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guest coming up at the top of the hour. The band ever Felt is
going to be skyping in from Illinois. I really like them a lot,
really like their sound. They've got a big kind of They describe themselves on
their website as sort of psychedelic rock, but to me it's it almost sounds
like doom metal. I really like it. They got a big, big
sound. Really looking forward to talking to them, So I don't know if
it's I don't know if it's gonna be the one guy or if it's gonna
be more than one or well, we'll see what happens when they skype in
at five, and you know, as we get close to the top of
the hour, we'll play some of their music both before and after the segment.
But yeah, I really like them a lot, so that's gonna be
good. And we did open the show today with Martin Luther King's I have
a dream speech which I usually play every year to commemorate his birthday, but
I thought, you know, today is actually the because it is the sixtieth
anniversary of the March on Washington. I thought I should play that today too.
That's where the speech happened. Of course they celebrated it over the weekend,
but the actual day is today, the actual anniversary, August twenty eight.
So so I thought i'd share that with everybody. Always, uh,
always a good good opener actually for the show. So especially jeez, you
know, in light of what happened in Jacksonville. Yeah, and I hate
talking about that stuff, but we might we might get into that a little
bit today. But I always whenever there's a shooting, I just I hate,
I hate even talking about it. It's uh, it's such a downer.
But yeah, so uh so you can't ignore what was going on in
North Carolina either. Oh yeah, it's just yeah, that's still an active
situation, right, you know, I'm trying to check it out. There
was a report of shots fire, but I thought they lifted the lockdown.
Oh I may be wrong about that. Actually I am wrong about that.
According to this Atlanta station, they are still on lockdown. It started at
about one o'clock this afternoon. The students and staff were warned that there was
an armed and dangerous person on campus. They were locked down on campus,
and we're reporting an active assailent situation. I know on the way in we
heard or I might have you might have been in the store when I was
listening that there was a shot fire, a report of a single shot fire,
but nothing beyond that. It's still way too fluid for me to like
really give you an appropriate answer. Yeah, because it's looking at this report,
it looks like it's still fluid. They are looking for that person that
does seem to be absolutely still going on. There is an image up.
You can go look it up. You can look at the person that they
are looking for. Okay, So yeah, but then we've got three people
who lost our lives today because of the color of their skin. Well that
was that was yesterday, right, Yes, sorry, that's okay. It's
blending on me and that's awful, like in a bad way, in a
bad way, not in a good way. Yeah, you know that these
things happened that this and apparently this guy was was a total white supremise.
Yeah, left a left notes. He had had a whole manifest though.
Yeah, he was decided that he deserved to take people out of this world,
and then he took out of himself. Could they just you know,
I hate I don't want to say it. It's a horrible thing to say,
but it is. It's like, you know, if you feel that
way, can you just stick to yourself and and not hurt innocent people?
Yeah, it's awful, it is. Well, we didn't have to deal
with this stuff when we were kids. Well, you know what happened,
but not nearly as much, not nearly as often. We should look at
us to be a little more uplifting. Of course. This is the article
from NPR regarding over the weekend, thousands marched to mark sixtieth anniversary of mlk's
I Have a Dreams speech. It says here, six decades ago and estimated
quarter million people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs
and Freedom. That was the full name of the event in the nation's capital.
Martin Luther King Juniors, I have a Dream speech that day on August
twenty eight, nineteen sixty three, sixty years ago. Today has since emerged
as a paramount symbol of the push for racial and social equality. On Saturday,
tens of thousands of people gathered in that same spot to declare that dream
was in jeopardy, that America had slid backwards in its fight against hatred and
bigotry. Civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton said, quote, six years ago,
Martin Luther King talked about a dream. Sixty years later, we're the
dreamers, unquote, Sharpton, who leads the National Action Network, said,
one of the two groups that organized the rally, the nonprofit Drum Major Institute,
co host of the event, which was billed as a as not a
commemoration, but a continuation of King's vision after a year of Supreme Court rulings
and national legislation that rolled back racial progress. The five hour program featured dozens
of high profile speakers who noted the prevalence of civil rights abuses such as systemic
racism, hate speech, hate crimes, police brutality, gun violence, poverty,
the loss of voting rights, and the collapse of reproductive rights, to
name just a few topics that surfaced. Andrew Waters King, the daughter in
law of Martin Luther King, Jr. One of a number of his family
members who spoke at the event, said quote, we are here to liberate
the soul of the nation, the soul of democracy from those forces who would
have us all go backwards and perish rather than go forward as sisters and brothers.
Un People carried Black Lives Matter banners and wore I Have A Dream t
shirts as they listen to the speeches and march to Kings Memorial Statue. Many
took refuge in the shade of trees along the Lincoln Memorial as temperatures soared into
the upper eighties. Despite the crowds, rugby games went along as planned across
them all, while joggers and bikers stuck to their roots. According to a
report from the AP, the sound of planes taken off from nearby Ronald Reagan
National Airport thundered over some of the speakers, and while the crowd size may
have been smaller than the quarter million people who turned out in nineteen sixty three,
Saturday's event boasted some undeniable signs of progress. Many of the speakers who
took the podium were women. Only one female speaker was featured at the original
march. I didn't realize that. I hadn't thought of that. And just
as this year's lineup of speakers was more diverse, so too were the issues
they spotlighted. Actor Sasha Baron Cohen called for an end to anti semitism.
Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg called for younger generations to run for office in
response to gun violence. Democratic members of Congress, including South Carolina Representative James
Clyburne and New York Representative Hakim Jefferies, called for federal voting rights protections as
some states continue to restrict election rules. Kings nineteen sixty nineteen sixty three speech
is credited with helping pave the way for major federal voting rights legislation, as
well as the landmark nineteen sixty four Civil Rights Act, but pushback and violence
followed two Just two weeks after the gathering, four black children were killed in
the sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. A year later,
voting rights marchers were brutally beaten while crossing the Edmund Pettis Bridge in nearby Selma.
Commemorations of the original nineteen sixty three gathering have taken place over the decades,
and King's speech continues to resonate, both serving as major symbols of America's
push and pulled toward justice. Tens of thousands of people marched in DC following
the police killing of George Floyd in twenty twenty, as millions across the country
took part in aiual justice protests and rallies. For some, Saturday's event was
yet another poignant measure of how much work has yet to be done. Marcia
Dean Felts of Amelia Island, Florida told The APE quote, I often look
back and look over to the reflection pool in the Washington Monument, and I
see a quarter of a million people sixty years ago and just a trickling now.
It was more fired up then, But the things we were asking for
and needing, we still need them today. Several leaders also helped organize the
march met with Attorney General Merrick Garland and Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clark on Friday.
They discussed a range of issues, including policing, redlining, and voting
rights. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will observe the marches true
anniversary on Monday today by meeting with organizers of the nineteen sixty three gathering.
The APE reported, I did see a little bit of that footage earlier,
yeah, and It was interesting that one of the first things that President Biden
spoke of was he never imagined sitting here talking about this in this day and
age, on this historic date and we're talking about book bands. Yeah,
oh yeah, he's specifically. You know, seriously, we we came so
far as a society, and it's like we're hurling ourselves back in time.
We're banning books. Well, I'm banning history because they were banning history.
Well yeah, that's a way of putting it. Certainly. You know,
I'm more optimistic on this, uh, you know, as as we've discussed
before. But you know, I always say, you know, two things
can be true. We have I believe we have come a long way,
but we clearly still have a lot of work to do. And what happened
in Jacksonville over the weekend, for example, is a clear and present evidence
of the work that we still have to do. We continue to have to
confront hate because hate is by nature malignant, and I is that word very
deliberately, because it does spread if you leave it unchecked, which a lot
of people don't seem to understand or don't want to acknowledge. They think,
if you you know, some people think if you just say nope, nope,
problems already been solved. Then you know, just just it's not legal
anymore. Just yeah, just pretend it's not there, and it's not really
there. No, we still have a lot of work to do, but
but we also have come a long way, obviously, you know, from
you know, if you take into account, you know, the civil rights
movement and the progress it was made in terms of desegregating schools, and you
know that it's hard to imagine, but before we were you or I were
even born, you know, they had segregated schools and separate water fountains,
and you know, just you know, there's a lot in the nineteen sixties
that was ag that is legal now, right, right, And so I
always say to people because it's such a polarizing thing, and of course we
live in this. We live in a political culture where everything is so binary
and you're supposed to be all the way on one side of an issue,
are all the way on the other. So when it comes to this,
for example, you're people have a natural expectation that you're either supposed to believe
that we live in this you know that America is this uh racist and racialized
hellscape and we've made no progress or you're supposed to believe that. Nope,
all set racism has been solved, and anything that you say about it now,
you're just making that up to stoke the to restoke the fires of racism,
you know. And and uh, you're you're giving the argument for me
and not your position. And neither of those well, neither of those uh
positions in my uh, in my opinion is true. And as I say,
two things can be true at once. I think we should recognize the
incredible progress that we have made in this country, and it's one of the
things that I love about this country. I consider myself a patriot. I
know some people would disagree with me because I'm not a Trump supporter, but
but I do consider myself a patriot. And uh and also uh, you
know, so I think we should. I think we should reflect on and
acknowledge the incredible progress that we've made as a country, while also acknowledging that
clearly we do still have a long way to go. And again, anyone
who wants to argue with me about that, I would refer you to what
happened over the weekend in Jacksonville. You know when you've got this, you
know he had a racist manifestoe. You know, he originally went to a
college, a black college. He was spotted by students who immediately went to
security. He got spooked, he ran off, and that's how we ended
up in the dollar store. Is my understanding. Now. Granted that's just
a cursory knowledge that I've gotten out of the news media. But I thought
it was also telling that when they held a visual a vidual for the people
who were killed tone deaf, the Santists showed up and the people booed him
down and we're yelling at him, you're not welcome here, and we're booing
him down, when he was trying to use it as a a way for
him to tout him politically. That's all he was. Therefore, come on,
the only reason he went there is it's a free microphone and a camera.
I'm gonna get some I'm gonna get on this and get some attention.
I don't believe that he really cares about black people at all when he is
pushing an agenda that in part dehumanizes people who are black. Because there's this
whole thing of they learned skills from from slavery. Come on, like the
whole forgetting about these were human beings that that had a world they lived in
and they took care of their families, and they cooked, and they had
lives, and they were stolen, they were kidnapped and brutally tortured into slavery.
But he tries to sugarcoat it with this were you know, his banning
books, his we're going to teach that black people got skills from slaves.
Well he in fairness and listen, I'm no fan of the guy there,
but in fairness we we do we do need to say technically he's actually been
running away from that. Well he's not responsible. He's not directly responsible.
Now, oh come on, wait, no, the law, the law
that they passed, well, no, this is an important detail though,
the law that they passed in Florida about you know, teaching the benefits of
slavery and you know, making it sound like a job. I mean,
you know how I feel about that too. I agree with you, but
it's it's and a lot of Republicans have spoken out about that too, because
I know some people want to say, oh, it's the left that's upset
about this. No, a lot of Conservatives have spoken up about this too
and have said it's wrong, but that that wasn't DeSantis directly that specific law
that was the Florida State legislature. I do agree, however, though,
with what Chris Chris he said that DeSantis is the one who lit the fuse
on that, because he's the one, you know, with the what do
they call it, the Stop Woke Act in Florida. So DeSantis kind of
DeSantis started that, he was the catalyst for what follows, what follows from
that. But well, I would argue in this case, DeSantis lit the
fire, but then the Florida State Legislature poured gasoline on it. But so,
but I just again, I'm not trying to defend a Santis but but
he well, no, but it's not an opinion, it's a fact that
he's not the one who created that law that was created that was the Florida
State legislator. Say I didn't that he created it. He's touting it.
No, No, no, he's not that that law specifically, He's not
things that have been going on until now, he's been running he's running away
from right that that particular law. He's been running away from it. He
Uh, he won't. He won't speak against it, but he doesn't want
to. He doesn't want to take the blame for it either. He's been
uh which as again blimy politicians, and it fits himself into whatever piece he
thinks he can well. But in the end of the day, he supports
this crap because if he didn't, he'd be outspoken about it. Right,
A real governor, a real governor who gives you know, two cents about
the students in his estate, would speak out and say that's not okay,
we shouldn't ban the diary of Anne Frayne. But that's not what he's done.
I disagree the thing. One thing though, that I do disagree with
you on. I think he should have because it sounds like you're saying he
shouldn't have shown up at that event and spoken. I disagree. I well,
no, I don't think he should have. I don't think he should
have. And it certainly wasn't what the families or the people there wanted because
he got shouted down, he got told to leave. Yeah, he could
have done his peace, He could have said his peace from anywhere. He
did not have to show up there and take that podium. He made it
about him, and it's not about him. It's about those people. So
I stick to my guns on that one. That he absolutely should not have
shown up there. I don't know he didn't. He did more harm than
he did good by showing up. That's that's complicated though, because he is
the governor of the state. Well, I don't know if you saw this,
but now this is from media. Democratic Jacksonville congress I'm sorry not congresswoman.
Councilwoman who defended De Santis at shooting vigil says she wasn't says he wasn't
invited, but the crowd shouldn't have booed. This is it says here.
When Florida Governor Ron de Santis appeared at a vigil for the victims and community
of the racially motivated mass shooting in Jacksonville, he was not well received.
He was audibly booed by the crowd until Democratic Councilwoman Jacoby Pittman stood up for
him, telling everyone, quote, it ain't about parties today, unquote.
On Monday, Pittman gave CNN more details about DeSantis' appearance and revealed that the
governor wasn't actually invited. Speaking of CNN's Boris Sanchez, Pittman explained, actually,
there's well, no, there's audio here, but it's it's of the
full segment. I just want this part. Pittman explained that days after a
white gunman murdered three black shoppers at a Jacksonville Family Dollar, the hate crime
quote has crippled and handcuffed our community and families are hurting. You know,
they're heartbroken. Our community is heartbroken as well. Unquote. But when asked
about DeSantis, Pittman was eager to make it very clear that despite his taking
the mic, this event was not meant meant to be about him. In
fact, she didn't know he was going to be there, let alone speak.
So here's what she said. Quote, I had no idea that the
governor was coming. The MC of the event for that day called him up.
He was just only he was just only supposed to have been acknowledged as
being there. That vigil that we did yesterday was not about the governor,
And I will say I don't support any of the stances or policies that the
governor has implemented. You know, my concern yesterday was about the families.
It was not a political ploy for me and our community. It was about
focusing on the families that were there and the hatred that had come to their
community. And so I just want to make myself clear. I wanted the
audience to calm down because I wanted him to sit down, and I wanted
it to be the event that was for the residence and the community that had
come together for unity. That's uh, that's what that event was about,
not the governor. Unquote. DeSantis called the shooter who turned the gun on
himself a scumbag and pledged one million dollars in funds for security at Edward Waters
University an HBCU. And if you don't know what that is, historically black,
its HBCU. You hear that in the media a lot and they don't
explain what it means. It's historically black colleges and universities. So Edward Waters
University as an HBCU that the gunman initially approached before the shooting at the family
dollar. Nonetheless, some critics have said that DeSantis's war on woke has spread
the rhetoric that led to his crime to this crime. Florida State Representative Angie
Dixon, as Democrats said DeSantis had blood on his hands when details of the
shooters white supremacist beliefs came to light. M Well, here's what I don't
that's see that I'm no fan of DeSantis, but I'm not I'm not a
fan of that kind of rhetoric either, coming from from the other side of
things, that saying he has blood on his hands. I'm not comfortable with
that. Shouldn't say things like that in my opinion. But here's here's the
full quote. This is a governor who has done nothing but fan these types
of happenings throughout our state. Look, at the end of the day,
the governor has blood on his hands. He has had an attack and all
out to attack on the black community with his anti woke policies, which we
know very well was nothing more than a dog whistle to get folks riled up
and riled up in the way in which it just happened yesterday. Yeah,
I'm a little uncomfortable with the blood on his hands part. But but anyway,
but yeah, this the Democratic Jacksonville councilwoman. She she did try to
Pittman, she did try to try to calm things down. But uh,
let's see, I apologize for having to step away. Yeah, that's okay.
I am still fighting with my health insurance company. For those who are
following that story, Yeah, so I apologize for having to step away.
That's all right, But I respect whatever you said in my absence. I
totally respect you for your opinions. I'm just I'm a big non fan of
De Santis and yeah, and to back up one, I do want to
say one thing. I have a big problem with politicians showing up when somebody
dies like that, and the family I doubt got the choice. When years
ago, when the Iraqi warfare started, my boss lost her husband and it
was horrible, and it was one of the earlier deaths, and it was
in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Romney showed up walking in the in the procession,
and my girlfriend was devastated and disgusted and she didn't want him there,
and nobody talked to her. She didn't get a say. He just showed
up, and it was such an I was there with her. It was
such a horrific situation that since that moment, I've been one hundred percent against
politicians showing up when people have died or been killed without the family saying yes,
come be with me, because you can tell the difference. If the
family was, hey, come be with us, you wouldn't have people shouting
him down and saying you're not welcome, get out of here. That's not
what would be happening. Because when they show up and they're wanted, yeah,
they're usually standing right next to the loved one. The well loved one
is right with them. You see that all the time. But in these
situations when the family I doubt even necessarily knew he was going to show up,
and people are saying get out of here. Well, families, I
mean in this case, so because it was three people killed, right,
so you've got three different families. It's I understanding that two of the families
do want to speak to President Biden. One of the families said they would
rather not. And that's being that that apparently is being followed because he said
it himself, he's not going to try and force himself on anybody, but
anybody who wanted the call, he was going to give them a call.
Because unfortunately, in these situations, these family become the propaganda that gets held
up by both sides, Oh you got to decide with me, instead of
people just take a step back. For a minute. Let these people have
their grief. Let them have their feelings before you try and hold them up
and make them examples to pass whatever law. Right. Let people God,
let people in the just have that. It's a little bit tricky in that,
if I mean, with the Santists, it's kind of an unusual situation
because of his anti woke crusade. Complicates things obviously, but I think it
enhances my position. But I think, well, I was just going to
say, though I think, well, yeah, I was saying, with
the Santists, it's a little it's a little more complicated than it would be
for really probably any other governor in the country, to be honest with you,
because I think generally there's a little bit of a no win it's a
little bit of a no win situation because if a governor in a situation like
that doesn't show up, then there's going to be people who are going to
say, oh, this governor doesn't care. But I do think you're right.
Ultimately, it should be up to the families and what they want and
what they're comfortable with. They they should come first, and if they don't
express any particular reference, whoever is organizing the event should ask them, and
then the governor, be at DeSantis or any other governor from any other state,
should respect whatever that decision is. But I think when there's a serious
emergency going you don't necessarily want the political dude to get there right away because
he's going to get in the way. He's going to get security away from
the things that are going on. Yeah, you know, in those instances,
they get permission. So you know, why don't they ever talk to
the You know, why don't they listen to the families. If you got
one out of three saying I don't want you here, don't come issue a
statement, offer to talk to those people behind closed doors. If you're truly
going to be there to be supportive of these people, that's all you need
do. Right. If you insist or need to be out in front of
that camera, well you ain't doing. It's about the families. This is
about you and your ego. I think two. Probably it would depend on
some of that. I mean, ultimately, yeah, I agree it should
be up to the families. I think also to the it may depend somewhat
on well, just as an example, because Bill Clinton, I don't know
if there were any kind of when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas. I
don't know if there were any of these kinds of shootings on his watch,
but I would imagine it would probably have been had there been a pretty safe
bet that people would be comfortable with him showing up because he was known for
I mean, it's part of how he got elected president. He was you
know that whole I feel your pain thing. Whereas in contrast, somebody like
run to Santis. It's like, I don't know if the guy has any
actual human emotions or a capacity for empathy. And maybe he does. I'm
not saying that he doesn't. There might be a lot more. I mean,
most people, well most most people have a lot more to them than
what you see on the surface. Well, and I and I do have
a and I do have a suspicion about him that there's a lot that there
are things about him that he keeps hidden because he's because of his awkwardness.
Awkward people usually have things about themselves that where that they're not comfortable showing you.
And it might be and not I don't necessarily mean negative things. Sometimes
they can be positive things, like they don't want to they have emotions that
they don't want to show you because they're vulnerable. So I don't know.
I don't see that when I look at him. I don't either. But
I'm just saying, though, I'm just saying, you just never know.
Sometimes awkward people are deeply emotional. People think he's that complicated, Probably not,
probably not, probably not. I'm just saying, though, you never
really know. He's all about getting his mug in front of a camera.
I'd like to call that man cas about is this hair straight? And can
he get a space in front of a camera. I could better assess him
if I could meet him and look him in the eyes. But then again,
apparently he doesn't look people in the eyes when he when he meets them.
Mike Doyle is on the line him, Mike, Hey, guys,
how are you doing good? How are you good? Hey? Jenny,
Hey, I was I just turned you on. I was listening to ten
minutes of your conversation there. Don't you think, like any politician, if
you're especially running for president, that if you didn't show up. And I
understand the family thing, but somebody, you know, did somebody ever tell
him listen? One family doesn't want you here. But but if he if
he doesn't show up, what are they going to say, right, that's
a headline for We were talking about that he doesn't want to be involved with
when you know that type of thing. Yeah, I said, I said
that. I like I said, it's a little bit of a no win
situation. I do agree, and that it should be up to the family.
Sorry and go ahead, No, I was saying, I do believe
it should be absolutely up to the families ultimately. But I but I also
acknowledged, Yeah, it is a little bit complicated because you're right, if
he doesn't show up, it will get used against him. Oh yeah.
And and so in that effort, you know, he came off the campaign
trail to do this, you know, error on the side of being there
versus not being there. You know, you can argue with that. People
some people there was only I read the article this morning and they were saying
some people were booing. There was a small contingent booing and probably family members
or you know. And he in his speech he said, you know,
I found out recently that the security at that college that the kid went to
first was kind of lax. So this morning he signed an executive order to
give a million dollars grand a million dollars to that university to beef up their
beef up their security. Right. So he also gave some other money to
somebody else for security something else. I can't remember. Well, I think
it was more than I think it was more than one HBCU that. Yeah,
he's uh funding to ben. You know, it's funny how people can
kind of rat on him, but it's it's what he's supposed to do.
He's a governor. He comes out the campaign trail, he has to go
this is this happened in the money. I gotta show up. I gotta
tell the people I'm behind you. We're gonna you know. And his last
statement was this should not happen. It doesn't matter what color of your skin
is. And but people still want to kind of crap on him. And
I don't know. I think he just did what he had to do.
Like you said, Yeah, I don't think it was had to He could
have said, he could have made a statement without going down to that specific
site. Well, I would be curious to know. One thing we don't
see if he's going to make security works. One thing that we don't know
is what do the families think or did they have any input on this.
That's a that's an important piece of information to me in terms of judging the
appropriateness of him being there. And that's something we don't know, and we
might not ever we might not ever know that. We don't we don't know
that, and we don't know if anybody relayed anything to him to say,
hey, they would rather not have you here right out of respect, and
he would say, Okay, I'm not going to go there out of respect.
That we don't know if either of those happen. Jenny's point, Jenny,
here's here's the problem with what you're saying is if he did it long
distance via video, he would still get chastised. I'm not disagreeing that it's
a no win situation one way or the other. I'm just saying that from
from the way things appeared, it appeared like maybe he should have asked first
and chosen to go after he got an answer. You know, what is
it? What can I ask a question of YouTube? What is it that
gets under your skin about the Santa so much? Oh my god? What
doesn't? What does it? Everybody's moving to Florida. They're all moving to
Florida. Tax free. Hey, tax free, my butt, tax free,
my butt. We're way more tax free up here than they are.
They have a lot of county taxes. Number one, Number two, Where
do we start with Florida? Should we start with the flesh eating bacteria that's
washing up on shore? Should we start with the triple digit the leprosy being
transmitted by mosquitoes? The fact that all of the a lot of the major
home insurance companies are completely pulling out or not writing insurance policies there anymore,
because that's gone to heck in a handbag. While he was paying attention to
Disney and actually causing the state more money by taking seven miles a road back
into the state's control. They had to absorb all of that with that,
like taking care of the road policing ems. That's such He's Let's see,
the Diary of Van Frank is not used in Florida schools anymore because that's pornography,
don't you know. So when we teach the Holocaust, we don't teach
the Diary of Van Frank and Florida anymore, is my understanding. Let's see
where else should we go? Flying cockroaches? Anybody? Anybody? Tons of
poisonous and buying stakes and leopardsy flesh eating bacteria. Yeah, no, Florida's
not for me. Knock yourself out. Well, to be fair, Mike,
you did. I think your exact question was what's wrong with Florida?
Right? So, I don't know how you want me to word it.
I didn't mean the problems because every other state has problems. Who yeah,
but every other state. Yeah, but we don't have leprosy flying around in
mosquitoes in New Hampshire, you know, dude, like they have that.
Go look it up. I'm not even kidding you. They have a leprosy
outbreak going on in Florida right now. They have more poisonous snakes than I
can think of. We have one, I know. But all right,
So you're talking about Florida's conditions. They're they're pre quarters surrounded by water.
It's it's a tough situation. I used to love one and a lot of
cold on one side, and one is susceptible to tornadoes and hurricanes not so
much anymore. A lot of wet They got a lot of wetlands, which
produces a lot of mosquitoes. And so I don't know which one Ron de
Santa Is to get out there with Ron de Santas. What I'd like him
to do is retire. I think he's the worst thing to happen in politics.
I think he's a terrible who live in Florida say just the opposite,
say we love it here, he's great. Maybe they won't next go around.
Well, they got a lot of people exiting. I mean, you've
talked about I don't know what, I don't know very increasing every year you're
wrong about. No, no, no, no, no go. A
lot of the blogs on all the people who are a part of the LGBTQ
community who like, I'm not living here anymore, or how many black moms
are pulling their kids out because they don't want their kids being taught that slaves
were given skills. Oh, let's not go, I don't want to.
Let's right, let's not get on that road again. Well, these are
the people that are moving out. I'm saying, is all I'm saying is
there is a lot of My brother lives in Florida six months out of the
year. His wife's a staunch Democrat, and she votes for De Santa's every
year. He's fantastic. No, I don't know my brother, everybody,
my other brother lives down there. He's like him better than Trump. People
love him. Do you like him better than Trump? Which one you're going
for? I do, because I don't think he'll shoot it. I would
think he would do a lot of the same policies that we had three years
ago that we don't have now, and be paid and less than gas and
inflation and all that stuff. And I think I don't think he shoot himself
in the foot as much as Trump does with his mouth. I don't think
anything. Yeah, you can't think anybody. Yeah, yeah, I don't
think anyone would. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, yeah.
To your point, Mike, I mean, DeSantis did do very well in
his re election versus not that Charlie Christ was a particularly strong candidate, but
DeSantis won pretty big in that election. But he doesn't He's got he's got
two degrees from Yale and somewhere Howevard. I think, oh, yeah,
no, he's a he was a he was a Navy seal, he was
a jag officer. He's done he's done all the right things to help people
and defend the country. And I don't know, and some and everybody just
hates him the guy, Well, he didn't have to go back to Afghanistan,
he did, I think. I don't know. Yeah, I think
all the all the anti woke stuff I think really hurts him, even among
Republicans. There's polling data that shows Republicans are just kind of tired of hearing
about woke this and woke that. But I do think De Santa's got the
message because in that last debate, I don't know if I was trying to
think back, I don't think I heard to Santa's use the word woke once
that entire debate, which was actually very surprising to me because for a long
time, every interview I would see with him, the first thing out of
his mouth about any subject he would be asked about us, well, we
have to defeat woke ism and wokeness and this and that, like he's so
hyper focused on it all of a suddender. In that debate, I don't
know if he said the word woke even one time, which is definitely a
pivot for him. I don't know if it'll help him or not, But
I don't think he connects with people though in the same way that some of
those other candidates might be able to Yeah, I mean I haven't I haven't
met I haven't met the guy, but I've heard people like when he comes
to New Hampshire. I've heard people say he doesn't really look you in the
eye when he shakes her hand. He's just he's kind of nervous and awkward.
And one guy compared him to a carnival barker. No, well,
I see without meeting the guy, how could you even say that that.
Somebody else said he doesn't look in the eye and he's and he's a carnival.
But how can you say those things? But I had actually knowing him,
and pretty easy to determine. When they open their mouths, you can
tell. Well, I could see him, I see him on TV,
I see him on video, I hear him. But I actually can't take
credit for that. I was actually reading somebody else's choice words, but I
happen to agree with them. I mean, we are talking about a guy
who declared pro wrestlers necessary humans for a plague because that made sense, right,
Yeah, as the first responder, that was really dumb. Well,
I would have been bummed if we didn't have WrestleMania that year, though,
Dude, come yeah, So Matt, Matt, so your point about woke
during the campaign during the debate, I don't think I saw it either.
Yeah, but why would he I would he bring that up if he didn't
need to. You know, that's like any other subject that's controversial. Why
would you bring it up if you didn't have to. I think that's what
Matt was saying, that he was bringing that up a lot, and in
this debate he did not bring it up. That was the Yeah, yeah,
his famous his famous line is this is Florida is where woke goes to
die? Right, Yeah, but he uses at all the time. That's
his that's his stupid theory there. But I wonder you might not hear that
anymore though this may have been a pivot for him. I don't know.
We'll see. Yeah. Hey, one last thing. Did you watch the
whole debate? Oh? Yeah, absolutely? Did you see you when they
asked the question about who would vote with Trump if he becomes the nominee,
the whole right side of the stage as you're facing and put their hands up.
And then Chris Christie looked over and sire, everybody putting their hands up,
and he put his hand up, like put off and he was waving
a little bit, a little where to put it what he had like a
little finger wave, going yeah, yeah. He didn't know when that to
put it up down. He was caught in the middle. And then when
they asked him, he said, you put your hand up a little bit,
he said, He said, oh, I was waving for I was.
I wanted you to ask me a question, such a coward was It
was a very strange moment. I would have liked to have heard. I
haven't heard him explain what he was doing, because to me, it looked
like he said, oh no, I was going like this, and it
looked like he was making an emotion, like he was writing something. And
I wondered, I didn't know if that was a reference to the pledge that
he had to sign, because they all had to sign a pledge that they
would support the eventual nominee. I didn't well, I don't know, I
don't know. I mean, that was one theory because it looked like he
was making a right but he never explained it. And I haven't heard anyone
really ask him, Hey, what what were you doing with your hand?
And he could back it up. I mean, it kind of looked like
he was starting to put his hand up and then like quit halfway up.
Yeah. I like, wait a minute, I'm not sure that's what I
think. Yes, exactly. He looked started on the right side, and
it's slowly went across everybody's putting it up, and then death to him and
he's like, oh shit, and he started to put his hand up.
Oh sorry, that's all right, Mike, we're on a delay. I
caught it. Although that's the first time I've ever Okay, that's the first
time I've ever had to do that with you. You're you're you know,
and I'm not I'm not big on craziness. But anyways, all right,
I just wanted to put my two cents in that he he you know,
I mean during COVID, he didn't close down this state. The economy kept
going. You got to ague you can't ague that he has a lot of
elderly and he came in right in the middle of the chart. If you
look on the chart of deaths, he was right in the middle of all
the states. So he did it. He did it. You know,
any one death is horrible, but but for just looking at death versus states
and who has the elderly and the most vulnerable population. It's certainly Florida.
And he came in right in the middle of the pack when when the numbers
were all settled, and so people look at that and say that was he
did a great job. Kids didn't have to wear a mask to school,
things like that, and they got He got away with all of it and
it all worked well. I think that's the whole thing. I thought,
that's a big subject, which which was maybe for another day. We don't
have time to get all that now. Mading cause of death in Florida is
COVID. Yeah, it's hard disease, cancer, COVID and undintentional injury.
Yeah. Yeah, but look at just look at that. I'll hang out
because we've gone a long time. But when you get a minute, just
you know, google the deaths in by state, state by state and look
where Florida ended up, and he has by far the most vulnerable population with
all the elderly. They're retired in Florida. So I don't know that's that.
I'm just trying to give you an outline of why people like that see
him as I do. Says he's better than Trump, or he's better than
Chris Christy or better than a lot of these, even though I think Nicki
Haley did a great job. She had a oh in the debate, she
had a few good moments. Yeah, I agree, Yeah, I agree.
So anyways, all right, goodbye, SI. Down with you guys.
We'll talk to you soon. All right, thanks for the call,
Mike, take care see you. All right. That was our friend Mike
Doyle, and I'd give the I'd give the studio line again, but we
actually were approaching the top of the hour, so a couple of minutes,
so we do have a guest. Yes, Governor Ron de Santis already statewide
lockdown April first, twenty twenty. Yeah, so there was some lot.
He didn't not lockdown completely, right right. I think he opened things up
quicker than some than some state serious to look at their death rate. I'm
definitely going to look it up. Melanie points out in the chat room he
fired the person who was in charge of the COVID data. He didn't like
the numbers. Yeah, there was some of that. Yeah. The other
thing too, is uh with those with that data, you know, it
kind of depends on where in the pandemic you're looking at and I've heard all
those numbers spun a thousand different ways, so I don't know. And I'm
not even good at maths, so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get into
all of that. But again, though, I mean to Mike's point,
uh, Desantists did and that last election he pretty well crushed Charlie Chris.
So obviously Floridian's happy with the job he's been doing. But does that translate
in terms of him being a candidate for the presidency And I just don't.
I just don't think so. I don't think he has the ability to connect
with people, and I think a lot of people are really turned off by
the all the anti woke stuff, which again he may have pivoted on that
he may have Finally, he's not trying to be everybody's governor. Now.
The other thing about him, though, too, is Desantist comes off like
if you disagree with him, it's you know, because if you're gonna win
in a general election, you want to try to at least present yourself as
somewhat of a uniter, whereas Desantist kind of has this vibe like he doesn't
even want to try to unite people. If you disagree with him. He
hates you and just move out and yeah, and he just wants nothing to
do with you. I mean, that's just how he I mean, he's
never explicitly said that, but I'm just saying that's how he comes off.
I know what he is. For me, one more reason not to move
to Florida. Well, no, thank you. I'm gonna stay here in
New England. It's a it's a bit safer, it's a bit nicer,
a lot nicer opinion. Scott Robinson said in the chat, I've heard that
if De Santa doesn't get the nomination, he is going to be the new
lead on the reboot of Greatest American Hero. I remember watching that show when
I was a kid. I like the theme song that Believe it or Not,
I'm Walking on Air. I loved that show. We played that one
night on Retrospectrum Radio. That was in paulse playlist for it was TV themes.
I think the theme was Actually I think we might have done two episodes
uh TV themes that were also hit songs on the radio. Let's see,
do we have time to maybe just quickly say hello to some people in the
chat room and then we're gonna get to one of the tracks from our band
that's coming up. We should say hello to everybody in here quickly, though.
Jay fed joins us and says, good afternoon everyone, of course,
from the great state of Vermont. Scott Robinson says, wow, there was
almost as many people at the Martin Luther King I have a dream speech as
there were at Trump's inauguration. If you're if you're just joining us and you
don't know what that's a reference. Who. Of course, we did open
today with the speech Martin Luther King, because it's the sixty year anniversary of
the March on Washington where Martin Luther King gave that wonderful speech. Miriam Bannish
joins us in the Facebook live chat. Hello, Miriam, as well as
Chris Rose from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Aboard seven, who I'm pretty sure
is from Greensboro, North Carolina, says good afternoon from us. Hashtag Matt
Connerton and hashtag gen coffee. And how are you from us? Melanie la
Liberty I think I mentioned, She says, Hey, guys. Aboard seven
says we for us had a good weekend. Hashtag Matt Connerton and hashtag gen
coffee for us. We say, was so sad that the legend of the
host of Price's Right Game show, Bob Barker, passed away for the weekend.
He was awesome host from US. We say, is r I P
Bob Barker so strange how they talk in Greensboro hashtag Greensboro, North Carolina.
When when when at seven says he passed away for the weekend, it makes
it sound like he's just passed away for the weekend and now he's back.
Melanie said, he is a disgusting little man, I believe, referring to
uh Ron de Santis. He's actually rather tall, is he? Why does
why does Trump call him tiny? D? I thought he was tall.
I thought, I don't think he's I don't think he's short, but I
think he's like on the low end of medium height. Trump is tall,
So maybe just next to Trump, he seems short. But I have no
idea because I'm a brat. I threw an article in the chat room just
to to share the Palm Beach post November ninth, twenty twenty. Don't follow
the state's example. The coronavirus has killed more people age sixty five and older
in Florida than any other state in the nation. That is the Palm Beach
Post on November ninth, twenty two. Yeah, thank you, Scott Robinson
said in the chat. And he worked his way through college at an Ivy
League school making seven dollars an hour. He's just a god. Now that
was about the rate then, there wasn't it. What's that? The rate
was probably about seven back then. Yeah. Melanie says he wants to control
women's bodies and is scared of people entertaining and sparkly clothes, and he is
changing history books. He also is afraid of books in general. I think
I don't know if he literally is changing them himself. But Rondo Ferverro from
the Great State of California joins us and says, Hi, guys, let's
see. Also, Joe Friday joins us in the chat and says hello,
Matt and the lovely Jenny, Oh, thank you. Hello. Aboard seven
says we say president and Biden is doing the best as he can. From
us because if he stays being the president. Biden from US, we said,
from us, don't care about Trump. I really wish that neither of
them would be on my ballot. M Yeah, agreed, just going to
throw that out there. Agreed, Joe Friday is asking Mike Doyle how how
is Saratoga? But unfortunately I did not see that comment. Uh well,
Mike was still on the line. But yeah, Joe Friday is asking if
Mike hit it big like a gambly police that's the horse racing. Oh Saratoga.
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By the way. Now this is apropos of nothing political or anything,
but I just happened to so on the morning show this morning, h Shannon
had called in and she asked a question about UH radio at night. Why
why is it that you can pick radio stations up? I forget exactly how
she phrased it. I think she said something about different times of day being
able to get different radio stations, like from further away or something like that.
I wasn't sure. Yeah, at least that's what it sounded me like
she was asking about. And it's actually true that at night, and sometimes
very late at night, you can get radio stations from further away. And
there was a scientific explanation for it. And I can attest to this.
I had something. Really My dad might even remember this, you know,
because he listens to the show. When I was a kid, I was
probably I don't know, maybe ten eleven years old. I was a radio
nerd from a pretty young age. Always had the radio on, and there
was one night This only happened once and it never happened again, but it
was so cool. I was always, you know, going through the scrolling
through the dial, turning the dial, trying to see if there were radio
stations available that I didn't know about yet that I just had and found yet,
both on AM and FM. That's how into it I was. There
was one night, and I remember it was a clear night. It was
in the I believe it was in the summertime. I landed on a radio
station I didn't recognize, and I heard the liner. It was a station
Swear to god, Buffalo, New York. Really it was, don't get
me wrong. It was very scratchy. There was a lot of static,
but I heard, you know, w blah blah blah whatever. It was
Buffalo, New York. And I was like, oh my god. And
it only lasted maybe twenty seconds, and then it got really staticky again,
and that was it. And I and then I but I remembered where it
was. I made a note of where it was on the dial, and
every once in a while I would go back and look for it. But
it was Buffalo, New York and we were living in Conquer, New Hampshire.
But it was just it was at night, it was kind of late,
and there it was. It was it was really amazing. So there
is actually something to Shannon's question, and I happened to look this up.
This is short. This is from how stuff works dot com. Why do
you hear some radio stations better at night than in the day? And there
is a scientific explanation. It says here, radio waves naturally travel in straight
lines, so you would naturally expect because of the curvature of the Earth,
with apologies any flat earthers out there, you would naturally expect, because of
the curvature of the Earth, that no radio station would transmit further than thirty
or forty miles. And that is exactly the case for ground based as opposed
to satellite TV transmissions. The curvature of the Earth prevents ground based TV transmissions
from going much further than forty miles or sixty four kilometers. Certain radio stations,
however, especially the shortwave and AM bands, can travel much farther.
Shortwave can circle the globe, and AM. Actually, we know someone who's
made videos about bragging about how he's talked to people in other parts of the
world a long long time. Yes, shortwave can circle the globe, and
AM stations transmit hundreds of miles at night. The extended transmission is possible because
of the ionosphere, one of the layers of the atmosphere. It is called
the ionosphere because when the Sun's rays hit this layer, many of the atoms
there lose electrons and turn into ions. As it turns out, the ionosphere
reflects certain frequencies of radio waves, so the waves bounce between the ground and
the ionosphere and make their way around the planet. The composition of the ionosphere
at night is different than during the day because of the presence or absence of
the sun. You can pick up some radio stations better at night because the
reflection characteristics of the ionosphere are better at night. So it actually is true.
It's not just a myth that you can you can get radio stations further
away at night than you can during the day. But yeah, I'll never
forget that moment. It was so bizarre. Are I wonder if my dad
remembers that, because I remember like telling him Dad. I didn't call him
dad, I called him. I called him paw for some reason when I
was a kid. I don't know why. I think it was from watching
Little House on the Prairie. That makes sense. But yeah, I was
like, hey, I got a radio station from Buffalo, New York.
But I think by the time he came into the room it had already gone
back to static. But it was so weird a brief moment, it was
wild. It was like like the science fiction like, Wow, the dulcet
tones of New York City. Well it wasn't dulcet because it was very it
was very staticky, but I could just make it out. I could make
out the I wish I could remember the call letters, but I could make
out the call letters and the and the location just just incredible. And obviously
there was nothing there occupying that frequency on the dial here locally or there.
And as we were in conquered. I grew up at WBC Yes Yes,
every morning and waiting for the school cancelations. Back then, you had to
wait until they said the alphabet all the way down to your town name.
Oh yeah. It was no computer to look at right right. If you
missed it, you had to sit there and wait for it go all over
again. Yes, here's a new name in the Facebook live chat, and
I'm sure I'll get it wrong, Tassi. Who's Tassi Usani? Tassi Usani?
And I'm actually not saying it twice because I'm trying to make sure I
get it right. I'm saying it twice, although I would like to get
it right out of respect. I try to get people's names correct. But
it's actually the same name twice, Tassi, Tassi Usani, Tassi Usani.
I bet him close. Or maybe it's Tassi Usani Tassi Usani. Hashtag joins
us in the chat room. Nope, no hashtag, no hashtag. So
I don't know if they're from Greensboro. I can't see them. It's like
sometimes you can see stuff and I look, I don't see it. Oh
really, Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, well, I know it's different
on every I'll see things, you know, because I have my computer here
and then I have and then of course we have the big monitor here,
but I also bring in my own computer, and I see things. I
see different even though it's the same chat room. Sometimes I'll see certain comments
on one browser and not the other. It's it's very strange. Abort seven
says we are from Greensboro, North Carolina, from US. Good afternoon.
Matt's father from US. We say, mister Connerton high from US. I
didn't see him. It's so nice. I just mentioned my dad. And
then Abort seven is saying hello from Greensboro, North Carolina. Well not nice.
You know what that sounds like, don't you now? Miriam Bannish says,
late at night, I could hear New York City stations. Interesting,
Oh, Joe Friday is talking about bad things really like what remember seeing the
French nudy movies on the night TV. Oh I do. I don't know
what you're talking about, Joe Friday. Now that's a discussion for Matt Connerton
unsheathed. How dare you talked about that? Yeah? Miriam says, oh,
yeah, late at night, I couldn't New York when I Oh,
she could get New York stations when she was living in southeastern PA. Do
you know what I didn't know until recently, well until a couple of years
ago, when Dusty Hill from ZZ Top died. Yeah. So, like
a lot of people, I was nostalgic, and I, you know,
always loved zz Top still do. And I was reading about there's a song
that I played because I wanted to find because Billy Gibbons is the primary lead
vocalist in that band, but Dusty did sing a handful of songs. So
when Dusty died, I specifically looked for cool zz top songs to play where
Dusty did the lead vocals. And there's a song called heard It on the
X that's from an early album, and I didn't know what that meant heard
It on the X, but I thought heard it does this have something to
do with radio. So it turns out in Mexico. You know how in
the United States, Uh, in the eastern half of the country, it's
all the call letters start with W and in the western half they all start
with K. Didn't know that. No, Actually I never never really need
that little easter egg like double yeah, like yeah, I forget where the
line is. But but yes, so stations like that's why stations in California
they all start with K for example. Well in Mexico, it turns out
they all start with X. And there there are these stations, or there
were, they might not still be around. There were these stations in Mexico
called border blasters but slang term. And the reason they were called that is
because in Mexico the stations didn't have the radio stations then and maybe it's still
true today. But when when these guys were growing up in zz Top,
you know, they're from Texas, so they would hear these Mexican radio stations
because they were called border blasters because whereas they were unregulated, their frequencies would
travel really far. So you might literally have a five hundred thousand watts station
in Mexico that would reach almost all the way to Canada. So that's why
the song is called heard It, Heard It on the X because they would
hear some really cool things on these Mexican radio stations, some really cool you
know, blues artists and stuff that you wouldn't hear on American radio. But
apparently so, I don't know if those stations are still around, and if
they're still you know where you can get them, like way up almost into
Canada. But yeah, they're called border blasters and you can get them very
far. Let's see. I just want to make sure we don't miss anybody
in here. Oh, Joe Friday says, speaking of tall guys and horse
racing, Happy birthday to Nick Macris twenty eight on the twenty eighth Watch for
his horse. He's a lucky guy. I guess that's the name of the
horse. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry joins us in the Facebook live chat.
Queen City Cabinetry one of our great sponsors here at WMH ninety five point three
FM, and I get to hang out with Mike every Friday night for retro
Spectrum Radio with Pauly c U. Joe Friday says, border Blasters. That's
a great name for a cocktail. Miriam Bannish says the University of North Texas
had a problem with their call letters. They go to K and TU Now,
oh yes. Aboard seven says, uh, it took me a half
second to get that, but yeah, I can see how that would be
a problem, Miriam. I don't even know if Miriam serious or if she's
kidding. She might be serious. I think she is serious, but if
not, that's a great joke. If she's kidding, but I think she's
serious. Aboard seven says which one members of zz top who passed away from
us? Matt Bob Barker. He was the He was a member of zz
Top. He passed away over the weekend. No. Dusty Hill, of
course, the bass player and occasional lead singer, A board seven says we
say zz top had good hits. Yes they did, Yes they did.
Uh. Six three two five zero six zero seven is a studio line if
you'd like to join us today. Six zero three two five zero six zero
seven. Oh, Miriam says I'm one hundred percent serious. Yeah, see,
you're terrible? Why because you are? What's terrible? You? There
was? I'm trying to here we go. I did not get a chance
to, Oh should we do this? I haven't. I have an article
here from Media Ey'd about cable news shows and networks ranked for bias and accuracy.
But I also wanted to do the Oliver Anthony thing. Let's do the
Oliver Anthony thing. I can save this for another day. We might have
time for both. So Oliver Anthony, do you know who Oliver Anthony has?
To remember? We talked about him. He did that song Richmond North
of Richmond, and now I have I have a radio edit of this song.
What I would like to do now? Oliver Anthony? He kind of
became famous sort of overnight. Because what happened is a lot of right wing
podcast and online media personalities like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh. You know the
whole Daily Wire crew and whatnot. They really got behind this song so and
really kind of championed this song, and a lot of conservatives love the song.
Now there's some backlash though, at Oliver Anthony because he didn't like that.
He says he didn't like that the song was actually featured at the Republican
debate, because he said, wait a minute, those those people on that
debate stage there, there's some of the same people I'm talking about. This
has nothing to do with party. My song isn't about a particular political party.
I'm talking about everybody in Washington, both Republicans and Democrats. So now
he's getting some backlash from some of the conservatives who supported him. But what
I would like to do, I have not listened to this song all the
way through. Now. Regular listeners might recall a number of weeks ago there
was a big controversy around the song Try That in a Small Town by Jason
Aldeen, and I intentionally avoided listening to that song because I want to play
it on the show and give you my live in the moment, unvarnished if
you will reaction to it and get feedback from the audience and get your thoughts
and whatnot. And luckily though, DJ Steve was in the Facebook live chat
that day and said, Hey, Matt, heads up there. You'll want
the radio edit because Jason Aldeen actually says the sword in the song, so
I had to find the radio edit. This song also has the sword in
it, but there is a radio edit available, so I have not.
Now I've heard more of this song than I had heard of the Jason Aldeen
song before I played it on the show. But I've avoided listening to this
song all the way through for the same reason. I'm going to play the
song all the way through the radio edit, of course, right here live
on the air, and give you my my reaction to it, and get
your reaction and of course anybody in the audience who wants to react or has
any thoughts on it. I've heard only the very beginning of the song.
I have heard a tiny bit of it. I had to hear enough of
it to make sure it was a legitimate radio edit. Fortunately, the first
s bomb is very early in the song, so I didn't have to get
very far in the song to hear. Okay, they did the reversal on
that to make the swear go away. Good. So this is a legitimate
radio edit. So so you haven't heard the song, right, I don't
think though, Okay, so I'm gonna play it right now. The radio
edit of Richmond North of Richmond by Oliver Anthony and h And I'll tell you
what I think. And uh, well that's it. I'll tell you what
I think and we'll hear what you all think. Here here we go.
I've been selling my soul, working home day over time hours for bish.
Hey, so I can sit out here and waste my life for hate,
drag back home and drown my troubles away. It's a damn shame what the
horld has gotten to for people like me, people like you. Wish I
could just wake up and not be true. But it is, Oh,
it is living in the new world with a hold soul. The rich Man
nor the Richmond Lord knows it all. Just wanna have total control, wanna
know what you think. I wanna know what you do, and then don't
think you know, but then whole like you do your dollar hate dish and
it's costin on him, calls the red Man on the ch man. Wish
politicians look out from miners and not just miners on an island somewhere. Lord,
we got folks in the street, ain't got nothing to eat, and
they hold be milking welfare. God, if you're five foot three and your
three hundred pounds taxes hold not for pay or your bags of food grounds don't
in. They're putting themselves six feet in the ground. Is all this damn
country does is keep on kicking them down. Lord, It's a damn shame
what the world's gotten to the people like me, people like you who wish
I could just wake up and it not be true, But it is all
it is living in the new world with an hold soul. These rich men
told for Richmond. Lord knows they all just wanna have total control, want
to know what you think, want to know what you do. And then
I don't thank you, know, but I know that you do because your
dollar haines ash and it's texting a hen calls the CHMN not the DSMN.
I've been selling my soul, working all day over time hard for boldish pay.
What do you think that was the first time for me listening to it
all the way through, and I'm glad I've I've actually looked up some stuff
about this guy. I can see what he's saying. Uh, there's some
stuff in there that I think is kind of uncomfortable for me, because he's
doing like some there's some Nott shaming in there about However, that being said,
when you actually, when I'm reading this man, what he is saying,
he's saying that the rich, the rich, it's the rich who hurt
the poor. And I'm sorry, that's true, that's very true. The
elitists did never have to worry about their healthcare. The elitists don't worry about
food on their table. And yeah, they'll pay as craptastic as they can
for a salary to make sure that they keep pattinging those dollars they gotta pay
for those little yats they get to pay for those stily clothes. They could
give two craps about the rest of us, as long as their cough is
a gain in fult so in the in the in the vein of what he
intended for it. I can disagree with this man. I think that,
and I can support what he's saying. I well, one thing, I
yeah, one thing I cannot support is he kind of he kind of uh
at one point, and it's it's with the fat shaming comment. He's sort
of it it almost, And part of my thinking about this might be a
little bit tainted by some of what I was reading and hearing about the song
before actually listening to it. But he sounds like he kind of takes a
swipe at people who are unwelfare and I don't and I don't like that.
Yeah, but but but he he sounds like he's doing it more combined with
fat shaming, like he doesn't do they the old Ronald Reagan welfare queen.
Uh nonsense, So right, And that's what I was saying. That's part
of the song that I have the discomfort with. Yeah, the over if
I take a broad view of what he's singing a about, well, he's
singing about a lot of the same stuff that I've been talking about from podiums
for the last few months about, Yeah, how we don't get we get
cut off in our healthcare. People are poor because they they're poor because they
can only afford their medicines. After that they're broke. They're made medically poor.
How many people have bankruptcies, lose their houses because of medicine? What
he just from that one perspective to me, if I look at it in
that vein, one hundred percent agree with the guy. But I mean,
there's a lot of what he says it's absolutely true, and especially I gotta
say in some southern areas. When I was in Kentucky, the world was
very different, and I'm sure that it still is from the north. You
know, maybe it's a different world. The pay scales are different. I
worked in a sweatshop sewing factory. We got told we weren't getting paychecks because
the facts machine messed up the numbers because ninety percent of the people in that
room didn't know how a fax machine worked, what it does, never even
saw one. You know. I saw a lot of slimy, slimy stuff
in Kentucky that would never get pulled off here. Yeah, but they get
away with it in the backwood there, at least they did when I was
there. I'm speaking from my own personal experience, right, I don't know
what that world is like now. Maybe because we're all connected now with computers,
maybe it's become different. Oh, I'm sure I felt about the job
application that literally asked me if I was married, and if I had children,
how many it wanted? My height it wanted my weight. This was
a gas station job. So I remember what I said about the Jason Aldeen
song when I played that live on the air. I said, just now
taking the video out of it, just a song itself. And there by
the way, there is no video for the well, no, actually I
think there is a video for this song. But it's so simple. It's
a simplaint. But you know, the Jason Aldean song, of course,
has this whole big produced video, and there's controversy about the video, but
the song itself. What I said about the song itself, because people were
saying it was racist and whatnot, I said, this song taken by itself,
I don't believe as racist, but I can see it why if you
are racist, you would like this song. I would say about this song
Richmond North of Richmond, if you are a I don't think the song is
promoting a particular ideology, and apparently, from what Oliver Anthony is saying,
that was absolutely not his intention. However, I can see why conservatives.
Why is something like you know, the Daily Wire crew, like Ben Shapiro
and Matt Walsh and all of them. I can see why they got behind
the song because there's some you know, it's it's it's kind of a populist.
It's become sort of this populist anthem, and there's different kinds of populism,
and it's kind of a right leaning sounding populism. So I can see
why they got behind the song. But there's a couple of interesting controversies that
actually have come out. So one is is what I said, he was
upset that the song was used during during that debate. And by the way,
for anyone who says, because I know some people are saying, well,
then why did he approve it, he probably didn't. They never usually
do. Well, here's the thing though, because some people say, well,
wouldn't he wouldn't He have had to have at least given his approval for
them to use a song. But here's the thing. Well, yeah,
there's a bit of a history of people using songs and political campaigns without approval.
But the other thing is this guy got very famous, very fast,
and very rich. Well I don't know if he's rich looking at the numbers.
Oh okay, oh yeah yeah, but he got very famous, very
fast, and he probably I'm sure he has a team already that had to
be hastily put together who he probably has a management team who said, well,
of course you can use the song, and it wasn't necessarily his decision.
But so that's one controversy. So now he's coming out and say,
no, they're part of the problem. They're the people I'm singing about.
It's not it's not just about one party. But the other controversy is now
he's also being accused of faking his accent because of a video of an interview
that he did where he talks about diversity. This is what's got the Daily
Wire crew all upset. He talks about diversity, and he talks about how
diversity is a strength and it's one of the things that is great about America
and we should celebrate diversity. Well, not everyone that the Daily Wire is
on board with that message, as you might imagine. Not everyone's a fan
of this diversity of which he speaks. Now, some people are also saying
to him, I've seen I've seen online people saying, you know, well
this this guy clearly got used. I actually saw it might have even been
on this because I got this radio edit from YouTube. It might even be
on here. Somebody said, you got used, dude, saying that,
basically saying that he got used by the Daily Wire and these other online conservatives
who made this song their anthem, and now they're mad at him because they
feel betrayed by him, because he's not really with them. He's not with
any particular party. But but I think it's possible. And again I say
this from a little bit of a different perspective than most people probably have because
of you know, I come from a music industry background. I think it's
possible that this guy used the system to get himself famous. And if,
and if I'm right, if this was intentional on his part, bravo,
well played. Because this guy, no matter who likes a song or who
doesn't, and whatever backlash he's facing, this guy not only did he get
famous almost overnight with the song, but he's figured out how to keep his
name in the news with all the backlash. I mean, it's fantastic.
If it did all happen by accident, that's great too. But that's impressive.
I mean, this is all I'm amazed. And here this is from
Newsweek. By the way, he's supposedly making forty grand a day on this
could be Yeah, I mean, it's a it's a viral law sensation.
Certainly is uh. This is from Newsweek. Oliver Anthony's meteoric rise to fame
in the country music world has come with increased scrutiny, this time focusing on
his accent. Last month, Anthony was an unknown country music hopeful, but
thanks to an endorsement from controversial podcaster Joe Rogan, I didn't even realize it
started with Joe Rogan. He went viral overnight with his hit song rich Men
North of Richmond. A video of him singing the song was uploaded to YouTube
on August seven and has received thirty four million views with more than one hundred
and thirty thousand comments at the time of the writing. It won praise from
many well known conservatives for highlighting topics such as QAnon and Jeffrey Epstein. I
didn't catch a QAnon reference in there. I did catch the Jeffrey Epstein reference.
He talks about miners on an island. The song also takes aim at
taxation, welfare cheats, obesity, and makes references makes reference to sex trafficking.
Well, that's yeah, that's the jeff Jeffrey Epstein part Republican politician Marjorie
Taylor Green even dubbed the song the Anthem of Forgotten Americans, but his newfound
fans have already started to turn on the singer after comments he made during a
Fox interview. Anthony described blue collar workers as quote the melting pot of the
world unquote, and championed diversity, saying, quote, that's what makes us
strong. We need to learn to harness that and appreciate it and not use
it as a political tool to keep everyone separate from each other. They're unquote,
he said, which earned the wrath of some conservatives on Twitter. Why
is he talking about deservested diversity? That's that's so it's it's weird. How
that's pretty mild stuff. You know, you you you would you would think
he said, by the way, I you know, I love Black lives
matter, and you know, all he said was, you know, diversity,
and we're the melting pot of the world and we should celebrate that.
That's pretty mild. I'm looking at some of the comments that are being made.
So I told you this guy was a plant. Yeah, promoting what
is this promoted algorithm promoted algorithm boosted based red bearded hillbilly song guy was faking
his accent and says diversity is our strength. Why is he saying diversity?
It says here. There's more from Newsweek, It's says now. His detractors
have claimed the Farmville, Virginian native has been faking his accent and pointed to
the Fox News interview with Griff Jenkins as proof. They claimed his accent was
not Southern, even though his singing style would suggest otherwise. Virginia, God,
that is so ignorant. Come on, now, you can sing however
you want. It's art. You know what it's your If it's it's his
song, you can sing it out every one. He sounds too southern in
the song. So now he's a poser. Do you know that when people
talk and when people sing, they don't always sound the same. That's true.
I mean seriously, like over look at any European band, they all
sing English, English, American accent English. Yeah, they were right.
Yeah, the accent doesn't usually with rare exceptions, the accent doesn't usually come
from when someone's singing. Yeah, when they copy of Metallica song they try
and coffee it. How Metallica sings it, or Billy Joe Armstrong from Green
Day, he sounds like he's and he's from California, so it can work
that way too. I met the guy who played House. He could speak
perfect English, not it like he was born in Brooklyn. He's European,
he's British. He's actually when he talks in his regular voice, he's totally
British in his dialect. I think that's stupid. I think that that whole
thing is just stupid. I think they're just looking for something to latch onto
because he didn't turned out to be their boy. He hasn't. He flat.
He's denied that he's a conservative. He says he's more of a centrist.
Yeah, you know, he's totally denied that. So he's not playing
along with what they want. They're going to find new reasons to hate him.
He's a plant. He's talking about diversity, and really he was talking
about rich people just destroying poor people, doing everything they can to make money
and squeeze the money out of the poor people, but you know, never
going back to them. And he literally did say that. He was talking
about all of those people that were on that debate stage. He literally said,
right, I am talking about you. So their tick, now,
this was going to be their guy Man their new champion song and he's ruining
it for them. Yeah, it also but you know that's it is true.
It's one thing that's really gross in politics is that they just don't seem
to care about personal property rights. Like they're all about property rights until it's
somebody else's song. Like how many musicians have you seen? I couldn't even
think of a name to quantify it. How many musicians you hear about complaining?
So when those used there's my song and their rally and I never told
them they could, right, Oh yeah, that's happened so much billion times
because they never asked for permission. They just do it. The New York
Posts has an article Oliver Anthony is singing for all of us hometown salutes rich
Men of North rich Men North of Richmond. Phenomenon says. This is a
short article. It says here the men south of Richmond were on a high
when viral phenomenon Oliver Anthony made a surprise appearance at a street festival here Saturday
night. Anthony's rich Men North of Richmond is rocketed to number one on the
Billboard Heart one Hot one hundred, propelling at once unknown songwriter from south central
Virginia into the national onto the national stage, but he's staying close to his
roots. Uh, I'm gonna skip down. I don't care about that part,
okay, Oh, this is more about the show that he did recently.
I like the guy a bit more after this conversation. I'll say,
I like the fact that he's standing up for what he feels and he's not
letting other people take it and try and twist it into what they want.
Yeah, I'm not crazy. I'm certainly I'm definitely not okay with the fat
shaming and you know, trying to do the wellfish shaming. I think that's
that's but see, that's that's a low blow to be going to, especially
if you're trying to talk about the rich men and Richmond, why are you
talking about you know, those aren't rich men. But but it's also though
the backlash, see the backlash to the song now that's happening from the right.
It's another example of what I always talk about about, how we live
in this binary political culture where you have to be all the way on one
side or all the way on the other, or you just confuse you just
confuse people. Because here's an example of there shouldn't be any backlash coming from
the right. The song has several conservative tropes, so that doesn't mean so
if you're a conservative and you like the song because of that, then you
shouldn't be mad at the guy for saying one thing you don't like, or
because he doesn't have the accent that you thought that he had, or whatever
it is. You can still appreciate the song. You don't have to completely
turn on the guy just because you thought you thought he was all the way
completely with you, and now you're going, oh, maybe he's not really
conservative, maybe he's more a right leaning guy or whatever. So oh now
we have to be upset with him, Like, oh, tis tis Matt,
what are you ever thinking? I mean, it even not how this
works, It even affects art, it even affects music. You know,
this nastiness that exists, this polarization. This used to be that way.
But like just to watch, I'm looking at another process. Person goes where
did Oliver as an accent? Go? Also, why is he saying diversity
as our strength? Like how that's a bad sentence. Now, diversity is
a bad word. How dare you? Oh? How? Oh my?
Never, we should just take the statue of liberty, like we should just
send up a sandblaster to just stand off the book because you know, we're
not give me your poor you're tired, you're hungry masses. We're not that
melting pot anymore. That's not what people want. Apparently, at least these
people can. We just this is why we all need to get out and
vote and speak up and talk, because if you don't, they're gonna win.
And and when they win, every every every day, Joe loses,
in my opinion. In my opinion, I like the guy because he did
stand up and say, no, don't take my song. It's not about
you. In fact, you're the Actually it is about you, but not
in a good way. But I do like that, and I think the
song isn't bad. It's just the one fiction and his voice. Yeah,
a lot of people who came out because of course, again you have the
polarization, so you had all these uh conservatives online who championed the song.
So of course you have also all these people on the left who are condemning
the song and condemning him. They were, they're not condemning him anymore,
but you know, condemning the song. But not just not just the message
of the song, but saying, oh, he has no talent and all
this terrible stuff. And no, I think he's talented, and I actually
like his vocal delivery. I have no problem with any of that. We
have a call. Hi, welcome to Matt Connerton. Unleash. Who's this?
Hey there, manage check? Is this? It's Jackson? Oh?
Jackson? How are you? Haven't heard from you in a while. I've
been doing splendid. I had to get my airmates fixed again because I had
a storm hit my damn router. A storm actually hit your router. Why
don't you keep it inside? Yeah, it hits the router and it knocked
off and it only worked on the TV for like a week. Oh my,
well that's horrible. I know. And the big thing is we're working
on a couple of other things I'm working with. I'm getting on LPFM very
soon. Oh very good, very good. Currently your station streams online?
Right? Or is it down because of the router? Now? I got
back up this morning. Oh good, good good. It took a week
and a weekend. Yeah, yeah, well very good. Where where exactly
are you again? What stayed are you in? I forget I'm in Georgia,
Georgia. Yes, yes, Georgia. That's a lot of a lot
going on in Georgia right now. But well the boring down there now right
going on. So now it's not raining good, that's good. But the
big thing is talking about the Trump went to prison and all that, or
Trump of the jel and Fulton County. That was a big kind of story.
And I saw his most shot. There was three of the most shots
there were posting one of his little mean face, one of the mean faced
the middle finger, and another one I saw. Well, there's only one
of those is authentic obviously, just the one with his mean face. I
think he looks mean. How do you think he looks? He just looks.
He looks looks and I don't want to say the word like piss or
something like that. Yeah, he looks angry. That's an angry Trump.
He's angry, angry. And I actually have a friend who lives in New
Hampshire. His name is Roy and he lives in some I know Roy,
Roy from Somersworth. Yeah, yeah, we all know each other here.
It's a small state. It is a small state. I'm gonna just st
right there on the right there on the line, your main and sure,
hang I hang out there occasionally. Roy is a great guy. We party.
I love listening to the show. Usually I usual listen on Facebook,
but I usually listen online when I'm at school or anything like that. Understand,
I understand. Now do you have do you have got back into school
on August third? August third? Wow? You get you go back early?
Huh. Yeah, it's my senior year of high school and I'm starting
an LPFM here. Yeah. Oh it's your senior year. Congratulations. Now
when does the so, when when does the FM start? Do you know?
Do you have a timetable possibly possibly in twenty twenty five or anything like
that. Okay, so it's a long term endeavor obviously, but yeah,
I have three years to build. Yeah. Yeah, No, that's cool
though that you're doing that. Good for you, man, that's great.
And we're broadcasting a classic country format, classic country, okay, fifties to
the nineties, but we do play two thousands. Oh okay. So,
and we're also I heeart as well. Excellent excellent, very good, very
good, which is easy to get on. I figured out it can be
yes, yes, now is uh so the station though, is currently for
people who want to find it. It's currently online, right, Yes,
I do three stations. Actually you have three online stations? I have three?
Oh wow, Well I do a classic kit. It's a top forty
of the classic country. Oh no kidding, Oh, very cool. How
do you find those? They're online? We do have a group page if
you want to write it down and tell people about it. It's uh,
it's it's CON thirty one Media Enterprises dot com con c O N CON thirty
one com c O M. M oh Colm at White Communications, Okay,
c O MM thirty one Media What Enterprises, Media Enterprises dot com. Yeah,
I'll check it out. I'll check it out tonight. Yeah, I'm
curious to see what you're doing. There's like forty other radio stations on there
and I work with Oh wow, Oh that's cool. Well you're keeping business
and some are and some are getting on the LPFM. One's on a part
of fifteen right now. But it's really cool. Yeah, excellent. Do
you ever do anything with shortwave? Uh? No, I do not.
I'm looking at w r m I right now. What's that? W RMI.
Wrm I is a shortwave radio station in Okay. Chuck Key Florida.
Wow, okay, I didn't know that really know that. It's it's it
goes across the whole United States. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool.
No, very cool, very cool. Good have you? Do you have
any Do you have any opinions on this song rich Men North of Richmond by
Oliver Anthony? I did he we we are bit we are. We contact
the record label and we're able to get a cut from him, says hey,
this is Oliver, Oliver Ampthony, and this is my new song.
You know that of a rich man on the station. So I have that?
Oh? Very cool? Uh you? Uh so you like the song
and you're not mad at him about anything? No, I'm not. I'm
just mad at these record labels. You're trying to like control them. You
feel his record label is trying to control him. The No, the record
labels are trying to control them. They're trying to control him like a puppet.
Ah, a puppet of the label. M hmm, a puppet puppet,
like a pupp it like he want. He turned down an eight million
dollars deal right record company. I saw a notion one of my studies.
I saw I saw a search that said he was earning forty thousand a day
from the song and turned down an eight million dollars record deal. But I
don't know like where that's coming from. I did just find another quote from
him where he said that he's fat up with what he perceives to be the
weaponization of his music by both the right and the left. Hmm, well,
yeah, Actually the New York Post is to be poured to do it.
He wanted to be independent, so he has. He has been climbing
up the chart lately. Oh, he hit the top of the Billboard Hot
one hundred, I believe. Yeah. So we use a we use a
chart called media Base, okay, and he's number forty one on there.
Okay, on Mediabase. Yeah, like like like rust stakes to use it.
Oh yeah, no, I'm familiar with it. Yeah, absolutely,
Oh cool. Cool. Well, you should try to get him. You
should try to get him for an interview if I can, and I should
Pap Papa see you guys. Oh, we'd be happy to absolutely absolutely,
Well, very good, Uh Jackson, we are we are almost to the
end of the show, so we'll have to let you go. But I
appreciate the call. It's good to hear from you. You two, all
right, man, congratulations on everything. Bye bye, all right. That's
our that's our friend Jackson Harris from Georgia. He's the only Georgian we hear
from occasionally. I think I feel like ever Felt is regretfully sorry that they
goofed with their computer stuff and they have got it all figured out and would
like to join us on Thursday. Okay, all right, very good,
So they will be joining us then, okay, so yeah, so if
you're if you're just joining us ever Felt our guest today, great band from
Illinois. They had a bit of an an issue, so they're okay,
so they have rescheduled for Thursday. Very good, and I will tomorrow.
You have Norris Set, an interesting artist out of the UK. Yes,
yes, joining us via Skype of course. Yes, so I'll probably like
him to show up, but I don't think I can get the flight right.
Yeah, I'll have to end to today's show with this ever Felt song,
give people another taste of what they can expect on Thursday. So very
good. Yeah. I like their sound. I like their sound a lot.
I suppose if anyone wants to get them with a very quick call,
but it will have to be terse. The studio line is open. We
have a couple of minutes left six zo three two five zero six seven six
three two five zero six o seven. By the way, pretty interesting day,
just a little Mark Meadows taking the stand. I'm not sure where that
he's trying to get his he's trying to get his trial. I'm looking at
it now. That doesn't look like a decision has been made. But he
did, in fact spend some time on that stand. Yeah, he's trying
to get trying to get that removed from Georgia and right. But the reason
is because the President told him to do this. He's he's his defense is
the President told me to do it. Yeah, So isn't that kind of
like proving the point? Well, what's I mean? That's the part that's
throwing me. Is it feels like it's proving the point. I wonder if
it'll help him or not, if he even successfully gets it moved. I
you know, when it's not gonna, it's not gonna. When it came
to light that he was trying to do it, that he was trying to
get it moved from Georgia to federal court, my first thought was that he
was doing that because he thought, then if Trump does get reelected, he'd
be able to pardon him if he's found guilty. But then I realized that,
no, it doesn't work that way because even if the trial gets moved
to federal court, he's still charged in Georgia, so the president would still
not be able to to pardon him. So that actually doesn't help him.
Well, he's sure about that because he's using the undercolor of office, you
know, under the president's office, under his power. I did these things
right, that's his defense. But I'm saying if he's actually convicted, it
won't help him if it's in federal court versus Georgia court. If he's convicted,
he would still get sent to a state prison. Is that what you're
saying. No, I'm saying the president couldn't pardon who couldn't pardon him?
I'm not sure about that, because he'll still he'll still have been charged in
uh but because of the reason no, because it's vacated out of the state
to the federals, it would be a federal prosecution, not I don't know
from what I read, it doesn't matter because it because he was charged in
Georgia. Maybe so he still can't be pardoned federally. Maybe, but that
doesn't look like there's been any decision, just a lot of testifying and a
lot of very tired news reporters from what we could hear earlier. Yeah,
right, we're listening to the reports earlier, and you're hearing about people are
running in and out of overflow rooms trying to get in and hear what's going
on, and even seeing some of Trump's own attorneys for there in the audience
seeing what Meadows was saying too. Right, I'm not sure if it was
they were in I don't the way the woman said it on the on the
radio, it sounded like she was saying that Trump's attorney was in the overflow
room watching what was going on with Meadows and his testimony. Yeah, this
just gets so, it's crazy. It is which trials when no, wait,
there was a trial date set today for March ye for the federal case,
right, the January sixth case? Is that the one that's think so?
But I'm losing track. I'm losing I need a flow chart at this
point to keep track of the four different cases and who's where, and yeah,
what's interesting about the Meadows thing though, is isn't he kind of sort
of almost It's it's like he's admitting. It's like he's admitting to it by
saying, but the President told me to do it, right. Isn't he
actually admitting Yeah, I don't know, Yeah I did this, but the
President told me to right. I don't know that he denies anything. By
the way, I just saw this pop up, Joe the Plumber is dead.
I don't know if if anyone, if Peter had, or if anyone
on the Morning Show had Joe the Plumber and the death Pool, but probably
not. I don't think so. I'd forgotten about him, we'd forgotten about
the death Pool. He was dead at forty nine? Wow, yep,
what I don't know if that I'm not seeing. I'm looking to see here
how he died. It says that COVID. It just says after Oh oh
wow, pancreatic cancer. Oh no, that's yeah, that's a horrible that's
a horrible cancer. Didn't he get like his own talk show at one point
after he got famous during the two thousand and eight campaign. I'm not sure.
I'm I'm not sure. He had a pretty good fun run there for
a while. Joe the Plumber. Yep, all right, well kind of
like Oliver. No, that's too bad. What Oliver's dead already? No,
like the guy just got famous. No, you mean Oliver from the
Brady Bunch when they stop it. They did that episode where they killed him
off. No, a very special Brady Bunch they killed off Oliver. Yeah,
he was eaten by Tiger the dog. Oh, come on, after
he was hit by a car, Oliver, not Tiger, stop it.
And the Fluffy the cat was there, and yeah, they ate him,
stop it terrible they ate him. We're gonna do with you. All right,
we gotta go. Jenny, did you want to plug your website or
anything? You can keep track of what I'm doing and all the fights were
waging against healthcare to make sure that people get the care that they need at
Jencoffee dot com j E n n c O f e y dot com.
All right, very good, and if you miss any part of today's show
it we'll be up in just a little bit at WMNH radio dot org and
on my website Matt Connerton dot com. And uh, that's gonna do it
for us. For now, We'll leave you with a little bit of ever
felt this is my favorite of the tracks they sent us. They got a
big, big sound. I love it and they will be with us on
Thursday. This is called Reach to close out today as Matt Connerton unleashed.
Talk to y'all a little bit later. Bye bye,