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Matt Connarton Unleashed: Ghost of Don Imus
We have a call. Hi, welcome to Matt Connorton unleashed. Who's this?
Uh? This is Mark Connor, Yes, yes it is. Who's
this? Is this Connor? Mac connor? Mark? What? What?
What's this? Don Car? Is this Marner? This is a very familiar
voice. He's kind of mumbling. Manor is don Armor is calling from burger
Don? The ghost of don Imus is on the line. Oh my god,
this is amazing. Don Imus calling from from Purga. You're still in
purgatory? How long you have to say? That's that's that's crazy? Uh,
this is I will say though, this is an honor, sir.
I mean I don't think you were a good person when you were here on
earth, and uh you were kind of a pos to a lot of people
and said some terrible things. But you are a radio legend and uh I
am talking to your ghost. So this is quite a moment. Well,
sir, you're talking. I really are. I just got arrested and they
send me or burgidol. So you so you uh you so you've been arrested.
Tell me. They tell me I'm dad, they call me I'm Dad.
They put me in the ground. Are here in the urgatory, But
I don't feel dead man, and I'm I'm alive. I keep telling them,
I keep telling him I'm alive. They won't want to come back.
I will say this, don Imus, you sound you do sound more alive
to me now than you did at any point in the last five or six
years that you were actually on the radio. Well, thank you, thank
you, right, and you sound more lives than our brig fan. You
know, we get your our show over Aaron burgagal you say purgat you are
say purgatory right, Let's make sure you're in the rock play are yes?
I'm sorry, I'm eating right now, I'm having watched right now. Alive
But you say, you say you're not actually dead? So are you in?
Are you just buried somewhere in purgatory, Texas? And they won't let
you out? Is that what's going on? No, I'm actually here in
the purgash story full first class here by the way, fu first class here
to purgatory, and it's a nice stay here. I think I am dead.
Actually, they don't tell me I'm dead, but I don't feel dead.
Ron right right. You brought me in a room. They questioned me
for three hours. They told me I'm dead. They hadn't re sign some
favorwork, Matt, and I'm here now in purgatory. It's an undisclosed amount
of time that I'm going to be here, but it should be soon that
I'll be going to heaven. Matt. That's very exciting. Well, are
you sure? Does everyone in from your donkey? Cong Man? That sounds
familiar. I think I think you might have asked me that once before when
I called into your show many years ago. Wow, how's my donkey?
kN It's great? So a very important question. Do you get to uh
do you get to continue to wear your cowboy hat purgatory? That's older,
man. I shouldn't call in until we have from material. I mean,
this is our first time talk. I've never spoken to the ghost of Don
Amas before I was any work. We're gonna do him, man, You
and I when I come down and hear the fire from Progret Card, we're
gonna sit down. I'm gonna write some material and we're gonna think of some
funny things for me to say. That's great. It'll be just like your
back on the rate. It'll be just like your back at w ABC or
I'm sorry w NBC. Oh you're very sick. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it'll be like your back home. Well, that's right, because you
know, how was your Donkey Kong to get really old? Really? Yes,
I think at some point you would stop saying that later in your career,
probably around the time that you started copying Howard Stern trying to be more
like him. Oh wow, true. Yeah, so even in death,
you're still upset with Howard Stern. I don't like Howard. He took all
my deil. Well he uh he had glowing things to say about you when
you passed away. You know a lot of people will mistake me from Larry's
Flynn. Yes, yes, I know. I know someone who thinks you
sound like him. I think you sound like don iMOS. That's how I
figured out that it was the ghost of don iMOS. Than well, thank
him, right, yeah, this is the ghost of uh don Iris,
Larry Flynn, this is the ghost of don Imris tracking out right, you
have a great day. I love yourself, all right, thank you?
Well, very nice? All right, Wow, the ghost of don iMOS.
That was wonderful. Now, how does that work? Now? He
says he's in purgatory, but does that mean he definitely goes to heaven,
because if you go to Hell, you go I see, I'm not you
know, I haven't been to church in a while, much to the chagrin
of my dad. But I think the deal is. I do remember learning
about purgatory in school, uh, Catholic school. I think the deal is,
Uh, if you go to purgatory, you you go there to to
burn off your sins and then you get to go to heaven. But if
you go to Hell, you go straight to Hell, I think, right,
because that would be that wouldn't be very fair, right, if you
go to purgatory and then you're thinking, no, cool, I'm in purgatory.
Maybe next I get to go climb that ladder over there and get to
heaven. And then it turns out, no, you just fall into the
pit of hell. That would be That would be terrible. That would be
insult to injury, am I right? So so I hope, don Imus.
But he's been dead for years now, at least a couple of years,
right, So he's been in purgatory a long time, A long time.
Wow, don iMOS, Well that was that was a radio legend to
my friends. We've made radio history here today.
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