Matt Connarton Unleashed 8-8-23

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Once stop. We were just we were just kids. Kids. We would just kids. Can't we would just we were just kids. We would just be with just kids. We would just we were just kids. We would just we would just kids. Hello, Welcome everybody, Happy Tuesday. It is that time again. Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from the studios of wm n H ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Also on Comcast ninety seven. If you're in Manchester and hello to Oliver our online listeners across the nation and around the globe.

You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact and folk show archives, et cetera, et cetera. Today is a Tuesday, August eight, two thousand twenty three. So quick programming note regarding today's show. So one of our guests is not here, not going to be here. In the first hour, we did have scheduled journalist Bob Henneley. He's a media guy from New York and he hosts the show actually on w BAI big talk radio station in New York City.

Bob was going to be here with us today via Skype, but something has come up. He's got there's a nurse's strike apparently that he is covering and he's in the thick of it there. So he let Jenny know he's not going to be able to make it on today. After all. He did apologize and we will rebook him, of course, because I was really looking forward to speaking with him. So kind of a bummer, but you know, there's always a million other things we can do. There's always plenty going on in the news and so forth.

So Bob Henneley will not be able to be here with us today, unfortunately, but he will reschedule. So really I am looking forward to speaking with him in the future. We do have, however, in the second hour. Our musical guest today is the band Best Not Broken. That's on You Us Heard Kids, which is super catchy that actually all their stuff is to be honest with you. So I'm really looking forward to meeting these guys. They're gonna come in live in studio in the second hour of today's show, Best Not Broken.

We'll play some more of their music, we'll talk with those guys, get to know them. Really looking forward to that. And of course before that, to open the show, we played a little Jerry and the Scumbags the new single Hipster Dipster. We've played that a few times on the show. It's burning up the charts, burning up the charts. Dylan Reynolds is in the Facebook live chat and says, this song is great. I love Jerry. We all love Jerry absolutely well. I know one person who doesn't, but the rest of us do.

So that guy. What a talent he is, you know. And by the way, if he ever decides to leave music behind and get back into podcasting, I think he could be the next Howard Stern, the next rated our comedy star. Okay that's a little inside, but it doesn't matter. And but the point is we love Jerry Robinson and we love Best not Broken, Best Not broken. We'll be here in the second hour of today's program. In the meantime, we'll see what other kinds of trouble in shenanigans. I always stumble on that word.

We can get into today. Oh, Jenny points out regarding Jerry Robinson. I'm the T shirt girl, just saying yes, yes, you were given that, and I of course am the uh what, oh, what's the name of my title for Jerry's rock and roll Army? Oh, Commander to the Supreme Leader of Jerry's rock and Roll Army, which is very stious, prestigious. You know, I never really thought of myself as a military man until I received that particular invitation, and I said, that's an army i'd really like to be a part of. So far, I haven't had to do anything, and it's great.

I love being part of Jerry Robinson's rock and roll Army. And of course, commander to the Supreme Leader. It just sounds you know, it sounds powerful, and that's what I like. All right. Anyway, six three two five O six zero seven. The studio line is open and we already have a call. We'll see who's on the line here. Hi, Well, welcome to Matt Connorton unleashed. Is this allow Matt? So this says Jerry Robinson. Oh my goodness, Sherry Robinson, I was just talking about you. I know, I love I love tuning in too, of course, my favorite commander to the Supreme Leader's radio show.

It's quite fantastic. Thank you, thank you. It's quite fantastic to be the commander to the Supreme Leader. And I really appreciate that, Matt, so listen. I'm just I'm so elated that Jenny took my offer to be a T shirt girl to the Supreme Leader of rock and roll. That just made my whole week when she accepted that. Yes, yes, it didn't take her long to decide to accept your offer. She was very very excited. Yes, yes, it's been very good. I just wanted to give you some updates on the music, of course, yes please, So you know, I know we all got together, but h and we got some files out of being sent.

I still got to do some stuff in studio Studio D of course, the largest, greatest studio. It's got the greatest girth, of course, it's the best studio. Yes, I'm working on a song right now. It is called selfish, self centered, and self absorbed. And I'm also working on one called riding the units cycle with no Seat down the bumpy Road of life. Boy, that's a that's a wordy that's a very wordy title. Will any of that be in parentheses? Yea, some of it will, especially one called uh, You're just a squirrel and then in parenthesies trying to get a not in my world.

I've heard that somewhere. Yes, that sounds great. I just you know, I think it's something that I mentioned one of my previous videos. Of course, uh, probably you know, it's just been great. How have you been this week? So so far? Mess tho, Well, it's early, it's only Tuesday, so you know, a lot can a lot can yet go wrong, but we hope for the best, and we soldier on soldier as and of course, uh you know Jerry's rock and roll army. But yes, so far, so good, sir, Oh thank you that. Yeah, that's great, that's great to hear.

I hope that I see Jenny's not in studio today, but I hope that that she is doing well, of course, And you know, all the great members of our bands, you know, you know yourself, you know Billy Painter Parent Pincher, but you know, I just wanted to call give you some updates. I also really appreciate you playing our song Hipster Dipster, by the way, which is for free on my band camp page. If you look up Jerry and the Scumbags, it is for free on a free download. You can download that plus our great single I'm Demand Yes and Hipster Dipster.

It's burning up the charts. I saw it. I really appreciate that's saw a chart here somewhere anyway. Yes, yes, it's somewhere. You know it's it's gonna go platinum somewhere, probably in like that I don't know, like Bosnia, Algeria. We got some connections over and dot that area of the world. But yes, I just wanted to call off of you. Great wishes for the rest of your week and rest of your day. All the best, Jerry nights, Jerry bye bye. Oh wow. The Great Jerry Robinson. Always wonderful too to hear from him.

Such a such a nice man. He's uh uh, he's a great, a great rock and roll are very very talented, and it's wonderful to have that association with the great Jerry Robinson, and I'm telling you that that track Hipster Dipster. Yes, it is actually uh in the UH the Bosnia, Algeria market. It is UH very very successful. Also, I see Mike from Queen City Cabinetry in the Facebook live chat. He was commenting the other day he saw it on a chart in Tibet. It's a number one into Bett, I believe if I'm not mistaken.

There's a lot of inside jokes today. Sorry anyway, but if you're new to the show, you're welcome to join the show and the inside jokes. Six zero three two five zero six zoh seven. The studio line is open six zero three two five zero six zero seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at Matt Connerton dot com. And of course you can interact endo Pine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your Dolcy tones is to give us a call at six oz three two five zero six zero seven.

Let's go ahead and say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat, and then we'll get into some stuff if you're just joining us, But you did see the social media post earlier. Our guest for this hour, Bob Henneley, has to reschedule. Journalist Bob Henneley from New York. He's got he's covering the nurses strike and he's uh so he's he has to focus on that at the moment. So, but we do have a great musical guest coming up in the second hour, the band Best Not Broken. We'll be here with us, and Shannon is on the line.

High Shannon, Hello, almost a good morning. Well it's morning somewhere. Uh. What I wanted to say was, in case anybody isn't telling you. I think Peter said this morning that the instead of channel ninety seven, it is channel six. Now I didn't know that if well, unless he was pulled on everybody's leg, I don't know, but he said that they weren't on ninety seven anymore, they were on channel six. Oh, okay, I could be wrong. In case anybody's looking at ninety seven that ken and doesn't see anything, or you know, just letting you know.

Okay, all right, all right, all right, thanks Shannon, Yeah, all right, by bye, all right. I don't know. I mean, I know there's gonna be some changes with that with the cable channels, but if that is the case, no one has informed me, so I don't know. Six zero three two five zero six zero seven is the number six zero three two five zero six zero seven. Let's see. We will say hello everybody in the chat here. Uh. Scott Robinson joins us and says, well, hello guys, Well hello Scott. Also, Jenny is in the chat and says shalom, peeps.

Dylan Reynolds I mentioned, is in there. Jay Fed, of course, from the Great State of Vermont. I was reading about the health benefits of ice baths the other day and I thought of you, Jay Fed.

Melanie Liberty, of course, in the Great State of Vermont. Hello Melanie. Miriam Mannish joins us and says, Shenanigans is one of my favorite words. I used the term earlier, but I did stumble upon it, which I felt terrible about. Oh, someone is calling who I think can shed some light on the subject that Shannon was just calling about. Hey, Joe,

Yeah, this might be the answer. And I'm sorry you didn't hear about it. But in fact, Jason and I this morning we're just we looked at the calendar and we go, wow, today's the day. Oh, I guess it should have been a bigger deal. But Channel ninety seven is on six and Channel twenty three Public Access is now on eight. Really that's why. Okay, yeah, they and I think the big news is Channel nine is now on channel nine. Yeah, I remember so, Peter. Peter did mention something to me about how that was going to be happening, which to me I didn't realize because well, as for you know, years they were on obviously forever they've been on twelve because of because of interference by analog channels.

But we no longer have analog channels anymore, so they can put it wherever they they want, and now they've got their nine back. Yeah, okay, well that's good. But what's really good is so this is on channel six right now, is what you're saying, Channel six. That's pretty cool. Actually, that's what that's really good. You know what the weird thing is they're mapping it throughout the city, so it did not happen all at once. For example, Gwen, who we all know and love, was still watching Jerry Springer on Channel eight while the rest of us were watching you know, TV fel Mes.

So it's not it's not quite done yet, but it will be done by the end of the day. Oh, very cool, very cool, all right, great to know. I'm just excited that we're on channel six because a lot more people are likely to school. Yeah, it's a little bit easier to get to I guess, oh yeah, number yeah, that's a big swing. No, I love it. That's great. All right, Joe, thank you so much for sure. All right, Joe, thank you, alright, by bye bye bye, all right, the great Joe Lar and Joe. By the way, I mean this, this W M and H would uh likely not exist were it not for Joe Larre.

But so he deserves a lot of a lot more credit than I think people. Well he's he's a humble guy anyway, but but he deserves a lot of credit for what we're able to do here. But that's cool. So Shannon, you were right. Joe Larre confirms it. We are now on channel six in Manchester on the cable. That is pretty cool because obviously the advantage of being on channel six is when people are people who have cable, when they're flipping through the channels. They're a lot more likely to see us and stumble upon us and then say, oh my goodness, who's this lunatic?

But which is a good thing, because lunacy is ratings. That's an old saying I learned from television executive ice to know. I totally made that saying. Up. I did hear a different saying today. I learned a new expression today, not much meat in the bun. But I don't know how I feel about it, so you might never hear me use it. It kind of makes me giggle a little bit, anyway, the point being that's very exciting. So we're now on Channel six here in Manchester on cable television. That is amazing. Thank you again to Joel Lar for chiming in and clearing that up.

I was very confused, but apparently this has just happened. This is a new development. So Miriam Banish in the chat room says, thanks Joe Lar, I love WMNH and MPT. Yes yes, Oh. Sepsis joins us in the Facebook latch at great band of course and close friends of ours, and Jenny and I of course will be not only there but participating. We'll have more details when it gets closer, but Swarmy Fest coming up in November at Jewel Nightclub. But Sepsis says, who remembers continental cable vision? I have heard of continental cable vision now see I actually, oh, by the way, so the whole channel nine thing to me, I guess for people who have lived in Manchester for you know, because there's people in Manchester who grew up here.

Obviously apparently in Manchester, Channel nine used to be on channel twelve here in Manchester, and that's not unusual in cities across the country for on cable. You know, you have a conflict, so so you have you know, the numbers don't always line up. But I actually grew up and conquered, and in conquered channel nine was always on channel nine, so I I to me, it's nothing new, channel nine meeting on channel nine. But but apparently if you're in Manchester, that's that's uh, that's a new thing.

But that's good for them, good for them, everything's falling into place. Mike from Queen's City Cabinetry says, in Rhode Island, we say uh much not meet in the fifty five gallon drum. That's a very confusing. Mike and by the way, and of course Mike from Queen's City Cabinetry and one of our co hosts on Friday night on Retrospectrum Radio. That's why I don't go to Rhode Island. They have all kinds of confusing expressions there, and I don't know what they're talking about. It's like there is talking a different language.

It's crazy. Uh. Let's see. Miriam Banish says, reminds me a little of Gilbert Godfried, and I assume she's referring to our friend Jerry Robinson. Boy, how about those song titles. Huh again, it's a little inside, but we we like it if you know, you know. Oh, Melanie La Liberty said the same thing. Gilbert Godfried. No, Gilbert Godfried though, boy he was he was very funny. I was sad when he passed away. But no, Gilbert Godfried add more of a little bit, more of a screech to him than than our friend Jerry.

Uh. Let's see. Oh and freeband Prince great hip hop artist from Florida also joining us in the Facebook live chat. Hello, let me give out the studio line again, especially for our viewers on Channel six. This is amazing. If you're just joining us. This is Matt Connerton unleashed here at WMH ninety five point three. Fm U six zero three two five six zero seven is a studio line six ZHO three two five zero six zero seven. Uh, we should talk about some things again. Also, if you are just joining us, our guest Bob Henley has to reschedule.

But we do have the band Best Not Broken coming up in the second hour. But in the meantime. Oh, here's something just completely random that just caught my eye, not particularly of any great importance, but media reports Tampa mayor catches over one million dollars of cocaine during a fishing trip in the Florida Keys. Now, this uh, quite quite shocking to me. I didn't know that you could go fishing for for that. Maybe maybe the mayor didn't mean for that to happen, you know. When I was a kid, uh, I remember watching Miami Vice and not seeing anything.

You know, they were of course Vice narcotics, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas. I don't remember what their actual names were. I never got into that show. My dad liked that show a lot when I was a kid. I never really got into it. But but then again, that was Miami. This happened in Tampa. So maybe if it had been Tampa vice, Uh, you know, they would have had a plot line where, you know, they're fishing, maybe they're there, they're Oh, Sonny Crockett. That's the name of the character, And now it's coming back to me.

Sonny Crockett's the name of the character that Don Johnson played, Oh Crockett. And Tubbs. Tubbs was the other guy. I forget his first name, doesn't matter. Media reports a family fishing trip off the Florida Keys yielded an out of the ordinary catch, several blocks of discarded cocaine over a million dollars worth, but the person who recognized it was none none other than the mayor of Tampa, Jane Caster. Reporter Olivia George of the Tampa Bay Times recounted the story of how Castor and her family came across the unexpected stash.

There was something in the water, black and bobbing. The package adrift in the Atlantic caught the eye of a family enjoying a day of fishing off the Florida Keys on a Sunday in late July. Hey, look at that, said Kelly Castor, a sixty one year old boating enthusiast cocaine, replied his older sister, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, as the package came closer, speaking with the assurance of someone who spent three decades in the Tampa Police Department, including about eight years in narcotics and six as police chief.

Not just cocaine, but seventy pounds of it, according to US Border Patrol, who also placed the street value of the find at one point one million dollars. Ever, the former cop Castor recorded the location where they fished the cocaine out of the water on her watch before they lugged it on board the boat she and her family were riding. Once they were on dry land, Mayor Caster, who along with her brother was accompanied on the trip by her son and his girlfriend, called up the Monroe County Sheriff's office to report the cocaine, which was then taken away by federal agents.

The hall made the Miami Herald as well as the Twitter account it's x now and It's not Twitter anymore of US Border Patrol agent, while a slasser who posted a photo of the cocaine bricks, identifying only a recreational Boater as having found the cocaine. Castor was only identified by The Tampa Bay Times on Tuesday as being the one to find the cache. Wow. After turning in their initial catch, Castor and her family continued their trip to much success, spending quote the rest of their vacation diving and fishing, catching no more drugs, but about sixty lobsters unquote.

That must seem I mean, I know, you know, people like to go fishing for lobster because you can eat lobster, of course, But I mean after catching all that cocaine, I mean, where do you go from there? Really? Everything after that just seems kind of tame, doesn't it. Wow, isn't that that that movie A River Runs through It? Isn't that what that's about? Catching? Catching cocaine on your fishing line? I don't know. John Hopwood joins us in the Facebook live chat and says, a million dollars ain't what it used to be.

Mike from Queen City Cabinetry says it's all in what you use for bait. Well, apparently, and Ronda Fervero from the Great State of California joins us in the Facebook live chat. Uh, let's see in other news now speaking of let's look at this because I mentioned, oh, by the way, before we go any further, I know there's there's Trump's stuff now. He's making claims about uh Fannie Willis having an affair with a gang member. It's just crazy stuff. I'm just I'm just not up for it today. If you listen to yesterday's show, when I was talking about TFS settling in Trump fatigue syndrome, I actually wasn't kidding.

I was so not kidding that when it probably sounded like I was joking when I said I was on the verge of a panic attack just trying to keep track of all the Trump legal stuff in my head, I actually wasn't kidding. Like I actually was not kidding. I will confess that now I really did feel one coming on. So I'm just not doing it today. I'm just not doing it today. We're not doing any Trump stuff today. I know there's new developments in the legal sagas there are every day. I just I can't do it. I'm overwhelmed by it.

And it's not like it's not like if we don't cover any Trump stuff today, there won't be opportunities in the future like tomorrow or the day after or the day after or the next week or whatever, because this is all going to be going on for a very long time. So I should tell you, especially new viewers on Channel six, I should tell you if you're enjoying the show and you're thinking, oh, I wonder if he's going to talk about the latest Trump news. No, I'm not. I'm taking the day off from Trump. I just I need a break.

Trump has burned me out. Part of it is I think I need to figure out a way again. Yesterday, I just I wasn't. Jenny and I both and John Hopwood too. You know, we're talking about this and we're we can't keep it all straight in our heads. You know, the Egen Carol lawsuit and the countersuit, and there was news about that yesterday, and oh my god, I just I can't do it. So instead, let's look at this, because this came up Twitter, which is now X. CNBC reports today Elon Musk's X aims to win back advertisers with brand new safety technology deal.

Some bullet points. X said that its signed an exclusive partnership with the digital ad tech firm Integral ad Science.

I don't care, I just realized I don't care about any of this, so we're gonna we're gonna x that out. No. I just I am fascinated by you know, we do talk about social media on the show and online media and so forth, and I've been just fascinated, as I know we all have, by watching Elon Musk try to figure out what to do with Twitter, and then all of a sudden one day I sign on. And I don't use Twitter a lot. I use it mostly just to promote the show. To be honest with you, my first social media platform of choice is Facebook.

I use Facebook more than anything. But it was odd the first time after the change when I logged onto Twitter and I see this X, and I have to tell you, by the way, not to nitpick. And what do I know, Elon Musk is a billionaire. I'm just me. I'm just a guy sitting here running my mouth. But I have to say, when I open that you are l and I see the X logo up here on the screen. It looks a little cheap to me. And look, I am a web designer, so I know a little something about making things look nice. And I don't know, it looks like it just you know this X appears this Uh you know the way it loads, it's kind of cheesy.

It looks like Windows ninety five or something. And then and then it goes to the Twitter and then everything else is the same except for the logo. But it's just it looks cheap. I don't I don't get it. I don't get it. Melanie asks a question about is there one particular instance where I might speak about Trump? And I'm not comfortable reading that question on the air, but that is funny and the answer is yes, Melanie, if that did happen and I would talk about it, However, I would have to speak about it in code.

I wouldn't. I wouldn't want to be a graphic. It is afternoon drive after all. Uh. Let's see now, I wanted to. Let's look at this. If you've been following Ron De Santis, who, of course the governor of Florida and anti woke enthusiasts, he's been in New Hampshire a few times now. I think he's had a big campaign shake up. This has just happened. Uh. In fact, Politico as an updated story to Santis replace his campaign manager as he struggles to catch up to Trump. Uh see, we can't. We can't avoid Trump entirely today, but we're talking about de Santis.

The focus is De Santis with this, Yeah, Trump will figure in. Trump has to figure in. By the way, I still think Trump is not going to be at that debate in Milwaukee, that I am sure about. But yes, there has been a campaign shake up at Ron De Santis campaign. By the way, I think people are making perhaps a little bit too much of it, only in the sense that it's interesting because it's political news. This is a presidential primary campaign cycle, so it's all interesting to talk about, which is why I'm bringing it up.

But I don't think it's that unusual. It seems to me that campaign shakeups are not unusual in a presidential campaign, especially one that's struggling that was expected to do better. Apparently, the De Santis campaign has been burning through cash very quickly and is not getting any real traction. You know, he's supposed to be the challenger to you know, the biggest quote unquote threat to Trump. I'm not going to be able to avoid Trump completely. It's impossible. He's ubiquitous, but again, I will We're not making him the focus of this conversation.

This is about Rhonda Santis or tiny D, one of Trump's nick names for him, iron to sanctimonious. Oh my god, it really is impossible to avoid Trump. Oh policies in the Facebook live chat and says hey guys, hello Paul of course from Retrospectrum Media with policy and also astronaut Viacom is in the Facebook live chat and astronaut Viacom says, what's with Trump? We said, no, Astronaut Viacom, I'm trying to avoid Trump today. I'm trying to avoid and I'm already failing. So these campaign shakeups are not unusual.

But the problem with Ron de Santasis campaign is so he was supposed to be he was expected to be the biggest threat to Trump, but of course Trump is a head by like forty points. So now he's getting desperate and to try to figure out a way to reboot and course correct. But I don't think this campaign shakeup is going to help unless he's willing to do a couple of things that he probably is reluctant to do. But we have a call. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's us? It's your old pal John c.

Hotwood. The sea stands for super stilious yes, which starts with an S. We've talked about that, Hi, John,

Well, the Russians sage, and Oh, I support Bobby Kennedy Jr. Which means I'm a putin. Duke McCarthy, I plan. Oh my goodness, speaking of Bobby speaking Aboubby Kennedy Jr. I have a question. Have you ever seen the film Thirteen Days? Yeah, no, but I've read about it. I don't like to watch like historical hysterical films. Thirteen Days, Eric historical films. Thirteen Days is so good. That's about Kenny O'Donnell. Yeah, well, it's about the Cuban missile crisis. But Kenny O'Donnell is played by Kevin Costner and is the main character in the film.

Uh. Bruce Greenwood plays JFK. And it's absolutely fantastic. Yeah, very fine Canadian actor. Yeah, Stephen Culp plays Bobby Kennedy and Jenny had never seen it. I've seen it a number of times. It's one of my top five favorite films of all time. I love that movie. I love I love anything involving the Cuban missus. It's really good. John because it is really good. I recommended. The problem I have with Kevin The only problem I have with Kevin Costner is that my friend Jocelyn used to live him over his garage and uh, there's some bad blood there.

So you know, well I have to hear that story. What do you mean, why is there bad blood? You'll hear that one. Oh is that kind of story? Okay, I'm awfully curious. Yeah, it's just it's just one of those things. You know, her boyfriend at the time, Rose sub dances with wolves and won the Oscar and uh, there's too much to talk about it. It's it's it's it's all right to name drop in New York City or la uh in Manchester. It's very vulgar. Although I am going his name dropped because we're going to talk about campaign shakeups.

M Yes, the name I have to drop as my late friend Bill Cashion, who was very close. So yes, he was consider They called him the Kingmaker and he used to be the head of the whole operation there. But he was one of those New Hampshire politicians that every presidential candidate has to go see every New Hampshires. The New Hampshire primary there are certain people that you have to go see. The Democrats Lu Dallasandro, every Senator Lu Dallasandra from Manchester, everybody has to go see him. Yeah, you know, you have to course them.

And Bill cashions with then the chairman of the board of the Manchester Board of Mayor and all the and like a twenty foot portrait there in the chamber is one of those people they had to see. I met. That's I spent an hour with Joe Biden at Bill Tugs one day with our mayor, former Governor Lynch. What year was that the way campaigns go, what year year? They would have been twenty nineteen, okay, because you know the Hampshire primaries early he was not the Vice president Biden and I've talked about meeting Biden before.

Ye, So he talks, he comes off the better. He's one of those people like Hillary Clinton comes up better in private, although there's not much difference, as I don't know if Biden's like nah, it's like meeting Bill Clinton. Now. Bill Cashion, one of the reasons to call the Kingmaker was central to Bill Clinton's campaign in nineteen ninety two, and he actually came on. He told Bill Clinton that after the Jennifer Flowers scandal that you've got to claim, you know, on election night, if you come in second, that you actually want, which he did.

Bill didn't come up with the term to come back kid, though, I have no idea who that is. Oh I have a theory. I have a theory about that. I think Bill Clinton probably used that back when because if you remember when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, he served a term and then he got voted out, and then the next term he ran again and got voted back in. So he had already been the comeback kid back in Arkansas. Now you know I was. Bill was not a person that talked a lot lot. You know, we did talk a lot because the twenty sixteen primary, Hillary started running and I can't tell you a lot about that.

Botsaul Danny O'Neill, who used to be the chairman of the board who built Bill Cash that was kind of like his success or, told Tony stories about because he was brought into the Clinton campaign it was the beginning of his career. And he said, and Bill Cash was about five foot five, you know my size, and Bill Clinton was six foot three. I met him many times, and Danny O'Neill, who was a big, big guy. I remember Danny O'Neill was trying to hug me once and I thought I was gonna he did try to hug me about Oh my god, I thought I was gonna get to six feet because he's a big guy.

And he said, John, you should have seen it was just something, you know, it was some victory. I think that the time we defeated a certain mayor. We're gonna get into that. But Danny was saying, John, you should have seen it. After the Jennifer Flowers, uh, you know, blew up and everybody was all torn out in the seat over what was going to happen. There's Bill, you know, a foot a foot shore of the Bill Clinton, and he's pointing his finger into Bill's chest and saying, you were only going to campaign in the corridor on ninety three Nashua Manchester concert, remember that Nashua Manchester conquered.

Don't listen to these people, you know his campaign advices. Don't give a damn about Portsmouth. Portsman's gonna vote you know, gonna vote Democrat anyways. You don't care about the North, you don't care about the West. You care about these three cities are you are you talking about in the are you talking about in the primary or the general election? Yeah, in the New Hampshire primary, that's what I thought, because that's what I thought. But then you said the thing about Portsmouth and they're going to vote Democrat anyway, and that threw me, right, you don't You don't, well, yeah, exactly, because that's true.

They're probably gonna what he meant was probably gonna vote liberal, right, and Bill was a conservative moderate. Yeah, I don't know who the liberal was, and that maybe Songes. Well, Paul Songis, I mean, he was ever everybody knew. I mean, the way I remember it, The reason Bill Clinton could claim victory was because everyone knew Paul Songis was going to win anyway, because even though he's from a border state, he had favorite son status effectively liberal from Massachusetts. My candidate. I voted for him.

Oh my friends, Uh, some of my friends who you know, wouldn't vote for him because they thought Paul song Which was lying about his cancer, which turns out he actually still had the cancer. Really, you know, you know, people who thought he was actually thought he was lying about that. Wow. Well yeah, because you don't you know, we won't get into cancer. Cancer has a tendency to come back. He did with my father. Yeah, and uh, you know, you go into remission. But it's important to know. In nineteen ninet two, Bill Clinton listened to a local candidate, I mean a local politician who knew every This guy's Bill Cashi knew more about politics.

I remember saying that I only thought to Buden, this guy knows more about politics than anybody I've ever met. And well, I didn't mention the name Howard jim through Joe Biden sea Might before he became Looke. It might have, you know, seam Might accounts ears here about that old Brandy but that somebody you associated with Bernie Sanders, right, But okay, so that is nineteen ninety two. The thing was, you want you ran a campaign to win in New Hampshire, you get close to the people. I remember John Hudson saying, people tell me because when John Huntsman I covered him.

I actually crossed the line and the party line and voted for him in the primary because it was so impressed by him, even though he didn't have my politics. But Obama was not a policy. I'm mad of Obama for assassinating US citizens without the court, the order or anything. I like. I like John Huntsman as well. He's talked about him the kind of labels with a mansion. But getting back to the campaign, he Bill Clinton listened to the local people who knew what was going on. They knew the pull. Nobody knew more about politics than Bill Cash and nobody knew more about Manchester or you know, the Democratic Party even rended body and they and he'd be sitting with him and the call come, oh hello, governor, and he had Bill Clinton on his the cell phone actually called each other Billie's.

Because that's twenty sixteen. In twenty sixteen, you had Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton had a bunch of kids running her campaign from you know, from the elite universities. That this is what this is a big trend too, where campaigns are run by these technocrats. Because Jimmy Carter was the first person actually that we remember using somebody like that in Pat Cadell is that it was his name, the oh yeah, statistics guy, the polling guy. Yeah. The thing is she was not using any vocal people. She's using kids that were driven by statistics, by online you know, you wouldn't even take the computer base that's online.

And you know, Bill say, it's following the campaign because Obama is coming out of nowhere, you know, and uh and is topping the poles. And he says, this is crazy to use these kids. She's not making any connection with vocal and uh, I'll tell you what. The day before the primary, over on the west side on Kelly Street, there's a French Canadian giant Shvashaw and it's famous. You go in there and there's pictures of every presidential candidate you know, back to like nankteen seventy two, and they're famous for their do you call putin pittine whatever, it's French Canadian French fries with gravy.

Vica came when she was visiting me. I took her there and she said it faced like vomit. But you know it's a local specialty and a lot of people like it. Bill Clinton loved it. So we're having a meeting over at Shiva Shan it's before Hillary that dip little the day it's the last day the primary, and she is going to go campaign. But they're waiting and they're waiting for Bill Cashion to come. I had to go I can't go into becausement start. But finally Bill shows up and Bill, I'm sitting with Danny O'Neill, Bob Backus, who you well now, who's Harvard educated lawyer but probably the only true liberal the entire city of Manchester before, you know, the new generation of people.

And I'm sitting with Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill Barry too. We're all sitting and Cashion is sitting with the ghosts and sits on with Hillary and Bill Clinton at just these you know, in the small restaurant at just the regular table. And then Danny, being the chairman of the board, like you know, the particular head of the Democratic Party matches, goes and sits with them. And I'm looking at them. And at the time, they took a picture of everybody and they cropped me out of it national They had Bill Berry backets, but since I was on the side of Danny was sitting and he left, I guess there was nobody sitting behind next to me, so they cropped me out and that went the New York Times national photo.

But I'm looking at Bill Cashing and he has remember those eyes when you met him, those eyes that you know used to make I guess all theaman have bowel movements from the Britches if he gave him that a look. You know, he's looking at Hillary and he's pointing and he's talking, you know, and her and Bill are looking at him intently. And what he told me later, he says, you can't rely on these kids. You've got to you screw it up. You have to do both. You have to listen to the vocal people. You have to use the vocal people.

That's why you're failing. And you know, this was a guy that helped Bill. You know, people need to know. In the New Hampshire primary, a lot of people came in second and who considered victors. Eugene McCarthy came in a close second and LBJ the who was sitting president. No, you know, that was the end of it for him. George mcgobern came in seconds to the senator muskie from Maine, who was considered the front runner because he's been the vice presidential nominee with Humphrey in sixty eight. He wins the nomination.

You know, coming in a close second can be a victory. But here's a guy that helped Bill Clinton. When the primary become president and uh, you know what happened after the New Hampshire primary. Bernie Finders won an overwhelming victory in twenty sixteen, and they shook up the They immediately shook up the campaign staff and they went but you know, Hillary being Hillary, she went more to the DNC huh right, professionals, but not not kids that she can control. She took on like equals because you remember at the time they were saying that she wanted to distance herself from her husband's campaign.

Yeah, former you know, campaign apparatus and people to be your own person. That worked out great for Algor Yeah well John, Yeah, we gotta go, We gotta go. And it happens, you know, people shake up their campaign. Yes, they have some more tales to tell. I'm taking up too much of your time. Yeah, we're coming up on the top of the hour. We've got some musical guests coming in. I think I think I see musicians in the hallway, So we will we will have to move along. But I appreciate the call. Yeah, I'll see soon.

Take care, all right, John, thank you bye. But all right, that was the great John Hopwood And yeah, de Santis, you know, we'll see again. We'll see if he changes direction. I mean, if I were, if I were run to Santas's new campaign manager, that the two bits of advice I would give him, neither of which I think he would take. One is I would tell him he's gonna have to start going at Trump, like really going at him, because if if you know, he and some of the other candidates, some of the other candidates on the Republican side here, it seems like they're sort of on this dual track where they're all where they're they're opponents of Trump because they're running against him for the nomination, but simultaneously they're also surrogates for Trump because they're also kind of talking about how great he is because they don't dare upset the megabase.

Obviously there are exceptions like Chris Christie and so forth.

But uh, you know, I would say to de Santis, look, you're number two in this race. You're the guy who is supposed to be able to beat Trump. Maybe you should start campaigning like that's what you're actually trying to do. And DeSantis, you know, he'll be somewhat critical, but he doesn't like to say Trump's name and tries to avoid that if he can't. And the other thing I would the other bit of advice that I would have for Desantist again, if I were as campaign manager, I would say, and there's already been a slight change with this anyway, but I would say, no more with the you know, anti woke stuff.

Your answer to every single question and every media interview should not be well, we have to do something about wokesm Don't get me wrong. Obviously, there is a large segment of the Republican Party of Republican voters to whom that appeals. They love the culture war stuff, they eat it up. But I think there's also a large and there's polling data the shows this, there's also a large contingent of the Republican Party there really has no use for it, and is tends to be more practical and pragmatic about things, and isn't so much into the culture war stuff.

You know, there's plenty of suburban educated Republicans, moderate Republicans who you know, probably sitting at the table, sitting at their desk at home, looking at their electric bill which is fifty percent higher than it was a year ago. Going well, I know, I'm supposed to be really angry at trans people, but I'm not sure how that's going to help me pay this electric bill. You know. I know I'm supposed to be really angry about critical race theory, but is that really going to help me buy groceries?

I'm not sure that it is. You know. So there's I think there's a very large segment of the Republican Party that just you know, they listen to somebody like de Santis and ever the answered everything is, well, it's wokeism. We have to defeat wokeism. And they're just kind of rolling their eyes and they're going, this is the guy who's supposed to be the alternative to Trump. So so I would I would definitely make some changes. I mean, and as far as going to Trump harder than he is, what does he have to lose?

You know, he can continue to try to walk that line between political opponent and supplicant, much like Mike Pence does so masterfully. Mike Pence, though clearly he knows he's not going to be the nominee, he's just trying to trying to sell some books. Then to Saantis probably knows he's not going to be the nominee as well, and he's probably gonna make another run in twenty twenty eight, and he's just kind of, you know, trying to get the hang of it now so he knows what to do and what not to do in twenty twenty eight.

But but we'll see. It'll be interesting to see if anything changes with this campaign shake up. All right, we are approaching the top of the hour, so we're we're gonna show some love to our amazing sponsors here at WMNH, and then we're gonna play a track. I'm gonna play this song Brain from the band Best Not Broken. And then when we come back from the break in the second hour, Best Not Broken, we'll be here with us live in studio. So there is plenty more to come. Don't go away, Come on down to the Hopno at one thousand Elms Street, Manchester's premiere craft beer and gourmet pretzel bar.

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You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact in Folk Show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Tuesday, August eight, two thousand to twenty three, and we have Eric at the news desk. Welcome, Hello, thank you could to see him. Matt and Carlo on the couch right on the couch. How did you get the couch? By the way, Well, there's a story there, but I'm not sure we should go into that right now. All right, all right? And and who are we missing?

And feel free to make up a ridiculous story about I suppose we could. Probably that would be better than the truth. I think it's more it's more fun if if you come up with a story, not to put you on the spot. Well, we're missing Mark. Mark is our bass player. Yes, and I'm trying to remember whether he stubbed his toe or if he hurt his wrist combination. I think he uh stubbed his toe while hurting his wrist. That's that's probably what I would get a visual of that, right, which has happened a couple of times with Mark and oh my well, he's a very dynamic individual and he moves around and jumps around a lot.

Yeah. Yeah, you know a lot of times lands on his toe. Well, that's that's understandable. Well, actually there's truth of that. I think he hurt his toe last week, right, it was, so that's not all. Well, thoughts and prayers for Mark, thank you, well, Well, welcome guys. By the way, uh Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, one of our sponsors here at w MNH set in the chat room. This is a really good song. I would definitely hit repeat, and Jay Fed from the Great State of Vermont says, I dig that song. Cool, So you're getting some some love in the appreciate that.

Now, what do you got? So Mark is the bass player, So what do you guys each doing the band? So I sing and play the guitar, Carlo is in drums. Yeah, all percussion. So you got like a it's like a power trio basically exactly. But is there a fourth? Is there a fourth individual who does. Yeah, there is another guitar player that sits in with us, uh most of the time, on and and Uh. Yeah, we have mystery men that do all kinds of interesting things through the band, but on and is the most regular. On And is our other guitar player.

Gotcha, gotcha? So is on and Is Uh there are only occasionally for live shows or consistently or most of the time, So it kind of depends on the on the on the event, you know. I mean, sometimes we're an acoustic format and it calls for a smaller a smaller thing, and sometimes it's a bigger thing, and so he does the bigger things, I guess is the way we most simply describe it. Gotcha, Yeah, gotcha? And how long has the band been around, because it looks like you've got a fair amount of music online from what I saw, looks like you've been at it for a while.

We have, yes, a long time. Well not, I mean in this room, I'm the young member, but it's been for more than ten years. Oh yeah, for sure, to the point that we don't like our the music that we first wrote right right, for sure, we're trying to move on from that. But no, I think. I think our first recordings were done in twenty twelve, and the band, you know, it started before that and sort of evolved. We actually kind of started as a cover band playing clubs here in Manchester and around Boston in southern Hampshire, and slowly started to work our own material into into our shows and eventually started to record that material.

And so twenty twelve is when we started to start to push the original stuff. And so that's I think officially when we became an original band. Okay, which it actually isn't as long as I thought, but no, in shorter or longer, I'm not sure I know. But anyway, we've been doing it a while, I always say, and I say it only half kidding. I feel like the COVID pandemic kind of created this weird time distortion thing where sometimes things happened longer ago, they seem like they either didn't happen as long ago as they actually did, or they seem longer ago or something.

It's really it's really odd. And I run into that a lot, specifically with musicians when we're talking about how, you know, how long ago did you record this or whatnot? And you know, I'll have a I had a band in here recently. It was like they had they had just recorded something and uh like two years ago, twenty twenty one, but one of the members was convinced it was like twenty eighteen. It was. It's just interesting how that how that works. But COVID changed the music business so much, I mean all live entertainment obviously because we weren't gathering and so it really changed it for a lot of musicians.

And you know, we're fortunate we have other ways of paying the bills sometimes, but but those that were fully dependent on, you know, playing for a living had a really hard time. Absolutely absolutely, And it seems like there's been some lasting changes too, because you know, when the pandemic started to wrap up and things opened up, you know, all of a sudden, a lot of bands are playing out again because they can. But but then it's like, now, you know, I again. I have a lot of different musicians on the show, and different people have different approaches.

But some of the bands I talked to now they're kind of like, yeah, we're doing you know, maybe one show a month. We're not really you know, gas is expensive, it's uh, you know, we can do live performances in our living room and stream it, you know, and are really kind of pulling back, which to me is is interesting and it's it's hard to fathom in a way because so I don't I don't play anymore. But I used to play in a lot of bands, and my my thing was always I just wanted to play out. I wanted to play as many shows as possible because being on stage was my favorite thing in the world.

Sure, I just wanted to that's all I want. I mean, I was in I was in a couple of bands where we probably oversaturated because we played so much. But I wanted to be out there every weekend, and I didn't care if we were playing the same bar two weekends in a row or you know, which, you know, not a great idea necessarily, but I didn't care. And but it's interesting now some bands are really kind of pulling back, and then there's others, you know, who are just you know, playing every weekend and and really really trying to still push it.

But I think the period right before COVID, who knows what date that was, but that that summer season, we were we were actually very busy. Yeah, we were playing a lot all over the Northeast, touring as far down as Virginia. I mean it was we were very, very busy, and so we were definitely gearing up for another very busy touring season and then you know, Comproof. But and we certainly haven't returned to that. To your point, a lot of bands musicians have not returned to the hectic schedule of playing out as much as possible because I think we've all discovered that there's just different ways of getting the music out there for people to listen to.

Especially as an original band, you know, just we have to take advantage of all those methods, and those methods were proven during COVID. We were able to get music two people. We actually did a music video during COVID. We we filmed a video, one of these you know, hands off, you know, mask one kind of video things for one of our one of our most popular songs, Oh yeah, never next week and U. But it was actually a very clever video the way we did it, and I think it'll it'll stand the test of time.

And one could look at it and say, oh, that's how they responded during COVID, or one could look at it and say, no, that's just a cool music video. Yeah, you know, it's got two different I think shapes to it, which is not exactly what we were going for, but it's how it turned out, right, right, So yeah, definitely changed the landscape for sure. Yeah, no doubt. Well I always say too, you know, we have to obviously, you know, the pandemic was awful for a number of reasons, but you know, we have to find these silver linings where we can.

And one silver lining is the timing of it. Because if if it had happened twenty years ago or even ten years earlier than it did, you know, we were fortunate that it had happened at a time when we have all this technology and and it kind of forced people to embrace technology in ways that they hadn't before. But some of what we were seeing, like, you know, I saw examples of actually very famous and successful bands doing these you know, these these uh streams online where they're all they're all at home, but they're playing together, you know, and and for performances and and you know, in lieu of of touring and pretty remarkable stuff.

And I just I feel like if it had happened, if this had happened twenty years ago. You know, before we had things like zoom and you know, social media every yeah yeah, career ending probably oh yeah, yeah, it would have been it would have been much worse than that sense. So we're lucky that it happened at a time when we have the technology absolutely, and uh, you know, it seems to happen about once a century, so hopefully we don't have to go through it ever again. We're baby yeah, yeah, so you guys aren't so you guys now you're but you're you're playing out a lot, right, just not not as much necessarily as before the pandemic.

Yeah, I mean, you know, we have different reasons. We have families and things that we have to be respectful of. But we you know, like you, we love performing and I think best not broken really throughout our history has been a live band. That's kind of what we are. And uh yeah, unlike some other bands that uh they can put out material and never play and be okay with that, that's kind of not how That's kind of not how we do it. And yeah, so we're doing We're doing as much as we can. I think, you know, we go through spells of being really busy and spells of slowing down a little bit, but that's the nature of the business.

But we love every time we step on a stage. Is Summer your busiest time? Sure? Usually is? Yeah. Usually I think it starts like in May goes through September. You know, that seems to be the season where a lot of bands are out touring, and so we're either you know, either supporting some major acts or performing on our own. I mean, you know, I would say the last well, certainly this year and I guess last year too, right, we've kind of kept it a little more regional. We've been more in New England, I suppose than we haven't really branched out from there yet.

But you know, I'm not saying we won't. It's coming, I'm sure. Yeah, But as you said earlier, you know, more selective maybe, you know, yeah, yeah. Well. The other thing for us is we're you know, we're in the process. There was Covid wasn't great for us in terms of producing material, and we're now we're in the process of putting a new album out and so oftentimes the performances follow the you know, follow the live recordings because you're out promoting those recordings, and so we're We just released a song three two a couple of week a couple weeks ago, which is the first single on our next album, which is called if It Feels Right Ep.

Actually, it'll be probably six songs on it and the rest of it's coming out next month, so there'll be some shows that we do in support of that. Yeah, we've got a fun one coming up. We're gonna be with the Smashing Pumpkins up at at Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion and Guildford. What is that two weeks from now, a couple of weeks. Excellent, excellent, congratulations, thanks, very good. It's funny because are you know, back in the day we all used to listen to Smashing Pumpkins, and we still do sometimes, but our music probably back then was a lot more like them.

It's evolved in a different way and it'll be interesting to see how it, you know, how it goes. Yeah, the folks that are going to see Smashing Pumpkins, but we're gonna have funny the way. It'll be good. Have you guys opened for a lot of a lot of big acts that have come through. We've had it. We've been very fortunate. Yeah, we've we've we've done some good ones. I'll tell you when we did this year. Which still sticks with me is the now I forgot the name guess the guests who? Yeah, the guests who?

And and and when that was first offered to us, I think there was some like you know, the guess who Who's that again? Kind of thing? And then you you queue up their collection and their music is absolutely iconic. I mean it defined a generation. I mean that's pretty big stuff. So we were really honored to be a part of that show that was over in Salisbury, mass That was a good show at the Blue Ocean Music Hall. Great great venue if you've been there, it's a wonderful venue to play and uh and to see a you know, some music.

So you know, every year we seem to get three or four you know, good opening slots, which gives us an opportunity to promote ourselves and gather new fans and uh, you know, sometimes we get a few, sometimes we don't. Put you know, it's a it's a it's a big live show, you know. And so for us, for people to see us live, I think they really get a sense of the fun that we're having and uh, and and the kind of music that we're making, you know, and hopefully get somebody to, you know, buy a few records along the way and listen to some music.

But it's been good. We've been lucky. You guys have merch bring the shows we do. We just came out with a fabulous T shirt. You know why it's fabulous because our pictures are on it. We've never done a T shirt with our pictures on it. And most of the feedback we got was what in the heck are your pictures doing on the shirt? But no, it's a good group shot. It's a funny. We actually did the photo shoot for it in Manchester, yeah, right, was here in Manchester on the old railroad tracks or somewhere up the road here, and it was a cool shot.

We always liked that, you know, it was a cool photo. Right. Yeah, it ended up being on a shirt and I don't know, we've we've sold quite a few of them, we have, and the one thing we forgot to do is bring one here today. But that's okay, because we're gonna We're gonna either come back we're make Yeah. Yeah, definitely cool. Cool, Yeah, it's funny. I was just reading recently about how there was a time when people thought, people in the music industry thought in terms of merchandise, that you couldn't you couldn't put a for a men's shirt.

You know, for women it was different, but for men, you couldn't put pictures of a male band's faces on a shirt because dudes wouldn't wear a shirt with other men's faces on it. Interesting, this was I had read something actually, Rolling Stone had something about this from way back. She's when I was a kid, actually when Daryl Hall and John Oates their manager at the time, Tommy Mottola, who went on to do other things. But that was apparently that was a big discussion in that camp was do we put out do we do we bother putting out men's shirts with Darryl and John's faces on them because our men going to wear that, and and I guess even to this day people debate about that.

But then it's funny because last week I had Andy Klesnski. I don't know if you know him. He's a singer songwriter from the Sea Coast. He was here and just coincidentally he happened to have he was wearing a Michael McDonald's shirt with Michael McDonald's face on it, and I didn't even realize it but at first, and then the subject of Michael McDonald came up and I was like, oh, he's on your shirt. And then that made me think of you know, that whole that whole discussion of that debate about I had no idea that ever happened.

My my favorite album cover ever was the Police the I forget the name of the album, but it was the Police and their three pictures are on it. And actually we're sort of going for that kind of a thing. Yeah, yeah, on this on this T shirt. We didn't quite get it, but we made it our own. Yeah, it's a fun it's not it's a more of a funny shirt, you know, kind of goes with our vibe. You know, we're having fun and you know, dressed in some sort of costume and uh yeah, I mean it's it's just a funny kind of thing.

But it is what you mentioned, merchandise. It's the first time we've done something. Normally, it's like some graphic right like something. Maybe it's the maybe it's the the EP cover or something. But this time, yeah, we went a little we went a little outside and I'm gonna have to think about that now, how many guys. We should do a survey to see how many guys actually bought the shirt, right, I mean, I hope they do. Some have already so we know it's working. A yeah they have. Yeah. Yeah, I think hip hop kind of changed that that stigma two of of of guys wearing a shirts with other guys faces, you know, because once hip hop started to get really big, you know, it wasn't unusual to see somebody wearing a you know, a Snoop Dogg shirt with Snoop Dogg's actual face on it.

But if only we were as cool as Snoop Dogg's, right, that guy, Yeah, that guy. It's incredible that he never stops. He's he's He's one of those few people who can be you know, he can still be edgy with his music and whatnot and just swearing and everything, but also have that side to him that's very family friendly. I I'm not sure I can think of another example of somebody quite like that who occupies that space the way that he does. It's a good point. I'm not sure I can't either. Yeah. No, part of why I was asking about merch too, is it seems like, you know, because we were talking about playing shows and how expensive, you know, it's more expensive than it used to be to travel and so forth.

And it seems like there's a push within the music industry now too for everybody to really sell more merch because it's the one thing, you know, as far as selling your music, you know, Spotify gives you, uh, you know, big money, big money. Yeah. Yeah, the streaming services don't give you much, and and uh, you know, and touring, you know, a lot of your a lot of that money ends up going into your gas tank and and paying for whatever else. And so it seems like merch is because he can't download a T shirt, at least not yet.

I thought when three D printers came out that was going to kill the merch thing, and then it just didn't happen. I'm not sure why, but I guess it's a good thing it didn't happen, because then that'd be another revenue stream download down down the toilet, Melanie and the chat room says, uh, you know, Jay was just saying that he wished he had a shirt with Matt's face on it. We actually now see my shirts. See I've got these uh, Matt Connerton unleashed shirts. But that's not really Oh yeah, that's cool, but that's like a representation of my it's not my actual face.

It's it's like me as an anime character, you know. Oh beautiful, yeah from here. Yeah. Brendan McCormick. Uh, he very very talented graphic artist who works here. Actually, he he designed the logo and then we put it on the back of these shirts and uh, it's Remember when he showed it to me and he was like, he was a little bit cheapish about it. He didn't know if I was gonna like it because it's a little outside the box and I was never in anime, but I knew enough about it too. I recognize that there's an anime called Devil May Cry, and I only knew knew this because I used to work in a store that's old DVDs, okay, so we had an anime section.

So when I saw it, I was like, oh my god, I love it. And it's been around I have to see oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know if the shirt, the shirt might be a little faded, but he's coming over for a firsthand look. Yeah, that's very cool. Yeah, yeah, and then Jenny had shirts made up and yeah, and that that became the we might have to steal that concept the official logo. Yeah, yeah, it's it's very cool. Yes, have had it? Oh. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry says, my son has worn that T shirt at It's his absolute favorite.

Yes. Uh. And Mike was also asking about the songs I played. So I played, Uh, I played Brain earlier and uh I also played I opened the show today without song kids, which is so catchy awesome. Who right, do you guys all write together? Or who writes the song? Yeah? I write everything and then I submit it to Eric for approval. He throws it in the trash and rewrites everything in a more perfect sense. The truth is, Carlo writes all of our bridges. No one is allowed to write a bridge unless Carlo has approved it.

But yeah, so we we you know, it's every song is a little bit different. I mean, you know, I'm a songwriter and Mark our bass player as a songwriter, and so we both bring in a lot of ideas and some of them are more fully formed by the time they get to the band, and some of them aren't, and some of them sort of come together when we're together. But you know, it's amazing. A lot of people say, I mean, we're joking around, a lot of people say drummers don't write, but it's amazing what you know, when when Carlo lays down on a pattern or rhythm, what that can do to kind of change the dynamic of a song and move it in a certain direction.

So, I you know, it's it's a very collaborative process. Even though you know, we're the guys playing the guitars and singing the lyrics and writing some of the stuff. It doesn't work unless we do it together a lot of ways. Yeah, yeah, And the drums sound incredible. By the way, where do you guys record because the drums really because not everyone gets that right when recording producing drums, you know, but you can hear every you can hear everything, every tom, every I mean, it's just sounds so good.

Yeah, it's true. We we've been lucky to work with a couple of really good studios that really understand your point of making the drums sound good. You know, I mean obviously pretty biased towards the sound, but you know, when you're when you're building a piece of music, it starts with the drums, right and it starts with the drums and goes to the bass right away, because that's the that's the foundation of it, you know. And so we've we've been lucky to have a couple of real good producers work with us and recording engineers that understand that and get a just actually they get a very good sound.

It's like the foundation of a house. I mean, truly, you can't have a you can't have a good song the way we try to write songs unless the drums sound good. We've we've made that mistake and we never want to make it again. But uh, and I think today, you know, with hip hop becoming such a big deal, you know, the last twenty years, and so many contemporary songs relying very heavily on the rhythm and the groove, it's like that you're hearing that and you're hearing the lyrics and the rest of the stuff in some cases just sort of washed out in the middle.

Sure, sure, you got it. So people are looking for the rhythm, yeah, looking for the groove, and you gotta get it right. But we typically well will record with Dave Minihan down at Wooly Mammoth Studios and Waltham. Dave David. Oh, that's a name I've definitely heard. Yeah, Dave is a you know, he's a Boston legend. Really, we've been very fortunate that he's he's been willing to take us on and but you know, he when Brad Whitford was not healthy, he was playing with Aerosmith and he's played with the replacements.

He's a guitar player too, okay with the replacements, and but he's an amazing producer in his own right. He's a great musician. Or fortunate now that he's kind of playing with us because she's actually on most of the most of the songs out now. Yeah. In fact, he did a lot of the background vocals for one of these tunes that's coming out next month, which is which I'm excited to put out called That's the Way She likes It, And it's kind of a song that draws on influences from some of the eighties and nineties stuff, but real heavy background vocals, which are very cool.

Yeah, looking forward to that one. But it starts with the drums, it does, Yeah, it does. How did you get to working with Minahan? What's his first name Mike

Uh. He moved to Waltham from the Boston area many many years ago, and I think it happened because I was reading a story about his move to this new studio and it was just about the time I was getting ready to record my first batch of songs and I was looking for some help, and I sent him my stuff and I said, what do you think, thinking that he would say either nothing, I don't think much. But fortunately he said, hey, actually that's pretty cool. Why don't you come down and we'll talk a little bit.

And I did, and that was the beginning. He We did an EP that was again back in twenty and twelve. It took us a while to record that. Carlin knows we taked a longer record, especially when it by myself, but but it came out really well. The funny thing is I went in with a completely different vision of what we ended up with, and at the end of the day, I don't know whether it's good or bad. You know. I was at the time actually going in more of a synthesizer, you know, type of direction, and Dave sort of brought it back to more of an acoustic guitar based a little bit more of a classic sound which worked really well for those songs, and he was probably right.

Yeah, but we've you know, we've managed over the years to weave in some of the new stuff and keep some of the you know, the more traditional organic sounds acoustic guitars and electric tars and that kind of stuff. But there's a couple of songs on that first album though, that continually get requested. It shows true. So, I mean, it's funny we've played them. It's an older piece, but it seems like they're the ones, you know, people want to hear. Yeah, those that have been around for a while, they remember some of those tuns pretty good days.

The one that that stands out to me that was on the first album that people tend to like. But we like the new stuff too. Yeah. Yeah, Now, are are you guys from Boston or are you we are from the stuff? We're from the general area. We've sort of bounced back and forth between Boston and southern New Hampshire. The band collectively, we've are members of sort of zigzagged around the area. So we kind of consider ourselves a greater Boston band, but right now we've got some roots in southern New Hampshire, and but the area has been very good to us.

We've you know, we've kind of started in Manchester and sort of grew from there. You know, we have regular stuff we do now up in Burlington and and we've you know, as Carlos said, we get down as far as Virginia, New York has been a more regular thing. We haven't been down there in a while because Philly, we haven't had stuff to promote. I think probably that's coming up in the not too just in future. Cool, cool, very good. Well, actually, why don't we Uh, we'll take a break and play another track here.

Uh, let's see you sent me. Oh it didn't one of the things. You didn't send me this one. But you said there's a new single that came out recently. I did. It's called I Don't Belong, and I thought I sent it to you. Oh you did send me that. Okay, No, you did. I'm sorry. I don't know why I was for some reason, I thought you had said something else. But my brain is mush swept times. I probably have a our often is too. We do some of our best work. Our brain is mush. Here we go, here we go. I got it, Okay, here it is.

Yeah, I like actually, yeah, I like this one a lot too. This is really good. So let's do this. We'll we'll give this a listen. If you're just joining us. We've got two of the guys, Eric and Carlo from the band Best Not Broken, are here with us live in studio and we've been talking and we're gonna listen to another track here. So this is called I Don't Belong and this is the newest single just within the last couple of weeks. Yeah, it's just out two weeks here, two and a half weeks ago. Again, Yeah, excellent, excellent, all right, check this out.

I Don't Belong from Best Not Broken. I'm walking in the home room, remember about I'm Bom Bom. I see my Kicken cimmers or Warzar girl's head stern. I've got my jeans, pig mullet, done with Hess Gray. We've been walking new way Coopa's and a fresh ship. Want to be rock star Ribben in my new car, Hotei's in the back, y'all, bat I got nothing so far? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Stay tr to get her real job? Interviewed with a shot. Ask me what I want to say.

I don't want to keep my hair along for me in a high rise when you with some rich guys stirting with a deep swap. Now I'm making a French prize. I'm not a quick learn Maybe it's the side of birds like now if you want to know about at least I made some heads turn? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? I don't everybody? I don't stay as you go. I don't so much. I don't know why. And you belong some slaps that you just can't time. When you ask foot ten much, you just got nine hair.

Everything is fine, just that much. Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? Can I get up? I don't get everybody don't I don't. You don't. I don't belong, belong. Come on down to the hop Knot at one thousand Elm Street, Manchester's premiere craft beer and bourmet pretzel bar. Tell us more. At Rudy, we make our dough fresh every day. We make a variety of styles of pretzels and serve craft beer, cocktails and a few bottles of wine. We do the traditional pretzel and we have multiple flavors for that.

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If you are in Manchester and hello to all of our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot com for all your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera. And joining us here live in studio. We have Eric and Carlow from the band Best Not Broken, and we just start a great song from them, I Don't Belong. That's the the newest single these guys out and if you have any questions or feedback or anything at all for these guys, the studio line is open six zoo three two five zero six zero seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven.

You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me at Matt at Matt Connerton dot com. And of course you can interact endo Pine in the Facebook live chat. But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is give us a call at six zo three two five zero six zero seven. And guys, that's a very very catchy I caught myself singing along to it, so that's uh that probably happen. I would imagine when you play that at shows, you probably get get people singing along.

Right now, does it gets a real good response, singing, clapping? I think, uh, I think the video actually, I think people that see the video might be amused because we released a video at the same time and uh, it's uh, it's one of our We're very proud of it because we uh we look like absolute before it was absolutely ridiculous, fully ridiculous, but we sort of captured the essence of the song. I think yeah, and it happened fast. I was shocked we were able to pull together. But we would encourage your listeners if they like that tune to check out the video for I Don't Belong on YouTube.

It's there and you get a good laugh there and waiting for you. Very good, very good. Yeah, it's funny. That's another subject that's come up a lot on the show lately as videos, because there's some people, I don't know if you guys run into this at all. This there's some people who have this perception that music videos are and a dead art form because you know, MTV hasn't played videos in decades, and it's like, it's funny, but I run into people who don't seem to realize that actually, because of YouTube, there's more music videos being made than ever.

Oh yeah, Like like when Beyonce puts out a new album, for example, you know she's got the money to do it. When she puts out a new album, every single song on the album has a video, right, It's it's it's actually more than ever. People want to see that multi media entertainment. You know, they want to They want to get a bigger picture of what certainly want to see the artists. You know, they're hoping to see the artists in the in the video. And it just provides a more multidimensional musical experience as opposed to just you know, listening to music.

I mean, and I think you might capture the interest a little more, like people will listen to the entire song, as opposed to when you're streaming, you know, they're gonna get a minute or so in and like all right, moving to the next one, moving the next one, the next one, click click, click, click click. But a video, you're probably gonna watch the whole thing. It's a it's an interesting phenomenon. I mean, as a musician now, you know that if you don't put a video out with a song, you're missing listeners or viewers.

You're missing missing people that might otherwise see it. But it's also interesting because it truly changes the dynamic of how people experience a song. Right because in the old days, when there was no video, or now when there's no video, you know, you you come up with your own images, right yeah, but you're worse to follow the images that are put out in this video, which I think sometimes great and sometimes not. But but it's a new way of experience it for sure. Yeah. It's funny though, it's like we're time traveling in a way, because this is the same conversation that people had when on shows like this when MTV first went on the air, right, and artists would talk about, Yeah, you know now you're you know, you're assigning these images to the video, which to the song rather which might be a good thing or might not.

And you know, and I still want to be on MTV. Can we still do that? Yeah? I want my MTVO. That sounds like there must be h there must still be videos on there somewhere right there. I'm sure there must be like a like a twenty minute video show or something. We're on MTV, But yeah, reality television just completely took over and write and they, I guess in the nineties, right, I think it's been that long. Yep. Yeah, wow, Yeah, we haven't done our own reality show yet. We're gonna leave them. How many videos have you guys?

Have you guys shot? What do you think? That's a good question, but there's enough to keep you busy. I would say probably ten. Yeah, something like that maybe maybe a little more. Some are more involved than others. Yeah, I know. The first one that I participated in was for Won't Stop Loving You, which was a very elaborate production and a very moving video. I would say that was the most emotional video that we've made. And if you put a bunch of people in a room, I guarantee you a bunch of them are going to be crying by the time they get to the end of that video.

It's very, very touching and it's a great song, we think so. But our ore it's another one. It's a fan favorite. Yeah, you know, it's from an earlier record and they seem to love that song, so we like playing it. But our videos ranged from serious to absolute insanity, and maybe that's a good thing. I don't know. I hope, so, yeah, I hope, so, I hope. So now the videos, do you do you have someone you work with on those? Or do you do them? You're because we do? Okay, So I was gonna say, we live in an era where really you can you can do it all yourself.

It's pretty remarkable you can if you're if you're that talented, you know, yeah, we're uh no, we have helpers, Yeah, helpers are necessary for us. Do you work with the same people on each Have you worked with the same people on each video? Or is there a production company we have? Yeah, yeah, we've There's a company called One oh six Studios out of Boston that we've been using recently. Travis Gray has been the lead guy for us and that's gone very well. We've used other people in the past, but Travis has been doing good work for us.

They excellent, excellent. And what are the live shows like? Do you guys do you have any uh, you do any kind of elaborate stage show or anything, or do you do you just play or any kind of theatrics or do you save that for the videos? Well, you know, I mean, so we have we do a range of shows, you know, I mean, we're we are prem merely an original band, but we do shows where we'll mix covers into into our shows. Some of them are more cover oriented, but really the focus of what we do is is original material.

But the reason I say that is because you know, some of these shows tend to be a little more grueling, like three hours long or four hours long, and the dynamic is a little bit different than a short and sweet, action packed, true best not broken original show. But we one of the things we try to do is really have great energy when we put on a show, and we try and go out and leave it all on the stage. We're all athletes, and probably because we're we wish that we could still be as competitive as we once were.

We had the only place we can do it is on the stage, and so we occasionally stub our toes and fall out of things, but we try to do lots of jumping. But so, yeah, it's a we hope that it's an engaging and action packed show. It should be that. Yeah, I can tell you. I'm reminded of a story. Maybe we should we should share of we we we all I don't know, so I don't know whether we should share or not. We we'll find out together. It was it was a live constant. We didn't at the Tupelow below Music in Derry and it was outdoors during the period where they were doing outdoor shows if you remember that, which was very clever.

Quite frankly. Anyway, we headlined a show and uh As Zeric said, it's a it's an action packed show. I mean, the drummer just has to sit there most of the time, but the rest of the guys were moving around quite a bit on stage, and we had a choreographed piece of the show, remember where we were doing some things. And the point of this story is it was about one hundred and fifty degrees out and the sun was hitting that stage, and you know, you're you're driven by the music and the fan interact. It was a sold out show, so a lot of people, and you're feeding off that energy, but at some point it's just not enough.

It was so hot out, you know, I think we were all feeling a little faint. And there's a there's a particular thing. You'll have to come to one of our shows. This particular thing we do at the end where this guy runs around it just does something absolutely crazy, and it was great. You know, we're watching the whole things happen and people were plotting blah blah blah blah, and that's the end of the show. Encore is over and we got to the back, you remember, and he was he was white as a sheet. I thought I literally thought he was going to pass out because he was so active and it was so hot out.

Yeah, you can't hydrate on stage really, so you know, you're just giving it all. And that was quite a quite a performance, I would say that was a Yeah. So I tried to get a little exercise and this this is one of those times where I almost didn't make it back to the stage. Wow, I almost. And we've had a couple of those lately. In fact, we were down in Salisbury a few weeks ago and I almost didn't make it back to the stage, which would have been terrible because you guys would have had to clean up up by yourself.

Yeah, somehow I feel like that was part of the plan. Might have, but it might have been. I was in the big I was in the big band van Wow. Well, you know I always say rock and roll should be sweaty, but but you don't want you know, heat stroke or anything like that either. No, definitely try to keep it as safe as we can. I will tell you our our fabulous bass player who couldn't make it today with his broken toe. Uh, carries a fan with him every show. He has a fan set up because I think he sweats the most of all of us, Oh my god, and he and this fan is just always running.

He doesn't Well, Actually, the truth is there we have levels of fan. I mean he has this standard fan, yeah, but then we have a super hot show, we upgrade to the big fan, and then we can actually double fan. If we have the double fan, I would say that the worst. So the one time when Mark was sweating so much and nothing a fan could possibly do. The video that we shot for the song Kids, which I think you play it earlier. Yeah, had Mark at the beginning in a kangaroo outfit, and at the end he had to go because we ran out of time, and so I briefly had to play the kangaroo.

And I put on the kangaroo outfit and I couldn't feel the outfit because it was mush. It was actually it was mush. It was set probably the most disgusting thing I've ever filled in my life. God, and so I no longer I no longer even will look at kangaroos. But does it make you feel closer to him? I try to stay further away Mark, If you're listening, I'm I'm actually currently trying to get further away from you. Wow, that's funny. Eric, you ever do any radio or a voiceover work or anything? Never, I'm sure I'm not the only one who's ever asked you that.

I can't be the first one to ever ask you that it's possible you are. I'm no, I've never done it. You've got because you've got the voice. Carlo doesn't any of the you've got the voice for radio. Yes, you think you've got one of those voices. I'm actually jealous of because I'm very you know, I'm able to evaluate myself pretty honestly. I I think I know I have a good radio voice. But you have a great radio voice. I've never you've never done a podcast or anything. I've never done a podcast. No, no car commercial, a car commercial, that would be that would be fun for real, definitely real.

Well we need a hit. Maybe we can find a hit in the auto commercial. Yeah, car commercial jingle? Can you can you auto tune in radio? Can you live auto tuning? No? I just I just imagine you're narrating it. You know you could narrate the I've never tried it. I mean, I you know, I read I read books for people. Do Yeah, I do. Mostly my kids makes sense. They don't tell they don't tell you they love your voice. They've never said that. They're usually mad at me. Because it's bedtime and it's like, dad, what are you doing?

Right? Right? It'll put us to bed. They're used to it. You see your voice. Jay Fed in the chat says, do you play birthday parties? I think we have done parties? Well? Remember how I jumped out of that cake. Oh I don't remember that. Oh we do. Probably, we do private events occasionally. Most of what we do is in support of our music, but we do private events occasionally. Yea. So he's been asking, he's been looking for someone to play his wife's birthday party, Melanie's birthday party. I believe it's in September.

Now. The thing is, I should tell you though, in case you do get you take a commission. I know, no, no, no, it's not that. Uh he might try to get you to commit to uh, if you're gonna go up there to commit to an ice bath. Oh, So I thought I should mention that, just to kind of warn you that that might be part of the deal. Okay, And I don't know. Personally, I wouldn't do it. I you know, hypothermia, things like that. Apparently there are health benefits, but I'm just worried about freezing to death.

So I personally wouldn't do it, but I think I should warn you guys. Yeah, yeah, it's something he does and he he invites people into the ice bath apparently, so just something to keep in mind. Yeah, I mean, you know, it could come to that, So just so you know, we'll have to get our measure involved. Definitely, there you go, by the way, Miriam Banish and the chat room says like the harmony, referring to the song that we played there, the single Oh thank You? Yeah, Well do you got so the vocals? Do you guys all sing or how does that work?

I definitely don't you know? He know he's he's being modest. He is actually saying, in fact, we've had some gigs where he'll he'll take the lead and do some crazy stuff. But truth be told, the harmonies are actually a very important part of our sound, and Mark and I really enjoy writing harmonies and singing harmonies, and that's something we focus on and it's part of most of the songs that you hear, Yeah from us, No, I notice that, But Carlo, you sing live with the guys, I assume are very seldom.

Oh really, okay, I've got a lot of work to do. I'm very busy back then. He is a busy guy. Yeah. Yeah, well that's the thing. I had a band on recently with a singing drummer where the drummer did the lead vocals. Yes, and that's something you very rarely see. But it's such a physical instrument, so to have to play drums and sing, even just doing backing vocals, it must be it's got to be hard to do it. I think it would be tough. I don't know, honestly, I don't know how they do it, you know, they they sing a lot.

Yeah, and uh, I don't think I could do it, really can do it? Number one? I don't think I can sing? Uh well and uh, but it's a lot of work, do you know, to keep that, keep focused on that and just have the the musician stuff just kind of happened automatically so you can focus on the singings. Yeah, it's quite a bit of work. It's impressive. Yeah, absolutely, they're quite talented, those two. On and I just sit back and play music. We had a show actually, it was actually at Blue Ocean Music Hall where we featured Carlo and On and uh singing.

That's right, we did. Who is that? I think that might have been when we were with the Gym Blossoms Blossoms, I think it was. Yeah, And and actually that was the last show where we ever allowed them to sing publicly together. Imagine that. Really Yeah, so that should tell you something there. You guys played with the Gym Blossoms. Huh we did? We did? Really? Yeah, I can see that. I can see that being a good dah. But I guess too though, with with your sound, I mean, there's probably a lot of different bands you fit well with.

I would think you know your your sound. It's it's very accessible, very radio friendly, but also this you know a mix of influences in there. You know, the Sawing Kids is, like I said, I opened with that today. That's so catchy. But but it seems like everything is, you know, it's very sort of you know, you've got those singalong choruses that you know, really hook people in. And uh, who can you tell me who's who's a band that you've Are there any bands that you've opened for that we're kind of Maybe you went into it thinking I don't know if we fit has Has there been any kind of an odd match that you've had with a band that you've opened for well, yes, I would say so.

So. Uh. Actually, I think Smashing Pumpkins will be interesting because the more I listen to them, the more, yeah, I realized that they're much heavier thre yeah than really we are now. You know, back in the day, we were writing more rock oriented stuff and now I kind of consider our stuff sort of indie pop, yeah, and so it's veering away from that. So it'll be interesting to see how that goes. But you know, uh, you know, we used to occasionally play Bike Week and I was we've never been a biker band, right, and have there thinking they're gonna throw us out of here, and actually there are a lot of people that dug our stuff.

So I've learned you can't you can't make that judgment going into it. But probably the other one that was a weird fit was Jason Derulo. Oh no, yeah, it was a long time ago. Yeah, but yeah, we were asked to come play with with him and it was just as he was, like, you know, at his prime, and it was weird, but it sort of was fine. It sort of went okay, Like I can see it working though, ken you Yeah, because I'm trying to think now oh, I'm drawn a blank. What was his really big big hit. I don't even remember, because I don't know.

He had more than one single that did well, but there was one that was huge, and I can't remember. I can't remember what it was now either that he had a short shelf life. I think he was. He had come and gone pretty quick, he did. But but yeah, but I can see that working, you know, because again your sound is so accessible that you know, obviously a lot of different you know, different kinds of people are gonna like it. Is that something you do consciously, like in terms of writing and recording the music?

Is it? Do you consciously try to make songs that you know, with with good hooks and and big, you know, sort of sing along choruses. I think that, you know, every songwriter probably gravitates to something. There's something that you know, as you're noodling around on your guitar or humming melodies or whatever it maybe there's something that catches you about it. Yeah, and I find for me, it's uh, you know, I think I grew up listening to pop radio and uh uh, you know, from all eras. I enjoyed all of it, and so I think those those melodies stick with me, and those are the things, you know, I find I won't write a song unless I feel like there's a catchy melody that's going to value in somewhere in the song, and so right, that's usually the basis of it.

Then you try to build around it. So I guess in that sense it is intentional. Yeah, yeah, well we are. We are approaching the end of the show. I do want to get one more one more song and uh at the end. But guys, this has been wonderful. Thank you both so much. Thank you for having us much. Absolutely appreciate absolutely. And what do you want to make sure our our listeners know about where to find you online? Social media anything? Website? We are we are everywhere. Uh. We get that question sometimes you know, where can I find your music?

And I think my answers, where can't you? I mean it should be we're literally on every streaming platform. We're on YouTube with the videos, We've got our website best not broken dog yet that's kind of headquarters. I'm trying to think of what else, all the basic stuff. I mean, you know, we're probably most actives on Instagram and Facebook and that kind of stuff, and and we keep updates on hit us up on Sagram. You know, we'd love to, you know, have somebody you know make a comment. We uh, we like responding and interacting with our fans, you know, it's it's great fun for us, you know.

And if you've seen us at a show, you want to see us at a show, you know, give us a little a little shout out and we'll let you know what's going on. Absolutely, And do you do you have any shows coming up this weekend that you want to plug. We're in in Vermont this weekend, right, yeah, yeah, we're playing up in Burlington, Vermont place called Red Square. It's an outdoor show. Uh, get there early because it fills up fast, and especially if the weather is nice. I should says raining doomsday. Yeah, but it hasn't rained much this summer, so we should be okay.

That's why Carlo was wearing his red shorts. He has these on all weeks, same pair. Yeah, he can't take him off until the show. That's our deal. Oh yeah, alrighty well, that's that's that's your business.

Oh Matt, you have to close of that right sure, absolutely, guys, Thank you again so much, Mike. From my Queen City Cabinetry says awesome guests day, Matt, thank you, yeah, guys, thank you so much. And we will end with this track. This is called low Lights. This is yeah, this is kind of a little a little darker. Yeah, it's a different it's a different tune. This is a mark tune. This is one of the one of the new singles that's coming out on our new EP. Very good. Oh when is that out? By the way, the EP, well, it was supposed to be soon and it's been pushed back a little bit.

I would expect it shortly after Labor Day, so check out our social media. It won't be long. Excellent, excellent, all right, So we're gonna end with this. This is thanks again, guys, and this is low Lights from the band Best Not Broken. Check this out. Won't you drink a little more? It's such a little child. What a lot of people saying that you're off the teeth. I won't hurt you, but I'm saying, let you do it fine now, who knows the truth? In the night time, if it gets night, let it get a little crazy inside in the nighttime, in the light, in the meantime, in this down show, I am the I thinking about chick in the light doesn't feel right, Put another one.

Let's gets fun and then it empties out you all another Now a lot of people don't in the same with that show. Then I'll let you if I see my little shop here, not what you tell you. Let's get gone in the nighttime. If it Bill's night. Let it get a little crazy inside in the nighttime, in the lower light, in the meantime, in the s down shop. I am then lot of thinking about you in the lower light doesn't feel right in the night time. If it feels right, let it get a little crazy inside in the nighttime, in the lower light,

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