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Hello everybody, Welcome, here we
go. It is that time again,

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Happy Friday. Friday is my favorite
day here at w m n H.

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But it is Friday, August eleven, twenty twenty three, and we are

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live Matt Connerton Unleashed, Live from
the studios of w m n H five

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point three FFM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire. And it is a

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glorious day outside. This weather is
pretty close to perfect to be quite honest.

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Also now of course on channel six
on Comcast if you're in Manchester,

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and hello to all of our online
listeners across the nation and around the globe.

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You can go to my website Matt
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live streaming options, social media links, contact info, show archives, etcetera,

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etcetera. And we've got an exciting
show for you today. That song

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you just heard, Party in the
Storm, that is from the band Lynwood

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Strange and band from Boston. They're
gonna be actually joining us today. They're

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our musical guest. They'll be joining
us at the top of the hour.

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They're gonna be calling in, calling
in because you know, let's be honest,

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if you're even though Boston is not
that far, not far at all,

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but on a Friday afternoon and rush
hour traffic. No, I don't.

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I don't blame them for wanting to
call instead of coming up. So

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jeez. We had a musical guest
one time who actually ended up canceling on

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their way here. This was a
couple of years ago. Because she realized,

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she texted me. She's like,
Matt, I'm stuck in traffic and

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there's just no way I'm going to
get there in time. I gotta if

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I ever get to an exit,
I've got to get off and turn around.

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But anyway, so they will be
calling in. So lynnwood Strange is

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the name of the band from Boston, and there are a musical guests today

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and coming up. In the first
hour and just a little bit, we

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will hear this week's classic film review
from our friend Eric Pilcher, and for

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this week's review he has chosen Donnie
Brasco. Her Donnie Brasco. I'm still

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not sure as at Brasco or Brasco, but great film from nineteen ninety seven

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starring al Pacino, who's definitely in
my top five as far as all time

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favorite actors, and Johnny Depp great
in his own right, So that will

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be coming up actually probably probably around
four forty pm show, so about yeah,

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about a half hour from now.
We will get to that. Eric's

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film reviews, of course, a
very popular segment on the program on Friday's

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also, of course, because it
is Friday. And again I did mention,

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Friday is my favorite day here at
WMNH because it's my long day here.

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I get to do double duty and
I do love it. So in

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addition to this program, I will
be back tonight from eight to eleven pm

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for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul c
as we do every Friday, and I

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have the honor and privilege of being
one of Paul's co hosts on that show,

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along with DJ Steve and of course
Mike from Queen's City Cabinetry. Queen's

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City Cabinetry one of our great sponsors
here at WNH, but Mike is also

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one of our co hosts on retro
Spectrum Radio. So we have a great

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time every Friday night. And this
is what Paul posted on social media regarding

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tonight's show. We're going We're doing
it again. We'll play twenty songs that

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all have one thing in common call
in if you know what it is,

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the winner gets bragging right. The
fund starts at eight pm Eastern. Do

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join us. And by the way, we like to remind people if you

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It's a lot of fun. We
have a great time. Let's see

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O three two five ozho six zero
seven. Also one more programming note.

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This is regarding Monday's show. Jenny
has booked Bob Henneley to join us in

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the first hour. Bob was supposed
to be on with us earlier this week,

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but he I guess as a nursing
strike going on a nurse's strike in

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New York, so he was covering
that. Bob is a very respected journalist

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and he's also a fellow radio guy. He owes a show on w BAI

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in New York City. That's right, he's a real New Yorker. So

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he wasn't able to join us earlier
this week because he got bogged down with

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the cover ridge of the nurses strike. But He's gonna call in on Monday

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in the first hour, so looking
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really looking forward to speaking with him. And then in the second hour we

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have a musical guest on Monday.
I want to make sure I get the

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name right because I said it wrong. I actually said it wrong the other

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day and then I felt badly.
But one of the people in the band

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that we have Monday is also Jam
Tomorrow. That's the name of the band.

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I think I said it wrong the
other day. Jam Tomorrow will be

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our musical guest live in studio in
the second hour on Monday. And Michael

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helped Lee Pierce. One of the
band members used to be in a band

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with me. We were in the
band Chemical Distance together for a couple of

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years. So and Mike's a great
guy and an entrepreneur, and I haven't

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gotten to see him in quite some
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since before the pandemic, So it'll
be really cool to have them here and

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get to meet the new band.
And I think they're gonna play live in

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studio, so that will be on
Monday. So we have a full show

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Monday. Bob Henneley and then Jam
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well. So lot's going on.
Let's go ahead and say hello to everybody

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in the Facebook lat chat and then
we'll get into some stuff. Kind of

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a big news day, of course, every day is a big news day

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these days. Oh, Mike from
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Heerson says Mike is a nice guy. Yes, absolutely, absolutely yeah.

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Carol Zaroawitz, I'm always concerned I'm
not saying that quite correctly, joins us

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in the Facebook lap chat and says
hello, Hello, Carol. Also Eric

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Pilcher, of course, who does
our classic film reviews. He is in

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the chat room and says hello peeps. Jenny is also in the chat room

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and says shalom, peeps. Also
be Pinard or I'm not sure if it's

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Pinard or Pinard. I'm gonna go
with Pinard says good afternoon. All Ion

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Venom four, who I strongly suspect
is from Greensboro, North Carolina, says

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hello hashtag Matt, we say to
you, and good afternoon. Hello hashtag

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Jen Coffee we say to you from
us. Ion Venom four is also asking

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we say what artists you played.
Yes, that is the band Lynwood Strange

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and they're going to be calling in
today. At the top of the hour,

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Miriam Bannish joins us in the Facebook
latch at and says, well,

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hello there, and Eric Pilcher said, Friday's favorite day because of the classic

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film review. Well that too,
of course a very popular feature on the

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program. So big legal news today. Now there's actually, once again there

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is legal news involving Trump, and
we haven't really gotten into that this week

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because I've been, as I've been
saying all week, I've been suffering from

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a little bit of TFS Trump fatigue
syndrome. But there's some legal news there

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and maybe we will touch on that
today, but I have this terrible fever

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from the TFS. But also,
I would say even bigger news regarding Hunter

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Biden, and this just kind of
came out of nowhere. I was quite

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surprised, and apparently not only was
I surprised by this, but the White

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House was surprised because I don't know
if you know this, but Hunter Biden

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happens to be related to our president, so apparently they didn't know anything about

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this either. And you know,
Merrick Garland of course tries to keep the

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White House out of it, and
President Biden tries to stay out of it.

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But I did not see this coming. In fact, media is reporting

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democrat on Fox, and the only
Democrat currently on Fox I can think of

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his Tarlov. Tarlove. I forget
her first name from the five Democrat on

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Fox, says Garland. Announcing Hunter
Biden special counsel was a surprise to the

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White House. It says here.
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not Carlo, it says here.
A former Democratic state senator from New York

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claimed that news of the special prosecutor
appointed to investigate Hunter Biden blindsided the White

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House. Former State Senator David Carlucci, Democrat of New York, appeared on

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Fox News Today to defend the Justice
Departments in partiality for naming David Weiss as

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special counsel. When he made the
claim, Carlucci said, quote, this

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shows the independence the DOJ wants an
independent case here. So that's why it

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was a surprise to the White House. As we've learned that President Biden didn't

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even know about this happening, and
Garland went ahead with the special counsel for

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Weiss to show that independence, and
I think that's what we see here.

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Unquote, why now, asked anchor
Sandra Smith. Carlucci replied, quote,

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whyever, right. I think this
is something that originally Republicans did want.

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They want Wise to be the special
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I think it shows independence. I
think it shows the movement away from the

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White House, and this will not
be a political witch hunt but an actual

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trial. Unquote. Republican consultant Garrett
Ventry claimed that Weiss's quote shredded his credibility

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during this entire process. I think
it's one thing to point out here Democrats

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have been using to talk about talk
about it assuming you will see this come

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out, that he was a Trump
appointee. But I think as a former

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state judiciary aide who did confirmations,
people need to understand that district court judges

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and u S attorneys are handpicked by
home state senators. So he's essentially handpicked

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by two Democratic state senators from Delaware. Unquote. I don't know much about

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the process that specifically that element of
it, to be honest with you.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Weiss's appointment
this afternoon to look into alleged criminal activity

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by Hunter Biden. The DJ would
not comment when asked if President Joe Biden

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was also under investigation in Hunter's foreign
business dealings. That's very interesting and Republicans

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will certainly seize upon that. If
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it a couple of weeks ago now, I think it was July twenty six,

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so yeah, two to three weeks
ago when it was a pretty also

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a pretty bad day for Hunter Biden
on that day, to say the least,

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when we found out that the plea
deal that had been arranged had fallen

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through. And I remember at the
time, well, when we discussed this

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a couple of weeks ago, when
the plea deal fell through, I said,

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you know, I reflected back to
when the plea deal was originally announced

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and I had pointed out how odd
it was. I found that there were

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two somewhat differing and conflicting statements put
out, one by the Department of Justice

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and one by Hunter Biden's lawyers.
The statement from the Department of Justice included

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a line about this investigation is ongoing, even though they had reached a plea

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deal on what had been certain things
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the tax charges and having a gun, you know, falsifying a form because

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when you get a permit for a
gun, you have to a test on

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that form that you're not a drug
user, effectively, And but the DOJ

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and their statement left open prosecutors left
open the possibility that there may be further

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charges in the future, because this
investigation was ongoing. Hunter Biden's attorneys.

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Their public statement was something to the
effect of Yep, Okay, here's the

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deal, and that's it. We're
done, and we're moving on and everything's

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good. This is settled. And
I remember wondering at the time and hearing

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other people in media wonder, two, why is there a difference in their

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statements. And there was some speculation
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sess this kind of a standard thing
that they always put into their statements is

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like to leave that window open a
crack, But it doesn't necessarily mean anything.

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It doesn't necessarily mean that something else
is coming down the pike. But

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I just remember thinking at the time, m I wonder if it's also possible

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that Hunter Biden's attorneys just went with
it, hoping taking the risk and just

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hoping that nothing else was going to
come up in the DJ's investigation and and

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telling Hunter Biden, yeah, we
you know, we we think we're good

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here. And then it turned out
no, we're not good here, as

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we found out near the end of
July. But this is now the situation

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now though, with David Weiss being
elevated to a special counsel. That brings

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up all kinds of possibilities. And
by the way, people will speculate or

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people will speak fact Julie when they
don't actually know all the facts of Obviously

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a lot of people on the right
say, oh, see, Joe Biden

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is you know, they throw these
phrases around like Biden crime family and whatnot.

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It's uh, you know a lot
of speculation and and and by the

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way, there are some people on
the right who don't buy into that.

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Even on Fox News, for example, you know, Steve Doocy whenever they

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have, say Jim Jordan or or
James Comer on Fox and Friends to talk

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about, you know, how President
Biden is involved in all of Hunter Biden's

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deals and it's a you know,
they it's a criminal enterprise and all that.

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You know, whenever they go through
this exercise, you know, even

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Steve Doocy on Fox says, by
the way, guys, do you have

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any evidence of this yet, where's
the smoking gun? You've been promising us

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for months now? Listen, Just
to be clear, I'm not saying I

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don't think there's something there. This
is a significant event today where David Weiss

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has now been elevated to a special
counsel, apparently at his own request.

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So there's something there, but we
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could be it might not have anything
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simply be that Hunter Biden is in
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I think it's reckless any responsible where
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again, some of the personalities on
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or Jim Jordan. He had one
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said, you know, this has
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you have any actual Do you have
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because this is all you know,
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So I'm not interested in doing that
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it's foolish to do so. But
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or not President Joe Biden is involved
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until I see something, they haven't
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that really strongly suggests. And by
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the show before too, I do
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phone who he's trying to get something
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father is sitting here with me right
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Biden said that to somebody doesn't mean
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table with him. As I've pointed
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if he's trying to get something out
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that Elvis Presley is sitting at a
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going to help him get what he
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somebody to give him something, so
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make it so. But again,
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are very significant and a big surprise, and I'll be very curious to see

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where this goes. And just to
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pretty concise piece on this, if
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news or heard the news. Garland
names special counsel and Hunter Biden investigation.

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So it says here Delaware US Attorney
David Weiss, who has been investigating criminal

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allegations against President Biden's surviving son,
Hunter Biden, has been named a special

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counsel. Attorney General Merrick Garland said
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special counsel to Garland on Tuesday of
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as US attorney who was retained during
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Biden since nineteen. He reached a
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it collapsed amid scrutiny recently from a
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talking about before that we talked about
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which seemed like it was in place, but the judge said, no,

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we've got some we've got a problem
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help anything. The order of appointment
for Weiss was to serve I'm sorry.

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The order of appointment for Weiss to
serve as special counsel authorizes him to quote

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conduct the ongoing investigation described above,
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that investigation or may arise unquote.
The order gives yse authority to quote prosecute

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federal crimes in any federal judicial district
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And of course, you know the
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reason they're giving so much power and
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in any way beholden or expected to
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in their case, or to conduct
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motivations or machinations going forward. Not
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Certainly, Richard Nixon famously fired Archibald
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But but this does give David Weiss
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autonomy, which is really the key, and I think that's completely appropriate

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Attorney General Garland said Weiss requested the
special council status earlier this week after determining

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that quote in his judgment, his
investigation has reached a stage at which he

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Unquote. Now I assume, but
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we don't know, you don't know
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that whatever this isn't necessarily the case. But whatever their justification was for leaving

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that window open when they made the
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the DJ's reason was for doing that
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Weiss went to Garland and said,
please make me special counsel because I've got

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something here. Okay, again,
this is from NPR. The scope of

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the ongoing investigation is not clear,
and under Justice Department guidelines, prosecute do

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not spell out as yet uncharged allegations, but the appointment paperwork for Weiss references

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two criminal matters against Hunter Biden and
says he began probing Biden, among others,

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several years ago, and by the
way, the among others that might

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include that Devin. What Hells's last
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guy who went and attended a closed
door hearing and talked a lot about Hunter

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Biden, but had not really anything
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Joe Biden. Although it's very strange. Well, I don't want to

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get sidetracked. We'll leave that alone
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Clark said in a statement, quote, this doesn't change our understanding of mister

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Weiss's authority over the five year investigation
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mister or Weiss and the Department have
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had more authority than a special counsel
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his investigation, which has been done, whether in Delaware, Washington, DC,

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or anywhere else. We expect a
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and will do what is necessary on
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The development comes just weeks after the
judge and the Hunter Biden case said

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she wasn't ready to accept the plea
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DOJ and asked both parties to submit
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a future date. She demanded that
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the deal does not convey broad immunity
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dealings. As a result, Hunter
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related to his filing of federal income
taxes. Today, the prosecutor in the

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case said the parts are at an
impass on the plea deal and a trial

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is an order according to a court
filing. See, so this is more

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than one thing going on here.
I mean, it's all connected, obviously,

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but there's more. There's more than
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colossally for Hunter Biden because yeah,
obviously the DOJ has has more they're investigating

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with the elevation to Special Council status
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like there's no plea deal and this
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that'll work out for him, that
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out for him, But it doesn't
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does it. Let's see, the
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following additional negotiations after the hearing held
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the parties are at an impass and
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plea agreement or a diversion agreement unquote. It said. Prosecutors requested Biden's position

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on August nine, and asked for
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they needed an extension until August fourteen, which the government declined. Biden has

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not yet provided his position, the
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as a result, the government respectfully
requests that the court vacate its briefing

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order since there is no longer a
plea agreement or diversion agreement for the court

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to consider unquote. US District Judge
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respond by noon on Monday, August
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agreed to plead guilty to two mismeanor
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Federal authorities also charged him with a
felony firearm offense, which he agreed to

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enter a pre trial diversion agreement that
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just to clarify for anyone who's not
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you go to get a gun permit, one of the things that is on

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that federal form is you know,
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a drug user. And Biden,
of course, in filling out that form,

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he attested that he is not a
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while using drugs. It's something that
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gets a little that gets dicey,
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little bit of a side street,
but this is something we used to discuss

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you're in well, if you're in
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cannabis is fully legal, for example, but it's still federally illegal, you're

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technically you're violating that federal law if
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attest on that form that you are
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federally illegal and in fact it is
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absurd. Of course, I'm for
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war in a broader sense as well. That's my position. But it's but

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if you're in a state where it's
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state level, right under the Tenth
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Now technically again, technically you are
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if you say that you don't use
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certain that millions, literally millions of
people in this country have filled out that

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form who use cannabis, and you
know, said maybe they said to themselves,

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well, you know, I don't
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I'm in a state where it's legal, so you know, I'm just gonna

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you know, so it's not something
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that's what that is. Let's see. J Fed joins us in the chat

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room, and also Melanie Liberty,
both from the Great state of Vermont.

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Of course, Dylan Reynolds joins us
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says, I work at an FFL. There is a yes no question dedicated

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specifically to controlled substances. Yes.
Roniferverro also joins us from California and says,

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hello everyone. Yeah, that's the
thing. It's well again, I

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mean, we could do a whole
show just on that subject. But just

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to be clear about what that's about, what the federal firearms charge is about.

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So, according to Weiss, the
Trump appointed Delaware US attorney, Biden

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did not pay federal income taxes for
either twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen, despite

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owing more than one hundred thousand dollars
in taxes each year. Additionally, in

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October twenty eighteen, Biden possessed a
firearm despite knowing he was an unlawful user

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of and addicted to a controlled substance. Weiss's office said Biden faced a maximum

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penalty of twelve months in prison on
each of the tax charges, and a

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maximum penalty of ten years in prison
on the firearm charge. See that's interesting

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to me, by the way,
too, We're talking about something that people

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are rarely actually prosecuted for, but
if they do happen to be prosecuted,

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they're facing up to ten in prison. So that's pretty serious. It may

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not be largely enforced, because it's
not necessarily largely enforceable, but if they

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choose to you know, that can
come with up to ten years, it

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says here, but Weiss's office noted
that actual sentence is determined by judges are

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typically less than the maximums well,
of course, and that's true across the

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board. A source familiar with the
deal said that Justice Department had agreed to

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recommend probation on the tax charges,
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Republicans have said the Plea deal struck
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Biden. Soon after, former President
Trump was arraigned on separate and unrelated federal

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charges relating to his handling of classified
documents. Trump was separately charged for his

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role in the January sixth Capital riot. A Trump spokesperson said in a statement,

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quote, if this special Council is
truly independent, even though he failed

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to bring proper charges after a four
year investigation, and he appears to be

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trying to move the case to a
more Democrat friendly venue, he will quickly

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conclude that Joe Biden, his troubled
son Hunter, in their enablers, including

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the media, which colluded with the
fifty one intelligence officials who knowingly misled the

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public about Hunter's laptop should face the
required consequences unquote. Already Again, what

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was I saying earlier about you know, I think some of the wild conclusions

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that people jump to are a little
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the appointment of the Special Council,
Representative James Comber, Republican of Kentucky,

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who chairs the House Oversight Committee which
is investigating the younger Biden said, quote,

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Let's be clear what today's move is
really about. The Biden Justice Department

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is trying to stonewall Congressional oversight as
we have presented evidence of the American people

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about the Biden family corruption unquote.
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you could argue, as some will, that this is a that this was

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done as a political maneuver to try
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have been very, you know,
very critical of the d o J and

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saying they've got their thumb on the
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there are some who I'm sure this
somebody on a conservative program, Howe

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Car is probably saying that right now. If you're not in the Northeast,

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you might not know who how He
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saying that right now on a show
something to that effect. But here's the

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thing. It would be a pretty
foolish move if this were a political move,

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which I don't think it is,
and I will not speculate on that

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further unless we see some evidence that
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what the point would be because no
matter what you do, James Comber and

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Jim Jordan, and of course many
others, but they seem to be the

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ringleaders, they will spin it and
can I mean, it's politically it's easy

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to do, right. Oh see, they're just trying to make it look

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like they're being honest, but really
they're just doing this to try to stonewall

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us in our investigation. I mean, that's already what they're saying, Comber

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and Jordan, that's already what they're
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they would have continued to say what
they were saying before. So it

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really doesn't matter. They're going to
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don't think there's a political motivation here. I don't see any evidence that there

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is. So I will defend Merrick
Garland in terms of anyone if anyone wants

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to say that, you know,
they think he's acting politically here, I

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will say, well, I don't
see any direct evidence of that. Where

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I will not defend Merrick Garland.
However, where I will not defend him

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is if anyone wants to say,
you know, I've been paying attention here

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and I'm starting to get the vibe, especially when it comes to David Weiss,

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00:34:21,159 --> 00:34:27,280
that Merrick Garland may not necessarily have
control over this process, and that

408
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,079
he's kind of let this get away
from him a little bit, and we're

409
00:34:30,119 --> 00:34:40,840
not sure that he's really up to
the task here. If that's your perception,

410
00:34:42,599 --> 00:34:45,760
you might be onto something, granted, But see, even that gets

411
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:50,119
into it this weird thing where we
don't want him taking too much control.

412
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:57,760
We want the investigation to proceed to
whatever conclusion it shall ultimately arrive at.

413
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:02,639
But but it kind of seems like
this this has been a little bit disjointed

414
00:35:02,679 --> 00:35:10,320
with David Weiss, and there seems
to have been some conflicting information about over

415
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,239
the past weeks or even months over
what the range of his authority was already

416
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,800
and did he ask for more authority
or did he not? And I think

417
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:24,239
his own statements have been a little
confusing at times, and so it kind

418
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:29,320
of seems like just in terms of
a manager, right if if you want

419
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,400
to think of it that way,
in terms of Merrick Garland's management style,

420
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:37,440
if you're starting to get the vibe
that he's not as in control as maybe

421
00:35:37,519 --> 00:35:39,960
he should be in terms of running
the Department of Justice, you might be

422
00:35:40,079 --> 00:35:45,280
right. Again, there's a lot
we don't know here. There's a lot

423
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:52,960
we don't get to see. But
I'm starting to wonder. So we'll see

424
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:58,840
where this goes, and maybe if
we have time later in the show,

425
00:35:59,119 --> 00:36:01,159
So we're gonna get to Eric Pilcher's
classic film review, and then after that

426
00:36:01,199 --> 00:36:05,599
we have a great musical guest coming
up at five pm, and then if

427
00:36:05,639 --> 00:36:07,920
we have time at the end of
the show, we might There was also

428
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:12,119
some Trump legal news today, and
even though I have been suffering from TFS

429
00:36:12,199 --> 00:36:15,239
frump fatigue syndrome, it is pretty
interesting. So we will try to get

430
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:19,840
to that. We'll save that for
the end of the show. But I

431
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:22,679
wanted to get but this Hunter Biden
stuff. This is it's a very very

432
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:30,480
bad day for him, I would
suggest, And if it's a bad day

433
00:36:30,519 --> 00:36:35,480
for him, it's also a bad
day for President Biden, and this investigation

434
00:36:35,519 --> 00:36:44,000
obviously isn't going anywhere, and it
probably isn't. It's not gonna help Biden's

435
00:36:44,199 --> 00:36:46,679
reelection prospects. All right, we
have Ron on the line, but Ron,

436
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:50,639
we are tight for time. So
I will just ask you to be

437
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:55,760
terse if you would please, Yes, sorry, Will, is President Biden

438
00:36:57,199 --> 00:37:01,400
stayed clear of all of this or
does he have some powers to kind of

439
00:37:01,519 --> 00:37:06,079
help bids? You know, that's
I guess that's it. That don't be

440
00:37:06,119 --> 00:37:09,079
the whole question. Well, publicly
he is he has stayed clear of it,

441
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:15,480
you know. Obviously, Uh,
some Republicans like Comber and Jim Jordan

442
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,639
and others, you know, they'll
argue that behind the scenes Biden is really

443
00:37:19,679 --> 00:37:22,519
in control of everything. But again, there's no evidence of that and it

444
00:37:22,519 --> 00:37:27,880
would be politically very dangerous for him
to insert himself in it. So I

445
00:37:28,039 --> 00:37:30,960
will, I will take him at
his word on that that he's not interfering.

446
00:37:31,159 --> 00:37:36,559
But regardless, I mean, it's
a terrible drag on his presidency and

447
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,000
on his re election campaign, and
I would say I would put that as

448
00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:45,280
another log on the fire in terms
of reasons that he should not seek reelection.

449
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:51,000
And should let somebody younger on the
Democratic side get in there and go

450
00:37:51,079 --> 00:37:58,880
for that nomination, because this is
not helpful to him and his prospects for

451
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:04,239
a second term. Uh, all
right, I'm doing my best to keep

452
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:08,000
up with tis my it's money boggling, but I mean I'm interested enough for

453
00:38:08,079 --> 00:38:13,360
I'm trying to sort through it in
any of it pays to answering my question.

454
00:38:13,559 --> 00:38:15,280
I still want to listen. You've
got a good show going on.

455
00:38:15,559 --> 00:38:19,519
Thank you, and look forward to
tonight. All right, Ron, thank

456
00:38:19,559 --> 00:38:22,719
you so much for the call.
I appreciate it. Thank you for my

457
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,480
god, you got it. By
bye. All right. We always love

458
00:38:24,559 --> 00:38:28,599
to hear from Ron, but we
are on a little bit of a tight

459
00:38:28,679 --> 00:38:31,320
schedule. Let's get to this.
Up next, we have Eric Pilcher's classic

460
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:37,159
film review, a very popular segment
on the program, and this week he

461
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:43,639
has chosen Donnie Brascoe, the nineteen
ninety seven film starring Al Pacino and Johnny

462
00:38:43,679 --> 00:38:46,519
Depp. Great movie, and let's
give this a listen. And then we're

463
00:38:46,519 --> 00:38:52,079
gonna go right from that into our
segment with the band lynnwood Strange. They're

464
00:38:52,119 --> 00:38:57,159
gonna be skyping in from Boston and
looking forward to talking with those guys.

465
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,199
So busy Friday. Here but here
it is. This is Eric Pilcher's classic

466
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:09,800
film review of Donnie Brascoe. When
I introduce you, I'm gonna say this

467
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:14,800
is a friend of mine, that
means you're a connected guy. If I

468
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,880
sentenced that this is a friend Owes, that would mean you have made guy

469
00:39:19,199 --> 00:39:24,159
cap. When Lefty brought Donnie into
his world, who's this game's Donnie in

470
00:39:24,199 --> 00:39:28,400
front of mine? He took a
risk on a kid he hardly knew.

471
00:39:28,639 --> 00:39:30,559
And I'm gonna have to school you
and my friend school men. What why

472
00:39:30,639 --> 00:39:34,719
this guy never carries his money in
the waters and always in a role bena

473
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,559
on our side. He gave him
his trust. Try to get rid of

474
00:39:37,599 --> 00:39:40,559
that mustache and give yourself a pair
of parents just like me. He loved

475
00:39:40,679 --> 00:39:45,159
him like a son. Nobody can
touch you because I represent you. Gep

476
00:39:45,199 --> 00:39:47,320
your nose clean, follow the rules, be a good Ny, and maybe

477
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:52,559
one day when they opened the books, you could come up whitse guy and

478
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:57,519
die with your Donny. But he
never knew the truth. There's a war

479
00:39:57,599 --> 00:40:00,679
going on in that mafia family and
that's where Joe undercover. Oh nay o,

480
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,519
man, I want to know where
my husband is. We don't know.

481
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,800
We're gonna freeze up. No,
oh, the guy's freeze up.

482
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:08,559
He said it was gonna be three
months. It's going on three years.

483
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,719
Who he's with and who he's close
to and all the top dogs. Now

484
00:40:13,159 --> 00:40:15,000
he's right in the line of fire. There was a rat and flower that.

485
00:40:15,079 --> 00:40:17,239
Then you know what to do when
you find that rat right left,

486
00:40:17,559 --> 00:40:21,760
could be I found him a ruddy
and our thing you get sent for.

487
00:40:22,079 --> 00:40:24,119
You go in alive, you'll come
out dead. And it's your best friend

488
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:29,119
that does it. We have got
to pull him out. You think I'm

489
00:40:29,159 --> 00:40:32,119
a rat? How many times I
have you into my own house? If

490
00:40:32,159 --> 00:40:36,079
you're a rat, then I'm the
biggest month in the history at the mafia.

491
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,880
If I come out left, he
dies, They're gonna kill him because

492
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,960
he vounched for me, because he
stood up for me. That's the same

493
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,239
thing as if I put a bullying
this and myself. Do you understand,

494
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:50,519
Oh my ike, i'm ana spoke
on the wheel. I saw in you

495
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:59,840
they die. Yeah, let's take
a walk. I'm your rust. Fright.

496
00:41:05,119 --> 00:41:10,119
This goes without saying, especially if
you are a longtime listener of this

497
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:17,400
program and Matt Connerton. Unleashed gangster
films are some of my favorite all time

498
00:41:17,519 --> 00:41:23,639
films. Watching The Godfather in nineteen
ninety eight made me see film as art

499
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:30,920
and not just entertainment. It also
led to me researching the Mafia or La

500
00:41:30,039 --> 00:41:37,480
Cosa Nostra feverishly, something I still
do to this day. One film that

501
00:41:37,679 --> 00:41:42,199
stands out to me not just because
it's a true story, but how it

502
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:49,039
is an in depth profile of those
that lived the life. Released in nineteen

503
00:41:49,199 --> 00:41:53,840
ninety seven, directed by Mike Newell
and based off the real account of FBI

504
00:41:54,199 --> 00:42:00,920
special agent Joe de Pistone, Donnie
Brasco tells the tale of Pistone played by

505
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:06,800
Johnny Depp, a man that goes
undercover into the Banano crime family as jewel

506
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:13,480
thief Donnie Brasco. What begins as
a simple undercover task becomes much greater when

507
00:42:13,679 --> 00:42:21,559
Brasco is befriended by lifetime wise guy
Lefty left Guns Ruggerio played by Al Paccino,

508
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:27,039
and gets fast tracked on his way
to becoming a member of the mafia.

509
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:32,079
Our first clip is Brasco being introduced
to Ruggerio. This scene is important

510
00:42:32,199 --> 00:42:38,800
because it shows how Brasco has no
fear in telling this reputed wise guy that

511
00:42:39,039 --> 00:42:46,800
is diamond is a fake, despite
knowing Ruggerio's standing and that he could essentially

512
00:42:47,039 --> 00:42:53,880
kill Brasco with no repercussions. Then
the clip after that will show Ruggerio beginning

513
00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:00,599
to school or teach Donnie on the
ways of the mafia in the way people

514
00:43:00,599 --> 00:43:06,719
are described while taking him to a
family meeting with the boss of the Banana

515
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:28,639
family. You're down the jeweler.
Yeah, it's some beautiful thing. How

516
00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:31,440
don't you give it to your wife? My wife. I'm not gonna give

517
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:35,920
it to my wife. I ain't
married. They're a girlfriend, Yeah,

518
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:40,519
I got a girlfriend. Yeah,
some marryer. Hey, you're for real.

519
00:43:42,599 --> 00:43:45,760
I'm asking you the middle a diamond
for me. He Now all I

520
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:51,039
want from my end, there's eight
thousand. I'm saying to youause you should

521
00:43:51,079 --> 00:43:52,639
give it to somebody that don't know
any better, because that's it for gazing.

522
00:43:53,119 --> 00:43:58,719
All right, that's a for gazing. How do you know it's a

523
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:02,239
for gazing? You looked at for
two seconds. It's a fake fa Yeah,

524
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:07,679
I know where the Foe Gays is
take found. I want to see

525
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:15,280
something. I'm gonna show you something
there you go, that's something. That's

526
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:19,960
a beautiful thing. Yeah, that's
a beautiful thing. That's not my thing.

527
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,079
What about this? Well, let
me just say, go ahead,

528
00:44:23,079 --> 00:44:25,199
train and shut You wanna be a
dun skirt, Give it a shot,

529
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:30,199
dun skin? You call him a
dun skin. You know who you're talking

530
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:35,039
to, my friend, Come on, have a specer. You wanna go

531
00:44:35,119 --> 00:44:38,440
and embarrass yourself with this thing?
Em borrass myself with my family, my

532
00:44:38,679 --> 00:44:43,440
children, my mother can hold our
head up in any neighborhood in this city

533
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,119
where she walks down the block seat
in all the five boroughs. I'm known

534
00:44:46,559 --> 00:44:54,440
forget about it. I'm known all
over the world. Anybody ask anybody about

535
00:44:54,519 --> 00:45:00,360
Lefty from Mulberry Street and you wissing
up the won't treat you know. I

536
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,199
didn't mean no disrespect. It's a
misunderstanding, right you go? All right?

537
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:08,920
Then sit on, man, were
you you gonna walk out on me?

538
00:45:10,559 --> 00:45:15,719
You gonna walk out on me?
I walk out on you. You

539
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,280
got a car, I got a
car. Let's go get your car.

540
00:45:17,519 --> 00:45:30,239
Come out the kid, And now
Donnie's lessons in the Mafia begin. Okay,

541
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,960
when I introduce you, I'm gonna
say this is a friend of mine.

542
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,360
That means you're connected. Guy.
If I said it's that this is

543
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,320
a friend of ours, that would
mean you a made guy like I peace

544
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,559
you? Yeah, friend of mine, a friend of ours. Look what

545
00:45:45,639 --> 00:45:47,440
do I call you? A friend
of ours? Or about me? I'll

546
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:52,519
say a doctor? The characters,
you got a couple of us olds.

547
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,960
I got some uh, some things
I gotta be yeah, yeah, yeah,

548
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,639
what do you want one hundred?
Yeah? What are you doing?

549
00:45:59,199 --> 00:46:00,800
What are you doing? Whyse guy
don't carry his money in a wallet?

550
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:05,719
Hey? Whyse guy carries money in
a role like this? I think NA

551
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:12,320
on the outside like that? Come
that mustache? I gotta get rid of

552
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,920
a mustache, says against the room
side. Get a pair of pants?

553
00:46:15,119 --> 00:46:22,400
Have you saying a dress like I
dress? This is my factor, more

554
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:27,039
even than my own fact? Is
that right? I don't got a family.

555
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,239
You don't got a family. Now, I'm an orphan. I grew

556
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,639
up in an orphanage. I think
the question about you know, even if

557
00:46:32,639 --> 00:46:37,320
you had a family, if this
is your family, I think this is

558
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:42,480
your family. You know what I'm
saying. Yeah. What sets this film

559
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:50,679
aside from other films about the mafia
is how in dapt The film allows these

560
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:58,960
characters to evolve. Each person has
these mesmerizing character traits. However, Dapt

561
00:46:59,599 --> 00:47:05,320
con pais this very well with his
performance as Pistone. Our next clip shows

562
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:10,280
this. Following an argument with his
wife over his assignment. Pistone breaks down

563
00:47:10,559 --> 00:47:16,480
and explains the tough spoty is in. What makes this truly great is you

564
00:47:16,599 --> 00:47:23,840
can actually hear the conflict between Pistone
and Brasco, almost as if they are

565
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:32,960
two different people, even though they
are one of the same. Did you

566
00:47:34,039 --> 00:47:37,639
ever once ask yourself how I make
it to my days. I pretend I'm

567
00:47:37,679 --> 00:47:46,440
a widow with medals and scrapbooks and
memories. I pretend you're dead. That's

568
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:52,199
in my life. Makes sense to
me. Just go away, Stay away.

569
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:00,840
God, do you hate me?
When I love you so much?

570
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:19,079
You think I hate you? I
don't hate you. This job is eating

571
00:48:19,079 --> 00:48:27,000
me alive. I can't breathe anymore. And if I come out this day

572
00:48:27,079 --> 00:48:34,280
left he dies, They're gonna kill
him because he vouched for me, because

573
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:40,480
he stood up for me. I
live with that every day. That's the

574
00:48:40,559 --> 00:48:44,039
same thing as if I put the
bullet in this at myself. You understand

575
00:48:45,679 --> 00:48:49,440
I spent all these years trying to
be the good guy, you know,

576
00:48:49,559 --> 00:49:00,440
the man and a what for?
What for? Nother? I'm I'm coming

577
00:49:00,519 --> 00:49:07,519
like that. I am known.
It was alluded to in our previous clip

578
00:49:07,639 --> 00:49:14,280
that Pistone is in monumental danger.
That is made painfully obvious in our final

579
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:21,679
two clips of this review. First, Donnie is confronted by Capo or Captain

580
00:49:22,079 --> 00:49:27,960
Sonny Black played by Michael Madsen.
He is faced with the possibility of being

581
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:32,199
executed if he does not reveal the
plans him and Lefty have for a club

582
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:38,840
in Miami, but then he could
be disloyal, which is an unforgivable sin

583
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:45,840
in the mob. Then, in
a desperation moment at a Japanese restaurant,

584
00:49:45,559 --> 00:49:52,599
Donnie refuses to remove his boots,
the reason being it is whereas recording devices.

585
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:58,119
Desperately, he comes out with a
way to not have to remove his

586
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:06,800
shoes, albeit if horrible consequences for
the innocent matre D. I want to

587
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:15,800
know what you're up to? What
you mean yesterday last night? What were

588
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:20,719
you doing last night? Now I'm
saying when yesterday? What time is?

589
00:50:21,079 --> 00:50:28,599
Come here? I'll mess around with
me yesterday afternoon? No, why is

590
00:50:28,639 --> 00:50:30,880
Lefty got such a heart eye to
sent me back to New York. I'll

591
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,840
come on, I mean, guys
busting your paws down there. I wanna

592
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:40,039
know. I want to know what
you got going on down here, understands,

593
00:50:40,079 --> 00:50:42,960
and you want to know about if
you have a skimmed on him out

594
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:52,239
to night. That's right. Look, I don't mean any disrespect. And

595
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,280
I know you're a skipper and I'm
a nobody, but I can't do that

596
00:50:55,360 --> 00:51:00,000
to Lefty. Listen to me.
I'll eat your records. You understand me,

597
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:06,480
every fool of you. This is
life and death and a fender.

598
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:15,559
She might say so and tell me
can't do shoot? How about if I

599
00:51:15,679 --> 00:51:22,639
fuck you? Write your now do
what you have to do something? We

600
00:51:22,679 --> 00:51:31,599
can't do that to men. And
now Donnie gets desperate, said, how

601
00:51:31,639 --> 00:51:36,199
many hold on this way? Mary
says he's very injured. See I mean

602
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,719
she read about in the parade.
Man's very very big man to the thie.

603
00:51:42,559 --> 00:51:46,159
Take off Shootes goes off, don't
remember anything? What kind of fish

604
00:51:46,599 --> 00:51:53,480
I appreciate? Take off Shootes are
kidding me? Thank you? I'm afraid

605
00:51:53,519 --> 00:51:58,679
it's necessary. He's a Japanese tradition
show. Is that right, don't forget

606
00:51:58,679 --> 00:52:00,719
about it. I ain't doing I'm
afraid he's necessary. Forget. I don't

607
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:07,239
take your shoes off? Hey,
daddy, what when in roll? Nick?

608
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:14,679
Who? Okay? War? What? War? Oh? We did?

609
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,239
You want to fight it again?
Take off your shoes. I ain't

610
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:21,000
gonna do it. Do take your
shoes or take my shoes off? What

611
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:23,559
I want to eat sometime tonight?
And take off your shoes. I'm gonna

612
00:52:23,639 --> 00:52:28,639
chop off your fep sunner. What
do you want me to do? Who

613
00:52:28,679 --> 00:52:31,639
want to take all this? I
had to grow up in an orphanage because

614
00:52:31,639 --> 00:52:35,360
my own man was killed down there
in Okinnow all right, I'm gonna take

615
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:44,199
my shoes off of this. No, I ain't doing that. I'm afraid

616
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,559
it is necessary. Listen, Uh, my friend's not gonna take off your

617
00:52:47,599 --> 00:52:52,519
shoes there, and mister Moto,
I'm afraid is necessary. Whither are the

618
00:52:52,559 --> 00:52:53,440
rest of us? Okay? So
why don't you just give us a table

619
00:52:53,480 --> 00:53:17,760
before I smack you? You must
take off your shoes. That's what makes

620
00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:23,639
this film so compelling is the fact
that it has been confirmed by former members

621
00:53:24,079 --> 00:53:31,519
of the Banano crime family to be
mostly accurate. This undercover FBI agent was

622
00:53:31,599 --> 00:53:38,320
within one murder of becoming a member
of the mafia. The work of Pistone

623
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:45,559
led to over two hundred indictments and
over one hundred convictions of Mafia members.

624
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:52,920
It led to the Banano family being
removed from the Feigned Commission and becoming outcasts

625
00:53:52,239 --> 00:53:58,679
in the American Mafia. To this
day, Joe de Pistone is viewed is

626
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:04,079
one of the top authorities on the
Mafia. He has since written three books

627
00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:08,440
after his best selling book Donnie Brasco
that this film is based off of.

628
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:16,119
But this film has to be the
ultimate testimony to his sacrifice and his hard

629
00:54:16,159 --> 00:54:22,280
work. What makes this film truly
special and stand in a class of its

630
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:27,920
own is it's a true look at
this secret society. It's not glossy and

631
00:54:28,079 --> 00:54:34,039
glamorous like Casino, Goodfellas, or
even The Godfather. It is also not

632
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:38,000
as gritty and raw as mean streets. What it is and what makes it

633
00:54:38,119 --> 00:54:45,880
timeless is it is unflinching and poorizing. It provides the deepest look into the

634
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:50,840
Mob done by a film. Couple
that with the brilliant performances across the board

635
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:57,119
and a gripping story, it truly
makes for one amazing and captivating film.

636
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:01,960
I hope you will join me next
week when in observance of the recently passed

637
00:55:02,039 --> 00:55:07,639
on director William Friedkin, we will
look at his seminole classic film The French

638
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:13,880
Connection for W. M. N
H and Matt Connerton Unleashed. This has

639
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:50,000
been a classic film review with Eric
culture Ye Who's downs class? And why

640
00:55:50,039 --> 00:56:04,719
did you always happened to me?
That has never been there? Friday price

641
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:12,159
below your Saturday? You won't get
out free Sunday and you f miss Tray

642
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:34,159
on Monday. You get the geta
we are let's see myself from meet Tuesday.

643
00:56:35,079 --> 00:56:40,039
Sometimes you look at just a get
away. Sometimes night have no asses

644
00:56:40,159 --> 00:56:45,320
when you stroke out the cold clean
man, be resting and turn up the

645
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:52,360
music just to kids, little beats
on the duddle stay supplementary release, turn

646
00:56:52,519 --> 00:57:02,400
up Friday half price, were going
on Saturday? You will get out free

647
00:57:04,199 --> 00:57:22,760
Sunday. Praying for this trial Monday, young in the keel, play fast

648
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:59,199
to Friday price with a you Saturday. You will get out free Sunday.

649
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:34,119
This child Monday. That's good stuff. That is some nasty guitar work there,

650
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,880
that's great. That is Guillotine from
the band Lynnwood Strange and we've got

651
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:42,920
a couple of the guys on with
us via Skype. How are you guys?

652
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:45,519
Welcome? Hey, how are you
hey? Hawaii? Doing well?

653
00:58:45,639 --> 00:58:49,679
Doing well? Who do we have
on with us? Go ahead and introduce

654
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:54,519
yourselves please. I'm Joe Dganaro,
a guitarist and songwriter. Okay, Mike

655
00:58:54,639 --> 00:59:00,480
Downing drums, Very good, very
good? And uh now, how many

656
00:59:00,519 --> 00:59:02,480
guys are in the band total?
You're a four piece right? Correct?

657
00:59:04,159 --> 00:59:07,679
Cool? And uh, you guys
are from the Boston area, yeah,

658
00:59:07,719 --> 00:59:13,360
White Andsville, Mass, Lost,
Central Mass, Wooster in that area.

659
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:17,920
Okay, Okay, very good.
I originally I originally was from Boston at

660
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:22,159
one point. Okay, And uh, I gotta ask you this. Usually

661
00:59:22,199 --> 00:59:24,880
I saved this for later, but
I'm just super curious. Uh, let

662
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,559
me ask you, now, where
does the name come from? What is

663
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:37,480
Lynnwood Strange? So we were originally
Audio Mirror and there's a amplifier company with

664
00:59:37,559 --> 00:59:40,000
the same name. Oh no,
I didn't want to have any problems.

665
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:45,360
Yeah, and somebody suggested Strange and
I was like, well, you know,

666
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:50,000
there's gonna be a million bands names
Strange. Why don't we build in

667
00:59:50,119 --> 00:59:54,239
a little uh you know, safety
net and call it Lynwood Strange since down

668
00:59:54,360 --> 01:00:00,400
the bottom of the road here is
the Linwood area of Northbridge. There you

669
01:00:00,519 --> 01:00:05,039
go. No, I like it. And part of part of picking a

670
01:00:05,079 --> 01:00:07,400
band name, too, is it
it can be difficult because obviously you want

671
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:13,159
something that you know somebody else isn't
already using, and you know I've the

672
01:00:13,239 --> 01:00:16,280
process. Yeah, yeah, but
Lynnwood Strange, I mean that that sounds

673
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:20,719
pretty safe. I assume you haven't
running anyone else who's using that name.

674
01:00:22,599 --> 01:00:25,719
There you go, there you go, And you guys are how long have

675
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:30,559
you been around? From what I
saw online, looks like you've got you've

676
01:00:30,559 --> 01:00:35,960
been around a bit. Yeah,
since about October twenty twenty, I believe.

677
01:00:36,599 --> 01:00:39,960
Oh okay, so actually not that
long. No, it was a

678
01:00:40,039 --> 01:00:45,840
lot of changes along the road.
Yeah. We change singers, we change

679
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:52,320
many bass players. We had a
second guitarist he left the band. Yeah,

680
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,159
but now the four that we have
seemed to be the best option.

681
01:00:57,519 --> 01:01:00,840
Good good, best drama. And
you know, being in the band's like

682
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:07,599
being in a marriage. I mean
you literally gotta kind of all get along

683
01:01:07,199 --> 01:01:14,000
politically, and you know, it's
it's it's it's it's hard, it really

684
01:01:14,119 --> 01:01:20,800
is trying to find someone with your
same goals and so forth. And as

685
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:22,920
I told Joe and we started this
thing, he says, I mean,

686
01:01:22,239 --> 01:01:24,960
hey, what's your plans? I
said, well, I want to take

687
01:01:25,039 --> 01:01:29,199
this as far as I can possibly
take it. And here we are.

688
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:36,119
Yeah, I know, Joe's written
quite a bit for this band. Some

689
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:40,239
of us contribute lyrics and so forth, but Joe's Joe's been the main staple

690
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:44,920
here. Yeah, I know what
you mean though about it's it's hard.

691
01:01:45,519 --> 01:01:50,679
I've been in a bunch of bands
and and sometimes it's hard too when you

692
01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:55,519
have Obviously having the right mix of
personalities is a big part of it,

693
01:01:55,679 --> 01:02:00,519
but also to just dealing with you
know, because you mentioned wanting to take

694
01:02:00,559 --> 01:02:05,119
it as far as you can.
Sometimes you're dealing in a band with different

695
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:13,000
varying levels of ambition, varying levels
of dedication and commitment, and that can

696
01:02:13,119 --> 01:02:15,159
be really hard when you've got you
know, if you've got four people or

697
01:02:15,199 --> 01:02:21,280
five people or three people who aren't
all willing to really push things. You

698
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:27,599
know, if you've got a band
where maybe almost everybody is really ambitious,

699
01:02:27,639 --> 01:02:30,360
except you've got that one person who
is just kind of treating it more like

700
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:34,559
a hobby, and it's not that
important to them. That can be really

701
01:02:34,599 --> 01:02:37,280
difficult. So I understand what you're
saying about kind of going through that process

702
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:40,679
of getting to a point where you've
got four guys who are all on the

703
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:45,079
same page and moving together as one. We had a we had a bass

704
01:02:45,199 --> 01:02:50,880
player. We'll just say his name
was Ben and we'll leave it at that.

705
01:02:51,159 --> 01:02:54,639
And he, you know, he
playbos. I mean, he he

706
01:02:54,800 --> 01:03:01,039
was extraordinary, had a great sense
of music and everything. And then when

707
01:03:01,079 --> 01:03:06,840
we booked Uh to play out,
he just pulled back like a frightened turtle

708
01:03:07,039 --> 01:03:14,159
and we have that let him go. It's stunk. But as you said,

709
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:19,400
just trying to get everybody on the
same page dream wise is it's It's

710
01:03:19,639 --> 01:03:23,239
It's hard, it really is.
We're all professionals, most of us.

711
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:30,639
I mean, Joe's a paramedic,
I'm I'm an instructor, Pad Locke who's

712
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:37,000
lead singers, Mike he does lock
Smith, and Jimmy our bassis is a

713
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:44,400
I T. Professional. So we're
all busy. Yeah, okay, but

714
01:03:44,559 --> 01:03:46,320
like I said, we want to
we want to push this as far as

715
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:51,559
we possibly can go with it,
and we really appreciate Yeah, we really

716
01:03:51,639 --> 01:03:54,679
appreciate you having us oh yeah,
No, I like your sound. It's

717
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:58,960
it's uh, it's wonderful to have
you here. Yeah, I I like

718
01:03:59,199 --> 01:04:01,719
the I like that kind of raw, you know, it's sort of almost

719
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:05,079
got a garage rock vibe, you
know, but you know, kind of

720
01:04:05,239 --> 01:04:12,920
kind of heavy and straightforward. And
Joe, your your guitar solos are nasty,

721
01:04:13,159 --> 01:04:17,760
and I mean that in a in
the best possible way. I love

722
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:21,559
your solos. I mean they're they're
just have you always played that way?

723
01:04:21,599 --> 01:04:26,079
You play with just a lot of
attitude and aggression, and it's really good.

724
01:04:27,519 --> 01:04:30,760
It's just what I play, what
the song asked for. If that

725
01:04:31,039 --> 01:04:34,519
makes any sense, Yeah, it
does, it does. I try to

726
01:04:35,159 --> 01:04:40,079
stay in the songs, try to
I don't know, it's just the way

727
01:04:40,079 --> 01:04:45,440
I've always done it. Yeah,
yeah, I try to pay him compliments.

728
01:04:45,519 --> 01:04:48,280
He's just he's a very humble man. He does not like it.

729
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:50,920
So then you'll throw it back in
the ad. Yeah, you're a good

730
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:59,599
drumma, You're a great drama,
are you the obviously Joe? So,

731
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:01,079
Joe has been here the whole time? Are you the newest member of the

732
01:05:01,119 --> 01:05:03,599
band? No, no, no, no, no, you have that

733
01:05:03,719 --> 01:05:09,079
back with Sir Mike was here the
longest. I answered, Mike said,

734
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:14,280
Oh, I'm sorry, Okay,
I misunderstood. I think it's because Mike

735
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:18,840
christer Mike. Yes, I've been
with him for the most part through the

736
01:05:18,920 --> 01:05:21,679
inception of this band. Yes,
it's been the both of us. Oh,

737
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:26,159
I see, I see. Okay, So who's the who's the newest

738
01:05:26,199 --> 01:05:30,639
member then, Amma, Yeah,
that would be Jimmy Jimmy Hilton, Jimmy

739
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:36,480
Hammer Hilton. Okay, gotcha,
gotcha. So now do you guys play

740
01:05:36,519 --> 01:05:40,559
out a lot? Are you doing
a lot of shows? We do about

741
01:05:40,599 --> 01:05:44,559
one a month, maybe two,
depending on what's going on. Yeah,

742
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:46,360
we have a private gig coming up
at the end of the month, and

743
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:55,199
then the second where of September we're
playing Polar Park, and then the sixteenth

744
01:05:55,280 --> 01:06:01,280
of September we're playing Battle of the
Band's Fair Time Recreation in Northbridge. Yeah

745
01:06:01,519 --> 01:06:04,039
and yeah, like he said,
it's a Battle of bands, three bands.

746
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:12,800
And then what's October fourteenth is the
Midway in Boston, I know it

747
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:19,320
well. And then August, not
August, October twenty seven will be the

748
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:23,280
last gig of the year, and
that's gonna be at Huskies in Worcester.

749
01:06:24,199 --> 01:06:28,320
That's gonna be pretty much our Halloween
gig. Oh cool, anybody who comes,

750
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:33,119
feel free to come and costume.
Ronda Ferverro from California. She's in

751
01:06:33,159 --> 01:06:38,320
the chat room and she says,
you guys have a seventies New York music

752
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:45,320
vibe. Wow, thank you.
Yep. Somebody once said about our music

753
01:06:45,880 --> 01:06:53,880
it's like kiss Black Sabbath and ACDC
had a really ugly baby. Right well,

754
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:57,800
tell us whatever, tell us about
influences. Who are you, guys

755
01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:00,559
influenced? Spy? I can definitely
I can see why someone said to you

756
01:07:00,679 --> 01:07:03,880
what they said. I can hear
all of that. But but in in

757
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:08,440
your own words, you guys,
what who would you say? Your influences

758
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:15,400
are? Well, I mean I
got started in Drummond because of John Bonham,

759
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:24,119
But I mean my my musical influences
range from the Rolling Stone right up

760
01:07:24,159 --> 01:07:30,360
to Radiohead. I was quite a
bit of a YouTube fan back in the

761
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:36,920
day as well, just didn't care
for the high hat jumble that Larry Mullens

762
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:42,320
used to do. But those are
my influences anywhere, and I always I

763
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:50,480
always admired hot rock, ac DC, the who. But who's your influences?

764
01:07:50,599 --> 01:07:57,199
Jo? So I I my might
want to play guitars because of Matthias

765
01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:01,000
Yabs of the Scorpions, No Kidding
and the solo from Winds of Change.

766
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:05,280
It's probably the first video that I
can remember, and watching him play that

767
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:11,440
solo in that video, it's what
made me want to play. Huh.

768
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:16,840
Besides that, I mean Skinnered,
Black Sabbath, A C d C.

769
01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:27,840
Kiss, especially Kiss, but seventies
Kiss, Jeez, Sabotage, Chris Leiva

770
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:33,880
was amazing. Randy Rhodes, Yeah, trying. I think that's pretty much

771
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:41,800
everybody. I mean, Oh,
the skid Rowe Yeah, I know it

772
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:45,680
sounds weird, but not really.
No, Yeah, one of my favorite

773
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:47,520
bands. Yeah yeah, no,
me too. By the way, Kiss

774
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:51,560
is my favorite band. And I
can definitely hear the Ace Frayley and you're

775
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:59,239
playing Yeah, yeah, I don't
know why it just happens. No,

776
01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:01,000
I love it. I love it. I mean yeah, I can definitely

777
01:09:01,079 --> 01:09:05,039
hear it. And you know his
his his approach on on some of the

778
01:09:05,239 --> 01:09:10,279
uh do you well, okay,
let's nerd out on this just for a

779
01:09:10,359 --> 01:09:15,479
second. Do you have a favorite
Ace Frelei solo love Gun No Kidding.

780
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:20,680
My favorite is Strange Ways You could
cut Glass with his guitar tone on that

781
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:26,000
it's just uh, you know what
I mean. But no, but the

782
01:09:26,319 --> 01:09:29,479
way the way you approach your your
solos that I can I can definitely hear

783
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:31,920
a lot of Ace Frelei and some
of the some of the other guitar players

784
01:09:31,960 --> 01:09:36,960
you mentioned too. Now, what
about the other guys in the band similar

785
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:42,720
backgrounds I assume in terms of taste
and music or does anybody have anything that's

786
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,720
really kind of unusual as far as
something they like that you wouldn't expect.

787
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:53,119
The two of them are more punk, yeah, in aspects, especially Jimmy.

788
01:09:53,239 --> 01:09:58,039
Jimmy's the fat punk. Jimmy's kind
of rounded in in his his music.

789
01:09:58,399 --> 01:10:03,119
Yeah, because you'll be talking to
him about the craziest punk band and

790
01:10:03,159 --> 01:10:10,000
then all of a sudden he'll pull
up Sebatia Johan Sebastian Bach or something like

791
01:10:10,119 --> 01:10:14,399
that. You're just like, where
did this come from? Right? That's

792
01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:21,479
good though, That's good. That's
for Padlock. I know he the clash

793
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:28,800
Led Zeppelin. What are some of
the others that he said? What's the

794
01:10:28,880 --> 01:10:34,800
name of that that punk group that
he's always talking about? Oh, I

795
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:41,960
don't know what what's his name name? I can't think of the sex pistols.

796
01:10:42,239 --> 01:10:45,600
No, no, no, no, it's like some one from California.

797
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:51,720
He came from California originally Green Day
and he he was out there with

798
01:10:51,840 --> 01:10:58,239
a lot of those groups at that
time period is a Green Day. They're

799
01:10:58,279 --> 01:11:02,479
from California. No, no,
older, older, m I'm the youngest

800
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:09,039
in the band. I'm forty four. Everybody above me is what fifty six?

801
01:11:09,279 --> 01:11:14,520
I don't know. We don't have
to go back, very eternal.

802
01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:18,359
That's all it matter. That's right, that's right. Funny thing. We

803
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:26,479
were looking for a bass player and
Jimmy, who's also a really good guitarist,

804
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:30,720
caused me up and he says,
hey, I noticed I recognized your

805
01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:36,039
ad on Craigslist. I'm like,
are you looking for a bass player?

806
01:11:36,119 --> 01:11:44,479
I'm like, uh yeah, And
then it just dawned on me, Wait,

807
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:47,880
are you do you want to play
bass for for for this band?

808
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:53,560
He's like, if you'll give me
the shot, I'm like, oh,

809
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:57,840
hell yeah, Jimmy. Jimmy's a
lot like us. I mean, it

810
01:11:57,880 --> 01:12:05,520
would probably take pneumonia walking pneumonia to
miss band practice. I mean, that's

811
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:10,199
how and that's why I love these
guys. They are dedicated. They they

812
01:12:10,239 --> 01:12:14,920
don't miss any days, unless,
of course it's family emergencies or someone's in

813
01:12:15,000 --> 01:12:20,239
their deathbed. Yeah. Yeah,
So that Craigslist ad. We were unfortunately

814
01:12:20,319 --> 01:12:29,000
trying to not tell our current bass
player at the time we were separating ways.

815
01:12:29,079 --> 01:12:31,840
So it was the most generic ad. There was nothing about the band.

816
01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:35,439
There was. I just took to
writing the ad as if it was

817
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:42,800
him. Yeah. Wow, Jimmy
picked up on an instantly. Yeah yeah,

818
01:12:43,039 --> 01:12:47,119
oh that's funny. So and it's
one last thing. So this guy

819
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:54,359
Joe has somebody on the hook.
I'm like, I don't think, so

820
01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:57,560
let's just go with Jimmy. And
if you don't work out, you don't

821
01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:00,399
work out, then you can have
that other guy. But I knew,

822
01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:02,560
I knew. I just knew jim
he was gonna work out. He like

823
01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:11,119
I said, he very really misses
rehearsal time. And and it's uh yeah,

824
01:13:11,199 --> 01:13:15,439
beyond that, his personality fits perfectly
for sure. For sure. Now,

825
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:18,720
So, so how was the process
of replacing the other bass player,

826
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:21,960
because I mean, what was the
old guy? Was was he upset or

827
01:13:23,119 --> 01:13:26,359
was he just kind of because it
doesn't sound like he was amicable. It

828
01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:31,560
was amicable. He's in like three
or four other bands. Oh okay,

829
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:36,439
I think everybody knew it was coming. Oh okay, including him, because

830
01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:43,159
I got the duty of calling the
bass player. Oh that's because you're the

831
01:13:43,199 --> 01:13:47,319
band aid ripper. Yeah, the
band aid ripper. And uh so I

832
01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:51,479
call him up and I said,
look, I'm just gonna get right to

833
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:56,479
it. It's not working out the
way we thought you would work out.

834
01:13:57,159 --> 01:14:00,039
And his response was okay. Yeah. I said, you know, anytime

835
01:14:00,079 --> 01:14:02,880
you want to come by and get
your stuff. I mean, I don't

836
01:14:02,880 --> 01:14:09,119
want any hot feelings, but it's
just it's my friend is just not working

837
01:14:09,239 --> 01:14:12,600
out. And that was it.
These guys all said, like, did

838
01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:16,520
he say anything, did he say? I'm like he just as I said,

839
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:24,239
he was amakabolda, you know he. I guess he didn't think so.

840
01:14:25,119 --> 01:14:28,279
I don't think he thought I was
working out either. Yeahmself, Well

841
01:14:28,319 --> 01:14:31,039
that that certainly helps. So Mike, why are you called the band aid

842
01:14:31,119 --> 01:14:42,680
ripper? Remember how I said many
bass players, yes, because none of

843
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:45,359
us like to do it, but
Mike seems to love it. Oh no,

844
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:47,680
no, no, no, Well
all right, he's the one able

845
01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:50,239
to do it. He's always the
one that's made the phone call. Hey,

846
01:14:50,359 --> 01:14:57,239
listen, We're sorry this ain't working
out. Yeah, well, well

847
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:00,800
the truth of it is, And
don't take this the long way. I'm

848
01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:05,000
just I'm a very very I had. It took a long time for me

849
01:15:05,119 --> 01:15:12,680
to get to be this person,
so I just want to be very straightforward,

850
01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:15,640
truthful. It's not working out,
and and that's that's it. I

851
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:18,000
mean, yeah, what else can
I say? I love it. I'm

852
01:15:18,119 --> 01:15:23,720
I'm I'm gonna very assertive person.
Nothing to do with being to get off

853
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:28,000
my lawn kind of guy. See, he's going back to the age thing.

854
01:15:28,079 --> 01:15:29,720
You see what he did there,
Mike, he went back to the

855
01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:31,880
age thing. You're in. You're
you just made the list, buddies,

856
01:15:35,079 --> 01:15:40,239
you just take the list. Oh
I like the good Uh that's a that's

857
01:15:40,279 --> 01:15:44,079
a deep cut, Chris Jericho there, Well, absolutely well well done,

858
01:15:44,199 --> 01:15:47,119
well done. Yeah so you so. Now, so the current lineup,

859
01:15:47,159 --> 01:15:50,520
it sounds like it's pretty solid and
it's been has it been a couple of

860
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:56,000
years now with this lineup, it's
been a while six months oh okay,

861
01:15:56,119 --> 01:16:00,319
so relatively relatively new. But it
sounds like it's very easy to fit in

862
01:16:00,399 --> 01:16:02,640
because Jimmy just picks up. Yeah, you know, like I said,

863
01:16:02,680 --> 01:16:08,279
he was playing guitar before this with
Mike in a different band. Yeah,

864
01:16:09,399 --> 01:16:13,000
and then so he for him to
just come in and just kind of he

865
01:16:13,199 --> 01:16:16,800
just knows. Yeah, that's good. That's very good, very good.

866
01:16:17,199 --> 01:16:21,399
And now you guys have obviously you
have a bunch of music online. Are

867
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:28,920
you working on anything new? Are
you currently recording anything new or always?

868
01:16:29,039 --> 01:16:32,319
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, always. It took us long to get that

869
01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:39,319
part those two up there, the
two albums, but yeah, we're always

870
01:16:39,359 --> 01:16:44,159
working on new stuff. We probably
have another, I would say at least

871
01:16:44,199 --> 01:16:47,960
another ten or eleven that we have
in process. Yeah, we need to

872
01:16:48,079 --> 01:16:54,159
bring out and finish and get to
where where we're at with the other ones,

873
01:16:54,199 --> 01:16:56,720
but it's going to take time.
Yeah, of course, of course.

874
01:16:58,119 --> 01:17:01,920
Very good. And you guys have
a show tomorrow night. Correct No,

875
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:04,800
oh no, okay, I don't
know why I thought you did.

876
01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:06,920
Do you have one coming up?
You got one coming up soon though.

877
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:12,039
You must have one on the twenty
six. But it's a private fundraiser for

878
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:15,119
uh, somebody I used to work
with. Oh, no kidding, wow,

879
01:17:15,359 --> 01:17:19,600
okay, okay, Yeah, a
coup from Grafton, mass who him

880
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:25,000
and his spouse lost everything in a
house fire. Oh, wow. Oh

881
01:17:25,079 --> 01:17:28,359
that's terrible. No, that's great
that you're you're doing a benefit for them

882
01:17:28,399 --> 01:17:31,520
though. Excellent, excellent. Are
you Are you a former police officer,

883
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:38,439
Joe? No, okay, not
at all. Uh, firefighter in the

884
01:17:38,520 --> 01:17:45,079
past. Oh yeah, paramedic now, but no, I have no need

885
01:17:45,199 --> 01:17:48,920
want to be a coup ever,
job is horrible. I did listen to

886
01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:55,840
Yes you have that song uh you
go we go? Uh I saw that

887
01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:00,479
on on Spotify, and uh so
I figured, you know, there must

888
01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:04,279
be a firefighter or a former firefighter
in the band. So when I was

889
01:18:04,399 --> 01:18:08,520
younger, I wanted to be,
you know, a firefighter completely. And

890
01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:13,079
then I actually was on the fight
upontment. It was me, both my

891
01:18:13,239 --> 01:18:15,680
sisters, both my brother in laws, and one of my brother in laws

892
01:18:16,119 --> 01:18:23,560
brothers, all in the same department. And but as time progressed, I

893
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:29,560
migrated right over to the ambulance.
Yeah, no kidding. Wow, yeah,

894
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:34,000
very cool. I don't know medic
since so five, so EMT since

895
01:18:34,079 --> 01:18:39,920
two thousand, so about twenty two
years give or take. Oh wow,

896
01:18:40,159 --> 01:18:43,920
very cool. Now we love our
first responders around here, that's for sure.

897
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:46,840
I don't know if it came up
in your communication with Jenny when she

898
01:18:46,920 --> 01:18:50,640
was booking you guys, probably probably
not. But she she used to be

899
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:58,119
an EMT. Yeah, yeah,
yep, absolutely. Unfortunately, you know,

900
01:18:58,159 --> 01:19:00,600
when she had breast cancer and the
and the aftermath of the surgery and

901
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:03,399
everything, it kind of took her
career away from her. But yeah,

902
01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:06,520
she used to be She used to
be an EMT. So no, we

903
01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:12,479
love our first responders absolutely, so
so much much respect. We have two

904
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:18,239
I guess you'd call them first responders
songs kind of by accident. Oh what's

905
01:19:18,279 --> 01:19:23,359
the other one, uh, stretcher
fetcher. Oh okay, yeah, I

906
01:19:23,439 --> 01:19:27,159
saw that on Spotify too. Yeah, I'll have to I didn't get a

907
01:19:27,239 --> 01:19:28,960
chance to listen to that one.
I'll have to check that out. I've

908
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:32,600
got we're we are going to play
Cadillac Jack at the end of our conversation

909
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,079
to book end the segment. That's
that's a really cool song. I like

910
01:19:35,199 --> 01:19:40,840
that one. I like that one
tremendously. But that was a weird song

911
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:45,560
to come about, come about I
don't know I get the bright idea to

912
01:19:45,640 --> 01:19:49,960
write a song about drinks. Yeah, and that's what it ended up.

913
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:56,760
Ass. I like that song too, gotcha Cadillac Jack, because you know,

914
01:19:56,840 --> 01:20:00,359
it's like, what it's uh whiskey
seller. Yeah, and then I

915
01:20:03,239 --> 01:20:08,279
have to look up the lyrics.
I'm never usually sinking. I just yelled

916
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:14,800
Cadillac Jack. Yeah, I'm doing
the vocals. Well. Very good,

917
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:17,319
Very good, guys. I really
appreciate talking with you. Oh by the

918
01:20:17,359 --> 01:20:20,720
way, our friend Joe Friday is
in the chat room and says, uh,

919
01:20:21,079 --> 01:20:27,079
God bless police fire and EMT EMT. My family is all police and

920
01:20:27,199 --> 01:20:33,039
fire, but they all say EMTs
are underrated and underpaid. Absolutely and uh

921
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:40,359
totally agree. And uh Ion Venom
four in the chat room says hashtag Lynnwood

922
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:45,119
Strange. You guys rock very nice, very nice. Well we should see

923
01:20:45,159 --> 01:20:50,600
yeah, yeah, we should mention. So where should people go online to

924
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:58,319
keep up with everything you guys are
doing. Www dot reverb nation dot com,

925
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:02,279
slash linn It's strange, okay,
or they can find us on Facebook

926
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:10,359
Lynwood Strange or you know, actually
those are probably the two best ones.

927
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:14,920
And they can watch all our videos
free of charge on on on YouTube if

928
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:17,680
they want. Oh yeah, this
YouTube channel two yep, which you just

929
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:23,199
look for Lynwood Strange. It'll come
up for those that have a few bucks

930
01:21:23,239 --> 01:21:28,359
in their pockets. iTunes, you
can go to Amazon and you go to

931
01:21:28,399 --> 01:21:31,600
any of them. We're on something
like eighteen different outlets or something. I

932
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:34,359
don't know. It was part of
the package deal. Yeah, yeah,

933
01:21:34,600 --> 01:21:38,039
And you guys are easy to find, you know, it can just google

934
01:21:38,119 --> 01:21:42,000
you. You have a unique name, which is very important for you know,

935
01:21:42,399 --> 01:21:45,800
so people can find you easily.
So so that's excellent. All right,

936
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:48,039
guys, Well listen, Joe and
Mike, this has been wonderful.

937
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:51,640
We'll cut you loose and then I'm
gonna play this. Uh, I'm gonna

938
01:21:51,720 --> 01:21:57,560
hit this track, Cadillac Jack.
But thank you both for joining us today.

939
01:21:57,640 --> 01:22:00,760
This has been great and h absolutely
absolutely we will do this again in

940
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:03,960
the future for sure, but thank
you so much. Guys. Take care,

941
01:22:04,560 --> 01:22:08,119
all right, okay, okay,
you got it. Bye bye,

942
01:22:09,199 --> 01:22:12,640
all right, very nice. That
is Lynnwood Strange, two of the guys

943
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:15,079
from the band, one half of
Lynnwood Strange, and let's give this a

944
01:22:15,159 --> 01:22:18,279
listen. This is called Cadillac Jack. We're gonna play this and then we're

945
01:22:18,279 --> 01:22:21,960
gonna show some love to our amazing
sponsors, and then we will be back

946
01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:27,760
with the balance of our show plenty
Moore, Matt Connerton, unleashed still to

947
01:22:27,840 --> 01:22:34,159
come today, but here it is
lynnwood strange with Cadillac Jack. Oh and

948
01:22:34,239 --> 01:22:39,439
I don't hear anything. Sorry,
and that was completely my fault user error.

949
01:22:39,880 --> 01:23:00,760
I will edit that on the podcast. Here we go. I would

950
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:06,479
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951
01:23:08,199 --> 01:23:30,119
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Sat bold s time I the other job

952
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bar, check on the breach that you're

953
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going with or went out of reach. But you don't gotta like jacket ball,

954
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gotta like jacket in them, Sat
Bold sit in his little like jackets,

955
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have not bow fella like jacket side
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956
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986
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its stereo glory. And Paul does mute

1010
01:30:28,000 --> 01:30:31,560
the Facebook feed because on Facebook we
get kicked off for copyrighted music, you

1011
01:30:31,640 --> 01:30:35,439
know the deal. So these just
open a separate browser tab to stream the

1012
01:30:35,479 --> 01:30:39,600
show. But we do love chatting
with you on Facebook during the show.

1013
01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:43,359
So that will be tonight from eight
to eleven pm Eastern Time, of course,

1014
01:30:43,640 --> 01:30:47,159
because we have listeners all over the
place right here on WMH ninety five

1015
01:30:47,159 --> 01:30:54,560
point three FM. Also a quick
programming note regarding Monday's show. In the

1016
01:30:54,600 --> 01:30:58,680
first hour, we'll have journalists Bob
Heney. Bob was supposed to join us

1017
01:30:58,720 --> 01:31:01,600
this week and then I couldn't make
it because he was covering the nurses strike

1018
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:06,000
apparently in New York City. So
Bob is gonna join us this coming Monday

1019
01:31:06,159 --> 01:31:10,840
instead. Really looking forward to speaking
with him. He is not only an

1020
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:16,079
accomplished journalist, but he's a radio
guy like me. He's on wb AI

1021
01:31:16,520 --> 01:31:20,039
in New York City, so really
looking forward to talking with Bob. And

1022
01:31:20,079 --> 01:31:26,279
then in the second hour we have
Jam Tomorrow band who's going to be coming

1023
01:31:26,319 --> 01:31:30,279
in and joining us live in the
second hour and performing. And one of

1024
01:31:30,319 --> 01:31:32,880
the guys in the band, Jam
Tomorrow, used to be in a band

1025
01:31:33,159 --> 01:31:38,159
with me, so that will be
very cool to see Michael Helpley Pierce.

1026
01:31:38,600 --> 01:31:42,159
We used to be in a band
together called Chemical Distance, but he's got

1027
01:31:42,239 --> 01:31:45,760
this project, Jam Tomorrow, and
we're gonna be debuting their new single two

1028
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:47,640
on the show. By the way, I've almost forgot to mention that very

1029
01:31:47,720 --> 01:31:51,319
very important. So Monday will be
a lot of fun. If you've missed

1030
01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:54,880
any of today's show. Today has
also been a lot of fun. Of

1031
01:31:54,960 --> 01:31:59,119
course. We had Eric Pilcher's classic
film review and this week the subject being

1032
01:31:59,199 --> 01:32:03,520
Donnie Brass, and then we just
talked with Joe and Mike from the band

1033
01:32:03,720 --> 01:32:10,199
Lynnwood Strange down in Massachusetts and played
a couple of their songs. If you

1034
01:32:10,279 --> 01:32:13,079
miss any of that, of course, they will be in the archive at

1035
01:32:13,279 --> 01:32:16,479
WMNH radio dot org and on my
website Matt Connerton dot com, so you'll

1036
01:32:16,479 --> 01:32:24,239
be able to get back to those
later. Oh, I had forgotten about

1037
01:32:24,279 --> 01:32:28,600
this. H Scott Robinson says in
the chat room, don't forget Texas Mike

1038
01:32:28,840 --> 01:32:31,880
will be singing on the show tonight. Ah, Yes, we love Texas

1039
01:32:31,960 --> 01:32:35,319
Mike. Maybe we can get him
to sing his theme song. If you're

1040
01:32:35,359 --> 01:32:38,279
going to play in Texas, you
gotta have a fiddle in the band,

1041
01:32:39,199 --> 01:32:42,399
which isn't literally true, it's just
a song lyric. It confuses people,

1042
01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:45,239
but we've interviewed many Texas bands on
the show who in fact do not have

1043
01:32:45,359 --> 01:32:49,239
a fiddle in the band. But
yes, always speaking of Dalca tones,

1044
01:32:49,239 --> 01:32:54,560
always nice to hear the dalsa tones
of Texas Mike. That will be fun.

1045
01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:57,359
I'll look forward to that. If
you would like to join us,

1046
01:32:57,439 --> 01:33:00,039
we'd have a little bit of time
left in today's show, but only a

1047
01:33:00,119 --> 01:33:02,880
little bit, so don't wait until
the last minute. But six ozo three

1048
01:33:02,960 --> 01:33:06,359
two five zero six zoo seven is
a studio line six zo three two five

1049
01:33:06,479 --> 01:33:11,720
zero six Z seven. You can
also text me at six ze seven nine

1050
01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:15,239
one seven four four seven six.
I'm on social media at Matt Connerton.

1051
01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:19,720
You can email me Matt at Matt
Connerton dot com and of course you can

1052
01:33:20,119 --> 01:33:25,119
interact endo Pine in the Facebook live
chat. But the best thing to do

1053
01:33:25,239 --> 01:33:28,880
so that we can hear and enjoy
your dolcet tones is to give us a

1054
01:33:28,920 --> 01:33:32,159
call at six oz three two five
zero six zero seven six zho three two

1055
01:33:32,239 --> 01:33:38,039
five zero six zoo seven. Jay
Fed in the chat room was suggesting purple

1056
01:33:38,199 --> 01:33:43,840
Rain. Perhaps we can get Texas
Mike to sing that tonight. But looks

1057
01:33:43,880 --> 01:33:46,920
like our friend Shannon is on the
line. High Shannon, Hello, Hello,

1058
01:33:47,319 --> 01:33:51,479
I just wanted to say I know
what you're happy day? Yea was

1059
01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:57,079
a little screwed up. Yesterday was
Friday yesterday. Yes, I'd say,

1060
01:33:57,119 --> 01:34:01,159
hey, I don't know exactly who
the haters are and the bullies and the

1061
01:34:01,239 --> 01:34:06,920
hypocrites on Peter White's show that listen
that don't like me, but I don't

1062
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:13,600
think police is one of them,
or Steve dj ST's. There are people

1063
01:34:13,840 --> 01:34:15,600
problem, I said, hi,
and Mike pellapet, there's people on the

1064
01:34:15,640 --> 01:34:19,960
morning show who don't like you.
What did you say? There's people on

1065
01:34:20,039 --> 01:34:24,880
the morning show who don't like you? Oh yeah, Peter said it this

1066
01:34:25,039 --> 01:34:30,239
morning. There's people who really don't
like you. Oh my goodness, So

1067
01:34:30,479 --> 01:34:34,600
they can kiss my key, sir. Right, you guys like me,

1068
01:34:34,760 --> 01:34:40,680
the answer the phones and work there, and you know a few others.

1069
01:34:41,039 --> 01:34:44,520
That's all that matters to me.
Well, Shannon, as Paul Stanley of

1070
01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:48,119
Kiss, one of my heroes,
once said, you should be just as

1071
01:34:48,279 --> 01:34:53,159
proud of who doesn't like you as
you are of who does like you.

1072
01:34:55,119 --> 01:34:58,359
Yeah. I don't know if that
helps. Probably not, but I'm just

1073
01:34:58,439 --> 01:35:01,119
throwing that out there. I'll run
it around him, be proud of be

1074
01:35:01,279 --> 01:35:05,880
equally proud of those who don't like
me then as those who do. Yes,

1075
01:35:06,520 --> 01:35:13,239
Okay, it's good to have haters. But uh, yeah, I

1076
01:35:13,319 --> 01:35:17,800
don't call it anymore. Uh,
you don't call the morning show respectrum because

1077
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:23,239
he could never probably see you could
never hear me. But I just wanted

1078
01:35:23,239 --> 01:35:27,720
to say tell the guys. I
said hi, And uh, maybe when

1079
01:35:28,359 --> 01:35:33,560
Peter moved studios, he'll put Queen's
City Cabin industreet opened by appointment only on

1080
01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:42,039
Saturdays. Huh A long time see, I remember that you guys go about

1081
01:35:42,039 --> 01:35:44,640
your day. You have your families
to do. All this I listened for

1082
01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:49,079
a living basically, and a long
time ago. Unless it was made up

1083
01:35:49,159 --> 01:35:54,680
for radio. Mike Bellapida said he
was only open on Saturdays by appointment only

1084
01:35:55,199 --> 01:36:00,199
Oh, okay, I see so
all right, Poor Peter keep saying for

1085
01:36:00,359 --> 01:36:03,840
Mike, Peter keep saying open tend
to two. He probably wants to sleep

1086
01:36:03,880 --> 01:36:08,800
in and you know, I don't
know, and Peter won't let him.

1087
01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:14,720
Wow huh and Peter won't let him. M I don't know what's what if

1088
01:36:14,760 --> 01:36:17,600
it's my phone of yours? But
do you hear statuck on my end?

1089
01:36:18,479 --> 01:36:24,279
Yes? Uh, it's it's actually
and I don't usually hear that sound,

1090
01:36:24,399 --> 01:36:28,920
but I am hearing it today.
Yeah, yeah, it's strange. Well,

1091
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:30,479
all right, Shannon, Well have
fun tonight. All right, thank

1092
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:33,720
you, Shannon, appreciate it,
and I'm a nice weekend. Say hi

1093
01:36:33,840 --> 01:36:36,920
to Jennifer. Make you ever hug? I will okay, by bye.

1094
01:36:39,039 --> 01:36:42,279
All right. That was our friend, Shannon, And that does open up

1095
01:36:42,279 --> 01:36:44,039
the line for you if you'd like
to get in with a quick call.

1096
01:36:44,119 --> 01:36:47,039
Six O three two five oh six
zero seven six zero three two five zero

1097
01:36:47,279 --> 01:36:53,039
six zero seven. J Fed says, I send Shannon a hug, please

1098
01:36:53,119 --> 01:36:57,279
tell her, yes, of course, and Jenny also says, huggies.

1099
01:36:57,760 --> 01:37:00,720
Yes. No, we love we
love Shannon on this program, and I

1100
01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:05,720
suspect they love for on the Morning
show as well, but you know,

1101
01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:09,319
it's a little bit of a little
bit of ball breaking that goes on around

1102
01:37:09,359 --> 01:37:11,399
here. Well, maybe that's not
the right term. Who's you know,

1103
01:37:11,479 --> 01:37:15,199
Shannon's a female. But you know
what I'm saying. I think it's all

1104
01:37:15,279 --> 01:37:23,039
done with love and affection. Uh, let's see, Oh something just quick,

1105
01:37:23,720 --> 01:37:31,239
a quick thing that I if I
can find it. I thought this

1106
01:37:31,439 --> 01:37:40,239
was interesting. Politico has this story
for the first time US government lets hackers

1107
01:37:40,520 --> 01:37:45,960
break into satellite in space. Hacker
groups are on a military indorsed mission to

1108
01:37:45,199 --> 01:37:51,079
infiltrate and orbiting US satellite. This
kind of thing fascinates me, so it

1109
01:37:51,159 --> 01:37:57,439
says here hackers in the desert in
the Southwest are lobbying a barrage of cyber

1110
01:37:57,479 --> 01:38:00,640
attacks at a US government satellite today, and it's exactly what the Pentagon want

1111
01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:04,119
to tap in. The US Air
Force and Space Force are hoping the effort,

1112
01:38:04,319 --> 01:38:09,960
the first ever attempt to use hackers
to break into a live orbiting satellite,

1113
01:38:10,039 --> 01:38:15,960
will help them build more secure space
systems and identify security gaps that could

1114
01:38:15,960 --> 01:38:21,119
be exploited by China and other adversaries. Five teams of hackers are competing at

1115
01:38:21,159 --> 01:38:28,479
the Defcon. Hey, that's a
band remember Scumpy's band Defcon competing at the

1116
01:38:28,560 --> 01:38:35,159
Defcon cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas,
too remotely sees control of SpaceX satellite Moonlighter,

1117
01:38:35,680 --> 01:38:41,439
currently spinning in the Earth's low orbit. Along with trying to break in

1118
01:38:41,520 --> 01:38:44,640
and build a data link to the
satellite, hackers are also trying to keep

1119
01:38:44,760 --> 01:38:49,000
enemy teams out of their own vulnerable
system by using encryption and firewall protections.

1120
01:38:49,399 --> 01:38:53,720
The satellite is zooming around the Earth
at about five miles per second. Air

1121
01:38:53,840 --> 01:38:59,159
Force and Space Force A staffers told
reporters Monday the event, which comes with

1122
01:38:59,319 --> 01:39:02,359
a fifty thousand dollars prize for first
place, may feel like a fun sci

1123
01:39:02,439 --> 01:39:08,199
fi thriller, but it also reflects
the growing danger of America's enemies developing cyber

1124
01:39:08,359 --> 01:39:15,119
capabilities to infiltrate and block US defenses. Yeah, I mean, and that

1125
01:39:15,319 --> 01:39:23,840
is very serious and something that you
know, is very potentially very dangerous to

1126
01:39:23,880 --> 01:39:27,560
the United States and of course dangerous
to other countries too. Who you know,

1127
01:39:27,640 --> 01:39:30,199
we depend on this satellite technology.
And if someone were to say,

1128
01:39:30,239 --> 01:39:34,439
for example, someone were to attack
the United States and they were to successfully

1129
01:39:34,880 --> 01:39:42,239
take out our satellites, either destroy
our satellites or infiltrate them and hack them

1130
01:39:43,520 --> 01:39:46,279
and find a way to render them
useless, or however they were to go

1131
01:39:46,359 --> 01:39:51,479
about it, we'd be in real
trouble. And again that applies to other

1132
01:39:51,560 --> 01:39:57,039
countries as well. So this is
I'm glad they do this kind of thing,

1133
01:39:58,039 --> 01:40:00,640
because every time there's a story in
the news where it's like, oh,

1134
01:40:00,720 --> 01:40:04,000
this government database got hacked, or
you know, the Pentagon may have

1135
01:40:04,079 --> 01:40:08,079
been hacked or something, it's I
don't know about any of you, but

1136
01:40:08,239 --> 01:40:13,359
I say, yikes, that's really
bad, and we don't want that to

1137
01:40:13,520 --> 01:40:17,039
happen, it says here. China
is developing capabilities to deny, exploit,

1138
01:40:17,199 --> 01:40:24,319
or hijack enemy satellites, according to
a classified intelligence report among the dozens leaked

1139
01:40:24,439 --> 01:40:29,600
this spring by an Air guardsman and
reviewed by The Financial Times. The US

1140
01:40:29,720 --> 01:40:33,479
military also uses data from satellites to
guide a majority of their munitions, move

1141
01:40:33,560 --> 01:40:39,680
troops in positions, communicate and gather
intelligence, and China has already been making

1142
01:40:39,720 --> 01:40:45,720
attempts. In twenty eighteen, hackers
from China targeted and unidentified companies satellite communications

1143
01:40:45,800 --> 01:40:51,000
operator in what appeared to be a
mission both to spy on and explore how

1144
01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:57,880
to gain control of the satellites.
According to a report by cybersecurity research firm

1145
01:40:59,239 --> 01:41:04,119
Samana Tech. It's unclear if the
attempt was successful, but the plan was

1146
01:41:04,239 --> 01:41:13,479
foiled. Russia has also been honing
its satellite hacking capabilities in Ukraine. Just

1147
01:41:13,640 --> 01:41:16,760
after the Kremlin launched its full scale
invasion of Ukraine in February of twenty two,

1148
01:41:17,079 --> 01:41:24,279
it infiltrated the satellite network of US
based telecommunications company of vias At.

1149
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:28,640
It took the hackers about forty five
minutes to deploy malware that knocked up to

1150
01:41:29,039 --> 01:41:34,680
forty five thousand modems offline, according
to an analysis from Viasat and NSA leadership.

1151
01:41:34,800 --> 01:41:42,079
On Thursday of this week's earlier Vegas
Cybersecurity conference, Black Hat, this

1152
01:41:42,279 --> 01:41:47,439
goes on, but you get the
idea, so very interesting. I hadn't

1153
01:41:47,800 --> 01:41:50,800
planned on talking about that, but
I saw that news story pop up.

1154
01:41:53,760 --> 01:41:59,600
There was there was some Trump news. Should we look at We'll look at

1155
01:41:59,640 --> 01:42:03,640
this just quickly. So if you
if you didn't hear the first hour of

1156
01:42:03,680 --> 01:42:08,880
the show, we opened with we
were talking about the Hunter Biden news today.

1157
01:42:08,920 --> 01:42:14,039
The legal news for Hunter Biden very
bad. Another avalanche of bad news

1158
01:42:14,159 --> 01:42:17,960
for him. There's also Trump legal
news and I figured we'd save this for

1159
01:42:18,039 --> 01:42:21,920
the end of the show, because
you know what happened with Hunter Biden today.

1160
01:42:21,960 --> 01:42:29,000
That was a bit of a bombshell, whereas with Trump his legal news,

1161
01:42:29,560 --> 01:42:34,279
it's more of a just sort of
a steady drip every day. So

1162
01:42:34,960 --> 01:42:39,000
I figured out, I will save
this for the end because by Monday there

1163
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:44,279
will be a bunch more Trump news, of course, but this is from

1164
01:42:44,720 --> 01:42:48,800
NPR. Judge delivers mixed ruling on
protective order in Trump's jan sixth case.

1165
01:42:49,680 --> 01:42:55,960
The judge overseeing the former president Donald
Trump's trial in the January sixth case sided

1166
01:42:56,039 --> 01:43:00,399
with Trump's lawyers and ruled that a
protective order sought by prosecutors will will cover

1167
01:43:00,640 --> 01:43:06,119
only material the Justice Department designates as
sensitive, not all the information to be

1168
01:43:06,199 --> 01:43:14,520
exchanged in the discovery process. But
Judge Tanya Chutkin sided with the Justice Department

1169
01:43:14,640 --> 01:43:20,640
in designating witness interviews and recordings as
sensitive and covered by the protective order.

1170
01:43:21,119 --> 01:43:26,680
She said, quote disclosure of any
of those materials creates too great a risk

1171
01:43:26,800 --> 01:43:30,880
that witnesses may be intimidated unquote,
or the jury pool be polluted. The

1172
01:43:31,119 --> 01:43:38,920
order is a partial win for both
sides. Trump's lawyers had argued that a

1173
01:43:39,000 --> 01:43:43,680
more restrictive protective order would violate his
First Amendment rights as he campaigns for president.

1174
01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:47,119
Prosecutors worried Trump would make the criminal
discovery process and the details he learned

1175
01:43:47,159 --> 01:43:51,600
they're part of his political campaign.
The judge said, quote, the existence

1176
01:43:51,640 --> 01:43:56,800
of a political campaign is not going
to have any bearing on my decision.

1177
01:43:57,199 --> 01:44:00,520
I'm going to keep politics out of
this unquote. By the way, so

1178
01:44:00,600 --> 01:44:05,359
that seems to be her position.
More broadly speaking, too, is that

1179
01:44:06,439 --> 01:44:15,520
a political campaign will not interfere with
this process, with this trial. So,

1180
01:44:15,840 --> 01:44:20,760
in other words, Trump doesn't get
to say, according to what Judge

1181
01:44:20,800 --> 01:44:26,239
Schutkin has noted so far, Trump
in his attorneys don't get to say,

1182
01:44:26,279 --> 01:44:30,159
well, you know, he's got
a campaign event so at such and such

1183
01:44:30,159 --> 01:44:32,119
a place, or he's got a
debate, not that he's planning to debate

1184
01:44:33,279 --> 01:44:36,359
on such and such day, so
he can't be in court that day.

1185
01:44:36,479 --> 01:44:42,359
He's got you know, we make
accommodations for you know, people have jobs,

1186
01:44:42,439 --> 01:44:45,079
have to earn a living, and
this is his job, is running

1187
01:44:45,119 --> 01:44:50,880
for president. She is apparently having
none of that, and that will not

1188
01:44:51,159 --> 01:44:56,880
interfere. She has made that clear
that will not interfere in the trial and

1189
01:44:57,000 --> 01:45:03,199
the proceedings thereof. Other judges might
allow for some of that. For example,

1190
01:45:03,319 --> 01:45:10,439
I assume that Judge Eileen Cannon might
be more amenable to making accommodations,

1191
01:45:10,560 --> 01:45:15,119
but Judge Schutkins says, uh no, we won't be doing that. It

1192
01:45:15,159 --> 01:45:20,199
says here. Judge Schutkin noted that
Trump is still governed by conditions of his

1193
01:45:20,399 --> 01:45:28,920
release that include not intimidating or harassing
witnesses or interfering with the administration of justice.

1194
01:45:29,239 --> 01:45:30,840
If those kinds of statements are made, she said, quote, I

1195
01:45:30,960 --> 01:45:36,840
will be scrutinizing them very carefully unquote. And some of this, by the

1196
01:45:36,880 --> 01:45:40,840
way, is coming up because of
you know that that post the other day,

1197
01:45:40,880 --> 01:45:43,439
for example, I think it was
on truth Social you know, if

1198
01:45:43,479 --> 01:45:45,960
you come after us, We're coming
after you, or something like that,

1199
01:45:45,239 --> 01:45:50,920
which some people thought was a threat
to you know, the judges or Jack

1200
01:45:51,039 --> 01:45:56,199
Smith or But the thing is something
like that is so broad. How do

1201
01:45:56,239 --> 01:45:59,600
you I mean, clearly he's threatening
somebody. That's a threatening thing to say,

1202
01:46:00,159 --> 01:46:02,399
But who exactly is that intended for? You don't really know, So

1203
01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:08,640
it's a little bit hard to prove
that that's a direct threat or that it's

1204
01:46:08,680 --> 01:46:13,199
a form of witness intimidation, which
again may have been his intention, but

1205
01:46:13,680 --> 01:46:17,399
you can't prove it. It's a
vague enough statement that you can't prove it.

1206
01:46:17,640 --> 01:46:23,920
You know, you might suspect,
you might, there might be conjecture

1207
01:46:24,399 --> 01:46:28,520
in that vein, but you can't
really be sure. So, you know,

1208
01:46:28,920 --> 01:46:30,720
and we are talking about his First
Amendment rights. We do have to

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keep that in mind. I suppose
it says here and she rejected a proposal

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by Trump's lawyers who allow a broad
swath of people working with the defense team

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to view the discovery materials. Chutkins
said unindicted conspirators, her words, could

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have access to these materials under the
defense's broad definition, as well as volunteers

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and consultants to the defense. She
said, quote I live in Washington.

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Anyone is a consultant unquote. Chutkins
said the Justice Department bore the burden of

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showing good cause for a protective order
on such basis as on such basis as

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witness protection, security, and protection
of information vital to national security, but

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she said she also needs to minimize
the efforts of pre trial publicity. Under

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precedent, Chutkins said, quote,
mister Trump, like everyone else, has

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a First Amendment right to free speech, but that right is not absolute unquote.

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A protective order bars Trump and his
attorneys from improperly using any evidence,

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which may include sensitive and highly confidential
information that prosecutors share with the defense team

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before trial. Earlier this week,
prosecutors proposed that Chutkin set a start date

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of January second, twenty twenty four
for the trial. The government lawyers estimate

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their part of the case could last
about four to six weeks. Trump's filing

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on a trial date proposal is due
next week. After hearing, the prosecutors

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had a max a masked Oh my
god, seriously, after hearing the prosecutors

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had a masked eleven point six million
documents or files. Is that possible?

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Can that possibly be? Right after
hearing the prosecutors at amount at a masked

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eleven point six million documents or files
they would start handing over to the defense

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on Friday, the judge joked,
quote, I can only imagine your pre

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trial you're I'm sorry, I can
only imagine your trial proposal now unquote,

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to Trump's attorney John Lauro, A
good one. She's a regular henny youngman.

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That judge Chutkina, the former president
who is the frontrunner for the GOP

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nomination in twenty twenty four, has
been suggesting he wants to delay the case,

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perhaps until the next election. Well, of course, if he regains

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the white outs, Trump could instruct
his attorney general to drop the case or

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even seek to pardon himself. Trumps
pleaded not guilty to the federal charges.

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Trump already has a busy legal calendar
for twenty twenty four. He's set to

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face trial in Manhattan on charges related
to hush money payments to the adult film

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stars Stormy Daniels in March twenty twenty
four, and go to trial in Florida

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in May twenty twenty four on charges
that include willful retention of national defense information

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and obstruction over classified papers. He's
stored in a ballroom, bathroom, and

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storage area at his Maralago resort.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg recently told the

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Brian Larr Show on WNYC he would
be amenable to moving the New York trial

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so long as the judge there agrees. All right, well, we I

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mean, how does he even have
time to run for president? He's got

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his dance card is there that mister
Trump quite full? Oh here's the song

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we haven't played in a while.
We'll close with that. All right,

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we gotta go. We are out
of time. Please don't forget it is

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Friday, which means I will be
back tonight from eight to eleven pm for

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Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul ec live
here on WMH ninety five point three.

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So please do join us tonight,
don't forget Monday. On the show,

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we have a journalist and radio host
Bob Henily joining us from New York City.

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He'll be calling in from New York
in the first hour, and then

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in the second hour we have Jam
Tomorrow, great band with my friend Michael

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help Ley Pierce. They will be
here with us live in studio, and

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I think they're planning to play live
as well on the show, so that'll

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be a lot of fun. If
you miss any part of today's show,

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it'll be up in just a little
bit at WMH radio dot org and on

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my website Matt Connerton dot com.
Thank you to everyone who called, everybody

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in the chat room, and thank
you of course to Eric Pilter for another

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01:50:59,520 --> 01:51:04,800
great film review and the guys from
Linwood Strange Great Boston Band. All right,

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and uh we gotta go. I
will talk to y'all a little bit

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later. By everybody everyday. Sorry, wait, I am in time,

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