Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-22-23

0:02 Get command, God, don't get so greenly down Matzille coming. Welcome everybody, here, we go Happy Friday. It is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM in glorious downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast Channel six. If you're in Manchester and hello twelve our online listeners across the nation and around the globe. You can go to my upsite Matt Connerton dot com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact and folk show archives, etcetera, etcetera.

1:07 And I am not alone. If you haven't go problems out for Bath for you son, I've got ninety nine problems, but change one. DJ Reckless is in the house. We are Bath. Yes, I haven't seen uh. Let's guess they haven't seen you in a long time, but thus obviously not true. I haven't seen you here in a long time. No, it's been a minute. It's been I'd say it's been a minute and a half. The young people say that, right, a minute and a half. Yes, yes, so we have Yes. DJ Reckless is here with us on this Friday afternoon.

1:38 By the way, we do not have coming up in the second hour our musical guest Crooked Cash. They will not be here. They let Jenny know early this morning, first thing, so they give us notice. But I guess one of the guys has a family emergency. So we hope everything is okay and they will certainly reschedule, so no worries there. We also don't have Eric Pilter his classic film review because he's got an internet outage in his area in Cedar Rapids. I guess some city workers accidentally, uh knocked out the internet in his neighborhood.

2:12 He uh remember when Comcast did that? Did that here? Or that truck did that? I do remember that? Yeah, yeah yeah he Uh what did he say here? Oh, I'm under an internet outage currently. A fiber line was hit or struck. I'm waiting. I'm waiting now to see when it comes back on. And he said, uh, it's still down. They haven't been able to repair it yet. He said, uh, yeah, they couldn't find where the fiber line was cut and had to stop working for the night. According to Uh, that's what what he was told.

2:52 Yeah, yeah, so that's uh, that's a shame. It's terrible. But anyway, so we'll have Eric Pilcher's a film review on Monday. So but DJ Reckless is here so and and by the way, you are going to be tomorrow night at the hop Knot, our amazing sponsor. Of course, if you're watching online, you can see I've got the shirt I wear the colors with pride, and they've got those delicious Gormet pretzels. They have an astortment of craft beer, and tomorrow is the hop Knot's fourth birthday, and they've got a bunch of live music music.

3:29 So during the day, excuse excuse me, Oh my goodness, I'm so excited. I'm so excited about the hop Knot. It's like I suddenly have a pizza a piece of pretzel caught in my throat their DJ Reckless, even though I'm not actually consuming a pretzel. Yeah, the math doesn't add up there. I know it's psychological. But yeah, so they've got during the day, they've got Matt Litzinger. We'll be performing there at one pm. At three pm, they have Jasmine Man and at four pm they have michaela Horn and then they're gonna to close for a few hours and then they're reopening at eight pm for a dance party with Big Gay Events and DJ Reckless will be performing that guy sucks who does less kid?

4:12 Oh that's you silly, Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. So this will be your first time d Jane at the topnot correct, I think so? Yeah, not definitely. Yeah, yeah, very cool. And you're gonna be part of the big gay events. Yeah, so that'll be fun. Yeah, I'm excited. It's it's it's it's been an interesting week, so yeah, yeah, we would have wrapped things up. Yeah tomorrow. Of course, their their fourth birthday and one of our great sponsors here at WMNH. But yeah, you had last night, you did. You were at Murphy's Murphy's tap Room, right, Yeah, started a new new event there weekly.

4:49 Okay, so you're gonna be there every thursday? Ye outstanding. Well, I'm gonna have different there every Thursday. I'm not gonna be there every Thursday. But we in it. We finally launched Reckless Unit Verity, which is huge. It's it will be careful. You know, Trump had Trump University and that ended horribly to totally different things. It's no fraud here. There's no one good good there won't be a class action lawsuit against you in the future hopefully. Well, very good either way, man, it it was it was.

5:17 It was definitely, definitely huge and very eye opening to see for me and to see what I can do in this city. We put almost two hundred and fifty heads up in that building, so excellent. It was massive and yo, honestly it's it was shocking. It was shocking, especially with the turn of events last night with the car accident on the corner of Elmin Auburn. Oh what happened? I saw somebody post it on online that there was there was a big to do? Was it? Was it a really bad accident? It was really bad?

5:47 Wow? Yeah, multi cars, car and car and bike? Oh no, yeah, like a motorcycle or an actual bicycle a motorcycle. Oh okay, that's never good. It seems like that's a trend lately too. Yeah. And one of them at my thoughts are my thoughts are with the biker because I know her personally. Oh kid, yeah, so I hope she's doing pretty good. No one's heard anything or listen, I haven't heard anything. Oh wow, that's terrible. It's super unfortunate. And the staff at Angel City. I hope you're all are doing okay, because that's it's really unfortunate because she was the bar manager at Angel City.

6:20 Oh okay, yeah wow, oh oh, sorry to hear that. So you don't know if she's okay or not. No, I'm not entirely sure. I heard all of this at like two am this morning. Yeah, I heard. I got a text yesterday right when the event started that there was part of the street was blocked off, and I considered for a minute, honestly canceling the event because I didn't think anyone would come. And I showed up at eleven, my opener was there and there was almost two hundred people. Wow, and I was I was shocked. I was like, holy crap.

6:54 But it all comes back to like the networking I've done in this city, and it's it's honestly, what has been for me recently is a lot of people have counted me out over the past two years, did me wrong, did me dirty, And now I'm finally showing that Yo, I'm I'm I'm clearly gonna have to do this myself. I've had my help in the city, I've had my guidance, but when it comes down to it, it's whatever. Like last night, that was one hundred percent my promotion me even Murphy said it. Yeah. And for me, me as a local DJ, to be able to put that together on a week notice, it's massive, massive, you only had a week.

7:39 Yeah. He came to me like last week and was like, hey, here, you want to do Thursdays. I go absolutely, yeah, absolutely, I want to do Thursdays. Yeah. I'm like, it's a chance for me to build my rapport with other DJs and book them and for me to get these college kids out and honestly, yo, shout it to everyone from saying as who came out last night? That was that was that was huge And I honestly I haven't I haven't said thank you to anybody yet on like Instagram or anything like that, because I was waiting for this moment.

8:06 Excellent, we're gonna clip this, We're gonna put it up on the gram on DJ reckless must be what young people are calling all right, But no, but no, honestly, like I want to say thank you to everyone that came out last night and truly supports me weekend and week out, you know, sharing my flyers, you know, and just showing me support over the past two years. And I also want to thank the haters because that's been my fuel from day one. Day one. We all know what happened with me and soho that really played a key in it, all right, And I'm I'm I'm glad what happened with me there happened because it showed me my worth and who I am, what I can do, and it's I'm grateful for that, yeah, honestly, and everyone that's did me wrong, counting me out, it's it's water under the bridge.

8:59 But didn't forget it. I didn't forget it. It's always been in my head for the past two years, and now I finally have something to show for it, for all the hard work and everything else, the tears, the blood, the sweat, it's the frustration, the sweat, the stress. And yeah, I mean I'm genuinely still in shock about last night. Really, yeah, yeah, honestly, hasn't hasn't all come like come to fruition yet. I'm just like sitting here, I'm like, Wow, were you unsure that a Thursday night would do well?

9:31 Is that what it was? Or you anything else will do well? Right? Right? I'm not sure anything. I always expect zero people to show up. Really yeah, I said last yesterday for the best prepare for. I said, yesterday to the manager over there, I said, it's going to be hit or miss this week. Yeah. I think it was a hit. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I'm laughing at the chat room. Melanie just said Melanie Liberty, of course from the great state of Vermont. She just said, what's up, dj Rack. I get pretty sweaty too, yeah, she Djane.

10:03 She talks about that a lot, totally. Yeah, yeah, very good. Now, so uh and just to clarify, so, so you've got every Thursday there, but it won't always be you. Yeah, I know I'm gonna be there once a month other than like I think I'm doing a Halloween thing there. I'm doing a Taylor Swift party there, and I'm doing my birthday bash day. Oh, very good. When when's your birthday? It's November twenty nine. But Thanksgiving Eve it's going to be the official birthday bash. Oh Thanksgiving Eve. That's a big night.

10:33 Very good, very good. Now do you know yet? So for the nights that you're not there, you're just gonna book out their DJs. I'm fully booked up until like November. Now, oh, very good. Put that out the way quick. Do you want to mention who's coming up just some week? Next week, I have my residence DJ Shaun White there. I'm super excited for him to be there because he's one of the guys I started this all out with. Started dad open for him. I opened for him all the time. He's a great doucer and he teaches me a lot, so it was only right for me to put him on.

11:03 Yeah, and then the week after I'm not exactly sure who I have, but I know I have somebody. Yeah, No, that's good. Yeah. When I used to promote a lot of rock shows in the area and whatnot, I would always try to get get in with a venue where they would give me a night, you know, one night a week. Actually, I for if for people around here who who remember the old Uptown tavern that we used to have up the street. I remember they gave me Thursday nights there for a while, you know, and it was it was, it was pretty successful.

11:34 It's you know, never it was never as good as a as busy as a weekend, but you know, Thursday nights if you promote it, right, you can get people out and like you said too, you know, whereas you're really promoting to a college crowd, that certainly helps because I get the impression that a lot of the college kids around here they go out on Thursday nights because a lot of them go home on the weekend on Friday. So Thursday night's kind of the night. Is that is not enough? Sarially, sorry, I'm dealing with something for later, but saying as they have a campus like they you, they have dorms like residence halls.

12:11 So they all found me out there. Yeah, they all party on in center, are on campus and then don't go out Friday Saturdays, but come out Thursdays. So and I've always had a good I've always had a good what's call good reputation, would saying us because I did all their like bar events that say Murphy's for almost a year and I'm coming up on a year. Yeah, so I built I built that up, and I did a few few on campus events for them. Yeah, And it was weird because like last year during the Kentucky Derby, I went on went on their campus for a party and it felt weird.

12:51 I felt genuinely weird because everybody knew me. I didn't know a single person. Everyone's graving pictures with me, and it's like, I'm not used to that. So it's the social awkwardness came out, and like, I gotta figure out a way through that, because like yesterday, I must have taken at least three hundred photos with people. Oh wow, yep, yeah, and that's what it is. Like, Yeah, i'd take my photo, I'd take photos of people. I put my hat forward, show my logo, and because it's subconscious, yes, they see my logo, they're like, oh, that looks familiar, and then they'll see it somewhere else, like at Murphy's or something.

13:25 When you mentioned doing that with your hat, I remember the have you ever you you told Jenny and I about this, but I don't know if you ever told the story on the air when when Channel nine approached you get into this one. Yeah, yeah, yes, and I don't think I've been on since that. I'm gonna find the audio while you're talking about it. Yeah, go ahead, okay, tell that story. I was going to get lunch or something like that at the corner of Elmon Mechanics Street and WMR was out there interviewing for something when Trump he had just got indicted or something, and I was like, you know what, Sure, I'll say something.

14:00 But I was in my work shirt. So I ran over changed, put on my put on my reckless hat, put on my reckless hoodie, I think in my jacket, and I made sure I made sure my logo was front and center this time, because the last time I tried this, that bonfire when we did the radio thon or whatever. Yeah, a few years ago, they cut my logo off on my sweatshirt. I was like, son of a gun, like I can't win. But it helped. It was. It was a funny thing, great, great marketing. Yeah, I posted up on the socials. We at great engagement.

14:38 The hate messages from all the Trump He's was hilarious. It was it was it was it was. It was a riot, the death threats, everything else. I was like, okay, cool, I found the audio here. Mean about him has always been negative. Some vooters, like Christian Lacosts, have had their minds made up about whether or not they vote for Donald Trump for a while now, from January sixth and now this like when does it stop? You know what I'm when do people actually realize that he's not a good person and he's not good for the country.

15:04 Yeah, it's cool that. Uh were there other people they were talking to too, because they had to wait for you to go do that. Uh, I don't think there was anybody else that I was talking Yeah, but yeah, I know. It was. It was funny. It was it was a riot. And granted, everything I said in that interview is obviously true. That's how I feel about him. Yeah, but like I didn't do it for that, No, but that that is great, that is great publicity exactly. But but you got a lot of uh, you got a lot of you got a lot of hate for that, Yeah, from a bunch of eighty year olds like okay, okay, cool, Well just leave your inheritance to me.

15:44 Yeah, I don't care about your opinion. Just I care about your inheritance or your your will priorities. Honestly, That's right. But no, no, no, it was. It was funny. It was cool. Yeah. Yeah, well very good. Now what's uh what's on tonight tonight? I'm at snow. I'm on campus tonight for not interesting. When I got a sorority's booking me out there, so we're gonna go out there. We're gonna have some fun. I'm gonna make my connects have some some I'm probably hit up an afterparty two. That's at some dorm I don't usually I don't usually do stuff like that.

16:15 So okay, what time does that start? That's at eight I think eight to eleven, eight eleven, and then tomorrow I'm gonna go to Santa's tailgate and film some TikTok contents, some pranks and stuff like that. Oh you still do pranks, yeah, every now and then. I just haven't uploaded anything because it gets I don't know. I'm trying to correlate it to what I do. That's why I started the Instagram page for Reckless University, because I don't want that to be a direct reflection of me. I don't want that to target college kids.

16:46 Oh I see, like my my page is just for DJs and I hate that. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it so much. Why Because DJs are the most toxic people I've ever met my life. Really m M. Not the ones you work with that you're booking at. No No, No No. For example, though, like there was a there was a group chat of Boston. DJ's right. Yeah, And I've never realized how egotistical short people can be. And like there was this one kid like who would talk so much trash about me. Yeah, he kicked me out of the group chat over something, and then like people would tell me what was being said in that group chat for almost months after I told you this story.

17:30 Oh yeah, and it's just like, yeah, that's all fuel to fuel to me. That's all fuel to me. I'm playing down in Boston almost every month now, Like okay, cool, Like all right, you live down in Boston, Okay, it's cool, but like, don't trash from me. I'm in a totally different market that's totally different than Boston. It's much easier. It's much easier out there to pack a club than it is out here. I'll confidently say that, well you got more college kids there, yea here I mean, And it's like it's like confidently like people people try me for like not being able to pack soho when I was when I was there, I was bottle service.

18:03 I do standing room only. That's ten times hardy. Yeah, always will be bottle service. You've got groups of people coming in making the place look busy. Right standing room only totally different, totally different. Now, Melanie in the chat room, she was kind of bonding with you there over what you were saying. She said, yeah, Dji, she said, yeah, DJ's are lame, and then she said what I am short and I never talked trash? Is that true? And then she says bottle service lame. Yeah, she's with you, she's feeling you, she's picking up what you're laying down.

18:41 The young people say that right, No, okay, sorry, I try hard, too hard. Ah. Now, how long are you playing tomorrow night at hopknot nine to twelve? Oh? Excellent, excellent, Yeah, excellent, excellent, Well, very good, very good. Well. DJ Reckless is here with us. If you're just joining us. This is first time on the show in a while actually, But if you've would like to call in, if you've got anything for Reckless, well he's here, or anything else you want to talk about. Six zero three two five zero six zero seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven.

19:15 You can also text me at six one seven nine one seven four four seven six. I'm on social media at Matt Connerton. You can email me Matt at matt Connerton dot com and of course you can interact endo Pine in the Facebook live chat, but the best thing to do so that we can hear and enjoy your dulcet tones is to give us a call at six zero three two five zero six o seven. We should mention two coming up tonight. So yeah, so Reckless will be he'll be at the hop, not tomorrow night, very exciting tonight.

19:47 I'm not sure what they're doing at the hop, not this evening, but I can tell you here on w M and H we have retro Spectrum Radio with PAULI C. And I'll tell you what Paul posted on social medi about it. Friday Night on Retrospectrum Radio will feature our third and final segment of famous songs ripped off by your favorite artists and sitting in for DJ Steve this week will be none other than Dan Randall from Dan Randall and the Randletts. Do join us and we do recommend for that show. If you'd like to hang out with us on the Facebook live chat, we'd love to see you in there.

20:19 Just go to the Retrospectrum Radio Facebook page, but open a second browser tab and go to WMH radio dot org and click listen live. Because Paul mutes the Facebook feed because of all the copyrighted music. Facebook has been especially ticky about that recently, so so just open a second tab to stream the audio while you hang out and chat with us in the Facebook live chat. We love to uh, we love to see people in there. Do you ever you ever try to stream any of your set to Facebook? And if so, do they do they knock it down?

20:50 Or what about it? I've seen you do it on Instagram, but but I've done on Instagram in a wild They'll kick me off every yeah, every like five minutes. And the issue is like they'll lench shadow band me or something. Oh they will. My engagement will tank and it's just like I'd rather not. Oh okay, Yeah, I learned the hard way that Instagram is very very uh, very strict, much more so than Facebook. Shannon is on the line, Hi, Shannon, Hello, Hello him, DJ Reckless, Hi, about the retrospect from there?

21:26 There are too many songs now they start out and you think it's this one, and it's another one now with the with the keys in the core progression or whatever is it? Okay? I thought you could not pat in a sound. You cannot, but you can get it cleared pat sound, so you if you get it cleared through the label, I believe that the artist made the song. You can get it cleared through the artist. You can use it if it's a sample. Yeah, yeah, example, is that what you mean, sham No. I thought you just couldn't claim ownership to a like a beat or or I don't know what I'm trying to say.

22:11 Uh, well, I think it was referencing. It's a story. I heard it one time ago, and I think it was referencing on motorcycles.

22:22 You know, the sound of opposed to other bikes. They have distinct sounds, and you couldn't patent that sound. I thought, I don't know. Oh right before uh Peter show started this afternoon, and if he's listening, thank you for playing press Monkey and high DJA Steve. Uh there was a song on. It was a country song, but it clearly sounded like stand by Me. You know that, you know the songs? Yeah, it sounded like that that beat? Okay? Does I say beat is my version of a beat as a sample? When you say beat, like, do you mean the drum track the flow?

23:09 I think she means like instrumental or like I don't know the technical name. Yeah, I'm not sure exactly. I'm not sure exactly what you mean, Shannon. It's just just I don't know. Never mind, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna figure it out if I just a flow do you mean? It sounds like the saying I don't know? Do you mean like the vibe like, uh yeah, hippie trip. I'm not gonna go vibe and go real hippie here. But yeah, the if I think of a word, I'll let you know. Okay, a lot of a lot of snow, Shannon, But if probably see went went through all the different genres of music, country and hip, he'd probably kind a lot more.

24:00 That's right, probably carry you through till Christmas. That's right. Yes, we could do an eleven part series. Yeah,

24:10 all right, we'll have a good one and television policy and uh Dan and DJA. All right, Shannon, thank you for the call. All right, having tweekend too it DJ bye bye. Well very nice. That opens up the line for you. Six zo three two five zero six zero seven six zo three two five zero six zero seven. Yeah, we were on Paul's show. We've been we've been doing this, you know, the Paul will play like a song and then the original one that guess it yeah, and then but a lot of them I voted not guilty. I should have a gavel because you know, as you know, because you're not only a DJ, but you also play guitar and you sing, and actually you in fact, a few years ago you performed live on the show.

24:56 So as you know, there are a lot of chord progressions in rock mu that are very common. And and sometimes, you know, when these chord progressions, you know, they pop up in these different songs and then somebody says, oh, well that that sounds like that, that sounds like it ripped off this other song, and it's like, okay, well, if you're gonna say this song ripped off that song, there's also a hundred other songs that ripped off that song, you know. So so to me, it's like you have to kind of accept that there are just certain chord progressions and melodies and bits of melodies that are just very common in music, and uh, and they just they come up a lot, and it doesn't mean necessarily that it's someone trying to rip somebody else off, or even if it does happen, it's probably not something they're doing consciously.

25:45 Oh, Shannon is calling back. I wonder if she thought of the word Hi, Shannon. No, I didn't think of the word. Okay, when you know, when they say dropped the beat, it's they don't say dropped the sample if they dropped the beat. Oh, yes, reckless, you're a DJ. Can you explain that? No, drop the beat? You know? Don't you don't you drop the beat when you're a DJ? Yeah? Oh? Or that old school speak. No, I get what you're saying. I do get what you're saying about ticking up what I'm putting down. Yeah, it's it's it's it's I want to say you're going for, Like the beat and sample can be the same thing.

26:28 That's two. It's a it's two two different terms for the same thing. Right, So like hold on jay Z's song dirt dirt off your shoulders or whatever? Okay, dirt off my shoulder? Yeah, yep, you take that, and you take bounce back by Big Sean or whatever. I believe, Okay, same instrumental, Oh, same sample. I've never heard bounce back to different lyrics. It's just different lyrics. Yeah. Now, did they have to get permission? And I'd assume. So, I mean, yeah, the closest I can relate to that is my my friend actually is a producer under the label Itaway a Mafia.

27:15 He produced the song for Anelli Chappo, which is a which is a rap artist. He used the sample from, or instrumental from Nelly's It's getting Hot in Here, Hot in Here. I've heard that a few tracks. Actually yeah, yeah, but he but he used that did he gets? No? Nelly came out. Nelly came out on the on the MTV Awards and performed the song with him. Don't okay, I didn't see it. No, no, you The only time you will get in trouble is if you don't ask for permission, right, if you don't get a contract with permission, right, That's why you see like ed Shearon ed, Charon recently just had a lawsuit for it.

27:58 Yeah that he one, thankfully? Yes?

28:03 Who else? Who else? Am? I think that Sharon's been sued a couple of times now. Led Zeppelin are the worst offenders in history. But I mean there's eighty eight keys on a piano, correct, Yes, yes there are, and there are eight notes musically speaking, right, Okay, I mean there's only so much you can do. So something's going to sound like something And I don't know that's right. I don't have songs being played out there, but i'd be flattered if somebody. I don't know. I guess I'm just different because to me, it's music.

28:36 Music is to be shared. It is not a competition, you know, right, I don't know or how much can I get because they written me off? Right, don't be greedy about your music sharing, right, it's not a competition.

28:56 I made up a little risk, but you do have to make a living. You made you made up a yeah. Uh. Back when I was eighteen, my my ex he was playing the acoustics. I said we'll try this, and you know he did it. Now, I swear I had never heard it before. Whether he did or not, I don't know. Some time later, Patience comes on the radio. But guns and Roses, Yeah, are this the part of it up? Muse? Okay, so that was kind of neat, but yeah, true story? Wow? So okay, all right, I just don't know, uh lingo or I don't know.

29:42 I think have you considered legal action against guns and Roses? Yeah? But you know it's it's true. It's true story. I mean, I if I knew how to get ahold of him, I'd say, you don't tell him. I'm not lying. He played, he played, It made the sound, you know, and how do it? No? Is that is that the progression? Is that the core pro meaning? No, no, no, no, I'm so lost. No no no, no no no no no, no no no no. Is that the progression? Or is that just a beat a riff? All right? I don't think that doesn't sound like patience by guns and Roses.

30:21 That sounds more like get ready by no no no, no, no, no, no no no, so get ready. No, you're not doing no no no. I wish I could sing falsetto it. I can, oh, I guess I can do it if I try. Get Ready played bass. This is why I played bass, because this is what happens when a sick Okay, Christen, does you gotta go to radio voice? Thank you? All right? For the rest of the rest of the rest of the show. He's just gonna sing. No, I can't do that, you know what. I'm actually a pretty good harmony singer. If I'm singing with other people, I can find the octave and kind of lock in and whatnot.

31:15 But on my own. I do get lost. I have over the years had several vocal coaches, all of all, three of whom at different times in my life. We're very encouraging, but yeah, I just could never quite I actually did years ago right here in Manchester. I participated in a recital because my vocal teacher at the time was having a recital at the library and it was like a bunch of her thirteen year old students and me singing. Actually there was one other adult there part of those, but yeah, it was kind of weird.

31:50 I sang Let It Be by the Beatles, Let it Be. She wanted me to sing Daughters by John Mayer, but that would have been alinging for me because I would have been vomiting in my mouth while singing it. But I loved singing Let it Be. Let's see who we have on the line here. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton unleashed. Who's this, Hey, Maddie, it's me. It's polyc Yes. So tonight we're going to be doing a little bit of a twist to the last segment of the plagiarism. So like we did play tonight, some of them were they're mostly samples songs.

32:29 Okay, so you have to guess. You and Dan Randall and our listeners at home, we'll have to guess whether or not there was actually a lawsuit. Oh, that'll be fun. Oh, I like this, This will be cool. Just play like any of Edge Shearing songs. There is there was a lawsuit, that's that's true. But he always wins always, yeah, which was crazy to me. Yeah, but yeah, that'll be fun. I'm looking forward to that, Paul. I've enjoyed this whole plagiarism thing. It's been a lot of fun. But this this sounds like it'll be particularly stim and it'll be wonderful to see Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the Randletts.

33:03 Absolutely, he'll tell us all about the recent tour he's been on as a as an audience member. Do you think he'll do you think he'll sign us with a sharpie? I'm sorry you cut out? What was that, Matt? Do you think he'll sign us if we give him a sharpie? Will he sign our body parts? I hope so. I mean I already have like a whole rainbow variety of sharpie's in my backpack, so I'm hoping he like colors. Me a little bit. Actually, wow, that'll be great. You know something that Dan himself would want. I want his autograph in every single color of sharpie that I have.

33:43 Yeah, outstanding, that'll be fun. Yeah, because Dan would do that. Dan would go. I mean, Dan's going to see I just spoke to him on I think Wednesday night, yea, and to make plans for him to come in. And he told me that he's going to see Corey Saltman at the end of the month. And I was pissed off him because he didn't tell me that he was going to that. I would have went with him. He's going to see Corey Corey Feldman a storian. Oh my god. Yeah, it's like a lecture. It's a lecture. Really. Yeah. We'll get the details on it tonight.

34:13 But what Dan told me, I'm like, Dan, why didn't you tell me? Man? He goes, well, the tickets are hundred and twenty five bucks. I didn't think he wanted to sit through two hours of Corey Felban. I mean, do you want to go? And I said, hell, no, I just wanted you to ask me and think of me. Oh my god, yeah, no, I couldn't sit through two hours and then he's gonna meet him to meet and greet. Oh boy, wow, hey, listen, don't ask he's gonna He's gonna ask Corey if he could at least do a couple of station bumpers for us, and uh, maybe call in at the show.

34:46 So maybe Corey Selman will call in. Well probably not outside the rebel fossibility. That's that's good, Okay, all right, cool. I'd like to I would like to hear him saying What's Up with the Youth? I think that would be a lot of fun. That's what I told Dan, I said, I'd love to have him come into the studio and do an unplugged version of What's Up with the Youth? Yes, we can all sing it with him. It'd be great. I'd love that only on the chorus. Would let him have the verses. You know, I don't want to ruin.

35:15 I hope he still dresses like Michael Jackson because you know, you remember. You might not remember this, but we played oh my God. It was a Corey Feldman's cover song of of Something That Shouldn't. He turned it into a sexy love song, but it was. It was imagined by John Lennon. Do you remember we played that with Corey Feldman up front. You know, I actually I think I do sort of recall it. It's a little fuzzy, but yeah, it sounds familiar. Yeah, well, he tries to he does the little sounds that Michael Jackson may he sings.

35:50 He tries to be Michael Jackson's pathetic. Yeah. It's pretty pretty bizarre. But yeah, I mean, since the other Corey is dead, there's no reason to see one Corey, right, reckless? What right? Reckless? Yeah right? The other Corey Corey Hayman's dad. So you know

36:12 looking up who oh yeah, back in the day, brother, there were two actors, teen actors, and they were in every bad teen movie you could think of, except for The Lost Boys that was a good one. But these two guys were both called Corey, Corey Hayman, Corey Seldman, and there were just two. I don't know. They were so bad, they were lovable, you know what I mean. And you know Corey Seldman the one Dan's going to Sason. Okay, I see, he's been in commercials since he was a little boy. We we uh have in the archives at WMH video footage of Corey Haymes doing a Heinz ketchup commercial when he was like six years old.

36:54 He in some like pretty big movies too. Oh yeah, yeah, Same by Me, The Gooney East. Oh yeah yeah, stand by Me is really good. Man by Me was probably his biggest movie. He was also in Friday the Thirteenth, A New Beginning. Oh okay, And they had a reality show. It was Corey Feldman and his wife and Corey Ham comes to live with them. It was I think it was on VH one, right, yeah, I remember that. I think it might have that lasted what fifteen twenty minutes? Yeah, I didn't last long, it was, Yeah, I didn't last long.

37:34 I think it was called The Two Corries, I think, if I'm not mistaken, but uh yeah, and then uh and and I think shortly after that, Corey Corey Ham left us. Yes, Corey Hayme left us. And also Corey Feldman was also on several episodes of A Love Bote. I didn't know that, but I'm not surprised, right, Yeah, he was. He played a problem child and one of the episodes he was still in Mirror's Kid in an episode. Oh all right, it's pathetic, I know, Mad, I'm sorry. I'm into the next I'm sorry, Well, I know that's kind of the point of your show exactly.

38:17 All right, I will speaking of that, I'll see you guys in a few hours. Man, all right, sounds good, Paul, I'll see you then. Than you have a good night, Reckless you two? All right? Here it up? Brother, of course? All right, bye bye, it has to be done. Always nice to hear from poll C and I get to see police every Friday night from eight to eleven PM for Retro Spectrum Radio with Policy along with j Stevens. Tonight, we will be joined by Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the Randlettes. Yeah. Ever hear this song reckless?

38:45 What's up with the youth? That sounds like a remix? Actually it's quite bad.

38:57 Shannon is back on the line. Hi, Shannon. I was all excited. I thought it was going to educate me a little one, but whatever, okay, question what's up with the youth? Shannon? By the way, what's up with the youth? Oh? Well, they butchered the English language, so I mean, what else you want? Hey? We just made it easier, thank you. Yeah. No, Hey, it's smarter, not harder. Okay, you all we use literally always rasis like way too much. Well, you can. You can blame Generation X for that, My generation is responsible for for that, and then it's just it's perpetuating Generation X too.

39:38 But I don't say like all the time. You probably say it more than you realize, because we all we all say we all say it more than we realize. Shannon, trust me, we all say we all say it more than we realize. No, the real question is what's up with the youth? Sorry? I thought was that the chorus? What was it gonna? Corey Feldman? He was in stand by Me? Now? Was he one of the kids, the younger kids of the older one? What's up with the youth? Corey Feldman? Was did you say? Was was he one of the four boys that went to look for the body?

40:21 I believe so. I haven't seen that movie in decades, but I believe so because River Phoenix is gone. He was crazy. He played Chris Gordo. I don't know his real name. Burne is Jerry O'Donnell. And then the other one was Teddy, and I think Teddy is Cory, So I don't know. By the way, Paul is confirmed this is the correct version, not the remix. I was wrong. What's that, Shane? Well, when you're talking about sampling and course progression and everything else that bridges, where's the hook come in? Oh?

40:58 The oka is coming up? I think the hook is coming up, Shannon. That's the part where he says, what's up with the youth? Okay, the lago? All right? The youth? What's up with the youth? What's up with the youth? What's up with the youth? What's up with you with youth? What's up with the youth? What's up with the youth? What's up with youth? Shannon? Well, what's uh? I can almost hear the song. That's an original composition by Corey Feldman. Shannon, how dare you but the beat the reckless? Uh? Do you know where the beat is from?

41:47 On? What's up? You? Thankin's bad? What's up? Who's bad? Michael Jackson? Oh, Michael Jackson bad by Michael Jackson. Right, Well, that would make sense that Corey Feldman idolized Michael Jackson. Okay, So I don't know this stuff. I don't I don't have cable, I don't read the paper, right, listen to the radio stuff? Huh, don't know? That's where I get my rapa hear that Corey Feldman, he was spitting some rhymes in that part. Did you know that he could rap? No? No, no mean either from listening to that, he clearly cannot.

42:28 No. I can do a better job than that. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, spit some bars you what's up with you? Spit some bars about what's up with the youth? Shannon? You can do it? What's up with the youth? Could you gotta learn the freestyle? Shannon? You mean like your mimics, your impressions, my impressions, that's a completely different subject. Police is doing impression of somebody. My impressions are masterful, they are thank you. Uh huh, I know point the young people say that right, reckless on point.

43:13 He's dozing off on the loved state. What Hey, that was years ago. Hey, we don't bring that out. That was years ago. There's a different time of my life. Shannon. Well, now you've done it. Now I'm going home. I'm going to the next gig. Yes, all right, Shannon, by bye bye. She never did tell us beef. Now you get all you're beefing with chipping Now now she's off the phone, y'all got beef. Y'all is beefing, beefing. I like to say it with a deep voice, beefing. Police in the chat room says, this is like the waiting room in purgatory.

43:48 Oh, purgatory. That's where don Imus is. As we as we learned recently, Isaac Banks says Shannon in the eighties. Eighties movie of stand By Me was Will Wheaton aka Gordon. I don't remember if Will Wheaton is one of the names that Shannon mentioned. I was too busy jamming out to What's Up with the Youth by the great Corey Feldman. So yeah, so do you have to It's almost the top of the hour. Do you have to go? It's time to wrap it up. We want to make me at least yeah. We want to make sure before you go that we plug everything.

44:22 So where are you gonna be tonight? Tonight? I am at SNHU. Tomorrow, I'm at the hop not hope to see you there, everybody. It's gonna be fun. Yes, yes, I don't exactly think you've seen me. DJ sounds like twenty twenty one and I had a Windows laptop. Oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right, You're right. Yeah, yeah, guys. And then every Thursday Murphy's Tap Room. Yep, it's a wild one. Yep, yep. Five dollar green tea shots, two dollar bud Lights, five dollars Cheetos, five dollars Cheetos, Chitos, Oh, Titos.

45:00 I thought I said Cheetos. Yeah, unfortunately, else ts. That'd be fun if you could get like, well, no, actually five dollars for a bag of Cheetos would be expensive, but Titos. That's good. It's great for me, very good. And where should people go online to follow you? Instagram at dj R E k L s s dj reckless very good, and you have, but you have a separate one for reckless university. Correct say it's it's literally reckless university type practis university in the sound into the bar and there it is.

45:31 All right, very good, very good, Well, thank you, thank you for coming in. I'm gonna get to a break and we'll let you scoot. I think I'm gonna play What's Up with the Youth? Uninterrupted by Corey Feldman because look, it's uh, the guy's got a show coming up in the area, so it might as well. Big show, masks. It's gonna sell out all right, DJ Reckless, thank you so much. Give give this a listen, and then we'll show some love to our sponsors and then we'll be back with more Matt Connerton Unleashed, WM H Rip the Dove Alsa you are listening to to WM and H thirty four point three, Get command, guy, don't get so preenly, don Matzille Gilly.

46:22 Welcome back everybody, as we are into our number two numerow dose of Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. And it is a glorious day outside in Manchester, 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 info, show archives, etcetera, etcetera.

47:18 Today is Friday, September twenty second, twenty twenty three. My favorite day of the week here, it's my long day at WMNH and I do love it so not only am I on this show but of course tonight I'll be on Retro Spectrum Radio with Paulyc as we do every Friday night right here from WMH ninety five point three FM, and tonight we will be joined by Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the Randletts, making a return to the show for this evening, so looking forward to that as well. That'll be really cool. Thank you again to DJ Reckless for joining us during the first hour, and I do want to remind you that tomorrow night, DJ Reckless will be Djane at the Hopknot from nine pm to midnight as the Hopnot our amazing sponsors they celebrate their their four the birthday, and so proud of them and so proud to have them as a sponsor and to have that association.

48:05 It's a wonderful thing. They've got those delicious gourmet pretzels, they have an assortment of craft beer. They've also got stuff going on during the day tomorrow. I would be remiss if I didn't mention that too. They've got some great musicians. Tomorrow one pm they have Matt Litzinger will be performing live. At three pm they have Jasmine Man, and then at four pm they have michaela Horn. So they've got a few live performers tomorrow, and then they're going to close from five to eight for a few hours to get ready for the evening, and then they'll be reopening at eight pm for a dance party with big gay events and a set from DJ Reckless from nine pm to midnight.

48:40 That is all happening tomorrow night at the hop Knot. So Jenny and I will be there at some point and we'd love to love to meet you if you want to come on down enjoy some delicious gourmet pretzels and some craft beer, and wish the hop Knot a happy birthday. Also, if you're just joining us, just a couple of notes about today's show for anyone who's puzzled, if you're at all confused. We did have a musical guest stop plan for today, the duo Crooked Cash. We're going to be making the return of the show today, but one of the guys reached out to Jenny first thing this morning to let her know that he had a family emergency.

49:20 So hopefully everything's okay. Completely understandable, of course, so we will rebook them. I'm sure Jenny will rebook those guys for another day, but I hope everything is okay. They're very talented musicians but also a couple of really good guys too. I really enjoyed meeting them the last time that they were here, so but so we will have them on in the future, I promise. Also, we don't have Eric Pilter's classic film review. We're going to have that on Monday instead. Eric has been suffering through an internet outage.

49:48 Apparently in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Some city workers accidentally cut a line that they shouldn't have or something that it knocked out the internet in Eric's neighborhood. So he's been kind of dead in the water as far as getting the film review together. So he's gonna work on it this weekend and we will have that on Monday. But in the meantime, we have lots to discuss. Let's see and actually let me refresh the Facebook here will. I do want to say helload everybody in the Facebook live chat. And speaking of chat, by the way, too, I did mention on the show yesterday and I did take Paul C's suggestion, so you can join the Connor Tones if you go to Matt Connerton dot com slash tones.

50:36 It's not anything you have to pay for. It's totally free. But it's sort of an unofficial club that you can become a member of. Just you'll have to put in your email address and assign yourself a password to enter. But kind of like a Facebook group. But you can go in there and post stuff, but maybe you want to keep it away from social media, something a little bit more exclusive. I mean, in theory anyone can join, but it'll be you know, it's it's behind uh uh, the the wall there on the Matt Connerton unleashed Facebook page in a sense, so you know, we won't allow anything in there that is either pornographic or hate speech.

51:14 Other than that, though, you can go in there and pretty much you know, no restrictions on language or anything like that. And uh, if you want to go in there and maybe you have some dialogue or anything that maybe is not you don't feel quite as comfortable doing on social media, you can do that. You can post whatever you want in there, if you have ideas for the show, suggestions, subjects, you want to fact check something, whatever it is. You know, you can go in there and post whatever you want. Really, but uh, and and there will be some additional content in there that is exclusive to that page in the future, but right now it's just basically a basic forum that is set up.

51:52 But but yeah, just go to Matt Connerton dot com slash tones and you can join. You can be one of the Connor Tones. And thank you again to police for making that suggestion. I do love it. Let's see, we'll say, I'll let everybody in the Facebook lave chat. We'll see who we have in here. Oh, hello to Carrol Zowarrowitz who joins us. Also Isaac Banks, whom you might recall. He's from Greensboro, North Carolina. He says, ri ip Corey Hame while he died a number of years ago. And the oh, there were two seasons of the Two Corries.

52:26 Oh so I had the name right. The reality show that Corey Haman Corey Feldman did it was the Two Corries. Isaac Banks also said hashtag Matt Connerton, Corey Feldman, and Corey Hame were in Michael Damien's video of rock on Oh Yes, Yes, And I believe we've played that on retro Spectrum Radio with policy. I believe Paul played that song one week. I don't remember what the subject was, but I believe that song was played policy of course in the is in the Facebook lave chat and encouraging me to crank up the What's Up with the Youth by Corey Feldman.

53:04 Melanie implored me to stop answering the phone. No, no, no, Isaac Banks says, hashtag DJ Reckless. You can check out is Heidi Lenhart Facebook live page? Well a suggestion there for DJ Reckless, the Heidi Lenhart Facebook like page. I'm not sure who Heidi Lenhurt is. Let's see. Jay fed joins us in the Facebook live chat, also from the Great State of Vermont. Hello, Isaac Banks, says Shannon in the eighties move Oh I read that already. Sorry, never mind, all right, Paulice says, referring to the song.

53:39 Well, we were playing earlier while Shannon was on the line. This is what happens when you're waiting in line for the waiting room. When you're in there, it's just it's just Corey. It's Corey Feldman, little boy. Let's see ye. And we talked about two briefly. Paul mentioned when he called in that Corey Feldman is going to be doing a speaking engagement that our friend Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the Randletts will be attending, and Paul said regarding that, wtf could he possibly talk about for three hours that wouldn't make people run for their lives?

54:18 Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I've seen I've seen over the years some interviews with Corey Feldman, and based on the interviews that I've seen of him and also his you know, he's made appearances on The Howard Stern Show over the years and whatnot, based on that, I could not imagine paying money to actually hear him talk and give some sort of presentation. I honestly cannot imagine it. Miriam Banish in the chat room says, is this the song that never ends? L ol? Referring of course, to What's Up with the Youth by Corey Feldman, which I did play earlier.

54:51 Actually, Miriam, it's funny. The song I think is only about three minutes long, maybe three and a half at the most, but it does feel like it goes on and on and on and on and on. Yeah, So I understand everything's relative, but I understand what you're saying. Oh, Isaac Banks says, good afternoon, Tammy Cochrane, how are you doing my love? Oh? Isaac and Tammy Cochrane. Wow, that is scandalous. Isaac Banks also says hashtag Matt Connerton. Heidi Lenhart is a actress and singer from the TV show. She did a band of California Dreams on NBC after Saved by the Bell on NBC.

55:32 Okay, I thought the name was vaguely familiar, but I really couldn't be sure. Six zo three two five six seven is a studio line if you would like to join us today six three two five six seven. We do have some political news to get to, but this is just one other thing. Regarding yesterday's show, I want to correct something that I said that I later realized was kind of ridiculous, but not anything political. It has to do with a comment I made regarding music. So we had a great guest yesterday, Rick Perry from the great State of Texas.

56:09 In fact, I would say that Rick Perry from the band Iron Jaw, probably the second most famous Rick Perry from the State of Texas. He joined us first via Skype, and then Skype became an issue, so then via phone. But I love that band Iron Jaw, what a great band. Well, you'll you'll be hearing more of them on the show in the future. But you know, they've got kind of a they've got a sound where you know you can hear their influences. Definitely Judas Priest, Iron Maiden bands like that, and I think it was so, you know, we talked a little bit about that.

56:41 Of course, we talked about influences. And then Shannon, this was because of a Shannon called Shannon happened to call afterward, and I don't remember how the subject came up, but I assume it had to do with my conversation with Rick Perry. Shannon said something about Bruce Dickinson and how in the nineties Bruce Dickinson had left Iron Maiden and did some solo material and the comment that I made that I realized later was so absurd, and I just want to correct myself. I said something about, Yeah, I was talking about Bruce Dickinson's solo material.

57:11 I think he did maybe three albums and then went back to Iron Maiden. Three solo albums, maybe only two, No, I think there were three, and then and then he went back to Iron Maiden. But the comment that I made was I said, yeah, Bruce Dickinson's solo stuff sounds a lot like Iron Maiden, so if you like Iron Maiden, you'd probably like his solo stuff. But a specific song came up in the conversation. It was a song Tattooed Millionaire. Shannon mentioned it and then just for the hell of it, last night, late last night, I was like, you know, I haven't heard that song in so long, and I always really loved that song.

57:45 So I played it and as I'm listening to it, I realized, this song doesn't sound anything like Iron Maiden. And that's what I realized. I'd made a completely ridiculous comment. Now, granted I didn't say that all of Bruce Dickens solo material sounds like Iron Maiden, but to imply that that's basically what Bruce Dickinson's solo material is, that's not accurate. Some of his solo material certainly sounded like Iron Maiden, but the song Tattooed Millionaire sounds nothing like Iron Maiden. And when I realized that I hadn't listened to it in so long, I just I felt ridiculous.

58:22 I mean, this does not sound, if anything, this song. I'm just gonna play a little bit of it. I'm not gonna play the little thing, but if anything, at least the verses Bruce Dickinson, the way he sings, he actually sounds like Brian Johnson from ac DC and on this particular song, which is very un Bruce Dickinson like, but nothing about this sounds like Iron Maiden. And I'm listening to the song because I always loved this song and I hadn't heard it in so long, And then I'm like, I can't believe I made that comment about how his solo stuff sounded like Iron Maiden.

58:50 There's nothing here. Let's listen to this already that sounds nothing like Iron Maiden right now. If you didn't know who that was and you'd never heard that song before, and I said, who do you think this is, what would you say? You would say Brian Johnson era ac DC, Right, that's what that sounds like. Doesn't sound anything like Iron Maiden. I do love the song. Maybe I'll play the whole thing at the end of the show today. Maybe that'll be our closer anyway, So I was listening to that last night and I'm going, I can't believe I made that comment that his solo material sounds like Iron Maiden.

59:50 That's clearly not that doesn't sound like Iron Maiden. Like I said, if I played that for you and you didn't know, you would think it was a CDC. Right, If you'd never heard that song before in your life, you wouldn't be sitting there going, yeah, oh that sounds like Iron Maiden? Is that is that Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden? You would never think that. So anyway, I wanted to correct that, So maya culpa, and Bruce Dickinson, if you happen to be listening, I apologize if I if you in any way felt that I was dismissive of your solo material saying that it was just, you know, a bargain a bargain version of Iron Maiden.

1:00:21 That's not what I meant to imply. Or maybe I did mean to imply it in the moment, but then I realized later how stupid that was. All right, we'll get into some more serious matters in a moment, but let me give the studio line again. Six zero three two five zero six zero seven six three two five zero six O seven. My friends, Bob Menendez a name that you might have been hearing today.

1:00:49 If you have been paying attention to the news Senator Bob Menendez of the Great State of New Jersey when I heard his name today, because he's in a bit of trouble. You know, when I heard his name today, you know what I was reminded of, the first thing that I was reminded of. I was reminded of the year twenty seventeen when this show, well not this show, but this version of the show that airs here on WMH ninety five point three FM, was in its relative infancy, and I was talking about Bob Menendez.

1:01:22 See, I have a really good memory for details about some things. And as soon as this story broke today about Bob Menendez and the ethics trouble that he's in, and he looks like he's really in it this time, the first thing I thought of was I remembered in twenty seventeen talking about the ethics trouble that he was in then. And I remembered it was twenty seventeen, because I remembered exactly where I was when I was talking about it on the show, because it wasn't in this room. Because when I first came to wm ANDH, we were still doing we were still doing the live radio shows in a different studio, in a smaller studio that's on a different floor in this building.

1:02:06 And I remember being in that room talking about Bob Menendez. And I even remember I remember being in that room talking about Bob Menendez and wondering out loud to the audience, when is this guy gonna end up in jail? Because that's this is not the first time he's been in ethics trouble, and it seems pretty serious. And of course he did not end up in jail. He was tried. He was not acquitted. However he was. It was a hung jury, and that's it. That's how we got away with it. Well, it's now twenty twenty three and it's all caught up to him in a big way.

1:02:49 But that was the first thing I thought of us. I said, wow, I remember, I remember talking about Bob Menendez in twenty seventeen in the old studio I was, I remember vividly. It's weird how I can remember certain details about certain things that would seem insignificant, and yet for some reason, they're just seared in my mind. But I think I did the whole, the entire show that day, the whole two hours about Bob Menendez, but he's really in trouble now. Politico has the story up Egypt, guns and money and oh, I'm sorry, Yeah, Egypt, guns, money and power at the center of Menendez indictment publicity.

1:03:29 I'm sorry publicly a critic of Cairo. Privately, prosecutors allege the senator used his influence to benefit Egypt. Here's what's going on if you've missed it. The indictment of Senator Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey today accuses one of the most powerful senators shaping American foreign affairs of using his perch to enrich himself and exploit the complication relationship between the United States and Egypt. It is a story about guns, money, and power that strikes at the fraud sector of American diplomacy.

1:04:11 Menendez denies any wrongdoing, saying prosecutors quote misrepresented the normal work of a congressional office unquote and attacked him and his wife. But if the allegations are proven, they will represent a damning account of how American foreign policy an automatic toward an autocratic ally was compromised for several years, for years for venal reasons. By the way, it is interesting is his allegation against the prosecutors that they and again quoting, misrepresented the normal work of a congressional office.

1:04:47 What's particularly interesting about that is that one would not necessarily expect that the quote unquote normal work of a congressional office would involve gold bar literal bars of gold and cash, cold cash, cold heart cash. Again literally you know the kind of cash you put in your freezer so no one thinks to I guess that's what people do. They put cash in their freezer when they're trying to hide it from the authorities, because obviously, you know, if law enforcement, if the FBI shows up for a raid, they would never think to look in your freezer.

1:05:25 It seems cliche, but apparently that's what they did. They were putting money in the freezer tucket behind the ice cubes. I guess, you know, tens of thousands of dollars. And I'm not sure that. I mean, do most Americans assume that that is the normal work of a congressional office, as Menendez claims. I mean, not that anyone should be surprised necessarily. I mean, I do think Americans generally assume that our politicians, at least at that level are somewhat corrupt, and I think everyone new Menendez was corrupt.

1:06:00 But oh, don't get me wrong. Of course, you know, he used to be afforded the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. But this time it really does look like it's going to stick. I remember in twenty seventeen again, I think I spent an entire two hours on it one day on the show, really digging into it, and it seemed like, definitely he and his wife had done something dirty, and we're taking bribes. But the whole scheme seemed a little bit convoluted in a way that one could understand why a jury might find it difficult to find their way to a conclusion that he and his wife.

1:06:39 I don't remember if she was actually on trial he was, I don't remember if she was as well, but she's been entangled in all of this with him right along. It would seem I could see at the time how it might be difficult for a jury to get to the conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt that he had done something illegal. Clearly he had done something unethical, but not everything that's unethical is necessarily illegal. Certainly, especially in politics, there are a lot of things that are unethical that maybe should be illegal, but they aren't necessarily so so I could see at the time, how you know, it was easy to understand why it was a hung jury.

1:07:19 But this is this is he's not going to get away with it this time. Let me put it that way, all right, So continuing on again, this is the article from Politico which explains it pretty well. Egypt receives about one point three billion per year in foreign military financing, but by law, tranches of the AID are conditioned upon Egypt's progress on human rights concerns, as determined by the State Department. Whether Foggy Bottom clears, the aid is often subject to a regular tug of war between lawmakers, the advocacy community, and the executive branch.

1:07:52 Traditionally, the State Department is honored request to delay grants and weapons sales from the chair or the ranking member of the Senate Committee. Menendez, who has served as the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee since twenty eighteen, has often been a public critic of the Egyptian government, rapping the Trump administration for inviting Egyptian president elcc abdel Fatah LCC If I'm saying that correctly, for a state visit in twenty nineteen and pressing then Secretary of State Mike Pompeio to raise human rights concerns with the leader, But federal prosecutors claim Menendez was playing a different role behind the scenes.

1:08:34 This is where it gets. This is where it gets a little, uh, crimey. Is that a word? Crimey? Not grimy? Crimey? I suppose he could say grimy. In an indictment published Friday today, this just happened today. This is breaking news almost. I mean it's a few hours old. But prosecutors claim that Menendez accepted money, a luxury car, and gifts including gold, from three New Jersey businessmen in return for helping them and Egypt's repressive regime. Prosecutors also claimed the New Jersey Democrat gave sensitive information about US diplomats and Cairo quote that secretly aided the government of Egypt, and improperly advised and pressured unquote a US agricultural official to safeguard a contract for one of the businessmen to be the exclusive purveyor of halal meat to Egypt.

1:09:33 According to the indictment,

1:09:38 let me just say this, anytime you've got meat involved, there's something not right. Here. That's a long standing I learned that from watching NYPD Blue or something. I don't know. It's an old Younger listeners are like, what, what are you even talking about? Law and order? That would be a more contemporary reference. Even though that show has been on for decades, it still exists, I think, right, I don't really watch much TV. Allegedly, Menendez, starting in mid twenty eighteen, privately maintained close relations with Egyptian officials and businesspeople and readily shared sensitive information with his associates about US policy toward Cairo.

1:10:20 In May twenty eighteen, Menendez allegedly disclosed to Hannah, that's one of the businessmen at a private dinner that a US government ban on sales of small arms and ammunition to Egypt has been lifted, which Hannah passed on to the Egyptian official. Later that month, Menendez allegedly ghost wrote Cairo's lobbying pitch to other US senators seeking support for the release of three hundred million dollars in USA to Egypt. In July, after meeting with Egyptian military officials, Menendez allegedly had his wife Nadine, tell Hannah that he was signing off on the sale of forty six thousand target practice rounds and ten thousand rounds of tank ammunition worth ninety nine million dollars.

1:11:10 By the way this goes on, we're going to continue it. But I'm just I'm wondering a rhetorical question. You don't have to answer you the audience, But is anybody other than myself wondering at this point? How did he ever believe he would get away with all of this? Did he assume that everyone is so dirty that everyone does it? And why would he be any different? Is it arrogance? Is it delusions of grandeur or some form of mental illness that makes someone believe that they can do all of this and no one's going to catch on, and no one's going to investigate after he already in twenty seventeen narrowly avoided being convicted and sent to prison.

1:12:02 So Menendez allegedly said in a text to Nadine, which she forwarded Dahnah quote, note these tank rounds are for tanks they have had for many years. They are using these in the Sinai for the counter terrorism campaign unquote. The State Department two months later announced it had approved the sale of the package of General Dynamics made high explosive and armor piercing rounds to help Cairo fight Islamic State militants and the target rounds to train M one Abrams tank crews. Adrian Watson, the White House National Security Council spokesperson, said no comment when contacted for this story.

1:12:47 Spokespersons for the State Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Egypt's ambassador in Washington also said no comment. Menendez is also accused of intervening in Egyptian diplomatic entanglements and pushing for the US to put its finger on the scales for Cairo after taking a meeting with an Egyptian official dubbed the General. Prosecutors alleged Menendez waded into a long standing diplomatic dispute between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia over access to the Nile River and a large Ethiopian dam project near the river's source waters.

1:13:30 Oh, by the way, side note, Jfed just said in the chat, I hate to tell you, Matt, but I looked it up and there is no internet outage in Eric Pilcher's town. But wait a second. JFED wanted to be the new film reviewer. So he has a motive for saying something like that, I don't know who to trust anymore. I don't know who to trust. I mean, I know who not to trust, Bob Menendez. The construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has long been a top foreign priority for Egypt, as Cairo depends on unfettered water flows from the Nile to sustain its population, which is almost entirely concentrated along the rivers Delta and Banks.

1:14:17 Writing in April, Jaft says, I blame Bruce. I do as well. Writing in April twenty twenty two, then Secretary Stephen Manuchin in Pompeo to express concerns over quote stalled negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Sudan over the dam. Menendez called on the administration to quote significantly increased the State departments engagement on negotiations around the dam. According to the indictment, Menendez in February twenty eighteen reclaimed his post as the Top panel's top democrat, just days after the Justice Department dropped different corruption charges against him.

1:14:57 Okay, so those were the twenty seventeen charges. February of twenty eighteen, the charges were finally dropped after the hungjury and all of that. At that time, Menendez was accused of intervening in a Dominican post contract dispute to benefit a Florida ophthalmologist and a businessperson who had given Menendez a large campaign donations. Oh, that part I remembered wrong. And by the way, I'm not saying this would be funny. This literally is true. It's not a joke. I thought it was. I thought it was a dentist Menendez was.

1:15:29 There was a part of this whole scam Menendez was running in twenty seventeen. It was actually an optimologist, an eye doctor. Menendez voluntarily stepped back from the job in twenty fifteen after he was charged, with an understanding from then Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid that he would be reinstated if cleared of charges. It's unclear if Menendez will step back from his role this time around, or if he did, who would temporarily replace him as chair. By the way, I believe he already stepped down as chair, so that must have happened after this was published.

1:16:00 So again, this might not be quite up to the minute, but it's a really good explainer, although it doesn't get into the gold bars part in this article. Now, something related to this so that I happened to see and I didn't get a chance to preread this, but this popped up on media. How will MSNBC handle its Menendez family conflict of interest? I don't know what this part's about, but you know I'm interested in all things media, So let's look at this. It says here Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez was indicted on bribery charges for alleged crimes committed as part of a scheme involving his wife, Nadine, the Egyptian government, and three New Jersey businessmen.

1:16:41 Prosecutors for the US Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York charged Menendez with having quote promised to and did use his influence and power and breach his official duty in ways that benefited the government of Egypt unquote.

1:16:59 Besides the Nndez clan itself, Friday's news could also be trouble for MSNBC, the cable news network where Alisha Menendez, the forty year old daughter of Bob Menendez, hosts a weekend show called American voices with Alisha Menendez awkward.

1:17:23 The most obvious question that comes to mind is, quote, will MSNBC allow Menendez to address the scandal in any way unquote. One might be quick to assume the answer is an easy no. But if CNN's handling of the Andrew Cuomo sexual misconduct cases any indication that assumption can't be taken for granted. Let me stop there for a moment, because if I remember correctly, in the case of CNN Chris Cuomo, when he was still there, he did not address his brother's sexual misconduct case, but others on the network did, but Chris Cuomo did not on his show, which I thought was completely appropriate.

1:18:01 By the way, I thought that made sense for Chris Cuomo not to get into it because it is his brother, So you wouldn't expect Chris Cuomo to be able to report on it objectively in any way, and you know why even put him in that position. From what I recall, I might not be remembering that exactly accurately, but that's what I recall. It says here. In March twenty twenty one, after the allegations against him first came to light, CNN hosts Chris Cuomo opened his show by acknowledging that he was quote aware of what's okay.

1:18:31 This is exactly what he said. He was aware of what's going on with my brother. Obviously I cannot cover it because he is my brother. Now, of course CNN has to cover it. They have covered it extensively and they will continue to do so. I've always cared very deeply about these issues and profoundly, so I just wanted to tell you that. Unquote again, I think that's perfectly I mean, I have a lot of other there are things about Chris Cuomo that bother me, but not that that I thought was completely appropriate at the time.

1:19:00 But it says here the lines got blurrier from there. That may it was discovered that Cuomo was advising Oh see, I forgot about this part. I completely forgot this. This is pretty important. Actually, it was discovered that Cuomo was advising his brother on how to handle the scandal. CNN called this inappropriate given his position, but did not take any action to discipline him. Eventually, it was revealed by the New York Attorney General's Office that Chris Cuomo would use this position atzy an end to gather intel and possible accusers against his brother while working hand in hand with his staff.

1:19:34 It kind of goes on from there. But so now the question is how will MSNBC handle this. And my I would I mean my suggestion and my thought would be, either you simply don't I mean Alicia Alicia Menendez, she just says a show that Arizon weekends, you know, once a week on the weekend. So she can only so many things in her limited a lotment of time to begin with. So I would say, have her either ignore that there's always a million other stories, just don't cover obviously she's not going to cover something involving her own parents, or have her address it similar to the way that Chris Cuomo did and then move on from it.

1:20:16 But that would be my thought. But yes, but Bob Menendez in a lot of trouble. Now. The one other thing, I do want to make sure that we get in before we run out of time, because it's already almost twenty minutes of And this is some breaking news. This is from the Hill dot com. Kevin McCarthy vows to strip Ukraine money from Pentagon bill after a Marjorie Taylor Green no vote. Now we'll look at the substance of the article in a moment. But for anyone who hasn't been following, this been a hell of a week for Kevin McCarthy House Speaker.

1:20:54 Looks like we're headed for a government shut down at the end of the month. It looks like Kevin McCarthy might get voted out by the You know these House Freedom members who are just itching for a reason to what do they call that. There's a specific term, procedural term for a vote to remove. It's not a removal vote, though, there's another term. It escapes me, it'll come to me. It might be here in the article. So he's got all kinds of trouble while all of this is happening. Funding to continue the effort, the war effort in Ukraine, to continue to supply the Ukrainians with what they need that hangs in the balance because the Republicans can't figure out how to how to get this done with the budget.

1:21:44 And by the way, this is all after McCarthy made certain promises. There was already a budget deal agreed to to avert a debt default, which thank god, we got through that. But now McCarthy is in a position where if he gives into the House Freedom Caucus. He can't keep his word to the president on that budget deal that they that they passed, that they agreed to to raise the debt limit. I should say, to be more precise, it's he's in a terrible position. Part of me feels some sympathy for him, and part of me thinks, well, this is what you get, Kevin.

1:22:21 While all this is happening, you've got Voladimir Zolenski visiting the United States, but Kevin McCarthy refused to have his picture taken with him publicly. He did meet with Zelenski, which was also a reversal because before McCarthy wasn't even going to meet with Zelenski. Even though Kevin McCarthy, and we all know Kevin McCarthy, you know, there's nothing he says that actually means anything. I mean, look at January sixth. You know, he he condemned Trump after January sixth, and then next thing, you know, he's does a complete reversal and he's going down tomorrow ago and posing for a picture with him.

1:23:00 He posed for a picture with Trump right after January sixth, right not long after. But you know, he says he says whatever he needs to to try to survive, to get through another day, as how speaker, because that's what matters to him above all else. So he has said recently, relatively recently, how important it is to continue to support Ukraine, how that is vital, vitally important, and we do have an American interests there and that we must stay the course with that. But now because he's at the mercy of people like Matt Gates and Lauren Gropert Bobert, sorry, and even Marjorie Taylor Greene whom he seems to have this alliance with, but she's making his life more difficult suddenly as well.

1:23:46 Now he's refusing to have his picture taken with Zelenski, although he did meet with Zelenski and somebody managed to get a picture on their phone. So even though McCarthy, acting very cowardly refused used to have his picture publicly taken with Voladimir Zelenski, somebody snapped a picture as they met privately. So good, I'm glad. But now, oh McCarthy is hedging on support for Ukraine. Now before we get to this article, though, I have something very important to say about this said, I don't hear any anybody else pointing out For those of you, Look, if you're a long time listener, you know my position.

1:24:25 I believe in supporting Ukraine. I believe we have to stand up to Putin, can't let Putin get away with this, and so forth. However, I've also always been sympathetic to some of the arguments in the other direction, concerns about tensions with Russia, because nobody wants things to escalate in a way that could be very bad for all of us, and some other reasons too. I've been sympathetic to those other arguments, and but I have remained firm in my position ultimately that we must stay the course. But I would just like to say this to the people who hear this.

1:24:57 McCarthy is now saying he's going to vow he's now vowing to strip any further support for Ukraine out of the budget, and we're going to effectively McCarthy is now saying that's it, We're going to abandon Ukraine. I would just say to the people who think that that's a good idea. If you're someone who you're on the other side of the issue, look, reasonable people can disagree. I feel about the merits of us getting directly involved in this. Again, I think we did the right thing. I support President Biden in this, and all of the many, many, not just Democrats, have been pretty united in this.

1:25:38 Republicans have not been. But I think a majority of Republicans in the House and Senate also support standing by Ukraine. And that's great. But but some of the concerns, again, not all of the concerns. Some of these Republicans who have pushed back on it, some of them are just playing pro Russia. Let's just call it what it is. Reagan would be spinning in his grave. I have no doubt, but some of them are sympathetic to Russia, and I think the reasons are obvious. But let's not even get into that.

1:26:16 But I want to say to the people who think that what McCarthy is doing is correct and they're happy about this, because if you're if you're someone who doesn't think we should have ever gotten involved in this to begin with, I'm talking to you. I want to say to you those of you who feel that way, while I respect, well, I disagree with your position, but I respect your position and I understand and respect your concerns. But having said that, at this point, At this point, even if you felt at the beginning of all this that we should have stayed out of it, at this point, does it not do more harm than good for us to walk away and abandon Ukraine after we've all been so invested, literally invested in helping Ukraine try to fend off Russia.

1:27:07 Because even if your initial position was we shouldn't be doing this, we've already done so much, have not we already gone too far to turn back. Because even if you don't think we should have been a part of this to begin with, now that we have been for so long and so much, won't it actually hurt America's national interests more for us to pull back now and abandon Ukraine. Think about again, even if you're someone who disagreed with us getting involved, think about how it's going to look for us now now that we already were involved, now that we've been so involved, to just walk away now, how does that make us look to the rest of the world.

1:27:53 And by the way, look, if you're some sort of neo isolation as I understanding, you don't care about how we look to the rest of the world. And let's be honest, there are a lot of people who take that attitude too. They're the same people who think that we shouldn't be a part of the UN because oh, we're America and we should be on our own and not care what anybody thinks about us. But we have to care what other people think about us, because we're all a part of the world, and we have economic interests and national security interests to require us to have somewhat of a positive relationship with at least some of the rest of the world.

1:28:22 So, but even if you feel that way, does it not hurt us more at this point to walk away? Even if look again, I'm talking to you, even if you don't care at all about Ukraine, even if you could not care less about Ukraine, even if you're one of those people who thinks that Ukraine got what they deserved and you believe the Russian propaganda. Maybe maybe you're Tucker Carlson and you actually believe in and promote the Russian propaganda. Right, even if you're that person. At this stage of things, if we walk away now, isn't it going to be even worse for us?

1:29:03 Because it signals to putin If we walk away and abandon them now, it signals to putin Hey, just bleed us, bleed us dry. We will lose patience, we will lose our solidarity with the rest of NATO. You can wade us out. You can wade us out. America is weak enough that you can wait us out. And here's the other thing. What does it say to Ji Jing Ping of China if we walk away? Now? It says, hey, you want Taiwan, go ahead. America might try to defend Taiwan for a little while, but in the long run, nah, forget it.

1:29:50 That's what it says to him. I'm telling you it is very dangerous. It is far more dangerous dangerous for us to walk away than it is just stick around, in my opinion. And Mike Doyle's on the line him, Mike, hey, man, how's it going. I'll be quick because I know you're running out of time. Yeah. Hey, I can't remember what your theory was on Afghanistan. But isn't that the same theory? You know, all the time we put into Afghanistan and money and years and deaths and et cetera, And you know, was it was it better to pull out or stay there?

1:30:26 And well, I guess the same same theory as you're you're saying now, Well, very very different situations in some ways though, because in Afghanistan we were directly and like we weren't supporting, We weren't simply supporting. We were actually there on the ground and fighting for twenty years. But my feeling with Afghanistan is, well, it's not not really a binary choice of of getting out or staying. I think I think that it was the right idea to get out, but I think it was done very very poorly, and I don't think we should have necessarily gotten out completely.

1:31:01 I think we should have kept Bogram Air Force Base. It didn't make any sense to me why we would give that up, other than Biden was worried about you know, well, then it would look like we haven't really left. But I think we should have kept maybe twenty five hundred troops there. I think we should have lessened our footprint there, but I think we should have kept a minimal presence and at least held on to Bogram Air Force Base. And I was very critical of Again, I thought getting out was a great idea.

1:31:29 Previous presidents had pledged to get out and then didn't do it. But I thought the way that it was done was a disaster. I'm trying to remember some of the words I used at the time. I think I recall saying it was buffoonery the way it was handled, and uh, I was pretty critical and uh and I still am. I'm still angry about it the way it was done. Yeah. And the other point I wanted to make is a lot of a lot of the both Republicans with Democrats that want to continue to fund Ukraine. I don't want to fund Ukraine or have a different strategy for funding Ukraine.

1:32:05 They're they're they're worried because a lot of a lot of the people nobody, nobody else is helping. I guess is what you're saying, Like Poland just said no more, we're done. Oh that's another given you. Yeah, that's that's another thing that has me very worried. Mike. By the way, and I had given Poland a lot of credit in the past, because if you remember when when this first happened, Poland really opened their arms for taking in refugees from UH, both from Ukraine and from Russia, people who are fleeing because they didn't want to get drafted.

1:32:35 And and Poland was so helpful and now all of a sudden, Poland is is basically walking away and they're they're a member of NATO, and it's like, uh, this is not this is not good. I'm very worried that that we're just gonna walk away all of us. Not just says there's other countries. I was reading about it. I can't remember who they were, but I was they just don't want to say it, you know, because they're barras. Yeah, but Poland came out. Poland came out and said it. Yeah. And the other argument, the other argument is spending all of these billions of dollars approaching trillions of dollars on Ukraine's border versus putting that kind of money into our border, which obviously is becoming a little bit of a crisis with these cities and you know, the homeless and all that stuff.

1:33:22 And so that's those are the aguments I hear from from people of why they don't want to they don't want to continue to fund Ukraine. So I just wanted to throw that in. Sure. Yeah, no, And like I said, I mean, I respect the concerns that people have about it, but I really feel, well, what do you think, Mike, I think that for us to walk away now, regardless of how you felt about it when we first got in, I think for us to walk away now, I think it's just too late, I think, and I think it emboldens Putin, and I think it emboldens Xijing Ping if we walk away now too, So that that bodes that bodes what many people have been saying all along.

1:34:02 Stop with the increments to Ukraine and give them everything they need to win the war in the next months or two months, and end, you know what I mean, and get their get their country back. We're just we're you know, snippeting in money here and money there. Whenever they run low and they're running, you know, just stop it. Just end it go full for us, get in there, call NATO in, say NATO, you're with us. Let's just stop this. Well, but that's that's yeah, that's the other argument, I know. But we do have to be.

1:34:33 Something that I do give the Biden administration credit for on this is I think it's I think it makes sense to be cautious, especially in the early stages of this because one thing that we all must remember, uh, is that we are dealing with when you're talking about Russia, the largest nuclear power in the country. They have even more nukes than us. Not of course, at a certain point it doesn't even matter because it's so much nukes, it's enough to destroy the world multiple times over. But so I think it.

1:35:01 I think it makes sense to be cautious. And I know that for example, with long range missiles, which I guess now we are going to be sending them long range missiles, but I remember that there was a concern earlier on that what if we give them these and even if it happens by accidents, say, long range missiles are now being shot into Russia, directly into Russia by Ukrainians, and then we're the ones who supplied them those missiles. Then someone, uh, you know, whether it be Putin himself or one of his advisors, might say, oh, look, the Americans are giving them long range missiles that they're now using to attack our cities inside Russia.

1:35:40 Does that cause an escalation? And so I think it makes sense to be very cautious and not just say here, we're just going to give you everything. You can't understand the other argument, though, just get it done. Oh, I understand it, I understand it. But I but again, I do worry about. There's a lot that can go wrong. Yeah, no, oh absolutely. But if NATO all got together and said we're all in, every country's gonna send their top forces, we're gonna end this once and for all. Putin. So your choice, We're gonna give you a week make a decision, or we're coming in.

1:36:17 We're all coming in. We're gonna protect Ukraine and we're gonna drive you back. Done deal, you know, then put the Then the onus is on him to make a call. You know, is he is he that much of a dead one's death or does he? Does he fear the threat that it's legit? And you know what I mean? Just I don't know. Just there there's all these different questions. So yeah, I mean, it's it's complicated stuff. But I wouldn't. I would not. I mean, if you're suggesting NATO just everybody starts sending actual ground forces in that I would definitely oppose.

1:36:49 I don't know, it doesn't have to be ground, could be air, could be long range missiles. I mean, just everybody just say, finally we're in. We're all in. This is NATO. I know, it's not a country that is in NATO. But we're going to protect them because you know whatever, and just we're all coming in all together, Europe, Asia, anybody who's in NATO, US, Canada, they're all coming Australia. I mean, just stop the drip of money, money, money, and some missiles, a little few missiles here and a few missiles there.

1:37:20 You know, this thing's just lingering on. How long can Russia last? I mean, they're having kids fight now. They took their prisoners out of jails, they put them on the front line. Somebody said they're starting up use women who want to sign up. I mean, at one point, does Russia just you know, say hey, all right enough, I can't go against thirty one other countries that are in NATO, and and you know, so that's just an argument. I hear of people saying that's why they don't want to send any more money, because it's just a drip, drip, drip versus let's just end it one way or the other.

1:37:51 Get in or get out, finish it or get out. So that's all I understand. I understand both sides, and just it's a question. Yeah yeah, all right, Mike, Well yeah we are, we are about out of time. But I do, but I but I do appreciate the call in your thoughts. Thank you. Yeah, have a good weekend, all right, Mike, you two take care bye bye. All right. That was our friend Mike Doyle. And yes, we are just about out of show, so we're gonna wrap up. But yeah, I don't but yeah, just for the record, just briefly, I don't.

1:38:21 I understand the point that Mike's making, but I don't. I don't agree with I would not, under any circumstances, support NATO directly confronting Russia over Ukraine because that that could escalate into something where, well, let's just be very blunt about it, where we all end up dead. I'm not willing to take that risk. I'm not willing to you know, I'm willing to support Ukraine. I'm not willing to die for Ukraine. Forgive me if I sound selfish, but no, and you know, there might be something to it.

1:38:51 I mean, maybe Putin would back down. Mike might be right. Maybe Putin would back down and say, wow, they're really serious. I have no choice now, But maybe he wouldn't. And uh, that could that could go bad very quickly. All right, but we do have to go it is Friday, which means I will be back tonight for retro Spectrum Radio with Paulice tonight from eight to eleven pm. And Dan Randall of Dan Randall and the ram Let's is going to be joining us and I always look forward to that. I always love my Friday nights here.

1:39:20 So thank you all. Thank you again to DJ Reckless for joining us earlier. DJ Reckless will be tomorrow night at the Hopknot from nine to eleven PM helping to celebrate the Hopknot's fourth birthday, our amazing sponsor here on the show and at the station. And let's see if you miss any part of today's show, it'll be up in just a little bit at WNH radio dot org and on my website Matt Connerton dot com. And I think, well, uh yeah, we'll leave you with this. I'm gonna play Bruce Dickinson's Tattooed Millionaire since I was talking about it earlier to close out the show, and uh, I will talk to y'all a little bit later.

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