Matt Connarton Unleashed: "The Healer" Mike McDowell

0:00 Speaker 1: There's another big event coming up tonight in Nashua, but we're going to get into that with our first guest, and we have a lot to talk about, actually, but let me bring that mic up. Mike McDowell is here, also known as the Healer.

0:12 Speaker 2: You got a good morning? What.

0:14 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt.

0:15 Speaker 2: I just wanted to say thank you for having me. This is an honor.

0:18 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah, I need to know why do they call you the healer?

0:21 Speaker 3: So, you know, I get that question a lot and this it's not a lot of people are like, are you a traditional healer? And this is something that really called to me. I am not a traditional healer per se, but through music, I have been healed.

0:39 Speaker 1: You know.

0:39 Speaker 3: It's been a long journey for me, and we could probably get into that later. But the sounds that I play and the sounds that I listen to, especially like my track selection, for the things that I play for everybody, they heal.

0:52 Speaker 2: You know.

0:53 Speaker 3: Music, for music is the one thing that hits every part of the human brain right And so for me and I play this music and get people all together as one. Race doesn't matter, color doesn't matter, identity, sexts, gender, none of that.

1:09 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. We're one. Right.

1:10 Speaker 3: When we come together and play this music and dance, something magical happens and we heal.

1:16 Speaker 2: That's simple.

1:17 Speaker 1: I like it.

1:17 Speaker 2: I like it.

1:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. We should talk about tonight. You've got a big event tonight in Nashua at Terminus Underground.

1:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, one thirty four Haynes Street. I believe in Nashua, my good friend Eleanor and Andre they're putting on a Winter Solstice event tonight.

1:36 Speaker 2: I do believe.

1:37 Speaker 3: It starts at eight pm. I should be on at about ten pm and we're just gonna party holiday style.

1:44 Speaker 1: Owner is in the chat room. By the way, she says, Hi, Mike, she's in the face.

1:47 Speaker 2: Love you girl.

1:49 Speaker 1: And by the way too, that's why we played Six Minds Combined. Is playing tonight right at that? Yeah, we played as we were wrapping up our number one. We played Running through a Mansion. I was telling you off air how I think, like a lot of us, I always wake up with a song playing in my head first thing in the morning, and my playlist that that automatic playlist that that pops up when I first opened my eyes. That track is in the is in the.

2:12 Speaker 3: Rotation love that Grig is a beautiful man. Yeah, beautiful man.

2:16 Speaker 1: And who I Am is playing too right.

2:18 Speaker 2: Yeah.

2:18 Speaker 1: Also in my rotation, that's that song let me know when it's time to rock. I get that stuck in my head all the time.

2:24 Speaker 2: Beautiful making traction.

2:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely, Yeah, Terminus Terminus is a is a great place and yeah, a lot of uh we had a Green Jello or green Jelly whatever you want to call them, whichever name you want to use on the show, and Jenny worked with Eleanor to have have them play Terminus and it was it was quite a night.

2:44 Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I love.

2:45 Speaker 3: I love what Eleanor is doing or what what the whole team over there is doing, because it's inspiring, because it's it's a place for artists to be seen and hard, you know it. That's the bottom line, especially the underground you know, Nashua artist community. It gives them a place to play and be seen and heard, and we need more of that.

3:04 Speaker 2: You know.

3:04 Speaker 3: You touched on small businesses being the way to go and Walmart and Target having making enough money like that's a part of it for the music and the artist community, you know.

3:15 Speaker 2: So I'm truly grateful to be able to be a part of it.

3:17 Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And you have are you opening a venue as well?

3:22 Speaker 2: I am?

3:23 Speaker 1: I am?

3:24 Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to talk about that definitely.

3:27 Speaker 3: So you know, it's you know, thanks to people like eleanor for for inspiring artists like myself to take the leap. You know, I'm bound by fear at most points throughout the entire day.

3:40 Speaker 2: You know.

3:41 Speaker 3: Fear likes to dictate, uh, my next decision, you know, and when we've got people in our corner that really care about what we're doing and see how important what we're doing is, it allows me to tell that fear to step aside, you know. And it's this place came about as first and foremost it was an opportunity, you know, and I don't really believe in coincidence coincidences too much these days. It was a signed for the from the universe. For me, it was like, you've got a job to do, Mike. You know, these people need a place to be seen and heard, like we're just talking about with Terminus yep.

4:20 Speaker 3: And you know that the spot, which is actually what it's going to be called, is the spot. The space has been vacant for six years on Main Street, Nashua. It'll be at two seventeen Main Street where Aubishon Hardware used to be from like one hundred years right. Yeah, So it's it's pretty nostalgic because I've been I used to go in there when I was a kid, and you know, we're demoing it right now, getting ready to put the new floors down, and we're shooting for like February March to open, and this is going to be a sober establishment, you know.

4:54 Speaker 3: Friday, I'll have eighteen years sober. Oh, congratulations, Thank you very much. And from me, a lot of the motivation behind the spot was that I used to love the bar scene.

5:07 Speaker 2: I used to absolutely absolutely love the.

5:09 Speaker 3: Community, the bands, the music, the comedy, whatever it was. But for me and many many other people, it grabs a hold, you know, it grabs a hold of you and completely ruined my life real you know.

5:23 Speaker 2: And that.

5:24 Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's not to say anything that can handle their say anything bad about anyone that can.

5:28 Speaker 2: Handle their alcohol. Sure, excuse me.

5:31 Speaker 3: This is just for me and for the people that are going through what I go through. We don't have a place, you know, a nice, big place where artists can come, you know, put their art on the walls. Musicians come, comedies come, and there's no booze. So by the end of the night, nobody's fighting and getting their girlfriends taken right, you know. So that's that was it.

5:53 Speaker 2: Man. I was just kind of listening to the universe, listening to my heart. And it's a community thing. It's not a me thing. It's a wee thing.

6:00 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm taking ideas from everyone in my corner and trying to put this together with a team.

6:06 Speaker 2: Yeah.

6:07 Speaker 1: So this is an opportunity to right to have to do like all ages shows, is that? Yeah, Okay, that's great. Yep, we need more of that.

6:15 Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely.

6:16 Speaker 1: I used to love I don't know if you remember the Sad Cafe and Plaschat I don't. That was an all ages room, alcohol free and yeah. I played in a couple of bands that they would play shows there and uh and and booked a lot of shows there and unfortunately it's it's long gone now, but it was such a great place. It was cool too because they would actually they would actually record your set and uh.

6:40 Speaker 2: And they'd give you a CD at the end of the excellent.

6:43 Speaker 1: Sometimes it was excellent. Sometimes it sounds terrible. It would depend on who was who was running the board that night, to be honest with you. But but yeah, it was really cool. And this's just and I remember for all those years, well for a lot of those years, it was the only in all of New Hampshire, it was the only room like that. Of course, if you go back further there was a Cafe Eclipse and Conquered Yep which was a great all ages room. But yeah, there aren't there, there aren't many, no.

7:12 Speaker 3: And I'll share I'll share a quick story, a couple of quick stories here about like, so we're down there doing a little build out a couple of weeks ago, and it's happened a few times.

7:23 Speaker 2: Excuse me.

7:24 Speaker 3: Folks are walking by and there was a couple, there was about three elderly women walking by and they just stopped and looked in the windows. It was probably nine pm and you could tell they were just having dinner down the street, somewhere on Main Street. And so I went outside and I started talking to them and they were like, hey, we're really curious. We keep seeing the lights on here. It's been vacant for some time. What do you got going on? So I shared the story about where I came from and uh, why we're doing it, and I had one of the women in tears, and she was like, this town needs this.

7:54 Speaker 3: And she's not the only one that said that. Just last week, a gentleman was walking by and he's rubbernecking as he's walking by, and I'm going out to grab something from the car and uh, and and we just started we engaged. We started having a conversation and he's like, listen, man, I drink and and this is an excellent idea, and I'm going to be down here. And he says, you know, my son's in a Beatles cover band. Would you like to I said, we want everybody to come down here. You know, so even if you drink, come down.

8:20 Speaker 3: We don't care about that. Yeah, booze isn't going to be allowed there, but like, come down and have a good time. That's what this is about.

8:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, that's that's outstanding. And what are you are you going to in terms of the entertainment? I mean obviously, so I assume you're gonna have bands and DJs. You'll probably DJ there, right, yeah.

8:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, So we're gonna do uh once a month. We're gonna have uh per se and e d M night. I hate that term. Why it's I mean, for for the general public. EDM kind of sums up all the genres. But I come from a place where, like I play house music and someone else will play dubstep, but all encompassing it's DM you know, it's electronic dance music. But yeah, once a month we're going to do that. I've got a great band, a bunch of young kids from Nashua that are absolutely phenomenal. I'd like to shout them out the whole loaf.

9:17 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yep, Like seven months ago they were on or something like that.

9:22 Speaker 1: It becomes a blurb. Yeah yeah, yeah, that sounds about right.

9:25 Speaker 2: Yeah.

9:25 Speaker 3: Man, those guys are unbelievable man, and uh so we're gonna have them down. We're gonna do comedy nights. I've got plans from Monday through Friday, eleven to one. During the day, we're gonna do acoustic lunches.

9:40 Speaker 2: Yep.

9:40 Speaker 3: So we're gonna have acoustic artists, artists come in and all the artists are going to be paid.

9:46 Speaker 2: We got big plans, yeah, big plans. You know.

9:48 Speaker 3: I want to showcase a lot of art on the walls. I'm going to do a rotation monthly where someone gets a section of the wall and a QR code will be put up so it'll link right to all their socials and stuff like that. Yeah, you know, like I said, I just want us all to be seen and heard.

10:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great. It's it's a great opportunity too for bands that maybe, like you know, there are some young bands in the area that have a hard time even getting booked at you know, like at a bar, you know, because a lot of places don't want Like years ago, I don't know if you remember the Uptown Tavern.

10:22 Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah, yeah, yeah, kind of, I was.

10:25 Speaker 1: I was. I was one of the promoters. I put on a lot of shows there. You know, they would they would let me book underage bands, but it was like they could only come in when it was time to set up and they had to leave right after. And it was and you know, the the the management there wasn't crazy about it. But but we need we need places like that where younger bands can play. Like I work with a band called Under the Horizon. I'm handling their radio campaign and I'm also trying to get them some shows.

10:49 Speaker 1: But it's hard because you know, bars don't want you know, they're they're underage. Bars, bars are like more uptight about it than ever yep, which I understand of course. But but so it's so valuable, you know, to have a place that younger people can play by time. Yeah, fantastic.

11:06 Speaker 3: It's tough when you're at that age and you know what your passion is. You know deep in your heart that you can't help but play this music or paint that painting. It's inside of you. And when you get kind of shunned down because you don't have a place to go, I mean it hurts, it does. I mean I ruined my chance, my chances of ever really playing anywhere when I was like nineteen, because I got into the rave scene early and I found exactly what I needed, and then I trailed off and I allowed the demons to come in and start dictating the course of my life.

11:49 Speaker 3: And I'm super grateful that I'm coming up on eighteen now because I've matured kind of, I've matured to the point where I understand that the music and the dancing in the community we're always my first love. Yeah, you know, and so like I don't I choose not to allow the other vices to come in. I've built a foundation and I can do it, and it's it's I have no words for what it is. So point being like, these young kids need a place so that they don't stray down the path that I went because you get insecure when people tell you no, you know so so yeah, yeah, to give them a platform to be able to express their passion is going to do wonders for them in the course of their life.

12:35 Speaker 1: Definitely. Yep. We have a question for you in the chat room. So our friend Charles Richardson, who is in Florida, speaking of Florida, we were talking off there about Florida and yeah, we'll get to that.

12:45 Speaker 2: Hr.

12:45 Speaker 1: We we have a mutual friend in Florida, of course, But so Charles is asking, hey, congratulations on being sober and the new establishment. But I wanted to ask what made you turn toward the bottle in your life and also what made you stop?

12:59 Speaker 2: Thank you, Charles? What made me turn?

13:03 Speaker 3: I mean, you know, if we really break that down, it was just insecurities and low self esteem and an easy way out is what caused me to turn to the bottle. You know, a lot of kids my age were doing that. You know, It's what we did when we were kids. And I had no idea that, like, I was an addict. I didn't know. I didn't know that I was hardwired differently. Yeah, not really differently, man, We all lots of us are are hard wired that way. It was an easy way out, Charles, if I could really sum it out, it was instead of taking a good hard look at itself and trying to do a little bit of work, this young kid was just going to take the bottle and run with it.

13:42 Speaker 3: And once I started, I couldn't stop because it numbed it right out, the voices that told me I wasn't good enough and that I would never be anybody that was it. I was partying like a rock star with no instrument.

13:53 Speaker 2: Yeah.

13:54 Speaker 1: You know, that's the insidious thing about alcoholism, too, is that, as you refer to it, you didn't know you were, like your brain is hardwired for that. That's the thing with alcohol. You don't know. You really have no way of knowing until.

14:08 Speaker 2: It's too late, exactly.

14:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean there is I know there's some research that shows that there may be a genetic component. But but but like with anything you can never you know, you can't be sure. It's particularly interesting to me. I don't know if you know this about me, but I'm a certified hypnotherapist and one of the things I help people with is addictions, so I'm always very.

14:30 Speaker 2: Interested in that's great.

14:32 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, I love you know, getting to help people is wonderful. When I heard you were called the healer, oh perfect. Oh, before we go any further too, Now I can't so you gave me a sticker, which I love. Now, Unfortunately, because we're on FM radio, I cannot say verbatim what this says, but but I'll put it for those watching online. I can. I can hold it up to the camera, but basically it says, just be a decent human. There is an additional word in there that you know, really kind of puts puts a point on it.

15:03 Speaker 1: But but just be a decent human. I think is a great message. And if I hold it up to the camera you can see exactly what it.

15:08 Speaker 2: Shout out to Tim for making those for me, good friend of mine.

15:11 Speaker 1: Now is he a graphic designer?

15:13 Speaker 3: No, he just I'm pretty sure he just jumped on h jumped online somewhere and kind of just threw it together. And because I say that all the time to people, Yeah, you know, he just came into my shop and Hudson and Uh with a stack of them as a gift, and he was like, here, give these two people. And I'm like, dude, that's amazing, because that's it. Just be a decent human So you got to do yeah, exactly, Yeah, and a world full it's cold out there, guys, it is.

15:38 Speaker 2: It's it's the world can be coold.

15:39 Speaker 3: But like I'm a firm believer that the more that we're decent to people for no reason, we have a chance.

15:46 Speaker 2: We do, we have a chance to heal in the world. Just be nice to people.

15:50 Speaker 1: You know. What I always say too is it's it's a lot of it is about what you put out there for energy, positive energy out there. And some people will scoff a little bit because they'll say, like you for it earlier to the universe, you know, guiding you and so forth, or putting you in this direction. And you know, not everyone believes in that. But I always say, even if you don't believe in the concept of you know, the quote unquote universe and and the energy and all that even if you don't believe in that, you don't have to believe in that.

16:19 Speaker 1: It's still regardless of that, take that, take that piece out of it, if it's too woo woo for you or whatever, it's still just kind of how life works anyway, you know what, even without that part of it, although I do believe in that part of it, because I've I've had some wild synchronicities happen that it can't possibly be coincidence. No, I really believe that. But but even if you take that part out of it, just I think that's still just kind of how life works in that if you if you're a good person, and if you're a positive person, other positive people are going to want to be around you, whereas if you're a negative person, positive people are not going to want to be around you, and then negative people will fill the voice absolutely.

16:55 Speaker 3: And it's try and it's it's been proven with me as well. It's through trial and error. I try to, like people come at me with a little bit of negativity in a conversation and I'll try, hey, what's like because it's contagious and it will latch on and then it just you see what happens.

17:11 Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, yep, one hundred percent. Oh the Florida things. So our friend DJ Midas, who is either the first or second person to actually have a show here on on WM and H. I'm not sure. I'm not sure if his show was first, or the Morning Show with Peter White was first. One of them was first and one of them was second. But but Midas's show late Night to Light, which of course you can hear every every Saturday night at starting at midnight, and then it repeats on Sunday night at midnight, I guess would technically be Monday.

17:44 Speaker 1: But yeah, he's so he's a WM and H original. But you also, you know Midas.

17:49 Speaker 3: Ye shout out to John, Thank you, buddy, love you man. What an inspiration you know, when I first when I first was introduced to the scene back when I was a kid and started going to late night parties and raves, like he was there, you know.

18:03 Speaker 2: And he is such an.

18:08 Speaker 3: Versatile artist, like the music that he plays, yeah, pushes boundaries, you know. And and and that's what it's about for me, is being able to do something different. And I'm super grateful for him because he actually laid like this foundation of attraction for me to what people were doing behind the decks. Yes, yeah, wow yeah, So thank you John.

18:32 Speaker 1: So if not for him, you might not.

18:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, guys like him. DJ Farrow Todd very good friend of mine. For guys like them, absolutely, if I didn't hear what they were doing in the sound, because it hits you in the heart, doesn't hit me in the ears. If they weren't doing it, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today.

18:47 Speaker 2: Okay, yowah, very cool, yep, very cool.

18:50 Speaker 1: Let's see. Also in the chat room, I see Mike Pellettier Junior says the healer Mike McDowell. My dude, love you, bro.

18:57 Speaker 3: You'll make me cry, dude, it's too early for that. Very nice. I've known Mikey since he was ten years old. He lives across the street with me, and man, I love that guy. He to watch him flourish and grow and just be a part of my life. He's lifted me up in times that like I don't even know where I'd be without him.

19:15 Speaker 2: So thank you, Mikey, No kidding, Very cool.

19:17 Speaker 1: Cool. Also, Grim Rock from Pennsylvania says, congrats on your sobriety. I have thirteen years. Sobriety now very nice. Rats hashtag musicians for Sobriety. Very nice, very nice. I see Isaac Banks, one of our friends from Greensboro. Is it North Carolina or South Carolina? Oh? Oh, the whole loaf is in the chat room as well.

19:39 Speaker 2: Oh my guys.

19:40 Speaker 1: Yea Mariam vanishes in there and says good morning Malcolm Wood is in the chat of course, good morning Malcolm.

19:47 Speaker 2: You got people from all over huh. Oh, absolutely love you guys.

19:50 Speaker 1: That's a nice thing too, about you know, we live in a time where, you know, with the radio show, even though we're obviously we love Manchester and love being here. And you can listen locally twenty five point three FM. But of course you can stream the show from any beautiful anywhere in the world really beautiful or I say anywhere in the world. I don't know that necessarily in Iran you're allowed you, right, Saudi Arabia maybe I.

20:11 Speaker 3: Know, maybe they're pirate and maybe yeah.

20:15 Speaker 1: Now, so what's so getting back to the spot, So what's kind of the do you have a timetable? Do you do you kind of know when?

20:22 Speaker 3: So we had originally planned like January February but as always that the way you have it planned, it never works out that way. Of course, we're looking at probably end of February, maybe March, yep.

20:36 Speaker 2: Yep.

20:38 Speaker 1: Now, how is how is the city to work with? How how is the city of Nashvia to work with?

20:43 Speaker 2: They're actually really great.

20:45 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're just very busy right now, so we're getting held up, held up on getting inspections and stuff like that. No fault of their own, but uh, because like I said, trades are very busy, especially in the commercial area right now.

20:56 Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, no, they're great to work with. Yep.

20:59 Speaker 3: And I've gotten a lot of feedback from people that are working like in the Mayor's office and stuff like that. I just keep hearing we need this, we need this, Nashua needs this.

21:09 Speaker 1: Yeah.

21:09 Speaker 2: So yeah, so they're all for it.

21:11 Speaker 1: That's good.

21:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really good.

21:14 Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know now that I'm thinking about it, because you know, you do hear stories about I'm not talking about Nashville. I'm not talking about any city specifically, but you know, you hear stories people are trying to open something and whatever a city or town they're in, they're you know, they're kind of getting a hard time from the local officials or whatnot. But but in your case too, whereas you're doing something that the community does need, you know, I can't help, but wonder are are they really gonna kind of help you more than they would help maybe someone who was you know, if you were just opening a bar, right or or I don't know, a strip club or something something or you know, uh a casino, something that they be worried about.

21:53 Speaker 1: You know, you're doing something that's only going to be positive. Yep, you know that the community needs. So I think they so they have a extra incentive in that sense to help you. Right, it's going it's going to be something good for the community.

22:04 Speaker 2: I would hope.

22:04 Speaker 3: So Nashua, Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, exactly, very cool, very cool.

22:11 Speaker 1: Now so when you open, so are you you're going to serve food?

22:14 Speaker 3: There?

22:15 Speaker 1: Is that correct? Because you've got something about lunch when acoustic artists will play.

22:19 Speaker 3: Yeah, So we've got the main Street community is filled with some excellent restaurants and excellent food. So I've popped into main Street euro or gyro however you want to call it. And then Empaneli's is an empanada place right around the corner. We Oh, they're they're great, you know, shout out to both of you guys. But I've popped in there and kind of let them know what we were doing. And uh, I don't want to cook food at at the spot. You know, we could put in a kitchen if we wanted to. It's zoned for it.

22:53 Speaker 3: Obviously. I've got my sister in Las Aarrah. She just opened up Raw Toast is her bread company, and it's phenomenal bread. So she's gonna team up with us and and kind of make pastries and stuff that will coincide with coffee and tea during the day because during the day, I'm gonna be serving anchor Head Coffee, which is out in Seattle. They're sending some coffee my way and we're gonna grind up the beans there. I want I want people to experience like a coffee and tea bar during the day. So if you're you're working on Main Street about to go to work, you can pop in there and grab some coffee, lunch break, come down because we're gonna have acoustic artists and get some coffee and tea or or whatever.

23:31 Speaker 3: We're gona have mocktails of all types, but like I really want to hone in on coffee and tea bar during the day and uh yeah, so she's gonna she's gonna bring us pastries and stuff like that. And uh it's really I know that other people are gonna end up coming in and saying, hey, I make this, can we can?

23:49 Speaker 2: We put it? Absolutely? Absolutely.

23:51 Speaker 3: It's like I said, it's a community thing, it's a wee thing, but we're not gonna serve our own food there.

23:56 Speaker 1: Well, you know what's smart about that, I really like that is if you're if you're teaming up with other you know, like you mentioned the Epina and Pinellies, if you're if you're kind of teaming up working with other restaurants to to do that, you know, to to bring in food or whatever, then you're not competing with anybody. So you're no threat to them. You're you can only be a benefit to them if they take you up on that and they work with you. So that I think is very smart too, because that's that's going to generate a lot of goodwill among these other businesses.

24:28 Speaker 1: If you're going to them and saying we're not we don't want to compete with you, we want to work.

24:31 Speaker 3: With you absolutely, and that's my that was my selfless nature. I mean, I'm very selfless. I put myself last in most instances in uh.

24:38 Speaker 2: But but but this.

24:39 Speaker 1: Is a win win for every You just described that strategy. That's that's very smart. And of course, because it's not a bar, you don't there's no I assume because it's not a bar, there's because I know it's like Jenny Is. Jenny knows a lot about the live because she used to be a state legislator here in New Hampshire and she always says, there's really no such thing as a bar in New Hampshire. Everything's a restaurant because if you're a bar, you're required to have a certain amount of I don't know exactly how the math works, but it's like a certain percentage of your sales has to be food and not alcohol.

25:16 Speaker 2: Oh interesting, Yeah, yeah, Okay.

25:18 Speaker 1: There are exemptions. I guess, like Jewel is actually classified as a ballroom not a bar. I don't know how that interest.

25:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeaho poles.

25:26 Speaker 1: But in your case, whereas you're not serving alcohol, you don't have to worry.

25:30 Speaker 2: About Yeah, so that's great. Yep, yep, that's really good.

25:34 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm curious too the space, like can you tell it that it used to be an obishon? Like is there stuff left over?

25:43 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've got some cool pictures on my phone when we were digging up. So it was probably four layers of plywood, not plywood, but four layers of flooring in the place. So they never ripped up the old flooring. Every time somebody renovated, Yeah, they would just lay lay more flooring down. So I had my good buddy, he stepped up to the plate and got him and his guys to go down and rip up the floor a couple of weeks ago, and they ripped up like four layers and got it down to the original hardwood floor that was in there, and we really wanted to use it, but it was going to get damaged as they were ripping it up.

26:19 Speaker 2: But there's.

26:21 Speaker 3: Those those tree fresheners you know that we hang on the used to hang on the rear views. There's like a giant one from probably fifty years ago that's stuck to the floor. And then one of those you know get your keys made here that's probably from like early eighties that's stuck there. It's about two feet by two feet. It was really cool. Yeah, and then you go down in the basement and there's like three separate stairways that go up to nothing down in the space. Because main Street has risen about five feet over the years it used to be, so if you were to try to access through that their way, you'd be you'd run right into the sidewalk at your chest.

27:03 Speaker 3: So there's these like staircases that aren't being used anymore.

27:07 Speaker 2: It's oh, it's really cool.

27:09 Speaker 1: Interesting.

27:09 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really cool. And I feel sound studio vibes coming from that basement. So we're not going to do that immediately. Obviously, we want to get these doors open and get everybody in there. But I think a year or so down the road, i'd like to create, like build out a sound studio that'll be under main Street. Yeah, so we can record things and people can come and record albums at the spot.

27:35 Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, excellent.

27:36 Speaker 2: Yeah.

27:37 Speaker 1: Now, have you always been an entrepreneur?

27:39 Speaker 2: I didn't.

27:39 Speaker 3: I was just funny. I was just talking to them before they left. I didn't know what it was, Matt, I didn't know. I knew that for me, working the nine to five didn't sit right with me, and that's not to knock it. I'm a little crazy, and you know, I loved the jobs that I had growing up. But for me, the thought of working till I am sixty five and collecting a certain percentage of money from that company, it just didn't make sense for me. God bless my dad. The guy shows up to work every day. He is my role model and he has been my whole life.

28:27 Speaker 3: Shout out to Mom and Dad. I love you guys.

28:31 Speaker 3: But for me, I didn't know that the add right, the attention deficit, was actually an asset class. I was always told, Mike, you to sit down, shut up. You're not sit down, shut up, sit down, shut up. I'm a scatterbrain. But as an entrepreneur, that's an asset class. That's the skill set. So it wasn't until a few years ago that I was somebody was like, oh, you're an entrepreneur. I'm like, no, those are those Those are those big guys that own multiple companies and da da, da da. I guess that's what I am.

28:58 Speaker 3: I don't know, madam. What I'm addicted to is listening to what the people want.

29:04 Speaker 2: You know.

29:04 Speaker 3: I own a repair shop in Hudson that got voted the best repair shop in the Greater Nashua area two years ago.

29:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, we were only two years old. Yeah you know. Yeah, and we're it's not even in Nashwoo, it's in Hudson.

29:16 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.

29:17 Speaker 3: And we're in the running for it again for twenty twenty four. But for me, it's about listening to what do you guys want, like what's missing in the community, and how can we do something to kickstarted.

29:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's it, That's what I'm doing.

29:32 Speaker 1: The ad D part of that is really interesting to me because you might know, do you know doctor Kevin He's he lives in.

29:39 Speaker 2: Uh yes, I do you know? I do? Yeah, yeah.

29:42 Speaker 1: So yeah, he's a good friend of mine and we've done a lot of work together too, and I'm a regular on his podcast. Okay, I was at a chamber he invited He's invited me to a couple of the Nashua Chamber of Commerce events. But he's done a lot of work. I don't know if you know this about him, He's done a lot of work in that area. Like he's written multiple books about a d D eighty HD and and one of the books is called Managing the Gift because He comes at it from the perspective of, you know, if you have a d D and you're being told in school or by whomever, while this is some sort of a learning disability or you know, that's the wrong thing to be telling people.

30:22 Speaker 1: And I heard because yeah, because it can so much as as you were talking about, it can so much be an asset. There are so many things where you know, you can you can use that.

30:34 Speaker 2: To your advantage.

30:36 Speaker 1: And and a lot of a lot of successful entrepreneurs, you know, they they code for having ad and and it can really and that's why he calls it managing the gift because it can really.

30:47 Speaker 3: Be I have to talk to him. I didn't even know that he did that. Yeah, he's helped me before. Man, we sat down and when we had a session, oh okay, oh yeah, and it was eye opening.

30:58 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

30:59 Speaker 1: Yeah.

31:00 Speaker 3: It's and for the people that that for anyone that's young out there, and and you know, you quote unquote suffer from add or or their to I don't know how it is nowadays, it's probably changed. But when I was a kid, you were broken, like you weren't like everyone else else, you know, and and we don't all have to fit into the same box.

31:21 Speaker 2: We don't. There is not one way up the mountain, right, you know.

31:25 Speaker 3: The the societal blueprint for success has been and was always, you know, it that that that model of get up, punch the clock, go to work, get home, you know, and and put your money in for one k and and all that, save your money, all that stuff like if you weren't doing that, you were doing something wrong, you know.

31:53 Speaker 2: And that's how I was brought up. And it's nice to.

31:55 Speaker 3: See that there's a a flourishing community of like minded people like my self that are getting together and and understand like, you can do anything you want. We don't have to follow the societal norm you know, there's a there's a way to get to the top. There there's many different ways to get to get to the top.

32:15 Speaker 2: Yep.

32:17 Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's great that that you're you're so familiar with doctor Kevin. Yeah, he's amazing.

32:21 Speaker 2: Yeah, he's absolutely amazing.

32:24 Speaker 1: And so tell me about now the djaying. Are you actively djying? Oh?

32:29 Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, I can't stop. It's it's something that I do every single day. Yeah, it's been my passion for the longest time, solely really uh house music you know, which is which is a genre that.

32:42 Speaker 2: Started way back.

32:45 Speaker 3: But when I first heard it, it was so different from the mainstream sound, you know, and I became just fully addicted to it, and uh so I just I just play, you know, if people want to hear it, cool, you know. And I never really got too many gigs when I was younger. I'm not, like, really, it's not my motivation to really get gigs. I just love to play. So if people want me to play, I'm playing yep, yep, because it does something for me and I know that it'll do something for somebody else.

33:19 Speaker 1: Yep. How often do you play out?

33:23 Speaker 3: I mean I play every single day, you know, and I stream on on YouTube. I've got a YouTube yep. I've got a YouTube channel excellent for the Healer. And I mean I play, like I said, I play every day. I stream probably once a week. Yes, just my passion, Matt.

33:39 Speaker 1: With the streaming, do you run it into any you know, they're constantly changing how they approach it with this show, you know, because we stream on YouTube and with this show, like I'll get I don't get copyright strike because that's only if someone actually wants to, you know, really go at you. But but I I just get the thing that says, you can't monetize this all this, which is fine? Is that is that all the time, But but you don't get struck, right, that's good.

34:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll tell me that, like some of my mixes will tell me that it's it's a portion of it's being muted in certain countries.

34:10 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah.

34:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.

34:13 Speaker 3: And I find that YouTube's actually the easier one outside of twitch twitches. Twitch is great, I just haven't used it since last year. Yeah, YouTube has been great as far as getting a reach aside from like Facebook, going Facebook Live. I can never really keep the stream on on Facebook. But yeah, yeah, I've been having good luck. But yeah, the same thing happens to me with YouTube.

34:35 Speaker 1: With Facebook because we also stream to Facebook, and I get I'll get a notification afterward that says, now it's it's fine because well, once in a while it'll say your videos muted. Yeah, parts of your video are muted. But most of the time it'll say your video is sharing ad revenue with.

34:53 Speaker 2: Whoever was I've caught that one whoever was on show that day?

34:55 Speaker 1: This is fine?

34:56 Speaker 2: You know what does that mean?

34:58 Speaker 1: It just means that. So, so I guess Facebook is collecting money if your stream generates money, But nothing I have on there is monetized anyway, So I don't even know how. Like if you go to one of my Facebook videos, it's not like an ad pops up, but if something were generated from it, I guess I'm sharing the revenue that I'm that I don't get anyway. I mean, I'm sharing the revenue with whoever was on the show that day, whose music we featured, because they own the copyright. Because I'll tell you, Facebook and YouTube, their content ID systems have gotten to be as I'm sure you've noticed doing what you do with the streaming.

35:38 Speaker 1: They really they're really on top of it now, you know, it's like there's no way, there's no getting around it. Like used to be able to kind of fool the content I thots by, you know, if you maybe play with the speed on something. Yeah, yeah, but now it's like there's no fool and there's no fool in anybody anyway. Yeah exactly.

36:00 Speaker 2: It just can listen and it knows exactly. Yep, yep. Yeah.

36:09 Speaker 1: Now what what else do you plan to do at the spot when it opens? So obviously you're gonna have live music. You talked about what you might do in the basement with a studio. Did you have any other other plans for.

36:19 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I want to do comedy nights. I want to do poetry nights. Maybe even considering putting like a projector screen up and doing movie nights once a week. Basically what my vision for it is. You know, during the summers, we have a lot of my my course circle come over to my house and and we sit around the fire and like I'll bring the turntables outside and uh light the tiki torches, and we just kind of create a vibe. And it's the vibe that like, I'm very like I told you, I'm very scatter brained, and that can come with a lot of anxiety as well for no reason.

36:58 Speaker 3: But when I when I'm able to do that and get my friends to come around, like it immediately heals me to a place where, like the anxiety is gone. So thank you guys for coming over when I when I do that. But what we want to do with the Spot is kind of encompass that same vibe down at the spot. It's like just come down, hang out, leave the worries at the door and just have a good time with us. Yeah, that's it, and listen to some great music, check out some cool art and that's it.

37:32 Speaker 2: Man, it's simple. Yeah, yeah, that's great. Yeah, thank you.

37:35 Speaker 1: Oh. By the way, Eleanora of course is in the chat, she said, regarding our we were just talking about content ID. She said, get music business knowledge at New Hampshire Underground.

37:44 Speaker 2: Yes, she's right, and she's great. I love the new name, by the way, I do too, I do too.

37:50 Speaker 1: I told her recently. I said, uh see, I can't. I'm having trouble even pulling it up in my brain now because I used to trip over when I would try to say midnight midnight.

38:02 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah I would.

38:03 Speaker 1: I would trip over it when I would try to make it in the air, and I think one time I ended up saying midnight creatures. Like I don't even know where I got the word creatures from. Somehow that ended up in my brain. And so it's much easier to say New Hampshire under absolutely, and it's you know, and the venue is Terminus Underground, so you've got so it's those consistency of the Underground.

38:23 Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it's a very very positive move. Yeah, I want to.

38:26 Speaker 3: I want to shout her out real quick for anybody that's like, uh has has questions about, you know, the business side of music, like reach out to Eleanor at what is it? Matt the Underground? What's the New Hampshire New Hampshire Underground. Yeah, you can find her on Facebook. She has been such a light in my process to try to fill in the gaps of the things that I just don't know about. And what it does for me when I don't know about something is like I'll try to gather the information on my own and then if I don't have any luck, it just.

38:58 Speaker 2: It gets put on the back burner.

38:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.

39:00 Speaker 3: So, so having someone like Eleanor in my corner really keeps me accountable for myself and and she is super smart when it comes to this stuff and really fun and awesome to work with.

39:13 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. Oh Rick Everhart also known as six Minds. He's in the chat and he's reminding us that he's performing tonight at Terminus that he is, and he was also suggesting and did you say open mic or did he suggest that he's He says open micro.

39:27 Speaker 3: Oh, we're absolutely going to have that. I probably left it out, Rick, but you know it. You know it, buddy. We're definitely going to have one. Yep, yeah, yep. We have to because there's people out there that don't know. You know, I've got a good friend of mine, Larry. He I used to deliver packages for ups and he worked for FedEx and we would always run into each other on the road and that's how we formed a relationship. And as of late, he's been throwing up these little videos of him playing acoustic on his Facebook and I'm telling he's never played for anyone live, yeah, and so I'm dying to get him down.

39:58 Speaker 3: He's a little nervous about it, and I understand that, but man, Larry, people need to hear what you got because some people have such a gift and they don't know that it's a gift right and the world needs it right. So yes, absolutely, open mics.

40:15 Speaker 2: Thank you, Rick, Oh, very cool, very cool.

40:18 Speaker 1: We should remind people about the event tonight at at Terminus Terminus Underground and six Minds combined Who I Am and who.

40:29 Speaker 3: Else I can't remember. I think there's someone that performs.

40:33 Speaker 2: With Who I Am? Oh may I can't remember.

40:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's uh yeah, that's going to be tonight at Terminus.

40:42 Speaker 2: Yep, eight pm.

40:44 Speaker 1: Let me pull it up on I had it on my phone opened up earlier and I accidentally closed that tab. Okay, Yeah, Terminus Underground Bright Lights Winter Solstice, Winter Solstice Party. Nice list only. You're invited to dance the night away. Yes, and that is a twenty one plus b yob, that's a one thirty four Haines Street in Nashua. So if you haven't been to Terminus you should definitely definitely.

41:10 Speaker 3: Yeah, come on down, guys. It's a very unique setting, very unique. It's comfortable.

41:14 Speaker 1: Well, you know what I tell everybody, it's like when you walk into that room, it's like you're walking into another world. Absolutely now that was my reaction their Simon, Jenny and I went there.

41:22 Speaker 2: It's super cool. There's no venue like it. Yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely, yep. Yeah, we're gonna have a good time tonight.

41:28 Speaker 1: Eleanor says we have a disco ball.

41:30 Speaker 2: I love it perfect.

41:33 Speaker 1: She also said the spot is an incubator for new and young.

41:36 Speaker 3: Artists there it is Yeah yeah cool, yep, very cool, love you al thank you.

41:42 Speaker 1: Oh do you want to mention too. So you said, so your repair shop, do you want to give that a plug?

41:46 Speaker 2: Yeah?

41:46 Speaker 3: Man, Devoted Repairs were three Milendi Road in Hudson. You know, we just we're just it's real simple, man, We're just offering the people what they need, you know. And we've got like such an amazing core list of clients man, And I don't even like to call them clients, their family.

42:03 Speaker 2: You know.

42:04 Speaker 3: Ninety percent of the people that come in to get their cars repaired and inspected whatever with us, I've known for a long time, and if if I didn't know them, we form a relationship with them because.

42:14 Speaker 2: I love meeting new people. Like everybody's got.

42:18 Speaker 3: Something interesting about them that's different from the next person and the next person if you take the time to just sit there for a couple of minutes and skip the surface talk and really break stuff down, like humans are weird and interesting and I absolutely love that.

42:33 Speaker 2: So like it's yeah, Devoted Repairs.

42:36 Speaker 3: You cannot if need be and need to jump on Devoted repairs dot com. You can check out our reviews there, you can book with us, you can send us a mess with message right through the website. But yeah, that was my first real baby, and I love that place.

42:50 Speaker 1: Yup, Eleanor said, see their ad in Spectrum Monthly. That's right, Yes, I'm in there too.

42:55 Speaker 2: Yeah.

42:56 Speaker 1: For Matt Connerton hypnosis, yes, yeah, and Rick Ever it says that's where I go Devoted Repairs.

43:02 Speaker 2: My dude, excellent, My dude excellent. Yeah, there's another.

43:06 Speaker 1: Place in Nashville I go for my well, never mind, get out of here, I will say on the air where I go for my inspections. But I bet you, I bet you know the place anyway. You know what I want to get in and out quick. Anyway, you probably.

43:23 Speaker 2: Know who that's going to get himself in trouble here.

43:25 Speaker 1: You probably know who I'm talking about.

43:27 Speaker 2: I probably probably do.

43:29 Speaker 1: They have a reputation.

43:30 Speaker 2: I plead the fifth.

43:35 Speaker 1: But that's very cool. Well, as we approach the top of the hour, So where should people go to keep up with everything that you're doing?

43:40 Speaker 3: Facebook is primarily the best place you can find me at Mike McDowell and then it says the Healer in parentheses afterwards. I'm also on Instagram at I believe it's the dot Healer. Underscore music okay, and sence I'm throwing that out there. I'll start to make sure that I'm on top of my ig feed more. Yeah, and those are two of the best ways to follow what I'm doing. And I put I'm up. I'm up on Facebook, posting at least a couple of times a day.

44:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, yep.

44:12 Speaker 3: And I will say I got unfortunate enough to have a gig coming up in Providence at Platforms on January eleventh.

44:18 Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, very good, Yeah, very good. Yeah.

44:23 Speaker 1: Oh by the way, so you're getting some more love in the shower room sim sere if I'm saying that correctly, says just found out recently my buddy Ben works for you.

44:30 Speaker 2: Yep.

44:31 Speaker 1: Honesty and skill over at devoted for sure.

44:34 Speaker 2: Oh my god. I love you.

44:35 Speaker 3: And that's the truth, man, That's that's one of the core values, is that transparency and honesty. And Ben and and Gavin and Mike Might they're equally just amazing team members.

44:47 Speaker 2: You know.

44:47 Speaker 3: I don't like to call them employees. Yeah, I don't let them call me the boss. We're doing this together, you know.

44:52 Speaker 1: Oh very cool.

44:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, so thank you for that.

44:54 Speaker 1: That is awesome. Well, Mike McDowell the healer, thank you so much.

44:58 Speaker 2: Of course.

44:58 Speaker 3: Can I give a quick shout out Happy bird date to my buddy Adam Quimby absolutely jerk face, Happy birthday brother, we love you. And a big shout out to my soul tribe. You know who you are very nice. Thank you Matt for having me.

45:09 Speaker 1: Absolutely we will do it again in the future.