Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-11-23

0:42 Hello, everybody, welcome. Here we go Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three f M in uh Rare really kind of rainy and dreary out but still glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. Also on Comcast Channel SI. So if you're 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 of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera.

1:12 Today is Monday, September eleven, twenty twenty three, and I'm not alone. They are darlings. I am present. Yes, Jenny is here at the news desk. Yes, very drainy. That's the second time I stumbled on that dreary and rainy. It's like I couldn't my brain couldn't decide between dreary and rainy, so it came out dreny. Yes, a lot of people are feeling it today, so the weather, I think, is feeling it a little too. Yes, Yes, well we do have so coming up later in the show in the second hour, we do have a great musical guest today, Nolan Coda from Eons and Coded, which sounds like a band, but it's actually just him.

2:03 He does all the he does everything himself. He also is in a band called Pointless Culture who is currently They've got an album coming out soon. But but I had said to you recently, I said something like, you know this guy from Ian's and Coded. I've been playing his music for like two years now on the show because I love that song Reconnection. I play that all the time and it always gets a great response to people in Travo will comment on it. I said, uh, you know the guy he's on band camp says he's from Concord.

2:33 We've been playing his music for like two years. He probably has no idea, you know, unless he's familiar with the show or somebody mentioned it to him, he probably has no clue that he's got a he's got a hit song on the show. And that is one of my go to is because you know, obviously we uh, we play a lot of music on the show, independent unsigned artists, both locally and from other places too. But there's a short list of songs that just get stuck in my head that just randomly pop into my head even when I'm not thinking about the show.

3:06 And Reconnection by Ian's and Coded as one of them that riff, just that I can I can tell you what they are. Actually, there's that one. There's a beautiful Nightmare by Chasing the Devil that just randomly pops into my brain. Sometimes there's Revenge by Edgewise, probably a couple of others. Oh yeah, well we are. We are very blessed to have a lot of great musicians. Yes, yeah, a lot of great musicians. Boy, when I started doing this, I didn't realize just what is out there, and there's a lot, especially here in New Hampshire.

3:42 We have a lot of really great talent. Just I mean, seriously, folks, I'm not even kidding about this, Like, go out see some of these live bands if you're not sure, even if you if you see somebody here, drop me a note and I'd be happy to hook you up with their page or their website so you can go see him in person. Yes, indeed, Isaac Banks and the chat room says, who's the guest on your show? Matt, It's as I just mentioned, it's Nolan Coda from Ian's and Code it, He'll be here in the second hour. We did open Our opening song today was The Rising by Bruce Springsteen from the album of the same name, and that's kind of an unofficial tradition on the show, usually on September eleven, you know, if it falls on a weekday, of course, the We're here I like to open with that.

4:28 It's obviously not only is it about nine to eleven, but it also happens to be my favorite Springsteen song. I like Springsteen. I'm not a I'm not a big fan, but I'm a casual fan. But you know, but I like a lot of his stuff. I don't like Born to Run. Oh it makes me nauseous when I hear it. Good. I didn't even like that when I was a kid. I was like, it's so long. It feels like it's probably like a seven I do well. Yeah, in fact, Reconnection by Ian's and Code it is like seven and a half minut that's true.

5:00 But but I don't know Bording to Run it feels like it's, uh, it feels like it's seventeen eighteen minutes long, and I know it's not. It's probably like five or six minutes at the most. But it feels like it just goes on forever anyway. But The Rising by Springsteen such a great song and I really like that that full album, and of course the Rising is it's specifically about firefighters, uh, first responders on nine to eleven. I don't know if I don't know if you know this, but Springsteen's Sun is a firefighter.

5:33 I did not know that. Yep, yeah, I did not know that. I think I think just in the last few years he became a firefighter, if I'm not mistaken. So I've always I've always really loved that song. And yeah, it was when a number of months ago he was on Howard Stern and you know Howard does. He's like two two and a half hour interviews with these musicians, and uh yeah he actually Springsteen actually played some of it on as a guitar. It was pretty cool because they had a long discussion about that song specifically, and Springsteen talked about talked about, you know, the process of writing it, how it came to him, and that that whole album, The Rising is about nine to eleven from what I I haven't listened to it in a long time, but I think the whole thing kind of centers around that and the aftermath of it and how Americans were feeling, and well how Springsteen was feeling, you know, how how he saw things from his perspective.

6:26 But and I remember too reading an interview with him where he said he wanted to do something that was because some of the some of the music that was coming out at that time, it was almost, for lack of a better way of putting it, sort of revenge oriented, like Toby Keith with that song courtesy of the Red, White and Blue, you know, stuff like that. But uh, Springsteen wanted to do something a little, a little deeper, you know what I mean. Well, it was the one I'm Proud to be an American. Well that that song got played a lot, but that that but that wasn't that was that long predated nine to eleven Lee Greenway.

6:58 It took the front row. I sure my son's elementary school after nine to eleven they sang that song every morning before school. Yeah, that's what they would do, is that song. They couldn't have picked something better than that. They had all the kids singing it to day. I don't believe. I do believe that many of them are not very fond of that song anymore because it was literally played every single day. They had to sing it. Yeah, yes, every day. So yeah, I think it kind of hurt them on that, but I mean nothing against it, but there's just better songs than that.

7:35 What was what the perminal picked and they didn't get a choice? You know what it is? It's it's just so cliche. It's like, oh that song really time? It wasn't. No at the time, everything any anytime that song is coming to vogue, it's been cliche. Stop it. No, it was at the time it was very I get it. I get it. I get it, and I want to say something else to you, but I will. They should have sung The Rising by spring Steen. That would have been much better, right, but oh god, seriousness Greenwood, Yes, yes, serious note.

8:12 If we're going to talk about nine to eleven and we're going to talk about the firefighters and the EMT, we need to talk about the fact that they are still fighting today. I mean the New York City I don't want to get the name of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees is made up of teachers, but also of firefighters, EMTs and police members who were there on nine to eleven, and now we're suffering from nine to eleven diseases. Some of these diseases that are people are getting sick with, they're not getting the benefit because it hasn't been recognized as an official nine to eleven.

8:42 But we still we they added, this is what John Stewart's always fighting for, big time, big time, as I do believe today there were over forty new names added to the memorial for the firefighters and EMTs who are still dying from nine to eleven cancers and lung diseases. That you know, they were told the air was safe. If they had been told if there was a chance that it wasn't, they should have had respirators. But at the time, what we you know, everybody is haul hands on deck. Let's save as many lives as we can.

9:17 But we have to not forget that we're twenty two years out and there are families that are suffering. There are people that are suffering that they shouldn't be. We promised, we promised to the nine one one responders that we were going to be there to take care of them no matter what. We were going to be there to take care of them like they took care of us on that horrific day, and we're not we're not. We're not necessarily holding up our end of the bargain, folks, because they're having to fight.

9:44 And I want to say this right now, they've been fighting in New York Cities. The retirees have been fighting to keep their Medicare, their traditional Medicare, and they have a supplemental policy through the city and that's what they were promised as part of their benefit package. Now that they're retired, there be the governor of New York City or the mayor, excuse me, the mayor of New York City, and the leadership of their union. Surprisingly, the leadership of the union has rolled the boss over retirees and have tried to force them onto a private Medicare advantage policy.

10:22 Many of them, if forced onto a policy, could lose their hospitals, their providers that they've had for decades because those providers and hospitals may not be within the network of the Medicare advantage plan that would be chosen for them to end up having by force. Basically, they've been fighting and winning in court. They've won at least six times in court, and they're going to continue to fight to protect their members and make sure that we hold our promise to them and give them the care that they were promised.

10:54 You know, a lot of these guys take pay cuts wherever in the in the promise that when they're retired, you're going to have Fital Medicare and you're going to have this supplement that we worked with you before. They're trying to do this to save money on the backs of nine on one responders, and that really makes me sick. If you want to read about it for yourself, and I'll drop the link into the chat room as well, you can go to NYC Retirees dot org and that's retirees plural NYC retirees dot org. You can read about the battles that they have been waging and maybe you can help.

11:27 You You could always be a part of it by speaking up and saying, hey, I'm standing with these guys and I'm not going to let you force them into this. We got to keep them in the public eye because it's when they get doors get closed and cameras go away that people stop being quite so nice, you know what I mean. So they need all the help and support that they can get. I was honored to get to meet them on the last trip that I was at in DC with be a Hero, And there are an amazing group of people. There was about seventy of them that made the trip all the way down to DC that day, many of them on a twelve our train.

12:00 And they shouldn't be having to do that. They retigh it. They should be home, retigh it. They shouldn't have to be fighting to have healthcare so they don't die sooner than later. Well, you know, I have to say this, and by the way, I have a short article here from Axios about first responder deaths post nine to eleven that are linked to nine to eleven. But I have to say, you know, I do love my country. But one of the things that frustrates me, infuriates me frankly to no end about America is that we are horrible at taking care of the people who put their lives on the line for our country, whether it is veterans who serve, who fight in wars for us on our behalf, who then get often terrible treatment from the VA.

12:57 You know, everyone's situation is different, that's not across the board. Some people have positive experiences, far too many veterans have negative experiences. They are homeless veterans, ors, all, all kinds of ways that we fail are veterans. So, whether it's veterans that we send off to fight our wars, or whether it's people who are trying to defend the country right here at home. For example, when the worst terrorist attack on American soil in American history happened and our first responders had to go and respond to that.

13:33 Again, the neglect of these people doesn't surprise me. It infuriates me. Does it surprise me that we actually make these people fight for every scrap, every crumb of help that they can possibly get from our government that they were promised that they shouldn't They shouldn't have even had to have been a promise. It should be obvious they're owed that they owed all the help that they could possibly need. But of course we fail them. Of course we do. It's no surprise. Look at how we treat veterans, Look at how we treat these first responders.

14:15 It's the same thing. There's always a lot of happy talk about, you know, American heroes, American patriots, and we have to we have to take care of them. They took care of us. Now it's our our obligation, our duty to take care of them. And then yeah, we just forget about it, and we forget about them and we discard them like their trash. And that's what has happened to these first responders. And this is a part of the problem is unfortunately, it's one of those issues that unless you're really paying attention.

14:50 And thank god, you know John Stewart with his celebrity status, he's been able to draw a lot of attention to this issue helping these people. Not enough, It's never enough, apparently, because nothing ever actually changes. But it's just incredible, But it's never It's never gonna be on anybody's top five list of issues. You know, you're never gonna hear a political debate where one of the questions is, you know, hey, what are we going to do about these nine to eleven first responders who are all dying of cancer or whatever other terrible illnesses they have that we're pretty sure we're caused by them being exposed to everything that they had to inhale while they were cleaning up New York City after nine to eleven, What are we going to do for them?

15:44 That's never gonna be a debate question. It's never gonna be on anybody's top five list of issues. It's probably never gonna be on anybody's list top ten list of issues. It just isn't. And it's so I mean again, I love my country, but it's it's actually embarrassing that this is how we treat people, whether it's veterans, whether it's first responders, anybody who serves their country, who serves their community in any way, risking their lives, and we promise them everything when the cameras are on, and like you said, when the cameras are off, ah, they're not gonna Yeah, we don't need them whatever, Let them die, right.

16:25 The count on the fact that the public tends to have a two week memory, and we do because there's so much news going on every day. Something catches your eye. I'm guilty of it too. Something sure's your eye, and you forget about some of the other things you were thinking about. But our media forgets them and leaves them there, and they only take them back out on nine to eleven. That's when we talk about it again. We don't. We don't talk about it otherwise except for when John Stewart has been able to bring it up front.

16:55 Absolutely, but we get on this time. You know, I've been talking to these people for months now that I found out that they existed. I didn't know this group existed. I didn't know that they were being put through this, but once I did, I yeah, we gotta get we got to help them. We got to talk about this and not stop talking about it. We have a call. Ron is on the line. Hi, Ron. Yeah, I'm Matt Jenny. I'm gonna be so brief because you guys are so spot on, and uh, I thank you for what you guys are talking about it and your facts they're facts, not opinions.

17:31 I the thing, just so much to say, but with so little time. I remember when Americans drove around with flags and there was peace and there was no road rage, and that all disappeared over time. How quick we forget. I wish that at least every September eleventh, all Americans at least could drive around with their headlights on to say, you know, we remember, m Yeah, I remember when that that's it, I guess. I. Yeah, you've comple want to say that. I really want to hear, so I don't want to take up any more time.

18:07 All right, Ron, Well, we appreciate the call, my friend, Thank you very much. Thank you guys, you got it. Bye bye, And that does open up the line for you. If you'd like to chime in six zo three two five zero six zero seven six zo 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 endopine in the Facebook latch at and we will get to everyone's comments in a moment.

18:34 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. You had started to say something I had okay, never mind, I thought you did. I don't think I did. Okay, Well, I did want to look at this quickly. This is a short article from Axios regarding what we were talking about, and then we'll look at the chat room. But post nine to eleven first responder deaths now nearly equal to attack casualties. So it says here the number of nine to eleven first responders who have died from Ground Zero related health complications is now nearly equal to the number of first responders who died during the attacks.

19:14 The New York City Fire Department announced last week the addition of forty three names of first responders who died from nine to eleven related ailments to its memorial at the World Trade Center. The names added include those of firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs. Fire Commissioner Laura Cavanaugh said an a press release, quote, these brave men and women showed up that day and in the days and months following the attacks to participate in the rescue and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site.

19:42 We will never forget them unquote. In the twenty two years since nine to eleven, three hundred forty one quote FDNY members have died from rare cancers and diseases caused by the toxic dust at Ground Zero unquote. The Uniform Firefighters Association wrote in a Facebook post on Monday, the count is nearly equal to three hundred forty three New York City firefighters who died on September eleven, two thousand and one. According to the New York City Police Department. Twenty three NYPD officers died on nine to eleven.

20:13 In the years since three hundred, twenty three members of the force have died from nine to eleven related illnesses. Health ailments related to nine to eleven has also impacted members of the FBI and the Department of Defense. FBI Director Christopher Ray said last year the twenty one FBI employees had died from related illnesses in the years since the attacks. Increased funding for the nine to eleven Victims Compensation Fund has long been has long been the subject of an ongoing effort in Congress.

20:46 I don't know if efforts the right word. In twenty nineteen, the Senate voted to secure funding for the fund through twenty ninety two, and the legislation was signed into law by former President Trump. A New York I'm sorry. A new New York law called the nine to eleven Notice Act will require large employers to inform current and former workers who were present in the exposure zones of the attack about their eligibility to register for federal programs providing compensation and healthcare for attack victims.

21:20 New York Governor Kathy Hokel signed the bill into law. On Monday, hocal said, I'm never sure if it's Hocal or Hochel said in a statement, quote, on this solemn day of remembrance, let us not only honor the lives lost on nine to eleven, but also extend our support to the survivors. They're loved ones and our first responders unquote. While those are some pretty words, yeah, but we make them fight for it, don't we, Just like we make veterans fight for all the care they need. And one of the other things that's happening with them is if their specific diagnosis hasn't been entered as an official nine one one disease, even if they were, you know, in there trying to find people the day that it happened, they can't get any help.

22:02 Yeah, it's got to be fought for. And and it's ridiculous. I mean, it's these cancers that are coming down in large quantities and lung ailments, especially so these firefighters and police and e mts. And you know, they didn't come by it on their own. They came by at trying to save lives, right right. Absolutely, Let's not forget they dug through the rebbel for how long trying I mean, oh yeah. People don't realize, but it was like over that day. For weeks after there were still there were still fires burning.

22:38 Oh yeah, yeah, and there were and just trying to move everything around, clean it out, all that dust that was in there. It's concrete, it's chemical, it's the fuel, jet fuel, it's smitherines of just metal fragments. All of this stuff was getting inhaled. They weren't wearing respirators there, and you can go back and watch the footage. Yeah, and there probably didn't have enough to go around. No, I doubt it. I mean, well maybe I don't know. Jesus, I don't even know. I know that there was our nine eleven My and nine to eleven experience was I worked at in Jordan Hospital in Plymouth at the time, Plymouth, Mass And you wouldn't think that we would be getting phone calls, but we did.

23:23 Shortly after I got home from work, I went right to sleep because I got out at seven in the morning, and one of the nurses I worked with the night before called and woke me up to tell me to get the TV on and that she had just gotten a phone call from work. And I got a phone call and they had put all of us on call, and the plan was they were going to move stable patients out of the Boston area, bring them down towards the Cape all the way down, fill up our beds with their stables, and then Boston was going to take New York's stable patients, opening up more space in their hospitals to take care of what we all assume we're going to be large quantities of wounded, not what he got called in, Yeah, because it was large quantities of death.

24:05 Yeah, that was the quietest night of work I've ever worked in my life. I was on a cardiac unit and we all just kind of like it was almost like being zombie. We didn't know what to think. I think we were all just like the whole nation was just feeling horrified at what had just happened. Yeah, and not getting called in was devastating to a lot of people. Well, my experience that morning was I've told the story on the show before, but just briefly, I was I didn't know what was going on until I got a phone call at work.

24:39 Because so I was working at Strawberries on loudon Rode and Conquered and I was where I lived. Was really close to where I worked, so if it was a nice day out, if the weather was nice, and that day it happened to be it was a beautiful day, the weather was perfect. Sometimes I would just walk to work in the morning. You know, take me maybe seven or eight minutes to just walk to work. So I just walked to work that day. So I didn't hear the news, and I didn't listen to the news in the car because I didn't drive in that day.

25:05 I just walked, So I was completely oblivious. The store opened at ten o'clock, so i'd usually get there around nine. So I'm there. I have no idea what what was going on. And then I get a call from my mother's husband, Terry, and he says to me, Hey, can you call your mother. I think she just would would feel better if she heard from you, because she's freaking out. She thinks it's he was calling me from his work. So you know, I hear his voice and he says he's calling from his job, and I'm like, oh, my first thought was something happens, something happened to my mom.

25:39 So he says, can you he said, I'm at work, can you get call your mother at home? She's she's freaking out. She thinks it's the end of the world. So I think she'd feel better hearing from you. And when he said that to me, again, I'm oblivious. I have no idea what's going on. I was like, she thinks it's the end of the world. So my first thought is, oh, my god, we're in a nuclear standoff with somebody. Maybe it is the end of the world, you know, either the Russians or or something. That was my first thought when I can understand where he would go there when he said that, and I was like, well, well is it And then he explained to me what was going on, and I was like, oh, okay, you know, and then I said, all right, I'll call her.

26:12 So I called her, and you know, and then I grabbed We actually still sold radios then, so I grabbed a radio and I plugged it in and listen to the news, and you know, there was nobody coming into the store that morning, but that's how I found out. But yeah, it was like I got up and I went to work that day just completely oblivious to what was going on. If you'd like to get in with a call, six zo three two five six zero seven six zo three two five zero six zero seven. We'll say hello everybody in the Facebook live chat.

26:39 Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us, one of our great sponsors here at w m H, and I get to hang out with Mike every Friday night on Retrospectrum Radio with Paul ec. He says, Hello everyone. Isaac Banks, who I'm pretty sure, if memory serves, is from Greensboro, North Carolina. I think so. He says, Hello, Matt and Jen, Good afternoon. Oh Jenny, I see you're in there. He said. Shalom, peeps. Isaac Banks says, Matt and Jen JP and ME says to you, we both love you from us. J JP is Jeff Pegary and me ib Isaac Banks, well, thank you very much, glad.

27:18 He clarified that Melanie law Liberty from the Great State of Vermont joins us in the chat. Hello, Isaac says, yesterday it was rain and thunder outside last night in Greensboro, North Carolina. No, uh, let's see. Isaac asked earlier who the guest was, and I told him and he said, okay, awesome, Matt, and he is talent. Yes, if you're just joining us, uh Nola coda will be our So do you say his name? Nola? Wait, no, Nolan, Nolan coda will be Uh. I must be thinking of New Orleans. You're stuck on a map, rocking down in New Orleans.

28:01 Remember that song from Jerry and the Scumbags. That one went away for some reason anyway? Uh? Yes, Nolan coda from Ian's Encoded and Pointless Culture. We'll be here with us later. Isaac Bank says, I listened to Bruce springsteen song Tunnel of Love. Speaking of Springsteen,

28:22 oh yeah, yeah, I couldn't get away from that song. I liked that song, but couldn't get away from it. That was a huge hit. Scott Robinson says, the wife and I went and saw Springsteen at Foxborough a couple of weeks back. Wasn't a bad show. I don't know a lot of the songs, but I had fun. Yeah, he's canceled the rest of us tour. Springsteen has something some sort of a health issue. Miriam Banish says, good afternoon, Good afternoon, Miriam, good afternoon. Darling. Melanie has issued a mal is going to be a jerk warning here she comes.

28:51 Melanie said, I struggle with all the never forget posts

29:00 when no one seems to be concerned about the religious extremists in our government who are trying to insert their religion into our laws. It's the same mentality that flew those planes and took down the towers. Oh I'm not touching that, I don't, said Melanie. Oh I get I get what you're saying, Melanie, and I take your point. I don't. I don't quite agree. I understand what you're saying, but I I that's a whole other conversation and there's a lot of nuance that we would have to uh So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna sign on to that.

29:37 But I totally believe in the never forgot posts. I mean amt I like those. I like seeing them because I think it is important to remember the people and remember their names, and even for that moment you think of that person's name, in that moment, that person is remembered. You know, there's around and as far as the extremes of in government, I am fighting left and right, woman, I'm certainly paying attention and fighting and there's a lot of people out there that are and there are a lot of great ways to get involved.

30:07 Isaac Bank says, Bruce Springsteen had hits, good hits. Yeah, Isaac is also a music critic. I don't know if you knew that. I did not. Jay Fed joins us in the chat room and says, good afternoon everyone, and Jay Fed also says as the Fonds, hey, Oh yes, he says Isaacs, I see what he did there, Celian Isaacs thunder Melanie also said, I'm sorry, but that like visiting your mom's grave only. Oh, it's like visiting your mom's grave only on our birthday. We have to not suck on the other three hundred and sixty four days of the year.

30:42 Yes, yes, of course. John Hopwood joins us in the Facebook live chat called Springsteen an old fart. Hey, that's the boss. Wow,

30:55 that's the boss. Where is Hoppy? I don't know. I haven't seen him in a week. Where are you? We miss you? Isaac Banks, apparently responding to j Fed, said as Potsy, hey, hashtag Jason Feederson, how are you doing, sir? Good impression of the Fonds? Excellent, Jason as Potsy, Jason Feederson, you're the man. I don't remember Potsy ever saying you're the man on happy Days and then Isaac Banks says in parentheses normal voice hashtag, Matt Jason Feederson is good doing impression of the Funds. He should watch episodes of Happy Days.

31:35 Well he probably has, Isaac. That's probably how he knows how to do those impressions. We watched them when they were new. And uh, Mike from Queen City Cabinetry says Isaac. I don't know if you knew, but Matt does amazing impressions. I do. I do those only on retrospectrum radio with policy, but I did watch AWE if you watching, I tell you if you missed it. On Friday Night's show, Oh, I did my impression of Sir Lawrence Olivier at the DMV and it was stunning. And I'll tell you. I'll tell you what the secret is.

32:10 It's it's one thing like anyone can pretend to be uh, Sir Lawrence Olivier at the DMV, but I actually, in that brief moment, I actually become Sir Lawrence Olivier at the DMV. I actually become him. And that's the secret to do in a great impression. It wasn't he on TV and like the thirties or something, or he was a very famous actor the thirties, right forties later than that wasn't I'm stuck in the wrong century. Let's see. Oh my goodness, Melanie is saying she will attempt to keep it rained in.

32:52 That's gonna go. No, you don't have to. You don't have to keep anything rained in in the chat room. We like unleashed. We we we I don't sensor of the chat room, Mike says, A stunning isn't a strong enough word.

33:05 That's right. Wow, that's a heck of a compliment, is there. I can, I can. I can do those impressions pretty well. We have a call. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this? Hello? Hello, Hello, Hello, I've got a new protective case or my iPhone? It seems to be did you cause in me trouble? Oh? Did you cover the speaker with it? Yeah? You're supposed to leave that part uncovered. I thought it was supposed to be uncovered, right, that's my point. Damn, what am I gonna do? And we have to like cut part of it out?

33:41 I guess I don't know. I don't know what's going on over there. It's it's here, It's just not behaving, well, this is anarchy pandemonium. Really, I've got an iPhone se three. You know it's very small. Oh and iPhone you didn't cost much rainying. Hey, that's board Olivier to you. Yeah, oh it's Oh, it's not sir Lawrence Olivier. It's Laurida Laurence Olivier was elevated the House of Lords in nineteen seventy. Oh, I didn't realize that. I never knew that. Me neither. Well, that totally blows my impression.

34:16 I'm gonna have to retool it. Yeah, like, because he's got a title, Jenny, you don't even know who he is here. He's the dude that played like I don't know, I have a vision in my head of like he was in the Arabian movie right. He was nominated for an Oscar ten times, won the Oscar playing Hamlet in nineteen forty eight. Hamlet won the Best Pitcher Oscar in nineteen forty eight, nominated It's the best Director. And he also had do you hear that Honorary Oscars? I see what your name is? English stage actor?

34:57 Uh, but he was so well he walked away from movie start him. He was in the he starred in a two movies in thirty nine and forty and Wuthering Heights, and then he was in Rebecca, which was Alfred Hitchcock picture that won Best Picture. But he went back to England and volunteered to become a Navy air called pilot, but he smashed two planes and so Churchill asked him to make a movie. So he made the first great Shakespearean movie, which is Henry the Fifth, which of course is about you know, the England rallying and going to war with France.

35:41 And he was the most famous Shakespearean actor of his day. But he also was a great contemporary actor. But he's been gone for a long time now. Miriam is asking in the chat. Wasn't he in something with Dustin Hoffman. Yeah, he was in Marathon Man. He was Zell the Nazi. He got an Best Supporting Actor nomination for that. Then he played this grotesque. He was very bad in the movie The Boys from Brazil, playing somebody based on Simon Wisenthal. But you know it was fun because Gregory Peck was playing a Joseph Manglay and they got to fight each other at the end.

36:25 But you thought, which one's gonna die first of a heart attack. They're both so old. Ah. Yes, well, Larry Olivia got ten Oscar nominations, but he made very few films to the end because he got He was married to Vivian Lead, but they got divorced in sixteen. He married much younger women. They had like four or five kids in there, so eventually he had to make some money to support the kids. You know, to being some god awful movies like Wild Geese too. But

36:58 are you you gotta bring home the bacon? Right? That's right, that's right. But I don't even think you know who. Let's hear your Lawrence Olivier impression. All right here, let's let's do this. So so uh John, uh pretend uh, pretend you're an employee at the DMV and I've and I've walked up to the counter, got your form. Yes, I'm here to renew my driver's license. I'm Lord Lawrence Olivier. No, let's do it. It's Lawrence Lord Olivia. You see, he was Sir Lawrence Olivier, but he took the name Lawrence Lord Olivier of Brighton.

37:42 I don't think Brighton is a seaside resort in England, which to us really sucks. But to the British is something like you know, like Glass Vegas. I can't got the last Vegas is really Blackpool. I can't do any I can't do it again, John, I can't. I can't recreate the magic of what I just did. I mean, regardless of how I said it. You have to admit, for a moment there, you thought I was possessed by him or something, didn't you until you blew it with the Laurence, you know, the Lord Lawrence Olivia, you were a phony.

38:15 Well you know, I mean, come on, I mean, it's uh. You have to admit though it was pretty impressive. I mean, the accent and everything. I had it down. I thought you you're very promising. But Gonzo in there too, and Elizabeth Rock to give you some pointers. Ah, oh, well, they do impressions of you. I don't do it. I don't do it, John Hopwood impression. You should have been standing and you needed to center yourself around the groin and then create an arrow of power up to the point between your eyebrows, and then you would have nailed it.

38:50 Well, that's uh. Some of these things are visual. It's a radio show. It's Theater of the Mind. It's right here in the Laurence Olivia on actic. I'm just giving me some chips from the Godhead himself. I probably should read that. Hey, what do you guys think about this Secret Service agent? He's eighty eight years old, he's got a book to peddle, and suddenly he remembers that he found the magic bullet that allegedly shot went through JFK's back, then up through his throat, then down through whatever, and then into John Conley's back, then to John Conley's lung, then to John Connley's arm, and then through his leg.

39:36 And isn't that an amazing thing? At eighty eighty remembers this mean while he has a book to sell that is yeah, yeah, no, I have not. I am aware of this, and I am skeptical, and I know that another Secret Service agent who is there is already uh coming out and saying no, he's that's that's not correct. So he's already been debunked by another Secret Service agent. Now you see, I was talking to somebody that you know, but I can't reveal their name because they I swore that I wanted. I'm not gonna give you any details.

40:10 But I actually said exactly what you said to him, and he said, that's not true. Clint Hill just said, because Clint Hill is who you're talking about, rather than this disguise says he's the last witness. And I thought was Clint Hill dead, But Clint Hill's alive. Clint Hill was his partner, and Clint Hill's famous in history as the guy that in two seconds jumped off the back of the Cadillac that was in back of the limo, and in two seconds he was on the back of that Lincoln helping Jackie Kennedy get back into the car as it sped up, and he shielded the body because although they have the fiction that JFK died at the hospital, that's genuinely accepted that he was dead before he got there.

41:00 But as a Catholic, you have to get at that time, you let's get extreme unction. You had to still be alive, which is something I didn't know until recently. I didn't I didn't know you had to be alive to be forgiven all your sins. So I guess if you get your head blown off in Dallas, you can't get forgiven right. Let's but you know they manufactured a little lie to get JFK into Heaven or at least Limbo, except that doesn't exist anymore, right, it doesn't. Well, that's disappointing. You're a Catholic.

41:32 You should know about limbo. Why I believe it's called purgatory is what you're referring to, right, unless there's another place I'm not aware of. What did they teach you in Catholic school. I was a Protestant, but my Catholic mother told me about limbo. That's where all the dead babies go. What all right, this is getting into a dark dark zone. All right, what are you talking about that limbo? Limbo is in heaven or not before heaven. That's what my mother told me. I was four years old or something.

42:07 And at the same time, Santa Clause right, I was taught that you go to purgatory to burn off your sins and then you go to heaven or you just go to hell. So, uh, it's either or hell. So have sins except for the original sin, and Jesus already died for that, So they just go to heaven, is what you're saying. No, they go to limbo. It is an intermediate state. This is Wikipedia. Do you remember Catholics don't go to heaven until after everybody gets resurrected. It's an intermediate state. Yeah, I think you've got that right, Jenny, in which the recently deceased experienced various phenomenon before being reborn in another state, including heaven or health.

42:49 I don't think this is the official Holy Mother Church, you know. You know, Wikipedia can give you the year. But getting back to JFK, So you think it's a bunch of larkey too, huh, yes, I do. I Well, I think you nailed it. You said he's got a book to sell. Well, Clint Hill, you know, was on top of JFK and looking into all that gore, you know, because he writes about it himself. Clint Hill believes in the single bullets theory. But if this was actually true, that the bullet, you know, the Christine bullet, was found in a tuft of the leather and Lincoln Continental and back of JFK, it was completely great history, right.

43:36 But the guy at the time he's writing his reports, he says that he went he found the bullet and then instead of giving it to his supervisor, he actually went into the emergent, you know, forget what they call it, but it's an emergency room, but you know it's a rather small room where they were operating on JFK. And then Johnny was in another one and he says he walked in and put the bullet on the blanket of JFK rather than telling anybody about that. Yeah. Yeah, see here's that doesn't make any sense to me.

44:12 That's that's why. That's a big reason why I'm so skeptical. It's just bizarre. He just does that and doesn't say anything, right, go ahead, Sorry, Oh no, no, that was my thought. I was just saying, he just does that and doesn't say anything to anybody about it. It doesn't make any sense to me. That's what I said too. Well this other person. Yeah, but he said he was traumatized, and you know the pt I guess when we can get PTSD right then and there. But he's traumatized. It's chaotic. But see what Clint Hill says in the New York Times.

44:44 Clint Hill eighty nine a year older than this guy. And Clint Hill managed to within two seconds bound off a car and save Jackie Kennedy's and getting run over. You know, and he's only a year older than this guy, because oh he was young, and while he'd been a Secret Service agent for six years. I mean, if you're that highly trained, these guys are trained to put themselves in front of a bullet, which means that's got to be dedicated to training, like your father went through as a seal or something, you know what I mean, you have to be highly trained.

45:19 I mean I would do that. Besides, I'm so sure it wouldn't work right over your head. But Clint Hill was always bad by the fact he didn't make it within another second and put his body in front of the third bullet, which is impossible, you know, because but so he allegedly did this, but in his notes, and they only gave the notes in two weeks later. Yeah, I guess he says he doesn't have any mention of going into the actual emergency room or the bullet, you know. Yeah. And yet the one thing, and that the guy's book.

46:00 It's number one on Amazon dot com. His book, and it's published by a rather minor publisher. And I know the remnor publisher because they held a store a short story by me for a year before rejecting it. They were going to publish it but they didn't. That's how minor this publisher is. So the Chicago Press or whatever and Chicago Review Press. But so this is a thing if you can't refute it, right, Yeah, because he's saying it. And even under the law, a witness can come forward in a murder. Years later we see in like the Central Central Park jogger case, things like that.

46:40 Yeah, but you can't refute it. But it's the one piece of evidence that blows everything out of the water. Right by the way, we're almost at the top of the r John, But I do want to while we're on the subject, I do want to quickly ask you, why why do you think that we still so much of that hasn't been released? Trump when he was president, he did promise, I think that they were going to release all the JFK stuff, and then he changed his mind. Obviously somebody talked him out of it. But I think it was supposed to I think there was even something legally that was done that it was supposed to happen by now, but it's still all kept secret from us.

47:17 Well, you know, Vanity Fair has an article written by a Cleveland lawyer that The New York Times identifies as the guy that helped the Secret Service agent process his memories quote unquote processes memories. Well, I don't want to reveal anything ahead of time, but me and Big Steve had been working with this book was a certain let's just say they're from somewhere near Alpha Centuri. We've got quite the story about the UFO JFK connection. But you know, it's nine to eleven. There's a horror that happened in the United States, and there's a horror that happened in seventy through three Chili, when the CIA, on the direction of Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon, staged the coup data against the elected government, which led to a dictatorship being established and the President of Chili committing suicide.

48:13 So it's a Psalm Biday. But someday I will fill you into the real story. Really, okay, all right? Oh yeah, it makes the Satanic portal of the White Husse look like child's play. That really well, if you can make a satanic portal look like child's play, it must be quite a story. By the way, is it Chili or Chile? Chile? It's every once in a while, I I mean, I like to say chili because I like to eat chili, but I do want to respect to the country. One of the guys who are helping process memories that can call him the guy.

48:47 His name is bill A bill A, Yeah, b I l e. But it has some type of weird act shunting gears except the toun next hunting gear. That's a little injury for the French, the francophone. So a lot of people probably call him Billy, but it's bill A, right, it's a It's Chile come home. I'm getting the idea. Maybe we can read, you know,

49:12 ten year cycle Dallas and then Santiago Chili. But I guess we'll have to find something to happen in eighty three. All right, okay, well fair enough, Hey care, all right, John, appreciate the call. Bye bye, And I'm going to send you a picture of Christ and Limbo by Hieronymous Bosh. Please please do. I would love to see it. Please do. Yeah. I guess that's when Jesus went down there and harrowed Limbo. Whatever harrowing means. I know Christ did it. I just don't know what it means. Don't remember Sister Margharita talking about any of that but okay, I'll take I'll take you at your word.

49:51 John. Everything I know about the Bible I saw in a movie. Okay, bye, all right, by bye, I believe this. All right, Well that was our friend, John Hopwood. Here's what we're gonna do. We're approaching the top of the art. We're gonna get to a break. We've got a great guest coming on and in fact, I'm gonna play one of his songs and then we'll get him in here. This is uh, this is my favorite of his. This is reconnection from Eons and Coded and the man himself, Nolan Coda, is going to join us in just a few minutes.

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1:00:52 Welcome back everybody. We have entered our number two numerow dose of Matt Connerton unleashed and we are lie. I've from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six if you're 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 of your live streaming options, social media links, contact and folk show archives, etcetera, etcetera.

1:01:21 Jenny is here as well at the news desk, present and accounted for. Yes, Yes, and today is of course Monday, September eleven, twenty twenty three, and we have with us joining us on the couch. Nolan Coda is here. Am I saying your last name correctly as a Coda? That's it? Yep? Yes from Eons and Coded and uh and the other band Pointless Culture Culture. Yes, Yes, but wonderful to have you here. Thank you. I was saying to you off air that I'd said to Jenny recently. You know, I've been playing this guy's music for like two years on the show.

1:01:51 We should probably have him one. Yeah, thanks for having me and uh yeah, I always get I always get a lot of positive feedback on that song, Reconnection. That's so cool. It's it's it's kind of epic and Uh. Yeah, it's just great. It's one of those songs you get stuck in my head, especially that ending, you know, it's a very very dramatic end with a that's quite heavy. Yeah, yeah, that was my goal. Anyway, I like it a lot, and you're getting some love in the chat room. Two. Uh Marissa coda, who I think you said as your sisters?

1:02:24 My sister. Hello, yep, she says, yay, Nolan, very nice. Riley King says, Hi, Nolan, Hey really. Oh let's see. I think I saw somebody else pop in here too. Carol Zawar which joins us in the chat room. Hello, Carol, and hello to anybody I miss in there. And if you'd like to join us, the studio line is open if you have any questions for Nolan or feedback or anything at all. Six zo 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.

1:02:55 I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email met at Matt Connerton dot com. And of course you can interact end opine 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 zoo three two five ozho six zero seven. Oh. Jenny shared the link tree in there for in the chat room two for ions encoded. Yeah. Tell, well let me ask you this first off, So where did where did you come up with the name? What does the name mean? So it used to be An's apart and uh, it was kind of just like some kind of wordplay.

1:03:29 I was just trying to go for just what sounded cool, and over time I was like, well, I kind of want to incorporate my name, so end coda. So I was like, all right, let's kind of go off that end coded was born. So it was kind of like a little subtle play there, and I think it sounded a little more not original, but more to my liking, I guess. But yeah, it was just kind of like me just messing around with some words and seeing where they seeing where they landed. Yeah, but it kind of duck and people seem to like it and behold, ayonns was born.

1:04:04 Yeah, and uh and that it's all you right, you play everything? Wow? Wow? How do you I mean, it's it's unique. How do you describe it? To people who haven't heard it, because it's not like anything. I mean, I can hear influences, but it's especially I think the vocals are part of what gives it it's uniqueness. Your approach with the vocals is different. I can't think of anybody who quite doesn't like that. But how do you describe it to people who haven't heard it yet? It can be kind of broad. So I have a lot of influence from like Pink Floyd Rush and then to modern bands like Tool.

1:04:38 You know, all the progressive rock slash metal bands have been kind of my go to for you know, how I go about writing my stuff. Yeah, so I kind of just not like draw ideas from them, but kind of like take inspiration from what they from what they've done, and I just kind of make it my own, you know, just kind of like putting my own twist on some things. And a lot of it boils down to experimentation. So you know, if you're into like progressive rock and you like a lot of synthesizer stuff and like very spacey, atmospheric type soundscapes and all that, you know this this is the type of stuff you'd be into, So you know, it's very niche I feel, but it's fun.

1:05:16 It's a fun genre, and you know, I try to keep it interesting in terms of like making one song kind of heavier, but maybe one song a little more experimental and you know, more keyboard heavy. So just you know, not to have an identity crisis, but like, you know, keep it interesting. Yeah, as much as I as much as I possibly can. So yeah, So yeah, I would say like progressive rock mixed with some spacey sounds is probably the best way to describe it. Yeah. Yeah. Now, so you play everything you do all the vocals, do you are those real drums?

1:05:49 You also play drums or program I do play drums, but being in an apartment, that's a little tough. So I programmed them myself. So I use plugins, which are like software drums. Yeah, and I take, you know, not like well, they're real samples of drums, but not my own. Yeah, but they're included in the software. So I take, you know, what sound I want from each drum, you know, and symbol and whatnot, and then I mapped them on like a meaty chart. And you can also play it on a keyboard because it connects by MIDI through that too.

1:06:19 Yeah, but sometimes I'm not always on time, so certain sections I'll do just keyboard and sink them, and then other times I'll map out each individual drum, which takes a lot of time, but it can be it can open up my creative, you know, doors a little bit more because I can get really fast or really complex and it would sound good still, but like you know, gotta remember not to make it too like unrealistic, right, I would say, Yeah, drums is like probably the one time consuming, one of the time consuming instruments that I have to do with when it comes to my music, just because of it.

1:06:53 It's it's programmed kind of very incrementally. Aaron Billado, who I don't know if you know, Aaron, very very talented musician, he says in the chatroom. I checked it out before the show. Outstanding new fan here. Thank you very much. Yeah, that's awesome. Do you know Aaron. I don't, but I'm gonna check him out. Yeah, yeah, he does. It does very sort of experimental stuff too. That's really cool. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, thank you. With with the drum, So when you're mapping out the drums, when you're doing all that, do you do you intentionally try to put in something that makes it seem that makes it sound like it's not programmed.

1:07:28 Yeah. So the flexibility of I'll just say it, it's easy drummer two by tune track. Okay, that's what I've been using for the last few years mapping out drums, and they allow you to kind of humanize each drum. Yeah, I've heard of this. Yeah. They have like, you know, certain settings. You can set velocity, which is kind of like how hard or how soft a drum sounds, So to make it realistic, that's a very variable like setting that I use, and I try to use it sparingly enough where it sounds like someone's actually drumming it.

1:07:58 Yeah. So that'll loan is also time consuming because I don't want it to sound like, you know, super like processed right right, right. But you know, I'm not gonna lie and say that they're real drums either. Yeah, but you know, you want it to kind of sound authentic, and that's what I'm trying to go for, as being as authentic as I can with what tools they have at my disposal. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, it's amazing what you can do now with the technology. I had another gentleman who He's got a band called Downhill Rollers, but it's and it's more just a straightforward rock thing, really really good.

1:08:33 But he but it's all him. He does it all himself, and he programs and drums and I remember saying to him, like those sound completely real, you know, like like I would never have guessed. So it's really impressive what you can do now. They've they've improved their like interface and just overall quality over the years. They've I mean, I'm not out all that well versed in like the progression of all that, but like you can tell that there's so much love put into these programs. Yeah, where like you could pretty much replace your drummer if you wanted to right and go that route.

1:09:04 So it's really cool seeing how much you can do these days from just you know, a computer. Oh yeah, and some and some like d I instruments. Yeah, you know, yeah, what what's your what's your first instrument? Obviously you play multiple instruments. What did you start out on? Actually I started on piano, but I uh, you know that that was kind of like my gateway into music because you know, my grandparents had a really old cassio keyboard from like the late eighties that I would kind of mess around on and then that's kind of like what got me into guitar later on, is you know, and that's like my main instrument now aside from bass.

1:09:41 Yeah. So, like, but keyboard has been the best way for me to learn everything about music that I know today, or at least have me start out on music, and it's very versatile and it was a lot of fun to learn on and then just kind of you know, went from there to drums, keyboard, like synthesizers, ye boards, and you know, guitar and all that and kind of expanded from there. I've heard a lot of music teachers say that that everyone should at least learn some basic keyboard skills and that will help you and everything.

1:10:14 Not advice. I ever thought. I'm a bass player and I can play a little bit of guitar. I never I never learned I've never learned anything on keyboard and I probably never will. But but but I have heard a lot of music teachers say that that's really the best foundation you could ask for, is if you start out on keyboard, or if you already play something else, if you go back and just try to learn you know, just basic stuff scales and whatnot, and it'll actually really help you exactly, especially the C major scale.

1:10:40 That's how it's pretty much mapped around and you just kind of experiment from there or learned. You can kind of use that as your foundation and then kind of like learning other scales from that SAM major scale and like learning all the other stuff from there. So yeah, it's it's a great starting point. I remember those old casios. Was it a was it a little one or was it because I shrunk on me? Because yeah, starting young, right, So like I swear it was like, you know, like a full sized keyboard. Then the one day I went over to play it, like I don't know, maybe four years old or something like that, I swear it shrunk, yeah, because I don't know, or five years old or something like that.

1:11:12 But yeah, it's it's about like it's a it's a what is it a forty two key or something like that keyboard. It's it's it's fairly small keys. Yeah, something you'd probably find on like a MIDI controller, right, you know or something like that. So like it was comfortable, yes, you know, even when I was getting older and you know, my hands were getting a little bit bigger and all that, it was still fun to play. And I still have one, right, you know, not the same condition as it was back then, but it's in my apartment right now, sitting in the corner.

1:11:43 So yeah, still there the OG. I think I have one in a in a storage in it there, because even though I never really learned to play it, I did have one, and I think it it's it's but it's a little one if I'm remembering it correct, and I think it I think it took like I think it took D batteries. Yep, that's what mine took, really, yes of them to be exactly. Yeah, yeah, that's a power sucker. Exactly. Has your process changed over the years with with ions and coded a little bit? You know, I try to do all the production myself, so it was kind of like me learning how to do it all my own, which was very tedious to say the least.

1:12:23 But you know, if you listen to my very first like demo track, Exordium, like that was just kind of me throwing some tracks together see how things worked. Yeah, and then kind of like showcasing the sound I was going for in a way. So I kind of like keeping that synthy stuff and then getting heavier. So you know, I think overall, like my process has kind of stayed the same in terms of how I compose, but when it comes to the production of it, I've gotten a lot more what it's the word critical of it because you know my ears.

1:12:54 You know, when you do like music on your own, it takes a lot out of you, especially you know in your ears. Oh yeah, the ear fatigue is I think what they call it, and uh it's it's a lot. But you know, I try to keep it streamlined, and the easier it gets easier the more I do it, because like I kind of find what works and what doesn't work, and that's the fun of the experimentation that I that I get to, you know, go through. And uh yeah, I think I've improved just in terms of production, but like, you know, how I go about writing and putting it all together is kind of stayed the same.

1:13:28 Is is a lot of because you mentioned there's a lot of experimentation. Do do you have some songs where you've kind of where you kind of write it all out and then you go to record it or do you ever or is it mostly just kind of experimenting as you go. Uh So, yeah, that's a good question. So a few songs I have like actually written out completely. One of them actually, the whole EP were reconnections on the Cosmic Archives. That whole EP was actually tabbed out on a software called guitar PROH and I kind of put all the structure together on that.

1:14:02 I programmed the drums through that, like but through like sheet music, so it was more tedious, Yeah, but it helped me like kind of established the basis of what I wanted to go for and I was able to change it there without having to like worry about recording anything. And I didn't know about like scratch at the time, where you can like record stuff like kind of on like a piece of paper in your computer type of thing. And you know, just that's how I kind of did all that because like when it comes to recording, you always picture it kind of being like you gotta do this in one take.

1:14:30 It's not the case for me, like I've been able to like do it all kind of in sections. You can do it comfortably and I can adjust things if I need to. But the more experimental songs, like on my first album, inspect Element, which was Oh my God, it's almost two years old now, that's just crazy. So Theoretical and Beyond the Mirror are two of the instrumental songs on that that I kind of just you know, messed around with to just come up with like a way to brea into the next songs yeah afterwards, which were also mapped out you know, in software and written out.

1:15:06 Yeah, just trying. It's more of those just like tiny musical ideas that I kind of like what sounds I'm kind of like what sounds good and will this work? Will not work? And that's super fun for me. Yeah, and they turn out really fun, Like it's really really fun to listen to. Do you ever do you ever have an idea that you end up you end up throwing away that you you maybe you were excited about, but then you go to do it, you go to record it, and you're like, ah, this isn't working. Oh hundreds really yeah, Yeah, I'm like the guy throwing out those little crumples of paper in the trash.

1:15:37 Been all the time. But you know the cool thing about technology is that you can erase things and rework them without having to you know, worry about throwing stuff away for real, right, so if I don't end up liking an idea, I can just kind of readjust and like fix it and or add stuff to it, what have you, and then it kind of I kind of like to make things work, yeah, because you know, I like to craft my ideas but not have them go to waste. So there are some ideas in each of my songs that are probably actually not probably they are borrowed from previous ideas, so hidden aways.

1:16:13 Verse Riff is actually a song that I wrote back in like twenty twelve that I didn't really have any way to record, so I was like, this, first, kind of cool, let's put that in. So but there's still a fair share of like different ideas that just would not work for the songs I already have out or probably would not fit my sound at all. So but that's the life of being a composer. I guess you have those ideas that go to waste, and you have those ideas that stick and you want to reuse. Jay fad in the chat room and he yes everybody this question.

1:16:45 He says, uh, have you ever considered increasing the length of your beard? I want to. Yeah, yeah, I'd like to. I'd try to keep it somewhat neat, but you know it, I don't have the best luck with my beard sometimes, so really it gets a little scraggly, so I got a tame it sometimes, which reminds me I got to do that fairly soon. But yes, I would like to grow it a little more, say with my hair. That's my next project. Really. Yeah. Now, so have you ever I'm assuming not, But have you ever played any of this live in front of people or No?

1:17:23 No, I maybe one day I will, but you know, because it's all solo stuff, a lot of it, you know, I'd have to like have a band for hire and and have the time to assemble all that and actually practice them again. Yeah, but no, I've I've you know, thought about potentially doing something like that sometime in the future, if you know, it got to that point. But you know, I think it'd be difficult to assemble right now because there's so many moving parts and there's you probably need about six keyboard it's probably I love the layer things.

1:17:57 Yeah, but it's on the table just I don't know, and it's very up in the air. I mean, the other option would be to you know, just just play in front of backing tracks and yeah that that's also a possibility too. That's something I've kind of toyed with here and there. Yeah, it's just a matter of kind of getting it all together. Yeah, I'm not opposed to it. Yeah, it'd be fun. But yeah, either way, it would be a lot of work, no doubt. Yeah. Uh. Frasier Ramsey in the chat room says hey from Edinburgh, Scotland.

1:18:27 Well, hello, hello, very nice. Well let's do this. Let's let's play another track I'd like to uh, well, actually I'll let you pick though, what what what would you uh, what would you like us to play? Uh? I don't know. If my newest one Fragmented lease back on Saint Patty's Day? Okay, cool, Yeah, that's a fun This is the newest one. Very good. All right, let's let's give this a listen and then well we'll come back and chat some more. If you're just joining us. We have Nolan Coda here and we're are we are featuring and talking about his music from Eons and Codd.

1:19:02 This is his solo project and check this out. This is the newest one. This is Fragmented rather around a kid around the fire. That's the body you burn the thread seign up. Do you love the things? Sign up at the time, what spirit is shaking? I feel like the only one to get your less and less of red wracking the code ask my confidence and starts to feel rac She think like go we fastor in fastor then they beat up my right man to catch my rootlgad for somewhere else. We can't ask me as you can't that deep in the water awaiting the yard of the seear just be a Wednesday away in bed a scared, we fully strong chiel my mile to well and you just stand archa me end up the pieces all over and cover again.

1:21:54 M Sometimes I feel like a bullet the bro like chest. Get that that there makes it harder than work the rest. I get some time trying to feel the sharks with my reason, I stay speaking and shippens rounding her around again around the floorest has the body you had a friend? She hid fights on the frankness of memories like what do su skates like crystallize instantly sho somewhere else can't actually say and burst into the water. I see just be says scared with the star chall wells a well and you my check wi the pieces all over and over again.

1:24:32 I love it. That is fragmented from eons and coded, and we have the man behind eons and coded here on the couch with us in studio. Nolan Coda is here. That's that's so good. We've got uh, let's see. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry in the chat room says really good. Uh. Aaron Bilido says, wow, this is a great song too. Jay Fed says I'm digging this. Jenny says loving this and uh, Dna Coda a relation there, mother, that's your mother. Yep, very nice, yep, she says. Love fragmented top track choice for me and Isaac Banks also said a great song.

1:26:00 Yeah, that is really good. And you know, we were kind of talking off air while I was playing kind of a little bit of an eighties vibe there with the keyboard riff, which is really catchy. Yeah, I wanted to like replicate kind of a d X seven types sound like a Yamaha electric piano, Yeah, and kind of like put some modern twist on that, add some reverb to it and call it a day. Yeah. Yeah, give a little different spin on that. Yeah. Melanie also has a non musical question because she's watching online.

1:26:27 What evil beings does Beard Man have on his shirt? Oh, it's it's the scream. Uh, yes, yes, I got it. A hot topic, I think. Oh yeah, I'm getting ready for spooky season. Yes, oh so is Melanie. Well I think for Melanie it's already here. So some people just you know, Halloween is their giant giant. Yes, yes, aready arrived for her? Yeah? Some people start uh Halloween really early. If you have a question or a feedback or anything at all for Nolan Coda from Ian's Encoded and from Pointless Culture, he is in studio with a six zero three two five zero six zero seven is a studio line six zho three two five zero six zero seven.

1:27:14 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 Endopine in the Facebook live chat. But we'd love it if you call us at six zo three two five oz six O seven j Fed says the skeleton is twelve feet tall. Oh boy, that's a that's a lot of skeleton in the front yard. There I think it's probably making the other one jealous. Yes, you know if he used to she used to cut the little one everywhere.

1:27:45 Now we don't hear anything about that, right, right, what was his name? Russell? I don't remember. I don't remember, uh, Nolan not two. We were talking off here about your other band, Pointless Culture, and one of the guys in the band is also in radio. You were saying, yeah, yeah, Harrison Himan is our drummer and he's a very talented individual. I want to give him a quick shout out. He's an awesome dude. Helps us a lot with our booking and yeah, uh you know, getting stuff out there, kind of managing our social media stuff as well.

1:28:13 He does a lot for the band, so I want to give him a little bit of love. He's on w J y y up and Conquered right, Yeah, I want to fight five J y y yep yep station. I know I used to live in Conquered so I know that really well, yeah, because he been there a long time or yeah, we actually used to live together up until this last month. Yeah, we're very close, very close friends. Oh cool. So it's awesome that we get to do everything. We get to do together, you know, with the band and all that. So yeah, super fun, excellent, excellent, and we have a call.

1:28:41 Our friend Mike Doyle is on the line. Hi, Mike, Hey, Matt, Hey, Jenny, and Hey a musical guest. I just turned you on. I thought you wearing your break because I heard the music. Oh and then I realized you weren't, and realized it was an in studio guest, and I just wanted to give him my my two cents. It was fantastic. Thank you very much your metals in that song with the just enough singing for those who I'm not really I don't know if that's is that considered hard rock or rock or yeah yeah, or like progressive rock yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

1:29:17 So so somebody who's not into like the hard rock scene but likes more of the mellow rock that that was excellent. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah, that's all I wanted to say. That's from a square, sixty five year old man that doesn't make had rock music. Thank you. You're you're hipper than you know, sir. Yeah, I know, I know. We'll talk you guys later, all right, Mike, thanks for the call. I appreciate it by that would be his generation, right hip. Yes, yeah, there you go, all right, nice see her from our friend Mike Doyle.

1:29:50 That does open up the line for you six zo three two five zero six zero seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven. Now with Pointless Culture, you guys, are you got your currently recording right? Yeah, we're we're recording an EP and then an album hopefully fairly soon after that. So we have like a four track we're working on right now, and yesterday we just finished up two of those and then we gotta record one more and then we're pretty much on part of release it probably in the next month or two.

1:30:18 So that's really exciting. It's it's more of like an indie punk type mix. Okay, so it's a lot different than what I write, but it's like in my wheelhouse still and it's so much fun. Yeah. Our lead guy, who's also named Harrison, is a fantastic songwriter. A lot of the songs are all of his, pretty much all of them actually, and I want to give him some love too, and Ben and the band fantastic musicians, very fun to work with. So yeah, we're we're on part of release that pretty soon. It's gonna be just a little four track and kind of like going over each of our style and you know, kind of like what we are as a band, who we are as a band, so forward that what do you do in that?

1:31:00 In that band? I'm the bass player. Okay, that's what I figured because in the picture on Facebook, you're yep, you've got a bass Yeah, and there's two guys named Harrison in the band. There is, yeah, very rare occurrence. Yeah yeah, I mean Harrison is not a super unusual name, but it's not super common either, so yeah, that's funny. It's like in between, right, Yeah, and they both go by Harrison, like neither of them's Harry or well uh no, actually I just number them in my phone, so they're kind of an order on how I met them.

1:31:30 So H one is who I named our drummer, Harrison and who I used to live with, and H two is our frontman and you know, kind of the lead and savior of the band as I call them. But it's like a huge family in that band. We got a whole like crew. It's it's a lot of fun. We just played in Warner at the Summer Jam this past Saturday, a lot of fun played to play a couple of new songs that we had, you know, in the works, and they went super well. So you know, this is this is really fun to have like as a you know kind of like I guess my main priority right now, just because like I haven't had like a working original band before, and while guitar has always been like my main instrument, I have found so much fun and enjoy playing bass.

1:32:14 It's kind of like opened up that passion right back up again that you know, may have like kind of dwindled over time because music is kind of like taxing at times. Sure, but like just playing a new instrument primarily like that is is a huge like just breath or fresh air. Well, I was gonna say too, it must be a relief in a way. I mean, obviously you have a lot of passion for Jan's Encoded, but at the same time, not having to do everything yourself must be nice. Yes, yeah, huge relief. But you know, we all get to you know, pull our way, We get to put on our input that we you know when it comes to like writing our songs and like how they want to go, you know, our our direction and you know, it's it's nice to have that brotherhood with each other.

1:32:55 We're like very tight knit, and you know, we we always come to like some kind of like solution or conclusion to how we want to go about saying like recording the song or writing this song, or what we play live, et cetera. So it's a fun time and just couldn't ask for a better group of people. Now, the the EP that you're recording, now, will that be the first thing that you've released as a band? No? Last October. I think October six we released some homebrew recordings called the Sampler, which was three of our songs that we started, you know, our shows with the Line's Been Drawn left off in Little House.

1:33:34 So those we recorded actually in our drummer, Harrison's work, and we kind of just set everything up through a mixer and just kind of like you know, just just got something out there and it turned out it came out pretty good. I would say, yeah, you know, for for being kind of done on our own and fairly quickly. Yeah, but our first recorded like professional song like through Cedar House Sound and Sutton Jerry Potto, Yeah, Yeah, he incredible guy to work with, very very fun guy to talk to as well.

1:34:04 We recorded Severed Ties in a studio back in November, released it in December, and that was like our first, like I guess, breakthrough song and kind of bringing us out into like the professionalism side of things. And we're working with him again for this EP and it's just been an overall fantastic experience. Okay, it gets better and better. Good goody has the How long has Poiless Culture been around? Because I feel like I've heard the name even before Jenny mentioned that she had booked you for the show, I feel like I've heard of the band.

1:34:36 So it's the four of us have been a band with four members since about March, but we were a three piece with I was with the other two Harrisons for about a year. Oh okay, and then the other two Harrisons who went by h Squared or Harrison Squared back then, they were like, you know, jamming out. They've reconnected with each other, and you know, I was like, hey, I want I want to play bass, you know, but they asked me as well, and I was like, yeah, let's do it. So we just kind of like formed it, you know, one by one in a way.

1:35:02 So as a full three and four piece band, depending on how you look at it. I guess like we really got our start a year ago and we kind of ben our second second guitarists back in February March time frame. I did that. That's a cool name. Two pointless culture. What's what's the origin of that name? So the both Harrison's were trying to come up with a name, and I fire correct me if I'm wrong, Guys, if you're listening, I think they were gonna go with divorce Culture and then pointless something. But then they like kind of mended that, mended them together.

1:35:35 Some Pointless Culture was born. I kind of fuzzy details, you know. They were kind of going the same row I did, and kind of like seeing, you know what sounded pretty good. You know, we're generators are great when it comes to that, and you gotta try to find something that's not taken or you know, is is open to be used with. So I think it kind of started the same way that my name did. But they kind of blet two words together yea from other names, and so you know, pointless Culture was born. And I love the name too.

1:36:05 It's fantastic. Oh yeah, yeah, trying to find something that's not already taken. That can be. That can be one of the hardest things. I mean, it's a lot easier than it used to be because now you know, you can google it, you can look it up. But I remember a time. I've told this story on the show before, but I had a friend I went to high school with and I remember running into him a couple of years after high school, and he was a musician too, and he told me about this new band he was in, this uh rock band, and I said, what's the name?

1:36:35 And he said Intuition and he said that to me, and immediately I'm thinking, oh god, there's probably so many bands that have already used that name. And then, swear to god, I ran into him again a few months later and the same place, and I said, how's the band And he said, good, except we had to change our name because we heard from another band already using that name. And I'm too polite to say anything, but in my mind, I'm thinking, yeah, of course, of course you had to change it. Intuition, like the most obvious, you know what I mean, Like, of course it's probably a million different bands that have used that name, So yeah, that can be.

1:37:10 That can be a big part of the challenge is just finding something where you're not going to run into a problem later exactly. Yeah. The more words the better, and the less common the word the better too. It's it's very competitive out there, not just with music but with naming your music yea and all that. But you know, I'm glad we're able to both find something both you know, the band and myself, something that we could both use and call our own. Yeah. That's really really fortunate to be able to say that we can do that.

1:37:34 Now. Did you guys play out a lot with that project. Yeah, we played at the Bang and Answer Stage last August this past August, and that was our probably our biggest show yet. Cool, but we haven't played a ton. We've played maybe six or so. We have one coming up in Acworth on the twenty third, and our first one was at Tandy's Pub in downtown Conqueror and that was the night before. It was like a little release party for sever ties because it was coming out that midnight, you know, of the of the next day.

1:38:04 Yeah, so we were like, let's, you know, let's do a cool little show there and we got some help from a friend of ours Kurt Felder, who runs like, you know, kind of like music journal journaling like YouTube videos and very talented guy. Yeah, really cool guy too, and he helped us get that gig. Okay, So and then you know, we had kind of like a little drought in between. We added Ben, we were kind of learning some new songs. Then it wasn't until maybe this past you know, summer, where we started to really get some more shows booked.

1:38:32 But it can be tough to get them booked now. Yeah, I mean, summer is usually probably the busiest time, oh yeah, for you guys as far as shows, right, I mean, I know a lot of bands, will you know, kind of use winter to sort of record and then you know, and then you know, spring, summer, early fall to play out. But that seems to be the easiest one. I mean, you know, I don't play anymore, but when I was in bands, I was always to me, that was always the best way to do it, because you know, in the winter it's just miserable too.

1:39:03 Yeah. I've played shows before when I was lugging equipment in the winter up upstairs outside and slipping almost dropping stuff and it's miserable. Yeah, But yeah, we're kind of going that same route. You know, we're just kind of taking the maybe the winner, maybe a few shows here and there, but like kind of taking that time to really focus on recording more stuff. Yeahcu, we have so many things that we want to add to you know, the music world out there, so you know, it's it's kind of like the opportune time to do all that.

1:39:31 Yeah, we're really trying to book for next year. Yeah, excellent spring summer excellent, excellent. Well, why don't we play another? Why don't we play another eons Encoded song? I yeah, I definitely want to get one more in before we run out of time. But I'll let I'll let you choose one again. What stuck. Let's go back to the first album, inspect Element. Let's do let's do heading Away, Hiding Away. Yeah, I think I've listened to that one. That's the one I want to go for a def Ton style style vocal.

1:40:01 Oh okay, well I'm very okay, I don't I don't think I did listen to this one. Then all right, well I'm very curious now, all right, cool, so let's give this a listen. This is this is Hidden Away. The artist is eons Encoded and that is eons Encoded on the couch. That is Nolan Coda, the man behind Eons Encoded. Let's check this out. This is called hidden Away old way

1:43:18 pick up, remember pick pick up, pickmember, the tree, the world before you got those dramatic endings. I love it. That is. Uh. That one's called hidden Away and that is eons Encoded. And Nolan Coda from Eons Encoded is here with us. He is on the couch in studio with Jenny and I and we've been featuring some of that music and we've been talking a lot, and we are live on w MH ninety five point three FM. Uh if you want to get in with a call, if you have any questions or anything for Nolan, do it quickly because we're almost out of show.

1:45:44 But the studio line is open six zero three two five o six seven six three two five oh six zero seven. And we do have another family member. I believe Belinda Brooks Coda is in the Facebook live chat. Hey Graham. Very nice, it's very nice. It's cool that they that are supportive and that uh, you know, they come out to listen. I love it. I love it. That is that is outstanding now what obviously, so you're you're pretty busy, it sounds like with pointless culture, But do you have more eons and coded music coming as well?

1:46:14 Or I have a I have a couple of songs that I'm kind of slowly chipping away at. Uh. One of them is an older track I had back in like twenty fourteen called Vanishing Point, and I don't know when that will be done, but it's it's got about a minute or so so far. Just gotta you know, just you know, get at it and when I can. Yeah, it's so hard. Yeah, with with how much I'm doing and how many you know, different products I'm a part of it, you know, it's hard to find that time, uh, to really sit down and focus on that stuff.

1:46:47 But it's it's gonna come. It's gonna come, and there's yeah, I'm never gonna stop doing aon's it's just I don't know when you know, I'm gonna be able to pick it up again comfortably, right and and stay with it and you know, burning out, burning yourself out's just you know, not the move right right. So, but it's gonna come. It's gonna come. My Facebook and Instagram are you know the best way to keep in you know, contact with me or see what I'm up to for especially eons, because I have just made an account for that, yeah, not long ago, just to keep it separate from my own my own stuff.

1:47:25 But all those updates will be on there, uh you know, when I get to it. But I got a couple of things. Yeah, I'm working on. And for people looking for eons encoded online too, we should just clarify for anyone who doesn't know eons is spelled a e O N S. People might be looking for it without the A and unable to find it. But I wanted to go with the European spelling it look cooler. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if I've ever seen it spelled the other way. Can't use Is it sometimes spelled without the A?

1:47:53 Yeah, I discover that e O NS is kind of the more western US way of spelling, like with the added A is kind of European. It just looked cooler to me. Oh yeah, yeah, no, it is cool. I think it's pronounced the same you can say as it's all it all means the same thing. Yeah. Yeah, see, I have seen it spelled without the A, but I just assumed who people who are spelling it without the a, we're spelling it wrong. But but but maybe that is maybe that is acceptable. English is weird. Yeah yeah, or sometimes things are wrong, but over time they become accepted because exactly spelled wrong or spoken wrong so often.

1:48:28 Yeah, I just thought it looked pretty cool. Yeah, yeah, no, it does. It definitely does. It definitely does. Well. I'm really glad you joined us today, and we'll we'll actually close out the show with one more track in a moment. But this has been wonderful, and thank you very much. Absolutely, like well, you know, like I said, we've been playing your music for long enough, might as well have you on. Yeah, very very humble and you know, happy to be here. Yeah, no, thanks again, absolutely thank you for coming in and and I look forward to to getting pointless culture, to getting you guys in here as well.

1:48:58 Oh my god, yeah that would be We're we're super excited. That'll be. That'll be cool. Jenny, did you want to before we go, you want to plug your website or anything, or you can find me at Jencoffee dot com j E N N C O F f EI dot com and you'll see writings and paintings and sometimes I post updates on there as well with a fight for healthcare. Yes, yes, absolutely, all right, and if you miss any part of today's show, it will be up in just a little bit at w m H radio dot org and in my website Matt Connerton dot com.

1:49:31 And uh, let's if you want to pick one more Nolan, we'll we'll play one more to play us out. Let's stumbious. That's the one that somehow has the most plays and it's oh anything crazy, It's just kind of a fun little jam. Oh interesting, which which one is that on? Is that on Coff? That's on inspect Element. It's kind of like my closer. Yeah, it's a fun little tune. Okay, yeah, we'll go with that a A right, very cool. All right. So this is uh, this is Mobius from the releases Inspect Element, from Ian's and Coded Nolan.

1:50:06 Thank you again, my friend, thank you very much for having me. Absolutely and here it is. This is Mobius.