Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-21-23

You are listening to w M and H thirty five point three. Get come in, God, don't get so greenly down Matzille killing you. Welcome everybody, here we go, Happy Thursday. It is that time again, Matt Connerton unleashed and we are live from the studios of w M n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious and it is a glorious day outside Glorious, I say, 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 in folk show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is a Thursday, September twenty one, two twenty three, so nice to have you all with me. By the way, that track that we opened with that was Order of the Golden Dawn and the band is Iron Jaw and Iron Jaw is our featured musical guest today. So at the top of the hour at five pm Eastern time, we're going to get those guys on Skyper. I'm not sure if it's just gonna be Rick Perry from the band who had joined us before. I'm not sure if it's going to be just him or other members with him, but they're gonna be skyping in at the top of the hour, so really looking forward to that, and we're gonna play We're gonna play some more iron Jaw music of course as we get close to the top of the hour. And I love these guys. When were they on last It was early early in the year. I think it might have been early spring. But they've got some new they've got some new music, and I really love their sound. It's very very sort of Judas Priest and well you can hear the influences, but really really good stuff, really tight, and I love everything about this band. So anyway, they will be our musical guest today on the program. By the way, speen a musical guests. Yesterday we had Marvel Prone or two of the members of Marvel Prone Rayner and Emily if you missed it, they came in into a live acoustic performance here in studio in the second hour and it was really really good. And my dad, who lives out toward the seacoast, he says he's actually seen them live. He texted me and said he had actually seen them live in Summer's Worth. I think he said, so he's he's a fan. And then tomorrow on the show for musical guests, whoops, I neglected to mute my phone. Very bad of me. I don't know if the mic picked it up or not. Maybe not. I probably didn't even need to announce that I had forgotten to do that. But that's rare. That happens, like maybe four times a year. I actually forget to mute my phone before the show. Let's see tomorrow our musical guest, Crooked Cash, we'll be here with us again, returning to the show. They'll be doing a live in studio performance in the second hour on tomorrow's show. And of course tomorrow's Friday, so we'll have Eric Pilter's classic film review and we have an additional musical guest tomorrow. DJ Reckless will be here tomorrow. Reckless hasn't joined us on the show in a while. I see him every day, of course, but but I should mention he is going to be He's got a show tonight at Murphy's tap Room down sort of toward the other end of ELM Street here if you're in the Manchester area, come check him out project Reckless University. He posted this on social media. Classes in session Reckless University tonight at Murphy's tap Room starting at I think at nine pm if I'm not mistaken, four ninety four Elm Streets, So check it out. Also, Diego the DJ will be there as well, So that will be tonight. Not only, by the way, is Reckless at Murphy's tap Room tonight, but he will be at the Hop Knot on Saturday night because the Hop Knot our amazing sponsor and the Brady Sullivan at one thousand Elm Street right across the street from us. Actually I can see them from here. I can wave, but we're on a slight delay. Uh this uh, it's their fourth birthday this Saturday of the twenty third, and so first in the afternoon, they've got some things going on in afternoon of live music. At one pm they have Matt Litzinger, At three pm Jasmine Man and at four pm MICHAELA. Horren. I wonder if she's related to Kevin Horren, who we've had on the show and who also plays there a lot. But yeah, so they've got Matt Litzinger, Jasmine Man and MICHAELA. Horren and then they're gonna close for a few hours from five to eight pm to get ready for the evening's festivities, reopening at eight pm for a dance party with Big Gay Events, which is capitalized, so I assume that's the name of the company putting it on the promoter Big Gay Events and a set from DJ Reckless from nine pm to midnight. So Reckless will be at the hop Knot for the fourth birthday celebration, and Jenny and I will be there at some point on Saturday as well, so come down and say hello. We will be making an appearance to say hello everyone and wish happy birthday to our amazing sponsor. By the way, today is Thursday, which means tonight at the hop Knot a very popular feature there trivia Night, as they do every Thursday night, hosted by the Great Broderick Lang. The only thing is we do recommend that you call ahead to reserve a spot because those spots fill up very quickly because trivia is a very popular feature there, so you will want to call ahead to reserve your table unless you're not going to partake in the trivia. You might just go to enjoy some delicious gourmet pretzels or have something from the ever growing assortment of Kraft beer. So lots lots of good stuff going on there, we have. I have one other announcement to make, by the way, but let me give let me give the show info, the contact info for the show. If you'd like to join us today on the program, six zo three two five zero six zero seven is the studio line 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 endo Pine in the Facebook live chat and we will be saying hello to everybody in there in a moment. 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, and we'll hold off on the announcement because our friend Shannon is on the line. High Shannon, Hello, Hello, I have been hearing you have a new intro. I'm sorry you have now Oh wait, hold on, is that better. Uh, you have new intro music, I have new new intro music. Yes, and it's uh who oh that is from uh Jerry and the Scumbags. But mister b made a new version of that specifically for for my show. Okay, yeah, no, is it always that short? So it was. I haven't know. That's a little off. That's a little personal, Shannon, But I am irish. Yeah, what what I say? Oh, never mind, I'm sorry. I think we're talking about two different things. The song from Jerry h The first time I heard it, I had to shut it off because the air raid siren. Oh yes, there is an air raid siren in the intro. Yes, yes, you don't like the air raids? Ireen Nshannon, Well, quick story. I was in New York Smithtown, Long Island, and it's not something. The fire department was nearby the school where I was at, and their tone is an air raid siren. Huh. Well that's a little screwed up. I don't know, It's just it was just very startling. I understand while you should be startled. It's Matt Connerton unleashed, yes, but but to hear an air raid siren in the middle of the night at the fire department down the road. It was just weird. I can see where that would yeah, I can see where that would be a bit troubling and perhaps even traumatizing. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah she said no. But anyway, that's it's and I was gonna say now, I always mixed these guys up. Bruce Dickenson. Is it it's Dickinson, right, yes, Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden. Okay, then he went on his own, right, Uh, he did during the nineties, he did do some solo albums. Uh, which are which are don't want to be a tattoo with Millionaire? Oh? Great song? Great song? Yeah? His so, I mean his solo stuff actually, to be honest, sounds a lot like Iron Maiden, uh so. But but yeah, Tattooed Millionaire is a great song. The album Chemical Wedding is really good. I recommend it for anyone who might be a fan of Iron Maiden but not familiar with Bruce Dickinson's solo work. But yeah, he did some really good stuff on his own, and then eventually, of course he went back to the band. Well, okay, all right, oh you know just about every time you well, I could say this, rich Morrow, because you've got to the step talk about it's about. Oh, I can never see what's the thing you're want on Fridays. I don't want to see Spectrum radio. Retrospectrum Spectrum. Yeah, every time you sit down. Guilty I did too. Oh on the plagiarisms, yes, good because there is a difference. Now you guys think you go into a courtroom you have two purple sweatshirts. M someone's going to say they're exactly alike, They're the same, bull, No they're not. If you look real intricately, there's another scene there, right, They're not similar, They're different exactly. How I did that? Comfort? Yeah, yes, yes, okay, Simon, all right, Shannon, good night, all right, thank you you two bye bye. All right. That was our friend Shannon, And that does open up the line for you. Six zo three two five six seven six three two five six zero seven. We should mention that, by the way, two Shannon, and reminds me that tomorrow night on retro Spectrum Radio with Paul c as we do every Friday night from eight to eleven pm here at wm AH. And the honor and privilege of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show. Tomorrow night, we are doing the third and final installment of our song Plagiarisms, where Paul presents a song that was actually plagiarized from another song. Then of course we have a spirited debate after each one about whether it actually was plagiarism. Many of those I declared not guilty. I should have a gavel because you know, there are a lot of chord progressions that are very common and popular music, and there's there's a lot of a lot of those so called plagiarisms that to me are not genuine plagiarisms. Plus, it's very easy. I mean, as a musician myself, someone who's written some songs, you know, it's it's it's very easy to write something and think that it came from your own imagination and then not realize in the moment that it actually is something that you had heard somewhere else and it kind of seeped into your in your subconscious mind, and you know, you think you're writing something new, when an actuality, you're rewriting something that somebody else had already written. It happens a lot in music, of course, it does. It happens in any kind of creative endeavor. It happens in stand up comedy. There's even a term for it, parallel thinking, when different stand up comics come up with very similar sounding jokes and routines who never necessarily heard the original version of it, they just you know, they came up with their own version on their own. So, but tomorrow night will be part three of that. And I saw Paul posted on social media that also tomorrow night we'll be getting a return visit from our friend Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the Randletts. So really looking forward to that too, tomorrow night on Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C. So the announcement that I have is we're going to be creating something new, uh in connection to the show, but separate from the show, and that uh it's it's going to be on the h at my website Matt Connerton dot com. We're going to create a section on the website that people who are part of the show, fans of the show, uh, consistent listeners, whomever, however you want to describe yourself friends of the show a page on the website that you can join and then post and comment directly on a forum on the website. You'll just have to uh, you know, you'll have to sign in with your email address. But it'll be kind of like a Facebook group, and we do have one for the show, the Matt Connerton Unleashed After Show group on Facebook. But I've wanted to I've been thinking about this for a while. I wanted to create a space kind of separate from social media where people can comment or make a suggests for subjects or whatever it is, whatever it is that you want to say, if you want to fact check something that you heard on the show. I wanted to create a place where people can go without being super worried that, oh, this is social media. I might get in trouble, I might get blocked, I might get this, I might get that. Somewhere where none of that will be an issue or a concern. So I am creating a section like that at Matt Connerton dot com. So we'll still have everything else, We'll still have all the Facebook stuff and everything, but but we are going to create a separate thing. It's not a membership type thing. It'll be completely free. You just sign you just sign up for it with your email address and then boom, you're in and you can go in and post things and comment on other people's posts and whatnot. But you know, we might get show ideas, we might get subject ideas for the show from that, if you want to make suggestions. Oh and I see Scott Robinson in the Facebook live chat, which is fortuitous because Scott, your name is about to come up. But so that will be act probably tomorrow actually, and I'll tell you all how to get to the page. There won't be much on it at first. It will be very sparse, but over time there will be some exclusive content there that you know, and I'm even going to uh, I'm thinking about creating a part of that section. I was thinking about calling it the Melanie Files, because I see season in the chat room two and it'll be just every day, I'll go in and I'll post everything that Melanie posted in the Facebook live chat that I couldn't say on the radio. I'll go and I'll I'll post it on the page on the website. So the one thing, though, that I need your help with is I need an idea of what to call it. And the reason Scott, I thought of you is because you'll often say in the chat room, hello all my fellow Connor Tonights or something like that. So I was thinking about calling it Connor Tonights, and and that's what those of you who sign up for it, that's what you'll be. You'll be Connor Tonight's. But with all respect to Scott, I'm not married to that idea. So if somebody has a better name, please throw it out there. You can call the studio line, or say something in the Facebook live chat, or email it to me or texted to me. But but do so soon, because this is gonna go live probably tonight at midnight. And like I said, there won't be much to it in the beginning, but you'll be able to go in there and post whatever you want. It'll be completely uncensored. The only things we won't allow in there, just you know, similar to on social media. Of course, nothing pornographic, if not that anyone, not that anyone in our audience would do that. But if you post something pornographic in there, obviously will will delete that. And of course no hate speech. That should go without saying. But but it has to be in order for it to be you know, it's gonna be a high bar because I want this to be as open and free as possible, So you know, it has to be actual hate speech. You know, if somebody makes an off color joke and I look at it and I think somebody somewhere someday might be a little bit bothered by this, now, that's going to stay. But anything that's just obvious hate speech will be deleted and removed immediately. So that's the plan. But I need to know what to call this. But it will be, like I said, it's going to be very a very open forum. You know, once you've signed into it, you can comment, you can post in there, you can say whatever you want to. If you're the kind of you know, you can get into debates with people in there. If you're the kind of person who gets offended easily, or if you know, or if it hurts your feelings, if people disagree with you, then you're not going to want to participate in it though, because I again I don't want to be a moderator, but I will. I will interact and engage with what people are saying in there, and we'll bring some of that onto the show in terms of suggestions for topics and so forth. So so there you go, but I need to know what to call it. So I need you guys to help me with that. And uh, speaking of calling, we have somebody on the line. Hi, Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Does this a goody? Hey? Dave Ridley? How are you? Oh? No, man, I like the idea of just forum dot Connerton Unleashed dot com. Well, it'll be it'll be at Matt Connerton dot com because I already have the website. I'll just be adding a section to it. And I don't know, maybe forum dot com, forum dot Matt Connerton dot com. Maybe I don't want to use I don't want to use forum. That's so there's something very sort of nineteen ninety five about calling it a forum. Nah, it needs a better Uh, it needs a better name than that. Dave, Okay, do you have anything else? You got anything else you can think? I mean, I don't mean you got anything else that you wanted. I assume that's not what you wanted to talk about, But I mean, do you have any other suggestions before we move on to whether it is whatever it is you were calling out? Nothing I could think of, but I really appreciate you doing that. You know, we when we lost web forums and that type of thing, uh, you know, and everybody migrated to Facebook. That was a big disaster for the United States. That was a big disaster for the United States. Yeah, I think so, because we lost these sort of decentralized you know, heavily trafficked means of communications that we had in twenty eight you know, two thousand and three. That era is very easy to communicate math communication on the internet through web forums, and Facebook centralized that and then censored it. Right right, Oh, Jenny is suggesting the Chronicles of Connorton, But that's too long, Jenny. Connor Tonight's is better because it's just one word, Connor Tonights. What do you think of Connor Tonight's, Dave, Well, at least it's short. I don't I don't think it sounds kind of like a mouthful, but at least it's not a lot of not a lot of letters, rights, right, although looking at it on the screen it does look like a lot of letters actually, But anyway, all right, well, Dave, what's on your mind? My friend? There's some news from the Federal courthouse and conquered. Oh yeah, apparently if it says as that's complaint about on this show a few times, I think they've banned cameras. They've banned cameras in the federal courtroom, in the Federal Courthouse, the whole building. You can't get it. You can't get one through the security checkpoint. Oh you mean if you want to go in there and film. Yeah, or at least they banned filming. Oh is this a recent development, No, this is this goes back decades. Oh, it's just one of those long standing grievances with the federal government. Why they shouldn't be in New Hampshire. All right, Uh so, yeah, go ahead, the late that the news is that now two people have challenged that with civil disobedience and that gets a week ago they went to the Federal court House and tried to film inside the federal building during a know, it's preparatory to a sentencing hearing, and both of them were arrested. Now what were they arrested for? Exactly? They charged them with violating some I think it's probably it's probably a federal rule. I'm not sure if it's the law, but it's the ban on the ban on filming inside federal court houses. Okay, what about do you know does New Hampshire allow filming in state court. Yes, okay, so it's only a federal thing now, it's a little bit more complicated than Yes, I should say generally, it's probably the right word. I have been arrested once for trying to film in the court lobby at King District Court. I feel like this was. This was I was just gonna say, I feel like I've seen videos online of people doing that that specifically in fact, yeah, and since then, over time, more and more people have gone in there and done it. And actually the day I did it, someone else was filming me and they didn't arrest them. They filmed my arrest and arrested themselves. I filmed it live, so the video survived. This was like, this was like a pre planned act of civil disobedience. It was like announced in advanced and you know, a crowd there and everything like that, so sort of a textbook but textbook civil disobedience. I don't know. I didn't know about this until today. It happened eight days ago, so I don't know if I'm not sure it was announced in advanced to when it conquered. Wait, what's just happened to eight days ago? The arrest at conquered Okay, I just I just wanted to be clear. I wasn't sure if you were referring to that or the time that you were arrested and keen. No, I was arrested in two thousand and nine. Okay, but yeah, they charged me with just disorderly conduct, I guess for failing to turn the camera off when ordered. Yeah, for failing to blind my viewers. Now did you so what happened after that? What was the consequence of that arrest? Were you charged or or how did mind? Yeah? They just put me through the court process. Initially, they tried to make a deal where I just paid a two hundred fifty dollars fine. When I refused to pay the fine, they took me a trial and found it guilty and send me to six days incarceration in Keen as the Keen would have been the Chester County jail officially. Oh wow, so you spend six days in the in the Who's scale? Correct? Wow? I had no idea, Dave, Okay, Yeah, you've been. You've been. I've been arrested. That's just that one. But I wouldn't I didn't call it talk about me. This is just the latest and it's more use more useful. I think what these guys did than what I did, because they're striking get the root of our our suffering. Right, the Hampton Department of Corrections or the Keen distrectcord is not the main problem in the world, right, but but the federal government is, Like that is d number one problem facing the world right now is the federal government and the behavior of it. Right, the torture chambers, the New War started every ten years, the twenty percent tax rate, it's just endless. You know what they do, but even China doesn't. I'm just still curious about your your experience in jail, Like did you have to shive anybody? After? What? Did you have to stick a shiv in anybody to survive? Shiv? No? I was, I was fairly popular in this one. I'm not always popular when I go to jail, but in this case I was. Yeah. Guards would stop and they would stop, and they would come by the cells and meet me. Really uh, and you were a celebrity, very nice. Yeah, it was real nice. And then the cell the block that I was. So what I did was I I refused to provide them information when I went in, which costs them more costs them more money, and they administrative hassle for them, and they have to put you in solitary confinement and stuff like that. Wait, they put you in solitary confinement. Correct. I was in solitary confinement the whole time, basically the whole time. Dave. I'm sorry, but this is this is way more fascinating to me than the other thing. So you were so what was that? What was that like? Being in solitary confinement? Was that? I mean I can't even imagine. Well, I mean, they give you your own apartment. Basically, yeah, aren't you in a little bit boring? But uh, you know I could still communicate with other inmates or detainees or what do you want to call them. So there were six other guys in there, and so we could all talk to each other. We kind of forgot what he sort of looked like, but we you know, we communicated and we started organizing. You know, while we were in there organizing. I wouldn't I wouldn't be doing that in there, Dave. That sounds like government to me. Start organizing, creating your own little government in the uh in the prison? Were you? Were you going to create your own government? And then secede from the jail. We was succeeded if we could. Yeah, well no, there you go. So yeah, for instance, like one guy got in trouble, he misunderstood his instructions or something like that, they were going to punish him. So we all made a little little letter writing campaign. Uh, you know, each of us wrote a letter to his supervisor to try and protect him. And there were, you know a couple of other minor things we did. We know, I was able to investigate a death that had occurred in the jail a few months before I arrived, and I was able to report on what happened. And there, you know, we had a lie again. The arrest was recorded live, and then we had I was able to live stream from the demonstration. And when I got out of jail, you know, there were you know, about thirty or forty people outside waiting to greet me. And of course that had an effect on the jail, right like everybody's like, who who are those protesters? Oh? This is great? It was raised morale of everybody in the jail, and so that one, you know, but there, you know, that was what that was what we could do. It wasn't all you know, perfect and everything that that's what we could do in two thousand nine. But again now now the Hampshire activists are doing I think something better. And you can see the video if you go there's the video of the arrest that occurred and conquered if you go to uh just its forum dot Shire Society dot com and there you can just see the video. Okay, interesting, All right, Wow, I can't believe. I can't believe you you spend six days in solitary. That's wild because I can't believe these guys were arrested right Like, it's no because if you're investing over something that happened a long time ago and it's not that big a deal. But the federal the federal government is doing this all over the United States and no one's even talking about it. Every single federal courthouse completely unconstitutional restricting recording. And they're they're the source of all the power that's in that the state government has. Right, the state government wouldn't be able to get away with these kinds of censorship without federal assistance, right, federal federal funds, so that they're they're the root of the problem. Well, I don't know what would what would be to stop the state government from well, unless you're speaking in a broader sense. Are you're talking about the not being able to film in court or you are you're talking just generally in terms of the state government not being able to do well. The reason that the Hampshire the state in the Hampshire State government is that maybe the least bad state government in the Union. But it's it would be a lot less bad if it were aren't enabled by the federal government. Right, the federal government sends them all these funds, all these all this military hardware to act like a police state. You know, they don't. They're not as bad as Chicago, right, They're not as bad as as Texas. But but they still wouldn't they For instance, in Keene, in Chester County where I live, they wouldn't have they wouldn't have an armored vehicle. The police department doesn't have an armored vehicle, by it all. It has an armored vehicle because the fans gave them one. And you know, the only time they ever used it against anyone, they used it to come after a political activist. It's that's the bearcat, right is that is that what they call that the bearcat right, and everybody in king came out. It seemed like everybody and their kitchen think came to the earring to testify against accepting the bearcat right. They told the King's City Council, we don't want this. So the King's City Council said, oh, okay, everyone doesn't want us to have it, so we're gonna have it now. Crystal, our friend from the great state of Illinois. As a question for you in the chat room, what reason is Dave Ridley wanting to film in a courthouse? Is there a particular case involved? Well, the reason I filmed in the courthouse is because does there have to be a reason, right? Right? So because of you should be your position as you should be free to do that regardless because because why because our our taxpayers pay for that. Well, I mean I can say that, but I can also say there were some specific things that made that day are good to do? Good day to do it? They were trying they were trying to censor somebody else right there. There was another guy a few months before that, he'd gone in there and he was filming, he was filming a hearing, and they ordered him to turn the camera hawk as they were arresting somebody at the hearing. Oh right, so he was. I mean, it's a little more believe that it was. It was more like thirty seconds after the arrest started. I guess you could say something along his life. But anyway, they were, they were restricting somebody else in there. So to protest that, I said, well, I'm going to go in there, and I am not going to accept restrictions on camera activity in that building. I mean, not outside, not out, not as long as I'm outside the bathroom. You know, as long as I'm not in the bathroom, I'm gonna film. Now, what if I don't know if you've ever run into anything like this stave, or if you've ever seen anyone run into this particular scenario. But but I'll just ask you anyway and we can it can be a hypothetical. But if you if you were filming or trying to film it, or someone else was trying to film and the say, the defendant in the case felt that their privacy was being violated in some way and they didn't want you to film, and they asked you to leave. What what would you do? Or has that ever actually come up? Well, in a sense, you know, comes up every time I'm driving down the road and I see flashing lights on the side of the road, right like that when someone's being pulled over. I don't film the arrest. I might film an arrest, but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna walk up to a traffic stop and try to film that because I don't know what the I don't know what the detainee wants. So the target of the track traffic stop. It's kind of the same thing in court. If an dependent doesn't want me filming him, I might not film that, right. There would have to be some reason. I'm trying to protect defendends against the government, and if the dependent feels that that's not helpful to them, why am I going to waste my time on that? Right? I think maybe from let me just kind of play Devil's Advocate with you a little bit here, I think I think maybe from the I you know, I'm a big transparency guy. I like transparency, But I think maybe from the point of view of the government, there might be an idea that we should presume that defendants don't want somebody they don't know. Just generally, uh, most defendants probably don't want somebody they don't know coming into their court hearing and filming that. You know what I'm saying, Baron, I'm not saying I'm against people filming defendant. In general, they have the right. People have the right to film a defendant at court and film all court proceedings. They should also be able to film. Actually, I believe the jury deliberations because it's all public, it all affects the taxpayer expenditures. But I'm just saying I personally wouldn't I probably wouldn't focus on that in most cases unless unless, if if the defendant wanted me not to right right, I would hope that you would and I would assume, actually, uh that that you would respect that if someone asks you or not not film that, not film them. But you know, I mean it's a little bit complicated because if you think about it, George orwell what was what do you say? Uh? You know, journalism is printing something that someone doesn't want you to print. Everything else is public relations. So it's just not just because someone doesn't want you to film something doesn't automatically mean you shouldn't film it. Now I take your point, Okay, Now, so what happens to Uh so, these these two individuals who were arrested, what are they charged? Are they What's what's happening now? Because it's just happened right eight days ago. I just found out about it. I don't know what the charges were specifically, and I don't know if they're out yet. Okay, yeah, did the details? The details are on forum dot or society dot com. I don't have them all in front of me. Are they people? You know? Yeah, it's Frank Staples and Jason Gerhard. Staples is like he's a like a cranky, angry activist who came out of the juvenile system in New Hampshire. Annoying, but the state government created him. I was gonna say, he sounds better than the other but he's fun at parties. Yeah. And the other one the state. If the state government doesn't like him, it's the state government, through the state government created and they can blame themselves. But the and the other guy is Jason Gerhard who is a state Rep. Oh no kidding, I was gonna say, I don't know him either, but he's a state Rep. Okay, interesting, the state Rep. By the way, he he's the state Rep who has sponsored secession legislation this session, Constitutional amendment to allow a referend amount of secession. Oh okay, all right, yeah, taking another bite at that apple? Yeah okay, all right, well very good. Uh well, Dave. Always appreciate the call. What was there anything you wanted to add? Anything else on your mind? That is all? Again for him? For him? Got sor sorry? Oh wait, yes, yes, oh wait Dave, before you go, I totally forgot Dave. I've been meaning to ask you this and you haven't called in a while. I don't know if you saw it, but I was behind a car in traffic one day and I took a picture. The license plate said n hxit on it is that you? No, but that sounds bid okay. I was curious if it was some I'm sure it's somebody you know, but you don't know. You don't know who has that plate. Obviously, No, I don't know who has that one. Yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, even if you did, we probably shouldn't say say that on the air. But but yeah I did. I posted the picture on Facebook. You probably didn't see it, but and I but I actually wrote in the post, I said, Ridley, is that you? But obviously it wasn't you, but I thought you'd like that. But all right, very good, Dave, thank you so much for the call. You're welcome to much for the call. All right, take care, bye bye, all right bye. All right, we heard from our friend Dave Ridley and wow, Dave, Dave was in the in the Big House for six days in solitary confinement. That's wild. I'm just fascinated by that. We have a call, but stop showing up on the callad. So, I have no idea who this is. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Who's this? Hey? Matt's Polly? Oh police from retro Spectrum Radio with police. Yes, what is it that you were looking to get named? Oh? So I'm starting at Matt Connerton dot com. There's going to be a page that people will be able to access to post things, things that maybe they don't want to put on social media, but things that they, you know, are things related to the show, maybe political whatever, and they don't want to have to worry about being censored. And so it'll be like a like a page for the show, but it'll be separate from social media. It'll be on my website and the right now I'm leaning toward calling at Connor Tonights, which was Scott Robinson's, because he calls, you know, he'll sometimes come into the chat room and he'll say, hello, my fellow Connor Tonights. So trying to decide what to call it. Hyeah one. Yes, So when you create a forum and forgive me for using that word to me, that just sounds so nineties. But anyway, yes, the words forum, Yes, you could, and I'm sure this forum will well, we'll welcome a lot of attitudes and moods and frustration and tones and so forth. Breads. Yes, So why don't you call it Connor tones? Connor tones, Connor tones. Oh, I kind of like that, and put tones and capitals you know too, any Connor tones. That's that's good, Paul, That's that's really good. I like that. Thank you. Yeah you can use it. Fifty bucks. Wow, I'll write you and I owe you. Yeah. No, yeah, you're welcome to use it. That one just went right through my head when you were talking about it, so I figured i'd throw it out there for you. That's good, that's good. Yeah, I like it. I think that I think we have a new leading candidate. Awesome, Okay, yeah, I will stay in touch. I'm at the edge of my seat in the meantime. I'll see you tomorrow night, which it's a great Dan Randall DJ Steve will not be joining us. He's going to New York to visit his mom. Ah, very good, all right, well, looking forward to that'll be fun to hang out with Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the Randletts. Absolutely. Yeah. Steve and I were at the beach last night and apparently Dan was there at a concert. And when we drove by the casino, there was like eight people, so I think it was like Dan and eight other people who saw whoever it was at the casino last night? Oh, I saw something on Facebook. He posted about the show he was at. And I can't remember what show it was, but I but exactly nobody can. But but whoever it was, I seem to remember thinking, oh, they're still around. I'll have to look. Yeah, right, I'll have to look at the break who it was. That's cool? All right, man, Well, I'll check in with you tomorrow, my friend. All right, all, thank you, all right, bye bye? All right. Policy from Retrospectrum Radio with Police Friday nights from eight to eleven PM right here at WMH ninety five point three FM, and looking forward to that tomorrow night. Friday is my favorite day of the week here at WMNH. It's my long day here and I do love it so Connor Tones. I like that. That's good. That's really good. Let's see six zero three two five zero six zero seven if you'd like to join a six O three two five ozho six zero seven. Actually, in high school, it reminds me. In high school, I had a friend Mark Schaffey, huge iron maiden fan. I haven't seen or talked to Mark in a very very long time, but he used to call me Matt Connor Tone. That was his nickname for me. My primary nickname in high school, if you will, was Kinnarton, and that came about because on the first day of school every year, all these teachers, you know, they'd be doing the roll call on the first day of class and they'd get to my name and they'd be like, Matthew co Connarton. It's like, no, it's Connerton. But for some reason the educators in Concord, New Hampshire would really struggle with my last name, which is odd in a way because the first syllable ends in a double consonant co n N, which usually indicates that that is where the emphasis would go Connerton, not Connarton. But for some reason, that's how they'd say Conarton. No, that's not it, but it caught on. I'll you know. Eventually, after a while, a lot of my friends, not all of them, but a lot of them started calling me Conarton. But yeah, Mark Schafey used to call me Matt connertone. Let's see, we'll say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us Queen City Cabinetry, of course, one of our great sponsors here at WMNH. He's in the chat room. Also, easyg. Eric Gagnon says Happy Unbirthday, peeps. Jenny is in the chat room, of course and says shalom peeps. Also Melanie Liberty from the Great State of Vermont joins us. Crystal from the Great State of Illinois joins us. Tom Blanchard from right here in New Hampshire joins us and says Hi everyone. Carol Zawarrowitz is in the chat. Scott Robinson says, I vote for a section where we have more. Eric Gagnon and Tim reports. Is that, oh, entertainment reports, is that what you're what you're saying? Reports? Is that possible? Matt, that's up to EASYG. Crystal in the Chat Room says music plagiarism. Does that include musicians who paid to use the copyright to quote rewrite parts of the song. For example, Diddy's I'll Be Missing You. That song did come up on the show, but in that case, I mean that was you know, he sampled the entire every Breath You Take by the police. But but yeah, they worked that out legally, and then Staying actually performed that live with Diddie at the MTV Video Music Awards that year. Scott Robinson says, well, I get royalties, lol, just kidding. Well, you would have Scott when I was going with Connor Tonight's but I really like the Connor tones. Let's see. Scott also said when this thing opens up, I am hoping to engage with this Dave Ridley, I have a lot of questions for him. Oh, Paul Paulicy says Sting got one percent of the royalties. That's right. I forgot about that. That's right, Yes, we did. We did get into that. That was one of the songs this past Friday. Uh, let's see. Crystal also said, or do they consider songs like that something other than plagiarism because they are changed lyrics, but the background music was reused and repurposed into a different style of music from the original. Well, yeah, that wouldn't be considered a plagiarism because was obvious, you know. But but there were a lot of there are a lot of plagiarisms. Led Zeppelin, of course, being the worst offenders of all time. Paul had put together entire led Zeppelin segments and actually we've done a couple of entire led Zeppelin shows about their plagiarism because they've stole I mean, there's no other way to put it it. Don't get me wrong, much love and respect for led Zeppelin. Although if I never hear a Stairway to Heaven again for as long as I live, I'm fine with it. Great song, but you know, the first hundred thousand times I heard it over the course of my life. After that, I was good. But yeah, I mean, Zeppelin is so blatant. They even stole a song from Joan Bayaz, which was shocking to me, but I learned that from Paul. Let's see Crystal also said in the chat room regarding Dave Ridley's call, I think media can ask permission for trials of public interest, for example Trump or Hunter Biden, but the judge can say no, and sometimes they do. Yeah, that's true. In a lot of these instances. It's up to the judge. You know, for high profile cases, you know whether or not cameras will be allowed. That is true. Crystell also said, Wow, he wants to film jury deliberations that could potentially endanger jurors in mafia cases and other cases. Yeah, that was my first thought too, Crystal. That was the first thing that I thought of. Do not that there's any such thing as the mafia. I just want to throw that out there. I don't want to leave here in there's a bomb in my car. The defendant would know who and what the jurors were saying to each other. Dangerous. I think if filmed, it would taint and prevent the jurors from talking things out for fear of retaliation. Yeah, absolutely agree with you, Crystal. I'm not on board with that either. I think that would be very problematic actually filming jury deliberations. Chris Rose from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts joins us in the shout and says good afternoon, Good afternoon. Chris Crystal said, teachers used to butcher my name too, both my first name, and they'd say godspeed versus good speed. Yeah, yeah, my name and my name gets misspelled a lot too. In fact, when I was the very first, this wouldn't happen today because everything's online, everything's electronic. But the very first bank account that I ever had, it was a savings account that my parents opened for me while I was still a teenager, and so it was my very first bank account, and on the bank book, my last name was actually spelled wrong. It was spelled co o n n E r t o n, which, by the way, is the more common spelling of my last name. There. You know, Connerton obviously is not a very common last name to begin with, although there is another Matt Connerton right here in New Hampshire, but he's my uncle. But Connerton is not a common name. But the way that my family spells at cnn A r t o N, that's even less common. About once a year, I'll go on Facebook and I'll just see what other Connerton's I can find, and there's more of us than there used to be, certainly on Facebook, but not that many. Crystal says, I wish you guys didn't have to mute Facebook for retro Spectrum. I think I'd like that show. It's just a pain in the butt to have to use two devices. Well, Crystal, can't you just open another browser tab? Because that's what we encourage people to do for Retrospectrum Radio. If you don't know what Crystal's referring to. On retro Spectrum Radio with paulc on Friday nights, Paul mutes the Facebook feed because it's it's all this copyrighted music and Facebook is actually Facebook is really clamping down recently about that. So what we encourage people to do is go into the Facebook Live chat with us, but then open a second browser tab and just stream the show at WMH Radio dot org. Just click listen live and you're good to go. Shannon's on the line. Hi, Shannon, I just got to ask you to be quick because we were on a schedule. I got a musical guest. Well, see, now I'll be excluding because I can't participate. How about confoolery? How about what tomfoolery? Confoolery? Uh, that would be Uh, that would be concumbersome, uh, Shannon, but uh, but I like it. I like it confoolery, but it'd be too much, it would be confusing to people. Yeah, Connor Tones is good, Paul. Paul really came through with that. I like that one a lot. Connor Tones, I like it's time to see Yes. Yes, I'm gonna I'm gonna fill out an I owe you. Yes. All right, Shannon, bye bye, all right, very good. All right, here's what we're gonna do, because it is close to the top of the hour. We're gonna take a quick break. Oh hello to Joe Friday, who joins us in the Facebook lat Chat. Gonna take a quick break. We're gonna show some love to our amazing sponsors here at wmn H ninety five point three, and then we're gonna play another track from Iron Jaw. We're going to play The Wolf King, which is the newest single and there's a there's a video out for this song too, which is very very cool. But I love this song really really good. So we're gonna play We're gonna play The Wolf King, and then by the time we get to the end of the song, we should have the band I'm not sure again if it's just gonna be Rick or if it's gonna be other members joining him, but we will have at least at least one member, perhaps more of Iron Jaw on skype with us all the way from Texas. 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That's a strength that silence fallacy and my brothers a La state dead fires the bataunas out. The lady clad row got die out. And that's who is better, say brown Jay j oh, that is so good. That is the Wolf King and the band is Iron Jaw and we have joining us. Have your skype all the way from Texas, so I know, uh, I know Rick is on there because it's his name on the Skype account. Rick, are you there? Yeah? Can you hear me? Matt? Yeah? Absolutely? It sound great? And uh is it just you or do you have some other gentlemen there too? Just me? Just you? Okay? I love the I love the new track. That's so good. Great. I'm glad you like it. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like you guys have evolved. Obviously you've been on the show with us before and uh, I was already a fan, but that's that's next level. And I like the video too. I watched the video on Facebook and really good stuff. Man, oh how much? Well you're our singer Todd Pack he uh he put the video together. Okay, Now does he do? You've got some other videos too? Does does he do all the videos? Is he the one who is responsible for that? He has been? Uh? Yeah, he started doing the videos. Uh, I guess. Uh. One of the last songs we did a video for on the first album. He did the video for that one and uh, because it was costing is too much to to get someone else to do the videos, and we were trying to be self sufficient. We wanted to put out videos for almost all those songs because it's the best way to get them, for them to get some traction and and uh, some good exposure on social media that way. Yes, the way people consume music nowadays, it's a lot better to have a music video. So we decided we want to have a video for every song, and uh, but that was gonna be too expensive, of course, But so Todd took it upon himself to figure out how to do it. And he shoots him on his iPhone and edits it together and it turns out pretty cool. It's amazing, isn't it That we live in a time where the technology has become so advanced that you you really can, you know, using your iPhone, you can you can shoot videos and and then edit them, and it's just it's just amazing and and and you can put out videos that look, you know, totally professional, like you don't you don't know watching a video like that. Was it shot with an iPhone or was or did they bring in expensive cameras and a whole crew and everything you do, you you literally don't know because you're able to do such amazing things now with the technology. It's it's so amazing to live in a time where I know I keep saying amazing, but it really is amazing to me that we live in a time it is it is amazing that the technology has progressed that much. Yeah that really uh, all you as long as you have some creativity, Uh, you know, you really can almost achieve almost anything. Uh, it's it's it's it's it's mind blowing to think about, you know, because I've been doing this for a while, and back then, you know, you would have had to try to find some guy and pay them thousands of dollars to do it. But now it's able to You're able to do pretty uh pretty easily just on your own. So you know, uh, we look at it as it's fun for us to try to find creative ways to do something on a real low budget and make it look cool. Yeah exactly. You know what else is interesting about it too, is uh and it's you know, the times that we live in is that for a long time, there was this idea, this perception that music videos were kind of a dead art form because you know, MTV had stopped playing videos and you know, a long time ago now, and VH one too, you know, they kind of phased all that out in favor of reality TV and stuff like that. And so even today, there's still people who I talked to and I'm sure you do too, who are not involved in the music industry at all, who have a perception that that music videos aren't really a big thing anymore, when in reality, I would argue there's more music videos than ever being made now because like you said, it's it's they're bigger than ever. Yeah, you don't need MTV and VH one. You've got social media, so you can make a great music video and uh and show it to the world and it's it's incredible and and like you said too, you know, ideally you'd like to be able to have a video for every song, but that's that's difficult. But you know, artists who have you know, millions and gajillions of dollars, they'll said, like like, if Beyonce puts out a new album, she's the next thing, you know, there's a video for every single song on the album on YouTube, and it's like, Wow, you know, but she's got the budget for it. But but it just shows you how powerful the medium of music video still is. It's really incredible, it really is. I think like the last Metallic album, I think they had a video for every song. Yes, they do, and they weren't all they weren't all like band videos where they weren't actually in their own videos. But you know, some of them might have been animated or different kinds of uh filmmakers doing it, but they they had a video for every song. Yeah, and uh, it's you know, I think that just the way people consume music now. Uh, if you if you're only given them a thumbnail of the album cover, I don't think they're gonna stick around and listen to the whole thing, you know, unless they really like it. But in most cases they need that extra visual stimulation to to lure them in. And uh, you know it's fun though. I don't mind it. I think it's cool. Yeah. Absolutely, did you do all that in one day? This this uh the video for for the wolf thing? Yeah, yeah, we just did that in our rehearsal room. Uh you know, just uh put some lights up and uh you know, hung up some tarp and uh, you know, and just shot it took a few hours. Yeah, you know. Yeah, Oh, it's amazing. It's amazing. Now, so the new track is that? Is that just a single or is that part of a new album or well we we had recorded all these songs at the same time and they were we're done last year. We recorded him at the beginning of the year. Like like the first song the first time I was on you played that song Pyromancer. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it's the same sessions that Pyromancer was recorded, and we recorded like seven songs. But like I said, whenever we were on the first time on your show, we instead of just putting them all out at once, we just wanted to kind of space them out. So we're just putting one out with a video every two or three months, okay, you know. And that way, I just think that each song gets to, you know, really register with people. They get a chance to absorb it and appreciate it. Whereas if oh I think we lost Rick, all right, let me mute that because Skype's not working. Let's play this. This is our crypt of Rodan from Iron Jaw. Check this out and then we'll see if we can get Rick on the landline. All right, let's see. I think we've got Rick on the phone here. Yeah, I'm here. Oh okay, yeah, this will work better. I think I'm so sorry about that. Oh no, that's okay. Uh yeah. Skype can be uh, Skype can be glitchy at times. You should hear what goes wrong when I have an international artist from the UK trying to skype in and it's all along, yeah, yeah, something. You just never know what's gonna happen. But yeah, so I'm glad you're able to uh yeah, you sound just as good on the phone anyway. So if you are just joining us, Rick Perry, not the former governor of course of Texas, but Rick Perry of Texas, but from the band Iron Jaw is joining us on the phone, and I'll start that track over at the end of the segment that crypto rode Down. That's another really great track. Is that Rodan? Is that a reference to Rodean from the Godzilla movies? Yeah, sort of, sort of is sort of a reimagining of Rodan. Is a kind of an HP Lovecraft type uh monster, you know that was maybe worshiped by some cult or something. Just it was just kind of a starting point. But yeah, it's uh, I'm definitely a big fan of those old Godzilla movies. Yeah, yeah, I remember seeing a lot of those when I was a kid. There's a there's a television station in this area. Actually it's in Boston w LVII, channel fifty six, and they used to do when I was a kid, on the weekends, they would have Creature double feature where they would show two of those movies back to back. There. I heard that there's a station that plays nothing but Godzilla movies twenty four hours a day. Now, Oh good lord, yeah, the Godzilla Network. Oh wow. Now the band uh Sepsis is in our Facebook live chat and you know we were talking earlier about social media, you know, making music videos and distributing and distributing them on social media, and Sepsis says in the chat room, without social media plus music videos, d I y, some of us would be invisible. Quality resources and timing you guys got it. So it sounds like Sepsis as a fan of what you're doing. Very good. But that's very true. Yeah, I mean you have to try to figure out different ways to uh to catch people's attention and uh, you know, gain some traction I mean it's kind of like a you know, in the in the seventies, of course, you know, you just had a handful of major labels and they were the gatekeepers and they decided what was cool and and uh, you know, it was very hard to to get your music out to people back then. But now it's you know, it's the opposite problem. Now there's so much music out there, you have to find a way to try to you know, stand out right exact actually exactly? Is that something you guys actively think about in your approach, like how to stand out because there is so much and I would imagine where you are in Texas, there's there's probably a lot of metal. I mean, you know, some people have this stereotyped idea, Oh Texas, there's probably a lot of country music and whatnot. And obviously there's that too, but there's a lot of there's a lot of really good metal bands that come out of Texas. As. Metal is big in Texas. Yeah, metal is definitely be big in Texas. Yeah, of course, I mean Texas is a big state. You know, there's a lot of spaces in between, uh, you know, Dallas and Houston and San Antonio. You know, there's a lot of small towns where it's you know, not much going on, but in the major cities, you know, metal is definitely very big. Yeah, and as far as standing out, we just try to focus on uh, you know, we're not trying to be the most heaviest extreme uh metal band or the fastest or anything like that. We're just trying to write real good songs and hopefully, you know, catchy, memorable songs with hooks that people will uh find interesting and easy to latch onto. And and you know, that's that's just what we're doing. That's what we'd like to do, and so we're just gonna follow that path and hopefully we figure if we're doing something that we like doing, you know, then hopefully other people will like it too. Yeah. Having the hooks is important, and uh yeah, I mean I really love what you're doing. You know. The songs are heavy, they're fast, but they're also very melodic and uh which which makes it really easy to get into. Are there Are you playing a lot of shows out there down in Texas? We haven't been, but we're about to start again soon. No, because we've been we've been dealing with the drummer issues and yeah, we we we've been auditioning and trying to find a drummer. We don't have a permanent drummer yet, but we do have a very good drummer who is uh, I mean, he's like a world class drummer. He's going to help us out to do some shows. But we're still looking for a permanent person of our own to do that. So yeah, I think we found someone. We we tried someone out there to day and he turned out pretty good. So we're gonna we're gonna see what happens. I can imagine that. Yeah, we'll be we'll be playing some shows again lately soon because uh, it's actually been the last time we played a show is actually October of last year. And uh, we're definitely itching to play some shows. No, I think that's it's really important for a metal band. I think to make that live connection to the audience, you got to definitely, And I can imagine though, it's a challenge as far as drummers because what you're doing, you know, those those drum lines in uh, for example, in The Wolf King, which which we played earlier. You know, it's pretty sophisticated stuff, you know, And yeah, and you can hear, you know, the mix is so good, you can hear everything that's going on. You can hear every time hit. You know, you can really hear the double bass. It's pretty sophisticated. So just finding a drummer who can play that and play that correctly without being sloppy about it, that's got to be a tremendous challenge. I would imagine, Well, there's the good drummers are in high demand, and they are almost every If he's a good drummer, he's probably playing in two or three bands. That's how it is nowadays, uh, because it seems like every drummers in like three or four bands. Yeah, so we we have found some uh we found we've tried out some people who were really good players, but maybe the personalities didn't fit. And uh, and that's important for us too, because if we're gonna hang out with someone, you know, you know, you gotta have someone that you can hang with, you know. Yeah, the personalities meshing is also important. So but yeah, there's good drummers out there. We just we just need to find ours, our permanent one. I've always had a theory that because you know, it's it's the same everywhere I think where drummers are always the hardest to find, uh And like you said, they're usually playing in multiple bands. It's the same thing here. And my theory has always been that there's just not as many drummers because you know, when you're growing up and you decide you want to start playing music, and you start talking to your parents about, you know, I want to get a musical instrument. I want to get a guitar or a bass or whatever it is, they're going to You're gonna have a drum kid in the exactly exactly your parents. If there's one instrument your parents are going to try to steer you away from, it's probably that or maybe the tuba, you know, because those get pretty loud, you know. But there's always some kids. There's always some kids down the street. Practice is too off key yourself, right right? Yeah? Afternoons? Yeah, yeah, drums, you know, I mean drummers special breed. I mean, you got to you got much more equipment to lug around, and it always takes some longer to set everything up and tear it down, and it's a it's a pain in the ass, I guess being a drummer, you know, oh yeah. I mean that's why I wanted to play guitar, you know, so, but uh, you know, you gotta have them though. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, one of our sponsors in the chat room, just said, that's a very good point, Matt, that's why my kid is playing guitar. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. But but yeah, so it sounds like you've got a you've got somebody potentially, So that's good. That's yeah. Yeah. And when when you guys do play out, what what's the live show like? Are there any theatrics or do you do you keep it u simple because the music is kind of I can see, you know, it's got that epic vibe to it, so I can see how it would lend itself to some cool stage effects. But I don't know if you're if you're you try to, we try to, uh, you know, just you definitely want to, you definitely want to try to put on a performance because it's when people are coming to see you, you know. It's I don't think it's uh, I don't think it's sufficient just to be sitting there, standing there playing your instrument, you know, looking at your at your hands while you're playing your guitar or something like that. You need to try to project to the audience and try to to entertain them in some way. We don't have any theatrics or anything like that. You know, maybe some some lights or fog or you know, some to make some dramatic things, or maybe some intro tapes or some different you know, segues and sound effects and things like that. But really it's pretty raw, loud, in your face heavy metal. And I think that the crowd just reacts to the energy of the musicians. The musicianship and uh and and and the performances. So yeah, we usually have a good crowd in our shows and uh and they're they're into it, and it becomes a nice circle of energy. You know. They give energy to us and we give energy right back to them. So yeah, I'm misplaying on stage and we can't wait to be playing some shows again. Seen. Oh yeah. Yeah. Are there other bands in your area that when you are actively playing out that you kind of you know how sometimes bands it It happens really by accident, I think most of the time, but bands will sort of partner up with other bands and do a lot of shows with them. Yeah, yeah, we've done. There are several bands right here that we've done shows with. You know, I've been around this music scene here and Alice for years and years and years, and I know a lot of them. I'm good friends with. You know, quite a few bands from around here, Life of Scars and Siege Hammer and Edge of Insanity. There, there's quite a few bands. Uh uh. The Mike Woosley, the guy who calls into your show sometimes, he was his band. Yeah, he was. He was in un Now he was. He was in Infinity Vane until recently. Yeah, right, right, but he quit, right yeah, he left Infinity vein the crisis of faith or something. I'm not sure exactly what happened. I just know it doesn't it doesn't look like it ended well from just from what I see on social media. But I don't know exactly what happened. But but he's got but I think he's got another project he's doing, and he's also got some solo stuff. So hopefully we'll hear some new music from him soon. But yeah, he's a he's a good musician. I'm sure. I'm sure you'll do something. Oh yeah, yeah, I think you think. When I saw him post that thing, I'm I'm quitting the music business. I was like, come on now, yeah, I doubt that. Yeah, it can be well as you know, it can be discouraging at times, you know, and and uh, sometimes when something doesn't work out. You know, music is such a such an intimate thing when when you're making music with other people and it becomes like a family or a brotherhood. And then when when it doesn't work out, it really can really affect you emotionally, you know, and it does, it does. Uh, trust me, I know exactly how that goes because I've been in you know, bands, and then when it when it falls apart for whatever reason. Yeah, it can be very upsetting. But but I'm a lifer and I just, you know, I find something else to jump onto, and it might take you a few months. But I don't know, even if I wasn't in the band, I think I'd still be playing, you know, for sure, I'd still be writing songs at home. So yeah, I don't know. It's it's not something I'm doing for money or anything like that. It's just something that I got to do right right. By the way, speaking of writing songs, who who writes the songs? Uh? In in Iron Jow. Do you all write together or how does that work? Usually I write the music, or our other guitar player, Jeff Brown, he writes music. He wrote the music for Wolf King as a matter of fact, and then the band as a whole kind of arranges it. Uh. Todd wrote the lyrics to that one Wolf King. He's wrote the lyrics to most of the ones we've done recently. I wrote some of the ones that one of the first album. Uh. So you know it's I say, basically, between me and Jeff, we write the music, Todd and myself write the lyrics, but then the whole band, you know, pitches in and helps arrange it. And you know, everyone has their ideas and we try all the ideas and just see what works out the best. Sometimes sometimes you have an idea for a song and then uh, the other band members will hear it, and then they'll take it in a completely different direction that you might have even imagined when you came up with it. But it turns out to be, you know, what's the best for that song. So you never really can tell. But I think by having us all pitch in and offer suggestions and work on the arrangements. That way, everyone's invested in it and everyone feels like they're part of it, and it's just better that way. It's better if everyone feels like, you know, that they're they have input into the music. Oh, definitely. And I used to be back in back in the old days whenever I was like, you know, twenty or something like that, I was maybe too much of a micro manager, and I would think, you know, I had to control every little thing and tell every person what to play, and you play this part no known and uh, I realized that's just that's stupid and counterproductive. You know, people are the singer is going to do better if he had if he feels invested in what he's singing. So if he if he came up with it, he's gonna he's gonna put more of his passion and soul into it. And and that's what that's what makes good music. Yeah, And I always thought it was kind of you know, I've played in some bands and if I had an idea for a song and I came up with something and it ended up being different, you know, with the input from the other members, if it ended up being something very different than what I than my original idea. Always kind of enjoyed that because to me, it kind of made it more of an adventure. You know. It's like, O, I'm going to start this process, but I have no idea where it's going to end up. It might it might end up something like what I had in my imagination, or it might end up completely different or somewhere in between. We'll see. But to me, that was always part of the fun of the creative process. Well, that's that's a that's a mature way of looking at it, because probably in the old days I would have you know, been too. I had this idea in my mind of what it was supposed to be, and then when it started turning into something else, I was like, no, no, no, this can't be you know. But it's it is better if other people put their ideas in and uh, sometimes you've got to break free of those, you know, preconceptions, and you know, that's what makes the good music, I think, is when everyone puts puts their their flavor in there, you know, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Now now, so what's next for for you guys? So you've got the Wolf King that's that's been out for a bit, right, and you've got a do you have the next single already in mind? And the next one after that is going to be called Cursed, and uh, that's another good song that I think everyone will like. And I'll definitely have to send that to you as soon as it comes out, Matt, so that you guys check it out, please, Yeah, And I think it's uh yeah, it's it's gonna be a it's gonna get a little heavier track and uh but still catchy. I don't know, it's it's got a lot too, It's it's got a lot of different changes into it. I don't know what we're gonna do for the video yet. We're thinking about that as as we speak, but we'll come up with something. And then we have two more songs after that that, so we we we got enough material to keep us going here for a little while. Excellent, excellent, And then in the meantime, of course, we're writing new ones. So you know, uh, we're always writing new material and the medal never stops. Yeah, there you go, there you go. Well, Rick hot down here in Texas, man, he has you got to find some to do, so you know, that's right, we do. How How hot is it there now? Now that we're we're sort of moving into fall, I guess, or maybe we've already moved into fall. How it's it's it's, it's, it's, it's you know, settling down around one oh one, you know, uh wow, But it was like it was one oh nine, you know, for you know, about a month straight. You know, it was hot. Yeah, that's a brutal Yeah, you really got to say no. I mean we had well, you know, we did have a very hot July, a lot of but but to us, Yeah, to us, it's more like, you know, if it's in the nineties, then it's it's hot. Yeah, most of July was very hot, but then August was beautiful. You know. August was a lot of eighty degree days, which after a month of you know, ninety two, one hundred, you know, eighty is really nice. So we had a great audi. Everyone has air conditioning up there, right, Whoever didn't have it before this last summer probably has it now. Yeah. Yeah, I remember I went out to visit some friends in another band uh out there and uh in uh Oakland, California, and uh it was summertime. They did they didn't even have air conditioning in their house. You know, really it felt great, you know, uh interesting, Yeah, things are, things are changing though. There's parts of California that had a harsher winter last year than we had here in New Hampshire. It's just uh, it's really uh, it's really remarkable. Yeah, but Rick, thank you so much for joining us. I'm gonna I'm gonna let you go in a moment and we're gonna play this uh this track crypt of Rodan. Yeah, but before you go, what what do our listeners need to know about? How to keep up with you guys what you're doing? Uh? And uh, social media or a website, anything you want our listeners to know about so they can keep an eye on Iron Jaw. Well they can. They can go to our YouTube channel and see all our videos and that's at YouTube dot com slash Iron John t X and that and then we've got our Facebook is Facebook dot com slash Iron Jaw Heavy Metal and then let's see what else then, Or you can go to vand camp and we're just if you look up Iron John Van Camp you can we're all our shirts and music vand camp as well. So yep, I think it's it's always good for people to support the local independent musicians, so keep keeping the metal flowing. Absolutely absolutely, I love it. All right, Rick, We'll let you go and I'm gonna get to this track. But thank you so much for joining us, my friend. And when the new single is Matt, I appreciate it absolutely. And when the new single is out, please please send it to us and we can do uh, we'll do one of our world radio premieres and the whole deal and I can't wait to hear it. You got it, man, Thanks Matt, all right, my friend, thank you. We'll talk to you so I'm sure you got it. Bye bye bye, all right, very nice. That was the great Rick Perry from the band Iron Jaw, and uh yeah, I love these guys. I love these guys. Great sound. Let's give this a listen. So this is called crypt of Rodan. We're gonna play this and then we'll come back with the balance of our show. We've got a little bit more today, but check this out, crypt of Rodan, Iron Jaw from Texas. Great stuff. See us guy, but Goss and friends on her tonight where the sleepers lie, revolve around the sunny's day and that you never will repay step ulate do that sense a blessing and the person without I have gone to dreams turns out to be worse, and temptations own the street and I I shall hear I'm got bens like out. Oh my well, I'll take past the fade in trees awake and by the next stunt tap boats and the streets me loose ting you know me tonight age and two Now we row down dark to dark night, not turn around dark We left us again. 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Today's Thursday, September twenty one, two thousand twenty three. Thank you again to our friend Rick Perry from the band Iron Jaw joining us all the way from the great state of Texas. We are going to play one more Iron Jaw track at the end of the show. We're going to play the single that we had played before the last time Rick was on the show with us. It's called Pyromancer, another really good track. But love what those guys are doing, very very cool. Speaking of musical guests, tomorrow on the show, we'll be joined in the second hour by Crooked Cash. They're gonna come in and play live for us in studio, do an acoustic set in the second hour as they have done before. In the first hour, we have a musical Yes, two gentlemen you might be familiar with He's been on the show a number of times. DJ Reckless will be with us in the first hour, and of course we will have Eric Pilcher's Bassic film review as well. So a very busy Friday. But speaking of DJ Reckless tonight, he is going to be at Murphy's tap Room. If you are in the Manchester, New Hampshire area and even if you're not hey, it's worth the drive project Reckless University with music provided by DJ Reckless and Diego the DJ Glass in session Reckless University at Murphy's tap Room tonight at four ninety four Elm Street, so check it out. Not only is Reckless performing there tonight, but on Saturday he will be performing at the Hopknot, our amazing sponsor right across the street at one thousand Elm Street. This Saturday is their fourth birthday Bash on the twenty third and afternoon of live music at one pm. Matt Litzinger will be playing at three pm, Jasmine Man at four pm Mikaela Horn and then the Hopknot will be closed from five to eight pm as they prepare for the evenings birthday festivities, says here, reopening at eight pm for a dance party with big Gay events and a set from DJ Reckless from nine pm to midnight. 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The progress in spending and shutdown talks that House Republicans were touting Wednesday night was revealed to be a mirage by midday today, dealing Speaker Kevin McCarthy a blow and keeping the conference in a state of turmoil, and attempted redo on a Pentagon appropriations bill failed again today. A revamped framework for a GOP only stop gap to prevent a government shutdown on October one still faces enough conservative opposition to block it, and today GOP leadership sent members home, canceling expected weekend votes while cautioning members to be on call. The result is a Congress no closer to averting a government shutdown than at the beginning of the week, when the House GOP conference opened with a different promise deal from conservative and more centrist Republicans. With just nine days to go before a potential shutdown, McCarthy is starting to openly air his frustration with the hardline conservatives, some of whom have expressed support for trying to oust him. You know, like Congressman Matt Gates, for example, he talks about that type of thing, or Congresswoman Lauren what's her name, Lauren Gropebert. I'm sorry, Bobert, McCarthy told reporters after the failed vote, quote, this is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down. That doesn't work. Look, I know it's an obstacle. I find it as a challenge and we're going to solve it. Unquote. Thursday's developments were particularly embarrassing the House leaders. On Tuesday, at procedural vote on the Pentagon Appropriations Bill, it failed, forcing lawmakers back to the drawing board to overcome conservative opposition. McCarthy presented a new framework to his conference yesterday last night to pass the Pentagon Bill and keep the government open. It received positive reactions from Republicans, and Republicans said they may had made progress yet, and a vote before noon today. Republicans refused to move forward, and the GOP was seemingly stuck again. It goes on from there, but we're about out of time. But also our government is about out of time to avert a shutdown and there's also the real danger. We don't have time to get into this on any in any depth, although I I just want to say quickly and they could vote. By the way, all this debacle, there's many layers and levels to this. There's the possibility of McCarthy being taken out as speaker. They could hold a vote to oust him as speaker, which has always been the sort of damocles over his head ever since the fifteen atten to gain the speakership fifteen rounds of voting. You might recall back early at the start of the year. There's also the issue of aid for Ukraine continuing to fund their war effort, which all this is happening, by the way, that hangs in the balance, right, and all that is happening as Zelenski is visiting. He met with McCarthy today and others. There's a lot going on here. There's a lot of moving pieces. But one thing I did want to say, in terms of there's a question about whether if they do try if the House Freedom Caucus is about twenty members, right, if they do move to try to oust McCarthy, and this is finally their excuse to do it. There's some discussion of whether Democrats, because Democrats could actually save McCarthy and keep them in place. Strategically speaking, they probably shouldn't do it without getting something from McCarthy in return, but I do think they should do it. There are some on the left to think that they should no. Just let let this thing continue to burn down, because it's the Republicans who are sort of self immolating as this happens. Let them continue to look like they can't govern because they can't. Let chaos reign. It's on them. It's only going to damage them. Mitch McConnell warned about that. By the way, Senator Mitch McConnell, The thing is, though, it's really bad for the country. So I would just encourage Democrats if there's an opportunity to save McCarthy. Save McCarthy, because if he if he goes, if he's ousted, then what happens the chaos that will come from him being ousted, and then they the Republicans have to elect a news speaker. It'll be look just as someone who's an observer of politics and who really enjoys politics, it would be fascinating to see all of that play out politically. It would be riveting to see all of that play out. But like so many things so often politically, that are really fascinating to watch happening, it would be horrible for the country. This is bad enough. What's happening right now is bad enough. Where on the edge of another government shutdown, which is terrible for the economy. Some people take it very lightly, but a government shutdown it costs the economy trillions of dollars or billions. At least it's it's not good. But then if McCarthy is ousted, it's gonna be I can't even imagine the nightmare that we're about to walk into. So I think Democrats. I think Hakim Jeffries, who apparently has a good relationship with McCarthy professionally at least, I think he should go to McCarthy and say, look, we're gonna help you. We're gonna help make sure you stay stay on as speaker. We have the votes to protect you, because that is the most important thing to McCarthy, clearly. But here's what we want in return, And we start with, you're going to keep your promise to the president. See remember the debt ceiling deal. Promises were made, a deal was made and now these House Freedom Caucus members are trying to drag McCarthy out of honoring his promise as part of the deal, the debt ceiling deal. So Hakim Jeffreys, I think needs to go to McCarthy and say we're gonna save you, but you have to keep your word to the president, and maybe maybe some other inducements as well. But I hope, I hope that happens, because again, if McCarthy is ousted. And look, I'm no great fan of McCarthy, although there's you know, I was impressed. At least I gave him credit for coming through on the debt limit because I really didn't think he was going to be able to and he did. He found a way to get it done, working with Biden, he found a way to bring his conference along. So that was good, and I gave him credit for that. But and look, the guy. It's true that he doesn't give up fifteen rounds of voting before he was able to become speaker, and he hung in there and he projected optimism the entire time. I give him credit for that. But whoever, whoever comes after him, whoever the Republic gets put in after him, it's not. I mean, I don't I don't know what happens if he's ousted, and I don't want to find out again. It would be fascinating to see a play out, but it's going to be bad for all of us. It's going to be bad for all of us. It's going to be bad for Ukraine too. And you know Putin is watching all this just laughing because he knows, you know what he knows. Wow, we're definitely out of time. We gotta go. All right, if you miss any part of today's show WMH Radio dot org or my website Mattconnorton dot com. I'll talk to jell tomorrow. Everybody, I tell us watching like w child friends, let us say show damn jail down to the hop Knot At one thousand Elm Street, Manchester's premiere craft beer and gourmet pretzel bar, tell us more. At Trudy, we make our dough fresh every day. We make a variety of styles of pretzels and serve craft beer, cocktails and a few bottles of wine. We do the traditional pretzel and we have multiple flavors for that. We also do stuff pretzels, pretzels, sandwiches, free dessert pretzels and pretzel knots The Hop Knot in the Brady Sullivan Plaza at one thousand Elms Street,