Matt Connarton Unleashed 9-6-23

Hey, everybody, welcome, here we go. It is that time again,

Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n

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etcetera, etcetera. Today is Wednesday, September six, two thousand twenty three.

By the way, that was that track open with. That's nostalgia from

Eons Encoded, which is really just one guy. We're finally going to have

have that gentleman in with us next week on the show for an interview,

and looking forward to that because I said to Jenny yesterday, you know,

we've been playing his music for a couple of years now and he probably has

no idea, but I love I love the project so much. Eons Encoded

if you're looking for them online, and if you don't know how to spell

eons, it's a E O N S and then encoded as obvious. But

just such a unique sound. And whenever I where I play his stuff,

I say his because it's it's one guy who does all the instruments. And

he's got another band two called Pointless Culture. So anyway, looking forward to

looking forward to that next week. Uh, let's see Hans Smith in the

chat room, says Matt MetalMan. What's up. Yes, we are going

to be joined. Of course it is Wednesday, so we have Eric Pilcher,

my favorite conservative as I like to call him. He'll be He'll be

skyping in shortly. So I always look forward to that, our our Wednesdays

with Eric. He'll be on Skype, of course. So if you want

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call at six zo three two five six zero seven. We'll say hello everybody

in the Facebook live chat quickly here ezg. Eric Gagnon says weather alert,

be careful, Yes, it's hot. Jenny of course is in the chat

and says shalom peeps. Jay fed joins us from the Great State of Vermont

says good afternoon everyone. Also Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, one of our

great sponsors here at w m H. And of course I get to hang

out with Mike on Friday nights for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul C. He

says hello. Melanie Liberty, also from the Great State of Vermont, says

hey, guys, let's see. Eric Pilcher of course is in the chat

room, as he will be with us shortly via Skype. He says,

I was told there would be punch and pie. I don't know who told

you that, Eric, but I have neither to provide. Let's see and

uh oh. And Eric also says started reading The Exorcist today. Found a

first edition hardcover at Half Price Books this past weekend. I assume Half Price

Books is some sort of used bookstore in the area, Hans Smith interested in

knowing where the food is, well, not here. We're actually not supposed

to have food in here, So there you go. Six three two five

six seven is the studio line six Z three two five six zero seven.

Oh. By the way, just in case I forget to mention it tomorrow,

I'll try to remember tomorrow because tomorrow is the actual day. But in

listening to the Morning Show with Peter White, I heard Bill Seaney say that

tomorrow is Ali Seeny's birthday or also known as Ali Boudry. She was a

guest on the show not long ago here on this program, and so very

talented. Let's see, and I think Eric is with us. Eric,

is that you? Yes, it is all very good, welcome, thank

you, it's it's great to be on after a week off which was unfortunate.

Ah, yes, yes, you had a lot going on last week.

Yeah, just a lot of work stuff with the hurricane. Yes,

was not was not a fun week. Yeah doesn't it doesn't sound it.

We should clarify too. So you're you were not aware the hurricane is,

but your job, because of the nature of your job, you were you

had to help with things. Basically what I work for uh Cable company here

in seat of Rapids, and my official job title is a Customer Service Representative

Level two, which means ideal with angry customers in the retention department. Yes.

Uh, but what happened was, of course, the hurricane hit an

area of joy especially hard. That area, Georgia houses our customer one of

our customer service call centers, and has a very large customer base with the

company I work for. So we were inundated with calls and missing about fifty

people because the call center was closed because the lack of power and damage to

the building. Okay, you scared me there for a second when you said

you were missing fifty people. I was afraid maybe they had gone to help

with the hurricane and something happened to them, or maybe they'd been sucked up

by a UFO or something. No, not at all, goody good.

I probably would have done even more over time if they would have told us

they were sucked up by UFOs. Yeah, I mean I assumed, I

mean that was one of the obvious things to assume might have happened. But

no, I'm glad. So they just lost power. That makes sense,

That makes sense. Yeah, So uh I guess. Uh, the building

is still closed, but a majority of the reps are now able to work

from home. So that's good. So things are calming down a little bit

because we at least have the people on to help now. Now, so

do you do you work strictly from home or do you have to go to

an office. It's it's kind of weird in a sense. Seventy five percent

of the time I work from home. Okay, I have to be in

the office one week a month. It's a lot like the National Guard.

Okay, yeah, yeah, one week a month, I have to be

in the office. Yeah, so next week actually my week in the office.

Oh okay, yeah. I was curious because there's it's it's interesting how

this has changed. You know. At the height of the pandemic, it

seemed like there was this almost this renaissance, this uh awakening in in the

world to the idea that employees can work from home and be just as if

not more productive, and then and it was going to kind of just change

the way business operates. People would never be going back to the office in

theory and whatnot. And then over the last especially in the last six months,

it seems like there's been this big pendulum swing in the other way where

now a lot of business leaders who are saying, no, actually, this

doesn't work, and we need to either go with a hybrid model with our

employees, which it sounds like that's what you have where you know, one

week out of the month you have to spend it at the office or some

places. In fact, one of those, ironically enough, being Zoom.

Apparently Zoom is making their employees return to the office. And of course this

is all happening now though, as we're going back into COVID season, because

unfortunately, COVID is likely to be with us for the rest of our lives,

I feel. But yeah, it's interesting how the added tudes have shifted

because I thought during the pandemic, when all these business leaders were talking about,

hey, you know, we've got our employees working from home full time

and it's actually pretty cool and it's cheaper for us and we're not providing the

overhead and whatnot, I thought we were going to have almost possibly a collapse

in commercial real estate because I figured all these office buildings that are going to

be sitting there empty. Now you know, obviously these companies aren't going to

renew their leases on these buildings if they're in a building they don't own,

and so forth. But but then that didn't happen, and now you know,

a lot of these companies are making making people go back to the office

at least part of the time. I mean the company I worked at previously,

and we've talked a great deal about them on the program they were.

I think it depends on the company as well, on how productive the employees

are. Yeah, I mean, I feel like at this company, I

have more support working from home, whereas at my previous company there was none.

It was like, you know, it was almost as if working from

home gave them carte blanche to dict to dictate when you worked and when you

didn't, it's like, oh, you work from home, you can work

over time. Well, no, it doesn't work like that. It really

doesn't. When I had COVID and it hit me really hard, I and

I was working at that time, third shift. My manager messaged me and

been like, you know, you are working from home, and it's like,

yes, I'm well aware that, uh that I that I could work

from home, but I feel miserable and I can't stay awake for longer than

four hours at a time, and their response was, well, that's still

four hours you could be on the clot such compassion. Huh. I'm like,

okay, you know, no, I'm not going down this road.

This is a stupid conversation. Well yeah, especially it's it's it's especially stupid

for an employer to treat somebody that way in a time when it's really an

employee's job market. You know, it's it's the world is your oyster if

you want to leave a company and find a new job. You know,

we've been sitting at three and a half percent unemployment for a while now,

and yet even under those conditions, there there are still people in management who

just don't get it. It's baffling, it is, and I was that

was probably the beginning of the end, certainly, well that I do know.

I spoke with my therapist a great deal over that one, because I

was shocked, like, well, that's four more hours you could be on

the clock, like, you know, like, oh, I can barely

breathe, I'm coughing, I'm just downright miserable. Yeah yeah, so yeah,

yeah, it sounds like that manager just assumed that you had mild symptoms.

It's probably where the breakdown was there. I assume I actually was pretty

direct with them that it was severe, that I was coughing, having difficulty

catching my breath, very fatigued. War down. I mean because I filed

a we had short term disability insurance and I filed the claim. Yeah,

so I had to tell them, well, so what happened with the claim

then? If if they were still making you work? Did they deny the

claim? No, didn't work because I'm like, no, I feel miserable.

I am not coming in for just four hours because you say I can

wait. They have so so they had the system in place where you could

file a claim and then they just deny it and make you work anyway.

No, I won the claim. It's an independent company. But I'm sorry

if I haven't been clear. I had to Basically I had to tell them

the symptoms and everything, and hey, I have COVID. This is how

I'm feeling. My doctor says, I am to be that I should not

work right now or work as tolerated. Oh okay while I recover. And

I'm like, so I am going to really recover and take that time to

recover. Yeah, And I did that because I'm like, I have heard

of people that are like, after after a week, after like three or

four days, they're like, Okay, I feel fine, I'm back at

it, and it just caused greater health concerns and I didn't want that.

Yeah that, Yeah, you mentioned that. That's interesting because that is one

of the seems to be one of the really insidious things about covid is.

Unlike other types of viruses, where you know, if you get a regular,

if you get a cold or a flu virus, usually you know,

you feel really terrible and then you gradually start to feel better, and once

you start to feel better, you're good. Like even if you even if

you don't really take good care of yourself, once you start feeling better,

you know, with a cold or a flu or anything like that, strep,

throat, whatever it is, you know, you're you're you're you're on

your way, you're you're good. But with COVID it seems like a lot

of people do experience this thing where they start feeling better and they think,

okay, good, I'm on the I'm on the upswing here, and then

all of a sudden they feel even worse than they did when they first felt

sick. It's it's it's awful. I definitely and attest to that. Yeah,

I felt that. I know it took like it took like it was

like three weeks after. I remember just feeling really really dead, like Dray

war down. Yeah. I called my family doctor and I'm like, hey,

here's what I'm feeling. Do I need to come in? And he

said no, he's like it. He goes it, he goes. I've

kind of coded it in my office as COVID rebound. Oh okay, he

goes a lot of people feel that. Uh, Eric, we have a

call. Our friend Ron is on the line. High run. Oh I

thought Ron was on the line. I guess he's gone. Never mine,

call back if you want to run. I think I hear him, Matt,

do you hear Ron? I heard something. I don't know. I

don't know. You know, I'm fortunate, what good? I think that

the start of your show was possessed by demons? Oh yes, I do

remember that. Maybe the mention of the Exorcist has brought that back. That

could be also too. We have this satanic portal which you can't see on

camera for those watching online, but it hovers directly across or above me,

I should say, I think Ron is back on the line. Ron,

is that you Yes, I'll be brief. I just caught on that Eric

Scott Covid. Yes, my right? Or am I wrong? Uh?

Yeah, you're wrong? What what's that? Well? Did we lose it?

What is going on? I heard Eric, and I thought maybe that

I heard or understood that he caught Covid. That's what I was getting at.

Oh, oh, Eric, are you still there? Yes, I'm

still here. Oh okay. Everything went weird with the audio and at the

at the exact same time that that was happening, I was distracted because somebody

was putting. Somebody just slid something under the door here, and they're they're

like waving at me through the window. And sometimes people don't realize, you

know, I'm in the middle of a radio show. I'm not going to

run to the door and see what you want. But anyway, yes,

uh so, yes, Eric to answer Ron's question, Well, go ahead,

answer Ron's question if you would. No, I'm sorry to hear it.

If you do. No, I had I had COVID back in February

of I want to say twenty two, Yeah, February at twenty twenty two

so it was. That's when I had it, and it was probably the

sickest I have ever fell. Oh no, yeah, it was us.

I just wanted to say one more thing. Yes, I was flipped upping

on the radio yesterday and I'm almost positive in what I heard that there's cases

of tuberculosis coming back through mosquitoes. Did you catch any event? I feel

like I heard something about it, but I don't know. Do you know,

Eric, have you heard this? I have not, but that brings

back some fond college memories for me. One of my the dean of our

journalism department in the two year college I went to, had this innate I

don't know if innate's the right word, but this irrational fear of tuberculosis.

Anytime someone coughs, she would ask if they've been checked for tuberculosis? No,

probably a hypochondriac. Oh yeah, you know. Probably people used to

grave rob you know, steeal open up the graves. Yes, and back

in the days, and many people died of tuberculosis and the foreign particles were

buried with them in their caskets, and these people that were digging them up

and grave robin were catching tuberculosis. Oh my, of all the ways to

catch tuberculosis, that sounds like the most horrifying, getting it while digging up

a grave. I mean, who needs it? Man? I don't know.

I think if you are going to be the individual that digs up a

grave, you kind of deserve. You kind of get what you deserve.

Well. If yes, if you're going to up a grave, then you

get tuberculosis, then you know, I would say karma has taken its course.

Well, the trick is to be smart and wear a mask and gloves.

Gentlemen, have a nice day. I don't want to hug the radio.

It just I have. For the short time I heard it, I

thought, Wow, my employ Eric's got COVID. I didn't realize it was

something from the past. Oh, I got you. So everybody stay healthy,

enjoy Bessie day. And and I'm a listener. All right, thank

you. I appreciate the call. And that does open up the line for

you. Six zo three two five ozho six zero seven six zo three two

five six zero seven. You know I've been fortunate, Eric, I still

have yet to Uh. I've never tested positive for COVID. I assume I've

had it uh and just didn't know it. Because I'm vaccinated and probably just

had it and was asymptomatic, you know, but I've yet to actually officially

have it. My memory of it is I announced it on your show.

Oh, then you had COVID. Yeah. The listeners of your show were

the first ones to find out. Wow, even before your employer. I

have to tell you, I'm honored. I'm honored by that listening and laying

on the couch when they called me. Oh, and you're you're shocked when

you hear it, and then you get the results email to you that hey,

you have something in your my chart. Yeah, and you're like,

okay, and you look at it and you're like, oh beautiful, yeah,

and you're I really was shocked, and you oh, I had to

tell someone. And I saw the blinking cursor under write a comment, and

I'm like, I have COVID. Yeah. I still think I had it

back in you know, because I've told the story on the show before.

But on Christmas night of twenty nineteen, before we knew that it was actually

in the United States, I ended up in the in the emergency room with

difficulty breathing, and they told me I had asthma and I was having an

asthma attack, and I had never had asthma before, A little unusual at

my age to be diagnosed with asthma. But I think I had COVID and

they just, you know, they didn't know, they didn't know anything about

it yet, and obviously there were no tests for it because we didn't even

know it was in the United States. But I think I think I had

COVID and it permanently did something in my lungs. And that's why even today

I still use a maintenance and hailer once a day, and I carry a

rescue and hailer and I've never had asthma before that. Hey, Matt,

were you a patient zero, then no, whoever I caught it from might

have been sure. Sure, that's what That's what patient zero would say,

right, Yes, that is exactly what patient zero would say in my opinion.

Now, Melanie law Liberty in the chat room says, you know,

we were talking a little bit about working from home versus going to the office.

She said, I am way more productive at home, super love it.

Going to the office for no other reason but to look at someone's face

makes no sense to me. Yeah, it depends on the person though,

because yeah, some people say that they get lonely working from home or only

from home. But I've also read stories about how some people, if they

work at a job where there's a hybrid model, you know, they might

have to go say, say they have to go to the office one day

a week, but the one day they go, maybe they're going on a

Monday, but there's nobody else there on Monday because everyone else shows different days.

So it's like they go, they go to the office out one day

out of the week to be around people, and then there's no people there

for them to be around, and they're like, oh, might as well

have stay at home and save myself the commute. So I guess there is

no perfect answer. I despise most of my co workers, so I wouldn't

be perfectly content staying home. Yeah, Like I yeah, I just I

can't because yeah, they are just they're they're the people that sit there and

think and just everything's negative. Oh really, yeah, that's no good.

It's just like okay, I mean, if your life sucks that badly,

you have a chance to change in right, don't like why just why come

to work? You're already miserable because you're at work. Why come to work

be miserable and add to that misery by just complaining about how crantastic your life

is, right right, I just I don't understand it. And that and

my attitude when after I was let go from my previous position, was my

attitude is this, You guys get me for forty hours a week. That's

eight hours, five days a week at Anything outside of that is my time

unless you mandate otherwise. I'm not going to volunteer for over time. I'm

not going to come to company gatherings, and to be quite frank, I

really don't need any more friends. So I'm not here at work to make

friends. I'm here to make my early wage, make my commission, and

go home and enjoy life. And they they don't like that attitude. They

seem to think that I have to be friends with them. And it's like,

no, I would not hang out with you outside of work. Melanie

just said in the chat room, Wow, Eric sounds like a delight to

work with. They I'm really not. I want you go to work and

just kind of bet and if if like there was someone cool that I worked

with that I had interests with, or like didn't act like someone fresh off

the Mari Povit show. I'd be all for it. I mean, I

swear these are the peace the people I work with a majority of a Mari

Povitch said, no, you're too much for this program. Oh so,

do you ever have to sit with somebody at the office and tell them that

they're the father or not the father? Is that what you're saying? Do

they make you do that? No, I don't have to do that.

But sometimes I wonder if they would, the way they talk, if they

would be qualified to be on that show. I see, I see,

Melanie said, I wouldn't be able to listen to WM and AH if I

had to go to the office too, I would quit over that BS.

Yeah. I when I worked from home, I try to check in on

my tablet during your program. Well, if I'm in the office, I

cannot because again they're also very nosy people. Yeah. Like I'll be sitting

at my desk reading a book in between calls, and they'll be like,

what are you reading a book? Oh? What's it? What's it about?

What's it called? Well, I'm reading it, so let me read

it. Oh boy. But they're they're just trying to get to know you.

I don't want to get to know them though. Well it sounds like

it sounds like you make that pretty clear to them. Are they are they

just stop persistent? I know, I think I made it pretty clear in

our chat room last week when I'm like, I really don't like any of

you. Oh, Melanie said, I am starting to think, Eric,

is the problem at the office? Is that what's going on here? Eric?

Are you the problem at the office? Could be like next week is

like customer Service Week where they're cleaning all of these events in everything and they're

like, oh, yay, you know, Eric, you should come Wednesday.

We're having a cook out and then we're going to spare time afterwards.

And I'm like, no, that's my day off. Yeah. I don't

want to go come into work on my day off just or a free burger.

Oh see, I can I can be bribed with food. No,

not when I live right by a world class meat market that grills burgers every

day. You're making me hungry. Yeah, Miriam says in the chatman that

was scary, Matt. I remember you talking about that on the air.

Yeah, when I ended up in the er and Rocky Humor is in the

Chatman says, I remember I was really worried. I found a box of

masks in my backpack. I don't know how they got there, L O

L. And gave them to Matt and one to my parents. Yes,

I remember that. Rocky. Melanie is asking, wow, do you tell

do you tell kids there is no Santa? On the way home too?

You know? You know why I Dion Sanders. Actually there's a video of

him where he's talking about that, where he's like, I never let anyone

else take credit from my hard work. So he never let his kids believe

in Santa. Oh. Interesting, So he told his kids, well,

I'm in. His kids play on Colorado's football team, and so he's like,

who who was Sanna? And they go, you were? Who was

the tooth fairy you were? Who was the Easter Bunny you were? And

he's like, because I wanted them to know my hard work provided for them,

right right. Carol Zawarowitz is in the Facebook live chat. Hello,

Carol, let me give the studio line six zo three two five six zo

seven six zo three two five zero six zero seven. It's Wednesday, So

we're talking with my favorite conservative Eric Pilcher. But if you'd like to join

us see studio line is open for you. Six zero three two five zero

six zero seven. Eric, have you been following this at all? With

the there's no now been In Colorado, a group has filed a lawsuit to

try to keep Trump off the ballot. Have you've been following this? No,

I have it, But one of my good friends, Jordan's, told

me that Florida is doing the same thing. I didn't know that, but

I know, I know there's there's talk about it in various places. I

think, Yeah, I was talking about it on the show. Was it

yesterday? It must have been yesterday, or maybe it was the day before,

maybe it was last week. It all runs together, but there's you

know, one of the difficulties. Oh, because there was talk about it

here in New Hampshire too. Oh. Hello to Exile the Icon in the

Facebook live chat. I don't know who you are, but that's a very

cool name, Exile the Icon. Maybe they are from Greensboro, North Carolina.

Not with a name that cool, Greensboro, North Carolina. They have

names like Eon Venom four and uh New New Force of the Spark. No,

Exile the Icon. That's a cool name. That's not like that can't

be Greensboro. By the way, Melanie says in the chat, I can

see Eric at nursing homes. You know you're probably gonna die soon. Oh

my goodness. Yeah, you don't do that to you. Eric. I'm

never gonna work in a nursing home because that would be me right right.

Listen, Oh, Bessie, you are like ninety five. Is it really

gonna matter in the green scheme of things if you take a nap and miss

this episode of Matlock you have watched twenty times over right, No, it's

not. Shut up, take your false teeth out and go to sleep.

Yeah, but at ninety five, it's probably new to Bessie every time she

sees it, you know what I mean. That's not a me problem.

And besides, someday that will probably be the age of our future president.

Will probably elect a ninety five year old president at some point in the future

of the way this is going. Oh yeah, I totally agree. Speaking

of the presidential candidates, we're having a president Trump in vivic Ramaswamy come to

our Iowa versus Iowa State football game this Saturday. Ah, Now, do

you know which one will be rooting for? Iowa, and which one will

be rooting for Iowa State. Well, Notre Dame plays at that time,

so I could care less. Ah, but but I'm sure they will both

be rooting for Iowa State because that's where the game is played this year,

it's played in Ames, Okay. I imagine the vague will probably approach Trump

and give him a big bro hug. Yes, and hopefully he doesn't wrap

Eminem rightly said, do not do that ever again. Hello to Marco Mueller

in the Facebook live chat from the band Factory of Art, to see you,

Marco. Sorry, I just said we're we're transcontinental, you know,

Eric, I feel I feel like we're getting a lot of different, uh

different areas today. This is really cool. Yes, although I would never

use the term transcontinental in front of Governor Rond de Santis. He might misunderstand

what I was referring to and get a shut Oh man, he might ban

you, man, he might. He might. You might be like right

under Mickey Mouse on his list of vitriol. That's right, that's right.

Yeah, there's a Talking Points Memmo is reporting a new lawsuit seeks to enforce

disqualification clause against Trump in Colorado. I don't think any of these are going

anywhere, though. I don't think they'll be successful. I know there's efforts

in different states to try to do this, but I don't think it's going

to work. Do you where where to me it'll get interesting is if how

someway one of these gets in front of the state Supreme Court, because the

Supreme Court just rules on law, that is it with no outside influence or

no supposed outside influence, however you want to view that, and to mean,

that's going to be very interesting because if they are, because if he's

indicted on charges that he was already put up for impeachment for, things are

gonna get very dicey for President Trump. I agree with you, I don't.

I think it's much ado about nothing. I don't think anything is going

to come of it. But I think if we get word that it goes

to the Supreme Court somehow, that's when I think things get really interesting and

then it's really worth worth paying attention to. To the US I'm sorry,

do you mean to the US Supreme Court or do you mean to to these

different state courts? State supreme courts, different state supreme courts? Okay,

because it has to go through them before it goes to the US. Yeah.

So I mean if it gets to the States, that's when it's going

to be like, oh, okay, let's see what happens here. Elijoneg

on CNN, the legal expert there there seems to be their their lead legal

analysts through cold water on this whole thing last week, saying that part of

the problem with this and trying to use the fourteenth Amendment for this and saying

that that because of January sixth, obviously Trump is barred from running. Part

of the problem is it's never been tested, so there's no mechanism to even

enact this in the in the different states, unless individual secretaries of state or

state attorneys general want to make a unilateral decision that under the fourteenth Amendment it

is their judgment that Trump should be kept off the ballot. But but that

and then I suppose in that case it would go to the state Supreme Court.

Uh uh in any of those states. But that's a. It's a

it's pretty unlikely to uh. And I could totally see this happening. I

could see President Trump wearing this like a bad badge of honor. Of course,

if it were would go Jesse. He would be like, you know,

I had a I had to have the Supreme Court make a landmark ruling

on my eligibility. This is how they're this is how they're trying to stop

us. Yeah, yup, put another million in his bank account. Oh

yeah. Yeah. The more the more bad legal news he gets, I

mean, we've never seen anything like this in our lifetimes, the more it

helps him a good job of painting himself as the victim. Yeah, he's

a martyr. He's he's effectively martyred himself. And it's, uh, you

know, none of it helps him in the general election, but it ensures

he'll be the nominee. He's now got a bigger lead than ever. I

mean, the rest of them might as well drop out right now. To

be honest with you, I mean it's he's there's no way he's not going

to be the nominee. There's no way. Yes, And you know it's

it's just sad like it, I really do. And I've made this comparison

before. He really the people he attracts for the most part are those that

are disin franchise with how their lives are. Oh yeah, yeah, and

he does that it. I call it this, and if I offend anyone,

I truly am sorry. That is not my intention. I am not

a shock jack. I just this is what I look at it like.

I call it Hitler syndrome, because that's how Hitler got to power. He

really targeted those that felt disenfranchised and got them to follow him by a giving

scapegoats and b saying I have solutions, I alone can fix it. Yep.

Yes. But what Trump does is he says, oh, oh,

They've targeted you, They're targeting me. I'm wanting you. I'm going through

what you're going through. We can band together take on the machine. And

it's like these people don't realize Donald Trump is now a part of the very

machine that they think is keeping them down. Well, it's also too,

I mean the bizarreness to me, and I've thought this from the very beginning,

is they they treat him like he's some sort of working class hero to

them, and he's a billionaire. You know it ever worked a day in

his life? Right, he was born rich. You know, they'll say,

well, look at out successfully as well. You know, if you're

born into a rich family, you're going to be rich. It's you know,

and I'm not Look, I'm not a big class warfare guy. I

don't begrudge anyone there their wealth, be it earned or inherited or however they

got it, as long as long as it wasn't illegally. But but but

but to treat him like he a hero to the working class, you know,

if you're if you're a right leaning person, that is It's just from

the very beginning, I was like, why, why is it? Is

it because he's a celebrity. I guess that's what it is that must be,

But it's bizarre. It is very bizarre in regards to class warfare.

I totally agree with you, Matt. I've never gotten behind that. And

the reason is is because I grew up in what now would probably be considered

then it was considered a working class neighborhood, but now it probably would be

considered like an impoverished area. But I know so many, so many people

that grew up just like I grew up, that are now making six figures

a year that are very successful. They were welfare babies that lived off foods.

I am said, first of the month checks. But they decided they

were going to do better, and they made that choice to find a way

to do better for themselves. Yeah, so I don't go with that whole

Oh, if you're born poor, you stay poor. And the reason is

is because I've seen it more go the opposite than I have seen it not.

Now, I will say there are some those individuals that are that are

dead due to their own life choices or in prison again their own choices,

but a majority of them have become super successful. I think that, you

know, I always say, I mean, I consider myself a patriot,

and I love my country, and I believe in the American dream. I

believe in all of that, and I do believe I'm a true believer in

the sense that I've always believed that you really can in America, you can

grow up to be anything you want to be. Having said that, though,

I do think that, you know, because I always say, you

know, you shouldn't go too far to one end or the other with this

stuff. So while I do I do feel that way, I also think

that there's a hell of a lot of data that shows that over the decades

it has gotten much tougher, So I believe it's all still attainable. But

I also believe that income inequality in this country unfortunately has grown the the wealth

at the very top has become more and more concentrated, So there are some

real problems. So I still believe in all of it, but I think

it's but I do think it's gotten much tougher, and I think it's I

think it's I think the wealthy and the elite uh in many respects, and

you know, and we have a system that kind of protects them. I

think they've made it tougher. So that's why, Well, while I believe

in the American dream and all of that, I also very much believe in

things like unions and workers rights and all of that kind of stuff too.

It's gotten certainly tougher, But I will say I believe the American dream is

still there. You're you just have to work harder to get it right.

But you also have to grow up in an environment that teaches you that.

And I unfortunately, I think, because I think it can be the nature

of poverty is if you're in an impoverished if you grow up in an impoverished

environment and you don't have an opportunity to you know, because when you're when

you're a kid, you don't know, if you don't have an opportunity to

connect with mentors or people to just be a positive influence on you. You

know, that's why some people in the inner city, you know, they

turn to selling drugs to make money because that's what they're taught and that's all

they know. So I think that, I think were there are a lot

of problems. So I do agree with the whole. Yeah, you know

the American dream and you know, work hard and you can do it.

But I also think that. But I do think we have a lot of

problems to systemically in our economy to address. Certainly, Melanie in the chat

room says, I bet they are successful because they go to work barbecue's after

work. Maybe maybe I should holler, maybe I should hire Melanie as my

life coach. Yes, I think you should. She is. I mean,

she's got all kinds of advice. I mean, if you look at

the chat room on any given day or look at her her Facebook page,

she's got tons of fantastic advice. I'm gonna say this, I will give

on air Melanie law liberty credit and a lot goes to do jerk Don for

this as well. And I mean a lot of people know this many some

may not, but he is one of my best friends. Yes, we

love Dirk. I miss I missed Dirk. Actually I've known him for over

fifteen years. Ye so, but she really awakened my love, reawakened my

love of horror films with her competing in the face of horror, and that

really is something that I had been missing, among other things. We talked

on Sunday briefly about that, Matt, but yeah, so yeah, I

will give Melanie a lot of credit there. Yes, yes, Jenny said,

oh yeah, pick the chick with the stuffed animal collection to rival Freddy

Krueger. I'm not a fan, so I'm really not. I love Jason,

I love Michael Myers, I love weather Face, but not a Freddie

guy. I can't. I can't deal with any of those movies, even

when I was a kid. I don't. I don't get it. I've

said that on the show before. I make no judgments, but I personally

I slasher movies. I just I don't get it. I don't. I

don't get it how you I don't know how you watch that. I just

don't. I actually have something that I wrote about when I was in college

called slasher theory. Yeah, for a slasher to be successful, you they

have to have and they have to be sympathetic. You have to have sympathy

for them. Like let's take for example, Leatherface. Leatherface comes from a

family of in bread cannibals. Which one is he from? Which what franchise?

Massacre? Okay, I've never seen it, but that probably doesn't surprise

you. But okay, so that's Leatherface, gotcha? But yes, and

obviously he is, if you've seen the films, a developmentally challenged individual.

That premise has actually been hit home pretty hard in the prequels. So there

is a level of sympathy. Michael Myers is an individual who was possessed by

an ancient Indian curse as a young child. Well you can't. You can't

hold that against him. That's not his fault. So level of sympathy.

Jason Vorhees dot drowned while two camp counselors were having relations and not watching him,

and so there again that aura of sympathy they have. All Right,

I have to admit, I have to admit if I were Jason Vorhees,

I'd be a little bit bitter. And Freddie, you don't have that.

Freddie diminishes that. Why because here is a guy that was arrested for child

abuse, was acquitted due to a technicality, and the townspeople barricaded him in

his home and burnt the home down with him in it. He was a

child abuser of the worst kind. Yeah, so okay, so he's not

sympathetic. I will say this. I don't know which Freddie movie and I'm

are an Elmstreet movie it's from. But I am a big fan of the

song Love Kills by Vinny Vincent Invasion. Of course, Vinny Vincent was fresh

off his stint with Kiss, so I might be biased, but uh yeah,

I can't. I can't. I can't deal with those movies. Oh,

Melanie is sticking up for Freddie. Melanie says he was burned alive,

have a soul. She included another word in there. I can't say.

Yeah. But at the same time, yes, what the parents did was

wrong, but that doesn't doesn't generate sympathy. It's like, you did this,

you should have been found guilty. Yeah, And then he's just this

wise cracking killer invading people's dreams that had nothing, just because they're the kids

of the people that burned in Oh is that? Why? Is that how

he chooses as victims. That's why they're called the Elms, the kids of

Elm Street. Oh, I didn't know that because I have seen I have

seen at least one of those movies when I was a kid. Because when

I was a kid, everyone wanted to see those movies except me. I

was always the odd one out. I was always the one who was like,

ah, I don't like this, sit Matt. None of my friends

like that. Really, Yeah, I loved them, so I would watch

them with my aunt all the time. Well, but yeah, that's my

belief on slashers is that's why they are so successful because these individuals are supposed

to be the villains, but they give us this this aura of sympathy that

we have towards them because it's like, for one reason or another, they're

made this way circumstances out of their control. Leatherface has to kill because his

family has abused him into killing. Jason has to kill because that's his one

drive. Michael Myers is possessed. Oh so he Michael Myers is still possessed,

like the demon never left him, and that's why he continues to kill.

That's why he can't be killed. Oh, that's why he can't be

killed. I see right. Well, well, yeah, well you can

hardly blame him. And it's such a great series because they didn't get there

until the fourth movie explaining the Curse of Michael Myers. So oh yeah,

okay, yeah, the third one didn't even feature Michael Myers. It didn't

what well, then, what was the point? Good question? What did

they do? What did they do in the third one? In the third

one, basically a toy company released Halloween masks that were controlled by a demon

spirit and were would wipe out all the wearers of their masks at a certain

time. Ah. By the way, Melanie says Freddie was bullied for being

the kid of a hundred men. I don't know what that means. You

really can't get into that on air, Matty, but yes, that is

true. But I'm sorry, mel We're gonna have to agree to disagree on

this one. I have no sympathy for Freddy Krueger. Yeah, well,

you know, we have to have to draw some boundaries, right, Yeah,

I'll send you a private message explaining that one, Matt. Okay,

so you know, and you're then you'll be like, Okay, thanks Eric

for one time you didn't try to get me fired, Melanie said, their

heads turned into insects and h three right. It's actually a really good movie

movie. I really enjoy it. It sounds very upsetting. I feel like

I'd have nightmares for the rest of my life if I watched any of those.

Well, Halloween is one of the films that will be covered in October.

So ah. Yes, they really wanted to turn it into an anthology

film series where each film would be different, and it didn't go well.

Oh fortunately. Oh speaking of your film reviews too, and we should we

should remind people about the extra system a minute the event you're going to be

doing. But I noticed my my dad commented that he walked out of it.

Sounds like he must have seen it in the theater when it came out.

The Crazies. I don't know if you saw his comment. That was

the review that we ran yesterday, and my dad on Facebook said he actually

walked out on the Crazies. Wow, I did not see that, but

it's very it's very interesting to hear that he walked out because it got such

a very limited release. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean,

I haven't seen it yet. I'm curious to see it. Now it's

on YouTube, right because it's public domain. Yes, it is on YouTube.

I am curious to see it. Oh. I wanted to ask you

two before we talk about the Exorcist. This is something the total uh side

street here, but I happen to see this pop up on media. According

to Mike Huckabee, he said, if Trump doesn't win, twenty twenty four

will be the last election decided by ballots rather than bullets. This type of

thing. Yeah, he's he's saying it. He's saying the quiet part out

loud, appealing to those uh militants. Yeah, it says here. Yep,

he said it. He came out and said it. It says here.

A former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee specula late at

that twenty twenty four maybe quote the last American election that will be decided by

ballots rather than bullets unquote, if Donald Trump's legal troubles prevent him from returning

to the White House. On the September two episode of his show on Trinity

Broadcasting Network, Here's Here's here's the what he says in the clip. Here's

the full context of what he said. The people in power use their police

agencies to arrest their opponents for made up crimes in an attempt to discredit them,

bankrupt them, imprisoned them, exile them, or all of the above.

And if you're not paying attention, you may not realize that Joe Biden

is using exactly those tactics to make sure that Donald Trump is not his opponent

in twenty twenty four. Here's the problem. If these tactics end up working

to keep Trump from winning or even running in twenty twenty four, it is

going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than

bullets. That's what. Oh yeah, he's just putting it right out He

putting it right out there, And it's a and and I when I see

and I hear these things, I take it as a threat. I don't

know, I see how you take it any other way than that? Yeah?

Yeah, but just how stupid can my party be? Like one?

Let me say this, and I'm gonna go a little off track here.

Sure, Trinity Broadcasting Network is the epitome of everything that's wrong with Christianity in

this country. So let me just say that and be done. Are you

sure you don't you don't want to expand on that, because I'm super curious.

Well, you're like Westboro Baptist Church on TV. I mean, they

they expound they ever it's all the negativity. Yeah, and just oh all

homo sexuals are going to go to hell and oh where this country is a

cesspool controlled by Satan? Oh, this and that all hell fire and brimstone,

Oh, Sodom and Gomorrah. And it's just like just stop, like

let people live their lives without judgment. Yeah. Oh, there's a somebody

said something kind of like that once, something about he among you who is

without sin, make has a first stone. His name is The name escapes

me, but I think there might be a religion named after him. But

yeah, I found a sign. I thought I found a signed book by

him at half priced books this weekend. Yes, uh yeah, I was

like, who fifty bucks for a signed book by the author? Well,

it's the Bible. Well, to be fair, though, he's not the

author. He's he's just in It's He's in it a lot, especially in

the second in the second half, it's like all him. There's a lot

of red tats. That's his voice. Ah, okay, gotcha? So

yeah. I was like, man, and then it said by illustrator,

and I'm like, oh, so is this one of the apostles? Like

I looked it up on eBay signed bibles to see how much I could resell

it for. Yeah. I didn't get many results, so it's got to

be really rare. You you probably need what do they call it, a

certificate of authenticity for the signature in order in order to get anything for it.

I mean maybe, I don't know. I don't even know how a

certificate of authenticity would have been done. Well, he you know, he

works in mysterious ways. I don't. I don't know either. I think

I might have derailed you. Oh yeah, so so that that's what.

But that's the kind of their vibe at Trinity Broadcasting Networking. I was they

look, all credibility was gone. They could have had with me was gone.

While I was in college, it was like two in the morning and

I was flipping through channels and I stopped because there was a Girl's Gone Wild

and commercial on yeah, And I was like, what is this? I

remember those that guy's in prison, right, No, he escaped to uh

Mexico. Oh he did? I thought, oh wow, no kidding,

Yeah, he's in mehiho, damned Yeah, he got the heck up out

of dodge. Joe Francis Oh right, right right, I couldn't remember his

name. Yeah, yeah, Joe Francis is in Mexico. I still believe

he has like another felony arrest added to him if he ever comes back to

the States. Uh. Some esky domestic charge of him hitting his wife.

Oh I don't wow. Yeah, it's pretty. Actually, it's pretty disturbing

to hear the audio of him. Oh wow, really yeah, there's audio

of it. It's pretty. It makes Stephen Crowder look like Ward Cleaver.

Yeah, it's like you're like, man, Stephen Crowder isn't so bad?

Now? Wow? Yeah? Oh so you said, so you saw the

Girls Gone Wild infomercial? What channel is this on? So I hit the

info button and TBN paid programming. Really that's interesting, Yes, TBN allowed

of Girls Gone Wild infomercial for money? Wow? Yeah yeah hmm. That

that is when they lost any and all credibility with me. Yeah, because

it's like one and this is right around when all this stuff started coming out.

About what he would do to girls. Yeah, this was like two

thy six And it's like, okay, you you pious, self righteous hypocrites.

What are you doing? Yeah? Unless is it possible don't play Devil's

advocate here? That's almost a pun in this context, is it? But

but I'm just wondering, is it possible that the cable company did that?

In other words, did did uh Trinity Broadcasting not know that that was airing?

No? The broadcaster is in charge of all paid programming. Okay,

that's why there's that disclaimer before any paid programming. Okay, gotcha. Well

it's a good thing there was a disclaimer on that one. Then huh yeah,

but you, like, I've always been a believer in you endorse it

because you took money for it, right, exactly exactly, Like it's like,

really, you don't endorse it, but I'd ensure you had no problem

endorsing that check to the bank, right, Yes, yeah, what's uh?

Okay, I guess that's that's the basically the full text of what Huckaby

said. There's audio here, but I don't even want to play it.

I just I don't get it. How can how can one how can that

man be so ignorant. And I don't like to throw that word around lightly,

yeah, because it's just ignorance, Like how unaware are you to what

has happened in this country? Well, I remember being concerned about potentially violence

at at you know some of these uh events where Trump passed a show That

sounds funny to say it this way, but you know, when when Trump

passed a show up for arraignments and things like that, Uh, you know,

I'm always a little bit worried that there might be violence from from some

of his supporters outside, but it ends up being, uh, these end

up being pretty docile events. But I think a lot of it has to

do with the fact that you know, people see uh everyone from January sixth

who so far has been convicted, and Enrique Tario just got I think twenty

two years twenty three years in prison. So I think that's kind of helped

tamp a out of that down. But but yeah, when when somebody like

Mike Kackabee puts something like that out there, it's so irresponsible, you know,

and and it it I take it as a threat. I yeah,

take it as anything. But given what's happened exactly exactly yeah, if we

if we don't get what we want, we're gonna start shooting. That's what

you're saying. I mean, how can you look at that and say,

oh, well, my oh my cock Beach just being that saying stupid,

stupid, backwater hill billy stuff again. And it's like no, Like before

January sixth, that could hold a little bit of water there, but after

January sixth, absolutely not, No, that cannot be said. And he's

changed too. I think there was a time when Mike Cockbee I don't think

would have said anything like that. I remember when he ran for president in

what would it have been. I think he might have run more than once.

But in two thousand and eight he was kind of the last man standing

on before John McCain captured the nomination and HUW could be back. And I

mean he was just more, you know, very positive kind of guy.

I mean, I would never support him, but but I don't know,

seemed a lot more just kind of normal. I don't think Mike hock Coulbee

of two thousand and eight would have would have said something like this, But

but this is how, this is how he's talking now, and uh,

it's unfortunate it's really sad it is. But again, let's that's what his

that's he his base is those people that trump a trap. Yeah, it

does seem that way. It's unfortunate. Well we should uh, Eric before

we because I do have to get to a break soon. We're past the

top of they are, but we should talk about circling back to the reviews.

Oh well, first of all, let me ask you about this Friday.

What do you have for us Friday for your film review? Friday is

creep Show and it's going to be a different type of review. I mentioned

it's an anthology film, so it has like five different stories and one film.

But to talk about creep Show, you have to talk about the old

ec comics that tales from the Crypt, Haunt of Fear and Crypt of Terror

that really creep Show came from, and how two masters of horror came together

in Stephen King and George A. Romero to work on this film. So

so yes, we're gonna look at those things and have clips of those two

talking about the film instead of clips from the film. Very cool. Yeah,

I remember, you know, I saw a Creepshow when I was a

kid. I don't know why, but for some reason, the one with

Ted Danson is the one that's fans out of the four stories. That is,

I honestly think it's being buried up to their neck in Leslie Nielsen watching

it. Yeah, yeah, and such a that's you know, if you're

used to Leslie Nielsen from the Naked Gun movies and whatnot, that's such an

unusual you don't usually see Leslie Nielsen and a sinister role like that. And

yeah, that really sticks with me. That that's the one that sticks with

me of the four, because honestly, the other three I don't remember anything

about them, but I remember that one Stephen King was actually in one by

himself. Yeah, I remember you saying that, And that surprised me too.

I didn't even remember that made a low educated backwater farmer, thatting that

finds a meteor right, Oh wait, yes, I do remember, now,

yep, yep, I do remember now. Yes, So that will

be Friday. I'm actually having a cup people over tonight to watch Creep Show

to get ready for it. Oh very cool. Hey, is this somebody

you might know? Puri Iowa Purry p u r i io Wa. I

see Iowa in the name, and I just assume everybody from Iowa knows each

other. I hope that's not racist. No, okay, good, No,

I don't know. I was just wondering, okay, and uh,

and we should talk about the Exorcist. And by the way, so you

said you you started reading the book. Yes, I was at Half Price

Books, which is actually a retail chain that sells secondhand books, movies,

records. Great store. Love it. Here in seedar Rapids, one of

my favorite places. I found a first edition hardcover of the book in really

good condition. Oh okay, So I decided, in preparation for that review,

I would read the book because it's I read it back in two thousand,

so it's been quite some time. And because of Taylor's Swift, the

release of Exorcist Believer has been pushed up a week. Okay, cannot make

that up. Yes, it is because the Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift,

she u ruins everything. No, I'm kidding. I don't have any problem

with her well releasing her concert movie October thirteenth, which was the original release.

State so Universal to not compete with that, has moved Exorcist to October

six. Okay, and you're going to be you're gonna be live streaming on

on IPM nation from the what's the name of the theater, Collins Rogue Theaters

were we're with the with the change, we're trying we're trying to piece all

of that together. Now. Yes, it just was expected. Oh the

change in date. Yeah, like it's really kind of not throwing a wrench

in things, but you're like, whoa, Okay, now we really have

to piece things together because people are like, well I had planned on the

thirteenth, and I have this going on on the sixth. Then it's like,

well, yeah, so now it's really trying to push to find people.

We have a month. Yeah, actually today oh yeah, wow,

by the time is going so quick? Hey is it hot there? It's

very hot here for September. We actually got over our heat wave today.

It's like seventy something right now. Yeah, it's a it's like in the

nineties here. I mixed feelings. I mean it's you know, the heat,

it's a bit much. But at the same time, summer is my

favorite time of year. I always hate to see it slip away. So

if it was mine, I know, you like winter, Yeah, I

don't mind summer hanging on a little extra, but yeah, I don't like

the gas to eighty. The air is on, I don't play. I

understand, I understand. All right, Eric, well we will, we

will let you go. My friend always, I always enjoy our Wednesday discussions

and anything anything we didn't mention. We talked about Friday's film review. We

reminded everybody about The Exorcist, and am I forgetting anything? No, No,

not at all. Up. Okay, I would like to let everyone

know since we did talk about The Exorcist, if you are a fan of

the film, please go to Fathom Events and see the original is returning to

theaters October first, in October fourth, Okay, Fathom events dot com to

see where it's available in your area. I'm bringing this up because Fabom Events

has said that these have been low attended events for the last two years,

and so they're they're almost thinking that they might have to pull the plug on

doing these, which would be absolutely horrible in my opinion, because these classics

deserve to be seen on a big screen. Yes, yes, absolutely,

I mean they have many other great movies that they're rolling out this October,

John Carpenter's Christine, they live the thing, They have a lot of great

events coming up in October, in September, very cool, excellent, excellent.

Well all right, Erica. On that note, we will let you

go. We look forward to the film review on Friday. And always a

pleasure of my friend, always a pleasure to be on. Thanks Matt,

all right, you got it, Thank you, bye bye. All right.

That was our friend Eric Pilcher, all the way from all the way

in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As I like to call him, my favorite

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the subject is creep Show. Uh, Stephen K. King and George a

Romero. Wait was it Stephen King and George a Romero teaming up on that?

I think I always just thought of it as Stephen King, But yes,

he did collaborate on that one. And oh, we should say hello.

Two. I saw Scott Robinson is in the Facebook live chat. I

don't think I acknowledged Scott yet. And who else popped in that? I

didn't say hello to Ronda Ferverro of course from the West Coast. Ronda says

a favorite song Dear God from the eighties band XTC. That's in reference to

a conversation that Eric and I were having. Oh, Scott said in the

chat room, you know we we were talking about slasher movies. We talked

about a number of subjects today with our friend Eric Scott said, when I

watched the movie Freddie versus Jason, I really did not know who to feel

more sorry for. So I just hope they just both killed each other forever.

Yeah. Like I said, I I don't understand the appeal of those

movies. I never have. It's just that stuff does not connect with me.

Again, I don't make any judgments about it. Everyone likes what they

like, but not not not for me. Even when I was a kid,

I was like, Oh, let's see Eon Venom four is in the

Facebook live chat. Funny how Eon Venom four always shows up when I play

the band eons and coded Eon Venom four. Who I'm pretty sure by the

way, it's from Greensboro, North Carolina, says hello, Matt Connerton,

Good afternoon. How are you doing from us, Matt Connerton, We say,

is rip to Steve Harwell from smash Mouth, lead singer and vocals.

Yeah, we lost we lost a few people over the weekend. Actually,

so Jimmy Buffett passed away. I was surprised. Skin cancer, which is

typically pretty highly treatable, but so I was surprised to learn that he had

a melanoma and that's what the cause was. But but I guess from what

I had read it it had spread and he didn't really he wasn't good at

following doctors orders, and so that's that's a shame. I was never a

big fan, but you know, certainly respect him and enormously successful and talented.

I mean, you know, I think Margueritaville is a great song and

everything. I just i'd never really got into. Uh I was never a

parrot head. I never really got into Jimmy Buffett. But no, but

that is a sad loss. Steve Harwell from smash Mouth, they had a

couple of big, big hits in the nineties or was it the early two

thousands. It was around late nineties early two thousands. They had Walking on

the Sun and all Star was a really big song. I wasn't much of

a not to speak ill of the dead, but Steve Harwell, unfortunately during

the pandemic the height of the pandemic, turned out to be a COVID denier,

and you know he was one of those people who went around, Uh

well, I want to be able to put the show on YouTube later so

I won't even repeat the things he would say, but that was disappointing.

He was definitely a COVID denier. That's why if you wanted to see,

if you wanted to see, even at the height of the pandemic, if

you wanted to see smash Mouth live, they were one of the few bands

that actually was out there actively touring because Steve Harwell just thought it was all

made up. So that was pretty disappointing. I have nothing, nothing much

more to say about him beyond that. And we did lose. Also,

former governor of New Mexico and a great diplomat, Bill Richardson, and I

actually, uh, fun fact, I actually voted for Bill Richardson in the

two thousand and eight Democratic primary. He was he was my candidate. But

Shannon is on the line. High Shannon, Hello, good afternoon. Hello,

it's hot, Yes, it is, it's hot. I mean,

I feel bad for kids going back to school this week. Do yeah,

well sort of, you know, because they there's nowhere, you know,

I suppose they could pull bands in, but yeah, they're kids, they'll

be Yeah. What I was going to say was, I do believe I

had heard either two or three I think it's three radio stations. Is Stephen

King owns in name? Yes, he does own some radio stations, that's

true. I forgot about that, you're right, Shannon, Yeah, and

uh question. Vinny Vincent, he was in Kiss before Benny Vincent's Invasion.

Yes, Vinnie Vincent, he is the guitarist who replaced Ace Frayley. Vinnie

didn't last very long, unfortunately, he had some issues, but amazingly talented

guy. So yeah, he was in Kiss and then he left Kiss or

he was fired from Kiss, and then he started Vinnie Vincent Invasion and they

had a couple of albums and then Vinnie Vincent well, yes, with Mark

Slaughter, that's correct. And then uh, and then out of that came

the band Slaughter, which went on to be enormously successful, and latter is

basically Vinnie Vincent Invasion without Vinnie, right, and uh and Slaughter. And

then I saw a Slaughter the first time I saw a Slaughter live. You

know who They opened for Shannon Kiss. That's right on the Hot and the

Shade tour nineteen ninety. Ye got it in one, yep, yep,

there you go. Well it was nice to hear Eric too, So thank

you to him, you know, I uh, they have it. I

think. I don't know if there's a book creep show or if it's just

a play. Yeah, it's it's based on stories written by Stephen King.

Yeah, but is it a book or a play. I don't remember.

Well, I think it's a I don't remember if the book is called creep

show. See sometimes for example, Maximum Overdrive, the movie is based on

the story a story called Trucks by Stephen King, which is part of one

of those books that he is uh published that has a series of short stories

in it that's like stand by Me? Is uh no? Is it stand

by Me? Or I'm thinking of there's a book called Rage, I think

by him. I'm not sure. I read a lot of Stephen King growing

up, but during my over the course of my adulthood, I don't know,

I kind of got I kind of got tired of him. So there's

a lot of Stephen King I haven't read. Plus the books just got to

be. His books just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. And I

don't have a short attention spanned by any means. But some of these books

he's written, like it, I've never read it. One thousand, one

thousand and thirty four pages. Who has the time? Yeah, did a

big I liked the book. Yeah, everyone raves about it. I just

I'm not going to read a thousand page book. I'm sorry. I'm just

not. Yeah, I suppose it's well, I don't see it that way,

you know. I read it back when well I reread it on digital,

but I read it on cassette tape. Listened to it if Juno is

listening, you know. And it it used to say on the cassette tapes,

this this book contains, and it would say the amount of pages,

and it was like one thousand, thirty two or thirty four pages. How

many cassettes was it? Huh? How many cassettes was it? It must

have been quite a few. Yeah, it was. Well, there's four

sides per cassette. It was weird because there was there was a switch.

You could you listen to side one, take it out, listen to side

tooth and hit a switch and there's an extra side on it. But there

was there was a lot. It was a big. Yeah, a couple

of cases. I was gonna say, I just imagine a whole suitcase full

of cassettes. Yeah, but I don't know how long it is, but

the institute's really good too. By Stephen King. I've not read that.

It's it's one of his newer or well think yeah, I think I think

I stopped reading Stephen King probably by nineteen ninety. Yeah, well this is

a little different. I don't know, but I just wanted to throw those

comments out there. Okay, so that's it. Well, all right,

Shannon, Well we appreciate the call already, thank you, all right,

thank you, bye bye. Melanie and the charem says, tired of Stephen

King? How dare you? Yeah, I just I don't know. I

mean by the time, Yeah, at a certain point, I just I

kind of just entirely stopped reading fiction. Though I really, as an adult,

I haven't read much fiction. It's it's been mostly like I like political

science books and nerdy things like that. I don't know. I can't even

remember when the last time I read a book that was of a fiction,

a fictitious novel. To be honest with you, I know that I have

read fiction as an adult, I just can't remember what. It's been almost

entirely nonfiction for a long time. But now that's me. While it does

open up the line for you six three two five six seven six zo three

two five six zero seven. Uh. Wow, we're already almost out of

show, but we do have uh, let's look at some legal news,

shall we very busy day in the legal realm, and uh, some of

it's about Trump, but there is also some Hunter Biden news. This is

breaking. Actually, this just went up media. I just put this up

a little bit ago. Special counsel will reportedly seek indictment of Biden Hunter Biden

on gun charges. Uh. And you might remember, of course, well,

a couple of months ago, now, it seems like that we were

talking about how, you know, they had this whole plea agreement in place,

but there seemed to be uh, you know, the pro secutors and

Hunter Biden's defense seemed to have some different ideas about what that entailed, and

that came back to Hunter Biden's attorneys and Hunter Biden. Of course. Well

here's where we are now with all of this. Special Counsel David Weiss has

announced that he will seek a grand jury indictment against Hunter Biden related to gun

charges. Charges will reportedly be announced by the end of this month, according

to a court filing, The filing says the Speedy Trial Act requires that the

government obtain the return of an indictment by a grand jury by Friday September twenty

nine, twenty twenty three, at the earliest. The government intends to seek

the return of an indictment in this case before that date. Then, Media

Eye goes on to say Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, had

struck a plea agreement on the same gun charge and two tax charges that fell

apart earlier this summer. Weiss, acting on behalf of the Department of Justice,

indicated that there were be no new deal and that Biden's case would go

to trial. And this is from Weiss. It says during the July twenty

six, twenty twenty three hearing that the court set on this matter, the

defendant pled not guilty. Since that time, the parties have engaged in further

ple negotiations but are at an impass. The government now believes that the case

will not resolve short of a trial. Wow, it says here. This

development comes after criticism from President Biden's political critics on the Republican side, who

have claimed a two tier justice system that benefited the younger Biden since the original

Plea deal was announced, they demanded a special council be appointed, but complained

when Weiss was named to that position. Yeah, they right, and that's

true. They were clamoring for a special counsel and then Weiss was named special

counsel and then they said, oh, this is this is just being done

to protect Hunter Biden and to inoculate the Biden's both a hunter and of course

more importantly his father, the President of the United States, from criticism,

which was a smart way for them to play it politically. Uh. Disingenuous

but smart. But but now uh, nope, there there there's going to

be a trial, and uh, Hunter Biden continues to be just a millstone

around the neck of his father as he's running for reelection. But again another

reason why I think that I think that Biden should should not be running for

re election. And we'll see if what you know, we talked on the

show about what Mark Halperin told Michael Smerconish on his show that the decision has

actually already been made, that Biden has decided not to run after all,

but nothing is being said publicly until they figure out an exit strategy. And

uh, and how to proceed in terms of you know, because you know,

is it going to be Kamala Harris? If it's not Biden, how's

that all going to work? And it is going to be complicated and fascinating

to see if it all plays out. My fear is, though Biden,

is that it's it's not going to turn out to be true and that Biden

is going to stay. Let's see. Now, speaking of the elder Biden,

this also from Media House to Republican says he's not backing a Biden impeachment

inquiry for corruption because quote, I'm not convinced that evidence exists. So this

is from this is also from today. Oh, actually, this is very

fresh. This just happened a few minutes ago on CNN. Apparently. Representative

Ken Buck, Republican of Colorado, told CNN he has not seeing any evidence

that would justify an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Many Congressions old Republicans

have alleged that Biden was deeply involved in his son Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings.

Some even claim that as Vice president, the Elder Biden took bribes as

part of a scheme to enrich his family, but they have yet to present

evidence to sustain that explosive charge. Appearing on today's edition of The Lead,

Buck was asked about the possibility of House Republicans forcing the speaker to hold an

impeachment vote, and actually, here, let's listen to this. I've got

the audio here. I wanted to get your take on your colleague, Congressman

Matt Gates saying he is prepared to force a floor vote on impeaching President Biden,

and if Speaker McCarthy blocks the effort, he is threatening to make a

motion to oust Speaker McCarthy. What do you think of that? Well,

I think I think Speaker McCarthy has said a number of times that he wants

to bring a vote on the impeachment inquiry, not necessarily the impeachment, but

the impeachment inquiry. So I think he and Congressman Gays are on the same

page there. I don't think that there is an appetite right now for a

motion to vacate Speaker McCarthy. I think that we have three committees that are

working very hard on uncovering evidence of Hunter Biden's wrongdoing. They are looking to

see if there is a connection with Joe Biden. If they reach that point

where they can find evidence of a connection, fine, I think the Republicans

will move forward with an impeachment inquiry. Right now, I'm not convinced that

that evidence exists, and I'm not supporting an impeachment inquiry. So that's his

take on it. Ken Buck, Republican of Colorado. Yeah, there are

a lot of Republicans obviously that are the Freedom Caucus wing of the Republican Party

in the House really wants to go forward with this. Well. See,

I mean that's not to say that there isn't smoke, but you know,

when you say where the smoke there's fire, that's not always the case.

So I think it makes sense for them to proceed with caution. I'm not

convinced that you know that there's nothing there by the way, just I don't

want anyone to misunderstand what I'm saying. But so far, there's no there's

you know, there's evidence. The evidence is circumstantial. Let's see, we'll

just hit a couple of it. Like I said, big day for legal

news is, I think Jenny pointed out in the chat room media I also

reporting Mark Meadows planning to flip on Trump in Georgia case, along with other

indicted co conspirators, per a new report. It says here a new report

connected the dots among Donald Trump's co conspirators for his indictment in Georgia, and

it established a pattern of behavior indicating the former president's allies will turn against him

to legally save themselves. Politico reported on Mark Meadows's potential legal strategy as a

White House chief of staff faces charges connected with Trump's alleged conspiracy overturned Georgia's twenty

twenty election. And actually, let's grab this. My dad is on the

line. Hello, Hello, Matt, how are you? Good afternoon?

And good afternoon. It feels like the fourth of July. You know when

it feels like this on the fourth, I don't mind it because I love

the holiday. You know, I love history, right, I love philosophy,

And I don't mind it when it's this hot in September because A,

it's not going to last too long, right. B. I love the

fall, but it goes by way too quickly in my experience and judgment.

Yeah, and my body has adapted to it. You know, when the

when the I think you know this about me not to get into anything too

personal here that when the heat first hits, you know, it depends,

you know, with climate change, and I do believe it's very clear climate

change is real. I don't believe the Green New Deal Bologna politically, but

I'm not going to get into that. I know we would untably disagree on

that. But I've recommended good books by great scientists, and just now now

I'm gonna I am going to mention the first part. I wasn't gonna mention

it at all, but sixteen hundred plus scientists just on the Labor Day,

just before Labor Day, wrote papers on the phenomenon of climate change, which

they say is cyclical, going back for thousands of years, and they feel

they can document that. But it has little to do with emissions. It

has all to do with cycles and water vapors is much worse in the environment.

And when you look at the less almost maniacal, obsessive ad Biden too

is guilty of this and that crazy am I judgment I'm gonna say, because

you have an international audience, man, I know you've got the fans around

you who are liberal, and you know I would disagree with it, but

you know, looking at the international audience. It's important to understand that there

is right now very limited resources in terms of wind and sun, and you

don't have to address this. You can address it at a subsequent show if

you wish, but h and attack your dad, and I just kidding you

better not attack. That's a spiritual question. But these windmills that they're putting

in the in the ocean are killing mammals man, and they have no they're

not trying to problem solve through that or rectify that. And you know,

I'm all for electric electricity and electric cars if they're reasonable in price and you

can do it. But looked like that knucklehead Gavin Newsome in California. You

know, he's latting in this sort of almost metaphysical abstract way the need to

have electric cars by I think twenty thirties saying lately, and there's no grid

for that set up, and the grid that would be set up for that

would require fossil fuels. I'm gonna underscore that it would require fossil fuels.

And this country has done amazing clean up work with scrubbing and other other realities.

We have one of the cleanest countries in the world in that context,

so droll, baby drill. But that's not why I called. And I

know we have limited time, and I don't want to introduct your guests,

so I think I was thinking maybe next month I would call in. So

we set this up and talk about the structures philosophically and practically and politically because

obviously have political applications that are daunting here with regard to elite capture because it

has A and B, and we talked about a U, and I think

Biden is guilty of this. That you remember Joe Biden. You know he's

going to be eighty one, eighty two, eighty one, And I appreciate

yours talking about Biden's age. He is clearly in cognitive decline. Would you

not agree with that? Matt Oh? I do, absolutely, I mean,

if if you if you agree, I was gonna say, it's like

I was saying yesterday. If you watch a video even of him speaking just

a couple of years ago, you can see a difference. Absolutely, Yes,

I agree. I agree. I've never been a fan of his and

he's never accomplished much in the Senate in my judgment, and you know,

I never liked that ninety two ninety three Crime Bill, but I won't go

into that. But yeah, I agree he's in decline. I personally,

I don't like to make predictions, obviously, but and let's just kind of

sports thing, you know. I love Muhammad Ali, God rest his soul.

But with regard to diagnosing Joe China Joe as I call him, I

like a com That's something that's up to medical people and experts who interview him

and test him. It's not up to the public to make that kind of

diagnosis of willy nilly and superficially. So you made that point strongly yesterday,

and I think you've made that point before. But where I don't agree with

you sometimes on China Joe Biden, I think he's a crook. I think

he's We're going to see more and more evidence, even though you see the

stonewalling now of the FBI, the d o J, of course, the

crooked corporate press. For the most part, there are a few exceptions.

And by the way, the gentleman you were talking talking about, I don't

trust him, but he might be right. He might have that information,

that inside information, Mark Calby, because it could be there. Matt and

the mainstream media, even Fox, and I'm not a big fan of Fox,

with some exceptions of some of the journalists, but they may just ignore

the issue and try to continue to protect Biden and protect the leftist agenda.

So I'll stop there, but I wanted to make one other point. Can

I make one other point quickly? Yeah, just quickly, Dad, because

we are we are coming up against the clock. But if you could be

cursed, I'm sorry, that's okay, that's okay. Yeah, it's just

it's almost six. Yeah, I had a busy day to day. I'm

sorry. I was gonna call earlier, but I couldn't do. But so

just quickly, Matt. Yes, you had a great guest yesterday, and

I appreciate the interview very much. I've worked as a drug and alcohol counselor

in addition to being a clinical social worker, lifeguard, swim coach, all

that stuff for over twenty five years, and I was surprised yesterday. Just

a couple of things quickly. Sure, I was surprised yesterday by the fact

that politicians are now getting involved with sebaks and issues. I have never in

over twenty years working with great addiction psychiatrists and other clinical social workers and psychiatric

nurses. I've never had a problem with the prescription of sabaksan and its legitimacy

and its efficacious quality, So that seems strange to me, but I'm not

denying it its existence. Because the country is in decay in some ways too.

And we were moving with great progress, I thought twenty years ago,

and now we're moving back. The mental health system is getting more disorganized for

some reason, and even drug and alcohol counseling is a little more disorganized in

some respects. But we bounced back, you know, And I want you

to honor that, and honor that in your dad. Not because we're father

and SENTI because of the work I do and through the grace of God and

colleagues and training in good education, I've been able to help a lot of

people and save a lot of lives. And I know people sometimes they'll call

me around Christmas and they'll thank me because they're in recovery solidly and not just

superficially solidly in recovery. But I did want to say this too, there

is another point of view on not on decriminalizing marijuana. All drug and all

counselors have been there for twenty plus years thirty years so, but legalizing it

and making it available to the public, I am not in favor of that.

You and I disagree. Jenny and I disagree on that fundamentally, and

there are many and we're not I'm not talking about medical marijuana prescribed by a

doctor and with CBS CBT that takes away the THHC. Right. You see

the distinction there. So that's valid, that can be helpful. I wouldn't

necessarily recommend it quickly, but it would it would be valid, and it's

it's important that it's that's part is legal. But recreational marijuana, that's a

gateway drug. You people deny that, but I'm getting that out to the

public and the research is in on that, and everything from cancer to diminution

of concentration and memory and abstract thinking are all tied to THHC and the THHC

today MATT is much stronger and much more destructive and disordering, particularly over time,

and it doesn't take much time, and it leads to gateway process to

other drugs. I thought yesterday and again, I don't want to criticize your

guests, but her story was compelling in that context that she lost heartbreaking.

I pray for everyone. But she lost her husband to an overdose. When

it started in California, the greatest state in the Union weatherwise probably and the

most liberal state unfortunately with taxes and control. But it starts with recreational use

and it led to something else for her husband. And her husband is gone.

And that happens much more than you realize or the public talks about.

Yeah, yeah, we could. We don't have time, I know,

to debate it or anything. And I don't want to debate it with you

because you're my son. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah,

well we I am. I am not going to do that. I

think that's inappropriate. We got about thirty professional about wanted to get that other

point of view out there. Sure, okay, all right, no problem

dad. We do have to go though. We're bumping up against six o'clock.

So I got a heart out. But I do appreciate the call.

Thank you, Matt. I appreciate your work. Even though we disagree.

I appreciate what you're doing. All right, thank you, Well, all

right, all right, love you bye bye? All right. That was

Mike, all right, that was my dad. All right. We gotta

go. We are absolutely out of time. If you miss any part of

today's show it we'll be up in just a little bit WMNH radio dot org

and on my website Matt Connerton dot com. And we gotta go. Bye everybody.

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