it. I'd like to get

5:26 to some other things and not let him suck up all the oxygen. But

5:30 if somebody has something that they want to discuss regarding Trump, either on the

5:34 phone or in the chat room, I am certainly open to it. So

5:38 I'm not making a hard fast rule on this. I'm just kind of telling

5:41 you where my head's at and the other caveat and this should be obvious ciscos

5:44 without saying I'm sure. But if there's some sort of big breaking news,

5:47 a new development that merits our immediate attention regarding Trump's legal woes, we can

5:55 certainly discuss that. But we do have a call. Hi, welcome to

5:59 Matt Connerton Leash. Who is this Hello, Matt Polly Police from a retro

6:04 spectrum radio with police. How are you. I'm doing good. Listen.

6:09 I know you're going to commit the next two hours to talking about Donald Trump,

6:12 and I just I'm not listening right now, so I don't know what

6:15 you're what you're talking about. So, but I know that you're going to

6:17 spend the entire two hours talking about Donald Trump again, and I just wanted

6:20 to promote the show. That was a bad joke. I'm sorry, I

6:24 am listening. Oh okay, because I was going to then I was going

6:28 to then suggest that you could easily derail that by saying something about Hunter Biden

6:33 or Hillary Clinton or something. But yeah, me me, it's dude.

6:39 You want to talk politics with me, Let's talk about Abraham Lincoln or George

6:43 Washington. All right, that's that's it. Hey, two of the greats,

6:46 Two of the greats, that's right, two of the greatest. Yes,

6:51 Yes, I once saw this like mini series on the History Channel,

6:57 probably oh, fifteen years ago. That was the hundred greatest people of the

7:03 millennia, of the first thousand, of the first thousand years, for the

7:08 second thousand years, whatever it was. But anyway, Abraham Lincoln out of

7:12 all the I mean, they had everybody, they had the guy who invented

7:15 paper, you know, way back in the day, and all this other

7:17 stuff, and Abraham Lincoln was number one. Oh no, kidding out of

7:24 a thousand wow, okay, well good, well one hundred, I'm sorry,

7:29 a thousand years, one hundred people. Well, he did emancipate the

7:31 slaves. Kind of a big deal, I know. But he didn't invent

7:35 paper, that's true. Who did invent paper? And his paper the person's

7:41 last name, No, his last name is not paper, and it was

7:46 I think like somewhere in an Asian part of the world. Oh, I

7:54 see. I thought maybe it was named for him. Maybe his name was

7:56 Paul Paper or something. That'd be a fun thing to tell people though,

7:59 because most people won't bother to look it up, so just be a fun

8:01 thing to spread. Hey, did you know the guy who invented paper?

8:03 His name's Paul Paper, pall Paper. Yeah. I just wanted to call

8:09 and promote the show tonight. Yeah. I'll let you, uh get rid

8:13 of me and you can do your thing there. What do we what do

8:16 we have in store? Well? Can I we have no guests? A

8:20 nice quiet night between the four of us kicking back and chilling with touchy feely

8:24 song. Oh, will they make us h will they make us feel amorous?

8:31 You'll you'll blush wow? Particular nesher, So I am a blusher,

8:37 will indeed thank you blush? Wow? Well that's uh. Can you give

8:41 us? Can you give us a clue? Can you give us, Paul,

8:43 just one example of what is in the playlist tonight, Just just one?

8:50 Sure? I want to kiss you all over by Exile. Oh,

8:54 that song does make me blush. Yes, that's the blushing track. I

8:58 get all. But as far as the feeling part of it, feelings go

9:03 way beyond just physical Matt, and we'll be covering many different aspects of feeling

9:07 through song tonight. Feelings nothing more than feelings? Is that in there?

9:13 You know what I told Lisa what the topic was, Our good friend Lisa

9:16 who does our voiceovers with Katie. Yeah, And when I told her what

9:20 the topic was tonight, you know what she said? She said, feelings

9:24 nothing more than feelings, like you just did. And I'm not playing that

9:28 song. By the way, I will not be here tonight. I was

9:30 going to say, clearly, it is too obvious a choice and therefore I'm

9:33 sure you did not include it, right, No, it's too obvious.

9:37 And we just played that song, and that song, I mean, the

9:41 dude who sang it and got millions of dollars off it ripped it off from

9:45 another song from like Italy, I believe, and never told anybody, so

9:48 shame on him. Shame on him. And then led Zeppelin stole it too

9:52 and did their own version. Right, I'm sorry, yeah, exactly,

9:56 Yeah, yeah, I was suspected that wasn't really there's yeah, no,

10:01 it wasn't really there, but it sounds like it's theirs, right, It

10:03 sure does. And when you look at the record credits, they don't you

10:07 know, they say it's a Plant page. Yeah, I know, I

10:11 know it's not right. It's not right, and he's all like baby baby

10:16 feelings, you know, because exactly how he used to sing back then.

10:20 That was the most horrendous Robert Plant impression in the history of the world.

10:24 And I do apologize for it. I don't know why I do that.

10:26 I don't know if you ever noticed this about me, Paul. I do

10:28 these spontaneous impressions, and they're always really bad, and yet it's almost like

10:35 I can't help it. It's a compulsion. I'll just do one out of

10:39 nowhere for no reason, and it's always horrible, but I but I still

10:45 do him. There is a there is a diagnosis to that you have imitation

10:52 tourete, imitation tourettes. I. Yes, I wonder if there's a medication

10:58 I take for the millions it does. Yes, So you're not alone.

11:05 Well, I just know that you're not alone in that imitation threat. That's

11:09 all right, We're million strong, see because that's my that's my impression of

11:15 Paul Stanley singing Crazy Nights with that line we're millions strong. See. It

11:18 was really bad, right, I usually I suffer from it too. Was

11:22 come out right now and let you know. But it's not with music with

11:24 me. It's more like with TV shows. I'm I'm going to join you,

11:28 Elizabeth, We're going to join you. Sorry, Yeah, that is

11:31 That is a pretty bad impression. Actually, yeah, you're right, okay,

11:33 Well yeah I'm not alone. Yeah that was terrible. You don't sound

11:37 anything like red Fox. Wow? Right, exactly. If that's half the

11:41 battle, half the struggle is not only breaking out in imitations, but they're

11:48 bad ones. I feel like we should start a support group, a twelve

11:54 twelve steps support group. Yes, I think it would be great. I'll

12:00 I'll see you at eight o'clock. All right, sounds good. I'll see

12:03 you then, Paul, thank you, all right, very good. Retro

12:05 Spectrum Radio with Pauly C Friday, of course, is my favorite day of

12:09 the week here at WMH ninety five point three FM. I get to do

12:11 double duty and I love it. I do this show and then I'm back

12:15 at eight pm of course for retro Spectrum Radio with poly C. I'm one

12:18 of Paul's co hosts on that show, along with DJ Steve and Mike from

12:22 Queen City Cabinetry, who I see in the chat room as well as DJ

12:26 Steve and Mike also one of our co hosts on that show, and one

12:28 of our sponsors of course here at the station, and so that'll be a

12:31 lot of fun. I always look forward to my Fridays and Friday nights,

12:35 especially getting to hang out with those guys for retro Spectrum Radio with Polyc tonight

12:39 live from eight to eleven pm here at WMH ninety five point three FM.

12:43 I don't really break out into spontaneous, really horrendous impressions on that show.

12:50 I think that's more just something I do here, so I guess I have

12:52 some control over it. And it's not like I do that just walking around

12:56 outside like in my daily life. I'm not you know, at a grocery

13:01 store or something, just randomly uh singing and not sounding anything like what the

13:05 person who actually sings the song sounds like. Um, so that's good,

13:11 but it's nice to know that I'm not alone. I am not alone.

13:16 See that's you know that song. You are not alone Michael Jackson. See

13:18 that was terrible. I just did it again. That was horrendous. I

13:22 am so embarrassed that I even attempted to do that. I didn't sound anything

13:26 like him. Um, it's a sickness and I need help. Maybe there

13:31 is a medication like uh uh imitator roll or something that I can take that

13:37 will I'd probably ask horrible side effects. Six Z three two five O six

13:41 Z seven is a number six oz three two five O six Z seven If

13:45 you would like to join us on the program on the studio line. Also,

13:48 you can text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven

13:52 six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt

13:56 at matt Connerton dot com. And of course you can interact Endo Pine in

14:00 the Facebook live chat and we will say hello everybody in there in a moment.

14:03 But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your

14:05 dulcet tones is to give us a call at six zo three two five O

14:09 six zoo seven six zo three two five six seven And if you are just

14:13 joining us, we do have a musical guest coming up at the top of

14:16 the hour pass the Ammunition Trio from Texas is going to be skyping in.

14:22 Looking forward to talking with those guys. Let's see, we will say hello

14:26 everybody in the Facebook live chat. J Fed joins us from the Great Sata

14:28 Vermont says, good afternoon everyone. Paul see also in the chat room as

14:33 well as DJ Steve. DJ Steve, by the way, said a great

14:37 intro. He really liked that opening song. Yeah, that is the High

14:41 Capital from the band Dust Profit and yeah they're really good. Of course,

14:45 it used to be in a band with Auto Kinsel from Dust Profit. We

14:48 were in a band together called Chemical Distance, and I've known Auto for like

14:50 two decades. We've worked together on some other things as well. That's the

14:54 only band we were ever in together. But I did some other up promotional

14:56 work for him. Oh speaking a very talented music. The Great Dylan Reynolds

15:01 joins us in the Facebook live chat and says, good afternoon, Good afternoon,

15:05 Dylan. Jenny is in the chat room and says shalom peeps. J

15:09 Fed says, I'm riding solo tonight. Oh my, let's see Mike from

15:15 Queen City Cabinetry says Happy Friday everyone. Oh. Police reminds us too,

15:20 there will be a new shower time with DJ Steve tonight on Retrospectrum Radio.

15:24 A very popular segment on the program. I mean it's a little unsettling,

15:28 but very popular. Police says in the chat. Didn't you sing some metal

15:35 tune in the style of the Begs? Now, I wasn't a metal tune.

15:37 It was after the lovin by who does that Inglebert Humperdink? Yeah,

15:41 that was I attempted it in my mind. It was really funny I was

15:46 going to do. The idea was it was a night where we were all

15:50 taking turns singing. It was kind of like a karaoke night on Retrospectrum Radio,

15:54 and I had chosen it was my idea. I was I wanted to

15:58 sing because I had sung after the Loven before, but I was gonna sing

16:00 it again, this time in the style of the Beg's And in my mind

16:06 it was really funny, and in the car when I did it, it

16:08 was really funny. But then when I had to do it live, it

16:11 was like it wasn't clicking. Actually bailed out of the bit, which you

16:14 should never do. That is a cardinal sin, you know. Once you

16:17 commit to the bit, you gotta finish the bit. I did not finish

16:18 the bit. I was I was mortified. I was so upset with myself,

16:23 but I just couldn't pull it off. Melanie Liberty joins us and says,

16:27 hey, guys, uh, let's see. Jay Fed says we are

16:33 getting a much needed thunderstorm, being sarcastic. Of course, they've had all

16:37 the all the rain they can handle and more. Just a few weeks ago,

16:41 mont Pelier was basically underwater. Oh we have I see the name on

16:49 the caller ID. I think our guest is early, but that's okay.

16:53 Hello, is this uh Blair Donald or Donald Blair? Hey? Ye,

17:00 how are you doing? From of course the band past the ammunition? Uh,

17:03 you're you're a little early, but that's okay, um no, no,

17:07 I was gonna I was gonna see I thought we had to skype ind

17:11 or something. I was trying to figure out when how to do it.

17:15 But if you want to do it like this, that's fine, But well

17:21 we can. I mean, you're you're on the line and it sounds great.

17:22 Is it just you? My drummers on the on his way over over

17:29 the rest of the guys, um my guitar player. He's like a fitness

17:34 kind of guy. So he's got people that uh uh pays them to help

17:41 them get their figure or whatever whatever you call that workout. Yeah, whatever,

17:47 we call it, like a personal trainer. Don't tell them more.

17:51 Mitch has had I called him, and so I guess it's just gonna be

17:55 me and Robbie the drummer. Okay, would be easier for you guys to

17:57 skype in so you can both be on Is that easier? I'm trying to

18:02 figure out how to do it, but oh, okay, you're having an

18:04 issue on your end. You know, Jin was telling me to uh skype,

18:11 but I'm like, whoa shoot, I thought, and a good thing

18:17 I did get in touch with you because I went to the main page or

18:26 whatever, And I'm looking at it and I'm like, well, there's a

18:29 telephone number, so this is no number. I call Yeah, our Skype

18:33 ideas WMNH radio if that helps. But I mean you're on the phone,

18:41 so I mean, we can just do this, just do this now?

18:45 Actually, do you want to? UM? I wanted to play to open

18:48 the segment, this song Shell that I absolutely love. But since you're already

18:55 on with us, why don't we do this? Let's um, can we

18:57 put you on hold? I'll go ahead and play. I'll go ahead and

19:00 play this track and then we'll we'll come back and talk about it, and

19:03 maybe your other band member will be there at that point as well. But

19:08 how's that sound? Awesome? Sounds good? Okay. If you don't hear

19:12 anything on your end, it's um. Sometimes people say when they're on the

19:15 phone line they can't hear what's going out on the air. So if you

19:19 can't, if you can't hear anything, don't worry. It's just the song

19:22 is playing. I'm gonna play this and then as soon as as soon as

19:26 that ends, we'll bring you back in. Is it Donald? Is that

19:29 how you say your name? Don Donnelle? Okay? All right, very

19:32 good, Donnell, gotcha, gotcha all right, hang tight with us.

19:36 We're gonna listen to this great song. I love. This is my favorite.

19:40 That's why I wanted to open the segment with this. I love this

19:42 song. So this is Shell from Pass the Ammunition and Donnelle from the band

19:48 is on the phone with us, and we're gonna talk with him right after

19:52 this. Don't go anywhere? Hold those don't you wore my trade? You

20:56 will retake you? Time job's twice so hard to last, time plaster to

21:10 be you want you last four times the time again? Why do I?

21:22 Why do I feel for when I don't Jakes? When to me got brand

22:04 branded me? Times is the all she can do? Time so hard to

22:15 be sat the stroke gets to be to play? Why do I? Why

22:34 do I feel so when I don't want? Taking the water whis wheels?

23:59 Old? Damn? When? Why? Where? That is good stuff?

24:36 That is Pass the Ammunition. That's the name of the band. The song

24:38 is called Shell and these guys are from Texas and don Ell are you still

24:42 on the line? Yeah, we still hear me? And U oh sorry

24:48 you and who me? And Robbie you and Robbie excellent excellent. Okay,

24:53 And what are you doing the band, don Elle? I'm the bass player

24:59 and singer. But you can say in the studio, I do them about

25:03 everything in the studio. Oh, I got you Bobby. Um he's the

25:07 new drummer of the band, and um I put him with you. Okay,

25:12 very good. So on the so on that track we just heard shell,

25:15 which, by the way, I opened with that because that's my favorite

25:18 of the songs that you said. I love that song. It's you know

25:21 it really it's it drives, you know? And that that uh who plays

25:25 the solo on that? So is that you in the studio on that track?

25:27 Don ll Do you do everything on that track? Um? Yep,

25:33 that's me playing almost everything I do. Um the producer does the lead,

25:38 and um, I do a lead and then um, Mitch Mitch Long uh

25:44 does the last lead on it. So it's like three leads on it.

25:48 Oh okay, wow, yeah that last lead Mitch Long is his name.

25:51 That that is nasty and I mean that in a very very good way.

25:56 You could cut glass with that solo. That is really good. Um.

26:00 Everything about that track is just really really good. So now are you are

26:04 you guys a trio because it looks like there's, um, there's three of

26:08 you in the pictures that I saw on social media, but it sounds like

26:12 there's been some some pets who um what you call it? He's uh fitness

26:19 Oh yeah, yeah, he's working. You know, he's a fitness guy,

26:25 fitness trainer, Robbie, he's here. Um but UM, I think

26:30 we're trying to decide on um another guitar player. Yeah, oh I got

26:37 you, I got you? Um is uh, how many how many songs

26:41 have you guys recorded total or or out or I guess don lu specifically,

26:47 how many of you recorded with this band? We got to two EP two

26:52 CDs out okay, grill is the first one, and um uh firing on

27:00 find on all cylinders, cylinders, I'm sorry it's the second one, gotcha?

27:06 So um, all in all, it's about UM. I want to

27:10 see eleven songs okay, okay, um and where um we fished to record

27:17 a new new one called um um um I'm sorry sorry, um sorry,

27:25 Well I'll tell you the song the title later on. Oh I got you

27:29 not not fit for FM radio? I understand. Um, So uh when

27:36 did this project start? Donelle? When did you start recording. When did

27:41 it start? Started around I think two thousand nineteen, okay, so it's

27:45 relatively now. It started when, you know, I was playing in some

27:48 bands and around here, and it just I just didn't feel it with these

27:55 bands I was playing with. So I'm like, man, I gotta you

27:59 know, I got these songs on the shelf, I might as well get

28:02 them out there and everything. Yeah, so I decided to start past the

28:07 ammunition I got you. So you started it out so effectively. You started

28:11 it out as a solo project, right, and then it grew into a

28:12 band, is what it sounds like. Well, really supposed to be a

28:17 band, you know, I was gonna do like Trent Tress of nine in

28:23 Snails. I was gonna do the first one myself. Yeah, the second

28:27 one was supposed to be a band outing, but some some people came and

28:33 some people went. So yeah, yeah, I ended up I had to

28:37 do the second one myself, but hopefully with this one, um, the

28:42 new one's got called collateral damage. Okay. I wanted to make this a

28:47 band effort with everybody involved, you know. So yeah, yeah, it's

28:52 it's interesting. Yeah, some projects, you know you mentioned Trent Resiner with

28:56 nine in Snails, or another great example of course Dave Grohl that first Foo

29:02 Fighters album is all him, and then he put the band together after the

29:06 album was already done and out, and then of course ever since then it's

29:08 been a full band. But yeah, I think that I think it probably

29:14 makes sense to start out that way if you're if you're doing something new,

29:18 if you start out just by yourself and you get a bunch of studio tracks

29:22 done where you're in full control of what you're doing, that probably makes it

29:26 easier to really establish Okay, this is what the sound is, and now

29:32 we're going to go from here. I can bring in more people, but

29:34 now they have a template to work with. They understand this is the sound

29:40 because I've already established the sound myself. Is that kind of was that kind

29:44 of the idea when you went into the studio by yourself to do the first

29:47 tracks, Like, there's some people that came to me like for this new

29:53 this new CD that we're going to do clad old damage. I got to

29:56 put that out there again. Yeah, they wanted like, yeah, you

30:00 can work in our studio, you should work in this studio. I'm like,

30:03 no, we're gonna stay where we're at, you know, because this

30:07 is the sound that I want because it's all about the drums for me.

30:12 You know, if you got a good drums sound, I'm down for that,

30:17 you know. Yeah. Yeah, Like I said, Robbie's gonna be

30:21 be the guy that's gonna be uh behind the wheel for that that one right

30:26 right? Um? How do you can you talk to me a little bit

30:30 about influences because when I when I listen to that, like that song Shell

30:33 specifically for example, you know, I hear a little bit of King Zachs,

30:37 I hear a little bit of seven Dust. Um, I hear a

30:41 little bit of Tantera. That's kind of funny because on the first EP we

30:47 did a song called Eraser and that's one of Robbie's favorite right here, and

30:52 uh, the guy, this guy that I used to stay with me,

30:57 he's like, man, that's I hear some Kings in that One'm like,

31:02 yeah, even though the Gift Kings, I'm a big fan. Yeah,

31:06 but yeah, that's cool. Yeah, yeah, I hear I hear these

31:11 different influences. But what is different is there's also a rawness. It's not

31:18 the production is not particularly polished, I feel, and I mean that in

31:22 a good way. That's a compliment because I think very often metal, especially

31:29 now. I was talking to somebody else about this recently on the show How

31:33 you know, guitars don't sound as heavy as they used to sound, and

31:37 you know, um metal generally, along with everything else, I feel,

31:42 is a little bit overproduced and a little too clean sounding, and it takes

31:47 and that to me, takes out some of the rawness and the aggression of

31:49 it. But your music, to me, it really retains that that rawness

31:56 in terms of production. It doesn't sound too slick. It sounds you know,

32:00 it's heavy, but it's also a little rough, and I you know,

32:04 I think it's fantastic. I don't know if that's what you're going for

32:07 intentionally or if that just happens organically, but can you tell me a little

32:12 bit about that Your approach to production, Well, we record and soak it

32:16 up studios, and that's usually where I kept my eye on Ryan mc quistin

32:23 when I first started the Bear and I'm like, all right, I'm going

32:27 to get this guy to do the cover of each CD, and I'm going

32:31 to use this studio because this studio is like kind of like a studio where

32:37 Phil a Smo a Pantera. He usually send his musicians there. Used even

32:46 to rehearse our record and everything. So um yeah, the next outing and

32:57 everything. I still want that that same sound, but probably sound a lot

33:04 polished because I want to take take our time to get all the songs right

33:07 on the next one. Yeah yeah, I mean, I like I said,

33:10 I think these these songs sound great, and I you know, I

33:14 like I said, I like that it's a little you know, a little

33:15 raw, not not necessarily overly polished. I think it. I think it

33:19 probably helps you stand out a little bit. Where in Texas are you guys

33:22 by the boy? Well, I'm in I'm in Allington and bobbies were yet

33:29 he's in fourth fourth word worth Okay, um boy hot summer? Huh you

33:36 got that? Boy? That's all right? Yeah, Bobby says, there's

33:40 one hundred and six. He said, it's what how hot? Um?

33:49 What what did he say? One hundred and six? Yeah? Yeah,

33:52 um wow, that is yeah, that is hot? Do I mean,

33:58 what's what's how's the word down up there? I mean, we had a

34:02 hell of a heatwave recently, but for this last week it's been kind of

34:06 kind of cool out and uh, and a little bit rain. Well we've

34:09 had a lot of rain actually, Like right now it's kind of kind of

34:13 it's humid, but it's not it's not hot. But you know, we've

34:16 had the hottest summer ever here. But you know, of course that's how

34:20 it is everywhere unfortunately. But um, do you guys, do you play

34:25 out a lot or obviously I know this this whole thing is in flux right

34:29 now, uh don elle, but have you played out a lot with this

34:32 project or or have you been mainly focusing on recording the less lineup? The

34:37 first show was with opening up for accept and everything. So, um,

34:45 we played out three shows I think, okay, you know, and um,

34:50 the reason the reason why we did that was number one, Mitch is

34:53 from Oklahoma City and number two. We was a little bit picky about can

35:00 all gigs, But I think this time around we're gonna try to play play

35:04 out more and everything and what not be picky about the shows or anything.

35:10 So sure, sure, And what's uh, what's the scene like there?

35:15 It seems like, you know, Texas is known for I mean a lot

35:17 of people who don't know any better think it's you know, a lot of

35:21 country music and whatnot, and obviously that's a lot of what's there, but

35:22 it seems like this also, I think I'm gonna get this over with Robbie.

35:25 He could probably tell you better than that came. Oh yeah, oh

35:28 yeah, yeah yeah. Can you hear can you hear me? Hear me?

35:31 Yeah? Yeah, what's up, hey, Robbie? Yeah? What's

35:35 uh? What's the scene like there? Because you know, I was just

35:37 saying, yeah, a lot of people have this conception of Texas. It's

35:40 like, you know, a lot of country music and all that, and

35:42 obviously there is a lot of that there, but I get the impression there's

35:45 also a lot of metal, like a lot of metal bands, probably a

35:49 lot of them that you know, we haven't even become aware of yet in

35:52 this part of the country kicking around. But am I correct about that?

35:57 Is there a lot of metal? Well? Yeah, well, I mean

36:00 it goes up and down. I mean when I first moved up to DFW,

36:04 I'm originally from the Houston area, So when I first moved up here,

36:07 it was booming. There was so much underground you know, death metal,

36:13 black metal, uh, thrash everything going on. And then after a

36:19 couple of years, you know, slowed down a little bit and then now,

36:22 you know, and then it picked up a little bit, and then

36:23 it slowed down a little bit, and then it now it's kind of slowly

36:28 but surely picking back up, you know. So it's uh, it's it's

36:32 it always kind of come and go. I mean, you know, we've

36:36 there's not the same venues come and go, and they're you know, bands

36:42 come and go, and it you know, it's it's happening. It's there's

36:45 always new bands being formed. I mean, ever since I moved up here,

36:50 I've been in like six eight six or six or seven different bands.

36:52 So I mean it just you know, every day there's a new band coming

36:58 and newer new venue you opening up. So it's it's you know, it's

37:04 opened down. Yeah. And as a drummer, of course, uh,

37:07 you've had a lot of options. I'm sure it seems like bands are always

37:10 looking for drummers, oh all the time. Yeah. I mean I have

37:16 three different projects right now. One one band I'm in is a like a

37:20 blackened death metal band, and uh this one here thrash metal. So you

37:27 I mean it's and I'm my favorite thing to play, believe it or not,

37:30 it is actually like eighties glam metal. Oh no kidding. I'm in

37:34 a couple of cover bands from that kind of focus around that kind of stuff

37:37 too, So oh very cool. Yeah, so you you you're staying busy.

37:42 So how did you become How did this come about? You becoming a

37:44 part of this band? Past the Ammunition? Well, I'm donell about five

37:50 years ago and it's a it's kind of a slow process and always been busy

37:52 with other different projects and work and all that other stuff. You know how

37:58 it goes, I do. But finally, you know, a few months

38:01 ago, I was finally had a clear, clear schedule only had yeah yeah,

38:07 yeah, only I only had one band on my plate, so I

38:13 was finally able to do it. So it just I knew don Nelle for

38:16 about four or five years now, so it was always listened to the songs,

38:21 always like the music. It just you know, never never could find

38:23 the right opportunity for me to jump in, you know what I mean.

38:27 When they needed a drummer, I couldn't do it. When they had a

38:30 drummer, I could do it. You know how it goes? Absolutely absolutely

38:36 well that's uh so is there a kind of a do you guys have any

38:39 shows coming up, Like is there a point where you're gonna finally get to

38:43 play live with these guys or maybe maybe you have already. I don't know,

38:46 but we beat that question again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

38:52 definitely were planning on ticket on the road too. So good we got

38:59 we we got offered, uh like I think it was eight thousand bucks to

39:06 come to Kentucky the players show there. Yeah, but at that point we

39:12 didn't have a drummer, a real drummer, you know, we have feeling

39:17 drummer our friend or Kobe Rogers filling in, So we just didn't have a

39:23 really permanent drummer to do it. Yea, but we fished the make up

39:29 for that, you know, and try to do some uh hit the hit

39:34 the road like weekend shows. Uh you know whenever the fans. We got

39:38 fans all over the place, so they're gonna try to hit like weekend shows

39:44 like let's say, um, Kentucky and uh Tennessee do that for a weekend

39:50 and come back, or New Orleans and Florida come back. You know,

39:53 just places like the places like you know, where the fans fans want want

39:59 us to be. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Um by the way.

40:05 So where does the name Past the Ammunition come from? Is there a story

40:08 behind that? Well? It Uh. I woke up one morning after uh

40:16 quitting my last band. I just woke up like one, you know,

40:22 inspired, like yeah, all right, what we're gonna call this? And

40:25 there was a song called Praise's Lord Past the Ammunition. Yes, you know,

40:31 uh it's an old song. Plus plus a siege from System of a

40:37 Down has a song called that. Oh that's right, just past the Ammunition

40:42 itself. It's like, you know, it means like, you know,

40:45 past the medal, like bring on the medal to me, That's what it

40:50 means to me. Yeah. Yeah, So that's how I got the name.

40:54 I just thought would be a cool name. Yeah, definitely, definitely

41:00 very cool. Well listen, uh, we'll we'll wrap up with you guys

41:04 in a moment. We'll let you go. I appreciate you talking with us.

41:07 I'm gonna play another song after we hang up with you, this track

41:10 All is Fair. This is another great track from you guys. But before

41:15 we let you go, don Elle and Robbie, what, um, what

41:19 do you want our listeners to know about how to find you online? Anything

41:22 they should know in terms of social media or a website so they can keep

41:25 up with everything you guys are doing and get the music and all that.

41:30 Well, we on a spot spotifly, we on YouTube, um spot Robbie,

41:40 Robbie's cracking up. That's all right, we know what you meant.

41:47 It's all good. Edit that. Oh hell no, this is live baby,

41:55 this is La. We're out there. Like I said, we're still

42:00 trying to get manager Aaron Martinez. We're trying to UACh reach more out there.

42:09 And I appreciate you guys doing an interview with us. Absolutely absolutely.

42:15 It means we spread and spreading the word, you know. Yeah, definitely,

42:17 Well, we we appreciate you. I appreciate you joining us today.

42:22 Like I said, I really really like what you're doing. That song Shell

42:25 is just incredible. I think that's gonna be I think that's gonna be one

42:29 of those tracks I do. I do play from time to time on the

42:30 program. And in a moment, we're gonna play another song from you guys.

42:35 All is fair, but we'll let all us fair. We did when

42:38 we did that video. That was a hot day. It was in this

42:43 building and it was about one oh seven, and that I mean, we

42:45 was like sweating. Oh my god, me, I was thinking, like,

42:50 all right, this is just gonna take two hours. It took like

42:53 almost the whole day to do that video. Oh no kid, anything.

42:58 Yeah, we had to get in our trucks or what cars in the AC

43:04 just to cool off and then go and do another take of it and everything.

43:07 And we shot that video with a metal Dave that's on tour with pan

43:12 Tera right now. Oh no kid. So yeah, and you know,

43:17 but the video came out great. Yeah. I think it's a kick ass

43:21 video. Absolutely. And by the way, I always say, I think

43:24 you might agree with me. I think rock and roll should be sweaty,

43:28 just generally. Anyway, Oh, it was worth it. I mean by

43:31 the end of the day, it's like when we got back to my apartment,

43:35 you know, I turned on the AC high blast and Mitch, you

43:38 know, him being the warrior, he had to drive back to Oklahoma City.

43:42 I told him like, yo, man, just chill out and the

43:45 cool off a little bit, you know, But he's a warrior, you

43:47 know. He you know, got back in the truck and trucked it back

43:52 to Oklahoma City. So yeah, yeah, well, well worth it.

43:55 Very cool. I suggest people check that out on YouTube, and all right,

44:00 Donnelle and Robbie, we're gonna let you go. I'm gonna play this

44:02 track. But thank you both so much for joining us today on the program.

44:06 Pass the Ammunition. Great great talking with you guys. Thank you,

44:10 Thanks for the opportunity. All Right, you got it, all right,

44:14 guys, thank you, Talk to you later. Bye bye, bye bye.

44:17 All right, that was Donnelle and Robbie from the band Pass the Ammunition

44:22 and let's play this. We're gonna play this track All is Fair, and

44:25 timing wise it works out well because we're coming up to the top of the

44:28 hour, so we're gonna play this song. I think actually know what I'm

44:30 gonna do. I'm gonna play this song and then we'll show some love to

44:35 our amazing sponsors. And then I might play one more song from a certain

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44:44 little Jerry Robinson there. But check this out first. This is all is

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55:42 WMNH rip the novels sign Welcome back everybody. This is Matt Connerton unleashed and

56:30 we are live from the studios of w m n H five point three FM,

56:35 Inglorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven. If

56:37 you're in Manchester and hello to all of our online listeners are cross nation and

56:42 around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for

56:45 all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show

56:49 archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Friday, August four, twenty twenty

56:53 three, as we enter our second hour of the program and new Merrow dose

57:00 the studio line it is open six zo three two five zero six zo seven.

57:02 If you would like to join us six zo three two five zo six

57:06 zo seven, you can also text me at six one seven nine one seven

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57:17 endo Pine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so

57:21 that we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call

57:24 at six zo three two five six seven six zo three two five six zoo

57:29 seven. I want to thank the guys again, Donnelle and Robbie from the

57:32 band Pass the Ammunition. We've heard a couple of their songs on the show

57:37 today there from Texas, and they skyped in and enjoyed that quite a bit.

57:40 Very very much a fan of that band. And also I played yesterday

57:46 we did the world radio premiere, but I decided to give it another spin

57:50 because I love it so much. The new single from Jerry and the Scumbags.

57:53 It's called Hipster Dipster and it also features Eric Pincher on lead guitar and

58:00 Billy Painter on drums and a guy named Matts Covington or Covington on bass.

58:08 And by the way, I was just looking at I didn't see this yesterday.

58:12 AD miss this somehow. But on the band camp for Jerry and the

58:16 Scumbags, in the description for the single Hipster Dipster, it is up and

58:22 it's free. By the way, you can get it on band camp.

58:24 It's a free download. There's a little bit of an explanation about what the

58:28 song is about and what inspired Jerry Robinson, the amazing talent that he is.

58:36 Jerry Robinson, by the way, I'll tell you he's he's a next

58:38 level talent. It says here Hipster Dipster is about the loser young people in

58:45 society with their pagers and beepers beeper devices rather, who don't respect old elderly

58:52 people like myself. As a sixty nine year old man, I get tired

58:58 of the stupid prank calls. So I decided to write a song addressing my

59:01 emotional old man feelings about the subject. So there you go. That that

59:07 kind of explains the muse of of the song Hipster Dipster. We'll get caught

59:13 up with everybody in the Facebook live chat here, and then we'll um and

59:17 we will continue on with some stuff. Of course. Let's see, I

59:24 did see a couple new people pop in. I think, oh, do

59:31 do do do do do? Yep? James H. Tribooki, I'm never

59:37 sure I'm saying his u last name correctly. He's in the chat room.

59:40 And also John Hopwood joins us in the Facebook live chat. Also Miriam Banish

59:46 in the chat room as well. Let's see, and we said, uh,

59:52 we said hello everyone else earlier, of course, but again these studio

59:55 line six three two five six z seven six h three two five six zero

1:00:00 seven and just a couple of quick programming notes let's see coming up tonight.

1:00:06 Of course, it is Friday, my favorite day here at WMNH. It

1:00:08 is my long day at the station, and I love it so because i

1:00:12 do this show until six pm and then I'm back tonight from eight to eleven

1:00:15 pm for retro Spectrum Radio with Paul ec I am one of Paul's co hosts

1:00:21 on that show, along with DJ Steve and of course Mike from Queen City

1:00:24 Cabinetry in the Historic Sun be Mall of course, not only one of our

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1:00:34 Radio, and we have a great time. No guests this week, apparently,

1:00:37 Paul called earlier it's just gonna be the four of us, just the

1:00:39 four of us, and we're gonna hear some music and talk about it and

1:00:45 it's touchy feely. I think that's what Paul said, touchy feely songs this

1:00:50 week. So looking forward to that a lot. So that will be tonight

1:00:52 from eight to eleven pm. Oh James says, as always, love the

1:00:57 show. Matt, Thank you, sir, thank you. I appreciate that

1:00:59 trement. But yeah, join us tonight Retrospectrum Radio with policy, and by

1:01:04 the way, we recommend you know, we love having people in the Facebook

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1:01:27 can chat with us. We love being able to chat with the listeners on

1:01:30 Facebook, but open a separate browser tab so you can stream the show in

1:01:35 all of its uninterrupted stereo glory at WMH radio dot org. Melanie just asked

1:01:42 a very inappropriate question in the Facebook live chat. Melanie, I don't think

1:01:47 I can read that on the air, but I will just say this.

1:01:51 I'll just say this much, Melanie, You never know. I'll leave it

1:01:57 at that. Let's see. Oh, also too, we have our amazing

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1:02:14 This is what they put on social media. We took July off, but

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1:02:38 please get here early if you'd like a seat. If you're not here by

1:02:42 nine, then you may not get a seat. Yeah, this is a

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1:02:53 happens to be in the state campaigning, he might not be able to get

1:02:57 in over at the Hopknot because there might just not be room. And we

1:03:02 have a call, we'll grab this. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed.

1:03:06 Who's this? Hello? Hello? Hello? It sounds that voice is

1:03:15 familiar, but there's also this weird buzzing in the background. I wonder if

1:03:19 it's some sort of alien. I've been captured. Mac Oh, my goodness,

1:03:27 it's John Hopwood. You've been captured and probe I assume how is how

1:03:31 is that going not very well. Uh huh, well that's disappointing. But

1:03:38 you can only yeah, I know, right, I mean some kind of

1:03:44 factory creating these anatomically correct dolls. I see. How did they capture you?

1:03:52 Did they suck you in through the Satanic portal? No? No,

1:03:55 no, you never have any problems with Satanic portal. Wow, that's quite

1:04:00 a relief. This is just as straight and all the flying sauts that comes

1:04:06 down and just snatched me up all right, like uh you know, Grandpa

1:04:14 Simpson, I really when they they're appy you, I'm very easy to get.

1:04:18 I don't move very fast. That surprises me because you're kind of a

1:04:23 little guy. I would have assumed that you'd be very quick and wiley.

1:04:29 You would assume that would just make an ass out of you and me.

1:04:35 I've never heard that before. Wow, wow, alright boy, Yeah,

1:04:41 we use cliches here at the factory. Oh you do? Huh? So

1:04:45 they've so it's forced labor, is what you're so? These aliens are forcing

1:04:49 you to work in a factory. Is it an is it actually is it

1:04:53 a factory? Or is it an Amazon distribution center? Oh no, oh

1:05:00 no, no, Well I was my great experience I'm an overseer, so

1:05:04 you know, these these poor drudges here, you know, I uh,

1:05:12 you know, being a small man, I learned to be very nasty at

1:05:15 an age because you got to do something so you don't get the crap knocked

1:05:20 out of you. And the pre the pre riddling days before they drugged all

1:05:26 the boys, you know, So I just shout a lot. You know,

1:05:32 I don't think some of these people, not all the people here are

1:05:36 of human origin. Mac Well, that sounds terrifying. Not to be xenophobic,

1:05:42 but i'd be very frightened. Yes, you're you're being homophobics in human

1:05:47 beings or I didn't catch that xenophobic. I don't mean to be xenophobic,

1:05:54 but it sounds terrifying to be around beings that are not necessarily human. Well,

1:06:00 you know, I was in the army and there were a lot of

1:06:01 people from the deep stuff, you know, the type that vote for you

1:06:05 know, people like Rick Defantas. So I'm kind of used to being around

1:06:10 sub human life forms, but non human life forms I'm getting used to.

1:06:15 Okay, you'd be surprised where you know, Well, we're putting on the

1:06:19 he's anatomically correct dolls n all of them are the unit species mac and you'd

1:06:26 be surprised where the genitals are located on some extraterrestrial creatures. Yes, I

1:06:35 believe there's something about that in Star Trek six, uh, the the Undiscovered

1:06:42 Country, but we won't we won't get into that. Uh but uh yeah,

1:06:48 Um, all right, Well I hope, I hope you're okay.

1:06:53 I hope they are giving you food and water and uh, what can I

1:06:59 say? Sounds off right now? Well, it was my idea to to

1:07:03 you know, type in wm NAH nine five point three FM. And I

1:07:10 was just wondering. We heard about the Paul Kormire show. Yes there's a

1:07:16 reason we don't we don't use the word retro here. Oh, because there

1:07:20 were people that, yes, they exist to an infinity of time, you

1:07:26 know. Oh but alpha or a mega one of these people might actually be

1:07:32 God aka Donald Jesus Trump, who knows. You know, that's exciting job.

1:07:40 So you know, we don't want to be time biggots here. But

1:07:43 right, so the Paul korm Your show we heard about. But we were

1:07:46 wondering if mister Pilchage is going to be doing a film review today. Ah,

1:07:53 there is no film review this week. He has been quite busy.

1:07:57 He was not able to join me Wednesday, and he was not able to

1:08:00 provide a film review today. But hopefully he'll be back for the attack next

1:08:05 week. Well, hopefully I'll still be within this galaxy. Well, I

1:08:11 certainly hope so you guys have a nice time, and I do get a

1:08:18 discount on the anatomically correct dolls. I may be coming. I may be

1:08:26 in the process of evolving into a wholesaler about all right. Well, that's

1:08:30 uh. You've got to seize upon these opportunities when they present themselves. Hey,

1:08:35 hey, cut that out over there. Yeah, I gotta go.

1:08:39 You know, some of these creatures are acting up. I understand the non

1:08:43 union shop by hye, bye, all right, bye John, all right,

1:08:49 John Hopwood, Well, we certainly hope for the best in his new

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1:09:06 there from Cali just to go to the hopknot. I'm jones in for one

1:09:11 of those pretzels. Yes, they are delicious. They are delicious. And

1:09:15 Melanie had a specific question in the chat room about what's happening to John Hopwood

1:09:19 right now. And I can't answer that, Melanie, But I just hope

1:09:25 that he I hope that he survives at all. We'll just say that.

1:09:31 Oh, another quick programming note two. Yesterday on the show, we announced

1:09:35 that Mary Anne Williamson, Democratic candidate for the president presidential nomination. She's running.

1:09:44 She's running against Joe Biden for the nomination. She will be here not

1:09:49 on the original date that we had announced, but on I believe the twenty

1:09:53 second. She's not able to be here on the eighteenth, as was originally

1:09:59 planned, but she'll be here for the first hour on August twenty seconds.

1:10:03 So we look forward to that, really looking forward to meeting her and talking

1:10:10 with her. Oh, there's the sirens. Happens once a show. Lots

1:10:16 of lots of sirens outside. Let's see a couple of just quick things I

1:10:23 wanted to look at that happened earlier in the week. And if you're just

1:10:26 joining us, I'm kind of avoiding all the all the Trump stuff I need.

1:10:30 I'm getting that Trump fatigue syndrome. I can feel it. It's just

1:10:34 exhausting. So I know it's a big week. Yesterday we spent the almost

1:10:39 the entire show talking about Trump's arrangement as it was happening in real time because

1:10:44 I was at four o'clock at the same time the show starts. So I'm

1:10:46 a little bit I'm a little bit exhausted by all that. So again I

1:10:51 said at the top of the show, if you're just joining us, if

1:10:54 anyone wants to chime in on anything regarding that, I shall defer to you

1:10:58 as I like to accommodate the listeners, but left my own devices, we're

1:11:01 not going to get into that. We've got plenty of time in the future

1:11:04 to because God knows he's going to continue to dominate the political headlines. But

1:11:12 I'd like to do some other things for the moment. But obviously, you

1:11:15 know, if there's some big breaking news or whatever regarding Trump, will certainly

1:11:18 talk about it if that occurs in the next forty minutes or so. But

1:11:24 Cardi b if you saw this, she threw a microphone at an attendee at

1:11:32 one of her at a concert. So this has been a terrible trend.

1:11:36 And you know, as someone who also I'm a man of many hats,

1:11:41 and uh, you know, I do some work in the have done a

1:11:43 lot of work actually in the music industry and in concert promotion and so forth.

1:11:45 And you hate to see this this new trend now where people are throwing

1:11:51 things at artists while they're on stage performing. Now that's not entirely new,

1:11:57 but uh, it's it seems to be becoming more dangerous. Like people are

1:12:00 throwing cell phones. Why anyone would throw a cell phone at someone performing is

1:12:04 a little I mean, I think the idea is you throw your phone at

1:12:10 the performer and you hope that they'll catch the phone and then maybe take a

1:12:15 selfie while they're on stage of themselves performing, and then throw the phone back

1:12:20 to you. I think that's the idea. You know, that really enhances

1:12:25 the concert performance, if you can throw a phone at the artists and they

1:12:30 actually and then they you've actually got their DNA on your phone, right because

1:12:35 they're holding your phone and they're sweating on your phone because they're under the hot

1:12:40 stage lights, and then they throw it back to you. I think that's

1:12:43 the fairytale idea. Of course, there's so much that can go wrong if

1:12:47 you're going to throw a phone at somebody on a stage, and by so

1:12:51 much, I mean really everything. There's not much that can go right.

1:12:55 Chances are they're not going to catch it, but you might hit them in

1:12:58 the face with it. And even if they were to successfully catch it and

1:13:01 take a picture, it's not like they're gonna be able to just throw it

1:13:04 right back to you. You there's a good chance you're not going to get

1:13:08 your phone back. But something else happened with cardib somebody threw a drink in

1:13:12 her face, so she threw her microphone at the alleged fan in the audience.

1:13:18 But there's an update on this. You got to see the video of

1:13:21 this. But Shannon is online. We'll talk to Shannon for a moment.

1:13:26 Hi, Shannon, Hi, Matt, what Jenny? I had a question

1:13:30 these assets that are throwing things at the stage, Yes, do security grab

1:13:36 them and just throw them out? Oh? I'm sure yes, because I

1:13:42 don't know if it shows that also or or you know, explains the punishment,

1:13:47 you know, I mean, these guys are trying to make a living

1:13:50 and trying to entertain people, and you always got those I don't know what

1:13:55 I'm allowed to say. Well, I know what I'm not allowed to say,

1:13:58 but I know this is okay, so I won't say it. But

1:14:01 I mean, actually John Hopwood said assinine ones, So I know I can't

1:14:09 say that if they just stay home, yeah, or they should. They

1:14:15 should hand in all the cell phones and be told listen, if you throw

1:14:20 something, you're out on your rear end. Yeah. Well, I think

1:14:25 I think that goes without saying, or at least it should go without saying.

1:14:28 Um. And I assume that probably the kind of person who does that

1:14:30 they expect to be kicked out. If you're throwing something at somebody on stage,

1:14:34 you're definitely getting booted by security, assuming they're able to identify in that

1:14:40 crowd who it is who threw the offending object. Yeah, I mean,

1:14:45 come on, pete, how disgusting does this world have to get for people

1:14:49 to wake up and just enjoy what's out there and not abuse it, you

1:14:55 know. Yeah. Unfortunately, it's not an entirely new trend. I mean,

1:15:00 I've been at shows where I saw the past underwear soft things. Yeah,

1:15:05 well, that's that's always okay. Melanie was saying that the chat room

1:15:10 throwing underwear is still okay, right, Well, of course, but that's

1:15:13 not going to harm anyone. And and you know, in the especially in

1:15:15 the eighties with the hair bands, it was not uncommon to see, you

1:15:19 know, somebody Actually there's a video of Kiss you know where you know,

1:15:23 Paul Stanley catches a bra that somebody threw on stage and then he hangs it

1:15:27 off of the the neck of his guitar. But uh, yeah, but

1:15:31 I've been at shows where I mean, back Jesus would have been probably fifteen

1:15:36 years ago, I was. I saw it Disturbed at a at a festival

1:15:42 in Massachusetts where for some reason, people were throwing throwing things at Dave Draymond

1:15:49 and uh, you know, it was just, uh, you know,

1:15:51 the crowd, most of the crowd, obviously we're very into it. I

1:15:55 think The Disturbed was actually the headliner of the show. And uh, but

1:15:59 for some reason there were some people close to the front of the stage who

1:16:01 were throwing stuff, and Dave Draymond actually stopped and said, you know,

1:16:04 if you keep that up, we're just gonna leave. We're just gonna stop

1:16:06 playing and leave. And uh, and they did stop, they did stop

1:16:11 throwing things. Oh, I was hoping you were going to see if you

1:16:13 don't stop it, I'm going to come down there and kick your ASTs.

1:16:15 Well, Dave Draymond the right, he was assaulted first. Yeah, well

1:16:21 yeah, and he's uh, he's kind of a big I mean, he's

1:16:24 not a tall tall man, but he's he's muscular. I wouldn't mess with

1:16:28 him. I remember, I was just gonna say Shannon too. I remember

1:16:30 back in uh, back in the nineties, like when Guns n' Roses was

1:16:33 first getting big, there was video I remember seeing you know, this was

1:16:38 pre internet, but we would see the video on MTV of or in the

1:16:42 news of Axel Rose jumping into the crowd, not because people were throwing things,

1:16:45 but because he would see a fight going on, you know, toward

1:16:48 the front row, and he would get mad and he would jump in and

1:16:51 defend whoever was getting pushed around, which is you know, Axel. You

1:16:56 can say a lot of negative things about him, but he did. I

1:16:59 mean, I don't know if he would do that now, but back then,

1:17:01 he was not afraid to get in there. And you know, if

1:17:03 he saw somebody getting pushed around, he'd jump in. He'd jump in and

1:17:06 defend him. He didn't want that going on at their shows, right,

1:17:10 And I'm not going to harp on the fact of my vision. But you

1:17:14 know, even watching videos or or movies repeatedly, Um, I miss a

1:17:21 lot of things, you know, a lot of the little things or whatever.

1:17:25 So it's just could you know whatever intel to know that you know people

1:17:31 are such I don't know, shape up, that's right, do better.

1:17:39 You have the privilege of seeing these guys play. And I saw I don't.

1:17:46 I remember when I was in high school. I saw a lover boy

1:17:48 and talking down at arms Park. Yeah. Um. And I saw a

1:17:57 couple that I saw Neil Diamond at the Verizon. I'm still gonna call it

1:18:00 that. Uh. And and there was one I think it was Motley True

1:18:06 skid Row and someone up. I don't know, but it was three of

1:18:11 the hair bands, like you know. And uh, I mean that was

1:18:14 you know good. But those are the only concerts I've been to. Oh

1:18:17 really? Oh I yeah, so no, I've been lots and lots.

1:18:25 Well, good Share every now and then when you were at a loss for

1:18:28 something, share or share stories so I can see what I've missed. Okay,

1:18:33 Doublon taunted there, yes, or Shannon, you say you give Jenny

1:18:39 a big hug for me? Of course, and um yea have a good

1:18:42 weekend, all right, fun tonight with the touchy feely songs. Yes,

1:18:45 yes, all right, Shannon, thank you for the call. We appreciate

1:18:48 it already. Bye, all right, bye bye, all right. That

1:18:51 was our friend, Shannon, and that does open up a line for you.

1:18:55 Six zo three two five six zero seven six three two five six seven.

1:18:59 You know what I was just thinking about too, And we've actually talked

1:19:01 about this on Paul's show on Retrospectrum Radio. I think more than once is

1:19:06 not just people throwing things, but there was a trend, I don't know,

1:19:11 probably in the late two thousands, people showing up at concerts with those

1:19:15 laser pointers. And um, there's a couple of videos of this happening at

1:19:21 Kiss shows where Paul Stanley, you know, threatened to do something really uncomfortable

1:19:29 to someone who had a laser pointer. With the laser pointer, but uh,

1:19:34 you know that's dangerous too because if you you know, you could actually

1:19:38 harm someone's retina if you get them in the eye with that laser pointer.

1:19:42 It's it's not funny. So you don't even have to throw something, actually

1:19:46 throw a physical object to potentially harm someone on stage Kyle Clayton from the Morning

1:19:55 Show. As in the chat room, he says, I'd throw more than

1:19:58 a mic if someone did that. Yeah, if someone threw a drink in

1:20:01 your face at a show. Yeah yeah. The um And you know it's

1:20:06 interesting. So when I first heard the story in the news about Cardi b

1:20:15 throwing a microphone at somebody in the crowd, I the mental picture that I

1:20:20 had was different than the reality of it. Um. The mental image was,

1:20:25 She's on a on a stage in a in an arena doing a concert

1:20:30 and somebody throws a drink because you can, uh, you know, we've

1:20:35 all seen this happen. You can be in a big crowd, in an

1:20:39 arena crowd and if you've got a cup full of a drink, you know,

1:20:45 if you do it just right, you can you can make that whole

1:20:46 cup full of whatever is in it fly and hit somebody in the face from

1:20:50 a distance. Um. And uh, that's what I thought had happened when

1:20:56 I heard that someone had thrown a drink in her face. I thought somebody

1:20:58 in the crowd had thrown a cup of coke or whatever and throwing it at

1:21:02 her and it hit her, and then she threw the mic at the person

1:21:05 in the crowd, and based on that assumption that I had in my mind

1:21:09 when I first heard the story, my first thought was, Wow, I

1:21:12 hope she has really good aim, because if you're throwing a microphone into a

1:21:15 crowd like that, you better make sure you're you're throwing it at the right

1:21:18 person. Number one, not that it's a good idea at all. You

1:21:23 shouldn't do that, Yeah, because again, there's just too much that can

1:21:27 go Obviously, there's a lot that can go wrong with throwing whatever it is

1:21:30 it's being thrown to begin with, and you shouldn't do that. But you

1:21:32 also shouldn't respond by throwing something like a microphone at somebody because again, first

1:21:41 of all, your aim better be perfect or you're gonna hit the wrong person.

1:21:45 Second of all, you could cause serious injury. Even though the person

1:21:49 who you know, even if you do definitely hit the right person, you

1:21:53 could really mess him up if it hits them in the face. I mean,

1:21:56 look, I know, you know, I'm not gonna have a whole

1:21:59 hell a lot of sympathy for whoever, through the drink or whatever the object

1:22:02 is that they're throwing at somebody. You know, an argument could be made

1:22:05 they brought that on themselves. But still, you know, if you if

1:22:09 you really injure them in some way by throwing that microphone at them, you're

1:22:13 gonna end up, you know, with a lawsuit. Yeah, there's a

1:22:15 lot that can go wrong. You might be charged with AsSalt because what they

1:22:19 threw was something harmless like a drink, and you threw something hard. Anyway,

1:22:24 when I saw the video, the actual video of what happened, it

1:22:28 was not what I imagined. It's actually like she's doing a small show somewhere

1:22:32 and it's like, just from what I saw in the video, she's she's

1:22:35 right at the edge of the stage, right up close, and somebody They

1:22:40 didn't throw a cup, They just kind of threw it so where you know,

1:22:45 they they moved the cup quickly so that the drink actually, you know,

1:22:48 like you would do if you were sitting with somebody and you throw a

1:22:53 drink in someone's face, or if someone throws a drink in your face.

1:22:56 Not that that's ever happened to me, but you know, like that,

1:22:59 that's what it really was. Somebody got up close to her and just through

1:23:02 that drink in her face, and then she responded by chucking that microphone right

1:23:06 at them. But I mean they got her good, Like her face is

1:23:10 covered in whatever was in that cup. So she chucked the microphone right at

1:23:14 them, and I don't blame her. John Hopwood in the Facebook live chat

1:23:23 says, why doesn't someone throw a bagel at Chris Christie because it could be

1:23:28 fatal to the thrower as he stampede to devour the bag of baked goods.

1:23:32 That's what we call fat shaming, John, and I don't think we can

1:23:36 do that. Oh my goodness. John Hoppwood also says, don't be so

1:23:43 earnest mac. Let's see. Apparently there was some question about whether Cardi b

1:23:48 would be charged for battery because of throwing that microphone, but the BBC John

1:23:56 Hoppood says fat shaming. I am fat. Well, that's why you can

1:23:59 get away with it, you know you can. You can get away with

1:24:02 you know, like if you know, like I could tell an Irish joke

1:24:06 because you know I'm Irish, so I can get away with it. But

1:24:11 that's true. I mean you can play that card and use that loophole.

1:24:14 That is true. So this is from the BBC US Police drop battery investigation

1:24:21 overthrown microphone. It says the Las Vegas Police have dropped their criminal battery investigation

1:24:29 into an incident which saw rapper cardib throw a microphone at someone in the crowd.

1:24:32 The incident occurred John up, what's making me laugh? In the chat.

1:24:38 The incident occurred last weekend after a member of the audience appeared to throw

1:24:42 water at the performer. At least it was only water and not some some

1:24:45 soda or some alcoholic beverage. You know, water is at least water is

1:24:49 easy to clean up. A video of the star taking matters into her own

1:24:55 hands at Drey's Beach Club was widely shared on social media at the time.

1:25:01 I assume that's how I pronounced that dr Ai dre dry Dreya. I don't

1:25:06 know, but she will now face no charges due to quote insufficient evidence,

1:25:14 police said, insufficient evidence. I mean, I'm glad she's not being charged

1:25:18 because whoever threw a drink in her face to begin with shouldn't have done that.

1:25:24 But insufficient evidence is video of it, it says here. This is

1:25:29 from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in a statement shared to the media.

1:25:35 Quote, after a thorough review of this case, and with the consultation from

1:25:41 the Clark County District Attorney's office, this case has been closed as having insufficient

1:25:45 evidence. No charges will be filed in relation to this case. Unquote.

1:25:50 I wonder if it's the person who whom the microphone was thrown at. I

1:25:58 wonder if they didn't come forward or I didn't want to press charges or something.

1:26:01 You know, they're probably pretty embarrassed about, you know, throwing a

1:26:06 drink in her face and consequences thereof knowing that they had made a terrible mistake.

1:26:12 It says here are lawyers for the Grammy Award winner responded by thanking the

1:26:15 police for their quote, diligent and prompt resolution of this matter unquote, in

1:26:21 a statement reported by multiple outlets. So what happened in the footage caught on

1:26:28 camera from multiple angles by several fans? See, that's that's one good thing

1:26:32 about you know, everybody's got their phones out. Some people complain about that.

1:26:36 People don't think it's cool, you know, to have your phone out

1:26:40 at a show, because why can't you just stand there and enjoy the show.

1:26:43 Why do you have to have your phone out? Why do you have

1:26:44 to be taking pictures? And streaming and everything. Um, you know,

1:26:47 I don't see anything wrong with it. You know you want you want to

1:26:49 document the experience. There's nothing wrong with that in my opinion. But also

1:26:54 a good thing about it is if something goes wrong, you know you've got

1:26:58 You've got it caught on tape, So it says here. In the footage

1:27:03 caught on camera from multiple angles by several fans, security staff are seen surrounding

1:27:09 the perpetrator at the front of the crowd while recovering the rappers. Microphone footage

1:27:14 from earlier in the concert showed Cardi b asking a different member of the audience

1:27:17 to spray her from behind as she turned her back to the crowd. Huh

1:27:27 is this so all right? I don't know what's going on here at this

1:27:34 show, but that sentence that I just read is very strange. Later,

1:27:42 what's going on here? Later in the show, the thirty year old explained

1:27:46 the earlier spray had been I'm uncomfortable reading this, all right, I'm just

1:27:58 gonna do it. I mean, there's no it's just my own mind putting

1:28:02 things in there that shouldn't be there. Later in the show, the thirty

1:28:06 year old explained the earlier spray had been done on her back and under her

1:28:10 own instruction, whereas she objected to the other member of the crowd unexpectedly throwing

1:28:15 water which hit her face. Las Vegas police later confirmed that a show attendee

1:28:21 had come forward to report a battery, but have now concluded that no crime

1:28:27 was committed. The microphone in question was reportedly being auctioned off on eBay,

1:28:32 reaching more than ninety nine thousand dollars so far, by the owner of an

1:28:38 audio company. Oh so, whoever owns that microphone, they're selling it and

1:28:44 it's now a piece of entertainment history. Apparently, Cardi b is best known

1:28:49 for well, we don't need to get in all that, all right?

1:28:54 She is the latest performer to have had items some of these songs us we

1:29:00 don't need to get into. She's the latest performer to have had items thrown

1:29:04 at them while on stage in recent months, following similar incidents including Hairy Styles

1:29:11 and Pink Styles. Was hit in the eye with a sweet at a gig

1:29:16 in November. What does that mean? With a sweet like a piece of

1:29:19 candy? I guess it's the BBC. I guess they say sweet instead of

1:29:25 pieces of candy. I don't know. This is why we had to have

1:29:28 the American Revolution because they used words, and I'm confused by some of them.

1:29:34 Why can't they speak American like the rest of us. Anyway, Styles

1:29:40 was hit in the eye with what I assume was a piece of candy in

1:29:44 November, and more recently, Pink looked stunned. Oh god, that's right.

1:29:48 I heard about this when a bag of human ashes was thrown on stage.

1:29:57 I have to tell you I would be quite stunned as well. Like

1:30:00 if I was sitting here. Let's say I'm sitting here doing the radio show

1:30:04 one day and just somebody runs in here with a bag of human ashes.

1:30:11 Well, actually I would probably invite them on because I'd be so fascinated.

1:30:14 I'd want to know why they chose to do that, you know, in

1:30:18 whose ashes there were and whatnot, because I you know, I like to

1:30:20 interview people. I have an inquisitive mind. I'm curious. Sweet but psycho

1:30:30 singer Ava Max I guess that's a band has also been slapped on stage of

1:30:34 late, while somebody else threw a bracelet at country singer Kelsey Ballerini Adele recently

1:30:45 joked with her Las Vegas audience that she would kill anyone who tried to chuck

1:30:49 something at her. Well, there you go. So that's a terrible trend.

1:30:55 I hope that. I hope it passes soon. Very often these trends,

1:31:00 which is good, at some point, some degree of collective sanity is

1:31:03 restored, or at least we can hope Shannon's calling back. Hi, Shannon,

1:31:13 Hi, I just wanted to say the girl who put she asked Pink

1:31:17 if she could put those ashes. It was her mother's ashes, and her

1:31:23 mother mustle she loved Pink and just asked her if she could put them there

1:31:29 while she played. And Pink was like, okay, maybe you know,

1:31:34 she was a little uncomfortable, awkward, you know, but that's who.

1:31:38 That's whose ashes it was. At least that's what I heard on another store.

1:31:41 Okay, Dory, No, that's good. So it's not like somebody

1:31:44 threw a bag of their mother's ashes by the speaker. Oh okay, oh

1:31:50 so the ashes and they asked permission first. Yeah, yeah, well that's

1:31:55 I mean, okay, so that's good. So that's in a completely different

1:31:58 category because not only was nothing thrown, but I do think, uh and

1:32:03 you know, and I credit my family for raising me. Right, you

1:32:06 know, I have manners. I'm unfailingly polite. I think if you are

1:32:11 going to, uh put a bag of ashes on a stage while someone is

1:32:15 performing, you should ask their permission. Yeah, it's respectful, right.

1:32:18 It would be presumptuous to show up with a bag of ashes and just PLoP

1:32:21 them there and say yeah, yeah, yeah, hey pink, look it's

1:32:27 my mom and just throw them there. You know, you want to you

1:32:29 know, it's something you want to approach with some decorum and uh and and

1:32:33 respectfully. So I commend the person for that. Yeah, I just want

1:32:39 to let you know why. Yes, I appreciate it, Shannon. Okay,

1:32:43 bye, okay bye bye. Yes, I mean, and you know,

1:32:46 it's a teachable moment. You know, if you're gonna, you know,

1:32:48 if you're gonna show up with ashes, I would say anywhere. You

1:32:50 know, if you're, uh, say, you're going out to dinner with

1:32:54 some friends and maybe you have some ashes from a loved one and you know

1:32:58 you want to bring them with you, you know, uh, I mean,

1:33:01 you know, go ahead and bring the bag of ashes, but before

1:33:04 you just PLoP it on the table in the middle of dinner. You're gonna

1:33:08 want it, maybe check with the restaurant. There could be a health code

1:33:11 violation potentially there, and you want your other dinner partners to make sure.

1:33:15 I mean they're gonna be cool with it, right, I mean, if

1:33:15 it's your mom's ashes, they're gonna be like, oh yeah, your mom

1:33:18 can hang out with us. You know, uh kind of wish you know,

1:33:21 she wasn't a bag of ashes. That's a little weird, but whatever,

1:33:25 we'll roll with it. We're your friend and we support you. But

1:33:28 you know, the waiter or waitress or server, I guess is the term

1:33:30 we use, they might be a little bit freaked out. But then again,

1:33:33 they wouldn't have to know. You know, they could just they could

1:33:36 come over to take your order and they could just be like, hey,

1:33:40 you got a bag of ashes there, and you could just say, oh

1:33:43 yeah, that's don't worry about it. It's we're gonna have some herbal tea

1:33:47 after our meal or something, you know, and just just to kind of,

1:33:50 you know, calm everything down. Six zo three two five oh six

1:33:56 O seven is the studio line. If you'd like to join us, six

1:33:58 zo three two five O six. We do have a little bit of time

1:34:00 left. Melanie in the chat room says, listen, Grandma always liked being

1:34:04 included for dinner. I'm not asking anyone. Well, yeah, I mean

1:34:08 it's your grandma, you know, I understand. But Melanie, I would

1:34:12 hope that if you're going to go to a concert and you know, you

1:34:15 want your grandma to you know, hang out by the one of the speakers,

1:34:18 I would hope that you would ask the performer or maybe even just check

1:34:23 with you know, check with one of the security people. You know,

1:34:26 Hey, I got got grandma here, mind if I put her over there

1:34:30 for a bit and uh, and would you mind keeping an eye on her?

1:34:32 And by the way, though, just because she's my grandma, don't

1:34:35 treat her like she's special. You know, if she starts acting out or

1:34:38 whatever, you know, feel free to kick her out. But probably not

1:34:42 going to happen, because you know, she's ashes um all right. I

1:34:53 don't even know what that means, John exactly, but it's funny for some

1:34:56 reason. Uh speaking of uh, now this is uh, since we're being

1:35:00 morbid on a on a Friday, I want to kind of pick up on

1:35:05 there was a story we did we talked about yesterday on the show. Oh

1:35:11 so, I guess we didn't spend yesterday entirely on Trump because I think I

1:35:14 talked about this yesterday, or maybe it was the day before, Ronda Santis

1:35:17 said, And there's there's been some reaction to this. Now, Ronda Santis

1:35:23 said, you know, governor of Florida has a little bit of an issue

1:35:28 with France people. Ronda Santis has said that when he is elected president,

1:35:33 he's going to get rid of the deep state because he's going to start slitting

1:35:39 their throats. Now, that's some pretty violent imagery. Just to be clear,

1:35:45 I'm not speaking hyperbolically. I'm not paraphrasing anything he said. He literally

1:35:49 said that. He said he's going to start slitting the throats of of people

1:35:55 when he's president, when he's in charge. He literally said that. I

1:35:59 understand he's using it as a figure of speech. I'm assuming he's not actually

1:36:02 a serial killer. But apparently there's been some, uh, there's been some

1:36:08 reaction to his use of violent imagery, and I want to I want to

1:36:13 look at that. Melanie says he's a psychopath. Yeah, I kind of

1:36:17 get that vibe. And I believe John Hopput is back on the line Hello,

1:36:23 I heard a click, though I don't know if he's still there,

1:36:25 John, Are you there all right? He's not there. So apparently for

1:36:30 a major Republican candidate to go around talking about slitting people's throats, some people

1:36:34 have noticed. This is from The Guardian outrage after DeSantis says he'd start slitting

1:36:42 throats if elected president. National Treasury employee is union president calls Republicans remark on

1:36:49 federal jobs repulsive and unworthy of campaign trail. It says here. Right wing

1:36:57 Florida governor in twenty twenty four, presidential hopeful rhnd De Santa was widely condemned

1:37:00 after he said that if elected to the White House, he would quote start

1:37:04 slitting throats unquote in the federal bureaucracy on his first dand power. And by

1:37:11 the way too this, uh does this make him? I mean he spends

1:37:15 a lot of time sort of trying to get to the right of Trump.

1:37:18 Does this qualify? Because Trump, when he ran the first time, he

1:37:24 just talked about draining the swamp. He was gonna he was gonna get to

1:37:27 get to DC and he was gonna drain the swamp. I don't remember Trump

1:37:30 ever talking about slitting throats. I think this is John Hoppit again? John?

1:37:34 Are you there? Yeah? I got a quick break, Matt.

1:37:39 Oh you did. Wow? They give you breaks a superposed are Oh that's

1:37:45 right, yes, and you're probably in a union. You really, you

1:37:49 really don't know what the phrase getting your ashes hauled means. I've never heard

1:37:55 that in my life. What does that mean? No ashes sold? No?

1:38:00 Does that mean like getting your ashes hauled to a concert where you get

1:38:03 dumped on the stage? What does that mean? Well, let's put it

1:38:08 this way. Is something you know. I don't want to cause any trouble

1:38:12 between you and Jenny, So I'll use myself as an example. If one

1:38:15 of these comely young well we'll use the term woman or not for now,

1:38:20 even though some are of indetermined gender, being from other galaxies. If one

1:38:27 of these young women at the factory came up and said to me, who,

1:38:33 because of her ignorance, finds me a dandy specimen of human being?

1:38:39 You know, a real paradigm of studs them. If if she came up

1:38:45 to me and said, I'd like to haul your ashes, what she means

1:38:53 is she wants to do to me what Donald Trump has done to this country

1:38:57 for the past six years. It's very dirty. Wow, okay, And

1:39:04 I'm glad you're off that subject about people throwing ashes at rock and roll stars

1:39:14 because it was getting pretty boring, frankly, and I felt like I was

1:39:16 going to have to come down there and slit your throat. Oh my goodness,

1:39:20 wow, oh good thy goodness. You have a good time with policy.

1:39:28 All right, thank you, John. This ship goes on for a

1:39:30 long time, so we'll be listening. All right, very good, Thank

1:39:33 you. Bye, And don't get your ashes hauled by any alien. That's

1:39:42 that's good advice in any dimension. It is, isn't it. Yes,

1:39:46 bye, all right, bye bye, all right. That was John Hopwood.

1:39:50 If you'd like to get in with a quick call, I say quick,

1:39:54 because we are rapidly running out of show. Six ZO three two five

1:39:57 six Z seven is a studio line six ZO three two five six seven.

1:40:01 It says here. The president of the National Treasury Employees Union, Tony Reardon

1:40:08 called the hardline Republicans comment repulsive and unworthy of the campaign trail. The president

1:40:13 of the American Federation of Government Employees, Everett Kelly said, quote Governor DeSantis's

1:40:18 threat to start slitting throats of federal employees is dangerous, disgusting, disgraceful,

1:40:27 and disqualifying unquote. Among commentators, the columnist Max Boot called DeSantis's words deranged,

1:40:36 while Bill Crystal, founder of The Bullwork, a conservative site, said

1:40:41 the governor was quote making a bold play to dominate the maniacal psychopath lane in

1:40:47 the Republican primary. Unquote. By the way, he kind of already owns

1:40:51 that lane. I guess he wants to make sure that he continues to claim

1:40:57 it. DeSantis is a clear second to the Republican in the Republican primary by

1:41:01 more than thirty points behind Donald Trump in most averages, notwithstanding the former president's

1:41:08 proliferating legal jeopardy, including seventy eight criminal charges. On Friday, a major

1:41:13 poll in The New York Times ends he had a college in the first state

1:41:16 to vote Iowa, put de Santis twenty four points behind. DeSantis is widely

1:41:23 seen to be trying to reset his campaign, having fired staffers, including a

1:41:29 conservative writer who created a video ad containing a Nazi symbol, but the governor

1:41:33 has not noticeably retooled his hard right rhetoric. DeSantis made his comment about slitting

1:41:42 throats at an event in the second state to vote, New Hampshire last Sunday.

1:41:48 Quote on bureaucracy. You know we're going to have all these deep state

1:41:54 people. You know, we're going to start slitting throats on day one and

1:41:59 be ready to go. You're going to see a huge, huge outcry because

1:42:03 Washington wants to protect its own unquote. Asked later to clarify, he said,

1:42:09 quote, the streets will be flowing with blood. No, okay,

1:42:14 No, I made that part up. He didn't say that. Complaints about

1:42:16 the so called deep state, notionally, an embedded government of officials and bureaucrats

1:42:23 Republicans claim exists to thwart their agenda, is a common feature of fire right

1:42:28 campaigns from Trump down. Should he return to power, Trump is widely reported

1:42:31 to be planning, um act, well yeah, it doesn't matter that stuff

1:42:45 we all already know that we've already been talking about. But uh yeah,

1:42:47 so that's um so. Some reaction to h de Santis is h comments there,

1:42:58 M yeah, a little off putting. I would say, a little

1:43:00 a little off putting. Let's see, do we have time for one more

1:43:03 quick thing? Oh you know what we didn't get to this week is well,

1:43:15 actually there's a couple of things. Our credit rating, the United States

1:43:19 credit rating has been downgraded by one of the ratings agencies, and it took

1:43:25 a while for it to happen, but NBC news dot Com as a story.

1:43:30 What the US credit downgrade means for taxpayers and consumers for now not much

1:43:35 as changing, but economists say it represents a warning about America's fiscal standing.

1:43:40 Something that I talked about a lot when we had that where we almost went

1:43:44 over the fiscal cliff this last time, is that, you know, I

1:43:47 don't think people, a lot of people necessarily realize that even flirting with disaster

1:43:53 without the disaster actually coming to fruition is very dangerous when you're talking about the

1:43:58 debt limit. And this is not the first time. This is the second

1:44:01 time now. The first time that our credit rating was downgraded by one of

1:44:04 the agencies, one of the credit ratings agencies was during the Obama administration,

1:44:11 when in twenty eleven we came perilously close to default for the first time in

1:44:16 our nation's history. So even going up to the edge, you know,

1:44:20 we didn't go over the edge, and people celebrate that, and I was

1:44:25 relieved, of course, I was very concerned about what could potentially be a

1:44:30 global economic armageddon if we were to ever actually default. But even looking like

1:44:34 we might default, like it's a possibility, is in and of itself,

1:44:40 very very dangerous, John Hopwood says. In the chat room, doctor Jeff

1:44:45 Cassell says, it is too minor to really affect the US finances. Hopefully

1:44:51 that's true. That does seem to be the dominant theory actually that this won't

1:44:57 have a huge effect. But that's not to say that it won't have any

1:45:00 effect. And you know, my point is again, it does show that

1:45:08 there is a cost too, even if we don't go over that line,

1:45:13 Even if we don't go over the cliff, just walking up to the edge

1:45:15 of the cliff and sort of standing there and looking down, that has a

1:45:20 cost. John Hopwood says, Oh my god, Matt, you are so

1:45:26 earnest. I am earnest. I'm like an Annie DeFranco song. I'm very

1:45:30 very earnest. But so, anyway, there was that that was one thing

1:45:34 that we didn't really get to this week. Maybe we'll get into it a

1:45:38 little bit next week also too, if we get to it next week,

1:45:43 The Hill dot com as a story up GOP releases Devin Archer transcript after lawmakers

1:45:47 give conflicting accounts. Devin Archer is the one, a former business associate of

1:45:54 Hunter Biden. He went and testified in a closed hearing, and the transcript

1:46:00 is out. You can read the transcript. But of course, as always

1:46:03 happens, everyone goes to their ideological corners, Republicans claiming that you know the

1:46:10 Stephen Archer testimony. This proves once and for all that Hunter Biden is an

1:46:14 international crime lord and Joe Biden is a part of this Biden crime family and

1:46:18 all of that, and Democrats are saying no, actually this is entirely the

1:46:24 opposite of that. But you can read the transcript itself and make your own

1:46:28 determination. I have not read the transcript yet, but there are very differing

1:46:33 interpretations being offered right now. So we will try to get into that next

1:46:38 week as well, but we need to begin to wrap up. So it

1:46:42 is Friday, my favorite day here at WM ANDH, so that means I

1:46:45 will be back tonight at eight pm eight to eleven pm for Retro Spectrum Radio

1:46:51 with Paul ec and of course DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry.

1:46:57 Really looking forward to that tonight. The subject this week, the subject,

1:47:00 I should say, because it's a weekly show, is touchy feely songs and

1:47:04 it sounds like it will be very romantic. John Upwood says it would be

1:47:10 a privilege to live through armageddon. I don't know. I don't know about

1:47:14 that. I don't know if about a privilege. J Fed in the chat

1:47:16 room says, see you tonight, So thank you again, by the way,

1:47:19 to Donnelle and Robbie from the band pass the Ammunition from the great State

1:47:25 of Texas. Really enjoyed talking with them. And if you miss any part

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1:48:03 So that's gonna do it for me. For now, I'm gonna leave you

1:48:05 with a little more. You know, yesterday we did the world radio premiere

1:48:09 of the new Jerry and the Scumbag song Hipster Dipster. I think we're gonna

1:48:13 play the first single to close out the show, just because it's stuck in

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1:48:18 Jerry Robinson. This is great stuff. So we will end with this to

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