Well, welcome everybody. Here we go. It is that time again,
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August twenty third, two thousand, twenty three. We have, of
course, on a few minutes my favorite Conservative we'll be skyping in. But
also we have someone in studio with us. If you're gonna play in Texas,
you gotta have a fiddle in the band. Then League guitar is hot
but not far Lousiana Man Soul rolls both Baby in Love and then sold names.
If you're going and play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in
the band. Yeehah, Texas. Mike is here, Ye welcome, Texas
Mike. Thank you. It's a nice surprise. I heard from you right
before the show that you are around. Yeah. Yeah, I just finished
given bite at the Gayoshing Memorial blood Drive, and I had time to kill
in between events. So I'm like, I'm gonna see if I can go
on EVA John Hop shows. So oh, I'm like, I know you
andenter quickly. So yes, yes, well I'm glad you chose me.
Thank you, Texas Mike. I didn't realize the blood drive was going on
this week. Yeah, yeah, yeah today, and oh jeez, I
didn't even realize. I feel badly I've been I've been so busy, and
I think Peter hasn't mentioned at all. Oh really, I think he hasn't.
Oh that's unusual. Yes, he usually he does promote it. But
yeah, that that might be why I didn't know. Well, I well
that's uh so that's uh today and tomorrow. Yeah, and where is that
down at the center newhamp DoubleTree Hotel? Excellent? Excellent, So we encourage
people to head down there and donate blood. Absolutely, and they they feed
you, right, don't They give you a donut or something afterward to kind
of get some calories in you. Yeah, so I was able to have
a West movie from the movie movie buff and they had pizza and a couple
of me a good goodie bag of this pile. Oh, very good,
very good. Yes, excellent. Well that's a that's a great cause and
good on you for doing that. Yeah, So Texas Mike is here,
and of course Eric Pilcher, because it is Wednesday, he's going to be
skyping in and uh, I don't know what we'll talk about. The news
has been so so slow lately. Actually there's breaking news. Jenny just sent
me. Giuliani just turned himself in in Georgia, America's mayor. But uh,
yeah, so there's there's plenty to discuss. And Eric will be on
with us via Skype, which means the studio line will be open. Uh
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I do have some I've been thinking about it a lot, and I
even went back and I really listened to it. Just some reflections on yesterday's
show. We had Mary Ann Williamson in studio with us for the first hour
or most of the first hour, and a pretty interesting discussion. The feedback
I've gotten from it has been very positive, so but I do have some
thoughts on that, and you know, and I'm sure we'll have her back
in the future, of course. But our friend Ron is on the line.
Hi, Ron, Hi, Thank Matt. How are you doing good?
How are you? No comment? Oh? No, no comment?
Yeah, listen, I'm I'm tuned in. I gotta go on a little
errand somewhere and I'm going to be in it out. But I mean,
I am I tuned in. I can't wait to see what kind of no
thoughts comments gloss up all of that, because well, boy, between Trump
and Biden stuff that's been coming out of their mouse. Holy cow. Yes,
yes, I would say two cows, one for each. Yeah.
Well, even if you don't get to it today, I hope it's on
your to do list. Oh yeah, probably be more to talk about tomorrow.
Give it twenty four hours, it'll probably be more to say tomorrow.
Well, it's a nice thing about doing a show like this is I am
never at a loss for subjects to discuss, that's for sure. All right,
listen, I'm all all he is. Enjoy the rest of you day,
and give Jenny I hogg In a hello. I will absolutely all right,
thank you for the call, Ron, I appreciate it. Bye bye,
bye bye, all right. Always nice here from our friend Ron.
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to chime in on anything today, and we'll say hello to everybody in the
Facebook lap chat as well. Jenny is in there of course, and says
Hilloa peeps. Oh and uh this must be Eric. Oh Eric, is
that you? Yes, it is good afternoon Matt and Texas Mike, Good
afternoon, Eric, Texas, Mike. Why don't you give Erica yeehah?
What do you think of that there. Eric, good yeeha, solid yeehaw,
pretty solid, pretty solid. I mean I've heard him do better,
but that wasn't bad. Nope, listen, sorry, I just actually got
a text, so give me one second. Oh yeah, no worries,
I'm gonna I'll say hello to everybody in the chat room here. We didn't
get too yet. J Fett is in there, of course, from the
Great state of Vermont, says good afternoon everyone. Also, our friend Miriam
Banish joins us. Mike from Queen City cabinetr He says hello everyone, Mike,
of course one of our not only one of our great sponsors here a
Queen City Cabinetry at WMNH, but Mike is also one of our co hosts
Friday nights for Retro Spectrum Radio with Paul ec I get to hang out with
him on Friday's. Melanie Liberty joins us and says, hey, guys.
Also Crystal from the Great State of Illinois, let's see Eric Pilcher, I
see that you're in the chat room as well. Let's see, uh,
Crystal said, Trump supposedly is turning himself in tomorrow in Georgia. Yes,
apparently, Today's Giuliani's day and tomorrow will be Trump's day. Very exciting,
very exciting and darkness, My old friend, are you Are you excited for
the debate tonight? Eric, you know, like blow on. I think
it's so funny that its like again, we just every week we we talk
about this, and it's like we're beating old Yeller in the head with a
stick. But Eric, I don't believe you. I don't believe you beat
old Yeller with a stick. I believe you shoot him. Correct, well,
after you shot him, it's like you're beating the dead corpse with a
stick. Oh, I see, it's like beating a It's like beating a
dead horse, but in this case it's a dog. Because it's old Yeller.
You're mixing metaphors. I understand. I get confused. Well, I
I want to try to make things to my own. Yes, well that's
wise, especially for you know, intellectual property. Oh hello to Greg.
Joseph by the way, from Clemento is another one of our great sponsors here
at WMNH. Yeah, everything could change tonight, though, Eric, with
the debate, I mean, you know that it's been taking part in it.
I know he's counterprogramming with Tucker Carlson, although seeing Trump could still show
up at the debate though in theory because the interview with Tucker Carlson was pre
recorded and it's going to air as counter programming. But I still think it
would be cool if Trump fools everybody and he shot what's that? It'd be
like Rick Rude the night he joined the nWo and he was on WWF programming.
Yes, exactly, Oh, well done, sir, well done.
Only only wrestling fans with a deep knowledge of the history of the Monday Night
War will know the reference. But but if you know, you know,
and if you got it, that was that was well done, Eric,
Actually that was very clever. Yes, I think it would be great.
Actually if Trump, and you know, I'm not a fan of him,
but if he does do a run in during the debate and hit someone with
a steel chair, I might be persuaded to vote for him. I mean,
but he Here's the thing is like his followers are like, yeah,
he knows he's gonna win, so he doesn't even need to show up,
and it's like, no, he knows if he shows up, he is
going to get a third By the Scientists by Nikki Hayley by I mean even
by Christy because they're going to and he doesn't want to answer questions about these
indictments. Well, I think he's I think both things are true. I
do think that. Yeah, I think it's probably dangerous for him to show
up. But I also think it's true that there's there is no reason for
him too. I mean, if I were advising him, I would tell
him not to show up. That would be my advice. I mean,
what four he's going to be the nominee. It doesn't have I would have
more respect for the guy, and I think a lot of Americans would if
he showed up. Oh sure, yeah, but but but it's not going
to matter to the thirty five to forty percent that are going to support him
no matter what. It doesn't matter to them. It's like, this is
the equivalent of when you're playing mad non law against someone. They're up ten
points and they're just running the ball with like seven minutes left. They're trying
to drain the clock and minimize what you can do. And to me,
that's not what the political process is in this country. It isn't about saving
face, It isn't about cowardly tucking your tail and running it's about standing in
the face of adversity. You know something, I don't like the guy.
I don't even like the family. But Bill Clinton when he had his issues
with Monica Lewinsky, he never missed a debate, never back down. He
stood steadfast and said, yeah, I'm gonna face it. Donald Trump has
to be the first ever former president been. Richard Nixon, who was the
scummiest of scumbag presidents, did the interview with David Frost and took it on
the chin. Didn't take it well on the chin, but he took it
on the chin nonetheless. Well, but that was after his presidency too.
I mean it didn't it didn't really matter at that point, but well it
did matter in the court of public opinion. Yeah. The thing is,
uh, in view, I didn't know a lot about the Frost Nixon interviews
until I saw the movie Oh in two thousand and eight. Isn't that a
great film? It is amazing and from what I understand from the people that
lived it, uh, pretty spot on. Have you watched Have you watched
the actual interview? Actually in one of my media classes. Yeah, yeah,
my father and I have had conversations about that. My father told me
that he's been saying this for years. He thinks Nixon was clinically insane by
that point. I mean it was it wasn't a good move for him.
I mean, there was no way you were going to win unless it was
a complete fluff piece. But at the end of the day, he still
did it. And that's my thing. That's another strike on Donald Trump for
me. Look, if you didn't do anything wrong, like you're saying,
go to the debate, go debate. I feel like I'm Bernie Mack and
Chris Rock and the movie had a state here trying to go Donald Trump to
debate these candidates. Yeah, I don't think he's well, we know he's
not showing up tonight. I mean again, he could physically show up,
but he's not going to. Clearly, Crystal said in the chat room she
thinks Trump is turning himself in tomorrow to steal away the press from the GOP
debate talks since he refuses to attend the debates himself. That's true, Trump
will suck up tomorrow's news cycle as well. But no, I just you
know, I mean, you know how I feel about Trump. I don't
I don't like him either, But I just don't see any I don't see
anything to be gained politically from him showing up, and I don't blame him,
and I would say the same, you know. I don't know if
you had a chance to check it out, Eric, But yesterday we had
Mary Ann Williamson on the show, who of course is challenging Joe Biden for
the Democratic nomination, as is RFK, you know, and Biden's not going
to debate them, and I don't I don't blame him either. I mean,
you know what for or you're the incumbent president. Don't get me wrong,
I agree with you in principle. In principle, I absolutely agree with
you. I'm just saying. I'm just saying, as a dispassionate political analysis,
I just don't see any reason for it, you know what I mean.
I'm I and I know exactly what you're saying, and it makes perfect
sense. Now on the incumbent side, I'm gonna say there's political decorum that
goes with it too, that you know, he's the inc And I give
credit to Mary Ann Williamson and disgustingly a minimal amount of credit to our FK
yeah for for standing up and saying no, we're gonna throw our hat into
this. Kudos to both of them, sure, because I don't think Biden
or Harris is the answer. I think both of them are tone deaf in
regards to the country. I mean, I read a headline and I didn't
have a chance to click on it because this this has been a busy day
off for me. But I did see that it's being floated that Joe Biden
fell asleep during a speech for the Maui wildfire victims. Oh dear God,
Yeah, this is this. This trip has been a disaster. I don't
know if you heard the top of the show, but I played I played
a clip of Biden speaking and I played the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme music under
it, because Biden was talking about how he could kind of he was trying
to relate, and he was talking about how once, uh, you know,
he's speaking to these these people who've lost their homes in this terrible fire,
and he's talking about how there was once a fire at one of his
homes and he almost lost his corvette, and you know, and it comes
off really really badly. It's so it's so bad, and then uh,
and then you know, but and it's not. You know, some people
look at that and they'll say, oh, he's you know what, a
jerk or whatever. I just look at that, and I say, he's
an eighty year old man and it's clearly time to take Grandpa's keys away from
him. That's and which is which some people aren't gonna like me saying that.
I understand that, and I know I sound agious, but that's just
the reality of it. And then that's compounded by yeah, this video of
him, he looks like he's very much falling asleep, and I'm sure he's
tired, and it's exhausting. You know. Look, the dude's got a
big job. I get it, you know, leader of the free world.
But but it's another example of and by the way, even if he's
not asleep, even if he was, because if he's asked, I don't
know if he's taken any questions on this, I'm sure if he's asked,
he'll say that he was just deep in prayer or something like that. But
but even if that's true, that's still a problem because even he was he
was asleep, I'm sure of it. But even if he was, just
even if he just had his head bowed in prayer. Even that's a problem
because he should have the self awareness to know what that's going to look like,
and that people are going to assume he was asleep, which I'm sure
he was asleep. So it's just it's it's uh ah. I can't I
can't believe we're in this position. I can't believe we're on course to get
a Trump Biden re match. I know I say this all the time,
people are probably saying it, but oh my god, how is this happening?
How is this happening? I mean, I my head's gonna explode.
I mean, look, you just sit back and enjoy the ride. Matt
Well, I mean, it's it's great for the show, it is.
I've I understand that. I got it. You know, it's great for
the show, but it's so horrible for the country. I mean, Matt,
you know what this is gonna do? Right? What ratings? True?
Doue that's right, that's right. Yeah, Well, you know,
I think I think sweeps Weeak is coming. I need to check on that,
Mike, Mikey, do you know is sweeps Weeak coming up? We
gotta get those ratings. I was just kidding, don't bother to Mikey.
What what are you wanting to you to help with the ratings? Our ratings
are awful, Mikey. Yeah, we need we need to get I'm concerned
that week Are is currently beating us in this market. I'm also very,
very concerned that there's going to be this new big show, the second coming
of Howard, that's been coming for over six years out of New York.
I think that I think it's been more like a decade that that's been in
the works. But it's coming, and we're all going to be out of
jobs, Mikey, all out of jobs. We will have no place to
have our talent on WMNH once this happens. I think what Eric is saying,
Mikey is we need you to save us. You have a solution for
us. I'm trying to thank you, all right, Maybe maybe check with
a chat GPT or something. I mean, I know a guy who says
he can help the ratings if you need his information, right, maybe he'll
call today. By the way, Christ what's that. Let let's let's not
well. You just never know if you if you vaguely refer to him three
times, you run the risk of conjuring, of conjuring him. He is
about as tolerable as the film you're referring to, the film Beetle Juice.
Oh yes, yes, yeah, yeah. I was never a big Beetle
Juice fan either, but I love the idea of it. Yeah. Tim
Burton did the best he could. But I've told John Hopwood this, I'm
pretty sure. And he is accused of me of betraying him yet again.
Yes, no, this time it was a private text message to me.
Oh my goodness, betraying him. Wow, But but I digress. I
just I am not a Winona writer fan. What is oh sorry, what
are you bothered by the shoplifting? Or what is it before the shoplifting?
Her face just annoys me. I understand you don't like her face? Yeah,
like it's that level of vitriol. Wow, yeah, I don't like
her face. Okay, if you don't want to turn me off to a
movie, you want me to never see this movie have these words attached to
it, directed by Michael Bay starring Winona Ryder, I will never see it.
Wow? All right, well, fair enough now, Crystal said in
the chat room. The Hawaiians are pissed a Biden for his no comments statement
while on vacation himself. Bad, bad look for Biden. Totally crappy of
him. I'm gonna I'm actually gonna Crystal, I'm actually gonna defend Biden on
that one because I've seen the video of that. I don't think he heard
the question. I think all and again, you know, you're talking about
an eighty year old man with you know, unless he's wearing hearing aids,
he's got the hearing of an eighty year old man. So if somebody's shouting
a question at him from a distance, he probably didn't even hear the question.
He probably just knew that somebody from the media was shouting a question at
him, and that's why he said no comments. So I give him a
pass on that one. I've seen. Have you seen the video of that,
Eric, because that did upset some people. But I'm gonna get Biden
a pass on that one. I'm I'm gonna give him. Uh yeah,
I don't think. I don't think he heard the question. Look, in
a situation like that one, as the president of the free world, you
have to know some craps going down here. Okay, Yeah, if I'm
being asked anything, and I don't hear, and I'm saying, come again,
can you please repeat that? Yeah, I don't care. If I'm
sitting at a restaurant, May said, do you do you want? Would
you like ice with your drink? And if I don't, you know,
if I don't understand, and I'm jump Biden, I'd be like, say
that again, even if I'm ninety percent sure I know what they said.
Yeah, I'm getting that clarity because anything you say dismissive is gonna come off
as insensitive and that you're out of touch. True, true, No,
I take your point. And Jenny said in the chat room, why the
hell did he stay on vacation? No, pass, Well, the president's
never really on vacation though, I mean he you know, he's on vacation,
but he's always still the president to me, I mean, in my
lifetime, I swear, and I'm forty, the president's vacation days have went
up with every new president. There are some who claim that, uh,
yeah, I don't know. I don't, but you know, I mean,
you know, leader of the free world, you're you're allowed some downtime.
I mean, especially the golfing, like that's something you know, it's
funny. As much as I don't like Trump, that's something he took a
lot of criticism for that. I never criticized him for People used to knock
him for being on the golf course all the time. I always said,
Hey, that's the guy's only form of exercise. That's I mean that,
And it literally is like he basically he has said he's not really into exercise,
but I do want the leader of the free world to get some exercise,
so im You know, I never cared with each other here, Matt
and Texas Mike. Please feel free to chime in there. People if they
hate a president, that president could cure cancer, and they're gonna say he
didn't do it quick enough. Too many rats died in the testing, right,
they're gonna find something. Yeah, so let's let's be honest there.
Oh yeah, there's always criticism about anything you talked about. Everything's trying to
have a positive and a negative. Yes, that's right, Texas Mike,
Texas Mike. I think we would make Texas Micr President, or at least
I would vote, or at least the president of Texas because he's already in
his name, So how hard could that be? I did take my dog
Rocky to a rally at the dog park this past weekend. Rally at the
dog park. Well, yeah, because, like I said on one of
my Wednesday chats, that my dog would be a better candidate. Oh,
I took him out to meet his constituents. And I'm gonna try to keep
this PG. How he met his constituents. He would have thought he was
a Kennedy. I yeah, it didn't go well. I think I think
Rocky needs to withdraw his name from consideration, right, yeah, well that's
uh, that's all right. Uh, look looking at a scandal here,
yes, unfold. And he doesn't need this. He's a seven year old
pit bowl. He needs life of leisure and weekly hamburgers from our local meat
market. Well, maybe he needs to start golfing. Brocky likes eating grass,
so I don't know if him on a golf course would be a good
idea. No, I see that that could be a problematic. Barely he
barely gets a lap in on the bike trail by my apartment, so he
could not do eighteen I see, Melanie says in the chat room, I
referring to trump my beef around the golfing is the cost to the American people,
while he said he wasn't taking a paycheck. Yeah, I guess I
don't know. That's never been I never worried about that much with him,
no matter why. Yeah, I mean, I mean I get her point,
and it's a fair point. But to be fair again, he didn't
take a paycheck. He did donate it to causes. I mean, granted
he did get money from secret service staying at his hotels. And yes,
that's a bit bit slippery, yes, now that you mention it. Yeah,
I'm not taking a paycheck. But uh, these guys are staying at
Mara Lago and it's a Trump hotel. But but my son in law owns
it. Yeah, there is that. There is that. It's like,
okay, listen to steal a line from Judge Judy, don't pee on my
leg and tell me it's raining, Like, come on, put him up
in a Best Western. That's not so bad. Actually, uh six O
three two five o six. When the studio line is open, if you'd
like to join the discussion, if you are just joining us. Of course,
it is Wednesdays, so we're talking with my it is a Wednesday,
rather, it is Wednesdays. It is a Wednesday, or it is Wednesday.
We're so we're talking with my favorite conservative, Eric Pilcher joining us via
Skype, and of course Texas Mike is here at the news desk. And
oh you started, we got derailed. I want to hear more about So
John Hopwood texted you and said you've betrayed him. So it was over this
week's film and John has been trying to expose me to it's called redneck cinema
movies that were made in the South, and Burt Reynolds was the was the
catalyst for this because a lot of his action Flix were these redneck classics Smokey
and the Bandit, thunder Row, Gator, and so forth. And I
think he's upset, because actually I know he's upset, and this wasn't done
to slight the great John Hopwood. I have a great deal of admiration,
love and respect for John C. Hopwood that I'm doing the longest yard this
week. Oh yes, classic film review and it's an honor of college football
starting. And I think he was I think his issue is is that it's
a Burt Reynolds film and not a redneck classic except for when except for when
he crashes the girl's Maserati into a lake and leads the cops on a chase.
Yeah. So, yes, I have been accused of betraying John Hopwood
again. But I will say this, this is my volley. In order
for betrayal to be betrayal, a person has to knowingly be trying to betray
them. Uh. Yes, and I was not. That was not your
intention, Smokey in the Bandit will be reviewed in November. I didn't even
know. I'd never heard that term before. What is it redneck cinema?
Is that what? Yeah, because Convoy is a part of it. Convoy.
That's that's come up on Paul Show on Retrospectum Radio. I didn't even
I didn't even know. Because, believe it or not, I cannot explain
why this is. I'm sure my dad remembers this because he listens to the
show. I actually loved that song when I was a kid. Why I
loved it? What I loved about it? I could not begin to tell
you. I have no idea. I didn't know what's criminal about the movie
Convoy. I see, I've never seen the movie. What what's criminal about
it? Is? It's Sam Peckinpaw's highest grossing film is it? Yep,
that's It's the film of his that made the most money. And John Hopwood
and I have had private discussion about this. It is also his worst film,
even the films where he was just coked out of his mind charged at
Charlton Heston on a horse with a sword. No, those movies fail in
comparison to Convoy. See. I didn't even know. For some reason,
I loved the song, but until probably a couple of years ago, the
first time it came up on Paul's show, I didn't realize there had even
been a movie, Nor did I know that there was a part two to
the song. I didn't know there was a part two to the song.
Yeah there is. Yeah, there's a sequel to the song. And it's
just like it just continues the story. Not that it's much of a story
to begin with, but but yeah, Matt, maybe we need someone who's
a CB radio expert to decipher part one and two for us. I know
a guy. I know a guy from New York who apparently has actually put
people on ten seven. I was just gonna say, you don't want to
be ten seven. Don't want to be put on ten seven? I mean
he and this guy's a legend for doing that. He's in the like the
CBE Hall of Fame or something. It's incredible he has he has a video
on YouTube where he shows you all of his CB equipment. Yeah, it
looks like a flea market threw up in there. It does. Yes,
what uh? What dumb plug the world would the CB Radio Hall of Fame
be in? I don't know. I think it's gotta be like in like
Brandon, Iowa, or home of the world's largest drying pan by the way,
somewhere that's like just total dumped uh huh. And it's this ramshackle meth
lab house that just has a old oaken wooden sign that says CBE Hall of
Fame and haul in Fame are both misspelled, right, Crystal says in the
chat room Smoking in the Bandit was a good movie. Oh, I agree,
I like Smoking and the Bandit. The thing with movies that have just
tons of car chase is there isn't a lot to talk on, right because
you can explain it, but until people see it, they don't understand how
awesome it is. It would be like explaining the car chase scene in the
movie Bullet, Yeah, which I've actually seen. I've never seen the movie
Bullet, but I've seen that scene just because I think I found it on
YouTube actually after hearing you talk about it once. It's an amazing scene,
and I got introduced to it by weird means. I'm a big Metallica fan
people on the show listeners of the show Now This and Matt you know this?
They're my favorite band of all time. Yes, And the video for
I Disappear has James Hetfield driving a car that is the actual model used in
the movie Bullet, and they mimic the car chase scene. Oh no kidding,
It was Jakes Stead that's driving car. Oh no kidding. Yeah,
and that's where they got it from and they stole it shot by shot.
So that's how I got it that car chase. I didn't realize that.
See, I've never seen the video for I Disappear. I'll have to look
at that up. I'm really curious now it's one of them. It's a
great video. I mean, Lars is running through an exploding room glass.
Oh wait a minute, No, no, no, I take it back.
I have seen that. Yeah, I have seen that video. I
didn't Okay, I guess. Okay. So so the Headfield part, that's
just one part of the video. But there's other things going on with Lars.
Okay, I got you, I got you, Okay, I have
I have seen the video like Dangerous Missions because it was a song for Mission
Impossible too, right, Okay, I remember now, Yes, they went
after Napster because Hollywood Records was coming down on them. How did this song
get released? This is the lead single off a blockbuster summer movie soundtrack.
How does this happen? Yeah? And like, well, they're like basically
they were like our bad was really the response they gave, and somehow when
it's millions upon millions of dollars, my bad doesn't cut it. Yeah,
and then they're like, well, you guys need to do something about this.
Oh well, James is in Russia, our bass player is about to
leave the band. We're on a we're taking a break from our tour.
Lar's gone out there and handle business. Yeah. I remember that, like
the absolute worse person you could have probably speak for the band, and that's
the option. Well, I would argue Lars is no, Oh, I
don't know. I would argue that of the four of them, Lars is
probably the most articulate. So actually I would disagree with you. Really shockingly
enough, Kirk Hammett is really really articulate, very well spoken. Just he
doesn't talk right, right, I was gonna say, I feel like I
never, like on the rare occasion that I've heard Kirk Hammett speak, it's
like, oh, Kirk is talking. I think I've just yeah, I
think over the years, I've just heard a lot more Lars Ulric just because
he's he's loquacious. He talks a lot, you know. I've heard him
interview on Howard Stern a couple of times without the rest of the band.
They all, I mean, they all are. They kind of defy the
dumb metal band player stereotype. If you listen to them all talk, they
all are pretty pretty smart and well spoken. I mean, to write the
lyrics they've written, they would have to be to a degree. Yeah,
So that's my defense of them. I forgot how much I like this song.
I haven't heard it and so long. I don't know if you can
hear it on Skype, but I can. The whole soundtrack for Mission Impossible
too is amazing. I don't remember what else is on it. It's been
so long. Some of girth Limp Biscuit has a song on it where they
sample the mission Impossible themes. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
I totally remember that now that did Yeah, I do remember that now yeah.
Yeah. Just a great soundtrack. I think Prodigy is on there.
Uh, Dope is on there. It was a great soundtrack and one of
the most underrated John Move films in my opinion. I still can't get over
Convoy being Peck and PA's most successful film. That blows my mind. Don't
don't blood it, flinger with you. You will get very angry because then
you think about the other films he did, you know, like then you
get madder. Yes, I can look at my movie Shelf and I own
almost every film he is directed on Blu Ray. Yeah, and I'm like,
really, bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Wild Bunch,
Major Dundee, Cross of Iron, and Convoy. So strange. One of
these things is not like the other. Yeah, great genre films, and
Convoy we very very weird. I have a book filled with interviews with Sam
Peck and Paul about all of his films, and he is like so dismissive
of convoy. It's probably the shortest segment in the book. Yeah, I
mean I assume that was just They probably offered him a lot of money.
I mean, why else would have even directed that? Well one, I
mean it's just Bert Young is comedic relief. Couldn't even save it. I
mean, Chris Stopperson can't act. Uh, I forget her name. Uh
was dating Steve McQueen. Allie Allie McGraw can't act. So then those are
your two stars. What if Winona Ryder had been in it? Would that
have saved it? Do you think, Matt? Why why do you got
to poke it? Man? I'm sorry I didn't know until today. You're
man, she's your kryptonite. Yeah, I have one on rants against Winona
Ryder. Dirk don has heard a few of them. Wow, yeah,
all right, got it eat her? Yeah yeah, well all right,
I've actually told him the whole I hate her face, like, yeah,
wow, it's up there, Drew Barrymore really yeah, don't like her either?
Is it her face? Oh? The way she does the side talking.
H never noticed the side talking, like talks out of the side of
her mouth. It's like alien like. I never noticed that. Wow.
Watch her in like comedies, especially like she tries to adjust her face and
it's like, just stop, you look ridiculous. Wow, you would think,
I mean, she's a big Hollywood star, you could think you would
think she'd be able to get some help with that adjusting her face, like
a scheech, like a speech therapist to help her adjust her face when she
talks. Every role she's in is she just comes off as fake to me?
Yeah, not a fan. Oh okay, all right, we should
pivot back to Uh, I do want to ask you because obviously you are
in Iowa. It still surprises me that the first debate is not in Iowa,
that it's in Milwaukee, But any anything interesting there since we talked last
week in terms of I know, Chris Christie is surging in the polls here
in New Hampshire. I mean by surging, I mean he's still a very
distant number two but to Trump. But he's he's I believe he is uh
past RHN de Santis. But you know New Hampshire of course, Uh,
you know, it's it's the northeast. It's not not Iowa. So I
don't know if things are different there. No, I mean, you know
there have been a couple of people that have rosen the polls, kind of
like Chris Christy did in New Hampshire after this state fair of vivic has actually
really come up in the polls here. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, has really come up. Yeah, I U his nine to eleven
comments were really strange. He says some weird stuff and he uh, you
know, I know, my my dad's kind of a fan of him,
but he's very uh pro Russia. It would seem like he wants to let
Shad have crimea if it'll end the war. Yeah. I've never been a
fan of giving a brutal communist dictatorship countries to end a war because it'll never
end. Then you're at their power. It's appeasement. Yeah, you fed
their ego. Yeah no, there let their ego do them in. Yeah,
there is. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what It'll
be interesting to see how he does tonight. Did we talk about or was
it after Whens? Was it after last week? When the Yeah, it
was after last the last time we talked when the superPAC Rhonda Santis is superPAC
never back down. They posted that memo, Yeah, that that was after
who boy, but Santus is third there, right, Yeah, yeah,
I guess I guess his pork chops weren't weren't good his pork chops, oh
right, right right, because they all do the thing with the you know,
he had to serve food and whatnot. He's the only one who did
it, yeah, the other ones. I mean it was pretty hot.
So I mean I give him credit for standing at that grill. And I
mean vivic. I don't know his religious affiliation, but might not want to
be around pork. And I'm not stereotyping. I'm just saying generally, yea,
even if they're not a part of even if they don't practice Islam,
they still are like, no, don't want to be around it. So
yeah, I mean I get that. I mean I always thought when they
did that or served food, I thought it was just pathetic looking and glad
handling. Well yeah, I mean it certainly comes off as pandering. Yeah,
it's it's it just is unauthentic. Mike Pence didn't do any of that.
I mean, I wouldn't take a pork chap from Mike Pence. I
just looked up so vek Ramaswami. He says, I'm Hindu, but I
share the same values as Christians. He said this on News Nation. To
share the same values as Christians, then you wouldn't be Hindu. I mean
that whole fall sidals thing. I don't know one of those important commandments.
It says here Republican presidential candidate the Veke Ramaswamy says he practices Hinduism but shares
the same values as Christians. Quote, I'm Hindu, I'm not Christian,
and we are a nation and founded on Judeo Christian values. That's not going
to fly with evangelicals, right, absolutely not. Yeah, he's going to
get one vote in the Bible belt, right. Yeah, you're basically saying,
I mean, how it's going to be painted with evangelicals and as it
should be, because it's pretty accurate, is you're Judeo Christian because it's going
to get you votes. Yeah. So that means so Trump can't pick him
to be his VEEP then either. I don't know why this didn't occur to
me until now, because you know, I'm always talking about how obviously there's
other reasons to run for president other than wanting to be president, because some
of these people will actually frankly, I think all the people who are going
to be on that debate stage just tonight. Realize none of them are going
to be the nominee, let alone president. But one of the reasons,
one of the other reasons to run is you're running for the vice presidency.
And I kind of figured Vavak might be in that lane. You know,
maybe he thinks he has a shot at being Trump's VEEP. But Trump can't
pick him if he's if he's not Christian. I mean, that's just that
just won't fly, especially in the Republican Party, but really in either party.
Right, No, No, So that's interesting. Now are you so
I don't think you ever answered my question? Or are you going to watch
the debate? I might tune in for a little bit as much as it
tolerate as I can tolerate. I generally how I handle early debates is I
watch the highlights or low lights as it yeah, and go from there.
See, I have to, uh, I have to watch the whole thing.
To me, Uh, I love I love debates. I watch all
the debates. I mean when I say all the debates, I mean all
the presidential debates, whether they're primary or general election. I don't mean I
watch like every debate. Ever, Like I'm not going to watch a debate
among local aldermen here in Manchester, for example, I'd probably uh, very
drowsy quickly. But I'm just saying, but but I do love I will
watch every Republican debate in this primary, and I will I will enjoy them
tremendously, no doubt they to me, they make they make for tremendous television.
And of course, uh, you know in the twenty twenty cycle,
you know, I watched all the Biden versus Bernie debates. I love those,
just fascinating stuff. I'm just fascinated by it all. I mean,
now Jenny's saying, oh, no, have to hear it all, and
I think I might now have to. I mean, you're gonna watch it
all. Jenny's gonna watch it all. I might I might have to DVR
it. You know. Working for a cable company, I get the fancy
stuff for free. Oh that's cool. Yeah. Well the thing is,
I mean what, I'm pretty fascinated because I'm intrigued because I really don't know
what we're gonna see tonight, you know, I mean, these debates they
do have an air of predictability to them, and that you know, you
know who the characters are, and you kind of have have an idea of
what they're gonna do. I honestly don't know what tonight's gonna be, like,
I mean, I do know, you know, I assume these characters
will play their roles as one would expect. Chris Christy will be on the
attack against Trump and the other candidates on the stage. Mike Pence will kind
of do his aw shucks, you know, the former president, and I
disagree, but you know, oh but I still just love him, you
know, uh, that kind of thing. You know, everyone will will
will play their roles. But but how that how that pans out in real
time? I don't know. I to what extent will people play their roles
or will someone surprise us? Will someone kind of break out? You know,
will Mike Pence break into some sort of profane tirade against Trump or something?
I mean, I don't think. I don't think. I don't think
it will happen, but I'd respect him. I mean, look, I
I got a parlay card in for the Little League World Series tonight, so
I gotta pay attention to my bets. Yes, yes, yeah, I
don't know if I'll even be able to watch it live. I might be
with clients, but obviously it'll be on a line afterward. But yeah,
I mean it's uh, I'm I'm really looking forward to this. I'm really
looking forward to this, even with Trump not being there. I mean that
would have been fascinating too, but him not being there, to me,
honestly, it's just as interesting. You know, do they go after Trump?
Do they do some of them say, you know, do some of
the people who've been kind of deferential to him, you know, take shots
at him for not being there? You know, do do some of them
kind of snap out of this you know, this zone that they've been in
where you know, they don't want to say anything too harsh because they don't
want to upset the magabase. But then they realize that there they are on
that stage and Trump doesn't even respect them enough to show up to debate them.
You know, do they say, Okay, that's it, We're pulling
out the knives. You know, that could happen. I hope that is
my hope, that this just becomes a two hour attack ad on Donald Trump.
Yeah, it could, It could love it, you know what,
I would love it if either RHNDA scientists or Chris Christie, because if any
of them have a shot, it's my opinion it's those two. As much
as I think Nicki Haley, if Trump were smart, he would really start
laying off her and be like, hey, I got this VP spot open
because Dendy caters to the the women vote true, Ben vote again. There's
also Tim Scott, who I know that a lot of de Santis is big
money donors have defected to Tim Scott's campaign, so he might uh this,
this could be a good night for him. I mean, he's been trying
to be, you know, the more positive. I mean, I disagree
with him on policy on many things, but I do appreciate. I mean,
at least he's he's been positive. He's not like, you know,
he's not a doomsayer, like, you know, America has fallen apart and
only I can save it that kind of thing. He's more more optimistic generally
him on a video clip when he was on the View, and those cackling
hens on the View run over anyone that is not a far left leaning uh
Democrat, They just do they talk over them and then they crow that they
won and it's like, no, you didn't just because you yell louder than
them, and there's more of them than there's more of you than them.
You did not win. Shot up all of you. And look, I
think individually they some of them, minus Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg have very
smart, very great things to say about fixing this country. But you get
them together and it's like it's awful. But I digress on that. Tim
Scott handled it very well. I mean, even when Joy Behar thinly veiled
attacked him pretty much saying that he wasn't black because he's a Republican. I
didn't see the full interview, but I do. I do know he got
some good press from that, though he acquitted himself well as seems to be
the Yeah, And I mean, and what hurt me the most is Whoopie
Goldberg sat there and took it and it's like, wait a minute. Even
Spike Lee came out and said that was wrong. Yeah, yeah, I
don't know the full context because I haven't seen the I'll love to go back
and check that out. I'm curious now. Just it was. It was
sickening. It was up there when Chelsea Handler said she had to remind fifty
cents he was black. It's like, why because he wanted to because he
supported Donald Trump. You can't be black and support the Republican Party? It
is is that what we're saying now in America? Well, there was that
moment she is now I'm reminded of. It was a mini controversy, but
it blew over quickly. But remember when Biden was on the Breakfast Club and
when when he when what he said to Charlemagne about you know, if you're
not for me, you're not black in Charlemagne I thought handled that very well
because if you watch his face, you can tell he wants to go off
on Joe Biden. I love Charlemagne mcguy. I do too. That guy
is a pro. He he's someone I actually really look up to as a
as a host. His book Shook One. Yeah I haven't. No,
have you read his book Shook One? No? No, I have not
very good really, some things I disagree with in it, obviously. Yeah,
But like I think I've proven I can disagree with you and still have
the most, the utmost respect for you. Why do you think you're my
favorite conservative? Could be a good reason. Yeah, I can disagree with
you and still respect you. Yes, it's all in how you put it
and how you carry yourself with it. Like I don't watch The Breakfast Club
every morning on b ET his gaily talk show Monday through Friday, but that
and it's on during first take, and I love that show. Oh is
that a that's a sports show, right, yep? Stephen A Smith?
Oh yeah, yeah, I like we've talked about. Even though I don't
follow sports, I do like if I if I see something on YouTube related
to stephen A. Smith and it looks interesting, I'll click it just because
I like him. It is a YouTube His YouTube show No Mercy is really
insightful, is it? Yes? And it's spelled no like k n Oh
you sorry, I can't spell today, okay and ow yeah No Mercy and
so yeah, it's pretty clever. I'll check it out. Oh, but
you were saying about Charlemagne the God. Yeah, I like Charlemagne. I
really do. I really when I gained respect for him is when he was
on the Daily Show and he really just kind of came at Trevor Noah really
well. He just was kind of like, you know, in a way
you promote division within the country, and he's like when you attack only one
side of the spectrum constantly and ridicule them. What what did what did Trevor
Noah? How did he respond to that? Trevor Noah's like, you know,
it's just that, you know, the president is a Republican right now,
the president is always in the news, and that is fair to a
degree. But but Charlemagne said, well, no, it's an issue with
all late night talk. He's like, it just seems like you guys find
the viable target and go after it, right, And he's like, and
more often than not, it's the old men, and it's like that you're
in you can be seen as alienating one part of this country. Yeah,
that's interesting, and that's coming from from you know, Charlemagne obviously as a
left leaning guy, so that's coming from someone who he's like, I rip
on him too, he goes, But I also realize that when I do
that, I'm taking he goes, there could be a large number of people
that just turned me off at that point, right, And he goes,
And then you turn around and say, why can't we be friends? Okay,
well you keep making fun of my beliefs, right, right, And
it was a very good point and I'm greatly paraphrasing there, but that was
this bit. It came shortly after he had a Tommy Layering on his show,
that train wreck of an interview. I didn't know about that. Oh
it was bad, just bad TV. I can imagine right after she first
started and really started becoming big. Yeah, huh and uh, and she
just you could tell she was trying to decipher if Trevor Noah was joking with
her or really trying to be sincere, and she came off as, oh,
I know, I'm sorry, Eric, I know what you're talking about
now. I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about Charlemagne having Tommy Laurent
on the Breakfast Club. I didn't realize you met the Daily Show. I
have I have seen the interview with her on the Daily Show. Yeah,
yeah, that was bad. And no her on the Breakfast Club. I
would be up with a bag of popcorn and that would be musty TV.
That would be on the DVR marked never Delete. Yeah, yeah, it
would be a train because there's three of them on the Breakfast Club, yes,
and one of them I forget her name. She's awesome. I love
how Well's like, how direct she is to the point. Oh, Charlemagne
and the other guy would just shut up, Yes, turn off the mics
and let them go. Yeah. H well, Eric, we are we
are a bit past the top of the hour, so so we'll start to
wrap up with you. But but yeah, I think you should. I
think you should watch the debate. I think it'll be very entertaining and uh,
I think it should have its moments. I really agree with you,
Matt. I hope the knives come out. Mike, are you gonna watch
the debate? I'm actually going to a date debate myself tonight. You're you're
going to a debate yourself? Yeah? What what debate? I know you
don't want to talk about, so I won't bring it up. Oh is
a local political thing? Oh okay, yeah, yeah, okay yeah yeah.
Oh well, well very good. I mean local stuff is always good
Texas, Mike, So you get a pass I'm misma debate. Yes,
yes, all right to be involved in the community, Texas, Mike.
Yep, yep. Uh. By the way, since you're on Texas,
Mike, where are my ice cream bars? Oh? Mike, I totally
forgot about that. Well he should have plenty of time now that he's no
longer the manager or producer for New Force of the Spark. He should have
time to deal with the ice cream bars issue. Wait, whoa, I'm
a rising star at WMNH, Texas, Mike, I have the number four
rated program on WMNH on Fridays. Yeah, number and Wow. We're gonna
have to have a private dialogue you and I. Yes, yes we were
Eric all right, I have a live podcast coming up, Texas. Mike.
Oh, yes, yes, that's right. From a finger here in
Cedar Rapids the night the Exorcist sequel premieres. Yes, that's gonna be a
that's gonna be a big uh. I'm sure when you get to making my
ice cream bars, they will be amazing. I'll try my best. That's
right. Your best is all that I needed. Texas Mike. Oh,
well, that's good. That's good. I will not fire you like uh
that one band did. Yes, well, no, Mikey resigned from a
new New Force of the Spark. Good for you, Mike, Yes,
yes, from Big Time Stars. You're managing right now myself. I'm sure
you have a hand in Kyle Clay's Queen City Chronicles. I'm sure you help
out with Matt. You know you you you're a busy guy. You help
out at all these championship tournaments. You work hard. I get it.
You're busy. Budding relationship, I understand. Thanks, okay, I appreciate
it. Eric, Before before you go to what's the film review for Friday,
please remind us all in honor of my thirty plus year of hoping that
Notre Dame football does not let me down and they inevitably will? Uh?
Or is it, in other words, to start a college football we will?
I will be reviewing the Burt Reynolds Robert all Rich classic The Longest Yard.
That's another film I've never seen, but you know I had never I've
seen the read the Adam Sandl remake, yeah, but I've first seen the
original until I watched it this weekend. Oh okay, well, very good.
So yeah, it was a great film. I'd seen clips of it,
but never the whole film. Yeah. Yeah, all right, Well,
very good. While we look forward to that. You're a classic film
review this Friday, The Longest Yard? Very good? All right? Well,
thank you. Eric. Always always a pleasure, my friend, no
problem, Matt, always a pleasure to be on Texas. Mike can you
do one thing to send me out. Ye huh had a boy Texas.
Yeah, and I'm out as well. There's a social album for the debate.
So oh okay, very good. All right, Mike, he's leaving
us too, yep, all right, thanks mikey, you are welcome.
And Mike all right, and thank you Eric, and we will well we
look forward to your review on Friday. Absolutely, thanks Matt, all right,
you got it, take care bye bye. All right, very good.
So whoa, everyone's leaving. So Eric Pilcher has left us and Texas
Mike has left us, and I'm gonna leave you for a few minutes.
We're gonna take a break. I'm gonna play this track is called Ventilator.
This is from Brooks Young, who will be our musical guest tomorrow on the
program. So I'm gonna play a little Brooks Young. I think he's uh.
I think he's gonna come in and play live for us. But if
not, I mean he's definitely coming in for an interview. I think I
interviewed Brooks probably the first time I was talking about this yesterday. Actually,
I think like fifteen years ago. So I see pictures of him now and
he has gray hair, and I'm like, whoa other than that, he
looks exactly the same. But such a talented guy, very very talented,
incredible guitar player. And he's gonna be I think Jenny mentioned yes today he's
gonna be going on tour with George Thoroughgood, I think. So let's give
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North Carolina. You see us to you, Jason, our soul man,
from us to you, mister Feederson. Oh, mister Fetterson. Wow.
Uh and there's more, Jason, we see we are not wondrous Swede.
This is very confusing. Oh, our friend Eric Pilcher is on the phone
line. Hello, Hey man, I know I was just one so sorry
to call back in so soon. I just got a breaking news alert from
the world of professional wrestling. Oh I saw that, actually, yes,
but go ahead break the news. Hardcore wrestling legend Terry Funk has died.
Yes, Terry Funk. I know he was ill for a while, so
it's it's not you know, I'm not terribly surprised. Shock, No,
not a shocking really poorly Yeah yeah, i'd seen video a number of months
ago of someone who had gone to visit him, and uh, yeah,
he looked he looked pretty rough. But do we know the cause of death.
I'm not yet. I believe he had some form of leukemia. Oh,
I didn't realize I think. Oh I didn't know that. Yeah.
I think he had like some form of cancer or some degenerative disease. It's
one or the other. I think. Yeah, I thought he had something
degenerative, but I didn't. I didn't know anything further than that. But
I mean, you watch the matches he was in. Yeah, you can
draw your own conclusions. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, he really mean.
People say wrestling is fake. Watch it hardcore Harry Funk match and come back
to me, yeah and say the wrestling is fake. The guy was thrown
on a flaming board of barbed wire with C fours under it. Yeah,
oh yeah, how old was he? Seventy nine? Okay? I thought
he was around eighty. Yeah, yeah, I mean he's probably honestly with
with the abuse that he went through physically, he's probably fortunate to have made
it as long as he did. To tell you the truth, Oh yeah,
yeah, I just yeah, just there are there are some of his
matches that I have not that I can't watch and make it all the way
through. His matches with Onita in FMW are just oh yeah, I can't
watch that stuff either. Yeah. Blood baths, Yeah, I mean it's
just like, ah yeah, I can't watch that. It's hard to watch.
But then his stuff in easy W he did were amazing matches. His
matches with Sabo, Shane Douglas stand man, you know, we're really good.
Yeah. I mean he was a rare guy like mcfoley that could use
violence to tell a story. Oh yeah, absolutely. By the way,
Wonder Swade in the chat room says, oh god, we say that is
so terrible. Terry Funk passed away from us a wrestler. We say so.
Greensboro, North Carolina, weighing in on the subject, Well, I
mean Greensboro, North Carolina was a Terry Funk copbed. I mean for the
I mean it's an NWA hotbed in that's where he got his star. Is
the NWA Florida, so safe to say he probably had quite had many,
many A matches in in North Carolina. Yes, oh, absolutely absolutely.
Well that's very sad, but I do appreciate h I do appreciate you filling
us in, Eric. Yeah, I just yeah. My cousin sent me
a text. My cousin Austin and told me, and I checked and I
checked my phone and then I saw the breaking news alert from I have pro
wrestling news alert turned on and I saw it and I was like, wow,
wondrous Swede, says Eric of us. That is so true. Yeah,
I mean you watch enough pro wrestling you learn these things. Yes,
yes, yeah, all right, Eric, Well we appreciate the call.
Thank you. Yep, sorry to interrupt, man, Oh not at all,
not at all. All right, thank you, my friend, take
care bye bye. Yeah, Terry funk. Yeah. Like I said,
it's not a not a big surprise. I know that he hadn't been doing
well for at least a couple of years. And boy, boy, the
the abuse the human body can only take so much. But that's terrible if
you had something else going on on top on top of that. I know
he had to have been in on payin and I think he was in a
wheelchair towards the end, if I'm not mistaken, But anyway, well,
rest in peace, Terry Funk, a true legend. Six zo three two
five zero six zero seven is a number if you'd like to join us.
The studio line is open. Six zero three two five six zero seven.
Wondrous Wade in the chat room also says, uh, this is regarding the
manager and producer position from which Texas Mike had recently resigned from from new affirm
or new New Force of the Spark, whatever it is, Wondrous way,
it says well from us to say new Force of the Spark has a new
manager producer is Dustin Blake. Hashtag Matt and hashtag jen n Dustin Blake.
He beat me out. I was going to go for that, all right,
let's see, I wanted to just briefly and then of course it's a
very big news day, but just briefly, just some thoughts on yesterday.
If you missed yesterday's show, we had Mary Anne Williamson, a presidential candidate
running as a Democrat, challenging Joe Biden, and uh, she was here
with us on the show. She was with us for she got here a
little late. They were running behind, but but she did make it and
it was wonderful to get to talk with her and to meet her and very
nice, by the way, very nice even you know, off Mike.
She's got a certain she's got a warmth about her. Really seems like a
really nice person. And so I think we got about forty five minutes with
her during the first hour, and I really enjoyed the discussion. And what
I'm hoping is uh and I'm sure we'll be able to make this happen,
and I don't see why not. I'd like to have her back on the
show in the near future, and you know, obviously she'll be spending a
lot of time here in New Hampshire. We do have the first in the
nation primary. I think, I know the DNC was trying to take that
away from us and give it to South Carolina. But regardless, I'm sure
we'll be seeing more of Mary Ann Williamson. And what I what I would
like to do ideally is to is to have her on one day where we
don't have anybody else and if she if she's able to give us the time,
I'd like to And I've seen her do long form interviews on other programs,
so I have to assume she would be amenable to it. I'd like
to have her here for the full two hours and really kind of drill down
on some subjects. Yesterday, really we just kind of we didn't really talk
about any one issue for too long. I wanted to kind of just get
her on record in terms of her positions on a lot of different things,
and really just kind of for the audience, who, you know, because
she is a not to be disrespectful, but I think what you would consider
a quote unquote fringe candidate in the sense that obviously she's not a threat.
She's not a legitimate threat to the incumbent, who is President Joe Biden,
in terms of the nomination, but but she is very interesting and she talks
about a lot of issues that in ways that the president does not, and
I wanted to just kind of get her her positions on a lot of different
things, so we kind of kept the conversation moving. She said some things
that I agreed with and some things that I certainly did not agree with,
But like I said, I didn't want to get stuck on any one thing
because I wanted to try to get in. You know, we only had
her for a limited time, but if we can in the future get her
back for the full two hours, I would love to and I'm sure Jenny
would like to do this as well, you know, get really in depth
on some things and you know, try to focus maybe on I think the
most interesting thing would be, and I would certainly to be the more intellectually
stimulating thing would be to talk about some of the issues where we disagree.
And I've seen her go on on podcasts and really kind of debate people.
I was watching her appearance on Bill Maher's podcast Club Random, and you know,
they politically, they're they're kind of coming from the same place. But
I think Bill Bill Maher's politics are probably a lot closer to mine, you
know, in terms of being you know, sort of center left but also
kind of libertarian in some ways. But but it was interesting the conversation between
the two of them, in the way they interacted, and you know,
I'd like to be able to do something like that with Mary Anne Williamson.
So I'm, like I said, I'm sure she'll be back. She seemed
to enjoy the experience. She was she was very nice afterwards, and we
took pictures with her, and it was a really enjoyed talking with her.
Like I said, you know, she said some things that I did not
agree with from a policy standpoint, but I want to to get her opinions.
But it's funny. There was one thing at the end, and I
was watching the time because I knew she needed to be out of here at
five pm, and we had other guests coming in in the second hour.
Anyway, we had again if you miss yesterday's show, Cody Pope and Byron
g were here in the second hour and they performed live for us, and
it was just so good. Those guys just get better and better. Love
having them on. And I love the positivity too of what they're doing.
Great stuff. But right at the it was at the end. I think
it might have been. The last real political issue that we talked about was
the debt limit, and when that came up, I had to and again
I wasn't you know, I wasn't looking to get stuck on anything. I
just kind of wanted to get her on the record about all these things.
And it kind of gives us, assuming that she will come back, sort
of gives us a jumping off point for when she does return, and we
can get in deeper on some things. But when the debt limit came up,
I was I had to I had to push back on what she was
saying. You know her position, And if you're a longtime listener of the
show, you know I probably have talked about the debt ceiling, or the
debt limit, or the fiscal cliff, whatever term you want to use,
various terms. I probably talked about that issue specifically more than just about any
other radio show. But when she said her position on that was that Biden
should not have negotiated with Kevin McCarthy and negotiated with the Republicans and instead should
have simply invoked the fourteenth Amendment to raise the debt limit unilaterally. And I
think that's crazy. You know, I had to push back on that.
I mean, I just think that that's that would have been such a dangerous
move because we don't know if the fourteenth Amendment would have held up, how
it would even be invoked. It had never been done before, and I
thought that was much too dangerous. I did agree with her about she was
talking about how Democrats are very often afraid to use their power, whereas Republicans
can be quite ruthless, you know, As I like to say, Democrats
will often bring a bring a knife to a gunfight, and if it's a
knife fight, they'll bring a plastic spork. So I mean, we had
some agreement there. But then when she said she didn't think that Biden should
have negotiated at all and simply invoked the fourteenth, that would have been so
dangerous because all it would have taken was some judge to put an injunction on
Biden's invocation of the fourteenth, and you know, we would have ended up
in global economic catastrophe. So I had to I had to say something on
that. Again, I didn't want to get into the weeds, and especially
where it was almost the top of the hour at that point, but I
had to say, well, Mary Ann, come on anyway. I would
love to talk with her more about that in the future. So I do
hope she'll come back. But the other observation that I had, and I
was thinking about this, it occurred to me while she was here, but
it also I was thinking about it a lot today. I did listen back
to most of it. I didn't get a chance to listen back to all
of it, but I did listen back to most of it, and I
was reflecting on a lot of what she talked about. And the thing that
occurred to me is much of what she talks about when we're talking specifically about
economic issues, she's actually expressing a lot of the same concerns that I hear
from Republicans and Mary Ann Williamson obviously, I mean, she's certainly to the
left of Biden. I would put her more in the realm of Bernie Sanders,
which I think she endorsed us. She wound up endorsing Bernie when she
dropped out in twenty twenty. But what's interesting is so the through line here,
though, is she's talking about things like she's talking about inflation, and
you know, she's talking about the price of gas and the price of housing
and whatnot, and she's talking about things that again these are these are also
issues that Republicans express about the economy. But you don't hear the President and
other mainstream Democrats and those who are going to support Biden no matter what.
Of course, even though polling data shows something like seventy percent of Democrats don't
want Biden to run for reelection, they want somebody new again. It's it
goes back to we talked about it in the first hour. But they,
you know, they frame it as you know, Biden and others, they
frame it as they're so confident in their framing of the economy and of the
current economic picture. They even gave it. They call it Bidenomics, which
is of course a play on what was Reaganomics in the eighties. And where
they're coming from, and this is I want to be very careful about how
I say that. This is a nuanced point, and I don't want to
be misunderstood on what I'm saying. But where they're coming from, they're not
wrong when they say that overall, big picture, the fundamentals of the economy
are strong. That is true. That is true. The economy is growing,
it continues to grow. We have the lowest unemployment rate really in recorded
history, the three and a half percent. We're still there, close to
it. It's pretty remarkable. Labor participation is very high. We're doing very
well. Overall, talk of recession, the inevitable recession has receded to the
point where now I think the FED has a much rosier long term forecast,
or at least a short term forecast and probably long term. So they're right
in the sense that, you know, the way the American economy rebounded post
COVID has been really impressive. So they're not wrong when they say that the
fundamentals of this economy are very strong, and there's even manufacturing is up.
There are a lot of really good things going on in the economy. That
is absolutely true, and they feel so confident in that message. Biden is
actually calling it by denomics. I think that's a horrible mistake, but I'll
come back to that. So they're right when they say that. But then
there's the other side to it, And the other side to that is,
yes, the fundamentals are very strong, but one of the weaknesses is a
huge weakness that is right in everybody's face every single day. That is inflation,
which again is coming down progress, but still it's still too high and
inflation you feel that every day. So, in other words, no matter
how strong the fundamental the fundamentals of the economy are, and they are,
I think economists generally agree, inflation is in your face every day. It's
in your face when you're buying gas, it's in your face when you're buying
groceries, and it's in your face when you're paying your utility bills, you
know, And that's real. And what I saw a pretty shocking number recently.
It was something like seven hundred dollars. I don't remember the exact number
in terms of what the average American household is paying more than they were a
year ago just on living expenses. How much that has gone up. It's
it's quite shocking. Actually, when you see it in real numbers, it's
like wow. So what mary Ann Williamson speaks to is, Okay, Biden's
going to tell you all of this, but here's here's how Americans are struggling.
And that actually is in line with what Republicans will say when Republicans will
say, well, yeah, Biden says, Biden says, the economy is
great, but what about this, this and this, Well that this,
this and this is the same this, this, and this that Mary Ann
Williamson was talking about yesterday. So it's interesting. There's sort of a it's
an interesting through line. Not that I'm saying that Republicans should support mary Ann
Williamson. That's never gonna happen, because you know, you may have some
agreement on what the problems are and what the weaknesses are outside of the Bidenomics
narrative, right, But that doesn't mean you're going to ever agree on the
solutions, and Mary Ann Williamson and Republicans are never going to agree on the
solutions, but there is some common ground there in terms of identifying the problems.
And I thought that was interesting and I was thinking about that yesterday as
she was talking, but I also, again I was thinking about it more
when I was listening back to it today. It's like she's identifying things that
Biden isn't going to talk about because politically Biden really can't afford to talk about
them now. And just to kind of put a bow on that, because
I do want to in the remaining minutes of today's show, I do want
to look at Spen another blockbuster day in legal news. But I think,
and I've said this on the show before, but I think the the Biden
campaign has taken a horrendous risk with Bidenomics and putting a name on that is
so bad what they should be doing. And if you're a regular listener,
you know I talk all the time on the show about how Democrats are horrible
at messaging they're really bad at it, and what they should be doing is
they should be out there again, I'm not I'm not talking about Maryanne because
she's speaking on a different level. But I'm talking about the you know,
the Biden and those who would support him, who continue to support him.
What they should be out doing every day is talking about the good things in
the economy, of which there are many. There are many good things going
on in the economy. You know, three and a half percent unemployment,
it's pretty good. That's something to crow about. I think. Do I
give credit? By the way, just to be clear though, because I'm
consistent on this, do I give Biden credit for that? Absolutely? Not
that. I don't give presidents credit or blame for how the economy is doing.
Sorry, it's much more complex than that. I know people don't like
that. People like to view the economy generally through only a partisan ideological lens.
I don't do that, So I'm not giving him credit. But I
also understanding how the political game is played, you take credit where you can.
What they should be doing, what the Democrats should be doing is out
there pounding the table every day saying, look at this unemployment rate. This
is incredible. Look at how manufacturing has grown. This is incredible. Look
at this, look at this, look at this pointing out all the good
things, but putting a label on it, putting a brand name to it,
like calling it biodnomics. To me, it's I know it's been a
few weeks now since we've first heard that term, but to me, that
is so risky and frankly stupid. It's it's actually shocking to me. I
think it's a terrible misstep because, first of all, anyone who opposes you,
all they have to do is say, well, what about inflation?
Is that biden Anomics? I guess so. Well, what about the price
of housing people can't afford rent? Is that bidenomics? That's something Mary Williamson
talked about yesterday too. Is that bidenomics? I guess so. People's electric
bills have gone way up? Is that Bidenomics? I guess so. So
by putting that name on it, he actually makes it easier for those who
oppose him. We were going to make a different argument about the economy to
attach negative things to that name bidonomics. And the other big problem is what
if And again, there seems to be a lot of optimism that we,
in fact, are going to be able to avoid a recession for at least
a while and have what they call a soft landing as we continue to as
the economy continues to evolve out of the pandemic. But what if they're wrong,
and what if the economy does tip into recession, and what if it
happens during the campaign. Well, and he's already labeled he's already labeled the
current American economy as the result of Bidenomics. Well, now that becomes an
albatross. Oh, look, the economy is in recession. That's bydnomics.
See it's such a bad idea. I still, I swear the first time
I heard him say it, talking about biodynamics, I thought, this is,
first of all, it's cringe, and second of all, what an
unbelievable risk that is to take. If you want to stand at that podium
I don't remember where he was given a speech somewhere, if you want to
stand at that podium and say, hey, we got some great stuff going
on in this economy, and we do. We do have some very good
things, are some very strong indicators in this economy, and this economy continues
to expand and the job market continues to do very well. I mean,
there's a lot to crow about there, if you want to crow about those
things. And of course, you know, ignore the things you don't want
to talk about because they're harmful to you. Politically, that makes sense.
But to but knowing knowing that you have critics who are mentioning the bad things
obviously right because politically that's what they're going to do. And when you know
that those bad things are valid because in many instances there are things that everyday
Americans are feeling every day when they buy groceries, when they pay their utility
bills, when they put gas in the car. Why would you want to
put a label on that? I could see? I mean, if we
had an economy like we had in the nineteen nineties, where we experienced during
the Clinton administration the longest period of sustained economic growth in American history. You
know, if if Bill Clinton had wanted to call that Clinton nomics, I
still would have found it cringe. But but but I could understand it.
Right, But the risk, the risk of calling this by dynamics is quite
perilous. If you want to get in with a very quick call. We
have a few minutes left in today's show six ozho three two five zero six
zero seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven. What's going on
in the chat room now? Wondrous Wade says hashtag Jen. We are from
Greensboro, North Carolina. We are covering some soul for Real songs. I
remember Soul for Real and us to you Jen Coffee Soul for Real as an
R and B singing group. And Miriam asks Mariam Banish, wait, did
someone say the name Dustin Blake? Because there was a young person in Manchester
named Dustin Blake who passed away at age seventeen. If one of those Greensboro
people said that they better have a good reason. Where did you get his
name? There was a Dustin Blake? Huh? Interesting, wondrous way,
it says hashtag Miriam. We say, from us, we said his name
Dustin Blake. He is from and lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. Well,
there certainly could be more than one person by that name, and he
works at Libby Hill and now works at Jimmy John's Sandwich Place. From us
to you, Miriam, Okay, let's see so again the debate is tonight?
Really looking forward to that. I don't have any particular predictions. I
think these I think the participants. Oh you know what did surprise me though,
So I didn't realize that congressman from Texas, former Congressman Will Heard,
I didn't realize that he didn't qualify for tonight's debate. Now he says he
should have qualified, but but they're ignoring some of his numbers or something.
He said he qualified in terms of donations. But uh, but he has
been shut out. And then I know there was a question about whether Doug
Bergham was going to be able to make it. So we'll see, we'll
see who's there and who's not. I mean, we know who will be
there, of course, Chris Christie, Randa Santists, Tim Scott, Nikki
Hayley, Mike Pence. I'm sure I'm forgetting people. Oh, Vivek Rama
Swamy. It will be interesting to see if if De Santists does go after
Vivek, or if Vek goes after De Santis. There was a rumor that
part of the reason that Vvek Ramaswamy was running was specifically to take down to
Santis, that he was chosen by people to do that. I don't know,
but I want, Oh, let's look at this just quickly and then
we gotta go. We're almost out of show. But yeah, I don't
forget the Republican debates tonight. I'm sure we'll talk about it tomorrow. Media
reports breaking news. Mug shots of Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Jenna
Ellis released after Trump lawyer's a surrender in Georgia. Let's see, I'm looking
at Giuliani's mug shot. He looks like he looks determined, like he's like,
yeah, I'm still America's mayor. Let's see Sidney Powell. Wow,
she's got the crazy eyes. And Jenna Ellis, she's got a huge smile.
She's very happy to be there. Unless wait to have Sidney Powell and
Jenna Ellis mixed up. I don't know. One of them's got the crazy
eyes and the other one has a big smile. That the big smile makes
her look not crazy, it says here. According to Ammas NBC, Giuliani
has retained John Esposito as his lawyer and local counsel Brian TeVeS. It has
been widely reported that Giuliani is going through serious financial troubles related to his legal
bills. Yeah, Trump still owes him a ton of money. Giuliani,
a top advisor and lawyer to former President Donald Trump, defended himself to the
press before boarding the plane that took him from his home in New York City
to Georgia, saying, quote, I am fighting for justice. I've been
from the first moment I represented Donald Trump. And as a man who has
now been proven innocent several times unquote, yes, boy, he's got to
go through his I mean, he's presumed innocent until proven guilty. He's got
you know, I don't know. He might wind up at the end being
proven innocent several times, but he's got to have his trials first. By
the way, Giuliani, interestingly, so he's been talking about how or it's
and widely reported he cannot afford. He's having difficulty of finding lawyers to represent
him. Apparently he did find a couple. Because he has a ton of
legal debt. He's in a terrible position. He's got all this legal debt.
He owes money to so many lawyers whom he hasn't paid. Meanwhile,
Trump never paid him because Trump treats all of his lawyers like the buye here
pay here. Lawyers you see on TV, you know, the the ambulance
chasing injury attorneys who tell you, you know, you don't pay us if
we don't win or something. And you know, I don't know Jim sokolof
those guys. So, but that's why Giuliani's six million dollar apartment in New
York is apparently on up for sale. Oh but Giuliani was dropped off.
He flew in on a private jet. I don't know who paid for the
private jet, but that's how he got to the jail. I guess if
you're on your way to the who'scal that's a nice way to go, it
says your. Other defendants from Trump's legal team turned themselves in on Wednesday,
including Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell. Their mug shots were also released. Trump
is expected to turn himself in and of his mug shot taken tomorrow, with
a bail agreement of two hundred thousand dollars. Fulton County District Attorney Fini Willis
gave Trump and his eighteen co defendants a deadline of August twenty five to turn
themselves into the Fulton County jail, already booked an out on bail are trump
lawyer John Eastman and Scott Hall, another one of the eighteen co defendants,
who is also a bail bondsman. Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff,
tried to delay his surrender but failed. Ellis and Kenneth Cheesebro, who
was allegedly responsible for the facal Actors scheme, are also both out on bail
after one hundred thousand dollars bond agreements. Trump and his co defendants have been
charged with allegedly hatching a scheme to overturn Georgia's twenty twenty action. All right,
we've got to go. Oh, Jenny just posted a link in the
chat room. Here are a bunch of mug shots. L ol. Well,
tomorrow we'll get to see uh, we'll get to see Trump's. But
he you know, I'm sure he won't mind having his mug shot taken because
he'll monetize it. He'll have it put on T shirts and then MAGA people
will buy the T shirts and to donate money to his campaign. It'll be
great. All right, We are out of time, my friends. If
you missed any part of today's show it we'll be up in just a little
bit at WMACH radio dot org and at my website Matt Connerton dot com.
Thank you again, of course, Eric Pilcher for joining us in the first
hour as he does every Wednesday, and Texas Mike. That was a nice
surprise. Good to see him. I don't forget. Tomorrow on the show,
our musical guest is the great Brooks Young. He's gonna come in and
join us live in studio, and I haven't seen Brooks in quite a few
years, so this will be This will be wonderful and I'm really looking forward
to that. And in fact, we will leave you with another one of
his songs to play us out. This is called Same Old Blues, and
that's going to do it for us for now. Don't forget to open Mike
tonight at the Hopknot, and we'll talk to y'all a little bit later.
By everybody,