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your live streaming options, social media links, contact info, sh archives,
etcetera, etcetera. Today is Monday, October second, twenty twenty three,
and I am not alone. Jenny is here at the news desk. Oh
I love them. Yes? Now why now? Why that? Why that
we I picked that for this month because it is Pinktober. It is breast
cancer Awareness month across the world, and this is the time of year everybody
sees pink things coming out and actually starts talking about breast cancer. And I'm
hoping to get your attention because I want to talk to you about your men
in your life. Because we don't talk about male breast cancer enough in this
country at all. Really, I get offended at the fact that it's all
pinked up because we leave our men out, and men do get breast cancer
out of every I believe the statistic is one out of every thousand newly diagnosed
cases. A breast cancer is a man. They have breast tissue. Men,
you have breasts. You do not have the equipment to make milk,
but you have breast and breast tissue, and you do need to check yourself.
You should be checking your packs. There's a lot of videos out there,
but you know, you're basically looking at yourself and seeing that everything feels
normal. Seems normal with men sometimes what they'll see as an inversion in the
nipple, or they may notice a dimpling in their breast or some discomfort of
any kind. You should always get checked out, and you know, be
proactive and ask your doctors if you see something or you're not sure about it,
bring it to their attention and say could this be breast cancer and make
them check it. That's what we need to do to start saving lives.
And I'm going to drop a link into the chat room today and I will
probably get this up on my own website later. But there's a really great
book out there by a really great man named Alan Herbert. Alan lives in
the Netherlands and he is a male breast cancer survivor. He is right now
stage four metastatic. Unfortunately. He wrote a really great book called The Pink
Unicorns of Male Breast Cancer and he discusses in his book his journey through breast
cancer and he believes that is probably attributed to his time in the military service.
He was a nurse and served in the Royal the Royal Navy. He's
from. He was from originally from Britain before moving to the Netherlands, and
he worked in a nuclear sub and he fought in the Falcons and he believes
that the exposure within the sub is most likely what caused his cancer and a
number of cancers among his fellow comrads. So I do want to bring attention
to that today. I do want to talk about it, and I want
you to talk about it and have the conversation. Go home, have a
conversation with your loved ones, your son, your husband, your brother,
your buddy. This is the kind of conversation that can save a life.
But you need to have them, so please in this month of Pink Toober
when we talk about breast cancer, and yes, I am grateful. This
is actually my ten year survival. This year marks my ten year survival from
breast cancer. So that's that's a milestone that we try to hit. We
all talk about the five year and the ten year, so this is this
is that big milestone for me, and I want to use the platform that
I have to really highlight male breast cancer and the seriousness of it. If
it's caught early enough intreatable, a lot can be done. But oftentimes with
our men, it's not found until stage three because they don't talk about it
because we don't look for changes in their chest. And it's not just the
breast material that you you can see. You've got a lot of material underneath
their guys. So check your packs, take it seriously, talk about this
with the people that you love, and check out the Pink Unicorns of Male
Breast Cancer. It is available on Amazon by Alan Herbert h E R.
B e RT A very dear and dear friend fighting in the Netherlands as we
speak. Yeah. John Hopwood posted a couple of links too. In the
chat room, one from ABC News and one from oh Wikipedia about male breast
cancer, and he mentioned that Richard Rowntree, the actor who played Shafts,
has or has had male breast cancer, and also, of course Peter Chris,
the original drummer from Kiss, had it. Yeah, and there's another
big celebrity too. I can't remember who now escapes me. But it's just
not talked about enough. And that's why more men will die from it because
it doesn't get caught soon enough. Yeah, because they're not looking for it.
With women, we talk about it all the time. We have little
cards we can put in our hours to remind us how to do it.
When we go to the doctor, everything is pink. We don't include our
men in the United States, and we really need to change that. I
truly believe, actually, I truly believe that the only reason Alan did not
succumb to the cancer when it initially happen is because he is under a national
healthcare system that gave him access. And I do believe that's also why he's
still with us today fighting metastatic cancer. Is because he has They don't,
they don't not. They pull out every stop. There's no barrier to care.
There's no delay in care. He needs something, he gets it right,
and that's how it should be here. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
We have a call and I think it's our friend Billy Painter on the line.
Hi Billy, Hey, how are you doing good? How are you
welcome? All right? I had definitely had to chime in on this conversation
because because it does hit home. As far as any men that I have
known, Uh, I can't. I can't say that I've known of any
cases of breast cancer with men. However, I do acknowledge that it that
it is real. It's it's rare, but it is real. I'm like,
like Jenny said, well, I think she said one out of every
one thousand, but my own mother figure who basically raised me, who my
dad, my dad gave me over to my aunt, his sister to raise
me when he couldn't do it. And of course she was my mother figure
my whole young life. And uh, I'll just I'll never forget it was.
It was what maybe a month or two after I graduated high school that
she had revealed to me the doctor had diagnosed her with breast cancer. And
uh, the next the next year was just this really bad roller coaster ride
for me and my family's you know, we're not used to seeing her wearing
a hat wherever she has to go, so that that was that was different
to us. And then uh uh the chemo treatments just seemed to make her
just like tired all the time and making us more worried because we didn't know
how to handle the situation. And yeah, after that, things things started
to get we started to see some light at the tunnel and she was getting
better. Yeah, but really the treatments just bought her ten extra years of
her life because the ten years later the cancer came back with a full vengeance
and she she only lasted another six months after that. Oh wow, well,
at least she got a at least she got a good decade though out
of the Uh so the original treatments out, that's good. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I remember too. She she was an devest Christian and churchgoer
and all that, and uh, I hope I don't offend any atheists out
there. But her her final words to me the last time I talked to
her was she said, you be prepared to say goodbye to me. I'm
ready to go meet Jesus and that was the last thing she ever said to
me. After that, she you know, when she gradually got sicker.
I want to talk to her one more time, but she was too ill
to even talk over the phone. How old was she? Billy fifty?
Oh fifty? Chee much too? Yeah. Wow, that's horrible. I'm
sorry you went through that. That's that's gotta be Uh, that's gotta be
terrible, you know. And Matt, let me let me ask you this.
I mean, to you, what is worse watching a family a family
member of years just deteriorate and fade away like that, or something like like
my dad just happened suddenly and it hits you like a ton of bricks.
Oh, I think probably much worse to watch somebody, uh, watch somebody
slowly fade away. I mean, that's that's why did you up to that
person when it's time? Oh? Yeah, yeah absolutely, But yeah,
that's that's terrible. I'm sorry to hear that story. I hope the memory
is for a blessing for you and yours and you can oh it most definitely
does, you know. And I only think positive things about her, come
to think of it, it's almost been it's been eighteen years. Since she
was gone. That was in two thousand and five, and I was Yeah,
I was thirty years old when that happened, so yeah, yeah,
but yeah, to me, I think the feeling is definitely a lot worse
to me is just you know, whether somebody, somebody family member dies and
you know it's sudden or you know, or you're just sitting back waiting for
it to happen because you know it's inevitable. Yeah. I mean, at
least if if someone, if someone passes away suddenly and it's unexpected, you
know, at least then you know they weren't suffering and you weren't watching them
suffer, which is obviously very painful. I mean, obviously there's no good
way to lose a loved one. But but if it, if it is
sudden and and you know they didn't suffer, that's obviously better. For lack
of a better way of putting it. I want to add one other thing
to this too, is that that same year, see my Brazilian jiu jitsu
instructor who I trained under. His name was Dean Heilman, and I still
I still have the magazine He appeared in Grappling Magazine because he was diagnosed with
cancer. I don't know what kind it's or Jenny would know. It starts
with him and I can't pronounce it, but basically his started with what he
thought was a pimple and uh, and then it started looking worse. Oh,
melano, melanie, melano, melanoma, probably melanoma. Yeah. So
you know, over the years, I watched him fight it and beat it,
fight it and beat it, fight it and beat it. And then
uh, you know that same year twenty twenty, twenty zero five, he
Uh, I think he he was just tired, he was ready to give
up. And I was living in South Carolina at the time. I'd call
in and check on him, and he always sounded in high spirits. And
then just all of a sudden, one of my former teammates called me and
said, he's gone. But what Dean's passing did for me was it got
me prepared for my aunt's passing, because you know, he I guess he
was suffering just as bad, but you couldn't you couldn't hear it in his
voice when he was talking. Plus his cancer was different than hers. But
it's it's like, yeah, his his passing got me mentally prepared for what
was to come next? Yeah, yeah, no, cancer sucks, as
they say, yeah, absolutely, yeah, So I mean, yeah,
I think it is what I agree with Jenny. It is why is an
idea that, to you know, men should definitely get their colonopies or whatever
those those things that are ungott be uncomfortable and also doesn't hurt to get a
memogram? Well, I don't think. I don't think you can. Actually
there isn't an actual male mamogram, right you, just the same way you
can. There is a suspicion of something, so oh that would lead into
what I would bring up next. Oh oh, okay, oh, I
didn't know that, all right, I'll go into that a little bit.
Okay, okay, cool, Yeah, I'm very curious about that. I
didn't know that. All right. Anyway, I'm gonna drop off a here.
Y'all have a good one, have a good show, all right,
Billy, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. All right. All
right, that's our friend Billy Painter from the great State of Idaho. And
of course, uh he's he's on you. You can actually hear him here
right here in New Hampshire on WSMN in Nashville, right, I forgot he
was doing that. Yep, he does. He does that show common sense
Conservatives, and he's got Patriot Confederation and he's got Outlaw Radio. And Billy's
a busy guy, very very successful, very very successful, and brody pie
absolutely many pies. Absolutely. I was just gonna let me just give the
studio one quickly six three two five six zero seven six z two six zero
seven. If you'd like to chime in, all right, go ahead.
No. So what Billy brought up is something that I did want to mention
actually, so I'm really glad that he'd tapped that into my brain and about
momography and every men who get breast cancer go through the exact same things as
women who have breast cancer, but they have to do it in a pinked
up environment. Our breast cancer senders are one hundred percent pretty much geared towards
women. When I went to Dana Farber after meeting Alan and our Ambrose,
who passed away last year, was the first male breast cancer patient that actually
the one of us had met. They get I asked him when I went
to Danta Farber, like, what do you do with the guys, because
right when you go when I go in for my mammogram. They bring me
in and there's this room right you walk right into it. There's lockers to
change your clothes with bathrooms at a seating area where only women sit and have
their gown tops on. So I asked, what are you doing? It's
a man, he said, We bring him in the back way. We
bring him in the back way. Come on see, because we pinked up
the entire thing, and it shouldn't be so pink, you know, or
could we make it pink and blue? Could we do something that was a
little bit more appropriate so that every human being who has breast material knows they
need to watching watch out for things. Some of the things that men should
watch out for. Specifically, I'd mentioned about the nipple changes. But you
might see a lump or feel some kind of a swelling. Maybe you feel
a little swelling underneath in your armpit redness or flaky skin on the breast area,
seeing any kind of im let's forgive me, irritation or will I mentioned
dimpling, You might have some kind of an imma irritation there, getting any
kind of discharge from the nipple, or if you're having pain in the area
at all absolutely get checked out. And men, you've got to advocate hate
for yourself. Folks, we need to advocate for each other because sometimes the
doctors don't think that way. They think breast cancer, they ninety percent of
the time think female. They don't think of a male breast without milk dots.
They only think about us, right, And this is how we teach
breast cancer. When we look at it, everything is pink. And you
know, I'm sad that that's the way we keep that world because it does
put people who are who have male breasts at higher risks because we don't talk
about it. And with women, they used to try and push it off.
Oh, you don't need to get mammograms to you're like, you know,
fifty years old. Well now they're recommending them at forty five, and
for some people even sooner. Younger women are coming down with breast cancer.
So we need to make sure that's awareness is raised as well. I was
lucky my cancer was caught on a routine mammogram. Unlucky in the fact that
there was a secondary location that caused me to have to have a non nipple
sparing radical massectomy. But if I was a man I'd go through the same
thing. In fact, Alan has had a full massectomy. He went through
chemo in radiation the same way that a woman was. But he went through
it in a country that believes in giving all the medical treatment you need up
front, so he got it aggressively treated. That's not the way it is
here in the United States, unfortunately. I mean, that's what we're all
trying to fight for, right I need you guys to fight. I need
you guys to fight with me. In fact, there's going to be event
next week Wednesday, on the eleventh, is the Care over Cost event that's
going to happen in Pulaski Park right here in Manchester, starting at about two
in the afternoon. There is going to be a march, There's going to
be a rally, there will be speakers. We are talking health care for
all, health care for all. I'll tell you guys more about that next
week on Monday, and or maybe later on this week. I don't know,
but I just wanted to give a heads up to you guys that that's
coming up. So on the topic of healthcare, please do come and attend
that, and please do talk about mess about breast cancer with you girls with
you, boys with everybody talk about it all right, very good, very
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that track I opened with us from eons and coded our friend Nolan Coda,
who is a guest on the show not long ago, talking about that he's
going to be back today with I don't know if it's the full band coming
or I believe, but yeah, I'm may be mistaken, but I believe
so Pointless Culture. And we did talk with Nolan a little bit about that
project, although we mainly focused on Ian's Encoded when he was here before,
because Ians Encoded as a solo project, he does at all himself, but
Pointless Culture is the band that he's in, and they're gonna be coming in
today, so we're gonna feature some of their music and get to know those
guys. Obviously we already know Nolan, but I'm looking forward to meeting the
rest of the band. So they will be in today. In the second
hour, great musical guest on the program. Let's see, we'll say hello
to everybody in the Facebook live chat. Eric Pilter joins us and says,
hello, peeps. Don't forget this Friday, Eric Pilter's classic film review.
The subject is The Exorcist, so looking forward to that, and he's had
some cool graphics made up and everything. It's a whole big thing. There's
gonna be a whole separate podcast. It's gonna be really cool. But we'll
tell you more about that throughout the week. And Rani Fervero from the great
state of California joins us. Jenny, I see you're in there. Of
course, I'm everywhere, easyg Eric Gagnan says, Happy Monday. He got
a couple of sitters there at the Assistant living facility. I saw on social
media Amanda McCarthy and her husband Tom Shubbs made him a visit. Yes,
yes, oh that's really cool. Isaac Banks, of course from Greensboro,
North Carolina, says, Hi, Matt Connerton and Gen Coffee, Good afternoon
to you. Ronda Fervero says, wow, who's in this band? If
Alison Chains and Metallica had a baby? Hot as f Yeah that is Ians
Codd's our friend. Nolan Coda whenever, Yeah, he does everything, dude.
Well whenever I whenever I play that track, because that's my whole they're
super early. Whenever I play that track, it always gets a huge response.
I'll take a moment and Warren oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh. Let's see. Uh. John C. Hopwood in the chat
room says it's Monday already. Yes, Uh. Carol's a Warwitz joins us
in the Facebook live chat. Hello, Carol, Isaac Banks says, good
afternoon. Christie Hopkins, Meredith Graves, hope you can check out of you
know, I said something what's on my mind on Facebook? Well it's a
little cryptic. Let's see John John Hopwood mentioning Richard Rowntree earlier. Let's see
DJ Steve joins us in the Facebook live chat, says good afternoon, Matt
and Jen have a great show. DJ Steve, of course, one of
our co hosts on Friday nights on Retro Spectrum Radio with Pauli c Isaac Banks
says, good afternoon, A J. Cook from the TV show Criminal Minds.
I have to say you are a good actress. Wow A J.
Cook? Yes, I have no idea who that is. He's always saying
hello to various celebrities and luminaries in our chat room. Let's see, tonymnaries.
Aren't those things that light up that too? I think those are a
luminaries. They illuminate for ill illuminaries. I thought we were gonna have glow
in the dark peeps. Oh, that'd be fun. Actually, peeps are
discussing the people. It's not that time of year, all sugar candy corn
time of year. Tony Petrello joins us in the Facebook Clatchett and says,
all great information to know, Thank you, Tony. John C. Hopwood
says the death rate is higher for male breast cancer than for both prostate and
testicular cancer. About doesn't get caught as quickly. It makes sense exactly.
That's exactly why we look for men to have tastic year cancers. We look
for rectal cancers, but we don't look for breast cancers and our men,
and that's something we need. The only way to change that is word of
mouth is talking about it. Will Vegas of course, Will's auto care.
Great, great mechanic and great guy, he says in the chat room,
Hello friends, great topic. Maddie Juno, who, of course you're here
on the Morning Show with Peter White. Maddie Juno's brother has been fighting breast
cancer. No kidding, I did not know that might be a good guest
for the topic. Interesting, Yeah, I had no idea. Well,
yeah, it really is more common than you think, Sez. I mean
we know somebody with a brother who has it right now. Yeah. I
mean, like I said, one out of one thousand is not a small
number, right right. Ronda Fervero says, thank you for this conversation about
breast cancer and men. It's not talked about enough. Let's see in that
book, just in case you didn't catch it earlier, the book called The
Pink Unicorns of Male Breast Cancer. It is available on Amazon. It's written
by Alan Herbert, someone that Matt and I personally know, Yes, who
is actually right? Now fighting stage four breast cancer. Jay fed from the
Great State of Vermont joins us in the chat room. Hello, Isaac Banks
says, there's always interaction between these two. Yeah, what is that?
He says, Jason Federson, what's up with you? My main man of
yourself doing good impression of the fonds and you can be a good comedian.
Oh, very nice and very reaffirming. I would say yes, yes.
And Isaac Banks also said, Jason Fetterson, by the way, wear a
leather jacket and shave your beard off, black T shirt and jeans. Well,
you know if he wants to do his Fonzie impression, if you want
to make your beard. Oh and speaking of beards, the beard and Patriots
is in the Facebook live chat. That, of course is our friend Billy
Painter. He clarified he he only covers on the WSMN show when Colonel Wyatt
is gone. He will be back this week. So so Billy's a fill
it but he is on. He fills in on a on an actual FM
radio show right here in New Hampshire. So that's pretty cool. What what
do you must be ahd of me? On? The comments made me get
go oh okay, uh let's see. Jason says, I've had a beard
since I was born. Wow. See, I'm telling you talking about the
beard's gonna get trouble. Apparently our friend Ron is on the line. Hi,
ron My, how you met? I didn't want to interrupt, Just
wow, isn't that the coolest thing? That easy gotta visit from Amander?
I mean, out of all the people in the world, Amander or boyfriend
or husband or whatever. I was like, Wow, that's pretty cool.
You must see and that just goes she I mean, you don't get any
better than that. I guess what else could I say? He's had personal
cop concerts from some of these folks. You know, he's a big one.
The you gotta do the dawn easy, gotta go see him. Hey,
I know you guys aren't probably don't able to watch sixty minutes, But
if you have the ability to Uh, oh, Jimmy's laughing, what a
nice same wrong? Oh no, that was that wasn't you? Oh no,
that was that was Matt's face. But I'm saying, if you guys
have the ability to look it up, if you ever wanted to know anything
about bitcoin. Last night, they had an interview with the the the young
man Sam I say his last name, I can't think of it right now,
behind big Bitcoin and God. He went from a brazilion are downsid like
being broken, being brought on charges. Oh he's he's on his way to
prison. Probably yeah, almost definitely, Yeah, yeah, I didn't know
that, you know it interviewed him. Yeah, it was. It's worth
it's worth looking up. It really is. And he's an MIT graduate.
And this is my opinion. I don't know about other people's, but you
could. In my opinion, I think he's a little bit of a savant.
He's a extrovert, you know, he's anti not antisocial, but the
only thing that's important to him in his life is the Internet. And they
even commented if he could live in a an expensive mansion with no internet or
living in a jail cell with just internet, that he would take the jail
cell because that's his life. But haven't watched the show. I don't know
if he's gonna has had they already gone to trial, because probably not.
I mean, from what I saw it, it seems like it may be
some way to avert jail time because he wasn't operating a Ponzi scheme. It's
just he took money in and when when word of mouth about the bitcoin changed
and people wanted their money back, he wasn't able to produce it all for
him because he had a second business that he started and all their money wasn't
that sex and second business, but they he didn't have the ability to legally
or whatever take it out and reimburse and this and that. But it almost
seems like, you know, he's he's so smart, but he doesn't know
how to tie his shoes. He's that kind of guy. Yeah, he's
just numbers are his thing in numbers and games. I mean, he's just
not he's not in touch with reality. But he's a he was, oh,
this is another thing, so easy to give out money and lend money
to anybody. Somebody even asked him. They said, uh, he made
Donald Trump an offer to give him five billion dollars not to run again for
president. And obviously, I guess he hasn't taken it up. You should
have taken it offered to pay off his lawyer or something. If he wants
to give me five billion dollars not to run for president, I'm happy to
sit it out. But uh, ok, it was not much more.
There's not much more I could add to that, because you have to see
it to understand it and to get the gist out of it. Sure,
but again, you know, if you guys get to spare time and you
can look it up somehow someway sixty minutes, you know they do. I
thank you, you appreciate it to learn a little bit. Yeah, yeah,
I am curious about this. Uh. We have talked about s SBF
on the show in the past, and it sounds like he's accused of massive
fraud, like defrauding people of millions and millions of dollars. But but but
I don't know. I would be curious to see the interview. So oh
yes, I would like it if you did, And I would love to
hear the feedback because it's almost his his he didn't have it almost appears that
he's not a fraudster and didn't have bad attent. He just doesn't know any
better. Like they ask him for you to have a business, one of
them the five basic things that you should have, and they said, you
know, a CEO, he didn't have one, board of executives didn't have
one, human resources doesn't have one. And then they went on and on
and on, and you know he he runs a business without even knowing.
He runs it like a lemonade stand. But you know he made rezillions off
of it. Yeah, he's he's an interesting guy. That's that's for sure.
Yeah, we'll try to we'll try to check that out. Run sixteen
minutes does post on? Yeah, you appreciate you too, you will,
You'll say, on Now you know what, I'm glad I watched that.
So okay. With that being said, you know, thank you for your
time, and you guys, be good, be safe, enjoy the good
winner. All right, Ron, thank you so much for the call.
I appreciate it. Thank you, by bye, you got it, by
bye, all right. Always nice to hear from our friend, Ron.
And that does open up the line for you. Six zero three two five
zero six zero seven six zero three two five zero six zero seven. By
the way, Isaac Banks is asking Matt Connerton, will you get another haircut?
No, I've had my last one for the rest of my life.
I'm just gonna let it grow. No. Is that a bad idea?
Do you think? Yeah? All right, I guess I'll get another one,
sorry, Isaaca, Yes I will. I will get another one.
I'm in jail. What do you mean, I'm in Facebook jail? You
are for what? Sharing your show? Oh? Yep, six days and
let clinker. So what does that mean? You can't I can't share other
people's content for six days? Oh okay, stupid? Yeah, what's happened
before? Once in a blueboy? Know? Do this every single day?
Every weekday, I share the same thing, yeah, with a different title,
in the same places. And today it went now smack got a jail.
Go directly to jail. Are you sure that's the reason, because sometimes
Facebook doesn't even tell you what the reason is. It says you're temporary,
temporarily restricted from re sharing posts until October ninth at four o four pm.
That's usually the option. It says, if you think this doesn't go against
our community standards, because no, your show does not go against community standards.
Let us know. But when I clicked that little thing, it gives
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We could not process your requests. By the way, Isaac Banks also
says Eric Pilcher, hope you do a movie review of nineteen eighty eights Jack's
Back. He's really pushing for that, seriously push eight. Yeah, he
says hashtag Garret Pilcher nineteen eighty eight movie Jack's Back, starring James Spader and
Cynthia Gibb. Now, I don't know if that qualifies as a classic film
review although nineteen eighty eight, but year didn't come out eighty eight apparently,
Yeah, that that qualifies as a I think Eric, I think it's two.
No, no soon. No. Eric's definitely reviewed movies more recent than
that. No. Yeah, if we make those old than we are well,
I mean, you know, oh, nineteen eighty eight. I I
never even heard of that movie until Isaac Banks started pushing for it. But
I did look it up and it is a real film. But I honestly
have never heard of it either. I have to, I have to admit.
Isaac Banks also says gen Coffee. I will be watching Cobra High season
six soon. I will be too. I will be too. Yeah,
I can't wait. It's the sixth and final season apparently. Yeah, if
you'd like to get in with a quick call six zero three two five six
seven six three two five six seven, we do have a great musical guest
stock coming up in the second hour, pointless Culture, we'll be joining us.
Is it the now you went out out to the hallway? There was
it? The full band? Or how many people are in the band?
Four? I think negative? Ghost rider? There is one missing? Oh
okay, so three three aliens must have took him, all right, Well,
I hope not that aliens. That would be uh. Well, if
they did, I hope they bring him back in time for their next show.
Let's see. That would be good. They usually return you, right,
they just after you've been probed. I don't know, you can't he
gonna have to ask Nolan that question that I don't know the kidding. I'm
only kidding you had you had mentioned before the show? By the way,
Uh this uh, I'd never heard of this guy before. Jamal Bowman seriously.
According to media, he stands by explanation he accidentally pulled the fire alarm.
If you don't know what this is about, let me just we'll read
this quickly. A reporter caught up with Representative Jamal Bowman, a Democrat of
New York Today, to ask if he still stood by a statement that pulling
a fire alarm in the Canon Office building before the weekend House budget vote was
an accident. Bowman said, quote, I don't know why this has gotten
so much attention. I was literally just in a rush to go vote,
man, That's all it was. Unquote. Bowman was seen on surveillance camera
allegedly pulling the fire alarm before the vote on the House Continuing Resolution. The
reporter asks, quote, are you afraid of any legal repercussions from leadership or
legally from Capitol police, and Bowman said quote, listen, I take responsibility
for what I did. Like I said, I was in a rush to
go vote, and the investigation will sort everything else out unquote. Bowman was
then asked if he had spoken a House Minority leader Hakim Jeffreys about the incident.
Bowman said, quote, oh, yeah, of course, that's standard.
I've got to keep that between me and the leader, so I'm not
going to share that publicly. We've been in touch with each other unquote.
Bowman's story has remained consistent throughout the controversy. He said this previously on the
day that had happened today. As I was rushing to make a vote,
I came to a door that is usually open for votes, but today would
not open. I'm embarrassed to admit that I activated the fire alarm mistakenly,
mistakenly thinking it would open the door. I regret this and sincerely apologize for
any confusion this cost. But I want to be very clear that was not
me in any way trying to delay any vote. It was the exact opposite.
I was trying urgently to get to a vote, which I ultimately did
and joined my colleagues in a bipartisan effort to keep our government open. Bull.
You don't believe him, hundred percent, Bull, one hundred percent.
You can tell the difference between the fire alarm, for one thing. The
thing is read and says fire alarm very clearly on it. It's on the
wall in a place for your hand to reach it and pull down. It's
not one of those silver dwikies that you slap to open the door open.
And if you're in that kind of a rush, why would you slap the
door open anyway. I think it's bull. I think he did it on
purpose, and anybody. I think he's lying to all of us, and
what he did is absolutely, without a doubt, dangerous and wrong, and
they should bring his butt up on charges. As far as I'm concerned,
pulling a fire alarm, setting off alarms like that, especially in the Senate
building or what are the United States Capitol buildings, people can get hurt,
people running for exits, people trying to get out, people in wheelchairs getting
stuck, people getting in elevator is not sure what's going on. Things happen
when a fire alarm gets pulled. It's a crime for a reason to pull
a fire alarm illicitly, Like that's not okay. You don't you ever hear
the whole thing about free speech. What isn't free speech yelling fire at a
crowded theater? Well, come on, this is yelling cry fire in a
crowded theater. You're pulling this alarm. You're doing it. The stall,
the stupid vote and AOC is all here going, Oh he he was panicking,
he had a pianic, Give me a break. That is not panic.
As you pushed the door, not you go to the side and pull
the fire alarm. So I think it's bull I think he should be reprimanded
for it. It should get brought up in before ethics and I and this
is just the continuation of the downward spiral of what used to be Congress.
Now I have to I'm going to present an opposing view. I have some
empathy for the congressman. I've never told this story publicly. It's very embarrassing
to me. But when I was a child, and you know, my
dad listens to the show, I'm sure he remembers this. It was a
whole big thing at Saint John's Elementary school and conquered I once again. I
was very young. I pulled the fire alarm as I was entering a room.
They caused a old ruckus and the fire department showed up, and everything
was old big thing and uh, and I kept insisting I didn't mean to,
and so my dad brought me to our family doctor, doctor Frost,
a pediatrician, and doctor Frost determined that and again, this is embarrassing.
I hope people don't make fun of me for this. Uh, this is
a little sensitive. But it turns out, and perhaps the congressman has the
same problem. It turns out I suffer from a neurological condition that when I
see fire alarm, my brain processes that as open door. And so I
pulled the fire alarm thinking that because I was trying to enter a room that
was locked, and it was a whole thing. But the point being,
uh, you know, before we judge, uh, you know, we
should know all the facts. And uh, it's entirely possible that the congressman
is uh he has a condition that we're not aware of, and I can
empathize with that if that is in fact the case. No, that is
not flying with me. Let me ask you this question. How old were
you because you mentioned your dad was involved, I was just a little I
was a little kid. That's my case. Yeah, they're a little called
rown man. Well, but the point is it was supposed to be voting
on important issues on a fire alarm. But the point is, I mean
it's uh, you know, it's a neurological condition. So even now today
I have to constantly remind myself, like sometimes I'll see I'll see fire alarms
and buildings and I just want to go go, uh you know, go
pull the alarm to open the door, and I have to remind myself,
WHOA wait, no, can't do that, Matt. It might not say
what you think it says. It's uh, it's very difficult. I take
medication for it to try to control it, but it's very hard. So
I have some I have some empathy for the congressman. Well, you may
have empathy, but the law is not on his side. Well, let
me say that the lesser of three offenses is a false emergency report under DC
law, is a misdemeanor impunishable by up to six in prison and a one
thousand dollars fine. Balseley. Pulling a fire alarm could also constitute illegal obstruction
of congressional proceedings, a felony under federal law. So when the other soul,
when the other side is saying what he did violates that same federal law,
they are not lying to you. And it's not just pulled a fire
alarm. People can get hurt. That's what sister Margharita said to my dad.
Oh God, when he came to the school, didn't work on you,
though. Did he take you to confessional or anything, try and get
the priest to scare you. No. No, he took me to doctor
Frost diagnosis. He should have taken you to the church. Put you're right
up on the sea, teach him doctor Frost. Uh. He put the
tongue depressor in my throat, and he took a throat culture and took a
throat culture and said, yeah, he's got this condition. So horse,
I'm just saying what you're calling doctor Frost a liar. I am saying,
I say, the days you should respect him ridiculous. I don't. Could
I just add one little caveat to this, because I know we're almost to
the break, and I just wanted I've been dying to say this all day
because I listened to Gates earlier talking about how he wants to try and get
rid of the speaker. I read to you what I just read to you,
the Democrats pulling the fire alarm. I am done with this Congress.
They are never going to do right by us, the American people, because
they're not willing to work together. Gates and his ILK says, it's a
crime to work with a Democrat. So let's just halt the wheels of government
completely and not get anything accomplished because nobody wants to work with the other side.
That's not how we used to get business done in this country. And
that's why this so much going wrong in this country is the people are no
longer working for the good of the people. You know, used to be
get elected. You're elected for all of the people in your district, not
just the ones that vote for you. And that's what you're supposed to think
of. But that's not what's going on. And I and this just proves
the point more. This is ridiculous. This could hurt somebody and he should
get brought up on charge for it. If it was you doing it,
you damn right you'd be getting brought up on a charge. Well, I
was this a little kid? Well that's well you were a kid then,
at least as an excuse. But at your age, if you walked into
the capitol and pulled the fire alarm, what do you think they're gonna do?
Oh, you were panicking, all Come on over here. I'll get
you a lollipop. Make it out better. No, you're going to the
clinkup. You're going in front of a judge and you're gonna get charged.
You're gonna have a criminal record now because you got arrested. I didn't get
a lollipop when I did it, that's for sure. Did you get the
stick? The ruler? Is it? At the nuns? With the rulers,
they do that for you. They do you so at Saint John's.
It was not. It wasn't like what you know, the stereotype of what
you see or you know, what you see on TV and in movies or
what you read in books. Nobody was getting whacked with a ruler. However,
each classroom did have a paddle, and the principal's office did have a
paddle, very rarely used, very rare. Somebody had to do something really
bad to get the paddle. It was rare. It was very very experience.
It wasn't. It wasn't super strict. It was. It was,
yeah, Saint John's was. I have no idea what it's like now,
but it wasn't. It wasn't really that strict. It was. It was
not that it wasn't more strict necessarily than public school. All right, Now,
seriously, did you actually pull a fire alarm when you went there?
I have I see you're we're talking about a neurological condition here. Oh God,
shouldn't you know it's called It's got some really long name. I can't
even pronounce it. It's a favorite none. Yeah, yeah, Sister Mary
Elephant, she tells very good poetry. Sister Mary elephants, Yes, cheech
and chong oh, sister Mary Elephant. I was gonna say that sounds familiar.
The snow kisses the morning do. Oh that's nice, she tells poetry
m m all right, well we are we are approaching the top of the
hour. We have a great musical guest coming up. So what we're gonna
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in it for maximum wattage? I don't remember any holes in the paddle,
but I never really got to see the paddle up close. I never got
hit. I was an angel. I never got hit, even with the
fire alarm, because you know, I think they knew I wouldn't do that
on purpose. There had to be a good reason. Oh. I did
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done. But when it comes to my sweet potatoes, I know you are
the one that I take to breakfast, that I take too lunch. And
when I'm done, I still can't done. I don't care for these words
that I've been speaking, and I should stop up here. What you say?
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for breakfasts? Shine anyway. I can't stand the rain. It's be a
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Some different synonyms for fun. I say too much and then decide to wake
up. It's like a gun batcies just want drill put. I'm so well,
take on finish what to say? I did some trying to satisfy n
I'll smoke a pack of day. The doctor says, I'm gonna die anyway.
That's why I crap away. But my lips and rooms are stayed for
sunshine. Reachs me call unnerneath the shade less browns crazy. I can't stand
the ray of it. That is a breakfast song. The band is Pointless
Culture, and they are here with us, alive in studio. Welcome,
gentlemen, Hey, good, hey, here one of you. Of course,
Nolan on the couch there. You have been here before, sir,
I have, ye, not that long ago. Actually, was it a
couple of weeks ago? A few weeks a few weeks ago? Yeah,
yeah, yeah. We were talking a lot about Ian's and Coded and of
course, uh we did talk about this project a little bit as well,
but we were absolutely were focused focused on your solo thing at that time.
But it's great to great to have the full band here of Pointless Culture.
And actually, uh, let's start with you, sir at the news desk.
And it's fitting that you're at the news desk because you work in radio
at at w J Y Y. That's correct. Yeah, very cool,
full time job and I'm not doing stuff with the band. Excellent. Yeah,
no, it's this has been fun. This was this started, jeez.
Harrison and I like we we go back, not as long as you
and Ben obviously, but we go back to at least to twenty nineteen.
And you know, we met at a at a music store. He Harrison
was working at a at a music store at the time. And it was
funny how we met. Like I just walked in and you know, his
name's Harrison. My name's Harrison, and we just immediately bonded over that,
and you know, he showed me this riff. He's like, hey,
man, I got this riff. I want you to hear really quick.
And he started playing it and I was like, that's a pretty cool song.
Man. He's like yeah, He's like, do you want to be
in a band? I'm like sure. We were both aspiring to do so,
and it ended up working out for a little bit. We and a
life got in the way. We we we hung out and uh, you
know, played for about three months together every couple of weeks and we did
it after hours the music store, and you know like like I, like
I said, life got in the way, and we eventually just kind of
lost connection, which which sucks for a while because I was really bummed about
it. And I know we're just terrible at texting each other, like we're
terrible textures in general. And so we reconnected by you calling me a couple
of years ago, or not even a couple of years about a year ago,
and he's like, Hey, I got this music festival, I got
a play in and I really need a drummer to back me. And I'm
like, uh, you still know some of my songs? Like yeah,
pretty much. No, I just have to, you know, get behind
a kit and I'll figure it out. So hey, works, the music
festival is successful, and then we decided to really kind of give this thing
another go, and here we are. It's been pretty solid for about a
year now. So it's been a fun journey. Excellent, excellent. Yeah
two Harrison's in the same bandage. Yeah, it doesn't happen often. Yeah,
yeah, not not the most not the most common name. How do
you is one of you? Does one of you go by Harry or both?
Harrison? No one, you can explain what you came up with the
system. It's just because you know, me being the nerd, I am
I number them in phone. I did mention this last time. Yeah,
so they're you know, in my context is H one and H two respectively.
So so he's aged one. Yeah. Yeah, it's based on how
like the order that I met them in. Ok gotcha, but simple,
gotcha? All right? The way I usually do it is it's Billy Danger
and Harrison. Yeah. Yeah, he has a stage name. Yeah,
oh, Billy Danger. Uh yeah, nice? Okay, So what so
and what's your name? I'm Ben, You're Ben? Okay? And so
what does everybody do in the band? Well, I mean the drummer,
Harrison drums, so the dummy drum. Yeah, I'm the lead singer and
rhythm guitarist, I guess okay, yeah, H two Okay. I'm based
in vocals yea. And I just do like the lead guitar kind of like
play along with whatever Harrison's doing and just trying to make it sound a little
bit more full. And yeah, he also looks very good on stage,
like beautiful, if I might say, oh, well, very nice.
Yeah, he glows. Well that's important, that's important. So how long
has the band been around. It's been would you say, what a year?
Yeah, it's really started what August? Yeah, late August of now
it kind of last manute. That's when we first started playing, but it
really started playing. We first started like we officially kind of I know,
we we we we did the handshake on the name Pointless Culture. It was
probably mid August of twenty twenty two. Oh yeah, so yeah, yeah,
Matt, Matt. That pretty much solidified it. We were going to
be called, like the original name was Divorce Culture. Then we realized that
name was taken, so we did our research. We're like, okay,
maybe it was meant to be. So we're like, Harrison's like pointless Culture.
I'm like, yeah, let's shake on pointless Culture. So we ended
up being Pointless Culture from then on, and it really grew into the name.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's a cool name. You know.
He said it and I was like, man, yeah, I like it.
It sounds good. Yeah, you know, he kind of had to
talk me into a little a little bit, and eventually I was like,
yeah, no, we'll do it. And then as we've been a band,
it just fits so well. I love it so much. I think
we kind of grew into the name with our music and as we just keep
writing more music. And it's funny because we have we have a lot of
original stuff that like came from you, that you've written in years past,
and then we just kind of added on to it and creating this sound,
but just kind of you know, advancing it even more and more. So.
Yeah, it's it's it's been a pretty neat process so far and just
kind of how we've done things. So it's we have so much music.
Yeah, we do a lot of music, a lot of pretty much all
original, yeah, yeah, all original. Yeah. And it's cool the
way that Nolan and Ben joined the band, because Harrison and I were playing
for probably like six or eight months just the two of us, you know,
kind of under the name H squared. You know, we played we
played kind of festivals under the name H squared. That was yeah, and
so people still refer to we go back to that same festival every time,
like H squared, Like we got a new name now. Yeah, but
yeah, these these guys are our best friends, Nolan and Ben, and
Nolan joined i think eight six or eight months into what we were when we
started Pointless Culture, and then Ben was working second shift and we finally convinced
him to switch over to first shift. And oh wait, you've been in
the band for like eight months now, it's been almost a year. Yeah,
almost a year or something like that year essentially. Yeah, I joined
in August last year because you played the store over there. Yeah, and
then he came out, Ben came out. We started playing at your at
your space and about February, yeah, March yeah, yeah, right,
yeah, so it's been a pretty good ride. Like yeah, they lashed
right onto the songs too, Like we had a lot of music that we
were already doing, and you know, Nolan and Ben coming and they just
write their own parts for it, and it just it what seamlessly flowed together,
I guess, is how I want to say it. Yeah. Yeah,
it was really nice. It was meant to be for sure. How
many you mentioned you have a lot of music. How many songs do you
have? Original songs? Would you say? Can we playing like our biggest
show that we could play right now if we're not doing any covers, it's
about two hours, but you know, the original music, yeah, wow.
We would love to release it to everybody, but you know, we're
all just poor, you know, we We've tried mat we we've tried doing
you know, a lot of a lot of home recordings, a lot of
you know, rookie demo recordings, like you know, we we have the
majority of the equipment, but you know, to mike a drum kit,
to get a drum kit to sound the way you want it, and with
me and how picky I am. I like these guys were for it,
and I was like, no, I just couldn't. I couldn't do it.
I just didn't have like I don't know I could spend twelve thirteen hundred
dollars on microphones, but then again just trying to find the right space,
just all the you know, you got to treat it right. And yeah,
it's such an art like that, that's an art itself. And so
we decided to go the studio route because you know, Harrison and Ben they're
from New London and they have recorded with mister Jerry Putnam over at Cedar House
sound shout out to Jerry to play guitar when I was in middle School's amazing.
Yeah, So Jerry kind of took us under his wing and we never
had a studio like a real studio experience before and we were so excited about
like just we're it'sching to get in there because we wanted to record Severed Ties
and that was a song like we had done demos before that. We're like,
it's just it's not right, it's not right, and we gotta you
know, we all say it's a couple hundred bucks whatever, and we're like,
I can't be that bad. And so we went in. We recorded
Severe Ties in one day and that was a blast. And now when we've
been going to the studio, it's been like two or three takes max and
we're, wow, we're doing two songs and you know, four hours.
So it's it's we've we've definitely kind of advanced quite a bit. And I
think that's why we keep going the studio right now, because you know,
we've been able to almost record a little more, you know, fairly it's
been fairly inexpensive for us now, Like you know, granted, studio time,
mastering all this stuff. It's it's expensive. But not if we were
still recording like we did with sever Ties, I don't think we'd be doing
you know, we we'd be figuring something else out because it gets Yeah,
yeah, Jerry's been amazing. Yeah, we've been practicing our tails off,
trying to minimize the amount of time we actually spend recording in the studio,
and it's really paying off, you know, going in there and knowing what
you're doing. So we've been trying to play live so much. Yeah,
yeah, but no, yeah, it's it's it's been good. It's been
it's been a lot of fun, a lot of learning, a lot of
learning. So yeah, as we go on, Cedar House is a name
that comes up a lot on the show. Yeah, now he masters there
too, right he does. That's the thing you know they always say,
like, you know, don't don't have the same person that recorded you master
your music. And you know, we've been kind of thinking about that lately,
like we're like, oh do we want you know, do we want
him to you know, master our stuff. But he's just he's got an
ear for like he's so because we were I was a little weary at first,
but I getta get I gotta give him credit, like he he just
here, like I asked him one time. I was like, yo,
Jerry, just gotta speed up the process because we want to get this EP
out. We're actually full disclay like we're we're disclosure. We're actually going in
and uh two weeks, two weeks to go record two more song. Oh
wow, we're gonna make the EP a little more beefier than we wanted it
to be, which is good. And he convinced us to do two more
songs. We're like, all right. But I asked him, like,
hey, could you just throw the same mastering settings over each song that we
go into or each song where he's like no, no, no, no,
I can't do that. It's like each song has its own personality.
It tells me to do different things to it. So I appreciate because he
puts his time, he really does a great job with it, and he's
he's been incredible to work with. So yeah, that's why we at first
we're going to have someone that was going to master it for us, and
then he's been impressing us like crazy. So yeah, we just keep you
know, letting him do everything for us. It's been it's been fun.
True wizard. Yeah, he is true wizard. Well I was thinking too
as you were saying that. Then if if he had answered yes, if
he had said, oh sure, I can do that, then at that
point, you really wouldn't want to work with him, right right. I
mean yeah, he'd be giving you the answer that you wanted, but at
the same time and in the back of your mind, you'd be going,
wait, he did I really want him to agree to that? Yeah?
Yeah, it's it's uh, it's nice having him be invested in the band.
He's very passionate about this music that we're bringing to him, and he's
taking it the next step. And like we have a song coming out on
the EP called Magic Hat. Yeah, and he added all this reverb and
echo and stuff where like we never even asked for it, and he just
threw it in there, and it's like, oh, that's the song now,
that sounds amazing. Well, we can't do it any other way.
That's the beauty of Severed Ties too, because Severed Ties. I wish I
wish I could play the original recording of that. It sounded nothing like it
does right now, like total three sixty turnaround with this song, Like he
brought it from what we thought was like a great you know, a little
demo into this which probably is everyone's favorite song when they come see us perform,
you know, they're like sever Tiz sever ties like and he just he
changed, like he changed that song for us, like in the best way
possible. So it was cool, and we give him a lot of credit
because he's kind of shaped us along the way. Well so often too,
like you know, a studio engineer will become a de facto producer. Yeah,
it happens. Happens by accident, you know, but but it just
yeah, it just seems to happen that way. Well, maybe we should
maybe we should play that because I know we were going to play that,
and we're also going to play a little House later too. But yeah,
I listen to these earlier. Yeah, this is a great track, and
since we've been talking about it, why don't we take a break and we'll
give this one a listen. This is uh now, this is all everything
that we're hearing today. These are all on the streaming services and everything.
They're all available so so people can find them and and it's very easy to
find you guys online. Just google Pointless Culture band comes right up, or
maybe even just Pointless Culture. I don't know, but yeah, let's give
this a listen. This is severities Pointless Culture, and then we will come
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I've got my real sons. This is in summery invitlude, piece of
mind. Just stuffing dies when you decide to win truth. But after a
summer you won't catch me crying. Someone else has stole my eyes. Now
it's time we say good bye set of loneness. Better than that you were
still here too, because even I don't turn myself up half as much as
you do. But after subot you won't catch me cry. Someone dose is
soul my eyes. Now it's time we sabatie. That is called severed ties.
The band is pointless culture and pointless culture is with us alive in studio.
This is Matt Connerton Unleashed and we are live from the studios of w
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open six zero three two five zero six zero seven six zero three two five
zero six zero seven. There's uh So there's a cool music video that goes
with that song. Did you guys do that all yourselves or did you hire
somebody? All? Right, here we go. We gotta give her major
credit where credit is due. We were already gonna shout her out because she
does so much for us. Yeah, she's It's funny. I'm a wedding
dj part time, you know, in the summer when I can. Yeah,
And uh, I was djaying a wedding and I just happened to meet
this photographer there. You know, she came over and I was like,
Hi, how are you. I'm like, I'm not really wanting to make
small talk with all the vendors and stuff. But you know, it was
pretty laid back. So I was grabbing food, like the one time at
a wedding where I actually went and grabbed food. She was up there and
we just started chit chatting. Well it happened because man, we would be
so far delayed without her serve is. Yeah, I met her. Her
name's Natalie. She's owns her own uh like media company. She does you
know, drone footage, she does weddings, she does everything. She's a
great she's very very talented for talking. She's twenty one, mind you,
she's very young. She's actually finishing up at Yukon UH this year. But
I met her and she's like, I've always wanted to, you know,
take pictures and like photograph a band and stuff. And I'm like, hey,
we need it, like we need those kinds of services, and like
like I do it for free. I told her, like I probably can't
afford you, though, I mean, look at what you're doing here and
now. She she said she would offer free services for us, you know,
because she wants to build her portfolio. So she directed and produced that
music video. Any professional looking photo you see of us, which they look
amazing, it's all props to her. She's done that in her own time.
And she hangs out with us quite a bit. She makes at least
most shows that she can make, and you know, she's she's been a
joy to work with him. We can't wait to work with her. She's
the unofficial fifth member. Yeah, we always call her the unofficial fifth member.
She really is. She's the best. Yeah, she's she does a
lot for Yeah. Yeah, Natalie, she she's she's amazing and we love
her so. Yeah. So that music video started out as a a power
point that I made when we all had a little band pow Wow at my
apartment. One night. We were like, all right, Severed Ties needs
a music video, and we were definitely drinking and it was the worst power
point probably. You know, I'm trying to sell it to somebody the next
day. Well I've sobered up and I just get lost trying to read the
script. Yeah, while we were drinking. Yeah, it looked great,
and you know she's asking for something, so she could start making a storyboard
for this because she's trying to actually produce something out of it. Yeah,
and you know, we're all just kind of messing around. Yeah, and
so we send her this like haphazard power point and and everything. Yeah right,
yeah that was my doing. I had to add some images, but
you know, we send it to her, and we didn't you know,
I didn't really hear much from her and other than you know, I'll be
here on this day to start filming. She shows up just all this professional.
You know, she has a schedule for the whole day, she's had
has the whole thing planned out on spreadsheet. It was amazing, even had
the clapboard or whatever that was. Yeah, and then she and then she
had hired an actress to play the love interest. Yeah, yeah, she
came like wow, Okay, she she she was on top of it.
She wanted us to be good, and yeah, we gotta say, we're
super super impressed with her. So she actually she's also made us a really
cool intro video. So we play at a venue that's got you know,
an LED screen or whatever able to you know, shoot video to it.
We play that as much as we can. Really really cool intro video.
It like totally makes us look like we're playing an arena gig or something and
we're just some small little news yea. Yeah, but she she sees the
she sees the vision that we have too, which is the cool thing,
and we get it share that with her and she just does stuff and we
don't have to say it and we just love it. It's a nice relationship
we have with her. And you know, even if she does go off
to school and like la and stuff, like she's talked about like it's like
if you guys get big, She's like, I'll tour with you. Like
so cool. There you go from the Natalie, She's awesome. We definitely
got to give Audrey a shout out for sure. Yeah, just because like
she was the love interest in the video. Yeah, incredible, Yeah,
both both both of them. It's been cool to work on these projects though,
and it just, I don't know, it just kind of shows people
a different side of like us and like our music and as we kind of
explain it in different ways. So yeah, it's pretty cool. I suppose
I should name drop the dude in the video too. That's Matt k.
Hill. He's my roommate and co workers, cousin, a hundred rounds of
Ammo and a little bit of beer. Yeow. It's pretty much all the
donation that goes into pointless culture. Overall. It was. It was a
great day. We did all that and pretty much one day. Yeah,
oh, I at least shooting it. Yeah yeah, but yeah, shout
out to them, all of them, mac Audrey, Natalie. Yeah,
that's great, amazing stuff. Now after you shot the video, how long
was it? Like? What was the turnaround time before he actually got to
see the finished products? So here's the thing. We played a show at
the banking new Hampshire Stage in downtown Conquered on August fourth. It was it
was our biggest show we've ever played, you know. It was a huge
deal for us, and they were kind enough to give us a headline show.
And we didn't see it until that day, which was she We shot
at July first. She had it done by August fourth, so it was
in sheep on top of all of the weddings she does every single weekend,
so she was trying to I told her, I'm like, no, rush,
take your time yea. And but it's funny. We'll do a photo
shoot with her we'll do something. She the same night. She'll at it.
She's so excited she wants to get it all. Yeah, yeah,
it's awesome. But yeah, it took about a month. Took about a
month, and then we got to air it not a sorry I'm thinking radio
terms. Then we we got to present it and show it when we played
our encore, which was sever ties that night in the background. So it
was cool. That's awesome. It was surreal. Yeah, it was so
awesome. Yea yeah. Do you have plans to do another music video?
We do. It's funny. We're out in the hallway before we came in
here and she was texting me and she's like, we're gonna meet up the
next month and talk about a breakfast song music video. So that will be
in the words very nice. So yeah, we're gonna I don't know what
that's going to entail, but we'll do our fair share of brain storming and
then she'll make it even better. So all we know is that of all
breakfast rain, yep, maybe cigarettes maybe yea yeah, a little flair.
I think the best part of recording that song was recording the toaster. It
was oh yeah, I guess we'll record a toaster like I was. I
got to be a fully artist and actually like do that stuff. That was
the star of the whole track. It was a if we put that if
you're if you're interested, that's on TikTok at point with culture. You can
find the video of us doing that. We really model name everything, you
know. Yeah, it was it was funny did our research. Yeah,
and I actually got like the little mug and I stirred it with water and
yeah, it all added like I don't want to rip this off YouTube,
so it worked out better with yeah, that's just you know too. Yeah,
we were just like, what what does the song need? Right,
Like maybe we should have an alarm clock going off. No, maybe we
should have bacon cooking or rain going on the background, you know, somebody
pouring some coffee and the cup stirring. And then we were like, no,
we need a toastick. So for those who don't skip on streaming platforms,
that's their little gift. They get to hear it at the end.
Oh okay, okay, very cool, very cool. So so right now
you have singles, but eventually, so you said you're you're probably gonna do
two more tracks and then what put out an EP, five track EP.
That's that's what's coming up next. We don't have a release date. Before
that X we have to go to the studio and I should record two more
of those songs, which should probably take a day, and I would say
sometime after that we're looking at probably I don't know. I'd say we're not
gonna give an official we gotta figure it all out, but yeah, it
would probably be like December at some point or something around there. But yeah,
we're all a five track EP including Severed Ties and two more tracks nobody
has heard yet tracks actually, so uh and then we're gonna eventually start working
on an album, full length album. We're hoping, oh yeah, yeah,
we want to make it. We just want to get stuff out there.
We want people to hear We gotta flacus, man. We've every time
we play a show, we're like, oh man, we we wish people
could hear this, you know, you know afterwards like what was that song?
Like it'll probably be two years until you hear that, but it is
what it is. We've had people read as checks before it shows. You're
like, we're gonna pay you six hundred bucks to go record that song.
So we we we do you know, we take our merch money, like
we have a website, we have you know, we use royaltyam like,
not that we make anything on royalties. Spotify pays nothing. Spotify is helpful
in that sense to promote artists. Yeah, but you know, we take
any money we get, you know, tips from shows, we you know
take like we've actually I'm not going to go on a huge tangent here,
but we partnered with a website called merch Booth, and they're made by artists
for artists. So basically we get really nice cut like it's it's even cuts.
You know. We send them the logos, they upload it, and
they give us you know, social pieces to basically promote merchandise and everything.
So they help us out in that regard and it's all free to sign up,
and I encourage us for other artists and stuff too. It's a really
great program. But you know, before we'd be on Tea Spring or other
websites and we'd get six bucks for a forty dollars sweatshirt or something like real
yeah, and merch Booth, you know, we sell a forty five dollars
sweat or whatever, you know, but it's better quality. Yeah, and
we get you know, twenty five bucks out of that, which is great
because and then Wow, i just see orders come in all the time,
and I'm like wow because people like it because they it's actually I realized they're
down in Pennsylvania, so it comes quick when they ship it. And it's
been great. So we've been using that. We've been making a lot of
money off of that. So if anyone who buys Pointless Culture merchandise on our
website, which is the link to merch booth, you know, we take
that money and we bring it right back into the studios. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, we consider ourselves a nonprofit organization. We put every cent we
get for the band back into recording. You know, none of us walk
away with anything from this, yeah, other than a big old smile up.
So cheesy but true, no doubt, no doubt. By the way,
Marissa Coda is in the chat room and says favorite song of all time.
I'm not sure which one she's referring to, though, because we've played
at advertise she's sang it live with us a few times. No, actually,
oh kid, yeah, yeah, she knows the lyrics by heart.
She learned it on her own accord and ever actually sang its last weekend at
a show. Yeah, yeah, I got it killed, sorry publicly.
I didn't realize that she wasn't feeling one hundred percent. Yeah, she tried
telling me, but when you're on the heat of the stage, yeah,
you know, you can't hear anything other than your own voice, right,
And I was like, oh, I'll come up and sing it, and
she sang it beautifully. But I didn't realize she had like a little cold
going on. Oh okay, I feel bad for That's all good. She
she did incredible. Yeah, she sounded awesome. She always sounds amazing.
Now she obviously that's my sister. That's her sister. Okay, I think
she was in the chat room last time. He was. Yeah. Yeah,
we got a lot of friends of family that support us. Yeah,
you'll come to and stuff. It's they just want us. Like no one's
mom right now, shout out to Dina. She's like, you guys,
are my retirement fun? Make it big right right, try very much?
Try so it would be fun. We just want to play music and like
it would be the dream. We'd love to hit the road someday, just
like go pack at you haul van or yeah, be broke and just go
play venues and just I don't know, play in front of people that I've
never seen it. It's like it's it's the dream, that's the rock star
dream. Yeah. Yeah. Before we get off the topic of Nolan's family,
we also have to give a big thank you to Rick Coda for letting
us practice in his basement and dealing with us Shenanigans and all that and helping
with sound. He he sounds kidding cool. Yeah, very awesome, dude,
awesome. Yeah, he's amazing, way better management than I have because
I can't manage my speakers cables. It's good. He's kind of like he's
like a dad. We call him the dad in jury. Yeah, the
band dad. Yeah, it's good. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry, one
of our great sponsors here at w MNH, joins us in the Facebook lap
chat and says good afternoon everyone, and uh oh Dena Coda is in the
chat room as well. Hello, Hello, Hello, Let's see Isaac Banks.
I think as a question for you, he says, pointless culture.
What's your favorite Matchbox twenty song? Is it Long Day? Bent, Rest
Stop? Push Back to good or these hard times. So he gave you
a series of choice. Is this multiple choice right? If any of you
should happen to have a favorite Matchbox twenties. I grew up with that band.
Yeah, like the Classics. I'm being honest right now. Yeah.
I grew up in the Upper Valley in New Hampshire and my mom she'd get
me in her Chevy Tracker. We go down to the mall here, the
Mall of New Hampshire, and that's all she had, that CD player and
that one car is it's like a Matchbox twenty. I like know every single
song but pushed, Yeah that is the song. Yeah, oh wow,
Yeah, it was funny. It's I just it's like a core memory.
I don't know why her car, vehicle make it so, but it's so
specific to me. And it was like always in that car, Like I
remember what it smells like, and I remember like the exact order of that
whole Matchbox twenty CDs she had. It's kind of funny. It hits home.
Oh yeah wow, okay, oh good good answer. Good answer.
Do you guys, so the rest of you, do you have a favorite.
My favorite Matchbox twenty song is Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day.
I also love She's So Mean. That's a great track. Terribly versed in
music. All I know about match Buck, Matchbox twenty or whatever it is.
It's what someone from Blink twenty two. Right, No, No,
Rob Thomas, I'm wrong, man, culture uncultured. W I'll speak on
their behalf. So I would say his would be something off the first album.
I think you'd like Long Day a lot. Well, listen to the
album on the way back. I don't know. It's because I grew up
with the first album. Yeah, Like I listen to that on repeat.
The same with their second one, mad Season, We're Ben. I love
that song Ben too. Yeah, but I don't know. I love all
those. But out of that list, I would say I learned how to
play back to Good on guitar. Yeah. Yeah, and it's just a
nice calming one. But on Mad Season. My favorite of all time is
Angry, the first track off that off that album. It's a really good
song. Yeah, I don't remember that song was that? I think it's
underrated. Was that ever a single or was that? I think? So?
There's at least a music video for it? Was really good. I'd
probably i'd probably recognize it if I heard it, but yeah, that that's
a childhood band for me. Yeah, yeah, you know, I listened
to that a lot. Kind of it's almost similar to what you did in
the cut, like you ging it with your mom and stuff. It was
kind of the same thing for me, like she'd have the CD. I
think we still have the original too. But I love that band, grew
up with them. Isaac Banks is also asking that pointless culture. Have you
ever listened to Nickelback? Oh yeah, oh yeah, another another childhood rock
band for me too, unavoidable really yeah, they have some bangers. They
really really I saw him live and I was like, Okay, these guys
are good. Look at this photograph that you got that one right? Yeah.
I feel like two thousand and nine was the year that that was on
YouTube. Ads can get out of that song though, And finally watched it
and it brought a tear to my eye. I hate I hate that song.
Yeah, I like that. I still like that if I hear it
today. Yeah, that's a that's a really good song. Actually, yeah,
it got weird with him, right. He married Avril Levine and then
they got divorced. Lucky dude. I don't know. I mean it didn't
work out. They got divorced the guy from some forty one, Which which
guy from some forty one, like like Levine, like the lead singer.
Probably. Yeah. I love those guys too. I love everything. So
we have a question from Dina Cody. Uh. She's asking, do you
have musical influences or do you feel your sound is your own? Oh that's
a good question. It is a good question. Yeah. I definitely have
a little bit of influence in there, a little Weeze are just kidding?
Yeah, yeah, Oh my gosh. I when I was delivering pizzas when
I was fifteen years old, I had three CDs and it was Weezer,
Johnny Cash and Green Day. So those are definitely some major influences. But
you know, Ben and I were in a high school band. Nobody's ever
heard of him or anything. It was clydoscope pul and just playing with musicians
in high school I think influenced a lot of what is becoming pointless culture,
you know, just collaborating with other New Hampshire musicians and stuff. Also bounce
ideas off off of each other and all that stuffy. Yeah, definitely definitely
got some punk influence, but it's a lot of blue grass from back when
I was younger and all that stuff. If you listen closely, there's a
little bit of twenty one pilots. I'm there too, beautiful fiance Claire.
I was one of those guys who's like twenty one pilots. No, no,
I don't listen to girl music. What is this? That was me
in high school. Now I'm the guy that goes on to the job site
to do construction and it is blasting twenty one pilots and all the other guys
are like, what the heck is this? You have some rappy verses,
like not rappy, but more of just you know what I'm talking about,
like fast spoke. Yeah, yeah, stuff, it's really cool. We
don't have any music that's released that has any of those. We have like
four or five songs that kind of feature, you know, a style like
that. But yeah, this will be out soon, but a lot of
twenty one pilots. Yeah, in a way, do you guys do any
covers live or I mean, I know you've got two hours worth of virginals,
right, but do you ever play any covers or actually haven't played any
covers? In the last two shows, we've been trying to refrain from doing
covers because we want people to come out and listen to our music and listen
to new stuff that's coming out. Yeah, but you know, if we're
playing a two hour show, we'll throw a few in there. Yeah.
It's not like we're totally hard pressed against playing covers. It's just we want
to focus on the stuff that we're doing. Yeah. Yeah, of course,
if we're doing those, we try to make her make it our own
a little bit, just kind of add our sound to it, which you
know, I think every good artists, musician, band that covers stuff should
do. Yeah, you know, they say, what you got to make
it ten times better than the original, or just do it your own style.
You know, we've done a couple of Weekzer covers we've done. We
had we had a medley at one we did well by Cold Play, done
by Howie Day. Yeah, yeah, I will survive the cake version.
So yeah, everybody. But I've always saw covers being like like he said,
like a like H two said, you know, like we want to
focus on our originals. But I think throwing in some covers will help bring
the crowd to more familiar space depends on that, you know what I mean
we are yeah, and how long we play too, But I always feel
like maybe just having a few is gonna be. It's gonna been the we're
able to have, we have in our back pocket, so if we need
them, we have them. Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, We're just trying
to spread pointless cold. You know, we want we want to get somewhere
with our own music too. Yeah, of course we want to also bring
people to a space where they feel like, oh yeah, I know this.
Yeah, and then you know it just has you know, it's benefits
from that alone. I've noticed too. I mean, at least for the
material that we have that we've been playing, the songs are pretty short,
you know, usually you know, three minutes. Is that is that intentional?
Because I know, you know, some artists want to do like you
know, verse chorus, verse chorus done. They there's there's an idea that
some artists have that you know, it should be short. You know what,
what's that expression, don't bore us get to the chorus. So I'm
just wondering is that intentional or is that an organic thing? Or is is
is that just how the It's really a song by song thing. You know,
we don't have a lot of music out right now, so there's not
a lot to go off of it. But yeah, that's true. Yeah.
You know, we have a lot of songs that are closer to four
minutes or five minutes oh okay, yeah, by a lot. I mean
probably like three to five our song a handful of trail on, yeah,
and that's when Ben really gets shredding on the guitar. Yeah. Yeah.
Like one of the songs that we're hoping to put on the EP coming up
that we hope I think we're going to record in two weeks Nightmare Telephone.
Ben has a shredding solo in that that kind of draws the song out.
But you know, a lot of the songs are more about telling the story
of the song and not so much about blowing notes up and down the guitar
neck trying to fill time, you know, right right, Yeah. Yeah.
Another one is we have it's called the Ballad. We we kind of
close shows with that song mostly, and I think that's what like five five
and a half minutes that song, Yeah, there is. It depends on
how much we say in between, how long we just groove it for yeah,
so it's very much with a capable on the fourth or the second my
question because the second time, okay, that's fun. But yeah, if
if, if you want to hear more of us, you want to,
you know, see us. We're actually playing at the Chefskin on October nineteen,
excellent, less than a month now. We're gonna be down there playing
with three or four I think I don't have three other bands and three other
bands. Yeah, we're gonna be there with with the six Z three showcase,
so right down the street from here. It would be so awesome to
see out there. And we just want to play for people. So yeah,
see all these songs and yeah, ask us which one you want to
hear on the record, because we're looking for recommendations. To me, it
helps, like playing our stuff live, it helps us have that direction for
what we want to get released. You know, we kind of gauge that
way, like what people like more than others, you know, and you
know it helps kind of steer us in the right direction, you know what
I mean. So it's really fun just having that show environment and then just
reading the crowds expressions too, like seeing them vibe to something they don't know,
yeah, is not only kind of rare, but like it's empowering for
us. Oh yeah, and it's cool because we we've we finally reached that
point last month where we saw people in the crowd singing our songs back to
us, which was really nice. So yeah, that was very very surreal.
Yeah, it was very surreal. That's a better word. It was
super cool. Yeah, it's it's I don't know, we're all of this
started was like kind of just a hobby, like kind of just playing,
and then we got really serious about Now we're really serious about it, and
we're just hoping you know, good stuff from you know this point out.
Just I'm gonna see how what what the what the road? I don't know
where the road texts? Yeah exactly. I can't find words right now.
Thanks for speaking, but yeah, you know what I'm saying. So we
should before we run out of time, let's play. We got another track
here, oh little House. Yeah, oh yeah, this is a song
that we actually did ourselves, not with Jerry. Do you have good contrast?
Do you have the remastered version? May I ask? Yes? Okay?
Good, okay? Contract between what we is the quality that Jerry puts
out and what we were able to do by ourselves risk before I was a
band member too. Oh, this was just me, Nolan and Harrison recording.
Oh okay, yeah, so and and and I'm curious why why did
you guys choose to try to do this yourself just to see if you could
or well you hadn't reached out to Jerry yet. Oh yeah, okay,
we were so small, you know, we just kind of were testing the
waters. Yeah, I'm really sure if we were even good yet. And
we really want to get something out there because like, like, like we
said, we have so much music. Yeah, the painful part is trying
to get that all out for the masses in here. And you know,
we really want to get something out there. So it's like, you know
what, let's just do it ourselves and see how it goes. And and
this song is enough favorite for people. Yeah, are going to re rerecord
this and put it on the album Down the Roads. Oh, we're gonna
have a nice you know, it's gonna be full, full, full production
on it. Oh, very cool, very cool. Yeah, I got
I got a new Reaver pedal recently, so I've been playing around with that
and I'm gonna be so annoying, like there's a sustained option, so it's
just like ethereal sound behind every song. Yeah, oh cool, cool.
Maybe we're gonna we're gonna delay just for a moment playing that because Shannon is
on the line. She might have a question for you guys. Hi,
Shannon, Good afternoon, Matt, Hello, guys, how's it going?
Hello? All right. I was just curious when you're playing and what do
you do you see colors? With an easy has his question. I'm not
going to ask it. Okay, that's gonna be my question. Do you
see like the D chord? You mean like synesthesia where you see uh yeah,
sound as color? Yeah, you guys, any of you guys have
that? I kind of do, like you know, like I see like
a b notice like a red color. You know, it's a really weak
synesthesia. It depends on like what the context is of a song. But
like, yeah, I can see, you know, some kind of image
or color with with certain patterns. I have a little bit of that too.
Yeah, it's really cool. Yeah, our drummer, it is.
I mean I don't personally, I don't. I don't see colors, want
to hear notes, but it is interesting yeah, and I was on I
heard it on something this morning. I said, that's gonna be my question.
Yeah, there was U. NPR had a big story this morning,
the same show I did. Yeah, I heard that. Yeah, yeah,
I know, I know what you're talking about, Shannon. Yeah,
okay, we're friends with the band who actually has a drummer kid Yeah,
and Smoky Sip. They're actually really good. Oh yeah, there are a
couple of our buddies that moved down to mask. Oh okay, they're amazing.
Well, we'll have to check them out. Yeah. Interesting. I
wish I could relate. I can't. Yeah, I can't relate either,
but I just you know, it's there. It's cool, it's cool,
right, all right, thank you, thank you, thank you for the
call. All right, very interesting. All right, so let's do this.
Let's give this a listen. Oh by the way, so this is
remastered now to Jerry take this and master it or no. I man Nolan
and I we we uh we actually did this in one night. We stayed
up until two thirty in the morning after the night after we recorded this,
and we thought that's that's why it's a good thing to take a break and
then listen to what you have after because we're like, oh, this is
great, this, this is great, this is fine, and afterwards were
like, mm, the vocals were a little too muddy, I think if
you listen to the other version. And so I took it upon myself.
One day I had this service. I remastered it like myself. I just
brought everything up. I cleaned up the vocals a little bit. It's not
great. The drums. The drums still not I don't this this snare you're
gonna hear it's terrible. It's not good. It's not good. It sounds
like a Saint Anger snare or something from a Talliger or whatever. It's not
bad. So yeah, it drives me nuts. So yeah, I just
took it upon myself. I brought all the volumes up. I you know,
tweaked the vocals a little bit just to have that more clear sound.
And yeah, that was basically just bring everything up. So oh yeah,
that's what I did it. And we just hadn't released anything for so long,
and I'm like, you know what, there's a little treat. We'll
just we'll just spice this up a little. We'll just I don't know,
we'll make it sound a little bit better and just released it and I was
hoping it would hold over for a little bit until we released another track.
So yeah, okay, that's the story behind that. Well, knowing all
that, no, I'm really curious to hear it again. All right,
So everybody, this is the remastered version of Little House from the band Pointless
Culture, who are here with us alive in studio, and we're going to
talk to these guys a little bit more in just a couple of minutes.
But let's give this a listen. This is called Little House. I've got
a question living on my tort side of asking why I haven't loved. I've
looked in tied in my face outside I'm scared of what calm snaws I can't
tell with these leather re shippers racing dumping down my spine that close to the
damn as line. But thou showking at my ad mind. In the middle
of New Hampshire. There's this road and the boat. It has a drive
away and let all house and till that little house I've got. This little
girl actually means so much to me. She's the center of my world.
I've got about a dozen carrots for the clothes I wear on the floor of
my hair, but underneath this fa stare, I know my life is pretty
fair. I've got it down. I can walk on matter tows, battle
track through the sounds, but when they're worn down, I'm couch bound for
you. All s tells. Down in the middle of New Hampshire, there's
this road and that phone. A tried boy he had little house ten That
little house I've got. This little girl actually means so much to me.
She's the center of my world. That is little house remastered of course,
pointless culture here with us live in studio and uh no, I was saying,
uh. I was saying to h one over here, I see what
you mean, or I hear what you mean about the snare, but I
don't think it sounds bad. You know, it sounds a little different,
but I like it. It's it's you know, it sounds just kind of
stripped down and raw. It know it does. And it almost has like
that one mic technique like when you drum, when you mike a drum kit.
Almost sometimes drummers use like one mic. Yeah I don't. I actually
think I have a full microphone kit for the drum set, but I think
only three of them were working, so okay, yeah, it's kind of
I think that's why it sounds like that. But I don't think it sounds
that bad for a you know, just a attic recording that we did.
Yeah, yeah, it was pretty good. Yeah, it's got that attic
recording kind of ye, but I like it. Yeah, it was good.
It was good. Like and I was just telling you, uh,
you know, Matt in between here that we recorded that a year ago this
Friday. So we've changed a lot of this song doesn't sound uh, it
doesn't really sound It sounds the same, but it doesn't sound the same.
I've put more technical drum parts into it. We all kind of just gotten
better over the past year and just kind of grown with this music over time.
So yeah, yeah, No, it's it's always a like a I
don't know if i'd say a fan. Do we have fans? We probably
just have fault. I don't know. It's like it's like a fan favorite,
you know, people like it. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
people singing along your songs live. I think he got I think he got
some fans. Cool. I think you can say fans, Yeah, what
do you before we run out of time? So what what are you guys
having coming up? You know, I'm sure you want to remind people,
of course about the Chef Skying Show, anything else you want our listeners to
know about, and of course where to find you online. You guys are
pretty easy to find. But yeah, any anything that you want to make
sure our listeners know about. First, most importantly, we are playing,
yeah, the Chef Skying on October nineteenth with the six h three Showcase.
It's a big night. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Uh.
We invite you to get there early. Check out all the other bands we're
actually gonna be. We're technically headlining it, so we're gonna have like a
forty five minutes set because we're trying to fit you know, four bands into
the night. So but definitely come by check us out. It's Thursday,
October nineteenth. That's the only show we have scheduled so far. We've just
we just went through all of our summer shows, so we just wrapped that
up last weekend. Yea. But other than that, you know, just
look out for more music. Stream the breakfast song. You know, you
go on YouTube, Spotify, whatever you listen to your music on, you
know, give us a follow. It really helps us, like you know,
the Spotify algorithm. Uh, it's it's very important to artists. And
I take our Spotify account very seriously because it really helps artists grow. And
at four hundred and ninety nine monthly listeners as of today, so we can
get to five hundred by tomorrow. That would be cool. So you know,
give us a follow on Spotify, Apple Music, you know, anything
helps, and uh stream our music and come see us, and uh we
love to meet you and we just want to play music for you. So
yeah, actively booking, Yeah, we are actually booking. Yea, yeah,
we are always looking. But yeah, Pointless Culture dot com. You
can find us on there. Uh it's Pointless Culture on all social media.
Yes, we do have a TikTok. We're really trying our TikTok game.
So yeah, we also want to give a little shout out to our friends.
You know, as important as important to us that it is that you
listen to Pointless Culture. We want you to go listen to all of our
friends that also make music. We've got if you look on Spotify, m
Forrest that's Max Barrett. He just released an album. He's our neighbor.
Musical genius. And then our friends in Nashville Smoky Sip. And then we've
got a buddy that lives right and I think Bradford or Warner right next to
where I grew up, Austin Hardy. You could find them playing at uh,
you know, local restaurants and stuff. But yeah, they all put
out amazing music, and I think everybody should open up their eyes and realize
all the amazing music that's coming out of New Hampshire around them. Oh yeah,
yeah, absolutely. Before the top of the hour, before we hit
that, I just want to say thank you to our friends and family who
have supported us in this journey. I know it's a lot, like we
have a lot of band practices. There are a lot a lot of weekends
taken away and we're we're you know, doing band stuff and you know,
photo shoots and music videos. What would it be. You know, it's
it's a lot you know on the girlfriends sometimes our family and whatnot. But
they're supportive because we you know, we have this common goal in mind to
you know, maybe make it someday and you know, make something out of
us. Even if even if we don't, we're just happy and very content.
With what we're doing, so yeah, you know, whatever happens happens,
so yeah, yeah, we wouldn't be where we are today if it
wasn't for their generosity and support and all that. Thank to them, no
doubt, no doubt. Very cool guys. This has been wonderful. Thank
you all so much. I appreciate it absolutely absolutely, and thank you Jenny
for booking them. Jen Jenny, Jenny does all the booking, So if
you're if you're a musician and you want to be on the show, make
sure you reach out to Jenny. And you know, we love supporting local
music here and there is so much great talent around here, pointless culture.
Guys. Thank you so much. I hope to be back absolutely absolutely count
on it. And if you miss any part of today's show it we'll be
up in just a little bit at w M and H radio dot org and
on my website Matt Connerton dot com, and uh we will we will talk
at y'all a little bit later. That's going to do it for us for
now. By everybody,