Hey, everybody, welcome, here we go. It is that time again,
Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w m n
H 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. But 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 Wednesday, June
seven, two thousand to twenty three, so nice to have you all with
me. So I'm looking at the window and it looks like it might storm.
But there's been this, as I've mentioned on the show recently too,
there's been this trend where it'll look like it'll get really dark outside and there's
some very threatening clouds, and it looks like any moment now the sky might
open up and and the rain will start coming down in uh in buckets,
But and then nothing happens. So I'm wondering if that's what this is going
to be again. It looks like it's going to rain and then nothing happens.
It's happened several times now, but we could probably use some rain to
kind of would that help clean up the air. Maybe there's a large swaths
of the country, including where we are that you know, we've got these
air quality alerts because of the wildfires in Canada, So you should, uh,
you know, especially if you're like, if you're someone like me,
for example, who has asthma or anything else like that, you should probably
wear a mask. Except now now it's the inverse of of when we were
in the midst of the pandemic. Now you'd want to wear a mask outside
instead of inside, rather than inside instead of outside, because if you're outside
breathing that air, maybe it is raining. Actually the streets look a little
wet. Can't tell, but yeah, the rain might actually help with that.
I would think, right, it helps with the pollen, maybe it'll
it'll help with the terrible pollution. My goodness. Yeah, Canada is on
fire. So that's what's going on. You know what. It reminds me
of many years ago. This would this would have been over a decade ago,
because I remember at the time that this happened, I was still living
and conquered, and I was living in an apartment complex in Conquered and it
was Memorial Day weekend, actually, and it was it was that Monday.
I think it was that Monday, was on Memorial Day. I woke up
that morning and I had fallen asleep with the I'd fallen asleep with the window
open because it was a very warm night. So when I woke up in
the morning, I could smell it. I woke up and I could smell
something. But I thought the first thought that went through my mind was,
Oh, somebody's really getting an early start on the barbecue. You know,
because it was Memorial Day weekend, so a lot of people, you know,
because sometimes around the apartment complex on especially of course on the big holidays,
you know, you see somebody out there with a grill grilling. What
else would you do with a grill, I suppose, And so I would
see that often. So that was my first thought. I thought, Wow,
somebody's really because it was in the morning, somebody's really getting an early
start, like eight am, and you know. And then I got up
and I got ready for the day, and I went outside and I looked
around. I could still smell what I noticed when I first woke up,
and you know, it has to be very strong for me to be able
to smell it, because with my allergies, there's a lot that gets past
me in terms of aroma. You know, I'm stuffed up a lot.
But I could, I could smell it. It was pretty strong. I
got outside and I could smell it even more strongly. But I'm looking around
and I'm like, I don't see anybody grilling. What am I smelling is
something on fire somewhere. And I looked at the sky and in the distance
it kind of looked like I could see almost like almost kind of looked like
fog, but not quite, but I could see it. I thought,
is that smoke hanging in the air? And then I thought, something's got
to be on fire somewhere nearby. What's going on? I didn't hear any
fire trucks or anything, but something's burning somewhere. And then I, you
know, I got into the car and I turned the news on and learned
that Oh, Canada is on fire because they were having terrible forest fires much
like what's happening now, except I guess now it's worse than ever, because
apparently this is unprecedented the degree to which we're experiencing this. From what I
understand, New York City has not had such poor air quality since the nineteen
sixties and usually is a Delhi, India, I think that typically has the
worst air quality of any city in the world. They're actually ranked for the
worst air quality. I know the cities in China too, that experience that
you'll often see again, you know, before a COVID or anything. You
would often see um people walking around with face masks outside in these cities because
the air quality is so consistently bad. So, but apparently today New York
City has the dubious distinction of having the worst air quality in the world.
I don't know if it's still that way at this hour, but it was
earlier in the day, and that's unusual. And you know, it's not
their fault. They're getting the you know, the Jenny had looked up online.
It shows how the winds, you know, push the bad air and
uh so, for example, just because of how the winds happen to be
blowing in Massachusetts, they actually have worse air quality right now than we do
in New Hampshire, even though we're kind of a buffer between Massachusetts and Canada.
The way the air is circulating through the jet stream. Perhaps I'm not
a meteorologist. My knowledge of this is limited, but so I don't know
the all the vocabulary. I don't know the right terms for these things.
But whatever it is that causes the air to move, we'll put it that
way, is actually send sending it sort of around New Hampshire and into Massachusetts.
Not entirely, of course, it's not missing us by any stretch.
The air quality in New Hampshire is also rated very poorly, but they've got
it even worse in Massachusetts and in New York. It's just terrible. So
so everybody you know be mindful of that. I can tell you there was
a moment earlier in the day I was outside and I thought I could actually
It hasn't affected my breathing at all today. I do have asthma, and
I do carry a rescue in hiler, but I haven't had to use it,
so my breathing's been fine. But there was a moment today where I
actually thought I could kind of taste it. A little bit. As gross
as that sounds, I maybe some of you've experienced that too, but I
thought I could actually taste it. The air the bad air. So yeah,
so everyone just be mindful of that, be safe, don't don't be
outside if you don't have to be, don't be breathing this in. Something
that I didn't know is that if you breathe in these particulants, is that
what they're called the tiny particles particulates or particulates. I think it's particulates.
Again, I'm learning too. If you breathe that in, you know,
they're so small that you don't know that you're breathing them in, But they
can get into your lungs of course and affect you. But worse if if
that gets into your blood, and it can get into your bloodstream, and
that can cause some pretty severe problems. So again, if you have any
kind of any kind of breathing problem, whether it's asthma or whatever, it
may be COPD or anything like that, be mindful any any sort of cardiovascular
issues, anything like that. Just try not to try not to breathe outside.
I mean, if you have to go outside, yes, you you
have to breathe. You actually, interestingly enough, you have to breathe everywhere
you go. Everywhere you go, every moment of your life does require breath.
You must breathe, but try not to go outside and breathe in the
bad air. It's not good for you. And you can look online too,
there's resources online for where you can you can actually see I think nationally
right now it's it's the air quality is rated very poor, very poor.
So there you go. And if you're if you're inside, you know,
try to keep your windows closed. Just try to avoid just try to avoid
it all. You don't need it. Oh and by the way, our
friend Kyle Heavey from Off the Mark Sports, I was chatting with him earlier
and he reminded me I'd seen this on the news. But he reminded me
too. Today happens to be Is it National Running Day or World Running Day?
I think it's National Running Day. So today's a day to encourage people
to get out and run. Don't do that. Please do not go running
today. I don't care if today is your normal day. Every Wednesday you
go for a big five k run or something, or or maybe maybe you've
made a decision recently to start running because you think it will be good for
you, and today was gonna be the day you were gonna get out and
run. Don't you have listen. Maybe you're someone who you've been thinking about
taking up running, but you keep coming up with excuses and then you don't
do it, and then you were like, oh, today's today, No
more excuses, No, listen, you actually have a valid excuse this time.
Please don't do that. Do not go out and run. This is
the worst possible time to do that. Please don't do that today. All
right, there you go. So that's your public service announcement for today.
The more you know. By the way, a couple of programming notes.
Well, let me give the numbers first for the studio and everything if you'd
like to call us, and then we'll get to our programming notes. We
do have an exciting show for you today and an exciting show tomorrow as well.
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six zo seven six zo three two five six seven. Coming up on the
show today, we've got some other news items to tackle in the first hour,
but coming up at the top of the hour, our friend Holly Brewer
is going to be calling in. A very talented musician. We have featured
her music on the show before and she's been a guest with us in studio.
But she has a brand new single called Clothesline, and so today is
the world radio premiere. You know, we love the world radio premieres with
music, So the world radio premiere of her new single, Clothesline will be
today, and she will be calling us at the top of the hour.
And what we're actually going to do is play one of her other songs that
I really like that I have played on the show before, very positive and
affirming song called don't un a Live View. It's an unusual song, but
it's it's meaningful, don't un a Live View. Uh, So we're gonna
actually play that close to the top of the hour, and then we'll get
We'll get Holly Brewer on the phone with us and we'll chat for a bit.
She can tell us all about the news single, and then at the
end of the segment we will do the world premiere of Clothesline, the brand
new song from Holly Brewer, which is great. She's a she's very interesting.
Her personal story is fascinating. Uh. If you if you would like
to feel free to go back, and you know, you can do a
search just uh. Actually the easiest way probably just go on Google the Google
uh and type in Matt Connerton Holly Brewer and you can find my interview with
her from when she was on the show a few years ago. She's got
a fascinating backstory, really really interesting. But but her music is great too,
So that's going to be on the docket today. Also at the top
of the show, we played a great track from Dank Sinatra, my personal
favorite Dank Sinatra track, Air between Us. They are going to be here
with us in studio tomorrow for a world radio premiere. They've got some new
music and we're it sounds like we're gonna play a few of their songs,
several of their brand new songs from their brand new album tomorrow. Can't wait.
I know our friend Fredo Alfredo Enrique Benavitis will be here, and I'm
not sure who else he's bringing. If he's bringing an Axel, I can
never remember how to say his last name. Is it Bagley? I think
it's Bagley. Axel's last name is how you say it? The way it's
spelled, it's it's got too many, too many vowels, not enough consonants.
It looks like you could say it a few different ways. But I
think it's Bagley. But so we'll see if Axel is with him too.
I'm not sure who is showing up from the band exactly, but we really
look forward to that. So that will be tomorrow on the program. But
that's why I played my favorite Dank Sinatra song to open today's show. But
we'll get to hear some brand new stuff tomorrow on the program, so that's
gonna be a lot of fun. Something else I played at the top of
this show too that you might have wondered about. I played a wrestling promo
from the Iron Cheek. Why would I do that? Well, Rest in
peace, Iron Cheek. He passed away today. It was announced. I
believe at the age of eight one. I have not seen a cause of
death. But the Iron Chiku he was um. When I first started watching
wrestling when I was a kid, he was a pretty big deal. Actually,
when I first started watching he was he had already been a big deal
for a long time. I think that when I first started watching, he
was in a tag team with Nikolai Volkoff. Now Nikolai Volkoff was not really
uh if you if you ever heard him speak in his normal voice, he
was not really a Russian, uh, this evil Russian guy. But the
Iron Chic was legit. The Iron Chek was not playing an Iranian. He
really was Iranian. He had um you know, he had wrestled for Iran
in the Olympics on the wrestling team Legit. He had worked for I can't
remember now the name, the name of the you know, they're the they
protect the the Ayatollahs in Iran, the protection force that you know, they're
they're kind of like their version of the Secret Service. Uh. He had
he had been one of those guys, a really legit guy. Uh.
In recent years he had become a little bit of a social media phenomenon,
which I think actually started with his appearances on the Howard Stern Show. He
would go on the Howard Stern Show and be totally in character, and I
can't play any of that on this program. I could play the wrestling promo,
but I can't play any of the Howard Stern interviews because those would get
he would you know. It was on serious XM satellite radio, so he
could be completely uncensored, and uh, he took well advantage of that.
So I can't play any of that stuff, certainly. But it was fun
to open with one of his wrestling promos. Great promo, very intense guy.
But and that's who Whole Coogan beat for the title at Madison Square Garden,
the Iron Cheek, because the Iron Cheek had beaten Bob Backland and then
only held the title I think for a month, and then Whole Coogan beat
the Iron Cheek and then a whole comania was running wild. But the Iron
Cheek continued to be quite relevant. So rest in peace to the Iron Cheek.
A very very entertaining, entertaining guy. Let's see. Oh, one
other programming note I should mention because some of you are probably wondering. It
is Wednesday and usually on Wednesday, during the first hour, we do our
weekly segment with our friend Eric Pilcher from a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and
No Eric. Today. Eric is still very upset, and he's he's still
posting that hashtag get Eric a shirt, and he's just, uh, he's
sitting out the show out of protest. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
No, he uh. Actually he's just at at an appointment, so
he can't be here today. So I think that I think that whole bit's
kind of I was gonna try to keep the bit going a little bit longer
by saying, yeah, he's sitting out out of protests, but I don't
know all the smog outside that it makes me not want to keep the bit
going. I guess that's a weird way for it to affect me. But
no Eric. But but here is the cruel irony. Though, there is
a cruel irony to Eric not being available to join us today. And you
know what it is, Two big stories just happened that I actually was really
looking forward to getting his opinion on and talking to him about one of them
being Chris licked out as the head of CNN. He is no longer running
CNN, And of course, you know, the segment that I do with
Eric on Wednesday's focus is largely on news about the news, news about media,
both big media and independent media, Internet media, etc. But so
we talk a lot about cable news and the various goings on and but we'll
have to hold off on that and the other big story too, not so
much media, more of a sports story. But but it's something that Eric
and I have talked about a lot, is the merger between the PGA and
Live Golf. And again I'm not a sports guy, but we've talked about
that before on the show. Because now it's like golf is being we might
we might get into that today a little bit anyway, but golf seems to
be being taken over by Saudi Arabia's PIF the what is it, the Public
Investment Fund in Saudi Arabia. We might get to that anyway. It's not
like I'm gonna sit on these stories until next week to save them for Eric,
because if I do that, in the meantime, a million other things
will happen that we can talk about next week with Eric. So but no
Eric today, So it's just me for the first hour and then, like
I said, our friend Hollybrewer will be calling in in the second hour,
but you can call in in the meantime and then we'll say hello everybody in
the Facebook live chat. But six ZHO three two five six Z seven is
the studio line six zoo three two five six seven. Let's see, we
will say hello everybody in the chat quickly. Here, Oh, Greg Joseph
is in the chat room. Greg not only is one of the great sponsors
here at WMNH with Clementos Clemento's Pizza ree. Uh, but Greg also now
is making regular appearances on the Morning show with Peter White, so very good
and he's good on the on the radio. Two. He's got a Greg
has a really good sense of humor. So I like hearing him on there.
But Mike Oil is on the line. Hello, Mike, Hey Greg,
I mean hey Greg? Hey, Yeah, man, how you doing
well? You can say hi to Greg two. He's in the chat room.
Yeah, okay, hey Greg. Um. He is a character.
He is quite a character. Yeah, he's he's he's very good on the
air. I like hearing him out on the morning show. He's very good.
Yeah, he's got that. He's got that natural ability about him just
to speak to people. Yeah, yeah, make you make you feel welcome,
you know, yeah, absolutely, Hey, it turned you. I
wanted to call you yesterday to keep in the subject of the matter of the
day. But and you were talking to Dave Ridley, and I was a
little bit taken aback by what you said about Kelsey Gabbert and uh, and
I know how much of a and you were at one time for her.
And and what caught my aunt, well it caught my ear yesterday was how
you went. You went. You said, she went so far to the
other side, and I was thinking about it, and I was saying,
well, she really didn't go that far. She was a centrist Democrat and
she jumped over the independent line and is now kind of like a centrist Republican.
And her big get I get to see her quite a bit because she's
on Fox all the time now too, And I don't see her on CNN.
I flip over, but I never see her on there. And her
big thing now is two things, the foreign policy of this country and was
including oil and that whole bit. And then her bigger complaint constantly is how
she fought for the independence of this country. And she can't stand what's going
on with the Department of Justice and FBI and the corruption going on there of
not turning over documents and things like that that have been going on for the
last you know, five six years. And so those are her two big
arguments. But the main point was I don't think she went that far.
I just think she went from I couldn't stand with the Democrats were doing,
so she just jumped over to a centrist Republican. And I was wondering your
thoughts on that. Yeah, so you don't. You probably don't watch or
listen to any of the podcasts that she goes on or anything like that,
do you. I don't. Yeah, she's very uh yeah. I mean
I'm suspicious of someone who was a centrist Democrat who now seems to because she
does get into other issues on those podcasts. For example, she seems she
seems to be very pro Russia, very anti Ukraine, and that I find
troubling. I find that troubling with anybody Republican or a Democrat. So I
think she's kind of and that so that alone puts her in sort of the
same lane as some of these other people who because there's some other like,
there's this guy I'll give you an example, and again he's strictly online,
although I did see him on Rack Carlson once. There's this guy, Jackson
Hinkel, who used to be like a big socialist and then all of a
sudden, Russia invades Ukraine and he starts doing all this pro Russia stuff and
next thing I know, I'm seeing him on Tucker Carlson and then he's going
on all these podcasts and he's completely a different guy. He completely switched his
opinions on everything. And with some of these people, if you dig in,
and by the way, I don't have it at the ready, but
I've read some of it. Sometimes when you look at these people, Mike
who seem to have changed a lot, and it may have been in my
view, she's changed quite a bit. Sometimes if you dig into where they're
getting funding from, say they have like a guy like Jackson Hinkle, you
can find out who's actually paying him and who's funding him, and why he
seems to have had this change of heart on so many things. And then
you find out, oh, okay, I see what's going on here,
so listen. I don't know what's in Tulsea Gabbard's mind and what's in her
heart. But I have some suspicions. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's all
Sincere. I don't know. I really I really doubt it. But that's
just my opinion. I can't read her mind, so I don't know.
Yeah, I don't listen to her on the podcast. So, yeah,
did you say anti American, pro Russia, anti American? I no,
no, I missed that. Nope, I said pro Russia, anti Ukraine.
Oh gotcha? Okay, yeah, yeah I didn't. It bleeped out
and I couldn't hear. But no, she just I don't know. She
talks. She talks the same as she talked when she was a Democrat,
kind of normal as fire as just to me, I hear just common sense
stuff, you know. She just she seems very grounded, very you know,
anti war, pro America, you know, a lot of stuff like
that. And I just think every time I hear now she cannot stop talking
about the FBI and the DJ and and that is that is a little bit
of an issue. I know some people don't want to talk about it,
don't want to, but you know, there's oversight committees to these to the
DJ and the FBI, and they're saying, hey, we want to see
these documents, and they say no, I mean that there's a problem there,
you know. It's that's like your boss telling you no more music on
your shows, and the first day you go in you you play music.
I mean, it just shouldn't happen, you know what I mean. You'd
probably get knocked off the station if that happened. But for them not turning
over documents in a secure location that these congressmen can see, and then redacting
a lot of these documents, you know, don't we all want to know
the truth, don't We want to just know if there was corruption or something
we want to know, don't we don't want that continuing. And so anyways,
that's all, but that I just thought that you had thought you going
so far the way I think you use the word so far, and I'm
like, I don't know if it's that far, you know what I mean?
On the scale, she was never hired core left and she's not a
high I don't think she's had core right. But she has definitely just jumped
the ladder from left to right for sure. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty pretty suspicious ever, but who knows. Oh yeah,
oh yeah, that's one one to be And you're you're you're absolutely right
about the money thing. I mean, yeah, follow the money pretty much
anyway, agreed takes over pretty much all Trump's all, you know, absolutely
absolutely and uh so when yeah, yeah, exactly, so all right,
Well, good show. I didn't want to direct what path you were heading
down, but I wanted to call you yesterday and and talk to you about
it. Hey, and by the way, uh, just a note of
positive from a outsider. I'm not a big music guy, and but I
listened to some of these records you play and some of these new people you
have one and I find some of the music fascinating. I find the different
thoughts behind it, the different genres, the different some of you. There
was one you played that was so instant, it was huge, instrumental with
little vote goals, and I found it sad. I go, what a
great song. That is just a talent that goes into so yeah. So
some of these, uh, some of these musicians who people may not know
or may not like their kind of music. If you if you know,
if you take the time to just listen, listen to it. Out.
You know, if you don't like it, you're saying it's not me.
But you've had some arm that are really really tripped my sensory for Oh good
for good talent and good music. So ah, then to throw that as
a positive note, Oh that's good to hear, thanks, Mike. Yeah,
Jenny has been doing all the booking and she's she's finding a lot if
there's so much great talent out there, and uh oh sure yeah yeah,
and we've really tried to kudos to her. Then the she's doing she's doing
a great job. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Well, I'm glad you
I'm glad you're enjoying it. Mike. I've gotten a lot of positive feedback
on that, so I appreciate it. All right, Yeah, talk to
you later, all right, Mike, Thanks by by all right, that
was our friend Mike Doyle, And that does open up a line for you.
Six zo three two five six seven six zho three two five six seven.
I wonder if the song he was referring to. I occasionally play a
song called song four from the band Dust Profit and that's that's the only real
because I'm not big on instrumentals, but I love that song and that always
gets a big that always gets a big response from the audience too, because
whenever I play that song, people in the chat room say they love it.
And you know what's really funny about that. I'll share something a little,
uh, a little behind the scenes with you. By the way,
Mike, if you're still listening, Jenny in the chat room says, thank
you for your your comment there. Yeah, she does. She does a
great job with the booking. And that's something too. We've kind of tried
to sort of change about the show a little bit in twenty twenty three,
is you know, because we used to do musical guests maybe two or three
times a month, you know, now it's more like two or three times
a week. And uh, it's it's the feedback that we've gotten just across
the board on that has been phenomenal. And it's good for me too.
It's good for my mental health. I think to you know this something,
as much as I love politics, I think it sometimes I think almost maybe
I'll love it too much, But there's something rejuvenating about talking to musicians.
But it's funny. So I was talking yesterday online. Now I'm not gonna
be able to find it Oh yeah, my friend Otto Kinsel from the band
dust Profit. I opened yesterday's show with one of his songs because dust Profit
was one of the bands playing at Jewel last night and with that event with
Sepsis and Dead Reckoning, they were here yesterday in studio with us, which
was very cool. It was wonderful to meet them. And uh, but
I was. I messaged Auto because Auto was on this show too, and
you know, we played Dust Profit and I told him, I said,
I said, I'm gonna open with song four today on the show because it
always gets such a great response. And yeah, I said to him,
I'm opening today's show with song four. That's one that one gets a very
positive response from my listeners. And he said to me, this is interesting,
he said, oh sweet, I'm surprised and instrumental gets such a response
because people tend to not like instrumentals as much. But yeah, that one
does. But then he asked me, He did say, any chance you
could play a song with vocals in it and set instead, which is why
I played. So instead of that, I played. I honored his request.
I played hour Glass, which is my favorite Dust Prophet song that does
have vocals. But but but that was his reaction when he was surprised that
that people like the instrumental so much. But but but yeah, they do.
Whenever I play song four, even though there's no vocals on it,
people really dig it. And and that's probably the song that Mike was thinking
of, because other than that, I don't really play I don't usually play
instrumentals. I think there might have been somebody else on the show I had
recently who had an instrumental that I played, but I can't remember now,
but it was probably that. But yes, thank you again Mike for the
for the call six three two five six Z seven. If you'd like to
get in with a call six three two five six seven if you're just joining
us. By the way, at the top of the hour, speaking of
musicians, we're gonna have Holly Brewer joining us. But let's say hello everybody
in the Facebook live chat. Jenny is in the chat and says shalom peeps.
Also, Jay Fed joins us from the great state of Vermont and says
awesome. I think, oh, jay Fed was probably the other song that
I played at the top of the show. A little bit of a longer
intro today just because I had some last minute things I was trying to figure
out. I played the think about what You'd think about from the remix Bros.
A little Biden parody there. Jay Fed likes that. Isaac Banks joins
us, of course from Greensboro, North Carolina, and says good afternoon.
Hashtag Matt, how are you doing? Jay Fed says, I sometimes think
about what I'm thinking about. It's like, man, what was I thinking
about? I forgot? Isaac Banks says good news for you hashtag Matt.
Jeff and me are doing a show of JP and LB oh no IB for
Isaac Banks show at six fifteen to eight pm on our cell phones, his
cell phone and my cell phone. So please do voice call me and you
can talk to Jeff on my text now on my cell phone is I will
put it on the speaker. Well, I think I've invited to be a
guest on their show. I'm honored. Greg Joseph from Clementos I mentioned is
in the chat. J Fed says, I guess I could call in and
take over that job for Eric Pilcher. I'll already have a shirt actually too.
Oh lucky. Tom Blanchard joins us in the Facebook live chat and says
hello people. Hello Tom. Charles Richardson from the state Florida joins us in
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course, eighty five. I don't think I've ever met anyone under eighty five
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I make no commitments. I'm a very, very busy man, but I
will do my best. Sounds like an experience. Miriam Banish joins us in
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review Blazing Saddles. Ah Yes, a mel Brooks classic, not without some
controversy. There's some things in that film, some words that are spoken that
you you really couldn't get away with today, I suppose. But um,
but a great film, very very funny. That was Peake mel Brooks,
I would say, I would say that was Peake mel Brooks. What would
be the uh, the opposite of non Peak mel Brooks would probably be uh
Robin Hood men in tights, which is horrific. But all right, let's
uh six three two five six seven six three two five six seven. We
don't have a lot of time left in the segments, so we might just
do something quick. I do have something I want to do today, but
we'll have to save it for our number two numero doos after our conversation with
Holly Brewer. But just to give you a little preview, we do have
a couple of new entrant well, actually we have a few recent new entrants
into the Republican nomination race. We have Chris Christie, former governor of New
Jersey, has announced he announced yesterday. Doug. I'm not even familiar with
the guy, Doug Bergham from is it North Dakota? He is in all
I know about him is he's pretty conservative. That's all I know. I
think his name am I even saying his name correctly, Doug Burgham. I
don't know anything about the guy, but I guess we're gonna have to learn.
And today this afternoon, former Vice President Mike Pence made his announcement and
something that we'll do and again we'll have to save it. It's it's too
much to get into now because it's already past quarter of it's uh, fourteen
minutes to the top of the hour, as I might say if I were
more committed to being a standard radio host. But yeah, well we'll have
to do that in the second hour because what I want to do is I
actually want to play part of the speech and offer some thoughts. And I
know what some of you might be thinking. You might be thinking, Matt,
you actually want to play some of Mike Pence's announcement today on the show.
You actually want to play it on the show. Are you trying to
torture us? Why would you do that? And are you trying to punish
us in some way? To which I would say, well, I'm afraid
so, because listen, I have some spies out there and doing some reconnaissance
and some of you have been very bad. No, I'm kidding. I'm
totally kidding. No, I love and appreciate you all. No, the
reason I want to do that is just part of it because it was a
surprise to me, a bit of a surprise. It was more interesting than
I expected. And we'll talk about I mean, listen, if you think
of it like a play. You know how a play you've got the first
act, the second act, the third act, and really anything is like
that. Like movies are like that too. I mean, unlike with a
play with a movie. With a film, it's not clearly delineated right which
acts which, but the way it flows and the way it's constructed it is
it's in three acts. And political speech is also. You tend to have
an act one an act to an act three. And Mike Pence's speech today
act one was very predictable, very dry, very dull, and honestly,
it sounded like it could have been written by AI. You know, like
you could have if you said to chat GPT, write me Mike Pence presidential
announcement candidacy speech, and that's what it would have. No disrespect any of
our friends in Greensware in North Carolina. But that's what it would have spit
out right, So we won't be discussing Act one at all. Act two
gets interesting though, And again, if you didn't hear it, you might
be thinking, how could a Mike Penn's speech be interesting? Well, it
kind of. It was a little different than what I expected. We'll just
say that. We'll leave it at that for now, but we'll get to
it. I do want to go over that today, time permitting, but
we'll save that for the second hour. The other big story, actually,
I think I did mention it earlier. Chris licked is out at CNN after
only I think thirteen months. I was actually in the car and checking out
the news as part of my show prep, and uh, they don't say,
live on CNN, we have breaking They did the breaking news sound effect,
and then whoever it was I didn't catch who the anchor was in that
moment, said uh, well we some news regarding this network. And I
was like, Oh, they're reporting some news on their own network about their
own network. That's awkward, but uh, and they made the announcement,
um media it has it, but that's an opinion piece. I don't want
an opinion piece. I just want the facts. Just give me the facts.
Just give me some truth. Like John Lennon sang, I'm gonna have
to go to a different site for that. That's a song I haven't played
in a long time. Just give me some truth. Let's seem so.
Maybe now Don Lemon gets to come back. No, I'm kidding. I
don't think that's in the offing. Um let's see. Oh, Politico has
a tantalizing story. The real reason Chris Licked got fired. Let's look at
this shell. We I like to know the real reason. We don't always
find out the real reasons for these things. Although this might be speculation,
Actually I suspect that it is. Well, we'll look at this. This
is from Politico. This is Jack Schaefer writes, Chris Licht got canned this
morning, truncating his chairmanship of CNN to a brief thirteen months. The proximate
catalyst for his departure was Tim Alberta's days old, fifteen thousand word profile ah
Yes in The Atlantic titled Inside the Meltdown at CNN, which excavated Lick's mistakes
at the helm and his personal shortcomings as network boss. But it was,
but it was more than that. To fully explain it, you'll need a
team with the skills of National Transportation Safety Board investigators to sort and tell all
of the elements that led to his abrupt crash, and then complete a four
hundred fifty six page follow up report eighteen months later. If such a report
were written, it would explain that Licked wasn't the right guy for the job
of CNN's revamping. It would note that even if he wasn't the perfect candidate,
nobody could be expected to turn a network like CNN around in thirteen months.
That he was expected to do the impossible, both remake the network and
help its parent corporation, Warner Brothers Discovery reach its cost cutting goal of three
and a half billion to cover the fifty billion dollar debtload incurred from the merger
of the two companies one year ago. We have a call, We'll grab
this. Oh, nobody there. Never mind that the Donald Trump town hall
he organized was received as a disaster, that he never won the support of
the journalists who manufacture of the news at CNN, And that's just for starters.
There might not be an airplane hangar big enough to hold all of the
broken parts for the investigators to paw over. So it sounds like what we
have time to go through the whole thing, But it sounds like what the
author of this article is suggesting is that he never had a chance. But
there was that piece. I haven't had a chance to really look at it,
but there was that piece in the Atlantic that apparently was pretty devastating to
this man's reputation. But again, that's one of the things that I wanted
to talk about today with our friend Eric Pilcher, but Eric is not able
to be with us this afternoon, so well, I'm sure we'll dig into
that more the next time that he's on or before then. But yeah,
another big shake up, and apparently there's some sort of he's being replaced in
the interim until a new a new head of the network has chosen with this
sort of management team that's been cobbled together to kind of run things, a
leadership team. I think it's being called to run things in the absence of
someone officially at the helm at CNN. But I do find I do find
these things fascinating. I have to, Jenny, and I should probably because
everyone says we would love at that show Succession, which is about a fictional
television network and all the drama, the internal drama that goes on off air
at it, and the family that runs it and so forth. It does
sound like something I would enjoy tremendously, and I think Jenny would too.
But I keep forgetting whenever we're looking for something to maybe watch together. You
know, somehow it always falls out of my head, and then I remember
when I'm on the air, Wait a minute, everyone keeps telling me,
I gotta check out Succession. All right, we are approaching the top of
the r So here's where we're going to do. We're gonna take a quick
break. We're gonna show some love to our amazing sponsors, and then we're
gonna play a Holly Brewer track. We're gonna play a song that she released
a number of months ago called Don't un Alive View. And then when we
come back, she should be on the phone with us. We're gonna chat
for a bit, get caught up with her, and then we're gonna debut
the world radio premiere of her brand new single called Clothesline. Really looking forward
to that. So there is plenty more to come. So and by the
way, No, the sky still has not opened up, despite there being
some very threatening looking clouds out there. The trend continues. It looks like
it's gonna rain, then it doesn't rain. It seems to happen on a
regular basis. Now worries me a little bit, but again, I think
it would help. I think it would help wash away some of the smog.
All right, anyway, all right, we're gonna take a break.
There's plenty more to come. Don't go away. Holly Brewer will be with
us shortly here on Matt Connerton unleashed my favorite dreaming Oakland toons waking up to
say, blow your trouble into bubble and send them on their way. You're
not yeah, don't don't unlive you, but more frise to send your note,
don't unlive you. You know what you do that you mine favorite dreaming
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You're not a Oh don't don't m m m. You're gonna get your detectivey
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when this mystery doctor can find out one thirty Ye, your right way there
with the data collection that you have been savings on the tracking, tracking and
looking for cycles, and this is and that's is where they found no basses
and data. With that, dismiss symptom and replay our contright, our ca
My person stands between you and cats, and you swallow your ego and the
beds just a mini boss and alone line and the bosses you did you rego
and try your losses and seizures of macons still be in white bossing on the
Locus show chat where the read just stap me and your baby run on away
and it's worth it to stick around direct the rest of is me. Every
one turns the cheer. Don't un alive you, don't ann alove. That
is don't un alive you. That is Holly Brewer. And we've got a
brand new song from Holly to share with you in a few minutes. But
Holly, is that you? Boy? Ah, We've got her, We've
got her all right. Holly Brewer is on the line with us. I
can't believe this works. That's awesome, Yes, yes, we did it
all right, very good. Yeah. I was just playing that track from
I Think from April, Don't un Alive you, and of course at the
end of our converence, at the end of our conversation today, we're going
to play the brand new single clothes Line, which is really great, really
cool. But it's wonderful to speak with you again. It's it's been a
while. I was just saying earlier, how you were here with us in
studio, but I can't remember when time it all runs together, you know
it, but it was you had shared your your personal story with us,
uh, the last time you were on with us, and it was quite
a quite a conversation. But how how have you h So, having having
said that, how have you been? How how are things these days?
You're still making some very interesting, very unique music, which is wonderful.
Well, every month I write and record and release a one new song twenty
nineteen and I've never skipped a month yet, no kidding now, now that's
interesting. So why, um, how did that come about? Where you
put yourself into that that routine where every single month you and do you limit
yourself to only do you only do one song a month? Or is it
ever more than that? I only release one song a month, but uh,
like, for instance, a few days ago, I think I wrote
six songs in a few hours. Okay, So they all sort of line
up in a hallway and they kind of jump up and down every month,
and whoever elbows their way to the front gets recorded. Okay, okay,
So what kind of a back what kind of a backlog of songs do you
have? Then? Do you do? You have a lot that are kind
of in the queue that you haven't recorded yet? I go every minute.
There's too many today, it's like blades of grass. But the the what
inspired it to begin was the last full album I completed. I wrote and
recorded the whole thing in seven or eight days. Wow. And I was
realizing, but there's just a lot that needs to happen, that needs to
come out and all the time. And I was like, I can do
one song a month, that's totally great. But usually what I do is
I wait till the last four days of the month, and then I have
nothing recorded and no artwork for it, and then I spend four days putting
together the music that I hear in my head, trying to make it sound
exactly as close as I can, and then I bust out the artwork as
fast as possible, and then I usually do about two hours to record the
voice, and then I spend about twenty minutes mixing and mass thring, and
then I send it away. And I've always said I'll go back and and
revisit it before I release it to the public, but I never do.
Is that Do you find that actually helpful? Because in one sense it sounds
stressful, you know, waiting until it's almost the end of the month and
then kind of rushing to do it. But then again, a lot of
artists will say that they really do work better under pressure. When it comes
to something like that, it kind of forces you to, you know,
to get creative. Is that your experience? I think what it is is
I've been helping I've been helping one of my friends die, and I'm taking
care of a really old cat for a friend, and I'm building a house,
and there's always this stuff to do, lots of other things to do.
But I think the reason why I have ended up putting it off is
I spend the whole month sort of not fretting about it, but really trying
to get a very clear picture, like the aperture wide open for a really
long time, so that I can pretty much recognize the song from any angle
that I look at it and then I will record it. Okay, okay,
yeah, your music is obviously very unique. Don't un alive view is
it doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard before, which is cool, which
is awesome. You know, I love I love hearing unique things that you
know because they say it's all been done and then you know, you hear
something and you say, well, though, actually it hasn't quite all been
done, you know what I mean? But that one specifically is about I
guess last April I or no. Two aprils ago, I started having a
neurological disorder where I was having standing seizures that were vocal seizures and they were
really stressing me out because I couldn't figure out what it was because it's so
internal. And my brain started saying things like remember how much you like dress?
And I was like, yeah, but we stopped that twenty two years
ago. That's not the plan until the end or at the end, because
I'm not at the end. And I called a neurologist and was like,
can I make an appointment with you? And that song is basically calling back
to that moment when my brain was saying, hey, listen, something's wrong,
and I don't know how to tell you it's wrong. Don't I don't
think you should turn back to your coping mechanisms. But something's really wrong.
So let's figure this out. And so it was the bigger voice in my
head that was like, don't unlive you. You've got so much to do.
We're gonna cause the neurologist. We're gonna work it out. Yeah,
what how did that turn out? I mean, did you because you don't
in the song, you know, the lyrics tell the story, but the
story is unfinished? What is it is unfinished? Currently? It still is?
In other words, so they still don't know what's causing the seizures.
Nope, it's not quite sure what's causing them, but it's they're every twenty
eight days or so, and it lasts for like five or six or seven
days, and it has nothing to do with any other cycles. I guess
our brains have their own cycles of their own and it's not impeding terribly.
When now that I kind of at least have had a cat skin, I
know, it's not like a giant mass like you know what I mean?
Like, yeah, yeah, the fear worries are gone and now it's just
sort of like managing symptoms. So it's a nuisance. But what do you
what do you mean though, when you say it lasts for seven or eight
days, like you're having a you're literally having a seizure for that amount of
time they last for It starts with a deja vu, and I think I'm
having a deja vu, and then I feel like I'm getting thrown off of
a cliff. I have like a roller coaster feeling in the stomach, and
then I'm exhausted, and the rush of it last to three seconds, sometimes
four, and then afterwards I could fall asleep on a wool carpet. I'm
so tired. Yeah, and they last for like seven days ish bricks to
seven days, and say start with just one or two a day, and
by the middle it's like twenty a day, and then, oh my god,
by the end it's like two a day. Wow. Oh that's terrible.
That's really hard to plan shows. So I haven't been playing any shows.
Yeah, understandable. I'm sorry you're going through that. Is this um?
Have you been able to connect with anyone else who has similar symptoms?
I looked around online for some stuff and it seems like a lot of people
that had just sort of been chasing their tails for a long time, several
years. Yeah, but it seems like it's not totally unique thing. It
seems like a song someone's written before. I just got to find the author.
Yeah yeah, wow, Well, okay, well geez, that's I
hope. I'm in a really good mood. I'm like, yeah, absolutely
terribly disgustingly in love with somebody I've had a crush on for a way over
twenty years, and he had a crush on me, and we finally told
each other and we've just been in bliss since like November, and love really
helps a lot of things. Well, well, congratulations. So I suppose,
whether it was intentional or not, that that sounds like a segue into
the new single clothesline. Well, it was inspired by our time together,
Okay, okay, very good, very it was inspired by New Year's Eve.
Okay, okay, excellent, excellent. Yeah, we'll be will we
be playing that in a few minutes. That song is a little more conventional,
but not much. It's it's still really unique. Um. Yeah,
it's kind of picturing uh like a to me, I was kind of picturing
who's that guy with the really blue eyes that sings White Christmas? Who's that
guy? Oh? Kind I was kind of handling those crossby or maybe those
commercials were all the girls dance around with the washing machines and synchronization. Yeah,
yeah, that's kind of what I what I kept seeing in my eyes
when it was unfolding. Okay, okay, cool. But whenever I described
my songs to be Bobby like this kind of a tango south of Walts that
sort of take place in like Alaska, They're like, no, I'm not
good at actually naming my own categories of music. Apparently, No, I
understand. Well, yeah, I just call it alternative. That's kind of
a catch all, you know. But yeah, yeah, for me,
no, but it but it is. But but it certainly is unique.
By the way, Can I ask you about your your process in terms of
recording. I mean, we've talked about how you write those songs, but
I'm really curious, you know, especially since and I ask every musical guest
about this because partly because I'm a recording nerd, but also I'm just curious
because there's so many different ways to approach it, and it sounds like,
do you do everything yourself. Yeah, yeah, you're going to be really
bored when you hear what my setup is. Oh yeah, all things like
three hundred dollars. But uh, okay, so you do all So you
play everything yourself obviously, and all the vocals are you? Do you ever?
Do you ever collaborate with anyone? Or is it always? Is it
always just you on this truck? I have a lot. I really enjoyed
my time in Boston working with a non conducted chamber orchestra that was wonderful,
like players go, but with writers, I don't really. I guess I
just know exactly what I want so clearly that I don't know what anyone else
would be able to do right necessarily as far as writing goes. But but
I like, um bouncing. I have in my life bounce ideas and told
people what I was up to, and they're like, hey, if you
thought about maybe repeating that beginning thing? I wanted to hear that more like
that more of a predict action opinion. And from my friends who are photographers,
they don't even do music. Yeah, so um, but yeah,
like I'm if it's something you know, because songs are sort of like people
and they can wear lots of different outfits. There's a country version of every
song I've ever written. There's a rap version of every song I've ever written.
You know, it's they don't care what outfit they wear. The seed
of the idea cannot be destroyed, but simply by what sonics it's wearing.
I like that. I like that. So you so so you do everything
yourself. You do all the mixing and even the mastering too, right,
You said you master everything yourself, and that's that's fantastic. Yeah. I
kind of do it as I go. I'm sort of like a clean up
the pants as I cook kind of person when it comes to recording. Yeah
anything, Does anything ever come out differently than you would initially imagined it,
like by the time you get to the end of the oh really? Yeah?
Literally almost always, And sometimes it's like necessity of finishing quickly. And
then also sometimes it's because I've just been tweaking on a sound for so long
and I basically forgot the real sound I was trying to create in my head
because I do a lot since you know. Yeah, yeah, well you
can get your fatigue too, you know, you listen to something so much
and after a while. It's like you can't even necessarily hear all of the
frequencies that are present because you've been you've been listening to it so much.
Absolutely, I'm a very quiet listener, like very quiet listener. A lot
of the songs I try to make them for headphone people like, because I
try to make lots and lots of tiny sounds that you would really only notice
subtly in the left or the right ear every now and then. I really
like playing with that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, cool, cool,
Well, Holly, we won't we won't keep you too long. I'm
anxious to share the new single with everybody. But it's so funny. I
had to find a tower just call you guys today because I was in the
middle of the woods getting rusty pieces of metal so like covers the sides of
my house with and how it was just like my alarm went out to call
you guys, and I was like, I'm going to find a tower.
Oh, that might explain the difficulty staying connected earlier. Okay, that makes
sense now, absolutely that's what happened. Well, by the way, so
you said, so you're building a house, like are you? You said
you said you were finding materials for So you're literally building the house. Yeah,
I'm building a very small mobile studio that I'm going to live in and
record out of and just like hopefully spend the rest of my life just happily
surrounded by keepers and frogs in the middle of the woods making music forever.
Very cool. I mean I'm not personally, I'm not. I'm probably one
of the least outdoorsy people you'll ever meet. So the woods thing I'm not
wild about. But the studio thing sounds great. That sounds like a wonderful
existence. Actually, so I didn't happily take the take off my neck,
so we're oh see that? Oh my god, for real? Because that's
the thing that scares me the most is ticks. Uh three fears actually ticks,
the possibility of being eaten by a wild animal like a bear or a
mountain lion or something, and of course the blair Witch. That probably scares
me the most of the three, because I don't even I plan to do
that when I find when I find my spot, I'm actually gonna make lots
of little blair Witch dolls to scare away the flatlander. Yeah. See that's
probably that will probably work. It would certainly frighten me. But well,
Holly, uh, where where should people go online to keep up with everything
that you're doing? Uh, we want to make sure people know where to
find new music, as you you know, because every month you're releasing something
new, so we want to make sure listeners know where to go. Yeah.
All my songs are always free, UM, donation whatever, um.
And my name is this Holly Brewer and my website is Holly Brewer dot org.
Very good, very good. Well Holly, we'll let you go and
then I'm going to go right to a plane the new single clothesline. But
thank you very thank you for finding a tower and thank you for joining us
today. Always, always, absolutely anytime. I love the music. It's
it's very cool. It's very different, which is what makes it so cool.
And uh, oh thanks, thank you, We appreciate you. All
right, Holly, have a have a great day. You two have so
much fun. All right, but bye bye, all right, very nice.
That was our friend, Holly Brewer. And by the way, Brewer,
because you'll see Brewer spelled different ways. She spells it b R e
W e R, so if you're looking for her online, that is how
she spells Brewer b R E W E R, which I think is probably
the more common spelling anyway, But we're gonna play that here it is.
This is the brand new single from Holly Brewer. And and then we'll be
back with the balance of our show. But check this out. This is
called Clothesline, brand new single from Holly Brewer, the world radio premiere right
here on Matt Connerton Unleashed. You can't be wedding on the sweater I was
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etcetera. Today is Wednesday, June seven, twenty twenty three, and
apparently it is National Running Day, where you're supposed to go out and run.
Please do not do that because North America is under a I think most
of the continent, thanks, Canada is no. It's uh, you know,
we don't want to blame well, there is that South Park thing,
blame Canada. I wish i'd thought of that before the show. I could
have played that today, Blame Canada from South Park because of the wildfires that
are causing everyone to be uh poisoned. But so it's National Running Day,
but do not go running. Yeah, I mean, you know, unless
you have a treadmill inside where it's safe, don't go outside if you can
help it. I mean, I'll have to go outside when I leave here
today to go home, but try not to go outside. Wear a face
mask. It's it's again. It's it's like the inverse of COVID. You
wear a face mask outside in this case. But yeah, be careful,
especially if you're asthmatic or you have any any other sort of breathing issue.
You can actually go online and see where it's the worst. Jenny was showing
me earlier where you can actually you can go online and see, you know,
like there's a red zone, there's a purple zone. You know.
But New York City apparently is having a terrible time with this. They are
very very much well. Actually I was talking about it earlier in the show,
in the first hour, I was saying, how today New York City
was designated, you know, for the moment obviously it changes the most.
What was it the most, Well, what's the term they use the air
well, the air quality is the worst in the world right now, There's
some other term they use, but usually it's uh. I think it's Delhi,
India is where the air quality is the worst, or a city in
China. You know, they have a lot of problem. They wear masks
very often outside in these places because the air is so bad. But today
it's been New York City as the dubious distinction of being the worst air quality
because downwind from where the wildfires apparently are the most intense, and it's drifting
into New York, New York State and into New York City. So um.
And I was saying earlier too in the show, there was a moment
today I was outside actually thought I could kind of kind of taste it a
little bit nasty, nasty nasty. So hopefully it clears up soon, but
I think we might have another day of this. I don't know anyway,
But on that happy note, I just want everybody. I'm just reminding people,
please be safe. If you didn't know this was going on, but
you just wondered why the air seemed a little different today, that's why.
So take care of yourselves. And if you have any kind of illness that
might be further triggered or exacerbated by the air pollution, please be smart.
Don't breathe anything in that you don't have to. And I learned today too,
Apparently it's it's more dangerous than people realize because it's not just a matter
of you know, if you get something in your lungs that might cause you
to have some difficulty breathing, but if it gets into your blood stream,
which can happen, then it can really have some severe health effects. Last
I knew, and I haven't looked since I've been on the air today,
but last I knew in New York City they were not yet not yet reporting
any kind of an uptick in visits to the emergency room over this, which
is good, but that may have changed in the time that I've been on
the air. I don't know. But so far, as far as I
know, so far, so good. In New York. Hopefully people are
being smart and again wearing face masks. God knows, in New York they're
used to wearing face masks because you know, early in the pandemic, New
York was one of the hardest hit places as as one would expect in the
United States. But but no uptick in emergency room visits is good. Let's
hope that holds and that people are able to remain remains safe. In fact,
on that subject, we might look at something here that might be helpful.
But let me give the Oh and by the way, Charles, if
you're still listening, our friend Charles Richardson, feel free to call back.
Charles. Charles gave us a call earlier, but unfortunately it was as we
were waiting for Holly Brewer to call, so we didn't really have time to
talk. So he said he'd call back another time. But Charles, if
you're listening, you know the phone line is open or for any of you
six three two five six seven is studio line six ZO three at two five
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a call at six zo three two five six seven six zo three two five
six seven and um. By the way, speaking of the phone, when
Dave Ridley called yesterday, that's probably why he was having so much trouble.
I was speculating that it might be allergies, perhaps a giant puff of pollen
had flown into his face, but maybe it was just the poor air quality.
But this is just quickly and then well we'll get to what I had
talked about earlier. But this is from the Hill dot com. Which mask
is best for wildfire smoke? It says here, and the Hill drew this
from k DVR in California initially, but with smoke from over four hundred Canadian
wild fire drifting south and blanketing much of the United States. Americans are looking
for ways to cope with a haze of very unhealthy air. Anthony Gerber said
the people most at risk in smoky conditions are those with lung disease, older
people, and the very young. He said if those people have symptoms outside,
they may benefit from wearing a well fitted mask, but keep in mind
surgical and cloth masks do not help in these conditions. Gerber said, quote
really and ninety five's are the only masks which are really proven to be effective
Unquote, and ninety five masks filter particles as small as point three micrometers,
a fraction of the width of a human hair. According to the California Department
of Public Health, still masks are not an ideal solution for wildfire smoke.
San Francisco health officials previously told SF Gate that sealed buildings with filtered HVAC systems
are preferable to mask use. In other words, try to stay inside.
David Hill, a pulmonologist in Waterbury, Connecticut, told the AP quote,
if you have filters on your home HVAC system, you should make sure they're
up to date and high quality. Unquote. Air quality alerts often caution sensitive
groups to stay indoors. That is a big category that includes children whose lungs
are still developing, older adults, and people with lung diseases such as asthma
like yours truly, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Gerber, a pulmonologist at
National Jewish Health, said filters can help with smoke, but not all are
effective. Quote. Most folks will put put them in their bedroom. But
again, it has to be an HPA filter. I don't know what that
stands for, and it has to be matched to the size of the space
who are filtering. Unquote. Even though smoke seems familiar, it is actually
a complex mixture of shapes from round corkscrew. Okay, I don't want to
get into the weeds, articles getting into the weeds too far into the weeds.
I don't go into the weeds. I don't even go into the woods,
as we discussed earlier. But there you go. So anyway, the
point being, everyone please just try to be safe. I've been unfortunately for
me, I haven't you know, I have asthma, but I haven't had
to use my rescue in hailer or anything. So I seem to be okay,
but you know, south of us in Massachusetts actually have it worse than
we do here with the smog does make for some beautiful sunsets and sunrises,
it's the only good thing about it. But all that smoke being put into
the atmosphere. Let's see, we'll say hello to everybody in the or some
new folks. We won't say hello to everybody that we already said hello too,
but we'll say hello to some of the new people who have entered the
chat room. My dad is in the chat Hello, Sir Martin, is
there, Oh, Melanie said, you know, I was talking to our
friend Holly Brewer about why I don't go into the woods. I said,
the three things I fear in the woods deer ticks, being consumed by mountain
lion or a bear, and of course the blair witch. And Melanie said,
not poisonous plants hiding among the flowers. I will be adding that to
the list, Melanie, I now have four things in the woods that I
fear. Yes, so I don't go into the I'm like the least outdoorsy
person you'll ever meet. This is true, by the way. I never
in my life people are surprised when I say this, but this is God's
truth. I've never in my life gone camping. By the way, you
know something I never in my life will do go camping. I don't.
I mean, that's the idea of it just freaks me out. Well,
You're actually gonna sleep out there in the woods. That's crazy. All the
things I fear could get me if I were going to do that. I
could be eaten by a mountain lion, while being while having deer ticks attaching
themselves to me, and then also being attacked by the Blair Witch after I've
accidentally been exposed to a poisonous flower. There's so much that can go wrong.
Isaac Banks is asking who is the singer? I just heard her voice.
That was Holly Brewer and we just did the world radio premiere for a
brand new single, Clothesline. Here on the program Let's see, Isaac Banks
says, because I referred to COVID because we were talking about face masks,
not because of COVID, but because of the smog. Isaac Banks said something
about I hope they find a cure for COVID. Yeah, he said,
I hope this COVID shall be over until there's a cure. No, I
think we're stuck with that for the rest of our lives, unfortunately. I
mean, at least, you know, we have it to a point though,
where you know, we have the therapeutics and everything, so if you
do get COVID, it can be managed and really no one should be dying
from it at this point, So so that's good. Scott Robinson joins us
in the Facebook live chat and says Matt there's nothing like camping in the woods
with a pineapple pizza listening to some smooth jazz. Well, I like the
smooth jazz, as you know, but the pineapple pizza that is unacceptable.
And in fact, if that is true, is that something people actually do,
They go camping and they eat pineapple pizza. Well, we're putting that.
That's number five on the list of things I fear pineapple on pizza.
You gotta understand something. I don't just not like it. I don't just
not approve of it. I don't just think it's disgusting. I actually fear
it. If somebody like shoves a piece of pineapple pizza in my face,
I'll be I'll be traumatized for the rest of my life. And I'm definitely
afraid of that. It's like a phobia. Isaac Bank says, I understand
hashtag Matt and my friend Jeff Pugary likes jazz. I really don't like jazz.
I'm sort of kidding, I don't. I don't really like smooth jazz.
Uh six o three two five six seven is a studio line six three
two five six seven before. Probably won't get through the whole thing actually that
I wanted to do, But we'll see what we can do, all right.
So we have today Mike Pence. You might have heard of him.
He used to be a vice president, you know, yes, former vice
President of the United States, serving in the administration of Donald John Trump,
the forty fifth president of the United States. Pence made his announcement today in
Iowa, the great state of Iowa. Pence, you know, also a
Midwesterner himself, from the great state of Indiana. I do not do a
Mike Pence impression. And if you are a longtime listener of the show,
you're probably relieved, because I'm terrible at impressions. To begin with. I
spent a significant portion of time in the Midwest growing up, and yet I
still cannot mimic that accent. So if at any time I'm repeating something that
Mike Pence has said, please just radio as theater of the mind. I
will ask you to pretend that I'm saying it with a Midwest Stern accent,
even though I am unable to do so. You got to meet me halfway
on that. But so Mike Pence made his announcement. Now, as I
said earlier, I want to I want to actually listen to and analyze part
of this because it was more interesting than I thought it was going to be.
Eventually the first part. Again, if you think of it like a
play, political speeches are structured the same way You've got a first act,
a second act, and a third act. The first act of the play,
or the political speech in this case that Mike Pence gave announcing his candidacy
very boring, very dull. We're not going to listen to that. I
would not do that to you. I will not torture you with that.
In fact, I do believe that it would be considered a violation of the
Geneva Convention. It sounded like it could have been written by an AI program.
Again, no offense to our friends in Greensborough. But it was very
predictable, and that's that's fine, That's what I expected. The second act
was a little bit of a surprise. Here's what I was expecting. What
I was expecting was Mike Pence, who, by the way, understand when
I tell you what I'm expecting, you have to remember I'm operating under the
assumption that Mike Pence is operating under the assumption that he is absolutely he has
no chance of being the nominee. Now, there are, as we often
discussed on the show, there are other reasons for running for president other than
actually trying to become president. Very common reason is trying to become vice president.
You want to be one of the last people standing and hopefully whoever does
when the nomination picks you. Obviously, that's not the case in Mike Pence's
case. He's already been Trump's vice president and he knows he will not be
picked again for a couple different reasons, So we can put that aside.
Another reason is to sell books. Mike Pence has a book. A lot
of people there candidacies are really just glorified book tours. Um it helps,
right, but it's a it's a book. Tour where you get donors to
pay for it. Sometimes it's literally a book tour for example. I'll often
use a site as a as an example of that. When Nude king Ridge
ran for president in uh in twenty twelve, Romney was ultimately the nominee for
the Republicans, but when was running his campaign stops literally were book signings.
He and his wife, Callista, they write a lot of books, they
make documentaries. They would their events would be at bookstores and they would do
the sign the books and sign the DVDs, and you know, and I
don't I don't knock the hustle. That's fine, you know, but that's
anyway. That's another reason to do it, or to raise your speaking fees.
You know, people like Mike Pence make money giving speeches. Organizations come
and pay you to speak. You know, it looks great on your resume
to say you're a former presidential candidate. Another reason is you're trying to build
relationships for your eventual run for say, maybe Mike is going to run for
senator in the future, so he knows he's not going to be the nominee,
and he knows that Iowa will probably be it for him. When the
Iowa caucus happens and Mike Pence comes in at one percent of the vote,
he probably won't even bother to come to New Hampshire. Usually what happens is
Iowa is the first first contest, and a whole bunch of people drop out.
After Iowa, a whole bunch of people who barely make it even one
percent. If they're lucky, they drop out. Some of them hang on
a little longer, they go from Iowa to New Hampshire, and then if
they do horribly in New Hampshire, then then they drop out, and then
you have South Carolina. By the way, I understand the calendar is being
you know, maneuvered a bit, but because of Biden. But you get
my point. So he knows, he knows he's going to be out,
probably after Iowa. So I don't know what his motivation is. Maybe it's
none of those things. Maybe he just thinks it'll be fun to run for
president. Maybe it's on his bucket list. I don't know. But he
knows he's not going to be the nominee. He knows that. Unless he's
just insane and he has some sort of terrible delusion, and you know,
maybe something's wrong with his brain. But no, I'm sure he really he's
you know, and he's a smart guy. I'm sure he realizes he's not
going to be president. Now Here's what I was expecting from his speech,
though, well, Act one was what I expected Act to, not really
what I thought it was going to be. Was he would talk a lot
about Biden and the Democrats and and kind of give a little bit of a
general election speech, right and uh, not really focused much on his opponents.
And I thought he might be sort of lightly gently critical of Trump regarding
January sixth, because that's the elephant in the room in this case, literally,
because elephant is the animal of the Republicans. Of course they're they're my
mascot, so no way to avoid that. So I thought he'd treat that
the same way he often does in interviews and interactions with the media, you
know, just say something like, well, you know, the former president
and I will never agree, will never fully agree on the events of January
six or the election that the dah. But then, of course, because
none of the candidates so far except for Chris Christie really and to a slight
degree, Asa Hutchinson, he's running too if you forgot former governor of Arkansas.
None of these candidates want to go directly at Trump because if you anger
the MAGA people, then you've got even less of a chance. Right,
So I thought he'd do something maybe lightly gently, mildly critical of Trump,
but then to balance it out also gush with effusive praise about how he's just
so proud, because this is what he does in interviews, talk about how
he's so proud to have been a part of the Trump administration. And you
know, I mean, because that's the play that he runs. You know,
he usually what he'll do is there was that CNN town hall. I
guess he's got another one coming up. But the one before he announces candidacy
that he did where what did he say? He blamed it all on the
lawyers. He said, well, you know, I think the former president
he I think he got some bad advice. It's not his fault. He
got some bad advice from lawyers. You know, Oh, they just blame
the lawyers. Okay, Now that's what I expected. I expected it would
be a speech heavy on policy, heavy on his own backstory, very just
light criticism of Trump, because you know, there's no way to avoid it,
but also some gushing praise of Trump too, but then kind of saying
something about time for a new generation of leadership, because you also have to
slip in something about well, you know, so instead of just voting for
Trump again, vote for me. You know, he's seventy six or seventy
seven whatever, I'm only sixty four. I think today is also Mike Pence's
birthday. I think he turned sixty four today. It's a song about that,
isn't it? Like? Is it? Will you vote for me for
the presidency? Went I'm sixty four? Something like that. Anyway, with
apologies to the Beatles, probably could never apologize enough for what I just did.
That was pretty bad. I'm sorry. A little spontaneous song pariody.
I haven't done one in a while. I read how bad I am at
them. So anyway, we didn't get what I was expecting. He went
out Trump a lot harder than I thought. Now he goes at him,
he still gives him an out, though he still slips in the thing about
he was misled. He does say that, so he still gives Trump the
out he was misled, So it's not really his fault necessarily, But but
he's still he goes at him quite a bit harder than I was expecting.
I don't know what happened. I don't know if he finally found his uh
well, I don't want to put it that way, he finally found the
courage to say. I mean, you know, he'll never He'll never have
it in him, you know. I mean, let's be honest, he
is somewhat of a empty husk of a human being. He'll he'll never have
it in express actual anger at Trump for you know, almost getting him and
his family killed on January sixth. He'll never actually be mad about it.
But at least he seems in the speech that he gave today somewhat bothered by
it, you know, instead of the attitude that he's taken in the past,
where it's just been like, well, you know, what happened January
sixth was terrible. But oh I shucks, I can't be mad at that
guy. I just love him so much. That's kind of been the vibe
in the past. Oh, my dad in the chat room says him at
Good Show, I just want to see if this works, if this is
a different format. Now, yeah, yeah, it's working. Dad's tried
to communicate in the chat room before and it's come out, come out wrong.
Oh, he says, I saw where Charles Richardson is bringing back his
show. I say congratulations to him. Mike Pence is not very substantial.
I get it. I didn't know Charles was bringing back his show. Well,
congratulations to Charles. Maybe that's why he was calling to announce it on
the show. All right, well before we run out of time, so
we're only gonna get to a little bit of this. But here I'm gonna
play. I'm gonna play a little bit of this now again. This is
from the second act in Mike Pence's speech today, and we'll talk about what
surprised me. I'm given our record, it might be fair to ask,
why am challenging my former running mate. Let me say from my heart.
By the way, at this point I was watching this live. At this
point I expected when he goes let me say from the heart, I expected
him to say something like, you know, I take no joy in challenging
him because I just love him so much. And he appeared too. You
know. I was not the first one to make this observation, but very
often during the Trump presidency, you would see Trump on stage, speaking in
front of a podium, giving some sort of a speech, and you would
see Pence off to the side, gazing, gazing upon Trump in a very
a very similar way to the way Nancy Reagan used to gaze upon Ronald Reagan
when he was giving a speech, with just that sort of that sense of
awe and wonder that that expression, that facial expression. And I thought we
were going to get something like, let me just say from the heart,
I do so love President Trump. I just I just have reasons why I
have to. But that's not exactly what we got, Okay, So he
surprised me. Here here's here's what he said. It begins with a promise
that I made to the American people into Almighty God, and it ends with
different visions for the future of our nation and our party. January sixth was
a tragic day in the life of our nation. But thanks to the courage
of law enforcement, the violence was quelled. By the way I like that
that he did, that that he said, thanks to the courage of law
enforcement. Because there are a lot of people, a lot of people who
go around they talk about how they you know, they'll say things like back
the blue you gotta support the police. You gotta support law enforcement. But
then you mentioned the Capitol Police, and their attitude changes quite a bit,
doesn't it interesting? So I'm glad he said that. I'm glad he gave
credit to law enforcement because there are some people who just when it comes to
the Capitol Police, they're like, oh, yeah, those guys. Then
we all know why. I'm glad he did that. Good for him,
because I know who you won't here doing that. But we'll continue, and
we reconvene to the Congress the very same day to complete the work of the
American people under the Constitution of the United States. As I've said many times,
on that faithful day, President Trump's words were reckless, endangered my family
and everyone at the Capital. But the American people deserve to know that.
On that day, President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and the
Constitution. Now voters will be faced with the same choice. I chose the
Constitution, and I always will. Hey, good on him. Oh and
there's apparently there's an ad in this video, So while the ad plays,
I'll talk Yeah good, I mean, hey, you know, I fully
agree, Yes, I mean, he was given Trump went to give his
big speech and said, you know, Mike Pence, I sure hope he
does the right thing. And then while the capital was under attack, Trump
is on Twitter calin Pence a coward, saying, um, he didn't have
the guts to do the right thing. But Pence did do the right thing
that day. And this is but unfortunately, up to now, he hadn't
he'd never really said it this forcefully because he's so afraid. You don't want
to upset Daddy, don't want to upset Trump. But now he's just saying,
look, he's laying it out starkly. Here it is, and he's
right. Good for him, wish he had wish he could have found his
uh, you know, his cajone says, they say a little sooner because
I've seen far too many examples, as I've talked about on the show,
where you know, he'll talk about how his family, you know, his
wife and his daughters were in danger on January sixth, and then goes on
to completely emasculate himself by not showing any actual emotion about it and finding every
excuse to uh, why you know, that wasn't really Trump's fault, right,
He's not doing that here, So good glad he finally decided to,
uh, you know, I don't know, you know, stand up a
little bit for his family who were in danger on that day. I guess
this is his way of doing that. He actually does seem a little bit
like this, some sort of passion there. I mean, I don't know
if he's capable of actual human emotion fully, he's always struck me as an
android, probably, But you know, he's he's showing something here, and
the look out of his face that seems pretty mad as he's saying this.
But all right, here's more. I know we're gonna run out of time,
but here's a little bit bit, a little bit more. I mean,
he's right, you know, he's telling the truth here. Four years
earlier, I swore an oath with my hand on my Bible and on Ronald
Ragging's Bible to support and defend the Constitution. Oh, by the way,
that's another thing too. He evoked Raygan a couple of times during this speech.
That is, you remember Ronald Reagan, right, you know, sort
of the patron saint of modern conservatism, or at least he was until twenty
sixteen, when all of a sudden everyone forgot Reagan existed really weird transition in
the Republican Party and very abrupt. But Pence hasn't forgotten. And I mean,
I don't know how that's gonna work for him, but but it's just
interesting. I did notice that the Bible says he keeps his oath even when
it hurts, and I know something about that. My son, the Marine,
once reminded me, you took the same oath I took, Dan,
so I did. So let me explain. Article two, Section one of
the Constitution provides that the President of the Senate the Vice President shall the presidence
of the Senate in the House, open all the certificates, and the votes
shall be counted, no more, no less. Despite the fact that the
Constitution's language is clear and provides the vice president with no authority to reject or
return electoral votes, my former running mate continues to insist that I had the
right to overturn the election. But President Trump was wrong then and he's wrong
now. I will always believe, by God's grace, I did my duty
that day. I kept my oath to ensure the peaceful transfer of power under
the Constitution of the United States of Anne. Again, that's the that's the
strongest I've ever heard him state any of that. That's good, you know,
UM say, from my heart, I understand the disappointment that many still
feel about the outcome of the twenty twenty election. I can relate. I
was on the ballot, but I had no right to overturn the election,
and Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them
in twenty twenty four. Finally, let me say to my countryman, I'll
always be grateful for what President Trump did for this country. Now, I
thought, when he got to this part, okay, here comes the gushing
and effusive praise, and now we're going to get you know, five minutes
of that, because he's got to soften. You know, there was some
criticism there. He's got to soften all that, all that, but not
exactly. I know, we're almost out of time, but just a little
bit more. I've often prayed for him over the past few years, and
I prayed for him again today. I had hoped he would come around and
see that he had been misled by the way. There it is. He's
got it, he does. So it wasn't the five minutes of gushing praise
I was expecting. But he does still give him an out, and that's
where it is where he says he was misled, which means, oh,
people gave him bad advice, so it's not really his fault. So he
does still slip that in gives Trump an out, which is really a way
of giving himself an hour okay, but still overall stronger than what we've heard
from him in the past. But here's the rest of that thought about my
role that day, but that was not to be. Oh and there's another
ad that popped up on the video. Well, actually we'll stop there anyway
because we are almost out of time. But he goes on, there's a
there's a great line later, so he you know, he gets past that
part. That's part of the sort of the second act of the speech.
And then in the third act though, he goes back to talking about policy
and kind of his vision for the future. But he hits Trump a couple
of times again in a way that surprised me. One where I'm completely with
Pence. He talks about how Trump and he goes right at him on this
and correctly, so he talks about how when Trump well, when putin first
decided to invade Ukraine in full, Trump said it was a genius move.
He called Putin a gene and praised him, and uh, Pence says,
he's I wish I could remember the exact wording of the line, but and
he says it forcefully. He says, you know, I I know the
difference between a tyrant and a genius. And uh and and really kind of
slams Trump for being so uh, you know, for for his praise of
Putin and um, and really makes it clear. Pence makes clear what his
position is on it, because uh, you know, you've got people like
oh, and he goes at DeSantis on that too. He says, you
know, Putin's no genius, and this was not a territorial dispute. This
is not simply a territorial dispute, which is a shot at DeSantis and what
he has said. And there's other you know. I don't know if my
dad realizes this, because I know he's a big fan of of Evec Ramiswamy,
but of avec Ramiswamy's position is, oh, we should make concessions to
Russia and all this. So but uh, you know, he but he
goes right at right at Trump over that too. That's later in the speech.
We just don't have time, but we gotta go. We are out
of time. Thank you all so much, everybody. H thank you Holly
Rwer for joining us today. And we did the world radio premiere of her
new single. Very honored and proud to have an opportunity to do that.
She's great. Please make sure you follow her online and everything that she's got
going. And tomorrow on the show we have Dank Sinatra joining us in the
second hour, speaking of world radio premieres. They've got their new album and
we're gonna feature some of their music tomorrow on the show in the second hour
and they will be here with us in studio. Really look forward to that.
So that's gonna be a lot of fun. Everybody, Please be safe
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