Wellcome everybody, here we go. It is that time again, Matt Connerton
Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n H five point
three FM and Glorious Downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, also on Comcast ninety seven
if you're in Manchester, and hello to all of our online listeners across the
nation and around the globe. You can go to my website Matt Connerton dot
com for all of your live streaming options, social media links, contact info,
show archives, etc. Etc. Today is a Tuesday, June thirteen,
two thousand twenty three, so nice to have you all with me.
We've got an exciting show for you today coming up at the five o'clock hour
in the second hour numerow Dose, We're gonna be joined via Skype by a
Texas band. In fact, one of the songs I played a few songs
today to open the show. One of them was Sunset by Lady Chops and
the g D Jam. Now, the actual name of the band is not
It's not GD it's something else. I'm just cleaning it up for afternoon drive
radio. Probably wouldn't be a big problem if I said the name exactly as
it is. But I mean, that's not one of those FCC prohibited words
or anything, but it's it's what I call a gray zone word, one
of those words that it won't catch in any you know, won't catch you
fined or anything, you know, occasionally heard in songs and whatnot on the
radio. But but you know, I don't know if I don't know if
it's really appropriate for Afternoon Drive. If we were on in the evening,
later in the evening, that would be different. But I don't know if
you want your kids here in that. So, so Lady Chops and the
g D Jam will be uh. That's the our radio edit version of their
name. They're gonna be skyping in at five o'clock. Great band from Texas,
and that track Sunset that I opened with is from their album Time,
and we also have later after we talk to them at the end of the
segment. We're gonna close that segment with Funeral Clown, which is going to
be the world radio premiere brand new song from that band. And we've got
a couple other songs we're gonna be playing as well. Today. They sent
me the whole thing, uh, and it's uh, even though all the
songs aren't out yet. They sent me the whole album and it's just fantastic.
I'm really looking forward to talking with them, really really good band.
So if you like that song Sunset, that's who that was. Before that,
I opened the show at the very top with when will He Ever Learn?
That is if you're looking for that. That is on YouTube. Parody
Project is the account and they do some really fun political song parodies. And
then I also played the Showers where secrets were stuffed by Trump by Rocky Mountain
Mike, another YouTuber who does a lot of really fun song parodies. I
was actually, I will confess to you, I was actually going to save
that one for later. But then I saw Melanie's comment that Melanie made in
the chat room and I said, oh. She said, uh, you
are cracking me up with all of your folder boxes, posts and music,
and I was like, oh, I gotta play this one now, and
I love I think that's funny as hell. It's only two minutes, it's
short, so I was like, I'll go ahead and play it now.
By the way, even if you're you know, even if you're full on
maga, you have to admit that's pretty funny. That's a funny song.
I thought that was brilliant, but not everyone will have a sense of humor
about it. That is a fact. At some people get very upset if
you make fun of their they're anointed one. They get very upset. No
sense of humor about it. But that's okay. Uh. Six O three
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the way, I want to say thank you to my friend Kyle Heavy.
He is a very important part of the w m H ninety five point three
FM family here. He hosts his own show here called Off the Mark Sports
on Sundays. But I happen to run into him. I we have a
post office box, uh at the well, the post office right across the
street. Where else would it be, right? Uh? So I,
uh, sometimes I'll run over there time permitting before the show. And I
ran over there to get the mail, and Kyle was there, and he
said, you know, condolences on the loss of your friend if you missed
yesterday's show. Ben Brackett York, whom I used to playing a band with,
passed away. So so we kind of did a tribute to him.
And uh, but that was the first thing Kyle said to me when I
when I saw him, he said, hey, condolences and and we had
a nice conversation, a brief conversation because obviously I was in a hurry I
had to grab the mail before the show. But h but I appreciated that
very much. And thank you to everybody too for all of your your well
wishes and and so forth. So yesterday was a challenging day in that regard,
but I do appreciate all the support very much, so, so thank
you all of you. Um, and it was good to have Jenny here
for that as well. Um, so you know she she usually comes in
with me on Mondays anyway. But it was. It was good to have
her here for that. I definitely, uh definitely needed it yesterday, so
I appreciate it. Let's say hello to everybody in the Facebook live chat and
then we'll see I don't know, I don't know. It's probably been another
slow newsday, but we'll take a look. I'm kidding. Of course,
history was made today. No matter where you are on the matter or how
you feel about it, one thing you cannot deny. One thing we can
all agree on. History was made. Melanie, I mentioned, is in
the chat room, of course, from the great state of Vermont. Jenny,
of course is in the chat room and says shalom peeps. J Fed
also joins us from Vermont and says good afternoon everyone. Cristel, our friend
from the Great state of Illinois, says hello everyone. Melanie says, I
don't know what words you are talking about. I won't know how to find
the group. Jay Fed speculating it's great Dane, not quite, not quite.
I'll put it this way. It's a way of taking the Lord's name
in vain. We'll just leave it at that. Again, probably wouldn't be
a big It probably wouldn't be a big deal because like I said, it's
not one of the really bad words that you absolutely can't say on the radio.
But I have to tell you, guys, I have a really really
good streak going here of not getting not getting in trouble. I've got a
really good streak going. I haven't been in trouble for anything in a long
time here. I want to keep that up. I want to push that
to the limit. Let's see how long I can go without getting in trouble
for anything. So I'm I'm airing on the side of caution. With that
airing on the side of caution, Alex Wiley joins us from the UK and
says, all right, you lovely people. Hello Alex, nice to see
you, and they're welcome, Welcome to the show. Let's see. So
what happened today, Well, today was oh j Fed says, I'm glad
you won't say it, I know, right, So, yes, history
made today former President Donald Trump arraigned in court. And this has been and
Melanie's daring me to say something in the Facebook live chat which I absolutely cannot
say that would definitely get me fired. Melanie. Let's see, let's let's
get the update from the Associated Press here. This has been unfolding this afternoon,
Trump will be released. This was posted seventeen minutes ago. Trump will
be released without having to pay a bond. I expected that he certainly is
not a flight risk, former President Trump, because if he fled the country,
then that would really complicate his campaign, his campaign efforts. Let's see
it says here, Trump will be released without having to pay a bond.
He will not have to surrender his passport or restrict his personal travel. He
will not have to Like I said, he's not a flight risk. Obviously.
As the hearing continued after his not guilty plea was entered, Trump sat
at the table, scowling with his arms crossed. Former President Trump is pleaded
not guilty to federal charges alleging he hoarded classified documents detailing sensitive military secrets and
schemed toothwart government efforts to get them back. I'm going to stop there for
a moment because I want to this. I've got an angle to play here
that I haven't heard anyone else. Well, it's been alluded to here the
use of the word hoard, but I haven't heard anyone else in the media
really explore this. And one of the things that I do try to do
with this show is explore angles and ideas on big news stories that maybe not
anyone else or almost no one else is really talking about her exploring and try
to bring a little bit of an unusual perspective, get a little outside the
box. You know, we talked yesterday on the show. Jenny is very
she sounded very certain that it's really just all about ego with him, and
that does seem to be in terms of why Trump did this, because you
know, I want to know why. I want to know why. Jenny
seemed to think it was. It's it's about ego and just being able to
show off and say, you know, look what I have, and that
that there seems to be a broad consensus around that idea. I think a
lot of people think that. Um. But there is also, of course,
the more sinister concern is, you know, was he trying to do
something really nefarious with these documents? Um? But there is another possibility,
and again I haven't heard anyone, and I've heard it sort of vaguely alluded
to, but I haven't heard anyone address this possibility directly. And when I
say this, uh, many of you, maybe most of you, maybe
all of you will think, Oh, I don't know about that, Matt.
That's a little Really you think it's that. I'm not saying I think
it's this. I'm just going to throw this out there again, the use
of the word horde in that AP style, in that AP style apnews dot
com website. Um, but they report in the apiece. It's known in
the business as the AP style of reporting. I completely made that up.
Um. Is it possible that he does have a compulsion to hoard and that's
why these because we've been led to believe that the hoard with an H Melanie,
not with a W with an hum. We've been led to believe that
things were collected, shall we say, in a rather hurried and haphazard fashion,
as the Trump administration was vacating the White House at the end of his
presidency, when he when it was time to go. Um, is it
possible that there was a mindset of let's just grab whatever we can because he
maybe he never intended to do anything. I mean, yeah, part of
it. I'm sure he liked showing things off and saying, hey, you
know, I've got secret documents here. I'm sure that's part of it.
But is part of it also just that psychological thing of wanting to have this
stuff, not for any real purpose, but just to have it. And
it kept getting moved around, of course, as is alleged in the indictment,
which you know, they call it a speaking indictment or a talking indictment,
where the indictment itself tells the story as it lays out the theory of
the case within the indictment. So, you know, it sounds like these
things were moved around a lot. But how could he possibly I'll throw this
out there, how could he possibly have had time to go through all all
of these boxes and figure it out and figure out what he wanted to you
know, keep or his show to people or not show to people or whatever.
I mean, there's no way. I mean, you're talking about boxes
and boxes of documents, you know. And and again the story is apparently
he would go through things at times, he would look through things, but
but he didn't want other people looking through his things. And how would he
ever have enough time to actually go through all this stuff. So let's put
aside for a moment the idea that he might have been up to something nefarious,
you know, other than obstruction of justice by trying to hide these from
the government so he wouldn't have to give them back. I mean, aside
from the obvious, right, but let's let's put aside the idea for a
moment that he may have had any nefarious intent as far as what he was
going to do with the documents themselves. You know, I've I've known people
I think. I think hoarding is more common than people might realize, and
it is something I've seen clients for over the years. It's a very common
problem and it takes different forms. And when I say see clients, you
know, if you don't know, I'm a hypnoth therapist, and you know,
I help people to do things like with smoking, lose weighted, et
cetera using hypnotherapy. I've also had a couple of clients over the years who
came to me because they had a hoarding issue and they knew it. A
lot of people who have hoarding issues don't even know it, but they'll engage
in compulsive behavior. It takes different forms, like keeping things that you're never
going to actually be able to do anything with, like maybe stacks and stacks
and boxes and boxes of some sort of paperwork, or you know, a
common one too, is people who have a lot of disposable income and they
end up ordering a lot of things online or from the home shopping network or
whatever it might be, and they order things that they'll they're never actually going
to use, and they have boxes of unopened things just sitting in their homes,
things that they ordered that they want to have in their home that they're
never going to actually use for any purpose. They just want to have them
there. It's it's really pretty fascinating. I had a friend and this is
what I was thinking of when I'm looking. I'm looking at a picture,
looking at a picture right now on this monitor, the now famous bathroom photo
where you see the boxes of documents in the bathroom, which again Kevin McCarthy
says, it's perfectly fine because the bathroom does lock, so no problem there.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. That's apparently how seriously he takes a national security
But I had a friend whom who his father. This wasn't high school,
and I won't say I won't say who who it is. I won't give
away any names here. But I had a friend in high school who I
went over to his house once, to his dad's house. I went with
him to his father's house, and his father had in his living room and
I think maybe in other rooms too. It was a long time ago,
but I remember walking into the house and you know what, his father had
just everywhere everywhere, very large stacks of newspapers. He just had everywhere you
looked, just and not little piles either, big stacks of newspapers. He
must have been collecting them his entire life. I mean, just these enormous
stacks of newspapers. For what reason? What was he keeping them for?
Why was he saving them? Who knows. My friend didn't have any idea.
I don't think his dad had any idea. It's not like I was
gonna ask him. That'd be kind of rude. Hey, my friend's dad,
why do you save all this? Why do you save all this?
And it wasn't anything else. It wasn't like he had stacks of anything else
but just newspapers, stacks of newspapers everywhere, and you know, the local
newspaper, the local penny saver, you know, just whatever. He clearly
had a hoarding issue, not that I am, or was then, or
you know, qualified to. I don't know what the actual clinical term for
it is, but not that I would be qualified to diagnose him, but
that's clearly what was going on there. Anyone with any common sense could see
he's a hoarder, and in his case, it manifests itself in for some
reason, whatever it is psychologically that causes us. He likes to have he
likes to be surrounded by large stacks of old newspapers. And I remember my
friend telling me too that his dad would sometimes he'd have like he'd go to
the store, and this part's interesting. He would buy like ten copies of
the same newspaper. Like he'd buy ten copies of that day's newspaper and then
bring them home, and you know, he'd leave one out to read,
and then the rest of them into the stack they would go. I mean,
it was almost I'm not kidding, it was almost hard to find a
place to sit in his living room because he just had news is everywhere.
And again for what purpose, who knows. So I'm just it's just interesting
to me. And I'm just throwing this out there because again, when you
think about the numbers of documents and the number of boxes here and again I
can see in this picture that there was no way ever in his life he
was going to have time to go through them all? Was he hoarding them?
And I don't mean hoarding them, you know, I don't mean that
as a figure of speech. I mean literally hoarding them because there's something psychological
there where he just has that compulsion to do it, just throwing it out
there. I have no idea. Mike Doyle's on the line, high Mike,
Hey, Matt, how's it going good? How are you? Big
political news? Have big stuff going on. I feel for the country a
little bit. I feel for the so much discourse in this country that we're
now putting people in possession of spion charges where in some cases the penalty is
death. But but going along with your hoarding thing, Yeah, there was
a strange There's these questions that I asked myself. I try to stay in
the middle and ask these questions for myself. And you remember when the FBI
rated Trump is considered a neat freak. Everybody who knows him knows he has
to be clean, everything has to be neat and tidy. And he's always
been known as a neat freak. So that and a little bit distorts your
theory of the of the hoarding of documents I guess to be hoarded them and
the in boxes. Well, right, that's why I was going to say,
I disagree. I don't. I don't think there's a conflict there because
again, and I'm looking at the picture, for example, of the bathroom.
I mean, the boxes are piled neatly, you know, so I
don't. I don't think there's any And look, by the way, my
theory is probably BS. I'm just throwing it out there, though I have
to wonder. Just understand, I understand it's food for thought. I've met
I've met enough hoarders where it's like, hmm, this is kind of interesting
to me. But that's kind of where my mind goes anyway. I like
to I'm always fascinated by the psychology of it all, like why people do
what they do and what might be an underlying cause. Part of it I
think just comes from being a hypnotherapist. And part of it too, you
know, I grew up with my dad who works in the mental health field,
so you know he might have some thoughts on this in fact. But
anyway, but but go ahead, Mike, but do you remember when there's
there is the I just look for the things I can question, you know.
And here's here's the thing that remember when he picture he's a neat freak,
right, and then yeah, now the FBI and goes in and raids
Mara Lago. The next day, there's pictures on the Internet of documents,
top secret documents strewn all over the floor in the holding area in Mara Lago.
Oh, you ask yourself not to wait a minute, now, the
neat freak? Would he ever? Would he ever do something like that?
Number two, Mike, how did it go from How did it go from
the FBI? Who was the one in there? How did it go from
them to online? And everybody can see? Wouldn't that be information? They
wouldn't want anybody to see. Yeah, Mike, you're you're repeating some Fox
News narratives that are not accurate. So no one ever claimed I mean people
claimed that they claimed it because it's uh, you know, for a political
narrative. No one claimed that the documents were found that way. The reason
the documents were spread out that way was because the FBI was taking pictures of
Look, we have to take pictures of what we have here. They never
claimed that they were found strewn all over the floor. No, that's not
true. Pretty sure, believe you. I believe you're incorrect. I believe
you're Yeah, I believe you are. Why would it go why would it
be Why would it go all over the news all of a sudden? Why
would they Why would the narrative for like a week was look at how the
documents were left on the floor. Don't you remember that? It was all
over the news And the FBI never stood up and said, oh, no,
no that's not it wasn't him. That's what we did. No,
they said that. No, the FBI did come forward and say that.
Now. I do think that you're probably correct that some people initially did report
that the documents were found strewn all over the floor, but the FBI did
come forward or the dj did come forward and correct that. Um. But
if it's but certain, well of course not because certain news outlets aren't going
to tell you that, because for certain news outlets, it's more uh,
it better suits their narrative to not correct the record. You don't you don't
watch I watched CNN all the time, man, So yeah, for you
pinning me in the corner that I'm just a Fox News guy, I didn't
all the time. I didn't say that. I'm just saying, hey,
look, they all do it. Everybody does it. You very rarely see
anyone correct their narrative on anything. H if it if you know, if
they want to continue to serve their audience the way that they do. So
I'm not saying that, but I'm just saying I I specifically, where did
I get it? Then? Where did why do I remember? Uh?
It was either the FBI or somebody from the DJ coming forward and explaining that
why where did I get that from? If no one ever corrected it?
I mean I didn't imagine it, so obviously obviously the record was corrected on
that. Yeah, I didn't see that at all, And I slipped between
those two channels pretty regularly. Maybe maybe you need to question I have who's
in charge of the archives? Because how these documents getting strewn all over the
place. Biden's got them, Trump's got them? How are they getting how
are they getting out and not being recorded of exactly what's taken out? And
to the to the letter, you know what I mean, to the t
these are top secret documents. How is it that people have boxes and boxes
of them and there's no there's no accountability for it. It's like, oh,
and I'm not saying this Trump, whatever you did. If they caught
them with these boxes and they're saying that it's wrong, it's wrong. So
don't say I'm jumping to Democrat that. All I'm saying is how did how
did Biden have these documents for five years two nineteen or eighteen and they're all
over there and it is you know, how how who was in charge of
How did somebody not say to them, hey, listen, you've had them
for two years, can you bring them back? Or you checked them out,
you know, like a library. He checked them out five years ago?
What are you doing with him? And I just don't know who these
people are that are in charge of these archives. We don't know exactly what
top secret information was taken out, you know, box number forty four which
has twenty seven documents in it, so that when they want it back,
they're gonna get back box number forty four with twenty seven documents in it,
you know. So that's that's just wonderment to me of how that can be,
how that can be? And so anyways, it's just a thought,
sure, all right, Mike, But yeah, so I don't know.
Yeah, I'm going to look up that thing that the did the FBI ever
come back and because I don't remember seeing it at all, because I would
have you know, that's the first thing I clamped onto when I heard he
was a neat freak. I would suggest, I mean, everybody in his
everybody in his universe, saying he would never throw documents on a floor like
that. Right there, we'll see, right, okay, Mike, all
right, well I appreciate the call. All right, good, all right,
thanks bye bye. All right. Uh well, what I was trying
to say, I couldn't really get back in there. But what I was
what I was gonna say to Mike is I mean, if you're just flipping
back between Fox and CNN and that's that's it, then you know you might
want to expand. I mean, I don't know if he's literally saying that's
his entire media diet, but um, I mean I definitely recall uh that
being explained about the documents. But again, but there was in right wing
media, there was a narrative being spun that uh oh, look what the
FBI did. They went in and they trash the place and they just threw
this stuff all over the floor to make Trump look bad, and that was
absolutely not, uh, not the case. Um. I mean you can
pretty easily. H I'm just looking online for one of the Yeah, here
it is on uh CNN dot com for example. Uh oh, that's not
the article I was looking for. I was looking for something about the the
way that you know they took those pictures. Yeah, I'll find it.
I'll find it later at the break. But I mean that was definitely reported
that, you know, uh in in mainstream media. So um. Anyway,
um, and as far as uh, the National Archive to address that
question, yeah, I mean, clearly there is something broken at the National
Archive when somebody, whether it's Joe Biden or Mike Pence, you know,
when they can take documents and for years and years they just have these documents
and they never give them back and nobody comes looking for them. But again,
in the case of President Trump, there was so much that was missing
because there's boxes and boxes and boxes. There was so much that was missing
that there was no way the National Archive could not notice, and they did
ask for them back, and they asked for them back again, and eventually
it led to the FBI having to go there and you know, and then
you've got the lawyer with the swarren f A David saying, oh, we
gave you back everything, and no, no they did not, and h
and all of it. So, I mean, if Trump had just complied
with the initial requests, as we talked about yesterday on the show, none
of this, uh, none of this would even be happening right now.
That would have been that would have been it. Six three two five O
six O seven. If you'd like to join us six three two five six
seven. By the way, if you're just joining us today on the show,
coming up in the five o'clock hour, we're gonna have a Lady Chops
and the g d Jam from Texas skyping in. I played one of their
songs at the top of the show earlier sunset, and we're going to play
what's the new song again? Oh? The new song is Funeral Clown,
brand new single today. We're gonna do the world radio premiere of that later
after we talk to them at the top of the hour, So really looking
forward to that. They sound so good again, if you're just joining us,
you've got to hear this band. They are really really good, just
fantastic. I don't even want to describe them. I just want to play
them for you. Let's see lots of Facebook live chat comments here, let's
see, let's get caught up on these. Oh my goodness, Love,
we've got a very busy chat room today. Let's see. Alex Whiteley says,
we'll get house house arrest in his massive mansion, pistorious style assumer for
an oscar pistorious. No, no, no, he won't get house arrest.
He's not a he's not a flight risk of any kind. I mean,
he's got a he's got a campaign going here. Let's see. Um,
some of these I can't read on the air. Alex Whiteley says,
so he really didn't think he was going to lose the election, so caught
himself short? Could be Oh, I think referring to, you know,
the haphazard way and these documents and the way these documents were collected on their
way out the door. M j FT asks, Oh, referring to my
career as hypnotherapist. J FT asks you hypnotize yourself? Yes, well,
we all do in ways that we don't even realize. And if you've ever
done any kind of meditation, that's also a form of self hypnosis when you
meditate. Chris from Edgewise joins us in the Facebook Life a High Chrism Fredo
joins us or I'd like to say this full name, Alfredo Enrique Benavitas from
the band Dank Sinatra and also Cosmic Blossom. Fredo says, I've seen hoarding
turn into whole rooms in a house rendered unusable h due to being filled with
junk. Yeah, absolutely absolutely. I mean again, I'm probably wrong.
I'm just throwing it out there as a theory. But think about it.
When was he ever going to have time to actually go through all of those
You're talking about thousands and thousands of documents, you know. Jay fed says,
sounds like a fire hazard. Oh I think that's referring to my friend
who had the dad who would save the newspapers. Oh yeah, no doubt,
no doubt. Melanie says he was going through that. He wasn't going
to go through them. He was going to sell that privilege to others.
One could say he was going to hoard the documents out. Yes, you
could say it that way. For just a cup of coffee a day.
Crystal, our friend from Illinois, says they have a TV show about hoarding.
Yeah, I'm aware of that show. I've never watched it, but
I am aware. There's a there's actually a television show called Hoarders, And
like I said, it's a much more common thing than than people realize.
But it manifests itself in different ways for different people, and and obviously to
varying degrees. Melanie says regarding that show, some people get extreme with their
hoarding to the point that their homes were condemned because the infestations envirominent, living
and dying in the mounds of stuff. Some hoarder homes have dirty dishes with
rotted food. Gross. Oh yeah, it can be a real problem.
It can be a real problem. Oh. Chris Poorrior, also known as
Crispy Very Funny local comedian, joins us in the trat room. Chris says,
Matt Trump's a treason trojan horse for putin from day one or so,
it seems. Well, I'm not gonna go that far, you know,
ay, listen, I mean I will remind everybody Trump is afforded under the
Constitution the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. So I will just remind every
one of that. I mean, make your judgments. I'm not admonishing anybody.
I'm just reminding everyone of that. Uh Let's see some of these I
can't really read. Some of them have a profanity in them. Crystal thinks
that, uh my sounds like the voice of Cliff Claven from Cheers. But
today, yes, John Ratzenberger from Cheers. Yeah, well he's famous.
So Mike should take that as a compliment. Melanie says, I think she's
being sarcastic. Of course, clearly, you are just a cog in the
liberal media machine. Let's see, Dave wally Is in the chat room says,
what if you can't stop buying guitars. I would not consider that hoarding,
Dave, because guitars are actually of some use. Like if you're in
the examples that we've already talked about, if you're just saving giant stacks of
old newspapers, there's no reason to be doing that. Or if you're just
buying junk off of you know, on Amazon or from the Home Shopping Network
or whatever, and it just sits in a box in your home that you
never even open, you know, there's no reason to do that other than
to have it. But a guitar, I mean, you know, come
on, you can play it, or you can just look at it.
I mean, even if you never pick it up and playing, if it
just looks cool sitting there or on your wall or whatever, that's pretty awesome.
So Dave says, my wife disagrees. Let's see. Alex Whiteley,
our friend from the UK, says, quote, how did Biden? Unquote?
It's called what about ism? And it's been one of the biggest problems
of this era of politics, trying to point fingers in other directions rather than
face the real issue. You have to try better, dude, Well I
will, so I'm gonna stick up for Mike on that, though I don't.
I don't think that's what he was doing. That is what a lot
of people are doing, of course, because unfortunately a lot of people that's
the only way they can talk and think about politics. But when Mike brought
up Biden, he was talking about, you know, the point that you
know Biden, whether it's Biden or Pence, you know, they have these
documents and the archive never notices they're missing, and that probably he does indicate
an issue with the National Archive that something can go missing and they don't notice
unless it's boxes and boxes and boxes of stuff and then they notice. So
so I think Mike brought up a valid point. Again, there is a
ton of what about ISSM going on, of course, but I don't think
that's what Mike was doing, at least not in this case. So I'll
defend Mike on that. But I do agree with you, Alex, what
about ism is out of control. You know, when somebody asks how speaker
Kevin McCarthy about this, and you would hope that Kevin McCarthy would care about
national security somewhat and he just says, you know, a reporter asked Kevin
McCarthy, well, is it a good look to have all these stacks of
boxes in the bathroom? And then McCarthy immediately goes, well, I don't
know. Is it a good look to have a document in a garage that
opens and closes? Or that was the Biden reference. And then I think
he worked in something about Hillary as well, because you know, even though
it's twenty twenty three, we're still going to do the whole butter emails thing
whenever it's convenient. So, even though these are different situations, very different
in terms of the magnitude, enormously different, and also, in the case
of Trump, two words intent and obstruction that we have to introduce into the
discussion. But yeah, I mean, what about ism is just incredible.
The biggest problem with what about ism, aside from it not being a particularly
sophisticated way to think about or a productive way to think about politics and speak
about politics, the biggest problem I see with what about ism is that if
you take that and you follow it all the way through to its logical conclusion,
no one can ever be held accountable for anything under any circumstances, no
matter what they do. Ever, you can't hold anyone accountable ever, why
because somebody else might have also done that thing. So therefore, if any
time some one you like does something bad, and all you have to do
is say, well what about when this other person I don't like did something
bad? Then okay, Well, by that logic, no one can be
accountable for anything. If you're going to employ what about ism, you might
as well just go all the way with it and say, Okay, I
guess politicians are above the law because most people, because they're only able to
or only willing to think about and view politics through a partisan lens, most
people are only interested in holding people they don't like accountable, But when somebody
they do like is in trouble, they just go, well, what about
when the person I don't like did something bad? You know? So I
guess you just can't ever hold anybody accountable for anything. That's the ultimate endpoint
logically of what about is M It would be like to me An example I
like to use is imagine you're sitting in a courtroom. You're on a jury,
and you're in a courtroom on a murder trial, and the defense attorney
gets up during closing arguments and says to the jury, listen, ladies and
gentlemen of the jury. I know it looks bad for my defendant, and
I know that it's your duty here to judge whether or not my defendant is
guilty or not guilty. But before you render judgment on my defendant, I'll
just ask you this, what about all the other people who committed murder?
I don't see you judging them? Oh no, you're just here to judge
my defendant. You're here to judge my client. But I don't I don't
hear any of you saying anything about all the other people who've committed murder.
And some of them got away with it? What about them? So you
just can't I guess you just don't hold anybody accountable for anything. Anything goes
the wild West. That's the biggest problem to me with what about is m
you know, I mean, if your mindset is is all you have to
do to you know, as if there's no such thing as scale, all
you have to do to justify Trump is to say, you know, well,
what about Biden? He had a document in his garage. It's like,
really, so that makes it because the thing is, if even if
there is, let's suppose let's let's go with the narrative that, let's go
with the magat narrative for a minute. They say that there's a double standard.
They say we have a two tiered criminal justice system. They've coopted that
whole talking point because it usually a two tiered criminal justice system means, you
know, you've got one tier and one standard of justice for the wealthy and
powerful and the elite, and another standard for everyone else. And the way
those standards work is the wealthy and the powerful and the elite generally get away
with things and are not held accountable for things that the middle class and the
poor in this country are held accountable for and do not get away with.
That's what we usually mean, but they've coopted that concept into well, now
we have a two tiered criminal system of justice where I guess, you know
you only Republicans are held accountable but Democrats aren't, which is bizarre in so
many ways. But but let's just suppose, for example, let's go with
that for a minute. Let's suppose that there is a double standard. Does
that mean that the only way to remedy that, the only way to address
that there being a double standard, is we just shrug and throw our hands
in the air and say, Okay, well, I guess there's just going
to be no standard now, because that's what you're saying, those of you
who do that, who think that way. If you say, well,
there's a double standard, so therefore we have no right to hold Trump accountable,
then you're saying, then we just can't have any standard ever, right,
And I would also remind you, I mean that's what you're saying,
Oh yeah, politicians, I guess they are above the law. We just
want to hold anybody accountable. That's what you're saying, whether you realize it
or not. But the other thing too, I when Ryan people love because
when people say I hear a lot of people say, well what about Biden.
I would just like to remind everybody because I think people keep forgetting there
is an active d OJ Special Counsel investigation. Is not Jack Smith, he's
assigned to Trump. Somebody else has assigned to Biden's. There's an ongoing investigation.
They already close the investigation on Pence. They concluded, Okay, he
made a mistake, he's screwed up, but probably no ill intent. Intent
matters with this, maybe more than it should, in my opinion, I
don't think, you know, just because you didn't intend to be sloppy with
secret documents doesn't make it somehow Okay, So I think maybe intent should matter
more than it does, to be honest with you. Having said that,
they closed They already closed the case on Pence. They say, well,
he clearly was not doing anything nefarious. This was an honest mistake. It's
a bad mistake, but it's an honest mistake. He wasn't up to anything.
So they closed that. The investigation into Biden and the you know,
they found, for example, one secret document was in his garage. That
is unacceptable. I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea and think I'm
justifying that or blowing that off. Now, is that on the same scale
as what we're talking about with Trump not even close a document in his garage
is not you know, thousands of documents in boxes in a bathroom. Okay,
these are very different, but I'm not excusing that either. That's pretty
careless, that document being left in his garage. And I understand the garage
was locked, except unlike the bathroom, the garage isn't locked, you know,
only when there's somebody in there. The garage is locked when there's nobody
in there, So that's a little different. Someone should probably explain that to
how speaker McCarthy. But uh, but that does m I mean, that
does show just a carelessness that is not acceptable. And I'd like to know,
I do. I want to hold everybody accountable. I would like to
know how that happened and why that happened, by the way, not and
Biden wasn't even It's not like he had the power to declassify anything. That
argument, you can't even put that in there because Biden was vice president when
that happened. So why why was that left in his garage? I do
want to know that, and I hope we do find that out eventually,
and he should be held accountable for that. Absolutely. I don't want anyone
to misunderstand. But uh see, because if I really wanted to, I
could do what about is them? I would just have to come at it
from the opposite direction. I would use what about ism to defend Biden.
I would say, well, uh, you know what, what what about?
When it's only one document? You know, why is that a big
deal? But I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying it is a
big deal, Um, just not as big, but it's still concerning.
That's pretty careless. Our friend Ron is on the line, Hey Ron,
Hey Matt, how you doing them good? Um? I've been following this
and I've already got saturated. Now I just want to change the channel and
find something that doesn't have news and see what happens when it's over. Sure
how I can imagine this case is going to take a long time. But
let me ask, is he if it sounds guilty, can he end up
behind oz? Uh? Probably not, because my suspicion is, what will
happen as long as Judge Eileen Cannon is provided is presiding over the case.
Um, I think what what might very well happen is she's going to delay
and delay and delay so that it doesn't even go to trial before the election.
Um. And even if, but even if at some point he's found
guilty, whether it be in the near term or the long term, I
mean, hell, even if even if he has found guilty by the jury,
you know, she can just give him a suspended sentence or something.
You know what I mean? Okay, uh, mister Trump, uh for
the for the crime you've been convicted of espionage and obstruction of justice, and
uh I hereby sentence you to uh eight to ten hours of community service,
you know, I mean, there there are ways, there are escape hatches
for for Trump on this regardless. So I I do I believe that he's
actually going to end up in prison. I am highly skeptical. I will
believe that when I see that, And I don't think I'm going to see
all right. Well, I'm glad glad to hear your opinion in your thoughts,
but I'm a guy I can say I've already got saturated with this.
I just wish you would end oh, I understand. I mean, I'm
I'm fascinated by it, but you know I live for all this stuff.
So but I but I hear you, Ron, I hear you. Okay,
brother, all right, my friend, thank you so much for the
call. Good night, all right, bye bye. All right. That
was our friend Ron, And we are going to as we as we approached
the top of the hour, we're gonna take a quick break show so I
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by the time that's done, we should have them with us on Skype.
They're skyping in from the great state of Texas. Looking forward to talking to
them. And then after we talk with them, we're gonna do the world
radio premiere of a brand new song from them called Funeral Clown. But we're
gonna play We're gonna play one of their other songs in the meantime, but
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given a little from Lady Chops and the g d jam we're cleaning up the
name a little for the afternoon Drive radio. But I think we have at
least one member of the band. Maybe. I think Bethany's there because that's
the name I see. I'm Skype. Hello, are you there, Hi?
Yes, it's actually me and Nick. Hi. Hello, welcome to
both of you. Great stuff. I I love your band. Uh.
Let's listening to the music earlier preparing for the show, and you've got a
great sound there. So I wank you so much. Yeah, I wanted
to say that right off the top. I opened the show today with Sunset
and uh and really good give a little as great and then of course when
we conclude our conversation, we'll play a funeral clown. Uh. This will
be a premiere but uh yeah, So it's wonderful to talk with you today.
And by the way, you're getting some love in the Facebook live chat
already my friend Dave Wally. He says, this is a great tune.
Love the way it breathes, use of space and dynamics. Love the cheeky
guitar groove, very cool. Uh and the overdrive back to the groove.
So that's some very specific compliments there from from a great compliment. Thank you
so much. Thoughtful, very nice, very nice. So Bethany, you
sang obviously, and Nick, what do you do in the band? I
played drums? Okay, okay, very good, very good. And where
where are you from? I know you're from Texas? But where in Texas
are you? We're in Austin, Texas. Ah, good music scene there,
huh oh yeah definitely. So I'm I'm curious about about that. Now.
We've had other guests on the show musical guests from Texas. But um,
being in Austin, what is that like? Because I would think that
in Austin specifically it's known for the music scene, it must be very competitive.
I mean, is it is it hard to stand out in a music
scene like Austin, Texas? I would say yes and no. The scene
is very saturated and saturated, like in a really good way. There's so
many great artists and um, sometimes it's easy to get buried in some of
the more hot acts. UM. But then sometimes you really get the great
experience. I feel like there's a certain Austin experience that you can have and
uh, it's it's a really great feeling when you can get to experience that.
I mean, the people, the community and all. All of the
musicians are really supportive of one another, so it's really a blessing to be
a part of it. To be honest, are you both from there originally
or did you move there? We are from different cities. Well, Nick
is from New York, Yeah, okay, from Yeah, he's from upstate
and then and then I'm from Houston. Oh, okay, okay, Nick?
What brought you from New York all the way to Austin? Specifically,
Austin's music scene brought me here. I used to be in a different band
before I moved here, and we did a tour from New York all the
way down to Texas. Yeah, and we made our way to Austin,
and I thought it was an awesome city. I saw the fact that it's
the live music capital of the world, so there's a million and one venues
you can play, Yeah, And compared to my hometown, it had so
many more venues and so many more musicians and a lot more opportunities. So
I kind of quit my job and moved down here. And Bethany and I
met pretty quickly after I moved down here, and now it's five years later
and we've been making music ever since. Yeah, that's Um, it's interesting
that, you know, because obviously New York is is people think of New
York as really being especially you know, obviously New York City, uh specifically
being uh you know, you've got so many bands and so many venues and
uh. But yeah, Austin, really, I've I've definitely heard we had
somebody else on the show. I can't remember who it was, but um,
there was somebody else on the show and another band who had a similar
story to yours Nick. Where they they had moved from. I don't know
if it was New York. I think it was somewhere in the northeast,
and they had moved all the way down to uh, down to Austin,
uh for for the same reason. So um and yeah, and I imagine
obviously Austin, because of there being so much music there, it must be
pretty eclectic, I would think, because people think of Texas when they think
of Texas and kind of the macro sense they you know, they think of
country music and and and some some metal. You know, there's some some
great metal bands that come out of there too. But Austin, obviously you
probably have pretty much everything you could imagine in terms of genres and subgenres of
music. I would guess, you know, I had that same preconception before
moving down here. I thought, Oh, it's going to be a lot
of country music, and it is, but there's a good rock scene down
here. There's a lot of like soul, M, jazz, R and
B, hip hop, folk music, like you said, heavy metal,
pretty much any genre that you could think of has some sort of fan base
here in Austin. And the cool thing is that it's a it's a big
city and it's growing, but it's not as large as a lot of other
major music cities yet. Yeah, so it's not it's not the same size
as your LA Chicago, Nashville, or New York City, And so you're
you're able to like meet and network with people in a way that might be
harder to do in some of those other bigger cities. And like Bethany mentioned,
it's got a really good music community that's big and growing but still manages
to be personable and very tight knit. Okay, okay, very good,
h Bethany. Did you so, I was reading a bio on the website,
was was this kind of your did you kind of initiate the starting of
this band and and and was meeting Nick kind of at the beginning of this.
Yes, um, so this is my brain child. It's it's just
a bunch of songs that I've accumulated over the years. Um and yeah,
Nick is my founding member, and we started the whole project together very good.
Um. And I have to say too, I like, uh,
you know your voice is um you you do a lot of you don't really
hear that much of this where you kind of just effortlessly seem to go from
you know, in and out of falsetto on a lot of these songs.
And I'm sure I'm not the first one to point this out, but it's
really remarkable. How did you learn to sing? Did did you take formal
Are you formally trained? I am not formally tum. I have just listened
to a lot of music. And I was the annoying kid I grew up
with in my grandma's house and constantly I was doing the um the cranberries thing
with my voice. Uh. I'm going to give you an example, and
I'm sorry to the listeners in advance, but it's like yeah, yeah,
or I guess that's like sort of a Lantis But also yeah, yeah,
yeah, so some weird voice things, and I think it was like the
beginning of just like, um, you know, practicing and experimenting and just
being a weirdo. Honestly, that's that's the thing that leads artists to do
what they do, right right, Yeah, no formal training, just just
me and my ears. Yeah, yeah, all very cool. And can
you tell me about the strategy with this album. So you've got a full
album time, but you're you're releasing one song every month, correct, Yeah,
so we're putting one song out every single month. The idea behind it
is to sort of have like a like a release schedule for it. You
know, there's all these debates in the industry about whether or not dropping an
entire album is a good move or not. A lot of people have moved
to just continuously dropping singles, or they're putting out an eph some people put
out two epsy or And we had debates about the best way to put this
record out. We wanted to put out an album, but we didn't want
to drop the whole thing and then you know, kind of get tired of
promoting it. So we decided to do one song a month. That way,
our listeners have something to be excited about every single month, and we
can line up the album release, we can line up the single releases with
like shows. And it also just makes it a little bit easier to promote
each song individually as its own thing, rather than having to take an entire
album and pick a single and then put all the effort into one song and
maybe it works, hopefully it does. But each of the songs are really
special to us, so we wanted to make each one kind of like its
own little vigner, you know, like a story with each one. Yeah,
very good. And so is there when will the full album be available?
I guess I guess at the end of when you get to the end
of the singles, right, Yeah, we're looking at probably it'll be out
by September or October. Okay, okay, very cost Yeah yeah, and
then so but how does this work in terms of your live set? Do
you do you play songs that haven't been released yet as singles since you're you're
doing it this way, or how does that work? Yeah? So the
cool thing is a lot of our audience Austin already knows a lot of the
tunes, so they're excited they're you know, they're they're wanting us to put
these songs out um as as time goes on. Yeah, but yeah,
you know, a lot of our audience in Austin, they already know some
of the lyrics and everything, so it's pretty cool. Yeah, we we
have been experimenting with adding new songs to the set as well, because to
be honest with you, we've been playing, um, this set of songs
out live for something like two or three years now, um, and so
now it's kind of a good opportunity to introduce songs that people haven't heard yet.
And yeah, so during this time, we're starting to put new songs
and kind of start working towards the next set of music that hopefully will release
maybe next year or something. Yeah. Yeah, And how often are you
playing out? Do you play out? Do you play out a lot consistently
or Because it's interesting how that there's been a change certainly around here, and
I it seems to be even with artists that I talked to from other parts
of the country, where there's less emphasis than there used to be on playing
out all the time. Partly, I think it's just because it's expensive to
go out on tours. And whatnot. But of course, in your case,
in a city like Austin, you've got options to play, right there,
plenty of them, it sounds like, but do you play out consistently
or do you kind of space it out and pace ourselves? Yeah? We
play out pretty consistently, but less than we were before. So now we're
picking up a couple of gigs per month. I think we'll have had three
gigs this month. We have one at the end of this month, and
then nothing else on the book so far. Yea, but yeah, we're
trying to play a couple of shows a month basically. Okay, okay,
very good. Now, this track that we're gonna do the premiere of a
in a moment, a funeral Clown. With a name like that, I
have to think there might be a story behind this. Is there is there
a story behind the song that we're going to be played? Yeah? Absolutely
So. Funeral Clown is about my experience of letting negative self talk take over
and convince me that my friends don't like me, which is not true.
Yeah, and you know, negative self talk is something that I've battled with
for a really long time, and music is sort of my way of working
through that. So I think what's really special about this song is that even
though it's mostly about this idea that people don't like me, that it's behind
the veil is the truth of the matter, and there's the truth is that
I'm loved and that that I'm cared about and important to people. And um,
the funeral clown aspect, that visual aspect is UM is supposed to kind
of embody the foolish mindset, that the foolish like negative mindset, and UM,
you know, it's just I feel like a clown when I come to
to the light, you know, when I realize it's like, oh no,
um. Like, for example, there's a line in this song UM
about the very first pre chorus. It says, UM, there you go,
pointing your finger at me, which is kind of like a negative view.
It's like somebody pointing their finger at you. They can't be saying something
good about you. But then the next line turns around and says um saying
she's my number one, she's she's the best yea. And then it goes
into the chorus, which is saying, you know, I'm a fool and
now I'm crying and I'm crying off all my makeup, you know, so
that's kind of what it's all about. Okay, Oh, very cool,
very cool, all right, Uh yeah, I love the song and I,
like I said, I love all of them. This is really good
what you're doing. And uh, I'm glad I got to talk to you
today and we get to feature some of your music and h one thing too.
I want to make sure that our listeners know where to find you online,
how to keep up with everything that you're doing u uh and keep up
with the new music you know again, you know, since you're doing this,
um you know, one song, one new song coming out per month,
which which is great. You know, it's funny. Coincidentally, I
just, um, last week I had on Holly Brewer and she does something
like that too, except in her case, uh, it's not h one
song that's ultimately going to be a complete album. She's just releasing. It's
it's just this endless run of singles that she's been doing since twenty nineteen where
every single month she just releases a single. But she's but she's stuck to
it. She hasn't missed one in uh four years, I think she said,
so oh wow, that's yeah cool, yeah, yeah, she just
does one one single a month and then it'll just be this endless collection of
singles. But where where should people go online? And in terms of social
media on your website and everything to keep up on what you're doing. Sure,
Um, the best way to keep up with what we're doing is,
um, we're very active on Instagram, So that's Lady Chops forever and it's
all spelled out. And then on Spotify you can look up Lady Chops in
the g D Jam, but g D is all spelled out, if you
know what I mean. Yes, So yeah, that's that's the best way
to keep in touch. Oh I gotta ask you too, where does the
name come from? Um? Okay, so, um, lady Chops is,
um what It's a haircut that I gave myself actually, Um, so
I can't grow mutton chops because I'm a girl. Yeah, Um, so
I cut my own. Um. And then the g D Jam it sort
of was a joke at first. We were like playing playing our set together
in the early stages obviously, um of our band and um, and I
think I turned around and I said, this is the g D Jam and
um, and I was like, you know what that's gonna end up being
part of the name, you know. Yeah, it's a great name.
Kind of stuck. Yeah. Yeah. People hear it and they're like,
whoa, what step No, it's really it's really good. I love it.
I love it. Okay, well listen, we're gonna we're gonna play
that track, but I will let the both of you go and then I'm
gonna play the song. But Bethany and Nick, thank you so much for
joining us today. Wonderful to speak with you. I love your music,
and uh, we will have to do this again in the future. H
And hey, you know, every month you've got a new song, uh
hitting the airwaves, so we'll we'd love to be the first to play them
as they come out. But uh, but so it's it's great to talk
to you today. But thank you both so much for joining us. Thank
you so much. Right, you got it. Thank you, bye bye
bye. All right. Wonderful. So that was Bethany and Nick from Lady
Chops and the g D Jam And uh, we're gonna play this. Uh
this is the newest single. We'll play this and then we'll we'll come back
with the balance of our program today. But check this out. This is
it's really good. I've already heard it, obviously, it's really really good.
If you like the last song, you like this one even more.
This is Funeral Clown the world radio premiere here on Matt Connerton Unleashed, So
have a listen. I like your smile, I like you laughter. I
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my mom? She grat to sver my painted face, Cloud, my field.
I've got a cavity. It's hard to see it. I've got to
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show archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Tuesday, June thirteen, twenty
twenty three, as we cruise into our final segment today of the program.
And by the way, if you're just joining us, that song that you
heard that was Funeral Clown from Lady Chops and the g D Jam And the
actual name is not ged, but you know, cleaning it up just for
afternoon drive radio in case the young ins are listening. You. If you're
a parent, you probably don't want your kid going around saying the actual word.
If we were on later in the day, it probably wouldn't even be
a big deal. But because you know, it's not like you know,
you don't get an FCC fine for that, certainly, but but just to
play it safe, just to play it safe. But such a great band,
and boy, she's got a she's got an amazing voice, Dave Wally
said in the chatroom while I was playing great lyricists love the writing so vulnerable.
Yeah, and it was cool to hear her, you know, I
listened to the song. That was the second time I had heard the song.
I listened to it today before the show, and I was like,
Wow, this is really good. But then I enjoyed it even more hearing
it the second time after hearing her explain during our conversation what the lyrics actually
meant and where they came from, and then it really made sense, and
yeah, great stuff. We will play one more of their songs, one
of the singles that's already out when we get to the end of today's program.
We have one more song to play of theirs today, but please check
him out online. Lady Chops and the g D Jam. Great stuff,
and thank you again so much to Bethany and Nick for joining us today on
the program. If you would like to join us today on the program,
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a call at six O three two five zero six O seven By the way.
Quick programming note. Tomorrow on the show, our musical guest is Aaron
Bilido. He'll be with us in studio for the second hour. He the
last time he was on the show, he was here with what what became
kind of an infamous appearance from a musical. Yes, Hue the Gecko was
here with us, and I think Hue brought out the pod awful crew.
Not all of you will know the reference, and that's fine, But but
Aaron was here too because he works with Hue. But Eric, Aaron rather
also has his own solo project, really good stuff. So he will be
here tomorrow in the second hour, and of course in the first hour,
we will have our friend Eric Pilcher with us for our weekly segment, and
we talk about media mostly during that segment, but we get into some other
stuff as well, and I have a feeling that there will be a particular
news item that we will be distracted by. But I'm sure we'll get into
some of how the media is covering that particular news item that is thus far
dominating the news cycle this week. But let's let's catch up with the Facebook
live chat before we go back to that wonder Swede four I love these names.
Wonders Swede four is in the Facebook live chat. By the way,
I strongly suspect that wonders Swede four is from Greensboro, North Carolina, and
says hello, hashtag Matt, good afternoon to you from us. We are
reunited, are back together. We will say we have a Facebook like page.
Oh outstanding. I was hoping you'd say that. Jay Fed says,
is that like wonder bread and wonder Swede four says, we say, who
is the guest you are talking to hashtag Matt, And we say who's the
artist? We said, well, that was Lady Chops and the g D
Jam. Of course, Alex Whiteley was saying, you know how because the
band we were talking to, of course, Bethany and Nick from the band,
they have a specific strategy that they're using for there. There. It's
like they have this album time, but they're releasing it in slow motion in
a sense, because they're releasing one single per month until finally it's it's completed
and the whole album is out. And Alex said, you know, or
another strategy would be to go crazy like Weezer and release an album for every
season. That was insane, but really really good. Yes, Weezer did
do that. I remember that. Wondrous Swede Fur says Weezer is a good
band. We said hashtag Matt and Alex Whiteley corrects and says wrong, they're
the best. Yeah, I know, I know. I know some people
who really I like Weezer, but I know some people who really love Weezer.
Let's see. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook live
chat. Queen City Cabinetry is one of our great sponsors here at WMH ninety
five point three. Speaking of bread, Queen City Cabinetry is in the Historic
Sunbeam Mall, named of course after it is historic because it's named after the
vaunted General Sunbeam, the greatest military mind since sliced Bread. Mike is also,
of course, one of our co hosts on Friday Night on retros Spectrum
Radio with Pauly C hosted by Police, and I'm one of Paul's co hosts
on that show along with Mike and DJ Steff. I'm really excited about this
Friday's Retro Spectrum Radio. In particular, I'm more excited about this one than
I have been about probably any previous episodes in a long time. I always
look forward to the show. But this Friday Night, it's going to be
demo versions, the original demo versions of popular songs. This is going to
be a lot of fun. I'm really looking forward to this one. I
think. I think Friday Friday Night's show is going to be fascinating. By
the way, wondrous way for does confirm? We are from Greensboro, North
Carolina. How did I guess? How did I guess? Ronda ferverro joins
us from the Great State of California. Hello, Ronda. Weird pull.
Alex Whiteley talking about talking about the band that we featured. Alex says,
a weird pull, but these guys remind me of Travis. She sounds like
a female version of fran Healy. Good stuff, Let's see. Mike Pellapeta
from Queen City Cabinetry also really enjoying the band Let's see, Alex also said,
and a hint of catatonia. Alex also says, I was singing the
Clementos ad in the kitchen the other day. The wife was looking at me
like I was a madman. Ha ha. Yeah, I find myself singing
along to it. You know, it is catchy. You know Clemento's pizzeria.
Blah blah blah. I don't know all of the words Clementos, but
uh yeah, Greg Joseph by the way, shout outs to him, because,
of course the owner of Clementos. He also has become a frequent contributor
on the Morning Show with Peter White, which of course you can hear weekday
mornings from seven to night. I am with a replay two to four pm,
right before the show, and Greg sits in on the Morning show a
lot, and he's very good on the air. He's he's got kind of
a sly, understated sense of humor that I really like. It's subtle,
but he's very funny. Um. His interaction the other day with Louis Angelidas,
I think that's how he says new last name uh or actually something he
said after that that was particularly funny. That was kind of a it was
it was interesting. But uh yeah, yeah, I like I like Greg.
I don't think i've met him yet in person, but but i'd like
to. He's he's very funny, all right. Six three two five six
seven six three two five six seven. Um. By the way, I
saw this pop up on media I and uh, This is not from the
Onion. This is how this headline is actually written. Trump now fundraising over
possibility he'll die in prison. This just went up a few minutes ago.
Uh, it says here. And by the way, the fundraising, of
course, that's part of the deal. Every bad thing that happens to Trump
legally, he uses it as a fundraising opportunity to get more money out of
his followers. You know, I'm in more legal Trump will send me money.
It's quite the business strategy and enormously successful. Since the indictment was first
announced, he's raised millions of dollars into the campaign coffers, some of which
he uses to pay his attorneys. Apparently. I'm not saying that as a
joke or to be to be what would be the word to be crass.
That literally is true. Apparently, so he does sometimes pay his attorneys,
not always from what we understand, but so it's been a pretty successful strategy
so far. But this is how so assess here. Emails went out around
the time Trump and his aid Walt Nada or Nada or I've heard his name
pronounced three different ways, where scheduled to appear in Miami. Under the heading
so This is the email that went out apparently under the heading Trump Make America
great Again in twenty twenty four. The email began This is the actual text
of the email. Quote friend reports state that I could receive a maximum sentence
of four hundred years in prison despite being a totally and completely innocent man.
I honestly cannot believe I just typed those words to you. It sounds like
something Stallin or Mao did to eliminate their opposition, but instead it's happening here
in America. Communism has finally come to our shores. Okay, this is
more. But can I just say this is what you call a hard sell.
This is a little over the top, isn't it? Even for him?
Communism has finally come to our shores. Wow, you know, I
have to tell you, honestly, I always knew this moment would come,
you know, communism coming to our shores. I bet if I drove to
the seacoast of New Hampshire right now, I would see, uh, I
would see just communists just landing at Rye Beach in in their boats saying we're
communists and we're we're arriving on your shores. What are you gonna do about
it. Nothing. You're gonna be You're all gonna be communists. Now,
sorry, I should treat this with the gravity that it deserves. Communism arriving
on our shores and uh, you know, trumping the victim of the tactics
of Stalin or mao. I mean, that's uh, this is serious business.
I'm sorry. I don't mean to make light of it all. And
then the next line is we are no longer living in the country of Washington
and Lincoln. Oh my again, this is from the fundraising email. For
the first time in American history, the federal government has used its prosecutorial powers
to charge the leading opponent of the current regime. While today is certainly grim
and dark, do not lose faith. As I said once before, with
a dark cloud over our beloved country or beloved you can pronounce it either way.
I have no doubt, nevertheless, that we will make America great again.
So there's the that's the you know, grabs your attention. Right.
Then comes this is where he makes the ask, the send me money part,
the monetary ask quote, please make a contribution to peacefully stand with me
and save the greatest country in history. For fifteen thousand percent impact unquote,
what does that mean? I'm not good at math, but apparently if I'm
understanding that sentence correctly, and I'm not sure that I am, because it's
incoherently and poorly written, but it sounds like if you donate to his campaign
right now, based on what that sentence says, it will have a fifteen
thousand percent impact impact on what. I'm not sure. It's not clear to
me. I don't understand this part of the email. I don't understand what
that means. Fifteen thousand percent impact. Not only do I not understand what
it means, but I don't know how one would go about even measuring impact
impact of what I don't know. Maybe if I knew what impact we were
talking about, I could understand how one would measure it and the percentage of
which that impact is or would be if you donate money. I don't know
how this part works. Maybe it's just a fundraising thing that I don't understand.
I don't know the email it goes on. The article goes on.
The email may have given a hint as to the Trump team's legal strategy against
the thirty seven charges facing the former president, claiming that the federal government has
used its prosecutorial powers to persecute President Joe Biden's leading political opponents seemed to be
the talking point of the day. Earlier, Trump attorney Alina or Elina Haaba,
who is not affiliated with this case, claimed a two tiered system of
justice in the United States. Haba or Habba spoke outside the federal courthouse saying
Trump was being targeted for per prosecution by the federal government. Trump is the
first former president in US history to face federal charges. Yeah. I'd never
seen her before. I remember I was still home and we were watching on
television, Jenny and I when she came out, and I was like,
who's she never even seen her before? But she came out and she said
some things and didn't really there was no there was no defense of Trump really
and what he was what she was saying, just uh, you know that
it's uh, it's a political prosecution or persecution or both. Alex Whiteley says
in the chat room, there was once a powerful voice who also used the
influence of his followers to overcome the laws of a land, and he went
on to murder millions of people across the world, and no I won't heed
uh my words. Uh, this is eerily familiar. M I think I
know where you're going with that, but I won't. We won't. You
know, it's you know anyway, But I take your point. Uh six
three two five six seven. If you'd like to get in with a call
six zo three two five O six zero seven. Um. By the way,
Dan Abrams was on earlier. What show was he on? Um?
He was talking about I won't play the whole segment. Oh, Mike Doyle
is calling back. Maybe Mike knows what fifteen thousand percent impact means. Hey,
Michael, I don't, and I'm really good with math. I know,
I was hoping you would know. I think he's trying to make the
I don't know. I think he's trying to say money wise, it could
put me over the top, you know what I mean. I guess I'm
sure. Yeah, I'm sure they can drag this Uh, I'm sure they
can drag this court proceeding out. There's so many different disclosures and so many
motions, right, so, oh yeah, I'm sure he can drag it
out. And then if he gets the pity party, you know that type
of thing. Yeah, But the reason Hey, the reason for my second
call, and I hate calling twice, but I wanted to thank you for
sticking up for me and in a micro cause him way. That just shows
you how the internet or the social media can can distort things, or change
things, or have people say things that are You and I had a nice
discussion about how the hell are all these documents getting out of out of you
know, hands of the people who are supposed to be watching them, and
they don't know where they are and they don't know who, how many boxes
and etc. And then this guy Alex who I don't know, but I'm
assuming, well, I don't want to say it, but he started saying,
you know, it's what about ism? And it had nothing to do
with what about ism? But see that's how that's how social media just slips
slips things. And you know what I mean, I wasn't even say if
I want to get on the water about him. You've got Sandy Berger,
remember, and you've got Obama with three million to his Chicago library, and
you've got tense just recently he was only a vice president. He really shouldn't
have those how did he get those? And you've got Biden five different locations.
You've got Trump all over his Marilago. You know, it's everywhere,
So I what about ism is kind of I know, i'd play. I
was just wondering how or all these people getting these documents from a secure your
location that the US government's supposed to be watching. I don't understand, right
right though, that was that was simply my point. Yeah, I get
it. Hey, And one last thing that the girl's voice on that last
record you play. What a beautiful I'm a female voice, uh number one.
I love female voices. Yeah yeah, And what a beautiful voice she
has, changing those notes up and down a little bit softly. Oh yeah.
The way she goes in and out of falsetto is uh, it's just
so she makes it sound easy. It just sounds so effortless the way she
does it. It's incredible. Yeah yeah, what what is like falsetto?
I'm not really I'm not. Oh when you sing high? When you when
you you know, when you sing outside of your normal tone, like if
you you know, like like the bags would just as an example, oh
yeah, you know, but when they sing high like that, Yeah,
I would, I would got you, got you, I would demonstrate it.
But I'll mess it up and embarrass myself. But yeah, yeah,
yeah, no I don't want that. I need I need my ears.
Yes, but yeah, just beautiful. She's she's those low she was going
into those lower tones, but switching, switching the heights a little bit in
there. It's just it's almost like angelic. Oh yeah, I was really
surprised when she said she had no formal training. Uh that that really surprised
me, because she sounds like she has you know, she sounds like she
took took voice lessons to really fine tune that. But no, she's just
she's a natural. Apparently. It's a really impressive. What a what a
beautiful God given talent? Absolutely absolutely yeah, look look them up online,
Mike, if you haven't already, I mean all I did, I already
did. Oh did you know what I was looking at their website. They
don't show the pictures, is clear. I'd like to see the pictures of
who they are. And it's a little it's a little morten and mixed.
But but anyways, just very nice, that's all I wanted to say.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely all right, Mike, thank you for all right,
thanks for the call back. All Right, that was our friend Mike
Doyle calling back. We do have so that does open up the line for
you if you'd like to get in with a quick call. We only have
a few minutes left on today's show and we are going to fit in.
I do want to make sure we get in one last song from the band
today, of course, Lady Chops and the g D Jam from Austin,
Texas just fantastic, and like Mike was saying, Bethany just has such an
incredible voice, so good, so good. I just uh, this wondrous
Swede four is talking about. I don't know, okay, what's going on
in there? Just just very very quickly. Dan Abrams was on television today
and I'm not going to play this segment it's too long, but he was
just kind of speaking about what about is him? Dan Abrams, this is
from Media systematically debunks arguments Trump backers have used against his indictment. We'll just
go through this quick. Media I founder Dan Abrams thoroughly dissected the most common
arguments Trump and his political and media serrogus have used to defend the president's indictment
for miss handling classified documents. I'm going to kind of skip down here,
because we're going to run out of time. Okay, So just quickly,
Number one, why wasn't Hillary Clinton charged? Many Republicans responded to the indictment
by equivocating Trump's actions with Hillary Clinton's email controversy and complaining that she was never
charged. Abram's explained that Trump is accused of conspiracy to hide his classified documents
from the FBI after receiving a subpoena, whereas the Clinton prosecutors quote determined that
the evidence in facts showed a lack of intent to communicate classified information on unclassified
systems, especially since none of the emails Clinton received were properly marked to inform
her of the classified status of the information. Abrams agreed it was wrong of
Clinton to have the server, but he emphasized that prosecutors didn't believe they could
prove the corrupt intent necessary to secure a convention conviction against the former Secretary of
State. He went on with a longer explanation, but like of that,
But like I said, we're going to run out of time, so I'm
going to kind of speed through these. Number two, did Trump declassify?
Abrams called out Trump's very weak claim to have declassified the documents in his possession,
but he pointed out that quote It's irrelevant in the context of this case
for two reasons. First, the subpoena from May of twenty twenty two requested
all documents with classified markings, not all documents currently classified. So whether it
was still classified isn't the point unquote. Number three the Presidential Records Act.
Since Trump and his defenders keep claiming he was allowed to possess the documents under
the Presidential Records Act, Abrams argued that the Act is quote almost certainly not
relevant to this case since the sensitive documents where government property, not personal documents
that Trump prepared himself. Yeah, we're okay. Number four, What about
Biden? Again, I'm skipping over some information here, but I want to
get these in Number four, What about Biden? Regarding Trump World's attempts to
compare Trump's situation with the classified documents found in Joe Biden's home and offices,
Abrams pointed out that quote, there is no evidence at this point that the
President lied or intentionally tried to hide unquote the documents he had. As for
Trump, he and his legal team refused to hand over everything they had despite
receiving a subpoena. Despite the thorough debunking of the apparently thin defenses, Abram's
concluded that he still wasn't convinced that the charges should be brought. So Abram's
fair to point out, even though he's debunking some of these claims, he's
not himself convinced the charges should have been brought against Trump, So he's a
skeptic on that. Here's what he said. Quote, I've said it before.
Look, I think this indictment is bad for the country. It will
end up further dividing us. But that doesn't necessarily mean you can't bring charges.
Look. I thought the New York case was weak and politicized, and
I said it. This is different. This is based on the evidence.
Even if it is bad for the country, there's nothing to indicate it's politicized.
Unquote. I find his own logic a little bit inconsistent there, because
he says the indictment is bad for the country, but then he also says
there's nothing to indicate that it's politicized and that it's based on evidence. I
don't know, maybe he's ambivalent. That's kind of how I take that.
I mean, I look I think it's bad for the country. It's terrible
that we have to go through this, But that doesn't mean we don't have
to go through it, because no one is above the law. That's my
position. I think it's worse for the country to just what just shrug it
off and say, okay, that's fine, you know that. That's my
view of it. I think that would be even worse and more divisive.
But it's interesting hearing his perspective. I also have we don't have time for
it today, but I do have another Well, we'll get to it tomorrow.
In the first hour, there's someone who has a dissenting opinion about Eileen
Cannon, not a Trump defender, but you know, I, of course,
and many others are expressing concern that Judge Eileen Cannon, who has shown
some sympathy towards Trump in the fast might in the past, might keep her
thumb on the scale in favor of Trump in this case. But a former
Watergate prosecutor actually has a lot of confidence in Eileen Cannon. Not that not
that he's a Trump supporter or a defender, but he seems to think that
Eileen Cannon actually is uniquely suited to this case. I do want to look
at that tomorrow. So kind of a dissenting view on that that I think
is interesting, but we don't have time to get to it today, so
we'll save that for tomorrow. But I'll just tell you in case you want
to look this up on your own ahead of that, I'll tell you the
name of the gentleman who is saying this. I just have to pull it
up here, former Watergate prosecutor Nick Ackerman. He is defending Judge Eileen Cannon
by arguing that she has an excellent background and it was strategically helpful to have
a Trump appointed judge on the case. By the way, I think as
far as having a Trump appointed judge on the case, that might be strategically
helpful in terms of, you know, kind of hard to argue that she's
against Trump, that she's going to be unfair to Trump because she was Trump
appointed. But there are other concerns beyond that with Eileen Cannon. But he
pushes back on some of that, so which is interesting. So I mean,
I know what I think, but I'm curious to learn more about what
he thinks and share it with all of you. So we'll get to that
tomorrow. Okay, we do have to go. We're out of time.
If you miss any part of today's show it we'll be up in just a
little bit at wmhradio dot org and in my website, Mat Connerton dot com.
Thank you all. Thank you to Bethany and Nick from the band Lady
Chops and the g V Jam. We're gonna finish out today's show with one
of their songs. Another one of their songs. This is called Bell Curve.
We're gonna play that if you're listening live on Tuesday. Up next immediately
after this show is Through the Stage Stour hosted by Rob Dyon, followed by
a replay of Retrospectrum Radio with Police. So if you missed Friday's show,
you can hear it tonight here on WMH and don't forget to be back bright
and early for the morning show with Peter White seven to night am tomorrow morning.
Thank you everybody, and we will leave you with this again. This
is Bell Curve from Lady Chops and the g D Jam to close out today's
Matt Connerton Unleashed. Hi, everybody, it is stranger? Am I am
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the less come on Baaday, It's just another show given. I keep run
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