Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-11-23

Hello, everybody, welcome. Here we go Matt Connerton unleashed and we are

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in uh Rare really kind of rainy and dreary out but still glorious downtown Manchester,

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live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera,

etcetera. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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? 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. 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. 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. 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. All right, Ron, Well, we

appreciate the call, my friend, Thank you very much. Thank you guys,

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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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,

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zero seven. We'll say hello everybody in the Facebook live chat. 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. 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. 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,

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. Melanie said, I struggle with all the never forget posts

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. 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. 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.

Yes, yes, of course. John Hopwood joins us in the Facebook

live chat called Springsteen an old fart. Hey, that's the boss. Wow,

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. 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. 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. 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.

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? 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.

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? 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. 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. 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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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,

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. 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

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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.

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? 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.

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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.

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. 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. 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. 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? 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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? 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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

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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. 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.

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. 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. 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.

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. 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? 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.

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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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?

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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. 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. 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

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. 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? 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. 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. 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? 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. 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. 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.

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. Thank you again, my friend, thank you very much

for having me. Absolutely and here it is. This is Mobius.

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