But I don't know it. Wow, Windows Gata, Welcome everybody here,
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Today is Monday, May one, twenty twenty three, and I'm not
alone. Best Jenny is here at the news desk. Hello with her crown,
her tiara, my crown. Thank you very much. Yes, yes,
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Yes, and I say that because not they're not sponsors, but I love,
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her jewelry, her handcrafted jewelry. Kendra Saunders is a very crip Kendra Els,
Kendra al Sanders Forgive Me is a very talented individual. She makes earrings
and all kinds of necklaces and of course lovely crowns. She's also a published
author, Yes, yeah, and she's been on the show many times over
the years. I actually met her because of her author yea authorship, that's
right, she'd say, yes, I am suporting my Lucid Dreams crown.
It's a perfect week for it. Why is that because across the ponds getting
his crown this weekend? Oh I forgot about that. Didn't that already happen?
No, not much of an anglophile. I don't pay that much attention
to avoid it. It's like at nauseum in the news. Yeah, I
don't know. So now he'll officially be the king. He's not. He's
not officially King Charles until that happens. He's officially King Charles. But something
about the crowning and then the people are supposed to pledge their allegiance. Oh
gosh, yeah. I think they treat people through in front of him,
going oh you support I crown, my my swear, my allegiance to use
it, and they like go through one at a time, and I think
there's some swords and stuff. Oh swords, Yeah, I know. They
stick a tent over his head when he annoint him a tent. Yeah,
he can't see that part, I guess. Wow, when he comes out,
he's like and like when he comes out from yes for real, and
then like when he comes out of the tent um judy, isn't they call
it a Hoopah? Yeah, I think that's they say it. It's the
uh, it's for weddings. But in this case, like they seriously do
they put this like tarp over him on poles over his head while he's in
the special chair. It's like the thousand year old special chair, which on
close look was really kind of gross and peture. Yeah, but then they
bless him or something like God's finger comes down and anoints his forehead. So
when he comes out, God's actual finger comes down inside the tent special anointing.
Wow. So he is officially the head of the Church of England.
Wow. Yes, anointed by God. Yes, under a tent, under
a tent some oils or something. Wow, incense. I think they throw
incense at him. Oh really, they shoot it at him, you know,
like Catholics do choose the little thing even Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow for those who can't see me moving my arm. Yeah. Great radio,
Jenny, great radio. Yeah. Well, no, I know what
you mean. You know, I was raised Catholic kind of what you mean
with the thing. But it's not the Catholic Church though, right, Protestants,
the Church of England. So yeah, they're they're Protestants, right,
Yeah, yeah, I think that's how that works. Wow, but I
guess it takes a long time. Oh really, what a long time?
And he's in the tent. No, No, that part I think is
fairly quick. I think after the tent thing is when he comes, they
give him the orb and the and the orb. There's an orb. There's
a crowned orb that goes in one hand and the other hand is like accepter
and he's got to like hold them with this like fifty pound crown on his
head and walk down holding them. Oh yeah, medievalism right up front.
Listen, everybody, this this is why we fought the Revolutionary War because orbs
and scepters and tents and God's finger and the thing that you shake at the
incense and whatever. This is this is why, this is why we had
to break away. This is the real reason This is what they won't teach
you in school. They in school. See they in school, they don't
teach you. You know, they teach you about the Revolutionary War, but
they don't teach you the real reason. So not to It was about taxes
on tea. No, that's a cover that's a cover story. See that's
what the oh you mean to see illuminati. That's what these these schools,
these these these public schools with their liberal teachers, they teach you it was
about that. No, here's here's what it really was about. It was
about orbs and scepters and swords and tents and God's finger. That's what it
was really about. Yes, well that too, that's what it was really
about it and that's why that's why we had to break away. And I'm
glad we did. I'll tell you, I'll tell you what na clombs going
here? No sorry, no no, no a dream of chrone. No
orbs, no scepters, no swords, no God's finger in the tent.
Uh, none of that. We shan't have that here because this is America.
But yes, well there you go. Well that's very exciting. So
that's this week. Yeah, this week's fifth Okay, not right. Well
that's that's every freaking news channel every few minutes is more on that. How
many times they can say the same thing sixteen different ways. I don't know
how I've escaped it, but I've escaped it. I haven't spent a lot
of time flipping between news channels because they stopped talking about the news and started
giving me orbs and scepters and so my Yeah, well, I mean I
can say some's going to come back and it might be twenty four hours that
he's in state. And seriously, I've heard too much of this today.
Wow. I literally have flipped stations numerous times. Yeah. I usually listen
to a lot of news from around yea, the world anyway. Yeah,
the globe, Yes, I guess that's the one. They hand him a
little or globe. Oh, they hand him an actual orb. That means
he's like metaphorically holding up the earth. Well, I was gonna say,
I see when I when I think of orbs, I think of you know,
you take a picture and you see a little sprinkles of light in the
picture afterwards, which doesn't seem to happen with cell phone cameras, only with
yeah, traditional photography. Um, now that you mentioned it there, Yeah,
you ever notice that? Yeah? I actually no, that's not true.
Really nope. I got orbs on film on my camera phone and it's
actually on my Facebook page from a long time ago Salem trip. Oh you
were we were at the cemetery, oh, or all the which people were
buried? Huh? And we took pictures and there were orbits there were and
these were cameras. Really yep. Wow, m that's a song, isn't
it. Woke up this morning there were orbs in my camera? Orbs in
my camera? Isn't that a song? No? It's Scarle Simon right.
No, who do you think that's really about orbs in my camera? I
don't think she ever revealed his No, No, I don't know. I
you know, I'm I have a terrible head injury. Um so I could
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Facebook live chat and we will say hello everybody there in there in a moment.
Melanie is already making comments that I can't read on the air, but
I will seriously, there's something wrong with but I really wish, wish that
I could, oh boy, see things I never think about getting my parents.
But six O three, two five or six O seven is a studio
line. If you would like to join us live on the show, we
should mention two. The week coming up, we have Abner two. Is
it Abner two or Abner the second coming in tomorrow? Now that you said
that, I think at Abner two it's Abner two. Will be our musical
guests dot tomorrow afternoon. If I'm wrong tomorrow we're actually recommended by by Slim
volume. Ah, very good, very good, yep, So I look
forward to that. They will be here live in studio tomorrow. Wednesday,
we have Factory of Art and they are from are they from another country?
They are they are from Germany. So they'll be skyping in obviously skyping in
it'll be about eleven o'clock their time, and then skyping in at five o'clock
our time. And then Thursday we have Kevin Hammer, who's going to be
either skyping or calling skyping skyping. He is. He came to us through
our friend Billy p and interesting guy he's he's a Republican from New York State
and from what Billy told us, he's a walk away from the Democratic Party,
used to be a Democrat. Apparently he's gay but so, which is
interesting because there's a lot of anti LGBTQ stuff going on these days on the
party that he walked away too. So so I don't know that'll be interesting.
He sounds like an interesting guest, but he also apparently is someone who
really likes to speak with someone who speak with people he doesn't necessarily agree with,
and likes to have a productive and intellectual discussions instead of existing in an
echo chamber. And I'm always down to talk to people like that because that's
difficult to find and it's a wonderful thing when we find it. So it
is. And of course also on Friday, we'll have Eric Pilter's Classic film
review and our old friend Truth is going to be calling in you know,
yes with a brand new release, brand new release world radio premiere. I
think yes, I do believe we are getting the premiere. Yes, yes,
he does remember us. Yes, we are one of his favorites.
Absolutely. Yes, this is truth. That's a sweatshirt I wear often with
the semicolon on it. He does a lot of work in the area of
preventing suicides. Talking about our mental well being. Yep, but you know
you said something before. You know who I have that rapport with is Heather.
Heather Stockwell. Her and I, oh wait, she's coming out.
I forgot she maybe coming in. She's a maybe for four o'clock on Wednesday.
Okay, there might be something getting in the way, but she's gonna
let me know. But her and I have had some really awesome conversations,
you know, and on things that we agree, boy, you know,
we just bolster each other right up. But on the things that we have
disagreed and that we do vehemently, we both fear are very strong women in
our in our positions, we do so with the utmost respect for one another,
and we always like, never get it, it never goes that far.
We respect each other's endpoint that I'm not going to change her, she's
not going to change me. But we've had that healthy dialogue and I really
enjoy having those conversations with her. So okay, so she's a maybe for
Wednesday. Yeah, she's gotcha, gotcha all of that, that's what you
get out of it. Huh, what she's a maybe for Wednesday? Yeah,
she's maybe for Wednesday. Yeah. I was referring more to her having
the wonderful conversations with people. Yes, oh my, where are you today?
Well, No, I was going to while we were mentioning that,
I was going to say, did you want to update us on the petition?
Because that that involves her? It does actually absolutely how the Stockwell is
a force to be reckoned what she is always working and from what I've seen,
I don't I don't know whish she finds time for herself to be honest
because she's always doing these things. She's actually the reason that I am in
the position that I'm in now with this now national campaign. And it was
she had an event over at the Hopknot for New Hampshire Rights and Democracy and
I just loved everything that they did and we had great dialogue and everything,
and that's how I met the people from People's Action, who are an umbrella
group. Basically there's about forty or so national organizations a part of them,
and all of these people have joined forces together to get behind me and try
and get United Healthcare to pay for the care that I need to live.
In the face of them reporting eight point one billion dollars in first quarter profits
in three months, they've made more than you know, you or I are
going to see it I don't know how many lifetimes. So it's hard when
you know they're not covering things that you're paying through the nose for right,
I'm really amazed by the work that these people have done and what they've done
to support people in my community and really getting the word out that complex regional
pain system syndrome is very real and very deadly to people who get it,
and small fib ineropathy is no picnic and we deserve to be treated. And
with their help and with some help of some experts in this that have taught
me things, we've actually gotten a huge win that I didn't think was ever
going to happen. They have officially agreed to pay for my chatamin infusion for
the treatment of CRPS and small five ineropathy. And that's that's outstanding, that's
um and I know that that's because of all the efforts of all these people
and all that work that's going on right now. We've got about a little
over thirty nine hundred signatures on the petition. We're still collecting it, we're
still talking about it. We cannot let the story go silent. What my
hope is that is to be that you know, that that first one that
gets those codes issued and then we get to use them for everybody else,
because they can't say yes to me and not to somebody else. And it
is literally approved for the treatment of CRPS. In my prior authorization, we
literally explained the disease and noted that it is called the suicide disease, noted
that it has zero approved treatments anywhere. So if you're waiting for an improved
treatment to then cover me, it's not going to happen. We haven't gotten
anything approved. And this disease was discovered over two hundred years ago, so
that excuse for not covering was pushed out and the United Healthcare had to take
a serious look at what is wrong with my body and what it takes to
keep me alive and functional on a daily basis. So we've won that,
and that's, like I said, that's huge, and that's going to be
super beneficial to my community. We have not one in some other instances.
You know, for instance, I didn't know this Medicare. Medicare products do
not cover compression for venus and sufficiency in the legs unless you have an ulcer,
which is a sore, so rather than covering it prior to and preventatively,
they only allow coverage for compression if you got the sore. That's a
federal change we need to make. That's something that's going to take the work
of all of us to push for. We shouldn't be waiting for somebody to
have an open wound to treat them. We should do it beforehand. Compression
for my upper body for my lymphidima arm in hand has been approved. Working
right now with the insurance company to find a supplier that we can order from,
and I am going to start getting compression for that for the first time
ever. All of these things started in twenty thirteen. We are now in
twenty twenty three, and it has taken all this time, and I'm finally
going to have insurance coverage for some of the more serious things that are wrong
with me, that are wrong with so many others out there, and I
understand now why so many people don't do this, And I don't know that
I could have done it without help. I've spent hours on the phone,
literally hours. I last Friday's call was about two and a half hours,
three hours long to get through this process, to do all of these appeals
and prior authorization requests, and it's it's daunting, it's exhausting. Yeah,
Like I said, I don't think I would have been able to go through
all of this without having some support and knowing that there are people out there
willing to help and jump in if I do get stuck. So I have
a question, So, how does it work legally once you're approved? Does
that mean that they can't say no to other people too? Not that I'm
aware of, no, but I think it makes it harder for them to
do so. Can't cover it in one patient and not another. Well,
that's what I mean. Those they're a legal component to that or are you
just talking principally. I think the component mostly is going to be an educational
one to try and then take this information. Now, this is one health
insurance company. Yeah, there are people out there with Blue Cross, Blue
Shield and they have got you know, Pilgrim Health and all these other ethno
signa insurance companies that don't cover us. My win with United Healthcare opens the
door, but we need to really push everybody through. There's somewhere around one
hundred and ninety thousand people in the United States that have CRPS. But that's
one disease that ketamine infusions have been shown to treat. High dose ketamine infusions
are being used to treat all other rare diseases like small fiber neuropathy. There
are people that are benefiting from this and not having And here's the kicker.
You don't have to be on opioids in our conducts when you get this treatment
right, you can. You know, for a lot of people, for
myself included, it was to get it got you off that because instead of
covering up your symptoms, it's actually treating your symptoms, decreasing the inflammation and
the pain. That's a good thing to clarify for people too. Yes,
you know, it's a treatment. It's not something that you you then go
on no, no, no, this is well it is and this is
why it's very hard to find a provider actually doing the treatment. No it's
difficult. It's on a medication that it's not something you're taking everybody. It's
not that, because I do sense that people kind of misunderstand that part of
it. No, that's a good point. I'm glad you raised that it's
an infusion, that's it causes it's used. I'm sorry, I got a
little tum twisted. They start an IV on me, and they give me
a lot of supportive medications that are to keep me sedated so I don't wake
up and feel the medication, medications to keep my blood pressure and checked.
They have to monitor me on equipment and it takes about four hours for the
infusion to fully run. And then I'm I'm wasted for the day. Like
I can't function, My brain doesn't functions. A lot of times I end
up puking. It's just you know, the side effects of it. But
it has to be done in with the doctor. It has to be why
you're monitored. They can't, you know, just sticky in a corner and
forget about you. They have to check on you, you know. Basically
they I think they do like fifteen minute vital cycle, vital sign logins.
Yeah, and it's not something that can be done at home like other infusions.
Like you know, I had an infusion nurse with my port. If
we had gone to giving me IVG, that could have been home infused.
But the thing about ketamine infusions is that it is a sedative. It does
have higher risk factors for you know, sedating you too much and causing respiratory
to depression, depression or not, you know, messing up, messing your
heart up, or dropping your pressure. So it requires more monitoring and it
really requires a doctor in the building in the very least. Yeah, so
that it's not considered. Insurance companies basically use it as an excuse because it's
not proved by the FDA for this treatment. They use that as an excuse
to not cover it. They also use as an excuse. And this is
where I argue with them on ketamine, as they argue it's an off label
usage, and I argue that that is absolutely bull And the reason I say
that as us ketamine is prescribed to be used for sedation. Ketamine is prescribed
to be used for pain. It is on ambulances and can be used for
pain. It can be used to sedate somebody on an ambulance. It is
used in the emergency department oftentimes with children who need a joint reset, have
broken something, you know, and they're resetting it. So sedation and pain
are absolutely on label reasons for giving this medication, but they call it off
label because it's not specified for CRPS. But nothing is specified for CRPS,
literally nothing. YEA. Getting the insurance company to cover my infusions opens the
door for other patients to get their infusions covered. We can talk to about
what kind of language to use, how to present your case. A lot
of it is how you present yourself when it comes to the insurance companies.
That I'm learning more about this as I go along, because this is an
area that is not my expertise. But what is an area that I can
draw from is my medical career. So the language that I'm able to use
or to pull up. And I'm a writer, so as I've gone through
this process, I've learned how to kind of word things and how to paint
the picture for them so they can understand what's going on with me. It's
not good enough to say you're in pain. What you need to do is
describe that you feel like you're on fire. It wrapped in Bob wire and
somebody's shoving shards a glass under your feet because that's what it feels like.
They need to understand what you're actually You can't just say pain, so,
you know, much like we do in ems, you paint the picture for
the hospital as you're coming in to tell them what they're getting. It's up
to you to tell that, you know, tell them all the tools they
need, so when you arrive there, you know, if there's a cardiologists
needed, they're write down there. Same thing with these insurance companies. You
have to paint that picture and tell them what you're going through, what could
happen without treatment, And in my instance with the Kademy infusions, I'm much
like a lot of patients out there, most patients out there. I have
paid for this one hundred percent out of my pocket all these years, and
the only reason and I sit here is because I've done it myself. Finally
getting the insurance company to do their job and cover the treatments that I mean,
keeping me alive shouldn't have taken this long, but it should be.
It should open the door for more people to get coverage and more people to
get access. I think that's the wost heartbreaking thing when you talk to people
who have these diseases and can benefit by this treatment and the only thing is
they can't access it because they can't afford the treatment. They don't have the
ability to sell off everything, you know, they don't have the ability to
borrow or have people gift you money or whatever it is so you can get
into the treatment. They're stuck without it. And the only way they're going
to get a chance at getting out of that bed and getting better is going
to be for insurance companies to stop up and pay for these life saving infusions.
Yeah, all right, well that's all positive, then that's good.
Yeah, I'm really pleased with how it's going. And I will say that
the United Healthcare worker that it's been working with me has actually been really good.
Yeah. I felt like that person was going to be an adversary,
but they're actually listening and learning about what I'm going through, and they're actually
helping me go through these process without feeling so stressed out or feeling like I
have to win or something over them. I don't have to win over them,
right, you know. That's been a huge learner for me too.
Yeah. Yeah, excellent, excellent, all right, m and then if
Heather, if Heather does come on Wednesday, she can tell us more too
about you know, because she's been involved in the process with this. Oh
yeah, wow, absolutely Is that the interview you did with I just remember
this too. I've been meaning to ask you, but I'll ask you here
because this is a oh I think I know you get ask me. Yeah,
the interview you did with or he interviewed you at Opperman on the Opperman
Report. Is that available yet? I don't know that I'm aware of.
I don't think that's available just yet. And it's a new article that I
got a notice from the editor from the Mighty Yeah. Also talking about having
to buy your way into healthcare. That should be coming out probably within the
next couple of weeks. Excellent, well, very good, very good.
All right, Well, if you'd like to join us on the program six
three two five six seven, the studio line is open six three two five
six seven. We'll go ahead and say hello everybody in the Facebook live chat.
Let's see Jenny, I see you're in there. Rabbits, Rabbit,
rabbits. That's what you're supposed to say. Why the first day of the
month. It's good luck in England. I didn't rabbits rat. I didn't
know that. Yeah, okay, yeah, no idea. Yeah. Jay
Fed joins us and says good afternoon Melanie. Of course, as I mentioned,
is in the Facebook live chat. Yes, she had a very specific
question about a half lucid jewelry, a specific item she's looking for for her
Mother's day, but for her mom. Yes, yeah, no, very
nice. I love you. I don't think Kendrew makes us. EASYG also
joins us, whereof EASYG joins us in the Facebook laugh out and says happy
May Day. Good to see you, buddy. I know you've been under
the weather for a couple of days to days May first has he? Yeah,
well you know what I think is going on there? Uh that.
Look, I'm not a medical doctor, boy, and uh, of course
I haven't seen EASYG in person. So even if I was a medical doctor,
I'm not. You know, I'm certainly not qualified to to make any
assessments or diagnoses. No, you're not. But I will just say this.
I'm just gonna throw this out there, and I want easy if you're
if you're still listening, I want you to really consider this. Um.
I think that uh I think that Bruce is slowly poisoning. That's what you're
going to do. I think Bruce has been poisoning him. I'm sorry,
Eric, I tried. And I think because you know, you know how
I feel about Bruce. I don't trust him. And I think that Bruce
is UH after Easyg's vast fortune because you know, we all know, because
you know, he's got that fanny pack, and I think there might be
a gold bar in there or something. So I think Bruce thinks he's going
to he's going to inherit Easyg's fanny pack. So he's been poisoning in him.
And I would just say, I would just say keep an eye on
him. I wouldn't actually Easyg. I wouldn't actually confront Bruce directly. I
think that could be very dangerous, but i'd keep an eye on him.
My dad is in the chat room and says, good show, guys,
I have too ready to go upstairs. Sometimes in the Facebook live chat,
my dad talks like he's from Greensboro, North Carolina. Have you I think
they've been in the UH. They also show up, of course, in
our chat room on Friday nights for Retrospectrum Radio. I noticed that. Yes,
they're very enthusiastic about retrospect Oh, while we're at it too, we
should give that a quick plug before we get into some some stuff. Because
Paul Paul See, of course from Retrospectrum Radio did post earlier what the theme
will be for this Friday night. Um. Sometimes he doesn't decide until later
in the week, but he already he's already got this one figured out.
He posted Friday night on Retrospectrum Radio, It's time to test your musical agility
once again. Agility, Um, I think he means acuity. Uh,
WHOA your quickness? You want your brain to be quick like a rabbit.
It's all about the rabbit today, I guess I think yeah, I think
quick action, you know, mental gymnas. I don't think that's what he
thinks is. We'll play twenty five songs that all have something in common.
Let's see how smart you are. The fun starts at a pm Eastern.
Do join us and that will be of course, uh, this Friday night
from eight to eleven PM. Of course, I have the honor and privilege
of being one of Paul's co hosts on that show along with DJ Steve,
and I believe finally this Friday, the return of Mike from Queen City Cabinetry.
Queen City Cabinetry one of our great sponsors here at WMH ninety five point
three, but also Mike is one of Paul's co hosts on Retrospectrum Radio.
He joined us for a couple of episodes and then he got horribly injured,
and uh, he's finally, he says, come hell or high water.
He will be making his return this Friday night to Retrospectrum Radio with policy.
So we uh we look forward to that. I'm great. I think that's
awesome. Finally, back, Jay Fed says, does anyone ever win those
contests? The last one Paul did? I guessed it correctly. I guess
them correctly. Yeah, yeah, usually usually Well, speaking of music,
so I'm very interested in this, uh, this lawsuit, this uh ed
Sharon being sued by the estate of Marvin Gay. I have some feelings about
this. And part of why this is so interesting to me is, of
course, you know my own background in the music industry, and you know,
I've I've written a lot of songs, and uh, I've been in
a lot of bands, and I don't know if you knew that Melanie in
the chat room. I've been in some bands, but no, this kind
of thing. Been in some bands, have yeah, I have, I
don't know. I don't know if you knew that. Yes, I've been
in one hundred and seventy four different bands. Right, so, uh so
this is, uh, this is particularly interesting to me, and of course
I'm also it's interesting to me in another way too. I've always said,
you know, if I had gone to law school, if I had been
that, if if that had been my my calling, I would probably want
to specialize in something like a copyright or trademark law, you know, intellectual
property, that kind of thing. I'd probably be an entertainment lawyer. In
other words, because I find these, uh, these matters particular particularly interesting.
But this is if you haven't been following this now, there's an update
here from CNBC dot com ed Sharon oh And coincidentally, when Peter Pappas was
here with us on Thursday with which was great. By the way, if
you missed it, please go back and listen. We do archive all the
shows at WMNH Radio dot org. When Peter Pappas was here, most of
the songs that he played that day were of classic artists like Neil Young and
Paul Simon and so forth. But but he did do an Ed Sheeran song.
He wanted to do something modern. Um, so I loved everything he
did. Oh great voice, yeah, very very talented. And he did
the thing too where he plays the harmonica while he's playing the guitar, you
know, while he's singing, which is back and forth between the three.
Well, the thing is what impresses me about that is, so if you're
singing, if you're playing guitar and you you're doing the harmonica with the whatever
that contraption is that holds the harmonica in place, you're literally playing two instruments
at once. I think it's just the harmonica hold. Pretty impressive. I
don't know he didn't know what it was called. I didn't know what it
was called, harmonica holder. It's gotta gotta have a fancier name than that,
like maybe not like, I don't know what it could be. But
anyway, that's impressive to me. He did do an Ed Sheeran song.
I don't remember which one it was, but so Ed Shearon is being sued
for allegedly copying Marvin Gay. Here's where the trial stands. I don't remember.
I can't remember what Melanie said in the chat room, like a Stormy
Daniels kind of entertainment lawyer. No, I wouldn't want to be her lawyer
because what's his name? That guy? Oh, what is what is his
name? Michael something? The guy who was representing Stormy Daniels, who was
on MSNBC so often that I was sure he was going to end up with
his own show on MSNBC. He's he's in prison now? Really? Yeah?
Yeah? Did he embezzel her money? I don't know what did he
go to jail for. That might have been, that might have been part
of it. I don't remember exactly, but yeah, he turned out.
He turned out to be a bad guy. Melanie says in the chat I'm
not even going to tell you where my mom holds her harmonica. Well,
Mother's Day is coming. It is that month, right, yeah, month
of May, Yes it is. Let's see. So this is some key
points here from again, this is from CNBC. ED Sharon was in Manhattan
federal court this week for a copyright infringement trial involving his twenty fourteen hit Thinking
Out Loud. The airs of Late Ed Townsend, who co wrote Marvin Gays
Let's Get It On. Say Sharon's song copies the nineteen seventy three classic.
The trial is expected to last up to two weeks and we'll be decided by
jury. Now, I do have something here that and there are actually many
of these on YouTube, but I chose this one that actually sort of gives
us a bit of a side by side comparison of the two songs. So
I'm very curious. Now I already know what I think, but I'm and
I'll tell you after we listen to this, But I'm very curious to hear
while I'm curious here what you think, Jenny, and also the audience.
I'd like to get some audience feedback on this. But I have a strong
opinion about this already, but I'll share that afterward after we listen to this.
Oh, hello to a Miriam Bandish who joins us on the Facebook live
chat. I'm Miriam, all right, here here we go. So this
is so the Insurance song, by the way, is thinking out loud versus
Marvin Gay's song Let's Get It On. Okay, here we go. Don't
look like they used to before. And I can't sweep you off of your
feet. Will your mouth still remember the taste of me? Love? Will
your eyes still smile from your cheek? Done? And I've been really try
trying to hold back to the feeling the soul, baby man good stupul us
hard twenty three. I'm thinking about how and if you like a feeling,
come on, so, honey, naw, take me to having ears,
kiss me up to the light of a thousand starts. Loving wrong with me?
Loving God? Maybe love, love and giving yourself to me can never
be wrong? Love? Maybe we found love right? Well we are when
my ass off a gune and my memo all right before I say what I
think? What do you think? No? No, not, he did
not rip off the song. I do not believe he ripped off the song.
I do not believe that they're the same. I think this is a
frivolous lawsuit and unfortunately it's not the first time and it will be the last
time before something like that happens. I do not think that they are alike.
And I you know, when I was doing some research on this issue,
I also found some statements that it and it clicked for me that a
lot of that most songs can be, you know, wound into one another.
There's only so many harmonic spaces for a song to live that you can
do that. And if you think about it, how many times do you
see people do that? Doesn't mean that the other song was written by the
same person. It's just a crafty way of being able to go from one
end to the other. So that performance on stage was just that, a
performance on stage. It wasn't him showing the world that he had ripped off
that song. Okay, So here's here's what I think. Basically, I
agree, um uh the songs there is a similar vibe. Even the tempo
is the same, So there there are similarities. But there's uh yeah,
I think Ed Shearon is probably a big fan of Marvin Gay. I think
he's probably a big fan of that song. So the songs have a similar
vibe, the production is very similar, but it's not the same song.
I agree, and and I think this lawsuit is ridiculous. There is uh
Stephen brought up in the chat room, our friend Stephan Philbrook. He says,
OMG, they sound similar. This is such bs. The blurred lines
decision was wrong. Also, yeah, that's another lawsuit similar that we can
talk about the similarity is this. So we've we've we've entered a period where
you know, it used to be somebody um would sue. Uh, you
know, if if if you could prove in court that that somebody directly copied
your song where a song is so similar that it's clear that they not necessarily
even intentionally ripped you off. You know, sometimes you can write a song
and you know, I know this, or I've written songs, and anyone
who's written songs will tell you. Sometimes you can write a song that sounds
like something else and you don't even realize it as you're writing it, because
you're not always conscious and fully cognizant of what is what is it? What
is it that you're writing? Is it your idea or is it another idea
that you've heard, But in the moment you're thinking it's your idea because you
can't easily tell in your own mind where the idea came from and so forth.
But so that happens, and so some lawsuits are valid, sure,
But I mean led Zeppelin has been sued and multiple times. Led Zeppelin probably
the most plagiaristic policy on retrospect from radio with policy you know, we've done
at least two episodes on that very subject, led Zeppelin songs that they you
know, a lot of a lot of bands, for example, have stolen
songs from classic blues artists, like where they you know, just change a
few words and then don't give the original artist credit. So so it does
happen. But here's the thing. If we've entered a period now where you
can sue somebody for their song just kind of having the same vibe as yours,
And that's what kind of happened with the Blurred Lines lawsuit, which we'll
look we'll look at that afterward too. You know, just a song just
has the same vibe or or maybe somebody has a song that was clearly inspired
by because again I have no doubt that Ed Sharon is a fan of Let's
get It On by Marvin Gayan that that inspired him somewhat right, either consciously
or or subconsciously or unconsciously. So you know, so if something has a
similar vibe, you can sue them. Now, See that's a very that's
a very dangerous zone that we've entered in. If if if that now uh
qualifies you to sue somebody somebody stole your vibe. Um, my dad says
in the chat room, I have somebody would sue you? Yes, my
dad. I think my dad is uh. He's actually in Greensboro, North
Carolina right now. He says, I have somebody would sue you gay so
similar that it's clear that they even intentionally ripped you off. Sometimes you can
write a song. I think my dad's using voice to text and it's uh.
Maybe Ed Sheridan was Sharon's. Sorry. I don't know why I'm so
tongue twisted today. Ed Sheridan is the guy who started Sheridan Hotels. I
think when you say at the Sheridan, you're saying at one of them,
Ed Sheridan's Hotels. So Ed Sharon was quoted on Fox UM and I felt
that because they asked him about a previous lawsuit, I didn't know this.
He was sued last year on a copyright infringement. He was accused of ripping
off Sammy Switches song Oh Why, and for his song Shape of You.
Okay, he won that case. But the quote that I'm just setting the
stage with the quote that he said, and I really agree with what he
said, is whilst we're obviously happy with the result. I feel like claims
like this are way too common now and have become a culture where a claim
is made with the idea that a settlement will be cheaper than taking it to
court, even if there's no basis for the claim. It's really damaging to
the songwriting industry to speak to what you said that that's that's it in a
nutshell if you're you know, that can't be the rule of the day.
Yeah, or like he said, if you get the same vibe right,
yeah, and there. We do have a very excessive legitis society. You
know that we do have too many frivolous lawsuits in our society in that regard,
I agree with that one hundred percent. It's it's I feel bad for
artists because they get trapped in these lawsuits and you got to deal with it.
You either have to spend the money, go to court, hire the
lawyers, get the experts, or you settle it with them and make it
go away so it doesn't eat up your money, eat any time, eat
up your life. And that's really a hard place to stick an artist.
Yeah. Kiss Scott sued once by uh, what's his name? It wasn't
Alice Cooper. It was the guy that wrote eighteen with Alice Cooper. I
forget his name, but he sued. Bruce Kulick and Paul Stanley had written
a song called Dreaming which appeared on their Psycho Circus album, and the riff
was very similar. It was very similar to the riff in eighteen by Alice
Cooper. And you know, but they they settled that. They settled that
quickly, you know. But there's also a lot of examples, like I
remember Tom Petty being asked when when the Red Hot Chili Peppers came out with
Danny California, which happens to be my favorite Chili Peppers song, and h
immediately people started asking Tom Petty, are you going to sue them for this?
Because it is the exact same chord progression as Last Dance with Mary Jane
by Tom Petty. Yeah, and it's the exact same chord progression. But
here's the problem. But Tom, he said no, he didn't care.
He's like, no, whatever, it's fine. He actually was completely unfazed
by it. He never he never pursued it. But the thing is,
though, But but then we get into this other thing too. There are
some chord progressions that are just super common because the chord progression in those two
songs, yes, it is exactly the same, but it's also that same
chord progression shows up in a million others songs like it, you know,
so you really can go down the rabbit hole quickly. I remember back in
Jesus was back in high school, warrant uh Warren's first Do you remember the
song down Boys? Don't know? It was Warren's first hit song. And
I don't know if it was even on the radio much, but I just
remember seeing the video a lot on MTV. Yeah, it was before Cherry
Pie and everything, before they got really big, but their first song was
called down Boys, and I remember seeing the video and I was like,
oh my god, that's is it? Bye Bye Love or Bye My Love
by the Cars I can never remember. I was like, wait a minute,
that's the same as the Car's song, just louder. But you know,
but the Car has never sued them over it, you know. Um.
Stephen Philbrook in the chat says they are like thirty songs that copy Packle
Bells uh pack of Bell's cannon rhythm progression. I know it's classical. The
most notable hook by Blues traveler that talks about the hook. Oh, the
hook brings you back patcha bell's cannon being the hook. John Popper does a
very good job explaining this within the lyrics of hook. Oh. Yeah,
he explained it too in an interview with Howard Stern. Stephan also says Stevie
Knicks reached out to Prince when she realized that she ripped off Little Red Corvette
and her songs stand Back. Prince ended up going to her studio redid the
tracks, then left Yep. Well, Prince actually ended up playing. Yeah,
he played keyboard on that, but yeah, he just became a part
of it and said, all right, cools, it is the same.
It's the same chord progression. Yeah. A lot of people don't realize this.
It is the same the chord progression on stand Back by Stevie Knicks.
It's the same as on Little Red Corvette by Prince. If you match them
up, it's it's the exact it's the exact same chords. Charles in the
chat room says, greetings, fellow Connor, Tonight's yeah, Charles Richardson from
the Great Set of Florida. Hello, So it says here again, this
is from CNBC musician At Sharon was in court this week to deny claims that
his twenty fourteen song Thinking Out Loud is a copy of Marvin Gay's nineteen seventy
three classic Let's Get It On. The high profile copyright case was brought by
the airs of Ed Townsend, who co wrote Let's Get It On with Gay.
The plaintiffs first filed the civil suit in twenty seventeen and are being represented
by a legal team including civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump. Well, that guy's
name comes up a lot recently, and he's got a great name too,
Benjamin Crump. You remember him? Yes, Yes, you know that guy.
Yes, get Crump, God, get him on the case. Townsend's
daughter, Katherine towns Would that just be fun to say I'm being represented by
Crump? It just sounds fun. Townsend's daughter Katherine Townsend, sister Helen McDonald,
and the estate of his former wife. I don't know how to say
this. Cherry Cherry Gaale Townsend are the lists are listed as the plaintiffs in
the case. Gay died in nineteen eighty four and Townsend died in two thousand
and three. Sharon, thirty two, took the stand Tuesday during opening arguments
in federal court in Manhattan. The trial is expected to last up to two
weeks. The defense, which did not cross examine Sharon, said he'll be
back on the stand once more during the trial. Townsend's estate alleges that Sharon
Warner Music Group and Sony Music Publishing borrowed from the soul classic Let's Get It
On in the creation of Thinking out Loud, violating federal copyright law. Attorneys
for Townsend's heirs wrote in the complaint quote, the defendants copied the heart of
Let's Get It On and repeated it continuously throughout Things out Loud. The melodic,
harmonic and rhythmic compositions and thinking are not the product of independent creation.
Now. Interestingly about that is the gay estate isn't suing. It's Townsend's daughter
who is suing. In the previous case, the estate was the plaintiff.
Yeah. Um, but one of the things that he that Sharon said is
that most most pop songs can actually be put into other pop songs. That
there's a limited amount of harmonic palette is what he called it. Yeah,
but he said that most pop songs can absolutely be done over other pop songs
that you could literally take let it Be, go to no Woman, No
Cry, and come back to let It Be Sure. So there's a limitation.
There's there's some limitations in music as far as you know, there's only
so many harmonic levels, there's only so many things. So you're gonna have
similarities in some songs, but to listen to them, but I don't see
the similarity in that way at all. And the person he writes with,
they've had the same writing style for a long time. They're very quick writers.
Yeah, there was a notation about the when his um, when Sharmon's
wife was diagnosed with cancer, he spat out like seven songs in one day,
just pouring it out. Yeah, Um, when you know which is
artists do that. Yeah. But I thought it was interesting that in the
previous lawsuit, if you were going to talk about I think you said you
were going to talk about that, right, yes, yes, So the
Blurred Lines lawsuit, in that instance, it was found that it was there
was a similarity to Marvin Gay's Got to Give It Up Now. Gay's estate
was awarded five point three million dollars in damages plus royalties and postumous songwriting credit
that estate is not involved in this case in this lawsuit. Yeah, I
kind of. I feel bad for shared and in this moment like this is
like is what third fourth lawsuit trying to defend his work. I don't see
the similarity there. I just don't. I don't know where they're coming from
with that. I don't see it. Well, like I said, I
see it, I just don't think it's valid. I don't think it's again.
I mean, you know, everybody was inspired by something before them this,
that's just a simple fact of anything that you create. But gay's the
state itself is not suing. Yeah, this is strictly the family of Townsend
and they're trying to sue for one hundred million dollars. Is this this a
paycheck for them? Yeah, of course it is. It's a cash grab.
That's what I'm feeling. That's what I'm feeling. Says here again,
this is from CNBC dot Com. To make the plaintiff's argument, Crump pointed
to a twenty fourteen stage performance in which Shearon sang a live mashup of the
two songs. Crump told jurors the moment captured on video amounted to a confession.
We have a smoking gun, Crump said of the mashup video. That
is something Crump would say. Crump added that Sharon recognized the magic of Gay's
song and claimed that he had quote decided to capture a bit of that magic
for his own benefit. Unquote. Yeah, this is kind of That's kind
of how creativity works in a lot of cases, it says here. Sharon
was called to the stand Tuesday and defended his art before the court, telling
jurors that he composed Thinking out Loud independently with British songwriter Amy Wadge, who
was not named in the lawsuit. Sharon also said the twenty fourteen concert mashup
only happened because most pop songs use a handful of similar records. Yes,
that is true. Quote if I'd done what you're accusing me of doing,
I'd be an idiot to stand on stage in front of twenty thousand people and
do that unquote right, adding he had done similar mashups with other pop songs.
Quote, it is my belief that most pop songs are built on building
blocks that have been freely available for hundreds of years unquote, Yes, exactly.
This isn't the first time Sharon has found himself in the cross airs of
a copyright infringement suit last April, Shearon took the stand, Okay, this
is what you were referring to earlier involving another one of his hits, twenty
seventeen, Shape of View. A London judge in that case ruled in favor
of Sharon and awarded him more than one point one million dollars in legal fees.
Sharon said at the time, quote, there's only so many notes and
very few chords used in pop music. Coincidence is bound to happen if sixty
thousand songs are being released every day on Spotify. Unquote wow, is it
really that many? I don't know problem wonder if it is probably released.
In September twenty fourteen, Sharon's Thinking Out Loud became a critical and commercial success,
when the musician a Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at
the fifty eighth Grammy Awards. He said he came up with the song after
the death of a grandfather. The song is about finding love at an old
age, he told the court Tuesday. Sharon could testify once more during the
trial if the jury finds a British singer songwriter liable for copyright infringement. The
trial will enter a second phase to determine how much he will pay in damages.
Wadge, the Thinking Out Loud co writer, is also planning to take
the stand during trial. Crump told jurors during his opening statement Tuesday, if
you remember nothing else about this trial, about this case, it is about
giving credit where credit is due unquote. That is so Crump. Sorry,
it's really like his Yeah, no, not supporting this case of his.
Ja Fed says I wrote a song one time and Ed stole it. DJ
Steva's in the Facebook live chat, Hello sir. Uh. Scott Robinson joins
us and says Charles Richardson ingested plagiarism on my SAE. Shame on you,
Charles. Oh the Connor Tonight's thing, that's true. Scott Robinson did come
up with that. Uh so Scott Robinson, I think is going to be
contacting Crump. That's what I think I'd watch out Charleson. Stephan says,
just like uh Police So Lonely and Bob Marley, No Woman, no cry,
similar, not the same. I can't think of how So Lonely goes.
But yeah, I'm sure there's well, especially actually, oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah. Are they similar? There's well, so Lonely
is much faster than No Woman, No Cry, but maybe think but the
core progression might be the same. Yeah, I mean, especially, oh
jeez, if you get into like Bob Marley like then you're getting into reggae.
I mean, there's a million and there's probably a million pop songs.
It sound like a million pleased to call that a compliment? Yeah, oh
yeah to say it. I mean, we're at the top of the hour.
But before we go to break, I do want to look at this
from Rolling Stone. I want to revisit the Blurred Lines copyright suit. This
is from rolling Stone dot Com December thirteenth, twenty eighteen. Blurred Lines copyright
suit against Robin Thick and Farrell ends in a five million dollar judgment. The
legal saga with Marvin Gay's family concludes with final judgments. So this is what
again? This is from twenty eighteen. Oh, I'm not going to be
able to uh actually no, I can't do that without logging in. Let's
see, let me find a different one. Let me find a different one
here. How about the Tennessee and has a story from a year later Blurred
Lines lawsuit revived with claim for l Williams committed perjury. Well, I don't
know about this part the long running copyright infringement lawsuit over Blurred Lines and then
the article just vanished. Okay, well I'm never going to the Tennessee and
dot com again. Oh here we go, I got it back. The
long running copyright infringement lawsuit over Blurred Lines is we're roaring back to life with
lawyers for Marvin Gay's family accusing for Ell Williams of lyne under oath. During
the twenty fifteen trial, the Gay family sued Williams and Robin Thicke, saying
the duo stole from got to give it up when they wrote and recorded the
smash hit Blurred Lines. The jury sided with the Gay family, which won
five point three million in damages. Williams denied the claims at the time.
He testified the Gay's music was part of the soundtrack of his youth, but
he denied using any of it to create Blurred Lines. But the legal team
for the Gay family, led by Nashville attorney Richard Bush, said Williams contradicted
himself in a November interview with GQ when he told producer Rick Rubin that he
tries to reverse engineer songs quote to figure out if we can build a building
that doesn't look the same but makes you feel the same way. I did
that in blurred lines and got myself in trouble. I really made it feel
so much like got to give it up that people were like, oh,
I hear the same thing. Unte The interview is the backbone of the legal
filing submitted in federal court Friday arguing that the Gay Family should get its legal
fees paid for. The filing stated quote, he admitted, either without understanding
the consequences or because he believes he is untouchable, that, contrary to his
sworn deposition and trial testimony, he reversed engineered the Marvin Gay song. William
testified falsely on those specific topics, resulting in a fraud on this court.
Unquote. See I disagree. That's his explanation of reverse engineering the song is
the same as saying he exactly, they're just looking for any nugget that can
pull on and go. Then he gets some money out of this. I
mean, anyone who knows anything about music production would tell you that that is
not that is not a confessions every time we can get out of everybody,
says Williams. And Thick previously argued they should not have to pay attorney's fees
for the Gay Family because they did not willfully copy from Gay's work. The
court agreed at the time. The Gay Family's attorneys said the Williams interview showed
he did, in fact willfully copy from Got to Get It On. As
a result, they argued the decision on legal fees should be reversed. Blurred
Lines was the biggest hit of twenty thirteen and was nominated for a Grammy Award.
Oh God, I remember you couldn't get away from that song. I
never liked it. I didn't like it the first time I heard it,
and I didn't like it the ten thousandth time that I heard it. Bush
declined a request for a comment on the filing. He said, quote,
we have no comment. Everything is set forth in detail and the papers filed
with the court unquote. And then oh, Isaac Banks in the chat room
says hello there, hashtag Matt and hashtag Jen, how are you doing good
afternoon? Hello hashtag Jeff Pagari. You had the most day dreams or dreaming
that you want to make a comeback for yourself and be careful what you dreams
for and be careful what you wish for. You have your own show called
Doctor JP and Friends Show for the radio show, for your YouTube live.
Oh that's very exciting. I hope it's I hope it. In no way
is going to copy this program, oh boy, because if it does,
you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get Crump. Stop. That's
what's gonna happen. I think his places full right now. I don't think
you're gonna get him. Oh I'm gonna get him. I'm gonna get Crump.
No, never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never gonna
get it, never gonna get it. See, you're gonna get sued by
whoever wrote that song for end Vogue. They're gonna they're gonna sue you.
They're gonna get Crump. Yeah. Oh all right, we are past the
top, they are. Yeah. Let's we'll take a quick break. Actually,
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wonderful. Now how does that work? Now? He says he's in purgatory.
But does that mean he definitely goes to heaven, because if you go
to hell, you go. I see, I'm not. I haven't been
to church in a while, much to the chagrin of my dad. But
I think the deal is. I do remember learning about purgatory in school.
Uh, Catholic school. I think the deal is, uh, if you
go to purgatory, you you go there to burn off your sins and then
you get to go to heaven. But if you go to hell, you
go straight to hell, I think, right, because that would be that
wouldn't be very fair, right if you go to purgatory and then you're thinking,
no, cool, I'm in purgatory. Maybe next I get to go
climb that ladder over there and get to happen, and then it turns out
no, you just fall into the pit of hell. That would be That
would be terrible. That would be insult to injury, am I Right?
So so I hope don Imus. But he's been dead for years now,
at least a couple of years, right, So he's been in purgatory a
long time, A long time. Wow, don Imus, Well that was
that was a radio legend. My friends. We've made radio history here today.
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six zo three two five zero six zero seven. Melanie mentioned in the chat
room. I think this is my reference in the clip you know I played.
I played what has become an instant classic clip from Matt Connerton unleashed last
last week when the ghost of don Imus called live on the air. Is
very exciting. But talented, man, they're talented. Yeah, apparently he's
he was in purgatory. He may have broken free by now, but no,
I think he's still there. He may be. I don't know.
He's been dead for I think a couple of years now, So that's all.
That's enough. That's a long stay in purgatory. You think, does
a long stay for eternity? Uh, in purgatory, yes, but you
have to get through there to get to eternity. I guess, so I
don't know. I mean he you know, you know, you know what
was funny? I love the Catholic second chance and when uh when is that
a Catholic thing? Specifically purgatory? Yes? Um um when I when Imus
died. So of course people who follow this stuff know that, uh,
don Imus had a long running you know. And I know, I know
this will come as a big shock to everyone, But I love a good
radio feud. Um. I know everyone's like what you know? Yes,
it is true and uh don Imus of course and Howard Stern had one of
the most legendary radio feuds. And if you've ever seen the film Private Parts,
It's well documented in there. Imus was not I'll tell you what.
The actor I don't know his name, the actor in Private Parts who played
don Imus looked so much like Imus, which is weird because I'mus was kind
of a unique looking individual. But they found somebody who who really who really
looked like Imus. The art the makeup artist can yeah, true, true,
Yeah, the guy really looked like Imus. Although you don't see him
much in the movie. His scenes are very brief, but he's very mean
to Howard. But but when I mis died, I thought, I really
I remember listening to Howard. You know, I have the satellite radio in
the car, and I thought I was interested to hear what Howard would say,
because I thought, maybe, after all this time, you know,
Howard would would have some some nice things to say, or maybe something like,
you know, I wish that, uh, you know, I wish
i'mis and I had had had a better relationship or something like that, and
that Robin would would say some nice things. I was kind of stunned,
you know, because Howard's evolved over the years, and and Howard has even
done this thing where and I and Howard has never talked about it on the
show. I just know this from other podcasts I've listened to where they talk
about Howard. Apparently, especially in the last few years, Howard has been
reaching out to people who he was mean to in the past, other people
in the industry like um, Like there's a guy named brother Weez in Rochester,
New York who Howard was very mean to, not not mean to in
the sense of like wanting to be mean to them personally. But just like
Howard when he was ascendant in radio, he would have these these radio feuds,
you know, because that would be good. And the thing is about
a radio feud or a podcast feud or anything. If you play it right,
everybody, everybody involved benefits because it it uh you know, it raises
awareness of of every of what everyone is doing, and it gets you publicity
and whatnot. So so long as you don't get kicked off the station yet,
right right, Yes, there are there are limits out how you want
to push things. But like Howard when he um when he became number one
in New York City for the first time, he held uh. He did
for a publicity. He did this big event. He had the funeral of
Mark and Bryant, and Mark and Brian had been the number one show in
New York City and then Howard finally beat them, and he did this.
It was like his first major New York City publicity stunt where he had a
public funeral, you know, and it was thousands of people there for the
funeral for Mark and Brian, you know, just stuff like that. So
Howard over the years has apparently over the last couple of years, has actually
gone back and he's reached out to people and to kind of bury the hatchet
with him and say, you know, I'm sorry if I ever did anything
that genuinely hurt your feelings or you know, it was all just meant for
a publicity, but you know, I'm sorry if I hurt you or And
he's doing that because he has a conscience. Well yeah, and you know
not to try and buy your way past anything, because we don't have that
in Judaism. Oh true, Yeah, there's no purgatory stuff, right Well,
Howard. Also, Howard is you know he's pushing seventy's he so yeah,
so's So there's he's got a conscience, right right I And like I
said, he's evolved and so forth. Let's basically, the older you get,
the more something on your conscience, it's going to bother. Oh sure,
sure, But I thought I thought when Imus died that Howard might find
some nice things to say. I was genuinely surprised when No, he didn't.
I mean, look, he didn't. He didn't, you know,
like he didn't dance on his grave or anything. But he didn't have anything
nice to say. And and and neither did Robin. And I'll tell you
what. In fact, not only did they really not have anything nice to
say about iMOS, but they they kind of intimated that there that there was
more that that never was said publicly about Imis being like like Robin said,
Imus was behind the scenes like really racist to her, like like like far,
like far worse than had ever been revealed, forgotten all about that,
Like he said things to her privately that she never revealed publicly, that you
know, that she never could could look past, you know, and that
he was actually a really bad guy. Um. Yeah. But the other
thing that's weird about that dynamic is Imisum he was. He was much more
gracious to Howard. I remember listening to Imus one time, and he was
saying that he was. Somebody asked him about Howard Stern, and Imus was
just like, you know, I like him a lot more than he likes
me. He's like, Howard still mad at me, but I actually like
the guy. But uh, and apparently too. They did run into each
other on the streets of New York City a number of years ago, and
they they actually had a reasonably cordial and civil interaction. But but no,
after after Imis died, Howard and Robin they still they didn't dance on his
grave or anything, but they really had nothing nice to say either. It
was interesting and I was a little surprised, but but yeah, so it
was wonderful to hear from the ghost of don Imis. But apparently he has
a lot to burn off in purgatory. And obviously, ultimately I'm on team
Howard. Um, of course you want to be on team Howard. Yes,
I'm always on team how Hell. Wow, that's that's good. This
is no body well Howard Howard does Howard's an atheist? I know, so
there's no But you're born a jew Jew, right, right, That's that's
what my auntie would say. That's that's what I hear. Yes, it's
not about the religion. Yes, but just to say there's no hell in
Judaism, there's no purgatory. Yeah, okay, Lauren, that's a strictly
Catholic thing. Other reasons, other religions don't. Purgatory is a Catholic thing.
You're saying, not hell hell, Hell is a Christian thing, just
broadly right, Yeah, but purgatory specifically you're sat this hell. Yes,
No, but purgatory is one hundred percent Catholic. Okay. Yeah, you
guys got to hang out in some place and wait for somebody to like duck
duck, goose chapto or something. Other religions go right past you. Um.
Isaac Banks in the chat room, says a hashtag Matt and hashtag Jenny.
I would say Jeff Pegary Will formed his singing mixed group and also that
me, my friend Evan McCraw, hashtag Valerie Miller, and hashtag Egan Conrad.
We are leaving the singing mixed group of Ebany's Cybeing. Oh, they're
actually leaving Ebany's Cybeing. I didn't know that was a group. That's a
new name. I didn't either, But apparently they're Apparently there's a bit of
a shake up happening there. Mike from Queen City Cabinetry is in the chatramss
is Good afternoon everyone, Mike, Welcome hello Queen City Cabinetry, one of
our great sponsors here at WMH ninety five point three. And I hope to
see Mike Friday night for retro Spectrum Radio. Yes. Isaac Banks also says
hello, hashtag Chris lout I seen your video. Chat message buddy, hashtag
Matt, hashtag Jen. I was giving a shout out to my friend Chris
oh loud it and he sings and dance and I watched the movie Private Parts
that was awesome. Yesterday I watched American Idol. And last Thursday, I
just been there with my friend Ethan Ross because we were at inside the chapter
of the Inner Rhythm Choir at Lindley Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Ethan Ross just fell on the floor. He had a seizure. I
was there with my friend and paramedics came and check on him and he is
all right as well. Ye. Well, that's an exciting place, Lindley
Park Baptist Church. I you could fall down and have a seizure there.
That's not good. No, no, I thought that. You know,
you're supposed to fall down in church to be touched. I'm glad we don't
have a little I'm glad we don't have the Lindley Lee Park Baptist Church here
in Manchester, New Hampshire. I'd be afraid to even go near it.
I have a seizure. Mike says, you will. I promised Paul I'd
be there. Wonderful, so we look forward to seeing Mike. Only he
posted that when you were reading, and my brain read that in North Carolina
speak, Oh you will, I promise Paul I'd be there right right to
that? Oh really, yeah it did? It sounded better in my head
though. Yeah. Yeah. Then there's no hashtags, that's true. Six
three two five six seven. The phone line, the studio line is open
six three two five six seven. We do have a little bit of leftover,
calling it leftover Tucker Carlson News. I just thought this was interesting.
This is from media dot Com. Leaked footage shows Tucker Carlson trashing Fox News
streaming platform. Maybe this is what got him fired. Maybe he was not
on board with what are they call it? Fox Nation? I think I
think so, Yes, Fox Nation, it says here. Leaked footage from
the set of Tucker Carlson's Fox Nation show revealed the former Fox News, the
former Fox News host, trashing the network's streaming platform. Oh, by the
way, Isaac Banks in the chat room says, so hashtag Matt. My
friend Ethan Ross is from Greensboro, North Carolina. I wouldn't have guessed,
it, says here. The footage was leaked to leaked watchdog group Media Matters
and shows Carlson on the phone with an unidentified person while on the set of
his Tucker Carlson Today program. So, Tucker Carlson Today, for those who
don't know, he actually had two shows. He had. He had his
show that was weeknights on on Fox News, his big, big ratings Get
Her Show, he had the highest ratings in all of cable news. But
he also had a show on Fox Nation, their streaming platform, called Tucker
Carlson Today, and that was kind of like a you know, so it
was a secondary show. Instead of wearing a suit and tie, he'd be
wearing a sweater and he'd have on people like the evil bigot from libs of
TikTok for example. I won't even say her name. You know, things
like that, things that wouldn't necessarily work on his main show on Fox News.
He would have on Fox that was it? Oh yeah, Tucker Carlson
Today. So the conversation appeared to coincide with Carlson's interview with controversial influencer Andrew
Tate, who's a misogynistic views went viral last year, months before his arrest
in Romania as part of a human trafficking and rape investigation. He's actually out
now, apparently, although the video is not dated. Media Matters noted that
Carlson's interview with Tate aired in August of twenty twenty two. So Carlson said
on the call, actually is this Uh, I might be able to actually
play the because I read the transcript of it. It doesn't that doesn't appear
to be any profanity in it. You can play the actual clip here,
let's see. I don't want to be a slave to Fox Nation, which
I don't think that if people watch anyway, Um, we're gonna because I
you know, I'm like a representative of the American media now speaking to an
exile in Romania and welcome him back into the brotherhood of journalists. It would
help us out if he wore a sweat though, because we asked him not
to wear a suit like he was kind of look about him, said,
you don't have to talk casual. So in the video he's visibly frustrated about
being asked to wear a sweater. Because for this edition of Tucker Carlson Today,
he is in the video, he is actually wearing a suit and he's
being asked to wear a sweater because apparently Andrew Tate is going to be dressed
casually. And Tucker seems to be a bit flabbergasted by this. I know
this is very inside. Some of you are probably thinking, Matt, why
do you care about this? How does this relate to the large your story
about Tuger Carlson. I just love insider stuff. I'm fascinated by it.
I love the h I love getting a peek behind the scenes. But this,
it does appear to if I'm reading this Hill article correctly, it does
appear that there's a possibility that this played a role in why he was fired.
It made conversation. It doesn't sound like he was on board with slave
to Fox Nation. Yeah your boss wants to hear yes, yes, all
right, here's more is that? Okay? I mean this is airing on
the nighttime show, and I wanted to look official. I don't want it
to be like bro Talk and I and I, you know what I mean,
give it a majority of it, Like if we go like Nation,
but nobody's gonna watch it on Fox Nation. Nobody watches Fox Nation because the
site sucks. So I'd really like to just put the dump the whole thing
on YouTube. But anyway, that's just my view. Nobody watches Fox Nation
because the site sucks. Yeah, yeah, so he didn't. Now I
wonder and there's more to this, But I'm just curious. Now. I've
never been to the Fox Nation website because why would I, But I am
curious to just look at the site. Now. I would probably have to
create an account to get to really explore the site. But I am a
bit of a website geek, so I do like looking at websites and determining
whether or not I personally approve of the design and layout. And you can
get a free trial and see it, but you can't go past the main
page without signing in. Yeah, I mean the main page looks nice for
monthly or sixty five a year you get the deal. I mean it looks
to it looks like regular, it looks nice. It looks like a nice
website. From the home page. I'm not going to create an account.
Yeah, but I mean no, thank you. Sharon Osbourne has a show
on there now, Roseanne Bar. Of course, Tucker had something to say
about that too. Oh god, I've seen clips of yeah, Roseanne.
She has a special on there called Cancel This. It's awful. Yeah,
the clips. I saw some clips. It's like, oh my god,
where are the jokes. It's just her like yelling. She sounds like she's
drunk and she's just at a bar, just blurting out. Do you believe
this? Yeah? It's really bad. What do you shut me down?
Ra? Ra? That's all she's doing is ra. Yeah, it's really
bad. It's not like a stand up comedy performance that I would expect.
You know what, you're telling the story right, and you got a joker
too it, you know. Yeah, it's horrible. It's just literally her
standing there going yeah, look what they do to me? Yeah, give
me back my show man. All right, here's here's more. So we've
established at this point Tucker Carlson not a fan of the Fox Nation streaming service.
Let's hear what else you have to say. Uh, I'm just frustrated
with it's hard to use that site. I don't know why they're not fixing
it. It's driving me insane. And they're like making like lifetime movies,
but they don't they don't work on the infrastructure of the site, like what.
It's crazy and it drives me crazy because it's like we're doing all this
extra work and no one can find it. It's unbelievable. Actually, I
don't know who runs that site. Trunk on the show tomorrow and I best
the plan and then what he's going to do is drive a lot of people
to watch this on Fox Nations to be a great help to what we're doing
over today. I know. But see, I think so the guy he's
talking to is missing the point though, right because the guy he's talking to,
whoever that is some producer or somebody, is some executive he's telling him.
I mean, it makes sense. The business strategy is sound, you
know, Well, we'll put a we'll put a little bit of this on
your show on Fox and that will drive and then tell people they have to
go to Fox Nation to get the full thing that that's all very sound,
but what he is saying the site is terrible. Nobody can find anything there.
So but the guy's missing the point because Soccer even said earlier, I
just dump it all on you, just dump it on YouTube. Uh you
know. But all right, there's a little bit more here. We're doing
hard part. We're like working like animals to produce all this content, and
the people in charge of it, whoever that guy's whatever his name is,
like they're ignoring the fact that the site doesn't work, and it's I think
it's like a betrayal of our efforts. That's how I feel. So I
of course I resent it. Yes, well, I don't. You know,
I don't blame him if the site is not good, I don't.
I don't blame him. I think there's better ways of dealing with it than
arguing with the person that's producing the show and saying this is what they're wanting
from you. Right. But I'm American media. I'm too big for you.
I swear that's where he's coming from. He's like, yeah, you
have to go my way. I'm too big. Well, in fairness,
I mean, I don't like the guy, but in fairness, he did
kind of earn that. I mean, he was the number one guy in
all of cable news. Just awful. I mean if I was my least
favorite of them all, I mean, if I were the number one guy
in all of cable news, slimy, can you imagine how I'd be.
I'd be like, you better do what I say, or I'm gonna get
crump. That's how I would be. Really, that's a call back to
the first hour of the show for anyone who missed it. I thought you
would be more like Howard, I'll show you beat everybody. Yeah, yeah,
well that's but that. But the thing is, Tucker already did go
out and beat everybody. Not anymore. He's got nowhere to view himself from.
But I'm sure he'll he'll He's gonna pop up somewhere, my pillow guy.
I'm sure we'll offer him space. And then, of course Alex Jones
is absolutely going to offer him a space. I'm sure. Yeah. They
like him, well, they can't, they can't afford him up. They'll
end up on rumble. He'll get one of those Stephen Crowder deals. And
Tucker doesn't need the money anyway, even even outside of his career. He's
filthy rich and he spends on how he's spending his money. He's no,
but I mean he's he's he was already wealthy because this is it Swanson Swanson
Dinners the He's like the air of whoever created that. Yeah, yeah,
he's got He's already got tons of he already has an enormous fortune. Isaac
Banks in the chat room says arned. Isaac Banks says, hello, hashtag
Jay Burkholder, you are the lead singer of the singing group of Nights Skylard.
You been replaced by Jeff Beagari from Wissitt, North Carolina. Hashtag Matt
my friend Jay Burkeholder from North Carolina. He is now in the singing group
of at Nights Skylard. I can't keep up with all of these changes.
I just want to know. Here's what I want to do. I want
to get all these Greensboro, North Carolina people. I want to get them
on this show. I want to interview them about all these different groups and
the different people moving between these different groups. And Texas Mike is now managing
and producing new affirm of the Spark, and you got the one guy having
a seizure at the Baptist Church, and I want to know more. Greensboro,
North Carolina seems like a fascinating place. I want to know more about
it, so says here. Fox Nation produces a variety of shows with talent
including Fox News stars as well as Nancy Grace, Kelsey grammer Roseanne Barr,
and actor Kevin Costner. When Carlson signed a new contract with Fox in twenty
twenty one, he expanded his presidence on Fox Nation with documentaries and a flagship
show, Tucker Carlson Today, airing three times per week. That is until
he was ousted from the network last week. So there you go a little
more a little or Tucker Carlson for you. There's a comedian called JP Sears.
He heard of this guy. I think he's like turned into like a
major, like right wing kind of dude. He went on to talk about
Carlson's firing. He's a freedom fighter who exposed the truth. And then that's
why Fox News feels threatened by him, because they're buying into the globalist agenda.
Oh yeah, and he said that, uh, Tucker has hosted notorious
anti vaxers. Wait, I went no, wait, that's the other person
saying that read it backwards. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So there's a
there's conjecture out there now, people referring to him in a saintly fashion.
Quite literally, he's their lead freedom fighter. He's one that's out there trying
to prevent the Illuminati and the New World Order from taking your children and making
them. Hear a drag performance of of of Jack and Jill went up the
Hill. Yeah, yeah, man, he's the freedom Come on, freedom
fight up. There won't be any purgatory for him when he dies. He's
going straight up. Oh yeah, he's a saint. Um, he's a
saint, don't you know. Isaac Banks in the chat room says hashtag Matt
and hashtag Jen. My friend Jeff Pagary is in the Man band singing groups.
Is Yardbird Blue Sky aboard seven and Ardell minus five plus Acock Jupiter.
Okay, no math, no math. I draw the line at math.
I think I think these are part of the I think they're part of the
names. Ardell minus five and plus Acock Jupiter is at side of already take
it well, it's Yardbird Blue Sky, yeah, which is a nice name.
And I have to say this, Jeff bagary guy. He sounds pretty
busy. I mean, he sounds like he might be in more bands than
I used to be in. Oh wow, that's pretty amazing. That's a
lot. Uh six three two five H six O seven is the studio line
if you'd like to get in six O three two five O six Z seven.
Um, there was. Yes, you had mentioned this earlier and this
is also on media. I Trump to return to CNN for first time in
seven years for a town hall hosted by Caitlin Collins. Why CNN and not
Fox? Is he mad at Fox about something? And you notice where it
is, don't you? Right here at Saint Anselm College. Oh way,
I don't want to vacuum, must allow my traffic. Wasn't he just here?
Yeah? He went to the Red Arrow for a cost problem. Down
there. There was some crazy woman that follows him around the country. I
guess that showed up here. Yeah, she's she's um, very be jeweled
jel. Yes, apparently she approached him at the I think she drove up
from Texas. She follows him everywhere apparently, Yeah, yes, yes she
Uh. I think she was in prison for a bit because she participated in
January sixth. Yes and yes, and she said that what does she say
that Democrats should be executed or something. Yeah, anyway, Trump was perfectly
happy to embrace her. You know that's uh, that's great. Um,
but yes, this is from media i'd CNN announced that Caitlin Collins will moderate
a town hall with former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire next week. The
network made the announcement Monday that Collins, co host of CNN This Morning,
will moderate the May ten event at Saint Anselm College in Gothstown. I assume
it'll be at the Center for Politics, which is a wonderful place. What
day of the week is that. That's where I met Vermin Supreme. Um,
I don't know when is May ten, have to figure that out,
CNN said. Quote. The former president will take questions from New Hampshire Republicans
and undeclared voters who planned to vote in the twenty twenty four GOP presidential primary.
Here's the full statement. UNA as a long standing tradition of hosting leading
presidential candidates for town halls and political events as a critical component of the network's
robust campaign coverage, this event with former President Trump will be the first of
many for CNN in the coming months, as CNN correspondents travel across the country
to hear directly from voters in the run up to the twenty twenty four presidential
election, It says here. Media Eye goes on to say the major interview
marks Trump's first appearance on CNN in some time. As president, Trump turned
performative hatred of CNN into a sport, and his supporters followed. One even
sent pipe bombs to the headquarters of the news network Trump labeled fake news and
the enemy of the people. Collins served as White House reporter for CNN during
Trump's presidency. In twenty twenty one, she was promoted to Chief White House
Correspondent, taking over for Jim Acosta, who was known for her tough questioning
of subjects. Last year, she was tapped by CNN CEO Chris Licht,
who host the Morning Show. Yes, she was there when Don Lemon made
his comments about Nikki Haley. She had to sit there uncomfortably for that.
Yeah, he was man's planning womanhood to him. Yes, yes, you
know what I'm wondering. I have a question though. I remember when I
was young, the TV stations that they gave a time to one candidate for
president, they had to give the same kind of time for the next candidate
for president. Is CNN beholden to that type of rule. No, you're
talking about about the equal time doctrine, which is long gone. That one
away in the eighties, did it Okay? Yeah, I remember it from
my youth. That's why it's stuck in my head. Yeah, that went
a weigh under Reagan. That is what some people blame or credit, depending
on your point of view, the rise of conservative talk radio because you know,
like we were talking on the show recently about AM radio and how these
electric vehicles. You know, people like like Sean Hannity and Mark Levin,
they did a segment where they were outraged that these auto manufacturers making electric vehicles,
they're going to be leaving out or they may be leaving out AM radio
in their cars. And you know, when I was a kid, I
remember there was a lot of talk about AM radio was going to be on
its way out anyway, because people didn't like the the quality of it.
Why do you need AM when you have FM it's so much better, And
you know AM has that weird whistle sometimes and all of that, and but
people say that, you know, conservative radio was able to find a home
on AM radio, and not only did that save AM radio, but had
the equal time doctrine not been done away with, then you wouldn't have had
the rise of conservative talk on AM radio. I agree with it going away,
especially because I don't see how you could practically, especially now today with
the internet. You know, how would you possibly enforce something like that.
Scott Robinson says in the chat it was called the fairness doctrine. Oh yes,
and Rupert Murdoch paid a lot of money to have to have that wife
to clean while Reagan was president. I'm not sure about that. I think
I think Scott uses his voice attacks sometimes. I'm not sure what that means
either, But um, but but yeah, I don't see how you would
ever have something like that, just in a practical standpoint anyway, in today's
media world. Act as the question on why, I guess CNN decided to
let him back. It wasn't a requirement. It wasn't because there was a
lot Oh yes, because it was a decision that they chose to allow him
back on. I wonder how limited that's going to be. Oh, Scott
says, it was yes, he said, definitely voiced attacks. He meant
wiped clean. Note not wife to clean. Wife to clean is yeah,
yeah, that sounded wrong, clean wrong. He paid a lot of money
to have to have the Fairness doctrine wiped clean while Reagan was president. Yes,
Carls has definitely said some wonderful things about women. He's a misogyny piece
of you know, a Tucker Carlson. Yes, him too. He once
reported he once referred to his about women as his post menopausal fans. Whether
his postmenopausal fans would think he was sexy, I like that post menopozzle fans.
Oh, would like how he looks on his primetime show. While in
a second he refers to a woman as yummy, because that's how we love
to be affirmed too, referred to as a yummy. All. I love
it when a guy I don't know from Adam calls me honey or houn or
babe. Sure you know, sorry, I went down a rabbit hole.
Well, the postmenopausal thing might have been a reference to the uh apparently,
I believe the median age. Well probably not the median age, but I
think the video, I think I think for Fox News there there their key
demo is seventy years old. It was it was I don't say that comment
that he made, and it's not okay to say that personally. Yeah,
wanted to know if his post menopausal fans would like his new luck, right,
I don't like your old book or you're a new book. Well,
remember his old look. He used to wear a bow tie. Whatever happened
to the bow tie? He went to a Trump thie? Is that what
it was? No, he got rid of the bow tie. He got
rid of the bow tie before Trump. But I don't I don't know why.
But I remember, like years ago when he was on CNN, when
he when he when he was on Crossfire, he always wear a bow tie.
That was like his thing. I guess at a certain point, I
wonder if he's ever explained that I've always been curious about that. Is he
married? I think so that must be an interesting woman. I believe so.
Yes, Um, before we run out of time, one more thing
here de Santis. This is from CNBC de Santis Disney overside board votes to
sue company over tax district fight. Ron de Santis, who is a presumed
presidential candidate. He should be making an announced probably in June. That's the
most recent thing that I've heard. Uh. He continues to have this very
public fight with Disney and absolutely trashing like one of the biggest employers in his
state, the biggest, it is the biggest. Disney is the largest in
the state in the state of Florida. I have a theory, by the
way, that if he had this to do over again, but he would
not have done this. I think he would have you know, after they
after they you know, uh, after Disney publicly commented on the what is
often referred to as they don't say gay Bill. I think De Santis probably
wishes he had just either respectfully disagreed with Disney or just not said anything,
instead of turning this into a fight that that that I see. I don't
see any positive in any of this. Veronda Santis No, and he's not
going to bring any more money into his state. He's going to cost them
more money if everything they're having to take over that Disney was taking care of.
But now that he's in it, it's like he can't back down.
All he do is keep pushing forward and try to defeat Disney, a company
that a lot of Republicans have affinity for not just Democrats. So I don't
know how he thinks Disney's got quite the history. Well, I don't know
how he thinks this is going to help him in his bid for the presidency.
So he had well the Disney World taking care of roads. Was it
like seven miles of road? Yeah, it was like their own their own
little government. Now that's on that. Now that's on the state. He
had them taken care of policing, fire and ems. Now that's off of
the state. Like he just pulled in. There's no way that the state
comes out better than it went in. And are in this fight no at
all. No, it's only it's it's gonna hurt citizens of Florida and admitiently
not going to help him, and it makes him look anti business. How
does that help him win a Republican nomination looking like he's anti business? Quit
picking a fight with a mouse and concentrate on what's really going on, you
know, like people walking around looking like zombies in Florida because they're there's there's
rampant drug abuse going on, the homeless everywhere. You know, you got
this beautiful state and a lot of homeless people going without food, going without
shelter. I could think of so many wonderful things he could be concentrating on
other than arguing with the mouse. But hey, yeah, it's very strange.
So some key points from this. The board of supervisors picked by Florida
Governor Ron De Santists who oversee Walt Disney World's operations, voted to sue Disney.
The vote came after Disney sued to Santis and the board of members,
alleging a campaign of political retaliation by the governor over the company's criticism of a
controversial bill. Yep, that's exactly where it all started. De Santis is
considered a leading potential Republican candidate for the twenty twenty four presidential race. And
this is the hill he's gonna die on. Yeah, oh yeah, he
says here. The board of supervisors picked by Florida Governor Rohnd De santiss oversee
Disney's operations, voted to sue Disney in response to the company's recent federal lawsuit
alleging a campaign of political retaliation. The panel, which challenged the company's longstanding
self governing status when it replaced a Disney backed board weeks earlier, unanimously voted
to authorize a lawsuit in state court. Quote, this district will seek justice
in state court here in central Florida, where both it and Disney reside and
do business. Unquote, board chair Martin Garcia said at a Monday morning meeting
where the legal fight was the sole topic of business. Quote, Yes,
we'll see justice in our own backyarde Disney sued De Santis and the oversight panel
last Wednesday and US District Court in Tallahassee. The company asked to effectively restore
its control over the special tax district and is allowed it to self govern its
Orlando area parks operations since the nineteen sixties. The litigation escalated a fight that
between more than a year earlier. That began more than a year earlier when
the entertainment giant criticized the Florida bill limiting talk of sexual orientation and gender identity
in classrooms. The bill, dubbed Don't Say Gay by its opponents, was
passed by the state's GOP held legislature and signed by to Santis in March twenty
twenty two. Within weeks, the governor and his allies started targeting Disney's Special
Governance District, which at the time was called the Red Creek Improvement District.
Disney filed its lawsuit on the same day that the Governor's board members voted to
undo a development deal that the company struck right before the Santis Choices took over,
essentially throttling the new board's power. Garcia said of Disney's lawsuit during Monday's
meeting. Quote, In essence, Disney is asking a federal court in Tallahassee
to wrestle back the hands of time to nineteen sixty seven. For us to
be stuck in an urban planning design of nineteen sixty seven. Does that make
sense to anybody? Quote, Garcia said, arguing that the board is just
trying to modernize the district. The Disney spokesman declined to comment on the board's
vote, but disney civil complaint alleged that the state's actions amount to quote a
clear as clear a case of retaliation as this court is ever likely to see.
Unquote. The company noted the state's issues with the district only began after
the fight over the classroom bill. Oh, of course that's not a coincidence,
Disney's lawsuits said, quote. There is no room for disagreement about what
happened here, Disney expressed its opinion on state legislation and was then punished by
the state for doing so. Unquote. Disney filed the complaint while DeSantis was
overseas on a political trip that appeared to be laying more groundwork for a possible
run for the twenty twenty four Republican nomination. De Santis, who is expected
to announce his plans after the Florida state legislature ends in early May, is
considered a top contender against former President Donald Trump, but the extended row against
Disney, one of Florida's top employers, has recently begun to generate criticism from
some of DeSantis's fellow Republicans. So there you go, yeah, Chris Christy
said, uh yeah, I don't think. I don't think DeSantis is a
conservatives. He's anti business. So there you go. Like I said,
I don't see how this helps him. It doesn't. This is this is
doing no good, no good. And you know what the other side of
this too is he's spending all his time with this fight with Disney. How
much is he really doing for kimpaigning to be president of the United States?
You know, this is central news on him. If you look him up,
that's everything that pops up. Punch his name and it all comes up
Disney, Disney, Disney, Disney. I I don't see how that helps
in any way, shape or form to get him elected to president. Right
when the should I say, when the nomination? Yeah, now it does.
Well, I still think Trump is going to be the nominee anyway.
But yeah, Scott Robinson and Chaton says, when I look at De Santis,
all I see is a pompous ass, I can't stand that guy.
And no, right, yeah, I'm right there with you, right there
with you. Well, we are about out of time, so we'll begin
to wrap up. Jenny, did you want to uh plug your website?
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around eighty ish. All very good, Yeah, very good, Yeah,
all right, it's all good. And tomorrow on the show, in the
second hour, we'll have Abner two here that will be our musical guest.
Looking forward to that, and of course if you miss any part of today's
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leave you today with a little bit of Day to Attend track called Hope my
Way. I saw this pop up, I said, yeah, that's that's
good. We haven't we haven't played any Day to Attend in a while.
And don't forget, of course, to be back bright and early seven am
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us for now. We will talk at you all a little bit later.
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