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Hello, everybody, welcome, Here we go. 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 oh no, no no, I swore I wasn't gonna do it, and I did it. No, I said that wrong, as we learned yesterday. Now on Comcast channel six. If you're in Manchester, we have moved. We are now on channel six, moving on up like the Jeffersons. Very exciting.

So that's another way you can you can get the show if you are local in Manchester, of course, on either Comcast Channel six I've got to get used to saying that, or on wm H ninety five point three FM. Also, 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. It is all there for you. And today is Wednesday, August nine, two thousand twenty three.

I wonder how many times I'm going to get that wrong. It's like at the It's like at the beginning of the year, you know, when you get the you keep thinking it's you know, you write out a check or you write something down and you think it's still the previous year when it's a new year. Anyway, Hopefully that's the last time. Hopefully when I do this again at the top of the hour, I get it right, I say, Channel six. Very exciting. Actually, I think it's I think it's going to really boost what we're doing, because yet you're more likely to get people that way who just kind of stumble upon, stumble upon the show by accident, whether it be this show or of course the Morning Show with Peter White weekdays seven to nine am, which not only of course has streams online and Arizon ninety five point three on the FM band, but of course now you can watch that on Channel six as well.

So very exciting. Let's see. But yes, today is it is August nine, twenty twenty three, and we've got an exciting show for you. It is Wednesday, which means in just a few minutes I will be joined by via Skype or phone, whichever medium is more convenient for him. Of course, my favorite conservative as I like to call him, Eric Pilcher, he'll be joining us for our weekly Wednesday segment, or almost weekly. He wasn't able to be here with us last week, but he will be here this week. And then at the top of the hour, we have Choli.

I'm not sure if it's pronounced Cholie or Choli it's c O L L Y. We will ask her though when she joins us skyping in from across the pond all the way in the UK. The track that I opened with on the show today is called Circles and that is from Charlie. I'm gonna go into a soom for now that it's Charlie. That's from her album Anomaly, which came out recently. So really looking forward to speaking with her. So that will be coming up today at five pm in the Eastern time zone, of course. And I really like her music.

It's very cool. I like I've always been fascinated by electronic music, and she has somewhat of a unique approach to it too. So we will speak with her coming up today at five pm at the top of the hour. So in the meantime, if you would like to get in with a call, the studio line is open six zero three two five zero six zero seven six zho three two five zero six zero seven. You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at matt Connerton dot com and of course you can interact endo Pine in the Facebook live chat.

But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call at six zo three two five zero six zero seven six zo three two five zero six zero seven, and we will take a moment to say hello everybody in the Facebook live chat. I see Melanie, a liberty from the Great State of Vermont joins us in there and says, hey, guys, Ze joins us and says, keep my sister in your thoughts. There are lots of forest fires in Maui. She is safe for now. Thanks. Yeah, what's going on in Hawaii?

I've never seen it's being described as apocalyptic there. It's it's really bad, and it's you know, they have these terrible forest fires going on. There's people jumping into the ocean just to get away from the fire and the smoke. It's it's it's horrible. I think I think the last I had heard, twelve people had died at last count. It's it's strange too, because it's we keep hearing about this hurricane and you would think, you know, when you first hear that, oh a hurricane, that's a good thing that'll dump a lot of rain and put out the fires.

But actually what's happening is the winds from the hurricane are fanning the flames of the of the forest fires. It's it's really really bad, really bad.

Uh. Jenny, of course is in the chat and says shalom peeps. Also, j Fed from the Great State of Vermont joins us, and Crystal from the Great State of Illinois joins us and says hello everyone. Also a new name in the Facebook live chat, las en las N. I'm not sure how to pronounce at la h c e n and it's twice so welcome las en Lassen. I'm gonna go with that, just like I don't know yet if I'm pronouncing Charlie correctly. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that correctly either. Maybe it's a la seine I don't know.

Maybe the h is completely silent, maybe it's lackin, I don't know, but regardless, welcome to the show. I am so happy to have you here with us on this beautiful It is really nice. The weather is really nice here, beautiful Wednesday afternoon here in downtown Manchester. I hope it's nice where you are. Oh and hello to DJ Steve who joins us in the Facebook live chat. He says cool opening tune. Yes, that is called Circles from Charlie from the UK. She's gonna be skyping in at five pm. DJ Steve, of course one of our co hosts on retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C every Friday night from eight to eleven pm.

I love hanging out with of course Police and DJ Steve and Mike from Queen City Cabinetry also on the program. So we look forward to that. And let's see, I'm going to ask, well, I think that when Eric does join us, when Eric Pilcher does join us, we should probably talk about the death of William Friedkin saying his name correctly, the director of the Exorcist. And Eric's going to be doing a big, big event for his film review, a special that's going to be streaming online when he does this film review for this October when Halloween comes around for The Exorcist, which is going to be rereleased in theaters.

I think though, Oh, and we'll ask him about the Stephen Crowder stuff too. Boy, that guy just keeps on the gift, that keeps on giving some thing. Uh, ohe j Fed says, I wouldn't miss a weekly review. I'm just saying, yes, yes, it's something we should. We can just do a couple of quick things before Eric Pilcher joins us. But some news I kind of yesterday on the show, I kind of avoided the Trump news. I have TFS Trump fatigue syndrome because oh actually saved by the Skype Eric Welcome, Hello, Matt.

How are you doing well? Sir? Doing well? I was just about to uh get into some news about Skype, I mean some news about Trump rather, but I've been kind of avoiding talking about all the Trump legal stuff because I have TFS Trump fatigue syndrome and so, but I was about to talk about this special Council obtained search warrant for Donald Trump's twitter out, and then I heard Plating talking about whoa, it's like time traveling. And then I heard the Skype chime, and I said, up, saved by Skype. Eric is here so we can talk about other things.

Actually just getting caught up in the chat here. Yes, I am seeing some pretty uh derogatory things being insinuated towards me here are there? I have missed that? What do you mean what's what's going on? It wouldn't miss a weekly review. I'm just saying, oh, that's right. That's why j Fed said that, yes, yes, and that's why you have a shirt. And Melanie La Liberty said that those two might be in cahoots. Uh huh. I think they are in cahoots. I will say this though, if we're grading on a curve, Eric, you're ahead of the game.

And I'll tell you why, because we also do a weekly segment with another Eric, Eric Gagne, of course, who's our entertainment reporter, and he misses like a months at a time of doing his entertainment report. So you actually next to him, you look pretty good. I mean, I am sorry that I worked fifty five hours last week. I uh huh nah, Yes you did, Yes, you did? It was it was. Yeah, it was not a fun week and if I wouldn't have done a review, it would not have been good. No, that's understandable. By the way, what is the review or will you be able to do a review this week?

I should ask you that first. I'm right, I actually started the script today. We're just moving Donnie Brasco to this week, and then next week we will be doing John Carpenter's They Live. Ah, yes, ah, that's you know. I personally, I don't think the movie itself is that great They Live. This is just my opinion. But I love Roddy Piper's performance in it, you know, I think it's John Carpenter, and I love John Carpenter.

And I'm very excited about the collectible I got that I shared with everyone in our group chat on Messenger. I John Carpenter as a director was just so ahead of his time. I mean, if you look at the films he did, Escape from New York ahead of its time, They Live, way ahead of its time. Yes, but I mean he did a made for cable TV horror anthology called Body Bags, which I don't know about that. Yeah, I mean really that the success of that film is what started That is what started the development of the Showtime series Masters of Horror.

Oh Okay, I did not know that. I had no idea. Yeah, I mean, just again, ahead of his time. So many movies he did, like Starman, and he really is one of the true independent pioneers. I mean, even when he did a big studio movie, he did it his way. Yeah. Oh, by the way, I'm Elanie and the chiman says, I worked fifty five hours just today. Cry baby. Ah, well, you're a better man than I am. Now she's got you beat. She's got you beat. Now, did you did you want to say anything about William Friedkin? Am I saying his last name correctly?

Is it Friedkin? I was actually just on Kyle Clayton's QC Chronicles before I called in here, yes, and spoke about him. And you know William Friedkin. And I'm not gonna go too much into the woods with him because our big review of October is The Exorcist, and that's the film he's most well known for. Yes, but what he what I said on that program, and I have no problem saying it again. What made him truly great is his ability to make no matter what the subject matter was, he made the film suspenseful.

He brought you in. I mean, he could do an episode of Sesame Street and you would think it's Law and Order Special Victims Unit. M. I mean it's just his just ability that in to get you emotionally vested in each in every main character of his films. What other so Exorcist, As you said, that's the film he's most well known for what would be Action French Connection? Would that be number two? The second I was well known? Okay, Action is the film that received the most accolades. It's the film that won and Best Director and Best Picture, although I veheminently disagree with it winning Best Picture the year at won.

I give him Best Director begrudgingly, but I think seventy one the best picture was A clockwork Orange. Okay, because I feel a film and I'm sorry, I'm getting way off track here, film in order to win both Best Director and Best Picture just has to be mind blowingly good. You. It has to be a timeless film, and I think the Academy sometimes just gets lazy, old white men getting lazy. Who knew they just they think, oh, well, this film got so many accolades yea, and so many people loved it. It deserves Best Picture and Best Director.

Not necessarily, I mean you can have. I'll use a sports analogy. The best team doesn't always win a championship. Oh, I don't know anything about sports, and even I understand that analogy. You it's who's playing right at the right time more than anything. So like I look at it that year and I think a clockwork orange deserved Best Picture more than the French Connection. I think William Friedkin.

It's close, but I think he did a better directorial job than Kubrick did with a clockwork Orange. So what would be Okay, so what would be number three on the list as far as William Friedkin? What's what's the film he's third most known for? Would you say? Probably his bombed remake of the Wages of Fear. Okay, so now we're yeah, so now we're getting into territory. But the film he made about murders in gay bars in Greenwich Village called Cruising with al Pacino. Oh that that film I've heard of? Okay, yeah, it almost ruined al Pacino.

Wait, wait a minute, Okay, So Cruising is the one Friedkin did, and it's a remake of Wages of Fear. No, wait, the remake. Sorry, I threw two movies together there. The remake of Wages of Fear is called Guardian, Okay, and it bombed. And then he did Cruising, which now is just such a heralded movie in regards to LGBD QI rights in everything of that nature. But then it just horribly bombed and it almost it ruined Freakin's career for some time and almost killed Peccinos. So was that so that film, it sounds like two was ahead of its time then, from what you're saying, very very because when it was made, homosexuality was I don't want to say it was taboo in Hollywood.

It was broached upon. But to bring it to the gritty realism that Friedkin did with Cruising, unheard of? What year for that movie? Let me check that. I would think it would be very high on the Google search right now. I should see it because Paccino absolutely in my top five as far as favorite actress. But I've never seen that movie and I feel like eighty that was nineteen eighty. Wow. That the cast I've never seen Cruising. The cast is amazing. Uh. You have Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, James Reemar, Jo Spinelli.

Wow, yeah you have, and of course Pacino. That's an amazing cast. Yeah. But a bombed huh oh? I mean yeah. The Advocate actually posted an article which I will drag up into my bookmark so I can read it later, about director William Friedkin's controversial gay film Legacy. Hmm. See, it's funny when it surprised me when you said nineteen eighty, because thinking about it in terms of it being controversial when it was released, I thought you were going to say back more in the seventies, early to mid seventies, So nineteen eighty that, I don't know.

I guess I'm a little bit surprised that that would have been an issue by that point. But well, at that point, I mean, it's Hollywood always. Hollywood has a way of being, and we don't realize it a being behind mainstream society like we'd like to think Hollywood sets these trends, and they don't. They make they make him I think they make them accepted, but the trends are already there. We kind of broached that when I did the Blacksploitation films back in February. Well, it makes sense what you're saying, and I've never really thought about it that way before, But I understand what you're saying because Hollywood obviously creates content for the masses, and so that content does have to reflect in order for it to be successful, does have to reflect what's going on in society, and therefore what the audience will be will want to see films that the audience will want to see.

So that does make sense, right, and it's happening now to a degree. I don't there are instances where I agree with this saying. In instances where I don't the go woke, go broke statement. I there are sometimes I agree, like with bud Light. Yeah, bud Light. They totally missed the mark with that one. They totally didn't pay attention to their prime audience. So in Heiser Busch, you guys are idiots. I think I have a little I have a little bit of a different thought. Just just just quickly, Eric, I don't want to I don't want to derail you, but just for the record, I just want to say I don't I don't quite agree.

I think I think they got caught up in uh. I think that whole thing was was actually pretty low key, but then they got they got caught in the I think they got caught in the culture war trap in a way that they couldn't they couldn't have foreseen. I think luck. I think bad luck played a lot to do with that. That. The great thing about these conversations is there's no wrong answer. Yeah, yeah, they're just I mean, you don't know and we'll never know. I could be right, you could be right, or we both could be horribly wrong.

Yeah, yeah, I I just wanted to say that I think I think they got caught up in h I think it was bad luck. I think I think the way the culture war is waged, I and I understand you and I come at this from different perspectives. I just think that there's a certain randomness to it. You just never know, like for example, a lot of conservatives are freaking out about the Barbie movie. You just never know what's going to get caught up in the culture war. And I think Anne Heiser Busch just probably they didn't think.

They didn't think it was a big deal to give what a Dylan mulvany is that is that their name. Uh didn't think it was a big deal to give them their own uh Canna bud light, you know, just and they'll make it, you know, they're an influencer and whatnot. Didn't think it was gonna be a big deal, and then it just exploded in their face. I think that I think there's a certain randomness to how that happens. That's just my theory. And again, you know, that's a great way to look at it. I've never looked at it that way, so yeah, it makes sense to me.

But my point on Hollywood is, if if it we really were as all the far right talking heads want to say, going, go woke, go broke, if that were really the case, the Barbie movie wouldn't be just completely slaying at the box office right now. Yeah, there's no way. Well, well, did you see Ben Shapiro. He uh, he was predicting that the Barbie Movie was going to be a terrible flop, and then it wasn't. And then he was predicting that, Okay, so it opened really hot, but then it was gonna just you know, fall off a cliff and it didn't, and and and to his credit, he admits he was wrong.

But but then you get into the whole question of, well, is it is it? I haven't seen the movie, but what exactly is it? Is it woke or are people just putting that on it? And then of course you get into the questions of what does woke even mean? And you know what I mean? I said this, I've been called I've been called a homophobe for saying this, and I don't understand why. I've asked, can you explain to me why I'm a homophobe. I have no desire to see it. I didn't play with Barbies when I was a kid growing up.

Well, I don't have any desire to see it either. But you've been called the homophobe for not wanting to see the Barbie movie book by a couple of people. Really if people have called you homophoone for not wanting to see the Barbie movie apparently because yeah, I'm like, I don't understand it. Like, look, I'm not bashing the movie right now, seeing it's a horrible film. I'm just saying I look at it and I have no earthly desire to see it. Yeah, I'm the same. No one's uh, well, listen, you know I'm in support of you, Eric, I will I will join you in this.

I will also publicly say I have no desire to see the Barbie movie like I want to see I want to see Oppenheimer more than I want to see Barbie. But my issue with that is too is there is that Christopher Nolan specifically made it in a style that is best viewed in an IMAX theater. I'm not gonna drive two hours to my nearest Imax theater to see a movie. By the way, Crystal in the chat room says, I have no idea. I have no desire to see the Barbie movie either. Ah you hoohobeo. No, I'm puzzling, So I have to ask Eric, when someone says that to you, do they explain why not wanting to see the Barbie movie makes you a homophobe.

I'm genuinely puzzled by this. Here's how it is with I don't know, just in my experience with liberals here in Iowa, Yes, and I don't. I've said that my belief and I've said this on your show many of times. And if this offends anyone, I am sorry, and you can message me and we can have a private discussion about it. I believe there's a difference between democrats and liberals. I can't I believe I can have a productive, meaningful, non argumentative discussion with a far left leaning demo Cray. But I believe when you talk to a liberal, you are you're automatically at a disadvantage because you can try to keep it civil, you can try to keep it on point, you can try to state your case, but you are automatically a racist.

Bigoted, homophobic moron. If you don't see it their way, well that, yeah, well that happens. I was just gonna say, Eric, that that happens across the spectrum, though I think, see, I don't think it has anything to do with whether someone's a liberal or not. I think, unfortunately, I think that actually happens across the political spectrum. I think that just so many people, and unfortunately, I think more people are wired this way then are not. I think I think most people, because our politics has become so polarized, most people are just kind of that's how they think.

They think that you either you see it their way or you're bad. Like a liberal will look at a conservative and say, well, you don't see this issue. You know, you've got a problem with drag shows or whatever. So you're you're you're the worst person ever just but but by the same token, of course. You know, I sit here and and talk about just as a random example, I talk about my support for Medicare for all. I'm sure that there's some Republican listening who hears me say that, who thinks I'm a I'm a communist and a Stalinist or something.

You know what, I mean it's it's it's all over the I don't think In other words, I don't think it has I don't think it's about liberals. I think it's everybody, with the people at least done the left. Yeah, I find it's more prevalent with those that are proud to say they're a liberal. But it's almost as if the moment they say I'm proud to be a liberal, they might as well say I'm never wrong. And if you dare tell me I'm wrong, you're a pooh pooh head, and I will call it to you till I'm blue in the face.

But you're gonna run into that. But you see, you're gonna obviously because you as a conservative, you're gonna run into that. With liberals. Oh yeah, I love it. I love it when I'm a conservative, a Christian conservative, yea. And they're like, oh, you believe in the Bible. Oh, you don't wear clothing with mixed cloth, do you? And it's like, oh man, it's like, one tell me you've never read the Bible without saying you've never read the Bible, because that's levitical law. Levitical law was outlawed with the New Covenant.

When Christ droves from the grave. Come on, like, if you're gonna insult my religion, at least have a basic knowledge and understanding. Like that's all I right, right, salt Christianity all you want. Yes, she does have a basic understanding. Whenever I hear that argument, I go back to Southerners that are like, look at the look at the Moslem over there, I like eating pork. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, really I know or or or their their draw the prophet Mohammed just like, come aw, no, I get it, Crystal, Crystal, and the chat says, uh, she agrees with you on democrats versus liberals.

And then she said, I also think there's a difference between most conservative versus the far right Republicans there is. Oh yeah, and that line in Crystal as a conservative, I can tell you you're going to see that line become much thicker and more embedded in the ground with this cycle coming up. Oh absolutely, absolute right. The far right Republicans are gonna be Trump or die. Oh yeah, the Conservatives. It's already started, Matt, I sent you the website on Facebook. Oh yes, yes. The first super pat commercials have started to air here in Iowa, and the first ones are anti Trump.

Yes, and you you also mentioned too that someone left a Mike Pence doorhanger on your doorknob. Save that for this very purpose, although I think it fell behind my couch, which is unfortunate. But yeah, it conveyed his personality very well. Yes, yes, I was not drawn in at all. It was not a William Friedkin film. You know what's funny though about Pence now is the way the media reacts like he'll he'll, he's starting to he's very very incrementally wading into the water where he very gently increases his harshness in terms of how he criticizes Trump.

And every time, every time he makes another step into that ocean, the media goes, oh, look at Mike Pence. He's he's starting to really get fired up. General George Patton of the GLP. No, it's like exactly, I was actually gonna say. It's like they're making him out to be like old iron scrotum here. He's just going all in. He's General Ripper from Doctor Strange Love. Yes, Yes, it's like no, this man is is This man is as bland as vanilla yogurt. Yeah, he's just an an empty husk of of a human like I get more character in Pizzazz out of a container of playing Yo play than I do aut of watching Mike Pence talk.

Yeah, I like, look, I I want my politicians to They don't have to be over the top and everything like that, but I do want them to have some semblance of a character. I don't want to look at them and think I'm watching a drone from May Live, right, And that's what I get with Mike Pence. I actually said at Barnes and Noble and read the first twenty pages of his book. Oh man, oh really, why? Why what's it like? I haven't read his book obviously it is excruciatingly painful. Why is it just really dull?

Reading the description of paint drying? Yeah, it's like,

how is this a New York Times bestseller? Yeah? Well, well that's uh, that's unfortunate. Well, you know, I mean this whole campaign is designed to sell books, so that might have something to do with it that he knows he's not going to be the Nominee's fair. To be fair, I don't read books by the talking heads. I don't read books by Ronda Santists because Ronda Santists gives me the hed GDS. I like Disney plus too much to really side with. Ron Da santists. Oh, that reminds me, though, your your candidate of choice, whom you've endorsed, is apparently not really uh campaigning in Iowa?

Is he Governor Chris Christie? Is he he has taken the approach of waiting sea in Iowa. Yeah, it almost as if he's conceded Iowa, which is a dumb move this early in the game, because I have seen so many, so many candidates pull it out of their backside and win Iowa. Roback Obama in two thousand and two thousand and eight, he pulled it out of his backside to win John carry in two thousand and four, when it looked like, oh, his name escapes me now, the yelling guy, Oh, I know who you're talking about, Howard Dean.

Howard Dean, thank you. Yeah, it looked like Howard Dean was on his way to winning and becoming the nominee. And then kind of the the bottom started to fall out a couple of days before the caucus, and then John Kerry, out of nowhere, just ended up winning, and then of course he went on to win New Hampshire and everywhere else pretty much. But yeah, so, I mean Iowa is notorious for that. And it is because and if there are any fellow Iowans watching, don't at me, don't message me with this, because I will meet you and I will tell you to your face.

We are some of the most wishy washy voters in the nation. How we got first in the nation is beyond me, because I have seen caucus chairs change their mind of who they're supporting in the middle of a caucus. Yeah, it is like, you are a caucus chair, you should at least be iron clad in where you stand right now. Well, if it's the chair, you can sit.

That was not a good joke, man, Oh, I'm sorry, No, I was. Well, you know, I don't. We have a primary here, so I don't. I don't know much about how this works. I don't even know how a caucus works because everyone I've taken a part of has been so unorganized. Yeah, I have seen, I've seen there are probably I can't say because that might be for Matt Connerton unsheathed, but I'm sure there are adult entertainment shows in Tijuana that are better organized than the Iowa caucuses. That's that's very specific.

Yeah, you've told me about your participation and a couple of caucuses in the past, and what a nightmare it was. Yeah, like in the middle of a in the middle of account, someone leaves to go to the bathroom and it's like, oh, I actually heard someone say this, Go follow them and find out who they want. Wait, no, that is not how this works. Is there ever any I may have asked you this before, but is there ever any talk there about switching to a primary, because I know, I know a couple of states over the you know, decades of have switched.

There are not as many caucuses as there used to be. We we have, and for whatever reason, like it just doesn't go very far. And I think it's because we are so stuck in our ways. Yeah, I mean we really are. It's oh, well, this is what the people know, so this is what's going to work. Well, obviously the people don't know because it's disorganized. Yeah, well maybe where you were at. No, if you go on to any form of social media, you can look on the night of the Iowa caucuses and see many many areas talking about how disorganized it was.

Yeah, no doubt. I mean It's just it's like, really, how can we be this stupid, in this naive to think we have it all right because we don't. Hey, it's already well before we run out of time. I want to ask you about this. This is a bit of a turn. But have you been so have you been following the newest Stephen Crowder? News Media has this story I sent you. I'm sorry, I did not sign that NDA. You said, yes, Media it has the story for Stephen Crowder's staffer's exit show after interrogations and insane NDAs, which is of course a non disclosure agreement.

He's the gift that just keeps on giving. There's always something with Stephen Crowder ahead. He is like a herpie of media. You think it's gone away, and then there's a flare up. Well apparently two there there might be some pam because so he's abandoned YouTube for a Rumble. I guess he signed that exclusive deal with Rumble and now his numbers are tanking on Rumble. Have you seen this? I if we recall and I you've known me long enough, Matt. I'm never a guy that likes to say I told you so. Yeah, I'm never a guy that likes to say, oh, I was right, look at me.

Unless it's about sports, then I will put anything else. Now, I did say he would not do well on Rumble. Yeah, And I the thing with him is is I love I love this analogy I use because it just fits. It's Howard Stern syndrome with Stephen Crowder. The average Crowder hater probably listens longer than the average Crowder listener because they want to hear what he's going to say next that can make them mad. Yeah, if on Rumble, you're not going to get the viewers We're going to get on YouTube or on the Blaze or on anywhere else.

I mean he used I think he used to contribute to Fox News a little bit. Even Fox News was like, uh no, you no, we can't, we can't do this. They had Pucker Carlson and they told you you're too much right. Yeah, I will give him. Look, I mean I will respect. I will give him this much respect. And this is about as much respect as Oliver give him. But I mean it was a gutsy move because it was a gamble right to go with Rumble. And he could have been he could have been the marquee name I guess he is the marquee name at Rumble, right, But Rumble could have really, you know, this could have worked, and Rumble could have really blown up and and and him with it and been very, very successful.

So it was a big, big gamble, and it looks like it's not paying off. And I've said too from the beginning, if you push all your chips into the center of the table and you only have one hand, yeah, I mean you really where he screwed up, In my opinion, it is when he took on the Daily Wire. Oh yeah, when he did it like you, you ripped your nose off to spite your face. No one will ever trust him again after doing that. Well that and I guarantee you more of your audience listens to Ben Shapiro, and it feels more of a connection with Ben Shapiro than they do.

You. Right, if you're going to be a conservative talking head, you don't tug on Superman's cake, you don't spit in the wind, and you don't bought heads with Ben Shapiro. Yeah that is I think you're right. Yeah, And you know, and I said from the beginning too, I mean I would never root for Crowder, but I have been rooting for Rumble, which might surprise some people because I'm not a conservative, and Rumble seems to be where all the conservatives are going who don't want to put up with YouTube anymore.

But I do like having an alternative. You know, I've had my own issues with YouTube where I thought, you know, I was getting dinged for content and I thought it was not fair, So you know, I like having alternatives. No, and I think that that's an unfair characterization of Rumble, but I totally I do agree with you. It's what's happened because it's mainly conservatives that went after YouTube ban them, either

either rightfully or wrongfully for COVID nineteen theories. Right now, my issue is is that you have some knuckle dragging mouth breathers, especially from the rampid area of New Jerk Pokeepsie, that get a stay on YouTube and spout their idiotic, moronic and stupid theories on life, and nothing ever seems to happen to them. But right there, yeah, well, you know sometimes people like that they have such small followings, they kind of fly under the radar, I think is what happens there. I mean, you know, you can you can be a star too, I guess, and you know, win the ratings, by the way, roof, by the way.

And this is I have not heard a single other person in any of me, online or otherwise say this. So I want to. I want to start this rumor about Stephen Crowder. And I can do this without fear of any reprisal or repercussions because he's obviously famous and he doesn't know I exist. So I'll this one pins from the issues with his wife and now this he has far greater concerns at this point. He's got it. He's got his hands full. Yes, The rumor that I would like to spread about him is that he lies about his age.

And here's why I think this could catch on because I'm looking at this picture of him Eric, and I don't know if if you ever really looked at the guy. This is a thirty six year old man. And the picture I'm looking at is not a thirty six year old man. That's not a thirty six year old man in that picture. He's at least ten years older than he claims. Now, do I really think that that's the case. No, I have no evidence for that. Some people just age poorly, but he doesn't look like a thirty six year old man.

To me, Well, you join me in this spreading this rumor that who lies about his age because he's aged horribly. He looks really bad. I'm four years older than he allegedly is. Yeah, you look younger than he does. I feel, even with type two diabetes and diverticulosis, that I look better than Stephen Crowder. Yeah. Well I'm older than you, and I look better than Stephen Crowder. I mean, I mean great, I have great skin, but he's got I mean I'm looking at him and I'm not even say of this to be just to be funny.

I mean kind of to be funny, but I'm also serious when I say this. He looks like he's aged, like in the last two years, like he's aged a decade. It's almost it's actually a little bit unsettling. Now granted, I mean it does happen. Look at Keith Richards. You know, Keith Richards, when he was in his twenties, he looked like he was forty, and then by the time he was forty, looked like he was sixteen. You know what happens. There's a guy who used to be on MSNBC, Dylan Ratigan always looked ten years older than his actual age.

Apparently when he was in high school he was able to buy alcohol for him and all his friends. So it happens. I mean some you know, everybody ages a little bit differently, and there's a difference between chronological age and biological age. But the weird thing with Crowder is I thought he, you know, he's like a health and fitness guy, like he's got all the big muscles and everything, but his face it's all saggygy. He looks like he's uh, I don't know. I don't know what's going on there. Here's what's interesting about his quote unquote health and fitness is there.

I happen to remember that there were allegations that he was heavy into steroid us. Oh I believe that. Look at him. And shortly shortly after that, he had that major shoulder injury that caused him to wear that harness on air. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes I think happened. Is he quit doing ROYD called Turkey and he got injured himself. Oh that could be that might explain some of his behavior too. Oh yeah, oh yeah, like he Yeah, if I would be more shocked if he if it came out that he never touched steroids, than I would be if it if he was the biggest juicer on God's Green Earth.

Yeah. Yeah, he is a big muscle guy. I mean, his muscles aren't fist bad, but he's up there with the liver king Like. You just look at him and you're like, that is not natural. There is a supplement I know that you can take that will help you to lose weight. And Steve Crowder, of course somebody who doesn't like to have any fat on him, that apparently also causes what they call the slang term for it is old face. It it helps you lose weight and get very lean, but it also ages your face. And it occurs to me, And this I hadn't thought of before, But as I look at this picture of Stephen Crowder from the media article, I think that's what happened to him.

He's got he's got, he's got a very old face on a very muscular body. I mean yeah, And I can't get this out of my head now. It also occurs to me. Anyone who's just tuning into the show for the first time is probably like, what is this? But welcome this is Matt Connerston unleashed. If you're just joining us, but this is mind blowing. Like I'm looking at a picture of him from the early Louder with Crowder days. Yeah, he had like a hardcore baby face. Yeah, and look at him now, that's a thirty six year old man, and he looks like he looks so much older.

It's weird. It's weird. Well, he is Canadian. Maybe those Canadian winters, you know, they do something to you. I mean, obviously he doesn't anymore. Well that's true, but he might go home to visit and like he might spend the holidays with family up in Canada and being exposed to those Canadian winters for that brief time, it destroyed his face. I don't know what happened there. All right, we gotta Eric, We have to begin to wrap up. It go so quickly. Always enjoy our Wednesdays with you, my favorite conservative, as I like to say.

But before we go, and we do have to stick to the schedule because we have a great musical guest who's gonna be skyping in at five pm. But do you want to give a plug for this Friday's film review? Yeah? I sure, can this week is uh mafia film unlike any other. It's the nineteen ninety seven movie Donnie Brasco, based on a true story. I've actually read the book Donnie Brasco, and it is probably one of the truest depictions of mafia life ever put on the screen. And with one of my favorite actors, as we discussed earlier, Alpaccino.

Oh, Johnny Depp, the late Ann Hasch, Michael Madsen is in it. Just an amazing cast. Yeah, absolutely is in this film and just such a heartbreaking story and really the lines of morality get blurred. And that's based on a true story, right, Yes, it is based off an FBI agent, Joe pis Stone, that went undercover into the Banano crime family and was on the It was almost set to get made up. Yep. Yeah, true, they were gonna make him. And the only thing that stopped him is what you have to do to get made yep, yep.

You have to make your bones. You have to murder someone, yea, Otherwise the FBI would have went with it. Yep. Yeah, it's a hell of a story. Well, we look forward to that. Eric, always love your film reviews. It is a very popular segment here on the program. And uh and yeah, I enjoyed doing them. And we'll here probably next week. We'll have a big announcement about September that you're already aware of, Matty. Yes, yes, excellent, excellent, very good, All right, Eric, Eric Pilcher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Always always enjoy it, my friend, Thank you so much, thanks as always, thanks for having me, Matt It was a pleasure. You got it, all right, take care, bye bye bye. All right, there we go. Always nice to talk with Eric on Wednesday, and we're gonna take a quick breakshow some love to our amazing response. Then when we come back, we're gonna play a song poly morphic by Choli who or Chollie. Have to ask her how to pronounce it at h O l l y. I think it's Sholly because it's like Holly but with a sea at the beginning.

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Today is Wednesday, August nine, two thousand twenty three. And Charlie, are you there? Yep? Kenny, hey, yes, yes, I can hear you. Great. Am I pronouncing your name correctly as it Charlie? Yeah? Yeah, that's correct. Yeah, okay, good good. I wasn't sure if it was showy because I read online that your name's Chloe, and I didn't know if it was supposed to rhyme with Chloe. And all right, I'm glad I'm saying it correctly. But then I thought, well, it looks like Holly but with a C, so maybe it's Sholly.

So my first instinct was corrected. Yes, so very good. Yeah, yeah, definitely very good. Well, welcome and uh and I'm so glad that we were able to get connected so easily, because sometimes when people are skyping in from other continents. You know, there's technical snaff who's and whatnot, but this was pretty seamless, so it's wonderful to talk with you. Yeah, I love that track, and I opened the show today with Circles and got a lot of positive feedback in our Facebook live chat, people really liking it.

And your music is yeah, yeah, And you know, I've always really loved electronic music. And I was reading a little bit online too about how you approach what you do, and it sounds like you've got you've got a unique process. But tell us about tell us about your music what and kind of give us an idea about how you approach it. So I think each song I approach differently, So it's not like a set in stone way that I approach everything. But I tend to design my sounds from recordings I get that are just in everyday life that I enjoy.

So, for example,

what can I say, so polymorphic the one that just played that's made almost completely out of some us and ours that I just played around with all of the synth sounds and everything. Really yeah, and it was half made live on stream and then half made off stream. When i'd sort of designed the sounds that I wanted to make. Yeah, so is there is there an element of improvisation then to what you're doing when you're putting these songs together.

It depends which song. So on my album there are a few songs that were made partially on stream improvising. Wow. And then there are songs that were completely off stream, completely just in the dark, planning and all that sort of thing. But yeah, my live streams that I do, they're completely improvised, and I just take sounds and I play with them until I find a sound that I like and then make melodies and then I pull from those to make other songs. Usually that's something that works quite well for me.

Our friend maryam Banish in the Facebook live chat says, I love your sound, Charlie, oh, thank you. Yeah, and our delf I've also really really likes what you're doing. Did you when you started making music? Did you did you start that way where it's sort of became as your approach to it is obviously unique. I've never heard anyone else really explain explain it that way in terms of what they do on the live stream. And then I mean, did you always have an experimental element to what you do. Yeah, yeah, I think so.

I think it's sort of started. Well, I played instruments from a young age, but I didn't ever record anything really. Then when I started making music, I didn't really know how to make the sounds I wanted to make. So I just sort of imitated some sounds I liked, if that makes sense, and they played with them in software until they sort of sounded how I wanted. Yeah, and then now I saw I forget if it was a video or well, I think I did see a video on you two a bet. But also there's some some pictures online of when you're performing live or I don't know if it's live or in studio what I'm seeing online.

But what is what is it that you're using? You're using a machine or a device of some sort. Uh, but I'm not sure is it? Well, you tell us what is it that you're using that you're because you're not, it's not it doesn't look like you're playing a keyboard, but you're you're pushing buttons on something. Yeah, so that that would be a trigger pad. So I've been using an APC forty and I link it up to my software, which is Ableton, and I put all the samples into Ableton, and and then I trigger the things that I want to trigger, and I can automate effects and things using the same device.

Yeah, so is that what you do live? Then? Yeah? So I don't. I don't tend to play instruments live because I developed a repetitive strain injury. Oh that's really it's just been really bad for six years. Oh wow, no kidding. So I had to find a new approach. And I was singing to backing tracks for a while, which is fine, but it didn't really feel very me to sing to a backing track. I'm not really sort of, I'm not really a dancy person. I'm not really a performing plus. I like to get stuck into my computer and play with things live, so having the APC forty and a microphone at the same time works really well for me.

So when you play live using the APC forty, do the songs? Do you perform them the same as how they are on the album? Really not, That's what I suspected. Yeah, yeah, I've sort of do live remixes of them. I am trying to get some together that are like how they actually are on the album. And stuff because I should really, but it's just so fun to just improvise. Yeah, yeah, well I think that's cool because I know and there's This is my perspective on this is kind of unusual because a lot of people, at least in America, and I don't know if it's different there, but a lot of people here they talk about how when they go to see a band live or a solo artist or whomever, they like to hear the songs played or at least sound close to what they hear in the recordings.

And my attitude about it has always been if I go to see somebody live and they play a song and I, you know, it's close enough that I can recognize what song it is, but it's a different version of it, there's some element of surprise, you know, maybe they're just you know, maybe it's heavier, maybe there's maybe it's stripped down because they don't have all the instrumentation that they would have available for the recording or whatever it is. However, it's different. I actually enjoy that, and I'm always, to be honest with you, I'm always a little bit surprised that there aren't more people who enjoy that.

But I like it when I go to see somebody live and it's not exactly like it is on the recording, you know, I think it's I think it makes it more interesting. Yeah. I think I'm sort of the same as you when it comes to that sort of thing, even though when you go in and see a band and they play everything pretty much the same, but then they do sort of an extended jam right towards the end. I like that sort of thing. It's it's nice. Oh yeah, absolutely. We have a question for you in the chat room. Are Dell five is asking about influences.

Who are your musical influences. I always find this difficult because I listened to a lot of artists. I've always really liked Enya, which might sound like it doesn't match. I don't know, but I've always really liked Enya. I like Fortet. I don't know if you've heard of Vartet or no. No, there's Fortet, sort of electronic IDM sort of stuff. Bnobo, another IDM artist, and an artist called Lidmore. She's from Denmark and she's she's really cool. Yeah. I could probably go on forever about music I like, and they're probably influences.

Yeah, influences me. But yeah, yeah. Now when you what instruments do you play or did you play? You said it's difficult for you to play now, but did you play multiple instruments? Yeah? Yeah, So my main instruments were violin and piano. I still play them from time to time. The violin is the worst one for the problem I have, so that's the one I play the least, but I do still pick it up occasionally. Yeah. The piano I can still play,

but I have to be careful. Yeah. So I just have to be careful not to play it too much, which is hard when you enjoyed playing it for hours and hours. I just don't play it for hours and hours anymore. Yeah, yeah, but I do still do sort of. I'm doing some stripped back versions of songs on my album. I'm actually going to make one of Polymorphic, which you just played, and that's going to be piano and vocals. Oh cool, very cool. And what about as far as your vocals, did you have you had training or are you self taught?

I made a lot of great singers who were self taught, and it always surprises me, like, how do you how did you figure out how to sing? Like that. But did you have lessons or Oh no, I didn't have lessons. I mean I had like piano lessons and violin lessons and part of that part of the exam for that, we did have to like repeat musical phrases back in the exams by singing. Okay, that's probably the closest I got to that. But I just enjoyed it. Yeah, I enjoyed singing like Phantom of the Opera and stuff like that with my mom.

Wow, no kidding. Yeah, yeah, so there's something fun to do you come from a musical family, Oh yeah, definitely, definitely. So so it sounds like you partly learned how to sing from singing with your mom. Yeah yeah, very cool. Now that's a good way to you know, if you come from a musical family, that always helps. It gives you, gives you a good start. And can you tell me about the now I saw I think you have more than one music video. I know I saw one. Looked like it was kind of dark, kind of a dark vibe, but but it worked for the song.

How many music videos do you have? I know you have at least two, right, Oh I don't actually, I can't think off the top of my head? How many I have? Real I do definitely have at least two. Yeah, yeah, I've got I've got more than two. Yeah, I can't think the exact number. Do you work with somebody on those who helps produce those? Or do you do those on your own? It's it's amazing what you can do now with the technology we have, you know, just by yourself. So my partner Connor, he helps me make them.

So we both did film and television production. Oh no, kidding as a course, Yeah, So it's it's quite a good team really when when we both team up. Yeah, yeah, very good, very good. Now, how many how many albums do you have? You've got Anomaly, which obviously is the newest that came out in what may I think of this year? Yeah? Yeah, eight prol late April. Yeah, okay, So I don't really have any others that I considered to be albums, just EPs go. So there's three other EPs that I've got. They're all on streaming services.

My recent one, before a normally was The day Dream, okay, and before that is Friday Night. Friday Night is made of a bunch of songs that I made on Friday nights Friday Night makes sense, And for some reason, my brain has just forgotten what my first ever EP is. I'm not sure why that's happened, but that's okay, you'll come back to me. It's on streaming services. It's on there. Yeah. Yeah. Has your sound changed over time, because I would imagine with you know, because you like to experiment as far as how you make your music.

Has has it? Has it changed? If I go back and listen to listen to your first he doesn't sound different. Yeah. I think like there's a lot of things that I have kept kind of the same, but I've gotten a bit more confident. I think that the main change is confidence and also knowing how to mix my songs, because I didn't really know how to mix anything when I first started. I was just just sort of making stuff. Sure, yeah, learning as I went along. But that's something else that that kind of helps with.

He's really good at mixing. He's good at actually sitting down and learning things that he needs to learn, whereas I'm very good at being distracted and just making more things. No, that's good though. So it sounds like so that the two of you together kind of keep that part in the house. Right then you're you're you're doing all the recording and the mixing yourselves, and yeah, yeah, pretty much, which is good because it's affordable as well, right right, Well, it gives you a lot of control over everything, too, which I would imagine is pretty liberating, you know.

I mean, granted, you know, a lot of artists like to go to a studio and you know, have an engineer who very often becomes a de facto producer and so forth. But at the same time, if you can do everything yourself, that gives you a lot of freedom. You know. It's you know, you don't have to worry about pleasing anybody else or somebody trying to tell you, oh, I don't like the sound of that. You know, you can just truly be true to your true to your art, you know, and make what it is that you want to hear and you know, and then hopefully other people like it too.

And you know, I think it's really good. Like I said, you know, I've always enjoyed electronic music, and I think what you're doing, it's it's very creative and it really kind of you know, these songs pull you in. I was listening earlier, I was listening to You've got a song, I forget which one it's on Anomaly. It's it's like seven minutes long, and I was just listening to it. Oh, story, story, story, Yeah, yeah, the song at the end, and it just doesn't you know, you get to the end of it, it doesn't feel like it was seven minutes, you know, And I'm a yeah, yeah, and I'm I'm a I'm a radio guy, so I kind of it's easy for me to just kind of know how long things are.

And I was like, oh, that doesn't seem like it was seven minutes. So yeah, So I really like And by the way, your approach to lyrics, you know, the lyrics are interesting. They're very sort of that's part of what I think, you know, pulls me in when I'm listening. But do you have any specific approach to lyrics. Is there any kind of an overarching theme to your music or is it is it kind of just more whatever you're you're feeling and that's what you put into it, or yeah, it's usually whatever I'm feeling at the time, or sort of thinking of a perspect active on something like for example, polymorphic is like looking at love from the perspective of it comes in lots of different forms, and sometimes it doesn't come in the form that you wanted it to be.

So like someone might love you a lot as a friend, but you wanted something else, you know, that sort of thing, and sure, vice Flissa, Yeah, that's relatable, something everyone goes through at some point or another. Yeah, but like there's still love there right away, you know, and then there's like the unconditional love of like a mother and that sort of thing. Yeah, yeah, no, very cool. Now, are you currently working on new music or I know this album hasn't been out for very long, so I don't know if you're still focused on this or you strike me as someone who's probably always working on something new, right, that's accurate?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just I just love playing with the sounds and music so much, so I don't really tend to stop right right, So are you are you working on another album or I mean, of course, we live in an era where you have so many different options in terms of how you release music, and a lot of artists now seem to do especially a lot of the guests I've had recently, they have this approach where they just release singles and then when they have enough singles, those singles become an album. But rather than releasing an album all at once, they release singles and then they become the album or what's kind of your trajectory in terms of future music?

That approach is like how you're supposed to do it to please the algorithm. I think exactly feed the machine. I have not planned ahead. I'm just playing with sounds and making things. Yeah, and if I feel that they will fit together as a piece, then I probably would release them as a piece, as an album or an EP. Yeah, But I've at the moment the sort of completed things are stripped back versions of songs from Anomaly. I've done one of Story, which is going to be out on the seventeenth of August, putting that on streaming services.

Yeah, and that's just piano and vocals. Oh, very cool, very cool. Yeah, I look forward to hearing that. Excellent. Oh and by the way, too, I notice looking at band camp, so this is Anomaly is also available on vinyl? Is that correct? Yeah? Yeah, it is. I've never had that before. But the label where a Foxman approached me and they they said they really wanted me to make an album for them, and they would put out vinyl and that's what they've done. And it's pretty cool. Yeah, that is that's awesome.

Yeah, it's fascinating how. I don't know how it has gone there, but in the United States it's you know, vinyl never really went away here. You know, it was supposed to have gone away, of course, you know, back back in the day, CDs came out and that was supposed to kill vinyl, but vinyl never really went away. And I think I was reading in twenty twenty two, I believe was the first year that vinyl at least I don't know if this is global or if it's just in the United States, but vinyl actually outsold CDs for the first time since CDs were first introduced because people really love you know, a lot of people buy vinyl and they never even open it.

You know, if they really love an artist, they just want it to have it because they love that artist, and they want to collect it and support the artists, and they'll also buy a CD or just download this music stream wise. But but it's really cool and that the label approach to you and wanted to do that. That's remarkable. And how did you how did you come to work with that label. By the way, how did that come about, because that's great to have a label behind you. Well, they saw some of my improvised Twitch streams and then they reached out to me after that because I was doing a lot of them in Lockdown, the COVID Lockdown, so obviously there weren't really any musical events going on and stuff, so right, more people were online.

Yeah, and they saw my streams and then they sent an email asking if i'd be up for a chat, And then sort of blew my mind a bit when they offered me that. I nearly said no because I didn't think I'd be able to finish an album really, And now I look back and I think that was a bit silly that I didn't think I could do that because I make music all the time, right right. Yeah. Yeah, And so Anomaly obviously that's your first release on the label. Yeah yeah, And are you gonna be uh? I assume that partnership continues, you'll be releasing more music with them.

I don't know at the moment. I'm just seeing how it goes with this this first album first, but like, I'm happy to work with them in future, and and I'm playing at an event that they've put together in Derbyshire in March, which should be fun. Excellent, excellent. Do you play out much? Do you do a lot of? I don't do a huge amount. Part of that is just because I don't really go out looking for gigs as much as a musician should, right, But I am. I'm trying to work on that and actually going to try and get some more more gigs because I do actually enjoy it.

Now. I used to be very anxious about it, but now I've sort of gotten a bit more confident. I feel like I'm ready to to do a lot more excellent excellent. Well, Charlie, before we wrap up, and we are going to play another track at the end of the segment, I've got idmy loaded up. We're gonna we're gonna play that in a moment. But please, for all of our listeners, let them know where's the best place to get your music. Anything you want them to know about social media and if you have a website you want them to know about so they can keep up on everything that you're doing.

Yeah, so all of my music can be purchased at band camp, So that would be Choli dot bandcamp dot com. Most of my music is available on pretty much all streaming services. I've got so many music videos under the name Choli Music on YouTube as well. Okay, all of my social media handles are Cholley Music. So if you want to check out any of my streams, a stream to Twitch, which is twitch dot tv sash Cholley Music, you'd find me there. I put all of my highlights on TikTok and Instagram reels under the name Cholly Music again, so that's nice and easy.

Yeah yeah. Yeah. And by the way, so if somebody goes if somebody goes on Twitch to see one of your live streams, so they might get to see you putting a song together live. Yeah, yeah, they might do. It depends how I feel on the day. Sure. Yeah, No, that's really cool. That's very cool. Yeah, it's interesting too, how how musicians have been able to really kind of harness Twitch to to do that kind of thing. Obviously, you know, Twitch started as a you know, a gaming platform, but but there are other uses for it, and people do all all kinds of stuff, and you know, there's political talk shows and all kinds of things that go on on Twitch now.

But but that's that's really cool. Yeah, people should keep that in mind, you know, check out your Twitch stream and yeah, they might get to see you put a song together. So that's that's incredible. Charlie, thank you so much. We will have to do this again in the future because it sounds like you've got a lot more music coming in the future, so we will. We will definitely have you back, and UH really appreciate you joining us today. We're gonna let you go and then I'm gonna I'm gonna play this track.

I dmy but you're getting a lot of love on our Facebook live chat and I really love what you're doing. And thank you so much for joining us today. Well, thank you so much for having me. All right, Charlie, you got it all right, take care you two, all right, bye bye bye, all right, wonderful. That was Charlie all the way from the UK. And what we'll do is we're gonna play this track. This is also from her recent album Anomaly, So give this a listen and then we will be back with the balance of our show.

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We'll put the archive up and share it out on social media for you. But really enjoyed speaking with her. I really like her music and her approach to it is fascinating. But yeah, check her out online. And of course, earlier in the show in the first hour, we had our friend Eric Pilcher, my favorite conservative, joining us as he does on Wednesdays. And speaking of that, By the way, Will because somebody texted me and asked me what we were talking about the Stephen Crowder thing, I have something from media that explains what just happened.

Well, we'll touch on that briefly and then we'll try to get at least one other thing in today on the show. It's already so late, it goes by so quickly. But if you would like to get in with a call, the studio line is open six zero three two five zero six zero seven six zo three two five six 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 end O Pine in the Facebook live out.

But the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call at six zero three two five zero six zero seven six zo three two five zero six zero seven. There's some uh yeah, we're not going to go back to all that, but a lot of discussion on the Facebook live chat about some other things. Our dell five says hashtag Charlie keep on rocking. We say, yes, absolutely, just quickly. This is what we were referring to my conversation with Eric Pilter about Stephen Crowder.

Uh. This is from Media eight for Stephen Crowder. Staffers exit the show after interrogations and insane NDA NDA of course being a non disclosure agreement. Uh says here Stephen Crowder sent draconian non disclosure agreements to his staff with a one hundred thousand dollars breach of contract penalty. After media reported on allegations of workplace misconduct at the right wing commentator's Rumbull show, five current and former staffers said last month, Media I'd reported on allegations of bullying, inappropriate drug use, and lewed sexual workplace misconduct at Louder with Crowder, the popular online show that recently joined Rumbull, a YouTube alternative, and apparently his numbers are tanking.

Two hours after, Media I'd published a follow up report detailing and internal staff meeting at Louder with Crowder held in response to the initial story in which CEO Gerald Morgan told staffers they could no longer communicate with former employees. NDA's were sent out. Now that's and that sounds like I know there are certain religious organizations where and this is not not the norm, but there are certain you know, I've had friend who are Jehovah's witnesses, for example, who have explained this to me, or I know with scientologists who it's a big deal.

Once you leave that you are those who stay behind are no longer no longer allowed to communicate with you or associate with you in any way. And it sounds like it's a similar thing with Louder. With Crowder, people leave the show, people who work on that show leave the show, and then the people who still work there are not allowed to have any communication with the people who left. That sounds I mean, is that even legal? I don't know. I would question if that's even legal. If you work at a job and people leave that company, and your boss at the company that you still work at comes and tells you you can't have anything to do with those people who left.

You can't even speak to them, you can't associate with them socially. Because that's apparently what's in these NDAs. It's not a matter of it's not just, you know, don't don't talk about the business with them, don't talk about what we're doing here, don't talk about what's going on at work with the people who left. We'd rather you didn't do that. It's not even that, it's you can't associate with them anymore. I mean, that's that's nuts. I don't know if that's even legal for an employer. Because here's the thing.

You can drop a non disclosure agreement for your employees. But that doesn't mean I mean, if there are terms in the non disclosure agreement that aren't even legal, then that NDA is not going to hold up, is it, or maybe it will. I don't know. I'm not an attorney. I don't know anything about how this works. But I mean, that seems crazy to me that you could even put that in an NDA. Mariam Bannish says JW's dis fellow quote unquote and aren't even allowed to speak the names of those who left or broke a rule.

Yeah, it's very very strict. Let's see. So it says here. The agreements, which were reviewed by Mediaite, were emailed to current Louder with Crowder employees on July twenty six and read in part and here's this is actual text from the NDA. And by the ways, as we're going through this, just imagine you work at a place and you get something like this from your employer. Just try to put yourself in the place of these people who work for this show Louder with Crowder and they get this in their email.

Imagine if your company that you work for sent you something like this. And by the way, I haven't pre read this so I don't even know what's in this. Here's here's this is from the email. Employee maintains its promises and covenants not to disclose confidential information as defined in the amendment. Company will provide employee with confidential information during the period in which employee is employed by the company. Okay, well, that part's completely reasonable. That sounds like a standard NDA to me so far.

The agreement added that if a breach of contract should ever occur, the employee would be quote liable to the company for liquidated damages in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars. Is that legal? I mean, obviously it happens all the time. People violate a non disclosure agreement and they get sued there's some sort of penalty. But again, maybe this is maybe this part might be completely standard. By the way, again, I come at this from a place of ignorance. I don't know how this works. But so maybe that part's completely standard, that there's a financial penalty, but it just seems weird to me.

I mean, I would be nervous about signing something like that because how strict is that? What if you know, what if violating the end? Yeah, so what if I leave that company, and I tell somebody that, yeah, the refrigerator that was in the office at that place of work it one day it broke down and all the employees their food spoiled that they had left in that refrigerator because the refrigerator stopped working in the office. And then my former employer finds out that I told somebody about the broken refrigerator.

Are they going to be able to then come at me for one hundred thousand dollars? I don't know, I'd be I'd been nervous about signing something like that. So the agreement also said, quote, I hereby acknowledge that said damages are reasonable, do not constitute a penalty. And I further agree that I will not contest the reasonableness of said liquidated damages in any such action commenced by either party with respect of this amendment. Okay, Now, again, I'm not a lawyer, but that seems to me. Sounds to me like I will not contest the reasonableness.

Well, if if you're pledging to not contest the reasonableness, aren't you then signing off on something that basically says so if at any point your employer comes to you and says, hey, we think you violated this. You can't you can't contest that and say no, I disagree. I think you're overreacting. I think that what you're telling me is unenforceable, beyond the scope of the agreement, beyond the spirit of the agreement, etc. You have no right to do that. You just have to say, oh, well, okay, if that's how you feel about it, I guess I owe you one hundred grand Is that what that means?

I mean that is nuts. Who would sign that? I mean, obviously some people did. They want to keep their jobs there. But my god, Melanie in the chat room says, I tell all my coworkers that they will be dead to me if they leave it. Says here, the staffers were told they had to sign the NDA by that Friday on July twenty seven. Wait a minute, when were they given this? July twenty sixth right, So they were given a day to decide whether they had to sign this. On July twenty seven, Crowder held a meeting in which he warned staff against speaking out.

Stephen was livid. A source close to the Rumble host told media I quote he and Gerald Gerald, who runs a company and he's also a co host on the show. If you've ever seen Louder with Crowder, I've subjected myself to it briefly in moments where I just felt like I wanted to torture myself. I guess maybe I'm a masochist. He and Gerald said they knew someone was talking to you, the author of this piece, based on the article you wrote. They said, whoever text messaged former employees about us not being able to hang out with them would be given amnesty if we confessed by two pm.

If no one confessed, then they would see it as malice. No one confessed, so they started interrogating a few people. Unquote, by the way, here's an idea. If you say you run a program like this like Stephen Crowder does Ladder with Crowder, or literally anything else, anything else, any kind of business, any sort of enterprise that involves other human beings, here's an idea. I have a suggestion. If you're so worried about people, I mean usually with NDA's, you're worried about people stealing your intellectual property.

That's a big thing in tech, right. You know, somebody works for a tech company and they're going to leave that company and go work for another tech company and take all the you know, take stuff with them, even if it's just stuff in their minds there that you know, the company that they work for currently feels as their intellectual property. That's a very big thing with NDAs it's usually it usually has to do with intellectual property, intellectual property, proprietary information involving the business, etc. But if what you're worried about in this case is you don't want people going and talking to the media, either publicly or on background anonymously, be an anonymous source.

You don't want people talking to the media about what goes on in that business. Here's a thought.

Don't run your business in a way that would make people want to run to the media and complain about you. Treat people correctly so they don't have anything to talk about. I mean, it is that simple, is it. Not treat people well and then they have nothing bad to say about you, you know, unless they want to make something up. But that's on them. But here's the thing. If you treat people well, by the way, this could be a life lesson. Doesn't even have to just be about business. It could be about anything.

It could be about how you conduct yourself in life, how you interact with other human beings. Treat people well, be nice to people, be respectful to people, and they won't have anything bad to say about you. And if they do have something bad to say about you, that isn't true. If you have a good reputation because you treat people well, no one will believe them when they talk their their nonsense about you, So you don't have anything to worry about. It's that simple. But when you haul people in and tell them you have to sign a non disclosure agreement, because well, I mean, what kind of messaging does that send to his employees?

So I want you to sign this non disclosure agreement saying that pledging that you will owe me a hundred thousand dollars if you ever dare say anything bad about me, because I want to be able to continue to be awful to everyone here, and then you can't say anything about it. No, just don't do that. What Stephen Crowder should have done. Has had a meeting and said, hey, let's come to my attention. People are leaking things to the media that are unpleasant. You know, on top of all the things that have already been leaked to the media about this guy that are unpleasant.

It's coming to my attention that this is going on. This is an ongoing thing. So you know what, since we're having this meeting, I'd like to hear from all of you are what are some of the things that bother you? Or here's what I would do. I would say. I would say to my staff and listen, I used to be you know, thank god, I'm not in charge of anybody anymore. You know, my businesses are sole proprietorships. But you know, I used to be a manager. I used to have to be in charge of other human beings at work.

I don't wish to do that again,

but I don't like being in charge of other people. Frankly. I mean, I can do it, but I don't like it. But you know, I would say if I were in that position, I would probably say, here, we're having this meeting so that you can all tell me. Give me examples. Team, what are some of the things if you were to go and talk to the media about me, what are some of the things you would say? What are some of the complaints you would have? Tell me? Just tell me right now, open forum. You know, everybody gets to speak their mind.

Tell me what you would say so that I know what you're upset about, I know what bothers you, and we can work as a team on changing it, because I want everybody to be happy here. Something that has always baffled me about corporate life someone and I'm someone who again you know, I'm self employed, I'm a sole proprietor and all of it. But I used to work for you know, I was for many years. I was actually Peter White and I Peter White of the Morning Show. We worked for the same company, just at different times.

But trans World Entertainment they used to own FYE. They sold it off. F YE has come back, but now it's a different company. But something that in my experience in working for big corporations is that it's always amazed me how many managers don't understand that if you treat people well, you'll get better work out of them. They'll be more you'll get more productivity, you'll have less turnover. And it's not that hard. Doesn't mean you have to be a pushover. It doesn't mean you have to let your employees walk all over you or anything like that.

But treat people with respect and you'll get better work out of them, aside from it being the correct and moral and ethical thing to do in terms of how you treat people. But that's just again in life. Just be a good person, you know, be a nice person. I'm a nice person, and because I'm a nice person, people are generally nice to me. You know. It's it's kind of nice. There's a lot to be gained from that. But that's what Crowder should have done if he was going to have this meeting. But instead, this guy the only way he knows how to operate is to is to be threatening and say you have to sign this non disclosure agreement because one of you has been leaking information of the media about me.

So so during the meeting, Crowder downplayed his sexual misconduct allegations. Set Another source close to the soon soon to be divorced father of two quote, if you're not okay with guys playing sack tap, then this isn't the place for you. Unquote, the source said, Crowder told staff, referring to the act of actually, I'm not going to finish that sentence. That's afternoon drive. You can look up what that phrase means. After the interrogation of current staffers for employees departed the company.

The source close to Crowder said, quote, the NDA was insane. Most employees were scared because of it. Some talk to lawyers about it because they were afraid, but thought that if they didn't sign it, it would incriminate themselves. That would incriminate themselves. He was intimidating. Steven's increasing justification of his workplace sexual behavior between men makes a lot of male employees uncomfortable. He's always he always says it's joking, but it doesn't seem like a joke to anyone anymore.

Unquote. A former Ladder with Crowder employee said the NDA and bullying tactics are a clear sign that the toxic workplace culture will not be cleaned up anytime soon. They said, quote the real problems never get fixed because the real studio problems revolve around Crowder's refusal to take responsibility. He is never ever to blame. Gerald and Stephen intimidate and bully the staff. They try to divide and conquer. They treat former employees like people who've left their cult and can no longer be trusted, and current employees are commanded not to associate with those former employees.

Unquote. They compared Louder with Crowder two quote, how scientologists aren't allowed to associate with people who've left the church? How corrupt or clueless do you have to be to respond to reports of employee abuse by turning around and threatening employees with a one hundred thousand dollars fine unquote. The NBA kerfuffle has caused further turmoil among Crowder's staff, and a new hiring announcement the same week added more fuel on the internal issues. Michael Spadone, a former field director at Project Veritas who was accused of kissing and grow up in a former colleague in a sense settled lawsuit has been brought on the Louder with Crowder team.

Sources close to Crowder saw it as a questionable hiring decision due to the recent claims against Spadone. Well, it just gets better and better, huh, an ex staffer lamented quote. The whole situation is obviously extremely concerning for the women who work in the studio. Stephen's sexual habits and behavior at work are troublesome enough, but to find out a man alleged of sexual assault has been hired by Stephen the same week You've handed out a fresh nda with a one hundred thousand dollars penalty would leave anyone scared unquote.

Crowder did not respond to request for comment. Wow, Yes, the Stephen Crowder. He truly is the gift that keeps on giving. And isn't he? I just what a guy, all right? I had hoped to get at least one or two other things. But we are out of time. Stephen Crowder, he takes up a lot of time. What a fascinating man who I believe lies about his age. We need to spread that rumor not that he cares. Stephen Crowder has got you know, he's got millions of millions of dollars. What does he care? What I say? I'm sure, I'm quite sure he doesn't know I exist.

Someday he'll know. Now I'm kidding, He'll never know exist. It doesn't matter. It's not important. What matters is I'm a good person and he's not. But he does have millions and millions of dollars, and I don't m M doesn't seem fair anyway.

Life isn't fair. All right, We gotta go. We are out of time, my friends, Thank you all so much for joining us today. Thank you to our great musical guest, Charlie really enjoyed that, and of course our friend Eric Pilcher who joined us in the first hour. Oh, Mike from Queen City Cabinetry is in the Facebook live chat. Queen City Cabinetry one of our great sponsors here at w m H ninety five point three FM. And of course I get to hang out with Mike Friday nights on Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul c oh and I did see pauli Ce in the chat room earlier as well.

Hello, but Mike said, great music today, Matt. Have a great night everyone. Yes, thank you you too, Mike, have a great night, and you all have a great night. If you missed any part of today's show it we'll be up in just a little bit at WMNH radio dot org and as well as my website Matt Connerton dot com. And we're gonna leave you with We won't get to play the whole thing, but a little more of Charlie. This is called Swindon Bathtub. Another great track from Charlie to close out today is Matt Connerton Unleashed.

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