Matt Connarton Unleashed: "The Healer" Mike McDowell

0:00 Speaker 1: There's another big event coming up tonight in Nashua, but

0:03 Speaker 1: we're going to get into that with our first guest,

0:05 Speaker 1: and we have a lot to talk about, actually, but

0:07 Speaker 1: let me bring that mic up. Mike McDowell is here,

0:10 Speaker 1: 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.

0:17 Speaker 2: This is an honor.

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

0:20 Speaker 1: you the healer?

0:21 Speaker 3: So, you know, I get that question a lot and

0:24 Speaker 3: this it's not a lot of people are like, are

0:28 Speaker 3: you a traditional healer? And this is something that really

0:32 Speaker 3: called to me. I am not a traditional healer per se,

0:36 Speaker 3: 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

0:41 Speaker 3: probably get into that later. But the sounds that I

0:45 Speaker 3: play and the sounds that I listen to, especially like

0:48 Speaker 3: my track selection, for the things that I play for everybody,

0:51 Speaker 3: they heal.

0:52 Speaker 2: You know.

0:53 Speaker 3: Music, for music is the one thing that hits every

0:56 Speaker 3: part of the human brain right And so for me

1:00 Speaker 3: and I play this music and get people all together

1:03 Speaker 3: as one. Race doesn't matter, color doesn't matter, identity, sexts, gender,

1:08 Speaker 3: 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,

1:13 Speaker 3: 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

1:22 Speaker 1: a big event tonight in Nashua at Terminus Underground.

1:26 Speaker 3: Yeah, one thirty four Haynes Street. I believe in Nashua,

1:30 Speaker 3: my good friend Eleanor and Andre they're putting on a

1:34 Speaker 3: 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

1:39 Speaker 3: 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,

1:46 Speaker 1: 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

1:50 Speaker 1: Minds Combined. Is playing tonight right at that? Yeah, we

1:53 Speaker 1: played as we were wrapping up our number one. We

1:57 Speaker 1: played Running through a Mansion. I was telling you off

1:59 Speaker 1: air how I think, like a lot of us, I

2:01 Speaker 1: always wake up with a song playing in my head

2:03 Speaker 1: first thing in the morning, and my playlist that that

2:06 Speaker 1: automatic playlist that that pops up when I first opened

2:09 Speaker 1: 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

2:21 Speaker 1: when it's time to rock. I get that stuck in

2:23 Speaker 1: 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

2:31 Speaker 1: a great place and yeah, a lot of uh we

2:35 Speaker 1: had a Green Jello or green Jelly whatever you want

2:37 Speaker 1: to call them, whichever name you want to use on

2:39 Speaker 1: the show, and Jenny worked with Eleanor to have have

2:41 Speaker 1: 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

2:47 Speaker 3: whole team over there is doing, because it's inspiring, because

2:51 Speaker 3: it's it's a place for artists to be seen and hard,

2:54 Speaker 3: you know it. That's the bottom line, especially the underground

2:57 Speaker 3: you know, Nashua artist community. It gives them a place

3:01 Speaker 3: to play and be seen and heard, and we need

3:03 Speaker 3: more of that.

3:04 Speaker 2: You know.

3:04 Speaker 3: You touched on small businesses being the way to go

3:08 Speaker 3: and Walmart and Target having making enough money like that's

3:12 Speaker 3: a part of it for the music and the artist community,

3:14 Speaker 3: you know.

3:15 Speaker 2: So I'm truly grateful to be able to be a

3:17 Speaker 2: part of it.

3:17 Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And you have are you

3:21 Speaker 1: 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

3:30 Speaker 3: eleanor for for inspiring artists like myself to take the leap.

3:36 Speaker 3: You know, I'm bound by fear at most points throughout

3:39 Speaker 3: the entire day.

3:40 Speaker 2: You know.

3:41 Speaker 3: Fear likes to dictate, uh, my next decision, you know,

3:44 Speaker 3: and when we've got people in our corner that really

3:48 Speaker 3: care about what we're doing and see how important what

3:52 Speaker 3: we're doing is, it allows me to tell that fear

3:56 Speaker 3: to step aside, you know. And it's this place came

4:01 Speaker 3: about as first and foremost it was an opportunity, you know,

4:06 Speaker 3: and I don't really believe in coincidence coincidences too much

4:10 Speaker 3: these days. It was a signed for the from the universe.

4:13 Speaker 3: For me, it was like, you've got a job to do, Mike.

4:15 Speaker 3: You know, these people need a place to be seen

4:18 Speaker 3: 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

4:24 Speaker 3: it's going to be called, is the spot. The space

4:29 Speaker 3: has been vacant for six years on Main Street, Nashua.

4:32 Speaker 3: It'll be at two seventeen Main Street where Aubishon Hardware

4:35 Speaker 3: used to be from like one hundred years right. Yeah,

4:38 Speaker 3: So it's it's pretty nostalgic because I've been I used

4:41 Speaker 3: to go in there when I was a kid, and

4:43 Speaker 3: you know, we're demoing it right now, getting ready to

4:45 Speaker 3: put the new floors down, and we're shooting for like

4:48 Speaker 3: February March to open, and this is going to be

4:52 Speaker 3: a sober establishment, you know. Friday, I'll have eighteen years sober. Oh, congratulations,

4:58 Speaker 3: Thank you very much. And from me, a lot of

5:01 Speaker 3: the motivation behind the spot was that I used to

5:06 Speaker 3: 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.

5:13 Speaker 3: But for me and many many other people, it grabs

5:17 Speaker 3: a hold, you know, it grabs a hold of you

5:20 Speaker 3: 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

5:26 Speaker 3: 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

5:34 Speaker 3: are going through what I go through. We don't have

5:37 Speaker 3: a place, you know, a nice, big place where artists

5:41 Speaker 3: can come, you know, put their art on the walls.

5:43 Speaker 3: Musicians come, comedies come, and there's no booze. So by

5:48 Speaker 3: the end of the night, nobody's fighting and getting their

5:50 Speaker 3: 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,

5:55 Speaker 2: listening to my heart. And it's a community thing. It's

5:58 Speaker 2: not a me thing. It's a wee thing.

6:00 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm taking ideas from everyone in my corner and

6:03 Speaker 3: 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

6:09 Speaker 1: do like all ages shows, is that? Yeah, Okay, that's great. Yep,

6:14 Speaker 1: 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

6:18 Speaker 1: the Sad Cafe and Plaschat I don't. That was an

6:21 Speaker 1: all ages room, alcohol free and yeah. I played in

6:25 Speaker 1: a couple of bands that they would play shows there

6:28 Speaker 1: and uh and and booked a lot of shows there

6:31 Speaker 1: and unfortunately it's it's long gone now, but it was

6:34 Speaker 1: such a great place. It was cool too because they

6:36 Speaker 1: 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

6:41 Speaker 2: the excellent.

6:43 Speaker 1: Sometimes it was excellent. Sometimes it sounds terrible. It would

6:46 Speaker 1: depend on who was who was running the board that night,

6:49 Speaker 1: to be honest with you. But but yeah, it was

6:51 Speaker 1: really cool. And this's just and I remember for all

6:54 Speaker 1: those years, well for a lot of those years, it

6:56 Speaker 1: was the only in all of New Hampshire, it was

6:58 Speaker 1: the only room like that. Of course, if you go

7:01 Speaker 1: back further there was a Cafe Eclipse and Conquered Yep

7:04 Speaker 1: which was a great all ages room. But yeah, there

7:09 Speaker 1: aren't there, there aren't many, no.

7:12 Speaker 3: And I'll share I'll share a quick story, a couple

7:14 Speaker 3: of quick stories here about like, so we're down there

7:18 Speaker 3: doing a little build out a couple of weeks ago,

7:20 Speaker 3: 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

7:27 Speaker 3: was about three elderly women walking by and they just

7:30 Speaker 3: stopped and looked in the windows. It was probably nine

7:32 Speaker 3: pm and you could tell they were just having dinner

7:33 Speaker 3: down the street, somewhere on Main Street. And so I

7:37 Speaker 3: went outside and I started talking to them and they

7:40 Speaker 3: were like, hey, we're really curious. We keep seeing the

7:42 Speaker 3: lights on here. It's been vacant for some time. What

7:44 Speaker 3: do you got going on? So I shared the story

7:46 Speaker 3: about where I came from and uh, why we're doing it,

7:50 Speaker 3: and I had one of the women in tears, and

7:52 Speaker 3: she was like, this town needs this. And she's not

7:54 Speaker 3: the only one that said that. Just last week, a

7:56 Speaker 3: gentleman was walking by and he's rubbernecking as he's walking by,

8:00 Speaker 3: and I'm going out to grab something from the car

8:03 Speaker 3: and uh, and and we just started we engaged. We

8:05 Speaker 3: started having a conversation and he's like, listen, man, I

8:08 Speaker 3: drink and and this is an excellent idea, and I'm

8:11 Speaker 3: going to be down here. And he says, you know,

8:13 Speaker 3: my son's in a Beatles cover band. Would you like

8:15 Speaker 3: to I said, we want everybody to come down here.

8:18 Speaker 3: You know, so even if you drink, come down. We

8:20 Speaker 3: don't care about that. Yeah, booze isn't going to be

8:22 Speaker 3: allowed there, but like, come down and have a good time.

8:25 Speaker 3: That's what this is about.

8:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, that's that's outstanding. And what are you are

8:33 Speaker 1: you going to in terms of the entertainment? I mean obviously,

8:35 Speaker 1: so I assume you're gonna have bands and DJs. You'll

8:38 Speaker 1: probably DJ there, right, yeah.

8:39 Speaker 3: Yeah, So we're gonna do uh once a month. We're

8:42 Speaker 3: gonna have uh per se and e d M night.

8:45 Speaker 3: I hate that term. Why it's I mean, for for

8:50 Speaker 3: the general public. EDM kind of sums up all the genres.

8:56 Speaker 3: But I come from a place where, like I play

8:58 Speaker 3: house music and someone else will play dubstep, but all

9:03 Speaker 3: encompassing it's DM you know, it's electronic dance music. But yeah,

9:07 Speaker 3: once a month we're going to do that. I've got

9:10 Speaker 3: a great band, a bunch of young kids from Nashua

9:13 Speaker 3: that are absolutely phenomenal. I'd like to shout them out

9:16 Speaker 3: the whole loaf. Yeah yeah, yeah, yep, Like seven months

9:21 Speaker 3: 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

9:29 Speaker 3: gonna have them down. We're gonna do comedy nights. I've

9:34 Speaker 3: got plans from Monday through Friday, eleven to one. During

9:37 Speaker 3: 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

9:43 Speaker 3: 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.

9:51 Speaker 3: I'm going to do a rotation monthly where someone gets

9:55 Speaker 3: a section of the wall and a QR code will

9:57 Speaker 3: be put up so it'll link right to all their

10:01 Speaker 3: socials and stuff like that. Yeah, you know, like I said,

10:03 Speaker 3: 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

10:09 Speaker 1: bands that maybe, like you know, there are some young

10:12 Speaker 1: bands in the area that have a hard time even

10:14 Speaker 1: getting booked at you know, like at a bar, you know,

10:17 Speaker 1: because a lot of places don't want Like years ago,

10:21 Speaker 1: 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

10:27 Speaker 1: on a lot of shows there. You know, they would

10:29 Speaker 1: they would let me book underage bands, but it was

10:31 Speaker 1: like they could only come in when it was time

10:33 Speaker 1: to set up and they had to leave right after.

10:35 Speaker 1: And it was and you know, the the the management

10:38 Speaker 1: there wasn't crazy about it. But but we need we

10:40 Speaker 1: need places like that where younger bands can play. Like

10:43 Speaker 1: I work with a band called Under the Horizon. I'm

10:45 Speaker 1: handling their radio campaign and I'm also trying to get

10:48 Speaker 1: them some shows. But it's hard because you know, bars

10:51 Speaker 1: don't want you know, they're they're underage. Bars, bars are

10:55 Speaker 1: like more uptight about it than ever yep, which I

10:58 Speaker 1: understand of course. But but so it's so valuable, you know,

11:01 Speaker 1: 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

11:10 Speaker 3: what your passion is. You know deep in your heart

11:13 Speaker 3: that you can't help but play this music or paint

11:17 Speaker 3: that painting. It's inside of you. And when you get

11:22 Speaker 3: kind of shunned down because you don't have a place

11:25 Speaker 3: to go, I mean it hurts, it does. I mean

11:28 Speaker 3: I ruined my chance, my chances of ever really playing

11:33 Speaker 3: anywhere when I was like nineteen, because I got into

11:36 Speaker 3: the rave scene early and I found exactly what I needed,

11:42 Speaker 3: and then I trailed off and I allowed the demons

11:45 Speaker 3: 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

11:52 Speaker 3: now because I've matured kind of, I've matured to the

11:57 Speaker 3: point where I understand that the music and the dancing

12:01 Speaker 3: in the community we're always my first love. Yeah, you know,

12:04 Speaker 3: and so like I don't I choose not to allow

12:07 Speaker 3: the other vices to come in. I've built a foundation

12:11 Speaker 3: and I can do it, and it's it's I have

12:13 Speaker 3: no words for what it is. So point being like,

12:17 Speaker 3: these young kids need a place so that they don't

12:20 Speaker 3: stray down the path that I went because you get

12:22 Speaker 3: insecure when people tell you no, you know so so yeah, yeah,

12:26 Speaker 3: to give them a platform to be able to express

12:31 Speaker 3: their passion is going to do wonders for them in

12:34 Speaker 3: the course of their life.

12:35 Speaker 1: Definitely. Yep. We have a question for you in the

12:39 Speaker 1: chat room. So our friend Charles Richardson, who is in Florida,

12:42 Speaker 1: speaking of Florida, we were talking off there about Florida

12:44 Speaker 1: 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,

12:48 Speaker 1: But so Charles is asking, hey, congratulations on being sober

12:52 Speaker 1: and the new establishment. But I wanted to ask what

12:54 Speaker 1: made you turn toward the bottle in your life and

12:57 Speaker 1: 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,

13:06 Speaker 3: it was just insecurities and low self esteem and an

13:11 Speaker 3: easy way out is what caused me to turn to

13:13 Speaker 3: the bottle. You know, a lot of kids my age

13:16 Speaker 3: were doing that. You know, It's what we did when

13:17 Speaker 3: we were kids. And I had no idea that, like,

13:20 Speaker 3: I was an addict. I didn't know. I didn't know

13:22 Speaker 3: that I was hardwired differently. Yeah, not really differently, man,

13:26 Speaker 3: We all lots of us are are hard wired that way.

13:29 Speaker 3: It was an easy way out, Charles, if I could

13:33 Speaker 3: really sum it out, it was instead of taking a

13:35 Speaker 3: good hard look at itself and trying to do a

13:38 Speaker 3: little bit of work, this young kid was just going

13:41 Speaker 3: to take the bottle and run with it. And once

13:42 Speaker 3: I started, I couldn't stop because it numbed it right out,

13:45 Speaker 3: the voices that told me I wasn't good enough and

13:48 Speaker 3: that I would never be anybody that was it. I

13:51 Speaker 3: 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,

13:58 Speaker 1: as you refer to it, you didn't know you were,

14:01 Speaker 1: like your brain is hardwired for that. That's the thing

14:03 Speaker 1: with alcohol. You don't know. You really have no way

14:06 Speaker 1: 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

14:13 Speaker 1: research that shows that there may be a genetic component.

14:17 Speaker 1: But but but like with anything you can never you know,

14:20 Speaker 1: you can't be sure. It's particularly interesting to me. I

14:23 Speaker 1: don't know if you know this about me, but I'm

14:25 Speaker 1: a certified hypnotherapist and one of the things I help

14:27 Speaker 1: 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

14:34 Speaker 1: people is wonderful. When I heard you were called the healer,

14:37 Speaker 1: oh perfect. Oh, before we go any further too, Now

14:42 Speaker 1: I can't so you gave me a sticker, which I love. Now, Unfortunately,

14:47 Speaker 1: because we're on FM radio, I cannot say verbatim what

14:50 Speaker 1: this says, but but I'll put it for those watching online.

14:54 Speaker 1: I can. I can hold it up to the camera,

14:56 Speaker 1: but basically it says, just be a decent human. There

14:59 Speaker 1: is an additional word in there that you know, really

15:02 Speaker 1: kind of puts puts a point on it. But but

15:04 Speaker 1: just be a decent human. I think is a great message.

15:06 Speaker 1: And if I hold it up to the camera you

15:07 Speaker 1: can see exactly what it.

15:08 Speaker 2: Shout out to Tim for making those for me, good

15:10 Speaker 2: 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

15:16 Speaker 3: h jumped online somewhere and kind of just threw it together.

15:19 Speaker 3: And because I say that all the time to people, Yeah,

15:22 Speaker 3: you know, he just came into my shop and Hudson

15:25 Speaker 3: and Uh with a stack of them as a gift,

15:27 Speaker 3: and he was like, here, give these two people. And

15:29 Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, that's amazing, because that's it. Just be

15:31 Speaker 3: a decent human So you got to do yeah, exactly, Yeah,

15:35 Speaker 3: 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

15:42 Speaker 3: 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.

15:48 Speaker 2: Just be nice to people.

15:50 Speaker 1: You know. What I always say too is it's it's

15:52 Speaker 1: a lot of it is about what you put out

15:54 Speaker 1: there for energy, positive energy out there. And some people

15:57 Speaker 1: will scoff a little bit because they'll say, like you

16:00 Speaker 1: for it earlier to the universe, you know, guiding you

16:02 Speaker 1: and so forth, or putting you in this direction. And

16:05 Speaker 1: you know, not everyone believes in that. But I always say,

16:09 Speaker 1: even if you don't believe in the concept of you know,

16:13 Speaker 1: the quote unquote universe and and the energy and all

16:15 Speaker 1: that even if you don't believe in that, you don't

16:18 Speaker 1: have to believe in that. It's still regardless of that,

16:21 Speaker 1: take that, take that piece out of it, if it's

16:23 Speaker 1: too woo woo for you or whatever, it's still just

16:25 Speaker 1: kind of how life works anyway, you know what, even

16:28 Speaker 1: without that part of it, although I do believe in

16:30 Speaker 1: that part of it, because I've I've had some wild

16:32 Speaker 1: synchronicities happen that it can't possibly be coincidence. No, I

16:36 Speaker 1: really believe that. But but even if you take that

16:38 Speaker 1: part out of it, just I think that's still just

16:41 Speaker 1: kind of how life works in that if you if

16:44 Speaker 1: you're a good person, and if you're a positive person,

16:47 Speaker 1: other positive people are going to want to be around you,

16:49 Speaker 1: whereas if you're a negative person, positive people are not

16:52 Speaker 1: going to want to be around you, and then negative

16:54 Speaker 1: people will fill the voice absolutely.

16:55 Speaker 3: And it's try and it's it's been proven with me

16:58 Speaker 3: as well. It's through trial and error. I try to,

17:00 Speaker 3: like people come at me with a little bit of

17:02 Speaker 3: negativity in a conversation and I'll try, hey, what's like

17:05 Speaker 3: because it's contagious and it will latch on and then

17:09 Speaker 3: it just you see what happens.

17:11 Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, yep, one hundred percent. Oh the Florida things.

17:15 Speaker 1: So our friend DJ Midas, who is either the first

17:20 Speaker 1: or second person to actually have a show here on

17:23 Speaker 1: on WM and H. I'm not sure. I'm not sure

17:26 Speaker 1: if his show was first, or the Morning Show with

17:28 Speaker 1: Peter White was first. One of them was first and

17:30 Speaker 1: one of them was second. But but Midas's show late

17:33 Speaker 1: Night to Light, which of course you can hear every

17:36 Speaker 1: every Saturday night at starting at midnight, and then it

17:40 Speaker 1: repeats on Sunday night at midnight, I guess would technically

17:44 Speaker 1: be Monday. But yeah, he's so he's a WM and

17:47 Speaker 1: H original. But you also, you know Midas.

17:49 Speaker 3: Ye shout out to John, Thank you, buddy, love you man.

17:53 Speaker 3: What an inspiration you know, when I first when I

17:55 Speaker 3: first was introduced to the scene back when I was

17:58 Speaker 3: a kid and started going to late night parties and raves,

18:01 Speaker 3: 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,

18:14 Speaker 3: you know. And and and that's what it's about for me,

18:17 Speaker 3: is being able to do something different. And I'm super

18:21 Speaker 3: grateful for him because he actually laid like this foundation

18:25 Speaker 3: of attraction for me to what people were doing behind

18:29 Speaker 3: 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

18:37 Speaker 3: of mine. For guys like them, absolutely, if I didn't

18:40 Speaker 3: hear what they were doing in the sound, because it

18:42 Speaker 3: hits you in the heart, doesn't hit me in the ears.

18:44 Speaker 3: If they weren't doing it, I wouldn't be doing what

18:46 Speaker 3: 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

18:52 Speaker 1: 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.

18:59 Speaker 3: Very nice. I've known Mikey since he was ten years old.

19:02 Speaker 3: He lives across the street with me, and man, I

19:04 Speaker 3: love that guy. He to watch him flourish and grow

19:08 Speaker 3: and just be a part of my life. He's lifted

19:12 Speaker 3: me up in times that like I don't even know

19:13 Speaker 3: 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.

19:22 Speaker 1: I have thirteen years. Sobriety now very nice. Rats hashtag

19:27 Speaker 1: musicians for Sobriety. Very nice, very nice. I see Isaac Banks,

19:32 Speaker 1: one of our friends from Greensboro. Is it North Carolina

19:35 Speaker 1: or South Carolina? Oh? Oh, the whole loaf is in

19:38 Speaker 1: 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

19:43 Speaker 1: Wood is in the chat of course, good morning Malcolm.

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

19:49 Speaker 2: you guys.

19:50 Speaker 1: That's a nice thing too, about you know, we live

19:52 Speaker 1: in a time where, you know, with the radio show,

19:55 Speaker 1: even though we're obviously we love Manchester and love being here.

19:58 Speaker 1: And you can listen locally twenty five point three FM.

20:01 Speaker 1: But of course you can stream the show from any

20:02 Speaker 1: beautiful anywhere in the world really beautiful or I say

20:04 Speaker 1: anywhere in the world. I don't know that necessarily in

20:06 Speaker 1: 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

20:18 Speaker 1: what's kind of the do you have a timetable? Do

20:21 Speaker 1: you do you kind of know when?

20:22 Speaker 3: So we had originally planned like January February but as

20:26 Speaker 3: always that the way you have it planned, it never

20:29 Speaker 3: works out that way. Of course, we're looking at probably

20:33 Speaker 3: 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?

20:41 Speaker 1: 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

20:48 Speaker 3: held up, held up on getting inspections and stuff like that.

20:51 Speaker 3: No fault of their own, but uh, because like I said,

20:53 Speaker 3: 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

21:01 Speaker 3: are working like in the Mayor's office and stuff like that.

21:05 Speaker 3: I just keep hearing we need this, we need this,

21:07 Speaker 3: 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,

21:16 Speaker 1: because you know, you do hear stories about I'm not

21:18 Speaker 1: talking about Nashville. I'm not talking about any city specifically,

21:21 Speaker 1: but you know, you hear stories people are trying to

21:23 Speaker 1: open something and whatever a city or town they're in,

21:25 Speaker 1: they're you know, they're kind of getting a hard time

21:27 Speaker 1: from the local officials or whatnot. But but in your

21:31 Speaker 1: case too, whereas you're doing something that the community does need,

21:35 Speaker 1: you know, I can't help, but wonder are are they

21:39 Speaker 1: really gonna kind of help you more than they would

21:42 Speaker 1: help maybe someone who was you know, if you were

21:44 Speaker 1: just opening a bar, right or or I don't know,

21:47 Speaker 1: a strip club or something something or you know, uh

21:50 Speaker 1: a casino, something that they be worried about. You know,

21:53 Speaker 1: you're doing something that's only going to be positive. Yep,

21:56 Speaker 1: you know that the community needs. So I think they

21:59 Speaker 1: so they have a extra incentive in that sense to

22:01 Speaker 1: help you. Right, it's going it's going to be something

22:03 Speaker 1: 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,

22:10 Speaker 3: very cool.

22:11 Speaker 1: Now so when you open, so are you you're going

22:14 Speaker 1: to serve food?

22:14 Speaker 3: There?

22:15 Speaker 1: Is that correct? Because you've got something about lunch when

22:18 Speaker 1: acoustic artists will play.

22:19 Speaker 3: Yeah, So we've got the main Street community is filled

22:23 Speaker 3: with some excellent restaurants and excellent food. So I've popped

22:28 Speaker 3: into main Street euro or gyro however you want to

22:33 Speaker 3: call it. And then Empaneli's is an empanada place right

22:37 Speaker 3: around the corner. We Oh, they're they're great, you know,

22:40 Speaker 3: shout out to both of you guys. But I've popped

22:42 Speaker 3: in there and kind of let them know what we

22:45 Speaker 3: were doing. And uh, I don't want to cook food

22:48 Speaker 3: at at the spot. You know, we could put in

22:50 Speaker 3: a kitchen if we wanted to. It's zoned for it. Obviously.

22:54 Speaker 3: I've got my sister in Las Aarrah. She just opened

22:57 Speaker 3: up Raw Toast is her bread company, and it's phenomenal bread.

23:02 Speaker 3: So she's gonna team up with us and and kind

23:04 Speaker 3: of make pastries and stuff that will coincide with coffee

23:07 Speaker 3: and tea during the day because during the day, I'm

23:10 Speaker 3: gonna be serving anchor Head Coffee, which is out in Seattle.

23:13 Speaker 3: They're sending some coffee my way and we're gonna grind

23:15 Speaker 3: up the beans there. I want I want people to

23:17 Speaker 3: experience like a coffee and tea bar during the day.

23:20 Speaker 3: So if you're you're working on Main Street about to

23:23 Speaker 3: go to work, you can pop in there and grab

23:25 Speaker 3: some coffee, lunch break, come down because we're gonna have

23:27 Speaker 3: 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

23:34 Speaker 3: really want to hone in on coffee and tea bar

23:37 Speaker 3: during the day and uh yeah, so she's gonna she's

23:40 Speaker 3: gonna bring us pastries and stuff like that. And uh

23:43 Speaker 3: it's really I know that other people are gonna end

23:46 Speaker 3: up coming in and saying, hey, I make this, can

23:49 Speaker 3: 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

23:53 Speaker 3: 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

23:59 Speaker 1: that is if you're if you're teaming up with other

24:04 Speaker 1: you know, like you mentioned the Epina and Pinellies, if

24:08 Speaker 1: you're if you're kind of teaming up working with other

24:11 Speaker 1: restaurants to to do that, you know, to to bring

24:14 Speaker 1: in food or whatever, then you're not competing with anybody.

24:17 Speaker 1: So you're no threat to them. You're you can only

24:19 Speaker 1: be a benefit to them if they take you up

24:21 Speaker 1: on that and they work with you. So that I

24:23 Speaker 1: think is very smart too, because that's that's going to

24:25 Speaker 1: generate a lot of goodwill among these other businesses. If

24:28 Speaker 1: you're going to them and saying we're not we don't

24:30 Speaker 1: 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.

24:34 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm very selfless. I put myself last in

24:36 Speaker 3: 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.

24:45 Speaker 1: That's that's very smart. And of course, because it's not

24:49 Speaker 1: a bar, you don't there's no I assume because it's

24:52 Speaker 1: not a bar, there's because I know it's like Jenny Is.

24:56 Speaker 1: Jenny knows a lot about the live because she used

24:58 Speaker 1: to be a state legislator here in New Hampshire and

25:00 Speaker 1: she always says, there's really no such thing as a

25:02 Speaker 1: bar in New Hampshire. Everything's a restaurant because if you're

25:05 Speaker 1: a bar, you're required to have a certain amount of

25:09 Speaker 1: I don't know exactly how the math works, but it's

25:12 Speaker 1: like a certain percentage of your sales has to be

25:14 Speaker 1: 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

25:22 Speaker 1: as a ballroom not a bar. I don't know how

25:24 Speaker 1: that interest.

25:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeaho poles.

25:26 Speaker 1: But in your case, whereas you're not serving alcohol, you

25:29 Speaker 1: 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

25:39 Speaker 1: it that it used to be an obishon? Like is

25:42 Speaker 1: there stuff left over?

25:43 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I've got some cool pictures on my phone

25:45 Speaker 3: when we were digging up. So it was probably four

25:48 Speaker 3: layers of plywood, not plywood, but four layers of flooring

25:53 Speaker 3: in the place. So they never ripped up the old flooring.

25:55 Speaker 3: Every time somebody renovated, Yeah, they would just lay lay

25:59 Speaker 3: more flooring down. So I had my good buddy, he

26:03 Speaker 3: stepped up to the plate and got him and his

26:05 Speaker 3: guys to go down and rip up the floor a

26:06 Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, and they ripped up like four

26:10 Speaker 3: layers and got it down to the original hardwood floor

26:13 Speaker 3: that was in there, and we really wanted to use it,

26:16 Speaker 3: but it was going to get damaged as they were

26:18 Speaker 3: ripping it up.

26:19 Speaker 2: But there's.

26:21 Speaker 3: Those those tree fresheners you know that we hang on

26:24 Speaker 3: the used to hang on the rear views. There's like

26:27 Speaker 3: a giant one from probably fifty years ago that's stuck

26:31 Speaker 3: to the floor. And then one of those you know

26:33 Speaker 3: get your keys made here that's probably from like early

26:37 Speaker 3: eighties that's stuck there. It's about two feet by two feet.

26:40 Speaker 3: It was really cool. Yeah, and then you go down

26:43 Speaker 3: in the basement and there's like three separate stairways that

26:49 Speaker 3: go up to nothing down in the space. Because main

26:51 Speaker 3: Street has risen about five feet over the years it

26:56 Speaker 3: used to be, so if you were to try to

26:59 Speaker 3: access through that their way, you'd be you'd run right

27:01 Speaker 3: into the sidewalk at your chest. So there's these like

27:05 Speaker 3: 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

27:14 Speaker 3: coming from that basement. So we're not going to do

27:17 Speaker 3: that immediately. Obviously, we want to get these doors open

27:20 Speaker 3: and get everybody in there. But I think a year

27:23 Speaker 3: or so down the road, i'd like to create, like

27:26 Speaker 3: build out a sound studio that'll be under main Street. Yeah,

27:31 Speaker 3: so we can record things and people can come and

27:33 Speaker 3: 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

27:41 Speaker 3: before they left. I didn't know what it was, Matt,

27:43 Speaker 3: I didn't know. I knew that for me, working the

27:50 Speaker 3: nine to five didn't sit right with me, and that's

27:55 Speaker 3: not to knock it. I'm a little crazy, and you know,

28:00 Speaker 3: I loved the jobs that I had growing up. But

28:05 Speaker 3: for me, the thought of working till I am sixty

28:10 Speaker 3: five and collecting a certain percentage of money from that company,

28:15 Speaker 3: it just didn't make sense for me. God bless my dad.

28:20 Speaker 3: The guy shows up to work every day. He is

28:24 Speaker 3: 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,

28:35 Speaker 3: the attention deficit, was actually an asset class. I was

28:37 Speaker 3: always told, Mike, you to sit down, shut up. You're

28:39 Speaker 3: not sit down, shut up, sit down, shut up. I'm

28:41 Speaker 3: a scatterbrain. But as an entrepreneur, that's an asset class.

28:45 Speaker 3: That's the skill set. So it wasn't until a few

28:48 Speaker 3: years ago that I was somebody was like, oh, you're

28:50 Speaker 3: an entrepreneur. I'm like, no, those are those Those are

28:53 Speaker 3: those big guys that own multiple companies and da da,

28:56 Speaker 3: da da. I guess that's what I am. I don't know, madam.

29:00 Speaker 3: 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

29:06 Speaker 3: the best repair shop in the Greater Nashua area two

29:10 Speaker 3: years ago.

29:11 Speaker 2: Yeah, we were only two years old. Yeah you know. Yeah,

29:14 Speaker 2: 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

29:20 Speaker 3: twenty four. But for me, it's about listening to what

29:22 Speaker 3: do you guys want, like what's missing in the community,

29:26 Speaker 3: 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

29:34 Speaker 1: me because you might know, do you know doctor Kevin

29:38 Speaker 1: 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

29:44 Speaker 1: done a lot of work together too, and I'm a

29:46 Speaker 1: regular on his podcast. Okay, I was at a chamber

29:50 Speaker 1: he invited He's invited me to a couple of the

29:52 Speaker 1: Nashua Chamber of Commerce events. But he's done a lot

29:58 Speaker 1: of work. I don't know if you know this about him,

29:59 Speaker 1: He's done a lot of work in that area. Like

30:01 Speaker 1: he's written multiple books about a d D eighty HD

30:04 Speaker 1: and and one of the books is called Managing the

30:07 Speaker 1: Gift because He comes at it from the perspective of,

30:11 Speaker 1: you know, if you have a d D and you're

30:13 Speaker 1: being told in school or by whomever, while this is

30:16 Speaker 1: some sort of a learning disability or you know, that's

30:19 Speaker 1: the wrong thing to be telling people. And I heard

30:23 Speaker 1: because yeah, because it can so much as as you

30:27 Speaker 1: were talking about, it can so much be an asset.

30:30 Speaker 1: There are so many things where you know, you can

30:33 Speaker 1: 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,

30:40 Speaker 1: you know, they they code for having ad and and

30:44 Speaker 1: it can really and that's why he calls it managing

30:46 Speaker 1: the gift because it can really.

30:47 Speaker 3: Be I have to talk to him. I didn't even

30:49 Speaker 3: know that he did that. Yeah, he's helped me before. Man,

30:51 Speaker 3: we sat down and when we had a session, oh okay,

30:55 Speaker 3: 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

31:02 Speaker 3: young out there, and and you know, you quote unquote

31:05 Speaker 3: suffer from add or or their to I don't know

31:08 Speaker 3: how it is nowadays, it's probably changed. But when I

31:12 Speaker 3: was a kid, you were broken, like you weren't like

31:15 Speaker 3: everyone else else, you know, and and we don't all

31:19 Speaker 3: have to fit into the same box.

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

31:25 Speaker 2: you know.

31:25 Speaker 3: The the societal blueprint for success has been and was always,

31:33 Speaker 3: you know, it that that that model of get up,

31:37 Speaker 3: punch the clock, go to work, get home, you know,

31:42 Speaker 3: and and put your money in for one k and

31:44 Speaker 3: and all that, save your money, all that stuff like

31:47 Speaker 3: if you weren't doing that, you were doing something wrong,

31:53 Speaker 3: 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

31:59 Speaker 3: people like my self that are getting together and and

32:02 Speaker 3: understand like, you can do anything you want. We don't

32:06 Speaker 3: have to follow the societal norm you know, there's a

32:10 Speaker 3: there's a way to get to the top. There there's

32:13 Speaker 3: 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

32:20 Speaker 1: 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

32:27 Speaker 1: actively djying? Oh?

32:29 Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, I can't stop. It's it's something that I

32:32 Speaker 3: do every single day. Yeah, it's been my passion for

32:36 Speaker 3: the longest time, solely really uh house music you know,

32:40 Speaker 3: 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

32:49 Speaker 3: from the mainstream sound, you know, and I became just

32:54 Speaker 3: fully addicted to it, and uh so I just I

32:57 Speaker 3: just play, you know, if people want to hear it, cool,

33:00 Speaker 3: you know. And I never really got too many gigs

33:02 Speaker 3: when I was younger. I'm not, like, really, it's not

33:06 Speaker 3: my motivation to really get gigs. I just love to play.

33:11 Speaker 3: So if people want me to play, I'm playing yep, yep,

33:15 Speaker 3: because it does something for me and I know that

33:17 Speaker 3: 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

33:25 Speaker 3: I stream on on YouTube. I've got a YouTube yep.

33:28 Speaker 3: I've got a YouTube channel excellent for the Healer. And

33:33 Speaker 3: I mean I play, like I said, I play every day.

33:35 Speaker 3: 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,

33:41 Speaker 1: they're constantly changing how they approach it with this show,

33:46 Speaker 1: you know, because we stream on YouTube and with this show,

33:48 Speaker 1: like I'll get I don't get copyright strike because that's

33:52 Speaker 1: only if someone actually wants to, you know, really go

33:55 Speaker 1: at you. But but I I just get the thing

33:57 Speaker 1: that says, you can't monetize this all this, which is fine?

34:00 Speaker 1: Is that is that all the time, But but you

34:02 Speaker 1: don't get struck, right, that's good.

34:04 Speaker 3: Yeah, it'll tell me that, like some of my mixes

34:06 Speaker 3: will tell me that it's it's a portion of it's

34:08 Speaker 3: 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

34:16 Speaker 3: of twitch twitches. Twitch is great, I just haven't used

34:19 Speaker 3: it since last year. Yeah, YouTube has been great as

34:23 Speaker 3: far as getting a reach aside from like Facebook, going

34:27 Speaker 3: Facebook Live. I can never really keep the stream on

34:30 Speaker 3: on Facebook. But yeah, yeah, I've been having good luck.

34:33 Speaker 3: But yeah, the same thing happens to me with YouTube.

34:35 Speaker 1: With Facebook because we also stream to Facebook, and I

34:37 Speaker 1: get I'll get a notification afterward that says, now it's

34:41 Speaker 1: it's fine because well, once in a while it'll say

34:45 Speaker 1: your videos muted. Yeah, parts of your video are muted.

34:49 Speaker 1: But most of the time it'll say your video is

34:51 Speaker 1: sharing ad revenue with.

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

34:55 Speaker 2: 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

35:01 Speaker 1: collecting money if your stream generates money, But nothing I

35:08 Speaker 1: have on there is monetized anyway, So I don't even

35:10 Speaker 1: know how. Like if you go to one of my

35:13 Speaker 1: Facebook videos, it's not like an ad pops up, but

35:16 Speaker 1: if something were generated from it, I guess I'm sharing

35:20 Speaker 1: the revenue that I'm that I don't get anyway. I mean,

35:23 Speaker 1: I'm sharing the revenue with whoever was on the show

35:25 Speaker 1: that day, whose music we featured, because they own the copyright.

35:29 Speaker 1: Because I'll tell you, Facebook and YouTube, their content ID

35:32 Speaker 1: systems have gotten to be as I'm sure you've noticed

35:35 Speaker 1: doing what you do with the streaming. They really they're

35:39 Speaker 1: really on top of it now, you know, it's like

35:41 Speaker 1: there's no way, there's no getting around it. Like used

35:44 Speaker 1: to be able to kind of fool the content I

35:46 Speaker 1: thots by, you know, if you maybe play with the

35:49 Speaker 1: speed on something. Yeah, yeah, but now it's like there's

35:54 Speaker 1: 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

36:11 Speaker 1: the spot when it opens? So obviously you're gonna have

36:13 Speaker 1: live music. You talked about what you might do in

36:15 Speaker 1: the basement with a studio. Did you have any other

36:18 Speaker 1: other plans for.

36:19 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I want to do comedy nights. I want

36:21 Speaker 3: to do poetry nights. Maybe even considering putting like a

36:25 Speaker 3: projector screen up and doing movie nights once a week.

36:31 Speaker 3: Basically what my vision for it is. You know, during

36:36 Speaker 3: the summers, we have a lot of my my course

36:40 Speaker 3: circle come over to my house and and we sit

36:42 Speaker 3: around the fire and like I'll bring the turntables outside

36:46 Speaker 3: and uh light the tiki torches, and we just kind

36:49 Speaker 3: of create a vibe. And it's the vibe that like,

36:51 Speaker 3: I'm very like I told you, I'm very scatter brained,

36:54 Speaker 3: and that can come with a lot of anxiety as

36:57 Speaker 3: well for no reason. But when I when I'm able

37:00 Speaker 3: to do that and get my friends to come around,

37:03 Speaker 3: like it immediately heals me to a place where, like

37:06 Speaker 3: the anxiety is gone. So thank you guys for coming

37:09 Speaker 3: over when I when I do that. But what we

37:12 Speaker 3: want to do with the Spot is kind of encompass

37:16 Speaker 3: that same vibe down at the spot. It's like just

37:19 Speaker 3: come down, hang out, leave the worries at the door

37:23 Speaker 3: and just have a good time with us. Yeah, that's it,

37:26 Speaker 3: and listen to some great music, check out some cool

37:30 Speaker 3: 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,

37:38 Speaker 1: she said, regarding our we were just talking about content ID.

37:41 Speaker 1: 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,

37:48 Speaker 2: by the way, I do too, I do too.

37:50 Speaker 1: I told her recently. I said, uh see, I can't.

37:56 Speaker 1: I'm having trouble even pulling it up in my brain

37:58 Speaker 1: now because I used to trip over when I would

38:00 Speaker 1: 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

38:04 Speaker 1: make it in the air, and I think one time

38:06 Speaker 1: I ended up saying midnight creatures. Like I don't even

38:10 Speaker 1: know where I got the word creatures from. Somehow that

38:13 Speaker 1: ended up in my brain. And so it's much easier

38:15 Speaker 1: to say New Hampshire under absolutely, and it's you know,

38:17 Speaker 1: and the venue is Terminus Underground, so you've got so

38:20 Speaker 1: it's those consistency of the Underground.

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

38:25 Speaker 2: I want to.

38:26 Speaker 3: I want to shout her out real quick for anybody

38:27 Speaker 3: that's like, uh has has questions about, you know, the

38:32 Speaker 3: business side of music, like reach out to Eleanor at

38:36 Speaker 3: what is it? Matt the Underground? What's the New Hampshire

38:39 Speaker 3: New Hampshire Underground. Yeah, you can find her on Facebook.

38:42 Speaker 3: She has been such a light in my process to

38:46 Speaker 3: try to fill in the gaps of the things that

38:48 Speaker 3: I just don't know about. And what it does for

38:50 Speaker 3: me when I don't know about something is like I'll

38:53 Speaker 3: try to gather the information on my own and then

38:56 Speaker 3: 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

39:03 Speaker 3: keeps me accountable for myself and and she is super

39:08 Speaker 3: smart when it comes to this stuff and really fun

39:12 Speaker 3: and awesome to work with.

39:13 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. Oh Rick Everhart also known as

39:17 Speaker 1: six Minds. He's in the chat and he's reminding us

39:20 Speaker 1: that he's performing tonight at Terminus that he is, and

39:22 Speaker 1: he was also suggesting and did you say open mic

39:25 Speaker 1: 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

39:29 Speaker 3: it out, Rick, but you know it. You know it, buddy.

39:31 Speaker 3: We're definitely going to have one. Yep, yeah, yep. We

39:33 Speaker 3: have to because there's people out there that don't know.

39:36 Speaker 3: You know, I've got a good friend of mine, Larry.

39:37 Speaker 3: He I used to deliver packages for ups and he

39:40 Speaker 3: worked for FedEx and we would always run into each

39:43 Speaker 3: other on the road and that's how we formed a relationship.

39:46 Speaker 3: And as of late, he's been throwing up these little

39:49 Speaker 3: videos of him playing acoustic on his Facebook and I'm

39:53 Speaker 3: telling he's never played for anyone live, yeah, and so

39:57 Speaker 3: I'm dying to get him down. He's a little nervous

40:00 Speaker 3: about it, and I understand that, but man, Larry, people

40:05 Speaker 3: need to hear what you got because some people have

40:07 Speaker 3: such a gift and they don't know that it's a

40:10 Speaker 3: gift right and the world needs it right. So yes, absolutely,

40:14 Speaker 3: 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

40:21 Speaker 1: Terminus Terminus Underground and six Minds combined Who I Am

40:27 Speaker 1: 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

40:41 Speaker 1: at Terminus.

40:42 Speaker 2: Yep, eight pm.

40:44 Speaker 1: Let me pull it up on I had it on

40:47 Speaker 1: my phone opened up earlier and I accidentally closed that tab. Okay, Yeah,

40:51 Speaker 1: Terminus Underground Bright Lights Winter Solstice, Winter Solstice Party. Nice

40:58 Speaker 1: list only. You're invited to dance the night away. Yes,

41:01 Speaker 1: and that is a twenty one plus b yob, that's

41:04 Speaker 1: a one thirty four Haines Street in Nashua. So if

41:07 Speaker 1: 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,

41:12 Speaker 3: very unique. It's comfortable.

41:14 Speaker 1: Well, you know what I tell everybody, it's like when

41:16 Speaker 1: you walk into that room, it's like you're walking into

41:18 Speaker 1: another world. Absolutely now that was my reaction their Simon,

41:21 Speaker 1: 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,

41:27 Speaker 2: 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

41:36 Speaker 1: and young.

41:36 Speaker 3: Artists there it is Yeah yeah cool, yep, very cool,

41:40 Speaker 3: love you al thank you.

41:42 Speaker 1: Oh do you want to mention too. So you said,

41:44 Speaker 1: so your repair shop, do you want to give that

41:46 Speaker 1: a plug?

41:46 Speaker 2: Yeah?

41:46 Speaker 3: Man, Devoted Repairs were three Milendi Road in Hudson. You know,

41:50 Speaker 3: we just we're just it's real simple, man, We're just

41:53 Speaker 3: offering the people what they need, you know. And we've

41:55 Speaker 3: got like such an amazing core list of clients man,

42:01 Speaker 3: 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

42:06 Speaker 3: their cars repaired and inspected whatever with us, I've known

42:09 Speaker 3: for a long time, and if if I didn't know them,

42:12 Speaker 3: 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

42:21 Speaker 3: and the next person if you take the time to

42:24 Speaker 3: just sit there for a couple of minutes and skip

42:26 Speaker 3: the surface talk and really break stuff down, like humans

42:30 Speaker 3: 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

42:39 Speaker 3: Devoted repairs dot com. You can check out our reviews there,

42:42 Speaker 3: you can book with us, you can send us a

42:44 Speaker 3: mess with message right through the website. But yeah, that

42:47 Speaker 3: 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,

42:54 Speaker 1: I'm in there too.

42:55 Speaker 2: Yeah.

42:56 Speaker 1: For Matt Connerton hypnosis, yes, yeah, and Rick Ever it

43:00 Speaker 1: 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,

43:09 Speaker 1: get out of here, I will say on the air

43:13 Speaker 1: where I go for my inspections. But I bet you,

43:16 Speaker 1: I bet you know the place anyway. You know what

43:19 Speaker 1: 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

43:37 Speaker 1: of the hour, So where should people go to keep

43:39 Speaker 1: up with everything that you're doing?

43:40 Speaker 3: Facebook is primarily the best place you can find me

43:43 Speaker 3: at Mike McDowell and then it says the Healer in

43:46 Speaker 3: parentheses afterwards. I'm also on Instagram at I believe it's

43:50 Speaker 3: the dot Healer. Underscore music okay, and sence I'm throwing

43:55 Speaker 3: that out there. I'll start to make sure that I'm

43:58 Speaker 3: on top of my ig feed more. Yeah, and those

44:01 Speaker 3: are two of the best ways to follow what I'm doing.

44:06 Speaker 3: And I put I'm up. I'm up on Facebook, posting

44:09 Speaker 3: 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

44:14 Speaker 3: 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

44:24 Speaker 1: in the shower room sim sere if I'm saying that correctly,

44:27 Speaker 1: 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

44:37 Speaker 3: core values, is that transparency and honesty. And Ben and

44:41 Speaker 3: 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

44:49 Speaker 3: let them call me the boss. We're doing this together,

44:51 Speaker 3: 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

44:57 Speaker 1: so much.

44:58 Speaker 2: Of course.

44:58 Speaker 3: Can I give a quick shout out Happy bird date

45:00 Speaker 3: to my buddy Adam Quimby absolutely jerk face, Happy birthday brother,

45:03 Speaker 3: we love you. And a big shout out to my

45:05 Speaker 3: soul tribe. You know who you are very nice. Thank

45:08 Speaker 3: you Matt for having me.

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