Wellcome everybody, here we go. It's that time again. Matt Connerton unleashed
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archives, etcetera, etcetera. Today is Thursday, August thirty one, two
thousand twenty three, so nice to have you all with me. By the
way, that track we just heard that is the band ever Felt. That's
called Gave It Away. We opened the show with something from Norissett, who
joined me from the UK earlier in the week skyping in. But I also
wanted to play a track from ever Felt. We were supposed to have them
on recently that to reschedule, but they're gonna be joining us today. They're
gonna be skyping in, so really looking forward to speaking with them. And
I really love their sound. They've got a big rock sound that I think
is really cool. So we'll play another song of theirs this week, get
close to the top of the hour, and then then they'll be joining us
via skype at the top of the hour. So looking forward to that quite
a bit. So the band is ever Felt and Uh and they are our
musical guest today. In the meantime, the studio line is open for you
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hello everybody in the Facebook live chat before we get into some stuff. Isaac
Banks joins us I believe if I remember correctly, Isaac is from Greensboro,
North Carolina. Isaac Banks says hello, hashtag Matt good afternoon, Good afternoon,
hashtag Jen Coffee. J Fett, of course, from the great state
of Vermont joins this on says good afternoon everyone, Let's see. Isaac Banks
says good afternoon, hashtag Luchera Huntley. How are you doing? I am
watching live Facebook of Matt Connerton Unleashed Show on ninety five point five w mh
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not ninety five point five wmh N. That is incorrect, sir, it
is ninety five point three wm n H. But you're close. You are
close. I'll give you you get an A for effort. Isaac Banks also
says hashtag Luchera Huntley his show of Matt Connerton Unleashed Show is awesome. Well,
thank you. I appreciate that. Jenny, of course is in the
chatroom and says shalom peeps. Also, Mike from Queen's City Cabinetry joins us.
Queen City Cabinetry, of course, one of our great sponsors here at
WMH ninety five point three, and I get to hang out with Mike every
Friday night. Oh, Tomorrow's Friday, my favorite day of the week.
Here at WMNH for Retro Spectrum Radio with Pauly c As. Mike is one
of our co hosts on that show. Melanie Liberty is in the Facebook live
chat and says, hey, guys. Rona Ferverro from the Great State of
California says Callie in the house. Carol Zawarowitz joins us in the chat.
Hello, Carol, eazyg Eric Gagnan says, hi, big fan. Isaac
Banks says ever Felt is playing awesome hashtag Matt Connerton. Also a pop singing
group of a man band quartet is Eon Venom four. They will be watching
you now. Oh that's wonderful. I've always hoped that Eon Venom four would
be enjoying my program. They're pretty famous. Isaac Banks says, Yes,
you got it. Hashtag Matt Connerton. I'm from Greensboro, North Carolina.
How did I know? Isaac Banks says as Potsy, you know from happy
Days? Hashtag Mike Pellapeita thanks for the emoji thumbs up. Yes, as
Potsy, He said that Mike not as the funds sometimes Isaac Banks or some
others associated with him in the chat room, they'll say it'll say in parentheses
as the fauns whoa, but no he went for the potsy Potsy Weber from
Happy Days. Eric Street joins us in the Facebook Latchett and says, who
thinks of today as the last day of summer? Last day of August?
Yeah? I do hate, I hate, Yeah, I hate this day
actually, to be honest with you, the last day of August, because
yes, I do think of it as the last day of summer. Summer
is my favorite time of year. I love summer and I always hate to
see it go away. But yes, and while on the calendar the last
day of summer isn't until what is at September twentieth twenty first around there it
is meteorological summer, is they do it? I learned this from Al Caprillion,
actually, the great weather man from New Hampshire. If you're not a
if you're not from New Hampshire, if you're listening online from somewhere else,
you won't know the reference. Probably probably you won't. But Al Caprilli in
a very famous weatherman from New Hampshire. High pressure. I can't do an
impression of him. That's the best I can do. But you know,
if you're having trouble quite placing where you know the name from. He's the
high pressure guy, but he u. I heard him explain once that meteorological
summer is June, July, August, and meteor out meteorological fall, of
course, is September, October November, and so you get the idea.
But it's so it's it's simpler that way, but it does make me sad.
I always hate to see summer go away. Funny how the night moves
autumn closing in. Melanie says, yes, it's the last day of the
summer season. Oh, Isaac Banks says, I do impressions of podsy and
fawns. Oh, let's see your fawns impression. That would be amazing.
Ja Fed says, Oh my goodness, I don't think this is the real
Isaac Banks. He was hacked. Oh no, is that true? And
easyg says celebration. Why are you celebrating Isaac Banks, says Jason Feederson.
It is me Isaac Banks. I did not get act. Well, that's
a relief. Six zero three two five six z seven. The studio line
is open. Six zero three two five, six zero seven, and if
you're just joining us, of course we do have ever felt coming up at
the top of the hour, very cool band. I'm looking forward to speaking
with a couple of a couple of housekeeping things, and by that I just
mean things that we discussed earlier in the week that I want to go back
to briefly just kind of revisit. Actually a few things. One of them
is I did share out yesterday on social media the episode of the Michael Smerconish
radio show where Mark Halperin was talking about sources that he had that they are
telling him that Biden is reconsidering running for a second term. And so we
discussed that quite a bit. Was it yesterday or the day before? I
lose track? It's all a blur, there's so much. There's always so
much in the news. But so we talked about that at length, and
oh, yeah, it must have been yesterday, because I shared out the
link to the show yesterday and John Hopwood called in about it, and my
dad texted me he said, don't trust Mark Halpern but I realized, so
I shared it out and it's at the twelve minute mark in the show on
that day's show. Yesterday's show of Michael Smerconish, where Mark Halpern begins talking
about how, yeah, sources who say that Biden is considering not running,
I went back and I just as I was finding where it was in the
show, I re listened to it. When I initially heard halper And talking
about this on Smerconish's show, I was in the car, So it's not
like I, you know, when I was describing what I heard on the
radio and how I thought it was pretty significant. I was doing that all
from memory. But in actually going back and listening to it yesterday after the
show, as I was sharing it out, I realized that I undersold it
because halper And doesn't just say that sources are telling him high level sources close
to Biden are telling him that Biden is reconsidering and may not run after all.
Halper And what he actually said was the decision has already been made.
He told Michael Smerconish that actually Biden had decided that he's definitely not running and
now is trying to figure out what's the best way to proceed in terms of
making an announcement and when to do it. And on the one hand,
he doesn't want to look like he doesn't want it to be a sort of
a coronation as of Kamala Harris. She'll be the nominee now, you know,
don't want that because you have to have a process where people vote,
you have to have primaries in theory. But he also doesn't want done to
her what was done to him, because he actually had some resentment toward Obama
for telling him, Joe and you know for twenty sixteen, don't run.
It's Hillary Stern, even though you're the sitting vice president. There was a
lot there, a lot to it. I don't want to rehash the whole
thing, but I did undersell it. And I realized that afterward that when
I went back and listen, Halperin didn't say Biden was considering not running.
Halperin actually said that sources are telling and Biden is not running, and that
now it's a matter of figuring out next steps and how to present it and
how to manage this process. Because if that is true, if what Halperin
is saying is true, it's going to be fascinating to see how this plays
out. Now. It's going to be very very interesting. So I wanted
to mention that another thing we discussed at the beginning of the week that I
wanted to go back to. And we actually did two segments on this both
Monday and Tuesday, because we talked about it on Monday and then I had
some additional thoughts upon reflecting on it on Tuesday. But Jenny and I had
a conversation on Monday's show and I put the clip up on YouTube of that
specific segment. We were discussing the song and the backlash and all the controversy
around Oliver Anthony and his song rich Men North of Richmond, and I did
post a link up on YouTube. It Scott got over six hundred views.
People are really interested in what we had to say about it. Oh and
even more comments than the last I looked. Let me refresh this, but
I wanted to look at some of the comments because you know, we'll usually
get some comments, but people really had a lot to say about our conversation
on the show on Monday. We talked about the song itself. We played
the song and kind of analyze some of the lyrics and give our thoughts on
it, and also talked about some of the backlash now that Oliver Anthony is
receiving from some conservatives because they thought they thought he was one of them,
and now they're mad, and it's a whole. It's a whole to do.
Let's see. I want to make sure I can see all of these,
but I just thought it would be interesting to just kind of just kind
of go over these some of these comments. Wait, does that everything?
It says? Eight comments? Oh, it's weird. It's like it's hiding.
It's hiding something from me. So we'll just look at these quickly.
Metal Head twenty three twenty said, y'all don't get it. It's not shaming
fat people or people on welfare. It's shaming people using welfare funds for non
essentials. I work at a filling station and you wouldn't believe how many people
come in trying to buy snacks, energy, drinks, and overall junk food
with funds meant for life sustaining necessities. They're taking our tax money hours,
we work ourselves to death to earn it, and they give it to people
who don't need it, while there are thousands of people who really need it
and will never see a dime of it. We're fed up with it.
Part of why I want to go through these is the comments refle Like I
was saying on Tuesday, how you know, the song is art and you
can take these lyrics and interpret them however you want to, because that's how
art works. There is no right or wrong answer necessarily. I mean,
you can go to the source and ask Oliver Anthony what he meant, and
he's kind of explained it. But but again, ultimately it's up to you
as the listener. Okay. The next comment, Doug Anderson eight two one
nine said feminist did you hear the part putting men six feet under pain for
the five foot three glutton? You two live in an ivory tower, so
apparently this person is very upset with us. Jenny and I feels we live
in an ivory tower. I wouldn't want to live in an ivory tower,
you know, I mean unless it had, like I just imagine a lot
of stairs. Maybe if it had an elevator. But would the elevator itself
also be ivory? Or is it? I don't know, I've never been
to an ivory tower. How does that work exactly? Is it just the
exterior that's ivory? Is it ivory that's been hollowed out? I hope it's
not made from elephant tusks. That would be horrifying poor elephants. I shan't
live in an ivory tower unless it's rent controlled. Maybe. Let's see Marcy
pre Wit one eight three six says he is not welfare shaming. Karma two
point zero three four says the truth is uncomfortable. Deal with it, guess
because we call out many of the week whom are lazy, we're bad.
It's not fat shaming. Get over your feelings, dealing with it. That's
what's wrong with our country. Waste of time here. In no way was
this racial host like y'all are racist. I understood most of that by the
way waste is spelled here, w ai st. I didn't realize that there
was anything in our commentary and our analysis of the song that might cause someone
to think that we're racist. I don't quite understand that. Let's see John
Galt six five three three says fat shaming. Listen again, he's saying the
welfare is paying to kill people and they don't care. You are looking at
it the wrong way. You must live in a poor area. I'm sorry.
You must not live in a poor well. No, of course,
we've established we live in an ivory tower. You must not live in a
poorer area and watch someone buy a pile of junk food with benefit cards.
He's not fat shaming. He cares about the people who are obese and unhealthy.
It's about helping people and not slowly killing them. Listen to it again,
stop trying to make it political. And josh Wagner seven two four three
answered replied to that comment with amen, and Joshua Ledford x seven PC also
replied to that comment and said, oh yeah, brother, call it with
seven x lamation points. So there you go. There you go. But
we were just trying to have an open dialogue, an open and free dialogue
about it. That's what we do on the show. But it's interesting how
passionately people respond and react to that. So there you go. But it's
up on YouTube. If you just just do a search to sipend Matt Connerton
unleashed Oliver Anthony, it'll come right up. I hope that you give it
a listen. I haven't posted yet the follow up thoughts that tie that I
had on Tuesday. I haven't posted that clip yet on the YouTube, but
I suppose I will because it seems to be a subject that people are very
interested in. And yes, I have been learning about how the YouTube algorithm
works and how to use it to my benefit. Easy oh, easy G
in the chat room says summer is over. When Peter White's birthday on September
eighteen, l O L And sure enough Peter White is in the Facebook live
chat and Peter White says, shalom peeps. Peter White, of course,
host of the Morning Show with Peter White here at w m H, which
you can hear week days from seven to nine am, with a replay from
two to four pm. Right before this program. Let's see, so I
wanted to mention that the Oliver Anthony thing and one other thing that I wanted
to kind of put a bow on that we talked about very briefly this week.
That and then we'll get into and then we'll get into something new.
But we only mentioned it briefly, and I kind of feel like we gave
it short shrift, or I gave it short shrift because we just didn't have
a lot of time that day. I don't even remember what day it was,
but Joe the Plumber died. You know, you younger folks might not
remember Joe the Plumber, but he's the gentleman who approached Barack Obama during the
two thousand and eight campaign and had a question for him regarding his taxes and
so forth, And Joe the Plumber became this icon. The McCain Palin campaign
really kind of used him as a sort of he sort of became an avatar
before that term was really used for that for this particular purpose for their campaign
in many ways, and there was a lot of talk of Joe the Plumber
even during the debates. You know, during one of the debates with McCain
and versus Obama, they both took took points in the debate saying I'm talking
directly to you, Joe Plumber when I say this, And of course Sarah
Palin was all about Joe the Plumber, which must have been you know,
during her debate with Biden, which must have been a little confusing for her
at times, mentioning Joe the Plumber because you know, she's talking about Joe
the Plumber and there's Joe Biden standing with her on stage there, so there's
two jos. That must have been confusing for her, but she got through
it anyway. Sarah Palin. My god, she was a candidate for vice
president. If you if you all forgot, Oh yeah, Sarah Palin.
She was a heartbeat away. Could have been a heartbeat away had McCain been
elected from the residency, Sarah Palin. Anyway, the thing about Joe the
Plumber, and this is what I just wanted to mention is and it's not
an original thought. I heard somebody else point this out, so I'm kind
of regurgitating what I heard someone else say. But it was just such an
interesting observation to me, is that someone and I wish I knew the name
of the journalist. It was someone being interviewed on another show, so I
don't even know who it was I was hearing. I was listening to a
political talk show in the car, and I heard, I want to say,
his name is Joe de Bonus, but I kind of a funny name.
That's definitely a joke in there, but it would get me fired,
so we won't go there. But and he said the observation that he made
was that Joe the Plumber becoming the avatar that he did at the time really
marked a turning point in our politics in America because that was the beginning of
sort of people recording moments on their phones and then putting them online somewhere and
then things going viral of that nature, because we hadn't really seen that before
that, because that was a totally spontaneous thing. Joe the Plumber and forgive
me, I forget his actual given name, but he was known colloquially as
Joe the Plumber. Him walking over to Barack Obama at this campaign event,
and the question had something to do with I'm about to be purchasing a business
and your tax plan is going to tax me x amount of money and I
don't think it's fair in this and that, and initiating that conversation with Barack
Obama. That was completely unplanned. This wasn't some sort of stage managed thing.
It wasn't anything that the campaign had planned, that the McCain campaign had
planned. You know, we're gonna send this reman over to talk to Obama
and uh, sort of I don't want to say confront because it wasn't confrontationally,
just walked over and politely asked him a question and they started a conversation.
But but it was completely spontaneous, and Joe the Plumber he just I
think the story goes he was he hadn't even planned on going to the event,
and he wasn't an Obama supporter, but it was near where he happened
to live, and he's out front playing with his kids or something, and
and he decided to walk over and ask the question, and somebody caught it
on their phone and recorded it and uploaded it somewhere, and next thing,
you know, it's sort of going viral. Before that was even a term,
I don't know if we even called I don't know if we even used
that term. Then saying something went viral, this was, you know,
two thousand and eight, so hard to believe in some ways, but yeah,
two thousand and eight. But the observation that this journalist may aid was
that moment was a turning point because we hadn't seen anything like that up to
then. Social media was still relatively new. I mean, my Space had
been around for a while at that point, but in terms of social media
being used to record a political moment and then upload it and then having people
sharing it to the extent that it winds up being reported on and featured in
mainstream media and winds up on cable news you know, sort of jumping almost
like a virus, from social media to cable news to mainstream news. That
was really the first example of something like that happening in politics. And uh,
I mean, you know, don't get me wrong. Before that,
obviously there were instances where someone's caught on camera saying something or doing something and
then it winds up on the news, and it might not necessarily be something
flattering, but this was the beginning of you know, somebody just somebody sees
something happening, they pull out their phone, they record it, they upload
it to social media, and next thing you know, everyone's seeing it and
it becomes a viral thing. Looks like Isaac Banks is still fighting with Jason
Fetterson. In the chatroom, Isaac says, no hashtag Jason, I'm innocent.
I am on this Facebook now for me rockin berries sixty five at yahoo
dot com on Facebook of this one for now rockin Berries sixty five at yahoo
dot com. That's uh, what is that your email address, Isaac Banks?
Or is this a ruse to fool us? Peter White says in the
chat room, can't wait for tomorrow. I love Fridays. I love Fridays
to Fridays are my favorite day of the week here at WMNH. Why do
you love Friday's, Peter? I love Fridays because it's my long day here
at the station. I do this show and then I'm also here for Retrospectrum
Radio with poly C, so it's a lot of fun. Oh. I
know why Peter loves Fridays because it's love Advice on the morning show, and
that is a that is a fun segment. I'm particularly taken with when Maddie
Juno, uh, the way he reads the questions, it's it's just funny.
There's something about it that's that's just funny. Although I have to admit
though, occasionally there's been a few questions that I hear during the love Advice
section where I kind of find myself blushing a little bit. I'm like,
oh, that's a that's a very personal problem this particular individual uh is having.
And and then I think, oh, I hope I remembered to uh
hide my mask my email address when I sent this in. I'm kidding about
that part, of course. Isaac Banks says, yes, this is my
Facebook email of Rockin Berries sixty five at yahoo dot com. Well, feel
free to us send Isaac Banks an email if you'd like to at rockin Berries
sixty five at yahoo dot com. And Isaac is now telling Melanie Lie Liberty,
I did not get hacked. All right, well, very good,
very good. I do want to oh hello to Chris Rose from the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, who has joined us in the Facebook lave chat. If you
would like to give us a call, the studio line is open six zo
three two five six six three two five ozho six zoh seven. And of
course if you're just joining us, we do have a great band coming up
at the top of the hour. Ever Felt is going to be skyping in
very very cool band, something that I wanted to get to this week and
we haven't gotten to it yet, but we will do this right now.
And this is something that I also heard, by the way, being discussed
on Michael Smerconish's show. People are going to start thinking I'm working for Smerconish.
I keep mentioning his show. But this actually knew about before I heard
this talked about on his show. But this is from media. Iight,
oh, Isaac Banks has ever Felt rocks? Yes, this is from media,
cable news shows and networks. Ranked for bias and accuracy. And I
did hear smirkanash talking about this. There's this whole you know what. Actually,
I'll I don't think I shared this out yet after the show, or
or at some point during the show if I can, I'll share this out
so everybody can see it. But this media company, actually they you know,
they don't rank opinion based shows obviously, but they rank the cable news
networks and individual hosts and so forth, and rank for biased and accuracy.
So bias that one's obvious, accuracy, they rank for are they reporting the
facts or are they giving you spin or leaving details out, etc. So
I thought this is pretty interesting, So we'll look at this. And this
went up a few days ago, but like I said, we're just getting
to it now. So but it is something that we talk about a lot
on the show. So it says her questions related to bias, objectivity,
and accuracy in news hangover every media outlet, journalist, and news consumer.
While nothing new to the news industry, understanding which news sources are reliable and
in which direction they lean has become an increasingly daunting task given the mass proliferation
of new outlets and the rise of info attainment. Furthermore, in a time
of bad actors, misinformation, and a political class blurring the lines between statesmen
and media figures members of Congress hosting cable news shows, for example, the
question of who to trust has never been more important than for the health of
our democracy. A Colorado startup called ad Fontes or fontests, meaning to the
sources in Latin. Oh, if it's in Latin, so that would mean
if it was more than one fontest, it would be fontie. All right,
Paul, that was a horrendous joke. I feel guilty and ashamed that
I went for it. Here, which recently raised four point two million dollars
in a first round of financing, believes it can help answer the question with
its media bias chart, which released a major data update earlier in the month.
Now, by the way, obviously this is radio. I cannot show
you the chart, but you can prose the chart online, of course,
but we'll go over some of the conclusions in this article. The chart rates
publications on two separate criteria, reliability and bias. On one axis. Reliability
is charted from zero to sixty four, with anything over forty coming in as
very reliable. So it's better to be higher. It's not like golf where
you want to have a low score. You want to have a highest score.
Publications that land somewhere between forty and thirty are still quite reliable, but
include much more analysis or opinion. Anything below twenty four is characterized as selective
or incomplete, story, unfair, persuasion, and propaganda the other access points,
the other access plots. Rather, how far away from zero publications veer,
with zero being purely balanced coverage coverage and negative forty two being most extreme
left and forty two positive forty two being most extreme right. Okay, so
let's get let's get into the important part here. When looking at the top
five cable news networks, Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, Newsmax, and
News Nation, CNN and News Nation lead the pack in reliability with a thirty
nine point three and thirty nine point two rating, respectively. Now that's interesting.
I don't know much about News Nation. I've seen a little bit of
it. We don't have cable in our household, Jenny and I we cut
the court a long time ago. We don't have actual cable. But you
know, but I've seen some News Nation online and I know that's where Chris
Cuomo does his show now and who else has a show now on NewsNation?
Is that where Dan Abrams does his show? I mean, he has a
show on satellite radio, but I think he also I think he's also on
NewsNation, isn't he? I think? Anyway? So I've seen a little
bit of News Nation, but NewsNation is relatively new. I mean, I
think it's just within the last couple of years that that went on the air.
So many of you listening probably have never even heard of News Nation.
But according to this it ties basically with CNN in terms of reliability. MSNBC
comes in third with a three point one five reliability rating, while Fox has
a twenty six rating and Newsmax is in propaganda territory with an eighteen point seven
rating. That doesn't surprise me in terms of buy now. That was reliability.
Again, remember we have reliability and bias. Reliability being is what they
report, factual bias being you know, is it tilted left or right in
terms of spin and so forth. Okay, so in terms of bias,
News Nation lands in the middle with a two skewing it ever so slightly right.
Okay, that actually doesn't surprise me, Isaac Banks, says Matt Connerton,
I will call in your show. Oh my, well, you're welcome
to six OZ three two five zero six zero seven. So newstation comes in
into two so just ever so slightly right. CNN is next with a negative
ten, putting it in the skews left territory. That doesn't surprise me.
Well, MSNBC has strong left rating of six negative sixteen point eight. That
doesn't surprise me at all. And Fox News charts at strong right with a
seventeen point eight three, while Newsmax is in hyperpartisan right territory with a twenty
one point thirty three. That doesn't None of that surprises me. And I've
always said, you know, very often when I talk about cable news and
I'm talking about left and right, you know, I'll often give the examples
of you know, you've got MSNBC on the left, you've got Fox on
the right. So none of that surprises me, it says here. Notably,
Fox News and MSNBC have a wide range of reliability on the chart,
while CNN's programming remains between the thirty five to forty five area. So in
terms of reliability, I guess in terms of accuracy reporting facts. Both Fox
News and MSNBC do very well, So that's interesting. Ad Fontis founder Vanessa
o'tero explained her methodology in a recent op ed, writing quote, all our
articles and episodes have been rated by Okay, I don't want to get into
that. That's gonna take us too far into the weeds. We don't need
to know the process. You can look at the article on your own if
you want to know the process. But I don't want to run out of
time on this, Okay. So next thing, cable news shows. So
now we're talking about individual shows on these cable news networks. It says here
looking at different hours of cable news television shows the disparities within cable news networks
when it comes to reliability. The morning shows, for example, chart as
more reliable than the networks as a whole, while primetime comes in as less.
So foxes Fox and Friends chart at thirty point seven for reliability, higher
than Fox's overall twenty six. That surprises me a little bit. Oh,
but this part does not. Fox and Friends rates in hyperpartisan right territory for
bias, however, with a twenty one further right than the network overall.
Okay, that part does not surprise me. MSNBC's Morning Joe is the most
reliable of the top cable top three cable news morning news programs, with a
ray of thirty seven point eight. CNN This Morning is close behind with a
thirty six point eight reliability rating. Both land in strong left territory in terms
of bias. All right, so now we go to primetime At nine pm,
Fox's Hannity scored a reliability rating of only nineteen point eight, putting it
in propaganda territory. Rachel Mattow, who only hosts on Mondays, scored a
reliability rating of thirty six point seven, while Alex Wagner, who hosts the
rest of the week, charted a thirty one point two five. Matto landed
as more partisan than Wagner with a negative seventeen point seven and negative wait oh
okay, I'm sorry yeah. Mattow had a negative seventeen point seven and Wagner
a negative fifteen point seventy five. Hannity was further from the center with a
twenty four point six rating. CNN's nine PM programming, which only recently got
a permanent host and Caitlin Collins, was not charted. I guess it's because
it's two new Oh POLYC just joined us in the Facebook live chat and says
hello, big fan. Poll C, of course, host of retro Spectrum
Radio with Paul c Friday nights here on WMNH, says here at at five
pm, cable news is top rated show. The Five, charted at a
twenty five point twenty four for reliability and a strong right eighteen score for bias.
So strong right again, that doesn't surprise me if you've never seen The
Five. It's four conservatives and one liberal, so it's you know, of
course it tilts strong right. MSNBC's show Deadline White House was more skewed with
a negative nineteen, but more reliable at thirty three point three. CNN's The
Lead with Jake Tapper was the hour's most reliable show with a thirty six point
nine rating and charted at negative fifteen point two for bias. Overall of the
top three cable news networks, Brett Bear's Special Report landed as hmm, this
surprises me. Actually landed as the most reliable program with a forty four point
thirty three and charted as skews right with a nine CBS Evening News with Nora
O'Donnell, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, and ABC World News Tonight with
David Muir all rated just above Bear in that order as the most reliable news
broadcast in the US, And that doesn't surprise me that the network news shows,
the nightly network news shows are going to be less biased than something on
cable news. CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer wasn't far behind Bear,
with a reliable rating of forty two point zero four in a negative of eleven
point six skews left bias. Anderson Cooper landed with a thirty eight point ten
reliability rating and negative thirteen for bias. Maddow was MSNBC's most reliable show,
while Chris Hayes all in scored a wow scored a propaganda level of twenty one
point seven. Joy Reid fared a bit better with twenty three point seven reliability.
Read charted a negative twenty point seven for bias, while Hayes was at
eighteen point negative eighteen point four. Chris Cuomo, the former CNN host who
now helms the eight PM hour of News Nation, landed at negative five point
three nine for bias with a thirty point eighty eight reliability rating. Media eight
Founder and News Nations not okay, I was right. Dan Abrams is at
News Nation. Now dan Abrams lands smack dab in the middle on bias,
achieving a zero point two five with a thirty five point eighty nine reliability number.
That doesn't surprise me. Dan Abrams, I think is very balanced and
politically, I think he's probably he might be a left leaning centrist, but
I don't think he's I would not describe him as either liberal or conservative.
Certainly in this entire article, he's probably. Well, let's just say,
I'm not surprised that out of everyone in this article, he seems to be
the most reliable and the least biased. And then we're almost at the end
of this Fox's Jesse Waters Primetime, which I guess ostensibly is the replacement for
Tucker Carlson Right, charted at a low low sixteen point ninety one for reliability.
Below even Newsmax is Greg Kelly, who scored a nineteen point seven.
Laura Ingram charted a twenty five point seventy one for reliability, but was more
right word than Waters, scoring a twenty five point seven to his twenty three
point three four bias. So there you go. So basically everyone, the
conclusion that I would come to with this is, I mean, it's all
fairly predictable. But I would say the only one, the only one on
this entire list who would actually trust not to be biased in some way would
be Dan Abrams. And that's pretty much it. So there you go.
But I will share out I will share out the entire article for you if
you want to look at that, if you want to see the actual chart.
Oh and by the way, I went to that website, the ad
Fontis website, and it's interactive. You can put in a specific name and
look up their statistics if you want to do that, that's an option for
you. We've got a little bit of time left if you want to get
in with a quick call. We do have a guest coming up at the
top of the hour, and in a couple of minutes we're going to play
one of their songs the band has ever felt. There are a musical guest
today, but the studio line is open six zero three two five six seven
six zero three two five zero six zero seven. Speaking of we did mention
Fox News here is an example of perhaps some balance America the jerontocracy. Fox
News hosts tackled both McConnell's health and Joe Biden's decline. This is this is
a big topic right now, of course, because well so word circulating word
coming out of Mark Halpern on Michael Smerconish's show that Joe Biden is not running
for reelection after all. And then Mitch McConnell had another incident of freezing up,
which he's only one year older than Biden. And I finally heard somebody
else say it today, by the way, somebody on CNN said it.
I didn't catch who it was talking, but I've been saying, look,
all it's going to take for Joe Biden to lose this election, to have
just one incident like Mitch McConnell has had and it's over. But let's see
what's in this clip here. We've got audio of this. This is what
they were talking about on Fox's show Outnumbered, where they were discussing both McConnell
and Biden and what they call the jerontocracy of the US government where we have
and again I do so hate to be agist, but you know, we've
been talking about Biden and McConnell. We've been talking about yesterday when Mike Doyle
called, we were talking about Diane Feinstein. You know, we've talked in
the past about Nancy Pelosi. You know, we have these very old people.
And by the way, I've often complained about whenever there's a hearing in
Congress on technology and you have these people. You know, I've always said,
I don't particularly want ninety year old Chuck Grassley of Iowa to be voting
on things that are that involved modern technology that we all depend on and use.
Although Chuck Grassley is that guy. Apparently he runs, he jogs every
day, and he still seems pretty sharp mentally, so he might be an
exception. He's ninety years old, but he doesn't quite seem it. But
let's I'm curious here what they were saying on Outnumbered. Here, I'm going
to play the clip. The questions are about all senior elected officials, and
it's not just age, right, The whole point is the fitness, the
competency. These are real questions because the American people have seen real problems stemming
out of this act. And whatever the word is for ninety year old and
up, non engineering. Thank you so much for those those elected officials.
Got another word for you, jar intocracy America. The jarintocracy governed by the
elderly and the adult. Kari Jean Pierre was worse with Jake Tapper when she
said, when we travel abroad, it's hard for us to keep up with
this president. So you know that should tell you about the level of her
dishonesty when she's behind that podium every single day. And she also said watch
him, watch him. She giggled, well, we do watch him,
and it's not about his age. But it's not about that number. It's
about his faculties, his cognition, and the quite obvious decline and deterioration because
every American can watch him. Who is every American has ever taken care of
an elderly relative or parent who was adult and in decline, regardless of what
you want to call it. I've taken care of relatives who had dementia and
Alzheimer's disease. And you can see that this man at eighty six, at
the end of his second term would not be a self caring adult. Now
she got there's more to the clip. We probably won't have time for the
whole thing. I agree with most of what she said. Now I think
it's a little strong at the end when she says by the end of his
second term, he would not be a self caring adult. I don't know
that, but I do know, like I've been saying, seventy percent of
Democrats say they don't want him to run for a second term. And I
think the I think I saw a poll that said seventy seven percent. I
think it was in the high seventies. Seventy seven percent of Americans feel that
Biden is too old. But she is right what she said about Again,
I thought I thought it was a little strong at the end, and I
wouldn't presume that because, look, there are in some ways Biden does seem
I mean, he's certainly not overweight, and he does apparently he likes to
he does exercise, he works out, he rides a bike, he's you
know, he's physically active, and there is that mind body connection. The
better you take care of yourself physically, the better off you're going to be
as you age mentally. That's just I mean, I think that's pretty well
been been proven. So I don't I think she goes too far at the
end of that. But I also do think that Look, I mean again,
you know, we tried to have some fun with it, but although
a very in a very darkly humorous way, because it's circumstances around it are
so tragic. But his comments the other day and MAUI trying to be relatable
and saying, you know, I understand, you know how traumatizing it can
be when you have a fire and he goes into the thing he's mumbling about
the time lightning struck the pond where he has a house and he almost lost
his corvette and that whole thing, and it's so it's so cringe and you
know, I know that. And look, he and let's not to say
he doesn't have good moments. You know, the last State of the Union
address he had to give, he seemed pretty fired up. And I don't
know how that happens. I don't know. If they shoot him up with
vitamin B before he goes out there, I don't know. But other times
he just seems so tired and just it's it's not good. It doesn't it
does not instill confidence. And some people go further and they talk about dementia
and things like that. I don't. I don't agree with that. But
but cognitive decline, and people get it, people conflate the two. Cognitive
decline is not the same as a cognitive decline is just something that naturally happens
that's not necessarily dementia. I don't think there's any I mean, but I'm
not qualified to make any sort of a diagnosis obviously, and by the way,
even a doctor isn't qualified to do that unless they actually get to examine
him. So we should be careful with that. But but so I would
not leap to that conclusion as far as dementia or anything like that, certainly,
but cognitive decline, yeah, I think so. So we don't have
time for the whole clip. I gotta get to a song. But oh,
hello to a Hans Smith who joins us in the Facebook lave chat.
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Adam on the skype with us. I think can you hear me? Yes?
I can? Can you hear me? Good? Awesome? Yes,
Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show. How do you say your
last name? Is it Stegglitch? Exactly? Oh? Perfect, wonderful,
wonderful. So we have Adam Stegglitch here from the band ever Felt. And
is it just you y'all alone? Yeah, it's just me. I'm here
at work. Oh, I got you, I got you. Yeah,
I really. I became an instant fan when I heard when I heard these
tracks, really good stuff. You got a nice, big, big sound,
you know. I think it's really cool. I like it a lot.
Thank you very much for saying that. That means a lot to us.
And I was surprised you guys haven't been around for that long, right,
it's been about a year according to your bio. That's right, August
fourteenth. This past August fourteenth was our one year together. Wow. Congratulations,
thanks, Yeah, we are I'll be honest from Jump Street from day.
You know, we've all been playing music for a while, a long
time. Even Jacob, even though he's twenty three, our rhythm guitarist,
he's still been playing since he was like seven. So yeah, fifteen years
or more for each of us, you know. But but since the first
of the melting of all of us coming together, even before Jason was a
part, before we found our bass player, which he's awesome, but before
that happened, our first couple of practices were you know, the core of
this album, like like we were able. It just happened, and you
know, we allow the music. You know, we become you know,
instead of making the music cars, we are the musics. So we just
try to become the best channel for what all of us are influenced by and
what we love. So yeah, so it sounds like it comes easily,
then it does. I mean, we do put the work in. You
know, we're every week, we're we're hard at in the studio. But
but it it does as far as like the creation of the songs, like
we're we're actually up to like twenty originals, but you know, we're windling.
We keep Corey and Jacob you've coming to the to the table with new
music, and that's awesome. So but so we try to make you know,
at least leave about two or three hour two close to two hours working
on new material plus working on on our our album finishing. But uh,
but really what's happening is we're just allowed to, you know, not let
any one of us get in the way to dictate what comes next. And
and uh and this album, you know, most of the songs and the
themes of the of the content all philosophically driven, all has a purpose.
But at the same time, like when they were when we were writing the
music and I was I would just freestyle vocals. We would record everything we
did so I would take it home and listen to it. And most of
the themes or what the driving philosophy behind each song is came out during the
freestyle process. So it was it's really just been letting it happen to us
in a way. Now that's great. I mean, when you can be
in a situation where you're working with other musicians where it just kind of where
it gels and and it just kind of flows very naturally. When when it's
you know, I mean, I've been in bands, and I've been in
bands where some bands where it comes easy, in some bands where it's kind
of a chore. And when it's kind of a chore, it's you know,
then you start to wonder if you're in the right band, you know
what I mean. So that's true. Yeah, yeah, So this is
a bit left with that opportunity, you know, coming into the Jacob Crawford
or a rhythm guitarist. I was in a former band with him called Lomas
back in twenty nineteen, and then he was in a band with our drummer
before that, and so us three have been connected. But Corey our league
guitarist, when I met him, when I got reconnected with Stone or drummer,
I mean, I mean Jacob brought gave it away into the fire,
the long road, but the reach what you just played, Corey, you
know, was creating that at home, brought it, brought it. One
day We're sitting in the we got like a little conference room next to the
studio, and he's sitting there and he's playing on the acoustic to me,
just playing the different parts to me, and as he's doing it, I'm
coming and I just felt the concept of reach the desperation of all of us.
We all have that feeling, we've all experienced that, you know,
and uh, and we talked about it and literally we went right to the
next room and it just happened, and it was like wow, you know,
we obviously took the time to you know, build it and structure it,
but the core of each song, I mean, I get chills is
talking about it. It's really it really seems like it was this is the
way it's supposed to happen, and it's really You're right. It's a true
blessing to have the opportunity to work with musicians who are willing to just adapt
and become that blank page or that channel instead of trying to sometimes we get
in our own way. You know, oh, absolutely absolutely. You mentioned
the album and now is the album already out and available or is that coming
soon or what's the status soon? So we've been saying, uh, you
know on a few other interviews I've done. At first it was July,
and then it was August through and now we're coming into September. So we
are halfway done with the album as far as like mastering, mixing, So
we're finishing the last half of the album, the last five songs on it.
We've got four done. We're doing two nine song albums. The first
album is called Ascension. We don't know much about the second album yet except
we have some songs for it. But uh, but yeah, so we
are hoping to have it done before the end of this year. But but
we haven't officially released the album. We do have some as you as you
know, I sent you those tracks. We do have some that you know,
everything's commercially licensed and all that, but we haven't officially. We released
song stuff on distroc Kid to give people a taste of what we're doing.
We've done some live in the studio and if you look at our Facebook,
our YouTube, we every week try to post live con from where we're working
on new songs or or playing our set. Yeah, that's that's really cool
that you do that. I like that. What what goes into the decision
to to record uh, full albums? Because obviously we live in an era
where you've got a lot of different options in terms of how you do it.
You know, the old the old template of you know, make an
album, make a full album, then go on tour or make another album,
and you know, that's that's given way to Now there's there's as many
ways as people are inventive in terms of how you approach it. You know,
some some artists just release a lot of singles and then when they have
enough singles, they put them into an album. Or is there is there
a particular Is there a sense that's kind of what we're doing in a sense
because we released the lie gave it away reach, you know, as far
as like sending them out to radios and different places, so I want a
sense. And they're on District D, they're on Pandora, they're on all
the streaming platforms. So in a sense, we kind of have done it
that way. But we are also already he culminated knowing that the first albums,
these nine songs are going to be the album Ascension. So it's just
that work of art that that, you know, just so we can have
one central place where you can go and hear the Ascension album because we have
you know, we already have like the other album songs ready. We just
haven't you know, finished whittling down to what they're going to become. But
but some of them we have. But yeah, yeah, you're right,
I mean that that is the truth on that and that's why whenever I talk
about when it's going to be released and all of that, we've already officially
released some music. So those songs are going to be part of that album.
And we're doing everything VI I Y you know, and uh still learning
learning to be honest. And where do you record? Do you record in
that in that studio that we see in the YouTube videos or yes, sir?
Oh wow, so you're you're doing that all yourselves too? Yes?
Oh, excellent, excellent? Is it is it difficult to? I mean,
obviously the way that the songs uh come to the band is is uh
that that process is sounds like it's pretty organic. But what about recording?
Is it difficult to get the sound that you want recording the way that you're
doing it? Or does that part also come easy? Sometimes sometimes it is
because you know, it's a small room there. So one thing we've done
recently, which is what you hear with Gave It Away and the ones of
the tracks I sent you. One thing we've done is I've done my except
for Gave It Away. That's a live take master to mix. But the
lie and reach I actually got in the booth on the seven B microphone outside
of the music, you know, but as far as like recording the music
livel we really wanted to capture the live energy of the songs. Yeah,
you know. So what we've done is we've actually set me up for that
purpose. We've set me up in the other room with different with different speakers,
so they can hear me on the pa in there and lowered a little
bit, and I can really hear me from the other room. So I'll
be on that gave it away video you'll see, or I'll come from the
other room into their back back and forth. Yeah, that's us actually recording
the master cuts so at my vocals so that we can have the music set
to the level we need to have it set for for the recording, and
I can still be in the other room doing the vocals and hearing what I'm
doing, so I don't have to you know, push my vocals at all.
So that and then also that's how we get the music right. To
make sure we get it right, because you know, they follow a lot
of what I do, and I follow them, so it's going to keep
that organics. So then I'll go and get in the booth but I gave
it away. We literally that take was so good. We didn't have to
I didn't have to get in the booth on that one. Oh wow.
Yeah, I actually I opened the show today with that one. Uh yeah,
that's that's a great track, and well, you know, and then
I wanted to play Reach, and then at the end of our conversation,
I'm going to play the Lie. That's a that's a great track too.
Yeah. No, I really like your sound. It's big, It's kind
of my first thought was when I heard it, it's got a little bit
of a doom metal kind of vibe to it. But but I but I
can hear the other well, actually, somebody in the chat room was asking.
In fact, Ian Venom four was asking about influences. Can you can
you tell me about some of the influences. Oh yeah, definitely. So
interesting that you said that about about the doom metal because Nicole Bryce from Mixed
Alternative Magazines, she wrote a phenomenal article on us, and she said the
same thing, or like Southern sludge rock. I really like that, you
know, and yeah, I love she said. She said, Actually I'll
tell you exactly to give you a really good exp but I'm also going to
tell you some influences, but I actually I had the copy. I had
to put this on my clipboard because as many times as I've tried to describe
our music, she did a way better job than me, she said,
drawing inspiration from many genres and artists. Ever, Felt music is characterized by
its heavy guitars, emotional and powerful vocals, and introspective lyrics, with guitar
solos emanating like straight Southern sludge rock. The sound coming from these talented musicians
and is sure to resonate with many. One might even say they have created
the perfect soundtrack for the apocalypse, the hands of blues, metal, post
punk, goth and psychedelia. So yeah, I love that description. Some
of my influences as a vocalist and a writer is definitely you know Chris Cornell,
Lane Staley, Scott Wild and Maynard, Jonathan Davis, uh Ozzie,
you know, Jim Morrison, CCR, Juhn, Fogerty Uh. I named
a lot of those just without their bands because they're in multiple bands. But
as a vocalist, those are some of my greatest influence. Now, lead
guitarist Corey is more influenced by David Gilmour, uh Stevie Ray Slash Jacob two
on on on that take, and I know that Stone our drummer. He
loves Motorhead Lemmy, I personally, you know, think that we've really and
and Jason are bass player. He's more of a nineties baby, which I
am too. I'm I'm I'm huge on you know. STP. Alison changed
the whole nineties grunge movements important to us, important to all of us,
for sure. But when I try to put my finger on what we bring
to it's like a It's like a classic rock sound with a modern take.
Almost. We almost have like A But then you have songs like Reach and
Gave It Away, which really to me have like a corn and STP vibe.
Yeah both, you know. I really like the vocals I do on
Reach really reminds me of almost sometimes vold Beat a little bit too late.
Yeah, oh oh, somebody she said that we really remind her of,
but I can't remember. We we we we lost you for about brother for
we lost you for about seven or eight seconds there you mentioned Volbeat and then
I I you kind of dropped out there. I didn't hear what you said
after that Oh no, no, I was just trying to think of there
was a band that she had brought up when we were on the Girl Out
of Louisiana. I can't remember what she said. I had never heard of
him, but but when we I went and listened to him after she said
it, and I was like, oh, I mean, oh, okay,
since gotcha? Gotcha? But really I think we sound like ever felt,
you know, yeah, yeah, well, and I think there's something
timeless about this genre anyway. You know. Obviously you can hear a lot
of influences from the past, but but I think it also sounds uh you
know that again. I think when you've got a big sound it there's something
just timeless about it, partly because not everyone can pull that off, so
it doesn't so you can you can do something that doesn't sound like something like
there's not another band currently that I think you guys sound like so so you
So you're kind of filling that space, which is really cool because I think
the thing, especially like a great example at the end of Reach, the
way the way you know, the sustain on the guitar and the way it
ends with that in that long part with the sustain and just a little bit
of feedback. You know. That's just so cool. And I think that
there's something about that that's just sort of timeless, partly because you don't hear
it all the time, so when you do hear something like that, it
sounds fresh. You know. Wow, Man, that that that means a
lot to us. Man. I'm pretty sure the guys are listening in right
now, so good good, they're they're probably smiling as big as I am.
That really means a lot of brother, That's cool. I'm glad.
Well, now, where are you guys from southern Illinois? We're located in
Johnston City, Illinois, about five hours from Chicago and about two and a
half hours from Saint Louis, Missouri. Okay, yeah, I I spent
the summers growing up in Illinois. Moo. Yeah, Well, my mother
is from the Chicago area originally. So when I was a kid and my
parents split up, my mom moved back to Illinois and so I would go
and spend the summers out there with her. So yeah, it's uh,
but you're you're not. I assume you're not from Illinois originally, are you?
You don't you don't know, I'm not no, originally I was.
I was born in Clearwater, Florida. Okay, but I but I lived
all over the Eastern United States growing up, you know, I I you
know, I had a single mother and every type of use you can imagine,
the whole most dysfunctional childhood. Ever, like when I was eleven,
was putting an orphanage. So if that it was kind of crazy. But
I lived in like nine different states before I was eleven. So wow,
I say the Eastern United States seaboard. Yeah, yeah, but you know
all of us are from different places too, Like I know Stone is from
Illinois. I think that so was Corey Jacob. I think I can't remember,
you know, I wish they were here. I can't remember. I
know the two of us, the other two there's two of us that also
aren't from here. But but it's crazy. What brought me to the Illinois
area six years ago? I met my wife, Christina. I met her
online six years ago. I was living in Evansville, Indiana, and that
brought me to this area. And you know the name ever Felt, the
band ever Felt, the reason that it's called that. I had my best
friend, Charles linger Felt. We had a project called Anger Fell right before
he passed away from cancer in twenty twenty one, and so I changed the
name to ever Felt because I wanted him to be forever felt through the music.
And and then and then it became about all of us as a band,
wanting everyone to forever feel our music in their hearts and their minds and
and hopefully it's something that you you know, it gets stuck in your head.
We want we want you to never forget. Yeah. Yeah, no,
that's really cool. And I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Uh,
I think that's that's that's horrible. But were you did you play music
with him for a long time and in the other band, yeah, on
and off that project, particular Anger Felt. We were only we wrote that
album and did that project and then we went you know, he had Lukim.
He didn't tell me he had cancer. And then he told me we
had shows booked down in Miami with our new album and we were gonna go
down there and we had and none of that was true. We didn't end
up going down there and booking shows though, But he just wanted to play
music with me out there on tour one last time. And he and then
when we got back. I took him straight to the hospital and we got
back. He was telling me that it was something that he knew what it
was, but he was telling me he didn't know. A long story.
Sort a month later he passed away, and uh, oh wow. And
I have to say, you know when when that all happened. But we
played music together from the time I was nineteen. My first album called Clinch
that I ever my first original album was with Charlie when I was nineteen and
he was like twenty five. He had just came from Antioch, California,
played a seventh string. He's a real badass. And and the song River
actually was a song that came from Anger Felt. That's the only song I
brought over to this new with the new guys and everything. But but yeah,
thank you for asking about him then, and thank you for for your
candolences. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, it is. So is any
of that music from from anger Felt? Is any of that online somewhere?
The river, the song River is the song. The song River was about
coming back to the source. Now that is a song. Now you can
go, you can find. We do have a couple of songs that are
still up on Instagram with the anger felt they were really good. It's actually
live video from where we played our show together in Miami. Oh wow,
I can even send it to if you want to check it out. Yeah,
it's really good. Curious a couple of songs on there, and one
called Heaven's Side, another one called here I Am that we did and and
uh and yeah it was. They're really they're really good videos. But but
yeah, I would love to ill like some more of the music because I
still have that music, you know, I would love to bring it,
but really I ain't. I an't can't get him song in edgewise, Corey.
I'll tell you what, man, it's a true blessing that have so
much music to to to work with. You know, every single every single
practice is like it's the reason I sleep good at night. You know.
Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's great. That's great. So the
album, now, the album that you're working on, now, do you
have any kind of a I know we talked about it, I can't remember.
You said it kept getting pushed off, but I can't remember. Do
you have a current eta on when that might be out or is it kind
of up in the air. It's a little up in the air because only
because we've got another show coming up, and then we got a festival,
and then we got October November open right now, but we are looking to
try to book maybe one or two more shows before the end of the year.
So now I'm just saying we'll have it done before the end of the
year because that'll give us a little room to work with it. And we've
only got five songs left to do. But I don't want to, you
know, put any there's really no pressure. I mean, like you said,
not many people are releasing whole albums now anyway, so we're kind of
taking our time making sure we get it right. By the way, what's
the music scene like in your area? Are there a lot of places to
play? Are there a lot of bands around there? There there, there's
there's a few bands and there's some places to play. But for our hard
rock sound, we you know, we we've booked a festival, we booked
a couple of venues, but around here it's really a lot of rockabilly and
punk music. So we're kind of, you know, we're kind of the
new guys on the block, so we're booking shows around here, but really
we're we're looking to book festivals and fairs and anywhere where there's a big stage.
There's five of us. We bring our own production literally everything we have,
like every I mean we actually bring too much. I think we have
on RV trailer, the whole deal. So if anyone is looking to book
a live perform especially in the Midwest area, really we really want to play
our music. So as long as our gas covered and we got a place
to Parker RV, We're down. Yeah, Yeah, excellent, excellent,
Adam. What do you want to make sure people know about how to find
you online at well? I mean you do have a website, of course,
I'm on it right now. Everfelt dot Net. Anything else you want
us to know about social media and where people should go to keep up with
what you're doing. So the easiest way to make sure you're hearing our latest
videos or watching our latest videos is Facebook and YouTube. Instagram is going to
have more of our artistic type videos on there mostly, but all of our
social media sites, all of our links are on everfelt dot Net. Everything
you need to know about ever Felt, from our merchandise to our shows,
to our links to everything is gonna be at everfelt dot net. Yeah,
and it's a nice website. I'm I'm a website nerd, so I'm always
evaluating websites and uh, yeah, it's a nice site. Who do you
do that yourself too? Or yes, sir, yes, I created that
myself. Oh, well done, well done. Yeah, I like it,
thank you. I like it. Very cool. So in a moment,
Adam, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go ahead and play this track the
Lie Anything. This sounds like just from the even just from the title,
it sounds like there might be a story behind us anything we should know about
this before I play it. Yeah. So this song is you'll as you'll
know in the very guys, you'll hear in the very beginning, it's something
you've probably heard somewhere before. This song is about the lies that the people
in power, the globally elite, you know, telling all of us in
society, the divisions of the republican and the democrat, basically all of the
lies that are told to us on a daily basis to keep us in the
boxes, in the cages that they create for us. So it's really about
about that. Excellent, excellent, Well, it's the right show for it.
We talked about that kind of stuff here, so very good, very
good. I was I was a little hesitant. I was like, oh
no, no, too much. But yeah, now you don't have to
worry about that around here, trust me, okay. Awesome man, You've
been awesome brother. Oh, thank you, it's been wonderful to talk with
you. Adam Steglich from the band ever Felt. We'll let you, We'll
let you scoot and then I'm gonna play this song. But thank you.
Thank you so much for joining us today. This has been wonderful and I've
become a fast fan, so I really appreciate you being with us today.
Thank you so much, brother. And I'm a fan of ninety five three
as well. Oh wonderful. Great to hear that. All right, Adam,
thank you so much, and I'm sure we'll talk again in the future.
Movis definitely remember we'll come and play a show sitting near you. Very
good, all right, Adam, thanks man, take care, Thank you
brother, all right, bye bye bye, all right. Wonderful. That
was Adam from the band ever Felt. And as promise, I'm gonna play
this track another great song from these guys. And then after the song is
over, of course we'll come back with our final segment on today's program.
But check this out. This is called the Lie and the band is ever
felt the soul? And when lie? Why don't do that? To what's
on? That don't rule's true? I so reson to no with my nose,
I don't know, don't know my name to me? Told so too
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August to thirty one, twenty twenty three, as we cruise into our final
segment today on the program. And thank you again to Adams Steglich from the
band ever Felt for skyping in with us for a bit. If you missed
it, of course it'll be in the archive of the show that'll be posted
shortly after we wrap up today. But I really enjoyed talking with him and
I love the band, love their sound, really really good stuff I ever
Felt. And we have a call. Well, uh, we'll grab this.
Hi. Welcome to Matt Connerton Unleashed. Who's this Hey, it's Odds
Banks, ISAAC three Odds of Banks now. I'm on them on none there
on Facebook now, So that's why that's me and my friend Addy Sellers on
that photo. And you are and you are from Greensboro, North Carolina,
if I'm not mistaken, that's correct. Yes, yes, Now why does
uh why does Jay fed or Jason Feederson in the chat room? Why does
he think that you've been hacked? Well, I wasn't had. I didn't
know because that I wasn't not had at all because I didn't know what my
other my other EMO, I know, my pastor was on the other on
the other EMOI address. Yes, yes, okay, well, well that's
that's a big relief. Yeah, because it's true. So I'm staying on
my rockingberry at sixty five yahoo dot com on the Facebook for now. Yes,
well, I think that's I think that's wise. And by the way,
in the past you've posted about your brother Mike Banks. How are the
two of you getting along? Well, we we're cool now, you know,
because he's just trying to, you know, just trying to make make
things right for him for him, right right. I saw something in there
one day about he had h put the remote control for the television in a
strange place or something. It sounded like pandemonium. Yeah, basically is and
it's true because right now I am just you know, feel that we're good.
Now, we're cool. You know, he you know went, he
just you know, going, going the bathroom too so fast. So you
get to work from from his job. I worked on Amazon. Oh he
works at Amazon. Yeah, over all far away from Winston, North Carolina.
Ah. Yes, Amazon in Winston, North Carolina. That's uh,
how long have a commune? Is that? Well? You know? For
I think I don't know for sure. For first, for the first time
ever he works there ever since he left out Loads Foods. M I understand
because he quit that job at Lows Foods right right, Lows Foods. Yes,
why did Why did he? Why did he quit? Does he wanted
to know, find a decent job? You know, because I told I
told my brother that he needed a part time job. So right now my
mom is finding me a part time job. That's why she called it.
A community person who can help me find me a part time job? Ye
find a job working at Libby Hill at Ceper Restaurant at Carlswall Avenue. He
was out of business. I see two twenty came for the COVID came.
Oh, I understand, I understand, But your brother likes working at a
Mazon. I've heard Jeff Bezos is a difficult boss to work for. Yeah,
but he's I'm you know, doing his best, trying to you know,
you know, get get his paycheck. Yes, well that's that's important
anyway. So anyway, right now I'm coming. I'm going back to the
Sunshine Club tomorrow evening for me to go to. Will you be doing karaoke?
Well no, actually not karaoke for we we have we're having a cookout.
Oh very good, very good. Yeah. At Saint Pius Tended Catholic
Church in Greensboro, they're Cominda, I think I've seen it. I've seen
I've seen Saint Pieu's church mentioned in the Facebook live chat. I beg you
bye, I'm sorry. I think I've seen Saint Pie's church mentioned in the
chat room before. Yes, okay, yeah, yeah, So right now
I am doing another video coming up soon. You know, I might do
another song for the video. I'm gonna make myself, you know, for
the weekend. Oh good good, Yes, so I'll send I might have
a sense to you, send to you my email you on your chat message?
Yes, please do uh you know, we do we do like to
feature original music on the show. Absolutely, all right, great and keep
up with your show and I'll talk to you. I'll talk to you a
Nord time. All right, Isaac Banks, thank you so much. YouTube
peace out all right? YouTube Byeyee. All right. That was Isaac Banks
from Greensboro and North Carolina. Now Jay fed in the chat room. He's
always trying to make trouble with our friends in Greensboro, he says, I
think this is Mike Banks, not Isaac Banks. Now that would be can
you believe that? I can't believe that brothers would would try to make trouble
for each other, like like one calls the show pretending to be his brother.
Uh, that would just be That would be pandemonium. That would be
anarchy. That would be uh, that would be like Caine is Able type
stuff, a biblical reference. Because of course Isaac will be performing or oh
no, I'm sorry. He's going to a cookout at Saint Pius Church in
Greensboro, North Carolina. Melanie Liberty is asking if Mike, if Mike Pelapita
from Queen City Cabinetry is going to show up tomorrow night. He sure is
absent a lot. She says, I think he only missed one week in
fairness, but of course, before you know, there was a time when
he was absent for several months when he first joined the show, and then
wasn't able to be there. No, but I'm sure, I'm sure it
will be seeing him, I hope. So. I always enjoy getting to
hang out with Mike from Queen City Cabinetry on Friday nights for Retro Spectrum Radio
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M and H. I should also mention two while we're mentioning things don't forget.
Tonight is Trivia Night at the Hopknot, and it is strongly recommended that
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is a very popular feature at the Hop Knot. It begins at seven pm,
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Tonight Trivia at the Hop Knot is on per usual call ahead if you would
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that will begin at seven pm, so again, just make sure that you
call ahead reserve your spot. Let's see. Oh wow, it's already almost
quarter of I just saw something that I had not planned on talking about,
but this really jumped out of me. Here governor of Florida. You might
have heard of him, Ron De Santis, or as Trump likes to call
him, Ron to Sanctimonious, or round sanctus or my personal favorite, tiny
d Well. Apparently there's a new pole where Da Santis actually beats Trump in
his quest for the Republican nomination. Says here, This is from media to
Santa's beats Trump in Young Republicans twenty twenty four straw pole that immediately went nuclear
online. Oh my goodness, says here, Florida Governor Ron de Santa's beat
Republican front runner Donald Trump in a recent straw poll conducted by Young Republicans.
That's the song, isn't it, David Boy? They were the Young Republicans
Young Republicans Resulting in chaotic reactions from all over right wing social media. The
Young Republicans organization and that's the official name of the organization, The Young Republicans,
released the results of a straw poll taken from various members of their organization
showing to Santists narrowly beating the former president in the GOP primary. Most national
average polls, according to Real Clear Politics, shows Trump beating to Santists by
a double digit lead, including in key early voting states such as New Hampshire
and Iowa. And by the way, you know, if you're a regular
listener, you already know this. But I say all along, I refer
to Trump as the as the presumptive presumptive nominee, because I'm absolutely certain he
will be the Republican nominee. All these criminal indictments they certainly harm him as
a general election candidate, but they also virtually assure that he definitely will be
the Republican nominee. It says here, Okay. The organization tweeted this out
this afternoon. This is breaking news. This is what they tweeted. Straw
pole results are in Why ours Young Republicans Twitter only gives you so many characters
two hundred forty. So why rs across the country participated in a straw pole
at why r NC Dallas. I assume that's Young Republicans National Convention, and
it's clear that why rs are divided between two contenders. Ron de Santis comes
in with thirty six point six percent of the support, closely followed by Donald
Trump at thirty five point four percent. The organization tweeted, now that's I
mean, when you account for a margin of error, I would say that
is a statistical tie. But if that's any indication, it might be the
younger Republicans would like perhaps a younger nominee. I mean, Trump isn't as
old as Biden, but he's a few years He's only a few years.
Shy, what is Trump? Seventy seven? I think Ron de Santis is,
you know what is he? Forty five forty six. The negative backlash
to the tweet from MAGA activists was quick, as Trump supporters such as Laura
Lumer. Oh as a Trump supporter such as Laura Lumer, I don't know
why I always stumble on her name, tweeted this, this is Laura Lumer.
Future uniparty shills coming out strong for a failed candidate who was just rejected
by his own pack today for being too much of a rookie. Laura Lumer
taking this a little seriously apparently, Oh, there's a graphic here, It's
got, it's got. Uh, okay, here's here's uh. Let's go
through the numbers again. This is from the Young Republicans. Straw Pole,
so De Santis thirty six point six, Trump thirty five point four, Vek
Ramaswamy nine point one. See, if the Young Republicans were going to go
for a young Republican, they would go for Vvek what is he? Thirty
eight? But he got nine point one, Nikki Hayley seven point five,
Tim Scott five point five, someone else six percent? Yeah, Laura Lumer
very upset. Uh. Gavin Mario Wax At Gavin Wax. I don't know
who this person is, but I do think Wax is kind of a fun
last name. I've seeing about changing my name. I've seen about changing my
name to Matt Wax. It does have it's pretty good. Huh, Matt
Wax unleashed. Oh, I do like the sound of that. But the
only thing that stands between myself and doing that is for one thing, I'm
kind of used to my name as it is. And the other thing is
is probably paperwork involved in changing your name. I don't have time for that.
I had got time for that. Gavin Wax tweeted this no statement on
the politicized arrest of President Trump, but they had time to publish a pro
to Santa strap Pole with no sample size. Oh, mister Wax is taking
this very seriously. He's very upset. Oh. Roger Stone is very angry.
I can't even read what he tweeted. It's profane. This is so.
There's an organization called Washington DC Young Republicans, which appear currently a set
from a separate from the Young Republicans. Washington DC Young Republicans tweeted out,
this proves how out of touch the entire why r NF is. What is
y r NF Young Republicans National Frontier? I don't know. We proudly endorse
Donald J. Trump for president. Rhinos will weep. Yes, that's the
thing if you so, they're saying, if if you don't support Trump,
you're a rhino. But that's that's why I always say the Republican Party,
it's become such a cult of personality around Donald Trump. You could be.
I mean, I would argue that Ron de Santis is actually to the right
of Donald Trump. He's always trying to out conservative Trump. But if you
support to Santis, you're a Rhino, not because you don't support Republican policies,
because you support somebody other than Trump. Oh, let's see the rest
of these or any of these worth reading any I don't know if the ones
I even already read were Oh Summer, there's there's some supportive tweets two,
but I don't think they're really worth reading anyway. But that's the young Republicans
straw Pole and it. You know, obviously it doesn't mean much. But
let's see. Oh, one other I'll tell you what. We'll leave you
with, just one other quick thing because we are almost out of time.
But earlier in the show, I was trying to put a button on some
things that we discussed earlier in the week, or or just even expand on
them a little bit. And one thing that Jenny and I did talk about
two on Monday was when artists. This was in the discussion about Oliver how's
his name now? The Richmond North of Richmond guy can spacing on his last
name Anthony, Oliver Anthony, Sorry, it took me a second when we
were talking about that. We're also talking about the history of because Oliver Anthony
was upset about his song being used at the debate the other night, and
we briefly touched on there's a long history of songs being used for political purposes
where the artist objects to the song being used in that way, and in
some instances we'll even get a cease and assist letter sent to the individual using
the song or the campaign of the person using the song. And the latest
example of this Vake Ramaswamy. This is from media I Vake drops eminem lyric
to throw shade at Shady after lawyer's beef over wrapping candidate. If you didn't
see it, it's on YouTube, you can see it. It might be
cringe, depends on your point of view. During the Iowa State Fair where
the candidates go and try to pretend like they're regular normal humans by interacting with
actual regular normal humans. Vake actually rapped on stage barely wrapped in college,
and he says his videos of him somewhere rapping, but there is video of
him rapping recently. The song Lose Yourself by Eminem. He broke into a
rap and it's it is, it's something, but it says here. This
is from Media. Republican presidential candidate VAC Ramaswamy dropped an eminem lyric on The
Rapper in response to a legal move to prevent him from using the rappers music
on the campaign trail. Ramaswamy has made a karaoke style performance of eminem raps,
as he did when he broke into a live rendition of the hit Lose
Yourself at the Iowa State Fair, a well known part of his campaign persona.
But eminem licensor BMI let Ramaswamy know that they don't stand his performances by
sending a cease and desist letter on Monday that warned they would quote consider any
performance of the eminem works by the vague twenty twenty four campaign from the state
forward to be a material breach of the agreement for which BMI reserves all rights
and remedies with respect there too unquote. That did sound very loyally. On
Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, host Andrea Mitchell asked about the beef,
and Ramaswamy said he would abide by the rapper's wishes, but Ramaswamy used
an Eminem lyric to suggest the rapper was not being true to himself by opposing
the use of his music and posing himself as an early Eminem style renegade whom
Shady may someday come to agree with. So Andrea Mitchell said, well,
actually, is there a clip here? Oh, I'll play the audio of
it here. It's only it's brief, it's under a minute. Well,
sorry, it's my first day. Okay, about Eminem. They've sent you
now there's an echo. Hang on, Sorry, it's my first day.
Okay, it's still doing it. You're hearing my show through. Oh all
right, one more time. Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go. Ysk you finally about Eminem. They've sent you a cease and
assist through the music licensing company to stop using lose yourself on the trail.
Have you agreed to move on? Yeah? Look, I think that I'll
respect his wishes, but I would just say, well, the real slim
Shady please stand up. Eminem in his rise, used to be a guy
who actually stood up to the establishment and said the things that the establishment didn't
want him to. Say, I think the fact that my political viewpoints may
differ from his. I think people change over the course of their lives.
But I have hope for him that he will one day rediscover the renegade that
made him great, and I'm rooting for that success in his life. Well,
we're Vacu Ramaswami. Thank you for your time. Alrighty, well we'll
end with that. I've I don't know, you know, I think,
I think, and I think. Let me see if I can find the
radio at it quickly, I'd like to. I would like to close today's
show with Lose Yourself by Eminem in honor of the cease and assist letter.
Yeah, here we go, clean version and honor of the c sum assist
letter that was sent to vavak Ramaswamy. Oh. Rob Dion is in the
Facebook live chat. If you are listening live by the way on Thursday,
stick around because coming up next year on WMNH, of course, is Rob's
show Through the Stage Door, and that will be coming up. And if
you miss any part of today's show, of course, this show it will
be up in just a little bit at WMNH radio dot org and on my
website Matt Connerton dot com and uh so uh Rob Dian is up next,
and of course be back bright and early seven am for the Morning Show with
Peter White, and yeah we'll leave you with us. Oh no, forget
trivia tonight at the Hopknot, But here's a little M and M from the
N eight mile movie Lose Yourself to close out today's Matt Connerton Unleashed and uh
I will talk at y'all a little bit later. By everybody,